Amir Tsarfati: Israel’s Next Move, Hezbollah’s Defeat & Trump’s Bold Plan | MidEast Update:

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Trying to fool Trump? – PA president announces continuation of pay-for-slay, then deletes video of speech:

When the Palestinian Authority (PA) claimed earlier this month to have ended its infamous "pay-for-slay" policy that awards terrorists and their families with stipends according to the number of Israelis they had killed, many in the West reacted with optimism, hoping that the PA was turning over a new leaf. 

However, even then, some observers noticed that the PA had not pledged to stop payments to terrorists and their families, but was merely channeling the funds through a third party. 

The Foreign Ministry called the move "a new fraudulent trick by the Palestinian Authority, which intends to continue making payments to terrorists and their families through other payment channels.” 

Now, Abbas, himself, has confirmed that the PA has no intention of stopping the payments to terrorists and their families. Speaking at a Fatah Revolutionary Council meeting on Thursday, he said, “I have told you before and mark my words, even if we only have one cent left, it will be for the prisoners and martyrs.” 

The PA president even referred to the terrorists responsible for attacking Jews as “more precious than all of us combined.” 

While the PA initially posted video of Abbas addressing the council online, apparently realizing that his comments could undermine the attempt to convince the U.S. of its sincerity, it later removed the video.

https://allisrael.com/trying-to-fool-trump-pa-president-announces-continuation-of-pay-for-slay-then-deletes-video-of-speech   

Phase One Complete: Hamas Returns Bodies of 4 Hostages to Israel:

The first phase of a ceasefire deal between Israel and the Hamas was completed early Thursday when the Palestinian terrorist group handed over four bodies belonging to hostages whom it murdered on October 7 and afterwards.

In return, Israel released over 600 convicted Palestinian terrorists, who were sent to a variety of different locations.

The Times of Israel reported:

The bodies believed to be of four hostages kidnapped by Hamas-led terrorists and held captive in Gaza for over 16 months were returned to Israel early Thursday in a nighttime handover devoid of macabre theatrics that had punctuated previous handovers.

In exchange for the remains of the four slain hostages, Israel agreed to free hundreds of Palestinian prisoners whose releases had been held up by anger in Jerusalem over Hamas’s handling of previous handovers, though statements from Israeli and Palestinian officials left unclear whether all the detainees would be released simultaneously as sought by Hamas.

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Israel then began carrying out its initial forensic investigation. The families of the four hostages were being updated constantly and were supposed to receive official notifications once identifications were made.

Amir's Weekly Email Newsletter snippets:

It has been a very difficult week here in Israel, so I am going to get right to it. By tomorrow, Israel should be receiving the final four of this week’s ten hostages. In return, Hamas will receive 640 terrorists, 151 with blood on their hands. The difference between those whom Israel will welcome home and those Hamas will receive goes beyond the numbers. The primary distinction is that all of the Palestinian terrorists are alive, while four of our hostages are not.

Hamas terrorists = 640, Israeli hostages = 10.
Living Hamas terrorists = 640, living Israeli hostages = 6.

With this swap, we end Phase 1 of the deal. Hamas is still holding 59 of our people in captivity, 24 of whom we believe are still alive. The terrorists say, “We’d love to give you back the rest of your people. But we want three things in return. First, we want all Israeli troops out of Gaza, never to return. Second, Hamas must stay in power. Third, we want Gaza to be reconstructed.” Israel’s reply is, “First, we aren’t leaving. Second, you aren’t staying. Third, Gaza will be reconstructed, but Donald Trump has a much greater chance of getting it done than you do.”

In other words, we are at a stand-off. The liberal left in Israel is screaming to just pull out.

