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A retired Israeli general who has had significant influence on Israel’s operations in Gaza has called for the Palestinian territory to remain in a state of devastation “for generations,” Middle East Eye reported on Monday, citing Israeli media. “Israel has no interest in Gaza being rebuilt, it is better for us that it be destroyed […]

Saudis On Trump's Israel Normalization Demand: 'Tweets Don't Overturn Signed Deals' Update(1258ET): Saudi unnamed officials are pushing back, as expected... After President Trump earlier this morning in a Truth Social post asserted that the already signed US-Saudi nuclear deal would actually be conditioned on Riyadh joining the Abraham Accords, journalist Laura Rozen quotes an unnamed Saudi source who says Trump’s demand is too late. "It was signed. So nothing to renegotiate," the Saudi source says. "Tweets don’t overturn signed agreements." Is the 'civilian nuclear energy' deal already dead on arrival, even as it's...

China To Import Record Amount Of US Ethane As Iran War Chokes Off Naphtha, LPG Supplies One year ago, in the immediate aftermath of Trump's Liberation Day tariffs, there was a flurry of discussion over who is more reliant on whom: the US on Chinese rare earth materials, or China on US ethane output (see "Chinese Plastics Factories Face Mass Closure As US Ethane Supply Evaporates" and "Who Blinks First? China May Exempt Tariffs On US Ethane & Other Goods"). Following the detente in the US-China trade war, that discussion was...