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🇮🇱 🇮🇷 🇺🇸 Israel said Friday it was under attack from a new barrage of Iranian missiles, as US President Donald Trump warned Washington had yet to begin "destroying what's left" of Iran's infrastructure.
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The Iranian regime and Hezbollah targeted Israeli families sitting around the Passover Seder table.
Meanwhile, Israel took out 50 targets in Iran.
We're saving the world at huge personal risk.
📺 @NewsNation
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US experts say American strikes on Iran may amount to war crimes reut.rs/4tlimfW reut.rs/4tlimfW
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This morning, I spoke with @Pontifex Pope Leo XIV to exchange greetings for the Passover and Easter holidays.
During our call, we discussed the war with Iran, including the ongoing threat of missile attacks by the Iranian regime and its terror proxies against people of all faiths in the region. I recalled the recent Iranian missile attacks on Jerusalem that fell in the area of sites holy to Christians, Muslims, and Jews. The people of Iran also deserve a better future free from this dangerous and violent regime of terror.
We also spoke about the situation in Lebanon, including the importance of the safety and security of Christian communities on both sides of the border. I emphasized that the Hezbollah terror organization cannot be allowed to continue threatening both the people of Israel and Lebanon, who both deserve a future of peace and stability.
I expressed to Pope Leo XIV the great importance of the State of Israel's relationship with the Holy See, the Catholic Church, and Christians around the world. I also underscored the importance of the cooperation of all world and religious leaders in the crucial fight against antisemitism.
I extended my warmest wishes for the Easter holiday to Christian communities across the Middle East and around the world. We expressed our shared hope for a more peaceful future for people of all faiths across the world free from the threat of violence and bloodshed.
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Wishing all an Easter full of hope, health, and joy.
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Iran is seeking permanent leverage over the Middle East with new rules for the Strait of Hormuz on.wsj.com/3NL3Zm9
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Third important strategic conclusion.
Nations calling for "immediate deescalation" with Iran are condemning Lebanon to failure.
Last year the Iranian regime doubled its investment in Hezbollah to $2 billion.
Cripple the regime, save Lebanon
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David Hazony@davidhazony
There is a third element: severely degrade or bring down the Iranian regime that gives Hezbollah arms, money, orders, and a reason to exist. Over time this will help make sure it withers to a point where it is much easier to eliminate from Lebanon. This will take time, and is only one, if a very important, piece of the puzzle.
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Israel has reached two important strategic conclusions, and anyone who wants to engage seriously with the Lebanon crisis needs to engage with this reality.
1) Only Lebanon can disarm Hezbollah.
UNIFIL has been worse than useless, allowing Hezbollah to rearm in plain sight of its peacekeepers. The IDF can’t send its men to dismantle such a large militia.
That leaves Lebanon, which has proven unable and unwilling to dismantle Iran’s proxy army on its soil—or to stop it launching armed attacks on Israeli civilians. In the 26 years since Israel’s withdrawal from southern Lebanon, the Lebanese state let Hezbollah fester.
It didn’t dismantle it after Resolution 1701 in 2006, allowing Hezbollah to build an invasion force and join Hamas’ war on October 8, 2023. It didn’t do it after Israel decapitated Hezbollah and signed the Nov. 2024 ceasefire.
But ultimately, only Lebanon can do it, and it will require a confrontation it is desperate to avoid.
Israel must therefore do two things: a) give the Lebanese state no choice, make it both urgent and necessary to pick a fight with Hezbollah, b) soften up the target.
By seizing a deep buffer zone, Israel is creating leverage to force Lebanon to stop armed attacks on Israeli families from its soil. Want your land back? No problem, if we have guarantees it won’t be used to wage jihad against. Want back the land you won’t control anyway because Hezbollah will take over? Forget about it.
World leaders need to confront the reasons the Lebanese state has allowed Hezbollah to fire rockets and drones at Israeli families, and work with Israel to pressure Beirut to do something it is desperate to avoid.
Lebanon can have its land back when it wants to create a peaceful border.
2) Israelis in the north cannot live in peace as long as Hezbollah is in southern Lebanon. There is therefore a zero-sum game. Either northern Israel is evacuated, or southern Lebanon will be. You forced us into this. So we’re not evacuating our people. You’re evacuating yours. We’re not shutting down our economy, you shut down yours. As it is, Israelis on the border have only 30 seconds to seek shelter… because the IDF has pushed deep enough into Lebanon to give warning time.
Israel must therefore maintain a sterile buffer zone because the alternative is to turn OUR TERRITORY into a sterile buffer zone, and we will not reward Hezbollah aggression.
It’s nasty. I wish this could have been avoided. I dream of a day we have peace with Lebanon and can hop to Beirut for the weekend. None of that will happen while Hezbollah remains standing.
Lebanon must dismantle it, and nobody should make excuses for its failure
Guy Elster גיא אלסטר@guyelster
Israel army will not attempt to disarm Hezbollah, officials admit, as war's goals are now focused on creating a deep buffer zone in southern Lebanon
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Trump says Iran will be hit hard for next 2 or 3 weeks ctvnews.ca/world/mideast-…
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شما چطور؟
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🚨 Sirens across northern Israel now, including Haifa, with incoming missiles from Iran.
Reminder, it is Passover, one of the most holy periods on the Jewish calendar.
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🇺🇸 🇮🇷 Trump says Iran war victory near but vows heavy strikes
US President Donald Trump has threatened to bomb Iran into the "Stone Ages" with heavy strikes in the next two to three weeks, during a speech in which he sought to reassure war-weary Americans that the war is coming to an end.
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Trump: "The regime killed 45,000 Iranian protesters in January"
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Trump’s address to the nation: We are on the cusp of ending Iran’s sinister threat to America, the world timesofisrael.com/trumps-address…
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Breaking: new plans revealed for Amsterdam Royal Palace renovations.
The proposed design by MVRDV features an observation deck that will include a bar, an ice bakery shop and a casino.
If all goes according to plan, it will be accessible to the public late 2029
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