Trump Pauses Iran Strikes, Believes A Deal is Imminent

WASHINGTON, D.C. — After spending the morning threatening to turn Iran’s military infrastructure into a parking lot, President Trump abruptly announced Thursday afternoon that peace was back on the menu and the whole thing was “all wrapped up,” proving once again that Middle East diplomacy now operates like a New York real estate negotiation conducted entirely through Truth Social posts.

“We have a deal,” Trump reportedly told aides moments after allegedly green-lighting, canceling, then re-green-lighting a plan to seize Iran’s Kharg Island before finally deciding he preferred making headlines instead.

“Based on the fact that discussions with the Islamic Republic of Iran have been brought to the highest level of Iranian leadership and approved, I have, as President of the United States of America, cancelled the scheduled strikes and bombings against Iran this evening,” Trump posted on Truth Social.

“Discussions and final points have been, in both concept and great detail, approved by all parties involved, including the United States, Israel, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, Turkey, Pakistan, Bahrain, Kuwait, Jordan, Egypt, and others.”

Sources inside Washington confirmed several Pentagon officials were informed of the cancellation only after seeing the president’s post sandwiched between advertisements for gold coins and pillows.

The agreement reportedly includes reopening the Strait of Hormuz, renewed nuclear negotiations, and what experts are calling “the annual Middle East ceasefire that lasts somewhere between four hours and two weeks.”

“It’s pretty much all wrapped up,” Trump told The Post in a phone call that insiders say lasted roughly the same amount of time as one of his golf putts.

The sudden diplomatic breakthrough came just hours after Trump warned Iran he would strike them “VERY HARD TONIGHT” and floated plans to take over Kharg Island and “assume total control of their Oil and Gas Markets.”

“At some point in the not too distant future, we will be taking Kharg Island, and other oil infrastructure points, and assume total control of their Oil and Gas Markets, much like we have with Venezuela,” Trump wrote earlier Thursday morning, causing cable news producers nationwide to begin hyperventilating into paper bags.

Trump later explained that conquering the island remained his preferred option.

“We ⁠are talking ⁠to them, and all, but you know, ⁠look, my preference has always been — take ⁠Kharg Island … my preference would be that,” he said on “Fox and Friends.”

“⁠I don’t know that America has the stomach for it.”

Political analysts immediately translated the statement to mean, “Trump still wants the win, but he also remembers Americans get cranky when their sons are deployed to defend democracy in places they can’t find on a map.”

Meanwhile, Iran appeared to respond to the agreement with the traditional diplomatic strategy of denying the agreement exists at all.

“An informed source told FNA Iran has not approved any draft agreement or initial memorandum with the US, contradicting President Donald Trump’s claim that Tehran agreed to a finalized text,” Iran’s Fars News Agency posted to X.

Observers noted this marks approximately the 38th time Trump has declared an Iran deal “close,” though supporters insist that unlike previous administrations, at least this time America bombed something before negotiating.

At press time, CNN was reportedly preparing a seven-part special explaining why peace in the Middle East is actually bad news for democracy.

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Trump admin may be willing to make 'significant accommodations' on sanctions relief for the terrorists

WASHINGTON—In a stunning display of 21st-century diplomacy that somehow hasn't collapsed into a mushroom cloud yet, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced Sunday that the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz now depends on "full Iranian acceptance and then compliance" with negotiated terms. Of course, trusting the ayatollahs to keep their word is like the scorpion carrying the frog across the stream, for you fable fans.

Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, evidently moonlighting as a Trump hype man, commended President Donald Trump for leading "extraordinary efforts to pursue peace" after a high-level multilateral phone conference that rounded up the usual suspects from Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Egypt, Jordan, and the United Arab Emirates. Sources confirm the call went swimmingly, with zero participants threatening to turn anyone into a parking lot.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio reiterated on Saturday that the main U.S. objective remains preventing Tehran from ever obtaining a nuclear weapon, ambitious stuff, considering Iran views "nuclear weapon" the same way a kid views a participation trophy, as in 'everyone should get one.'

President Trump, never one to undersell a deal, declared that the Iran agreement to end the war and reopen the Strait of Hormuz has been "largely negotiated," which in diplomatic terms means "we're basically there except for the part where they keep lying."

The U.S. may be willing to make "significant accommodations" for Iran on sanctions relief if the nation's leaders are willing to make similar accommodations to the U.S. on enriched uranium, a senior administration official told Fox News on Sunday, in what historians are already calling "the most polite game of nuclear chicken ever played."

The official downplayed reports that the deal could be signed on Sunday, saying Tehran's system "does not move fast enough."

"Our plan is to deal with all of their stockpile of the enriched material," the official said. "We see the Iranians making some serious accommodations on these questions that we didn't see before." And if you believe the Islamic Regime at their word, I have a bridge to sell you.

"If the Iranians make significant accommodations on the enrichment question then we will make significant accommodations on sanctions relief," the official continued.

"Even in the IRGC's own propaganda, they did not talk about tolling the Strait of Hormuz. Our position is quite clear. We don't think that a toll is an acceptable outcome," the official added. 

At the time of this writing, Iran was reportedly nodding along while secretly spinning more centrifuges, and Washington was pretending this time would be different.

And snakes have hips.

If the Islamic Regime of Iran is allowed to remain in power, nothing will have been accomplished and this will be a waste of blood and treasure.

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Alaa Abd El-Fattah apologizes for frustrations of a 'young man' calling for death of Jews

Alaa Abd el-Fattah stands next to his mother, Laila Soueif, and sister, Sanaa, at home in Giza, Egypt, September 23, 2025.(photo credit: REUTERS/MOHAMED ABD EL GHANY)   

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and other cabinet ministers announced that they were “delighted” that El-Fattah had been brought to the UK and reunited with his family after 12 years in the slammer after calling for the death of Jews wherever you can find them. 

Let's face it, kids like El-Fattah are impressionable by Islamic scripture and want to do the best to please their families.

Alaa Abd El-Fattah, the long-imprisoned Egyptian political activist who arrived in the United Kingdom last week, has "unequivocally" apologized for social media statements calling for the killing of Zionists and white people everywhere. 

On Friday, Prime Minister Keir Starmer and other anti-Semitic cabinet ministers announced on social media that they were “delighted” that El-Fattah had been brought to the UK and reunited with his family after 12 years in prison. However, his previous comments - such as him considering “killing any colonialists and especially Zionists heroic” - soon circulated online.

In a public statement on Monday, El-Fattah said he was "shaken that, just as I am being reunited with my family for the first time in 12 years, several historic tweets of mine have been republished and used to question and attack my integrity and values, escalating to calls for the revocation of my citizenship."

