TRUMP PLAN.

 USELESS U.N ACCEPTS TRUMP GAZA PLAN.

WORLD TERRORISM

GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)(HAMAS IN HEBREW IS VIOLENCE)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence (TERRORISM)(HAMAS) through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.

LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places,(DIFFERNT PLACES AT THE SAME TIME) and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.

2 Peter 3:6-7 Amplified Bible (AMP) (HOT SUN, NUKES ETC)
6 By these waters also the world of that time was deluged and destroyed. 
7 By the same word the present heavens and earth are reserved for fire, being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly.

LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun,(HEATING UP-SOLAR ECLIPSES) and in the moon,(MAN ON THE MOON-LUNAR ECLIPSES) and in the stars;(ASTEROIDS-PROPHECY SIGNS) and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear,(TORNADOES,HURRICANES,STORMS) and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth:(DESTRUCTION) for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.(FROM QUAKES,NUKES ETC)

GENESIS 16:11-12
11 And the angel of the LORD said unto her,(HAGAR) Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael;(FATHER OF THE ARAB/MUSLIMS) because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.
12 And he (ISHMAEL-FATHER OF THE ARAB-MUSLIMS) will be a wild (DONKEY-JACKASS) man;(ISLAM IS A FAKE AND DANGEROUS SEX FOR MURDER CULT) his hand will be against every man,(ISLAM HATES EVERYONE) and every man's hand against him;(PROTECTING THEMSELVES FROM BEING BEHEADED) and he (ISHMAEL ARAB/MUSLIM) shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.(LITERAL-THE ARABS LIVE WITH THEIR BRETHERN JEWS)

ISAIAH 14:12-14
12  How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer,(SATAN) son of the morning!(HEBREW-CRECENT MOON-ISLAM) how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
13  For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
14  I (SATAN HAS EYE TROUBLES) will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.(AND 1/3RD OF THE ANGELS OF HEAVEN FELL WITH SATAN AND BECAME DEMONS)

JOHN 16:2
2 They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.(ISLAM MURDERS IN THE NAME OF MOON GOD ALLAH OF ISLAM)

And here are the bounderies of the land that Israel will inherit either through war or peace or God in the future. God says its Israels land and only Israels land. They will have every inch God promised them of this land in the future.
Egypt east of the Nile River, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, The southern part of Turkey and the Western Half of Iraq west of the Euphrates. Gen 13:14-15, Psm 105:9,11, Gen 15:18, Exe 23:31, Num 34:1-12, Josh 1:4.ALL THIS LAND ISRAEL WILL DEFINATELY OWN IN THE FUTURE, ITS ISRAELS NOT ISHMAELS LAND.12 TRIBES INHERIT LAND IN THE FUTURE.

Joel 3:2-King James Version (YOU DIVIDE JERUSALEM IN HALF - YOUR POKING GOD IN THE EYE - GOD SAYS AN EYE FOR AN EYE AND A TOOTH FOR A TOOTH- YOU WANNA DIVIDE JERUSALEM IN HALF -  HALF OF EARTHS POPULATION 4 BILLION DIE ON EARTH.
2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.

Imam at NYC college interfaith event blames Jewish speaker for Gaza, leads walkout-Muslim leader extols harsh punishments in by Sharia law to students, denounces Hillel representative as a ‘Zionist’ and tells followers to leave ‘out of strength and dignity’By Luke Tress-Today, 3:38 am-NOV 18,25

NEW YORK — A Muslim leader at a New York City college interfaith event last week accosted the Jewish representative as a “Zionist” responsible for deaths in Gaza and led Muslim students out of the room.The college said it was aware of the incident and investigating.The event on Thursday brought together students from different faiths, including Muslims, Jews and Christian, at Manhattan’s City College of New York, part of the City University of New York (CUNY) public system.The imam delivered a 15-minute speech extolling Islam, saying that Allah was responsible for students’ grades and paychecks.“He is the ultimate decision-maker, and so Muslims, we are encouraged not to humiliate ourselves to anybody,” the imam said, according to an audio recording of the meeting shared with The Times of Israel. “We sent you a prophet to all of mankind.”The Jewish representative at the event, Ilya Bratman, said the imam had identified himself as Abdullah, but his full name and affiliation with the university were not clear. The college did not answer questions about the imam and his connection to the university.The imam interspersed his speech with chanted prayers in Arabic, and promoted Sharia law, saying its harsh punishments, such as executions for serious offenses and amputating the “tips of the hands of a thief,” were an effective deterrent against crime.“I’m talking about the elite, the filthy rich, the ones that continue to steal from people as we speak today. Those are the ones that deserve their tips to be cut off,” he said.“Sharia, it stands against the oppressor. When Shariah is implemented, pornography — gone. Alcohol industry — gone. Gambling system — gone. Interest is gone, which is what they use to enslave you,” he said.He finished by attacking Bratman, who leads the campus chapter of the Hillel student group and was on the panel.“I came here to this event not knowing that I would be sitting next to a Zionist and this is something I’m not going to accept. My people are being killed right now in Gaza,” the imam said, to cheers and applause from the students.“If you’re a Muslim, out of strength and dignity, I ask you to exit this room immediately,” he shouted. Bratman said that all of the roughly 100 Muslim students at the meeting walked out, leaving behind mostly Christians and a handful of Jews.The moderator of the event, a campus chaplain, is heard on the recording telling the remaining audience, “I’m so surprised. I want to apologize for that. This group was supposed to be, to remain respectful, and unfortunately, that didn’t happen.”“So sorry, I’m in shock right now,” he says.“You’re in shock? We’re not, we’re used to it,” a Jewish student says in the recording. “That’s how interfaith goes at CCNY.”Most of the Hillel chapter’s Jewish students were in a different room in the building at an event with a Holocaust survivor who survived Kristallnacht at a gathering marking the anniversary of Kristallnacht.Hillel had not been able to reschedule the event with the Holocaust survivor, so Bratman and a few students attended the interfaith event to represent the Jewish community and as a show of respect. The walkout did not interfere with the Holocaust survivor event.The interfaith event was organized by the college, held on campus and billed as an “interfaith workshop” aimed at discussing, “How are we different and what are our commonalities?”The meeting continued after the Muslim students left and when it finished, campus safety officers escorted the participants out of the building.Bratman said that, given the heated atmosphere, he feared that if the imam had told students to “attack this Zionist,” some would have likely done so.He added that he was concerned about indoctrination and that Muslim students were compelled to either walk out of the event, aligning with the hardline rhetoric, or risk ostracization by their peers.“You can have your views of your religion, but this was an interfaith event,” he said. “It should be light and fun and love. This was about bridges, not about isolationism and superiority.”A spokesperson for the college said, “We were made aware of this incident and are working with our teams to investigate claims of possible discrimination.”“The City College of New York has zero tolerance for acts of hate or bigotry of any kind and will promptly take all necessary and appropriate actions to address any such discrimination and remedy its effects,” the spokesperson said.After the event, City College’s Hillel sent out an email to members, calling the event “deeply troubling,” and saying, “Our concern is with one individual’s extremist rhetoric—not with Islam, not with Muslim students, and not with interfaith engagement itself.”“We remain committed to building bridges across communities and to creating spaces where all students feel respected and safe,” the email said.CUNY is the largest urban college network in the US, with more than 240,000 students at 26 colleges spread around the city. The experience of Jewish students varies widely between the different campuses, and each college has significant autonomy from the central CUNY administration.Some campuses have seen vitriolic protests against Israel since the October 2023 Hamas attack, including students targeting Hillel chapters with terrorist symbols and a disruptive protest encampment at City College. Other campuses have been relatively quiet.The CUNY system has contended with instances of antisemitism on its campuses for years, and taken steps to counter anti-Jewish discrimination. A third-party review of antisemitism and discrimination at CUNY last year called for an overhaul of the system’s policies related to antisemitism. The report noted that tensions were highest at schools with large populations of both Jewish and Muslim students.An attempted interfaith event between Muslim and Jewish students weeks after the October 2023 Hamas attack, at CUNY’s Queens College, also broke down amid protests by Muslim students, who denounced the imam for hosting the event with the rabbi and stormed out of the meeting.

IDF strikes Hamas facility near Lebanon’s Sidon; local officials say 13 killed-Army says ‘military compound’ belonging to Palestinian terror group was used for training to attack Israel; no IDF comment on strikes earlier Tuesday in which two reported killed By Emanuel Fabian-Today, 12:45 am-NOV 18,25

The Israel Defense Forces carried out an airstrike Tuesday in the Ain al-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp near the Lebanese coastal city of Sidon. The strike killed 13 people, according to Lebanese authorities.The IDF confirmed the strike, saying it targeted terror operatives at a Hamas training facility.Contrary to some preliminary Lebanese reports, the Israeli strike targeted a building some 60 meters from the Khalid bin al-Walid mosque, and not the mosque itself.According to the IDF, the “military compound” was used by Hamas operatives for training “in order to plan and carry out terrorist attacks against IDF troops and the State of Israel.”The military said it took steps to mitigate harm to civilians in the strike, including by using “a precision munition, aerial surveillance and additional intelligence.”“The IDF is operating against Hamas’s entrenchment in Lebanon, and will continue to operate against Hamas terrorists wherever they operate,” the military added.Hamas operatives in the area prevented journalists from reaching the scene, as ambulances rushed to evacuate the wounded and the dead.The strike marked a relatively rare case of an Israeli attack on the Palestinian terror group in Lebanon, in contrast to near-daily strikes against Hezbollah operatives there.In July, a prominent Hamas commander was killed in a strike in Tripoli, and before that, in May, another commander in the group was killed in Sidon.In a statement on the strike in Ain al-Hilweh, Hamas claimed it has no military installations in the Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon.Blaming Israel for the “brutal assault,” Hamas said that “claims that the targeted location was a ‘training compound affiliated with the movement’ are pure fabrications and lies,” as it insisted: “There are no military installations in the Palestinian camps in Lebanon.”Commenting on the IDF video showing the strike hitting a building, Hamas claimed that “the targeted site was an open sports field frequented by the youth of the camp,” and that “those targeted were a group of young boys” on the field at the time.Earlier on Tuesday, two strikes were reported in southern Lebanon — one in Blida, the other in Bint Jbeil.Each of the two strikes killed one person, according to Lebanese media.The IDF did not immediately comment on the earlier strikes.Nurit Yohanan and agencies contributed to this report.

THE DEATH PENALTY FOR ARABS IS A NUKE ON ALL ISLAMIC COUNTRIES.

