🇮🇱 Channel 14 reports the Israeli government may announce a settlement nucleus in Gaza before the elections, while demolitions roll on in southern Lebanon
Laith Marouf comes at this from a position he states openly: he rejects Israel's legitimacy outright and describes it as a colonial project.
His read on the settlement report cut against the panic: psychological warfare, he argued, over ground he claims three years of munitions have left unlivable, an announcement designed to break morale rather than break ground.
His forecast runs darker than any other guest's.
Eighteen months to two years of continuous escalation, in his telling, ending in what he insists is Israel's collapse, militarily or through courts, boycotts, and economic unraveling.
On the Gulf, his claim is that Iran strikes only facilities used for American operations, that Qatar objected to its bases being used this round, and that Oman's fee revenue shows the sovereignty path he believes the region should take.
There was real news between the fireworks: the Axios report that Trump told Netanyahu to pull out of Syria and south Lebanon, and fresh footage of a partially sunken bulk carrier near the strait.
