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The War We Don’t Understand DANIEL CLARKE-SERRET
This Egyptian philosopher’s words inspired al-Qaeda, the Iranian Revolution, and generations of jihadists — all in the name of “freedom.”
JUN 20, 2025
Islamist demonstrators in Maldives in September 2014 (photo: Dying Regime from Maldives/Wikipedia)
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This is a guest essay written by Daniel Clarke-Serret, author of “Exodus: The Quest for Freedom.”
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Sayyid Qutb may be the most influential philosopher of our time.
Although many may be ignorant of his name, none, surely, are ignorant of his effect. Equipped only with his writings, his brother Mohammed went forth to teach at a prestigious Saudi university.
Then, inspired and radicalized, one notorious student went on to commit the crime of the century. His name? Osama bin Laden.
Yet his teachings spread far beyond Sunni realms. The Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Shia though he may have been, took great succor from the intellectual poisoned well of Qutb. Behold, it was the basis of the Iranian Islamic Revolution in 1979.
Sayyid Qutb was a leading member of the Muslim Brotherhood and an influential Egyptian, Islamist intellectual. Many of his 24 books were outlawed by the Egyptian state and, having been accused of (two) assassination attempts on his Egyptian, pan-Arabist leader Gamal Abdel Nasser (military officer and former President of Egypt), he was imprisoned and ultimately executed in 1966.
Although his body decomposed in the bowels of the earth, his soul failed to ascend into the Islamist heaven above. Instead it influenced a whole generation of Egyptian high society — with politicians, intellectuals, and literary figures being radicalized by his words.
School children and university students were taught from a curriculum that showcased his writings and, thus, a whole new generation became versed in Islamist ideology. We too must now undergo a similar education in order to understand the threat we face.
Let us begin with a potential positive and highlight the apparently beneficent objective of Sayyid Qutb’s ideology. Although he would go on to incite martyrdom and murder in the name of Islam, his goal was not death per se. In many ways, he sought precisely that which we all seek, from the Marxist to the English liberal. He sought freedom — freedom from oppression, freedom from tyranny and, most emphasized of all, freedom from slavery.
In echoes of the Communist Manifesto, which called on the workers to liberate themselves from their chains, Qutb called on the Islamist believer to do likewise.
In echoes of the Exodus, where the Israelite slave/servant was delivered from human oppression so as to become a slave/servant of God in the wilderness, so too Qutb called on the true follower of Islam to liberate themselves from their human masters. Only then may they enjoy true freedom under the sovereignty of God.
Even in England, where Voltaire praised the diverse mixing of religions in the marketplace and waxed lyrical about the toleration of the state towards non-Anglican denominations, he does so in the name of liberty. His contempt for the nature of tyrannical human government is more than evident enough.
Thus understood, Qutb’s objective is no radical departure from those religious and non-religious ideologies that have flourished in foreign realms. The liberation of mankind from chains is a universal ideal it seems.
In The Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels spoke of the gradual reduction of classes over time. In the feudal era, many competing interests strove together in order to satisfy their group interest, yet by the emergence of capitalism and the Industrial Revolution, society was left with just two significant rival classes: the bourgeoisie and the proletariat. This was a positive development on the road to communism, they affirmed, yet in the need to agglomerate the peasantry in towns and educate them at least to a minor degree, the capitalists had created a rod for their own back.
Ultimately, it was claimed, the workers would rise up in revolution and, after a undetermined period of proletariat dictatorship, a single communist class would emerge united in harmony and freed from slavery. Qutb’s Islam appears as just one more attempt, certainly just as dangerous, to subsume humanity in one equal, international class where all “freely submit” to a determined order.
Therefore, when reading Qutb’s book, “Milestones,” one should resist the temptation to equate Islamism with wider Islamic culture or indeed religion in general. Perhaps its most potent frenemy is the godless, secular, yet borderless Marxism. In both cases, we see an ideology directly opposed to the nation and any identity forged in language, culture, place, or ethnicity. In both cases, we see a restrictive, universalist, violent internationalism proposed as a cure to slavery and oppression.
The precise contours of the “freedom” proposed by Sayyid Qutb are, by this point, familiar to all. The acceptance of the revelation of the Quran is an act of pure religious faith and not as a journey of intellectual discovery:
- The complete adherence to its teachings without question or reflection
- The refusal to admit a secular sphere separate from the True Faith
- The conviction that Islam is all-encompassing and applicable to every domain of life
- The judgment that all non-Islamic sources and wisdom are devoid of value and, insofar as previous Muslim scholars and philosophers have attempted to integrate Islam within a wider pool of knowledge, they have done so in sinful error
According to Qutb, the Islamic world has fallen into decay through its mixing with invalid sources of wisdom (the symmetry with the Nazi idea of racial intermingling is worryingly plain).
To purify the Ummah (an Arabic word that generally translates to “nation” or “community”) and the world along with it, it is necessary to return to the values of the first Islamic generation. Islam must no longer be viewed as a culture, philosophy or source of inspiration for a particular segment of the world’s population; rather it must return to seeing itself as the one universal faith which contains the sole and unique truth within the bounds of its holy scriptures.
Qutb reaffirmed the division of the world into a House of Peace and a House of War, with a third intermediate grouping being designated for the People of the Book, which is to say Christians and Jews. Unlike the heretic polytheists who must be fought until they submit to Islam, the fellow monotheists of the world have a choice: accept the supremacy of Islam and pay a tribute tax, or face the consequences.
“Milestones,” as the English title suggests, does not see the process as either quick or easy. It is a process that must be achieved methodically, step by step. When surrounded by a majority of non-believers, the true Muslim may need to restrain themselves, just as in the days of the first Muslims of Mecca. But where they can, they fight to win; in the first place against those judged as rejecters of monotheism and, where necessary, against those individuals of the People of the Book who refuse to accept the supremacy of the one True Faith.
The Ummah has fallen so far since those days when it conquered the world that it has become necessary to lead the “defensive” charge with a “vanguard.” Those who fear nothing and have left worry at the door, so convinced are they by the truth of the Message.
When faced with “poverty, difficulty, frustration, torment” and untold setbacks, the Islamist fighter will not be downhearted. Instead, they will continue in their quest for “human freedom from oppression” under a vanilla, all-encompassing, international and universal submission to the Truth. It will be left to the reader to decide whether such a remedy does indeed constitute freedom.
Sayyid Qutb specifically rejected the idea that the purpose of life is utilitarian; that we must seek out pleasure or defend against pain. Neither does it derive meaning from the search for knowledge. Rather, in Qutb’s most alarming conception, life must be properly characterized as a “struggle between beliefs — whether unbelief or faith, whether Jahiliyyah1 or Islam.”
He correctly noted that if the struggle were political or economic or racial, “ its settlement would be easy,” but conceived as a struggle between faiths, no peace is possible without submission. It is in this notorious paragraph that we finally understand the century-long failure to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Political issues can be resolved “easily,” as can those involving racial injustice, but those founded on fundamentalistic faith are unavoidably intractable.
Qutb’s route to his Islamist goals run through martyrdom. This prescription is clearly outlined for the reader in Chapter 12 (entitled “This is the Road”), and its effectiveness is claimed to stem from the liberation of the martyr from the “worship of this life.”
Nothing, not even torture, will have the power to deter the vanguard from their bloody mission. In a particularly disturbing passage, Qutb even referenced with approval the martyrdom of children:
“The messenger of God — peace be upon Him — said: ‘When a certain person’s child dies, God asks the angels: Did you take away the soul of My servant’s child? They say: Yes. Then He says: Did you take away the apple of My eye? They say: Yes. Then He says: What did My servant say? They say He praised You and said, Indeed we belong to God and to Him we will return. Then He says: Build a house for My servant in the Garden and call it the House of Praise.’”
Once again, we see the resonances of this philosophy in today’s events. Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, and their chief sponsor Iran are perfectly willing to see the death of their children, even encourage such death, in the “sure” knowledge that the young departed will soon be entering the Garden.
Death is to be celebrated.
Death must triumph over life so that oppression may cease from the Earth. In his own words, “This world is not a place of reward.”
I have been very careful through this recounting of Sayyid Qutb’s Islamism — a death cult’s manifesto in the fine sentence construction of a well-read academic — to never conflate the subject term with the faith of Islam. I do not do so out of political correctness, but rather because that is the distinction that Qutb himself implied.
To be sure, what Qutb calls Islam and I call Islamism is what the former views as the one “True Islam.” But, in having to emphasize the purity of his account, the author necessarily implied that the (vast) majority of Muslims, who are not in the vanguard, have a different interpretation of their faith. It is not for me as a non-Muslim to declare what is, in fact, the “correct interpretation,” merely that there are (bloody) disputes on this point between Qutb’s followers and those who fall outside the Islamist tent.
Qutb’s camp clearly constituted the overwhelming minority in 1966; otherwise, what need did he have to speak of a vanguard? Indeed, what need did he have to speak of a step-by-step process at all?
It is Qutb’s very frustration that the Muslims of his day were contaminated by outside influences which inspired him to produce this controversial work in the first place. He viewed the descent from the supposed purity of early Islam as the reason for the economic and social decay of the Muslim world.
His ideology’s appeal, the desire to “Make the Ummah Great Again,” is precisely that which encouraged Osama bin Laden, the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, and a raft of well-heeled, supposed intellectuals to follow his lead. Either Islam is true and we must reform backwards to recover our greatness, or Islam is false and we have been rejected by God. We cannot permit the latter. Thus we must fight.
The difference between Qutb’s freedom and Western freedom could not be more stark. When contrasting the intellectual decay of Catholic France with the economic progress of Anglican England, Voltaire heartily endorsed the tolerance of the latter as the key to its success.
One can only guess at with what contempt he would view Qutb’s Islamism, yet one can be sure of his prescription: If the Muslim World were to truly seek economic, intellectual, and political progress, if it were to genuinely seek freedom from oppression on earth, then it must follow the route of 18th-century England; it must liberate the market, open up its trade routes, and accept the concomitant and peaceful mixing of religions.
It is noted with great joy that the United Arab Emirates (in particular) has belatedly become aware of the interrelationship between trade and peace, and the interrelationship between tolerating the Quakers and achieving greatness.
Perhaps that’s the secret. Perhaps that’s why the Muslim world has declined. The route to Islamic recovery is not freedom from oppression through mass oppression; it is the embrace of peace through religious diversity underpinned by freedom of trade.
Yet, change is coming. The United Arab Emirates is in the vanguard, the Saudis are following close behind, and Qutb’s Sayyid Iranian, Islamist tyranny may soon be breathing its last breath.
Victor Davis Hanson Makes a Disturbing Prediction About What Happens If Iran Survives [Multiple Videos] OVERTON AND THE VIGILANT FOX
This conflict could go one of two ways, neither is small.
JUN 19, 2025
Amidst rough seas, you need a steady sailor.
Historian and classicist Victor Davis Hanson just delivered a masterful breakdown of the Iran conflict with clarity few can match.
Not just what’s happening, but what’s coming next.
“I think we’re going to see things that we haven’t seen in our lifetime in the Middle East,” he said.
This could go one of two ways, neither is small.
Victor Davis Hanson isn’t known for hyperbole. So when he opens with a warning like this, people pay attention:
“We are at an historic time in the Middle East,” he said.
“Never in our lifetimes have we been closer to a complete revolutionary fervor that gives promise of normalcy for the Middle East. And never have we been in more danger of seeing the entire region blow up.”
The paradox is striking.
Peace may be closer than ever, but so is total collapse.
And at the center of it all is the unfolding conflict between Iran and Israel, which Hanson called “surreal.”
Reflecting on the rapid collapse of Iran’s regional dominance, Hanson admitted that even a few years ago, this moment would have been unthinkable.
“If we had this conversation five years ago,” he said, “and I said to you, the Iranian nation that is huge compared to Israel, ten times the population, the Iranian nation has lost all control of the Houthi terrorists, and they are themselves neutered…”
He pointed to a chain reaction across the region: Iran’s proxy forces in Gaza and the West Bank have been neutralized. Hezbollah, once a feared military force, is now dormant.
“They’re gone as a Hamas, as a fighting force. The formidable, the terrifying Hezbollah cadres, they’re inert.”
The chaos in Syria, once a stronghold of Iranian influence, now seems to be working against Tehran.
“There is no more Syria, the Assad dynasty, the pro-Iranian, the Syria. It’s in chaos. But whatever the chaos is, seems to be anti-Iranian.”
The collapse is strategic, not just symbolic. Hanson noted that the so-called “Shia crescent” connecting Tehran to the Mediterranean is no longer intact.
“Lebanon is free of Iranian influence. So is Syria. Gaza, a de facto, will be.”
Even Russia, once a key ally, is no longer a player in the region.
“It’s tied down in Ukraine,” he said.
“Iran itself, the formidable powerhouse of the Middle East that evoked terror all over, has no defenses.”
Over the course of just five days, Israel has launched a targeted military campaign to dismantle Iran’s strategic infrastructure.
According to Hanson, the damage has been sweeping.
“They have dismantled all of the Iranian missile defenses. They have dismantled the terrorist hierarchy. They have dismantled the people who are responsible for the nuclear program.”
And yet, there’s risk.
“The Iranians have sent over 400 ballistic missiles and drones into Israel,” he said, “and 90 percent are stop. But that 10 percent gets through.”
Which brings us to the turning point.
All of this only matters if it ends with Iran’s theocracy on the brink of collapse.
If it doesn’t, everything that’s been gained could be erased.
“All of this chaos and all of this war will be for not if Iran’s theocracy emerges intact from this war.”
Even more dangerous, he added, would be a scenario in which the country’s nuclear infrastructure survives or can be quickly rebuilt.
That possibility has triggered one of the most urgent strategic questions on the table: Can Israel finish the job?
Or will it need help from the United States to strike Iran’s deeply buried nuclear facilities?
This is where things get complicated.
Under the “America First” foreign policy doctrine, Trump has been clear: no more forever wars, no more ground troops in the Middle East.
But Hanson argued that Trump’s actions tell a deeper story.
“I’m not an isolationist, I’m a Jacksonian,” he said, echoing what Trump might say.
“You should have known that when I took out Soleimani… when I took out Baghdadi… when I took out the Wagner Group.”
The message? Trump doesn’t go looking for wars. But when deterrence is at stake, he’s not afraid to act decisively.
Still, Hanson posed a chilling question: what if the Iranian regime survives?
“If this war should end with the Iranian regime intact and the elements of its nuclear program recoverable,” he warned, “then in some ways it will be all for naught.”
Despite Iran’s military losses, its media destruction and its isolated position, surviving such a coordinated strike could give it something even more powerful than weapons: perceived invincibility.
“It will be more like, oh my gosh, Iran survived everything that Israel, and by association the United States, threw at it.”
“It’s indestructible.”
And that, Hanson suggested, would be the real danger.
Not just a return to the status quo, but a shift in perception that emboldens the regime and reshapes the balance of power across the region.
Now the question hanging over the entire conflict is this: does the world play it safe and allow remnants of Iran’s nuclear infrastructure to survive?
Or risk a final strike that could eliminate the threat for good, but possibly trigger even greater instability?
“Do you risk more danger by taking out and eliminating the nuclear threat for good,” Hanson asked, “and by association, you humiliate the theocracy to the point it can be overthrown?”
That’s the gamble.
He didn’t shy away from his own discomfort with war.
“I don’t like forever wars,” he added.
“I don’t like preemptive wars. I do not like the United States intervening anywhere in that godforsaken area. But if the war ends with the regime intact and a recoverable nuclear program, it won’t just be back to square one. It will be a disaster.”
That’s when he dropped a bombshell prediction of the future in the area after the dust settles in the desert.
Whether this ends in collapse or resurgence, Hanson believes the next phase of the war could reshape the entire region and the world’s understanding of power in the Middle East.
“So we’ll see what happens,” he said.
“And hold on, everybody. I think we’re going to see things that we haven’t seen in our lifetime in the Middle East. And it could turn out very bad.”
“But it could also turn out to be quite revolutionary and remake the map of the entire region.”
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JUN 20, 2025
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President Trump sent out three important messages, among many others lately, about Iran – one about Obama sending money to Iran, one was a text from Mike Huckabee and another pointed fingers directly at Obama.
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The FBI Is ANTIFA By Sundance
JUN 20, 2025
As President Trump is known to say, “don’t make it complicated.” Just look at things as they are, as they present themselves to be, and ask the most obvious questions.
How can a group like Antifa within America openly threaten police, use violence against police, throw Molotov cocktails, bricks and explosive fireworks at police?
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Use batons, shields, bats and physical violence against police and federal law enforcement; destroy vehicles, set cars on fire, destroy property, trash and block the streets and create chaos – Without being stopped?
It doesn’t matter where it is happening, that’s irrelevant. Think plainly and simply. How does any individual or group get to do this without being arrested? It doesn’t make sense, unless..
Unless, the group conducting the violence cannot be arrested. Many people are coming around to the understanding that the FBI is Antifa.
If the FBI did not support Antifa, quite simply Antifa would not exist. They are right there, highly visible, doing illegal things on camera, repeatedly, all over the country, and the FBI doesn’t lift a finger to stop them. Why?
The only thing that makes sense is that the FBI wants this activity to take place. If they did not want it to take place, they would stop it and arrest the lawbreakers who are attacking federal buildings and officers.
This is not complicated. The FBI supports Antifa. If they did not support them, the FBI would stop them. It’s simple. If the FBI is Antifa, the next question becomes, what are the cartels to the CIA?
Open Letter to Isolationists Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger, “Second Thought: a US-Israel Initiative”
June 17, 2025
1. A constructive worldview must be driven by reality, irrespective of how complicated, bloody, insoluble and frustrating it may appear. It should not be driven by alternate reality, regardless of how seemingly obvious, peaceful, soluble and convenient it may seem to be.
2. Isolationists – like most people – are eager to prevent, minimize and end wars and terrorism, rather than launch wars. However, is it possible to prevent, minimize and end wars and terrorism without uprooting a chief epicenter of global wars, terrorism and drug trafficking – the Ayatollah regime?! Can a police chief minimize crime, while negotiating with – rather than fighting against – the chief crime-gangs?!
3. The well-intentioned wish of Isolationists to militarily disengage from Islamic terrorism, establish peaceful coexistence, and be preoccupied with the domestic agenda, must be based on global and Middle East reality; not on alternate reality. Thus, since the Muslim Barbery Pirates of the early 19th century, irrespective of US policy, Sunni and Shiite Islamic terrorism has been determined NOT to disengage from – but to intimidate, terrorize and subjugate – the “infidel” West, and especially “The Great American Satan,” while establishing Islam as the only legitimate, divinely-ordained religion on earth.
4. Isolationists are engrossed with eloquent Iranian talk, taking lightly the 1,400-year-old imperialistic and apocalyptic (Twelver) ideology. This ideology has dominated the Ayatollah regime’s political system, providing total control over domestic, foreign and national security policy to the top clerics, who are committed to the Quran’s commandment to transform the “abode of the infidel” to “the abode of Islam.” The Ayatollah ideology is enshrined in the Ayatollah’s Constitution, school curriculum (which is the most authentic reflection of the regime’s worldview), mosque sermons and official media, mandating the Ayatollah regime to topple all “apostate” Sunni regimes and bring the “infidel” West to submission.
5. The isolationists contend that the Ayatollah regime does not pose a threat to the US; only to some Middle East entities. However, since the early 1980s, the Ayatollah regime – along with Hezbollah terrorists and consistent with its ideology – has systematically undermined the US’ global posture. For example, it has collaborated militarily, economically and diplomatically with all anti-US governments, drug cartels and terror organizations in Latin America, which the Ayatollah regime regard as “the US’ soft underbelly,” a preferred arena for their terrorist training camps and testing ground for ballistic missiles. Furthermore, according to the US Department of Homeland Security, the FBI and the Director of National Intelligence, the Ayatollah regime has teamed up with Russia and China in expanding its network of sleeper terror cells on US soil. Additionally, the Ayatollah regime has been engaged in subversion and terrorism against every pro-US Arab regime in the Persian Gulf, the Middle East, the Horn of Africa, North and West Africa, aiming to gain control of 48% of global oil reserves and critical routes of international trade.
6. While Isolationists are preoccupied with the present and speculative future scenarios, the Ayatollah regime is preoccupied with Islamic history. For instance, the Ayatollah vision/ideology is largely a derivative of the 680 AD Battle of Kerbala, which is the core of the violent Sunni-Shiite rift. This battle is commemorated annually by public processions featuring iron bar flagellation. The Ayatollah ideology is also deeply impacted by the 10th century disappearance of the Twelve Imam, Muhammed al-Mahdi, whose reappearance could be imminent, but requires a violent apocalyptic context, severe suffering by Shiites and stained in “infidel’s” blood to establish global justice.
7. Isolationists tend to assume that Money Talks, and therefore, a financial and diplomatic bonanza could ostensibly induce the Ayatollah regime to accept peaceful coexistence and good faith negotiation. However, for the Ayatollah regime (just like Hamas, the Houthis, Hezbollah and the PLO/PA), Ideology Walks, transcending economic and diplomatic considerations. This has been demonstrated by the 47 years of the Ayatollah regime, when most of the hundreds of billions of dollars, which were provided by the West, have bolstered the Ayatollah’s anti-US global terrorism, drug trafficking, money laundering and the proliferation of advanced military systems.
8. Realistically, in view of the Ayatollah regime’s total commitment to its anti-US rogue ideology, the choice facing the US is to fight Islamic terrorism in US trenches (e.g., 9/11, 1993 World Trade Center, the Anthrax biological terrorism, San Bernardino, CA, Orlando, FL, Ft. Hood TX), or in the Islamic terrorists’ own trenches.
9. Rather than learn from history by avoiding critical mistakes, Isolationists are determined to repeat mistakes, such as the systematically self-destructive negotiation with the Ayatollahs since 1978, when President Carter stabbed the Shah in the back and facilitated the ascension of Ayatollah Khomeini to power. While the West considers negotiation as a step toward reconciliation and peaceful coexistence, the Ayatollah regime considers negotiation as a means to mislead the “infidel” West, and a step toward the realization of its anti-US ideology through stalling time, licking wounds, avoiding severe military punishment, and restoring military capabilities.
10. While Isolationists refer to negotiation in a Western manner, the Ayatollah regime has employed since 1978, 1,400-year-old Islamic negotiation tactics: taqiyyah (religiously legitimized dissimulation), khodeh (trickery, rather than outright lies), kitman (hiding one’s true intentions) and taarof (ambiguity and ostensible politeness, aiming to confuse). These negotiation tactics led to the 2015 JCPOA, which would have allowed Iran to persist in its nuclear endeavors after 2025.
11. Isolationists consider maximum pressure, crippling economic sanctions as an effective means to force the Ayatollah regime into moderating its conduct. However, since 1979, when the initial economic sanctions were imposed on Iran by President Carter, they have not yielded Ayatollah moderation. Moreover, President Trump imposed severe economic sanctions, which almost destroyed Iran’s economy, but were proven to be reversible by a succeeding President. Furthermore, the Ayatollah regime has become very astute in bypassing economic sanctions through China, Russia, Venezuela, Cuba, Chile, Colombia and some of the European countries.
12. Isolationists do not recognize the strong connection between the Ayatollah’s discrimination and persecution of large ethnic and religious minorities, as well as women at-large, on the one hand, and the Ayatollah’s terrorism and wars abroad, on the other hand. The Isolationists underestimate of the eagerness of most Iranians for regime change. Which has led them to assume that US involvement in regime change would galvanize the population behind the Ayatollahs. This misreading of Iran’s population led Presidents Obama and Biden to let the massive opposition to the regime hanging high and dry during the 2009 and 2022 attempted insurrections.
13. Isolationists claim that US involvement in regime change would trigger overall Islamic solidarity with the Ayatollah regime, ignoring the fact that the Sunni Muslim majority (80% of the Muslim global population) consider the Shiite Ayatollah regime a clear and present danger, which holds machetes at the throats of the regimes of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Kuwait, Jordan, etc. Irrespective of their talk, these Sunni regimes yearn for regime change in Tehran, which would snatch them from the jaws of the Ayatollah regime.
14. Isolationists claim that nuclear No. Korea and Pakistan do not threaten the US, and neither would a nuclear Iran. However, unlike Iran, the regimes of these countries are not apocalyptic, nor are they driven by a vision to impose their religion and ideology on the “infidel West.” The isolationists add that regime change failed in Iraq and Afghanistan, and is doomed to fail in Iran, ignoring the vast differences between Iran and the other two countries, historically, ethnically, religiously, educationally and socially. Unlike the population of Iraq and Afghanistan, the vast majority of Iranians oppose their regime and are ready for democratization.
15. In conclusion, those who are not ready to initiate regime change in Iran, are doomed to face the first ever apocalyptic nuclear power, which would require horrific war, dwarfing the necessary cost of regime change, which would free the globe of the chief epicenter of wars and terrorism.
Isolationists relitigate the Iraq War to let Iran go nuclear JONATHAN S. TOBIN
The arguments against the 2003 invasion are irrelevant to today’s threat. They serve instead to let the “woke right” invoke antisemitic tropes about Jews manipulating Trump.
June 19, 2025 JNS – Pundits, like generals, seem always doomed to refight the last war. That’s the main thing to remember as the world watches the debate over whether the United States should join Israel in action to ensure that Iran doesn’t acquire a nuclear weapon. Such weapons have nothing to do with civilian use and everything to do with attempting to perpetrate another Holocaust or to threaten American allies in the Middle East.
For those who oppose action against Iran, the main argument is the obligation not to repeat the mistakes of 2003, when the George W. Bush administration invaded Iraq. For many on the political right, the Iraq War—and to a lesser extent, the war begun in Afghanistan in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks—were the great original sins of 21st-century American foreign policy. While there were reasonable arguments for American involvement in both conflicts—the Saddam Hussein regime in Iraq and Taliban government in Afghanistan were both despotic, and supported and exported terrorism—they ultimately were undone by the basic problem of sustaining a long-term commitment to wage an unpopular war in a country where the inhabitants did not want America to stay.
Lessons of war in Iraq
Iraq was particularly problematic because the rationale for the conflict was based on a massive intelligence failure. Most of the world, including the American intelligence establishment, believed Saddam when he boasted about possessing weapons of mass destruction. Sitting back and waiting for him to use them was thought to be a catastrophic mistake. That the administration also believed that it could help transform the Middle East by bringing democracy to an Arab and Muslim world in desperate need of it only strengthened the argument for intervention.
While it was easy to believe that a monster like the Iraqi dictator might be working on nuclear or chemical weapons and had, in the past, done so, those programs were, in fact, no longer operating.
Those who claim that Bush “lied” America into waging war were wrong. It was a genuine mistake, and one that most people in both major U.S. political parties readily believed. But it was still wrong. And when the initial success of the invasion led inevitably to a long-running bloody mess involving attempting to quell an Islamist insurrection fueled by Iran, the universal support for the war evaporated. It also turned out that Iraqis, like the Afghans, weren’t ready to embrace Jeffersonian democracy and wouldn’t fight for it even if they did.
A conviction that this sort of mistake should not be repeated was, in part, what helped drive the takeover of the Republican Party on the part of President Donald Trump. Establishment Republicans, tainted by their support for the war, were swept aside by Trump and his MAGA enthusiasts.
Those few who still cling to the notion that the Iraq War was a noble, if doomed, cause are wrong. Nation-building and the promotion of democracy became toxic terms that embodied the hubris of the Bush administration. That the destruction of Iraq immeasurably strengthened and emboldened the even more dangerous Islamist regime in Iran was more reason to swear off such follies for the foreseeable future.
The errors of Bush and his advisers provide us with lessons on what mistakes not to make. The problem with history, however, is that, clichés to the contrary, it doesn’t repeat itself. And an obsession with avoiding the great blunders of the immediate past generation is very often the pathway to committing even worse ones in the present.
History doesn’t repeat itself
History is replete with examples of military leaders who prepared for the next conflict based on the strategies and tactics that won the previous war that embroiled their countries. The most famous is perhaps that of the French generals who built the Maginot Line, a set of immobile fortifications that would have been useful during the trench warfare of World War I, only to see the armies of the German Nazis simply go around them when defeating them during the Second World War.
In foreign policy, the same principle applies.
A generation of American strategists feared being branded as the second coming of Neville Chamberlain appeasing Adolf Hitler at Munich. But not every choice facing a democracy is similar to that of Britain and France at Munich in 1938, when they sacrificed Czechoslovakia to prevent another world war, only to embolden Hitler and ensure that it would soon come under worse circumstances. Unfortunately, that led the Kennedy and Johnson administrations in the 1960s to believe that they had to take a stand against Communist aggression in Southeast Asia, which led to the catastrophe in Vietnam.
In turn, the need to avoid another Vietnam created a different set of mistakes. President Jimmy Carter came into office in 1977, speaking of how America had to overcome an “inordinate fear of communism.” But that was just an excuse for a weak foreign policy that led the Soviet Union to engage in adventures around the globe, including its invasion of Afghanistan.
Linked to that was a belief on Carter’s part that the United States must be fastidious about the morals of its allies. That led him to abandon the Shah of Iran in 1979 and set in motion the events that led to that country falling into the hands of Islamist fanatics, who have spent the next 46 years plotting and carrying out terrorist mayhem against the West, Israel and Jewish communities around the world.
And that brings us to America’s present dilemma with respect to Iran.
A growing threat
For a generation since Bush blundered into Iran, the Islamist regime’s quest for a nuclear weapon—so it could accomplish its stated intention of carrying out a genocide against Israel and intimidate American allies in the region—has haunted American foreign policymakers. Led by former Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden, Democrats sought to appease Tehran with a 2015 nuclear deal that, far from stopping them from acquiring a weapon, guaranteed that it would get one.
During President Donald Trump’s first term, he rightly rejected that accord. And so he began, albeit belatedly, a “maximum pressure” campaign intended to use sanctions to force the Islamist regime to give up its nuclear program. Trump’s defeat in 2020, followed by Biden’s renewed efforts at appeasement, ensured that this initiative would not be allowed to play out.
In the meantime, Iran cheated on the 2015 agreement and, using the relaxation of sanctions and the release of billions in frozen funds, edged ever closer to achieving its nuclear ambition. By the time Trump returned to office in January of this year, its leaders were already on the verge of a breakout to a bomb.
Trump responded to this challenge by giving Iran a chance to negotiate a way out of the impasse, but not to retain a path to a bomb. The Iranians, thinking they could, as they did with Obama and Biden, talk their way to a diplomatic victory, didn’t take the hint. And once the International Atomic Energy Agency certified in May that they were again engaged in secret illegal nuclear activity, and Israeli intelligence reportedly came to the conclusion that they were about to race toward assembling a bomb, the West and Israel were left with a difficult choice.
To their credit, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu didn’t hesitate to act, and Trump—whose 60-day window for negotiations had just expired—didn’t try to stop him.
Iran had already launched a multi-front war against the Jewish state when its terrorist allies in Gaza launched a Hamas-led assault on southern Israeli communities on Oct. 7, 2023, followed by attacks from Hezbollah in Lebanon and the Houthis in Yemen. But after Israel’s defeat of Hezbollah and the collapse of the regime of Iran’s Syrian ally, Bashar Assad, in 2024, as well as the destruction of its air defenses after it launched missiles against Israel last spring, the regime was more vulnerable than ever.
If the Iranian nuclear threat is to be comprehensively squelched, however, that may require the United States to get involved.
Of course, the Trump administration is already part of this war.
Unlike Obama and Biden, who vetoed an Israeli attack on Iran, Trump decided not to pressure the Israelis from defending themselves. He has continued to supply the arms and ammunition Jerusalem needs to fight Hamas in Gaza, as well as Iran. And the United States has helped defend the Israelis against Iran’s indiscriminate firing of missiles against civilian targets in the Jewish state.
Nevertheless, it may require the use of American B-2 bombers dropping 30,000-pound bombs to destroy the Iranian mountainside enrichment site at the Fordow enrichment facility.
Antisemitic and antiwar
And that prospect has sent some on the right off the deep end.
For the “woke right” faction, led by former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, any action against Iran is an unforgivable sin. His stand rests in part on the hysterical obsession he and other even more extreme and antisemitic figures like far-right political commentator Candace Owens have about opposing Israel and appeasing those who wish to destroy it.
While they would oppose any gesture of support for Israel, their primary argument is citing the lessons of Iraq. They believe that any involvement in the struggle against an Islamist regime, whose raison d’être has always involved hatred for the United States and which has engaged in bloody terrorism against Americans, is nevertheless just another “forever war” to be avoided, like Iraq and Afghanistan. They recycle debunked leftist arguments claiming that Iran isn’t working toward a bomb and, incongruously, believe that the Jewish state is responsible for all of the antisemitic hatred that the mullahs have directed toward it throughout the sordid history of their theocratic regime.
They have also adapted old left-wing arguments for appeasing Iran promoted by the Obama administration—voiced again by The New York Times on June 19—and thrown in antisemitic tropes about the Jews manipulating and dragging the United States into an unnecessary war.
But the claim that a limited bombing campaign against Iran is another Iraq War is bad policy and bad history.
Unlike Bush, Trump has no interest in making Iran democratic or in nation-building there. Nor is he contemplating a ground war invasion. As with the proposed effort to deal with Fordow, any effort by a weak and desperate Iran to attack Americans in the region can be dealt with by air and drone strikes, like those that Trump unleashed in his first term to defeat ISIS, and not a “boots on the ground” strategy.
The costs of inaction
Could there be unintended consequences of a decision to bomb Iran?
Yes, there are a lot of things that might go wrong. But none of them resemble the problems that America confronted in Iraq or Afghanistan. And the gravity of all such scenarios must be weighed against the likely far higher cost of inaction, both for American interests and allies.
The malign motives of isolationists who oppose action against Iran are made obvious by their lack of concern about the threat of an Iranian nuclear attack against Israel. They are not “America First” so much as they are “America alone.” That is both morally dubious and shortsighted in a dangerous world where Islamists see their war on Israel as the first step toward another conflict with the “Great Satan” of the United States.
Trump is right to stand by Israel and castigate the likes of Carlson as “kooky” for not understanding that preventing Iran from having a nuclear weapon is an “America First” imperative. Carlson, who is more of a court jester to Trump than an adviser, cravenly called to apologize to the president for his act of lèse majesté. Trump also correctly declared that the only way out for Iran is an “unconditional surrender,” which would mean giving up their nuclear program. Not settling for anything less than that doesn’t involve fighting a “forever war” or “nation-building.”
There is no need to relitigate the Iraq War. Citing that mistake as a reason to commit another one by letting a dangerous regime in Iran off the hook is a classic example of not just mislearning the lessons of the past but confronting a contemporary challenge with the tactics needed to prevail in a past one.
