Israeli and Lebanese officials are again meeting in Washington at this time.

A commercial ship transiting the Strait of Hormuz was hit by a missile a short time ago.

Meanwhile, Iran’s foreign minister reiterated that the Islamic Republic fully intends to collect tolls from all shipping through the Strait of Hormuz in the future.

Almost half of US voters in a Quinnipiac University poll say that the United States has become too supportive of Israel, the highest percentage since the question was first asked almost a decade ago.

48% said Washington was too supportive of the Jewish state—including 60% of Democrats and 20% of Republicans.

38% said the level of support was just right.

7% said the United States was not supportive enough.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was viewed unfavorably, 48% to 20%.

Four Israel Defense Forces officers and soldiers were wounded on Thursday in a close-quarters encounter with a Hezbollah terrorist in Southern Lebanon, the military said in a statement.

One officer was moderately wounded and the rest sustained light injuries.

The terrorist approached the Israeli force and hurled a grenade at the soldiers from a nearby building, prompting an IDF artillery and air response.

Senior Arab voices are asking: What did Washington actually win?

Saudi journalist Abdulaziz Al-Hameed and Bahraini commentator Ahdeya Ahmed both expressed deep disappointment with President Trump’s handling of Iran — and warned that Tehran is already turning survival into propaganda victory.

Their message was blunt:

Iran may lose wars, but it knows how to win narratives.

And for peaceable Arab states, the lesson is becoming impossible to ignore. The missiles threatening the Gulf are not coming from Israel. The drones, proxies, and extortion are not coming from Jerusalem.

They are coming from Tehran.

Which is why both voices point toward the same conclusion: the future of regional security lies not in appeasing Iran, but in partnership with Israel — the only power in the region both willing and able to confront the threat.

Read the full report HERE

The IDF struck and eliminated seven Hezbollah terrorists who transferred weapons near the Security Zone in southern Lebanon.

The terrorists transferred the weapons into a structure in the El Manzala area that was used as a combat and observation post, and from which the terrorists operated to prepare and carry out military activity to attack IDF soldiers.

The terrorists’ actions at the post alongside the presence of the weapons within it constituted a threat to the soldiers.

Weekend roundup:

🔹️ Israel and Lebanon agreed to sign a framework agreement leading to the disarming of Hezbollah and peace between the two nations

🔹️ As part of the agreement, Lebanon has officially recognized Israel for the first time

🔹️ Riots broke out in parts of Lebanon, led by Hezbollah and its supporters, who reject the Israel-Lebanon agreement

🔹️ Hezbollah vowed that Lebanon’s deal with Israel will not come to fruition

The main points of the Israel-Lebanon framework agreement:

🔹️ Israel and Lebanon declare their intention to move toward peace

🔹️ Lebanon accepts responsibility for disarming Hezbollah and all extra-governmental militias

🔹️ Lebanon accepts security responsibility for the south of the country

🔹️ The IDF will withdraw from Lebanon in stages based on verifiable milestones being met

🔹️ The US will support Lebanon in implementing its responsibilities on condition of milestones being met

🔹️ Israel has no territorial claims in Lebanon

🔹️ The US will facilitate the economic rehabilitation of Lebanon, while ensuring no funds reach Hezbollah

As part of the US-brokered Israel-Lebanon deal, Beirut has abandoned the notion of “historical Palestine.”

Israel expects Iran and Hezbollah to take extraordinary action to prevent the success of the Israel-Lebanon agreement, which represents a major blow to Tehran and its proxy network.

Netanyahu: The agreement with Lebanon is a defeat for Iran.

The prime minister explained that under the agreement, the IDF will remain in southern Lebanon until the Hezbollah threat is removed.

The Lebanese Army will take over operations in two small enclaves as a pilot.

Police Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir is against the Lebanon agreement, arguing that the Lebanese government and army can’t be trusted to disarm Hezbollah.

Only the IDF is capable of doing the job, he insisted.

US forces attacked Iranian military targets overnight after the IRGC fired a missile at an oil tanker traversing the Strait of Hormuz earlier in the day.

Iran responded by attacking Kuwait and Bahrain.

Trump: Iran may never learn. We may have to finish the job.

IDF Spokesman:

Yesterday (Saturday), IDF soldiers eliminated several armed terrorists in the Security Zone in southern Syria.

The IDF will continue to operate in the Security Zone in southern Syria in order to remove any threat to Israeli civilians and IDF soldiers.

In a targeted strike in central Gaza, the IDF eliminated Abd al-Rahman Maher Abd al-Karim Ziyada, commander of a Nukhba terrorist cell in Hamas' military wing.

The terrorist infiltrated Israeli territory during the October 7th Massacre and looted an IDF military vehicle, taking it into the Gaza Strip.

Slovenia does u-turn toward Israel

One of the first things Slovenia’s incoming prime minster, Janez Janša, did following the vote of confidence in his new government is completely shift his country’s official position on Israel.

The PLO flag that had flown for the past two years above the government building in Ljubljana was removed, and Janša hailed Israel as a natural partner:

“Israel is a strategic partner because it contributes to regional stability and the fight against terrorism.

“It is a democratic partner because it shares fundamental values of freedom and the rule of law with Europe."

Janša also called Israel an innovation powerhouse from which all of Europe can learn, and vowed to move Slovenia's embassy to Jerusalem.

Hamas just crushed Gaza’s “Peaceful Revolution” before it could even begin.

Arrests. Threats. Street kidnappings. Religious warnings branding dissenters as collaborators.

And still, much of the international community keeps pretending Israel is the obstacle to peace.

The truth is simpler and far more uncomfortable: ordinary Gazans need freedom from Hamas, just as Lebanese citizens need freedom from Hezbollah, and Iranians need freedom from the regime in Tehran.

But the world keeps demanding “stability” while protecting the very powers that make stability impossible.

Read the full article HERE

Israel's government has unanimously approved the recommendation of Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar to officially recognize the genocide of the Armenian people by Ottoman Turkish forces during World War I.

Hezbollah supporters burned signs reading “Lebanon First” on a highway in Beirut.

Hezbollah is not going to go without a fight. Are the Lebanese authorities up to the challenge?

Erdogan is no longer merely criticizing Israeli policy. He is casting Zionism itself — the national movement of the Jewish people — as an existential threat to Turkey.

That is not diplomacy. That is ideology.

Israel answered sharply, calling out Erdogan’s record and reminding him that leaders pass, but Israel remains.

Then Jerusalem sent another message: formally recognizing the genocide committed against Armenians, Assyrians, and Greeks by Ottoman Turkish forces.

For years, Israel avoided that step to preserve ties with Ankara. Erdogan may have just ended the usefulness of that restraint.

Read the full article HERE