Trump: "In the Middle East - we are bringing our hostages home and working to expand the Abraham Accords. In my first term, we achieved these agreements, and now we are going to build on their foundations to achieve a prosperous future for this region. A lot is happening in the Middle East. It's a tough neighborhood."

Trump: "We will pass a law to end the lie that every child is trapped in the wrong body. And our message to every child in America is that you are perfect just the way God created you."

Trump: There are only two genders - male and female.

No Democrat stood up to applaud, apparently no one there is sure what gender they belong to.

@radar

Trump's speech was the longest presidential address in history before both houses of Congress.

Wall Street Journal report: Israel working to convince Druze in Syria to reject new government.

Exchange of Chiefs of Staff:
Plans maneuvers in Gaza to increase military pressure on Hamas
Long-term reserve forces will be mobilized if fighting resumes.

The IDF this morning demolished the homes in Hebron of the two terrorists who carried out the attack at the Jaffa light rail station in which 7 were murdered, on the eve of the Iranian attack in November.

Netanyahu at the Chief of staff ceremony: The people want victory and will receive victory.

Netanyahu to outgoing Chief of Staff Halevi: Thank you for your important part in the chain of our achievements after October 7. In this testing moment, you mobilized the strength of body and mind to rise from the heavy blow. I saw you in the first days too - going out into the field, coming back from the field, hardly sleeping, not seeing your family for long days, sometimes weeks. You acted in light of the decisions we made, and I believe that few armies in the world, if any, were capable of turning the tables the way we did.

Chief of Staff Zamir: "The mission assigned to me from today is clear - to lead the IDF to victory. I will pursue my enemies and overtake them, and I will not return until they are destroyed."

Netanyahu: I recommended you as Chief of Staff twice, and now, for the third time - the nightingale's time has come

Chief of Staff Zamir concludes - "I salute the flag, setting out on the mission of my life, the mission of our lives. May G-d give strength to His people, may G-d bless His people with peace"

Incoming Chief of Staff, Lieutenant General Eyal Zamir:

Hamas has suffered a severe blow, but has not been defeated. The mission is not yet complete.

The Lebanese Al-Mayadeen channel reports an Israeli drone attack on a vehicle in the Ras a-Nakura area in southern Lebanon.

Prime Minister Netanyahu is quoted extensively in the Arab media in his speech at the ceremony for incoming Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir: "Our war is not only in the Gaza Strip, and we will change the map of the Middle East . Israel has the ability to respond to any attack that may be directed at it."

@MiddleEastNewsIl

Syrian Activist to UN: “I testify before God: Israel is not the problem!” In only 90 seconds, Rawan Osman brilliantly calls out the regimes of Qatar, Iran, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon & Syria.

“Are you outraged with the war in Gaza? So am I.

My name is Rawan Osman. I am half Syrian, half Lebanese.”

Since October 7, I visited Israel nine times, and I want to testify before God and you: Israel is not the problem.

Last week, Israel buried Shiri Bibas with her children, Ariel and Kfir. Hamas said they had been “arrested.” Forensic reports show they were choked to death in Gaza.

But many who point fingers at Israel might do better to look in the mirror.

I ask Qatar: Why didn’t you arrest the Hamas chiefs in Doha, and demand release of the hostages? Why did you finance terror?

And I ask Iran: Why do you send billions to Hamas and Hezbollah, instead of liberating your own people, who are suffering oppression and poverty?

Egypt, you charged Gazans thousands of dollars to escape the war. How can you lecture about the morality of displacing Gazans?

Jordan, why have you refused to accept any Gazans? Are they not your own people?

Lebanon, instead of discussing Hezbollah’s political role, ban the party.

Syria, if your new president is sincere about his transformation, I ask him to return the body of Eli Cohen. It has been six decades. Allow his wife to bury him before she dies. Hamas abuses dead bodies. Be a better Arab. Be a better Muslim.

(@RawaneOsmane, speaking before the United Nations Human Rights Council, March 3, 2025, on behalf of @UNWatch)

Abbas confidant: If Trump advances Gaza 'expulsion' plan, PA will cut ties with US

Ahmad Majdalani says Ramallah wants to turn page with Washington after bitter first term, is maintaining contacts because it doesn't see president's proposal being implemented

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