JONATHAN S. TOBIN Jonathan S. Tobin is editor-in-chief of the Jewish News Syndicate, a senior contributor for The Federalist, a columnist for Newsweek and a contributor to many other publications. He covers the American political scene, foreign policy, the U.S.-Israel relationship, Middle East diplomacy, the Jewish world and the arts. He hosts the JNS “Think Twice” podcast, both the weekly video program and the “Jonathan Tobin Daily” program, which are available on all major audio platforms and YouTube. Previously, he was executive editor, then senior online editor and chief political blogger, for Commentary magazine. Before that, he was editor-in-chief of The Jewish Exponent in Philadelphia and editor of the Connecticut Jewish Ledger. He has won more than 60 awards for commentary, art criticism and other writing. He appears regularly on television, commenting on politics and foreign policy. Born in New York City, he studied history at Columbia University.
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Tucker vs Trump TIERNEY’S REAL NEWS
JUN 19, 2025
I was going to write a review of the Ted Cruz-Tucker Carlson ‘debate’ but PJ Media stole my thunder with a well written summary. If you love Tucker more than Trump & MAGA – you’ll want to stop reading my newsletter now.
I’m not a big fan of Ted Cruz (ever since his last minute move with Carly Fiorina & Rick Wilson in 2016) but I do know who Tucker is and he’s never been MAGA. If you’ve followed me for a while you know where I stand on Tucker. I’ve lost lots of followers because of my views on Tucker & his Koch Libertarian pals.
In this interview, Tucker looked like a 3rd grade journalist while he vigorously defended Iran, criticized Israel and bashed Trump – he finally exposed his true colors as a Koch-funded Never Trumper & anti-Semite. Tucker later apologized to Trump – in case you think I’m kidding.
TRUMP: “Tucker’s a nice guy. He called and apologized the other day because he thought he said things that were a little bit too strong. And I appreciated that. I did ask Tucker – are you OK with nuclear weapons being in the hands of Iran? And he didn’t like that. I said – if it’s OK with you, then you and I have a difference.”
Anyway, here’s the interview critique from PJ Media – you should watch the interview yourself to see the tone.
PJ MEDIA: “For political junkies who cut their teeth on “60 Minutes,” “Meet the Press,” CNN, and Fox News, longform podcasts were a godsend. Finally freed of commercial restraints and surface-level superficialities, longform podcasts took you beyond the talking points, treating audiences to a deep dive of a topic’s intricacies. Even when the podcast host had limited knowledge of the subject matter (Joe Rogan, I’m looking at you), the benefit of the longform platform was that it facilitated an open-ended, free-floating conversation where both sides learned more about the other.
But there was an important catch: It only worked when both sides were acting in good faith. You had to really, truly care about what they say. More than anything else, that’s the secret to Joe Rogan’s phenomenal success: He’s genuinely curious about his guests.
He doesn’t invite them on to mock them or belittle them. He’s not trying to settle stupid feuds, score points, or play a political game of “gotcha.” Instead, Rogan respects his guests and wants to learn more.
That sure wasn’t Tucker Carlson’s approach during his astonishingly mean-spirited interview with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.). The ex-Fox News host had absolutely no interest in hearing Cruz’s opinions or to better understand his (and President Trump’s) position on Israel, Iran, or anything else. His purpose wasn’t to have a grown-up conversation about grown-up issues, but to mock and belittle Ted Cruz so the video “goes viral”:
WATCH [1:59:27] https:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=smemFVe0l5E
“Oh, I don’t think I’m obsessed with Israel,” Tucker Carlson said… in a podcast where Israel was mentioned 140 times!
Ted Cruz tried his best to be conciliatory: He warmly welcomed Tucker Carlson (the interview was filmed in Cruz’s Senate office). He began by complementing Carlson, crediting him for his leading the opposition against COVID restrictions. He stressed that they agree far more than they disagree. Cruz gave him a full two hours of his time!
He was polite and respectful.
And Carlson responded with rudeness, condescension, personal attacks, and laughing in his face.
“No Iranian is ever going to kill me,” Carlson confidently claimed, bashing Trump’s policy towards Israel and Iran. (I guess Tucker is immune to radiation?) As many of you know, Carlson is spearheading a campaign to derail the most delicate, high-stakes foreign policy initiative of the Trump presidency: Supporting our ally, Israel, in its bid to defang the Iranian nuclear menace, while also keeping us out of another “Forever War.”
Carlson is siding with AOC, Bernie Sanders, most of the Democratic Party — and the Russian/Iranian governments, too — by opposing Trump. [CNN and MSNBC are repeatedly calling Tucker a MAGA leader in order to use his words to bash Trump – when he clearly is not.]
But don’t you dare imply that Tucker is anti-Trump. No sir:
“I love Trump!” Carlson told Cruz. He actually said it more than once during their podcast. Alas, what Carlson claims in public doesn’t always match what he says in private: When his text messages were revealed during the Dominion Voting Systems lawsuit, that lovey-dovey tone on Trump did a 180:
The latest filings in the case suggest Mr Carlson expressed his dislike of the outgoing US president two days before Trump supporters stormed the US Capitol to derail lawmakers from certifying Joe Biden’s election win.
“We are very, very close to being able to ignore Trump most nights,” he wrote in a text sent on 4 January 2021. “I truly can’t wait.”
“I hate him passionately,” he added. [emphasis added]
Which one represented the real Tucker Carlson: the version that’s performing for the cameras, or the version that’s texting in private?
(C’mon, I think we both know the answer to that one.)
This exchange at the 50-minute mark captured the general flavor:
CRUZ: As a Christian growing up in Sunday school, I was taught from the Bible, “Those who bless Israel will be blessed and those who curse Israel will be cursed.” From my perspective, I want to be on the blessing side of things.
CARLSON: Those who bless the government of Israel?
CRUZ: “Those who bless Israel” is what it says. It doesn’t say the government of, it says the nation of Israel, so that’s in the Bible. As a Christian, I believe that.
CARLSON: Where is that?
CRUZ: I — I can find it for you. I don’t have the Scripture off the tip of my — pull out the phone and use the —
CARLSON: It’s in Genesis. But, so, you’re quoting a Bible phrase you don’t know have context for and don’t know where in the Bible it is, but it’s, like, your theology? I’m confused.
If you want to call it a debate, Carlson won. He dominated the argument, delivered the cruelest barbs, and battered Cruz at will. (No easy feat; Cruz is a skilled, talented debater.) But it was an unfair contest, because only one side was actually playing to win: Cruz tried to have a conversation with someone he naively considered a friend… and Carlson wanted Cruz’s head on a pike.
One guy came to talk; the other came for blood.
It’s disappointing because Carlson has been around politics his entire adult life. Had he been courageous enough to have an honest, open conversation, it could’ve been an illuminating dialogue that better educated the American people about a critically important issue. Cruz and Carlson were certainly both smart enough to pull it off.
All it would’ve required was good faith.
This was a bad-faith interview.
And that’s the PR lesson for Republicans: Tucker Carlson isn’t interested in what you have to say. If you accept an invitation to be on his show, don’t expect to be treated respectfully. Don’t expect it’ll be an honest, open exchange of ideas.
Tucker’s goal isn’t truth. It’s propaganda.
“I haven’t called you a Neocon once,” Carlson told Cruz. “But you are.”
(Just for the record, Ted Cruz opposed the first Iraq War — unlike Carlson. But because he supports Israel today, he’s a Neocon. Obviously.)
“I don’t even know what an isolationist is,” Carlson claimed at one point. “It’s just a slur designed to control… I’ve never been an isolationist. I don’t even know what that means.”
Sure thing. Tucker wouldn’t lie to us, would he?
Not too long ago, Elon Musk jumped the shark with his “Epstein” X post. Today, Tucker Carlson hopped on a pogo stick and jumped the shark, too.
An honest, robust conversation about the scope, scale, and limitations of American foreign policy could’ve been fascinating. The situation between Israel and Iran is deadly serious; it’s a matter of life and death. But instead of giving us something substantive, Carlson gave us schtick.
Hope those clicks are worth it.
CRUZ: Look, I gotta say I don’t understand, for some reason you are really invested in defending Russia. And I don’t get that. I’m not attacking you with that, I’m genuinely, like, I don’t get why you’re so passionate about defending Russia.
CARLSON: [High Pitched Laughter]
Tucker Carlson becoming the Michael Moore of the 2020s certainly wasn’t on my bingo card, yet here we are.”
A few more points before I go. Loomer has confirmed what I’ve said all along – Tucker works with Dick Cheney’s aide, he grew up with Liz Cheney and loves her – Tucker’s dad was CIA – Tucker was groomed by CNN and ran the Koch-funded CATO Institute for 7 years. It doesn’t get more swampy than that. Now, he allegedly takes Arab money from Qatar (Muslim Brotherhood) – and lies about it – to do interviews in support of Iran.
A few years ago, Tucker said that Iran WOULD attack America. He told the Atlantic that Iran should be annihilated. Now he says the exact opposite! Nobody shifts gears that much unless they are paid to do so!
WATCH: https://x.com/chalavyishmael/status/193538267432105582
TUCKER in 2012: “I do think, I’m sure I’m the lone voice in saying this, that Iran deserves to be annihilated. I think they’re lunatics. I think they’re evil.” So, what changed?
This exchange says it all:
https://x.com/SaraGonzalesTX/status/1935423664226202064
Tucker even defended Iran to the point of saying they never tried to kill President Trump – when they did – even Trump said so himself. I actually think they were trying to kill Trump earlier this year in DC. Why would Tucker deny that? It makes no sense.
Like I’ve said many times – when people show me who they are, I listen – and I do not forget who has my back and who doesn’t. MAGA has been infiltrated by many players with their own agendas – and I’ve come to learn, after writing this newsletter for almost 10 years now, that almost every pundit who calls himself a MAGA influencer is actually a paid hack.
In the end, the only one I trust is God – and He appeared to spare Trump last July to lead us back to Him. Follow Him.
A Dangerous Moment – The Targeting of Tulsi Gabbard Sundance
June 18, 2025 The Conservative Treehouse 261 Comments
For the sake of urgency I’m going to talk in direct and bold terms about the targeting of Tulsi Gabbard. The IC system is attempting to remove her as a disruptive influence by using Iran as a wedge to get her out, but the issue they have with her has nothing to do with Iran.
CTH approaches this after being very concerned about Tulsi Gabbard’s ability. Not because of intent, but rather because we doubted she understood the scope of the IC opposition aligned against the office of the Director of National Intelligence.
She started out with these weaknesses, but she learned quickly – grasped the opposition– and has become a transformative force within the Intelligence Community. Director Gabbard’s recent efforts within the Intelligence Community Inspector General office is another feather in her cap of competence. Gabbard is now a threat.
If President Trump allows or supports the removal of DNI Gabbard, he is opening up the backplate of his armor, and making himself vulnerable. The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Chairman Tom Cotton, the disassembled National Intelligence Council and a host of Intelligence Community embeds would like to see Gabbard removed. DC wants to see her removed because the traditional role of the DNI has been a willful tool of the Intelligence Community; Gabbard is not that.
As DNI Mrs Tulsi Gabbard has chased down intelligence community leakers, released the JFK files, released Joe Biden’s domestic terrorism surveillance plan, intercepted an NIC plot to impeach President Trump (confirmed by Rubio), taken control of the Presidential Daily Briefing, and begun to confront the corruption within the IC Inspector General organization. These are actions, not words, and those actions speak boldly. Suffice to say, her effectiveness has placed a target on her back.
In the past few weeks, ever since she began intercepting the ICIG issues and using her own personnel to monitor the IC network, she has been targeted with several direct smear campaigns. It is obvious the targeting is coming from inside the intelligence apparatus, and perhaps even the orbit around/under CIA Director John Ratcliffe.
She did make a strange video about nuclear weapons contrast against the horrific outcomes in Japan, but that seemed to be more of a personal video entry expressing a deep concern about nuclear weapons from her own perspectives. I said it was weird when I saw it, but I put that into the context of ‘surfboard Tulsi‘, the DNI peacenik. No biggie.
However, with the Israel -v- Iran conflict encompassing the White House, there is a transparent objective to weaponize Tulsi Gabbard’s activity as a contrast against President Trump supporting military conflict in Iran.
This contrast is being stimulated by the same elements who want to see her removed for the reasons noted above.
The latest narrative du jour in the files includes:
WASHINGTON DC – […] Trump has increasingly mused about nixing Gabbard’s office completely, an idea he floated when he gave her the job. In the White House there have been discussions about folding its mandate into the CIA or another agency, according to one of the people familiar with his response to the video and two others familiar with the matter — though it’s unclear what that would mean for Gabbard. The Director of National Intelligence serves as the president’s principal intelligence adviser and oversees the sprawling U.S. spy community. (link)
First, “nixing Gabbard’s office completely” is exactly what the bad elements of the Intelligence Community would love to see. Second, “folding its mandate into the CIA” is like a dream come true for the darkest elements of the IC and Senate enablers. And Third, “serves as the president’s principal intelligence adviser” is false. That’s the job of the National Security Advisor, Marco Rubio.
If there is one hope amid this looming and increasing drumbeat to remove her, it is that Marco Rubio likely can see exactly what the motives and intentions are from his former colleagues. The elements targeting DNI Gabbard all come from SSCI Chairman Marco Rubio’s old tribe.
SoS/NSA Rubio might save her, as too may Vice President JD Vance. Both of them are at the perfect distance to see the assembled drumbeat against Gabbard for what it is. At least that is my hope.
I am not confident they will succeed removing her. However, what I am confident about is that if Tulsi Gabbard is removed, she will not be replaced, and that’s as good as a win for the bad actors trying to target and survive Trump.
President Trump has no more juice or influence in the Senate. That time is over. Trump has exhausted all of the political capital he held in the upper chamber. Every Republican Senator will now smile, nod and do whatever the heck they want regardless of how it impacts President Trump. This is especially true for the SSCI who would control confirmation of a DNI replacement. They don’t have to pretend any longer, Trump’s juice is gone.
If President Trump allows the Brutus crew in his orbit to isolate, ridicule and marginalize Tulsi Gabbard, he will be putting a significant part of his administration at risk. This is the Six Ways from Sunday crowd.
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BREAKING: Trump APPROVES Plan To Attack Iran [Live 7:45 pm ET]
June 18, 2025 Tousi TV
DRY BONES
I Am a Damn Jew—And I Am Pissed Off By Yonah Elias
May 21, 2025
I am pissed off. I am so damn angry I could burn through marble with my breath. The world can shove it—yes, the whole world. And if that makes you uncomfortable, good. That means you’re finally listening.
I am an angry Jew.
An unforgiving Jew.
I am the Jew you get after Germany.
I’m the Jew who walks with a rifle in one hand and a Torah in the other—not to impress you, but to remind you that I know how to survive both a firing squad and a theological debate.
I’m not here for your interfaith panels.
I’m not here to make you feel better about yourself.
I’m here to remember.
And to make sure you don’t forget.
I am the Jew you expelled from Spain in 1492—before Columbus ever got to sail the ocean blue.
I am the Jew you ghettoized in Venice, taxed in France, beaten in Kiev, humiliated in Poland.
I am the Jew Stalin called a parasite, that Churchill shook hands with then sold out, that America left on the shores of Europe to burn.
I am the Jew whose parents you gassed, whose children you hid, whose prayers you mocked—and whose rebirth you now resent because I dared to survive.
I am the Jew who didn’t disappear.
I am the Jew who came home—to Zion.
And I am the Jew you hate for that.
You want to know why I’m angry?
Because the West has lost its damn mind. It’s drowning in its own vomit while hallucinating about bathrooms, borders, and BDS. It’s burning itself alive with pride parades while lighting candles for terrorists.
Meanwhile, the East is building mega-projects, high-speed trains, underwater tunnels, AI supercities—and you’re busy holding ceasefire rallies for Hamas in Trafalgar Square while your power grid gets hacked by the Taliban.
Are you joking?
You should be writing letters of apology to Israel, begging for cyber defense. Instead, you’re lecturing us about “proportionality” while your own nations rot from within, infested with ideology and cowardice like a French cheese left in the sun.
And every time I feel that heat rise in my chest—every time I want to scream and rage—I hear this voice inside me say:
“But you’re a Jew. Jews don’t act like that.”
Oh really? Tell that to the Maccabees.
Tell that to Bar Kochba.
Tell that to the Warsaw Ghetto.
And then I remember what the Torah says:
“If someone comes to kill you, rise early and kill him first.”
—Talmud, Berakhot 58a.
That’s not a suggestion.
That’s a commandment.
And trust me—we’ve had enough mornings to rise early.
I am that ugly Jew, the one your grandfather whispered about.
I’m the “stinky Jew” your teacher warned you not to trust.
I’m the dirty Jew you thought would go quietly into the gas.
Guess what?
I didn’t.
I survived Auschwitz.
I survived British detention camps in Cyprus.
I survived Rome, Babylon, London, and Oslo.
I survived your love letters to the Ayatollah and your arms deals with genocidal maniacs.
I’m not just a survivor. I’m a witness.
And now—I’m a weapon.
Forged in exile. Tempered in war. Sharpened by betrayal.
But here’s the twist. Here’s the plotline your professors missed:
I’m not angry at the world that loves me.
Not at the righteous among the nations. Not at the brave, the just, the defiant few who stand by us.
I’m angry at the world that hates me.
The world that chants for my death then complains that I yelled too loud when I didn’t die.
The world that arms Hamas and blames me for the explosion.
The world that builds statues for dead colonialists but calls my people “colonizers” for returning to their homeland after 3,000 years.
I’m a loving Jew—but don’t mistake that for weakness.
I’ll dance at weddings and cry at funerals. I’ll host you for Shabbat and pass you the salt—but if you try to hurt me or my people, you’ll find out just how much fire is left in the Jewish soul. We are the nation that watched empires rise and fall while we kept lighting candles on Friday night.
So to the world that has lost its way:
You are no longer my moral compass.
You are a circus of madmen with nuclear weapons.
You are preaching virtue from the gallows you built with your own hands.
And I—I am a damn Jew.
I am Israel reborn.
I am rage and redemption.
I am faith with a backbone.
I am memory with a trigger.
I am the prayer you didn’t believe would be answered.
And yes—I am pissed off.
Now go ahead and share this. Let the world know exactly what kind of Jew they’re dealing with.
Am Yisrael Chai.
Not for your approval.
For our survival.
And for our eternity.
Wars are never about what we’re told they’re about, and this one is no different LEO HOHMANN
This one is not about preserving Israel’s existence. It’s not about destroying Iran’s nukes. It has always been about regime change and a broader strategy to control resources.
JUN 17, 2025
Well, the moment is finally upon us. It’s been obvious to the tuned-in, fully awake folks for at least three years now that the world was being conditioned, indoctrinated and ultimately driven into World War III.
Most people didn’t want to go there. They said we were crazy for even talking or writing about it.
As a result, most of America has grown numb to both the Ukraine war and the never-ending Middle East wars. They checked out long ago.
The saying “ignorance is bliss,” may be a cliché, but it’s probably the truest of all clichés….until it runs its course and whatever you chose to be ignorant of comes knocking on your door, ready to slap you in the face, refusing to be ignored any longer.
And that’s where we are now, my fellow Americans.
President Donald Trump, the self-proclaimed “Peace President,” has apparently authorized, or is about to authorize, the US to join Israel in its war with Iran.
We hear all the reports in the media today that, as CNN says, “Trump is leaning towards using U.S. military force to strike Iranian nuclear sites.”
The truth is, this decision was made months or even years ago by the real decision-makers, who are not presidents. They are bankers, intelligence operatives, weapons manufacturers, tech oligarchs.
They never wanted a diplomatic solution. And the goal was never just to destroy Iran’s nuclear operations. The goal was always regime change. Just ask retired General Wesley Clark about that. He warned us 18 years ago that Iran was on a list of seven countries in the Middle East that Washington had targeted for regime change. It’s taken longer than they thought, but they haven’t given up. They’re still working on that list of seven countries.
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Try watching this video on www.youtube.com
So wars are never about what they tell us they’re about.
And this war is no different. It’s not about Iran’s nuclear program. Does anyone still think the Iraq war was about Saddam having weapons of mass destruction? Was Afghanistan about wiping out the al-Qaida terrorists?
As I said in my previous article, Washington was built for war. And Americans are conditioned to support it. We are taught that supporting war is part of supporting what it means to be American and patriotic.
That’s what Washington does best is launch wars. They aren’t very good at winning them. But by golly they are good at launching them.
Trump is now rejecting a “diplomatic solution” and has called on Iran to “unconditionally surrender.” He’s admitted he was aware of Israel’s war plans all along and supported them. He just needed to make it look like he was trying for peace, even though he broke every rule of diplomacy. He aired his frustrations with the Islamic Republic of Iran in public and he told the whole world the terms of his “deal,” that Iran was given one choice: Take the deal or be bombed. That’s not how diplomacy works and any reasonable person would know better than to use use such a ploy, let along advertise it, and expect the opposing party to accept it.
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Trump is sending fleets of U.S. military assets to the Middle East as we speak, and British PM Kier Starmer is doing the same. This is Iraq and Afghanistan all over again, or is it? I could be wrong. It could be just another Middle East adventure that makes the neocons a lot of money. But something feels different this time. Like we are heading into uncharted waters, not just another futile and useless war that wastes the lives of American servicemen like in Lebanon, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, etc. It has all the makings of a much bigger event.
For one thing, it comes on the heels of the deceptive war games being played in Ukraine, where the US and NATO have used Ukraine as a proxy against Russia, pissing off Vladimir Putin and backing him into a corner, a corner where no nuclear-armed dictator ought to be pushed.
Secondly, unlike Iraq and Afghanistan, this war involves the lightning-rod nation of Israel and many Americans see it as “Israel’s war.” They may not mind us helping supply Israel with Patriot missiles and other defensive-oriented munitions, but they are not willing to risk a scenario where their sons or daughters get sent to die for what is seen as Israel’s national interest.
As Christians, we could argue for days over what the Bible means when it instructs us to “bless Israel,” but I question whether it includes being willing to die or send your children to die in whatever war Benjamin Netanyahu says is vital for his country’s national security.
This sense of Israel dragging the US into another endless Middle East war describes the feelings of roughly half of Trump’s base, known as the MAGA movement. Many loved Trump and voted three times for him exactly because they thought he was the one guy who would put an end to our country being dragged into another foreign war with nebulous connections to our national security. You could argue that some of these wars, the current one included, actually place our national security in jeopardy, creating more terrorist backlash to come our way.
So MAGA is done as a political movement if Trump gets us directly involved in the Iran-Israel war, especially if he ends up putting boots on the ground or we get hit by another wave of Islamic terrorism. Many will say “I’m done” with Trump who lied about being the Peace President when, in fact, his foreign policy is indistinguishable from that of George W. Bush or Joe Biden. He is continuing to fund Biden’s war in Ukraine and he is continuing to fight Bush-like wars in the Middle East.
MAGA cannot survive a major fracture because it already only accounted for roughly half the nation’s voting public. Trump’s party, the Republicans, will lose the mid-terms in grand fashion, and the cycle will repeat itself with a Democrat president promising to get us out of the Iranian quagmire in 2028, only to get us involved in more wars after that, if we still exist as a nation and haven’t been nuked by Russia.
That brings me to my final point of how this war feels different. We now have the real risk of Russia, China and North Korea getting involved directly in a war with America, likely on more than one or two fronts if China were to seize the opportunity to make a move on Taiwan.
It was very clever how they drew Trump into their plan.
They knew Israel didn’t have the type of ultra-heavy bombs to finish the job that it started and destroy Iran’s nuclear program, which is located more than half a mile underground. The plan all along was to have Israel start it, and the U.S. finish it.
Now, who is “they?”
This entire war, along with the one in Ukraine, has been orchestrated from the start by the US, British and Israeli intelligence agencies. Trump, Netanyahu, Keir Starmer, and Vlad Zelensky are just along for the ride. They are globalist puppets.
Trump’s ego and unmatched bravado made him easy to manipulate. That’s why the deep state was not at all disappointed when he won the presidency for a second time, and one could even make the case that he was their preferred choice all along. Yes, even the lawfare, the incessant liberal-media attacks and possibly even the failed assassinations, were all carefully designed to make him more popular in the eyes of voters. Americans love an underdog.
But what if that underdog was working for the globalists all along? Knowingly or unknowingly, I believe he serves their purpose for this time. And what is their overarching purpose? To trigger the final takedown of an already vulnerable America, which is strapped with extreme debt and has an overstretched military force, already teetering on economic collapse. Get us in the final war with multiple foreign powers and watch the ship go down, showing the world that America was a paper tiger all along, built on a perception of strength that was always exaggerated, and finally became untenable.
Maybe I’ll be proven wrong. I hope I am. Maybe Trump really is the master of 3D Chess. Maybe Russia and China will continue to sit back and lick their wounds. The three countries have military cooperation agreements and economic ties. China gets a large chunk of its oil from Iran. But maybe Washington’s plan to destroy Russia and isolate China will work to perfection and secure the world for 100 years of peace. I pray I am wrong and the optimists who tell us to “trust the plan” are right.
Israel just triggered the end of Iran’s rogue regime. ANDREW FOX
The collapse of Iran’s Islamic Republic, once almost unthinkable, is now a distinct possibility. These are all of the possible outcomes.
JUN 17, 2025
This is a guest essay written by Andrew Fox, a former British Army officer and current think tank research fellow focusing on defense, the Middle East, and disinformation.
Israel’s lightning campaign has shattered Iran’s air defences, decapitated its military command, and sent members of the regime’s leadership fleeing to Russia.
With the last fortified nuclear site at Fordow remaining untouched, a moment of global consequence looms: Will this signal the fall of the Islamic Republic, and what will rise from its ruins?
In a matter of days, Israel’s pre-emptive strikes have shattered Iran’s defensive shield. Iran’s air defence systems were swiftly eliminated, opening the skies to unimpeded Israeli air power.
Simultaneously, precision strikes and covert operations decapitated key nodes of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps command, missile bases, nuclear facilities, and other military targets; too many to list here. The above-ground buildings at Natanz, once the centrepiece of Iran’s uranium enrichment programme, lie in ruins, their destruction confirmed by the United Nations atomic watchdog.
Several senior Iranian political and religious leaders have reportedly fled to safe havens in Russia: a dramatic signal of collapsing confidence. This exodus of the ruling elite, if accurate, delivers a decisive psychological blow.
We are not there yet, but Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei himself fleeing would be comparable to the Shah of Iran boarding a plane in 1979 or Afghanistan’s president fleeing Kabul in 2021. It telegraphs to both regime loyalists and the public that the ship of state is sinking, potentially eroding any remaining will to resist.
Israel’s offensive seems aimed beyond just neutralising nuclear threats. It is “clearing the path” for Iranians to reclaim their freedom, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu put it in a direct appeal to Iran’s people. In other words, regime change is an implicit objective of this campaign. The strikes have been calibrated to hit the regime’s instruments of repression and war (nuclear sites, Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps bases, top generals) while minimising civilian casualties, in hopes that ordinary Iranians will not rally around the flag, but instead turn on their weakened rulers.
So far, Iran’s retaliation has consisted of a barrage of missiles and drones, along with reported attempts at subversion within Israel itself. It has largely been thwarted. Israel’s multi-layered air defences (aided by U.S. early warning and support) are performing effectively, mirroring past confrontations where massive Iranian missile salvoes were largely repelled by Israeli interceptors. Deprived of its most potent means of striking back and observing its military hierarchy in disarray, the regime in Tehran finds itself in an unprecedentedly fragile state.
One looming issue remains unresolved: the Fordow uranium enrichment complex. Fordow is Iran’s most challenging nuclear site, buried half a mile deep under a mountain, and it has survived the initial onslaught intact. As long as Fordow remains operational, Iran’s regime keeps a dangerous ace up its sleeve.
The facility houses advanced centrifuges enriching uranium to near-weapons-grade levels and could potentially expedite a crash nuclear weapons effort if the leadership feels cornered. In Israeli eyes, allowing Fordow to remain unscathed would be a grave mistake. It might even provoke Tehran to race for a bomb out of desperation or vengeance openly. For Israel’s campaign to genuinely eliminate the nuclear threat, Fordow must be neutralised one way or another.
graphic: IDF/X
Fordow presents a nightmarish target for military planners. It was explicitly designed to withstand the kind of airstrike that destroyed the Natanz facility. The complex is tunnelled into solid rock, beyond the reach of ordinary munitions. Only the U.S. Air Force possesses bombs powerful enough (the 30,000-pound Massive Ordnance Penetrator bunker-buster) and the heavy bombers to deliver them.
Israel, lacking these super-bunker-busters and strategic bombers, is unlikely to be able to pulverise Fordow by air alone. This is precisely why Israeli officials are urgently courting U.S. involvement in the operation. If American B-2 bombers do not join the fray, Israel faces two unenviable options:
- Attempting to jury-rig a solution with repeated air strikes on the same spot (to gradually bore into the mountain, or
- Sending in special forces on a high-risk mission to infiltrate and demolish the site from within
A commando raid on Fordow would be a daring, last-resort gamble; something out of a Tom Clancy novel, yet not without precedent. In September 2024, Israel executed a similar operation in Syria. Codenamed “Operation Heavy Roads,” an elite Israeli special forces unit (Shaldag) clandestinely raided an underground Iranian-run missile factory near Masyaf, Syria. Over just two hours on the ground, the commandos neutralised guards, planted explosives throughout the facility, and reduced it to rubble without losing a single soldier.
This feat, once thought impossible, proved that a highly guarded underground site in a foreign country could indeed be infiltrated and destroyed by a well-executed special op.
Fordow, however, is a far tougher nut to crack than the Syrian site. It lies on Iranian soil, at a far greater distance from Israel than Syria, protected by layers of security and burrowed deeper into the earth. A raid would likely require hundreds of special forces personnel, who would need to breach reinforced tunnels or blast open access points, hold off or neutralise security forces inside, and emplace demolition charges on critical infrastructure (centrifuge halls, control systems, power supply), all before reinforcements arrive.
The operation would rely on surprise, speed, and intelligence: real-time intelligence on Fordow’s layout and defences (possibly aided by insiders or years of Mossad surveillance) and deception to keep Iranian forces confused.
Such an endeavour would be extraordinarily perilous. A large assault force deep inside Iran could be encircled by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps or trapped underground if anything goes awry. The commandos might need to fight their way out following the explosions or find an exfiltration route, perhaps via helicopter pickup at a pre-secured landing zone or an overland escape to a neighbouring country.
Despite these dangers, Israel may conclude that a commando strike is preferable to leaving Fordow untouched. The success of the Masyaf raid served as proof-of-concept that what was once dismissed as fantasy is now on the table. If Israel proceeds, a Fordow raid would likely involve multiple special forces units in a coordinated assault, supported by diversionary strikes and cyber-attacks to blind Iranian sensors.
The world has not seen an operation of this complexity since perhaps the U.S. raid that killed Osama bin Laden, and even that pales in comparison to the scale and stakes here. The elimination of Fordow might be the final, most dramatic chapter of this campaign, achieved either by U.S. bunker-busters or the courage (and luck) of Israel’s most skilled commandos.
Military pressure alone, irrespective of its intensity, does not automatically lead to regime collapse. The breaking point of the Iranian regime will depend on a convergence of social, military, and psychological triggers that ultimately tip the balance.
Drawing from historical precedents and Iran’s unique context, we can split this into social, military, and psychological thresholds that must be met.
Mass Civil Unrest (Social Threshold)
Widespread, sustained protests and chaos in the streets could signal that the regime’s authority is irreparably eroded. Iran has witnessed waves of mass protests before, but the difference now lies in the regime’s weakened coercive power. If news of the leadership’s flight emerges, ordinary Iranians may lose their fear and surge into the streets in vast numbers, sensing that the regime is on its last legs.
A general strike, protesters overrunning government buildings, or large crowds gathering in Tehran’s Azadi Square to celebrate an anticipated “liberation” would exert enormous pressure on what remains of the security forces. Unlike past uprisings, protesters would now carry the morale boost of having seen the once-mighty Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps humbled by Israeli strikes. Exiled opposition figures are openly encouraging civil resistance.
Reza Pahlavi, the ex-crown prince, urged Iranians and even security personnel to seize this moment, declaring, “The regime is weak and divided. … Iran is yours to reclaim.” If the populace answers that call en masse, sheer people power could overwhelm the regime’s remaining loyalists.
Fracturing of Security Forces (Military Threshold)
The Iranian regime’s survival has long hinged on the loyalty of its armed organs, such as the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the Basij militia, and the regular army. A collapse becomes likely if these forces fracture or stand down.
We may see signs like mid-level commanders refusing orders to fire on crowds, garrisons surrendering or deserting, or even firefights between factions (e.g. Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps hardliners versus Army units) as the chain of command breaks down.
The decapitation strikes that killed or incapacitated many top generals and Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps commanders are crucial here. They removed a vital component of the regime’s stability, potentially throwing the security establishment into confusion and leaderless disarray.
With communications disrupted and commanders dead, frontline units might act on their instincts. The military rank-and-file, who are themselves Iranians with families suffering under the regime, could decide not to die for a lost cause. Even pockets of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, especially those deployed outside their home regions, might choose to abandon posts or negotiate with local communities.
A pivotal moment would be if a major military unit or division openly switches sides to support the people, as happened in some instances in the Iranian Revolution in 1979. Once security forces cease to function as a united repressive tool, the regime’s physical power collapses.
Psychological Shock at the Top (Psychological Threshold)
Authoritarian regimes often project an aura of invincibility. Shattering that illusion can trigger a rapid unravelling. In Iran’s case, the sight (or rumour) of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and his inner circle fleeing by plane to a foreign haven could be that shock. If the Supreme Leader is perceived to have given up or gone into hiding, it is game over for regime cohesion.
Mid-level officials and clerics would begin defecting or disappearing, anticipating the regime’s fall. The remaining loyalists might resort to desperate, vicious measures, but their morale would be in free fall. Each additional blow, be it the fall of a major city to protesters or a live broadcast of a prominent ayatollah or an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps general announcing his resignation, would reinforce the collective sense that “this is the end.”
We saw similar dynamics in other collapses: Once fear shifts sides, the regime that once terrified everyone suddenly finds itself the one frightened of its people. As we saw last year in Syria, psychological tipping points can be abrupt. One day, a dictatorship seems securely entrenched; the next day it is melting away like ice in the sun.