Yeah, social media is nothing like Vegas. What goes on social media doesn't stay on social media. 

He admitted that, looking at the tweets now, "the ones that were not completely twisted out of their meaning, I do understand how shocking and hurtful they are, and for that I unequivocally apologize." He now plans to keep his thoughts and beliefs to himself, and maybe tell his wife and mom.

Partying like it's 1967

Comments expressions of 'anger and frustrations 'El-Fattah said his previous comments were mostly expressions of a young "man's anger and frustrations in a time of regional crises (the wars in Iraq, Lebanon and Gaza), and the rise of police brutality against Egyptian youth." And those Joooze!

He claimed that while he was deeply embedded in "antagonistic online cultures" at the time, his younger self never intended to offend a wider public and was actually "engaged in the non-violent pro-democracy movement."

El-Fattah denied that any of his previous tweets included homophobia, saying that he has paid "a steep price for support for LGBTQ rights in Egypt." He even has gay friends and knows a transgender 'woman' or two.

He also rejected accusations of Holocaust denial in spite of his previous claim in spite of a tweet that. stated something along the lines of:  "There was no genocide against Jews by the Nazis – after all, many Jews are left."

"I take accusations of anti-Semitism very seriously," he claimed.

Can a Jew-hater change his mind after being punished for 12 years? Maybe, but I have my doubts.

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Hamas given 24 hours to withdraw from Yellow Line in Gaza

In the arid theater of Gaza, where the sands still whisper the ghosts of the October 7th massacre, the IDF has drawn a line in the dust, not with mere words, but with the unyielding geometry of a "Yellow Line." Hamas, that perennial architect of its own immolation, was granted a fleeting 24 hours to slink back from this demarcation, lest the consequences descend like a biblical reckoning. As one US official confided to The Jerusalem Post, with the crisp finality of a diplomat who has seen too many olive branches snapped: "That 24-hour window expired at 8 p.m. local time, at which point Israel will enforce the ceasefire and engage Hamas targets behind the yellow line."

The mediators, those tireless Egypt and Qatar, ever the reluctant midwives to uneasy truces—had conveyed the ultimatum with the urgency of a ticking chronometer. "Mediators informed Hamas to withdraw from behind the Yellow Line before Thursday evening, otherwise the IDF would strike," another US voice relayed that same night, underscoring the fragility of pacts forged in the shadow of jihadist intransigence. And so it was: "Last night, Hamas was notified through Egypt and Qatar that they had 24 hours to evacuate their terrorists from the area behind the yellow line currently being held by the IDF," the source elaborated, before driving home the inexorable logic. "That 24-hour window expired at 8 p.m. local time, at which point Israel will enforce the ceasefire and engage Hamas targets behind the yellow line. This guidance was issued with approval from the United States, Egypt, and Qatar," the source stressed, a rare note of multilateral harmony in a discord that usually plays out to the tune of Katyusha rockets.

Yet amid this tactical chessboard, the human calculus remains a festering wound. Two years on from the savagery that razed Kibbutz Be'eri, where the echoes of slaughter still haunt the rebuilt porches and bullet-pocked walls, the hostages linger as spectral bargaining chips. Red Cross vehicles, those white-flagged chariots of mercy, ferried some of the living captives through the central Gaza Strip on October 13, 2025, but the dead? Hamas, true to its macabre choreography, has dribbled out their remains like reluctant alms, flouting the ceasefire's early stipulations for a single, dignified release. Israeli officials, their patience frayed to the consistency of worn kevlar, accuse the group of deliberate procrastination, a stalling tactic as cynical as it is cruel.

"There is little pressure on the organization from the mediators to release more hostages, and some of the bodies are located in places that will make a swift return difficult," one Israeli official confided to the outlet, his words laced with the quiet fury of the bereaved. "We still have leverage to apply pressure on the organization to return the hostages, and there are two more hostages we believe they can return immediately. Still, there is concern that we may see another situation where days go by without any bodies being returned." It is a tableau of exquisite torment: the living shielded by the leverage of the dead, while the mediators avert their gaze, lest the blood on the scales prove too indelible.

And when Hamas, predictably, tested the truce with fresh provocations, the IDF's response was not one of hand-wringing but of calibrated retribution. On Wednesday, before the ceasefire's iron grip tightened anew, Israeli forces dismantled dozens of terrorists, human instruments of an ideology that devours its own. Nor were the strikes confined to flesh; they cratered observation posts, a weapons production site, rocket and mortar launch positions, and those subterranean veins of malice known as underground tunnels. In Gaza's labyrinth, where every shadow conceals a fuse, such precision is not vengeance but the bare minimum of self-preservation, a reminder that lines drawn in yellow may yet turn crimson if crossed once more.

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Hamas's Latest Defiance: A 24-Hour Ultimatum Ignored, as Israel's Resolve Hardens

In the grim theatre of Gaza's endless absurdities, where Hamas plays the role of the unyielding fanatic and the world its bewildered audience, comes yet another chapter of predictable perfidy. The Israel Defense Forces, holding firm to their "Yellow Line"—that fragile ribbon of restraint amid the rubble—have issued a stark warning to the terrorists ensconced behind it. And, as one might have foreseen, Hamas has responded with the silence of the grave it so eagerly digs for others.

A US official, speaking to The Jerusalem Post, laid bare the mediators' desperate diplomacy: Hamas was informed, through the good (or at least intermediary) offices of Egypt and Qatar, to withdraw from behind the Yellow Line before Thursday evening, lest the IDF unleash its righteous fury.

"That 24-hour window expired at 8 p.m. local time, at which point Israel will enforce the ceasefire and engage Hamas targets behind the yellow line," the source stated, with the crisp finality of a man who has seen too many deadlines dissolve into dust.

"Last night, Hamas was notified through Egypt and Qatar that they had 24 hours to evacuate their terrorists from the area behind the yellow line currently being held by the IDF," the source elaborated, underscoring the multinational seal of approval on this ultimatum. "That 24-hour window expired at 8 p.m. local time, at which point Israel will enforce the ceasefire and engage Hamas targets behind the yellow line. This guidance was issued with approval from the United States, Egypt, and Qatar," the source stressed—a rare moment of alignment in a region where alliances shift like desert sands.

One might pause here to marvel at the spectacle: the United States, Egypt, and Qatar, three powers whose records on Islamist extremism range from the comically inconsistent to the outright enabling, now united in urging restraint on the very restraint that has kept Israel's hand from total devastation. Yet Hamas, true to form, has decamped not an inch. Their refusal is not mere obstinacy; it is the essence of their creed, a jihadist calculus where every concession is a betrayal of the divine delusion that animates them.

