Hamas has agreed to release 10 hostages as part of ongoing ceasefire talks, the terror group said in a statement on Wednesday.
The statement did not say when the release would take place or which hostages may be freed as negotiations over a possible ceasefire continue. The terror group said that it continues to act “seriously and in a positive spirit with the mediators in order to overcome the obstacles,” according to <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/hamas-we-agreed-to-release-10-hostages-as-part-of-talks-other-points-remain-under-discussion/">The Times of Israel</a>.
The statement from Hamas identified several points of disagreement between the terror group and Israeli negotiators, including the flow of aid into the Gaza Strip, a withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza, and “genuine guarantees for a permanent ceasefire,” according to <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/hamas-agrees-release-10-hostages-part-gaza-ceasefire-talks-says-negotiations-are-2025-07-09/">Reuters</a>.
The list of unresolved issues has apparently grown since U.S. foreign envoy Steve Witkoff said earlier this week that the number of sticking points between the two sides had shrunk to just one.
“We’re in proximity talks now, and we had four issues, and now we’re down to one after two days of proximity talks. So, we are hopeful that by the end of this week, we will have an agreement that will bring us into a 60-day ceasefire,” Witkoff said Tuesday.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited Washington this week in part to discuss the situation in Gaza with President Donald Trump. Trump hinted Wednesday that ceasefire negotiations are “close.”
“We want to have a ceasefire,” <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-09/trump-touts-push-toward-gaza-deal-as-netanyahu-visits-pentagon?embedded-checkout=true">said</a> the president. “We want to have peace. We want to get the hostages back. And I think we’re close to doing it.”
Netanyahu told reporters that while both he and Trump want a ceasefire, there are some non-negotiable items that must be a part of any deal.
“President Trump wants a deal, but not at any price. I want a deal, but not at any price,” <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce3newwl1zeo">said</a> the prime minister. “Israel has security requirements and other requirements, and we’re working together to try to achieve it.”
Israel has repeatedly said that no ceasefire deal can be agreed to that leaves Hamas in place in the Gaza Strip. That war aim has remained unchanged since Israeli forces invaded Gaza following the terror group’s October 7 terror attack that killed roughly 1,200 people. Hamas militants and Gazans who joined the attack abducted about 250 others as hostages.

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Hamas Says It Will Release 10 Hostages As Ceasefire Negotiations Continue

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Donald Trump

Israel

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu revealed Monday that he has nominated President Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Netanyahu presented Trump with a letter the Israeli leader sent to the Nobel committee recommending the president to win the lauded peace prize. The prime minister handed the letter to Trump during a meeting at the White House.
“I want to express the appreciation and admiration, not only of all Israelis, but of the Jewish people and many, many admirers around the world for your leadership, your leadership of the free world, your leadership of a just cause, and the pursuit of peace and security, which you are leading in many lands, but now, especially in the Middle East,” said Netanyahu. “The president has an extraordinary team, and I think our teams, together, make an extraordinary combination to meet challenges and seize opportunities.”
“But the president has already realized great opportunities. He forged the Abraham Accords. He&#8217;s forging peace as we speak in one country, in one region after the other,” he continued. “I want to present to you, Mr. President, the letter I sent to the Nobel Prize Committee. It&#8217;s nominating you for the Peace Prize, which is well-deserved, and you should get it.”
Trump accepted the letter, responding that “coming from you in particular, this is very meaningful.”
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The two leaders met at the White House to discuss developments in the Middle East just weeks after the two worked together to take down Iran’s nuclear program.
Israel hit numerous military and nuclear program-related targets around Iran during what the White House later called the “12-Day War.” Trump ordered a strike against Iran’s nuclear facilities that targeted Iran’s fortified facility built underground at Fordo, as well as two other sites. The ordinance delivered by U.S. B-2 bombers and submarines finished off the strikes against Iran’s nuclear program.
Last month, Pakistan <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-mentum-from-iran-to-big-beautiful-bill-prez-scores-landmark-victories-in-past-two-weeks">nominated</a> Trump to receive the Nobel Peace Prize “in recognition of his decisive diplomatic intervention and pivotal leadership during the recent India-Pakistan crisis.”

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Netanyahu Nominates Trump For Nobel Prize: ‘Well-Deserved’