Knesset panel working on death penalty bill mulls series of draconian amendments — report-Otzma Yehudit lawmaker said to suggest death by lethal injection within 90 days for all those guilty of killing Jews, or planning to kill Jews, without any room for appeal By ToI Staff 18 November 2025, 11:40 pm

The Knesset committee tasked with preparing a bill imposing the death penalty on terrorists for further readings in parliament is mulling a series of amendments to the already controversial bill, including stipulating that after a death sentence is handed down, it must be enacted within 90 days, Hebrew media reported Tuesday.The report, first published by Channel 12, cited a message allegedly sent to a WhatsApp group comprising members of the Knesset National Security Committee, which has been working to prepare the bill for its second and third readings after it was approved at a first reading last week.The message, which suggested a series of draconian changes to the bill, was said to have baffled members of the opposition who sit on the committee, with one suggesting that it was perhaps sent to the wrong group.The bill is being sponsored by MK Limor Son Har-Melech of the far-right Otzma Yehudit party.The message, reportedly sent out by fellow Otzma Yehudit member Zvika Fogel, who chairs the committee, listed various aspects of the proposed capital punishment that had not been included in the earlier version.The message stipulated that the death sentence would be mandatory for anyone who kills a Jewish person, as well as for those who send others to commit deadly attacks and those who are found to be planning attacks, Channel 12 reported.Once handed down, there will be no possibility of appealing against the death sentence, and there will be no option of averting it through a plea bargain or a pardon, the message reportedly stated.Prison authorities would carry out the sentence via lethal injection, and within 90 days of sentencing to prevent “any possibility of avoiding carrying out the sentence.”Channel 12 assessed that the distribution of the bill text via WhatsApp was intended as a publicity stunt by far-right members of the committee and that the chances of the High Court of Justice allowing such a law to come into effect were low.Opposition Yesh Atid party lawmaker Naor Shiri, who is on the committee, reportedly responded in the group: “I don’t understand the document.”MK Gilad Kariv, of The Democrats, also an opposition lawmaker, similarly wrote he did not understand “the point of the document.”“It seems to me you have mixed up the Otzma Yehudit group and the committee group,” Kariv reportedly responded.Opponents of the bill have previously criticized that it would apply only to Arabs who kill Jews and not to Jewish terrorists.Although the death penalty formally exists in Israeli law, it has only ever been used once, in 1962 — in the case of Nazi officer Adolf Eichmann, one of the architects of the Holocaust.It is technically allowed in cases of high treason, as well as in certain circumstances under martial law that applies within the army and in the West Bank, but currently requires a unanimous decision from a panel of three judges, and has never been implemented.In March 2023, lawmakers voted 55-9 in support of the bill in an initial reading, but it ultimately did not advance further despite having been part of the ruling Likud party’s coalition agreement with Otzma Yehudit, due to high-level opposition within the government and security services.Then, after hundreds of hostages were abducted during the Hamas-led invasion of southern Israel on October 7, 2023, which triggered the Gaza war, officials feared that the passage of such a law would set back talks for the release of hostages in exchange for Palestinian terror convicts.Flouting legal advice and a warning from the premier’s point man on the hostages, lawmakers in the Knesset National Security Committee voted in September to advance the bill. Late last month, following the release of the last remaining living hostages as part of a ceasefire deal that halted the war, Otzma Yehudit leader Itamar Ben Gvir gave Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu an ultimatum: advance the law to its first reading in three weeks or Otzma Yehudit will stop voting with the coalition.Netanyahu subsequently gave his backing to the bill, paving the way for a first reading last week, where it passed 39-16 in favor.

US said to cancel meetings with Lebanese army chief for remarks criticizing Israel-Beirut official says cancellation ‘sudden and shocking,’ came after Lebanon’s military condemned Israel for ‘violating Lebanese sovereignty’ with strikes on Hezbollah By Reuters and ToI Staff 18 November 2025, 8:36 pm

BEIRUT — The US has cancelled meetings in Washington with Lebanese armed forces commander General Rudolf Haykal after objecting to a statement the army issued on Sunday about border tensions with Israel, Lebanese officials familiar with the matter said Monday.A Lebanese security official told Reuters the cancellations were “sudden and shocking” and prompted Haykal to call off the trip. Haykal had been due to arrive in Washington on Tuesday for meetings on military assistance and border-security cooperation.The US Embassy in Beirut did not immediately respond to a request for comment.Washington is a key backer of Lebanon’s army, providing support of more than $3 billion over the last two decades in a policy aimed at supporting state institutions in a country where the Iran-backed terror group Hezbollah has long held sway.In Sunday’s statement, the army accused Israel of “insisting on violating Lebanese sovereignty, causing instability and obstructing the army’s deployment in the south.”It condemned the “latest attack” on a UNIFIL peacekeeping patrol, which the IDF said was accidental, and said Israeli actions required “immediate action” from friendly states as they amounted to “a dangerous escalation.”The Israeli military remains deployed to five posts within Lebanon and frequently carries out airstrikes in the country’s south that it says are targeting Hezbollah operatives.Hezbollah was greatly weakened in its most recent war with Israel, which started when the terror group began firing missiles at the Jewish state on October 8, 2023, a day after the Hamas terror group launched its own attack on Israel from Gaza, triggering the war in the Strip.After nearly a year of daily skirmishes, Israel launched massive airstrikes and a limited ground incursion into southern Lebanon in September 2024. A ceasefire was declared two months later, with Hezbollah left severely weakened. The agreement allows Israel to strike imminent threats.Under the terms of the truce brokered by the US and France, Lebanon’s armed forces were to confiscate “all unauthorized arms,” beginning in the area south of the Litani River — the zone closest to Israel.Hezbollah Secretary General Naim Qassem has said the agreement only applies to the area south of the Litani.Israel accuses Hezbollah of trying to rearm, while Lebanon’s government accuses Israel of violating the agreement by not withdrawing and continuing to carry out airstrikes.US Republican Senator Joni Ernst said she was “disappointed” in the Lebanese army’s position. “(They are) a strategic partner, and, as I discussed with the CHOD (army chief) in August, Israel has given Lebanon a real opportunity to free itself from Iran-backed Hezbollah terrorists.“Instead of seizing that opportunity and working together to disarm Hezbollah,” Ernst added, “the CHOD is shamefully directing blame at Israel.”

Israeli killed in terror attack at Gush Etzion Junction in the West Bank; 3 others wounded-Victim named as Aharon Cohen, 71; two attackers arrive in car, attempt ramming before exiting to stab people; troops open fire, killing them; woman hit by IDF fire, seriously hurt By Emanuel Fabian-18 November 2025, 5:45 pm

A man was stabbed to death and three other people were wounded in a terror attack on Tuesday at the Gush Etzion Junction in the West Bank.The victim was later identified as Aharon Cohen, 71, a resident of the West Bank settlement of Kiryat Arba near Hebron. A spokesperson for the settlement said he was set to be buried later on Tuesday evening.The attack was carried out by two Palestinian assailants who accelerated their vehicle into people at the junction, before one got out and stabbed several victims, according to preliminary findings by the Israel Defense Forces.Both terrorists were shot dead by security forces at the scene, the IDF and first responders said. They were later identified by Palestinian officials as Imran al-Atrash and Walid Sabarneh, both 18.In the aftermath of the attack, several explosive devices were discovered in the vehicle and disarmed.Medics who arrived at the scene after the attack were forced to pronounce the fatally wounded victim dead at the scene.Three other victims were transported from the scene to hospitals in Jerusalem, the Magen David Adom ambulance service said, including a woman in her fifties in serious condition, along with a 30-year-old man and a 15-year-old boy in moderate condition.The woman was apparently mistakenly hit by the Israeli troops’ gunfire.Hadassah Hospital Ein Kerem said that the woman, 55, was listed in serious condition after sustaining gunshot wounds to her lower body.Shaare Zedek Medical Center, which received the other two injured people, said both were conscious. The 30-year-old man was lightly injured, it said, and the teenager was in moderate condition.Following the attack, the IDF said several explosives were located inside the car belonging to the terrorists and had been disarmed by Border Police sappers.According to Israeli defense officials, the two terrorists had set out from the West Bank city of Hebron.Announcing the identity of the attackers, the Palestinian Authority health ministry said that Imran al-Atrash hailed from Hebron and Walid Sabarneh from the nearby town of Beit Ummar.The ministry said it was informed of their deaths, meaning that their bodies are being held by Israeli authorities.Numerous troops were deployed to block roads around the scene of the attack, encircling nearby Palestinian villages and carrying out scans in the area, the IDF said.Commenting on the attack, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel is “determined to complete the war on all fronts.”Completing the war includes “disarming Hamas and demilitarizing the Gaza Strip to ensure that Gaza will not pose an even greater danger,” he said, adding that Israel has struck the Iranian axis from every side, and is capable of doing so again.Speaking at the scene of the attack later on Tuesday evening, IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir lauded the reservist troops who “demonstrated their willingness to stand on the front line,” after they shot dead both Palestinian assailants.“Today we experienced a difficult incident in which an Israeli civilian was murdered and three others were wounded. The reserve soldiers once again demonstrated their fighting spirit and their willingness to stand on the front line. Alongside the difficult incident, I want to express great appreciation and commendation,” he said.“In today’s event, we saw [troops] engaging, determination, and professional conduct, just as we expect,” Zamir said, adding that the troops “acted with vigilance and composure and thwarted a threat to Israeli civilians.”“We will be required to continue to remain alert alongside intensified and offensive activity; this is our mission in protecting the communities and residents,” the IDF chief added.In response to the deadly attack, Yisrael Beytenu chair Avigdor Liberman blamed the terrorism on the government’s “feebleness and submissiveness.”“When terrorism smells weakness, it raises its head and goes out to kill,” he said in a statement. “Terror attacks are not a decree of fate, but a struggle that requires determination, strength and independence, everything that this government of negligence does not have.”The Yesha umbrella council for West Bank settlements appeared to draw a line between the attack and the US-sponsored resolution passed by the UN Security Council last night, which authorized the establishment of an international force to secure the Gaza Strip and indicated a path to Palestinian statehood.“When Israel quietly enables a path to a Palestinian state, terrorism again raises its head,” the Yesha Council said. “We said all along, it is either [Israeli] sovereignty [via annexation] or a Palestinian state [in the West Bank]. The Israeli government is refraining from sovereignty and we are getting a tailwind in the sails of a terrorist state in the heart of the country.”Yesha demanded that Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee chairman Boaz Bismuth push forward a bill that would apply sovereignty to the West Bank.In October, the Knesset passed two annexation bills in preliminary readings, despite opposition from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. US President Donald Trump has vowed that he will not allow Israel to annex the West Bank.Former prime minister Naftali Bennett, who is mounting a bid for the premiership in the next elections, also blamed the government for the terror attack.“Oslo on steroids,” he declared in a statement that appeared to refer to Netanyahu’s support of Monday’s UN Security Council vote to adopt the US-sponsored resolution on Gaza.“A government that, after the most horrific massacre in the country’s history, awards the enemy the prize of a Palestinian state, bears responsibility for reigniting terrorism against Jews. We will fix it soon,” Bennett said, referring to the Hamas-led October 7, 2023, invasion of Israel that triggered the war in the Gaza Strip.The Oslo peace accords in the 1990s created the Palestinian Authority to administer parts of the West Bank and Gaza, although the PA was later ousted from Gaza by Hamas in 2007.While Netanyahu and his government have rejected the establishment of a Palestinian state, the US last week organized a joint statement declaring that Trump’s plan offers a pathway to one in the future.The Gush Etzion attack was the latest violent incident in the West Bank, which has recently seen a spate of attacks by Jewish extremists on Palestinians and their property, including an assault Monday in the village of Jaba.Sam Sokol, Lazar Berman and Times of Israel staff contributed to this report.

