Is this guy for real -- unless there is a method to this madness... all a strategy ploy, by the Trump administration

From: The Times of Israel March 10, 2025
He says Trump personally approved his talks… or not:

Boehler gave two very different definitive answers to the perfectly simple question of whether Trump personally approved his direct talks with Hamas.

Tapper asked him: “So you did get sign-off from President Trump ahead of time, though?” Boehler nodded three times and answered: “Of course.”

Channel 12’s Yonit Levy asked him, in similar vein, whether Trump “personally signed off” on his direct talks with Hamas.
This time Boehler replied, “The White House did. So that’s a group of folks. But people in the White House did know about me having those discussions, yes.”

He publicly criticizes Israel’s hostage deal terms to date as untenably generous to Hamas: True

Rather than presenting a united front between allies against the terrorists who are still holding Israeli (and dual American) hostages, Boehler publicly criticized the Israeli government’s handling of the crisis thus far, which saw Israel free some 2,000 Palestinian inmates in return for the release of 33 Israelis.

“We wouldn’t do that deal in the United States,” he told Channel 13
And he publicly differentiates between American and Israeli interests

Making more music for Hamas’s ears, he took pains, in the CNN interview, to specifically distinguish between America’s interests, in the negotiations and Israel’s:
1. “We’re the United States.
2. We’re not an agent of Israel.
3. We have specific interests at play.”

He expresses scathing indifference to Israel’s concerns about his negotiating with Hamas

Boehler blithely declared that he wasn’t too bothered if Israel’s Minister of Strategic Affairs Ron Dermer, was furious about his face-to-face interaction with the mass-murdering terror chiefs:
1. Dermer is Benjamin Netanyahu’s closest confidant
2. and a kind of counterpart to Boehler as the prime minister’s hostage talks coordinator

“I don’t really care about that that much — no offense to Dermer,” Boehler said on Channel 13
“If it was a big deal every time Dermer got a little bit upset… Ron might have a lot of big deals every day.”

“I love Ron,” he professed. “We’ll work together again. It was great. I take no offense because he was doing what he was supposed to do.”

Terrorists are ‘nice guys’

He uses ‘nice guys’ and ‘Hamas’ in the same convoluted sentences:

Boehler twice used the phrase “nice guys” when discussing Hamas in such convoluted formulations during his CNN interview as to subsequently recognize the need, to issue a clarification because his remarks were being misinterpreted.

The first reference was when he was again discussing Dermer being upset: “I spoke with Ron, and I’m sympathetic."
1. He has someone that he doesn’t know well, making direct contact with Hamas.
2. Maybe I would see them and say, ‘Look, they don’t have horns growing out of their head.
3. They’re actually guys like us. They’re pretty nice guys.

The second reference was when he was asserting that Israel knows that his contacts with Hamas were ultimately going to prove beneficial to Israel:
“Israel knows walking out of that, that it’s not like Hamas got the world because I thought they were a bunch of nice guys.”

Hours later, he realized that those comments were, shock, being misunderstood, and issued a clarification, with Trumpian resort to CAPITAL LETTERS

“I want to be CRYSTAL CLEAR as some have misinterpreted,” he wrote. “Hamas is a terrorist organization that has murdered thousands of innocent people.

They are BY DEFINITION BAD people.
And as @POTUS has said, not a single Hamas member will be safe if Hamas doesn’t RELEASE ALL HOSTAGES IMMEDIATELY.”

He self-evidently didn’t insist that Hamas immediately release all the hostages:
Except that, as he made clear in his interviews, he has not been demanding of Hamas that it “RELEASE ALL HOSTAGES IMMEDIATELY.”

But rather, as he told CNN, he had been trying to “jumpstart some negotiations that were in a very fragile place” and had “wanted to say to Hamas:
1. What is the endgame that you want here? Not the dream endgame,
2. but what do you think is realistic at this point.”

Boehler thinks Hamas will ultimately choose to melt away:
1. displayed a dangerous naivete as regards Hamas’s ultimate intentions,
2. for all the world as though October 7 had not happened,
3. and as though Hamas, in order to try to ensure its survival,
4. was not cynically utilizing every ounce of leverage it has attained
5. by holding (and torturing and sometimes killing) the hostages
6. he is charged with helping to extricate.

