COMMENTARY / OPINION
Why Iran is Obsessed with Destroying Israel: The Centuries Old Sunni-Shia Divide
Israeli TV Challenges Yishai over “Settler Violence”, It Didn’t Work! [11:13] Yishai Fleisher
June 30, 2025 – Did the “Hilltop Youth” instigate an attack on an IDF base or are they being set up by hostile forces with a political agenda? Yishai discusses with David Matlin on i24TV.
Jonathan Pollard: SPECIAL SESSION: IRAN-ISRAEL WAR: Mission Accomplished? [58:09]
June 30, 2026 Machon Shilo – Discussion between the head of Machon Shilo, Rabbi David Bar-Hayim & Jewish hero Jonathan Pollard.
Why Iran Lost its War with Israel: The True Story [7:44] JEROME R. CORSI, PH.D.
President Trump Created the Plan, Netanyahu Agreed, Israel and the US Executed it With Precision
JUN 30, 2025 – Corsi Nation reveals the truth behind why Iran lost its war with Israel and what could come next for its Mullah regime.
[Ed.: Oh my God!!!]
J Street vs. Israel over Iran Moshe Phillips
The operation against Iran’s nuclear infrastructure wasn’t reckless. Quite the opposite: It was necessary.
June 30, 2025 JNS
When Israel launched a precision strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities on June 13, nearly every segment of the U.S. Jewish community rallied behind it. Zev Stub of The Times of Israel wrote, “Jewish organizations from across the spectrum came out in strong support of Israel following the launch of its preemptive strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities … .”
But there was one conspicuous exception: J Street.
Its statement on June 13 urged “a reassessment” and called for renewed diplomacy, while cautioning that the strike “could give Iran … incentive … to pursue a nuclear weapon.” There was no clear support for Israel’s right to defend itself, no recognition of the existential threat posed by Iran’s nuclear program. In the face of a moment that demanded moral clarity, it wavered. Nowhere in its statement did it explicitly say that Iran cannot be allowed to have nuclear weapons.
That stands in stark contrast to Israel’s political leadership from all corners of its ideological spectrum.
Former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett made his position clear on June 12 when he wrote on X: “Israel’s strike against Iran’s nuclear program and military was vital, and done at the very last moment possible. All Israelis—left and right—support this action of self-defense. Iran was about to get 10 nuclear warheads.”
Yair Lapid, also a former Israeli prime minister and currently the leader of the left-of-center Yesh Atid Party, posted on June 15 in The Jerusalem Post: “Netanyahu is my political rival, but his decision to strike Iran at this moment in time is the right one. The whole country is united in this moment. When faced with an enemy sworn to our destruction, nothing will divide us.”
Israeli President Isaac Herzog, former leader of the opposition until 2018, told NPR on June 18: “We have to stop this empire of evil—no more!—and tell them, get the goddamn nukes out of your hands. And start behaving in a decent way and not be the rogue state you are all over the world. It’s impossible.”
Each of the above leaders, who are frequent critics of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, acknowledged that the time for action had arrived. They stood with the Netanyahu-led government in support of the strike. This was not a Netanyahu decision; it was an Israeli decision. And that unity sends a powerful message: The threat from Iran transcends partisan politics.
Yechiel Leiter, Israel’s ambassador to the United States, appearing on Fox News Sunday on June 15, put it plainly: What Israel is doing “is preventing war, not advancing war.” That message resonates with Israelis, who understand the stakes far better than many in Washington.
J Street’s refusal to back Israel’s operation, even tepidly, reveals a deeper truth: The organization has moved further and further from the Jewish mainstream. While the Democratic Majority for Israel, a group that often aligns with progressive U.S. politicians, posted a clear message of support—“We stand with Israel as it takes necessary steps to defend itself from existential threats”—J Street issued a diplomatic non-statement, expressing concern for “all those in harm’s way” and warning about escalation.
