Netanyahu characterizes upcoming direct talks with Lebanon as ‘historic’

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US President Donald Trump plans to host Benjamin Netanyahu and Lebanese President Joseph Aoun at the White House to help advance negotiations.

By Vered Weiss, World Israel News

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu characterized the direct talks that will take place during a 10-day ceasefire with Lebanon as an “historic” opportunity to reach a peace agreement.

In a prerecorded video statement, Netanyahu said the ceasefire was approved to create space for diplomacy, even as Israel maintains its military posture on the ground.

He stressed that Israeli troops will continue operating inside Lebanon within what he described as an expanded buffer area.

“We are remaining in Lebanon in an expanded security zone… 10 kilometers wide much stronger, more powerful, more continuous, and more solid than what we had before,” he says, adding that the deployment is designed to “block the threat of infiltration” and prevent anti-tank fire on northern communities.

Netanyahu said Hezbollah had initially demanded terms Israel would not accept, including “that Israel withdraw from all Lebanese territory up to the international border” and “a ceasefire in the format of ‘quiet for quiet.’” He said those conditions were rejected, but a truce was still reached.

He reiterated that any longer-term arrangement would require “the disarmament of Hezbollah” and “a sustainable peace – peace through strength.”

The Israeli leader said recent diplomatic movement followed outreach from Lebanon seeking direct engagement. “I answered that call,” Netanyahu says, describing the contact as the first of its kind in more than 40 years.

He added that US President Donald Trump plans to host him and Lebanese President Joseph Aoun at the White House to help advance negotiations.

Netanyahu also pointed to Israeli military actions as shaping current conditions, saying Israel “changed the balance of power in Lebanon.”

He referenced the 2024 pager attack against hundreds of Hezbollah operatives, damage to the group’s rocket and missile capabilities, and the killing of its leader, Hassan Nasrallah.

He said Hezbollah still retains some weapons. “there are still rockets that they have left. We will also need to address that as part of progress toward a security agreement and a lasting peace agreement.”

Netanyahu said he also spoke with Trump over the past two days, adding the US president is “strongly determined to continue both the naval blockade [on Iran] and efforts to dismantle what remains of Iran’s nuclear capabilities.”

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Acts 28 ends abruptly and that’s never sat right with me. With the inclusion of Acts 29, we are given a nice well-rounded finale to Luke’s biography and some interesting closure to Pontius Pilate as well. Join me as I continue my Lost Books of the Bible series on YouTube, reading from Acts 29, 3 Corinthians, and the Phoenix of Tertullian.

You can read along with these texts and more on our Sacred Scripture page. 

IN the summer of 2019, I was seated in the wine cellar of a walled Medieval town high above the Dordogne Valley of France, not far from Sarlat-la-Canéda, making phone calls, writing reports. I have given this story in other places and it appears as though you’re about to hear it again. Rob Skiba is a name you that you might be familiar with. Though he had made a name for himself as a Nephilim researcher, more recently Rob had taken a dive into the deep end of the pool via flat earth research. The recorded interviews I conducted between he and Rick Hummer, a fellow flat earth investigator and close friend of his, was published while still occupying that very wine cellar. Read all about it. Chicago Is Not a Mirage.

Word quickly spread. Within a few short weeks, dozens of flat earth researchers began accepting my invite for a private interview, if not a series of interviews. From a 17th-century tower built by King Louis XIV, and with a stunning view of the Alps, I sat down with Robbie Davidson, founder of the Flat Earth International Conferences, conducting multiple sessions. While staying in Dumfries, Scotland, David Weiss agreed to take part in the interviews, as did Bob Knodel of Globebusters. There were others. But when I asked the interviewees to discuss the moments that shaped their lives, among the many PSYOPs, false flag attacks, and hoaxes that were discussed, only these men committed commentary to the false 9/11 narrative.

The resulting recordings ballooned into The Unexpected Cosmology, a book which became a website and was even intended as an anthology. And of course, the following discourse was originally a chapter. It was Walt Disney who stated, “Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.” Those sentiments remain applicable here as well. American Sensationalism: The 9/11 Interviews was always intended to be expanded upon with the inclusion of new researchers. So I’m sorry to say the project became stagnant during the Covid-19 psychodrama. I took a break to tackle other projects. We lost Rob Skiba. Rob offered hours of private conversation regarding his life but we never got around to the big one. 9/11. It was in the cards. Sadly, Bob Knodel died soon afterwards. Voices are being squeezed from an entire generation. Gnosis passes with them.

In the aftermath, the FE community became fractured. People began going their separate ways. Robbie Davidson, among a noted few others who were interviewed for the project, got up and left the movement altogether. It is not my intent to erase his or the contributions of others if only brief. They came, they went, their testimonies remain.

The original vision may have hit roadblocks but it is not forgotten. I expanded this paper a few years later to include testimony from author Pauly Hart, a dear friend of mine. I had wanted to continue that trend every year thereafter but you know how it goes. For the 25th anniversary of the attack I have redirected my efforts to its first large scale expansion, including Andrew Hoy and Darrin Geisinger into the mix. Perhaps others will lend their experiences to the recorder in time.

The following is their report.

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