Secretary of State Marco Rubio And Senior Advisor Adam Boehler With Chris Cuomo of NewsNation February 11, 2025 Via Telephone: US Department of State, Feb. 12, 2025 — … you can’t believe anything Hamas says. Obviously, the bigger point here is, yeah, I mean, you’re going to – part of the challenge here is that Hamas, we know, continues to use networks to smuggle in weaponry and aid for themselves to reconstitute themselves. Israel can’t allow that to happen. You can’t allow them, Hamas, to use the ceasefire to sort of rebuild itself and recover strength. So it’s a ceasefire but it’s not a stupid ceasefire. You can’t have it as an opportunity for them to rebuild themselves and come back and do the same thing all over again. Hamas exists with a very clear purpose. That is the destruction of the Jewish state.
So let’s hope that we can overcome this hurdle over the next 72 hours. I know that a lot of countries in the region are weighing in, and hopefully we’re going to have a good outcome on Saturday; and if not, then I think Hamas will be to blame. …
Jews and Israel Supporters Have a Natural Home in the GOP and True Friend in Trump: Jeremy Frankel, American Greatness, Feb. 13, 2025 — The first few weeks of the Trump administration demonstrated that the Jewish people have a true friend in the White House. However, if that theme hadn’t been obvious beforehand, even the first hours of the administration made it profoundly clear.
WATCH: Author: Hostage Deal Continues Mistakes of October 7th | Think Twice: JNS TV, YouTube, Jan. 30, 2025 — After nearly 16 months of war, a critical and comprehensive look at what went wrong on October 7th is yet to be done. What really were the crucial mistakes made on October 7th? Is Israel poised to repeat the same mistakes in the future? Is the hostage deal pushing Israel in the wrong direction strategically and morally?
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Trump’s Plan is Already Getting Egypt, Jordan to Make Moves – Analysis: Seth J. Frantzman, Jerusalem Post, Feb. 12, 2025
President Trump’s Gaza Proposal Shifts the Diplomatic Landscape – Opinion:Efraim Inbar and Yossi Kuperwasser, Jerusalem Post, Feb. 12, 2025
Arab States Wake Up to Fact That Trump Means What He Says on Gaza: Summer Said and Michael R. Gordon, WSJ, Feb. 12, 2025
Why Yitzhak Rabin Urged Moving Gaza’s Arabs to Jordan: Moshe Phillips, JNS, Feb. 11, 2025
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FOR FURTHER REFERENCE
Signs of Life Received In Recent Days for at Least 10 Hostages Held in Gaza: TOI staff, Times of Israel, Feb. 12, 2025 — The families of three more hostages announced on Wednesday that they had received signs of life from their captive loved ones, bringing to 10 the total number of abductees for whom signs of life have been announced in recent days.
Abdullah Says Jordan Will Take in 2,000 Sick Gazan Kids as Trump Pushes Relocation Plan: Jacob Magid, Times of Israel, Feb. 12, 2025 — Sitting alongside Donald Trump in the Oval Office on Tuesday, Jordan’s King Abdullah announced that Amman would take in 2,000 sick children from Gaza, seeking to curry favor with a US president who had threatened to withhold aid if Jordan did not agree to take in Palestinians as part of his plan for Washington to take over the enclave and relocate its population.
Witkoff Scrambles to Save Hostage Deal Before Deadline: Ariel Kahana, Israel Hayom, Feb. 12, 2025 — A senior diplomatic source revealed to Israel Hayom on Wednesday that Special Presidential Envoy Steve Witkoff has recommitted himself to negotiations aimed at preserving the hostage deal, following his recent successful mediation of an American citizen’s release from Russian custody.
Egypt Says Al-Sisi Will Not Come to White House if Trump’s Gaza plan In Place, Report: Einav Halabi and Reuters, Ynet News, Feb. 12, 2025 — Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi will not attend his planned visit to the White House if the talks to be herld there with U.S. President Donald Trump include his plant to displace residents of the Gaza Strip, two Egyptian security sources told Reuters on Wednesday.Al-Sisi was invited to the White House when the two leaders spoke earlier this month but no date for the visit, was set.
Sa’ar: Israel Ready to Resume Fighting If Hamas Doesn’t Free Captives: JNS, Feb. 12, 2025 — During a meeting with European Union ambassadors in Israel on Tuesday, Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar warned that Jerusalem would resume military actions in Gaza if Hamas does not release the hostages.