Q: Do Arab countries have issues with members of your government?

Netanyahu: Most of them couldn't care less. And they couldn't care less about the Palestinian issue.

They said, "We have to say it, but we don't mean it."

What they do care about is the survival of their own regimes, their own governments.

A new book alleges that Dutch intelligence hacked Jared Kushner's phone and watched him access a Dubai bank account holding hundreds of millions of dollars that came from a bank in Azerbaijan.

The claim comes from an excerpt of Princes and Thieves, a book by investigative journalist Matthew Cole about Kushner and UAE President Mohamed bin Zayed.

Cole says a source he considered reliable told him in spring 2020 that Kushner appeared to transfer large sums from the account to other people, including a warlord, a mercenary and a former hit man.

The excerpt's headline says the transfers totaled more than $700 million and that the bank accounts linked Trump's son-in-law and former senior adviser to Israel, the UAE and Saudi Arabia.

Source: Vanity Fair

Q: Should Qatar continue serving as a mediator in Israeli affairs?

Netanyahu: We use Qatar because America used Qatar as a mediator.

It was the main engine to spread antisemitism, anti-Zionism, first of all in American universities and then in social media.

Netanyahu says Qatar helped "force a change in public opinion" about Israel in the U.S.

Netanyahu on Qatar:

I bombed Qatar, you know. They accuse me of being pro-Qatar. I attacked Qatar.

Netanyahu:

Qatar was one of the engines of our vilification. Only one.

There are three other prominent ones.

German defense officials have advised Berlin to join Sweden and Spain in a new fighter jet project rather than the British-led Global Combat Air Programme (GCAP).

The assessment calls a German-Swedish-Spanish partnership “the more advantageous and promising” option, though it is not a final government decision and Defense Minister Boris Pistorius has not endorsed it.

It follows the collapse in June of the Franco-German FCAS program after years of disputes between Dassault and Airbus over control and workshare.

Source: Politico

WATCH: Tens of thousands of people packed Belgrade’s Slavija Square for the Student List’s final rally before Sunday’s snap parliamentary elections, the biggest electoral challenge yet to Aleksandar Vučić and his Serbian Progressive Party (SNS).

Speakers framed the vote as a choice between “Serbia or the mafia” and promised to end “14 years of humiliation, chaos and betrayal.”

No students are on the ballot; the 250 candidates, picked by student assemblies, are led by cardiologist and professor Ilija Srdanović.

Recent polls show the race neck-and-neck, with one putting the Student List at 44.5% to the SNS’s 42.7%.

Q: Zelensky says new Russian strikes overnight are proof that Putin doesn't want peace.

Trump: We will see how it works out. That's been happening a lot.

Trump on Ukraine’s Starlink access:

I don’t want to comment on it, you know, whether I called or whether somebody else called doesn’t make any difference.

I guess the bottom line, he put it back.

Trump:

I want my people to be honest, and if they're not going to be honest, they have to be prosecuted.

Q: How do you feel the Iran war impacted the midterm races?

Trump: In one way, they love it. In another way, maybe they don't. There's a price to pay.

Trump on Iran:

We’ve knocked the hell out of them, and we may do it a little bit further.

Trump on Iran:

Many great patriots really love the Iran war.

Q: If Republicans don't hold the majorities, are you not going to endorse JD Vance for 2028?

Trump: Where did you get that idea? I never even thought of it.

We have too much time to be thinking about that.

Lewis Hamilton:

I think we need to make sure we’re pushing to free Congo, free Sudan, free Syria, free Palestine.

I think there’s a lot of peace that I’m hoping that, at some stage, we get to.

Trump:

The New York Times got caught! They used a Company, Wedgewood Polls, that ADMITTED that the Poll Numbers they published were made up and FAKE.

This is what I’ve had to deal with, right from the beginning! Our powerful Lawsuit against them is getting stronger and stronger everyday.

Everything about The Failing New York Times is “ARTIFICIAL.” Thank you for your attention to this matter.

U.S. and South Korean officials see little chance of Trump meeting North Korean leader Kim Jong Un this year, as Pyongyang has not responded to U.S. outreach.

Despite Trump's willingness to resume talks, North Korea appears to be demanding concessions, potentially including sanctions relief.

No meeting is scheduled, though officials say a summit could still be arranged at short notice.

Source: Reuters

Putin:

It has become obvious to everyone that defeating Russia on the battlefield is impossible.

Inflicting a strategic defeat on Russia is unrealistic.

And I think that those who have sought to inflict a strategic defeat on Russia throughout the centuries will recognize the realities of modern life and understand that it is better to live in friendship with Russia.

This is in the interests of their own peoples.

Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi:

The U.S. has over the past three years spent $11 BILLION in taxpayer money on missile defense for Israel.

It has fired more interceptors defending Israel than Israel has.

That is not a symbiotic relationship. It is a parasitic one.