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.

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

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.

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

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.

Construction in E1 is great news for Jerusalem. We are taking responsibility for our future. The world may oppose it now - but will recognize it later.