Israel seeks US guarantees on freedom of action in Gaza ahead of UN vote

Jerusalem pushing Trump administration for written assurances on military freedom and US backing if international stabilization force fails to disarm Hamas; draft resolution would demilitarize Gaza and deploy multinational force including Arab states

Israel is seeking a side letter of understandings from the Trump administration to accompany a forthcoming United Nations Security Council resolution on the future of the Gaza Strip, according to three Israeli officials speaking on condition of anonymity.

The proposed resolution is expected to outline the demilitarization of Gaza and establish a mandate for an international stabilization force that would be deployed in the territory. Israeli officials are pressing Washington for written assurances on Israel’s freedom of action under the resolution, which is currently being drafted by the U.S.

A similar arrangement was made following the 2006 Lebanon War, when the U.S. provided Israel with a side letter clarifying its operational leeway under the ceasefire framework established by UN Security Council Resolution 1701. However, officials noted that this case is different: the Gaza war has already been internationalized, with Arab states involved in shaping the resolution text, and it remains unclear whether the U.S. will agree to issue a parallel letter for a resolution it is authoring.

Israel seeks US guarantees on freedom of action in Gaza ahead of UN vote

Jerusalem pushing Trump administration for written assurances on military freedom and US backing if international stabilization force fails to disarm Hamas; draft resolution would demilitarize Gaza and deploy multinational force including Arab states

Israel is seeking a side letter of understandings from the Trump administration to accompany a forthcoming United Nations Security Council resolution on the future of the Gaza Strip, according to three Israeli officials speaking on condition of anonymity.

The proposed resolution is expected to outline the demilitarization of Gaza and establish a mandate for an international stabilization force that would be deployed in the territory. Israeli officials are pressing Washington for written assurances on Israel’s freedom of action under the resolution, which is currently being drafted by the U.S.

Israeli officials say the goal of the side letter is twofold: to secure U.S. backing for Israel's freedom of military action in relation to the international force and to guarantee American support if the force fails to disarm Hamas.

According to the draft resolution, the stabilization force would include troops from several Arab and Muslim-majority countries—potentially including Indonesia, Pakistan and Azerbaijan—alongside Palestinian forces. The mandate, as outlined in the draft, would emphasize disarming terrorist groups, rather than serving as a traditional peacekeeping force.

Some ministers from the hardline Religious Zionist Party voiced criticism that negotiations over the plan have not been presented to either the full or security cabinets, but are instead being conducted privately between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer and U.S. officials.

Members of Netanyahu’s right-wing coalition have raised concerns about what level of military freedom Israel would retain if the international force fails to disarm Hamas, and what the status of the Palestinian Authority would be under the resolution.

https://www.ynetnews.com/article/bymj1d5j11l

Congress collects paychecks while keeping government closed—Sen Kennedy proposes bills to end that

"My bills ensure Congress feels the same pain as the folks we’re failing to pay—our troops, air traffic controllers, and federal workers."

As the government shutdown has now continued into its sixth week, congressional lawmakers, unlike many other government employees who must continue working, have been collecting a paycheck. Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) revealed that he intends to change that and introduced two bills to suspend congressional salaries during government shutdowns.

The Louisiana senator’s first bill is called the No Shutdown Paychecks to Politicians Act, and states, “If on any day during a pay period a Government shutdown is in effect, the payroll administrator of each House of Congress shall exclude from the payments otherwise required to be made with respect to that pay period for the compensation of each Member of Congress.”

Kennedy said in a press release on the bill, “I don’t see missing paychecks or empty dinner plates as leverage or bargaining chips,” Kennedy said. “My bills ensure Congress feels the same pain as the folks we’re failing to pay—our troops, air traffic controllers, and federal workers. If we can’t do our jobs and fund the government, we don’t deserve a paycheck—plain and simple.”

Article I, Section 6 of the US Constitution mandates that “Senators and Representatives shall receive a Compensation for their Services, to be ascertained by Law, and paid out of the Treasury of the United States.” The 27th Amendment also states: “No law, varying the compensation for the services of the Senators and Representatives, shall take effect, until an election of Representatives shall have intervened.”

The second bill, titled the “Withhold Member Pay During Shutdowns Act,” intends to sidestep the 27th Amendment as well as the Article I provision by putting lawmakers’ paychecks “in escrow until after the November 2026 elections.”

“We’re on day 36,” Kennedy said on the floor of the Senate earlier this week, “We’ve been that close for a week, frankly. I hope I’m wrong in saying this, but, I don’t think we’re really that close. I wish we were, and I hope we are, but I think we’re going to be in the shutdown a while longer.”

https://twitter.com/i/status/1986190229221298471

https://thepostmillennial.com/congress-collects-paychecks-while-keeping-government-closed-sen-kennedy-proposes-bills-to-end-that

ZIONISTS’ SATANIC PACT (video): 1926 book about “Secret World Government” as Rothschild-Pike NWO

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‘Shroud of secrecy’: Albanese government accused of rushing controversial Freedom of Information laws through Lower House

Labor has been accused by the Coalition and the crossbench of forcing its contentious Freedom of Information laws through the house without adequate scrutiny after it blocked debate by suspending standing orders.

Shadow attorney general Andrew Wallace has unleashed on Labor and said the government was throwing a “shroud of secrecy” over its activities after it gagged debate on its controversial freedom of information bill.

The Albanese government wants to ban anonymous FOI requests, clarify when cabinet confidentiality can be used to deny a request and make Australians pay a fee when seeking information – a suite of changes which has been labelled a “truth tax”.

Labor believes the changes are needed to remove the “barriers” preventing public servants from giving the government "frank and fearless advice" and to cut down on anonymous FOI requests generated by AI bots.

As part of the changes, the government will introduce an FOI request fee, believed to be in the vicinity of $30 to $60 each time a request is made.

The polarising bill passed the House of Representatives on Thursday despite the Coalition, Greens and independents all voting against it.

Independent MP Helen Haines had previously put forward amendments to the bill in the Federation Chamber which could not be resolved there and where then put before the house.

Ms Haines moved two amendments, including scrapping the cabinet secrecy expansions and overhauling the fees and said the bill was packed with “antidemocratic reforms”.

“In a bill full of antidemocratic reforms that will worsen transparency and accountability, these amendments are particularly important because they go to the question of cabinet exemption expansion,” she said.

“It’s already incredibly difficult under the current FOI Act to access documents that have gone anywhere near the cabinet room.”

However, Leader of the House, Tony Burke successfully gagged debate on the amendments after suspending the standing orders.

The bill was passed with a minor amendment put forward by the government, yet all amendments put forward by Ms Haines and Teal independents Sophie Scamps and Kate Cheney were all rejected.

Shadow attorney general Andrew Wallace said “ever single stakeholder” apart from the bureaucracy had denounced the legislation and that the government was throwing a “shroud of secrecy” over its affairs.

“You can’t make a silk purse out of a sows ear, every single stakeholder apart from the public service has condemned thus bill,” he said.

https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/politics/shroud-of-secrecy-albanese-government-accused-of-rushing-controversial-freedom-of-information-laws-through-lower-house/news-story/0f4ede2dd31be3ab18597c1259200158

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