Early today news was of significant ‘progress’ in Hamas/Israeli talks prove to be wishful thinking….
The talks continue , both sides intransigent….
Israel pledges it will allow more aid into Gaza….
With withdrawals from Gaza?
Some wonder will Israel launch combat attacks in the North against Hezbollah close to Lebanon…
The Intel was that Iran would respond to a Israeli air strike on it’s consulate in Syria….
No such action has occurred….
Could it be that Iran does NOT want a counter attack from Israel ?
Here’s what we know:
Israel and the United States proposed a new framework to Hamas, but the sides were still deadlocked on Monday, as they have been since the end of a weeklong cease-fire in November.
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Palestinians return to an ‘unrecognizable’ city after an Israeli withdrawal.
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Under U.S. pressure, Israel said more aid would go to Gaza. Is that happening?
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The U.N. Security Council agrees to take up a Palestinian bid for full membership.
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Nicaragua is taking Germany to court over supplying arms to Israel.
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For Nicaragua, international case against Germany is déjà vu.
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Israeli opposition leader calls for close ties with U.S. in visit to Washington.
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Senior Iranian military officials have continued to suggest that they will carefully calibrate Iran’s response to Israel’s killing of senior IRGC commanders in Syria. This careful approach aims to avoid a direct war with Israel. Iranian Armed Forces Chief of the General Staff Major General Mohammad Bagheri said on April 6 that Iran will strike Israel “at the right time” during a commemoration ceremony for the IRGC officers killed in the likely Israeli airstrike on April 1…. Several senior Iranian clerics close to the Office of the Supreme Leader endorsed “strategic patience”—a long-standing regime policy that involves not immediately conducting a major response to Israeli attacks—in their weekly sermons on April 5. Such comments support CTP-ISW’s assessment that Iran seeks to avoid a direct military confrontation against the United States and Israel. Strategic patience does not exclude an eventual Iranian retaliation, however.
image…Palestinian families return to their houses left amid rubble and devastating destruction after Israeli forces’ withdrawal from Khan Younis, Gaza, on Monday… Yasser Qudaih/Anadolu/Getty