Donald Trump said he was making a final determination on a deal with Tehran and claimed he could direct Benjamin Netanyahu as the chief ally, funder, and arms supplier for Israel. Netanyahu appears focused on rekindling war elsewhere while US hands are tied on Iran. Israel’s escalation in Lebanon is framed as an attempt to gain ground or destabilize an Iran-related peace initiative. Gaza prospects are described as grimmer, with Israel killing Hamas military leadership while failing to destroy Hamas and causing severe harm to civilians. Israeli forces have expanded beyond agreed territory, attacked in undefined zones, and carried out deeper airstrikes. Netanyahu is reported to have ordered military control of 70% of Gaza, and Israel’s defense minister reaffirmed intent to expel Palestinians, calling it voluntary migration despite conditions of destruction, shortages, and assault.
"He'll do whatever I want him to do, said Donald Trump, addressing his discussions with Benjamin Netanyahu over their illegal war on Iran. The US president said on Friday that he was making his final determination on a deal of sorts with Tehran. As chief ally, funder and arms supplier for Israel, the US can rein in its prime minister. But with his hands tied on Iran, Mr Netanyahu seems bent on rekindling war elsewhere."
"Israel's brutal escalation in Lebanon may be an attempt to gain ground while it can, or perhaps to destabilise the Iran peace initiative. The prospects for Gaza are grimmer. As Mr Trump talks up a new peace deal in the Middle East, Mr Netanyahu is trashing Mr Trump's last effort. Israel this week killed another Hamas military chief, but this war has failed in its stated aim of destroying the group, while visiting untold horror on civilians."
"Israeli forces have expanded far beyond the half of territory they agreed to hold, attack Palestinians in an undefined zone around their positions and carry out airstrikes deeper into Gaza. Yet Nickolay Mladenov, the top diplomat for the Trump-appointed Board of Peace, has blamed Hamas for the stalling of the purported ceasefire. Now Mr Netanyahu says he has ordered the military to take control of 70% of Gaza. That would force more than 2 million Palestinians into less than a third of what was already overcrowded territory."
"Meanwhile, his defence minister, Israel Katz, has reaffirmed Israel's intent to expel Palestinians from Gaza. He terms it voluntary migration. But if people leave because their homes and essential infrastructure are in ruins, food and medicine are desperately short, and they remain under military assault, that's not voluntary: it's ethnic cleansing. A choice between human-made humanitarian catastrophe or exile is no choice at all."
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