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Trump: ‘I’m Not Sure a Two-State Solution Anymore Is Gonna Work’

Republican presidential candidate and former US President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan, US, April 2, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Rebecca Cook

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump does not rule out building detention camps on U.S. soil for migrants in the country illegally if he wins a second White House term, he told Time magazine in an interview published on Tuesday.

Trump was asked whether he would build new detention camps as part of his campaign pledge to carry out the biggest deportation of migrants in the country illegally.

“I would not rule out anything,” Trump said. “But there wouldn’t be that much of a need for them” because, he said, the plan is to deport migrants in the U.S. illegally back to their home countries as quickly as possible.

“We’re not leaving them in the country,” Trump said. “We’re bringing them out.”

Trump has made illegal crossings at the U.S.-Mexico border a centerpiece of his campaign against President Joe Biden, a Democrat who is running for a second four-year term. Immigration is a top issue for voters, according to national opinion polls.

Trump said he would use National Guard troops to assist in his planned deportation efforts, but also did not rule out deploying active military forces to help.

“I don’t think I’d have to do that. I think the National Guard would be able to do that. If they weren’t able to, then I’d use the military,” he said.

Trump was asked about the 1878 Posse Comitatus Act, a post- Civil War law that prohibits the deployment of the military against civilians.

“Well, these aren’t civilians. These are people that aren’t legally in our country. This is an invasion of our country,” Trump said.

Trump has used dehumanizing terminology to describe immigrants in the U.S. illegally, calling them “animals” when talking about alleged criminal acts, and saying they are “poisoning the blood of our country,” a phrase that has drawn criticism as xenophobic and echoing Nazi rhetoric.

In his campaign speeches, Trump rails against the prosecutors who have brought the four criminal cases he currently faces, including Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and Georgia’s Fulton County district attorney, Fani Willis.

Asked if he would instruct his attorney general in a future Trump administration to prosecute Bragg and Willis, he said, “What they’ve done is a terrible thing,” but “no, I don’t want to do that.”

Trump was also asked about an interview he gave last year when he said he would want to be a dictator for a day to close the southern border and expand domestic energy production.

Trump told Time: “That was said sarcastically. That was meant as a joke.”

On Ukraine, Trump said if elected in November “I’m going to try and help Ukraine, but Europe has to get there also and do their job.”

Trump has been unclear whether he would continue sending military aid to Ukraine in its war against Russia if he becomes president.

Trump said a two-state solution between Israel and the Palestinians – a bedrock of U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East – was probably no longer feasible.

“I’m not sure a two-state solution anymore is gonna work,” Trump said. The animosity between Israelis and the Palestinians, was now so intense it makes a two-state solution “very, very tough.”

Trump also said he “wouldn’t feel good” about hiring anybody in a new administration who believed Biden won the 2020 election. Trump has never stopped making the baseless claim that the 2020 election was stolen from him because of fraud.

He said if he wins in November, he would serve one more term, “and then I’m gonna leave.”

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IDF on Alert as Iran Faces Increasing Pressures

IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi, center, speaking to commanders and soldiers in the Golan Heights on Dec. 13, 2024. Photo: IDF.

JNS.orgIDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi has placed the military on high alert amid concerns that Iran may resort to “extreme measures” against Israel.

While the likelihood remains low, security officials warn that shifts in the regional strategic landscape could push Tehran toward a violent confrontation with Jerusalem, the Walla news site noted on Sunday.

These concerns arise against the backdrop of Iran’s domestic turmoil and the weakening of its regional terrorist proxies after more than a year of war. The Islamic Republic is grappling with a collapsing currency, domestic unrest and anticipated increased US pressure under incoming President Donald Trump.

The IDF cautions that Trump’s unpredictable Middle East policy could alter the strategic balance through military actions against Tehran’s nuclear program or severe economic sanctions.

Meanwhile, Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi is warning of the serious consequences of any additional Israeli airstrikes on Iran.

“We are fully prepared for the possibility of further attacks by Israel,” Araghchi told China’s state-run CCTV in comments that aired on Saturday. “I hope Israel will refrain from taking such reckless actions as it could lead to a large-scale war.”

The Israeli Air Force attacked Iranian territory twice last year, in April and October, in response to Tehran’s drone and missile launches on Israel. Iran is worried about another direct strike by Israel on its strategic sites soon.

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Trump Administration Plans Crippling Sanctions on ICC

The International Criminal Court, The Hague, Netherlands. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.