Hamas has told the world that it will repeat October 7 as often as it can until Israel is destroyed

Ghazi Hamad, a member of Hamas’s political bureau, told Lebanese television barely two weeks after the massacre, and clarified that, yes, he meant:
1. “Israel is a country that has no place on our land,” and yes, it needs to be annihilated.
2. “The Al-Aqsa Deluge [as Hamas called its October 7 slaughter] is just the first time,
3. and there will be a second, a third, a fourth… Nobody should blame us for the things we do.
4. On October 7, October 10, October one-millionth, everything we do is justified.”

But Boehler knows better. On Channel 12, he solemnly asserted his conviction that the:
1. declaredly genocidal monsters will ultimately prove willing to give up their guns
2. and take no role in the political leadership of Gaza —
3. that Hamas, in short, will choose to melt away, to become not Hamas.

Asked by Levy whether he “realistically” thinks “that Hamas would eventually agree to lay down its weapons and not be part of Gaza’s political future,”
he answered without hesitation: “I do believe that.”

It is not clear why Boehler would have reconsidered his initial answer to the question of whether it was Trump who personally approved his direct interactions with Hamas, since the president has himself publicly confirmed and defended the outreach:

Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Thursday:
1. “We are helping Israel in [holding] those discussions because we’re talking about Israeli hostages,”
2. “We’re not doing anything in terms of Hamas.
3. We’re not giving cash…
4. You have to negotiate.
5. There’s a difference between negotiating and paying.
6. We want to get these people out.”

It could just be that Boehler is beginning to realize that he has mishandled his mandate.
Then again, given the complacency exhibited by Boehler in his interviews, he is unlikely to be questioning his own performance.

Indeed, he smilingly indicated in several of the interviews that he might “drop by” on Hamas again.

Doubtless Hamas, which must be laughing in disbelief at the emissary Trump sent their way — so contrasting a figure, it should be noted, to the empathetic and earnest Trump Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff, on whom the hostages’ families have built so much hope — would be only too pleased to see him.

Terrorists - unprecedented International legitimacy, negotiating directly with US

Nonetheless, however, it is Trump who selected this man to represent America when rewarding Hamas for its monstrous assault on October 7 by giving it unprecedented legitimacy at direct negotiations.

And, ultimately, it is Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who left the vacuum into which Trump decided to insert Boehler. For months:
Netanyahu chose not to strive for the implementation of the hostage-ceasefire deal that he and his ministers approved and conveyed to the US in May.

And after the protracted weekly rounds of phase one implementation — had finally begun in January
1. of agonizing hostage releases,
2. prisoner releases
3. and a ceasefire —

Netanyahu then chose not to press on to phase two of the deal, when:
1. some 24 living hostages stand to be released in exchange for many more freed terrorists,
2. a full IDF withdrawal from Gaza
3. and a permanent ceasefire.

Consequently, Hamas since March 1 — outrageously and untenably — has been enjoying all the benefits of a cessation of war without releasing any hostages.

It was Netanyahu, too, who elected to sideline Mossad chief David Barnea and Shin Bet head Ronen Bar from the negotiations — men whose life’s work has been dedicated to the security of Israel — and instead install Dermer, who ostensibly speaks Trump.

Yet Dermer was blindsided by the president and his envoy Boehler.

However dissatisfied Netanyahu may profess himself to have been by the Barnea-Bar conduct of negotiations, they, unlike Boehler, have no delusions about Hamas’s strategic genocidal intentions.

Indeed, it has been their conviction, and that of the IDF brass, that:
1. Israel should have pressed ahead with the hostage-ceasefire deal months ago,
2. and urgently secured the release of all the hostages,
3. prioritizing that obligation over the need to destroy Hamas.

Because, after all, as they know — but Boehler apparently doesn’t — Hamas can be relied upon to breach the ceasefire any and every which way it can, and Israel will have every reason and legitimacy to resume a hopefully more effective campaign once the hostages are home.

Now, Netanyahu has lost control of strategy and tactics, in the battle against Hamas — to a US president who has:
1. publicly welcomed released hostages to his office,
2. ascertained that the Israeli public overwhelmingly prioritizes the return of the rest of the hostages over a return to the war,
3. and concluded that he can handle this better than Netanyahu.

A US president who, it must now be hoped, will relieve the burden of ongoing negotiations from an envoy who, after interview after interview in which he was given a platform to explain what he has been up to, wound up needing to clarify that Hamas are “BY DEFINITION BAD people.”

