President Donald Trump wants to “save” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from his trial for corruption. He wrote to the Israelis: “I just learned that Bibi (Netanyahu’s nickname) was summoned to attend the court to continue the process in progress (…) such a witch hunt against a man who donated so much is simply incomprehensible to me … Judgment must be annulled immediately, or he must receive amysty – to a true hero who contributes to the country so much.”
Trump concluded, “The United States have saved Israel and will now save Bibi Netanyahu.” In the message, posted on his social truth network, he still says that his friend “is perhaps the greatest warrior in Israeli history,” and says that “we have passed hell together, fighting an old, hard and brilliant enemy of Israel – Iran.”
Life returned to normal on Monday (23) in Israel. No longer running to bunkers. No more Israeli fighters in the skies of Iran. Prime Minister Netanyahu asked for two weeks off from the Jerusalem District Court on his three processes for fraud, breach of confidence and bribery. But suddenly, popular relief and the government celebrated by the government at the end of 12 days of air duels were overshadowed by an explosion that killed seven Israeli soldiers in Khan Yunis, south of Gaza – they died when entering a armored vehicle where Hamas had planted a bomb.
The opposition has questioned again, the country back to mourning: What is Israel doing in Gaza after 20 months? The provisionally secondary front Gazense became a priority new. There are 20 hostages alive with Hamas. President Trump is promising to get a quick ceasefire. He, who forced Israeli aviation to turn around when he would bombard Iran, violating the ceasefire, feels comfortable giving orders to the government and the judiciary in Israel.
This Thursday’s Haaretz newspaper (26) began publishing a story of 28 of the 17,000 children killed in Gaza. The Hamas Ministry of Health has about 60,000 dead Palestinians, without differentiating civilians from combatants (perhaps 20,000). And Israel is reaching two thousand dead, including the 1,200 of the terrorist massacre in October 2023.
With the end of restrictions on meetings imposed by the internal front, the families of the living and dead hostages are turning to the streets to press the government. They take posters that directly appeal to Trump: “You ended up with the war in Iran, now end with Gaza.”
The expectation is that Netanyahu, free of his obsession with the nuclear threat of Iran, and victorious, would have more power over his coalition to take action that displeases her and to make him minority of Parliament. But no: far right minister Bezalel Smotrich demanded, and managed to suspend humanitarian aid to the north of Gaza, expropriated by Hamas, according to films posted on YouTube. Not being attended, he threatened to leave the government.
The average of 56 humanitarian aid trucks is entering the southern Gaza Palestinians every day, which were distributed today 38,880 food boxes, enough to 3.5 days to a 5.5 family family.
Hamas reported that 56 Palestinians were killed on Thursday (26) in Israeli attacks, including six that expected food boxes in two distribution centers.
Netanyahu thanked the defense that made him Trump. He said it is possible to end the war in Gaza in two weeks since four Arab countries, including the Arab Emirates and Egypt, assume the place of Hamas, whose leaders would leave for exile. Here, the problem is the inclusion of Ramallah’s Palestinian Authority that the Israeli government does not accept.
The award for Israel will be the expansion of Abraham’s agreements, which already include the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Morocco and Sudan, and will be able to attract Saudi Arabia, which, in return, wants a future to the Palestinian people.