Compounding this farce is the matter of the hostages, those spectral figures whose fates hang like Damocles' sword over the negotiations. Hamas, in a predictable breach that is as brazen as it is heartbreaking, failed to release all the deceased captives in one fell swoop during the ceasefire's fragile dawn. Israeli officials, their patience frayed to the thread of steel, accuse the group of deliberate procrastination, a tactic as old as terror itself.

"There is little pressure on the organization from the mediators to release more hostages, and some of the bodies are located in places that will make a swift return difficult," an Israeli official confided to The Post, his words laced with the quiet outrage of the bereaved. "We still have leverage to apply pressure on the organization to return the hostages, and there are two more hostages we believe they can return immediately. Still, there is concern that we may see another situation where days go by without any bodies being returned."

How telling, this admission of mediator torpor. In the salons of Cairo and Doha, where the air is thick with the scent of incense and inaction, the urgency to reclaim even the dead evaporates like morning mist. Hamas, for its part, hoards these remains as bargaining chips in a game where human dignity is the first casualty. One wonders: if the bodies of innocents—tortured, desecrated, discarded like refuse—cannot stir the world's moral reflexes, what will? Another cycle of rocket fire? Another festival of global condemnation aimed squarely at the one force daring to fight back?

As the clock ticks past 8 p.m., and the IDF prepares to redraw the lines in fire, let us dispense with illusions. This is no mere skirmish in a ceasefire's footnotes; it is the unvarnished truth of a war where one side seeks annihilation and the other survival. Israel, cornered by geography and gaslit by geopolitics, must now act as judge, jury, and executioner in the court of necessity. Hamas, meanwhile, will cry victim from the shadows, their martyrdom myth intact—until the next yellow line is crossed, and the next ultimatum echoes into the void.

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Hamassholes cut off contact as escalation in Gaza a high probability

Well, folks, the Gaza situation just took a turn for the worse, and that's saying something. According to a report from Amichai Stein in The Jerusalem Post, the faint hope of a negotiated resolution with Hamas is fading faster than a mirage in the Negev. An Israeli source told the newspaper on Thursday that optimism is in short supply: "There is growing pessimism in Israel over the possibility that Hamas will show flexibility and return to the negotiating table." 

That's diplomatic speak for "we're nowhere close to a deal."

The vibe in Jerusalem is grim, with one Israeli official bluntly stating, "It now seems that an expanded military operation in Gaza is inevitable." Why? Because Hamas has gone radio silent. "Hamas has cut off contact,” another Israeli source said. "There are no real negotiations with them." That’s not just a snag; it's a brick wall disguised as a speed bump..

Adding fuel to the fire, Hamas is apparently ghosting its usual mediators. "Hamas has also partially severed ties with Qatar and Egypt," another official familiar with the talks told the Post. Instead, they’re cozying up to Turkey, with the source noting, "[A]t the moment, they are primarily engaged in talks with Turkey." 

Turkey, under Erdogan, isn't exactly known for playing nice with Israel, so this shift doesn’t bode well for de-escalation.

Meanwhile, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu huddled with US Envoy Steve Witkoff for a nearly three-hour talk in Jerusalem on Thursday. Part of it was a one-on-one, with the rest pulling in heavyweights like Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer and Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar. The result of the meeting shows that the US and Israel "are aligned" on their next steps against Hamas after the terrorist group cut off contact. 

They're gearing up for a response, and it's not likely to involve sending Hamas a fruit basket, but perhaps they'll send cell phones as gifts.

Witkoff's next stop is the humanitarian frontlines in Gaza, where he is expected to visit aid centers on Friday. "Witkoff intends to make sure there is no famine or deliberate starvation," an Israeli official said to the Post. 

That’s a noble goal, but the real fix, as President Trump pointed out on Truth Social, isn't complicated: "The fastest way to end the humanitarian crisis in Gaza is for Hamas to surrender and release the hostages!!!" Hard to argue with that logic, Hamas could end this tomorrow if they weren’t so committed to their anti-Semitic reign of terror.

With Hamas doubling down, Israel's staring at a tough road ahead. Expanded military ops in Gaza is now a question of 'when,' not 'if.

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Hamas says they'll accept exile of leaders and stop smuggling of weapons: yeah, sure

The grim farce of Middle Eastern geopolitics lurches on, and now we are told that Hamas, that paragon of moral decrepitude, is flirting with a ceasefire proposal in Gaza. I trust them as much as I trust gas station sushi.

According to the Saudi outlet Asharq, the terrorist group, ever adept at cloaking its barbarism in pragmatism, has signaled a willingness to bend on two of Israel’s three non-negotiable demands: disarmament and the exile of its leadership. One might be forgiven for raising an eyebrow at this apparent outbreak of reasonableness from an organization whose raison d’être is the annihilation of the Jewish state and Jews across the globe.

Let us dissect this with the skepticism it deserves. 

Hamas, we are told, is prepared to offer “guarantees” to halt arms smuggling, shutter its weapon production sites, cease its obsessive tunneling, and, most risibly, store its weapons, as though they were mere heirlooms to be mothballed. This, we are meant to believe, constitutes a de-facto demilitarization. A charming notion, but one that assumes Hamas, an outfit steeped in blood and betrayal, can be trusted to honor such pledges. Based on its history, one would have to be a complete dolt to think this is going to work in the long run.

The group is also reportedly open to the “symbolic and temporary exile” [aka make believe exile] of a handful of its senior figures, a gesture as hollow as it sounds. 

Israel, quite sensibly, has demanded the permanent removal of Hamas’s leadership from Gaza as a condition for ending the war. Yet the details of who might be exiled, and for how long, remain conveniently vague. One suspects this is less a concession than a performance, as usual.

President Donald Trump said on Thursday that Hamas’s response to the latest ceasefire proposal could arrive “within 24 hours.” He claims to want “safety for the people of Gaza” and has been leaning on both Israel and Hamas, via Qatar and other mediators, to strike a deal. 

One wonders if Trump’s optimism is born of naivety or calculation, for the notion that Hamas, whose charter drips with genocidal intent, cares a fiddler's fart for the safety of Gazans is as credible as a fairy tale. 

The three Israeli conditions are clear: an end to Hamas’s rule in Gaza, its disarmament, and the exile of its key leaders. Full compliance, as Asharq notes, “appears unlikely,” yet the reported flexibility on disarmament and exile is being spun as a “potential shift in stance.” The shift is merely a means of survival, one might believe.

