⚠️ U.S. TREASURY PROPOSES ACTION AGAINST IRAN-LINKED BANK: The U.S. Department of the Treasury has proposed sanctioning Banque Misr UAE, the Emirati branch of one of Egypt's largest banks, and cutting off its access to the U.S. financial system.
The Treasury accuses the branch of helping Iran evade sanctions and facilitating funding for the IRGC and the Iranian Defense Ministry.
🇺🇸 TRUMP ADMINISTRATION PLANS TO END MILITARY AID TO KURDISH PESHMERGA: The Trump administration plans to end U.S. military aid to the Kurdistan Regional Government's Peshmerga forces when the current agreement expires on September 30, according to the BBC.
🇮🇱 BEN-GVIR CONFRONTS NETANYAHU AS RIGHT-WING POLITICAL TENSIONS RISE: National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir sharply challenged Prime Minister Netanyahu over reported advanced merger negotiations between Bezalel Smotrich and Moshe Feiglin.
Ben-Gvir said: “Good week, Mr. Prime Minister, I was stunned by reports that Smotrich and Feiglin, with you acting as mediator, were conducting advanced negotiations on a merger, and that you and Smotrich issued a staged call for unity with me solely in order to ‘put pressure on Feiglin’ and lower his demands. It’s one thing to boycott events I attend and be embarrassed to be photographed with me, but was the impassioned call for unity also nothing more than a cynical ploy?! Mr. Prime Minister, it’s worth reminding you: my name is Itamar Ben-Gvir, not Benny Gantz.”
Political commentator Amit Segal said Ben-Gvir is escalating tensions. Segal also reported that Netanyahu did not know about or participate in the Smotrich-Feiglin talks and raised the question of whether Netanyahu's control over the bloc has begun to crack.
Separately, the Bennett-Eisenkot dispute turned to E1, with the argument that anyone who opposes a Palestinian state must support construction there.
Gilad Erdan and Benny Gantz also met and are expected to accelerate negotiations on a possible merger soon.
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