Trump and Jordan’s king set for tense meeting on Gaza’s future

By REUTERSFEBRUARY 11, 2025 08:08  Donald Trump meets Jordan’s King Abdullah on Tuesday for what is likely to be a tense encounter following the US president’s Gaza redevelopment idea and threat to cut aid to the US-allied Arab country if it refuses to resettle Palestinians. Trump’s proposal, floated one week ago, for the US to take […]

Trump: If the Hostages Are Not Released by Saturday, All Hell Will Break Loose

By David Israel  – 13 Shevat 5785 – February 11, 2025 Displaced Gaza Arabs near their flooded tents in Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, January 23, 2025. President Donald Trump warned on Monday that if all Israeli hostages in Gaza are not returned by Saturday at noon, he would propose canceling the Israel-Hamas […]

Nobody wants to die’ – Trump says

Iran ‘very nervous,’ ready for a deal  February 11, 2025 President Donald Trump (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File) President Trump blasts Obama’s 2015 Iran nuclear agreement as ‘the dumbest deal,’ says Iran cannot be allowed to achieve a nuclear capacity, with only a new deal or Israeli airstrikes capable of preventing them from achieving it. By […]

PA nixes ‘pay for slay’ – but quietly finds alternative funding for jailed terrorists

February 10, 2025 (Flash90/Abed Rahim Khatib) The ‘pay-for-slay’ program refers to the PA’s policy of providing financial support to terrorists who carry out attacks against Israelis. By Vered Weiss, World Israel News Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas signed a decree on Monday ending the notorious “pay-for-slay” program, which provides stipends to jailed Palestinian terrorists and […]

Trump: US will own Gaza, Mideast states can help rebuild; US may let some Gazans in

US president reiterates plan to relocate all of Strip’s population, says his country may admit refugees on case-by-case basis; vows to ensure Palestinians are ‘not murdered’ By Reuters and ToI StaffToday, 5:17 am   Palestinians walk past destroyed vehicles as they cross the Netzarim Corridor, making their way to the northern parts of the Gaza Strip on February […]

Trump threatens ceasefire deal after seeing ’emaciated’ Israeli hostages

Or Levy, Ohad Ben Ami, and Eli Sharabi appeared on Saturday morning, looking very frail with sunken faces, leading to comparisons with those liberated from the Holocaust death camps. By JERUSALEM POST STAFF, REUTERSFEBRUARY 10, 2025 00:43Updated: FEBRUARY 10, 2025 08:03  U.S. President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, U.S. February […]

Trump: I would like a deal done with Iran

US President tells The New York Post he would rather reach a deal with Iran over its nuclear program than “bomb the hell out of it”. Israel National News   Feb 10, 2025, 4:52 AM (GMT+2)   Donald TrumpREUTERS/Kent Nishimura US President Donald Trump told The New York Post in an interview published on Sunday that he would […]

Erdogan rejects Trump’s Gaza proposal: Nothing worth discussing

Turkish President blasts Trump’s plan for the Gaza Strip, claims it was influenced by “the Zionist leadership”. Elad Benari   Feb 10, 2025, 6:09 AM (GMT+2) Recep Tayyip ErdoganREUTERS/Umit Bektas Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday blasted US President Donald Trump’s plan for the Gaza Strip, stating that no one has the authority to expel […]

IAF jets strike Hezbollah smuggling tunnel under Lebanon-Syria border

This comes as reports of clashes between Hezbollah and the new Syrian transitional government. By JERUSALEM POST STAFFFEBRUARY 9, 2025 22:15Updated: FEBRUARY 9, 2025 22:35 IAF jets strike weapons depot in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley, August 19, 2024.(photo credit: screenshot via X/ section 27a copyright act) IAF jets struck a Hezbollah smuggling tunnel that crossed from Lebanon into Syria, the IDF announced […]

On Thursday, US President Donald Trump signed an executive order imposing sanctions on the court.

On Thursday, US President Donald Trump signed an executive order imposing sanctions on the court. By JERUSALEM POST STAFFFEBRUARY 7, 2025 10:26Updated: FEBRUARY 7, 2025 11:15  View of the International Criminal Court at the Hague, Netherlands.(photo credit: JUAN VRIJDAG/AFP via Getty Images) The International Criminal Court (ICC) condemned the US sanctions issued against it in a statement […]

Netanyahu: ‘The Saudis can create a Palestinian state in Saudi Arabia’

“The Saudis can create a Palestinian state in Saudi Arabia; they have a lot of land over there,” he said. By JERUSALEM POST STAFFFEBRUARY 7, 2025 04:55Updated: FEBRUARY 7, 2025 11:21  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman(photo credit: MARC ISRAEL SELLEM/REUTERS) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Saudi Arabia had enough land […]

Khamenei warns Iran will respond in kind to any threats, violations from US

By APToday, 10:40 am   Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei accuses the United States of “redrawing the map of the world” in comments to Iranian air force officers in Tehran. While he appears to be referring to US President Donald Trump’s proposal for the Gaza Strip to be taken over by the US and turned […]

US seeking phased exit of terrorists from Gaza until reconstruction begins – report

According to the report, the plans currently being discussed for the reconstruction of the Strip disallow the existence of tunnels or other military facilities. By JERUSALEM POST STAFFFEBRUARY 7, 2025 10:46  Illustrative image of US President Donald Trump.(photo credit: Canva, Melina Mara/Pool via REUTERS, REUTERS/IBRAHEEM ABU MUSTAFA) Senior US officials have requested the phased exit of […]

The Awakening of the Lion: The Egyptian military threat on our border

Israel needs to fully prepare for an Egyptian military threat on our border. Op-ed. Yair Ansbacher   Feb 7, 2025, 11:14 AM (GMT+2)   Scene of a terror attack on the Israel-Egypt borderAmir Cohen/ Reuters If you are involved in security or even seriously interested in current affairs and the Middle East, nothing in what you […]