Enemies in Judea and Samaria
Thursday night, terrorists from Tulkarm in Samaria snuck into Israel armed with explosives. Fifteen of them went to different buses and hid their bombs under the seats. Meanwhile, five more terrorists wearing suicide vests waited until morning when they would board light rail trains. The plan was that at 8:30am on Friday, during the high travel time, the bombs would simultaneously go off. At that same moment, the suicide bombers would detonate themselves on the trains. Hundreds would have been instantaneously killed with many more wounded. Thankfully, these terrorists were idiots. The detonators were attached to analog clocks, and three of the Palestinians accidentally set their bombs to PM instead of AM.

The Quiet Genocide
On February 13 in the Democratic Republic of Congo, seventy Christians were kidnapped, tied up, taken to a church, and decapitated with knives by an ISIS-affiliated Islamist group. Where’s the outrage? Where’s the marching in the streets? Is it because the protesters and the media only care about black people outside of Africa? Or could it be because they are Christian? I’m guessing it’s both. The Vatican News claims that over 50,000 Christians were killed in Nigeria alone last year. More were slaughtered in other African nations. And still more were killed in Malaysia, Indonesia, and other countries. In fact, in the 20th century, more Christians were massacred than in all the previous centuries combined. The media doesn’t care about genocide. They’re too busy pushing their agendas.

European Shift  
Europe is in trouble. Unfortunately, they are shoring up against the wrong enemy. Rather than looking at the danger from inside their countries, they are focused on the United States and Donald Trump. The speech of Vice President J.D. Vance last week scared many of them. The presumptive next leader of Germany is seeking full independence from the United States and is even suggesting that Europe may need to develop a European-only alternative to NATO. That suggestion has those of us who understand Bible prophecy and the coming of the Antichrist saying “Hmmm.”  

Exclusive — Rubio: ‘Strong Desire’ in Middle East for Abraham Accords Expansion, ‘World Has Been Dying for’ Trump’s ‘Kind of Leadership’:

“I think there is a strong desire,” Rubio said when asked if he thinks a deal can be brokered to expand the Abraham Accords to include nations like Saudi Arabia. “I think what was behind October 7 in some ways was an effort to stop that from happening. I think no nation, no regime on the planet, is more freaked out and anti-Abraham Accords expansion than Iran, which is why they were involved in getting Hamas to do October 7. But I think there is a lot of countries out there that would love to enter the Abraham Accords, and obviously we got to get through the situation in Gaza, and that has to get wrapped up in a way that is acceptable to Israel and makes Israel feel that their security interests are taken into account. But assuming that happens, then I do think you’re going to see more countries entering the Abraham Accords which, keep in mind, was one of the most historic advances in Middle East peace in decades and which was widely mocked by Democrats. by the way, when it first happened. We’ve now seen more and more countries, even quietly, I don’t want to say who they are yet because they’ve been quiet about it, but we’ve had more and more countries sort of come forward and say they would like to join as well from the region.including Africa. so I think it’s something we can build on and to me it would be one of the great developments of this term.”

 Asked in this final portion of the interview about how the world seems excited for Trump’s return to the White House about a month into this administration, Rubio said the world enjoys having Trump there because, first off, he shoots straight and says what he means, but then also because he stands for common sense in diplomacy.

“They’re excited first of all to have a president who’s very transparent,” Rubio told Breitbart News during Monday’s interview. “That’s the thing about President Trump: you don’t have to wonder what he’s thinking. He’ll tell you. He says it openly. He says it publicly. I’ve never seen a more pro-media president. Everything he does, he wants it to be more transparent and in full view of the world. Today alone, as I sit here with you, I sat in on a meeting he had with President Macron, and then he had a press conference afterwards with President Macron. You see that happening. I think people are excited about that. I think they’re also excited about having a president that doesn’t just have clarity but has common sense...I think the world is excited to have that, because you have somebody who’s not going to lecture them about ideology. He’s down to the very simple common sense here of what makes sense for your country and for ours. How can we work together, and if we have a problem how can we work through it in a way that respects both sides? I think the world has been dying for that kind of leadership.”

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/02/27/exclusive-rubio-strong-desire-in-middle-east-for-abraham-accords-expansion-world-has-been-dying-for-trumps-kind-of-leadership/