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An influential Arab leader in Hebron, the West Bank’s largest city, is facing violent threats after proposing to break from the Palestinian Authority and join the Abraham Accords as an independent emirate seeking peace with Israel.
A source close to Sheikh Wadee’ al-Jaabari told The Daily Wire that the leader has received several violent threats since declaring his intentions in an interview with <a href="https://www.wsj.com/opinion/new-palestinian-offer-peace-israel-hebron-sheikh-emirate-36dd39c3">the Wall Street Journal</a> published on Saturday.
Al-Jaabari, 48, is a leader of Hebron’s most influential clan, representing hundreds of thousands of Arabs in the area. He is reportedly backed by 21 other sheikhs who together represent about 554,000 people in the Hebron region, which has a population of roughly 700,000.
Despite the threats, al-Jaabari and his allies believe they have the Palestinian Authority outmanned and outgunned, thanks to his militia and the backing of the other sheikhs’ followers, according to the source.
The sheikhs told the Journal that it would take between one day and one week to remove the Palestinian Authority from Hebron.
The sheikh’s announcement comes just ahead of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s White House <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/israeli-prime-minister-benjamin-netanyahu-to-visit-the-white-house?author=Kassy+Akiva&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=3&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Israeli+Prime+Minister+Benjamin+Netanyahu+To+Visit+The+White+House">meeting with</a> President Donald Trump. The sheikhs hope to gain support from both leaders for their new approach to achieving peace.
In a blow to the idea of a two-state solution, al-Jaabari signed a letter to the Israeli government outlining a path for peace and recognizing Israel as a Jewish state. 
“We want cooperation with Israel,” al-Jaabari told the Journal. “We want coexistence.”
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The sheikh is known for breaking from the anti-Israel model of the Palestinian Authority and is often friendly to Israelis. In any such agreement with Israel, the sheikhs would prioritize fighting terrorism.
The letter, addressed to Israel’s Economy Minister Nir Barkat, was signed by four other leading sheikhs, many of whom remained anonymous in the Wall Street Journal article but are also facing violent threats.
“The Emirate of Hebron shall recognize the State of Israel as the nation state of the Jewish people,” the sheikhs wrote in the letter, according to the Journal. “[A]nd the State of Israel shall recognize the Emirate of Hebron as the Representative of the Arab residents in the Hebron District.” 
The establishment of an Emirate of Hebron would separate the Hebron region from the Palestinian Authority, which has never recognized Israel as a Jewish state.
Al-Jaabari says the Palestinian Authority, which is centralized in Ramallah, “doesn’t represent the Palestinians” and that the traditional clan governance of the Arab people in the region is a more sustainable alternative.
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As an independent emirate, al-Jaabari envisions his region would join the Abraham Accords to pursue peace and economic cooperation with Israel. His plan calls for Israel to initially grant 1,000 work permits to Arabs from Hebron, many of which were revoked after Hamas’s October 7 attacks. Al-Jaabari hopes that the number will eventually grow to 50,000. He also plans to pursue the creation of a joint economic zone near the Israel-Hebron security fence to employ tens of thousands.
In response to the letter being brought to light, other members of the al-Jaabari family <a href="https://x.com/khaliljeries/status/1941885184934035556?s=46&amp;t=ghpHusspWPjTMisXwpsMaA">disavowed the sheikh</a> Sunday night, noting that he currently lives outside of Hebron.
“The Al-Jaabari family has long been rooted in the defense of Palestinian national principles, including the right of our people to self-determination and the protection of our land from the river to the sea,” the family members wrote, adding that they call on the public to not engage with al-Jaabari. 
Shortly after, the sheikhs supporting the Emirate of Hebron released a <a href="https://x.com/ElliotKaufman6/status/1941920513292406935">statement</a> accusing al-Jaabari’s extended family members of being “institutionally connected to the PA,” according to Wall Street Journal reporter Elliot Kaufman.
“This response stems from a natural and understandable concern that if Sheikh Jaabari’s initiative fails, the PA-aligned connections of certain leading members of the large clan could be severely damaged, potentially causing irreversible harm to the already fragile social fabric.”
The statement goes on to note that the “vast majority” of the al-Jaabari family “stand firmly behind Sheikh Wadee’ Jaabari and his historic, just, and necessary initiative to dismantle the Palestinian Authority and establish the Hebron Emirate.”
In a second statement, the sheikhs claimed that the Palestinian Authority has been in “complete panic” and has been arresting their family members to avoid making their intentions to make peace with Israel public.
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Israelis living in the West Bank, also known as Judea and Samaria, have praised the idea of an Emirate of Hebron. 
“This is a break in the narrative of the Palestinian Authority,” <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fulfilling-biblical-prophecy-group-of-israelis-restore-king-davids-family-tomb">Yishai Fleischer</a>, the international spokesperson for the Jewish community of Hebron, told The Daily Wire. “These sheikhs are putting their lives on the line for this plan.”
Fleischer praised the group for refusing to tolerate terrorism, a stark difference from the Palestinian Authority’s “pay to slay” program, which has paid terrorists and their families for committing suicide attacks on civilians, including Americans.
“This plan is the end of the rule of the thuggish PA that tortures people and brainwashes kids to jihad,” Fleischer added.

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Prominent West Bank Sheikh Faces Violent Threats After Proposing Peace With Israel

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will visit the White House for his first meeting with President Donald Trump since the two leaders delivered a crushing blow to Iran’s nuclear program.
The White House <a href="https://x.com/MaryMargOlohan/status/1939777535975280850" target="_blank" rel="noopener">confirmed to</a> The Daily Wire that Netanyahu is scheduled to visit the White House on Monday, July 7, his third presidential meeting since Trump took office in January.
The two leaders are expected to discuss their successful campaign against Iran, the ongoing war with Hamas, and the possibility of expanding the Abraham Accords.
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The meeting comes after Israel launched the 12-day campaign, “Operation Rising Lion,” in an attempt to remove the threat of a significant number of Iranian ballistic missiles and severely harm Iran’s nuclear program. Before the operation concluded, Trump ordered American forces to strike three key Iranian nuclear sites using Tomahawk missiles and 30,000-pound “bunker buster” bombs — delivered by B-2 Spirit bombers.
Last week, Trump brokered a ceasefire between Iran and Israel, bringing the conflict to an end but promising to strike again if Iran <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-says-he-will-absolutely-start-bombing-iran-again-if-they-enrich-uranium-to-high-levels?author=Kassy+Akiva&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=4&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Trump+Says+He+Will+%E2%80%98Absolutely%E2%80%99+Start+Bombing+Iran+Again+If+They+Enrich+Uranium+To+High+Levels" target="_blank" rel="noopener">resumes enriching</a> uranium to high levels.
Trump has signaled his <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-slams-israeli-courts-for-prosecuting-netanyahu-let-bibi-go?author=Virginia+Kruta&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Trump+Slams+Israeli+Courts+For+Prosecuting+Netanyahu%3A+%E2%80%98LET+BIBI+GO%21%E2%80%99" target="_blank" rel="noopener">strong support</a> for Netanyahu in recent days by chastising Israeli courts for proceeding with a case against the Jewish state’s leader. Trump drew parallels to his own prosecutions by American courts, calling it a “political witch hunt” and saying that any such proceedings could “interfere” with ongoing negotiations between Israel and Hamas to return the 50 hostages in Gaza.
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“Importantly, he is right now in the process of negotiating a Deal with Hamas, which will include getting the Hostages back,” Trump said. “How is it possible that the Prime Minister of Israel can be forced to sit in a Courtroom all day long, over NOTHING (Cigars, Bugs Bunny Doll, etc.).”
He said that it was “terrible what they are doing in Israel to Bibi Netanyahu.&#8221;
“The United States of America spends Billions of Dollar [sic] a year, far more than on any other Nation, protecting and supporting Israel,” Trump added. “We are not going to stand for this. We just had a Great Victory with Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu at the helm — And this greatly tarnishes our Victory. LET BIBI GO, HE’S GOT A BIG JOB TO DO!”
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Netanyahu last visited the White House in April to discuss Trump’s new tariff plan and the ongoing war with Hamas. In February, he <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/netanyahu-heads-to-white-house-to-be-first-foreign-leader-hosted-by-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">met</a> with Trump in the Oval Office, the first foreign leader to do so in Trump&#8217;s second term.