Founded in 2007, J Street billed itself as “pro-Israel, pro-peace.” But the group’s overwhelming focus on Palestinian statehood, its repeated criticism of Israeli self-defense actions, and now its opposition to the elimination of a nuclear threat raise real questions about its priorities. When diplomacy fails and Israel is left to act alone, being “pro-peace” becomes meaningless if it also means being unwilling to defend Israel when it’s under attack.
The operation against Iran’s nuclear infrastructure wasn’t reckless; it was necessary. Iran’s regime has made no secret of its genocidal intentions toward Israel. Tehran has used Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis and other terrorist proxies to encircle Israel militarily while pushing its nuclear program toward breakout capacity. Jerusalem’s preemptive action was a defensive measure against a regime actively pursuing a future in which Israel no longer exists.
Bennett and Lapid recognized the urgency. J Street did not.
This isn’t a minor policy disagreement. It’s a fundamental divergence on how to ensure the safety and survival of the Jewish state. When American Jewish organizations weigh in on matters of life and death for Israelis, there is an obligation to speak with moral clarity. Most did. J Street did not.
And that’s the real takeaway here. This moment revealed something essential about J Street’s role in Jewish communal life. It is not the dissenting voice within the pro-Israel camp that it desperately wants to be seen as. J Street is increasingly an outsider, estranged from the Jewish community’s core values and consensus. Let us not forget this.
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.
How Palestine Became the Left’s Omnicause CONNOR TOMLINSON
Palestine Action being proscribed as a terrorist organization will not force the British left to abandon their Gaza obsession
JUN 28, 2025
Socialist vandals Palestine Action have gotten their comeuppance by being proscribed as a terrorist organization, after breaking into RAF Brize Norton base in Oxfordshire and defacing two military planes with spray-paint. The Labour government’s planned ban prompted a predictable march, replete with Palestine flags, Socialist Worker Party placards, and genocidal chants of “From the River, to the Sea”. The group has fundraised over £113,000 via Crowd Justice for legal representation to fight proscription, and instructed Gareth Peirce, a solicitor who defended Guantanamo Bay detainees, to represent them.
Palestine Action was cofounded in 2020 by ex-Extinction Rebellion organizer Richard Barnard and Palestine Solidarity Campaign activist Huda Ammori. The latter, born to Palestinian and Iraqi immigrants in Bolton, joined the Labour party at her mother’s insistence in 2016, and left after the expulsion of former leader Jeremy Corbyn for antisemitism in 2019.
These crooks in keffiyehs have a history of causing criminal damage during “direct action” publicity stunts. In August 2024, five members were imprisoned for setting off pyrotechnics and smoke bombs in Thales defense factory in Glasgow, causing £1,130,783 in damages. They have repeatedly targeted the Bristol branch of the Israeli defense company Elbit Systems: using a prison van to ram the entrance and destroy equipment. Jewish-owned business Instro Precision in Stamford Hill was also attacked, with Palestine Action accusing the owners of being the “London-based landlords of Elbit’s weapons factory”. In June 2024, Palestine Action smashed the windows of Barclays bank in Broadmead; and threw red paint at Aviva’s Bristol headquarters in January 2025. This was based on accusations by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign that Barclays is “bankrolling Israel’s genocidal assault on Palestinians”.
The last President of the Czech Republic, Václav Havel used the analogy of a greengrocer to explain the all-pervasive ideological strongarming in the Soviet Union. The shopkeeper who puts a “Workers of the world, unite!” sign amidst his carrots and onions, despite his disinterest in Marxism and contempt for centrally planned poverty, is actually telling the authorities, “I am afraid and therefore unquestioningly obedient”, and signaling his subservience to socialist dogma to protect what little he has from being destroyed. After their branch was defaced, Barclays issued a statement, denying it invests in Elbit, and saying “we recognise the profound human suffering caused by this conflict … and we urge governments and the international community to work together to find a lasting, peaceful solution.”
