As Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy left the White House July 28 after separate, private meetings with President Donald Trump, the dizzying turn of events in the U.S.-Israel aggression on Iran continued, as did additional events in the Middle East.

Mr. Trump announced a tentative agreement July 30 for Hamas to disarm, an announcement not signed by Mr. Netanyahu or the Israeli government. The resistance group has stated it will not disarm until Israeli forces withdraw from Gaza. But Mr. Netanyahu has declared no withdrawal until full disarmament.

Calling the agreement “a major milestone,” Mr. Trump posted on Truth Social that the plan “will be carried out in carefully structured phases. As disarmament is completed, Israeli forces will withdraw, and the International Stabilization Force will work with a new Palestinian police force to take responsibility for Gaza being safe for its residents and its neighbors.”

Mr. Netanyahu’s government had passed legislation for such a Force, including 200 soldiers from “friendly countries,” to work with new Palestinian law enforcement.

To the disappointment of observers, Mr. Netanyahu’s National Public Diplomacy Directorate chief Tzipura Hotovely said there was no pressure from the president in the meeting for Israel to move forward with the reconstruction of Gaza, nor was there pressure to withdraw IDF forces from Syria or Lebanon—appearing somewhat in contradiction to the announcement of progress with Hamas.

More countries entered the Iran conflict as the U.S. and Saudis launched a joint attack July 29 on groups in Iraq the U.S. alleges are affiliated with Iran, killing more than a dozen fighters. The attack was in response to missiles fired into Saudi Arabia, allegedly by Iraqi militias.

Saudi Arabia initially entered the conflict when Saudi missiles hit an airstrip on July 13 in Yemen as a plane carrying Ansar Allah dignitaries and Iranian security forces approached for landing. Ansar Allah (also called Houthis) struck back, hitting a Saudi oil facility and announcing a blockade of Saudi ships exiting the Bab al-Mandeb Strait, vital for oil exports.

The Saudi government has announced the formation of an international alliance to guard the Red Sea from attacks by Ansar Allah. At least three Red Sea countries have agreed to participate—Egypt, Djibouti and Sudan. The U.S., Pakistan, Germany, France, Türkiye, and others have also been invited, according to media reports.

Mr. Zelenskyy arrived in the U.S. with an agenda to acquire U.S. Patriot missiles, which he said are vital to defend his country’s airspace from daily Russian attacks. His country had been drawn into the conflict on July 25 after a Ukrainian drone hit an Iranian cargo ship in the Caspian Sea, killing one sailor. Iran vowed the attack “will not go unanswered.”

Analysts purport that reasons for Ukraine’s aggression are an Israeli effort to draw Europe and U.S. forces closer in the wars on Iran and Russia and a NATO effort to test the battlefield. Both scenarios would open new fronts of battle for Iran.

“It’s evident that the U.S. is pulling in vassal states,” said Ajamu Baraka, director of the anti-war Black Alliance for Peace North-South People(s) Centered Human Rights. He said Gulf states are realizing the U.S. can’t provide the security they imagined and may be considering different paradigms for peace in the region.

Mr. Baraka noted the “enormous amounts” of resources Gulf states have in Western financial institutions and questioned where they would go except to China, something Mr. Trump would take note of. He added that Mr. Zelenskyy “wanted to demonstrate his loyalty” to President Trump through his attack on the Iranian vessel.

“U.S. warmongering has consequences for us,” he said. “Trump feels it’s more important to fight wars with public resources than to address the public’s needs” to lower costs of gas and food.

U.S. poll: ‘Stop the War!’

With upcoming midterm elections to determine control of Congress approaching, American citizens are expressing disapproval of Mr. Trump’s “war of choice.” Roughly 75% of Americans think the war should be stopped immediately, according to a poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.

A quarter of those polled think military action should continue. Roughly 3 in 10 want to pause military action while seeking a renewed ceasefire, the poll, conducted July 23-27, reported.

During a message to the International Training Conference, a martial arts gathering in a Chicago suburb July 25, the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, National Representative of the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad, expressed dire concern for the lives of armed forces in the combat zone and the possibility of igniting a global conflict.

In an appeal for peace streamed on the internet, Minister Farrakhan repeated words of the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad, Eternal Leader of the Nation of Islam:

“My teacher told me that this war was going to start with conventional weapons and it will end with nuclear weapons,” he said. “I say this as warning before the war gets hot. Stop and think. Precious lives are on those ships. But God can maneuver the water in such a way … and sink your ships. Nothing can stand against the forces of nature when it is unleashed,” Minister Farrakhan warned.

He cautioned President Trump: “An aggressor is a loser because God is never with those who are aggressors, oppressors, tyrants, bullies who love to make people afraid. Don’t be a bully. Find a better way to solve a problem.”

In chapter 27 of the book “The Fall of America,” the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad also warned: “America goes abroad and makes war against other people. Then she charges them with making war against her when she is the one who is guilty of the war-making. The Bible says Allah (God) will destroy those who delight themselves in making war.”

International leaders have also called for a halt to the unprovoked U.S.-Israel attack on Iran that began in February. An open letter signed by hundreds of politicians, lawyers, academics and other influential leaders in Jordan called for the U.S. to withdraw military forces from the country, a letter described as a rare public challenge to ruling figures.

“We maintain that their presence exposes Jordan to security, political and economic risks that serve no national interest and increases the likelihood of our country being dragged into a regional conflict to which it is not a party,” the letter states.

Iran’s Press TV reported a response to the people of Jordan from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corp: “Noble and discerning people of Jordan, your sincere solidarity and cooperation, especially the forthright positions taken by groups of Jordanian intellectuals, have narrowed the enemy’s room for maneuver and left them frustrated and desperate.”

Jordan hosts around 4,000 U.S. troops and has served as a key hub for the American military, which Iran says gives their country justification for attacking U.S. bases. Jordan has also helped to intercept Iranian missiles and drones targeting the Israeli-occupied territories.

Reports circulated July 29 that Iran had signed a contract with China to purchase 400 Chinese shoulder-fired air defense missile launchers. The purchase is valued at $60-70 million, Reuters reported.

China’s Foreign Ministry called the report “completely groundless,” and President Trump expressed amazement, saying China’s President Xi Jinping had vowed not to sell arms to the Islamic Republic.

Imad Hadad, director of the American Human Rights Coalition, told The Final Call, that Mr. Netanyahu and Israel’s pursuit of regional superiority would be the only winners in the conflict. He cited that Mr. Netanyahu was allowed to visit the U.S. as a “war criminal” wanted by the International Court of Justice.

The invitation to Netanyahu causes “anti-American sentiment to increase and it invites hostility against Americans, as an American nation, and against our interests in the region,” he said.

Trust in the U.S. and the administration’s word has already been damaged by breaking previous agreements toward ceasefires, he said, adding Israel continues to sabotage efforts to stop the war.

“Everybody knows that President Trump and the administration are the only party that can compel Israel to back down. However, I don’t think President Trump has full authority and control.

“Israel continues to exercise tremendous political pressure. While we’re talking about the U.S.-Iran war, Israel continues its occupation and its killing machine in Lebanon, destroying more villages, more towns in the West Bank, the same in Syria,” he concluded.