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 Foreign Affairs › Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by HolinessForever: 3:48pm On Oct 17, 2025 |
Report: US and Saudi Arabia nearing new defense agreement The British newspaper "Financial Times" reported that Washington and Riyadh are conducting advanced talks towards an agreement that will determine that an attack on Saudi Arabia will be considered a threat to US security. The report claims that Trump may announce the agreement during bin Salman's visit to the White House next month. (Epoch) 2 Likes
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| Foreign Affairs › Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by HolinessForever: 3:46pm On Oct 17, 2025 |
JEWS aren’t welcome in Birmingham, UK West Midlands Police (WMP) has requested that supporters of Israeli club Maccabi Tel Aviv not be allowed to attend the Europa League game against Aston Villa in Birmingham on November 6 due to concerns over unrest, sources briefed on the matter told The Athletic. The force has advised the city’s Safety Advisory Group (SAG) against approving an away allocation at Villa Park, and UEFA, the competition’s organiser, is expected to follow the recommendation of local authorities. |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by HolinessForever: 3:45pm On Oct 17, 2025 |
Hamas “Arrow Unit” goes around Gaza, breaking legs of civilians with metal tubes. You wanted Israel out, this is how it looks like when Hamas is being left alone. (Voice From The East) 1 Like
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| Foreign Affairs › Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by HolinessForever: 3:43pm On Oct 17, 2025 |
Gazans are pleading with the world to stop Hamas from continuing public executions, saying that hundreds have been murdered in just the past 72 hours. Where is the media? 1 Like
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| Foreign Affairs › Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by HolinessForever: 3:42pm On Oct 17, 2025 |
Report Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and the United Arab Emirates have issued a clear warning to President Trump: unless the agreement on Hamas is enforced and the group is fully disarmed, they will withdraw their support—no funding, no participation. The absence of their leaders from the Sharm el-Sheikh summit was no coincidence. They caution that Qatar is attempting to bring Hamas back into play. No one trusts Qatar — not even its Gulf neighbors! 2 Likes |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by HolinessForever: 3:40pm On Oct 17, 2025 |
Defence Minister Katz has instructed the IDF to place physical markers along the so-called Yellow Line in Gaza, where the military withdrew under the current ceasefire, to clearly delineate IDF control boundaries. The markers will warn “Hamas terrorists and Gaza residents that any violation or attempt to cross the line will be met with fire.” (Open Source Intel) 2 Likes
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| Foreign Affairs › Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by HolinessForever: 3:38pm On Oct 17, 2025 |
Imagine if this sort of thing was posted about any other group of people…
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| Foreign Affairs › Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by HolinessForever: 3:37pm On Oct 17, 2025 |
The president, groggy after a long night of discussions, took time to answer. The strike went ahead. To this day, it’s unclear how Hamas’s senior figures escaped, but one thing is clear: the failed strike accelerated the deal. In recent weeks, I wrote that it was “the most successful failed assassination” — in the sense that it signaled to the Qataris that the war would reach them if they continued their double game. Dermer sees it differently: he, too, links the strike to the agreement, but in a completely different way. Qatar — The Spoiler State The Qataris, it turns out, believed that by agreeing to host negotiations, they had gained immunity from Israeli attacks on their territory. From their perspective, the strike was a flagrant violation — and a deep insult. Qatar had long failed to broker any deal, but when it came to ruining others, it excelled. “The spoiler state,” officials in Jerusalem called it — capable of torpedoing any agreement, as it had done to Egypt’s hostage deal the previous spring. Qatar is a complicated country, Netanyahu recently said. And indeed it is. In Jerusalem, they describe it as two trains running behind the same locomotive: one led by the ruler’s mother and brother — staunch Muslim Brotherhood supporters and fierce Israel-haters; the other led by the prime minister and several senior officials who seek closer ties with the West. Around April, a shift was detected in Doha. Relations with Washington deepened significantly, and Hamas — once the pampered protégé — became a burden and a stain. Arab states hurried to attend the emir’s conference, partly out of anger toward Israel, partly out of fear of an Israeli-dominated Middle East. The Americans’ brilliance was in channeling that negative energy into fuel to push the deal forward. “You want Israel to stop?” they told the Sunni states. “Then help us end the war.” Thus, they forged a seemingly impossible framework: a pan-Arab, almost pan-Muslim commitment to dismantle Hamas. Dermer drafted Israel’s apology for the death of a Qatari security officer, and