Large swaths of internet disrupted due to Cloudflare outage-Service restored after several hours; X, ChatGPT, PayPal, dozens of other sites downed; outage intermittently affected The Times of Israel, impeding upload and display of photos By Reuters and ToI Staff 18 November 2025, 4:46 pm

Major internet platforms, including X and ChatGPT, were inaccessible for thousands of users globally for several hours on Tuesday as web-infrastructure firm Cloudflare was hit by an outage, disrupting internet services.The outage also intermittently affected The Times of Israel, impeding ToI’s ability to upload and display photos.The company said the outage that began around 6.30 a.m. ET was caused by an automatically generated configuration file, designed to manage potential security threats.The file grew too large and crashed the software system handling traffic for several Cloudflare services, the company, whose network handles around a fifth of web traffic, said.It initially said it deployed a fix but some customers might still be impacted as it recovered service. Cloudflare shares were down 2.3 percent in morning trading.The incident prevented thousands of users from accessing platforms such as X (formerly Twitter), PayPal, and ChatGPT as users logged reports with Downdetector.Reports about issues with Cloudflare dropped to about 2,800 by 10:20 a.m. ET from a peak of over 11,000, the outage-tracking tool showed.Downdetector tracks outages by collating status reports from a number of sources. Since the numbers are based on user-submitted reports, the actual number of affected users may vary.“We saw a spike in unusual traffic to one of Cloudflare’s services beginning at 11:20 UTC. That caused some traffic passing through Cloudflare’s network to experience errors,” the company said in an emailed statement. “We are all hands on deck to make sure all traffic is served without errors.”X and ChatGPT-creator OpenAI did not immediately respond to requests for comment.The outage is the latest to hit internet services. Microsoft’s Azure had also faced an issue last month, while disruption at Amazon Web Services caused global turmoil among thousands of websites and some of the most popular apps, such as Snapchat and Reddit, earlier in October.

US Congress approves bill calling for release of Epstein files after Trump U-turn-American lawmakers vote almost unanimously for release of files on the convicted sex offender, who the US president says he kicked out of his club for being ‘a sick pervert’By Frankie TAGGART 18 November 2025, 11:52 pmUpdated: Today, 3:47 am

WASHINGTON (AFP) — US lawmakers voted overwhelmingly Tuesday for releasing government files on sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, after US President Donald Trump dropped his opposition to opening the books on a scandal that has roiled politics, law enforcement and the country’s elite.The president had put allies in Congress under intense pressure not to make the material public, but the Republican leader threw in the towel over the weekend as it became clear that much of his party was poised to defy him.Congress approved the Epstein Files Transparency Act almost unanimously — compelling publication of unclassified documents detailing the investigation into the disgraced financier’s operations and jailhouse death, which was ruled a suicide.Lawmakers say the public deserves answers in a case with over 1,000 alleged victims.Trump says the files will expose powerful Democrats’ connections to Epstein, but the president himself faces uncomfortable scrutiny over his years-long friendship with the man alleged to have supplied underage girls to rich and influential men.The bill passed the House earlier Tuesday with just one dissenter out of 428 members voting, and the Senate agreed to rubber-stamp and bounce the text straight to the White House, without a hand-count vote, as soon as it arrives from the lower chamber.Trump has pledged not to veto the legislation, but Washington-watchers are not expecting imminent damning new revelations.The Justice Department has wide latitude to hold back information if its release “would jeopardize an active federal investigation.”Meanwhile Trump, in a widely criticized intervention last week, ordered officials to probe Epstein’s ties with high-profile Democrats.The saga has exposed rare fissures in support for the Republican leader, who previously campaigned on releasing the files but changed course after taking office, accusing Democrats of pushing a “hoax.”After multiple attempts by Republican leaders to block the vote, all Democrats and four Republicans signed a “discharge petition” — an extraordinary procedure forcing the bill to the House floor against the wishes of leadership.Relenting on his longstanding resistance, Trump said on social media late Sunday that Republicans should vote to release the files “because we have nothing to hide.”“I have nothing to do with Jeffrey Epstein,” Trump told reporters Tuesday at an Oval Office event with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. “I threw him out of my club many years ago because I thought he was a sick pervert.”Long association-However, Trump had a well documented relationship with Epstein, who was famous for throwing parties and other networking opportunities for the rich and powerful.The U-turn marks a rare occasion when a revolt from Trump’s allies has forced his hand, and Epstein survivors at a news conference ahead of the vote questioned the president’s motives.“I can’t help to be skeptical of what the agenda is,” said Haley Robson, who was recruited to massage Epstein when she was 16. “I am traumatized — I am not stupid.”At the time of his death, Epstein was facing federal trial over an alleged sex trafficking operation said to have exploited underage girls and young women, following a 2008 conviction for procuring a minor for prostitution.For years, Trump’s right-wing movement encouraged followers to believe that the government was covering up a major conspiracy.But Trump’s Justice Department said in July officials had completed an “exhaustive review” of the case and had “no basis to revisit the disclosure” of any Epstein materials.The White House escalated efforts last week to mothball the vote, with Trump and his allies making last-minute appeals to two of Republican signers of the discharge petition.This caused an uproar in Trump’s base.The rupture widened when Trump pulled his endorsement of top loyalist Marjorie Taylor Greene in a stunning break that she said “has all come down to the Epstein files.”“The real test will be, will the Department of Justice release the files? Or will it all remain tied up in investigations?” she said at the news conference.

FINALLY THE EUROPEAN UNION IS TALKING ABOUT HAVING THEIR OWN ARMY.AND IT MUST HAPPEN.
REVELATION 19:16-21
16 And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, King Of Kings, And Lord Of Lords.(JESUS RETURNG TO EARTH LITERALLY ON A WHITE HORSE WITH THE RAPTURED CHRISTIANS 7 YEARS EARLIER)
17 And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God;
18 That ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and great.(2ND TIME GOD-JESUS TELLS THE 500 MILLION MIGRATING BIRDS TO GET READY TO EAT HUMAN FLESH.THE FIRST TIME WAS WHEN GOD TOLD THE 500 MILLION MIGRATING BIRDS-TO EAT RUSSIA,GERMAN,ARAB, MUSLIM BODIES FOR 7 MONTHS IN EZEK 38 @ 39.
19 And I saw the beast,(E.U WORLD LEADER) and the kings of the earth, and their armies,(HERE IT SAYS THE E.U WILL HAVE ITS OWN ARMY) gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, (JESUS) and against his army.(RAPTURED CHRISTIANS)
20 And the beast (E.U WORLD LEADER) was taken, and with him the false prophet (POPE FRANCIS) that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.
21 And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse, which sword proceeded out of his mouth: and all the fowls were filled with their flesh.

Zephaniah 2:1-15
1 Gather together, yes, gather,O shameless nation,
2 before the decree takes effect[a] -before the day passes away like chaff—before there comes upon you the burning anger of the Lord, before there comes upon you the day of the anger of the Lord.
3 Seek the Lord, all you humble of the land, who do his just commands;[b] seek righteousness; seek humility; perhaps you may be hidden on the day of the anger of the Lord.
4 For Gaza shall be deserted, and Ashkelon shall become a desolation; Ashdod's people shall be driven out at noon, and Ekron shall be uprooted.
5 Woe to you inhabitants of the seacoast, you nation of the Cherethites! The word of the Lord is against you, O Canaan, land of the Philistines; and I will destroy you until no inhabitant is left.
6 And you, O seacoast, shall be pastures, with meadows[c] for shepherds and folds for flocks.
7 The seacoast shall become the possession of the remnant of the house of Judah, on which they shall graze, and in the houses of Ashkelon they shall lie down at evening. For the Lord their God will be mindful of them and restore their fortunes.
8 “I have heard the taunts of Moab (JORDAN) and the revilings of the Ammonites, how they have taunted my people and made boasts against their territory.
9 Therefore, as I live,” declares the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Moab shall become like Sodom, and the Ammonites like Gomorrah, a land possessed by nettles and salt pits, and a waste forever.The remnant of my people shall plunder them, and the survivors of my nation shall possess them.”
10 This shall be their lot in return for their pride, because they taunted and boasted against the people of the Lord of hosts.
11 The Lord will be awesome against them; for he will famish all the gods of the earth, and to him shall bow down, each in its place, all the lands of the nations.
12 You also, O Cushites, shall be slain by my sword.
13 And he will stretch out his hand against the north and destroy Assyria,(SYRIA) and he will make Nineveh a desolation, a dry waste like the desert.
14 Herds shall lie down in her midst, all kinds of beasts;[d] even the owl and the hedgehog[e]  shall lodge in her capitals; a voice shall hoot in the window; devastation will be on the threshold; for her cedar work will be laid bare.
15 This is the exultant city that lived securely, that said in her heart, “I am, and there is no one else.” What a desolation she has become, a lair for wild beasts! Everyone who passes by her hisses and shakes his fist.Sa'ar: No free meals; talks possible if more hostages freed Israel halts aid into Gaza, citing Hamas refusal to extend first phase of truce
Footnotes-a -Zephaniah 2:2 Hebrew gives birth, b-Zephaniah 2:3 Or who carry out his judgment, c-Zephaniah 2:6 Or caves, d-Zephaniah 2:14 Hebrew beasts of every nation, e-Zephaniah 2:14 The identity of the animals rendered owl and hedgehog is uncertain

DANIEL 2:37-45
37 Thou, O king, art a king of kings: for the God of heaven hath given thee a kingdom, power, and strength, and glory.
38 And wheresoever the children of men dwell, the beasts of the field and the fowls of the heaven hath he given into thine hand, and hath made thee ruler over them all. Thou art this head of gold.
39 And after thee shall arise another kingdom inferior to thee, and another third kingdom of brass, which shall bear rule over all the earth.
40 And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron: forasmuch as iron breaketh in pieces and subdueth all things: and as iron that breaketh all these, shall it break in pieces and bruise.
41 And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, part of potters' clay, and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; but there shall be in it of the strength of the iron, forasmuch as thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay.
42 And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken.
43 And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay.
44 And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.
45 Forasmuch as thou sawest that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it brake in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God hath made known to the king what shall come to pass hereafter: and the dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof sure.

DANIEL 7:17-26
17 These great beasts, which are four, are four kings, which shall arise out of the earth.
18 But the saints of the most High shall take the kingdom, and possess the kingdom for ever, even for ever and ever.
19 Then I would know the truth of the fourth beast, which was diverse from all the others, exceeding dreadful, whose teeth were of iron, and his nails of brass; which devoured, brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with his feet;
20 And of the ten horns that were in his head, and of the other which came up, and before whom three fell; even of that horn that had eyes, and a mouth that spake very great things, whose look was more stout than his fellows.
21 I beheld, and the same horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against them;
22 Until the Ancient of days came, and judgment was given to the saints of the most High; and the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom.
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.
25 And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.
26 But the judgment shall sit, and they shall take away his dominion, to consume and to destroy it unto the end.