Such intimidation tactics mean their punishment is long overdue. But imminent proscription didn’t stop Zarah Sultana, MP for Coventry South from posting “We are all Palestine Action” on X. Indeed, Sultana does resemble a demented leftist obsessed with shrieking in the streets when Israel vaporizes Jihadists. But she doesn’t speak for the rest of us, who are more concerned with how our cities, high-streets, and public services are in disarray after decades of mass migration and economic mismanagement, than with a foreign war in a land in which we’ll never set foot.
What objection does she have to the proscription? Sultana is not committed to free speech in principle, given she voted to criminalize silent prayer and consensual conversations in “buffer zones” around abortion clinics, in 2022. Nor is she worried about the misapplication of the term “terrorist” by the state, to punish political opponents. She fearmongers about a phantom “far right”, while expressing no concern over Prevent repeatedly letting Islamists evade detection. She goes as far to declare, “the enemy of the working class travels by private jet, not migrant dinghy” (a dangerous lie, given people-smugglers advertise British women on social media as ripe for predation, and illegal migrants are joining Pakistani rape gangs after crossing from France in small boats). Sultana just wants her preferred activist causes to receive more cover.
Sultana is practicing classic Marcusean repressive tolerance: an “intolerance against movements from the Right and toleration of movements from the Left”. It is invulnerable to charges of hypocrisy, because Islamo-leftists don’t extend to their political opponents an equal and universal moral courtesy. They see them only as an impediment to utopia, an enemy to be crushed. But brazen support for criminal damage and intimidation by a member of Parliament shows just how tensions have escalated to this existential point. Palestine has become the issue to lift the veil on these irreconcilable divisions.
The pro-Palestinian coalition is a ragtag bunch — and I’m not just referring to their clothing. The watermelon emojis they wear represent the colors of the Palestinian flag, but also their constituent factions: black-bloc Antifa communists, expediently allied Islamists, and Malthusian climate cultists. The obsession with Gaza has strangled the Greens like Japanese knotweed. The party has officially condemned Israel’s defensive military action as “a genocide”, and incorporated a boycott, divest, and sanction (BDS) strategy into its party platform. In May 2024, new Green councilor Mothin Ali declared his election victory a “win for the people of Gaza”, and vowed to “raise the voice of Gaza… raise the voice of Palestine”. The room then broke out into shouts of “Allahu Akbar” — which presumably means “recycling” in Arabic. Ali is now running to become deputy leader of the party.
Greta Thunberg, too, has joined pro-Palestine demonstrations at University of Stockholm. Since 20 October 2023, she has jumped aboard the Palestinian liberation bandwagon. The Swedish truant was deported from Israel this month, after the IDF intercepted a yacht that she and eleven other members of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition tried to sail across the Mediterranean. Before doing so, she refused the government’s offer to watch the footage from the October 7th massacre. It seems her pathological altruism only extends to one side. Thunberg claimed she had been “kidnapped”; but just like when German rail company Deutsche Bahn spoiled her photo-op by revealing she sat in first class, the vacuousness of her activism was exposed by photos showing her smiling while Israeli soldiers handed her water and sandwiches.
This shift in grift could be forecast from miles away. In 2019, Thunberg co-authored a piece explaining the motives for her truancy were to save the planet from “a crisis of human rights, of justice, and of political will. Colonial, racist, and patriarchal systems of oppression have created and fueled it. We need to dismantle them all.” Thunberg’s copycat, Scarlett Westbrook penned an op-ed in the Independent, explaining Greta sailed to Gaza because “The carbon footprint of the first 15 months of Israel’s war on Gaza is greater than the annual planet-warming emissions of 100 countries combined.”
Mary Harrington calls these overlapping obsessions the “Omnicause”: a set of seemingly incoherent positions on political topics — climate change, trans rights, Palestine — connected by their advancing the intersecting interests of aggrieved minorities. The full suite of fashionable beliefs is pejoratively labelled “the Current Thing”. They are presented as a coherent worldview to the emotionally incontinent by social-media algorithms and Instagram graphics, reducing complex issues to thought-stopping cliches and a few Canva slides.