Doha responded with a goodwill gesture — dramatically softening Al-Jazeera’s hostile tone. A New Framework — Without the PA More than rallying Arab states against Hamas — which had worn out the patience of the entire Arab world — the real achievement was bringing them into a plan that excluded the Palestinian Authority, at least for now. That’s what had delayed the Emiratis’ participation a year and a half earlier. In a way, that was the breakthrough: before this plan, Gaza was under the Palestinian Authority. Now, it is under a joint Arab-international framework — until further notice. The PA hates Hamas so deeply that it simply said yes. The “Two-State” Redefined “Yes, there will be a two-state solution,” Dermer said this week. “But not between the Jordan River and the sea — rather, inside the Gaza Strip itself.” The plan envisions that as long as Hamas refuses to disarm, reconstruction will proceed — but only in the half of the Strip under Israeli control. What two years of war couldn’t achieve, market forces will: people will choose where they prefer to live — among ruins under Hamas boots, or in a rebuilt zone with an Emirati-funded school and a caravan home for every family. The Americans see this as a temporary arrangement and are confident that Hamas will soon disarm. Israel, of course, is far more skeptical. “Explain this to me,” said IDF Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir during one call. “Your multinational force — a few companies strong — reaches a tunnel. Hamas fighters are armed inside. How exactly does that end? Who hands over the weapons? And what if they don’t?” “You didn’t believe the first phase would happen,” the Americans replied. “Have faith that the second will too.” “A little faith,” said the Jews with the U.S. flag on their lapels — to the Jews wearing the Israeli one. 1 Like |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by HolinessForever: 3:32pm On Oct 17, 2025 |
Excellent article By Amit Segal on Israel Hayom: Land of Possibilities If Israelis had heard how the President of the United States spoke about the hostages, it’s doubtful he would have received the roaring applause that echoed from one end of Hostages’ Square to the other last Saturday night. To say they were a secondary concern for him would be an understatement — and even that is an understatement. Trump’s priority was eliminating Hamas — the American way. The twenty living hostages (he always confused their number and tended to minimize it — one wonders what Freud would say) seemed to him a marginal issue, collateral damage. Only later did he grasp how strategically important the matter was for Israelis — and therefore, for their government as well. In the U.S., presidents are usually criticized not for meeting too few hostage families, but for meeting them too often. (For reference, see “Ronald Reagan” on Google.) In one of the discussions ahead of Gideon’s Chariots 2, Netanyahu spoke about the scar that would remain in Israeli society if our forces took Gaza at the cost of the hostages’ lives. It’s fair to assume he didn’t truly believe that moment would come. In recent months, Netanyahu and Dermer believed that an operation to capture Gaza City — if it ever began — would likely not reach its conclusion. As written here earlier, “something is cooking,” followed a week later by: “not necessarily a deal or an occupation — signs point to a third path” (“and now for something completely different”). The Making of the “Stew” Last spring, after the successful end of the war with Iran, Israel sought to use that momentum to reach a partial deal. The idea was to release half of the hostages and, during a 60-day ceasefire, reach roughly the same terms achieved this week. But Hamas, buoyed by the “starvation” campaign gaining traction worldwide, refused. President Trump, still basking in the glow of his victory over Iran, assumed the IDF could eliminate what remained of Hamas as swiftly as it had crushed Tehran’s nuclear program. The combination of Hamas’s obstinance and Trump’s overconfidence pushed Israel to decide on entering Gaza City. The idea came from Minister Avi Dichter: “Conquering the city means the end of Hamas,” he said in one meeting. And then, almost miraculously, things shifted. “Even before our forces entered the city,” Dermer recalled, “three days of talk about the operation accomplished what three months of negotiations had failed to do. Hamas suddenly agreed to a partial deal. But by then, it was too late.” ISRAEL faced two options: either conquer what remained of the Strip and establish a U.S.-backed military government — which, Dermer and Netanyahu believed, would require national unity and explicit support from Trump. The first was lacking, and the second was uncertain. The other path was a plan conceived in Israel, led by the Americans, and supported by Arab states. The American Touch President Reagan once told his staff: “You write the plans, I’ll be the one to sell them.” So it was here, with Dermer as the chief architect. It was clear that any plan publicly branded as “Israeli” would die before birth. That doesn’t mean every tweet was coordinated, as the minister clarified at this week’s cabinet meeting, but on the major issues — they worked hand in hand. Negotiations with Middle Eastern countries were long and grueling. During a round held in New York, it seemed impossible to fit all those elephants into one room. Israeli representatives returned with 17 substantial comments from the Sunni states — and even a glimmer of agreement on the horizon. September 9: The Turning Point On the morning of September 9, a brief three-way consultation took place: Prime Minister Netanyahu, Defense Minister Katz, and Minister Dermer. All three supported the planned strike in Doha. Many issues came up — but not one of them believed Israel had any binding commitment to the Qataris not to target Hamas operatives on their soil. Netanyahu called President Trump minutes beforehand. |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by HolinessForever: 10:07pm On Oct 16, 2025 |