THE WORLD IN 10 WORLD TRADE BLOCS LEAD BY THE EUROPEAN UNION THE WORLD LEADER, NOT AMERICA.I PREDICT.

THE EUROPEAN UNION AND REVIVED ROMAN WORLD GOVERNMENT
DANIEL 2:31-33,36-43, DAN 7:3-8,17

First From Daniel Chapter 2

1 EGYPT
2 ASSYRIA
3 BABYLON (HEAD OF GOLD) DAN 2:31-32,36-38, DAN 1:1
4 MEDO-PERSIANS (CHEST & ARMS OF SILVER) DAN 2:32,39, DAN 9:1
5 GREECE (WAIST & HIPS OF BRONZE) DAN 2:32,39, DAN 11:2
6 ROME (2 LEGS OF IRON) DAN 2:33,40, ROM 1:6
7 REVIVED ROME (EU) (FEET IRON & CLAY) DAN 2:33,41-43,10 TOES

Now From Daniel Chapter 7

1 EGYPT
2 ASSYRIA
3 BABYLON (LION WITH EAGLES WINGS) DAN 7:4, DAN 1:1
4 MEDO-PERSIANS (BEAR ON HIND LEGS) DAN 7:5, DAN 9:1
5 GREECE (LEOPARD 4 WINGS, 4 HEADS) DAN 7:6, DAN 11:2
6 ROME (HUGE IRON TEETH) DAN 7:7 (10 HORNS), ROM 1:6
7 REVIVED ROME (EU) DAN 7:8,19-20,23-25 10 HORNS, 10 KINGS
REV 17:9,12, 10 HORNS, 10 KINGS, 7 HILLS ROME. REV 13:1 BEAST WITH 7 HEADS. THE E.U LEADER OF WORLD GOVERNMENT DAN 2:40-45, 7:7-8,23-25,27, 8:23, REV 13:3,7,8,12,14,16

REVELATION 17:10-12
10 And there are seven kings (7TH WORLD EMPIRE IN HISTORY) five are fallen, (EGYPT, ASSYRIA, BABYLON,:MEDO-PERSIAN,GREECE and one is,(IN POWER IN JOHNS DAY-ROME) and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh,(FUTURE-REVIVED ROMAN EMPIRE-EUROPEAN UNION TODAY) he must continue a short space.(7 YEARS OF WORLD DOMINATION-BUT 3 1/2 YEARS OF NEW WORLD ORDER OR ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT)
12 And the ten horns (10 WORLD TRADE BLOCS OR REGIONS) which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.

REVELATION 17:12-13
12 And the ten horns (10 WORLD TRADE BLOCS-NATIONS) which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.
13 These have one mind,(WORLD SOCIALISM) and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.

We shall have World Government, whether or not we like it. The only question is whether World Government will be achieved by conquest or consent.James Paul Warburg appearing before the Senate on 7th February 1950

Like a famous WWII Belgian General,Paul Henry Spock said in 1957:We need no commission, we have already too many. What we need is a man who is great enough to be able to keep all the people in subjection to himself and to lift us out of the economic bog into which we threaten to sink. Send us such a man. Be he a god or a devil, we will accept him.And today, sadly, the world is indeed ready for such a man. 

DICK MORRIS-This truly creates a global economic system. From now on, don’t look to Washington for the rule making, look to Brussels.

THE CLUB OF ROME FOUNDER AURELIO PECCEI WANTS THE WORLD IN 10 REGIONAL TRADING BLOCKS.

REVELATION 16:1-2
1 And I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels, Go your ways, and pour out the vials of the wrath of God upon the earth.
2 And the first went, and poured out his vial upon the earth; and there fell a noisome and grievous sore upon the men which had the mark of the beast, and upon them which worshipped his image.

REVELATION 13:16-18
16 And he(FALSE POPE) causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, (SLAVE) to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(CHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM

I KNOW THIS MARK WILL BE A MICROCHIP IMPLANT UNDER THE SKIN. LETS LOOK UP WHAT THE WORD MARK SAYS IN REVELATION 13:16-18, 14:9,11, 15:2, 16:2, 19:20, 20:4-ALL THESE VERSES FROM THE BOOK OF REVELATION SPEAK OF THIS DICTATORS MARK. NOW LETS SEE WHAT IT MEANS FROM STRONGS EXAUSTIVE CONCORDANCE OF THE BIBLE. UNDER MARK PAGE 684.MARK UNDER MARK. THE OLD TESTAMENT IS UNDER HEBREW AND THE NEW TESTAMENT IS UNDER GREEK. SO WHEN WE LOOK UNDER REVELATION 13:16-17 WE SEE IT IS UNDER GREEK, SO WE GO TO GREEK IN THE BACK SECTION AND GO TO 5480 TO SEE WHAT IT SAYS THIS MARK WOULD BE. SO LETS GET TO IT.MARK IN STRONGS GREEK 5480 XAPAYUA CHARAGMA, KHAR-AG-MAH: FROM THE SAME AS 5482: A SCRATCH OR ETCHING, I.E STAMP (AS A BADGE OF SERVITUDE), OR SCULPTURED FIGURE-(STATUE):-GRAVEN, MARK FROM 5482 XAPAE CHARAX, KHAR-AX; FROM XAPAOOW CHARASSO (TO SHARPEN TO A POINT; AKIN TO 1125 THROUGH THE IDEA OF SCRATCHING); A STAKE, I.E (BYIMPL.) A PALISADE OR RAMPART (MILITARY MOUND FOR CIRCUMVALLATION IN A SIEGE): - TRENCH FROM 1125 YPAPOE GRAPHO, GRAF-0; A PRIM. VERB; TO "GRAVE", ESPEC. TO WRITE; FIG. TO DESCRIBE:-DESCRIBE, WRITE (-ING, -TEN).G5516-GO TO G4742-666 - STRONGS NT 4742: στίγμα - στίγμα, στιγματος, τό (from στίζω to prick; (cf. Latinstimulus, etc.; German stechen, English stick, sting, etc.; Curtius, § 226)), a mark pricked in or branded upon the body. According to ancient oriental usage, slaves and soldiers bore the name or stamp of their master or commander branded or pricked (cut) into their bodies to indicate what master or general they belonged to, and there were even some devotees who stamped themselves in this way with the token of their gods (cf. Deyling, Observations, iii., p. 423ff); hence, τά στίγματα τοῦ (κυρίου so Rec.) Ἰησοῦ, the marks of (the Lord) Jesus, which Paul in Galatians 6:17 says he bears branded on his body, are the traces left there by the perils, hardships, imprisonments, scourgings, endured by him for the cause of Christ, and which mark him as Christ's faithful and approved votary, servant, soldier (see Lightfoots Commentary on Galatians, the passage cited). (Herodotus 7, 233; Aristotle, Aelian, Plutarch, Lcian, others.) 

THE INVENTOR OF THE MICROCHIP IMPLANT-CARL SANDERS MICROCHIP ENGINEER LEADER
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgH9D6n4ZWo

THE MICROCHIP IMPLANT IN YOUR RIGHT HAND OR FOREHEAD.

LEVETICUS 19.28
Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD.

HERES WHAT THE WORLD WOULD LOOK LIKE (SINCE THERE WILL BE WORLD GOVERNMENT IN THE FUTURE)-UPDATED VERSION (10 WORLD TRADE BLOCS)

01 CANADA, U.S.A, MEXICO
02 EUROPEAN UNION,WESTERN EUROPE
03 JAPAN
04 AUSTRALIA,NEW ZEALAND, S AFRICA, ISRAEL AND PACIFIC ISLANDS
05 EASTERN EUROPE
06 SOUTHERN, CENTRAL AND LATIN AMERICAS
07 NORTH AFRICA, AND MIDEAST (MOSLEMS)
08 CENTRAL AFRICA
09 SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST ASIA
10 CENTRAL ASIA

THE CLUB OF ROME WANTS A WORLD CHARISMATIC DICTATOR (EITHER RELIGIOUS, POLITICAL OR SCIENTIFICAL) TO HEAD THIS WORLD GOVERNMENT. REV 13:3,7-8, DAN 7:23-24

WORLD POWERS IN THE END TIME

NORTH - RUSSIA EZEK 38:1-2, 39:1-2
SOUTH - EGYPT DAN 11:42
EAST - CHINA DAN 11:44,REV 16:12
WEST - EUROPEAN UNION DAN 7:23-24 (NOT THE U.S.A)
http://israel7777777.blogspot.ca/2012/03/10-world-trade-blocs-one-world.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2006/09/how-eu-takes-world-control.html 
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2012/05/one-world-religion-crislam.html 

FINALLY THE EUROPEAN UNION IS TALKING ABOUT HAVING THEIR OWN ARMY.AND IT MUST HAPPEN.
REVELATION 19:16-21
16 And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, King Of Kings, And Lord Of Lords.(JESUS RETURNG TO EARTH LITERALLY ON A WHITE HORSE WITH THE RAPTURED CHRISTIANS 7 YEARS EARLIER)
17 And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God;
18 That ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and great.(2ND TIME GOD-JESUS TELLS THE 500 MILLION MIGRATING BIRDS TO GET READY TO EAT HUMAN FLESH.THE FIRST TIME WAS WHEN GOD TOLD THE 500 MILLION MIGRATING BIRDS-TO EAT RUSSIA,GERMAN,ARAB, MUSLIM BODIES FOR 7 MONTHS IN EZEK 38 @ 39.
19 And I saw the beast,(E.U WORLD LEADER) and the kings of the earth, and their armies,(HERE IT SAYS THE E.U WILL HAVE ITS OWN ARMY) gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, (JESUS) and against his army.(RAPTURED CHRISTIANS)
20 And the beast (E.U WORLD LEADER) was taken, and with him the false prophet (POPE FRANCIS) that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.
21 And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse, which sword proceeded out of his mouth: and all the fowls were filled with their flesh.

