Jared Kushner aka the Prince of Peace : We did whatever we thought was necessary in order to complete the agreement and return the hostages.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s envoys Jared Kushner AND Steve Witkoff touched down in Israel on Monday afternoon as part of Washington’s push to keep the ceasefire with Hamas in Gaza from collapsing.
The visit comes only a day after Hamas terrorists killed two Israeli soldiers in southern Gaza, triggering retaliatory IDF airstrikes and high-level political deliberations.
An Israel Defense Forces source told Reuters that Hamas carried out multiple attacks on troops beyond the Yellow Line—the boundary to which the Israeli military withdrew under the Trump administration’s peace plan.
Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, whose right-wing Otzma Yehudit Party was among the fiercest critics of Trump’s peace plan, told JNS on Monday that while he “really appreciates” the U.S. efforts, their proposal for Gaza fails to eliminate Hamas terrorism.
“Unfortunately, I was the only one in the government who stood up and told them ‘the emperor has no clothes,’” the Cabinet minister told JNS.
In Israel’s position, the United States “would not have ended the war without dismantling Hamas. That’s my position, my view, and I tell the Americans,” he said.
While Jerusalem initially decided to close all crossings to the Strip and halt the delivery of humanitarian aid in response to the renewed attacks, the move was reversed following pressure from Washington, U.S. news outlet Axios and Israel’s Channel 12 News reported Monday morning.
Unnamed Israeli officials confirmed to the outlets that the delivery of aid supplies to Gaza would resume as early as Monday morning.
In an interview with CBS News‘ Lesley Stahl on “60 Minutes” that aired on Sunday, Kushner said that “the biggest message that we’ve tried to convey to the Israeli leadership now is that … the war is over.”
“It’s very delicate right now,” he added. “But we just have to stay on top of everyone, and try to make sure that everyone works hard to try and create the best outcome possible. This is a very difficult situation, and a very difficult dynamic.”
Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid (Yesh Atid Party) told JNS on Monday that the U.S. administration is “pretty knowledgeable about what Hamas really is, which is a terrible terrorist organization of the homicidal kind.”
According to Lapid, = Witkoff and Kushner “did whatever they thought was necessary in order to complete the agreement and return the hostages.”
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GOG AND MAGOG UPDATE
Ayatollah to Trump: Think you destroyed our nuke program? Dream on
Iran’s supreme leader on Monday mocked President Donald Trump’s claims that US airstrikes in June destroyed the Islamic Republic’s atomic program and rejected American demands that Tehran abandon its uranium enrichment efforts.
In a post to his official X account, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei took aim at Trump over his repeated claims that US airstrikes against the Fordo, Isfahan, and Natanz facilities destroyed Iran’s nuclear program.
“Their nuclear program is gone,” Trump told reporters on Air Force One last June 25.
“We destroyed Iran’s nuclear program,” he said two days earlier at a rally in Cincinnati. “Totally destroyed. There is no nuclear program anymore — we wiped it out.”
Last week, Trump repeated his claim, telling the Knesset that the American airstrikes this June “obliterated” the Iranian nuclear facilities, thus stopping “the world’s number one state sponsor of terrorism from making nuclear weapons.”
“The American president boasts: ‘We bombed Iran’s nuclear program and destroyed it.’” Khamenei wrote. “Okay then, keep dreaming.”
The line uploaded to Khamenei’s X account was drawn from his address on Monday to the winners of sports and science competitions.
Khamenei dismissed the claim as “nonsense spoken to console disheartened Israeli officials after an unexpected defeat in the 12-day war.”
“The Zionists never imagined that an Iranian-made missile, created by the hands of young Iranians, could reduce parts of their strategic centers to ashes, but it happened.
“These words were spoken to people who have lost confidence,” Khamenei continued. “Their 12-day war humiliated them, and the American president went there only to give them spirit.”