Can Netanyahu Lead The Board Of Peace Away From Harm?

 Nadene Goldfoot                                       

Netanyahu has seen combat.  He has been raised in war times.Respect his knowledge of what will happen in Gaza under Trump's plan.

Prime Minister Netanyahu publicly rejected the Board of Peace’s 15-point Gaza roadmap on Sunday, saying Israel would not carry out any IDF withdrawal from the Strip before Hamas is fully disarmed. The roadmap calls for a gradual Israeli withdrawal in parallel with partial stages of Hamas disarmament, rather than requiring Hamas to fully disarm before any withdrawal begins. Cabinet Ministers also criticized the disarmament, saying that the weapons would simply be transferred to Palestinian custodianship, and could then still be used against Israel. As of now, the IDF holds about 70% of Gazan territory.

      Left: Ajay Banga; Center:  Marco Rubio:  Steve Witkoff right ???

15-20 men backed by money and who has ever been a General?  Who has served in an army?  They are men backed by money.  They have no idea what war is like today in the Middle East with today's weapons and communication systems.  This is not the war of late.  All these men are following are Trump's lead.

Take Marco Rubio.  No, Marco Rubio has never served in the army or any branch of the armed forces. His career has been entirely in law and politics, serving as a local commissioner, state legislator, U.S. Senator, and U.S. Secretary of State.

Take President Donald Trump:  No, Donald Trump never served in the United States military.

Take Steve Witkoff: Steve Witkoff has never served in the United States Army or any other branch of the military.

                        On the Israeli Side along with his cabinet

Take Netanyahu:   Benjamin Netanyahu served in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) from 1967 to 1972 as a team leader and captain in the elite special forces commando unit Sayeret Matkal, and returned from the US to fight in the 1973 Yom Kippur War .

Benny Gantz  Benjamin "Benny" Gantz is an Israeli politician and retired army general.

President Donald Trump's Board of Peace is an international body created to oversee post-war governance and reconstruction. The query about a 15-member group likely refers to the National Committee for the Administration of Gaza (NCAG)—the 15-member Palestinian technocratic committee on the ground—or the foundational Executive Board, rather than a fixed 15-country limit, as over 20 nations have joined. 

They all have jobs elsewhere other than to sit on this board which would take work, one would hope.  How can they possibly give any of themselves other than money?

Executive Board Members

The high-level executive team managing the initiative includes: [1]

Marco Rubio: U.S. Secretary of State
Steve Witkoff: U.S. Special Envoy to the Middle East
Jared Kushner: U.S. Advisor and Trump's son-in-law
Tony Blair: Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Marc Rowan: CEO of Apollo Global Management
Ajay Banga: President of the World Bank Group
Robert Gabriel Jr.: American political and security advisor
Nickolay Mladenov: High Representative for Gaza and former UN envoy [1, 2, 3, 4]

Governance on the Ground

Right now Israel's IDF holds about 70% of Gazan territory that has come to them with their own blood and guts.  Gazans are still fully armed.  To reduce IDF in any amount reduces their % of protection for those remaining and the proposal gets worse as time goes by, with less and less IDF remaining.  

Weapons would simply be transferred from one Gazan to the other remaining Gazan as the facade continues.  Netanyahu is not going along with such an unwise proposition.  Israel's cabinet ministers, all army people, for all civilians have been serving their country in Israel and have been raised under war conditions, know that this is ridiculous.  

Trump really is making a fool out of himself, unfortunately, in this matter;  a man who has never served in any service for his own country---he dares to take the lives of Israelis now, and I note, after he has already played badly with the youth of Iran who were promised help and yet, 16,000 of them were machine-gunned down in their very own streets by their Ayatollah government ! 

I hand it to these men of honor and prestige and money;  they are in a position to help financially to bring about Trump's  dream to make Gaza a place of fun and games and honoring him,  but it seems to me that they are out of their element. Be wiser and heed Netanyahu's advice.   

Houthi Cabinet, Prime Minister Wiped Out After Attacking Others

  Nadene Goldfoot                                   

Ahmed al-Rahawi, the prime minister of Yemen’s Houthi-led government in Sanaa, was killed in an Israeli air strike on 28 August 2025.(Livemint)  

After being hit by many intercontinenatal ballistic missiles coming from Houthi terrorists in Yemen, Israel has retaliated by taking out their Prime Minister and other ministers, their connection to Iran who has been supplying them with orders and arms.         
                    