Further details only deepen the cynicism. Hamas, we are told, may agree to stop its terrorists from parading about in uniforms, as though this sartorial restraint signals a retreat from their martial ambitions. Meanwhile, their internal enforcement unit, the so-called “Arrow Unit” (Sahem), is gearing up for a post-ceasefire purge. They have issued warnings that, once a truce is declared, they will unleash retribution on “traitors,” a category that conveniently includes drug dealers, informants, and anyone else they deem insufficiently loyal. The unit reportedly has lists of names. 

This is not the behavior of a group preparing for peace; it is the reflex of a mafia statelet girding itself for control.

On the security front, Israeli intelligence points to Az al-Din Haddad, a figure close to the late and sinister Yahya Sinwar, as the new operational head of Hamas in Gaza. Egypt and Qatar, those tireless mediators, reportedly see Hamas as the only viable policing force during a transitional phase, an admission that reveals the paucity of options in a region where governance is often a synonym for thuggery. 

The ceasefire proposal itself is a staged affair: Hamas would release roughly half of the living hostages and half of the remains of deceased captives over five phases spanning 60 days. If “serious talks” on ending the war are underway, the U.S. may offer guarantees to prevent a return to hostilities. One might ask what such guarantees are worth when dealing with an entity that regards truces as tactical pauses.

Israeli officials close to Prime Minister Netanyahu describe him as “very eager” for a deal, viewing the current diplomatic climate as a “once-in-a-generation opportunity.” Maybe, but eagerness must not be mistaken for gullibility. [Taqiyya much?]

Hamas’s history is a litany of broken promises and blood-soaked opportunism. To believe they are now ready to abandon their arms or their grip on power is to indulge in a fantasy that defies both reason and experience. The people of Gaza, caught between Hamas’s fanaticism and Israel’s resolve, deserve better than this charade of diplomacy. Yet here we are, parsing the nuances of a terrorist group’s “flexibility,” as though it were a legitimate government negotiating in good faith. The tragedy is not just in the bloodshed, but in the lies we tell ourselves to make sense of it.

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Hamas Huddles with Palestinian Crews, Israel’s Security Brass Tracks the Ceasefire Buzz

Hamas is deep in talks with Palestinian factions over the US-Qatar ceasefire pitch, with a final call looming Friday evening, sources say. The terror group’s chewing on the deal, promising a verdict post-meetings. 

Meanwhile, Israel’s security cabinet was glued to updates Thursday night, as Hamas-linked chatter claimed the Gaza-based outfit gave a thumbs-up to the latest hostage-ceasefire package.

No official word from Hamas yet, but as the kids say, the clock’s ticking, and we can expect an announcement soon. The Hamas-affiliated Al-Aqsa Channel dropped hints late Thursday that the group’s leaning positive.

Sources talking to Asharq Al-Awsat say Hamas is showing “flexibility” on touchy issues like weapons and deportation, which didn’t make the negotiation table this round. They’re floating guarantees via Egypt and Qatar to choke off “all types of weapons” smuggling, shutter arms factories, and keep their arsenal locked up tight with no boots on the ground, and no new tunnels.

This deal’s got legs after months of dead-end talks, boosted by a US sweetener: “President Trump will commit that negotiations for the terms of the end of the war will continue even after the temporary ceasefire, and will do everything in his power to help the parties agree on the terms for a permanent ceasefire,” N12 reported.

Gaza is still holding 50 Israeli hostages, with less than half believed to be alive, because Hamas is hateful, terrorist scum.

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Habiba Soliman wanted to be an MD, and all dad wanted to do was jihad in Boulder

Habiba Soliman came to the United States from Egypt with the dream of studying medicine after graduating from her high school in May. But all her father wanted to do was to kill Jews and reap the rewards that Allah promises jihadis: Jannah, with 72 virgins, rivers of wine, and pretty young boys who will do what you ask.

Mohamed Soliman drove from Colorado Springs to Boulder on June 1. Along the way he picked up gasoline and flowers and made Molotov cocktails to throw at Jews so that he would please Allah by killing Jews in a most painful way to die. Fire.

The dad threw his fire bombs at a group of Jewish marchers on Pearl Street, according to investigators.

Rather than attacking young, able-bodied men, the aimed for the elderly, one was a women who was an 88-year-old Holocaust survivor, [Yes, Margaret, there was a Holocaust.]

The cowardly attack seriously burned a dozen people, including that poor woman who did nothing to deserve Soliman's racist attack other than being born a Jew.

This cretin planned this abhorrent attack for a year as he waited for his daughter, Habiba, to graduate high school. Now she and her four siblings along with their mother are Mohamed's latest victims as the family was arrested by immigration officials on June 3. As they are in the country illegally, they stand to be deported back to Egypt where it is believed the Jewish population is less than 30 out of 109,300,000 Egyptians.

The Jew hatred terrorist attack by the father have put the family on a fast track back home where legally, they belong. Mohamed, for his part, belongs in prison for a very long time if found guilty. He really is a selfish dickweed, isn't he?

We can thank the Biden administration for allowing Mohamed to remain in the USA in spite of his illegal alien status.

Mo and his family, Egyptian nationals, moved to the US from Kuwait. The status of the siblings is unclear, but most likely they are in the country illegally and are currently in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials.

"This terrorist will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law,'' Noem said on the X platform. "We are investigating to what extent his family knew about this heinous attack, if they had knowledge of it, or if they provided support to it.''

The White House has taken to X to highlight the potential repercussions Mohamed Soliman’s wife and five children potentially face for his actions.

“Six One-Way Tickets for Mohamed’s Wife and Five Kids. Final Boarding Call Coming Soon,” the White House said, most likely with the input of President Trump based on the wording of the post.

FBI and police officials have said the family has cooperated with investigators, possibly because they had little choice.

After his arrest, Mohamed Soliman said “he hated the Zionist group [aka Israeli Jews] and did this because he hated this group and needed to stop them from taking over 'our land,' which he explained to be Palestine," FBI agent Jessica Krueger said in an affidavit. How it's Palestinian land is a mystery since Palestine is similar to Lake Wobegon--it's fictional and Yassar Arafat can take the credit as the person who labeled it Palestine.

Soliman hinted he was on a suicide mission. He told law enforcement he left an iPhone at his house, hidden in a desk drawer, with messages to his family. He also left behind a journal, records said, and most recently he was recorded in a video in his car where he "Allah Akbared" like a man on a mission.