From: Ynet.news.com March 12, 2025
Is Trump a partner or a landlord?

The honeymoon that could still turn on Netanyahu
While Trump supports Israeli interests, his dominance raises questions about whether he is a partner — or a remote shot caller

Analysis: As Trump pressures Israel on strategic decisions, Netanyahu finds himself:
1. increasingly subordinate to American demands,
2. including negotiations with Lebanon and Hamas;

The opening months of Trump’s administration marked a honeymoon period for Israel’s government and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

In the White House now sits a president who:
1. understands Israel and its interests,
2. aligns with the logic of the right-wing government,
3. and even pushes initiatives —
4. like a plan for Gaza migration — that go beyond what even the Israeli right envisioned.

But alongside this optimism lies a sobering reality:
Instead of a partner in the White House, Israel faces a landlord — or perhaps a monarch.

In the Oval Office, Netanyahu encountered a man making strategic decisions for him.

Through his envoy, Steve Witkoff, who began working even before Trump assumed office,
1. Trump imposed the first stage of a hostage deal that Netanyahu had resisted.
2. This agreement could have been made a year ago but was now forced upon him.

Similarly, the US is now pressuring Israel to proceed with negotiations over its border with Lebanon — a step Netanyahu likely opposed when Yair Lapid signed the maritime border agreement with Lebanon, which Netanyahu had previously called a "betrayal" and vowed to cancel.

Netanyahu surrender:
When Netanyahu agreed to a cease-fire with Hezbollah, he effectively surrendered to former President Joe Biden, which has now become a surrender to Trump.

In practice, Netanyahu is going to implement Lapid's agreement to the letter.

The direct negotiations between the US and Hamas were also imposed on Israel.

These discussions were conducted from a position of strength, and although the talks failed — with the US announcing they would not resume—
had they succeeded and Hamas realized it was better to deal directly with Trump, it’s likely:
1. Israel would have faced further American-imposed moves,
2. leaving no room for its own decision-making.

On the issue of hostages the American approach offers significant hope.

Trump and his envoy Witkoff are unrelenting in their efforts to secure a cease-fire and hostage release.
Unlike Biden, Netanyahu cannot refuse them — and they know it.

Additionally, Israel finds itself complying with American directives at the UN such as voting in favor of Russia and against Ukraine.

It must be acknowledged: Israel is currently fully subordinate to the American agenda.

To its surprise, it is discovering that:
1. Trump is not content to merely be US president —
2. he aspires to act as Israel’s prime minister, too.

So far, he’s succeeding, as Israel’s government accepts his demands and requests without resistance.

Netanyahu, it seems, will avoid the treatment Zelensky received in the White House, as long as he continues to comply with Trump.
However, the moment Netanyahu stops, he risks a similar fate — and he knows it.

For now, Netanyahu has little alternative.
1. This explains Israel’s silence when Trump’s envoy for hostage affairs, Adam Boehler, revealed his direct negotiations with Hamas.
2. Israel also remained quiet when Boehler mocked Minister Ron Dermer in interviews
3. and joked about having coffee with Hamas leaders.

Opposition and PM office jostling for control of the narrative
This chain of events has naturally spurred political attacks between Likud and Yesh Atid.

Yesh Atid reminded the public how:
1. "Netanyahu’s propaganda machine" accused Lapid’s government of surrendering to Hezbollah,
2. only for Netanyahu to now negotiate over territory and prisoner releases with Lebanon."

Yesh Atid stated: "Two years later, under Netanyahu’s leadership,"
1. Hezbollah has established outposts on Israeli land,
2. the Jewish people have experienced their greatest tragedy since the Holocaust,
3. the northern region has been evacuated and bombarded,
4. and the prime minister who promised deterrence is now negotiating over territories
5. and releasing terrorists to Lebanon

In response, Likud’s spokesperson fired back: "Lapid claimed the shameful surrender agreement, he signed with Hezbollah"
1. ‘preserved the security of northern settlements,’
2. ‘improved security,’
3. and ‘reduced the chance of military escalation with Hezbollah.’

Unlike Lapid, Prime Minister Netanyahu’s policies have:
1. brought Hezbollah to its knees,
2. eliminated Nasrallah and senior members of the organization,
3. significantly damaged Hezbollah’s rocket capabilities,
4. and dismantled its presence in Syria.

