Breaking News March 17, 2025 Part 2 скачать в хорошем качестве

Breaking News March 17, 2025 Part 2

We have two new headlines. Each is dealing with the current military threats. However, they could not be more different in their responses... First, Israel with Gaza... Headline 1 IDF may adopt cautious tactics in Gaza as massive invasion loses momentum (Jerusalem Post) Israel faces a critical choice in Gaza: To launch a full invasion, opt for gradual strikes, or pursue another ceasefire deal. For the last two months, there was a relatively set narrative for Gaza after phase one of the hostage deal: Either Israel and Hamas would reach an agreement on the second phase of a hostage deal and bring the war closer to its end, or the military, under its new aggressive chief, Lt.-Gen. Eyal Zamir would open the gates of hell on Hamas. That was until this past weekend. Suddenly, some defense and political voices returned to talks of gradual and targeted penetrations. The question then is, how exactly would this be different from what the military carried out with former IDF chief Herzi Halevi? The answer is that it wouldn’t be. The biggest difference would really be that the IDF would theoretically go back to war in Gaza in a staged and gradual way but holding on to a threat that within some period of days or weeks if Hamas still did not relent, the military would take off all of the gloves for real. The idea of this shift is to calibrate Israel’s escalation to give Hamas one last opportunity, under some but limited fire, to get smart and cut a deal more on Israel’s terms. Given these dilemmas and a sudden shakiness about returning to a full war in the enclave – which could lead to more dead soldiers, dead hostages, global criticism, and economic instability – the government has opted for “door number three,” avoiding a decision. This is the reason Hamas has had more than two weeks of a ceasefire without having to give up a single hostage. It is the basis of the flurry of talks about another hostage deal returning 5-10 live hostages in exchange for extending the ceasefire for another 40-60 days. As to which choice Israel will eventually make, well, nobody knows for certain. And now to the U.S. and the Houthis and Iran... Headline 2 US to hold Iran responsible for further Houthi attacks, Trump says US President Donald Trump said on Monday that Iran will be held responsible and face "dire" consequences for any further attacks by Yemen's Houthis. "Every shot fired by the Houthis will be looked upon, from this point forward, as being a shot fired from the weapons and leadership of IRAN, and IRAN will be held responsible, and suffer the consequences, and those consequences will be dire!" Trump said on Truth Social. ... White House National Security Adviser Mike Waltz said the US strikes "took out" several Houthi leaders. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Sunday that the United States would conduct "unrelenting" strikes against the Houthis in Yemen until the terrorist group ceases their military actions targeting US assets and global shipping. These comments come as Iran has slowly distanced itself from its proxy, the Houthis, amidst US strikes in Yemen. Setting clear intentions Over the weekend, US President Donald Trump posted his threat to the Houthis and Iran on his platform Truth Social. “Funded by Iran, the Houthi thugs have fired missiles at US aircraft, and targeted our troops and allies. These relentless assaults have cost the US and world economy many billions of dollars while, at the same time, putting innocent lives at risk,” the president stressed. He later said that US forces would come for the Houthis. “To all Houthi terrorists, YOUR TIME IS UP, AND YOUR ATTACKS MUST STOP, STARTING TODAY. IF THEY DON’T, HELL WILL RAIN DOWN UPON YOU LIKE NOTHING YOU HAVE EVER SEEN BEFORE!” he wrote. “To Iran: Support for the Houthi terrorists must end IMMEDIATELY! Do NOT threaten the American people, their president, who has received one of the largest mandates in presidential history, or worldwide shipping lanes. If you do, BEWARE, because America will hold you fully accountable and, we won’t be nice about it!” What a different between the two responses from the leaders of the two countries! Donald Trump is taking action. Benjamin Netanyahu is... well... doing nothing for the present time... Furthermore, the predicament that Israel is now in is of their own doing. Successive governments have kept kicking the can down the road...now something must be done! But what? We’ll keep you posted... Support the ministry of Don Stewart here: https://goinchrist.com/our-misionarie... Get access to all the materials from Pastor Don Stewart here: http://educatingourworld.com/ Follow Pastor Don Stewart Facebook:   / educatingourworld