Other factors could also accelerate the collapse. Information and communication will play a significant role. The regime has attempted to shut down the internet to prevent coordination, but reports suggest systems like Starlink are circumventing the blackout. This means that news of regime weakness and battlefield defeats spreads quickly, fueling the cycle of discontent.
Meanwhile, economic paralysis (with banks closed and markets in a state of panic) and the breakdown of basic services (power outages resulting from strikes on infrastructure) contribute to a sense of impending chaos, convincing many Iranians that change is both inevitable and urgent.
Taken together, these social, military, and psychological triggers feed off one another. We may not pinpoint the exact moment of no return until we have the benefit of hindsight, but it could arrive soon. Perhaps it will be when a protester’s video goes viral, showing Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps troops laying down their arms and joining the crowd, or when Friday prayers in a major city evolve into open defiance of the mullahs.
When that moment arrives, the Islamic Republic’s 46-year reign could unravel with astonishing speed, ending not with a negotiated handover, but with a sudden vacuum at the centre of power.
What might Iran look like immediately after the regime falls? This is the great unknown hanging over the current crisis.
History offers both hopeful examples and dire warnings. Optimists might recall how relatively smoothly Eastern European regimes fell in 1989, or how Portugal’s regime collapsed in 1974 without descending into anarchy.
However, the recent past of the Middle East (including Syria’s civil war, Libya’s post-Gaddafi chaos, and Iraq’s violent power vacuum) urges caution. Several broad scenarios are possible for a post-regime Iran, each with very different implications.
Scenario 1: Fragmentation and Civil Conflict
This is one nightmare outcome. Iran could fracture into warring fiefdoms and sectarian strife, akin to Syria or Libya. If the central authority were to collapse suddenly, Iran’s diverse society might split along regional, ethnic, or ideological lines.
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps or its factions could retreat to strongholds and effectively become warlords. Different parts of the country (the Kurdish northwest, Balochi southeast, the Persian heartland, and Azeri north) might witness the emergence of local power brokers or separatist groups, each claiming autonomy.
Outside powers could exacerbate tensions by fuelling proxies. For example, Turkey might seek influence in Turkic/Azeri regions, while Saudi Arabia could quietly support anti-Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Sunni groups, and so forth.
In this scenario, a protracted war for power and chaos unfolds on Iranian soil. The humanitarian toll would be immense, and Iran’s vast arsenal (including missiles and the remnants of the nuclear programme) could fall into multiple hands.
A civil war could also spill across borders, sending refugees into Turkey, Azerbaijan, Iraq, and beyond. No one desires this, not even Iran’s adversaries, because a failed state of 85 million people in such a strategic location would be catastrophic.
Scenario 2: Hardliner Military Junta
Another, even worse possibility is that the clerical leadership’s fall paves the way for an even harder-line authoritarian regime, essentially a military junta led by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
In this case, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps or a coalition of the most ruthless elements within it may suppress rivals and seize complete control of what remains of the state. Imagine martial law under a charismatic Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps general or a “council” of hardliners who deem the mullahs too indecisive.
Such a regime could be much more militarised and potentially more dangerous. Free from the pretence of clerical rule, an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps junta might be unabashed in pursuing a nuclear weapon as swiftly as possible, viewing it as the guarantor of their survival. Those who insist nothing could be worse than the current theocracy may be naïve; recent history tells us it can always be worse.
For Israel and the world, an embittered military dictatorship in Tehran, particularly one born from the ashes of war, could be just as hostile as the old regime, if not more so. It might impose internal crackdowns even more severely and double down on alliances with countries like Russia or China for survival. Essentially, the faces at the top would change, but the repression and regional aggression could continue in a new form.
Scenario 3: Transitional Council and Hopeful Reform
In a more optimistic scenario, responsible elements within Iran and the opposition could step into the vacuum to stabilise the country. Perhaps moderate figures from the regular army, some reformist politicians, and exile leaders could form a provisional “national salvation council.”
This interim leadership might restore order in major cities, call off any further fighting, and initiate talks for a new political system (be it a republic or even a constitutional monarchy restoration). They would almost certainly seek emergency economic aid and diplomatic recognition.
The Iranian diaspora, long fractured but united in its desire for an end to the Islamic Republic, would likely play a key role in providing technocrats and funding to rebuild. Under this scenario, Iran’s new leaders would distance themselves from the old regime’s policies. They would move to cease uranium enrichment and invite the International Atomic Energy Agency to inventory nuclear materials. The nuclear weapons programme would be halted in exchange for sanctions relief and reconstruction support.
Regionally, a post-Islamist Iran might stop funding militias like Hezbollah and Hamas, seeking normal relations with neighbours. This is the “best case” vision: Iran emerging from turmoil relatively quickly, with a chance to build a freer society. It is not guaranteed. Such a smooth transition would require unity among very disparate factions and likely some form of international peacekeeping or monitoring to prevent score-settling.
However, it is not impossible, especially if most Iranians, exhausted by decades of repression and the trauma of war, embrace a unifying call and focus on rebuilding their nation.
Scenario 4: Partial Continuity
Another possibility is a semi-managed collapse. Perhaps elements of the regime, sensing the writing on the wall, negotiate a handover of power to a temporary authority rather than fight to the bitter end.
For example, if some senior Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps officers and politicians oust the hardline core (or if Khamenei dies or flees and there is no clear successor), they might reach out to opposition figures to form a transitional government. In effect, part of the old elite could try to save the country (and themselves) by facilitating a change.
This scenario would align with the third scenario in terms of outcomes. A new, more moderate government would arise from an internal coup or pact. It might preserve more of the state’s institutions intact (preventing total collapse). The risk here is that it could also maintain some unsavoury elements of the old regime in power, possibly disappointing protesters who wanted a clean break.
Nonetheless, it could avert civil war.
Under such continuity, Iran’s territorial integrity is upheld, and the new government would likely still abandon the nuclear weapons quest under international supervision (both to get sanctions lifted and because many of those pushing for change internally know the nuclear path brought ruin).
In all the above scenarios, Iran’s nuclear programme and regional posture will be central concerns. A collapsed or transitioning Iran would immediately face international demands to secure nuclear materials.
One can expect U.S. and Israeli intelligence (and possibly special units) to move swiftly to account for enriched uranium and prevent any covert “last resort” use or transfer of fissile material by die-hard factions.
If chaos reigns, securing Fordow and other nuclear sites might even require an international task force. There would be the grim prospect of foreign troops in Iran, which could stir nationalist resentment.
Conversely, a cooperative new Iranian authority would likely invite the International Atomic Energy Agency and perhaps UN-mandated teams to help dismantle the weapons-related parts of the programme. Regional stability would, in the short term, be shaky. Iran’s proxies and allies (Hezbollah in Lebanon, militias in Iraq and Syria, the Houthis in Yemen) would suddenly lose their patron and could either wither or act unpredictably. Some might try to go it alone; for example, Hezbollah could lash out or attempt to survive via other sponsors.
In contrast, others might lay low or enter political processes if conflicts wind down without Iranian funding. Israel and the Gulf Arab states would certainly celebrate the end of the Islamic Republic, but they would remain wary until a clear picture of the new order emerges. If Israel succeeds in removing Iran’s leadership, there is no guarantee the successor would not be an even greater hardliner.
For the United States and global powers, a post-collapse Iran presents a strategic dilemma. On one hand, the elimination of a hostile regime and the hopeful end of Iran’s nuclear ambitions would represent a significant victory for non-proliferation and regional peace. On the other hand, the international community could face a substantial stabilisation and rebuilding effort.
Consider post-2003 Iraq, but on an even larger scale. Mistakes made then, such as disbanding the army overnight or allowing a security vacuum, would serve as painful lessons when approaching Iran’s situation. There may be calls for a UN peacekeeping mission to maintain order in key cities or safeguard minority communities during the transition. Major humanitarian aid and economic packages would be necessary to address Iran’s damaged economy and infrastructure, especially as the conflict has devastated refineries, power plants, and so on.
In a best-case scenario, Iran could re-emerge in a few years as a nation at peace with its people and neighbours: no longer isolated, no longer pursuing nuclear weapons, and focused on prosperity. This would transform the Middle East. Imagine Iran’s vast human and economic potential redirected from proxy wars to development and trade. Arab states might eagerly court a friendly Iran, and even the Israel-Iran hostility could fade if a new Tehran renounces calls for Israel’s destruction.
However, we must remain clear-eyed. Such positive change would require deft management of the immediate aftermath. The transition could be as perilous as the conflict itself. As TIME magazine noted, “things may get much worse before they get even worse” in this region. That tongue-in-cheek phrasing reflects the volatility of the situation. A collapsing regime can unleash forces that are hard to control.
The collapse of Iran’s Islamic Republic, once almost unthinkable, is now a distinct possibility amid the onslaught of war and internal discontent. Decision-makers in Jerusalem, Washington, and beyond are surely considering these scenarios as they weigh each next step.
The coming days will test whether Iran’s 85 million people can seize this tumultuous moment to build something new, or whether the aftermath of regime collapse becomes a new tragedy of its own.
One thing is sure: The end of the Ayatollahs’ rule would mark a historic turning point, and its full consequences, for the nuclear programme and regional stability, would be felt for years to come.
Fog of War TIERNEY’S REAL NEWS
JUN 17, 2025
President Trump sent out two important messages today among many others – one about Obama sending money to Iran and the other was a text from Mike Huckabee.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: “We now have complete and total control of the skies over Iran. Iran had good sky trackers and other defensive equipment, and plenty of it, but it doesn’t compare to American made, conceived, and manufactured “stuff.” Nobody does it better than the good ol’ USA.
We know exactly where the so-called “Supreme Leader” is hiding. He is an easy target, but is safe there – We are not going to take him out (kill!), at least not for now. But we don’t want missiles shot at civilians, or American soldiers. Our patience is wearing thin. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER!”
After studying all that has happened in the past few months – I believe this was Trump’s plan all along – to work with Israel to dismantle Iran’s nuclear program and expose the fact that the CCP & Iran are the real enemy – they worked with Clinton’s deep state CIA to engineer 9/11, they colluded with Obama’s deep state CIA to rig the 2020 election and with Bill Gates & Team Fauci to unleash the virus on the world – and together they tried to kill President Trump at least 4 times that we know of.
Our enemies in the NWO, CIA, CCP & Iran have paid off or threatened countless politicians, judges, prosecutors, police in America etc. to work against MAGA. It’s all becoming clear to me.
Did you know there is even a “Taliban street” in Iran? That says it all.
There is the CIA you see – and then there is the embedded CIA, funded by our tax dollars laundered through USAID and other fronts, that you don’t see that works with our enemies against us all over the world.
Iran (Taliban) and the Communist Chinese party appear to be the real foreign money and mercenaries behind the attacks and they use influencers to point the finger at Russia. Russia is tired of being the fall guy for everything.
Therefore, all the so-called MAGA influencers on Twitter (X) who are suddenly against Trump are likely being funded by Iran and the CCP – the so-called RED-GREEN AXIS. I don’t say this lightly.
All the pieces seem to be coming together.
Could somebody send this text, from Mike Huckabee to President Trump, to the so-called MAGA influencers on X who are all now bashing Trump in lockstep? They have all proven that when the rubber meets the road – they are NOT MAGA.
Mike Huckabee is speaking for most of MAGA who want Iran’s nuclear program ended and trust Trump has a plan to do so.
The latest poll from Rasmussen confirms that 84% of American voters are on Trump’s side and NEVER want Iran to have the ability to make a nuclear weapon.
Yet, strangely, there are over a dozen so-called trusted “MAGA influencers” that are on Twitter (X) right now bashing Trump and saying the opposite! Who are they?
Here is a list of the X ‘influencers’ who are now on record bashing President Trump and saying he is not MAGA. Laura Loomer is making a list of the grifters – she’s good at that – but this is also a way for Loomer to point the finger away from herself – for she has often done the same.
Note that most of these “influencers” either openly or covertly supported DeSantis or Haley or RFK Jr. over Trump – until it was obvious nobody could beat him. We didn’t vote for them – we voted for Trump. Who is paying them to bash Trump? Ask them.
Marjorie Taylor Greene
Candace Owens
Matt Gaetz
Steve Bannon
Matt Walsh
Hodge Twins
Chief Nerd
Mike Cernovich
Anthony Sabatini
Jack Posobiec
Texas Patriot
Richard Baris
TaraBull
The Real Fly
Clint Russell
Elon Musk
Red Pill Media
Steven Crowder
Thomas Massie
Rand Paul
Alex Jones
Robert Barnes
Nicholas Fuentes
Tucker Carlson
Now I know why Trump nominated Gaetz for AG – he knew he couldn’t be confirmed and it got him out of Congress.
Not only that, read the comments on their posts and you’ll see they are either supporting each other or bot farms are chiming in to agree!
Plus, in case you still think Tucker is MAGA, Trump just called him a kook.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: “Somebody please explain to kooky Tucker Carlson that IRAN CAN NOT HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON! I don’t know what Tucker Carlson is saying. Let him go get a television network and say it so that people actually listen. Thank you. AMERICA FIRST means many GREAT things, including the fact that, IRAN CAN NOT HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!”
I wonder how long President Trump has been waiting to say this! Tucker has never apologized for all the nasty things he said against Trump.
It’s being reported that President Trump is weighing a critical decision in Iran: whether to directly intervene in the war by assisting Israel in striking Iran’s deeply buried nuclear enrichment facility at Fordow—a site deep in the mountains and so fortified that only U.S. 30,000-pound ‘bunker buster’ bombs, deployed by American B-2 stealth bombers, are capable of reaching it.
In order to fully stop Iran’s nuclear program – this underground enrichment site must be destroyed.
President Trump has previously sold 2,000-pound bombs to Israel, when Biden refused to help Israel and instead helped Iran. But they aren’t big enough to do the job.
Israel lacks the 30,000-pound “mother of all bombs” (MOAB) – required to destroy Iran’s Fordow nuclear facility
Why does the US have to deploy the 30,000 bombs – why can’t Israel “rent” America’s B-2 stealth bombers and do it themselves? Is that a crazy question? If they do take it out – wouldn’t they be risking nuclear fall-out?
There’s something called the fog of war so don’t trust anything you’re told or assume you can predict the next step from what you read. Just because President Trump said that everyone should leave Tehran doesn’t mean it’s about to be bombed. And just because the latest wave of tweets now says the U.S. won’t join Israel doesn’t mean it won’t. Also, most comments you read on social media are written by bot farms working against Trump & MAGA so you can’t trust those either.
Putin knows that Communist China is not Russia’s friend. He knows that Trump is. Today, Trump asked why Russia doesn’t have a seat at the G8 table? What better way to keep Russia & China from uniting against America? Common sense
.Trump wants to neuter Iran because then Communist China can’t buy oil & gas from them…there is a global chess game going on and Trump is winning.
President Trump has been very clear where he stands on Iran having nuclear weapons. He has said over and over again that he will do whatever it takes to make sure that never happens. The idea he was somehow ‘tricked’ or that he has changed his mind is repulsive – only someone against MAGA would spread BS like that.
REPORTER: “You’ve always said you don’t believe Iran should have a nuke. Tulsi Gabbard testified in March that Iran wasn’t building a nuclear weapon.”
TRUMP: “I don’t care what she said. They were very close to getting a nuke.”
LIBRARY: ALL OF THIS IS HAPPENING BECAUSE LAST WEEK IRAN TESTED AN IMPLOSION TRIGGER SYSTEM INTEGRAL TO ASSEMBLING A NUCLEAR BOMB BASED ON THE KNOWN WORKING DESIGN THEY PURCHASED FROM PAKISTAN PRIOR TO 2003. THE ONLY STEPS LEFT WERE TO MACHINE A HIGHLY ENRICHED URANIUM PIT AND ASSEMBLE A BOMB. THAT IS HOW CLOSE IRAN IS, AND WHY THESE ACTIONS ARE HAPPENING NOW.
AI: In a nuclear weapon, an implosion trigger refers to the mechanism that compresses a subcritical mass of fissile material into a supercritical mass, initiating a nuclear chain reaction. This process relies on high explosives to generate a powerful, spherically symmetric shockwave that compresses the fissile material, increasing its density and causing it to reach a critical state.
Iran is targeting civilians in Israel, while Israel is targeting nuclear, military & energy targets in Iran. THEY’RE NOT THE SAME.
Nobody knows what President Trump is going to do next. That’s how he wants it. That’s the fog of war. It’s telling that all the so-called MAGA influencers are quick to tell him he’s wrong, and question every move he makes, when they have no idea what he is going to do. That’s a tell they are paid to spread propaganda.
This is how Israel dismantled Iran from within. ZINEB RIBOUA
The psychological warfare element — that the strike had come from Iranian soil — amplified the attack’s kinetic effects, leaving Tehran paralyzed.
JUN 16, 2025 The Future of Jewish
On June 13th, the Islamic Republic of Iran experienced a strategic collapse that altered the balance of power in the Middle East.
Israel eliminated key Iranian military and scientific personnel, degraded the country’s missile infrastructure, and neutralized its early-warning systems. But more consequentially, Israel’s strike — dubbed Operation Rising Lion — shattered the Iranian regime’s confidence in its own security apparatus.
This outcome was the result of years of sustained intelligence preparation; real-time intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance dominance; and deep operational infiltration. Israeli planners achieved full-spectrum disruption by dismantling Iran’s command and control networks, severing high-level communications, and injecting uncertainty into the regime’s decision-making processes.
By the time Tehran could react, the damage was already done. Its upper command was dead, its defensive systems were disabled, and its internal threat assessments were in disarray. Crucially, Israel did not rely on cross-border operations. It had pre-positioned remote-activated strike platforms inside Iran and deployed them with surgical precision.
Israel’s operational concept combined a decapitation strike with cognitive disruption. The psychological warfare element — that the strike had come from Iranian soil — amplified the attack’s kinetic effects, leaving Tehran paralyzed. Unable to determine whether it had been infiltrated or outmaneuvered, the regime’s ability to respond collapsed before it could launch a single countermeasure.
The first two warnings came in July 2024 and September 2024.
In July, Israel assassinated Ismail Haniyeh (Hamas’ top political official and a guest of the Islamic Republic) in the heart of Tehran, demonstrating its ability to penetrate Iran’s capital, bypass multiple layers of security, and execute a precision strike without visible attribution.
The second warning followed in September, when Israel conducted a sophisticated attack using explosive pagers against Hezbollah operatives in Lebanon, killing dozens and injuring thousands. This showcased its capacity to infiltrate and disrupt enemy networks. These operations sent a strategic message and served as rehearsals for something much larger.
Tehran failed to grasp the significance. The regime dismissed the assassinations as internal sabotage or factional violence, refusing to entertain the possibility that a hostile state actor had executed the operation within its own territory. That misjudgment exposed a structural flaw in the Iranian regime: Tehran’s national security establishment could no longer detect or interpret threats emerging from its core.
Iran’s failure to anticipate Operation Rising Lion demonstrates a pattern of strategic miscalculations rooted in flawed assumptions about Israel, the United States, and the nature of contemporary conflict.
Iran’s miscalculations were reinforced by its belief that it could rely on Beijing. Since the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), China has steadily deepened its strategic ties with Iran. What began as an economic alignment soon evolved into political and diplomatic coordination. China presented itself not merely as a trading partner but as a guarantor of Iran’s internal stability.
In 2021, China and Iran institutionalized their partnership with a 25-year strategic agreement valued at $400 billion. Chinese companies embedded themselves across Iran’s critical sectors, from energy and telecommunications to transport and logistics. Beijing extracted tangible strategic and economic leverage, a relationship that Iran mistakenly believed would grant it geopolitical protection.
This misreading extended into Tehran’s nuclear posture. Iranian officials interpreted Chinese backing as an effective shield from geopolitical consequences. As nuclear negotiations resumed in 2025, Chinese diplomats publicly reaffirmed the 25-year pact and emphasized multipolarity, integration into BRICS (a China-led anti-Western alliance structure that Iran joined in 2024), and cooperation with Russia. Tehran viewed this not only as validation of its international alignment but as evidence that it could defy U.S. and Israeli pressure without consequences.
Iran was further emboldened by its belief that the China-brokered normalization deal it signed with Saudi Arabia in early 2023 had silenced the most vocal regional opponent of Iran’s nuclear ambitions. Tehran assumed Riyadh’s opposition to its nuclear program had been politically neutralized and that, with Saudi Arabia out of the equation, Washington would have less incentive to support Israeli preemptive strikes. This was a fundamental miscalculation. The Riyadh-Tehran normalization produced optics, not a strategic shift.
The convergence of flawed assumptions — Chinese support as a deterrent, Saudi normalization as a shield, and U.S. diplomacy as a tactical delay — fomented strategic complacency in Tehran. When Washington and its allies issued a 60-day ultimatum to curb uranium enrichment, Iran dismissed it as empty signaling. It believed it still had time. It believed Israel would hold back. It believed the regional alignments would endure. It miscalculated, gravely.
Operation Rising Lion’s success hinged on Israel’s mastery of deception and psychological warfare. Deception in modern warfare involves crafting false narratives to mislead adversaries and inducing them to misjudge intentions, capabilities, or timing. Israel’s campaign was a textbook example, paralyzing Iran’s decision-making through a carefully orchestrated web of misdirection.
In the weeks preceding the strike, Israel saturated global media, diplomatic channels, and public discourse with false cues designed to lull Tehran into complacency.
The Israeli security cabinet meeting that green-lit the operation was disguised as a routine discussion on Gaza hostage negotiations. Ministers were briefed only within a secure forum, signing stringent nondisclosure agreements known as shomer sod, or “guardian of the secret.” Even senior government officials believed no major action was imminent.
Netanyahu’s office leaked a story that he was attending his son Avner Netanyahu’s wedding in the Galilee (northern Israel). The illusion that Israel’s leader was preoccupied with personal matters reinforced Iran’s complacency.
Mossad Director David Barnea and Israeli Minister of Strategic Affairs Ron Dermer claimed to be on a trip to Washington via Oman for a “sixth round” of nuclear talks. These negotiations were fictitious, but their announcement suggested diplomatic progress, diverting attention from military preparations.
Netanyahu’s team allowed rumors of a rift with Trump over a potential Iran strike to circulate in the media, fostering perceptions of political disunity within Israel’s leadership.
Israel designed this cognitive warfare campaign to neutralize Iran’s command and control structure before kinetic operations began. For Israel, deception is a central force multiplier in operational planning. Against a highly centralized, ideologically rigid and hierarchical regime like Iran, disrupting perception at the leadership level produces disproportionate strategic effects.
Deception has assumed growing operational significance for Israel in 21st-century conflict environments for three reasons:
- The modern battlefield is saturated with intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance assets. Denying the adversary real-time situational awareness is essential for maintaining operational security and preserving the initiative.
- In regimes like Iran, where political control and military command are tightly fused, disrupting perception at the top disables coordination throughout the chain of command.
- Deception enables strategic surprise, a condition wherein the enemy not only fails to anticipate the strike but also fails to understand its purpose until after the fact. This degrades morale, imposes psychological paralysis, and prevents timely countermeasures.
Israel’s operation applied all these principles. It exploited Iran’s doctrinal assumptions — namely, that threats would come externally, be preceded by escalation, and require observable force buildup.
By shaping the information environment, Israel ensured that Iran would not trigger emergency protocols, disperse its senior personnel, or adopt an elevated defense posture until it was too late. Israel did not kinetically disable Tehran’s early-warning systems; it cognitively bypassed them. The effect of surprise was decisive: By the time Israeli drones activated from pre-positioned launch nodes inside Iranian territory, the regime’s national command authority had already lost the initiative.
The Islamic Republic relies on projecting strength — on appearing untouchable and firmly in control from the top down. Its deterrence is psychological as much as material. Therefore even minor disruptions to this image can have outsized effects.
The strategic purpose of deception, in this context, is to undermine that perception before a single missile is fired. By distorting the enemy’s sense of reality (through misdirection, covert infiltration, and psychological manipulation), Israel erodes the regime’s belief in its own control and security. This breeds hesitation, miscalculation, and internal confusion at the highest levels.
Israel understands this well. It doesn’t just aim to win on the battlefield; it seeks to unravel the system’s confidence, creating paralysis through doubt, fragmentation, and disorientation.
The level of Israeli infiltration exposed during Operation Rising Lion has immediate and long-term consequences for the Iranian regime.
Penetration of Iran’s air defense systems, intelligence networks, and internal military infrastructure indicates a loss of control at the core of the state. This not only compromises operational security, but also undermines institutional trust within the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Quds Force, and the broader intelligence establishment.
When command structures can no longer distinguish between internal loyalty and external manipulation, decision-making slows, risk tolerance narrows, and factionalism grows.
Over time, this environment fosters paranoia, internal purges, and bureaucratic paralysis — conditions that steadily degrade the regime’s capacity to project power, manage crises, and maintain cohesion.
First, despite its threats of a forceful response, Tehran has failed to impose meaningful costs on a technologically and operationally superior adversary. What was billed as a major reprisal has largely amounted to symbolic gestures aimed at domestic audiences rather than tangible battlefield outcomes.
Second, the limitations of Iran’s response are raising doubts among its regional partners (particularly the Houthis and Hezbollah) about Tehran’s reliability as the core of the anti-Israel axis. If Iran cannot effectively retaliate when directly targeted, its credibility as a deterrent umbrella weakens across the region.
Third, the growing disconnect between Khamenei’s rhetoric and Iran’s operational reality is eroding internal cohesion. In a regime where legitimacy depends heavily on projecting strength, visible failure — especially in the face of Israeli dominance — risks deepening public skepticism and unsettling elite consensus.
If these trends continue, a deeper strategic unraveling is possible. The erosion of deterrence abroad and legitimacy at home could trigger fragmentation within Iran’s security institutions, elite defection, and increased pressure from peripheral regions. What begins as a military failure may evolve into political instability — and, over time, the disintegration of the centralized system that has held the Islamic Republic together for over four decades.
Israel, by contrast, has demonstrated control over both the military and psychological dimensions of the conflict. It has absorbed Iranian strikes with minimal disruption, maintained national composure, and reinforced its dominance in both the air and information domains.
The broader message is unmistakable: Israel sets the tempo and terms. Iran is reacting, and falling behind.
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You don’t have to like the Jews, but you should fear us. JOSHUA HOFFMAN
Today, a complete Jew is rooted in tradition, but capable of self-defense; fluent in Torah, but unafraid to fight.
JUN 17, 2025
Less than 100 years ago, much of the world observed in pure silence as the Jews were nearly eliminated.
Now, they watch us in awe as we strike back at today’s new-and-improved version of the Nazis.
This is the great reversal.
What was once a people hunted, herded, and humiliated is now a people who fly F-35s, run world-class intelligence agencies, and strike their enemies with speed and precision that rivals myth. What was once a people dependent on the kindness of strangers is now a sovereign nation whose hand is steady on the trigger.
You don’t have to like Jews. History has shown that much of the world doesn’t, anyway.
But you would be wise to fear us.
Before the rise of Zionism, the dominant caricature of the Jew was that of the galut (exilic) Jew: weak, passive, rootless, physically ineffectual, confined to the ghetto or the margins of society.
Centuries of diaspora life — expulsion, pogroms, persecution — had taught Jews to keep their heads down, to survive by wit rather than strength. That survival was a kind of miracle, but it was not dignity. It was not power.
Zionism changed that.
The Zionist movement, especially in its early days, was not just about returning to a land; it was about returning to a self. Theodor Herzl and Ze’ev Jabotinsky didn’t merely envision a state; they envisioned a new kind of Jew: one who walked upright, one who farmed his own land and built his own home and defended his own borders.
The “new Jew” was self-reliant, self-possessed, and above all, unafraid. This was not just nationalism rooted in indigeneity; it was transformation rooted in dignity, defiance, and the reclamation of Jewish strength. It was a rebellion against 2,000 years of helplessness.
Long before the image of the passive, powerless Jew took hold in the European imagination, Jews were warriors. In ancient Jerusalem, we fought to defend our Temple, our land, and our people. King David was not just a poet; he was a soldier, a general, a giant-slayer. The Maccabees didn’t write op-eds; they led a guerrilla revolt against a Hellenistic empire and reclaimed Jewish sovereignty with blood and blade.
The Jewish story began not in submission, but in resistance. We were never meant to be lambs. We were a nation of shepherds and soldiers, prophets and kings. The exile distorted that image. Centuries of persecution taught us to hide, to bend, to survive through intellect and subterfuge. But that wasn’t our origin story; it was a coping mechanism, a forced adaptation to a world that had disarmed us.
Zionism didn’t invent Jewish strength. It reawakened it.
The “new Jew” of the 20th century was really the ancient Jew reborn: tanned by the Mediterranean sun, plowing ancestral soil, training in the hills of Judea. He traded the ghetto for the kibbutz, the shtetl for the soldier’s uniform. And in doing so, he reminded the world — and perhaps more importantly, he reminded himself — what it means to be a free Jew in his own land.
If the “old Jew” was stooped in prayer, the “new Jew” was flexed in readiness and vigilance. We held onto the memory of who we once were, and we made a promise to ourselves and to each other about who we would never again allow ourselves to become.
This was not about aggression; it was about survival. Because history had taught us the most painful lesson of all: No one was coming to save us. Auschwitz wasn’t just a horror; it was a verdict. The verdict was that weakness kills. Powerlessness is not moral. It is mortal.
So we built a nation that trains its sons and daughters to fight, to lead, to sacrifice. We built an army where women serve in combat, and where pilots drop leaflets before they drop bombs — because we also retained the moral code that the “old Jew” never let go of.
But make no mistake: We fight now. And this leads to discomfort around the world.
Let me explain: The discomfort the world feels today watching Israeli airstrikes is not about “human rights.” It’s about the unsettling realization that the Jew is no longer begging for protection, but delivering justice with his own hands.
People were more comfortable when we were victims. When we cried out from the boxcars. When we lit candles for the dead. When we quoted Anne Frank and hoped for the best in human nature.
But there’s a different kind of Jew now, one who remembers the lessons of the Holocaust and the expulsions from Arab lands not as museum exhibits, but as warning labels. One who does not wait for sympathy, because we know that sympathy never stopped a pogrom. One who lives by the Talmudic ethic: “If someone comes to kill you, rise early and kill him first.”
That’s what Israel is doing. That’s what Zionism gave us. And that’s what the enemies of the Jewish People and their online cheerleaders are now learning.
The Jewish People have never wanted to be feared; we wanted to be accepted, to be neighbors, citizens, partners. That was the original dream, but the world taught us to abandon that fantasy.
Today, we don’t ask you to like us. You don’t have to invite us to your cocktail parties, your award shows, or your campus rallies. We’ve seen what many of you do there anyway.
But you will think twice before harming us. You will think twice before funding terrorists, spreading blood libels, or pretending neutrality as missiles rain on Israeli population centers. You will think twice because we are not who we once were. We are not the Jew who lowers his eyes and apologizes for existing. We are the Jew who trains, who fights, and who wins.
We didn’t want this, but now we own it.
Zionist visionary Max Nordau coined an interesting term at the Second Zionist Congress held in Basel in 1898: “Muscular Judaism.” There, he called for the rebirth of the Jewish body alongside the Jewish spirit, believing that strength, agility, and discipline (mental and physical alike) were prerequisites for national revival.
Nordau’s vision was a direct response to the frail image of the Diaspora Jew, hunched over his books, cowering in the ghetto, his body made weak by centuries of powerlessness. Nordau sought to replace that image with something new, or rather, something ancient. Because the Jew had not always been weak. Muscular Judaism wasn’t innovation; it was restoration.
And Nordau was onto something. His ideas took root in the early Zionist movement and flourished in the kibbutzim, where Jews returned to the land not only spiritually, but physically. They drained swamps, plowed fields, built homes with their own hands, and cultivated what was once barren. This wasn’t theoretical nationalism; it was sweaty, sun-scorched, calloused-handed Zionism. It was strength.
That strength evolved into defense.
Before Israel even became a modern state, Jews organized paramilitary groups like Bar-Giora, Hashomer, the Haganah, and Irgun. These fighters didn’t wait for permission; they secured Jewish lives against antisemitic Arabs while others dithered and looked the other way. By the time the Israel Defense Forces was officially founded in 1948, the idea of the “weak Jew” was all but dead. Today, the IDF is widely regarded as the most effective military force on earth, pound-for-pound.
But Muscular Judaism wasn’t limited to the battlefield. It reshaped Jewish identity across every domain. In the decades leading up to the Holocaust, Jewish athletes began winning Olympic medals in disproportionate numbers. In Austria, Jews made up a small percentage of the population, but an outsized percentage of sports teams.
Hakoach Vienna — named for the Hebrew word “strength” — became a world-renowned football club. Its players wore Stars of David on their uniforms and took pride in names like Bar-Kochba. At their peak in the 1920s, journalists called them “one of the best teams on the planet.”
And in 1929, a Slovak-born Jewish athlete named Imre Lichtenfeld won national championships in boxing, wrestling, and gymnastics — all in the same year. He would later go on to found Krav Maga, the close-combat system used by Israeli special forces to this day.
Today, a complete Jew is rooted in tradition, but capable of self-defense; fluent in Torah, but unafraid to fight. The “old Jew” and “new Jew” need not be enemies. When fused, they create something stronger than either one alone: a Jew who prays with conviction and punches with precision.
Muscular Judaism reminds us that we cannot think our way out of antisemitism. We cannot donate our way out of it. We cannot virtue-signal our way into being liked. We must be strong — physically, emotionally, spiritually; individually and collectively. And that strength must be visible, so visible that those who wish us harm reconsider.
If there is any reliable way to prevent antisemitism, it is this: Make the cost of harming Jews unbearably high. This is not vengeance. This is deterrence.
Because, in the end, we didn’t become strong to dominate; we became strong so we would never be dominated again. We didn’t rise so we could oppress; we rose so we could live. And we didn’t build a Jewish state so the world would finally love us; we built it so we would no longer have to care if they didn’t.
The world may once again be growing uncomfortable with Jewish power. But we are far more uncomfortable with Jewish graves. And given the choice, we will choose power — every single time.
So no, you don’t have to like us. But you will respect us. You will fear what happens when you try to destroy us. And you will learn, sooner or later, what every empire, caliphate, and regime that tried to erase us eventually discovered: The Jews do not disappear.
June 16, 2025 The Yeshiva World – Judaism teaches that the world will exist for 6,000 years, followed by a 1,000-year “Shabbat” — the Messianic era. This is based on the Talmud (Sanhedrin 97a) and reflected in Kabbalistic sources such as the Zohar and writings of the Ramchal and Vilna Gaon.
As of today, the Jewish year is 5785. That means: 6000 − 5785 = 215 years remain in the pre-Messianic era.