Aug 30 (Reuters) - The prime minister of Yemen's Houthi-run government and several other ministers were killed in an Israeli strike on the capital Sanaa, the head of the Houthi Supreme Political Council said on Saturday, in the first such attack to kill senior officials. Sources confirmed to Reuters that the energy, foreign and information ministers were among those killed.

                               Mahdi al-Mashat,  is a Yemeni politician and military officer who serves as the chairman of the Supreme Political Council, the executive body of the Houthi movement.

A number of others were wounded in Thursday's strike, Mahdi al-Mashat added, without providing details.  The Houthis are an arm of Iran.  

Mashat's statement did not make clear whether the Houthi defence minister was among the casualties.                      

Former Deputy, Al-Allamah Muhammed Miftah assumes the duty of Prime Minister of Yemen following the now Martyring of Al-Rahawi.  

Ahmad Ghaleb al-Rahawi was appointed as prime minister a year ago, but the de- facto leader of the government was his deputy, Mohammed Miftah, who was assigned on Saturday to carry out the prime minister's duties.

Rahawi was seen largely as a figurehead who was not part of the inner circle of the Houthi leadership.

 Yemen has been split between a Houthi administration in Sanaa and a Saudi-backed government in Aden. 

The Houthis released footage showing the Eternity C sinking after it was hit by rocket-propelled grenades

 Since Israel's war in Gaza against the Palestinian militant group Hamas began in October 7,  2023, the Iran-aligned Houthis have attacked vessels in the Red Sea in what they describe as acts of solidarity with the Palestinians.  Yes, the Houthi rebels from Yemen continue to attack vessels in the Red Sea with drones and missiles, claiming their actions are in protest of Israel's war in Gaza. Recent attacks in July 2025 included the sinking of two Greek-owned cargo ships, the Magic Seas and the Eternity Sea, with several crew members killed and others taken hostage or rescued. These attacks are a resurgence of Houthi maritime operations and have significantly impacted global shipping, diverting trade to longer routes around the Cape of Good Hope. 

Yemen's Houthi rebels have once again targeted maritime traffic in the Red Sea, sinking the Liberian-flagged cargo vessel Eternity C. The attack resulted in at least three crew fatalities, with only six out of the 25 crew members rescued so far. The Houthis have been carrying out assaults on shipping in the Red Sea, framing their campaign as support for the Palestinians amid the ongoing Israeli-Hamas conflict.

New ballistic missile, which they said took about 11 minutes to travel that distance from Yemen to Israel, a new type of hypersonic missile, and the incident led to a strong response from Israel, including airstrikes on Houthi-controlled areas in Yemen. 

They have also frequently fired missiles towards Israel, most of which have been intercepted. Israel has responded with strikes on Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen, including the vital Hodeidah port.

During the last year, Israel carried out a series of assassinations targeting senior leaders and commanders of Hamas and its Lebanese ally Hezbollah, significantly weakening both groups.. 

On Thursday, Israeli security sources had said the targets had been various locations where a large number of senior Houthi officials had gathered to watch a televised speech recorded by leader Abdul Malik al-Houthi.

Khaled Mashal  born 28 May 1956) age 69,  is a Palestinian politician who served as the second chairman of the Hamas Political Bureau from 1996 until May 2017, when he was succeeded by Ismail Haniyeh. He has also covered duties as the acting leader of Hamas twice, from July 2024 until August 2024 and since October 2024, after both leaders were assassinated by Israel.  He has been living in Qatar.  You can believe that he is best friends with the head of Qatar.  The head of state and government in Qatar is the Emir, His Highness Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani. He has reigned as the Emir since June 25, 2013, succeeding his father, Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani.

"Our stance remains as it is and will remain until the aggression ends and the siege is lifted, no matter how great the challenges," Mashat said in a televised speech, adding that the group "shall take revenge."

Who's next to step up to the plate and become a martyr?  

Resource

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nI8g_Zc9jA

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/prime-minister-yemens-houthi-run-government-killed-israeli-strike-2025-08-30/

https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/ahmed-al-rahawi-killed-inside-the-life-and-legacy-of-the-yemen-houthi-pm-101756566245639.html

https://jewishbubba.blogspot.com/2025/08/second-hit-of-intercontinental-cluster.html