On softening up – Amos Harel in Haaretz:

‘The official most committed to a deal is Trump's envoy, Steve Witkoff. If Witkoff comes to Israel or Qatar in the near future, that can be taken as a positive sign that things are nearing finalization.’

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‘Trump, for the time being, is displaying patience and even sympathy for Netanyahu's difficulties. That's perhaps how the extraordinary, and infuriating, visit this week by U.S. ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee to the Tel Aviv District Court should be understood. The Americans are softening Netanyahu up with public gestures, in the hope of achieving their goal. The ambassador did not attend a session of Netanyahu's criminal trial only at his own initiative.’

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‘Here's what a person I will call A. has to say. He's an officer in the reserves who recently concluded service in one of the command posts whose troops are currently seeing action in the Strip.
A.: "The parents of the soldiers need to understand what's going on there. The primary, and almost only, mission of the forces is to secure the demolition activity of the bulldozers and the drills. It has a military name that attests to the goal: 'ceiling on the floor.' But that is not a military task by its character.
"We have hardly any [intelligence] locating of sites that are directly related to the enemy's activity. It's simply massive demolition of houses, on the basis of a plan and operational indices. The contractors, many of whom are civilians, are paid according to the number of buildings they demolish.’

Read the article here.

Ceiling on the floor, another euphemism for war crimes.

Private contractors paid for each war crime.

And Trump trying to soften up the war criminal, the Nobel Peace Prize must be always in Trump’s mind.