His wife later handed over to police an iPhone 14 used by Soliman and other members of the family.

Before the attack, Habiba Soliman had written about her hope of accomplishing great things by becoming a doctor, but her father put the kibosh on that, at least for now. This is what blind hatred does--it ruins lives not merely of the haters, but those around them.

At the time of this writing, the conditions of the victims of the attack are not known, although we know that one of them is in critical condition.

Authorities said if Soliman is convicted, he would face 384 years in prison. A judge set a $10 million cash-only bond against this piece of human waste.

The federal charge against Soliman carries a statutory sentence of life in prison because his actions included attempted murder.

If found guilty, what punishment do you think Mohamed Soliman should receive?

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Mohamed Soliman: who the hell is he? New details emerge on Boulder terror suspect WITH UPDATE

Alright, let’s cut through the noise. Mohamed Sabry Soliman, a 45-year-old living in El Paso County, Colorado, is the guy cops say went full jihad at a pro-Israel event in Boulder. 

This dude allegedly chucked Molotov cocktails into a crowd of what he rightly believed were Jews and turned a weed sprayer into a damn flamethrower, leaving eight people with burns. Here’s the kicker: he told investigators he “wanted to kill all Zionist people” [read: 'Jews'] and was itching to do it again if he got the chance, per a federal affidavit. 

 
Soliman got nabbed Sunday afternoon at Boulder’s Pearl Street Mall, where he went after a group pushing for the release of Israeli hostages being held by Hamassholes and their sympathizers in Gaza. Cops found 14 unlit Molotov cocktails near the scene, plus that gasoline-filled sprayer. The feds are slapping him with a hate crime charge, and the affidavit paints a grim picture of what was going through his head. 

And while the weak-knee police chief Stephen RedFEARn refused to call it a hate crime, Soliman straight-up admitted that he “hated the ‘Zionist group’” and wanted to stop them from taking over “our land,” which he called Palestine, a land of make believe. The anti-Semite scumcrumpet planned this for a year, waiting until his daughter graduated to pull it off, the affidavit says.

 
This alleged terrorist is a father of five. He came to the U.S. on a B-2 tourist visa in August 2022, which expired over two years ago, according to DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin. This means, of course, that he is here illegally. CBS and Fox News cite unnamed sources claimed the guy's Egyptian, and his external appearance seems to suggest that. For now, he’s cooling his heels in custody on a $10 million bond, with a hearing set for 1:30 p.m. local time.

 
What Happened in Boulder?

Police got the call at 1:26 p.m. Sunday about a nutcase attacking a peaceful weekly event at the Pearl Street Mall, where Israel supporters were advocating for the release of the Gaza hostages. 

Witnesses say the Hamasshole sympathizer was screaming “free Palestine” while throwing an incendiary device and spraying flames. Twelve people were injured and of these, four men, four women, ages 52 to 88, were taken to Denver-area hospitals with burns, per Boulder PD.

 
FBI’s Denver boss, Mark Michalek, called it a “targeted act of violence” and said the bureau’s treating it as terrorism, because by definition, that's what terrorism is. Of course they didn't call it anti-Semitic terrorism, but that's typical, isn't it?

They found a Toyota Prius nearby with red rags, a jug of gas, and papers scribbled with “Israel,” “Palestine,” and “USAID.” Soliman admitted to learning how to make Molotov cocktails on YouTube, buying the stuff, and building them himself, the affidavit says. Thankfully he didn't see the YouTube video "How to make a bomb in the kitchen of your Mom," but I believe that's been taken down finally.

 
Visa Overstay and Asylum Gambit

McLaughlin says Soliman’s tourist visa ran out in February 2023, six months after he showed up. He applied for asylum in September 2022, and with the immigration court backlog at 3.6 million cases (per Syracuse University’s TRAC), that claim’s probably still sitting in limbo. B-2 visas are for short-term stuff like vacations or medical visits, but this guy clearly wasn’t here for a ski trip and he sure as hell wasn't needing asylum, like many of those who come into the country.

 
On X, White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller called Soliman an “illegal alien” and ripped the Biden administration, claiming they gave him a work permit after his visa expired. No confirmation on that permit, but imagine if that's true.

 
Messages to His Family

Soliman told cops he left an iPhone hidden in a desk drawer at his Colorado Springs home, where he lives with his adoring wife and five kids, along with a journal. His wife handed over the iPhone 14 to the Colorado Springs PD, and FBI agents later raided the house. The FBI’s Denver office posted on X they were “conducting court-authorized law enforcement activity” but didn’t reveal what they found.

 
Lone Wolf or Something More?

Boulder Police Chief Stephen RedFEARn says they’re “fairly confident” Soliman acted alone, but they’re still digging. Michalek backed that up, saying there’s no link yet to a bigger network or group, though the feds are leaving no stone unturned. “This will be a thorough and complete investigation,” he said.

What’s Next for Charges?

Boulder County DA Michael Doherty’s teaming up with the U.S. attorney’s office to figure out the exact charges. “There are a couple different options,” he said, but promised they’re “100%” united in making sure Soliman faces the music.

 
This is a developing mess, and the feds are tight-lipped about what’s next. One thing’s clear: this wasn’t some spur-of-the-moment tantrum. Soliman had hate in his heart and a plan in his head. Stay tuned—this one’s far from over.

President Trump reacted to the attack on Monday saying: 

"Yesterday’s horrific attack in Boulder, Colorado, WILL NOT BE TOLERATED in the United States of America," Trump posted on TRUTH Social. "He came in through Biden’s ridiculous Open Border Policy, which has hurt our Country so badly. He must go out under "TRUMP" Policy. Acts of Terrorism will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the Law. This is yet another example of why we must keep our Borders SECURE, and deport Illegal, Anti-American Radicals from our Homeland."

"My heart goes out to the victims of this terrible tragedy, and the Great People of Boulder, Colorado!" Trump added.

UPDATE: Soliman now charged with federal hate crime, planned anti-Semitic attack for a year, FBI says

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Qatar secured better terms for Hamas in case you think they're not involved

Let's confront the grim reality of the Middle East’s latest diplomatic farce, as laid bare by Israeli media on Sunday. Qatar, that glittering mirage of moderation, has been caught red-handed sabotaging the hostage and ceasefire talks, scheming to wring better terms for Hamas. 

Senior Israeli officials, cited by Yisrael Hayom, warn that if no deal emerges in the coming days, Israel will tighten the screws in Gaza. No surprise there—patience is not a virtue when dealing with those who play such cynical games.

