🇺🇸🇮🇱 GOP’s midterm meltdown reveals how ‘toxic’ Netanyahu has become in US politics, Israeli opposition says
 
Republicans’ resolute support for Israel and prime minister Netanyahu contributed heavily to Tuesday’s historic US election blowout, Israeli opposition-affiliated politicians and analysts have said.
 
🔴 Netanyahu is now “toxic” among both parties, and his continued leadership “could lead Israel down a path of international sanctions, isolation, and a clash with the US, our friend and most important ally,” opposition bloc member and ex-IDF chief of staff Yair Golan warned.

🔴 “Israel has become toxic in the US, largely because of Netanyahu... Another reason for the immediate establishment of an emergency government,” media analyst Barak Seri urged, echoing Golan’s wording.

🔴 The Democrat “blue wave” has made it “unequivocally clear” that “the continuation of Netanyahu’s rule and continuation of Smotrich’s annexation policy will lead to severe damage to the existential interests of the State of Israel,” Golan ally Gilad Kariv wrote, demanding that Netanyahu “vacate” the PM’s office immediately.

🔴 Netanyahu is “toxic” among both parties – with Dems for “meddling in their domestic politics,” with Republicans for pushing Trump “into a long, expensive and frustrating” war with Iran, Israeli journalist Amir Tibon wrote, warning that Netanyahu’s “continued tenure is a recipe for disaster” in relations with the US, a country for whom Israel “has no substitute” as an ally.
 
Israel is in the middle of its own potential power shift after last week’s parliamentary elections, which left neither Netanyahu’s Likud-led coalition or Gadi Eisenkot’s opposition with enough support to cobble together a new government. Netanyahu remains the caretaker PM for now.

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🇵🇾💥🏦 — The Central Bank of Paraguay (BCP) ordered the intervention of Ueno Bank, the country’s largest digital bank. The regulatory authority found that the institution’s solvency ratio had fallen to less than 50% of the required minimum. The decision led to the complete shutdown of the digital bank’s services. Customers reported being unable to use ATMs or access online banking.

❗️ BCP President Carlos Carvallo resigned hours after the announcement. He had headed Ueno Bank until August 2023. At a press conference, Carvallo stated that his departure would help ease the controversy surrounding the regulatory authority. The case raised concerns about how the Paraguayan business environment is perceived by the market.

❌ The crisis led to the resignation of Carvallo and Central Bank directors Marco Aurelio González and Carmen Marín. Paraguayan President Santiago Peña appointed economist Raúl Vera Bogado to head the monetary authority. Peña had been an investor in Ueno Bank’s holding company until March 2025. Opposition lawmakers began collecting signatures to request the president’s impeachment.

🔥 Hundreds of Paraguayans took to the streets this week. The protests took place in downtown Asunción and outside the president’s official residence. Demonstrators carried signs bearing the phrase “The State must guarantee 100% of the funds.” The demonstration began peacefully but ended in clashes. A group attempted to advance toward the National Congress.

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🇮🇱🇱🇧 Israeli strikes on construction equipment keep Lebanon from rebuilding

Between August and October 2025, Israel targeted heavy-machinery showrooms, maintenance facilities, and a factory producing cement and asphalt in southern Lebanon. Even a year later, the fear of renewed strikes paralyzes reconstruction efforts in the region, according to a WIRED investigation.

🟥 Previous strikes destroyed more than 360 pieces of construction equipment needed for road clearing, as well as multiple wells, filtration units, and pipelines

🟥 The Israeli military said the equipment and materials were intended to support Hezbollah's reconstruction of its infrastructure, but HRW found no evidence of military targets at or around the sites

🟥 Nowadays, locals have to clear rubble by hand, as machine owners fear that bringing their equipment out would provoke another attack

Aid workers describe opting for temporary fixes rather than lasting infrastructure, because anyone investing in repairs does so knowing the work could be destroyed again in a short while.

By Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz's own count, 23,000 Lebanese homes and more than 60 villages have been destroyed as of October. Around 330,000 people remain internally displaced.

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