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Netanyahu Bloc Challenges Vote as Israel Certifies Results

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Israel’s Central Elections Committee certified the country’s election results Wednesday over objections from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s bloc, as his opponents prepared to try to form a governing coalition.

Netanyahu and his allies have cited two investigations into suspected election interference to challenge the results, with some calling for another vote, The New York Times reported Thursday.

Election officials said neither investigation produced evidence affecting the outcome.

The dispute comes as Netanyahu’s opponents prepare to take a parliamentary majority. His bloc could seek to delay the seating of the Knesset or impede the election of a new speaker, potentially complicating Gadi Eisenkot’s efforts to advance legislation and establish a government.

The parties opposed to Netanyahu won 67 seats in the 120-seat Parliament in the Oct. 27 election, including 19 seats secured by two Arab parties. Former military chief Eisenkot is seeking to assemble a coalition, though the Arab parties’ role remains unresolved. (Read more from “Netanyahu Bloc Challenges Vote as Israel Certifies Results” HERE)

Netanyahu Loses Seats, Trails Challenger Gadi Eisenkot in Israel Election, Exit Polls Show — Here’s what Happens Next

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By New York Post. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appeared to lose significant support to opposition leader Gadi Eisenkot in the Israeli election Tuesday, according to exit polls — but neither bloc was set to win enough seats to secure a clear majority.

The big story, however, was the huge gain for Israeli Arabs, who make up about 25% of the population.

They were on pace to score 17 seats, a huge increase.

Netanyahu’s Likud party had 25 seats, and his right-wing alliance had 50, according to the Kan 11 exit poll published after voting ended. That would be a massive drop from the 32 they currently hold.

Despite the drop, the party is still projected to get the most votes out of any other single party in the election, according to all major exit polls.

Meanwhile, the “Change” opposition is slated to win 52 to 53 seats. (Read more from “Netanyahu Loses Seats, Trails Challenger Gadi Eisenkot in Israel Election, Exit Polls Show — Here’s what Happens Next” HERE)

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Netanyahu posted election misinformation on X account, expert says

By NBC News. Netanyahu posted a series of messages on X Tuesday that social media users and disinformation experts have called anti-Arab and misinformation.

One post from Netanyahu’s X account depicts a line of people wearing hijabs outside what appears to be a community center in Sakhin, Israel being used as a polling station. A photo under it shows people donned in black niqabs claiming to be in Rahat, Israel.

The caption reads, “This is an emergency call! The future of our Jewish state hangs in the balance. Go out and vote right now! Higher-than-usual voter turnout in the Arab sector compared to the low turnout of right-wing voters.”

According to Achiya Schatz, an online misinformation expert and founder of Fake Reporter, an Israeli organization fighting misinformation, the photo depicting a long line of what appears to be Muslim voters outside the polling station in Sakhin, may be AI-generated. (Read more from “Netanyahu posted election misinformation on X account, expert says” HERE)

Trump Re-Endorses Netanyahu Ahead of Israeli Election: ‘We Have to Finish the Job’ Against Iran

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President Donald Trump renewed his endorsement of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday evening, urging Israelis to reelect him in Tuesday’s election with a renewed call to “finish the job” against Iran.

“Vote for Bibi Netanyahu for Prime Minister, we have to finish the job that we started!” Trump wrote on Truth Social.

In his renewed endorsement, Trump credited his partnership with Netanyahu for military successes against Iran, citing operations that targeted the regime’s nuclear facilities and devastated its armed forces.

“Bibi and I have had a great relationship in winning together,” Trump wrote, pointing to Operation Midnight Hammer, which targeted Iran’s nuclear facilities, and Operation Epic Fury, the broader U.S. military campaign against the regime.

“Then we did Operation Epic Fury, and Iran now has No Navy, No Air Force, and both their Military and Economy are in shambles,” he declared. (Read more from “Trump Re-Endorses Netanyahu Ahead of Israeli Election: ‘We Have to Finish the Job’ Against Iran” HERE)

Hegseth Quietly Meeting With Netanyahu

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth quietly traveled to Israel on Monday to meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as President Donald Trump weighs another major military offensive against Iran.

The unannounced visit took place just eight days before Israel’s parliamentary elections and roughly two weeks before America’s midterms. The meeting occurred amid discussions between Washington and Jerusalem about potentially resuming large-scale military operations against Iran, Axios reported, citing two sources familiar with the matter.

Hegseth met Netanyahu at Ovda Air Base in southern Israel, where American fighter jets and aerial refueling aircraft are deployed, Axios reported, citing two sources.

The Pentagon referred to a recent X post showing Hegseth visiting American troops at Ovda Air Base in southern Israel, where U.S. fighter jets and refueling aircraft are deployed.

“Things are about to get spicy,” a senior military official familiar with the situation recently told the Daily Caller News Foundation, suggesting American operations against Iran could soon intensify.