Kohelet Chapter 3: The 28 “Times”
In Kohelet (Ecclesiastes) Chapter 3, King Shlomo writes: “לַכֹּל זְמָן, וְעֵת לְכָל–חֵפֶץ תַּחַת הַשָּׁמָיִם” – “To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven.”
He then lists 28 distinct “times” (עֵת) — 14 contrasting pairs:
1.עֵת לָלֶדֶת – A time to be born/עֵת לָמוּת – A time to die 2. עֵת לָטַעַת – A time to plant/עֵת לַעֲקוֹר נָטוּעַ – A time to uproot what is planted 3. עֵת לַהֲרוֹג – A time to kill/עֵת לִרְפוֹא – A time to heal 4. עֵת לִפְרוֹץ – A time to break down/עֵת לִבְנוֹת – A time to build up 5. עֵת לִבְכּוֹת – A time to weep/עֵת לִשְׂחוֹק – A time to laugh 6. עֵת לִסְפּוֹד – A time to mourn/עֵת לִרְקוֹד – A time to dance 7. עֵת לְהַשְׁלִיךְ אֲבָנִים – A time to cast away stones/עֵת לִכְנוֹס אֲבָנִים – A time to gather stones 8. עֵת לַחֲבוֹק – A time to embrace/עֵת לִרְחוֹק מֵחַבֵּק – A time to refrain from embracing 9. עֵת לְבַקֵּשׁ – A time to seek/עֵת לְאַבֵּד – A time to lose 10. עֵת לִשְׁמוֹר – A time to keep/עֵת לְהַשְׁלִיךְ – A time to cast away 11. עֵת לִקְרוֹעַ – A time to tear/עֵת לִתְפּוֹר – A time to sew 12. עֵת לַחֲשׁוֹת – A time to be silent/עֵת לְדַבֵּר – A time to speak 13. עֵת לֶאֱהֹב – A time to love/עֵת לִשְׂנוֹא – A time to hate 14. עֵת מִלְחָמָה – A time for war/עֵת שָׁלוֹם – A time for peace.
The Calculation: 6,000 Years ÷ 28 Times
We divide the total span of Jewish history (6,000 years) by the 28 “times”: 6000 ÷ 28 = 214.28571428571428 \text{ years per time} Each Kohelet “time” spans exactly 214.28571428571428 years — or 214 years and about 104.57 days.
We’re currently in year 5785. To see which time we’re in: 5785 ÷ 214.28571428571428 = 27.000000000000004. This means we’ve just finished the 27th “time” and are entering the 28th and final one.
When Exactly Does the 28th Time Begin?
Multiply: 27 × 214.28571428571428 = 5785.714285714286. So the final Kohelet “time” begins 0.714285714286 into the year 5785.
Convert that to days (using the long-term average of 365.25 days per year): 0.714285714286 × 365.25 = 260.7142857143 \text{ days}.
That means the 28th time begins on: Day 261 of the year 5785.
But Isn’t the Jewish Calendar Lunar?
Yes. The Jewish calendar is primarily lunar, based on 29.5-day months. But it is also a lunar-solar calendar, because it adds leap months (Adar II) 7 times every 19 years to stay aligned with the seasons. Over long periods, this system brings the average Jewish year very close to 365.25 days — so our calculations remain accurate over millennia. And we’re not estimating here — we know the exact start of year 5785: Rosh Hashanah 5785 = October 2, 2024 (evening).
Add 260 days, and we arrive at: June 17, 2025.
Final Result: The Final Time Begins Tomorrow
According to this model: The 28th and final Kohelet “time” — “a time for peace” — begins on June 17, 2025. Buckle up.
Col. Rob Maness: Persians have very rare window of opportunity to overthrow Iranian regime [1:56]
June 16, 2025 Just the News – Retired Colonel Rob Maness, founder and chairman of GatorPAC, says there is a realistic but rare opportunity right now for the Iranian people to overthrow their oppressive government. Col. Maness implores the Iranian diaspora to join forces with Persians living in Iran in order to oust the regime.
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The Ancient Jewish Roots of Israel’s Military Doctrine JOSHUA HOFFMAN
The Talmudic advice of “rise and kill first” does not glorify violence; it acknowledges evil. It does not desire war; it seeks to prevent death in a world that has rarely cared for Jewish survival.
JUN 16, 2025
Few nations have embodied the imperative of preemptive self-defense more than Israel.
At the heart of its security doctrine lies a brutal but necessary calculus: Kill before being killed.
This approach, colloquially understood through the Talmudic expression “ha-ba lehargekha, hashkem le-hargo” — “If someone comes to kill you, rise early and kill him first.” — is more than just a pithy phrase. It is a survival ethic born from thousands of years of Jewish vulnerability, honed in the crucible of modern antisemitism, and operationalized in the Jewish state’s military and intelligence strategies.
The foundation of Israel’s policy of preemptive defense is deeply embedded in Jewish thought. In the book of Exodus (22:1), we find the principle that if a thief is caught breaking into a home at night, the homeowner is not guilty of bloodshed if he kills the intruder. The rationale? In the dark, one cannot assume the intruder’s intentions are nonlethal.
Later, in the Talmud (Sanhedrin 72a), Jewish sages crystallized this logic into a universal principle: “Ha-ba lehargekha, hashkem le-hargo” — if someone is coming to kill you, it is not only permissible, but obligatory, to strike first. This is not a doctrine of aggression, but one of moral clarity in the face of an existential threat. It does not glorify violence; it acknowledges evil. It does not desire war; it seeks to prevent death in a world that has rarely cared for Jewish survival.
For two millennia of diaspora existence, Jews were often denied the ability to act on this principle. Defenseless in ghettos, Arab lands, pogrom-ridden villages, and concentration camps, the lesson of passivity became one of the most painful inheritances of Jewish history.
Jews immigrating to pre-state Israel beginning in the 1800s knew that they had to think and operate differently.
They formed Jewish militias that were expressions of a historic shift: from victimhood to agency, from pacifism to resistance, from exile to sovereignty. They embraced the ancient commandment to rise and defend Jewish life not as an abstract moral value, but as a lived, daily necessity in a violent and indifferent world.
Without them, there would likely be no Israel. And without their legacy, Israel would not be able to defend itself today. That legacy, both heroic and controversial, continues to inform the ethos of a state that still lives by the ancient logic: If someone comes to kill you, rise first and make sure they don’t.
Before the founding of the State of Israel in 1948, Jewish self-defense in the Land of Israel (then Mandatory Palestine under British rule) was not a given; it was a desperate necessity. Jews built a series of underground militias that laid the foundation for the future Israel Defense Forces (IDF) in response to repeated violence, pogroms, and the failure of foreign authorities to protect Jewish communities,
Hashomer (“The Watchman”), founded in 1909 as an outgrowth of Bar Giora (1907), took its name and inspiration from Biblical and Talmudic concepts of guardianship. Its goal was to protect isolated Jewish agricultural settlements from Bedouin raids and local Arab attacks. Members of Hashomer often lived spartan lives and adopted Arab dress and customs to blend in, but their ideology was clear: Jewish sovereignty would only come with Jewish self-reliance.
Following the 1920 Arab riots and the massacre of Jews in Jerusalem and other cities, the Jewish leadership in the Yishuv (the pre-state Jewish community) created the Haganah, meaning “The Defense.” It quickly became the main military organization of the Jewish community, operating under the umbrella of the Jewish Agency.
The Haganah was clandestine, disciplined, and politically aligned with the Labor Zionist movement. Its doctrine was defensive, but only to a point. As Arab attacks became more organized in the 1920s and 1930s, and especially during the Arab Revolt from 1936 to 1939, the Haganah developed offensive capabilities. Units began to preemptively strike at Arab militias and sabotage infrastructure used for attacks against Jews.
Haganah operatives worked with the British during World War II, forming special units like the Palmach, an elite strike force that trained under British auspices to fight the Nazis (and later used their training to fight the British themselves).
There was also the Irgun, founded in 1931 by more militant members of the Haganah. Influenced by the Revisionist Zionist movement of Ze’ev Jabotinsky, the Irgun viewed British authorities not as partners, but as colonial occupiers standing in the way of Jewish sovereignty.
The Irgun embraced a more aggressive doctrine of deterrence and retribution. When Arab mobs massacred Jews (as in Hebron in 1929), the Irgun struck back with retaliatory raids. It also carried out high-profile attacks on British military and administrative targets, including the 1946 bombing of the King David Hotel, which housed British administrative offices.
A splinter from the Irgun, Lehi was even more radical. Founded by Avraham “Yair” Stern in 1940, Lehi sought not just to expel the British, but to hasten the re-establishment of a sovereign Jewish kingdom in the biblical homeland. During World War II, Lehi even attempted to negotiate with Nazi Germany to allow Jews to escape to Israel.
When Israel declared independence in May 1948, these disparate militias were merged into a single national force: the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). The process wasn’t smooth; in fact, the Altalena Affair (a violent confrontation between the new Israeli government and Irgun fighters over arms and autonomy) nearly caused a civil war. But ultimately, Israel unified its military command and incorporated all major fighting forces into a single entity.
The legacy of the pre-state militias endures in both culture and policy. The Palmach’s spirit lives on in Israel’s special forces. The Haganah’s focus on infrastructure and defense became the DNA of the IDF. The Irgun helped shape a security ethos that remains unapologetically focused on preemption, deterrence, and unilateral action when necessary. Lehi’s cutthroat M.O. translated into the Mossad’s ruthless precision in eliminating threats to Jewish life.
The creation of the modern State of Israel in 1948 was, in part, the end of powerlessness. And with it came the reactivation — this time with an army, an intelligence apparatus, and political sovereignty — of the ethic to “rise and kill first.”
The modern Israeli embodiment of this doctrine found sharp expression in its intelligence operations. After the Holocaust, the Mossad’s capture of Adolf Eichmann in Argentina and his secret extradition to Israel in 1960 was not just about justice; it was a signal. Jews were no longer going to wait for the world to protect them. They would defend themselves.
In the decades that followed, Israel developed one of the most sophisticated and aggressive counterterrorism strategies in the world, including targeted assassinations. After the 1972 Munich Olympic massacre, in which 11 Israeli athletes were murdered by the Palestinian terrorist group Black September, Israel launched Operation Wrath of God, sending operatives across Europe and the Middle East to hunt down and eliminate the perpetrators. The message was clear: Jewish blood will no longer be cheap.
But the doctrine wasn’t limited to revenge. It evolved into a policy of preemptive neutralization. Hezbollah commanders, Iranian nuclear scientists, and Hamas bomb makers all have been targeted under the logic of “rise and kill first.” This is not because Israel enjoys killing, but because waiting for an attack means funerals. Acting before an attack means funerals for terrorists.
Israel’s preemptive actions are frequently criticized as extrajudicial or in violation of international norms. But under Article 51 of the UN Charter, nations have an inherent right to self-defense. Moreover, the Caroline Doctrine, a 19th-century principle in international law, permits anticipatory self-defense if the threat is “instant, overwhelming, and leaving no choice of means and no moment for deliberation.”
Israel faces precisely such threats on a regular basis, from rocket arsenals in Gaza to uranium enrichment in Natanz. It cannot afford the luxury of deliberation. A single miscalculation — a missed signal, a delayed response — could mean mass casualties. In that context, its actions are not only morally defensible; they are morally imperative.
In the modern era, the “rise and kill first” doctrine has adapted to cyberwarfare, drone technology, and asymmetrical warfare. Israel’s 2020 cyberattack on Iran’s Shahid Rajaee port, allegedly in response to an Iranian cyberattack on Israeli water systems, was a digital manifestation of this principle. So was the 2020 assassination of Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, reportedly carried out by a remote-controlled, AI-assisted weapon.
The core doctrine remains unchanged: Neutralize the threat before it becomes a disaster.
Israel also applies this philosophy domestically in its counterterrorism responses, border security, and even in how it deals with terrorists. During the Second Intifada, for instance, this approach saved countless lives by identifying and eliminating would-be suicide bombers before they could strike.
That same “rise and kill first” calculus drove Israel to attack Iran late last week, after the rogue Iranian regime was reportedly just days away from developing nuclear weapons which it could presumably use to fulfill its decades-long, self-proclaimed goal of destroying Israel.
The Israelis could not wait for a mushroom cloud. They could not wait for world condemnation to turn into a eulogy. As in its past operations, from Entebbe to Osirak to Damascus, Israel acted unilaterally, decisively, and without apology. Because, in a region where threats escalate quickly and sympathy comes too late, the choice is glaringly simple: preempt or perish.
Of course, such a policy carries risks and ethical costs: Intelligence can be faulty, collateral damage is not always avoidable, and the use of targeted killings can erode international sympathy or provoke escalation.
But Israel does not operate in a vacuum of theoretical ethics; it operates in a region where genocidal threats are made openly, and where weakness is not punished with criticism, but with death.
For a country 420 kilometers long and 115 wide, surrounded by hostile actors, the decision to strike first is not reckless; it’s rational. It is not about vengeance; it is about survival.
The doctrine of “rise and kill first” may sound brutal to Western ears, trained to think in terms of Geneva Conventions, peace conferences, and “proportionality.” But Jewish history — from Masada to Munich, from dhimmi1 status to the Holocaust — has taught a different lesson: The world often does not come in time.
Israel is not a nation that celebrates war; it is a nation born of trauma, surrounded by enemies, and committed to preserving life, particularly Jewish life. And sometimes, paradoxically, the way to preserve life is to take it first.
If that offends modern sensibilities, perhaps those sensibilities should spend a little more time studying Jewish history, and a little less time moralizing to the Jews who survived it.
1 Arabic for a second-class citizen in an Islamic society
[Ed.: By the way, the Commandment “Though shalt not kill,” does not actually say kill! It translates correctly as “Though shalt not murder.” For example, we kill a chicken for dinner, we do not murder it. Murder is what Arabs did to Jews on October 7th. Murder is what the Iran military does when they shoot ballistic missiles into the center of Tel Aviv and kill Jews. Words have meaning. When you translate Ten Simple Commandments from the original Hebrew enough times, you run the risk of completely misinterpreting the Word of God. …Just sayin’.]
Wow! 💥 13 years ago in Cambridge University, Douglas Murray made this statement!!
Unbelievable!
Israel Just Ended China’s Great Power Status in the Middle East by Gordon G. Chang
June 16, 2025 at 5:00 am
- “There were some very, very relieved people in the Gulf as the sun rose this morning…. The Saudis know that China had armed their enemy Iran with nukes and lesser weapons and fully backed the Houthis, who have been waging war on the Kingdom for years.” — Jonathan Bass, Chief Executive Officer, Argent LNG, to Gatestone Institute, June 13, 2025.
- “The Chinese state is only as strong as its main energy provider, and that main energy provider, which so far has not been able to counter Israeli strikes, is unlikely to survive this war in its current form.” — Brandon Weichert, author of The Shadow War: Iran’s Quest for Supremacy, to Gatestone Institute, June 13, 2025.
- “With the loss of Syria and Hezbollah, Iran no longer has a command and control center in Damascus, only a two hour drive from Beirut. That means China can no longer manipulate events there.” — Jonathan Bass, to Gatestone Institute, June 13, 2025.
- China has a Trump problem in the wider region as well. With the exception of Iran, almost everybody, including Iran’s partner Qatar, seems to love the American president. Trump took the Gulf by storm in his three-nation — Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates — trip in May.
Narratives will change as the fighting between Ira and Israel continues, but one conclusion is already evident: China, Iran’s long-time backer, is a victim of the fighting. That is a quick reversal of fortunes. Only last year, the Chinese looked ascendant in the region. Pictured: Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi (C), Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov (L) and Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Kazeem Gharibabadi meet on March 14, 2025 in Beijing. (Photo by Getty Images)
Israeli air and drone strikes during the early hours of June 13th crippled Iran — and severely set back Tehran’s regional ambitions. The Israel Defense Forces hit nuclear weapons development facilities and ballistic missile sites, and killed senior military officers, including Major General Mohammad Bagheri, the armed forces chief of staff, and Major General Hossein Salami, the commander-in-chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
Iranian media announced the death of Ali Shamkhani, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s top adviser.
Tehran said that Israel’s action was a “declaration of war.” This war is continuing, and Iran has struck back with ballistic missile and drone attacks.
Narratives will change as the fighting continues, but one conclusion is already evident: China, Iran’s long-time backer, is a victim of the fighting. That is a quick reversal of fortunes. Only last year, the Chinese looked ascendant in the region.
“China is closely following Israel’s attacks on Iran and is deeply concerned about the potential grave consequences of the operations,” the Chinese foreign ministry stated on X a few hours after the initial attacks. “China opposes actions that violate Iran’s sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity, and opposes moves that escalate tensions or enlarge conflicts.”
“China stands ready to play a constructive role in helping ease the situation,” it added.
Beijing may stand ready, but, apart from the Iranian regime itself, the region is not looking for Chinese assistance.
For instance, Saudi Arabia and neighboring Gulf states are, as academic and analyst Christopher Balding put it, “quietly happy” that Israel has set back Iran in general and its nuclear weapons program in particular. “There were some very, very relieved people in the Gulf as the sun rose this morning,” Jonathan Bass told Gatestone the day after Israel’s initial attack.
As Bass, who travels extensively in the region for Argent LNG points out, the losses sustained by the Iranian military and the IRGC give the Sunni Muslim states fewer reasons to cooperate with Tehran. “The Saudis were not particularly happy with Chinese attempts to forge a relationship between them and the Iranians,” Bass said. “The March 2023 deal was not popular in the Kingdom.”
Bass was referring to the China-brokered pact that led long-time enemies Riyadh and Tehran to reestablish diplomatic relations.
“The Saudis,” Bass pointed out, “know that China had armed their enemy Iran with nukes and lesser weapons and fully backed the Houthis, who have been waging war on the Kingdom for years.”
Yes, the Chinese regime did all that, and the Kingdom has been looking for payback for a long time.
Beijing may also suffer another setback. China has been taking more than 90% of Iran’s exports of crude oil in recent years. Israeli strikes on June 14th hit a processing plant in Iran’s South Pars gas field, the world’s largest. There are reports that Israel also attacked Iran’s Abadan oil refinery. If the strikes on Iranian energy sites continue, Beijing could soon be scrambling for hydrocarbons.
“As Iran’s largest purchaser of energy, China stands the most to lose from the potential fall of Iran’s theocracy,” Brandon Weichert, author of The Shadow War: Iran’s Quest for Supremacy, told this site. “The Chinese state is only as strong as its main energy provider, and that main energy provider, which so far has not been able to counter Israeli strikes, is unlikely to survive this war in its current form.”
The possible loss of the Iranian regime reverses two years of fast Chinese progress in the region. “China is the head, Iran is the shoulder, Qatar is the elbow, and the proxies—Hamas, the Houthis, and Hezbollah—are the fingers,” Bass notes. “Without the shoulder, the head cannot move either the elbow or the fingers.”
The decimation of Iran also sets back China in another crucial part of the region. “With the loss of Syria and Hezbollah, Iran no longer has a command and control center in Damascus, only a two-hour drive from Beirut,” Bass points out. “That means China can no longer manipulate events there.”
Syria, once a promising target for Chinese domination, is leaving Beijing’s sphere of influence. The country’s new leader, former militant Ahmed al-Sharaa, is fast moving Syria closer to the United States.
Sharaa has a willing partner: U.S. President Donald J. Trump. While in Saudi Arabia last month, Trump met with Sharaa after announcing that the U.S. would drop its Assad-era sanctions on his country.
China has a Trump problem in the wider region as well. With the exception of Iran, almost everybody, including Iran’s partner Qatar, expresses love for the American president. Trump took the Gulf by storm in his three-nation — Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates — trip in May.
Chinese leaders obviously thought that their backing of Iran would let them ride into control of the region. A proxy war is a sly maneuver when the proxies do well, but it can lead to disaster when the proxies are being ground into the dust.
China’s proxies — and China itself — are now being ground into the dust.
Gordon G. Chang is the author of Plan Red: China’s Project to Destroy America, a Gatestone Institute distinguished senior fellow, and a member of its Advisory Board.
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Deep Dive into NGO Riot Funding [5:36] JEROME R. CORSI, PH.D.
From the Tides Foundation to all of the subsidiaries of ActBlue, the Leftist criminal money laundering operation is world-wide and must be exposed and stopped.
JUN 15, 2025
Dr. Jerome Corsi takes an even deeper dive into the big bucks behind staged public unrest on Corsi Nation. Leftist NGOs are behind the evil, go figure.
Betrayed on the Battlefield: IDF Soldiers Left Wanting While Defense Giants Feast on Taxpayer Billions By Mordechai Sones
Every donation, every barbecue fundraiser, normalizes a system where soldiers are sent to war ill-equipped, while defense giants thrive. Those who accept this status quo, who cheer the troops while ignoring the profiteering, are complicit in a cycle that sacrifices lives for corporate gain
June 15, 2025 Jewish Home
In Israel, where reverence for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) as the shield against existential threats is inculcated from birth, a bitter truth festers beneath the surface: rank-and-file soldiers, sent to fight, be maimed, and die for murky objectives, are scraping by with inadequate supplies, while the nation’s defense industries—Rafael, Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), and Elbit Systems—reap record profits from taxpayer money. This is not just a logistical failure; it is a moral betrayal, enabled by a public that, in its desperation to support the troops, unwittingly props up a broken system.
Contents
The Harsh Truth of Empty Supplies
A Tangle of Trust and Treachery
A Soldier’s Desperate Plea
Consider the plea of an IDF soldier, drafted abruptly to the northern front, his voice raw with urgency: “My name is [redacted], and on Friday, erev Shabbat, we were suddenly drafted after getting out of our last miluim [reserve duty] only two months ago! We are lacking basic logistical and cleaning materials because the battalion was surprised and nothing was ready! Basic things from toilet paper, shampoo, toothbrushes, brooms, sponges, rags, and all kinds of other things are lacking, and we need your help!” He goes further, hoping to lift his unit’s battered spirits with a barbecue, a small gesture to counter the despair of an unprepared deployment.
This fundraiser, one of many flooding social media since October 7, 2023, has raised over $1 billion for soldiers’ basic needs, from tactical boots to thermal clothing.
The Harsh Truth of Empty Supplies
When skeptics questioned the fundraiser’s legitimacy—how could a battalion lack toilet paper, with logistics officers supposedly ensuring readiness?—the soldier’s response was chilling: “It’s nice to believe that, but we actually are using our emergency toilet paper from the last line we were on, and it won’t last more than a few days. I’ve been told it will take up to a week for them to get everything under control. Even what they give us isn’t enough. Last time they gave us 12 shampoos for 36 dish soaps for our entire battalion. It’s a joke. Only through my campaigns have I equipped my entire battalion. The only thing that my battalion gets from the battalion now is our guns and ammo. The rest of our equipment is from donations. Otherwise, we would be wearing outdated, unsafe equipment.” His words echo a grim reality: the IDF, despite Israel’s colossal defense budget, is failing its soldiers at the most basic level.
Abandoned in Faith and Gear
This is not an isolated incident. Soldiers have shared videos decrying military-issued knee pads, “great 10 years ago,” now worn out and useless, passed through countless hands.
Religious soldiers face additional indignities: Despite propaganda boasting abundant and generous IDF Rabbinate support for its soldiers, shortages of kosher food, prayer books, tefillin, and other ritual items force them to rely on civilian donations. Photos circulating online show soldiers receiving donated tzitzit and siddurim from organizations like Boots for Israel, which has distributed thousands of such items alongside 46,000 pairs of tactical boots. One image captures a soldier holding a donated tefillin set, his face a mix of gratitude and exhaustion, a stark reminder that even spiritual sustenance is crowdsourced.
These shortages are not just logistical oversights; they are a betrayal of soldiers who risk their lives under the banner of a nation that prides itself on unity.
Profits Over Patriotism
Meanwhile, Israel’s defense giants are swimming in profits. In 2024, Rafael’s sales hit $4.8 billion, with profits soaring 64% to $257 million. IAI’s revenues reached $6.11 billion, its net income up 55% to $493 million. Elbit Systems, a publicly traded behemoth, posted $6.83 billion in sales, with a 22% revenue spike in Q1 2025, over a third from Israeli contracts.
These figures, fueled by taxpayer-funded contracts, could equip every IDF soldier with state-of-the-art gear, rebuild hospitals, or fund education for a generation. Instead, they pad corporate coffers, with Elbit paying dividends to shareholders—some abroad—while soldiers beg for toilet paper.
A Tangle of Trust and Treachery
The hypocrisy is staggering. These firms, born from Israel’s need for self-reliance, now exploit wartime crises. Rafael and IAI, state-owned, are meant to return profits to the public, yet Rafael’s $680 million in dividends since 2002 and IAI’s $430 million from 2017–2023 are mere crumbs compared to their earnings. Elbit, privatized and listed on NASDAQ, funnels profits to investors, with a single shareholder holding 10,000 shares pocketing $6,000 in Q1 2025 dividends—money traced back to Israeli taxes. Worse, allegations swirl that these companies, with government approval, sold arms to Qatar, a Hamas backer, raising questions about whose security they truly serve.
Enabling the Injustice
This scandal is enabled by a public that, out of love for its soldiers, fundraises to fill the gaps. Organizations like Unit 11741, delivering 11,000 tactical helmets, and Boots for Israel, providing boots and religious supplies, are lifelines—but they are also bandages on a gaping wound.
Every donation, every barbecue fundraiser, normalizes a system where soldiers are sent to war ill-equipped, while defense giants thrive. Those who accept this status quo, who cheer the troops while ignoring the profiteering, are complicit in a cycle that sacrifices lives for corporate gain.
A Call to Reclaim Trust
Israel’s defense industry must be held accountable.
The State Comptroller’s 2023 report on Rafael’s governance failures—understaffed boards, lax audits—demands action, not lip service. A defense procurement ombudsman is needed to give taxpayers a voice. Laws must define “excessive” wartime profits and mandate transparent budgets.
Without these reforms, the nation risks losing more than soldiers’ lives—it risks losing its soul. For a people who live in constant crisis, trusting their defenders should not be a luxury. It should be a guarantee.
[Ed.: This is disgraceful! This is why I call in IINO.]
Trump Slams Tucker Carlson After He Calls to ‘Drop Israel,’ Splits from Trump By Geller Report Staff
June 14, 2025
The anti-Israel propagandist Tucker Carlson seems determined to destroy Israel’s reputation with the Republican Party, American Conservatives, the American Christian community, and the Trump Administration. Carlson is also an outspoken proponent of appeasing Iran. Now he is advocating for President Trump to abandon Israel for rightfully taking out Iran’s nuke sites.
Tucker is out of the closet parading his Jew hatred like a street hooker struts her wares. It was always there on the quiet but he has became more comfortable with it. As the culture changed, he could be freer.
Pro-Israel Conservatives must vigorously fight Tucker Carlson and his ilk. Carlson must not be allowed to destroy Israel’s standing in the Republican Party, the way the Left destroyed Israel’s standing in the Democrat Party.
Tucker Carlson splits from Trump, advocates ‘dropping Israel’
The talk show host accused the president of ‘being complicit in the act of war’ in his newsletter
June 13th, 2025 Jewish Insider – Talk show host Tucker Carlson broke with President Donald Trump on Iran on Friday, writing in a scathing commentary in his daily newsletter that the United States should “drop Israel” and “let them fight their own wars.”
“If Israel wants to wage this war, it has every right to do so. It is a sovereign country, and it can do as it pleases,” Carlson wrote of Israel’s preemptive strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities. “But not with America’s backing.”
Michael Goodwin: Democrats with Trump Derangement Syndrome are undercutting Israel By Michael Goodwin
June 14, 2025 New York Post
One way to look at the first six months of Donald Trump’s second term is that the wily president has managed to trick Democrats into fighting common sense and adopting bizarre and unpopular positions.
Consider how he lured them into wildly protecting waste, fraud and abuse in the budget simply by having a plan to cut it.
Then the president, by keeping a campaign promise, fooled his opponents into engaging in violent riots and trying to block his deportations of illegal immigrants, including those who had committed serious crimes here.
And now comes Trump trick No. 3, which is unfolding before our eyes.
Because the president’s support for Israel is ironclad in its war with Iran, those infected by Trump Derangement Syndrome are reflexively pulling away from the Jewish nation.
Already there are signs that Dems and their media handmaidens are moving toward condemning Israel for daring to protect itself from Iranian aggression.
The left’s budding resistance is camouflaged in squishy, both-sidesism mush.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries began by saying that “Iran should never be allowed to become nuclear capable,” but quickly called for “a reduction in hostilities.”
“I’m hopeful that cooler heads will prevail in the Middle East and the situation is de-escalated,” Jeffries told MSNBC.
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, the doofus Dems thought was veep-ready, addressed the initial Israeli strike by bemoaning that America is no longer a “neutral arbitrator” and added: “Who is the voice in the world that can negotiate some type of agreement and hold the moral authority? It might be the Chinese.”
His fellow Minnesotan, Rep. Ilhan Omar, chimed in with her usual antisemitic dog-whistles.
“Israel knows America will do whatever they want and feels confident about their ability to get into war and have the American government back them up,” she posted.
She also insisted Americans should be ready to “either see their tax dollars being spent on weapons supplies to Israel or be dragged into war with Iran.”
Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy plowed similar ground when he bizarrely insisted Israel’s attack “was clearly intended to scuttle the Trump Administration’s negotiations with Iran, and risks a regional war that will likely be catastrophic for America.”
Amid all the crazy talk on the left, there are a few voices of sanity.
One is Sen. John Fetterman, with the Pennsylvania Dem telling Jewish Insider he was shocked by his party pals’ views.
“It was just astonishing to see colleagues criticizing these things. It’s like, do you think you can negotiate with that regime? Do you think you want to run that scenario and allow them to acquire 1,000 pounds of weapons-grade uranium?”
“I can’t understand, I can’t even begin to understand that,” Fetterman said.
Exceptions to the rule
In the same vein, Bronx Congressman Ritchie Torres scoffed at an article in The Economist that doubts Iran was actually racing toward a nuke.
Noting that the mullahs expanded their stockpile of 60% enriched uranium by 50% — a level far beyond any plausible civilian use, Torres writes on X that “To cast doubt on Iran’s nuclear ambitions at this point requires not just skepticism, but a willful suspension of one’s functioning cerebral cortex.”
Unfortunately, Fetterman and Torres are exceptions.
For the vast majority of Dems, including those with press passes, the rule that Trump must be relentlessly resisted is forcing them into a corner that looks and sounds like a political loony bin.
It’s not a new phenomenon, but the shocking thing is that neither his second election nor the seriousness of America’s problems at home and abroad have cured their derangement.
Instead of being selective in their opposition to Trump, they are embracing their madness across the board with increasing intensity.
Whatever he’s for, they instantly and mindlessly are against.
The Iran nuke issue is an especially strange example.
As Fetterman and Torres note, the criticism of Israel ignores the crucial point: Iran is seeking a nuclear weapon, has hidden its enrichment facilities for years and lied to UN inspectors.
On its face, that would be troubling enough.
But the most egregious element is that Iran has pledged not only to develop a nuke — but to use it on Israel.
An enemy of the US
The quivering Dems presumably are saving their full support of Israel for the day after it gets nuked.
Then they’ll wail and somehow blame Trump.
Fortunately, the Jewish state is not in the mood for suicide and so it struck first, hitting enrichment facilities, degrading weapons systems and taking out the military leadership along with top scientists.
The refusal of so many on the left to join Trump and back Israel wholeheartedly is all the more absurd when you remember that Iran pledges that after it destroys Israel, which it calls “the little satan,” it will go after the US, the “great satan.”
That means Israel is attacking a sworn enemy of America, and displaying why it is one of our best and most important allies.
Yet still most Dems can’t see the moral imperative and national interest in Israel’s action.
Nor do they understand how the horrible events of Oct. 7 affect Israeli decisionmakers.
That was the deadliest day for Jews since the end of the Holocaust, and it would be unforgivable if Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and others did nothing to stop Iran’s race for nukes.
Imagine if one of the ballistic missiles that hit Tel Aviv Saturday was carrying a nuclear warhead.
That’s the nightmare scenario, and it is reason enough to justify the Israeli strikes.
Trump gets that, which is why he and Netanyahu adopted a good cop, bad cop routine.
The president sincerely wanted Iran to voluntarily give up its nuclear ambitions and tried to make it happen through two months of direct negotiations.
At the same time, he warned repeatedly there would be hell to pay if the Ayatollah said no.
How much hell now depends on whether the Supreme Leader faces reality and tries to save himself and his regime by making a deal.
If he doesn’t, it’s entirely possible the US, with its unique 30,000-pound buster bombs, will join Israel in obliterating the nuclear sites.
Trump’s calibrated, forceful stance is a welcome break with Joe Biden’s many missteps after the Hamas attack in 2023.
Initially, he was completely in Israel’s corner, but, faced with criticism from within his party in an election year, Biden began threatening to withhold munitions unless Israel agreed to limit its responses.
He even had Secretary of State Antony Blinken attend Israel’s military cabinet meetings to decide which Gaza targets Israel could hit.
All the while, Biden, who had lifted some of Trump’s oil and banking sanctions on Iran, tried to sweet-talk the regime into another weak nuclear pact.
Instead, Iran shifted much of the money to Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis and kept working on developing the bomb.
Thankfully, for both Israel and America, those days of Oval Office weakness are over.
BREAKING: Israel HUNTS Down Khamenei As Multiple KILLED In Haifa [37:38] Mahyar Tousi
June 14, 2025 @ 7:00 pm ET Tousi TV
June 14th is Flag Day! [Lots of important photos – see original article) TIERNEY’S REAL NEWS
JUN 14, 2025
June 14th is Flag Day. Most Americans don’t even know that – but it is one of the most important days of the year marking the birth of America. Here’s a little history lesson.
In 1775, the first American flag, called the Continental Colors or the Grand Union Flag, was created by the American colonists. It looked quite similar to the British flag.
In January 1776, the Grand Union Flag was raised at Cambridge by General George Washington and given a salute of 13 guns. The occasion marked the beginning of America’s national existence. It still showed the British Union flag of 1606 in the canton. Its field consisted of seven red and six white alternated stripes representing the 13 colonies.
The Grand Union Flag continued to be the flag of the Revolution until the adoption of the Stars and Stripes by an Act of the Continental Congress in 1777.
The Stars and Stripes Flag officially replaced the Grand Union Flag on June 14, 1777, the birthday of the American Flag.
The Second Continental Congress passed a resolution that “the flag of the United States be 13 stripes, alternate red and white” and that the union be 13 stars, white in a blue field, representing a NEW constellation.
