For today, links to reports from Middle East Monitor, Reuters, and Middle East Eye, and to commentary from Middle East Eye and Middle East Monitor; other articles are accessible by clicking on their names below, or scroll down. (IRAN and UKRAINE entries for this date are HERE and HERE, or scroll up or down. GAZA 3-5-25 entry is HERE, or scroll down.) — MCM
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Trump issues ‘last warning’ to Hamas and Palestinians in Gaza. From Middle East Monitor. U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday issued a stern warning to the Palestinian group Hamas, threatening severe consequences if all captives held in Gaza are not immediately freed. READ MORE . . .
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Trump’s threats over Gaza will encourage Netanyahu to back out of ceasefire deal, Hamas says. From Reuters. Hamas said today that U.S. president Donald Trump’s repeated threats against Palestinians constituted support for Israel’s prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu to back out of the Gaza ceasefire and intensify the siege of Gazans. READ MORE . . .
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France says plan for post-war Gaza must ‘entirely’ exclude Hamas. From Middle East Eye. France today welcomed an Arab plan to rebuild the Gaza Strip under the future administration of the Palestinian Authority, adding that Hamas should be “entirely” excluded from running the territory. READ MORE . . .
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U.S.-Israeli rejection of the Arab Gaza plan is a moment of truth, by Soumaya Ghannoushi | Middle East Eye On Tuesday, Arab kings and presidents gathered in Cairo, summoned by the weight of history, drawn into a theatre where destinies could be decided — not just for Palestine, but for the very legitimacy of their own rule. READ MORE . . .
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FROM MARCH 5 Let’s look at what was absent from the Arab Summit closing statement, by Ali Muhammad Fakhro | Middle East Monitor Millions listened to the closing statement of this week’s Arab Summit, which undoubtedly showed great progress in its tone and the seriousness of its objections to the criminal Zionist actions across all of Palestine, all of Lebanon and, more lately, all of Syria. READ MORE . . .
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