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu To Visit The White House

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President Donald Trump once again came to the defense of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, chastising the courts in Israel for proceeding with the case against him and comparing it to the cases against the president during the run-up to the 2024 presidential election.
Trump took to his Truth Social platform to <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114763460580044614">address the issue</a>, saying that if the case proceeded, it could &#8220;interfere&#8221; with ongoing negotiations — both between Israel and Iran and between Israel and the terror group Hamas.
&#8220;It is terrible what they are doing in Israel to Bibi Netanyahu,&#8221; Trump began. &#8220;He is a War Hero, and a Prime Minister who did a fabulous job working with the United States to bring Great Success in getting rid of the dangerous Nuclear threat in Iran.&#8221;
&#8220;Importantly, he is right now in the process of negotiating a Deal with Hamas, which will include getting the Hostages back,&#8221; Trump continued. &#8220;How is it possible that the Prime Minister of Israel can be forced to sit in a Courtroom all day long, over NOTHING (Cigars, Bugs Bunny Doll, etc).&#8221;
Trump then made a direct comparison to the cases against him, which he&#8217;s repeatedly said were politically motivated, and argued that the case against Netanyahu was no different.
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&#8220;It is a POLITICAL WITCH HUNT, very similar to the Witch Hunt that I was forced to endure. This travesty of &#8216;Justice&#8217; will interfere with both Iran and Hamas negotiations. In other words, it is INSANITY doing what the out-of-control prosecutors are doing to Bibi Netanyahu,&#8221; he said, arguing that the prosecution also directly impacted the United States. &#8220;The United States of America spends Billions of Dollar a year, far more than on any other Nation, protecting and supporting Israel. We are not going to stand for this. We just had a Great Victory with Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu at the helm — And this greatly tarnishes our Victory. LET BIBI GO, HE’S GOT A BIG JOB TO DO!&#8221;

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Trump Slams Israeli Courts For Prosecuting Netanyahu: ‘LET BIBI GO!’

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WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump was in a great mood as he took the podium at a surprise White House press briefing on Friday.
His team called the briefing just after the Supreme Court upheld his executive order on birthright citizenship, ruling that lower courts do not have the authority to unilaterally block Trump’s agenda.
Not only that — the court also ruled Friday that schools violate religious liberty when they bar parents from opting their children out of classroom instruction involving LGBT-themed books, a major win for religious conservatives and for the Trump White House, which has championed parents and their right to decide what their children are taught.
Each ruling in and of itself would have been celebrated by the White House. But together, on the heels of Trump&#8217;s success negotiating a ceasefire between Israel and Iran, achieving a 5% defense pledge from NATO members, gas prices dropping to their lowest <a href="https://x.com/PressSec/status/1938232771509354514">since 2021</a>, and the stock market nearing <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/wall-street-rallies-sp-500-nears-record-high-as-middle-east-tensions-cool">record highs</a>, the news made Friday &#8220;a really big day&#8221; for Trump.
&#8220;We&#8217;ve had a big week,&#8221; Trump told the clamoring reporters in the James Brady Briefing Room.&#8221;We&#8217;ve had a big week, we&#8217;ve had a lot of victories this week.&#8221;
The past week has indeed been full of wins for the president, both at home and abroad. After the United States bombed key Iranian nuclear sites with Tomahawk missiles and 30,000-pound “bunker buster” bombs on Saturday, the president announced a ceasefire on Monday, strong-arming the two countries into a cessation of attacks on one another with a rare, emphatic f-bomb.
&#8220;They don&#8217;t know what the f**k they are doing,&#8221; an angry Trump told reporters shortly before getting on the phone with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The Trump administration <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cnn-misconstruing-intelligence-to-undermine-successful-u-s-strike-in-iran-trump-officials-say?author=Mary+Margaret+Olohan&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=2&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=CNN+Misconstruing+Intelligence+To+Undermine+Successful+U.S.+Strike+In+Iran%2C+Trump+Officials+Say">maintains</a> that the Iranian nuclear sites were completely obliterated, and the White House has celebrated this as a massive win marred only by suggestions from legacy media outlets, led by CNN and the New York Times, that the United States failed to destroy Iran’s nuclear program and only set it back by months.
These outlets cited an &#8220;inconclusive, low confidence intelligence assessment &#8230; leaked from deep state intel analysis to deep state news,” an administration official told The Daily Wire earlier this week.
Since then, CIA Director John Ratcliffe <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cia-reveals-intelligence-showing-u-s-destroyed-key-iranian-nuclear-facilities?author=Mary+Margaret+Olohan&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=1&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=CIA+Reveals+Intelligence+Showing+U.S.+%E2%80%98Destroyed%E2%80%99+Key+Iranian+Nuclear+Facilities">said</a> that the agency has new intelligence indicating “several key Iranian nuclear facilities were destroyed” by the recent American strikes; Director of National Intelligence&#8217;s Tulsi Gabbard cited “new intelligence” showing that “Iran’s nuclear facilities have been destroyed&#8221;; and the president himself excoriated CNN&#8217;s reporter who broke the story, Natasha Betrand, pointing to her reporting denouncing the Hunter Biden laptop story — which was completely true — as “Russian disinformation.”
Trump then headed to the Netherlands for the NATO summit, where he convinced the leaders of member states to raise defense spending to 5% of their country’s gross domestic product by 2035. That&#8217;s a major victory for the White House and the president, who called it a &#8220;tremendous victory,&#8221; and who has long demanded that “freeloading” NATO allies pay their fair share for their own security.
&#8220;Winning is easy when the most consequential president in history is back at the helm,&#8221; White House Assistant Press Secretary Taylor Rogers told The Daily Wire. &#8220;President Trump has restored America’s dominance on the world stage and kept the promises he made to over 77 million Americans across the country. America is hot again, and we aren’t tired of winning yet!”
As he spoke to reporters on Friday, Trump pointed to the next big White House goal: getting the &#8220;Big, Beautiful Bill&#8221; signed.
Trump has called for lawmakers to get the bill on his desk by July 4. At an event for the bill at the White House on Thursday, flanked by the parents of children killed by illegal aliens, Border Czar Tom Homan argued that holding up the bill is putting American lives at risk.
&#8220;Every day we arrest a public safety threat, it makes this country much safer,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Who the hell would be against that? I get pissed off because I&#8217;m sick of meeting Angel Moms and Dads. You want to talk about family separation? They buried their children.&#8221;
Trump called on the Senate to get the job done as he headed to the NATO summit earlier this week, even suggesting they lock themselves in a room if they must as they work with the House of Representatives to reach a deal.
His direction was clear: “Don’t go home.”
“It will be a Historic Present for THE GREAT PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, as we begin the Celebration of our Country’s 250th Birthday,” the president wrote in a Truth Social <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114738729363742349" target="_blank" rel="noopener">post</a> on Tuesday. “We are finally entering our Golden Age, which will bring unprecedented Safety, Security, and Prosperity for ALL of our Citizens.”
“NO ONE GOES ON VACATION UNTIL IT’S DONE,” the president warned. And during the briefing on Friday, he suggested that Democrats who vote against the bill are &#8220;voting in favor&#8221; of the largest tax hike in the &#8220;history of our country.&#8221;

