Brazil has strongly condemned Israel’s expansionist “E1” illegal colonial project, warning that it poses a grave geopolitical threat to the viability of a s

Israeli finance minister directly links green-lighting 3,000 housing units in West Bank with killing two-state solution, days after western states said they would recognise Palestine

Anchorage summit, DC crackdowns, Gaza aid row, and Europe’s arms boom. Here is Thursday's SOFREP Evening Brief - August 14, 2025.

JERUSALEM / PNN / In a move widely seen as a challenge to the international community and the two-state solution, Israeli Finance Minister

Controversial project that would split West Bank into north and south has been on hold for decades due to international pressure; settler leader hails 'historical achievement' The post Smotrich to okay 3,

Israel's far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich on Thursday said his country would annex the occupied West Bank if the international community officially recognizes the state of Palestine next month.

Standing at the site of the planned settlement in Maale Adumim on Thursday, Smotrich, a settler himself, said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. President Donald Trump had agreed to the revival of the E1 development, though there was no immediate confirmation from either.

In a reversal of past US policy, the State Department backed the E1 project connecting Maale Adumim to Jerusalem, calling it essential to Israel’s stability and regional peace.