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Israel, Palestine, Ukraine, Russia, Bosnia, Serbia, Peru, and Sudan.

Moses Shown the Promised Land, Benjamin West, 1801, oil on wood, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

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Here are the five things you need to know today:

• ISRAEL. PALESTINE. Netanyahu’s revanchism signals weakness, not strength.

• UKRAINE. RUSSIA. Talk of land swaps proves fertile for conjecture.

• BOSNIA. SERBIA. Populism reaches an inflection point.

• PERU. Boluarte rules on the past to avoid the future.

• SUDAN. A crisis grows too big to ignore.

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ISRAEL. PALESTINE. The greater beyond

Netanyahu’s revanchism signals weakness, not strength.

Arab states slammed Benjamin Netanyahu Wednesday, after he told a news program he was "very attached" to a "vision of Greater Israel", seen to include parts of Egypt and Jordan. South Sudan denied it was in talks to resettle Palestinians.

INTELLIGENCE. Netanyahu's remarks, in Hebrew, have been translated several ways. There are also several interpretations of what “Greater Israel” means, and what he meant by "vision". It's likely to be dog-whistling to his base, but the fact he said it at all indicates how reliant he is on far-right support, even to the detriment of ties with Jordan and Egypt, which have been quietly supportive even as Israel's erstwhile allies in the West turn their backs.

FOR BUSINESS. Israel's enemies have long claimed it seeks to control the lands promised in Genesis: "from the brook of Egypt to the Euphrates". And now Israel is the region's strongest military power, Netanyahu's remarks have been seized on. Yet barely able to manage Gaza, where 123 were reportedly killed Wednesday, any further advances would be intolerable. Turkey, Iran and Russia have nonetheless offered their services to Syria and Lebanon, just in case.

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UKRAINE. RUSSIA. Notes from underground

Talk of land swaps proves fertile for conjecture.

Moscow said Wednesday its peace conditions had not changed. Friedrich Merz said Kyiv might negotiate on territory but not "legal recognition". The Telegraph said Donald Trump could offer Vladimir Putin access to Alaska’s rare earths.

INTELLIGENCE. The Alaska offer may or may not be real, but the confusion around