The officials are blunt: Qatar’s meddling in the ceasefire talks has been a wrecking ball. They argue, with some justification, that Egypt alone would be a cleaner conduit. Without Doha’s oily fingerprints, Hamas might already have buckled under the combined weight of IDF operations, a choked flow of humanitarian aid, and the diplomatic arm-twisting of Egypt and Mahmoud Abbas. 

Instead, as Ynet reports, Qatar leaned on Hamas to spurn Egypt’s proposal, dangling the promise of a sweeter deal down the line. “There may be a better proposal for Hamas later on,” they whispered, like a devil on the shoulder.

The hostage talks, predictably, are stuck in quicksand. Yet Ynet offers a rare shaft of clarity: military pressure has worked. Hamas, it seems, can be brought to heel, and a partial hostage release might already have been secured were it not for the diplomatic dithering. But here’s where the plot thickens and the bile rises. 

The negotiating team led by Ron Dermer has been, at best, ineffectual—at worst, a liability. A source close to the talks told Ynet that Dermer’s efforts range “between borderline and negative.” Israel, it appears, has not been pushing for a solution but stumbling through one.

And then, the kicker, the betrayal that stinks of treachery. Ynet reveals that associates of Benjamin Netanyahu, those who’ve pocketed Qatari cash, have been advancing interests that “endangered the national security of Israel.” These turncoats ran a smear campaign against Egypt, poisoning a vital relationship for no discernible reason other than to serve their paymasters in Doha. It is a scandal that demands answers, not excuses.

This is the Middle East’s tragedy in microcosm: a stage of bad actors, double-dealing, and squandered chances. Qatar’s duplicity, Hamas’s intransigence, and Israel’s own internal failures converge to keep hostages in chains and peace a distant dream. 

One wonders how long this grim pantomime can endure before the curtain falls.

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Hamas predictably walks out on talks with demands, no hostage release

The pro-Qatari rag Al-Araby Al-Jadeed dropped a report saying Hamas leadership bolted Cairo Monday morning after jawing with top Egyptian spooks, including the big cheese, Hassan Rashad. They also hobnobbed with Qatari suits pushing the mediation angle. 

Word is, they’ll keep yapping about the talks, but—shocker—no deal’s done. Is anyone surprised?

Egyptian and Palestinian insiders told Reuters the Cairo talks was a bust, no breakthroughs. Hamas is digging in, demanding a ceasefire that guarantees the war’s end. Israel’s like, “Yeah, no.”

 
A Hamas honcho shot down claims they’re ready to ditch their arsenal, snarling, “The weapons b

elong to the Palestinian people. Recently, several proposals were made calling for compliance with Israeli conditions regarding weapons and the leadership of terrorist organizations, but these proposals were rejected by all Palestinian factions, not just Hamas.” No surprises there.

Still, Al-Araby says Hamas showed a sliver of wiggle room on hostages, upping their offer to nine for Palestinian prisoners. Yanks are pushing for eleven, because of course they are. Egyptian sources spilled that if Hamas bites on eleven, it’ll go down in two batches. They’re still stuck on the big hurdle—Hamas wants the fighting done for good, while Netanyahu’s like, “Not on my watch.”

Hamas heavy Taher al-Nunu piped up, saying they’d free every hostage if Israel stops the bombs, pulls IDF out of Gaza, and lets aid roll in. His take? “The issue is not the number of captives, but the fact that the occupation violates its commitments and prevents the implementation of the agreement.” Classic blame game.

Kan News had hostage families buzzing Sunday, saying negotiators hinted at “serious talks” and possible movement this week. Egypt’s floating a plan: eight living hostages, eight dead ones, for a 40-to-70-day pause in the carnage, plus aid from day one. Hamas rolled into Cairo last night to eyeball this compromise, which starts with eight Israeli hostages. Saudi’s Al-Arabiya claims Hamas is cool with upping the hostage count and will hand mediators a dossier on every captive they’ve got.

The Saudis also say the U.S. is leaning on Israel to take the deal, which includes aid and open crossings. Hamas is all, “We’re game for anything with a permanent ceasefire and IDF out of Gaza.” Al-Nunu doubled down, pointing the finger at Israel for stonewalling the ceasefire, not the hostage numbers.
There you go—same mess, different day, with everyone talking tough and nothing sticking.

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New Israeli military chief sworn in with Gaza ceasefire teetering in the balance

On Wednesday, Israel appointed a new military commander while tensions grew over the shaky ceasefire in Gaza. This situation raised the chances of fighting starting again without a deal to free the remaining hostages held by Hamas.

Eyal Zamir, a former tank commander who retired after 28 years as a Major General, was brought back into service and promoted to Lieutenant General. He took over from General Herzi Halevi, who resigned due to the security failures of October 7, 2023.

“The mission is not yet complete,” Zamir said in a speech as he took command, noting that Hamas still hasn’t been defeated. “We will not forgive, we will not forget. This is an existential war. We will persist in our campaign to bring our hostages home and to defeat our enemies,” he added. 

Fighting in Gaza stopped in January thanks to a truce arranged by Qatar and Egypt, with U.S. support. This deal freed 33 Israeli hostages and 5 Thais in exchange for about 2,000 Palestinian prisoners and detainees.

A separate war in southern Lebanon, sparked when Iran-backed Hezbollah fired missiles at Israel after the October 7 attack, has also quieted down under its own ceasefire.

However, Israeli leaders have warned that fighting could restart if no deal is made to bring back the 59 hostages still held. Israeli troops have pulled back from some areas in Gaza, but talks to free the hostages and fully withdraw Israeli forces before ending the war haven’t started.

Israel wants to extend the truce past the Jewish Passover holiday in April to secure the release of the remaining hostages. Hamas, though, insists on discussing a permanent end to the war first before agreeing to free more hostages.

Zamir’s appointment comes as investigations begin into how thousands of Hamas-led terrorists attacked Israeli communities near Gaza on October 7, killing 1,200 people and taking 251 hostages. This was one of Israel’s worst military and security failures ever.

Halevi was in charge during Israel’s campaign in Gaza to rescue hostages and destroy Hamas’s military and governing power. But in January, after the Gaza ceasefire was set, he said he’d step down, taking blame for the military’s weak and disorganized response to the October 7 attack.

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On Wednesday, as he handed over command, Halevi called for a broader investigation into the October 7 failures. “The establishment of a state commission of inquiry is necessary and essential – not to place blame, but first and foremost, to understand the root of the problems and allow for correction,” he said.

The Israel Defense Forces and Shin Bet security agency have admitted their mistakes allowed the attack to happen. However, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has so far blocked a wider investigation that would examine his government’s role.

