Christians in Jerusalem Urge Defiance Against Israeli Oppression

Christians in Jerusalem are calling for openly challenging Israeli restrictions after Patriarch Pizzaballa was blocked from the Holy Sepulchre on Palm Sunday, urging church leaders to defy Israel's escalating control, harassment & tightening limits on access to sacred sites.

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French President Macron to Trump:

We must be serious. And when we are serious, we do not say the opposite of what we said the day before.

Perhaps we should not speak every day; we should simply calm things down and build lasting peace.

French President Macron on Iran:

Six months ago, we were told everything had been destroyed and settled. Clearly, that was not the case.

Without international inspectors verifying materials, research, and hidden sites, it is simply not serious.

There will always be expertise and potentially hidden facilities unless there is lasting oversight.

A few weeks of military strikes cannot resolve the nuclear issue in the long term.

Without a diplomatic and technical agreement, the situation could deteriorate again in months or years.

The same logic applies to ballistic capabilities — they must be monitored through negotiation.

French President Macron on the Strait of Hormuz:

Opening it by force is not the option we have chosen — we consider it unrealistic.

A military operation to reopen it would take an infinite amount of time and expose forces to immense coastal and ballistic risks.

From the beginning, we have said it must be reopened — but only in coordination with Iran.

The world cannot live with a strait that can be opened or closed overnight.

Austria has refused all American requests to fly over its territory.

Source: AFP

China’s PLA Daily claims Japan has 44.4 tonnes of separated plutonium — enough for about 5,500 nuclear warheads — and warns Tokyo could quickly become a “de facto nuclear power.”

Source: SCMP

Iran’s Parliament Speaker Ghalibaf:

Right now, in less than a week, a powerful national campaign sweeping across the country has brought forward around 7 million Iranians who have already stepped up and declared they’re ready to pick up arms and stand in defense of our nation.

Let me tell you somethin’ straight from the gut: Iranians don’t just talk about defending their country, we bleed for it.

We’ve done it before, and we’re ready to do it again.

Iranian Brigadier General Mohammad-Ali Fath-Alizadeh, commander of the Fattahin unit — a commando unit of the IRGC Ground Forces — was killed yesterday in an Israeli airstrike.

Angela Merkel:

Whether someone has been a German citizen for two years, four days, or their family for three generations — it doesn’t matter. We are the German people.

Angela Merkel:

We know that, purely from our age structure, from our demographics, we cannot manage without immigration — including labor migration.

We want to be an open country.

Israel’s Defense Minister Israel Katz directly threatens Hezbollah Leader Naim Qassem:

I have a clear message for Naim Qassem — you and your associates will pay a very heavy price for the intensified rocket fire toward Israeli civilians during Passover.

You will not live to see it, because you will be deep at the bottom of hell alongside the eliminated members of the axis of evil.

Iranian Major General Hatami:

If the enemy launches a ground operation, not a single one of them should make it out alive.

Angela Merkel:

In 2015, when we made the Minsk Agreement, at that time Putin could have simply overrun Ukraine — no one would have been able to offer resistance...

I believe it was right to try for as long as possible to ensure that Ukraine would not be overrun — that it could first become stronger, even up to 2021.

Turkish President Erdogan:

The struggle that took place in the last century over oil and fossil fuels will, in the coming period, take place over water.

When we look at the ongoing conflicts around us, we can already see the signs of this.

Ukrainian kamikaze drones destroyed a Russian An-72P maritime patrol aircraft at an airfield in occupied Crimea.

Trump is set to propose a 2027 budget focused on a major defense spending increase—up to $1.5 trillion—while cutting domestic programs to support it.

Source: Bloomberg

Trump has told Attorney General Pam Bondi that her time in the role is likely ending.

Source: Semafor