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‘America Is Hot Again’: A Week Of Wins For The Trump White House

Karoline Leavitt

NATO

Members of the Israeli Parliament <a href="https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/410688">responded positively</a> to President Donald Trump’s demand that the prosecution of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu be stopped.
In March, the Israeli government <a href="https://legal.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/corporate-business/israeli-government-declares-no-confidence-in-attorney-general/119416221?utm_source=top_news&amp;utm_medium=tagListing">unanimously passed</a> a no-confidence motion against Israeli Attorney General Gali Baharfav-Miara, who is prosecuting Netanyahu, alleging corruption. “The advisor almost systematically refuses to appear before the Constitution Committee, ignores the ministers’ requests to her, and does not respond to my own requests,” Justice Minister Yariv Levin wrote. “As Minister of Justice, not to mention what is happening to other ministers, I receive a blatant disregard for my letters.” The attorney general has been urged by former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak — a leader of the Left in Israel who in 2000 <a href="applewebdata://93AC49F9-3CF6-4B71-BB9C-F3DC6FE7E4E3/v">reportedly</a> offered the Palestinians  73% of Judea and Samaria, a figure that he extended to 98%, and <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/ex-israeli-pm-barak-urges-civil-disobedience-topple-netanyahu">called for nationwide protests</a> to remove Netanyahu in 2025 — to <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/ex-israeli-pm-barak-urges-civil-disobedience-topple-netanyahu">force</a> Netanyahu’s recusal.
On Wednesday, Trump issued a scathing indictment of the prosecution on Truth Social, declaring:
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Bibi and I just went through HELL together, fighting a very tough and brilliant longtime enemy of Israel, Iran, and Bibi could not have been better, sharper, or stronger in his LOVE for the incredible Holy Land. Anybody else would have suffered losses, embarrassment, and chaos! Bibi Netanyahu was a WARRIOR, like perhaps no other Warrior in the History of Israel, and the result was something that nobody thought was possible, a complete elimination of potentially one of the biggest and most powerful Nuclear Weapons anywhere in the World, and it was going to happen, SOON!
We were fighting, literally, for the Survival of Israel, and there is nobody in Israel’s History that fought harder or more competently than Bibi Netanyahu. Despite all of this, I just learned that Bibi has been summoned to Court on Monday for the continuation of this long running, (He has been going through this “Horror Show” since May of 2020 – Unheard of! This is the first time a sitting Israeli Prime Minister has ever been on trial.), politically motivated case, “concerning cigars, a Bugs Bunny doll, and numerous other unfair charges&#8217; in order to do him great harm.”
Such a WITCH HUNT, for a man who has given so much, is unthinkable to me. He deserves much better than this, and so does the State of Israel. Bibi Netanyahu’s trial should be CANCELLED, IMMEDIATELY, or a Pardon given to a Great Hero, who has done so much for the State. Perhaps there is no one that I know who could have worked in better harmony with the President of the United States, ME, than Bibi Netanyahu. It was the United States of America that saved Israel, and now it is going to be the United States of America that saves Bibi Netanyahu. THIS TRAVESTY OF &#8216;JUSTICE&#8217; CAN NOT BE ALLOWED!&#8221;
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Israeli Sports Minister Miki Zohar declared, “President Trump is expressing out loud what many Israeli citizens feel in their hearts. I call to put an end to this unconscionable injustice and personal prosecution, although the cases are collapsing by themselves anyway.”
Simcha Rothman (Religious Zionist Party) responded, “It is certainly the role of the president of the State of Israel, who can put an end to this stupid saga in the most elegant way. If he does not do so, the Knesset can and should do so, but certainly the president of the state holds that authority. &#8230; This trial suffers from manufactured charges, disconnection from reality of the prosecution and the judges from continuing the trial during wartime, dealing with trivia and more.&#8221;
Israel’s Minister of Communications, Shlomo Karhi, echoed, “I would be happy to see Netanyahu continue to crush the political indictment in court, this show has long since cost us the security of the state.”
Likud’s Moshe Saada wrote: “We are in historic times and writing chapters of history. I am a defense witness in the Netanyahu case. I know the scandalous conduct of the prosecution. You cannot run a country and a war and also have to testify twice a week. I think in a properly functioning judicial system, the trial would be postponed. Anything else is illogical.&#8221;

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‘What Many Israeli Citizens Feel In Their Hearts’: Israeli Lawmakers Back Trump’s Defense Of Bibi