Unlike Lapid, Netanyahu has not ceded an inch of sovereign territory to Lebanon.
On the contrary, he has maintained Israeli military presence in five strategic points within Lebanon to protect our settlements.

“While Lapid worries about the electoral threshold, Netanyahu ensures security." Like October 7, 2023

Regarding the Lebanon agreement talks in Naqoura — including representatives from IDF the US, France, and Lebanon — resulted in the establishment of three joint working groups.

These will focus on:
1. stabilizing the region,
2. addressing five Israeli-controlled points in southern Lebanon,
3. disputed areas along the Blue Line (13 points in total),
4. and the issue of Lebanese prisoners held by Israel.

In an unprecedented move, Israel decided, in coordination with the US and as a gesture to Lebanon’s new president Joseph Aoun, to release five Lebanese prisoners, including one Hezbollah member.

This gesture was not without context:
1. President Aoun was elected against the will of the Shiite axis
2. and has been taking behind-the-scenes steps against Hezbollah.

Israel aims to strengthen the moderate faction in Lebanon by taking concrete actions.

At the same time, Israel clarified that if Lebanon’s military deploys forces in the south it would begin withdrawing from positions it currently holds.

Israel had agreed to discuss disputed border points with Lebanon two years ago at the request of the previous envoy, Amos Hochstein.

While the war delayed the implementation of this agreement, it had already been conveyed to the US administration.
This is a significant step toward advancing dialogue between the countries, including resolving border disputes.

A potential Israeli-Lebanese agreement is a clear American interest, as well as that of Saudi Arabia, Trump’s key regional ally.
The Saudis seek to bolster their position in the region at Iran’s expense.

Trump, eager to secure a deal with Saudi Arabia — would not hesitate to broker such an agreement at Israel’s expense:
1. both for a potential Nobel Prize
2. and to enrich his family and billionaire friends

Netanyahu and his government, however, seem unwilling to express any opposition.

For those looking for proof of Trump’s power, they need look no further than Ukraine’s capitulation to all US demands and Israel...

From: The Jerusalem Post March 13, 2025
Mob of anti-Israel protesters occupy Trump Tower

The protest in the tower's lobby marked the third day of protests since Khalil was arrested by the DHS on Saturday evening.

Supporters of Columbia University Apartheid Divest CUAD leading activist Mahmoud Khalil stormed into the lobby of Trump Tower on Thursday and rallied outside his Manhattan federal court on Wednesday, with protesters maintaining calls for his release after he had been arrested and his green card revoked Saturday for his role in campus unrest and support for terrorist organizations.

Anti-Zionist organization Jewish Voice for Peace led dozens of activists in “taking over” Trump Tower, objecting to what they said was US President Donald Trump’s crackdown on Palestinians and dismantling of civil liberties under the guise of fighting antisemitism.

Brian Krassenstein (@krassenstein) March 13, 2025
The Jewish Group, "Jewish Voice for Peace" is holding a sit-in in the lobby of Trump tower right now. They are calling for the release of Mahmoud Khalil.
Meanwhile Trump is calling Jewish people "Palestinian" and "Not Really Jewish" You tell me who the antisemite…

1. “Come for one, face us all,” JVP said on Instagram.
2. “Mahmoud’s kidnapping has nothing to do with Jewish safety.
3. The Trump administration thinks it can crush dissent and strip away constitutional rights.
4. We know this playbook. We refuse to allow our neighbors to be abducted in our name.”

The People’s Forum responded to the JVP action, warning that “the movement will only continue to grow!”

The protest in the tower’s lobby marked the third day of protests since Khalil was arrested by the DHS on Saturday evening for leading “activities aligned to Hamas, a designated terrorist organization.”

Rally outside courthouse:
 
according to Reuters, on Wednesday, activists from the Palestinian Youth Movement and the People’s Forum rallied outside the courthouse where his legal team was arguing Khalil’s case:
1. contending that the government was retaliating for his advocacy against Israel for its military operation in Gaza,
2. and that his constitutionally protected free speech rights were being violated.

A member of Khalil’s legal team explained to the crowd, in a social media video posted by the People’s Forum:
1. they were seeking to have him returned back to New York from a Louisiana ICE detention facility,
2. so that he could fight the case while being with his pregnant wife.
3. The attorney was also seeking to keep the case in the Manhattan court.