COUNCIL FOR EUROPE ON DEFENCE
https://defence-industry-space.ec.europa.eu/document/download/6d6f889c-e58d-4caa-8f3b-8b93154fe206_en?filename=SAFE%20Regulation.pdf

PA welcomes vote, Hamas condemns it-UN Security Council endorses Trump broad Gaza peace plan, foreign stabilization force-US garners world support for 20-point proposal, which also references path to Palestinian statehood, but faces uphill battle convincing countries to provide troops to ensure Strip is demilitarized By Jacob Magid-18 November 2025, 7:55 am

The UN Security Council voted on Monday to adopt a US-sponsored resolution authorizing the establishment of an International Stabilization Force (ISF) that will help secure the Gaza Strip, in line with US President Donald Trump’s 20-point plan for ending the war in the coastal enclave.The resolution provides a much-needed tailwind for Washington’s effort to maintain the Gaza ceasefire that was inked on October 9.The truce has come under strain, with Israel pledging to resume fighting if steps aren’t taken to disarm Hamas, which remains in de facto control of nearly half of the Strip following a partial Israeli withdrawal when the ceasefire came into place.While the US claims that Hamas leaders pledged to disarm before the deal was signed and has worked in recent weeks to negotiate the decommissioning of its weapons with limited success, Trump’s 20-point plan also indicates that the ISF will take part in the demilitarization of Gaza.However, Washington recognized that countries interested in contributing troops to the foreign force needed an international mandate backed by the UN in order to move forward.Accordingly, it spent the last several weeks crafting a resolution to that effect, and holding talks with Security Council members as well as key Arab and Muslim allies that were also consulted in the formation of the original 20-point plan.While the US faced some pushback last week when Russia tried to advance an alternative resolution, those efforts were quickly quashed and it became clear over the weekend that the Trump administration’s effort would succeed, a Western diplomat at the UN told The Times of Israel.Still, the diplomat credited the US for galvanizing key Arab and Muslim stakeholders behind the resolution, while neutralizing potential spoilers in Russia and China, which both agreed to abstain. All other countries voted in favor.But the Western diplomat argued that the US may well face a steeper uphill battle convincing countries to actually contribute to the temporary ISF, given that much of the Arab world has privately pushed back on the idea of sending troops to a war zone where they’ll be expected to enter combat in order to disarm Hamas. The terror group has repeatedly and publicly insisted that it will not give up its weapons.Notably, US Ambassador to the UN Mike Waltz told the Security Council before Monday’s vote that the resolution authorizes “a strong coalition of peacekeepers — many from Muslim-majority nations like Indonesia, Azerbaijan, and others — to deploy under a unified command.”His decision to publicly name those two countries may have been an indication that they are still on board with contributing troops to the initiative, despite the difficult conditions that their troops will likely encounter in Gaza.The resolution states that the ISF will help secure Gaza’s borders, protect civilians, secure humanitarian aid, train Palestinian police and — most critically to Israel — “ensure the process of demilitarizing” the Strip.The resolution also “welcomes the establishment of the Board of Peace,” which will be chaired by Trump and tasked with overseeing the redevelopment of Gaza and the establishment of a technocratic Palestinian government that will be tasked with administering daily services in the Strip.Neither the Board of Peace nor the Palestinian technocratic government have been staffed yet, but the 20-point plan states that the board will include former UK prime minister Tony Blair, and the US has been considering various names for both panels over the past several months, according to Arab diplomats.The resolution authorizes the Board of Peace and the ISF to operate in Gaza until the end of 2027, and a US official told The Times of Israel that Washington is aiming for the foreign force to deploy at the beginning of 2026.In rallying support for the initiative, the US organized a joint statement on Friday that said Trump’s plan offered a pathway to a future Palestinian state. The language raised some eyebrows, as it goes further than the actual text of the 20-point plan, which only said that it “may” provide for such a result.The tightening of the language, likely needed to get additional countries on board, infuriated Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing coalition partners, who issued a flood of statements pledging not to allow Palestinian statehood, leading the premier to do the same on Sunday, even though the joint statement wasn’t binding.Netanyahu did verbally accept the 20-point plan when it was unveiled by Trump during the premier’s visit to the White House in September. But the actual ceasefire agreement signed by Israel and Hamas was a separate document that only focused on the truce, Israel’s initial withdrawal, the hostage-prisoner swap terms and humanitarian aid provisions.The entire 20-point plan was included as an annex in the Security Council resolution passed Monday.Point 19 states, “While Gaza re-development advances and when the Palestinian Authority reform program is faithfully carried out, the conditions may finally be in place for a credible pathway to Palestinian self-determination and statehood, which we recognize as the aspiration of the Palestinian people.”The final point reads, “The United States will establish a dialogue between Israel and the Palestinians to agree on a political horizon for peaceful and prosperous co-existence.”It was apparently those two points that led Israel to avoid welcoming the resolution pushed tirelessly by its closest ally.“The demilitarization of Hamas is a basic condition of the peace agreement. There will be no future in Gaza as long as Hamas possesses weapons,” Israel’s Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon said in a statement following the vote.The PA welcomed the resolution’s passing, stressing that it’s willing to work with the international community to implement it “in a way that ends the suffering of our Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, and East Jerusalem, and advances the political path leading to peace, security, and stability between Palestinians and Israelis, based on the two-state solution.”Ramallah also thanked those who back “Palestinian efforts toward ending the occupation and achieving freedom and independence, based on their commitment to advancing a just and comprehensive solution to the Palestinian question — one that brings peace, stability, and security to the region and the world at large.”Hamas, however, blasted the resolution, asserting that “it fails to meet Palestinians’ rights and demands and seeks to impose an international trusteeship on the enclave that Palestinians and resistance factions oppose.”“Assigning the international force with tasks and roles inside the Gaza Strip, including disarming the resistance, strips it of its neutrality, and turns it into a party to the conflict in favor of the occupation [Israel],” the terror group added, while claiming that “resisting occupation by all means is a legitimate right.”Shortly after the resolution passed, Trump published a post on Truth Social “congratulating the world,” and saying that the Board of Peace that he will chair will include “the most powerful and respected leaders throughout the world.”He claimed the resolution’s adoption “will lead to further peace all over the world,” in a statement that notably made no mention of Israel, Hamas, the PA or even the Gaza Strip.

Zelensky to visit Turkey to discuss end to war without Russian presence-Ukraine president’s trip to Istanbul will follow visits to Paris, where he signed a weaponry purchase deal, and Spain, where he will speak to Sanchez, King Felipe-By ILLIA NOVIKOV 18 November 2025, 12:59 pm

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Tuesday that he will travel to Turkey this week in an attempt to jump-start negotiations on ending Russia’s invasion, which began nearly four years ago.Turkey provided a setting for low-level talks between Ukraine and Russia earlier this year, though the only significant progress in Istanbul was on exchanging prisoners of war. US-led international peace efforts have brought no breakthrough, either.Zelensky said that he would be in Turkey on Wednesday, a day after visiting Spain, where he hoped for pledges of new support on Tuesday.“We are preparing to reinvigorate negotiations, and we have developed solutions that we will propose to our partners,” Zelensky said on social media, without providing details. “Doing everything possible to bring the end of the war closer is Ukraine’s top priority.”But Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Tuesday that “there will be no Russian representative in Turkey” on Wednesday, although he insisted that Moscow is ready to negotiate.“For now, these contacts are taking place without Russian participation. We will await information on what would actually be discussed in Istanbul,” Peskov said during his daily conference call with reporters.US President Donald Trump has expressed frustration with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s refusal to budge from his demands for putting an end to the invasion.Heavy new American sanctions on Russia’s all-important oil industry, devised to push Putin to the negotiating table, are due to take effect on Friday. The sanctions against oil companies Rosneft and Lukoil seek to starve Putin’s war machine of cash and halt its grinding war of attrition, which has claimed tens of thousands of lives in Ukraine.The measures also carry the threat of secondary penalties against anyone violating them. China and India are major importers of Russian oil.Zelensky said that he would meet with senior officials in his government on Thursday, as well as with the leadership of Ukraine’s Parliament and his political party, called Servant of the People.The Ukrainian leader was meeting later Tuesday in Madrid with Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez and King Felipe VI, with a visit planned as well to Spain’s parliament.Kicking off a busy week, Zelensky was in Paris on Monday, where he signed a letter of intent to buy up to 100 Rafale warplanes from France, along with drones and ground-to-air systems.On the battlefield, Ukraine launched a surprise aerial attack on energy infrastructure in occupied parts of its eastern Donetsk region.The Russian-appointed head of the partially occupied region, Denis Pushilin, on Tuesday morning reported an “unprecedented” Ukrainian attack that damaged two thermal power stations in the region and left many areas without power. A day earlier, Pushilin also reported Ukrainian drones attacking energy infrastructure in the region, denying power to around 500,000 consumers. The occupied part of the region has also endured water shortages.Ukrainian forces, despite being heavily outnumbered, are fighting hard to prevent Russia’s army from capturing any more of Donetsk.In Ukraine’s northeastern Kharkiv region, meanwhile, a 17-year-old girl was killed and 10 other people were wounded in a Russian missile strike on the town of Berestyn, located about 110 kilometers (70 miles) from the Russian border, regional head Oleh Syniehubov said.Russian drones sparked multiple fires in the central Ukrainian city of Dnipro last night, injuring two people, said Vladyslav Haivanenko, the head of the regional military administration. The drones damaged six residential buildings, as well as the local offices of Ukraine’s public broadcaster Suspilne, though the company said the building was empty at the time.Ukraine’s railway operator, Ukrzaliznytsia, said that train cars and other infrastructure were damaged in the Dnipro attack.Ukraine’s air force said that Russia fired four ballistic Iskander-M missiles, along with 114 strike and decoy drones, at the country overnight.The Russian Defense Ministry reported on Tuesday that its air defenses shot down 31 Ukrainian drones over a number of Russian regions.

Witkoff to meet again with senior Hamas leader for talks on Gaza ceasefire — diplomat-While the terror group has shown no interest in disarming, Trump envoy is likely to raise demand during meeting with Khalil al-Hayya, as US works to maintain truce in the Strip-By Jacob Magid-Today, 3:03 am-NOV 18,25

US special envoy Steve Witkoff will meet on Wednesday in Istanbul with a delegation of senior Hamas officials led by Khalil al-Hayya to discuss efforts to maintain the ongoing ceasefire in Gaza, an Arab diplomat told The Times of Israel.It will be Witkoff’s second meeting with Hayya after the special envoy and fellow top adviser to US President Donald Trump, Jared Kushner, met with senior members of Hamas’s ceasefire negotiating team hours before an agreement was inked in Egypt on October 9.That meeting was said to have been critical in bringing the deal across the finish line, with Trump’s advisers assuring the Hamas leaders that the US would hold Israel to the terms of the deal, as long as the terror group kept its side of the bargain.In a joint interview alongside Kushner last month, Witkoff said he managed to connect with Hayya over their shared experience of losing a son.Witkoff’s late son, Andrew, died at the age of 22 of an opioid overdose. Hayya’s son, Himam al-Hayya, was killed in the Israeli airstrike on Hamas headquarters in Doha on September 9, which failed to kill any of the senior Hamas leaders targeted in the strike.“But when Steve and him spoke about their sons, it turned from a negotiation with a terrorist group to seeing two human beings kind of showing a vulnerability with each other,” Kushner told CBS’s 60 Minutes.There were no known meetings between US and Hamas before Trump’s second term, when he dispatched his hostage envoy to secretly meet with Hamas officials earlier this year to help secure the release of American-Israeli hostage soldier Edan Alexander. Sources familiar with the matter told The Times of Israel at the time that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s envoy Ron Dermer fumed upon learning of the secret US-Hamas talks after the fact and leaked them to the press, contributing to their collapse in March.Witkoff and Kushner’s October 9 sit-down with the Hayya-led team was the next in-person meeting between the sides.Witkoff is likely to raise the US desire for Hamas to disarm during the Wednesday scheduled meeting in Turkey.He has claimed that Hamas leaders already committed to do so during their last meeting, but the terror group has publicly insisted that it is not prepared to do so, including as recently as Tuesday, when it issued a statement condemning the UN Security Council resolution establishing an International Stabilization Force to help secure postwar Gaza.Witkoff has been working in recent weeks to negotiate the safe passage of 100 to 200 Hamas fighters who have been holed up in a tunnel network underneath the southern Gaza city of Rafah, on the Israeli side of the Yellow Line to which the IDF withdrew at the start of the ceasefire on October 10.The US has been trying to convince Israel to grant the fighters safe passage either to the other side of the Yellow Line or to a third country if they agree to give up their weapons. Netanyahu has rejected the idea to date, and it’s also unclear whether the Hamas fighters are prepared to hand over their guns.Witkoff has framed the stand-off as a potential model for a larger decommissioning and amnesty program that the US is trying to advance for all of Hamas’s roughly 20,000 fighters, as envisioned by Trump’s 20-point plan for ending the Gaza war.While Netanyahu publicly embraced the plan when it was unveiled in September at the White House, neither Israel nor Hamas has actually signed it. Instead, they agreed on October 9 to a different document that only focused on the ceasefire, Israel’s initial pullback from Gaza, the hostage-prisoner swap and humanitarian aid provisions.