The Israeli Embassy in Washington did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

(Read more from “Hegseth Quietly Meeting With Netanyahu” HERE)

Dog-walking Nancy Mace drops F-bomb as she learns of Netanyahu’s brag about Trump

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MAGA Rep. Nancy Mace hurled an expletive Tuesday as she learned that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu bragged on live TV that he manipulated Donald Trump into attacking Iran.

Viewers were left gasping as Netanyahu revealed he ran an “influence” campaign he claimed helped drag America into the widely unpopular war — that has now been going on for six months, has killed an estimated 18 Americans and left Trump’s popularity ratings plummeting.

Mace was told about the claims as she walked what looked like a Havanese she called Millie into the Capitol Friday.

“If it’s true, it’s kind of f—-ed up,” said the South Carolina Republican, who is leaving Congress in January after stepping down to unsuccessfully run for governor. She added that she hadn’t seen the video of the Israeli leader speaking. . .

Facing grim poll numbers ahead of October elections, Netanyahu sat down with Israeli network Channel 14 Sunday to make his case to voters. Speaking in Hebrew, he described decades of opposition to Iran and claimed it eventually paid off.

“I’ve been against Iran for almost 40 years… it took a long time to bring the United States to its senses,” Netanyahu said in Hebrew, according to Zeteo’s Prem Thakker. (Read more from “Dog-walking Nancy Mace drops F-bomb as she learns of Netanyahu’s brag about Trump” HERE)

Israel ‘Rejects’ Trump’s 15-point Peace Plan for Gaza, Netanyahu Says

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has fully rejected the 15-point plan to disarm Hamas after President Trump announced a breakthrough last week, in which his Board of Peace announced a deal with the terror group.

Trump claimed last month that his panel cut a deal with Hamas for the terror group to disarm in exchange for Israel withdrawing from the Gaza Strip, but Netanyahu voiced skepticism about its sincerity.

“I want to be precise here: Israel rejects the 15-point document,” Netanyahu said at a weekend cabinet meeting.

Netanyahu declared that Israel will “not withdraw at all until Hamas is genuinely disarmed and will continue to thwart threats against our forces and citizens.”

“We are now discussing this with the Americans,” the Israeli leader said. “They have ideas, some of which are acceptable to us and some are not, and we know how to stand up to those things.” (Read more from “Israel ‘Rejects’ Trump’s 15-point Peace Plan for Gaza, Netanyahu Says” HERE)

Trump says Netanyahu won’t be Arrested in New York, Pushing Back on Mamdani

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President Donald Trump said Monday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “will not be arrested” when he visits New York in September, pushing back on a suggestion by Mayor Zohran Mamdani that such an arrest could happen.

Mamdani has said New York City’s legal department is discussing the possibility of arresting Netanyahu when the prime minister is in the city to attend the United Nations General Assembly.

“I believe that Prime Minister Netanyahu belongs in The Hague,” Mamdani told The New York Times’ “The Interview” podcast that published Saturday.

“He’s a war criminal who has been charged by the International Criminal Court. And what you will find is that is an opinion that is held by many purely because of what his actions have wrought over these last many years,” the mayor said.

Trump, in a Truth Social post on Monday, said, “Benjamin Netanyahu will not be arrested, in any way, shape, or form, while in the United States of America.”

“He is fighting against the Islamic Republic of Iran, which recently killed 52,000 innocent protestors, and has spent the last 47 years killing American Soldiers, and others,” Trump wrote. “The only ones that should be arrested are the people that led Iran into this unprecedented SPIRAL OF DEATH AND DESTRUCTION, something that should have been dealt with years ago, by previous Presidents!” (Read more from “Trump says Netanyahu won’t be Arrested in New York, Pushing Back on Mamdani” HERE)

Netanyahu Admits He Dragged The US Into 12-Day War

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu admitted that he never asked President Donald Trump for permission before launching the first round of strikes on Iran in 2025, according to The Times of Israel.

Netanyahu said that he never asked Trump or the U.S. government about his planned strikes on Iran during the outbreak of the first round of bombing on Iran known as the 12-Day War, The Times of Israel reported, citing a translation of a speech he gave in Hebrew at the Muni Expo conference in Tel Aviv on Wednesday. The new development emerges as the Iran War stays temporarily paused under a fragile 60-day ceasefire, with no formal peace deal officially signed between the U.S. and Iran.

“I am not going to let that happen. And that is why we are acting. I did not ask for permission. I simply informed him of our plan,” The Times of Israel reported, citing Netanyahu’s speech on Wednesday. “I was pleased that he ultimately joined in toward the end of this very important action.”

Netanyahu’s comments cast fresh light on what Marco Rubio initially suggested to the press in March when this year’s U.S.-Israeli campaign began.