An activist explained in another People’s Forum social media video:
“as the lawyers fight in court, we are going to stand in the streets demanding the same thing.”

Activists had also gathered outside the Gracie Mansion to disrupt Mayor Eric Adams’s iftar dinner Tuesday to pressure for Khalil’s release.

Earlier in the day, thousands marched through the city, waving Palestinian flags from the area of Washington Square Park to Broadway.

The NYPD said that multiple people had been arrested, with 11 being released with summons for disorderly conduct.

Sporadic protests were held elsewhere in the country the same day, with one student temporarily detained at a Stanford University protest.

CUAD had been protesting at Columbia University and affiliate institutions since the October 7 massacre, demanding that the institutions cut ties with Israel.

Recent escalations by the group began on the first day of the recent semester, when student activists disrupted an Israeli history class.
Following the incident, a Columbia student was suspended and two Barnard College students expelled.

CUAD led two occupations of Barnard buildings:
1. to demand amnesty for them
2. and a third student, who was expelled for the occupation of Columbia’s Hamilton Hall.

As tensions rose, the Trump administration revoked $400 million in federal grants for Columbia’s failures to address an atmosphere of antisemitism on campus.

Reports say Boehler has been removed from Hamas talks, but was he ever involved?

Adam Boehler, Trump's special envoy for US hostages and missing persons:
1. held direct negotiations with Hamas
2. to secure the release of American hostages, including soldier Edan Alexander.

Reports on Thursday alleged that Adam Boehler, Trump's envoy for American hostages and missing persons, has been removed from involvement in the negotiations for the release of hostages held by Hamas in Gaza.

But the question is: Was he even involved in them to begin with?

Hamas has been designated a terrorist organization by the US since 1997 and as such, no official US government representative is allowed to hold direct talks with it—except for one person: the special envoy for hostages.

Therefore, Boehler, with the president’s approval, held direct negotiations with Hamas.

Following the publication of this news by Barak Ravid on Axios which brought the secret talks to light, a large storm broke out.

Let's start with the negotiations for the hostages' release that are taking place in Cairo, Egypt.
These talks are led by one person alone: Steve Witkoff, Trump's envoy to the Middle East.

Witkoff, in turn, communicates with:
1. Israeli Minister Ron Dermer, who is in charge of the negotiations on the Israeli side,
2. as well as with senior Qatari and Egyptian officials.

In fact, apart from Witkoff, no other senior figure is involved in the negotiations for the release of the hostages.

In recent weeks, a proposal was put forward by Adam Boehler, Trump's special envoy for US hostages and missing persons:
1. to hold direct negotiations with Hamas
2. to secure the release of American hostages, including soldier Edan Alexander.

Boehler's interviews:

Senior Israeli officials, including Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer:
1. held heated conversations with senior US officials,
2. despite being aware that such talks were taking place between the US and Hamas.

Boheler gave interviews to several media outlets, including The Jerusalem Post to explain the decision.
However, after the interviews, an even bigger storm erupted due to Boehler's comments regarding Hamas, a murderous terrorist organisation.

"It’s hard to understand the other side without sitting across from them," he said in an interview with The Post

The day after, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio clarified:
1. "the talks bore no fruit"
2. and that they were an "one-time event."

With this in mind, and at least for now, that no direct talks will be held with Hamas

Boehler is returning to his original role:
1. working to secure the release of Americans around the world,
2. but currently, he is not involved in the negotiations for the release of hostages held by Hamas.

After Washington announced the latest $4billion in weapons shipments to Israel, Netanyahu thanked Trump profusely and called him

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Kyiv Post Ukraine's Global Voice by Katie Livingstone 13 March 2025

Extracts:

• Trump’s Double Standard on Military Aid: Israel vs Ukraine

Trump’s military aid policies reveal a stark double standard:
Israel enjoys unwavering support, while Ukraine faces delays, conditions, and political maneuvering amid its war with Russia.

