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The Lebanese, Israeli and U.S. governments “will also begin negotiations for the return of Lebanese prisoners captured after Oct. 7, 2023.”
“The region is safer when Israel has what it needs to defend itself,” tweeted Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar.
“You’re talking about probably a million and a half people, and we just clean out that whole thing and say, ‘You know, it’s over,’” said the U.S. president.
As Trump’s revocation of Executive Order 14115 came into effect, the assets of 58 individuals and entities were “unblocked.”
The 26 families living in Trump Heights congratulate the president but are focused on quadrupling the population of their community in Israel’s north.
The president said he preferred a deal with Tehran, but if that didn’t happen, “I guess that’s OK too.”
Israel-Saudi normalization is “more closely tethered to the U.S.-Saudi economic and defense relationship than advancement in the Palestinian track,” Dan Diker, of Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, told JNS.
A senior Republican congressional staffer accused presidential envoy Steve Witkoff of “lifting pressure on Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran.”
“I believe we will reach an understanding,” said Israeli envoy to the U.S. Michael Herzog.
An interview with Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Sharren Haskel.
“He is too close to Trump, and everyone who is close to him can be a target,” the motivational speaker Sami Steigmann told JNS.
Israel needs to make its own policies clear before getting Trump on board, Yesha Council chair Israel Ganz told JNS.