“We knew that there was going to be an Israeli action. We knew that that would precipitate an attack against American forces,” Rubio told reporters on March 2. “If we didn’t preemptively go after them before they launched those attacks, we would suffer higher casualties. This had to happen, no matter what.” (Read more from “Netanyahu Admits He Dragged The US Into 12-Day War” HERE)

Trump Insists Israel’s Netanyahu ‘Won’t have any Choice’ in Accepting Iran Peace Deal after Fresh Strikes: ‘I Call the Shots’

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By New York Post. President Trump said Israel’s prime minister would be forced to play ball with Iran after the Islamic Republic launched a missile attack on the Jewish State Sunday — and insisted that he is still the one who “calls the shots.”

Iran fired at least 10 missiles at Israel on Sunday, hours after the Israeli Defense Forces launched its own attack on a Hezbollah command center in Beirut.

Trump told the Financial Times that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will have to accept any ceasefire deal that the US brokers because he “doesn’t call the shots.”

“[Netanyahu] won’t have any choice. I call the shots. I call all the shots. He doesn’t call the shots,” Trump said.

Trump assured that Sunday’s shake-up, which effectively terminated a delicate ceasefire Israel and Lebanon agreed to just last week, will not have “any impact” on US-Iran negotiations. (Read more from “Trump Insists Israel’s Netanyahu ‘Won’t have any Choice’ in Accepting Iran Peace Deal after Fresh Strikes: ‘I Call the Shots’” HERE)

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Report: Trump Moves to Rein in Benjamin Netanyahu After Israel Strikes Beirut Following Hezbollah Missile Attack

By Breitbart. President Donald Trump is reportedly moving to rein in Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, following Israel launching a strike at Lebanon after Hezbollah struck northern Israel.

In a post on X, Barak Ravid, a global affairs correspondent for Axios, shared that Trump told him he was “going to call Netanyahu” and tell Netanyahu “not to strike back.”

Trump’s comments to Ravid come after Iran retaliated with a missile strike on Israel after Israel struck Beirut in response to an attack from Hezbollah, according to Axios.

Axios reported that Israel Defense Forces (IDF) “said sirens sounded in northern Israel as four missiles were launched from Iran”:

Iranian state media reported a third wave of missiles had been launched, but Israeli officials said all had so far been intercepted.

President Trump told Axios he would call Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and urge him not to retaliate for Iran’s missile attack.

An IDF spokesperson, Brig. Gen. Efi Defrin, stated that the IDF “was working on military plans and will continue striking Hezbollah targets in Beirut.”

(Read more from “Report: Trump Moves to Rein in Benjamin Netanyahu After Israel Strikes Beirut Following Hezbollah Missile Attack” HERE)

Netanyahu Declines to Discuss Infamous Trump Call, Says President the ‘Greatest Friend that Israel Has Ever Had in the White House’

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During an interview with CNBC’s Sara Eisen that aired Wednesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dismissed reports of a tense expletive-laden phone call[.] . .

Partial transcript as follows:

EISEN: So let’s talk about the call that you had with him this week, which is getting a lot of attention. The president confirmed that he said, you’re effing crazy. How did you react to that?

What really happened in that call?

NETANYAHU: Well, I’m not going to get into details of our conversations. We’ve had thousands, well, a lot, a lot of them. And if you think this is a crisis, you should be in some other conversations, but we’ve always found a way.

We have so many agreements. We agree on the main things. We want to get Iran, the nuclear program in Iran, finished.

We want to make sure that Iran doesn’t pose a threat to Israel, to the Middle East, to America, that it doesn’t develop nuclear weapons and the means to deliver them, not only to Israel and to every capital in Europe, but to every city in the United States. That’s our common goal. That’s what we set out to do, and to expand the circle of peace, as the president and I did in the Abraham Accords together.

So we have common goals. Sometimes we have, as in the best of families, you have these tactical disagreements. We always find a way to work them out, and we do so as great friends.

We can disagree in the morning, and by the afternoon, we have common action.

EISEN: So I was going to say, has your relationship at all shifted with him?

NETANYAHU: No, no. This has been a great relationship, because he’s been the greatest friend that Israel has ever had in the White House. And he respects me. I respect him. We always find a way to work out our differences.

EISEN: Did he say that you’d be in jail if not for me?

NETANYAHU: Look, I’m not going to get into the details, but he’s been very vocal about the absurdity of this fake trial that I’m going through. You know, they asked me, I don’t know if this came up with the last time you were here, but since then —

EISEN: Two years ago.

NETANYAHU: Yes, well, since then, they’ve asked me in the court, you know, I’m supposed to be receiving gifts. So one of the first things they said to me is, Prime Minister, 30 years ago, your five-year-old child received a Bugs Bunny gift from a friend. So this trial is ridiculous.

The president understands what a ridiculous trial is, and he’s been very vocal about that. I appreciate it. But it’s unraveling on its own.

It’s just so ridiculous.

(Read more from “Netanyahu Declines to Discuss Infamous Trump Call, Says President the ‘Greatest Friend that Israel Has Ever Had in the White House’” HERE)