On October 15, Israeli forces expelled residents and farmers from Azariel, an olive grove on the outskirts of Kfarshouba in South Lebanon, ordering them to return the following week if they still wished to harvest their trees. The next morning, an Israeli bulldozer, flanked by two army tanks, invaded the olive grove and uprooted the trees. A few days before the expulsion, Chebli…
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During an Election Day interview with Fox News, President Donald Trump made the surprising announcement that a recurring $4 billion aid package to Israel will be “cut off at the end of the year.” Trump remains under fire for joining forces with Israel in an unpopular war with Iran, and his Tuesday statement sounded like a Hail Mary attempt to help the GOP win over swing voters who oppose aid to the U.S. ally.
If that particular aid package is ended, it’s likely to be replaced by a more covert policy of arming Israel with U.S. weapons. But Trump clearly recognized that it could be politically advantageous to appear to be severing aid to Israel. A slow-moving but seismic shift is taking place across American politics: Progressives are gaining real power in the debate over Israel. Expect them to be even louder as 2028 politicking kicks off.
Trump said on Fox that the $4 billion aid package would end at the end of the year because the Israelis “don’t need it.” But as he continued, he referred to Michigan Democrat Abdul El-Sayed, and he made his political strategy clear: “Why should we suffer the slings from lunatics like an El-Sayed when they don’t need it? It’s a bad talking point, because when you say ‘Why don’t we give everybody four billion dollars,’ Israel is our number one, we give them more than anybody else, and they no longer need it, we’ve been doing it for years.”
To the extent that Trump was motioning at a real policy idea, he may have been referring to a memorandum of understanding that provides $3.8 billion in
With the results of Israel’s election on Tuesday finalized on Thursday, the right-wing bloc around current Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has won 53 seats out of the 120 in Israel’s parliament, the Knesset, while the opposition bloc around Gadi Eisenkot has won 48 seats. Both are short of the majority needed to create a ruling coalition government. The real upset, however…
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For months leading up to Tuesday’s election, President Donald Trump repeatedly delivered a simple ask in rally after rally: pretend I’m on the ballot.
Voters across the nation appeared to follow his guidance on Tuesday, but not in the way the president intended.
Democrats wrested control of the House and Senate in a stunning victory poised to shake up the balance of power in Washington and have an early impact on the 2028 elections.
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‘End of the Trump Era?’: Historic blue wave engulfs Trump
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Despite the president’s pleas on the campaign trail for people to vote as if he were running, by Tuesday night, Trump was dashing off Truth Social posts saying he had not been on the ballot — if he had been, he claimed, Republicans would have won “IN A LANDSLIDE.” His aides, acknowledging the resounding and widespread losses to Democrats, argued that MAGA voters didn’t show up at the polls because Trump wasn’t actually on the ticket.
“This is pretty much worst-case scenario,” one White House official said late Tuesday as the results rolled in. This person, granted anonymity to speak candidly about the mood inside the White House, said many Trump aides were “shocked” by the margins in numerous statewide races, which in many cases surpassed even the most pessimistic polls gauging Republican support.
But as White House officials tracked returns inside a downbeat East Room watch party Tuesday night, they sought to rewrite history and distance the president from his prior statements and decisions.
“President Trump was not on the ballot, and it’s proven that Trump voters show up when he is on the ballot,” another White House
A U.S. journalist was detained by Israeli forces after being beaten by Israeli settlers while documenting attacks on Palestinians amid the olive harvest in the occupied West Bank. Independent journalist Jasper Nathaniel, along with journalist-activists Russian Adele Shoko and Russian-Israeli Andrey Khrzhanovskiy, were in the village of Umm al-Khair when they were beaten by Israeli settlers.
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