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Politics

President Donald Trump delivered a scathing rebuke of the state of Israel over the &#8220;witch hunt&#8221; targeting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — a case that began in 2020 — is set to move forward on Monday.
Trump made it clear in his <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114746355912265245">post</a>, shared first via his Truth Social platform, that both he and the United States would have Netanyahu&#8217;s back — and he called for the case to be dropped immediately, praising the Prime Minister&#8217;s recent actions with regard to the conflict with Iran.
&#8220;BREAKING NEWS … I was shocked to hear that the State of Israel, which has just had one of its Greatest Moments in History, and is strongly led by Bibi Netanyahu, is continuing its ridiculous Witch Hunt against their Great War Time Prime Minister!&#8221; Trump began.
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President Trump just posted a long, strong defense of Netanyahu regarding his trial.
“It was the United States of America that saved Israel, and now it is going to be the United States of America that saves Bibi Netanyahu.” <a href="https://t.co/sRUZVEWn4F">pic.twitter.com/sRUZVEWn4F</a>
— Kassy Akiva (@KassyAkiva) <a href="https://twitter.com/KassyAkiva/status/1938004014399889804?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 25, 2025</a></blockquote>
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The president then pivoted to address Iran and argued that Netanyahu had handled the situation perfectly.
&#8220;Bibi and I just went through HELL together, fighting a very tough and brilliant longtime enemy of Israel, Iran, and Bibi could not have been better, sharper, or stronger in his LOVE for the incredible Holy Land,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;Anybody else would have suffered losses, embarrassment, and chaos! Bibi Netanyahu was a WARRIOR, like perhaps no other Warrior in the History of Israel, and the result was something that nobody thought was possible, a complete elimination of potentially one of the biggest and most powerful Nuclear Weapons anywhere in the World, and it was going to happen, SOON!&#8221;
&#8220;We were fighting, literally, for the Survival of Israel, and there is nobody in Israel’s History that fought harder or more competently than Bibi Netanyahu,&#8221; Trump said, turning his attention to the legal case against the Israeli Prime Minister. &#8220;Despite all of this, I just learned that Bibi has been summoned to Court on Monday for the continuation of this long running, (He has been going through this &#8216;Horror Show&#8217; since May of 2020 – Unheard of! This is the first time a sitting Israeli Prime Minister has ever been on trial.), politically motivated case, &#8216;concerning cigars, a Bugs Bunny doll, and numerous other unfair charges&#8217; in order to do him great harm.&#8221;
Using similar language to what he&#8217;d used to describe the legal cases against him in the lead up to the 2024 presidential election, Trump continued: &#8220;Such a WITCH HUNT, for a man who has given so much, is unthinkable to me. He deserves much better than this, and so does the State of Israel. Bibi Netanyahu’s trial should be CANCELLED, IMMEDIATELY, or a Pardon given to a Great Hero, who has done so much for the State.&#8221;
&#8220;Perhaps there is no one that I know who could have worked in better harmony with the President of the United States, ME, than Bibi Netanyahu,&#8221; he concluded. &#8220;It was the United States of America that saved Israel, and now it is going to be the United States of America that saves Bibi Netanyahu. THIS TRAVESTY OF &#8216;JUSTICE&#8217; CAN NOT BE ALLOWED!&#8221;

‘Travesty Of Justice’: Trump Goes Scorched Earth On ‘Witch Hunt’ Targeting Netanyahu

'Travesty Of Justice': Trump Goes Scorched Earth On 'Witch Hunt' Targeting Netanyahu

There was a bit of a têe-à-tête between Israel, Iran, and the United States that broke out on Tuesday morning.
Here&#8217;s what happened. Just before the ceasefire went into place, Iran fired a barrage of ballistic missiles into Israel. One of those ballistic missiles struck an apartment building in Beersheba (Be&#8217;er Sheva), which is in the south of Israel. At least seven people were murdered, 86 more people wounded, because this is what Iran does: target civilians, including women and children. Conversely, Israel, just before the ceasefire, took out a bunch of IRGC leaders at their headquarters.
Then the time for the ceasefire came. Israel stopped; Iran did not.
Iran instead sent a couple of missiles into northern Israel after the ceasefire, because this is what they always do. It’s not a shock; when Israel essentially wiped out Hezbollah in southern Lebanon back in October of 2024, and a ceasefire was declared, Hezbollah attempted a few actions violating the ceasefire just to see if they could get away with it.
So that is what Iran did.
And Israel prepared to fire back.
President Trump then went on Truth Social, writing:
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And then he had a rather heated exchange with a reporter talking about how upset he was that Israel and Iran were still firing at each other, essentially. He said:
<blockquote>They (Iran) violated it, but Israel violated it too. As soon as we made the deal, they came out and they dropped a load of bombs. The likes of which I&#8217;ve never seen before, the biggest load that we&#8217;ve seen. I&#8217;m not happy with Israel. You know, when I say, &#8220;Okay, now you have 12 hours,&#8221; you don&#8217;t go out in the first hour and just drop everything you have on them.
So I&#8217;m not happy with them. I&#8217;m not happy with Iran either, but I&#8217;m really unhappy if Israel is going out this morning because of one rocket that didn&#8217;t land that was shot, perhaps by mistake, that didn&#8217;t land. I&#8217;m not happy about that. You know what we have? We basically have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don&#8217;t know what the f*** they’re doing. You understand that? Okay.</blockquote>
Then President Trump walked away. There are a lot of people on every side who got very upset with President Trump about this. I am not, and the reason I am not is because I think that he&#8217;s attempting to enforce the ceasefire: end of story. That&#8217;s what this is. The president is saying, “Everybody, it&#8217;s weapons down. It&#8217;s weapons down.”
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In fact, according to Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu&#8217;s office, <a href="https://x.com/AmitSegal/status/1937487076343132584">this is actually how</a> it ended up materializing:
<blockquote>The ceasefire was set to begin at 07:00 this morning. At 03:00, Israel forcefully attacked in the heart of Tehran, struck regime targets and eliminated hundreds of Basij and Iranian security forces personnel. Shortly before the ceasefire took effect, Iran launched a barrage of missiles, one of which took the lives of four of our Israeli civilians in Be&#8217;er Sheva. The ceasefire took effect at 07:00. At 07:06, Iran launched one missile at Israeli territory, and two additional missiles at 10:25. These missiles were either intercepted or fell in open areas, causing neither casualties nor damage.
In response to Iran’s violations, the Air Force destroyed a radar installation near Tehran. Pursuant to the conversation between President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu, Israel has refrained from additional attacks. In the conversation, President Trump expressed his great appreciation for Israel, which achieved all of its objectives in this war, as well as his confidence in the stability of the ceasefire.</blockquote>
President Trump was simply saying to all parties, &#8220;Stop it now. We&#8217;re done.&#8221;
By the way, I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s bad for Israel that President Trump is seen controlling the issue, because what that says to Iran is that if it were not for President Trump telling the Israelis to stop, those bombs would still be falling on your head. So cut that crap out right now.
That is the way I think President Trump meant for it to be read. And I think that&#8217;s the way that it will be read by Iran.
In fact, President Trump then came out within a couple of hours and put it on Truth Social: “IRAN WILL NEVER REBUILD THEIR NUCLEAR FACILITIES.” 
That came despite the fact that Tehran is openly vowing to restore its nuclear facilities. According to Iran&#8217;s nuclear chief, Mohammad Eslami, “The plan is to prevent interruptions in the process of production and services. Iran is assessing its damage to the nuclear industry following Israel&#8217;s intensive 12 Days campaign against it.” He also said that “arrangements are going to be made for its restoration.”
If President Trump identifies Iran rebuilding its nuclear facilities, he&#8217;s going to do something. And by the way, Israel will do something. They&#8217;re not going to sit idly by while Iran rebuilds any sort of nuclear capacity.
Here&#8217;s the bottom line: President Trump handled this situation better than any president of my lifetime. If you had told me at the beginning of this war that Israel would be able to do what it has done, that America, with effectively one B-2 sortie, would have been able to cripple Iran&#8217;s major nuclear facility at Fordow and also finish off Natanz and Esfahan in Iran — which, by the way, is what I suggested from the beginning of the war; that one B-2 flight is basically all that America would be required to do, and that would be it and then we&#8217;d get to the end of the war — I would have been stunned.
But it became true because President Trump lives in the world of reality. I can&#8217;t say this enough. He lives in the world of reality.
President Trump was never, ever going to get us into a nation-building project in Iran. For those who thought he would, have you met President Trump? Have you watched him for the last ten years?
What unbelievable lack of faith it showed in President Trump for people to suggest that Trump, of all people, was going to get us into World War III on a nation-building exercise in the Middle East.
Were they out of their damned minds?