The national flag – which became known as the “Stars and Stripes” – was based on the “Grand Union” flag and, according to legend, Philadelphia seamstress Betsy Ross designed the new canton for the Stars and Stripes, allegedly at the request of General George Washington.
On June 14, 1777, Congress made the following resolution: “The flag of the United States shall be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white, with a union of thirteen stars of white on a blue field. . .”
Official announcement of the new flag was not made until September 3, 1777.
Legend has it that Betsy Ross’ famous flag was first flown in battle during the Revolutionary War at the Battle of Cooch’s Bridge in 1777. It was certainly flown during the Mexican War (1846-1848) and the American Civil War (1861-1865.)
With the entrance of new states into the United States after independence, new stripes and stars were added to represent new additions to the Union. In 1818, however, Congress enacted a law stipulating that the 13 original stripes be restored and that only stars be added to represent new states.
On June 14, 1877, the first Flag Day observance was held on the 100th anniversary of the adoption of the Stars and Stripes. As instructed by Congress, the U.S. flag was flown from all public buildings across the country. In the years after the first Flag Day, several states continued to observe the anniversary, and in 1949 Congress officially designated June 14 as Flag Day, a national day of observance.
The week of June 14 is designated as “National Flag Week.” During National Flag Week, the president will issue a proclamation “urging the people to observe the day as the anniversary of the adoption on June 14, 1777, by the Continental Congress of the Stars and Stripes as the official flag of the United States of America.”
False flag Minnesota [Photos] TIERNEY’S REAL NEWS
JUN 14, 2025
Two leaders and their spouses, in the Minnesota Democrat party, were shot after defying their own party, the Democrats, and voting to repeal free healthcare for illegal aliens.
Minnesota House Democrat leader Melissa Hortman and her husband were fatally shot in their Brooklyn Park home, and state Senator John Hoffman and his wife were shot and survived the attack at their home in Champlin.
Hortman, the top Democrat in Minnesota House, was shot and killed along with her husband.
As usual, we need to wait at least 72 hours for the entire picture to unfold but here’s what we know so far:
WALZ: “We’re here today because an unspeakable tragedy has unfolded in Minnesota. My good friend and colleague, Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark were shot and killed this morning in what appears to be a politically motivated assassination. Our state lost a great leader, and I lost the dearest of friends. Speaker Hortman was someone who served the people of Minnesota with grace, compassion, humor and a sense of service. She was a formidable public servant, a fixture and a giant in Minnesota. She woke up every day determined to make this state a better place. She is irreplaceable and will be missed by so many.”
“My prayers also go out to state Senator John Hoffman and his wife Yvette, who were each shot multiple times. The Hoffmans are out of surgery at this time and are receiving care and we are cautiously optimistic that they will survive this assassination attempt.”
“Out of an abundance of caution my Department of Public Safety is recommending that people do not attend any political rallies today in Minnesota until the suspect is apprehended.”
Shadow Government Brigitte Gabriel
The Judicial Coup Must End
June 12, 2025 ACT For America
The unchecked activism of federal district judges is obstructing the will of the American people and the constitutional authority of the President to enforce immigration policy.
Time and again, judges like Indira Talwani, Patti B. Saris, James Boasberg, and others have issued injunctions to block President Trump’s executive orders on mass deportation, only to be rebuked by the Supreme Court.
These rogue judges, operating from liberal strongholds like Massachusetts and Washington, D.C., are attempting to usurp executive power, defying the precedent that allows Presidents to revoke temporary immigration statuses just as they grant them. With millions of undocumented immigrants—far more without temporary status than with it—flooding the nation under Biden’s lax policies, the judiciary’s interference is a crisis demanding Congressional action.
Senator Josh Hawley’s bill to curb judicial overreach, backed by a grassroots uprising, is the only solution to restore the President’s authority and align with the 80% of Americans who demand mass deportation.
In early 2025, Judge Talwani in Boston blocked the termination of humanitarian parole for 532,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans, arguing that the Immigration and Nationality Act requires case-by-case parole revocations. Similarly, Judge Saris halted the revocation of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for 350,000 Venezuelans, citing due process. Judge Boasberg in D.C. went further, stopping deportations under the Alien Enemies Act (AEA) for alleged gang members, claiming the 1798 law was misapplied absent a declared war. These rulings, rooted in a hyper-technical reading of statutes, ignored the President’s broad authority over immigration, a power grounded in Article II and reinforced by decades of precedent. The Supreme Court, in May 2025, swiftly overturned Talwani’s and Saris’s injunctions, with Justices Jackson and Sotomayor’s dissents exposing their ideological bias. Boasberg’s AEA ruling faces similar scrutiny as the D.C. Circuit considers the administration’s appeal. These reversals shame the lower courts, exposing their attempts to rewrite executive policy as judicial fiat.
The principle is clear: if a President can grant temporary status like parole or TPS through executive action—as Biden did for nearly 882,000 immigrants—then a President can revoke it with equal authority. Biden’s CHNV parole programs and TPS expansions were unilateral acts, bypassing Congress. Trump’s orders to end these programs follow the same precedent, yet district judges, acting as unelected lawmakers, obstruct these reversals.
This judicial overreach is not new. In 2018, district judges blocked Trump’s first-term efforts to end DACA, only for the Supreme Court to later affirm executive discretion. The pattern repeats: activist judges issue nationwide injunctions, delaying enforcement until higher courts intervene. This cycle erodes trust in the judiciary and paralyzes the executive’s ability to secure the border.
The Constitution grants the President plenary power over immigration enforcement, yet rogue judges act as a shadow government, imposing their ideology on a nation demanding action.
The solution lies with Congress. Senator Josh Hawley’s proposed legislation to limit judicial review of executive immigration actions is a crucial step in reining in these rogue judges. By curbing nationwide injunctions and expediting appeals, Hawley’s bill would restore the balance of power. But Congress won’t act without grassroots pressure.
Senate Democrats, clinging to open-border policies, face a reckoning. A grassroots surge—reflecting the 80% of Americans who, per recent polls, support mass deportation—must crush their resistance, forcing a bipartisan agreement to end this judicial nightmare.
Only Congress, backed by the American public, can end this chaos and ensure rogue judges stop obstructing the power of the President and the will of the people.
Disease X: Wayne Allen Root Interviews Dr. Corsi [8:35] JEROME R. CORSI, PH.D.
Medical Martial Law is on the horizon…globalist plan in motion for decades coming soon, with God’s help we can defeat it in its tracks.
JUN 11, 2025 – Many despicable politicians have followed the slogan “never let a good crisis go to waste.” We witnessed that most recently with the Globalist Left’s COVID power grab within and outside of the U.S. Now, the WEF, WHO other globalists and fellow statists are looking to weaponize “Disease X” against the free world. Dr. Jerome Corsi takes a deep dive into what’s happening on today’s The Truth Central.
LA More Than Insurrection, It’s Bolshevik Revolution – Larry Klayman [43:35] By Greg Hunter
On June 11, 2025 USAWatchdog.com – Renowned attorney Larry Klayman predicted on USAWatchdog months ago that there would be full-blown, legal civil war happening in the court system. With 272 cases and counting filed against the Trump Administration, that prediction has proven spot-on. Klayman also predicted months ago that violence from the “rabid Left” would not only increase but “explode.” The LA riots prove another bullseye for Klayman. What Klayman is seeing is far more than some violent protests on the West Coast. Klayman warns, “This is a very dire period. We knew this was coming. This is more than an insurrection, this is a Bolshevik style revolution. It’s not just Bolsheviks, but it’s every conceivable leftist radical group. This is financed, undoubtedly, by people like George Soros. . .. Karen Bass is a DEI affirmative action mayor in Los Angeles. She was going to be Biden’s second choice to be vice president, God forbid. . .. They are using her. The Left is using her, and they are using Newsom and others. They want there to be some kind of tragedy in LA. They want there to be some kind of Kent State where someone gets killed. They want one of these protesters to be killed by the National Guard or by the military. This will be a flash point to carry forth this Bolshevik revolution. They want to take this county down to ground zero. This is what they are trying to do. They want to destabilize the country and bring these radicals out.”
Klayman goes on to say, “There is, undoubtedly, foreign money involved probably from communist China, Iran and North Korea. There is probably money coming from the Left with Soros and others. They want this country at a point that is destroyed, and then they take control. That is their motivation. That is what happened in Russia when they had the Bolshevik Revolution. That’s what happened in China with Mao. This is a plan. This is a playbook. This is why we need to push back, and that is why President Trump needs to crush this right now to make an example of this. Frankly, he should have Governor Newsom arrested, and he should have Karen Bass arrested. They are inciting violence, and they are fomenting revolution. . .. We are under attack, and President Trump needs to declare martial law.” [Emphasis added]
Klayman says the riots in LA are not a sign of Trumps failure as a President, but it is a sign of his success. Klaman explains, “They are making their move. We predicted this several months ago. It was just a matter of time, and it built and built and built, and now they see Trump, regardless of these judges . . . and they see Trump is at the point of possibly succeeding. So, they are going to do a number on the President of the United States. . .. Iran is not going to give way, and they are going to continue to enrich uranium. They know, ultimately, we will be backed into a corner, and we are going to have to attack them. This is a last-ditch effort to try to eliminate President Trump and try to weaken our country before that occurs.”
Klayman says the so-called autopen scandal of the Biden Administration will reveal that pardons were sold by staff. Klayman contends this is something Trump did not do in office the first term or this term. Klayman says, “The whole system is corrupt. It is a pay-to-play system. . .. The American people were sold out. I doubt there was not much of anything that was approved by Joe Biden.”
In closing, Klayman says, “This is a do or die life experience. Today it’s LA, tomorrow it’s going to be coming to your hometown and your neighborhood.”
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Something is happening, right now… Avi Abelow
July 11, 2025 Israel Video Network – Pulse of Israel Group
U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth just told Congress that there are “plenty of indications” that Iran is actively moving toward a nuclear weapon. Not theoretical. Not down the road. Right now.
That is why Defense Secretary Hegseth has just now authorized the departure of non-essential staff at US embassies and military bases across the Middle East.
That doesn’t happen for no reason. That only happens when serious threats are on the table.
When President Trump was asked why this is happening?
He responded…
“You’ll have to see. Thank you.”
And then…
“They are being moved out. It could be a dangerous place… Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. We won’t allow it.”
This is serious. And if you’ve followed me long enough, you know I’ve been saying this all along: despite the media’s headlines over the past few months trying to paint growing daylight between Trump and Netanyahu, the truth is, they are totally aligned.
Both men understand the stakes. Both know exactly who the enemy is. And both are committed to stopping Iran from acquiring the most dangerous weapon on earth.
Let’s also be honest, President Trump has sincerely tried the diplomatic path with Iran, not because he’s weak, but because he wanted to show the world, and especially the growing isolationist wing of his own Republican Party, that he did everything possible to avoid military confrontation. That he gave diplomacy a real shot. He truly prefers the diplomatic direction and refraining from military action.
But Iran has never negotiated in good faith. They’ve taken advantage of American weakness for years and used the time to push forward, arming Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, and inching closer and closer to nuclear weapons.
This isn’t just about Israel. This is about a global Islamic terror empire with a 1,400+ year jihadist ideology to take over the world in the name of Allah having nuclear protection. That is unacceptable.
And Trump is no fool. If he sees that Iran is playing him for time in order to develop nuclear weapons, he will stop the diplomacy and go to plan B.
Make no mistake: something is happening.
The region is shifting. The red lines are being tested.
Stay alert. Stand proud.
Israel must be strong because this is about our survival. America must be wise because this is also about protecting America. And together, we must never allow the Islamic Republic of Iran to develop nuclear weapons.
Strengthen your faith in the one above. We will come out of this bigger and stronger than ever before. And to see where we are today, and internalize that Iran & Qatar intended to destroy Israel with their Oct. 7th funded invasion/war.
Am Yisrael Chai!!!
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Iran TIERNEY’S REAL NEWS
JUN 11, 2025
I don’t usually like to post stuff like this unless I’ve spent time vetting it – but I am on my way out the door and thought it prudent to share it with you. Heads up.
HAROLD FINCH: ACTIONS SUGGEST A POSSIBLE STRIKE ON IRAN’S NUCLEAR FACILITIES. STRIKE MAY BE IMMINENT.
RELEVANT DEVELOPMENTS: IMPLOSION TEST BY IRAN LAST WEEK. SHIPMENT OF ANTI DRONE ASSETS DIVERTED FROM UKRAINE TO US BASES IN MIDDLE EAST. INTENSE CALL BETWEEN US PRESIDENT TRUMP AND NETANYAHU, IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWED BY CALL BETWEEN US PRESIDENT AND PUTIN.
THESE EVENTS PRECEDE EVACUATION OF US EMBASSIES IN MIDDLE EAST AND US MILITARY DEPENDENTS FROM US MIDDLE EAST BASES.
TRUMP STATED TODAY THAT IRAN WAS NOT LOOKING TO MAKE A TRADE DEAL. THIS COULD VERY WELL BE TRUE AND THE STRAW THAT BROKE THE CAMEL’S BACK. HE AND HIS TEAM WENT TO CAMP DAVID LAST WEEKEND AND IRAN WAS LIKELY THE TOPIC OF DISCUSSION.
TRUMP: “Whether they make a trade deal or not, Iran will NOT be allowed to have a nuclear weapon. PERIOD.”
Pete Hegseth told Congress that “there are many indications that Iran is moving toward something that looks very similar to a nuclear weapon.”
Iranian Defense Minister: “In the event of war with the US, we will attack American bases in the region.”
Israeli journalist, Yaakov Bardugo, reportedly close to Prime Minister Netanyahu, stated on Channel 14 that Israel is days away from attacking Iran, as the Knesset prepares to vote on its dissolution in about three hours.
The United States is taking significant precautionary measures in the Middle East due to heightened security concerns. The U.S. Embassy in Iraq is preparing for a possible ordered evacuation, prompted by increased risks. Similarly, the U.S. Navy base in Bahrain has been placed on high alert, with authorization for dependents to evacuate. In the Persian Gulf, all U.S. tankers have been put on alert, and the United Kingdom has issued a parallel warning for all tankers and ships transiting the region.
Additionally, the U.S. is planning to evacuate its staff from Kuwait, and Defense Secretary Hegseth has authorized the voluntary departure of military dependents across the entire Middle East. Evacuations of non-essential personnel have already begun at Al-Dhafra Airbase in the UAE and Al-Udeid Airbase in Qatar. U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) is closely monitoring the situation, prioritizing the safety and security of service members and their families, while routine air operations continue without reported disruptions.
The Iranian media is calling for Jihad against Israel & America if the attack happens. Now you know why all those paid rioters are in place. [Emphasis added]
Israel→Qatar→Hamas: New report on the flow of weapons and money CHANANYA WEISSMAN
The friend of your enemy is your enemy
JUN 11, 2025
You literally can’t make this stuff up. Mere days after I connected the dots with state-owned weapons manufacturers raking in record profits since the start of the Gaza “war”, all while jacking up taxes on their slave population to “pay for the war”, the following has just been revealed:
According to information received by Maariv, Elbit signed contracts with Qatar worth more than $100 million, Rafael signed contracts worth tens of millions of dollars, while Israel Aerospace Industries had a long affair with Qatar – which included at least 20 visits by Israel Aerospace Industries heads to Doha and a significant visit by a senior Qatari delegation, which spent an entire day at the Israel Aerospace Industries offices.
These agreements were signed with the approval of bodies in the Defense Ministry, the Defense Intelligence Agency, and special approval from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Let me get this straight:
1. The fake-Jewish State of Israel massively taxes its population, which pays more per capita for “defense” than any other country, and uses much of this money to fund state-owned weapons manufacturers.
2. The oligarchy sells weapons to Qatar, a supposedly enemy nation.
3. Qatar “smuggles” weapons to Hamas.
4. Hamas kills lots of Jews.
5. The fake-Jewish army, under the control of the same Defense Ministry that funds the weapons manufacturers and approves arms deals, sends actual Jews into death traps…often to search for weapons.
It’s like a parent hiding pieces of chametz before Pesach and sending children on a scavenger hunt to find them, only people are shooting at the children, there are explosives everywhere, the parent is getting paid billions of dollars for this, and the parent is actually an impostor.
6. State-employed rabbis declare this is the holiest mitzvah, and the entire state propaganda engine goes into full swing.
7. The oligarchy raises taxes to pay for an endless “war” against Hamas. Much of this money is funneled to state-owned weapons manufacturers.
8. State-owned weapons manufacturers earn record profits, not a penny of which is returned to the taxpayers who funded them.
9. The state sends millions of tons of “aid” to Gaza, knowing full well it will wind up in the hands of Hamas, and keep the “war” going.
10. The state is extremely hungry for more soldiers to join its army, especially religious people, and most especially religious people who have antipathy for the state.
11. The state sends arms to other Arab clans in Gaza, ostensibly to help save Jewish lives, while refusing to properly arm vulnerable Jewish communities to defend themselves, ostensibly because that would endanger Jewish lives.
12. State-supported psy-op blankets the country with relentless hostage propaganda, and the propaganda engine makes haredim public enemy number one. Channel your attention and frustrations there.
13. Rinse, wash, repeat.
Historical note, which they don’t teach in Jewish history class: The eventual founders of the fake-Jewish state collaborated with the Nazi party to break a boycott against them, which enabled Germany to rebuild their military. See here for the essential clip with the author of “In Jewish Blood: The Zionist Alliance with Germany”, and here for the complete program.
What’s changed, really?
I’ve wondered aloud why they can’t slap a GoPro on Iron Dome missiles and give us incredible footage of them taking out enemy rockets from near and afar. Iron Dome has been operational since 2011, and officially has intercepted many thousands of rockets, so we should expect LOTS of impressive, incontrovertible video evidence of these interceptions, not the silly videos they show us that conceal much more than they reveal.
Well, we finally have a video of the Iron Dome taking out enemy projectiles that is so impressive, it rivals the videos of men landing on the moon and actresses returning from outer space.
To be clear, I never denied that someone has been firing stuff at the slave population, which keeps them perpetually traumatized and supporting more “war”. I simply doubt the official narrative beyond that. The burden of proof is always on wicked pathological liars, not those who are skeptical of them.
And, to be clear, the claims of said wicked pathological liars are not credible evidence, so if that’s all you’ve got, it’s time to become skeptical of them, too.
It’s a big mitzvah to fight for the Jewish people, which is why I will never join the IDF.
European Jewry before the Shoah Dr. Alex Grobman
Why did the majority of European Jews seem so oblivious to the evolving deterioration of events to the point “that many tens of thousands, who might have left continental Europe in time, stayed on passively until it was too late? Op-ed.
Apr 28, 2022, 6:40 PM (GMT+3) Israel National News
In any discussion about European Jewry before the Shoah, a number of questions are invariably raised. One of the most pervasive, is why did the majority of European Jews seem so oblivious to the evolving deterioration of events to the point “that many tens of thousands, who might have left continental Europe in time, stayed on passively until it was too late?” as asked historian Saul Friedländer.
There is no doubt that during the 1930s, they had no way of knowing what awaited them, since the Germans themselves had not yet decided how they were going resolve the “Jewish Question.” German historian Christian Gerlach postulates that Hitler made the decision “in principle to murder all the Jews in Europe, either on or around December12, 1941…. At least that is when it was made public.”
Friedländer agreed that no one could have predicted the Shoah. Nevertheless, “a sense of imminent danger, of possible catastrophic changes, might have been expected from European Jews as soon as Hitler came to power.” Most Jews, he said, remained unaware that a fundamental developments had occurred.
The reason for this was quite clear. “Many German Jews—and European Jews in general—were unable to face the fact that assimilation, ‘symbiosis,’ had failed, that even all their efforts and hopes had been largely in vain. They were “not ready to evaluate the past critically and recognize that their real status differed from their legal status.” Abandoning “their illusions” would have forced them to confront “the most painful conclusions not only on an abstract level, but about the nature of Jewishness itself, and worse still, about their very physical existence in Europe…It would have meant severing strong and real “roots and trying a new course repellent to most: expatriation, whatever its geographical destination.”
“Nuanced Terrain”
To be fair, in Germany, the Jews struggled “to live with a plurality of identities and cultures,” according to intellectual historian Paul Mendes-Flohr. From the time Moses Mendelssohn (1729-1786) left the ghetto to become part of the enlightened educated German middle classes in search of mutual interests,
German Jews were not naïve about the challenges they would encounter. Hannah Arendt, a philosopher and political theorist, noted that German society, “confronted with political, economic, and legal equality for Jews, made it quite clear that none of its classes was prepared to grant them social equality, and that only exceptions from the Jewish people would be received. Jews who heard the strange compliment that they were exceptions, exceptional Jews, knew quite well that it was this very ambiguity—that they were Jews and yet presumably not like Jews which opened the doors of society to them. If they desired this kind of intercourse, they tried, therefore, ‘to be and yet not to be Jews.’”
Their response to National Socialism Mendes-Flohr said, was to reaffirm their connection —”to the German humanistic tradition,”–which was a striking demonstration of “defiance” and an expression of their “deepest inner reality.”
Jews as Revolutionaries
There were two conventional approaches to daily Jewish life in Europe, Friedländer claimed. Focusing inwardly led one group to becoming “apolitical citizens,” and thus did not appreciate the momentous reversals occurring in the German political arena. Others, who were fewer in number, assumed a substantial role in the growth and “expansion of modern capitalism,” which provoked many of the “antisemitic slogans of the nineteenth century.” The “relative preponderance” of Jews in the stock exchange, banking and the administration of the press in the last decades of the 19th century, established the Jew’s position in this revolution, observed historian Jacob Katz.
In Germany and Austria, “the bitterest critics of the most hallowed values” were the Jews. The primary cause for the hatred of the Jews Friedländer asserted, was their active participation in the revolutionary movements of World War I and beyond. He noted that “the myth of the revolutionary, culture-destroying Jew, perhaps intent on world domination, penetrated into Western consciousness more strongly than ever before. The relentless revolutionary drive of a tiny proportion of Jews-actually ones what hardly any link with their community(‘non-Jewish-Jews”)—gave Jews as a whole a stigma which was to have the dire of consequences.”
A Final Note
Nothing the Jews could have done would have impeded the emergence of the Germany’s virulent antisemitism Friedländer acknowledged. “Nazi antisemitism, however, was able to reach its full scope because it did not encounter strong countervailing forces within European society.” Why? The Jew was viewed as an “outsider” and the Nazi as an “insider.”
The Jews could not have modified this perception of themselves, but undeniably, the fact that they were identified as revolutionaries, provided the Nazi propaganda machine with evidence that reinforced Western society’s view that Jews were “undesirable elements” that had to be “excluded.”
What motivated a small segment of Jewish society to become such ardent revolutionaries? Once they left the ghetto physically and spiritually, they found the non-Jewish society unprepared to a accept them beyond legal equality afforded any other citizen.
“There is a deadly logic in the dialectic of antisemitism,” Friedländer concluded.
Dr. Alex Grobman is a historian, who is senior resident scholar at the John C. Danforth Society, and a member of the Council of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East.
The REAL insurrection – Part 2 TIERNEY’S REAL NEWS
JUN 10, 2025
Here’s more that you need to know about the REAL insurrection. Some “reporter” on ABC News said the LA riots are mostly peaceful and “just a bunch of people having fun watching cars burn!”
Last night, the LAPD finally surrounded and boxed in a group of rioters and announced they were all under arrest. I’ve been waiting for this to happen. Apparently you could hear them crying. That was the first time I saw any mass arrests in 4 days of rioting.
Many of these agitators have been attacking police or pushing police over and over again. They’ve been blocking freeways and looting and lighting cars on fire. So far, I’ve only seen the LAPD arrest those who were throwing objects at police.
I don’t understand why they don’t just bring in a large paddy wagon for mass arrests. They have all been ignoring orders to disperse.
Will they be charged with anything or just let go? It’s LAPD – I’m not counting on it. Just like in Minneapolis – nobody was arrested and if they were they were immediately let go.
Thankfully, the marines and more National Guard were there this morning and all is calm.
Meanwhile, this morning, I was watching Communist LA Mayor Bass on the local LA CBS channel flubber around on TV during her news conference. She admitted that LA was quiet now after the marines and the Guard came in and she is “grateful” that the “unacceptable” violence has mysteriously stopped – but of course she is blaming the whole thing on Trump and ICE.
But, strangely, Bass made a point, over and over again, to tell Trump that she needs him to send LA money for the World Cup coming in a year and she needs help to clean up all the graffiti and garbage left over from the riots! There was even a dead body found on the street this morning! VOTE THESE PEOPLE OUT OF OFFICE.
Reporters were asking Bass about the fires and looting and vandalism last night by the rioters and she pretended that it was only on a few blocks! LIES. The rioters even bashed in all the windows of the LAPD headquarters with skateboards!
Stephen Miller says that what Bass is saying is the very definition of insurrection.
President Trump is edging closer than ever to invoking the Insurrection Act. The Insurrection Act of 1807, which allows the deployment of U.S. troops to quell domestic unrest, is among the most extreme emergency powers available to a sitting president.
The insurrection act has been invoked by Presidents in response to 30 incidents, the first time by Thomas Jefferson in 1807 and the latest of which was by George HW Bush in the 1992 Los Angeles riots.
Lincoln, Roosevelt, JFK, Eisenhower & Reagan have also all invoked the insurrection act.
Don’t let the media gaslight you.
During the 1992 L.A. riots, President George H. W. Bush mobilized the National Guard, US Army, & US Marines to stop violent rioters from totally destroying Los Angeles.
It’s not “unprecedented.” Trump is not a “dictator.” This was the scene in LA in 1992.
Bill Clinton, who was the Democrat candidate for President back then, was on the scene and used the chaos to paint Bush as a bully and help him defeat Bush for President that year. I’m guessing Gavin Newsom thinks he’s going to do the same. It’s not going to work out the way he thinks it is. America is no longer that easy to fool.
Trump has already federalized California’s National Guard to protect Federal buildings and Federal agents:
TRUMP: “The people that are causing the problem are professional agitators. They’re insurrectionists.”
Newsom was out there pretending Trump never called him to tell him what he was doing. So Trump proved Newsom was a liar!
More than 700 Marines were mobilized yesterday by President Trump to respond to the protests in LA, joining up to 4,000 National Guardsmen. Without the Insurrection Act, the troops’ mission is legally limited to protecting federal agents and property.
Waymo, which had self-driving cars set ablaze over the weekend, suspended service in downtown LA and curtailed service in San Francisco.
It’s spreading to other cities now. The NYPD also arrested two dozen protesters who swarmed the lobby of Trump Tower in New York as the paid protests spread across the country. Protests also broke out in Santa Ana and San Francisco in California, plus Dallas, Houston, Austin and San Antonio in Texas.
In the summer of 2020, Trump fumed over the nationwide Black Lives Matter/Antifa color revolution riots, that were engineered in Minneapolis under the guise of George Floyd and then spread all over the country, and drafted a proclamation to send thousands of active-duty U.S. troops into the streets to end the violent insurrection.
Trump ultimately was sabotaged by Speaker Nancy Pelosi, VP Mike Pence, General Charles Flynn, DC Mayor Bowser, Joint Chiefs Chairman General Mark Milley and Defense Secretary Mark Esper – who delayed the National Guard until it was too late – but he has publicly expressed regret over not acting more forcefully at the time. He vowed to not let it happen again.
TRUMP: “I’ve been here before and I went right by every rule. I waited for governors to say, ‘Send in the National Guard’. They wouldn’t do it. I said to myself, ‘If that stuff happens again, we’ve got to make faster decisions.'”
“We’re moving murderers and criminals out of our country who were put here by Biden. We’re not going to let them stay. I can inform the rest of the country that if they [riot], they will be met with equal or greater force.”
“They were met with very strong force in LA; the bad people. The bad, sick people that do what they do. But these are paid people in many cases. Not in all cases but in many cases. They are agitators.”
“If we didn’t get involved, right now Los Angeles would be burning just like it was burning a number of months ago. We are not playing around.”
“We’re going to be celebrating big on Saturday, June 14th in DC — and if there’s any protester that wants to come out, they will be met with very big force.”
NOEM: “In 2020, I was a Governor of a neighboring state (South Dakota) to Governor Walz of Minnesota, and I watched him let his city burn. President Trump and I have talked about this… and he was NOT going to let that happen to another city and to another community, where a bad governor made a bad decision.”
How did the LA riots start? The fake news isn’t even telling the truth about that.
Border Czar Tom Homan told MSNBC and CNN that ICE was serving warrants on a business laundering money for the cartels! It wasn’t even an immigration raid!
Even Democrats realize that California has overplayed their hand. Stephen A. Smith to Gavin Newsom:
“Why the h*ll are you playing right into the hands of Donald Trump? Because I got news for you: on this particular issue – he’s winning.”
“There are people within the United States of America that want our immigration crisis addressed and want the situation resolved somehow, some way. And the person that seems eager to bring a resolution to the table is President Donald Trump.”
Fetterman did the same. He is right except for the fact that the Democrats NEVER had the moral high ground to begin with.
In fact, the puppet masters behind the rioters are starting to hand out American flags to the rioters because the optics of waving the Mexican flag, while burning the American flag, is NOT helping the Democrats messaging on immigration! It makes NO sense for illegal aliens to demand to stay in America while waving the flag of the country they don’t want to go back to! Oops. Somebody really messed up on that!
The Democrats in California told Trump to leave them alone and let their city burn – or they would ratchet up the violence and chaos even more – and Trump called their bluff, doubled down and sent in the Marines and more National Guard. Good! MAGA. That’s exactly what I voted for! How about you?
Genocide is not a meme, so stop treating it like one. AVI TARANTO
In 10 years, millions will remember Israel as having committed a genocide it didn’t commit — and forget the genocides that actually did.
JUN 10, 2025
In the long history of human violence, genocide stands out as a uniquely horrifying category.
It is not simply war. It is not insurgency, or resistance, or collateral damage. It is the deliberate attempt to erase a people from existence. And so, when we use the word genocide, we invoke moral gravity of the highest order.
But what happens when the meme of genocide becomes cheapened? What happens when it is misapplied, algorithmically amplified, memetically inflated — used not to clarify truth, but to override it?
The term genocide is a memetic superweapon. Coined in the aftermath of the Holocaust, it carries the power of finality: To be accused of genocide is to be placed outside the circle of humanity. It is an accusation from which no nation easily recovers. It doesn’t simply describe death; it ascribes intent — and that is memetically irreversible.
But, as with any powerful meme, its overuse leads to dilution. Every time “genocide” is applied recklessly or falsely, its ability to mean anything at all is weakened. When every war becomes genocide, then genocide becomes just another word for war.
A meme, like a currency, must be backed by something real. Remove the backing (evidence, proportion, context) and you create the equivalent of moral counterfeit.
The war between Israel and Gaza is being reported — across major news platforms, university protests, and TikTok feeds — as the genocide of our time.
According to recent studies, the term “genocide” has been invoked in reference to Gaza more than all recognized genocides of the past two decades combined, including those in Rwanda, Syria, Darfur, Myanmar, and Xinjiang.
Pause for a moment. That should shock you.
Even if someone believed Israel was acting with excessive force, to leap straight to genocide (while ignoring actual genocides) is a memetic tell. It is not about accurate classification. It is about narrative override.
And override it does. Few bother to verify the numbers. Hamas’ reported death toll of over 54,000 goes largely unquestioned, despite being sourced from the same apparatus that has, for years, exaggerated or outright fabricated figures to shape global perception.
Recent analysis shows that at least 22,000 of the dead were fighters, and thousands more were likely natural deaths included in the total. What this means is staggering: Israel has achieved the lowest ratio of civilian-to-combatant deaths in modern warfare history, especially in urban warfare. And yet the memetic narrative insists on the opposite.
This is Malicious Memetic Mimicry (MMM) in action: the mimicry of moral language to produce immoral results. The “genocide” meme here mimics humanitarian concern, but it functions as a weapon of psychological and geopolitical war.
When everything is genocide, nothing is. In a single year, the word has been emptied of its moral power and historical specificity. The Holocaust, the archetype of genocide, is now casually equated to a war Israel did not start and has repeatedly sought to avoid. Once that equivalence sticks, historical literacy collapses.
We are witnessing the manufacture of false memory at scale. In 10 years, millions will remember Israel as having committed a genocide it didn’t commit — and forget the genocides that actually did.
The “genocide” meme spreads because it is emotionally intuitive and structurally simple: good versus evil, oppressor versus oppressed. The West, already preloaded with postcolonial guilt and institutionalized moral relativism, has become a fertile host.
This simplification is not accidental. It is the outcome of narrative compression — a memetic process by which complex realities are flattened into emotionally viral tropes. The actual content is less important than the form: The meme must look like truth, even when it evacuates truth entirely.
And, for a generation trained to respond to optics, hashtags, and algorithms — more than facts or history — the aesthetic of the oppressed trumps the reality of oppression.
This is why Hamas and its global apologists have no need to win militarily. They only need to look like victims. They need children’s bodies. They need rubble. They need shock. Even if they engineer the deaths themselves, they win the war of memes if the world blames Israel.
While Hamas’ soldiers die in war, Jews around the world are attacked in cafes, schools, synagogues, and on the street. Not Israeli soldiers, but Jews. And it’s not because of anything they’ve done. It’s because the meme of “Israel as genocidal” now maps onto all Jews.
This is the logic of blood libel. It is memetically indistinguishable from medieval antisemitism, now cloaked in “anti-Zionism” but functionally the same: Dehumanize Jews, accuse them of child murder, justify punishment.
To call this “progressivism” is obscene. It is regression to the most ancient of hate.
Every time the West allows this narrative to metastasize, it plays into the hands of those who actually oppress and kill civilians at scale: Iran, Russia, China, Syria, North Korea. These regimes cheer when the West eats itself, when its students chant for Hamas, when its media spreads disinformation, when its intellectuals collapse under moral relativism.
They see what we do not: that the meme of “genocide” applied to Israel is not a humanitarian act. It is an act of civilizational sabotage.
Even if someone believed Israel was acting with excessive force, to leap straight to genocide (while ignoring actual genocides) is a memetic tell. It is not about accurate classification. It is about narrative override.
And override it does. Few bother to verify the numbers. Hamas’ reported death toll of over 54,000 goes largely unquestioned, despite being sourced from the same apparatus that has, for years, exaggerated or outright fabricated figures to shape global perception.
Recent analysis shows that at least 22,000 of the dead were fighters, and thousands more were likely natural deaths included in the total. What this means is staggering: Israel has achieved the lowest ratio of civilian-to-combatant deaths in modern warfare history, especially in urban warfare. And yet the memetic narrative insists on the opposite.