But there is ideological connective tissue between these topics. This is why a handful of old-left Boomers still gather outside Parliament every week with banners and flags, demanding aid be allowed into the Gaza strip. “Third-Worldism” emerged as an internationalist doctrine after Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev pledged support for “wars of national liberation” abroad, in 1961. Frantz Fanon provided the ideological gunpowder in his Wretched of the Earth that same year, with Jean Paul-Sartre writing in the foreword that to “shoot down a European is to kill two birds with one stone … [to] destroy an oppressor and the man he oppresses at the same time: there remain a dead man, and a free man.” Fanon proposed “Revolutionary socialism all together everywhere” as the sole solution to the supposed theft of largesse from the third-world by the first.
Hence the eyesore of a diagram that declares “Palestine is THE issue”:
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The plight of Palestinians is window-dressing for revolutionary racial communism and the imperial designs that Islam has on the West. Jews code as white, because they are pale and the precursors of Christianity, Israel codes right-wing, because it has high GDP-per-capita, above-replacement birth-rates, a competent military, and ethnic and religious homogeneity. Britain is blamed for giving Israel its land; America is blamed for giving Israel its arms and aid. Its wealth, success, and self-confidence make its people, state, and allies the enemies of anti-white racists who cloak their grievances in post-colonial and critical race theory. Environmentalist misanthropes glue themselves to the coalition because America’s failed regime-change ventures in the Middle East concerned the security of global oil and gas supplies. Devious Islamist groups use both as useful idiots, and, thanks to mass migration, have a standing army of millions of Muslims in Europe for whom solidarity with the Ummah takes precedence over loyalty to their host nation.
Liberals will twist themselves into pretzels condemning the sentiment of this movement, while defending its right to protest. But why? They aren’t shy about their desire to ransack our traditions, deface our monuments, and cast lots for our belongings. Chants of “Intifada” are a promise to repeat the atrocities of October 7th in Britain. We shouldn’t have to put up with this. Hungary and Poland don’t have this problem, because they didn’t import it. Without laws that give it standing, and policies to provide it demographic and thereby democratic demand, we wouldn’t either.
If Palestine is the omnicause, then it can be our starting point for rewinding their whole revolution.
The IDF, the Media, and the State Exposed Colluding on Lies and Blood Libels CHANANYA WEISSMAN
Do you think they started just last week?
JUN 30, 2025
Shortly after so many fools were celebrating a joint globalist production as a miraculous victory of biblical proportions — that’s what the media reported, so it must be true — seven Jewish soldiers followed orders to enter a mobile death trap and were killed in horrific fashion in Gaza.
The media dutifully regurgitated whatever they were told to report, which was that a terrorist attached an explosive device to the outside of the vehicle. How did he attach it? With duct tape? Crazy glue? Magnets? How long did it take? Why didn’t anyone see him, prevent it, or even take him out after the fact?
We weren’t told, and you didn’t think to ask. We are conditioned to not ask questions, expected to blindly accept whatever we are told, and to assume anything that we don’t understand is due to our own inadequacies.
Unfortunately for the official liars and their media flunkies, footage of the incident taken by the killer himself clearly shows that he climbed aboard the vehicle and simply tossed an incendiary device right into the open hatch like you’d toss something into a garbage can. It was a wide open layup.
They lied about it because their version of events — bad enough as it is — is easier to digest and explain away.
To the best of my knowledge the media has not updated its report since the emergence of this video, nor have the official experts explained their deliberate fabrication. You would have forgotten about it already just a few days later if I didn’t remind you. They count on that.
The video and my original comments are available here.
It didn’t take long for the incestuous web of liars in the IDF, globalist state officials, and their flunkies in the media to outdo themselves, this time concocting a blood libel against “violent Jewish settlers”. Once again, thank God, it was swiftly debunked by incontrovertible evidence, though the Erev Rav have continued demonizing their prey and covering up their crimes.
