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Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdoan (3-R) greets Egypt's President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi (2-L) next to Bolivia's President Luis Arce (L) and Argentina's President Javier Milei (R) before the group photo at the end of the first session of the G20 Leaders' Meeting in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on November 18, 2024. (Photo by Ludovic MARIN / AFP) (Photo by LUDOVIC MARIN/AFP via Getty Images)

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مع تراجع دور إيران، إسرائيل تشعر بالقلق من التحالف التركي السوري المصري

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US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrive to hold a press conference in the East Room of the White House, Washington, DC, Feb. 4, 2025.

Analysis

محادثات سرية بين الولايات المتحدة وحماس تثير صدمة في إسرائيل.. فهل يجرؤ نتنياهو على تحدي ترامب؟

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Ultraorthodox Jewish men speak to soldiers standing on an armored personnel carrier in the buffer zone that separates the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights and Syria, near the Druze village of Majdal Shams, Feb. 27, 2025.

Analysis

في محاولتها التودد إلى الدروز في سوريا، هل ستواجه إسرائيل تركيا أم ستقابل بتجاهل؟

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Hamas fighters gather at the site of the handing over of two Israeli hostages in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, as part of the seventh hostage-prisoner release on February 22, 2025. Palestinian militants freed two Israeli hostages on February 22, among the last live captives eligible for release under the first phase of a fragile truce that is also expected to see Palestinian prisoners released. (Photo by Abood Abusalama / Middle East Images / Middle East Images via AFP) (Photo by ABOOD ABUSALAMA/Middle

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مع فقدان ترامب لاهتمامه، من المرجح أن تكسب إسرائيل الوقت وتمدد المرحلة الأولى من الاتفاق

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TOPSHOT - Israeli Air Force F-15 and F-35 fighter aircraft fly over Camille Chamoun Sports City Stadium on the outskirts of Beirut on February 23, 2025 during the funeral of slain Hezbollah leaders Hassan Nasrallah and Hashem Safieddine. Tens of thousands of mourners dressed in black vowed support for Hezbollah at the Beirut funeral of slain leader Hassan Nasrallah, after the group was dealt major blows in its last round of hostilities with Israel. The September killing of the charismatic leader, who led He

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إسرائيل تستعرض عضلاتها في لبنان وسوريا لتحذير الشرع وحزب الله

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Russian President Vladimir Putin holds flowers next to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as they meet at the Kremlin in Moscow on January 30, 2020. (Photo by MAXIM SHEMETOV / POOL / AFP) (Photo by MAXIM SHEMETOV/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

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هل يزيد التقارب الأميركي الروسي من فرص توجيه إسرائيل ضربة لإيران؟

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WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 04: U.S. President Donald Trump, accompanied by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L), speaks during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House on February 04, 2025 in Washington, DC. Netanyahu is the first foreign leader to visit Trump since he returned to the White House last month. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

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هل يستطيع نتنياهو رفض مبعوث ترامب بشأن محادثات غزة مع اقتراب المرحلة الثانية؟

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In SPACE - MAY 19: This image captured by a satellite on May 19, 2001 shows the Bushehr Reactor in Iran. The nuclear facility is located approximately 17 kilometers south of the city of Bushehr. The reactor complex occupies a 2.5 Square Kilometer site area, which includes assembly halls, a concrete channel for cooling water that runs from the reactors to the Gulf, and a the harbor, which supports loading and unloading of foreign materials needed for construction and reactor operation. There are two reactor

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ترامب ونتنياهو يتفقان على "التفاهم الكامل" بشأن إيران وإسرائيل تدرس توجيه ضربات لمواقع نووية

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Israeli hostages stand on stage flanked by Hamas militants during the official handover in Gaza, Gaza Strip, on February 8, 2025. Hamas hands over three Israeli hostages to the Red Cross as part of ongoing negotiations. (Photo by Youssef Alzanoun / Middle East Images / Middle East Images via AFP) (Photo by YOUSSEF ALZANOUN/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)

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هل تستطيع حماس تحدي إنذار ترامب مع تهاوي وقف إطلاق النار في غزة؟

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U.S. President Donald Trump greets Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House in Washington, D.C. on February 4, 2025. (Photo by Bryan Dozier / Middle East Images / Middle East Images via AFP) (Photo by BRYAN DOZIER/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)

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هل تؤدي خطة ترامب بشأن غزة إلى إفشال وقف إطلاق النار الهش بين إسرائيل وحماس؟

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هل تكون خطة ترامب بشأن غزة بمثابة تكتيك تفاوضي للتوصل إلى اتفاق سعودي إسرائيلي؟

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نتنياهو يتأرجح بين مطالبة ترامب بإنهاء الحرب وتهديدات التحالف

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