This is Malicious Memetic Mimicry (MMM) in action: the mimicry of moral language to produce immoral results. The “genocide” meme here mimics humanitarian concern, but it functions as a weapon of psychological and geopolitical war.
When everything is genocide, nothing is. In a single year, the word has been emptied of its moral power and historical specificity. The Holocaust, the archetype of genocide, is now casually equated to a war Israel did not start and has repeatedly sought to avoid. Once that equivalence sticks, historical literacy collapses.
We are witnessing the manufacture of false memory at scale. In 10 years, millions will remember Israel as having committed a genocide it didn’t commit — and forget the genocides that actually did.
The “genocide” meme spreads because it is emotionally intuitive and structurally simple: good versus evil, oppressor versus oppressed. The West, already preloaded with postcolonial guilt and institutionalized moral relativism, has become a fertile host.
This simplification is not accidental. It is the outcome of narrative compression — a memetic process by which complex realities are flattened into emotionally viral tropes. The actual content is less important than the form: The meme must look like truth, even when it evacuates truth entirely.
And, for a generation trained to respond to optics, hashtags, and algorithms — more than facts or history — the aesthetic of the oppressed trumps the reality of oppression.
This is why Hamas and its global apologists have no need to win militarily. They only need to look like victims. They need children’s bodies. They need rubble. They need shock. Even if they engineer the deaths themselves, they win the war of memes if the world blames Israel.
While Hamas’ soldiers die in war, Jews around the world are attacked in cafes, schools, synagogues, and on the street. Not Israeli soldiers, but Jews. And it’s not because of anything they’ve done. It’s because the meme of “Israel as genocidal” now maps onto all Jews.
This is the logic of blood libel. It is memetically indistinguishable from medieval antisemitism, now cloaked in “anti-Zionism” but functionally the same: Dehumanize Jews, accuse them of child murder, justify punishment.
To call this “progressivism” is obscene. It is regression to the most ancient of hate.
Every time the West allows this narrative to metastasize, it plays into the hands of those who actually oppress and kill civilians at scale: Iran, Russia, China, Syria, North Korea. These regimes cheer when the West eats itself, when its students chant for Hamas, when its media spreads disinformation, when its intellectuals collapse under moral relativism.
They see what we do not: that the meme of “genocide” applied to Israel is not a humanitarian act. It is an act of civilizational sabotage.
There is something uniquely cruel and unmistakably intentional about accusing the descendants of Holocaust survivors of committing genocide. This is not a neutral misclassification. It is not an innocent exaggeration. It is a calculated memetic inversion, designed to sting. [Emphasis added]
Hamas, and many of its ideological allies, relish this inversion. They understand the psychology of trauma. They exploit it. To turn the Holocaust inside out — casting Israelis as Nazis, Jews as perpetrators — is to desecrate memory while inflicting new pain. It is a form of sadistic moral theater, and it works because it plays to an audience already primed to feel uneasy about Jewish power, Jewish trauma, and Jewish survival.
To accuse Jews of genocide in the shadow of the Holocaust is to strip them of their history, deny them their wounds, and blame them for surviving.
What’s more, the charge of apartheid against Israel has become another memetic staple of the current conflict: easily chantable, superficially resonant, and increasingly untethered from its original historical referent. It is designed to short-circuit discussion, not invite it. And like genocide, it is a term with genuine historical weight, cheapened through repetition until it functions more as a slur than a diagnosis.
The comparison to South African apartheid is not only false; it is maliciously misleading. Apartheid was a legal and territorial system of racial segregation, enforced by a white minority over a disenfranchised Black majority with no political rights or recourse.
By contrast:
- Arab citizens of Israel vote, serve in the Knesset, sit on the Supreme Court, work in hospitals, teach in universities, and protest freely.
- The West Bank is not sovereign Israeli territory; it is disputed land governed partially by the Palestinian Authority, with a history of failed peace offers and violent rejections.
- Gaza has been entirely free from Israel since 2005, and is currently ruled by Hamas, an explicitly antisemitic, theocratic, armed faction that rejects peace.
And yet, the meme persists.
Why? Because apartheid, like genocide, is a memetic wildcard. It offers moral clarity without historical complexity. It gives the user a sense of righteousness without requiring context, nuance, or evidence. It mimics the moral urgency of the anti-apartheid movement of the 1980s, but its purpose here is not liberation; it is delegitimization.
This is not critique. This is rhetorical sabotage.
And it works. Because once a society is labeled “apartheid,” the normal rules of moral engagement no longer apply. Negotiation becomes appeasement. Defense becomes aggression. Coexistence becomes complicity.
The result is not peace. The result is a license to hate, draped in the language of human rights.
Just as the genocide meme inverts the Holocaust, the apartheid meme inverts the civil rights movement. It is a false analogy propped up by people who would never survive a day under Hamas rule — and yet feel empowered to condemn the only pluralistic democracy in the region as a racist regime.
Like genocide, apartheid was not merely a set of policies; it was a novel racial architecture, rooted in the pseudoscientific eugenics of the early 20th century. It sought not only to separate peoples, but to biologically and culturally justify domination through scientific discourse and bureaucratic precision. Its memetic uniqueness was its legibility — a systematic, codified regime of racial cruelty, unmatched in modern statecraft.
To invoke it casually is to engage in Scientific Malicious Memetic Mimicry: the appropriation of an empirically defined evil to emotionally justify an unrelated, far less clear-cut political agenda.
And perhaps most cynically, the accusation now comes loudest from South Africa itself, the nation that gave apartheid its name. In recent years, the South African government has wielded the apartheid accusation against Israel not as a defense of global justice, but as a domestic pressure valve.
Amid spiraling corruption, state collapse, and public disillusionment with the African National Congress’ post-apartheid failures, the symbolic projection of apartheid onto Israel offers a convenient external enemy.
It reframes South Africa not as a nation struggling under kleptocracy, but as a moral authority reasserting its legacy. Yet, in doing so, it diminishes that very legacy. It dilutes its own historical struggle by using its moral capital not to uplift truth, but to outsource blame.
When asking Western onlookers to resist a seductive moral narrative, a predictable script of deflection emerges: “You have to admit, it’s hell on Earth. Look at the children. Look at the rubble.”
A raw emotional appeal, used to justify memetic inversion.
“Israel is obviously guilty of war crimes tantamount to genocide.”
Translation: We don’t have proof, but it feels close enough.
“That’s just an excuse for Israel to commit atrocities.”
As if Jewish trauma itself were a con — millennia of persecution repackaged as villainy.
“What about Ben-Gvir and Smotrich?”
As if every government is reducible to its worst actors. As if their extremism defines Israeli society, rather than being checked and widely condemned within it.
“What makes you an expert?”
A classic dodge. From those who follow memes, not facts.
Let’s be clear: War is hell. This war, like all wars, has produced horrific suffering. But this war began not in ambiguity, but in massacre — on October 7, 2023 — when Hamas and allied groups broke through the border, slaughtered civilians, took hostages, and unleashed hell.
And in the aftermath? Many so-called civilians joined in. None of the hostages report having been helped. The societies that produced the Nazis and their collaborators conversely contained those with the courage and moral fortitude to save Jews. No Gazan has been named among the “Righteous Among the Nations.” Not one has entered the record having showed mercy.
Despite this, Israel has not granted itself carte blanche. On the contrary, it has undertaken more efforts to minimize civilian casualties — via leaflets, phone calls, humanitarian corridors — than any modern power in similar conflict. That includes the United States, the United Kingdom, and NATO. The civilian-to-combatant ratio remains the lowest on record for urban warfare of this scale.
Yes, Gaza has suffered tremendous destruction. That is not denied. But to call this genocide is to elevate the lie over the facts, and narrative over history. This is not genocide. This is a war Israel did not seek but now must finish, lest October 7th be repeated again, and again, and again.
This is not only about Israel. Or Jews. It is about whether the West can survive the collapse of its own moral language.
When genocide means “whatever is emotionally persuasive,” when victims are rebranded as villains, when truth is optional and memory is rewritable — we lose civilization itself.
Because civilization depends on categories: on the ability to distinguish between just and unjust, between war and massacre, between real suffering and manipulated spectacle.
In the fog of this memetic war, we must not be afraid to say: This is not genocide, the numbers have been manipulated, Hamas exploits its own people, accusing Jews of genocide is a desecration of history, and the moral compass of the West is spinning — and it is our duty to recalibrate it.
Because, if we don’t, the truth will not just be forgotten. It will be forbidden.
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Getting Gazans wrong: Understanding support for Hamas and the Oct. 7 attacks Moshe Phillips
Policies concerning refugees, foreign aid and ceasefires must be informed by the reality that a large segment of Gaza’s population supports a terror group.
June 10, 2025 JNS – Leila Fadel on NPR’s Morning Edition on June 5 interviewed Graeme Groom, a British surgeon who worked recently at Nasser Hospital in the Gaza Strip. Groom’s comments were entirely one-sided and naive. “The current campaign is directed almost exclusively at the blameless and defenseless,” he said.
The outrageously false accusation that Israel is specifically targeting civilians echoes some of the darkest periods in Jewish history, when blood libels were a regular occurrence.
Far too many pundits and bureaucrats at the United Nations, European Union and nongovernmental organizations strive to portray Gazans as unwilling captives of Hamas—trapped under an oppressive regime with no power and no responsibility. This view fails to take into account the complicated and troubling reality that a significant portion of Gazans support Hamas and its violent actions, including the terrorist attacks in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.
In March 2024, a survey by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research (PCPSR), which is based in Ramallah, found that 71% of Gazans said Hamas was “correct” to launch the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks, which included mass killings and kidnappings of Israeli civilians. This view is still above 50% as of now (PCPSR, May 2025). Moreover, 64% of Gazans opposed the disarmament of Hamas (United With Israel, May 2025). This shows not only support for Hamas’s past actions but also a commitment to continued Hamas terrorism.
These murderous views are echoed beyond Gaza as well. In the same PCPSR poll, 88% of Arabs in Judea and Samaria, where Hamas does not govern, also rejected the idea of disarming the group.
This demonstrates that an Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs tweet posted on X on April 22 was entirely correct: “The Palestinian Authority isn’t educating children, it’s indoctrinating them. Maps without Israel. Teachers praising martyrdom. Textbooks that glorify terror. As long as they teach hate, there’s no hope for peace. Stop ignoring it. Stop funding education that leads to terror.”
The Oslo Agreement says that Mahmoud Abbas and his Palestinian Authority henchmen must “apprehend, investigate and prosecute perpetrators and all other persons directly or indirectly involved in acts of terrorism, violence and incitement” (Annex I, Article II, 3-c of Oslo II). The P.A. has ignored that obligation for three decades now.
The P.A. has never taken any tangible actions against incitement. A recent study from Tel Aviv University’s Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) reviewed P.A. school curricula and found that the P.A. continues to “espouse some of the worst views against Jews and Israel in their textbooks.”
Returning to Gaza, some may respond, as professor Ilya Somin did in an October 2023 article in Reason, by comparing Gazans to Russians living under Vladimir Putin’s regime—people with limited freedom who are not morally culpable for their government’s atrocities. But this analogy only holds if public opinion runs sharply against the ruling power. In Gaza’s case, significant public backing for Hamas is the truth.
That said, dissent does exist in Gaza, and it is dangerous. Criticizing Hamas can result in imprisonment or worse. International reports, such as those from The Times (London), have documented voices within Gaza who resent Hamas and blame it for the destruction visited upon their society. These individuals exist, and their suffering is real. But dissenters remain a minority, and they do not disprove the fact that widespread support for Hamas continues, as measured in credible polls.
Policies concerning refugees, foreign aid and ceasefires must be informed by the reality that a large segment of Gaza’s population supports a terrorist organization. Acknowledging this is essential if Israel is to be successful in its effort to destroy Hamas and prevent future Oct. 7-type attacks that Hamas has repeatedly and consistently pledged to carry out. We cannot afford to misunderstand the extremism that endures among the Gazan majority—doing so risks allowing the terrorist organization to survive. The international community must recognize that Gazans are not victims of Hamas; they are full participants in shaping their society’s situation. They elected Hamas, and they support Hamas. It is time to stop getting Gazans wrong
MOSHE PHILLIPS Moshe Phillips, a veteran pro-Israel activist and author, is the national chairman of Americans For a Safe Israel (AFSI). A former board member of the American Zionist Movement, he previously served as national director of the U.S. division of Herut and worked with CAMERA in Philadelphia. He was also a delegate to the 2020 World Zionist Congress and served as editor of The Challenger, the publication of the Tagar Zionist Youth Movement. His op-eds and letters have been widely published in the United States and Israel.
Qatar: the Real Perpetrator of the October 7th Massacre by Bassem Eid
June 10, 2025 Special to IPT News
How did Hamas do it on October 7? This time, I don’t mean to ask how they had so little humanity as to butcher over 1,200 innocents in Israel in a single day of horrors, the largest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust. Nor do I refer to the level of brainwashing or innate evil necessary to kill 370 young people at a dance party, to rape and genitally mutilate screaming women and girls, or to drag 250 hostages – including 12 Americans – back to Gaza. No, at present, I am speaking of practical and, ultimately, financial capability: how was Hamas able to afford the trucks, the motorcycles, the assault weapons and grenades, the paragliders and massive tunnel networks that enabled their terroristic invasion on that black day? To a large extent, the answer can be found at a single address: Qatar, the absolute monarchy on the Arabian peninsula that is the beating heart of modern terrorism financing.
According to a newly revealed report by the Shin Bet, Israel’s internal security agency, one of the reasons that enabled Hamas to build up its forces for the October 7 onslaught was “the flow of money from Qatar to Gaza and its delivery to Hamas’s military wing” This occurred in partnership with the better known bête noire of the United States and Israel in the Middle East, the rogue state of Iran, which has been officially designated as a State Sponsor of Terrorism by the U.S. State Department since 1984. Overall, the Shin Bet determined that Hamas’s achievement of strike capacity “was to a large degree due to the strategic buttress provided by Iran and the use of the funds that came in from Iran and Qatar.”
What explains the deep involvement of Qatar in antisemitism and international terrorism? In a word: ideology. Qatar’s official version of Islam is the stark form called Wahhabism. Since the 1990s, Qatar has positioned itself as the major funder of the radical front for Islamist political theocracy known as the Muslim Brotherhood throughout the Middle East and North Africa. Hamas, which Qatar has heavily funded, is the Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood, and its 1988 founding charter commits it to the destruction of the State of Israel and the establishment of an Islamic theocracy in its place. Qatar was the primary physical residence and base for Hamas’s international leadership from 2012 until late 2024, when American pressure grew too great in the wake of the October 7 massacre,.
Qatar’s reach stretches far beyond direct terrorism – its persuasive reach has astonishing access through Qatar’s state-owned media corporation, Al Jazeera. Al Jazeera has become a household name worldwide, and many Westerners are surprised to learn that the channel, which has provided media access for radical figures from Saddam Hussein to Osama bin Laden, is the property of the Qatari government and, as such, has never once voiced criticism of the Qatari state or its royal family. Not only Israel but also several Arab states have scrutinized Qatar’s Al Jazeera for its platforming of Hamas, for which it provides highly slanted positive coverage and boosting.
So why is Qatar, a small maritime state, so powerful when it seems so vulnerable on a map? Because unlike Iran, with its regular “Death to America” chants, Qatar has never publicly positioned itself in opposition to the American-led international order. Far from it: the largest United States air base in the Middle East, al Udeid Air Base, which played a critical role in the fight against ISIS, is hosted by Qatar. The Qatari government has contributed billions of dollars to the base’s development. The United States military’s Central Command (CENTCOM), responsible for security in the Middle East and Central Asia, maintains its forward operating headquarters in Qatar.
Indeed, Qatar’s “soft power” globally, including in the United States, goes far beyond media reach or security cooperation. The wealthy Qatar Development Fund, a state-owned investment entity, has poured resources into critical and sensitive United States infrastructure. Notably, Qatar has invested billions in U.S. higher education, with research indicating that Qatar-funded groups are behind many of the antisemitic and pro-Hamas “protests” that have roiled U.S. campuses since Hamas launched its war on October 7, 2023. Much of this Qatari funding has not been reported to the U.S. Department of Education, as required by law, with Yale University, for example, having allegedly concealed millions of dollars in Qatari investments that are believed to have fueled anti-Israel attitudes on campus.
Qatar is wealthy and powerful mainly because the United States and its allies have allowed it to be, and the consequences are now plain for all to see. Unlike Iran, Qatar is not a large, mountainous country with millions of inhabitants; it is a small, low-lying peninsula with a total population under 3 million, of whom about 90% are foreign noncitizens. It is an absolute monarchy whose ruling al Thani dynasty retains a complete monopoly on political power. Now, it is upon the U.S. Congress to designate Qatar for what it is – a major state sponsor of terrorism – and to impose sanctions on its ruling class. Doing so would compel change and dry up one of the primary financial sources of instability in today’s world. Failing to change the status quo risks leading to more horrors like those the Qatari-sponsored terrorists perpetrated in Israel on October 7, 2023.
Bassem Eid is a Jerusalem-based Palestinian political analyst, human rights pioneer and expert commentator on Arab and Palestinian affairs. He grew up in an UNRWA refugee camp. Follow him on X (formerly Twitter) @realbassemeid
Jewish anti-Zionists Moshe Phillips
There is a close relationship between the Reconstructionist movement and Jewish Voice for Peace extremists. Op-ed.
Jun 10, 2025, 6:45 AM (GMT+3) Israel National News – (JNS) The murder in Washington, D.C., of Israeli embassy staff members Yaron Lischinsky, 30, and Sarah Milgrim, 26, last month by an anti-Israel extremist has drawn statements from American rabbis across the spectrum of political and religious thought. Yet one response stands out for its disturbing nature.
Rabbi Brant Rosen of Chicago, co-founder of the Rabbinical Council of Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) and spiritual leader of Tzedek Chicago, responded by stating: “These were two Israeli embassy workers, so they were representatives of a country that is engaged in a genocide,” referring to Palestinian Arab deaths amid a war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza that followed the terrorist massacre of 1,200 people in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, and the kidnapping of some 250 others.
Tzedek Chicago, founded in 2015, describes itself as “an anti-Zionist Jewish congregation based on core values of justice, equity and solidarity.” In other words, Rosen positions himself well outside the mainstream of American Jewish life.
JVP does not support a two-state solution. JVP calls for an end to the State of Israel as we now know it.
JVP’s rabbinical council has only 41 members—out of an estimated 4,000 to 5,000 rabbis in the United States, not including ordained rabbis working outside synagogues and campus organizations. Yet despite their small numbers, JVP rabbis have gained an outsized influence in discourse since Oct. 7. By contrast, the pro-Israel Coalition for Jewish Values says its “Rabbinic Circle is composed of over 2,500 traditional Orthodox rabbis.”
If the American Jewish community holds that some individuals and organizations cross lines into what can generously be called renegade territory, then JVP surely qualifies.
What’s more troubling is that the Reconstructionist movement, which is the home of many JVP leaders, has so far failed to disassociate itself from these persona. This inaction should prompt the Reform and Conservative movements to re-examine their relationships with Reconstructionist institutions. Yet this reckoning has not occurred.
Let’s examine the close, even affirming, relationship between the Reconstructionist movement and JVP extremists.
Brant Rosen, Linda Holtzman and Brian Walt—all members of the JVP Rabbinical Council—are graduates of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College (RRC) and have held or continue to hold high-profile roles within major Reconstructionist organizations. All three are featured on ReconstructingJudaism.org, the movement’s official website.
Another affiliated site, Ritualwell.org, serves as a liturgical resource for the movement. Rosen’s “A Jewish Prayer for Nakba Day” is published on the site and includes the phrase “from the river to the sea”—a slogan that is widely recognized as rejecting Israel’s existence. Walt’s bio on ReconstructingJudaism.org notes explicitly that he is a member of JVP’s Rabbinical Council.
According to ReconstructingJudaism.org, Holtzman serves as an RRC professor and director of student life (though it is unclear how current the listing is), despite her long-standing involvement with JVP. Walt was chosen to present at the Reconstructionist Israel Convening this past December in a session titled “Reflecting on Israel, despite being a senior JVP leader.”
Rosen’s nearly 2,600-word screed, titled “Why I’ve Broken From Zionism,” remains publicly available on ReconstructingJudaism.org. In it, he disavows any connection to the Zionist movement.
This is not a case of guilt by association.
The Reconstructionist movement offers JVP-affiliated rabbis a degree of legitimacy that amounts to tacit approval of their anti-Zionism. This stands in stark contrast to broader American Jewish opinions. As a Gallup staffer noted in 2019, “95% of Jews have favorable views of Israel.”
In early May, Deborah Waxman, head of the two most prominent Reconstructionist institutions, gave a major interview upon announcing her retirement. In it, she stated: “The Reconstructionist movement has long supported a two-state solution, and many of our leaders have advocated for Palestinian national aspirations even when it came at a personal cost.”
But key movement figures contradict Waxman’s statement openly.
Rosen is a past president of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association. Holtzman currently serves on its board. Walt wrote back in 2012 in a nearly 6,700-word essay: “The daily reality in Israel violated each of these core values. And I could no longer be a Zionist.”
Walt is also currently listed as a member of the J Street Rabbinic and Cantorial Cabinet on its website. And he is not alone in belonging to both J Street’s rabbinic body and JVP’s. Mordechai Liebling, one-time executive director of Jewish Reconstructionist Federation, is another, as are Alan LaPayover, Rebecca Alpert and others.
Both J Street and the Reconstructionists claim to be for a two-state solution, but how do they reconcile the involvement in their organizations of JVP’s anti-Israel rabbis?
It’s easy to see just how radical JVP really is with even a very quick review of their website, where they call for the removal of Jews from Israel. The section reads: “We imagine Arab, Middle Eastern and Southwest Asian/North African Jews having ethical and safe access to return to their original homelands.”
The Reconstructionist movement has had more than a decade to address this issue and has consistently failed to act. It has not distanced itself from its most radical figures, nor has it publicly disavowed the positions of JVP’s rabbinic leadership.
Unless this changes, it’s time for American Jews to seriously re-evaluate the place the Reconstructionist movement occupies in the larger communal tent.
Moshe Phillips, a veteran pro-Israel activist and author, is the national chairman of Americans For a Safe Israel (AFSI). A former board member of the American Zionist Movement, he previously served as national director of the U.S. division of Herut and worked with CAMERA in Philadelphia. He was also a delegate to the 2020 World Zionist Congress and served as editor of The Challenger, the publication of the Tagar Zionist Youth Movement. His op-edsare posted frequently on Arutz Sheva.
Where do you sign up to be a useful idiot for the Islamists? Giulio Meotti
Greta Thunberg in the Tristes Tropiques of Gaza.
Jun 9, 2025 Israel National News – Take the poster promoting the Pride March in Paris: seven individuals, each of a different color, who seem to rejoice at having strangled and put a white man on a leash. “Against the reactionary international” and “Queers of all countries, let’s unite,” the poster reads. Karl Marx in woke sauce.
An Islamic veil. A Palestinian Arab flag. A hanged white man. And all this is financed by the city of Paris and the Île-de-France region.
In “Why we strike” again Greta Thunberg, once environmental champion, now a militant in the ranks of the pro-Gaza movement, explained: “The climate crisis is not just about the environment. colonial, racist and patriarchal systems of oppression created and fueled it. We need to dismantle them all”.
Let’s reread it carefully: the climate crisis is the result of Western racism, colonialism and patriarchy, which must be dismantled (along with Zionism). We are in the heart of the mania of the West submerged in self-hatred.
And to satisfy her many fans and gain new media attention, Greta, now a woman, has set sail from Italy to the Gaza Strip together with a group of terrorist supporters, including those who dance at the news of the attacks. Israel stopped the boat and will deport them back to their countries.
They are the zombie children of the revolution and they are lucky that Israel stopped them before reaching Gaza.
Cocktails, selfies in the sun, dives into a sea of selective indignation… On board, pro-Hamas MP Rima Hassan cooks for the revolution (organic and gluten-free), while Greta immortalizes herself in the golden sunset. And they post these videos.
Enjoy the joys of a woke sunbath.
“How do you become a useful idiot for the Islamists?” asks in Le Point Algerian novelist Kamel Daoud. “What is happening in this phenomenon of ‘self-substitution’ that leads to supporting positions that offend common sense and to believing that Kabul is more beautiful than Paris? Perhaps he wants to reach the supreme nirvana of the guilt-ridden intellectual, that is, to deny himself completely, to punish himself until he leaves only ashes. His ambition goes beyond politics and falls back into the intimate. He dreams of chaos, of course, but above all of revenge, punishment, pain, the wounding of ‘his’ with a sense of belonging that he rejects. He has chosen to be stupid out of passion. He has Kabul syndrome: seeing victims everywhere, she doesn’t see the Taliban anywhere.”
Eli Sharabi, the hostage who left Gaza skin and bones and without a wife and daughters (who were killed), has just told us that the terrorists, in exchange for food, wanted them to read the Koran. He refused, preferring to go hungry. (As an aside, he also wrote that when one of the four hostages with him was offered a date, he refused it unless the others got one as well.)
In 1985, Claude Lévi-Strauss, the author of the monumental “Tristes Tropiques”, articulated a vision of the West that is now completely out of fashion:
“I began to reflect at a time when our culture was attacking other cultures and at that time I set myself up as their defender and witness. Today I have the impression that the movement has reversed and that our culture has ended up on the defensive in the face of external threats, among which is the Islamic explosion. And suddenly I found myself an ethnological and firmly resolved defender of my own culture.”
As Lévy-Strauss wrote in a letter to the philosopher Raymond Aron: “I had to meet Islam to understand the danger that threatens us today. France is in the process of becoming Muslim.”
When these white Hamas useful idiots turn back to Europe, they will find their countries becoming like Gaza. Good luck to them.
Giulio Meotti is an Italian journalist with Il Foglio and writes a twice-weekly column for Arutz Sheva. He is the author, in English, of the book “A New Shoah”, that researched the personal stories of Israel’s terror victims, published by Encounter and of “J’Accuse: the Vatican Against Israel” published by Mantua Books, in addition to books in Italian. His writing has also appeared in publications, such as the Wall Street Journal, Gatestone, Frontpage and Commentary
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Beware of the Ayatollah Regime’s Negotiation Tactics Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger, “Second Thought: a US-Israel Initiative”
June 9, 2025
US negotiation vs. Iranian negotiation
A self-destructive step undertaken by US negotiators has been the assumption that negotiation with the Ayatollah regime (and any other terroristic regime) can be based on Western negotiation tactics.
Contrary to US negotiation tactics, which aim to advance reconciliation, the Ayatollah regime’s 1,400-year-old negotiation tactics are driven by a vision, which mandates the crushing/subjugation of the “infidel.”
While US negotiation tactics strive for a binding accord, the Ayatollah regime’s negotiation tactics strive for a tentative accord, to be abrogated whenever politically or militarily opportune.
US negotiators tend to focus on future (speculative?) scenarios, as well as statements made by Iranian negotiators, rather than on the Ayatollah regime’s (well-documented) rogue track record, fanatical ideology, the 1979 Constitution and books written by Ayatollah Khomeini – the Supreme Founding Leader – which have driven the Ayatollah regime since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
Since 1978/79, US negotiation with the Ayatollah regime have failed to moderate the regime, while yielding a powerful tailwind, dramatically bolstering the anti-US capabilities of the Ayatollah regime.
Ayatollah regime’s negotiation tactics
*Taqiyyah is an Islamic-sanctioned tactic of dissimulation (Quran, Surah 3, verse 28 and Surah 16, verse 106), in the face of a superior power, concealing one’s true belief and intention, in order to mislead the militarily superior “infidel” via deceptive tongue, while the heart remains steadfast. Under dire strategic circumstances, taqiyyah is not merely permissible; it is obligatory.
*Khod’eh is an Iranian tactic of misinformation and disinformation, rather than outright deception. Khod’eh intends to manipulate the “infidel,” causing the “infidel” to misjudge the true position of the “believer.”
*Kitman is deceit by omission (half truth), evasion, silence and making ambiguous statements, paying lip-service to the “infidel.”
*Taarof employs subjective (cultural, emotional, psychological, philosophical, religious) meaning of words, rather than objective literal (dictionary) definition of words. Knowingly, introducing false assumptions (not an utter lie…).
Islamic negotiation tactics in action
*In 1978-79, Ayatollah Khomeini coaxed the US into facilitating the toppling of the pro-US Shah, while expediting the Islamic Revolution. Khomeini displayed his mastery of the 1,400-year-old Islamic negotiation tactics: taqiyyah (religiously legitimized dissimulation), khodeh (trickery, rather than outright lies), kitman (hiding one’s true intentions) and taarof (ambiguity and ostensible politeness, aiming to confuse).
Thus, Khomeini, whose legacy has dominated Iran’s domestic and external policy, immersed President Carter with moderate statements, leading Carter to assume that Khomeini was committed to human rights and liberty, including women’s rights and free press; did not intend to export the Islamic Revolution beyond Iran; was anti-Communist and therefore, potentially pro-US; and that Khomeini would be preoccupied with tractors not with tanks. The US Ambassador to Tehran assessed that Khomeini would be an Iranian edition of Gandhi. Therefore, Carter pressured Iran’s military – which was not duped by Khomeini’s moderate statements and opposed his return to Iran from his exile in France – to support Khomeini’s toppling of the Shah and assuming control of Iran. However, upon seizing power, Khomeini executed a large number of top military officers, seized the US Embassy, held 50 Americans hostage for 444 days, and transformed Iran from “The American Policeman of the Gulf” to the world’s leading epicenter of anti-US terrorism, wars, drug trafficking, money laundering and the proliferation of advanced military systems.
*In December 1988, following US-PLO negotiation, the US recognized the terrorist organization as the official representative of the Palestinian people, defining it as an important step in the peace process, and authorizing the opening of a PLO office in Washington, DC. The US based its game-changing policy on the supposed PLO acceptance of UN Security Council resolutions 242 and 338, ostensibly recognizing Israel’s right to exist, and purportedly renouncing terrorism. However, consistent with Islamic negotiation tactics – and leveraging the US State Department’s alternate Palestinian reality – the PLO ignored its presumed commitments, intensified anti-Israel terrorism, recognizing Israel verbally (when addressing Western interlocutors, not Muslim audiences), but actively pursuing the destruction of the Jewish State.
*In 1993, Yasser Arafat, the arch-Palestinian terrorist, inundated Israel with peaceful talk, which led Israel to believe that he was transformed from an anti-Israel terrorist to a leading peacemaker, ushering in Peace Now and a New Middle East. Therefore, Israel committed a dramatic gesture, which no Arab country had ever contemplated, allowing Arafat to relocate from Tunisia – along with some 100,000 Palestinian terrorists from Sudan, Yemen, Iraq and Lebanon – to Gaza, Judea and Samaria. Moreover, Israel supplied Arafat with military hardware, lobbied President Clinton to extend foreign aid to Arafat’s Palestinian Authority, and paved the road to according him the Nobel Peace Prize. As expected, upon entering his new domain, Arafat launched an unprecedented wave of Palestinian terrorism against Israel (which is still raging!), and instructed his deputy, Mahmoud Abbas, to establish the Palestinian hate-education school system, which has become the most effective production line of terrorists, including suicide bombers.
*In 2013-2015, the US negotiators of the JCPOA were impressed by the polished, moderate and pragmatic pronouncements made by Iranian officials, which convinced them that the Ayatollah regime was on a peaceful path. Notwithstanding the signed JCPOA, the Ayatollah regime persisted in the development of nuclear capabilities, while bolstering its anti-US conventional and ballistic capabilities, expanding cooperation with anti-US terror organizations, intensifying collaboration with Latin American drug cartels and anti-US governments, and establishing terror sleeper cells on US soil.
*Since 1978, the US has been engaged in on-again, off-again negotiations and economic sanctions, assuming that financial and diplomatic bonanza, as well as maximum pressure crippling economic sanctions would induce the Ayatollah regime to embrace peaceful coexistence with its Sunni Arab neighbors, adopt good faith negotiation and abandon its 1,400-year-old fanatic, imperialistic, apocalyptic vision. However, this US policy has been the chief engine of the Ayatollah regime’s surge to a top global strategic posture, evolving into a clear and present threat to the US homeland and national security.
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The REAL insurrection TIERNEY’S REAL NEWS
JUN 09, 2025
By now you’ve all seen the footage of the invasion of California – the riots, looting, arson and other criminal acts. This is a real insurrection. The question is – who is behind it? What I hope to do is cover some points that the fake news won’t tell you – in a 10 minute read.
As slimy California Governor Newsom was on TV telling Trump to get out of Los Angeles and that he had it covered, the Democrat Mayor of LA, Karen Bass, unintentionally admitted on CBS LA that the LAPD was “overrun” and couldn’t handle the thousands of rioters – so Trump sending in the National Guard actually helped the situation.
A Curious Case of Selective Outrage Syndrome JOSHUA HOFFMAN
It’s never really been about helping Palestinians; it’s about blaming Jews. Let’s not get it twisted.
JUN 09, 2025
An IDF soldier offers Greta Thunberg a sandwich and bottle of water on Monday, after her anti-Israel flotilla was stopped by Israel. (photo: Israel Foreign Ministry/X)
“I’m in the mall the other day. I went by that store, Lululemon. I walk by and in the window of every Lululemon, there’s a sign that says, ‘We don’t support racism, sexism, discrimination, or hate.’ And I’m like, ‘Who gives a f*ck?’ You’re just selling yoga pants. I don’t need your yoga pants politics.”
That’s comedian Chris Rock, from his recent Netflix special. And while he was aiming for laughs, he stumbled into a far more serious truth: Everyone’s a social justice warrior when it costs them nothing.
“I’m all for marginalized people getting their rights,” added Rock. “The thing I have a problem with is the selective outrage.”
That phrase — selective outrage — perfectly sums up the world’s current obsession with Gaza and its equally impressive silence on basically every other humanitarian disaster happening at the same time.
Yemen? Where more than 10 million children are starving due to a brutal civil war that’s killed hundreds of thousands? Silence. India? A U.S. government commission has recommended placing it alongside China, North Korea, and Iran for religious freedom violations. Not one Western protest. Iraq, Lebanon, Sudan, Nigeria, Afghanistan? Shrugs all around.
Even in terms of media coverage, the bias is glaring. One 2014 New Yorker article about global conflict gave Nigeria and Ukraine a sentence each. ISIS got four. Israel and Gaza? Thirty. That’s selective outrage at work — where Jews, and only Jews, must explain themselves not just for defending themselves, but for existing at all.
And into this moral circus sails Greta Thunberg.