Since others have already written a great deal about this, I will simply link to two versions of what happened Friday night, and you can decide which report is more credible:
Version #1: We are told that barbaric Jewish rioters attacked IDF soldiers, who are busy day and night devotedly protecting them. What ingrates! The soldiers used extremely restrained and reasonable force to protect themselves from these maniacs. During the course of events, a 14-year-old Jewish teenager somehow wound up “lightly injured” from a bullet. The IDF did not fire it.
State officials tripped over each other to condemn the “violent settlers” in the most extreme terms, even referring to them as an existential threat to the state. The state and their media flunkies accused the “settlers” of everything short of baking matzah with the blood of Arab children.
Lawmakers and state officials promise decisive action to put down this existential threat to national security. How convenient.
State officials also demanded that rabbis condemn the “violent settlers” as well, because of course rabbis should issue statements based on the demands of state officials, not their own knowledge and conscience.
Version #2: In this article we are given important information that contradicts the official narrative:
https://www.jfeed.com/news-israel/shabbat-shooting-teen-wounded-idf-outpost-raid
- The Jewish teenager was seriously injured, not lightly injured as the IDF claimed. “The boy sustained a gunshot wound to his arm, with the bullet entering his arm and lodging near his back. He is also suffering from shattered bones in his shoulder and arm, lung trauma caused by blast effects, and multiple shrapnel injuries.”
- The Jewish teenager was shot with a real bullet by an IDF officer who threatened to “kill them all”, not with a rubber bullet as claimed in some reports, each more absurd than the next.
- This was confirmed by the hospital that treated the teenager.
- The teenagers were laying on the ground and explicitly urged each other not to fight, as the officer menaced them.
- “As reports spread of live fire and injuries, rescue teams and nearby residents rushed to the scene but were also met with tear gas and stun grenades. The 14-year-old was treated at the scene by United Hatzalah medics and evacuated by MDA to Hadassah Hospital. In a controversial twist, police arrested the United Hatzalah medic and another resident who assisted in the evacuation; both were later released after questioning.”
- Netanyahu took a break from nonstop prayer, Torah study, and repentance following his totally sincere spiritual experience at the Kotel to make the following statement: “I strongly condemn the acts of rioting that occurred in the Binyamin area, in which IDF soldiers were attacked. The State of Israel is a country of laws and no one can take the law into their own hands.”
The above account is supported by very disturbing video footage taken by the youths and numerous testimonies.
These important details were not reported by state media flunkies. The media flunkies aren’t interviewing eyewitnesses and representatives of the youths, or showing any balance in their reporting. Here’s one random clue as to why:
The author of many reports on the incident for the Times of Israel is someone by the name of Emanuel Fabian. His bio on the Times of Israel reads as follows: “Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian is The Times of Israel’s military correspondent”.
In other words, his official job is to correspond with the IDF and other state officials and then write “reports”. Whose version of events do you think he will tell? Whose version do you think he will favor? Who butters his bread?
For the second time in less than a week, the IDF has been caught in a naked lie, first after sacrificing seven Jews to Molech, and now after firing on defenseless Jewish teenagers.
For the second time in less than a week, the propaganda machine has been busy covering up for the IDF’s lies, and, in the latter case, running interference and damage control as more facts emerge, all while your “democratically elected” globalist leaders pretend to be on your side.
Just today the IDF scrambled to produce a video showing masked people throwing rocks at an IDF jeep, which the media dutifully displayed as evidence that their original version of events is both true and justified.
Compare with the following video and comments from the settler community in response, and once again decide who is more credible (source):
The IDF is publishing fabricated and scripted documentation, in which an IDF jeep was allegedly attacked with stones on Saturday night by “Jewish rioters.” And supposedly the force fired into the air at the stone throwers, and only during the chase did it become clear that they were Jews.
System madness!! A real blood libel! The IDF spokesman was busy with a Hollywood production today! Because they didn’t like the fact that the public was standing by the hill boys and discovered that there was disgraceful and illegal behavior towards Jews.