ISRAEL Foreign Ministry: Hamas tortured them, starved them, subjected them to inhumanity and barbarism - but couldn't break their spirit. After two years in hell, they came home with their heads held high. Heroes.
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| Foreign Affairs › Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by HolinessForever: 9:58pm On Oct 16, 2025 |
Gal Hirsch to the families of the hostages: The pressure on Hamas will intensify; I won’t go into details. 1 Like |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by HolinessForever: 9:47pm On Oct 16, 2025 |
NETANYAHU: "I know exactly how many hostages Hamas is holding, and if we do not get them - ISRAEL will know how to act accordingly.” 1 Like |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by HolinessForever: 9:44pm On Oct 16, 2025 |
Trump Gaza plan on verge of collapse, warns Saudi Arabia and UAE “Arab and American sources have confirmed that the Sunni axis, which also includes Bahrain, has warned the White House that the Trump Gaza plan is in danger of falling apart. "As long as Hamas retains its weapons, we will not continue with the process," the message states. Communications sent to Washington argue that the leniency shown by mediators has allowed the terrorist organization to evade its obligations.” A Saudi diplomat stated that Hamas has caused immense harm to Palestinians, leading to tens of thousands of deaths, the destruction of Gaza, and a catastrophe worse than the Nakba. He warned that Hamas will sabotage any efforts to restore order in Gaza and that eliminating its influence is essential for the region's rehabilitation and reconstruction. 2 Likes
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| Foreign Affairs › Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by HolinessForever: 9:40pm On Oct 16, 2025 |
HolinessForever:ISRAEL BLOCKS Turkish delegation, including rescue teams & heavy machinery, from entering Gaza. ISRAELI officials: "Hamas can return abducted bodies; no need for Turkish crews." They claim Hamas knows most hostages' remains' locations, some needing heavy equipment to recover. 2 Likes |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by HolinessForever: 9:36pm On Oct 16, 2025 |
After landing in Washington for continued high-level discussions, Zelenskyy remarked, “We can already see that Moscow is rushing to resume dialogue as soon as it hears about Tomahawks.” 1 Like
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| Foreign Affairs › Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by HolinessForever: 9:33pm On Oct 16, 2025 |
HolinessForever:The IDF struck Hezbollah and “Green Without Borders” terror sites in southern Lebanon, including a quarry used to rebuild infrastructure destroyed in past operations. These facilities allowed Hezbollah to resume activities under civilian cover. “Green Without Borders” disguised Hezbollah’s presence in the region. The IDF said such sites violate Israel-Lebanon understandings and vowed to continue removing all threats to Israel. (OSI/IDF) 1 Like |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by HolinessForever: 9:30pm On Oct 16, 2025 |
Netanyahu and President Trump discussed the next steps regarding Gaza deal. 1 Like |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by HolinessForever: 9:29pm On Oct 16, 2025 |
More footage from Lebanon. ISRAEL reportedly launched dozens of strikes. 1 Like
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| Foreign Affairs › Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by HolinessForever: 9:27pm On Oct 16, 2025 |
IDF: “A short while ago, during IDF operational activity in Qabatiya, a terrorist hurled an explosive device toward IDF soldiers. The soldiers responded with fire and eliminated the terrorist. No IDF injuries were reported.” 1 Like |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by HolinessForever: 9:25pm On Oct 16, 2025 |
U.S. troops arriving at Ben Gurion airport in Tel Aviv 2 Likes
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| Foreign Affairs › Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by HolinessForever: 9:24pm On Oct 16, 2025 |
Trump: I am outraged that the International Maritime Organization is voting in London this week to pass a global Carbon Tax. The United States will NOT stand for this Global Green New Scam Tax on Shipping, and will not adhere to it in any way, shape, or form. We will not tolerate increased prices on American Consumers OR, the creation of a Green New Scam Bureaucracy to spend YOUR money on their Green dreams. Stand with the United States, and vote NO in London tomorrow! 1 Like
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| Foreign Affairs › Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by HolinessForever: 9:22pm On Oct 16, 2025 |
The IDF and Air Force have reportedly launched a broad wave of attacks in southern Lebanon.
