Trump said on the eve of the hastily arranged White House meeting set to begin at 11am that he was weighing sending a second US armada to the Middle East to pressure Tehran to reach a nuclear deal. But Netanyahu, making his sixth visit to the United States since Trump took office, will also be urging the US leader to take a harder line on Iran's ballistic missile program.
As Netanyahu announced his participation, Israeli airstrikes and tank fire killed 11 people across Gaza. Netanyahu announced on Wednesday that he is accepting an invitation from President Donald Trump to join the U.S.-led "Board of Peace" - the colonial body set to have control over and supposedly enforce "peace" in Gaza as Israel bombs Palestinians and freezes babies to death in its ongoing genocide.
(AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed Wednesday that he will join President Donald Trump's newly created Gaza Board of Peace. In a statement on Wednesday, the Israeli leader said he would take part in the body, which was formally established by the president as part of a sweeping 20-point plan to end the conflict between Israel and Hamas and oversee Gaza's reconstruction.
Presidential pardons are in fashion in the United States, even for people who haven't yet been found guilty of a crime. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is a well-known Americanophile. Now he, too, wants a preconviction pardon, a never-go-to-jail card. On Sunday, his lawyers submitted his request, stressing that freeing Netanyahu from his marathon corruption trial would be purely for the public good.
"They've been treating us very badly," Trump said before complaining about the "hundreds of thousands" of prisoners and mentally ill patients that Maduro allegedly dumped into the United States over the last few years "because Joe Biden was the worst president in the history of our country." Trump said that, although he "doubted" the U.S. would engage in a full-scale war with the South American nation, he couldn't yet rule out land strikes.
Dershowitz reportedly told the newspaper that Canada had made itself an enemy due to its recognition of a nonexistent entity a reference to Canada's recent recognition of the State of Palestine. Dershowitz who recently made headlines over his feud with a Martha's Vineyard pierogi vendor also accused Canada of not doing enough to combat antisemitism and said he was in favour of Trump putting tariffs on Canada for its statements regarding Israel and Netanyahu, and even sanctions perhaps.
A defiant Benjamin Netanyahu railed against a virtually empty UN General Assembly this Friday, after more than two-thirds of the delegates had already left the room. Some European delegations, including the Spanish one, had not even attended the session, in a concerted effort to distance themselves from Israel. But the prime minister did not seem to acknowledge the jeers and the blatant contempt of dozens of delegates who walked out.
Of course, there's no question about it. The Jews spread from this land to various parts of Europe, to the Middle East, and elsewhere, but we never, never forgot this land. We said, Next year in Jerusalem, next year in Jerusalem.' My great-grandfather came here in the 19th century. Most of the Palestinians who are alive today came after him, Netanyahu replied, adding:
In a rare admission on Monday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel is facing isolation on the world stage after nearly two years of its genocide in Gaza - but didn't acknowledge his own government's role in the situation. At the "Fifty States - One Israel" economic conference hosted by Israel's Finance Ministry, Netanyahu blamed foreign countries and Muslims for Israel's isolation.
UN secretary general Antonio Guterres also made another futile appeal to Israel to end the carnage. Pleading for the unconditional release of hostages held by Hamas, he urged Israel to reverse a plan to expand illegal settlement construction in the West Bank. The plan would effectively bisect the occupied West Bank and cut it off from East Jerusalem. It is widely being described as a move to kill off any chance of a two-state solution.