Yes, Greta’s back — this time not just as the anti-capitalist mascot of Gen Z, but as a passenger aboard the Gaza-bound Madleen, a ship intercepted by Israeli forces earlier this week. Despite repeated warnings, Greta and 11 other self-proclaimed activists tried to break a legal maritime blockade intended to prevent weapons from reaching Hamas — the same group that murdered, raped, and kidnapped Israeli civilians on October 7th.
Apparently, Greta and Co. thought a “symbolic amount of aid” would justify a literal act of provocation. You can’t make this stuff up. This isn’t activism; it’s moral cosplay.
Greta, who only recently got her high school diploma at age 20 after years of skipping class to yell at adults, now believes she’s qualified to dictate foreign policy in a war zone she clearly doesn’t understand. And why not? In the age of social media, emotion is expertise, and hashtags are credentials.
But this isn’t just about Greta. She’s a symptom of a much larger problem.
It’s about how the West (its media, its protest culture, its influencers) has developed a pathological obsession with Israel. In the words of Yemeni activist Luai Ahmed:
“Everyone is silent about Yemen, yet everyone is a human rights activist about Gaza.”
There’s a reason for that. And it has nothing to do with actual concern for Palestinians.
Let’s start with identity politics: the bizarre impulse to collapse all global conflicts into one giant game of Oppressor versus Oppressed, with no regard for history, context, or common sense.
To some in the “progressive” West, Palestinians have become the go-to projection screen for every grievance: colonialism, capitalism, racism, even climate change. (Yes, Greta literally said “there’s no climate justice without Gaza.”)
It’s pure narcissism masquerading as solidarity.
So-called “pro-Palestinian” activists aren’t supporting Palestinian society; they’re ignoring it. They’re silent on the honor killings, child soldier indoctrination, LGBT persecution, and the total lack of democracy or women’s rights in Gaza. Because none of those facts fit their Instagrammable story of “resistance.”
Even worse, they outsource their morality to terrorists. The same people who beheaded babies on October 7th are now being defended as “freedom fighters” by TikTok stars and Ivy League students.
And that’s not an exaggeration. According to a recent Palestinian poll, more than 70 percent of Palestinians support terrorism against Israel. The numbers are obvious. But numbers don’t trend. Outrage does. The selectivity here is the key.
In Nice, France, a terrorist killed 84 people in 2016. Twitter trended with #PrayForNice. But when a twin bombing killed almost 300 in Baghdad the same year? Crickets. Not even a trending hashtag. Facebook let people in Paris mark themselves “safe.” When Beirut was bombed? Nothing.
And then there’s the United Nations, which condemned Israel more than every other country on Earth combined, including North Korea, Iran, Russia, and China. American politician John Kerry, no Zionist, called it an “obsession.” He was being diplomatic.
Let’s also address the Palestinian leadership problem. The greatest oppressor of Palestinians is often their own leadership. Hamas violently took over Gaza in 2007 from the Palestinian Authority in a bloody coup. Since then, it has diverted billions in aid to build terror tunnels instead of schools and hospitals. It indoctrinates children in hate, censors dissent, and jails or murders critics.
If you truly stood with Palestinians, you’d demand elections in Gaza. You’d call out Hamas for crushing dissent, jailing journalists, and turning Gaza into an open-air prison of its own making. You’d see that the cage isn’t built by Israel; it’s built by Hamas.
Meanwhile, Western activists infantilize Palestinians, stripping them of all agency and responsibility. In their narrative, Palestinians are always acted upon, never actors. They’re not moral beings capable of choice, only eternal victims. That’s not justice. That’s condescension.
Let’s do a thought experiment: Imagine for a moment if Jewish terrorists broke into Palestinian homes, filmed themselves beheading children and raping women, then broadcast it proudly. Imagine Israel putting children in front of tanks, then crying victim. Would the outrage be “selective” then — or universal? Would Greta still be sailing in to “stand in solidarity”?
And what about civilian deaths? The West holds Israel to a moral standard it applies to no one else. In Iraq, Syria, and Afghanistan, U.S. and coalition forces killed far more civilians than Israel has in Gaza. But there were no protests. No boycotts. No international outrage. Apparently, civilian deaths only count when Jews are involved.
When Hamas fires rockets from hospitals and schools, hoping Israel fires back, that’s not resistance. That’s a war crime. But when civilians die as a result, you blame Israel, not the terrorists who used them as shields. Even in the realm of empathy, Jews are the exception.
During the Holocaust, the New York Times buried stories about Jewish genocide. Today, it buries the Jewish perspective behind euphemisms like “violent settlers” or “occupied territories” and refuses to name antisemitism unless it can be paired with Islamophobia in the same breath.
Social media is worse. Its algorithms reward outrage, not accuracy. That’s why you see rubble in Gaza but not footage of Israeli families slaughtered in their homes. Why you see posters of dead children but not Hamas operatives using UN clinics as rocket depots.
There’s even algorithmic antisemitism: Jewish suffering simply doesn’t perform.
Let’s talk about Israel’s diversity, a reality the outrage machine ignores. The IDF includes Druze, Bedouins, Ethiopian Jews, and Arab Muslim citizens. Israeli Arabs serve in parliament, work as doctors and judges, and enjoy full legal rights. Yet none of this matters to people shouting “apartheid” — because they’ve already chosen their villain.
And what about the rest of the Arab world? Jordan doesn’t want Gaza’s refugees. Egypt keeps its border with Gaza shut. Lebanon segregates Palestinians in refugee camps. But no one boycotts them. No one screams “occupation” at Cairo or Amman. Why? Because it’s never really been about helping Palestinians; it’s about blaming Jews.
“Pro-Palestinian” protests in the West have gone from inconvenient to dangerous. Ceasefire chants now routinely shut down bridges, storm synagogues, and harass Jewish students on campus. And they do it all with self-righteous fury.
Hence where we are: moral nuance replaced by mob antics. Empathy isn’t real unless it’s loud, performative, and exclusive.
Chris Rock wasn’t joking when he said the world is full of “people pretending to care.” The outrage isn’t consistent. It’s curated. And it’s almost always aimed at Jews. Hayder Alasadi, an Iraqi ex-Muslim and founder of the Iraqi-Israeli Association for Peace, said it best:
“Don’t tell me you give a damn about civilians. What you are doing is simply Jew-hating and Israel-hating, using ‘innocent Palestinians’ as a card to demote Israel… You are not protesters. You are hate-filled, uneducated, and uncivilized.”
And let’s be clear: “Pro-Palestinian” doesn’t mean pro-peace, pro-democracy, or even pro-Palestinian. It means anti-Israel, and too often, anti-Jewish. If you truly cared about Palestinian lives, you’d fight to free them from Hamas. You’d fight for elections, free speech, and dignity in Palestinian society. You’d acknowledge that Hamas isn’t “resisting”; it’s ruling through fear.
But that takes courage. And courage, like consistency, is in short supply.
So, stop pretending. Stop chanting what you don’t understand. Stop performing your pain. And above all, stop telling Jews to die quietly.
You scream “Free Palestine!” while Jews are intimidated and harassed from displaying their identity. You cry “genocide” while Hamas livestreams executions. You don’t want peace; you want to feel righteous while the world burns.
Chris Rock said it best: “I’m all for justice. I just can’t stand the selective outrage.”
Neither can we. Because, when it’s only the Jews you scream about, it’s not outrage; it’s obsession, and a curious case of Selective Outrage Syndrome.
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The Sesame Street Seduction by Linda Goudsmit
June 9, 2025
No stranger has ever seduced a child with spinach. Predators understand that seducing a child requires offering something the child wants or providing something that engages the child. So it is with educational seduction.
Preschool educational television program Sesame Street, originally created to help young children from low-income families prepare for school and stimulate their desire to learn, first aired in November 1969. The show was spectacularly successful with children from all socio-economic backgrounds across America, who watched their beloved Muppet characters, and learned letters, numbers, geometric forms, classification, ordering, problem-solving, and social interactions. Sesame Street revolutionized children’s programming and proved that children could learn through visual media. Edutainment, a new genre in television programming was born.
After decades of success teaching foundational skills in reading and mathematics, and helping children learn through music, iconic characters, and repetition, Sesame Street at 55 years old is no longer recognizable––Sesame Street has gone woke. The astonishing educational success of Sesame Street made it a prime-time target for those who understood how easily the programming could be repurposed and used for anti-American, anti-family woke indoctrination. Education is a dual-use industry, and the fall of Sesame Street represents the capture of the American education industry at the pre-school level. Sesame Street is now a favored edutainment weapon of the globalist War on America that targets our nation’s youngest children.
Globalist Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) articulated the power of educational indoctrination. “Chapter 15, Obama’s Grand Plan: Fundamental Transformation” from my 2022 release The Collapsing American Family: From Bonding to Bondage, further explains how educational indoctrination is the long-range tactical strategy for globalism’s strategic goal to rule the world:
The value of educational propaganda in the globalist campaign is described in chilling detail by English aristocrat Lord Bertrand Russell in his 1953 classic, The Impact of Science on Society.81 Educational indoctrination is the primary instrument for eliminating objective reality, dismissing the American family, subverting American culture, and destroying America from within. Russell unapologetically explained the process that drives a society to madness:
It may be hoped that in time anybody will be able to persuade anybody of anything if he can catch the patient young and is provided by the State with money and equipment.
Education should aim at destroying free will so that pupils thus schooled, will be incapable throughout the rest of their lives of thinking or acting otherwise than as their schoolmasters would have wished. . . . Influences of the home are obstructive; not much can be done unless indoctrination begins before the age of ten; in order to condition students, verses set to music and repeatedly intoned are very effective. . . . It is for a future scientist to make these maxims precise and to discover exactly how much it costs per head to make children believe that snow is black. When the technique has been perfected, every government that has been in charge of education for more than one generation will be able to control its subjects securely without the need of armies or policemen. (pp. 27–28, Routledge Classics, 2016 edition)
Russell echoed Lenin’s statement: “Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.”
John Dewey (1859-1952) considered to be the Father of American Education, was an unapologetic globalist who advanced Russell’s elitist position that the purpose of education is social engineering with the goal of establishing a new social order. Dewey considered education a social process, and the school a social institution where social reform should take place. His formula eliminates the development of critical-thinking skills in children. Without critical-thinking skills, individuals are easily manipulated and indoctrinated; like children, they simply accept what they are told.
“Chapter 6, John Dewey: The Father of Weaponized Education in America” also from my 2022 release The Collapsing American Family: From Bonding to Bondage, exposes how education is a dual-use industry that can be exploited for political gain.
Dewey’s influence on American education is unprecedented. His progressive educational reform movement remains the foundation of American education. Its anti-American political goals have been wildly successful in transforming American education from a source of American strength and prosperity to a weapon of mass American destruction.
History validates Dewey’s deception and its value as a weapon in the war on America. The coda16 to education reformer Bruce Deitrick Price’s October 1, 2012, American Thinker article, “John Dewey is a Fraud'” exposes Dewey’s arrogant and deceitful scheme for social engineering:
John Dewey, the world-famous educator, was retained circa 1920 by the new [Vladimir Lenin] Russian government to advise on the implementation of his progressive ideas throughout the USSR. Circa 1932, the communist government realized that Dewey’s progressive education had created a generation of ignorant delinquents. The communists in Russia banished Dewey’s ideas from their country. Meanwhile, the communists et al in the United States celebrated Dewey and his policies.
The globalists embraced both the communists and John Dewey and continue to exploit Dewey’s progressive ideas to weaponize education against America in order to collapse America from within. Sesame Street is now an active participant in the captured and weaponized American education industry, designed to break down traditional American values and replace them with communism. It is essential for the reader to recognize that Marxism, socialism, and even the word democracy as written by Karl Marx, are all synonyms for communism. Why do the globalists want communism? Because communism rejects individualism, embraces collectivism, and provides the top-down binary socio-political infrastructure required for the globalist Unistate.
Five of the forty-five communist goals listed by W. Cleon Skousen in his 1958 book, The Naked Communist are of particular interest:
24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them “censorship” and a violation of free speech and free press.
25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.
26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy, and promiscuity as “normal, natural, and healthy.”
40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.
41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence
of parents.
The deceitful tactic the globalists have chosen for introducing communism in the Sesame Street seduction, is multiculturalism. This is how it works.
In June 2025, with the gentle and inclusive words, “On our street, everyone is welcome. Together, let’s build a world where every person and family feels loved and respected for who they are,” Sesame Street honored LGBT Pride Month. One might even think that recognizing LGBT Pride Month with its LGBT poster of the multicolored Muppet characters’ arms and hands clasped in the formation of the LGBT flag would be sufficient. But you would be wrong. Sesame Street is seducing your children with lovable characters and verses set to music and repeatedly intoned and grooming them to become woke citizens of the globalist Unistate. Homosexuality is presented to preschoolers as a cultural variation that demands multicultural acceptance.
Consider this disturbing report published June 3, 2025, on LifeSiteNews, “Sesame Street ‘Pride Month’ posts reinforce Republican legislators’ push to defund PBS“:
“PBS is grooming children on American taxpayers’ dime. This is unacceptable. Congress must defund them and hold the executives accountable,” added Republican U.S. Rep. Andy Biggs of Arizona. Republican U.S. Sen. Mike Lee of Utah and the House Republican Study Committee (RSC) issued similar denunciations.
A staple of children’s edutainment programing multiple generations of Americans have grown up with, Sesame Street and its current creators have for years hijacked the beloved property to feed impressionable children the social agenda of adult liberals, from introducing a same-sex couple with a child to teach preschoolers that “families come in all forms” to vaccinating Elmo to promote COVID-19 shots.
Last month [May 2025], President Donald Trump signed an executive order to cut federal funding to PBS and National Public Radio (NPR), though it has been challenged in court. On Tuesday, the White House submitted to Congress a rescission package requesting it codify the elimination of $9.4 billion for PBS, NPR, and foreign aid.
The social engineering on Sesame Street is not a new phenomenon introduced in 2025, and neither are the debates about what should and should not be included in its programming. On November 15, 2019, USA TODAY published an opinion piece by Naomi Moland titled “After 50 years, it’s past time to bring human LGBTQ+ characters to America’s Sesame Street.” Moland, a faculty member at the School of International Service at American University, is in a same-sex marriage. She advocates making homosexuality familiar and normalizing same-sex marriage so that children perceive same-sex marriage as a marriage like any other. Interestingly, in the article she reports that Sesame Street is viewed in 150 countries, acknowledges that Muppets are not sexual, they are puppets, and that making them sexual might hurt Sesame Street’s standing around the world:
Sesame Workshop needs to find a way to include gay characters on the American version of the program without jeopardizing its international programming. Just like it has “localized” the program to children’s needs in other countries, the American Sesame Street should reflect American culture by including openly LGBTQ+ human characters. Other international versions, which are co-created by Americans and local producers, will need to decide how to handle the issue in their own countries. …
It is surprising that the American Sesame Street has avoided talking about gay families. Since the program’s inception, it has celebrated all kinds of families: interracial families; single parents; military families; families with an incarcerated parent; and families struggling with addiction. In the U.S., where gay marriage is legal nationwide and 61% of Americans approve of gay marriage, presenting an LGBTQ+ family is a logical next step (perhaps overdue) in Sesame’s celebration of diverse families. …
In the meantime, Sesame Workshop needs to bring LGBTQ+ human characters onto Sesame Street. The creators would be following their own localization policies by tailoring the American program to address American culture, which is certainly ready to celebrate — and debate — a human LGBTQ+ family. But big parts of our planet aren’t. We need to respect their cultures, too, if we want Bert, Ernie and Sesame Street to remain on the world’s airwaves.
The shocking assumption intrinsic in Moland’s self-serving op-ed is that Americans want progressive cultural changes that accept homosexual marriage as a marriage like any other. First, Moland’s progressive ideas require definition. What does progressive education actually mean? Progress toward what?? Most Americans use the word progressive in its colloquial sense to mean advancing toward something embraced by traditional American culture. John Dewey, however, makes it very clear that progressive education is designed to replace America and traditional American culture with a globalist new world order. The extraordinary success of Dewey’s progressive educational indoctrination is apparent in the 61% approval statistic Moland cites above. The article begins and ends with these words:
In Pew Research Center polling in 2004, Americans opposed same-sex marriage by a margin of 60% to 31%. …Support for same-sex marriage has steadily grown over the past 15 years. And today, support for same-sex marriage remains near its highest point since Pew Research Center began polling on this issue. Based on polling in 2019, a majority of Americans (61%) support same-sex marriage, while 31% oppose it.The increase in the share of adults who favor same-sex marriage over the past 15 years is due in part to generational change. Younger generations express higher levels of support for same-sex marriage.
Similarly, progressive education seeks to redefine the word family. Operating on the principle that familiarity brings acceptance, on June 16, 2021, Sesame Street introduced the first married same-sex couple and their daughter to be recurring characters in an episode titled “Family Day.” The introduction of a same-sex couple designed to familiarize preschoolers with same-sex couples was reviewed on June 22, 2021 in a LifeSiteNews article titled “Sesame Street introduces ‘married’ dads in ‘Family Day’ propaganda episode“:
In yet another display of LGBT cultural aggression, long-running children’s program Sesame Street has introduced a same-sex couple with a child to teach preschoolers that “families come in all forms. …”
The concerted effort to infuse children’s shows with LGBT characters and messages appears intended to, at a minimum, force families into discussions for which parents may feel their children are too young, as well as set up conflicts between the shows’ feel-good presentation of controversial issues and parents’ own values.
This is “grooming, plain and simple,” The Federalist’s Joy Pullmann wrote in response to Blue’s Clues’ recent “pride” parade segment. “It is training children to be comfortable with things they should be uncomfortable with and remain unexposed to until puberty and following, for their own well-being. To allege otherwise is gaslighting.”
Lessons about families from different cultures, different countries, different races, and different religions are very different than lessons about same-sex couples, same-sex marriage, and same-sex families. The insidious campaign to sexualize children is an unacceptable intrusion into family life and assault on parental authority, that is reflected in progressive education’s campaign to sexualize Muppets on Sesame Street, and inappropriately introduce sexual concepts to children who are far too young.
From Lenin to Russell to Dewey to Sesame Street, the communist intrusion into American education has gotten younger and younger. Sesame Street’s woke communist edutainment advances communist goals 24, 25, 26, 40, and 41, dramatizing that before the age of ten; in order to condition students, verses set to music and repeatedly intoned are very effective. The Sesame Street seduction is social engineering on a pre-school level that manifests Lenin’s statement: “Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.”
The communist goal has always been to eliminate parental authority and substitute the authority of the state––and its unseemly 21st-century partner is Sesame Street. There is nothing innocent or compassionate about the Sesame Street seduction that tactically exploits homosexuality as multiculturalism, in order to effect communist goals 24, 25, 26, 40, and 41.
Contempt before investigation TIERNEY’S REAL NEWS
JUN 08, 2025
I never would have guessed it – but, so far, the two members of the Trump administration that have impressed me the most are Marco Rubio, the son of Cuban immigrants, and Scott Bessent, the first openly gay Treasury Secretary and former Soros ally.
I’m guessing there could be a big battle between JD Vance & Marco Rubio for top dog in 2028. I’m pretty sure JD knows he has competition. This was Trump last night with Rubio.
JD Vance is connected to Team Elon, Rand Paul (Koch Libertarians) and Peter Thiel. That’s not speculation – that’s fact. All you need to do is follow Elon’s X feed.
Last weekend, before Elon was removed from the White House and he started his apparent drug-fueled rant against Trump – he was meeting with Thiel and the tech bros in Silicon Valley – likely to try to figure out damage control after Trump said that Elon had big problems & that while he wished him well, he wanted nothing more to do with him.
JD Vance, meanwhile, was trying to soften Elon’s words and give him a pass while still trying to show allegiance to Trump:
VANCE: “I think Elon’s heart is in the good place, in the right place. I think he got into this for the right reasons. I think he’s frustrated. I think he’s an emotional guy.”
I thought that was a little odd from JD Vance, but what do I know?
I’m not sure where Rubio’s allegiances lie anymore. But, Rubio knows where all the bodies are buried from his time on the Senate Select Intelligence Committee or SSCI and so far his actions and words have been in support of MAGA and America First.
I’m going to watch both Rubio & Vance closely over the next year and look at what they do – not just what they say. I suggest you do, too. Rubio is slowly catching up to Vance in the polls. I have no allegiance to one or the other – just truth.
If you missed it – several major left-wing and right-wing publications are now reporting that Trump privately called Elon a “big-time drug addict” with “big problems” and that Trump said his “relationship with Musk is over. I don’t want to fix my relationship with Elon. I just wish him well.”
Meanwhile, Elon is removing all his nasty posts about Trump and posting lots of hearts on his X feed. Go look it up.
That’s a sure sign he is embarrassed by what he did. Everything he has done over the past few weeks is, IN MY OPINION, CLASSIC ADDICT BEHAVIOR.
A few people are now angry with Trump for allowing Musk in the White House in the first place. They say that Trump should have known better – that the richest man in the world would turn on MAGA after he bought Twitter and gave MAGA $238 MILLION.
Well, here’s what I say to that. The American people let the Democrats steal the White House from Trump and then let demented Biden run the White House for 4 years and did nothing but complain on social media. Sure, we voted for Trump, but Trump is the one who did all the heavy lifting. We basically left Trump alone to fix it all by himself and he did, in spite of all the arm-chair quarterbacking from the rest of us.
I know very few people who put anything of value on the line to save America. Trump did.
He took a bullet for us and kept on going – despite all odds. He used Elon and his money to help get elected and then removed him from the White House when he showed he couldn’t be trusted. Let’s take that win.
New reporting says that Elon allegedly elbowed Scott Bessent in the ribcage, and Wiles feared he was on drugs and removed Elon from the White House. Trump said “that’s too much.”
How many of you have family with addiction problems and know that they become different people when using and high? Be honest. This is nothing new. Trump’s own brother died of alcoholism. My gut says that Trump thought he could help Elon with his drug problems. I believe Trump has a soft heart for addicts. I noticed that once Elon left the cocoon of Mar-a-Lago it all fell apart.
PS: I try not to be close-minded and shut off possibilities that never occurred to me. If I was, I would never have considered Trump in 2016 – but I did after researching all the contenders (including Hillary) with an open mind. I know way too many people with confirmation bias who refuse to consider any alternative that contradicts their existing viewpoints. That’s the height of ignorance, IMHO.
“There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which can not fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance – that principle is contempt prior to investigation. Condemnation without investigation is the height of ignorance.”
Record Profits from the Endless Gaza “War” CHANANYA WEISSMAN
A critical collection of facts and analysis – please share!
JUN 08, 2025
Last week’s Amalek and Erev Rav program was filled with important information that should be at the center of public attention. Since the media exists specifically to distract and mislead us, it depends on ordinary people like you and me to connect the dots and spread the information that matters most.
Since not many people will watch a 35-minute presentation (though I hope you will reconsider), I’m going to write up the most essential facts from the program, which should be enough to jolt people out of their delusions that the endless “war” between Israel and Hamas has anything to do with good versus evil, saving hostages, defeating our enemies, making us safer, fighting for the land and people of Israel, a milchemes mitzvah, right vs. left, leftists vs. Bibi, or any of the other silly narratives that people believe because the truth is much less comfortable for them.
Click the bold hyperlinks for the sources.
Item #1: The rich are getting richer from the “humanitarian aid” program to Gaza. For example, one of Israel’s largest food wholesalers sold 7,000 tons of wheat to the UN in a deal worth over $2 million, to be sent to Gaza.
Meanwhile, ordinary Israelis are watching food prices spiral ever upward as they are driven deeper into poverty. No aid trucks for them.
Item #2: Our BFF’s in the United States have unveiled a massive new plan to feed the poor suffering people in Gaza, because they are so charitable, and have absolutely no agenda or ulterior motive. “We need to do right by Gaza. The people there are suffering,” said Trump.
We were further informed that the cost per 750-calorie meal would be $1.30, with a whopping 58 cents for the actual food and the rest to have it delivered. This was “consistent with industry benchmarks” for humanitarian aid.
Item #3: Here’s an IDF photo of a food kit:
Item #4: As of 2003, the average cost to feed an American prisoner was $2.32 for Florida and $2.45 for California (California is more liberal, after all). Current numbers are not significantly higher. Dog food is more expensive.
Item #5: This situation has been exacerbated by the privatization of the American prison system, which has turned it into a for-profit industry.
Key quote: “Incarcerated people in Washington do not receive minimum requirements for fruits, vegetables, whole grains, lean protein, or milk….Incarcerated people are fed more than the recommended amounts of refined starches, added sugars and sodium.”
The emphasis is on shaving down the costs to maximize profits, at the expense of the basic nutrition of the prisoners. The corporations do not exist for the sake of the inmates; the inmates exist for the sake of the corporations.
Item #6: While Israeli citizens are being driven to poverty, Israel delivered over 1.3 million tons of aid to Gaza as of March, 2025. We are also reassured that “shipments are closely inspected for security purposes”.
Item #7: “Since the start of the war, Israel has denied entry to only 1.6% of trucks seeking to enter Gaza.”
Item #8: While it was being reported that Israel had cut off aid to Gaza, an eyewitness at the border crossing reported:
I can confirm that there is NO shortage of aid and fuel trucks entering Gaza from Egypt. I personally have never seen the volume of trucks crossing any border or port, with the exception of Rotterdam…[including] 6 brand new Emirati field hospital SUV’s, a Cadillac, a Land Cruiser, and 4 GMC’s.
Also I saw ammonia tankers entering,” adding sarcastically, “and you know that ammonia is for civilian use only, right? Not as a key component of rocket fuel.
By the way, trucks that are marked as containing edibles are not x-rayed.
It was one of the security agents that pointed out the ammonia tankers on the other side of the X-ray area. I asked the agent how do we know what is in those boxes, he just shrugged.
Item #9: “Report: Israel contributed NIS 700m to Gaza aid mechanism it claims not to fund — Prime Minister’s Office denies Kan’s assertion that funds were transferred quietly to prevent public from knowing”
The Israeli government has transferred hundreds of millions of shekels to fund the new humanitarian aid mechanism in the Gaza Strip, Kan news reported Wednesday, contradicting government officials who have insisted that Israel has no part in its funding.
According to the report, the government approved the transfer of NIS 700 million (some $280 million) last month to an unclear source, identified by the government only as “the defense establishment.”
Citing unnamed officials, Kan reported that the money was being used to fund the new aid mechanism, run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, and that the decision to transfer the funds was made under the radar in an attempt to keep the public from finding out.
Item #10: While Israel is reportedly working feverishly to feed Gaza with Israeli tax money, Israeli has the highest military spending per capita of any country.
All that for a singularly unlikely “intelligence failure” on October 7, 2023.
Israeli citizens are getting hosed.
Item #11: “RAFAEL USA provides advanced air defense weapon systems that protect deployed and maneuvering forces and Forward Operating Bases, population centers, and strategic sites against short- to medium-range aerial threats. Originally developed for the IDF, these solutions are precisely customized to meet U.S. Military requirements.
“RAFAEL USA has been an integral part of the American defense landscape for the past 28 years.”
And here you thought all that “military aid” was charity, a one-way street.
RAFAEL Reports Record 2024 Results with 27% Growth in Sales. Sales reached $4.8 billion in 2024 — a 27% increase year-over-year — with approximately half of sales to international customers. RAFAEL reported $8.23 billion in new orders and a net profit of $257 million. Order backlog rose to $17.76 billion.
Dr. Yuval Steinitz, Chairman of Board of Directors, RAFAEL, said: “RAFAEL concludes another year of outstanding achievements—demonstrating once again the company’s vital contribution to Israel’s security and its significant impact on the national economy.”
Yoav Tourgeman, CEO and President of RAFAEL, added: “2024 was a historic year for RAFAEL…”
While expanding its global footprint, RAFAEL remains firmly focused on its core mission: strengthening Israel’s national security—especially during a year defined by complex operational demands. In 2024, RAFAEL achieved record performance across sales, orders, and development milestones.
I’m getting mixed messages here. Are they primarily focused on Israel’s national security, or achieving historic profits? Which is it?
And what if there is a conflict between the two?
Read on.
Item #13: What about that “global footprint”?
RAFAEL serves over 20 NATO countries, fostering global partnerships with 30 subsidiaries and joint ventures.
Item #14: Rafael is a government-owned corporation, owned by the State of Israel.
A weapons manufacturing company that is owned by the State of Israel is earning record profits during a never-ending war with little Gaza, which Israel and its allies/customers are also working earnestly to prop up and continue feeding at least the bare minimum to ensure it doesn’t collapse.
Are you starting to see a connection?
A conflict of interest of this magnitude rivals that of a medical system being funded by drug manufacturers, hospitals being paid thousands of dollars for everyone who “tested positive” for Covid being placed on a ventilator, and paid even more for giving them Remdesivir, paid even more if the official cause of death was Covid, and paid even more for every Covid shot they administered.
It rivals that of the very people charged with saving the lives of patients also being offered massive amounts of money for the patients’ organs if they don’t make it…
The State of Israel’s weapons manufacturing industry, which sells to 20 NATO countries, is earning record profits. You’re not.
RAFAEL publishes its financial results for the third quarter of 2024:
Sales volume in the third quarter of 2024 (July-September) amounted to 4.5 billion NIS, an increase of 36% compared to the same period last year.
The order backlog reached a record high, crossing the 60 billion NIS mark for the first time in history. Net profit since the beginning of 2024 stands at more than half a billion NIS3.
RAFAEL’S Chairman, Dr. Yuval Steinitz: “Amazing results.”
Rafael’s CEO, Yoav Tourgeman, added: “…The ‘Iron Swords’ war has entered its second year, and Rafael’s employees are still all mobilized for the war effort to continue providing the defense establishment with a decisive technological advantage.”
Hamas has zero tanks and zero planes. We don’t have a “decisive technological advantage?”
Hamas pulled off October 7 with paragliders and Toyota pickup trucks, while the IDF was mysteriously absent for hours on end. The subsequent “war” has stretched on for nearly two years, while upwards of 20,000 IDF soldiers have been maimed and killed, and the average Israeli family is struggling to hold it all together.
Meanwhile, Rafael has achieved “amazing results” — financial results, anyway.
Nice Freemason logo they got there.
Here are a few of the audit’s key findings, the vast majority of which were negative:
Sales and profits were way down.
The middle point is most significant. Rafael’s primary source of funding is the Defense budget, and their biggest customer is the same Ministry of Defense.
In other words, Israeli tax money is being used to fund the state’s weapons manufacturing corporation, which then sells weapons to the state at massive profit.
These profits are not returned to the Israeli taxpayers. Don’t be silly.
Rafael also has sales and revenue “targets” that the state expects them to meet. The state auditor was not pleased with their performance:
The state auditor had some recommendations, first and foremost:
The only way a weapons manufacturing company can increase its sales and revenue is with a greater demand for weapons.
There is nothing that causes a greater demand for weapons than ongoing wars and the constant threat of war.
Can there be any greater conflict of interest than a state ostensibly trying to end a war with a favorable outcome as soon as possible, while ALSO owning a weapons manufacturing company with major financial targets to meet?
Keep in mind that war is not only necessary for selling weapons to yourself and 20 NATO countries, but for research and development.
You need lots of crash test dummies for this. Click here to join the IDF.
This report came out in February 2023, right around the start of the “Gaza” war.
Another interesting note in the report:
If what they revealed is so interesting, I wonder what they concealed for “business reasons”.
Israel Aerospace Industries reports record-breaking financial performance for Q3 [the third quarter of 2024], with $25 billion order backlog, 60% rise in net profit and 16% increase in revenue…as demand for defense technologies surged during the ongoing war in Gaza and Lebanon.
Israel Aerospace Industries is state-owned by the government of Israel.
Israel Aerospace Industries will distribute a high dividend of approximately 1.6 billion shekels to the State of Israel for 2017-2023 profits. The distribution, one of the largest in the company’s history, reflects the company’s business performance and its contribution to the state treasury. The company’s board of directors will consider an additional distribution for 2024 profits in the coming weeks. Israel Aerospace Industries is the largest defense company in Israel.
To be clear, the taxpayers who fund IAI are not getting a refund as part of the 1.6 billion shekel dividend.
In the early stages of the “war”, Hamas fighters were hungry, tired, and broken. They were ready to turn over Sinwar and surrender. A superior urged them to wait until the next day before taking action. Hours later, they were informed that their wives had been kidnapped and beheaded in a mosque in Rafah, and warned not to continue with their folly.
The next day a large delivery of “aid” arrived.
We were that close to the “war” ending shortly after it began.
How serendipitous.
You need lots of crash test dummies on both sides of the border, after all, to meet those targets.
Item #21: Israeli citizens are paying upwards of 70% taxes when all the smoke clears, paying more for defense per capita than anyone else in the world, sending their loved ones into death traps, and raising worldwide charity to feed them, too.
Like privatized prisons and humanitarian aid, why spend any more money on expendable peasants than absolutely necessary? Why should the government buy food and basic gear for soldiers when you will? It cuts into profits.
There’s surely more to the puzzle than this, but, as always, follow the money. The Gaza “war” has nothing to do with hostages, security, or making your life better.
It’s a capricious scam exploiting the peasants on both sides of the border, grifting money from tax-paying citizens and charitable people, to meet financial “targets” of the rich and powerful, all while continuously robbing the peasants of their freedom and independence, and using them as disposable crash test dummies for their shiny new weapons.
Why is anyone still participating in this charade, cheering it on, “sacrificing” for it, and demanding that more people — especially yeshiva students — do more of the same?
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Why Iran Will Never Give Up Its Nuclear Weapons by Amin Sharifi
June 8, 2025 at 5:00 am
- Iran’s ruling elite, bluntly, believes that both its survival and its mission depend on acquiring nuclear weapons. They saw what happened to Libya and Ukraine when their leaders gave up their nuclear weapons, and understood that this was not the way to go.
- The regime’s goal is the bomb.
- Iran’s Supreme Leader is not just a political figure, but is considered divine, with a legitimacy given not by man but by Allah.
- “And prepare against them whatever you are able of power and of steeds of war by which you may terrify the enemy of Allah and your enemy and others besides them whom you do not know [but] whom Allah knows. And whatever you spend in the cause of Allah will be fully repaid to you, and you will not be wronged.” — Qur’an 8:60 (Sahih International Translation).
- This verse is used by the IRGC not just as a call for defense, but as a religious endorsement of nuclear armament. In this view, nuclear weapons are not only permitted, but also necessary. They are both a shield against the regime’s many enemies and a divine tool for the end-times struggle they believe is coming.