JNS.orgPresident-elect Donald Trump plans to implement devastating sanctions against the International Criminal Court in The Hague immediately after taking office, sources close to the matter disclosed to Israel Hayom. These executive orders could be unveiled as soon as Jan. 21.

The sanctions package will target both individual ICC personnel, including judges and prosecutors, and the institution as a whole. The administration intends to classify the ICC as an organization threatening US interests, employing designation procedures similar to those used by the State Department for terrorist organizations globally. This designation will trigger severe restrictions on anyone involved with the court’s operations.

Financial institutions worldwide will be required to terminate relationships with ICC personnel or face U.S. sanctions themselves. Mirroring actions taken against sanctioned Israeli citizens by the outgoing administration, ICC staff will find themselves unable to perform routine banking operations or use credit cards. Their financial activities will be effectively frozen, with exceptions only for essential needs such as food purchases. Furthermore, all U.S.-based assets belonging to ICC employees and the institution will be frozen.

The incoming administration’s strategy extends beyond unilateral actions, as it plans to secure commitments from U.S. allies to reject cooperation with arrest warrants targeting Israeli officials.

These measures aim to create conditions allowing the court to independently withdraw its arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant. Officials hope that during appeal proceedings, either Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan or the judges will identify legal grounds to rescind these warrants.

The incoming administration considers the ICC’s arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant a direct threat to US national security. The incoming officials believe these actions ultimately seek to strip the US and its allies of their ability to mount military defenses against global threats.

Trump administration officials and Republican senators widely view Israel’s situation as a precedent, believing the US could face similar warrants next, leading them to treat these actions against Israeli officials as precursors to targeting American leadership and military command.

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), who will lead the Senate Intelligence Committee starting this week, said that “the ICC is a ‘kangaroo court’ and Karim Khan is a deranged zealot. Woe to him and anyone who tries to enforce these lawless warrants. Let me give everyone a friendly reminder: The US law on ICC is known as the ‘Hague Invasion Act,’ and there’s a reason for that. Think about it.”

Originally published by Israel Hayom.

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Israeli Forces Eliminate Wanted Terrorist Who Served in PA Police

Israeli security forces during counter-terrorism operations in Samaria, Jan. 5, 2024. Photo: Israel Defense Forces.

JNS.orgIsraeli security forces eliminated a wanted terrorist during an overnight operation in northern Samaria on Saturday. He had served in the Palestinian Authority’s Preventive Security Service, according to reports.

The Israel Defense Forces, Israel Police and Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) confirmed in a joint statement on Sunday that as part of counter-terror raids throughout Judea and Samaria, forces killed an armed terrorist during a shootout in the village of Meithalun, near Jenin.

Ramallah’s official Wafa news agency mourned the slain terrorist on Sunday morning as the “martyr hero” Hassan Ali Hassan Raba’iya, saying he held a rank in the P.A.’s police forces equivalent to that of lieutenant.

Anwar Rajab, a spokesman for the Palestinian Authority Security Forces (PASF), “expressed his condolences to the family of the martyr, the entire Raba’iya family and the people of the village of Meithalun, asking Allah to bestow upon him His vast mercy and peace,” according to the official Wafa report.

The Israel Police’s Spokesperson’s Unit published video footage of the operation in which Raba’iya was killed on Sunday afternoon. The statement noted that forces, during searches of his home, found a shotgun, explosives, weapon parts and 96,000 shekels ($26,000) in cash.

Members of the PASF have a long history of carrying out attacks against Israelis. Last year, the P.A.’s ruling Fatah party boasted that most of its “martyrs” had served in the PASF.

In addition, the Hamas terrorist organization has recruited dozens of PASF operatives, using them as terrorist combatants and for intelligence gathering, Israel’s Kan News public broadcaster reported in mid-2023.

Last month, Axios reported that the Biden administration privately asked Israel to green-light an “urgent” request for US military aid to Ramallah.

The move came after the P.A. launched a rare counter-terror raid in Jenin, where Ramallah for years refused to act against Iranian-backed terrorist organizations, in violation of its commitments under the Oslo Accords.

Ramallah launched its operation, dubbed “Defense of the Homeland,” after the Dec. 5 seizure by Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad of a P.A. vehicle and amid fears that terrorists in the Samaria city could attempt a coup inspired by the swift takedown of Bashar Assad’s regime in Syria.

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