Israel is using existing ceasefire agreements to establish new realities on the ground, projecting itself as the regional hegemon by launching attacks on Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, and the West Bank.
Residents of a number of Gaza City neighborhoods received evacuation orders from the Israeli military, fueling fears that Israel may be extending it’s military operation, ‘The General’s Plan’ from the northern areas of Gaza to Gaza City.
Israeli forces moved further into the Syrian Golan, forcing entire towns to evacuate. While Netanyahu celebrated what he says will be an “eternal” Israeli presence in Syria, U.S. officials insist Israel’s occupation of Syrian lands is “temporary.”
As a ceasefire deal appears to be inching closer in Gaza, Israel continues to carry out massacres in the Strip, killing at least 26 Palestinians in one attack. In the West Bank, Israeli settlers continue to attack Palestinian towns.
Benjamin Netanyahu announced Israel’s intention to violate its disengagement agreement with Syria, as Israeli forces invaded and occupied several positions inside Syrian sovereign territory, including the summit of Mount Al-Sheikh.
The killing of the 12 Syrian children in the Golan Heights brought the Syrian Druze of Majdal Shams into confrontation with Israeli authorities, after Israel’s attempt to manipulate the tragedy to stoke further confrontation with Hezbollah.
Israeli officials say that Netanyahu is behind Israel’s hardened position preventing a ceasefire deal as a new round of talks in Rome concludes without a breakthrough.
Israel has just approved a plan to double the roughly 25,000 settlers on the occupied Syrian Golan heights. Because Biden refused to reverse Trump’s decision on the illegally-acquired territory. And because leftwing Meretz, a government coalition party, went along too, saying the matter was “complicated.” Only Ahmad Tibi says the truth: the Golan belongs to Syria.
Former NYPD captain Eric Adams, who is currently in the lead for the Democratic nomination to become New York City mayor, says he plans to retire to the Golan Heights when his political career is over. Really.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken tells CNN the Biden administration embraces Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, and refuses to commit to the idea of a Palestinian capital in East Jerusalem.