Prime Minister's Office:

The submissive Gantz, who requested a cessation of the war even before entering Rafah, will not preach to Prime Minister Netanyahu about the need to eliminate Hamas and the sacred mission of returning our hostages.

It is no coincidence that since Gantz left the government for political reasons, the prime minister has led to a fatal blow to Hamas, the crushing of Hezbollah, and direct action against Iran - moves that led to the fall of the Assad regime in Syria.

Those who are not beneficial to the national effort, it is better that they at least do no harm.

🇺🇸🇾🇪 -- BREAKING: The Houthis claim they successfully shot down a US F-18 fighter jet that crashed in the Red Sea tonight, alleging it was part of a broader attack on the USS Truman.

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This is a disgrace to America. Israel flies over their airspace for hours but manage to come back without a scratch.

America give Israel the tools and the political backing and Israel will do the job neatly and precise.

A new public initiative calls for an end to the war in Gaza, claiming that military objectives have been achieved. The campaign features President-elect Trump, who has previously spoken out in favor of ending the war. The initiative emphasizes the need to end the war and return the hostages, and calls on the government to focus on rebuilding the Israeli economy and society.

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We love you Trump but we wouldn't accept your naivety of the situation in Israel. We can't end the war while Hamas is still breathing.

Israeli official confirms: Hamas has provided 'signs of life' for several hostages held in Gaza

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Benjamin Netanyahu: The Inside Story of Israel’s Victory @WSJ A great interview with @netanyahu that resembles the conversation I had with him 2 weeks ago.

On Oct. 11, “the defense minister and the military chiefs suggested we go after Lebanon. That is, shift the whole war north, against Hezbollah, and leave Hamas intact in the south,” Mr. Netanyahu says. “I said, ‘we can’t do that.’ ” The perpetrators of the Oct. 7 massacre couldn’t be left to stew, and “we shouldn’t conduct a two-front war. One massive front at a time.”

Mr. Netanyahu praises President Biden for visiting in solidarity on Oct. 18, 2023. “It’s the first time a U.S. president came to Israel at a time of war,” Mr. Netanyahu says, “and he sent two carrier battle groups, which was important to stabilize the northern front.”

Disagreement emerged over how to fight Hamas. “Nobody had ever fought with such intense tunnel warfare in such a dense urban area,” Mr. Netanyahu says. The Americans advised against a ground invasion of Gaza. U.S. military experts said to fight from the air instead.

“The Americans said to me, ‘If you go into Rafah, you’re on your own, and we’re not going to send you the critical arms,’ which is tough to hear,” Mr. Netanyahu says.

“But if we don’t go into Rafah, we can’t exist as a sovereign state. We’d become a vassal state and we won’t survive. The question of arms will fix itself, but the question of our independence will not. That’s the end of Israel.”

“The U.S. withheld critical weapons,” Mr. Netanyahu admits, but he appreciates the pressure Mr. Biden was under. “It’s not easy to be president, let’s face it, with these very radical fringes in his party. It wasn’t easy to do what Mr. Biden did,” including helping Israel in its defense against Iranian missile attacks, he says.

“In six hours, we wiped out most of the ballistic-missile stockpiles Hezbollah had amassed.”

Netanyahu says Iran “spent probably $30 billion in Syria, another $20 billion in Lebanon, God knows how much on Hamas. And it’s all gone down the tubes,” he says. “They have no supply line.” Mr. Netanyahu intends to keep it that way. “We warned Assad not to let Iran supply Hezbollah with weapons through Syria. He played dumb.”

Iran will enter 2025 with an ailing 85-year-old leader, staring down the barrel of another Trump administration.

The hostage deal Mr. Netanyahu envisions is a partial one in exchange for a pause in the fighting. “I’m not going to agree to end the war before we remove Hamas,” he says. “We’re not going to leave them in power in Gaza, 30 miles from Tel Aviv. It’s not going to happen.” wsj.com/opinion/netany…

Considering the Democrats' stance on Israel, Joe Biden deserves praise for supporting Israel during these difficult times.

Just as we acted forcefully against the terrorist arms of Iran's evil axis, so we will act against the Houthis - the result will be the same.❤️🇮🇱

The political establishment estimates that Iran is under pressure from the possibility that Israel will soon carry out an attack against strategic sites in the country, following the disintegration of the axis and the dramatic weakening of Iran's proxies in the region.

Trump sent messages to Israel: I will not insist on humanitarian aid as Biden insisted.

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Hamas is doomed

NEW REPORT: Israeli Mossad chief Dedi Barnea is advocating for a bold response to the recent Houthi attack, recommending that Israel target Iran directly, Doron Kadosh reports.

Barnea said that merely attacking the Houthis would be insufficient, stating, "We need to go for the head of the snake."

Trump's National Security Advisor Mike Walz: "The defeat of Iran and its proxies happened because of Bibi Netanyahu's leadership. What he did to Hezbollah with the beepers is going to be an amazing movie about it one day."

🔗 The Radar

Palestinian Authority Chairman Mansour Abbas in an interview with Sky News Arabic, broadcast from Abu Dhabi: The PLO and the Palestinian Authority should be dismantled, and the establishment of a Palestinian state should be forced upon the world. Anyone who wants to talk to Abu Mazen should talk to him as the president of the state of Palestine, not as the head of the Palestinian Authority.

A report in the British Times: Iran is discussing how to begin rearming Hezbollah in Lebanon after the fall of the Assad regime, in an attempt to help the organization recover from the blow it suffered in the war with the IDF.

Israel should go for the head, ONCE AND FOR ALL

The window is closing each and every day.

A record for several months in the number of passengers at Ben Gurion Airport: About 46,000 passengers will pass through the airport today on 280 incoming and outgoing international flights.

When the head of the Mossad recommended "hitting the snake in the head" and not Yemen, and the new cry: "Tehran exposed"

Yesterday, Iran's Supreme Leader said in a sermon on the occasion of the birthday of Fatima al-Zahra (daughter of the Prophet Muhammad) that Iran has no proxy forces ....

Channels affiliated with the Iranian opposition brought to him from the depths of the abyss a reminder from one of Nasrallah's speeches before the war:

"Hezbollah's budget, its money, its food, its drink, its weapons, its missiles, all of them originate from the Islamic Republic of Iran..."

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The money is gone, David...

@AbuAliExpress

The Israeli Air Force, under the direction of Shin Bet, carried out a Precision-Airstrike earlier against a Hamas Terrorist operating within the Humanitarian Zone near Khan Yunis in Southern Gaza. Prior and during the Strike, several Actions were taken to reduce the chance of Civilian Casualties.

Amid IDF rethink, some see air-launched missile doctrine moving to more solid ground

The air force has long promoted versatile missile systems fired from jets, but critics say new threats require a shift to ground-based arms that are faster and more cost-effective

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