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Trump Draws The Line

Ben Shapiro

Iran Nuclear

Opinion

Israel appeared to back off a major retaliatory strike on Iran on Tuesday at President Donald Trump&#8217;s request after Iran targeted civilians in a missile attack on Israel just before the ceasefire went into effect, and then fired more missiles at Israel in violation of the ceasefire.
Israel reportedly had warplanes ready to strike Iran, but backed down after Trump <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114737953503348541">told</a> them, &#8220;DO NOT DROP THOSE BOMBS. IF YOU DO IT IS A MAJOR VIOLATION. BRING YOUR PILOTS HOME, NOW!&#8221; Around an hour later, Trump said that Israel&#8217;s planes would only conduct a &#8220;friendly &#8216;Plane Wave&#8217; to Iran. Nobody will be hurt, the Ceasefire is in effect!&#8221;
&#8220;ISRAEL is not going to attack Iran. All planes will turn around and head home &#8230;&#8221; Trump <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114738104789842114">added</a>.
All the communication didn&#8217;t happen over social media. Both Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu confirm they spoke, and the message was &#8220;firm and clear.&#8221;
The Israeli prime minister&#8217;s office <a href="https://x.com/AmitSegal/status/1937487076343132584">said</a> in a statement, &#8220;Following a phone call between President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu, Israel refrained from carrying out additional strikes. During the conversation, President Trump conveyed his deep appreciation for Israel, which he said had accomplished all of the war’s objectives. The president also expressed confidence in the stability of the ceasefire.&#8221;
A senior U.S. official <a href="https://x.com/n12news/status/1937488755235180767?s=46&amp;t=o-U3qwC25WnWaylJ0oeG7Q">told</a> The New York Times that Trump was &#8220;firm and clear&#8221; in his conversation with Netanyahu and &#8220;the Prime Minister understood the gravity of the situation.&#8221;
Israel&#8217;s &#8220;friendly plane wave&#8221; appeared to be an airstrike on a small <a href="https://x.com/AmitSegal/status/1937474638306754889">target</a> north of Tehran. Israeli officials said that their pilots struck a radar installation in Iran, and the planes were on their way home, according to Israeli journalist Amit Segal.
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The target that was hit was a radar installation <a href="https://t.co/6T54ORXuwm">https://t.co/6T54ORXuwm</a>
— Amit Segal (@AmitSegal) <a href="https://twitter.com/AmitSegal/status/1937476246742663414?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 24, 2025</a></blockquote>
Shortly before the ceasefire went into effect Tuesday morning, Israel bombed Iran, &#8220;eliminating hundreds of Basij members and Iranian security personnel,&#8221; according to the prime minister&#8217;s office. Iran then hit Israel with another attack targeting civilians in Beersheva just before the ceasefire went into effect. At least four people were killed in the strike, and 20 people were wounded.
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said that Iran then violated the ceasefire with another missile attack, as two missiles were <a href="https://apnews.com/article/israel-iran-trump-ceasefire-attacks-continue-f1e60190722cc3410b69f21717872ffa">reportedly</a> intercepted over northern Israel.
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🚨WATCH: The scene of the direct hit from a drone view <a href="https://t.co/t0XpcbZbEE">https://t.co/t0XpcbZbEE</a> <a href="https://t.co/pwpOYaMUOH">pic.twitter.com/pwpOYaMUOH</a>
— Raylan Givens (@JewishWarrior13) <a href="https://twitter.com/JewishWarrior13/status/1937443131827609600?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 24, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Earlier on Tuesday, Trump told reporters at the White House, &#8220;We basically have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don&#8217;t know what the f*** they&#8217;re doing.&#8221; He also accused both Iran and Israel of violating the &#8220;complete and total <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-trump-announces-complete-and-total-ceasefire-between-israel-and-iran?topStoryPosition=undefined&amp;author=Kassy+Akiva&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=3&amp;row=1&amp;rowHeadline=Top+Stories&amp;rowType=Top+Stories&amp;title=BREAKING%3A+Trump+Announces+%E2%80%98Complete+And+Total+Ceasefire%E2%80%99+Between+Israel+and+Iran">ceasefire</a>&#8221; that was agreed to on Monday.
Israel&#8217;s retaliatory strike on the Iranian radar installation appeared to be a major step back from what it was planning. Katz said that he, along with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, initially instructed the Israel Defense Forces to &#8220;forcefully&#8221; strike back at Iran.
&#8220;I have instructed the IDF, in coordination with the Prime Minister, to respond forcefully to the violation of the ceasefire by Iran through intense strikes against regime targets in the heart of Tehran,&#8221; Katz said.
Israeli Chief of General Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir echoed, “In light of the serious ceasefire violation committed by the Iranian regime &#8211; we will attack with force.”