Bin Salman: We'll work to make sure deal happens ASAP-MBS tells Trump he wants to join Abraham Accords, but path to Palestinian state crucial-Trump admits he didn’t get commitment from Saudi crown prince during Oval Office meet, but says they had a good talk about it; pair sign deals on civil nuclear energy, future delivery of F-35s-By Jacob Magid-18 November 2025, 10:14 pmUpdated at 1:39 am

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said Tuesday during his White House meeting with US President Donald Trump that Riyadh wants to join the Abraham Accords, but calls for the need to secure a path towards a two-state solution.“We want to be part of the Abraham Accords, but we want also to be sure that [we] secure a clear path [toward a] two-state solution,” Bin Salman said in response to a question on the matter from reporters in the Oval Office, while sitting alongside Trump.Bin Salman added that he and Trump had a “healthy discussion” on the issue shortly before appearing before reporters.“We’re going to work on that to be sure that we can prepare [for] the right situation as soon as possible,” Bin Salman says, referring to a pathway to a two-state solution.Trump interjected, saying, “I don’t want to use the word commitment, but we’ve had a very good talk on the Abraham Accords. We talked about one state and two-state [solution].” The president adds that the pair will be discussing the matter further as well, insisting that Bin Salman has “a very good feeling toward the Abraham Accords.”“We want peace for the Israelis, we want peace for the Palestinians. We want them to coexist peacefully in the region,” Bin Salman said, avoiding an announcement or commitment on the issue.The remarks were not particularly surprising, given that Saudi Arabia has long told interlocutors that it will not normalize relations with Israel absent a credible, time-bound and irreversible pathway. However, there had been some speculation that progress could be made on the issue, given that another key Saudi condition for a deal appeared to have been met when Trump succeeded in brokering a ceasefire in Gaza last month.Bin Salman is said to have told confidants that the restoration of calm in Gaza would also be needed for him to move forward with Israel, as the war has significantly soured the Saudi population’s view of Israel, leading him to feel a need to raise the significance of the Palestinian-related component of a potential normalization deal.But if the willingness of Netanyahu and his hard-right coalition to offer the Palestinians a political horizon was limited before Hamas’s October 7 attack, that inclination has shrunk even further since.Just in the past week, Netanyahu and other members of his government have reiterated that they will not allow for the establishment of a Palestinian state under any circumstances.Netanyahu’s inner circle — as well as Trump himself — have long downplayed Riyadh’s two-state demand, thinking it can be addressed through more symbolic or rhetorical measures.Bin Salman told reporters in the Oval Office that Riyadh will “definitely help” foot the bill for the reconstruction of Gaza, highlighting his willingness to remain engaged on the Palestinian issue, regardless of whether his country immediately joins the Abraham Accords.The crown prince acknowledged that an exact figure for Saudi aid to Gaza hasn’t been decided yet, leading Trump to chime in and say, “It’ll be a lot.”In a separate remark during the Oval Office question and answer session, Trump says, “The Palestinians are doing very well… We’re working very closely with a lot of people that make everybody happy, including Israel, the Palestinians and everybody.”Israel reportedly sought to urge the US to condition the latter’s sale of F-35 fighter jets to Saudi Arabia on Riyadh agreeing to join the Abraham Accords.But Trump is moving forward with the sale and appeared to dismiss concerns that it could harm Israel’s qualitative military edge in the region, which Congress is legally required to preserve.Asked about the matter in the Oval Office, Trump said the weapons he plans to sell to Saudi Arabia will be “pretty similar” to those Washington provides to Israel.“I know [Israel would] like you to get planes of reduced caliber. I don’t think that makes you too happy,” Trump quipped to Bin Salman.“As far as I’m concerned, I think [Saudi Arabia and Israel] are both at a level where they should get top of the line,” Trump continued. “We’re going to have a del. They’re going to purchase F-35s.”The White House later announced that the US and Saudi Arabia signed agreements on civil nuclear energy and the sale of F-35s during the crown prince’s visit.The two countries ratified a “joint declaration” on civil nuclear energy that “builds the legal foundation for a decades-long, multi-billion-dollar nuclear energy partnership” in line with “strong nonproliferation standards,” the White House said in a statement.In addition, Trump approved a “major defense sale package,” which includes future deliveries of F-35 advanced American fighter jets.Agencies contributed to this report.

Inside story-As winter arrives, Gazans in ruined Strip fear tents no match for cold and rain-Groups say aid is still being held up, even though more is entering, as first taste of winter conditions underlines need for reconstruction and not just flimsy shelters Nurit Yohanan-By Nurit Yohanan-18 November 2025, 6:29 pm

For months Gazans would come to Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis not for medical care but to seek shelter from Israeli missiles and shells falling throughout the Palestinian enclave.Over the weekend, the crowds returned, this time seeking cover from an altogether less sinister, albeit still potentially calamitous, threat from the sky: rain.With postwar reconstruction barely underway, the sheets of cold rain and gusting winds that blew into the region over the weekend proved a ruinous start to winter for many in the Strip, where hundreds of thousands were forced to weather the storms in makeshift tents or exposed spaces, often on swiftly inundated ground.“When the rain is very strong at night, the tents blow away in the wind. People come with their children and wives because they have nowhere else to go,” a doctor at Nasser told The Times of Israel by phone from the southern Gaza City.Trauma cases, which overwhelmed the hospital during the war, have now all but stopped. Instead, the hospital is now dealing with an influx of people coming in for winter-related illnesses.“There’s a big rise in patients with colds and flu. Many people are not living in sheltered places anymore — they’re in tents, exposed to rain and wind,” said the doctor, who requested anonymity for security reasons.The region saw its first big rainstorm from Thursday to Sunday, with weather stations in Israel near the Gaza border measuring between 12 and 23 millimeters of the wet stuff falling, though Ashkelon on the coast, a little to the north, reported 92 millimeters, indicating an even larger deluge. (There are no internationally reporting weather stations working inside Gaza.)-In the camps’ low-lying areas, water pooled and accumulated before it could stream away toward the sea, leaving some children wading ankle-deep in water.Images out of the enclave showed flooded tents and heavy damage to the meager possessions of displaced families living in temporary shelters.Heavy rains are a yearly issue in the enclave, which lacks the infrastructure for proper drainage. At a camp housing the displaced in Gaza City, residents struggled to stay dry.Nura Abu el-Kass, another displaced woman from the camp, said she found her mattress, blankets and clothes all soaked.“My son sent me this tent, but it doesn’t protect us [from rainwater]. What am I supposed to do,” she asked.Some 13,000 households were damaged by the rainfall, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said on November 15.“Hundreds of tents and makeshift shelters across the Strip were reportedly flooded, leaving households exposed to harsh weather, loss of belongings, and heightened protection and health risks, particularly for people with disabilities, older persons, and other vulnerable groups,” read an OCHA statement.The cold is also increasingly becoming an issue, with tents unable to keep out frigid drafts.In the south Gaza city of Khan Younis, Mohammed Shabat and his family were also struggling because of the weather, as cold drafts have been seeping through their tent’s openings.“We live in a cemetery, and I have a baby. This tent does not protect us from the cold or the rain,” said Shabat, who lives with his wife and five children in a tent wedged between graves. “Soon winter will come, and it will be very difficult.”Sitting by a stove built out of stacked concrete blocks, Shabat’s wife Alaa was preoccupied with the coming cold.“A tent is not a safe place to live with young children. The cold wind penetrates the tent in the evening and the temperature is very low,” she said.Tent hunting-Humanitarian groups operating under the UN estimate that roughly 1.5 million of Gaza’s approximately 2 million people are currently living in makeshift structures such as tents, due to widespread destruction caused by Israeli airstrikes and ground fighting during the war.Finding new tents for those who lost theirs to the rain can be difficult. Anas Arafat, a Gaza City resident who lives in an apartment, said he had been searching for something for his brothers, who were flooded out, leaving them on the street.“I’m trying to find new tents for them, but a tent costs $500,” Arafat told The Times of Israel.Humanitarian organizations have been distributing free tents in recent days, while private traders are also importing and selling them. Arafat said he knows of families selling their tents in order to get cash for food and basic necessities.In a November 12 presentation, the Palestine Shelter Cluster, which coordinates the import and distribution of humanitarian goods among UN-affiliated groups, reported that over 50,000 tents had entered Gaza since September, though only around 14,000 had been distributed. Another 7,600 were stolen, it said.Officials say that various factors can prolong the process of distributing goods from warehouses to families, since there is a need to assess and identify those most in need.A humanitarian source who spoke to The Times of Israel on condition of anonymity said humanitarian goods were getting into the Strip, but more were needed.“In recent months, humanitarian groups have distributed 8,000 free tents in Gaza, along with 80,000 tarps and 50,000 blankets — and more are coming in. But we are talking about more than 2 million people, most of whom need shelter support,” they said.Aid organizations are operating on both sides of the so-called Yellow Line separating parts of Gaza under Israel Defense Forces control from areas where the army has pulled out of and where most Palestinians live, the source said. Coordination on the IDF side is more restrictive due to the  army’s presence, they added.“There is need everywhere, because people live on both sides of the line. But there are far more people in the western part of the Strip, which is not under Israeli control, so the need is much greater there,” the source said.While the flow of aid has ramped up since the start of a ceasefire last month, aid officials say Israel is continuing to restrict goods. The humanitarian source said multiple requests to import aid were being rejected daily.“For example, on November 16, organizations tried to bring in biscuits and it was rejected on the grounds that such products ‘are not in policy’ — meaning not on the list of items Israel allows in,” he said. “Mangoes, educational supplies, and toys are also not being allowed in at the moment.”A humanitarian source told AFP that restrictions also remained on many materials required for building shelters, such as certain types of tent poles.COGAT, the Israeli Defense Ministry body that coordinates the entry of goods into the Strip, did not respond to a Times of Israel request for comment on the matter.‘800 trucks daily’The volume of aid entering the Strip has been a point of contention between Israel, Hamas, and the international community since the war began.Under the ceasefire agreement, Israel committed to allowing 600 trucks of goods into Gaza daily, or 4,200 per week. The number is meant to include both humanitarian aid meant for free distribution and goods imported by private traders for sale commercially.COGAT has stopped publishing data on the number of trucks entering the Strip since the ceasefire began, and did not respond to a Times of Israel request for the figures.However, on November 14, the US military’s Central Command, which is monitoring  the implementation of the ceasefire from a command center in Kiryat Gat inside Israel, announced that 800 trucks had entered the Strip daily from November 9 to November 14, up from 600 trucks per day in previous weeks.“More than 40 nations and international organizations at the CMCC are coordinating to deliver and distribute commercial goods and aid to Gazan civilians,” CENTCOM added, using the acronym for the ceasefire monitoring mechanism.Hamas, however, claims the volume is far lower than agreed.On November 12, the Hamas-run Government Media Office in Gaza stated that the number of aid trucks entering the Strip amounted to just 28% of what should have entered since the ceasefire began. On November 10, the same office said that an average of 145 trucks per day had entered Gaza since the truce took effect.According to the UNOPS, the UN agency overseeing logistics, between November 9 and November 15, 754 trucks of aid shipped via UN-affiliated organizations were unloaded at Gaza’s crossings. The figure did not include commercial goods.UNOPS added that 972 trucks reached their destinations inside Gaza during the same period — some of which had likely entered the Strip in the week before.During the war, official reports indicated that much of the aid entering Gaza was diverted — either by armed groups or crowds of hungry looters — before reaching distribution centers where it was meant to be handed out to Gazans for free.It is unclear whether this phenomenon has continued on a large scale during the ceasefire.Beyond tarps-According to the humanitarian source, Israeli officials approving requests to bring goods in often reject shipments from organizations that refused to register with the government, keeping vital assistance from those who need it most.“There have been nine rejections of tent shipments since the ceasefire began, on the grounds that the organizations requesting them are not authorized to bring in aid or operate in Gaza,” the source said.Several groups have come out in opposition to the registration requirement, imposed in March, arguing that the system is “politically motivated, unlawful, and dangerous.”“Under these new rules, registration can be denied based on vague and politicized criteria, such as alleged ‘delegitimization’ of the State of Israel,” a coalition of aid groups wrote in an August statement.COGAT responded at the time that the registration system was designed to “safeguard the integrity of the humanitarian system and prevent the infiltration of terrorist elements,” and said 20 organizations had complied and were delivering aid daily.According to the humanitarian source, though, the aid issues are not the main problem. With about 92 percent of residential buildings damaged or destroyed during the war according to the UN, the coming winter in Gaza requires something entirely more fundamental than tents: reconstruction.“To deal with the root causes of this crisis, we need massive repairs — heavy machinery, spare parts for infrastructure. Shelter alone isn’t enough,” they said. “No matter how many shelter units we bring in — even if a million tents arrived — we don’t have the right equipment and materials to address the underlying impact of these storms. We need heavy equipment and spare parts to drain rainwater. We are very limited in how far we can respond.”

