Daily Archives: 25. Februar 2025


25.02.2025 - 22:58 [ NewArab.com ]

If Arabs want Trump to ditch his Gaza plan, they must make him an offer he can‘t refuse

The upcoming Arab League summit, scheduled to convene in the Egyptian capital Cairo on March 4, represents a moment of truth for Arab governments, individually and collectively.

For 500 days they have stood by, inert, as Israel conducted a genocidal campaign against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip with the unconditional support of Israel’s – and their – patron the United States.

The not entirely unpredictable culmination of this slaughter, and of the comatose Arab response, is that Washington now wants to seal the Palestinians’ fate not in Palestine, but in the Arab world and at Arab expense. It wants to literally export the Palestine question to the Arab world and thereby make it an Arab problem.

25.02.2025 - 22:25 [ Times of Israel ]

Leaked IDF probe: Only one soldier was guarding Nahal Oz outpost on Oct. 7, Hamas had studied base layout for years

Hamas had studied Nahal Oz from afar for years prior to launching the deadly assault and was intimately familiar with the layout of the base, including “where every room was,” the report says. It adds that the terror group knew that the base would be operating at a reduced capacity due to the Jewish holiday of Simhat Torah, which fell on a Saturday that year.
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The probe also reportedly addresses the impact that the incessant rocket fire had on the devastation inside the military outpost, as terrorists were able to easily kill large groups of soldiers who had gathered in bomb shelters.

25.02.2025 - 21:31 [ New York Times ]

Hamas Official Expresses Reservations About Oct. 7 Attack on Israel

(February 24, 2025)

Mousa Abu Marzouk, the head of Hamas’s foreign relations office, said he would not have supported such an attack on Israel had he known of the devastation it would wreak on Gaza.

25.02.2025 - 21:23 [ New York Times ]

Israel Knew Hamas’s Attack Plan More Than a Year Ago

(November 30, 2023)

The document circulated widely among Israeli military and intelligence leaders, but experts determined that an attack of that scale and ambition was beyond Hamas’s capabilities, according to documents and officials. It is unclear whether Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu or other top political leaders saw the document, as well.

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Last year, shortly after the document was obtained, officials in the Israeli military’s Gaza division, which is responsible for defending the border with Gaza, said that Hamas’s intentions were unclear.

“It is not yet possible to determine whether the plan has been fully accepted and how it will be manifested,” read a military assessment reviewed by The Times.

25.02.2025 - 21:20 [ Jerusalem Post ]

NYT coverage of war creates ‚imbalanced‘ sympathy for Palestinian side, study finds

(February 19, 2025)

The study, published by Yale professor, Edieal Pinker, revealed that „Little mention is made of Israeli casualties post-October 7 or of Palestinian acts of violence post-October 7.“

25.02.2025 - 21:11 [ Interfax.com.ua ]

Ukraine‘s Parliament should pass resolution on elections 6 months after peace deal – Yatsenyuk

Former Ukrainian Prime Minister (2014–2016), ex-Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada (2007-2008), and Chairman of the Kyiv Security Forum (KSF) Arseniy Yatsenyuk has called for a parliamentary resolution to be adopted, stipulating that presidential elections take place six months after the signing of a comprehensive peace agreement.

25.02.2025 - 21:08 [ New York Times ]

Ukraine Nears a Deal to Give U.S. a Share of Its Mineral Wealth

Mr. Trump said that President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine may come to the White House this week or next week to sign the agreement. “The agreement’s being worked on now. They’re very close to a final deal,” Mr. Trump said on Monday at the White House.

25.02.2025 - 08:10 [ theCradle.co ]

Future German chancellor vows to shield Netanyahu from ICC arrest warrant

Under the statute, countries that are part of the ICC are legally bound to enforce its arrest warrants, but several European allies of Israel and the US are now refusing to do so, including formerly strong backers of the ICC, such as Germany.

Israel‘s war on Gaza has killed at least 48,000 Palestinians, the majority women and children, primarily through the mass bombings of civilian areas.