Trump Holds Ceasefire After Israel Refrains From Major Retaliation For Iran’s Strike On Civilians

Israel now has complete air superiority over the entire country of Iran. According to <a href="https://www.israelhayom.com/2025/06/17/idf-eliminates-iranian-chief-of-staff-who-took-office-over-weekend/">Israel Hayom</a>:
<blockquote>Israeli Air Force jets struck a manned command center in the heart of Tehran, killing Ali Shadmani, Iran&#8217;s &#8220;chief of war staff,&#8221; who was the most senior operational military commander in the country and the closest adviser to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Shadmani had served as the chief of war staff and commander of the emergency command center of Iran&#8217;s armed forces, overseeing both the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and the regular Iranian army.</blockquote>
Shadmani was appointed to command Iran&#8217;s armed forces about five days ago because his predecessor, Gholam Ali Rashid, was eliminated on day one. These are all people working for one of the most evil regimes on the planet, a regime that not only spreads terror throughout the region, but is responsible for the murder of hundreds, if not thousands, of American troops across the region, and also happens to oppress its own people to an extraordinary degree.
Iran keeps trying to fire missiles. The problem for them is that if they fire hundreds of missiles at one time, Israel can spot which ballistic missile launchers are lighting up and then can destroy the ballistic missile launchers. So instead, what they&#8217;ve been relegated to doing is firing ten at a time, five at a time, one at a time, in the hope that maybe somehow it will hold off a revolution from within. This is a radical decrease from the beginning of the war, when Iran was shooting off 100 or 200 missiles at a time. 
At the same time, <a href="https://www.iranintl.com/en/202506176243">Iran International</a> reported, “The hacker group Predatory Sparrow claimed responsibility on Tuesday for a cyberattack targeting Bank Sepah, one of Iran’s oldest financial institutions with ties to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and the Army. The group alleged it had “destroyed all data” at the bank. The claim comes amid reports of widespread banking disruptions in Iran.”
On Monday, Israel attacked Iranian state media headquarters.
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So the banking system is collapsing in Iran, the propaganda system is collapsing in Iran, and the military system is collapsing in Iran as well.
Qatar, a front for the Iranian regime, is trying to talk its way out of this, saying that the Israeli strikes are ill-considered and will have repercussions on oil prices, adding that they had discussed with the IAEA ways to improve the security of the nuclear facilities.
Too little, too late, guys. Sorry, but that&#8217;s going to be a big no on that one. By the way, the idea that there is a giant oil spike is also not true. Qatar is lying about this. According to <a href="https://www.wsj.com/opinion/iran-israel-oil-prices-sanctions-trump-white-house-congress-lindsey-graham-c2c4d6b8">The Wall Street Journal</a>:
<blockquote>The big news in oil markets since Israel’s attack on Iran’s nuclear program is the price spike that wasn’t. Brent crude popped from $66 a barrel or so to a high of $78 last week, but by Monday it was back below $73. The non-panic owes to ample global supply, and it’s a lesson for Congress and the Trump Administration as they contemplate putting new sanctions on Russian oil exports.</blockquote>
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated, “We&#8217;ve had half a century of conflict spread by this regime that terrorizes everyone in the Middle East, has bombed the Aramco oil fields in Saudi Arabia, is spreading terrorism and subversion and sabotage everywhere. The forever war is what Iran wants. And they’re bringing us to the brink of nuclear war. In fact, what Israel is doing is preventing this, bringing an end to this, this aggression.”
Because the Iranian media were taken completely offline yesterday, Netanyahu actually gave a message to the Iranian people via an alternative network that was broadcasting into Iran. He stated: 
<blockquote>I think you should understand, these dictators in Iran, sure, they fear us, but they fear you, the people of Iran, even more. And your hour of freedom is near. It&#8217;s happening now. They understand that 80% of the people of Iran despise them. I hear a lot of them.
You know, I do these videos that I broadcast to the Iranian people. I tell them how we could offer them help in the water shortage that you have. The regime refuses, of course. We tell them how we could cooperate, these two glorious, ancient people that have cooperated from the times of Cyrus the Great, who freed the Jews. Now it&#8217;s time for you to be free. And you have that opportunity. The people of Iran, I think, have a brilliant future, and our friendship can be restored to what it was and what it should be. This is the time.</blockquote>
Thus far, the Israelis have basically done the world&#8217;s dirty work. The Israelis have taken out the vast majority of Iran&#8217;s ballistic missile launchers. They&#8217;ve now taken out Iran&#8217;s top military layer and many of the members of that secondary military layer. They&#8217;ve taken out a vast bevy of maybe up to 90% of its nuclear facilities. The only things really left on the table for the Iranians right now are the Ayatollah himself, the nuclear facility at Fordo, and the oilfields.
Israel has refrained from hitting the oil fields specifically because it does not wish to create any sort of serious oil spike, it has refrained from hitting Khamenei because it would like to see Khamenei surrender or flee, presumably because if Israel were to kill Khamenei, then there&#8217;s always the possibility that there&#8217;s some sort of red button somewhere that does let off the rest of the missiles all at once.
Then there&#8217;s the Fordow nuclear facility. If Fordow goes down, that ends all nuclear future for the ayatollahs. And at that point, the regime is extraordinarily vulnerable.
This is why the Ayatollah has built Fordow below a mountain, roughly 90 meters deep, encased in cement, in order to prevent exactly the kind of Israeli airstrikes that have been taking offline nuclear facilities at Natanz and Isfahan.
So the only people on planet Earth who have the planes capable of carrying the bunker busters, which would make the process easy, are the Americans. Israel, I&#8217;m sure, has come up with some clever ways to take out Fordow or to wreck the inside of the facility. There&#8217;s no way the Israelis went into this believing that there was no way they could take out Fordow.
The thing that would end this war pretty quickly, and when I say pretty quickly, I mean within 24 hours, is one B-2 sortie from the United States carrying a couple of bunker busters that drill Fordow. That&#8217;s the end of the story, because at that point, the Iranians have nothing to negotiate with.
At that point, Khamenei would have nothing to hold out for. He would likely say, “Listen, you guys got what you wanted. Please leave. Please, please, please.”
And then it&#8217;s just a question of whether the people of Iran want to do anything.
Meanwhile, President Trump is playing this absolutely brilliantly.
Trump was asked about negotiating, as there are some who&#8217;ve been leaking to the press that President Trump is trying to negotiate with Iran. Trump responded, “I told them to do the deal. They should have done the deal. The cities have been blown to pieces, lost a lot of people. They should have done the deal. I told them, do the deal. &#8230; I&#8217;m not too much in a mood to negotiate.”
“I&#8217;m not too much in the mood to negotiate” is just spectacular. This is great stuff. This is, among many other things, what I voted for. I voted for Trump 1.0 foreign policy. This is Trump 1.0 on steroids. And it is great.
This is what peace through strength looks like. Because guess what? Iran&#8217;s a hell of a lot less of a threat to the region now than they were even a week ago. And they will be a hell of a lot less of a threat a week from now than they are even now.
Trump was asked about a ceasefire, or just what specifically he was looking for. He answered, “A real end, not a ceasefire. Giving up entirely. That would be okay, too. &#8230; Give up. That’s possible.”
Trump has played this all the way to the mat. He&#8217;s got all the cards. As President Trump likes to say, he is the one with all of the cards.
That’s real.
And he&#8217;s playing all of those cards.

