— 🇺🇸/🇮🇱 NOTE: The American proposal includes a 'permanent cessation of hostilities', NOT a permanent ceasefire

According to sources on the internet, a cessation of hostilities is non-binding, and is usually applied when negotiations are still ongoing.

This means that Israel could announce a cessation of hostilities to get back the hostages, and then continue the war nevertheless. Language is EXTREMELY important in these types of deals.

Never trust America.

@Middle_East_Spectator

🇱🇹🇺🇦🇧🇾⚡- Lithuania gives Ukraine the right to strike Belarus with Lithuanian weapons.

🇫🇷⚡- 18 year old Chechen arrested in France, who was planning attacks at soccer games, ahead of the Olympics.

🇹🇷🇺🇦🇷🇺⚡- "We support the continued assistance to Ukraine and Ukraine’s ability to provide deterrence, but we do not want NATO to take part in this war," – Turkish Foreign Minister, Hakan Fidan.

🇺🇲🇻🇪⚡- "We could teach the US on how to hold free elections," – Foreign Minister of Venezuela, Yvan Gil.

🇺🇸⚡️- The Texas Supreme Court has rejected an appeal against the state's pro-life laws.

🇺🇸🦁⚡️- Elon Musk will hold a town hall on X with Donald Trump.

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🇺🇲🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Ukraine used HIMARS on Russian territory, Belgorod, for the first time, after they were given permission to strike Russian territory.

🇺🇲⚡- Former commander of the US Navy in Europe and Africa, Admiral Robert Burke, was arrested under charges of bribery – US Department of Justice.

🇮🇷⚡- General Wajihollah Moradi has been confirmed dead. Moradi was Qassem Soleimani's personal assistant and right-hand man.

Iranian media claims he passed away due to health problems. It is also alleged he may have been killed in the recent joint US-UK strikes on Yemen's AnsarAllah.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- An Israeli Hermes 900 was shot down by Hezbollah over southern Lebanon by a Burkan surface-to-air missile.

🇺🇦⚡- Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelenskyi, has arrived in Singapore for Shangri-La Dialogue, SLD, 2024, a summit typically for Asian Defense Ministries.

🇨🇳⚡- China has accused the US of "building Asia-Pacific NATO", at SLD 2024.

🇵🇭⚡- "There is no such thing as a ‘regional issue’ anymore, freedom of navigation in the South China Sea is a ‘world issue’ now," – Philippines President, Bongbong Marcos, at SLD 2024.

🇨🇳🇹🇼⚡- "'Taiwan independence' means war," – Chinese Army Lieutenant General, Jing Jianfeng, at SLD 2024.

🇮🇷⚡- Alireza Zakani, current Mayor of Tehran, has placed himself in for the Presidential elections, in Iran.

🇺🇲⚡- "Despite these historic clashes in Europe and the Middle East, the Indo-Pacific has remained our priority theater of operations," – Lloyd Austin, US Secretary of Defense, at SLD 2024.

🇺🇲⚡- "Peaceful resolution of disputes through dialogue and not coercion or conflict. And certainly not through so-called 'punishments'," – Lloyd Austin, US Secretary of Defense, at SLD 2024, taking a shot at China's recent exercises around Taiwan.

🇨🇳🇹🇼⚡- "The People's Liberation Army will never allow Taiwan to be split from China. We will never stop enhancing combat readiness, never stop our fight against Taiwan 'Independence Separatists', and never be soft on external interference." – Chinese Army Lieutenant General, Jing Jianfeng, at SLD 2024.

🇨🇳⚡- "On Middle East, the U.S. applies double standards and uses the so-called rules and order as rhetoric to serve its hegemony. It cherry-picks international rules to discipline others but not itself, and it is always condescending and willful." – Chinese Army Lieutenant General, Jing Jianfeng, at SLD 2024.