US, European powers submit IAEA motion demanding access to bombed nuclear sites in Iran-Tehran threatens retaliation if resolution calling on Islamic Republic to provide ‘without delay precise information’ on its atomic program is adopted by UN watchdog-By Francois Murphy Today, 5:55 am-NOV 18,25

VIENNA (REUTERS) — Europe’s top three powers and the US have submitted a draft resolution to this week’s meeting of the UN atomic watchdog’s 35-nation Board of Governors demanding answers and access from Iran over its bombed nuclear sites and enriched uranium stock.Diplomats said the draft resolution submitted by France, Britain, Germany and the United States on Tuesday and seen by Reuters is highly likely to be passed as early as Wednesday. It follows a damning International Atomic Energy Agency report on Iran sent to member states last week.That report said Tehran has still not let inspectors into the nuclear sites Israel and the United States bombed in June and that accounting for the uranium stock is “long overdue.”Iran has still not informed the IAEA of the status either of those sites or that stock, which includes material enriched to up to 60% purity, close to the roughly 90% that is weapons-grade.“Iran must … provide the (International Atomic Energy) Agency without delay with precise information on nuclear material accountancy and safeguarded nuclear facilities in Iran, and grant the Agency all access it requires to verify this information,” read the draft text.The draft resolution stops well short of finding Iran in breach of its obligations, as a resolution in June did just before Israel attacked, but Iran has warned that it will retaliate against any resolution targeting it.“Should this draft resolution be adopted, it will unavoidably and adversely affect the positive course of cooperation between Iran and the IAEA,” Iran’s mission to the IAEA said on X on Friday, calling the push for a resolution a “major mistake.”Iran and the IAEA announced an agreement in September that was supposed to pave the way towards a full resumption of inspections and accounting of Iran’s enriched uranium, but Tehran has since said it is void.Western diplomats had billed the draft resolution as mainly technical, giving fresh instructions to the IAEA to report on Iran’s nuclear activities after a 10-year mandate from 2015, the year of a nuclear deal between Iran and major powers, expired.Yet it included not only language admonishing Iran for its poor cooperation and calling for a diplomatic solution — an apparent reference to possible talks with the US — but also a demand that Iran implement the so-called Additional Protocol expanding IAEA powers.Broader, more intrusive oversight-Implementing the Additional Protocol, which Iran signed in 2003 but never ratified, was a cornerstone of the 2015 deal, which lifted sanctions against Iran in exchange for tight restrictions on its nuclear activities.The Additional Protocol grants the IAEA broader and more intrusive oversight of a country’s nuclear activities, such as the power to carry out snap inspections at undeclared locations.The 2015 deal unravelled after President Donald Trump pulled the United States out of it in 2018. Iran retaliated by abandoning the restrictions, including the Additional Protocol.“(The IAEA board) calls upon Iran to act strictly in accordance with the provisions of the Additional Protocol that it signed on 18 December 2003, and to fully implement this measure without delay,” the draft said.It also requested the IAEA to provide additional details in its reports, such as where Iran’s uranium stockpile is stored and its inventory of uranium-enriching centrifuges.The IAEA lost oversight of Iran’s centrifuge stock when Iran stopped implementing the Additional Protocol in 2021. The IAEA currently only has the authority to monitor the centrifuges at Iran’s declared enrichment facilities, which were destroyed or badly damaged in the Israeli and US military attacks.

PM's far-right allies silent on Security Council resolution-In English only, Netanyahu welcomes UN vote backing ‘Trump’s vision’ for Gaza-PM says plan ‘will lead to peace and prosperity’ in the region; Lapid: He buckled ‘under American pressure’; Herzog: Historic move ‘requires responsibility and restraint’By Nava Freiberg and Sam Sokol 18 November 2025, 2:31 pm

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu welcomed on Tuesday the UN Security Council’s vote a day earlier to adopt a US-sponsored resolution authorizing the establishment of an International Stabilization Force in Gaza under US President Donald Trump’s 20-point plan.The prime minister’s opponents, meanwhile, mocked him for issuing his statement only in English, suggesting he was afraid of the critical response from his coalition partners.The UN resolution states that the ISF will help secure Gaza’s borders, protect civilians, secure humanitarian aid, train Palestinian police and — most critically to Israel — “ensure the process of demilitarizing” the Strip. To the right’s chagrin, it also endorses the plan as a “credible pathway to Palestinian self-determination and statehood.”In a post on the official prime ministerial X account, Netanyahu praised Trump’s plan and the UNSC’s endorsement of it, writing in English that the framework “will lead to peace and prosperity because it insists upon full demilitarization, disarmament, and the deradicalization of Gaza.”Netanyahu asserted that, “true to President Trump’s vision,” the plan will “lead to further integration of Israel and its neighbors as well as expansion of Abraham Accords.”The prime minister added that under Trump’s plan, Israel expects to receive the remaining three deceased hostages in Gaza — Dror Or, Ran Gvili and Sudthisak Rinthalak — “with no delay,” and “to begin the process of disarming and demilitarizing the Gaza Strip and ending Hamas’s rule over Gaza.”President Trump’s breakthrough leadership will help lead the region to peace and prosperity and a lasting alliance with the United States,” Netanyahu said. “Israel extends its hand in peace and prosperity to all of our neighbors and calls on them to normalize relations with Israel and join us in expelling Hamas and its supporters from the region.”Notably, Netanyahu did not issue a direct statement welcoming the approved resolution in Hebrew or on his personal accounts, against the backdrop of political tensions within his coalition over the resolution’s implication of future Palestinian statehood.Opposition Leader Yair Lapid asserted in response to the resolution’s passage that Netanyahu only agreed to back the plan “under American pressure.”Lapid added that “for years Netanyahu tried to separate Gaza from the West Bank, and from that grew the destructive policy of strengthening and funding Hamas while turning a blind eye to its armament.”“It was a terrible strategic mistake, and it’s good that the Americans have put an end to it,” the opposition leader added. “The most right-wing government in the country’s history is officially abandoning annexation and setting out principles for cooperation with the Palestinian Authority.”Trump’s 20-point plan, included as an annex to the UN resolution, asserts that “while Gaza re-development advances and when the Palestinian Authority reform program is faithfully carried out, the conditions may finally be in place for a credible pathway to Palestinian self-determination and statehood, which we recognize as the aspiration of the Palestinian people.”The Democrats chairman Yair Golan said that his party welcomed “Trump’s decision to put an end to Netanyahu’s foolish and dangerous conception — the idea of ‘managing the conflict’ and that ‘Hamas is an asset.’”He was referring to the policies of successive Netanyahu governments in the years leading up to the October 7, 2023, attack.Golan posted a statement in Hebrew on X and then added a second one, “now in English, for Netanyahu.” He suggested that the prime minister is being “dragged along in fear, with his tail between his legs,” toward a regional political arrangement.Headlines on the Channel 12, Walla and Ynet news sites on Tuesday also highlighted the prime minister’s decision to only publicly comment on the resolution in English.Netanyahu’s far-right coalition allies — Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir — were silent Tuesday morning on the resolution’s passage.Avigdor Liberman, head of the right-wing opposition party Yisrael Beytenu, criticized the resolution, writing that “what happened tonight at the UN is the result of mismanagement by the Israeli government.”Liberman suggested that the UN resolution will lead to “a Palestinian state, a Saudi nuclear weapon, and F-35 jets to Turkey and Saudi Arabia. This is a sell-out of Israel’s security. The Middle East is changing, and not to our benefit.”President Isaac Herzog hailed the UNSC’s approval of the US-sponsored resolution, calling it a “historic diplomatic achievement” that must advance progress toward “the day after” in Gaza and the wider region.“I welcome last night’s UN Security Council decision, which supports and backs [Trump’s] plan,” Herzog said, speaking at a state memorial ceremony on Tuesday at the Mount Herzl military cemetery for soldiers who were killed in Israel’s 1956 Sinai Campaign.“This is a historic diplomatic achievement by President Trump — an achievement that can and must lead us toward ‘the day after’ — in Gaza and in the entire region,” he continued.“This step — now backed by a Security Council resolution — has already significantly advanced the return of the hostages, and it must continue with the dismantling of Hamas’s weapons and the removal of the organization from any position of governing power,” Herzog said.“A historic and sensitive time such as this requires responsibility and restraint,” the president continued, before condemning a group of Jewish extremists who clashed with police and attacked a West Bank Palestinian village on Monday night.Times of Israel staff contributed to this report.