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Ayatollah Ali Khamenei

President Trump

Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) declared today that Israel should have &#8220;absolutely&#8221; targeted and &#8220;taken out&#8221; Iran&#8217;s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, as the conflict between the two nations goes into its 5th day.
&#8220;Yeah, 100 percent,&#8221; Fetterman replied when asked in a Fox News interview if Israel should have targeted Iran&#8217;s Supreme Leader. &#8220;Yeah, I think they should have targeted him. Absolutely gone and taken him out,&#8221; the Pennsylvania Democrat told &#8220;America&#8217;s Newsroom.&#8221;
The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/live-updates-israel-strikes-iran?topStoryPosition=undefined&amp;author=Daily+Wire&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=1&amp;rowHeadline=Top+Stories&amp;rowType=Top+Stories&amp;title=LIVE+UPDATES%3A+Trump+Calls+For+Iran+To+Surrender%2C+Says+The+Ayatollah+Is+An+%E2%80%98Easy+Target%E2%80%99">conflict</a> erupted last week after Israel launched a flurry of strikes on Tehran, targeting Iran&#8217;s nuclear facilities and missile sites and <a href="https://x.com/KassyAkiva/status/1934999205518422511">killing</a> several top officials and scientists. Iran has <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5355319-john-fetterman-israel-iran-supreme-leader/">responded</a> with airstrikes of its own as tensions in the region continue to escalate, per The Hill.
&#8220;The way Israel operates, they just take out the leadership, just like they did with Hezbollah. And they&#8217;ve already done that with the Iranian leadership,&#8221; Fetterman continued. “That&#8217;s magnificent &#8230; I don&#8217;t know why they would have left the leader out.&#8221;
Fetterman has consistently backed Israel throughout its war with Hamas in Gaza and its conflict with Iran, posting Thursday on X: “Our commitment to Israel must be absolute and I fully support this attack.”
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Our commitment to Israel must be absolute and I fully support this attack. 
Keep wiping out Iranian leadership and the nuclear personnel.
We must provide whatever is necessary—military, intelligence, weaponry—to fully back Israel in striking Iran. <a href="https://t.co/3lm1YD6dVr">https://t.co/3lm1YD6dVr</a>
&mdash; U.S. Senator John Fetterman (@SenFettermanPA) <a href="https://twitter.com/SenFettermanPA/status/1933337901963903335?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 13, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hasn&#8217;t <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/world/iran/israel-iran-netanyahu-khamenei-trump-regime-change-rcna213425">ruled out</a> targeting Khamenei, saying in a Tuesday interview, “We are doing what we need to do,” and Israel’s operation “could certainly” lead to regime change.
President Trump echoed similar sentiments on Truth Social, <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114699610769479275">stating</a>: &#8220;We know exactly where the so-called &#8216;Supreme Leader&#8217; is hiding. He is an easy target, but is safe there — We are not going to take him out (kill!), at least not for now.&#8221;
While President Trump indicated that Khamenei was not an immediate target, he has signaled that the administration is pursuing a more comprehensive solution to the conflict rather than a temporary halt in hostilities. However, Trump also declined to rule out potential U.S. military involvement.
“We’re not involved in it. It’s possible we could get involved. But we are not at this moment involved,” Trump told ABC News.
On Tuesday, Trump noted the administration was looking for something &#8220;better than a ceasefire.&#8221;
The conflict between Israel and Iran represents the most direct confrontation between the two longtime adversaries in decades, occurring as Iran continues advancing its nuclear program through uranium enrichment at levels violating their non-proliferation obligations by the International Atomic Energy Agency.
The Islamic Republic has long called for Israel&#8217;s destruction and has funded proxy groups across the Middle East that have attacked Israel and U.S. interests in the region.
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FOX: &quot;You say show no mercy, and if you have to take the Supreme Leader out, do it. Explain your position.&quot;
FETTERMAN: &quot;100%. Yeah. I think they should have targeted him. Absolutely. Gone and taken him out!&quot;
&quot;The way Israel operates, they just take out the leadership, just like… <a href="https://t.co/Ehq4dwSC41">pic.twitter.com/Ehq4dwSC41</a>
&mdash; Townhall.com (@townhallcom) <a href="https://twitter.com/townhallcom/status/1934980536067371157?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 17, 2025</a></blockquote>
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