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Former US President Donald Trump gestures as US Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) addresses the crowd during a 2024 election campaign event in Columbia, South Carolina, on January 28, 2023. Trump hits the campaign trail Saturday for the first time in a third bid for the US presidency overshadowed by intensifying criminal investigations and a firestorm of political controversy. The twice-impeached Republican, whose party lost the White House and both chambers of Congress during his term, makes his case for anoth

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كيف ربما أغرقت الانتقادات الموجهة لترامب مرشح نتنياهو لجهاز الشاباك؟

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An Israeli soldier checks a Merkava battle tank deployed at a position in the Israel-annexed Golan Heights along the border with southern Syria on March 25, 2025. Israel's military said it carried out a second strike in Syria on March 25, in response to incoming fire from across the demarcation line, hours after Syrian authorities reported that at least five people had been killed as a result of Israeli shelling. (Photo by Jalaa MAREY / AFP) (Photo by JALAA MAREY/AFP via Getty Images)

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هل لبنان وسوريا جاهزان للسلام مع إسرائيل أم على وشك المزيد من التصعيد؟

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US President Donald Trump, accompanied by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L), speaks during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House, Washington, Feb. 4, 2025.

Analysis

بفضل ترامب، نتنياهو يدفع إسرائيل إلى أزمة قضائية

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An Iran-made missile and its launchers are exhibited during a rally that marks the 46th anniversary of Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution in Tehran, Iran, on February 10, 2025. (Photo by Hossein Beris / Middle East Images / Middle East Images via AFP) (Photo by HOSSEIN BERIS/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)

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إسرائيل تسعى لحث ترامب على مهاجمة إيران خلال زيارة مهمة لواشنطن

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a joint press conference with US President Donald Trump in the East Room of the White House on Feb. 4, 2025, in Washington.

Analysis

هدف نتنياهو من حرب غزة: الضغط على حماس أم البقاء السياسي؟

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Israeli army forces patrol in the village of Kfarshuba, southern Lebanon, Feb. 17, 2025.

Analysis

استراتيجية إسرائيل المزدوجة تجاه لبنان: السعي إلى اتفاق حدودي، وضرب حزب الله

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Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdoan (3-R) greets Egypt's President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi (2-L) next to Bolivia's President Luis Arce (L) and Argentina's President Javier Milei (R) before the group photo at the end of the first session of the G20 Leaders' Meeting in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on November 18, 2024. (Photo by Ludovic MARIN / AFP) (Photo by LUDOVIC MARIN/AFP via Getty Images)

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مع تراجع دور إيران، إسرائيل تشعر بالقلق من التحالف التركي السوري المصري

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US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrive to hold a press conference in the East Room of the White House, Washington, DC, Feb. 4, 2025.

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محادثات سرية بين الولايات المتحدة وحماس تثير صدمة في إسرائيل.. فهل يجرؤ نتنياهو على تحدي ترامب؟

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Ultraorthodox Jewish men speak to soldiers standing on an armored personnel carrier in the buffer zone that separates the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights and Syria, near the Druze village of Majdal Shams, Feb. 27, 2025.

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في محاولتها التودد إلى الدروز في سوريا، هل ستواجه إسرائيل تركيا أم ستقابل بتجاهل؟

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Hamas fighters gather at the site of the handing over of two Israeli hostages in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, as part of the seventh hostage-prisoner release on February 22, 2025. Palestinian militants freed two Israeli hostages on February 22, among the last live captives eligible for release under the first phase of a fragile truce that is also expected to see Palestinian prisoners released. (Photo by Abood Abusalama / Middle East Images / Middle East Images via AFP) (Photo by ABOOD ABUSALAMA/Middle

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مع فقدان ترامب لاهتمامه، من المرجح أن تكسب إسرائيل الوقت وتمدد المرحلة الأولى من الاتفاق

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TOPSHOT - Israeli Air Force F-15 and F-35 fighter aircraft fly over Camille Chamoun Sports City Stadium on the outskirts of Beirut on February 23, 2025 during the funeral of slain Hezbollah leaders Hassan Nasrallah and Hashem Safieddine. Tens of thousands of mourners dressed in black vowed support for Hezbollah at the Beirut funeral of slain leader Hassan Nasrallah, after the group was dealt major blows in its last round of hostilities with Israel. The September killing of the charismatic leader, who led He

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إسرائيل تستعرض عضلاتها في لبنان وسوريا لتحذير الشرع وحزب الله

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Russian President Vladimir Putin holds flowers next to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as they meet at the Kremlin in Moscow on January 30, 2020. (Photo by MAXIM SHEMETOV / POOL / AFP) (Photo by MAXIM SHEMETOV/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

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هل يزيد التقارب الأميركي الروسي من فرص توجيه إسرائيل ضربة لإيران؟

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