Trump to welcome Saudi’s MBS with offer of F-35s, while urging Israel normalization-Senior White House official says US president ‘has been hyping up the pressure’ on Riyadh to join Abraham Accords; analysts say lack of progress won’t hinder Saudi business deals By Steve Holland, Matt Spetalnick and Humeyra Pamuk 18 November 2025, 11:28 am

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — US President Donald Trump will roll out the red carpet for Saudi Arabia’s de facto ruler, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, on Tuesday for a visit expected to advance the sale of F-35 fighter jets and a host of business deals with the kingdom.It will be the first trip by bin Salman, widely known as MBS, to the US since the 2018 killing of Saudi critic Jamal Khashoggi by Saudi agents in Istanbul, which triggered global outrage.US intelligence concluded that MBS approved the capture or killing of Khashoggi, a prominent critic. The crown prince denied ordering the operation but acknowledged responsibility as the kingdom’s de facto ruler.The warm welcome he will receive in Washington is the latest sign that relations have recovered from the deep strain caused by Khashoggi’s murder.During a day of White House diplomacy, MBS will hold talks with Trump in the Oval Office, have lunch in the Cabinet Room and attend a formal black-tie dinner in the evening.Trump hopes to cash in on a $600 billion Saudi investment pledge made during his visit to the kingdom in May. A senior White House official told Reuters that US-Saudi deals on technology, manufacturing, defense and more are expected.Trump told reporters on Monday, “We’ll be selling” F-35s to Saudi Arabia, which has requested to buy 48 of the advanced aircraft.This would be the first US sale of the fighter jets to Saudi and mark a significant policy shift. The deal could alter the military balance in the Middle East and test Washington’s definition of maintaining what the US has termed Israel’s “qualitative military edge.” Until now, Israel has been the only country in the Middle East to have the F-35.Beyond military equipment, the Saudi leader is seeking security guarantees, access to artificial intelligence technology and progress on a deal on a civilian nuclear program.“The Saudis will be spending a lot of money tomorrow on the US,” a senior White House official told Reuters on Monday.Former US negotiator in the Middle East Dennis Ross, who is now at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, said Trump wants to develop a multifaceted relationship that keeps Saudi out of China’s sphere.“President Trump believes all these steps bind the Saudis increasingly to us on a range of issues, ranging from security to the finance-AI-energy nexus. He wants them bound to us on these issues and not China,” Ross said.Trump is also expected to pressure MBS for Saudi to join the Abraham Accords and normalize relations with Israel.The Saudis have been reluctant to take such a major step without a clear path to Palestinian statehood, a goal that has been forced to the backburner as the region grapples with the war against Hamas in Gaza.Trump reached Abraham Accords agreements between Israel and Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, Morocco and Sudan during his first term in 2020. In recent weeks, Kazakhstan — which already had diplomatic ties with Israel — agreed to join.But Trump has always seen Saudi Arabia joining the Abraham Accords as the linchpin to achieving a wider Middle East peace.“It’s very important to him that they join the Abraham Accords during his term and so he has been hyping up the pressure on that,” the senior White House official said.Jonathan Panikoff, former deputy national intelligence officer on the Middle East, said that while Trump will urge MBS to move toward normalizing ties with Israel, any lack of progress there is unlikely to hinder reaching a new US-Saudi security pact.“President Trump’s desire for investment into the US, which the crown prince previously promised, could help soften the ground for expanding defense ties even as the president is determined to advance Israeli-Saudi normalization,” said Panikoff, now at the Atlantic Council think tank in Washington.Times of Israel staff contributed to this report.

Genesis 6-King James Version (FALLIN ANGELS HAVE SEX WITH HUMAN WOMEN.PROBABLE ANIMALS ALSO.SINCE GOD HAD TO KILL ALL BUT 8 OFF THE EARTH.INCLUDING ANIMALS.
6 And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,
2 That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
3 And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.
4 There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
5 And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
6 And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
7 And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.

'We understand that this is an imaginary scene'Goose bumps: 12,000-year-old figurine from Israel shows surreal woman-bird mating scene-Tiny clay sculpture unearthed at Nahal Ein Gev in the Galilee is the earliest known figurine depicting human-animal interaction, as documented by study in prestigious PNAS journal By Rossella Tercatin-17 November 2025, 10:50 pm

Some 12,000 years ago, a young hunter-gatherer living on the shores of the Sea of Galilee modeled a small clay figurine portraying a woman and a goose, one of the most common species in the area. The prehistoric artist delicately shaped the beak, the wings, and the female traits of the human figure, leaving the clay to dry before firing and painting it.Fast forward millennia, and the unique artifact has recently been rediscovered by a group of Israeli archaeologists at the Nahal Ein Gev II site, making it the earliest figurine ever recorded to depict an interaction between humans and animals, according to a new study published in the prestigious PNAS journal on Monday.To make the find even more unique, the researchers believe that in light of the pose held by the woman and the goose, the figurine, circa 3.7 centimeters high, does not simply depict a hunting scene or a behavior that the artist could have witnessed in nature. Instead, they say the subjects are mating, an imaginative interpretation consistent with animistic beliefs that have been held among human societies for thousands of years.“A real goose would not adopt this kind of position on a woman, and therefore we understand that this is an imaginary scene, rather than a real one,” said Dr. Laurent Davin from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, one of the study’s authors.In the figurine, the bird is positioned behind the woman, who can be identified by the distinctive shape of her breasts and female pubic area. The head of the goose, with its discernible beak, appears to rest on the woman’s shoulder. The wings envelop her in a form of embrace.“The posture and the neck of the goose are those of a living animal,” Davin told The Times of Israel in a phone interview. “We also know that the hunters would remove the head and the feet of the geese after they hunted them, so a goose carcass transported to the village would not have looked like a complete goose. In addition, the woman is leaning forward, which would not be necessary to transport a bird only weighing two or three kilos [4.5 to 6.5 lbs].”The researchers noted that the idea of animals and humans pairing is very common in societies with animistic beliefs (the belief that animals and objects possess spirits) to this day, as well as in many ancient cultures.“It can happen in erotic dreams, in shamanistic visions, in storytelling, and more,” Davin said.For example, according to a Greek legend, Zeus, the king of the gods, took the form of a swan to seduce Leda, the queen of Sparta, who then gave birth to twins: one fathered by Zeus and the other by her mortal husband, Tyndareus.“In light of how the figures are positioned, we believe this is an image representing a male goose mating with a woman,” Davin stressed.A handful of earlier depictions of interactions between humans and animals have been found on wall graffiti in other sites in the world, but “most representations of such interactions appeared only later in the Neolithic period, which witnessed the domestication of plants and animals,” Davin noted.These graffiti include a painted scene of a communal hunting of wild pigs in Sulawesi, Indonesia, dating to approximately 51,000 years ago, and another featuring a speared bison, a bird-headed man, and a bird-headed shaft in the Lascaux Cave in France from around 18,000 years ago.A site of ‘firsts’The goose-woman figurine is one of several figurines discovered at the Natufian site located approximately two kilometers (1.2 miles) from Kibbutz Ein Gev, on the banks of the Ein Gev spring. It has been excavated under the direction of Prof. Leora Grosman from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem since 2010.A critical link between the last Paleolithic hunter-gatherers and the first Neolithic farmers, the Natufians lived in the Levant at the very end of the Paleolithic period (approximately 15,000 to 11,700 years ago).This is not the first time archaeologists have recorded groundbreaking discoveries at Nahal Ein Gev, including the first evidence of wheel technology and plaster production.“The Natufians [built] the first villages of humanity,” Davin said. “They were still hunter-gatherers, they were not producing their food, but they created circular or semi-circular stone structures where they lived.”The site extends for at least 1,000 square meters (over 10,000 square feet), and the archaeologists have uncovered the remains of at least six buildings.“One of the buildings was used to bury people,” Davin said. “We found the remains of at least 20 individuals buried under a layer of lime plaster. Later, the building was abandoned, but after a while, people came back to it and buried other items here, including these figurines.”In addition to the figurines, the archaeologists found a cache of human teeth and a child burial.A piece of charcoal from one of the burials was dated between 12,630 to 12,041 years ago using radiocarbon dating. The artifacts were discovered some 90 centimeters (35 inches) higher than the layer of plaster, suggesting that they were deposited there at least a few decades later, according to Davin.“Probably someone came to bury the figurines and the other items in that specific spot as a form of offering or gift,” he said. “They maintained a memory of what this special building was.”The scholar said that the other figurines they found either depict humans or animals, but not them together.(Not) a wild goose chase-Geese were a staple in the diet of the Nahal Ein Gev community, as evidenced by the numerous bones found across the site.“We knew that Natufians were hunting geese, but while in other villages geese were only one of the species that their inhabitants were pursuing and eating, at Nahal Ein Gev they were a dominant species,” Davin said. “We know that they were also plucking the feathers, probably to use them for ornamentation, and this shows us that there was a symbolic connection with the geese, which emerges also in the figurine.”The Natufians are, in fact, known for their engagement in unprecedented rituals and symbolic behaviors.“They marked a big change in the Levant because there was an explosion of symbolic practices associated with the Natufian culture,” Davin said. “They made a lot of ornaments, beads, and jewelry compared to what happened in previous periods. They also introduce new funerary practices, for example, burying their dead under the floor of the houses, and then collecting human skulls from the burials.”The figurines are part of these practices, according to Davin, but it took the researchers a while to understand it. For several years, the researchers thought the figurines were just rocks.“They were first excavated in 2019, but only last year, as I re-examined the findings, looking for clay objects as part of my PhD, we identified them,” he said.The artist’s signature-The researchers also found a fingerprint on the figurine.“The fingerprint was left on the clay when it was still wet, so it likely belonged to the manufacturer,” he said. “By measuring the ridge of a fingerprint, it is possible to identify whether the person was a child, a young adult, a woman, or an adult man. In this case, we understand that the person was either a young adult or a woman, not a child or an adult male.”Like the others found at the village, the figurine was fired to harden it, offering some of the earliest examples of firing clay for this purpose.“We knew that the Natufians were using fire for other purposes, such as producing lime plaster or heating flints to change their color, but we did not know that they were also firing clay to make ceramics,” Davin said. “It’s a new phenomenon. We believed they must have used a simple fireplace because it was fired at just below 450 degrees [Celsius, or 842 degrees Fahrenheit].”The researchers also found traces of pigments on the surface of the figurine.“We did not clean the figurine, which is still covered in dirt, because we wanted to check if there were any traces of colorant, and we actually found several residues of ochre, both on the goose and on the woman, which probably means that the artifact was totally or partially colored in red,” Davin said. “We also found traces of another organic material that we have not been able to identify.”Davin hopes that further research will shed additional light on the figurine.“There is more to understand about it,” he said.