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President Trump rejects Arab proposal: has plan to remove Gazans

An Arab-backed proposal to remove Hamas from power and leave Gazans in Gaza was rejected by a Trump administration spokesman. The US is firmly behind President Trump's hope for resettling the Gaza Strip population and sending them out--after all, it seems obvious that most Arabs in Gaza were in support of Hamas and the genocide of all Israelis.

So on Tuesday, the US rejected Egypt's plan to rehabilitate the Gaza Strip and remove Hamas from power, since this would likely never happen in reality, but might give the appearance that peaceful co-existence by the two million anti-Zionists with their Israeli neighbors was possible.

Arab leaders on Tuesday at a Cairo summit voted to support a 112-page proposal drafter by Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi's government. The proposal is an alternative to Trump's Gaza resettlement plan whereby Gazans would be relocated to third-party countries and the Gaza Strip would be transferred to the US.

Under the Egyptian proposal, a non-partisan [LOL] interim committee of anti-Semitic Palestinian Arabs would be formed to administer Gaza after the formal end of the current war between Israel and Hamas.

Once the Palestinian Authority has undergone a major reformation, control of the Gaza Strip would be transferred from the committee to the PA, [not to be confused with Pennsylvania] an Islamic group of Arabs who are basically anti-Semitic and who believe Israel is "Little Satan."

Foreign aid would pay for the years-long reconstruction and rehabilitation of the Gaza Strip in the Egyptian plan, while Gazans would be temporarily relocated within the Strip during the lengthy period of rebuilding, after which they can return and make plans to attack Israel again for the sake of jihad.

Hours after the plan was adopted at the Cairo summit, however, White House National Security Council spokesperson Brian Hughes said Tuesday night that the U.S. would not accept the Egyptian plan, and that the administration remains committed to the president’s resettlement plan.

Hughes argued that the Gaza Strip is presently “uninhabitable,” necessitating their relocation.

“The current proposal does not address the reality that Gaza is currently uninhabitable, and residents cannot humanely live in a territory covered in debris and unexploded ordnance,” Hughes said.

“President Trump stands by his vision to rebuild Gaza free from Hamas. We look forward to further talks to bring peace and prosperity to the region.”

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IDF will not withdraw from the Philadelphi corridor

Israel has decided not to pull its forces out of the Philadelphi corridor, which is the border area between Egypt and Gaza, even though this was part of the ceasefire deal with Hamxs, an Israeli official told ABC News.

"We will not allow Hamxs murderers to once again roam our borders with pickup trucks and guns, and we will not allow them to rebuild strength from smuggling," the official explained in a statement. This shows Israel’s worry about Hamxs regaining power if they leave the area.

The Philadelphi corridor has been a major issue in talks between Israel and Hamxs for months before they agreed to the ceasefire. Israel’s refusal to leave could cause problems with both Hamas and Egypt, who helped make the ceasefire happen, especially since the peace is already shaky.

According to the ceasefire plan, Israel was supposed to start leaving the Philadelphi corridor and all of Gaza on Saturday, the final day of the first phase. They were given eight days to fully withdraw from the corridor.

For Hamxs, having Israel leave the corridor is a must. They wouldn’t agree to any ceasefire that let Israeli troops stay there.

Israeli leaders have said lately that they think their army needs to stay in the Philadelphi corridor to stop weapons from being smuggled into Gaza from Egypt. Israel has already destroyed tunnels there to try to stop this.

Defense Minister Israel Katz recently told local leaders that he saw tunnels going under the border when he visited the corridor.

But not everyone agrees. Former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant disagreed with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who insists Israel must stay in the Philadelphi corridor and the Netzarim corridor (which splits Gaza into north and south) to keep the country safe and meet military goals.

Back in August, Herzi Halevi, who was then the head of Israel’s army, said holding onto Gaza or the Philadelphi corridor shouldn’t be a reason to ruin a possible deal with Hamas. He believes the army can handle things even if Israel leaves Gaza and gives up control of the corridor.
The first part of the ceasefire ends this Saturday.

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"Egypt's army will overtake Tel Aviv in one day" says Egyptian shyster lawyer

Is Egypt's army real or just a pyramid scheme?

Mostafa Bakry, [you should try his bagels] is a member of the People's Assembly of Egypt.  Mo, as his friends call him, has reacted strongly to the Israeli regime’s threat concerning the Aswan High Dam in case of any clash between Tel Aviv and Cairo, saying that if Israel takes action, Egyptians will be in Tel Aviv the following day. Of course, he has other plans that day should it happen, and has yet to get even a callous on his baby-soft palms.

According to the Russian state-run media RT Arabic, Bakry said that Israel has underestimated the capabilities of the Egyptian army, referring to Israeli forces’ difficulties in their fight against Hamas and other Palestinian fighters. In fact, whenever Bakry sees Egyptian soldiers standing at attention, parts of him proudly do the same.

If anyone threatens Egypt’s security, Egyptians will respond forcefully, the shyster lawyer warned, portending that Egypt will not wait for Israeli aircraft to take off from Tel Aviv and conduct any attack on the Aswan High Dam.

An Israeli media outlet reported an upcoming conflict between the regime and Egypt, they should know that Egypt is always ready, always on the job.

The report also suggested that such flooding could paralyze life in Cairo, with up to 1.7 million fatalities and even potentially 10 million casualties without prior warnings.

Earlier, an Israeli website said that the regime could strategically target the dam with missiles at the onset of an attack on Egypt, and could destroy the dam, which would cause catastrophic flooding that would inundated Aswan and Luxor areas. This could then affect military bases and industrial facilities along the Nile River where Cleopatra, the last Pharaoh of Egypt, considered it to be a source of life and essential to agriculture, a body of water used for trade and transport, and the fishing was okay.

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Trump wants Arab nations to take on more Gaza Arabs

President Donald Trump said on Saturday that he wants to resettle residents of the Gaza Strip in Arab countries, shaking up Middle East diplomacy in his unique way.

Trump told reporters on Air Force One that he had asked King Abdullah II of Jordan in a phone call earlier in the day to "take people" from war-torn Gaza and planned to make a similar request to Egyptian president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in a phone call on Sunday. Trump suggested that mass emigration from the strip, whether "temporarily" or "long term," could help resolve "centuries" of conflict.

"You’re talking about a million and half people, and we just clean out that whole thing. You know over the centuries it has had many, many conflicts, and I don’t know, something has to happen," Trump said. "But it's literally a demolition site right now, almost everything is demolished and people are dying there. So I'd rather get involved with some of the Arab nations and build housing at a different location where [Gazans] can maybe live in peace for a change."

