Israel’s Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar:

We still haven’t achieved peace — but not because of us...

They introduced brainwashing in mosques and in schoolbooks.

Israel bombs a building in Gaza in an apparent assassination.

Israeli airstrike on a home in central Gaza City leaves 4 dead and 15 injured.

Israeli soldier Staff Sergeant Rotem Yanai was killed today in northern Israel.

Jill Biden said she feared Joe Biden was “having a stroke” during his widely criticised 2024 debate against Trump.

In an interview with CBS News, she said she had “never seen Joe like that before or since” and was “frightened” by his performance.

Trump endorses Pashinyan for re-election in Armenia.

The Trump administration told federal prosecutors in Miami to pause scrutiny of Venezuela’s acting president, Delcy Rodríguez.

Rodríguez had long been on the DEA’s radar over allegations including money laundering and drug trafficking, though she was never charged.

Source: AP

The White House continues to be funny.

Senator Graham:

They should change the Nobel Prize to the Trump Prize if Trump achieves normalization between Israel and Saudi Arabia.

The U.S. has sanctioned Iran’s Persian Gulf Strait Authority, which oversees vessel transit requests through the Strait of Hormuz.

The Treasury warned that companies or individuals working with the authority could also face sanctions for indirectly supporting Iran’s Revolutionary Guard.

US and Iranian forces exchanged new strikes after the US shot down Iranian drones near the Strait of Hormuz and hit a launch site in Bandar Abbas.

Iran then targeted a US airbase in Kuwait, while also firing at ships near the strait.

Senator Graham:

To our Arab allies, you need to help Trump, and if you say no to him, you do so at your own peril.

American-born Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard:

I'm not so sure that we will have as easy a time with the Turks as we've had with the Iranians.

We have to be prepared for the next war, which will probably be against Türkiye and Egypt.

The storm is coming.

American-born Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard:

For the United States and the West, nuclear weapons — at any level: tactical, strategic, EMPs, whatever — are viewed as something that should only be used as a last resort, and even then very carefully, on an escalation ladder, as they say.

I don't care if you start throwing nukes immediately — responsibly, but immediately.

And a case that I've been pushing is the use of an electromagnetic pulse weapon, or weapons, against Iran. Why are we waiting to get hit?

American-born Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard:

We are an American auxiliary. We are not an independent state.

That's why I kind of derisively referred to Bibi as ‘Governor Bibi.’

And this is why I've been talking about the need for an Israel-first principle to act on.

Trump visited Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on Tuesday for a medical checkup and met with service members, but he did not visit the 14 troops recovering there from injuries sustained in the Iran war.

The White House said Trump was “honored to meet” service members and staff but did not explain why wounded troops from Operation Epic Fury were not included in the visit.

Source: CBS News

The UN added Israel to its blacklist for conflict-related sexual violence, according to Israel’s UN ambassador Danny Danon.

Iranian air-defense intercepting what’s claimed to be a U.S. AGM-158 JASSM cruise missile.