EU’s von der Leyen:

The continued expansion of Israeli settlements in the West Bank is utterly unacceptable.

The violence used to achieve this expansion is abhorrent.

This undermines the future of the two-state solution, which in our view remains the only viable path to lasting peace.

The situation is clearly deteriorating.

EU’s von der Leyen on Israel:

Ten months ago, the Commission proposed suspending trade preferences under the EU–Israel Association Agreement.

This proposal would have a significant economic impact, but it remains on the table for the Member States to vote on by qualified majority.

The ball is therefore in the court of the Member States. We made this proposal ten months ago.

Last month, we agreed on sanctions against extremist Israeli settlers. A number of Member States have proposed sanctions against Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir as well.

So far, however, no consensus has been reached.

Putin:

The more strikes the enemy attempts to carry out against civilian facilities in Russia, the larger the security zone we will have to create in the adjacent territory.

Trump:

You can be loyal to Karl Marx or you can be loyal to America.

You can be a communist or you can be a patriot. You cannot be both.

Trump on Iran:

We knocked the hell out of Iran. They're dying to settle. They want to settle so badly.

We gave them a week off for a funeral because we're nice. It's true.

Trump on communists:

We will send them into exile. We will send them quickly away.

Trump:

In America, we speak English because that is the language of our founding. And for a thousand years, that has been the language of freedom.

An American always wants peace and order, but we will never shrink from danger or threat. We will always fight, fight, fight, and win, win, win. We got to do that.

Trump on communism:

Communism is the enemy of free people everywhere, everywhere in the world. Never works.

It's the enemy of the Constitution. Above all, it's the enemy of July 4th, 1776.

Trump on communism:

Even while the radicals and extremists attack our incredible history at every turn, they are silent on the miserable history of communism itself because it never worked.

Thousands of years, if you look at it, under different names, under somewhat different ideologies and systems, that system has led to more death and destruction than any system ever tried.

It killed 100 million people just in the last century alone.

Trump on communism:

The Communist Party is made up of illegal immigrants, criminals, and everybody that doesn't want to work.

Communism is a loser. It always was, and it is right now. It's a big loser. Look at the people that are promoting it. They are not the people you're going to follow.

Trump on communism:

Americans have won the most Olympic medals of any country in the world by far, the most Nobel Prizes.

Well, they haven't given me one. I settled 8 wars, and I still haven’t gotten it. That's okay.

Trump:

We can only lose the midterms if we allow ourselves to lose the midterms, if we are foolish, stupid, and unwise.

But if we terminate the filibuster, as we should do, and immediately vote for the Save America Act, then we will not lose an election for a hundred years.

We do that, we're not going to lose an election for a hundred years.

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A "Kill Trump" flag is raised during the farewell ceremony for late Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in Iran.

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Greek PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis says Athens does not foresee a military conflict with Türkiye:

Under no circumstances do we foresee war. We have a duty to prepare and strengthen our deterrent capability so that it never crosses anyone's mind to challenge Greek sovereignty.

That does not mean we expect war or believe it is likely. At the same time, communication channels must remain open. Crises should be managed and defused at their inception, and wherever we can make our relationship with Türkiye more functional, we should seize those opportunities.

We are condemned by our geography to live together peacefully, even with our differences. I will always negotiate with Türkiye from the strongest possible position.

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