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| Foreign Affairs › Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by HolinessForever: 9:19pm On Oct 16, 2025 |
Netanyahu: "I know exactly how many hostages Hamas is holding, and if we do not get them - Israel will know how to act accordingly.” 2 Likes |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by HolinessForever: 9:15pm On Oct 16, 2025 |
Trump threatens Hamas.
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| Foreign Affairs › Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by HolinessForever: 9:13pm On Oct 16, 2025 |
Rom Braslavski, one of the 20 hostages freed from Hamas captivity this week, was held alone for two years, and was offered more food and better treatment if he agreed to convert to Islam. ❗️ This is a war crime under the Geneva Conventions. His testimony was shared with the media via his mother, Tami Braslavski, at Ramat Gan’s Sheba Hospital, where Rom is being treated. IT 1 Like
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| Foreign Affairs › Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by HolinessForever: 9:11pm On Oct 16, 2025 |
❗️Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Bahrain reportedly sent a message to the Trump administration warning that Qatar can’t be trusted in its role in Gaza, and that they won’t put any money toward Gaza’s reconstruction until Hamas is actually disarmed. 3 Likes |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by HolinessForever: 8:50pm On Oct 16, 2025 |
Defense Minister Israel Katz : Houthi military chief of staff Muhammad al-Ghamari was killed as a result of Israel's strike on the Iran-backed group's leaders in August. The strike had killed the Houthi prime minister and around a dozen other ministers. Al-Ghamari was apparently fatally wounded in the attack. He was also wounded in an Israeli strike in June. "He joins his friends, the eliminated members of the axis of evil, in the depths of hell," Katz says he also visited the Military Intelligence Directorate's so-called "Houthi command center" today with the directorate's chief, Maj. Gen. Shlomi Binder, where he thanked the soldiers and commanders "for the excellent work they have done and have yet to do against the Houthis in the future."
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| Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by HolinessForever: 8:46pm On Oct 16, 2025 |
WriterrNg:Yes... Alive in the land of Virgins with Nasarallah, , iran general and Hamas TERRORISTS. 1 Like 1 Share |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by HolinessForever: 6:31pm On Oct 16, 2025 |
In the Course of this war ISRAEL has ELIMINATED chiefs of staff of 4 TERRORISTS entities: ▪️Hamas - Muhammad Deif ▪️Hezbollah - Fuad Shukr ▪️IRAN - Muhammad Bagheri ▪️The Houthis - Muhammad al-Ghamari 1 Like
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| Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by HolinessForever: 6:29pm On Oct 16, 2025 |
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| Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by HolinessForever: 6:27pm On Oct 16, 2025 |
The ISRAELI Air Force launched a wave of attacks on Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon 2 Likes
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| Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by HolinessForever: 6:25pm On Oct 16, 2025 |
ISRAEL Prime Minister Netanyahu: "Another Chief of Staff ELIMINATED among the line of TERRORIST commanders who sought to harm us - WE WILL REACH THEM ALL." 1 Like |
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