The administration of US President Donald Trump has made clear that not all allies are equal

While Israel continues to receive unconditional US military support against multi-fronted Terror war Day 525 – Ukraine a country fighting Day 1,114 years-long battle for survival against a much larger foe, Russia – has seen its aid stalled, delayed or outright used as a political bargaining chip

The contrast exposes
1. Washington’s shifting geopolitical priorities
2. and raises serious questions about the future of US commitments to European security

Trump’s approach to military aid reflects a broader realignment in US foreign policy, where long-standing alliances are reassessed through a transactional lens

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Kyiv Post Ukraine's Global Voice by Katie Livingstone 13 March 2025

Extracts:

• Israel and Ukraine imbalance

Ukraine, once a key beneficiary of bipartisan military assistance, is now at the mercy of political calculations in Washington

Meanwhile, Israel remains untouchable, with billions in US taxpayer-funded military support flowing freely

This imbalance is more than just a policy shift –
1. it signals a fundamental change in how the US chooses its strategic partners
2. and defines its role on the global stage

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Kyiv Post Ukraine's Global Voice by Katie Livingstone 13 March 2025

Extracts:

• US military aid to Ukraine: A political bargaining chip

Since Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022 Ukraine has relied on US military assistance to help defend itself
But under Trump, this aid has become increasingly uncertain

The Trump administration abruptly paused military support and intelligence sharing last week after a heated exchange between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky days earlier, blocking the delivery of battle tanks, long-range missiles and air defense systems already en route through Poland

The decision, framed as an effort to push Ukraine into peace negotiations with Russia, was widely seen as a concession to Moscow

The halt in military aid left Ukraine vulnerable at a critical moment, as Russian forces launched new offensives and delicate peace negotiations were ongoing

Ukrainian officials warned that without continued US support, their ability to resist further Russian advances was at significant risk


"The Art of the Deal" knowing what side your bread's buttered on!

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Kyiv Post Ukraine's Global Voice by Katie Livingstone 13 March 2025

Extracts:

• Ukraine-Russia ceasefire proposal

Ukraine agreed to a US proposal for an immediate 30-day ceasefire during high-stakes talks in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on Tuesday, leading to a resumption of military aid and intelligence sharing with Ukraine

But despite the ceasefire proposal, Russia launched air attacks on Kyiv and Kharkiv shortly after Ukraine’s declaration, leading to air raid alerts across ten regions

Trump has made it clear that future assistance to Ukraine will come with strings attached

The White House has conditioned continued support on Kyiv’s agreement to a bilateral mineral resources deal, which Ukraine has so far resisted due to the lack of security guarantees in the agreement

Instead, the US has pushed Ukraine to accept territorial concessions and other demands made by Moscow

This approach contrasts sharply with the White House’s stance toward Israel, where aid flows with minimal conditions and on an expedited timeline

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Kyiv Post Ukraine's Global Voice by Katie Livingstone 13 March 2025

Extracts:

• US military aid to Israel: Unwavering commitment

Unlike Ukraine, Israel has faced no interruptions in US military support

The US-Israel alliance is backed by a 10-year Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed in 2016 guaranteeing $3.3 billion annually in military assistance
Trump has gone even further, approving a $7 billion arms sale to Israel – including thousands of precision-guided bombs, according to the New York Post

Earlier this month, per The Associated Press, the Trump administration approved a new $3 billion arms sale to Israel, encompassing
1. 35,500 MK 84 2,000 lb (900 kg) bombs
2. along with 4,000 FGM-172 SRAW (short-range assault weapons) “Predator warhead”

The FGM-172 is a man-portable ground forces weapon, originally used to augment the Javelin anti-tank missile, most likely in the multipurpose blast-fragmentation version of the weapon since Lockheed-Martin converted all early anti-armor versions of this missile to this configuration to make it more versatile and suitable against more target categories, including unarmored vehicles and personnel Israel already got THAAD

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Kyiv Post Ukraine's Global Voice by Katie Livingstone 13 March 2025

Extracts:

• Israel's latest US aid package

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in a statement announcing the latest aid package,
These aid agreements underscore the administration’s unwavering commitment to ensuring Israel’s military supremacy in the region, despite global outcry over the Israeli bombardment of Gaza – which has seen an estimated 47,000 Palestinians killed in the fighting, according to [Hamas-run] Gazan health authorities

During a joint press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last month, Trump announced plans to provide Israel with an additional $12 billion in military aid

Trump emphasized the United States’ unwavering support stating,
The White House’s robust military support for Israel stands in stark contrast to the administration’s cautious and conditional approach to supporting Ukraine