Hamas Releases Video of Hostage Liri Albag, 19. Parents: ‘This Is Not the Liri We Know’: Emanuel Fabian and TOI staff, Times of Israel, Jan. 4, 2025 — The Hamas terror group released a propaganda video on Saturday showing signs of life from 19-year-old hostage Liri Albag, the latest in a series of clips it has released of Israeli captives taken in the October 7, 2023, attack.
WATCH: EXCLUSIVE: Biden’s January Surprise for Israel: Gadi Taub and Mike Doran, Israel Update, Tablet, Jan. 1, 2025 — A network of anti-Israel officials inside the Biden administration is encouraging President Biden and Secretary of State Blinken to spring on Israel a nasty January surprise. They are modeling their scheme on the ambush at the United Nations that the outgoing Obama administration sprung on Prime Minister Netanyahu’s government in December 2016.
The Interview: Antony Blinken Insists He and Biden Made the Right Calls: Lulu Garcia-Navarro, NY Times, Jan. 4, 2024
Blinken Fesses Up on Biden and Hamas: Editorial Board, WSJ, Jan. 5, 2025
Blinken’s Stunning Confession: Caroline B. Glick, JNS, Jan. 5, 2025
Blinken’s Parting Words: No Hostage Deal? Blame Hamas, Not Netanyahu – Analysis: Herb Keinon, Jerusalem Post, Jan. 5, 2025
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‘Well-developed’ Biden Admin Anti-Israel ‘January Surprise’ Planned At UN, Former US Official Says: JNS, Jan. 4, 2025 — The Biden administration is planning a “January surprise” that is “modeled directly on the January surprise of the Obama administration in 2016—that is U.N. Resolution 2334, which basically, to put it a little bit crudely, recognized the Green Line that is the June 5, 1967, ceasefire lines that separated Israel from Jordan as an international boundary,” Michael Doran, senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and director of its center for peace and security in the Middle East, said on his podcast on Dec. 31.
Blinken Says He Had to Threaten That Biden Would Not Come to Israel After Oct. 7 in Order to Persuade Netanyahu Gov’t to Let Aid into Gaza: Times of Israel, Jan. 4, 2025 — US Secretary of State Antony Blinken reveals that in the first days after Hamas’s October 7, 2023, assault on Israel, he had to threaten that President Joe Biden would not visit Israel as planned unless the Netanyahu government allowed aid into Gaza.
Congress Is Notified by the Biden Administration of a Planned $8 Billion Weapons Sale to Israel: Matthew Lee, AP, Your Basin, Jan. 4, 2025 – The State Department has informed Congress of a planned $8 billion weapons sale to Israel, U.S. officials say, as the American ally presses forward with its war against Hamas in Gaza.
Trump Administration Plans Crippling Sanctions On ICC: Ariel Kahana, Israel Hayom, Jan. 2, 2025 — President-elect Donald Trump plans to implement devastating sanctions against the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague immediately after taking office, sources close to the matter disclosed to Israel Hayom. These executive orders could be unveiled as soon as January 21, just one day after his inauguration.
Get a Hostage Deal Done – Despite the Flaws: Amnon Lord, Israel Hayom, Jan. 5, 2025 — Now, as the hostage release deal nears completion, the cat is out of the bag. In an interview with The New York Times, Secretary of State Antony Blinken acknowledged the damage that American pressure on Israel caused to the hostage release efforts.