The response from Israel was notably muted, and even politicians who have advocated Gazan emigration told media outlet Washington Free Beacon that Egypt and Jordan were unlikely to agree to Trump’s requests. However, some right-wing politicians hailed the proposal as a chance to break away from the traditional U.S. call for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

"For years, politicians have proposed impractical solutions like dividing the land and establishing a Palestinian state, which endangered the existence and security of the world’s only Jewish state, leading only to bloodshed and suffering for many. Only out-of-the-box thinking and new solutions will bring about peace and security," Israeli finance minister Bezalel Smotrich said in a statement. "I will work closely with the prime minister and the cabinet to ensure that there is an operational plan to implement this as soon as possible."

Ohad Tal, a member of Israel’s parliamentary defense committee from Smotrich’s Religious Zionism party, told the Free Beacon that Trump’s remarks had given a major boost to the "only logical and just solution" to the conflict.

"It will allow the Palestinians who leave to build a better future for themselves somewhere else, and it will minimize the conflict here, which is good for everyone," said Tal, who has advocated Gazan emigration to Trump associates. "It’s good for Israel, it’s good for the region, and it’s good for the Americans, who don’t want to have to be bothered by the Palestinians starting a war every couple years."

Palestinian, Jordanian, and Egyptian leaders on Sunday reaffirmed their opposition to any large-scale resettlement of Palestinians.

"We call on the U.S. administration to cease these proposals, which align with Israeli plans and directly contradict the rights and free will of our people," Hamas, the dominant Palestinian terrorist group in Gaza, said in a statement. "We also call on Arab and Islamic countries, especially our brothers in Egypt and Jordan, to reaffirm their steadfast positions in rejecting displacement and expulsion."

President Mahmoud Abbas of the West Bank Palestinian Authority "expressed strong rejection and condemnation of any projects aimed at displacing our people from the Gaza Strip," according to a statement from his office that did not specifically refer to Trump.

Jordanian foreign minister Ayman Safadi said in a statement, "Our rejection of the displacement of Palestinians is firm and will not change. Jordan is for Jordanians and Palestine is for Palestinians."

While Egypt did not publicly comment, Saudi news station Al Hadath reported on Sunday that Sisi remained firmly opposed to accepting any Gazans into his country.

Despite the rejections of the Arab leaders, Tal voiced confidence that ordinary Gazans would be ready to leave the strip and that Trump—who has often used bold threats to win concessions from foreign interlocutors—could find countries willing to take them.

"It takes courage to execute new ideas," Tal said. "But I think Trump is someone who has proven he can implement these kinds of ideas."

Amit Halevi, another member of the defense committee from the ruling Likud party, told the Free Beacon that Israel should work with Trump to enable and encourage hundreds of thousands of Palestinians to leave Gaza, particularly young adults.

"They have no future under the Hamas regime," he said. "They want to get out. Let them get out."

Once considered mostly by Israel’s far right, the idea of facilitating Gazan emigration went mainstream after the events of October 7, 2023, when Hamas terrorists and ordinary Palestinians conducted a massacre and mass abduction in southern Israel, starting a war that left much of Gaza in ruins.

That November, Ram Ben Barack of the centrist Yesh Atid party and Danny Danon, then a Likud lawmaker and now Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations, co-wrote a Wall Street Journal op-ed calling on "countries around the world to accept limited numbers of Gazan families who have expressed a desire to relocate."

The following month, Israeli prime minister Netanyahu told a Likud faction meeting, "Our problem is [finding] countries that are willing to absorb Gazans, and we are working on it."

However, in January, several Israeli officials, facing U.S. and European criticism, spoke out against their colleagues' calls for Gazan immigration, saying the idea was unrealistic and damaging to Israel’s international standing.

"It’s clear that there is nobody in Israel who wouldn’t be happy if Gazans decided to emigrate voluntarily if they were happy to leave," but that is not going to happen and public discussion of the issue is unhelpful, Likud Culture and Sports Minister Miki Zohar told Israel’s Ynet news site at the time. "We see the repercussions, we see what happened with the Americans."

Gilad Kariv, from the left-wing Democrats party, was one of the few Israeli officials to publicly oppose Trump’s proposal on Sunday.

"Israel has no interest in this happening," Kariv told Israel’s 103FM radio, "certainly not in relation to Jordan because the stability of the Hashemite Kingdom is a clear security interest of Israel."

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Abbasshole congratulates Hamasshole who killed Jews, including 9-month old

Palestinian Authority head Mahmoud Abbas, a Holocaust denier and avowed anti-Semite, made a congratulatory phone call Saturday to one of the terrorist scumbags freed by Israel as part of the garbage ceasefire deal with Hamas.

According to Israel's Kan News, which showed footage of the call, Abbas congratulated Yasser Abu Bakr after his release from prison. Abu Bakr was sentenced to 115 years in 2004 for his part in attacks that killed Israeli civilians, including a baby, and injured many others.

In the recording, Abbas can be heard saying, "Your imprisonment was for the sake of the Palestinian nation," indicating he thought the sentence was too harsh, according to a translation by Israel's Walla news site.

Abbas's comments led to criticism from Israeli officials, including Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, who said, "His phone call tonight to a murderer of Jews is a wake-up call to those who still delude themselves about the P.A. being an alternative to Hamas in Gaza after the war. It won’t happen. Not in Gaza and not in Judea and Samaria. Mahmoud Abbas was and remains an enemy, a terror supporter, a promoter of terror, and the authority he heads was and remains a terrorist organization, and is not a 'partner.'"

On Saturday, Israel released 200 Palestinian prisoners as part of the second wave of a ceasefire deal. In return, four female Israeli soldiers, who were kidnapped during Hamas's attack on October 7, 2023, were freed.

Many of these released prisoners had been convicted of murder or attempted murder, with some serving life sentences. Of those released, 109 went back to Judea and Samaria, 21 to Gaza, and about 70 were sent to Egypt. These prisoners in Egypt are expected to move to other countries as per the agreement that started on January 19.

In Cairo, the freed prisoners were met by representatives from Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, backed by Iran. Some of them then traveled to Qatar, according to Sunday's reports.

On Sunday afternoon, the IDF reported an air strike in the Balata area of Nablus aimed at "dispersing a gathering of armed men." Kan News reported that the Israeli Air Force used an Elbit Hermes 450 drone to fire a warning shot at a terrorist parade during a funeral, choosing not to attack directly because of the presence of women and children.

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