- Iran’s leadership sees deception not as dishonorable, but as strategic. The Islamic doctrine of taqiyya, or religiously sanctioned deception, allows lying to infidels in the name of survival or victory.
- The regime’s lack of response to Soleimani’s killing revealed something essential: the mullahs understand only strength.
- Iran’s nuclear program must be completely and permanently dismantled. Even if ideology were not part of the equation, Iran’s corruption, mismanagement and incompetence would still make it unfit to operate any nuclear facility. Senior officials are appointed through favoritism, cronyism or family ties. Industry is collapsing. Accountability is nonexistent.
- The day we wake up to hear that Iran is about to use its nuclear bomb will be the day the world changes forever.
Iran’s nuclear program must be completely and permanently dismantled. Even if ideology were not part of the equation, Iran’s corruption, mismanagement and incompetence would still make it unfit to operate any nuclear facility. Senior officials are appointed through favoritism, cronyism or family ties. Industry is collapsing. Accountability is nonexistent.
Iran’s ruling elite, bluntly, believes that both its survival and its mission depend on acquiring nuclear weapons. They saw what happened to Libya and Ukraine when their leaders gave up their nuclear weapons, and understood that this was not the way to go. To Iran’s rulers, their nuclear program is not just a policy objective to protect the continuation of their regime, but the centerpiece of Iran’s ideology and propaganda.
Despite having some of the world’s richest oil and gas reserves, the regime has accepted crushing sanctions and economic ruin, all under the excuse of pursuing nuclear power. The regime’s goal is the bomb.
Many different groups were involved in the 1979 revolution that overthrew the monarchy of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, but Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini quickly eliminated his rivals and imposed an Islamist system unlike anything else in modern history: Velayat-e-Faqih, or “the rule of the Islamic jurist.” In this vision, drawn from a radical interpretation of Twelver Shiism, political power belongs not to the people, but to Allah, and through Him to the clerical class acting as representatives of the Twelfth Iman, known as the “Hidden Imam.” This belief forms the foundation of the Supreme Leader’s authority. Iran’s Supreme Leader is not just a political figure, but is considered divine, with a legitimacy given not by man but by Allah.
In Iran, the Supreme Leader is the only absolute ruler. He appoints the judiciary, controls the military, dictates foreign policy, and approves or rejects all applicants for election candidacy. Elections exist, but are meaningless ceremonies. Presidents and parliaments do not govern, they obey. What is absent from the Islamic Republic of Iran is a “republic.”
The West still fails to grasp this regime’s worldview. It is not just authoritarian, it is theological. It sees the world in binary terms: believers and infidels, Shiites and non-Shiites. It also believes that history is heading toward a final confrontation, in which Iran will be prepared militarily and spiritually to lead. That is why the Iranian nuclear program is not negotiable. It is holy, sacred.
Iran’s private militia, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), embodies the most radical interpretation of the Quran. For example, Surah al-Anfal, verse 8:60, which commands Muslims:
“And prepare against them whatever you are able of power and of steeds of war by which you may terrify the enemy of Allah and your enemy and others besides them whom you do not know [but] whom Allah knows. And whatever you spend in the cause of Allah will be fully repaid to you, and you will not be wronged.” (Sahih International Translation)
This verse is used by the IRGC not just as a call for defense, but as a religious endorsement of nuclear armament. In this view, nuclear weapons are not only permitted, but also necessary. They are both a shield against the regime’s many enemies and a divine tool for the end-times struggle they believe is coming.
Iran’s leadership sees deception not as dishonorable, but as strategic. The Islamic doctrine of taqiyya, or religiously sanctioned deception, allows lying to infidels in the name of survival or victory. Combine this with their reading of Islamic sources such as the Islamic Prophet Mohammed’s saying that “war is deceit”, therefore, any agreement, verbal or written, is ultimately meaningless to a regime that views deception as doctrine.
Western diplomats still behave as if they’re dealing with a conventional authoritarian state. They’re not. They’re dealing with an absolutist religious movement that uses treaties as cover and smiles as strategy. The Obama Administration’s 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) agreement with Iran never involved real concessions from the Islamic Republic. It was an Iranian delay tactic, a calibrated pause to outlast and outmaneuver naive Western governments.
The silence of then US President Barack Obama during Iran’s 2009 Green Movement protests betrayed millions of Iranians fighting for freedom. Instead of supporting the people, he chose to preserve nuclear negotiations, a decision that allowed the regime to survive and rebuild.
By contrast, President Donald J. Trump’s withdrawal from the JCPOA in 2018 and his killing of IRGC Quds Force commander Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani represented a break from this pattern of appeasement. The regime’s lack of response to Soleimani’s killing revealed something essential: the mullahs understand only strength.
The Biden administration revived the failed engagement policies, and Iran became bolder than ever. From backing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the Hamas invasion of Israel on October 7, 2023, to direct launching ballistic missiles and drones at Israel in 2024, the Iranian regime acted without fear. If these events did not convince the West of the consequences of compromise with Tehran, what will?
When Iran released a video simulating the assassination of Trump, it clearly never expected him to return to power. But now, Iran’s goal is simple: survive the next four years by dragging out talks and buying time to acquire nuclear bombs and rebuild the air defenses that Israel destroyed.
While the West was playing this game of hide-and-seek bogus diplomacy, Iran managed to deploy more advanced centrifuges, enrich uranium to higher levels (weapons-grade), build and expand deeper underground facilities, and find more sophisticated ways to conceal its nuclear progress.
Here is the bitter truth: A new deal with Iran might look like a solution. In reality, a deal will only give Iran more time and more cover to evade whatever it agrees to. The regime will invent distractions to advance its program underground. Another war. Another proxy. Another crisis.
Iran’s nuclear program must be completely and permanently dismantled. Even if ideology were not part of the equation, Iran’s corruption, mismanagement and incompetence would still make it unfit to operate any nuclear facility. Senior officials are appointed through favoritism, cronyism or family ties. Industry is collapsing. Accountability is nonexistent.
Nobody wants to see a Chernobyl-like nuclear disaster caused by Iranian incompetence or something even worse, caused by ideological intent.
Iran’s regime cannot be reformed. Most especially, it cannot be trusted. It will never voluntarily give up its nuclear ambitions. Those ambitions are not just political. They are theological.
The day we wake up to hear that Iran is about to use its nuclear bomb will be the day the world changes forever.
Amin Sharifi is an expert in international relations and the Middle East. He is presently based in Sweden.
Is Trump ‘Going Wobbly’ on Iran? by Majid Rafizadeh
June 7, 2025 at 5:00 am Gatestone Institute
- Uh oh. US President Donald J, Trump has reportedly fired a “slew of pro-Israel officials in America First ‘course correction,'” and that “Trump is looking for an Iran dove to take over as Middle East chief at National Security Council, while pushing for nuclear deal,” according to Middle East Eye.
- Iran uses it centrifuges to enrich uranium to high levels. Highly enriched uranium is needed only for nuclear weapons. No highly enriched uranium, no nuclear bombs. Even one uranium-enrichment centrifuge in Iran’s possession is a nuclear weapon waiting to happen.
- If the US Congress could please pass a bill as soon as possible preventing the US from allowing centrifuges in Iran, it would be an enormous benefit to US and global security.
- Meanwhile, America’s enemies — Russia, China, North Korea and Venezuela — are waiting to see if the US actually has any real backbone before deciding if it is safe for them to go on offense again.
- This is not warmongering — it is the last resort when diplomacy fails and survival is on the line. Israel and the US have every right to defend themselves – and the region – against a regime that openly seeks their extermination.
- Unfortunately, Trump has repeatedly given Iran reason to bet on that. First, Trump told Hamas in January that they had to deliver all the hostages or “all hell will break out.” When Hamas did nothing of the kind, Trump’s dramatic response was — nothing. Even better, Trump seemed to “throw Israel under the bus.” How perfect!
- Then, on March 7, Trump sent Khamenei a letter saying that Iran had two months to dismantle its nuclear program… Hmm. It is now June and Iran has been enriching more uranium than ever. No wonder Iran’s regime assumes it is holding a royal straight flush.
- Iran’s regime saw what happened to Libya’s Muammar Qaddafi when he gave up his nuclear arsenal. Iran’s regime saw what happened when Ukraine, thanks to the Budapest Memorandum of 1994 – signed by Ukraine, Russia and the US – gave up its nuclear arsenal. The lesson they surely learned was: No nukes, no power. Iran will not voluntarily give up what it must see as its insurance policy for ruling Iran forever.
Iran uses it centrifuges to enrich uranium to high levels. Highly enriched uranium is needed only for nuclear weapons. No highly enriched uranium, no nuclear bombs. Even one uranium-enrichment centrifuge in Iran’s possession is a nuclear weapon waiting to happen. Pictured: Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian looks on as a ‘Qasem Soleimani’ missile is displayed during a military parade in Tehran, on September 21, 2024. (Photo by Atta Kenare/AFP via Getty Images)
Uh oh. US President Donald J, Trump has reportedly fired a “slew of pro-Israel officials in America First ‘course correction,'” and that “Trump is looking for an Iran dove to take over as Middle East chief at National Security Council, while pushing for nuclear deal,” according to Middle East Eye.
The threat posed by Iran’s nuclear ambitions, however, is no longer a distant concern — it is a rapidly escalating crisis with the most severe and immediate implications for Israel, the oil-rich Sunni Arab Gulf States, and North and South America. Trump appears to be scurrying to back down from “or there will be “all hell to pay,” and is possibly on the verge of letting Iran keep its uranium-enrichment centrifuges. Not an option.
Iran uses it centrifuges to enrich uranium to high levels. Highly enriched uranium is needed only for nuclear weapons. No highly enriched uranium, no nuclear bombs. Even one uranium-enrichment centrifuge in Iran’s possession is a nuclear weapon waiting to happen.
If the US Congress could please pass a bill as soon as possible preventing the US from allowing centrifuges in Iran, it would be an enormous benefit to US and global security.
Meanwhile, America’s enemies — Russia, China, North Korea and Venezuela — are waiting to see if the US actually has any real backbone before deciding if it is safe for them to go on offense again.
While Western nations thousands of miles away continue to treat Iran’s nuclear program as a remote diplomatic puzzle, Israel, a sovereign nation and the only democracy in the Middle East (just as Ukraine is a democracy, and what Russia really cannot tolerate) is forced to live every hour aware of Iran’s open, repeated and proud intentions to “wipe” it off the map. Iran has repeatedly called for “Death to Israel.”
Iran’s regime, through its proxies — Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis, as well as direct Iranian ballistic missile attacks last year — has acted of that intent.
Iran’s regime has also made no secret of its calls for “Death to America.”
Iranian official Ayatollah Ahmad Khatemi announced in March 2025:
“America and the European troika of Germany, France, and England… We are telling you very clearly, the [Iranian] people are telling you that if you do not stop your threats, the great Iranian people – through its resistance – will wipe you off the face of history and politics.
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has straightforwardly stated in 2023, “When you chant ‘Death to America!’ it is not just a slogan – it is a policy,” apparently with plans to assassinate presidential candidate Trump in 2024, as well as several senior US officials and a journalist.
In addition to repeated vows of “Death to America,” the Islamic Republic of Iran has made its genocidal ambitions toward Israel a cornerstone of its ideological identity. Khamenei has been refreshingly clear: “Israel will not see the next 25 years.”
In 2012, then Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad labeled Israel a “cancerous tumor,” and famously called for it to be “wiped” off the earth.
These statements have been echoed by generals in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), who vowed to “annihilate” Israel. IRGC commander Brig. Gen. Hossein Salami vowed, “planning to break America, Israel, and their partners and allies. Our ground forces should cleanse the planet from the filth of their existence.”
This is not exactly the language of diplomacy — it is the language of genocide and war.
That Israel was previously excluded from crucial negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program for the Obama administration’s 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) “nuclear deal” was not only an insult but a catastrophic blunder. The most endangered nation was not at the table. The result? A disastrous deal that gave Iran billions of dollars in sanctions relief, while leaving its nuclear infrastructure largely intact. That gift to Iran was accompanied by then President Barack Obama’s promises of nuclear weapons for Iran, conveniently “not on my watch” but after it – in fact, this coming October.
The West negotiated from a position of delusion, treating Iran as if it were a misunderstood power rather than a regime with rapacious, blood-curdling goals. Meanwhile, a dismissed Israel had to watch the entire process from the sidelines — its warnings ignored by foreign bureaucrats with no skin in the game.
The latest report from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has made it clear that Iran is not just enriching uranium to weapons-grade — it is rapidly moving toward a nuclear bomb, if it has not already succeeded in acquiring one. This week, the IAEA announced that Iran had enough highly enriched uranium for 10 nuclear weapons, and is doubtless stalling for time to rebuild its air defenses, which Israel struck last October.
Negotiations with Tehran nevertheless continue, led by Steve Witkoff, a real estate developer who was rescued from a bad $523 million business deal by Qatar, which, purely by coincidence, happens to an ally of Hamas and Iran.
The horrific October 7, 2023 massacre by Hamas — backed, funded, and trained by Iran — was not a stand-alone slaughter. It was part of a broader Iranian strategy to destabilize, terrorize, and ultimately destroy both Israel and America.
If the world is serious about preventing World War III— and a nuclear-armed Iran could trigger exactly that, complete with international nuclear arms races — there are only two acceptable paths forward. The first is what is often referred to as the “Libyan model” — a complete dismantlement of Iran’s entire nuclear program, including all centrifuges, enrichment capabilities, infrastructure and weaponization research, with full “anytime, anywhere” inspections – to which Iran has never agreed and which it does not appear particularly eager to agree to now.
The second path is, well, to dismantle Iran’s nuclear program for them, by force.
This is not warmongering — it is the last resort when diplomacy fails and survival is on the line. Israel and the US have every right to defend themselves – and the region – against a regime that openly seeks their extermination.
Anything less would be another Obama type of fraud. At the moment, Iran has, as usual, been deploying its delay tactics most expertly, presumably in the hope of outlasting or outfoxing the US. Trump appears trying to be contorting himself into anything to avoid confronting Iran militarily. Trump’s backing down is precisely what Iran must be counting on.
Unfortunately, Trump has repeatedly given Iran reason to bet on that. First, Trump told Hamas in January that they had to deliver all the hostages or “all hell will break out.” When Hamas did nothing of the kind, Trump’s dramatic response was — nothing. Even better, Trump seemed to “throw Israel under the bus.” How perfect!
Then, on March 7, Trump sent Khamenei a letter saying that Iran had two months to dismantle its nuclear program… Hmm. It is now June and Iran has been enriching more uranium than ever. No wonder Iran’s regime assumes it is holding a royal straight flush.
There is no middle ground that works. Any deal that allows Iran to maintain its centrifuges is an enrichment program about to break out. It is also a reward for deception. Iran has lied repeatedly to international inspectors, violated multiple UN Security Council resolutions, and built covert nuclear sites for decades. Giving Iran billions in sanctions relief while letting them keep their bomb-making war machine is not diplomacy — it is a betrayal of the West.
Iran’s rulers believe that, with nuclear weapons, they would be untouchable — able to carry out attacks or threaten to, fund terror, and blackmail the world with impunity. At the top of Iran’s hit list are Israel and the US. Iran’s regime saw what happened to Libya’s Muammar Qaddafi when he gave up his nuclear arsenal. Iran’s regime saw what happened when Ukraine, thanks to the Budapest Memorandum of 1994 – signed by Ukraine, Russia and the US – gave up its nuclear arsenal. The lesson they surely learned was: No nukes, no power. Iran will not voluntarily give up what it must see as its insurance policy for ruling Iran forever.
When it comes to the Iranian nuclear threat, Israel does not just understand the stakes — it lives them. Any deal made without Israel’s acquiescence is not only illegitimate — it is worthless. Its voice is not optional, it is indispensable. Trump would do the world a favor to end Iran’s nuclear weapons program for once and for all — and let Israel in.
Dr. Majid Rafizadeh, is a political scientist, Harvard-educated analyst, and board member of Harvard International Review. He has authored several books on the US foreign policy. He can be reached at dr.rafizadeh@post.harvard.edu
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10 Basic Misunderstandings About the Israel-Gaza War JOSHUA HOFFMAN
Israel doesn’t oppose peace. It opposes suicide. Every nation has the right (and the obligation) to neutralize a threat that has already murdered its civilians and promises to do it again.
JUN 07, 2025 The Future of Jewish
The Israel-Gaza war has become one of the most hotly debated and deeply misunderstood conflicts of our time.
It fills headlines, fuels protests, and floods social media feeds, yet much of the world thinks it knows what’s going on — and couldn’t be further from the truth.
This isn’t just about competing narratives, or a matter of interpretation, or too many moving parts. It’s about willful distortion, emotional manipulation, and centuries of historical amnesia.
So, let’s clear the smoke. Here are 10 of the most basic — and dangerous — misunderstandings about the Israel-Gaza war:
1) It’s not a war over land or even resources.
It’s a war, which was started by the Palestinian side on October 7, 2023, over Israel’s existence.
This is not about 1967 borders, settlements, or checkpoints. Hamas, which governs Gaza, has been clear since its inception in 1988: The terror group’s goal is the complete destruction of Israel.
That’s not speculation; it’s in Hamas’ self-published charter. They don’t want compromise. They want erasure. “From the River to the Sea” is not a territorial demand; it’s a genocidal call.
Peace can’t begin until that truth is acknowledged.
2) Israel was not and is not in control of Gaza.
The common refrain that Israel has “occupied Gaza since 1948” is not just misleading; it’s historically false.
After the 1948 Arab-Israeli War — the war started by Arab nations rejecting the United Nations Partition Plan that would have resulted in a Jewish state and a Palestinian state side-by-side — Egypt took control of Gaza. Not as a benevolent steward for a future Palestinian state, but as a military occupier.
From 1948 to 1967, Egypt ruled Gaza with an iron fist, kept Palestinians stateless, and refused to integrate them or grant them citizenship. There was no call for a Palestinian state in Gaza during that time. No protests. No UN outcry. No BDS movement.
Why? Because Israel wasn’t involved yet — and somehow, when Arabs controlled Palestinians, the world didn’t seem to care.
In 1967, during the Six-Day War — launched preemptively by Israel in response to the mobilization of Arab armies — Israel captured Gaza from Egypt. That’s when the “Israeli occupation” began. But again, it was the result of a defensive war, not a colonial plan.
Fast forward to 2005: Israel unilaterally withdrew every soldier, every settler, every synagogue from Gaza. It handed over full governance to the local Palestinian population. Gaza could have become a Palestinian state. Instead, Hamas took over, murdered its rivals, and turned Gaza into a jihadist fortress.
So, when people chant “Free Gaza,” it’s worth asking: Free it from what, or whom? From Israel, which withdrew? Or from Hamas, which hijacked it?
If you want to understand Gaza, you have to start before 2005. You have to start with the decades the Arab world used it as a pawn, and the decades the West pretended not to notice.
This is one of the most ignored facts in modern diplomacy.
3) Civilian casualties are tragic, but context matters.
Every innocent death is unfortunate; no one in Israel celebrates dead civilians.
But blaming Israel without mentioning Hamas’ strategy is dishonest. Hamas embeds itself in civilian infrastructure — schools, hospitals, mosques — not by accident, but by design. It’s a deliberate tactic: provoke a response, show the aftermath, weaponize the grief.
The IDF gives warnings before strikes to minimize civilian casualties, even as Hamas and other Palestinian facts hide behind Palestinian civilians. Hamas deliberately targets Israeli civilians. One is called self-defense, the other is called use of human shields and terrorism.
And, while we’re at it, let’s stop it with the myth of Hamas’ “fireworks” or “homemade rockets.” Hamas’ arsenal includes Iranian-designed missiles with increasing range and lethality. They aim at civilians. The only reason more Israelis haven’t died is because Israel builds defense systems to protect its people.
4) Proportionality doesn’t mean matching death counts.
This isn’t a sporting event. Proportionality in war refers to whether military force used is appropriate to the objective, not whether the same number of people die on both sides.
If one side builds shelters and the other uses its people as shields, the death toll reflects choices, not morality. A higher death count in Gaza doesn’t mean Israel is in the wrong. It means Hamas started a war they couldn’t possibly win and then chose to hide behind civilians when Israel rightfully retaliated.
5) The humanitarian crisis in Gaza is real — and Hamas is responsible.
Billions of dollars have been poured into Gaza for decades. But instead of schools and hospitals, Hamas built tunnels, bought rockets, and created a military-industrial complex underground.
Civilian casualties are not just an unfortunate consequence; they are Hamas’ well-calculated strategy. Hamas wants images of dead children in your social media feeds. That’s why they launch attacks from apartment buildings and hide behind ambulances. It’s not just cynical. It’s genocidal theater.
To add insult to injury, Hamas steals the aid, hoards it for its fighters, and then sells the leftovers to civilians — turning humanitarian relief into a source of revenue to fund more terrorism. It’s a mafia with a flag. Instead of building a future for its people, Hamas exploits their misery and monetizes their hunger.
It’s not that Gaza is poor; it’s that its rulers prioritize killing Jews over caring for Palestinians. If you want Palestinian liberation, start by demanding Hamas’ downfall. Don’t confuse the arsonist for the firefighter.
At the same time, sympathy for suffering should never blind us to cruelty. You can criticize Israeli policies without defending barbarism. On October 7th, Hamas didn’t just attack military bases. They butchered children. They raped women. They beheaded families. They live-streamed it. That is not resistance. That is evil. If you can’t condemn that without adding an asterisk, your brain is broken.
6) Israelis don’t want war. They want to live in peace and quiet.
War is not the Israeli preference; it’s the last resort. No country would tolerate rockets on its cities or terrorists tunneling into kindergartens. Israelis dream of peace, but that dream has limits: not at the expense of their survival. Every war Israel has fought has been defensive. That’s not opinion. That’s history. Don’t hate the player; hate the game.
As far as the goal of this war for Israel, it isn’t revenge; it’s security. Israel’s war aims are clear: Dismantle Hamas’ military capability, remove its leadership, and ensure it can’t repeat October 7th. That’s not vengeance. That’s survival. No country can endure while terrorists openly pledge to repeat mass murder.
7) ‘Resistance’ and ‘revolution’ doesn’t mean slaughtering civilians.
Some try to sanitize terrorism by calling it “resistance.” But real resistance targets tyranny, not toddlers.
When you massacre peace activists, burn whole families alive, and kidnap young children and Holocaust survivors, that’s not revolution. That’s a pogrom. And anyone who justifies it — or celebrates it — is morally bankrupt.
8) Pop culture isn’t just talking about this war. It’s nefariously shaping it.
News outlets routinely cite Hamas-run health ministries, run clickbait headlines that invert cause and effect, and fail to show the atrocities of October 7th in full. That’s not journalism. That’s narrative manipulation. The world sees what the media chooses to show — and Hamas knows exactly how to exploit it.
Meanwhile, Israel is condemned at the UN more than all other countries combined. Infrastructure of the UN agency for so-called “Palestinian refugees” (like schools) are routinely used to store Hamas weapons. UN “experts” parrot Hamas casualty figures without verification. Israeli victims are barely mentioned. When an institution loses moral clarity, it loses credibility. The UN, sadly, has done both.
9) Don’t be fooled by Far-Left Israeli media and politicians. They don’t represent the country.
One of the most common tricks in anti-Israel discourse is citing a handful of Israeli voices — often from fringe media, academia, or Far-Left political circles — as if they speak for the nation. “Even Israelis are saying it,” the argument goes, as if that settles the matter.
But here’s the truth: These voices represent a tiny, unrepresentative sliver of Israeli society. Their views are often amplified by international media not because they’re accurate, but because they serve a preferred narrative.
Many of these commentators are permanent fixtures in elite bubbles, disconnected from the daily reality of Israelis who have been personally affected by decades-long Palestinian terrorism. Their politics are often self-serving, designed to appease foreign donors, international institutions, or maintain social status within “progressive” circles.
They thrive on being “the dissenters” — the ones who “speak truth to power.” But too often, they end up speaking comfort to terrorists and fueling anti-Israel campaigns abroad that result in Diaspora Jews being attacked and harassed, synagogues being vandalized, and Israeli civilians being demonized.
Just because someone holds an Israeli passport doesn’t make them a reliable or moral authority on this war. Every society has its extremists. Every free country has its self-loathing intellectual class. Israel is no different.
So, the next time someone tries to end a debate with, “Even Israelis admit it,” remember: Some Americans still support communism, some Brits defended the Nazis, some French romanticized the Khmer Rouge, some Germans denied the Holocaust, and some Canadians joined ISIS.
Fringe voices don’t prove the truth. They prove the importance of knowing what’s mainstream — and what isn’t.
10) Ceasefires in this conflict don’t bring peace.
Calls for “ceasefire now” sound compassionate — until you realize what they actually enable. That’s because ceasefires in this conflict don’t end violence. They pause it — just long enough for Palestinian terrorist organizations to regroup, reload, and rearm.
Over the past 15 years, nearly every ceasefire has followed the same script:
- Palestinian terror groups escalate with rocket attacks and/or terrorism.
- Israel responds militarily to defend its citizens.
- International pressure mounts on Israel to “de-escalate.”
- A ceasefire is brokered.
- Palestinian terror groups use the “quiet” to rebuild their terror infrastructure (while the world looks away).
- A new wave of violence begins, stronger and deadlier than the one before.
This isn’t a bug in the system; it’s the game plan. Palestinian terror groups view ceasefires not as steps toward peace, but as breathing room. They restock weapons, dig deeper tunnels, and produce propaganda to rewrite the narrative. They hold onto hostages. They indoctrinate more children.
Meanwhile, the world pats itself on the back for “stopping the bloodshed,” ignoring that it has merely postponed it — and enabled the next round.
And let’s be clear: Israel doesn’t oppose peace. It opposes suicide. Every nation has the right (and the obligation) to neutralize a threat that has already murdered its civilians and promises to do it again.
You don’t defeat terrorism by calling timeouts. You defeat it by removing its ability to strike. A ceasefire that leaves Hamas, for example, in power isn’t a peace plan. It’s a countdown.
If Hamas were disarmed, there would be a much greater chance of peace. If Israel were disarmed, there would be genocide. This is the clearest test of moral clarity, and all you need to know.
God’s Five Stones Foundation Strategy Paper Outlining Our Role in Implementing President Trump’s Plan to End Voter Fraud by Jerome R. Corsi, Ph.D., Co-Founder, God’s Five Stones Foundation
JUN 07, 2025
June 3, 2025
God’s Five Stones Foundation is deeply involved in playing a key strategic role in implementing President Trump’s strategy to mandate an end to voter fraud this year to prevent the Democrats from stealing majorities in the U.S. House and Senate during the 2026 mid-term elections.
After Trump took office for his second term, God’s Five Stones Foundation began working directly with Peter Ticktin, the President’s attorney, to implement what President Trump has disclosed to him as his plan of action:
- Dr. Andrew Paquette’s investigations, as extensively documented on our website, have proven to President Trump conclusively that the State Board of Elections (SBOE) voter registration systems are contaminated beyond repair. Every SBOE voter registration database that Dr. Paquette has examined is contaminated with algorithms (secret codes) that permit them to cast false votes that are counted.
- Despite numerous previous failed efforts to get the courts to outlaw voter fraud, exposing the presence of cryptographic algorithms in the SBOE database demonstrates how SBOE computers have been hacked, and election fraud crimes have been committed. Dr. Paquette’s investigations into the SBOE algorithms have yielded incontrovertible mathematical proof that election fraud originates within the SBOE computers. Paquette’s proof lends credibility to the work done by Sidney Powell, Mike Lindell, and Jovan Hutton Pulitzer, which suggests that foreign nations have also penetrated election data on the computers used to tabulate votes in federal elections.
- Dr. Paquete’s indisputable proof that secret codes are in the SBOE computers constitutes, for the first time, a National Security Emergency that allows the President of the United States (POTUS) to remedy the situation by executive action, bypassing the courts.
Peter Ticktin and General Michael Flynn have now officially joined God’s Five Stones 501(c)3 tax-exempt foundation.
Peter Ticktin is now the lead attorney representing Colorado political prisoner Tina Peters in her effort to be free. General Flynn has co-authored his first published article with Jerome Corsi, as seen here. The co-authored article, published for the first time, outlines President Trump’s plan (as outlined in the next section of this confidential white paper) to secure elections before the 2026 midterm elections. Dr. Corsi and Peter Ticktin speak by phone daily to strategize the next steps. General Flynn is already a strong voice in the danger that fraudulent election activity poses to our fundamental freedoms, as outlined in the above-referenced article we co-authored.
Gateway Pundit recently published this photograph of attorney Ticktin meeting with Department of Justice attorney Ed Martin in Mr. Martin’s DOJ office in Washington, D.C.:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/05/tipping-point-january-6th-narrative-shattering-as-trump/
President Trump’s Plan
In August or September, we cautiously anticipate that President Trump may invoke Article II powers as Commander-in-Chief to order all states to implement a system of Voter IDs, requiring Proof of Citizenship, requiring paper ballots and hand counting to replace the use of computers.
President Trump outlined in his Executive Order issued on March 25, 2025, entitled “Preserving and Protecting the Integrity of American Elections.” That executive order called for the creation of Voter IDs, the requirement of Proof of Citizenship, and the insistence that paper ballots be used to replace the electronic voting machines.
On April 11, during a televised Cabinet meeting, Gabbard announced, “We have evidence of how these electronic voting systems have been vulnerable to hackers for a very long time and vulnerable to exploitation to manipulate the results of the votes being cast, which further drives forward your [i.e., President Trump’s] mandate to bring about paper ballots across the country so that voters can have faith in our elections.”
With this announcement, Gabbard made clear that we are now at war with foreign nations who would seek to influence our elections. The inevitable conclusion is that the investigation into election fraud is now a national security investigation. This investigation will culminate in President Trump exercising his authority as Commander-in-Chief by bypassing obstructionist federal judges in a decision that the Supreme Court of the United States cannot overrule.
God’s Five Stones Foundation Action Plan
God’s Five Stones Foundation urgently needs $250,000 in additional funding this year to continue working with Peter Ticktin to provide President Trump with the SBOE data he needs to establish our SBOE voting system must be completely revamped.
With this level of additional funding, we will be able to:
- Continue working with General Flynn on a national basis to supply voting data analysis to the Election Integrity Task Force that President Trump tasked White House attorney Alina Habba to create. Habba, in turn, instructed Tulsi Gabbard, the Director of National Security, to head the Task Force. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and FBI Director Kash Patel are providing DHS and FBI staff to constitute the Task Force.
Begin working with the DOGE Election Integrity Task Force to take a serious look at Dr. Paquette’s work, as presented in three articles published in American Thinker: here, here, and here. With the assistance of Peter Ticktin, we will impress upon the DOGE teams that Dr. Paquette’s Wisconsin research leaves no doubt that cryptographic algorithms in the Wisconsin Election Commission (WEC) database allow for the criminal creation and voting of hundreds of thousands of false “modified duplicate” votes.
Have attorney Peter Ticktin, General Flynn, and Dr. Paquette continue to publish articles as co-authors and be on all available media with Dr. Corsi, highlighting key developments in both Gabbard’s and DOGE’s Task Force criminal investigations.
Our Need for Additional Funding Is Urgent
Of the approximately $175,000 that we have raised since the fund’s inception on June 10, 2024, God’s Five Stones Foundation has reached its last $20,000 in donations. We are running out of money just as the success we have worked for over the past two years to achieve is within reach. The first phase of our work involved supporting and promoting Dr. Paquette’s analyses. In this second phase of our work, we will be better able to compensate Peter Ticktin, General Flynn, and Dr. Andrew Paquette. Peter Ticktin will be able to continue briefing us on President Trump’s plan to obtain secure elections by the 2026 midterms. General Flynn has been able to expand his efforts to lend political weight to our media efforts to explain that the election fraud Dr. Paquette has uncovered adds to the concern that foreign nations may well be penetrating SBOE servers to access and alter voting data, creating a national security emergency that as a free people we cannot risk ignoring.
Please note that Dr. Paquette has produced the only indisputable evidence of election fraud, as the algorithms embedded in the SBOE databases involve complex mathematical codes that are apparent to experts. The many challenges in the courts have failed. There may be legitimate reasons why election computers alter votes during the complex process of tabulating a national presidential election. Obtaining legal standing can be challenging once an election has been certified. We, however, have proof that secret codes in the SBOE voter registration database permit the creation and voting of false “modified duplicate” voters, which is inherently illegal and a clear violation of the Help America Vote Act (HAVA, 2002). Federal legislation makes it unlawful for SBOE databases to contain the millions of duplicate voter records that get their own “legitimate” state Voter ID number.
President Trump based his March 25 Executive Order in large part on Peter Ticktin’s affirmation that Dr. Paquette’s analysis was valid. We now have whistleblowers coming forward with documentary evidence that a late influx of mail-in ballot fraud (the exact criminal activity Dr. Paquette argued the algorithms permit) has allowed the Democrats to steal down-ballot elections in 2024. President Trump has repeatedly claimed Joe Biden and Kamala Harris stole the 2020 presidential election. We at God’s Five Stones Foundation need to expand our efforts in this second phase of our activities to make public the evidence that supports President Trump’s claim.
Conclusion
The first phase of our work has been essential to the creation of the Tulsi Gabbard Election Integrity Task Force and the investigations currently being conducted by DOGE. We do not expect the criminals behind the massive election fraud we are presently witnessing to give up easily. Please help us continue this battle to a victorious conclusion.
In this second phase of our efforts, we must be able to act swiftly to capitalize on this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to establish election integrity before the pivotal 2026 midterm elections. President Trump If the Democrats steal majorities in the U.S. House and Senate, radical anti-Trump Members of Congress will destroy President Trump’s last two years in office with a repeat of the 2020 non-stop impeachment actions.
Given government processes tend to be slow in their proclivity “to grind exceedingly fine,” the private action of God’s Five Stones Foundation is needed now more than ever to spur the political system to action, given that the 2026 midterm election campaigns are already beginning.
We must expand our efforts to be on all available media and to meet in person with key government officials, including Alina Habba, Tulsi Gabbard, Kristi Noem, Kash Patel, and Ed Martin. Time is of the essence if we are to win the election security battle. God’s Five Stones has the flexibility to affect quick action, spurring the public to support President Trump’s inspired instinct to solve complex problems by exercising the Commander-in-Chief’s Article II authority to utilize the efficiency of executive action to secure election integrity.
President Trump’s re-election in 2024 gave us a reprieve from the radical Democrats’ determination to destroy America. If we lose our right to fair elections, we lose our freedoms. The peril has never been more frighteningly real. The time to act is now. Your donations to us at God’s Five Stones Foundation have never been more critical.
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