Trump and Netanyahu’s 2-state vision: Gaza war’s end, Abraham Accords expansion

Israel Hayom, June 26 Event A four-way telephone conversation between United States President Donald Trump, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and Minister of Strategic Affairs Ron Dermer occurred directly after the American assault on Iran's nuclear installations. They reached consensus on these fundamental principles in general terms. They plan rapid implementation, [...]

Hezbollah launches barrage of rockets and drones towards Israel

  The Guardian 21 August, 2024 Event Hezbollah has launched more than 50 rockets and a swarm of drones towards northern Israel, hitting a number of homes in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights and wounding one person. The strikes on Wednesday by the Lebanese militant group came the day after the US secretary of state, Antony [...]

Lebanese hold their breath as mediators scramble to avert all-out war

BBC, August 14, 2024 Event The Middle East is in turmoil. International diplomacy is in overdrive. And for once many in Israel, Lebanon and Iran have something in common - a war of nerves. They worry and they wait for what may come next. It feels like the whole region is holding its breath. Is [...]

Netanyahu addresses US Congress as thousands protest outside

The Jewish Chronicle, July 24, 2024 Event Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday afternoon delivered his fourth- ever address to a joint session of US Congress, in which he called for a decisive victory over the Hamas terror group and launched a novel approach to dealing with the threat posed by Iran. “It is [...]

Iran green-lights Hezbollah for large-scale attack on Israel in case of Rafah op in Gaza

Israel News, February 29, 2024 Event The Iranian regime has given Hezbollah the go-ahead to launch a large-scale attack against Israel within certain parameters, fearing that Israel plans to attack Lebanon in the near future, the Arabic Post reported on Wednesday. The Lebanese terror militia and Israel have traded blows since Hezbollah began its daily attacks against [...]

Iran blames Israel, US for deadly blasts near grave of Guards general Soleimani

France 4, January 4, 2024 Event Iran blamed Israel and the United States on Wednesday for twin bomb blasts that killed at least 84 people in the country's south, ripping through a crowd commemorating Revolutionary Guards general Qassem Soleimani four years after his death in a US strike. The two explosions – labelled a "terrorist [...]

Will Israel defy Washington and target Hezbollah?

Politico, December 8, 2023 Event The message coming from Israel’s leaders remains unwavering and uncompromising. Come what may, they’re determined to smash Hamas for good, so it can never again carry out a pogrom like it did on October 7. U.S. officials have worked tirelessly to try and ensure the war in Gaza doesn’t spill [...]

Putin compares Israel actions to Nazi Germany

Event Daily Telegraph, October 13, 2023 Vladimir Putin on Friday compared Israel to Nazi Germany as he turned on old ally Benjamin Netanyahu. The Russian president said Israel’s blockade of Gaza ahead of an expected ground offensive against Hamas was “unacceptable”. Israel has been pounding Gaza with air strikes and artillery, with some 300,000 troops stationed on the [...]