So today at noon, soldiers supposedly took part in a “fake enemy” exercise on the road below the hill where the battalion commander arrived on Saturday. The soldiers stood on the barriers next to the road and threw stones at an IDF jeep.
The sight was so strange that our guys decided to take a picture, because usually in such exercises, to the best of our knowledge, they don’t throw stones at the jeep to practice proper behavior.
But after a few hours, the reason for the strange maneuver became clear. This evening, an IDF spokesperson video was suddenly released with what is supposed to be documentation of the Shabbat events.
The footage from the road cameras of the jeep being stoned (by soldiers!) was edited for night lighting and the date was changed slightly. And here are pictures of a jeep being attacked with stones in a Jewish area on Shabbat night, in the Giva area. The IDF spokesman’s lies had to be justified. Now you’ll believe the IDF that Jews attacked them with stones!
In the supposed testimony of a soldier sitting inside the vehicle with the camera behind him, the soldier says that when they were attacked with stones on the road, they unloaded and opened fire without knowing the identity of the throwers.
The problem with the IDF spokesman is that they forgot an important detail: The allegations of shooting by the boys were not on this road but on the hill itself And the backpacks used in the shooting were not found on the road but on the hill itself! The battalion commander went up to it with his jeep.
Watch the videos and judge for yourself!
Do you think this incestuous web of lies from the IDF, state officials, and the media just started last week?
What else are they lying about?
What aren’t they lying about?
Do you still trust them to keep you safe from rockets, pandemics, or anything else?
Do you still believe they are biblical heroes achieving messianic victories — or Erev Rav snakes doing their best to destroy us from within?
Known liars are disqualified from testifying. According to Jewish law, you cannot trust them. According to plain common sense, you shouldn’t trust them.
And you have a responsibility to yourself to rethink everything you ever believed based on their claims and media reports.
A few additional thoughts:
So now the IDF is shooting Jewish kids and the media is covering for them. Will the Dati Leumi:
a) Forget about it after Ben Gvir and Smotrich express faux outrage
b) Blame the victims
c) Stop worshipping the IDF and the state
They are spilling Jewish blood and spreading blood libels while making record profits with Jewish blood money.
The IDF will investigate the officer who shot a Jewish teenager and promote him accordingly.
So now that the cynical lies from IDF about Friday night’s shooting of a Jewish teenager, dutifully reported by the controlled media without an ounce of skepticism or investigation, were swiftly and conclusively debunked, the catchphrase from community spokesmen (many of them controlled opposition as well) is that this “crosses red lines”.
After the innumerable atrocities the Erev Rav regime has committed against the Jewish people, the most vicious ones reserved for “settlers”, Dati Leumi, and haredim, I would like answers to the following four questions:
1) Is this really the straw that breaks the camel’s back?
2) Why only now? They’ve been murdering you in so many ways for so long.
3) What are you going to do about it?
4) In what tangible, practical way, if any, is this going to permanently alter your relationship with the regime?
SCOTUS Closes This Session Out With A Bang! ATTORNEY BOBBIE ANNE COX
JUN 29, 2025
The United States Supreme Court is about to go on its three-month summer break, and it closed out this 2024-2025 session with a bang! Friday saw the high Court release the rest of their remaining decisions which include multiple key rulings that, combined, will…
- Allow President Trump’s Executive Order ending birthright citizenship (for those here temporarily or illegally) to stand for now, and simultaneously rein in activist, federal, lower court judges with their unprecedented nationwide injunctions against President Trump;
- Restore a modicum of parental rights by striking down a public school’s forced indoctrination of children into the world of transgenderism and LGBTQ;
- Uphold Texas’ state law that requires pornographic website users to prove their age before gaining access to the site.
Each week I appear on NTD News to provide legal analysis on hot topics. On Friday, NTD had me on to break down three of the Court’s crucial rulings released that day.
To watch the interview simply click on the video above, or you can click HERE to view.
You can also access the interview through the below NTD News online article that was posted on Friday…
Constitution Does Not Grant Lower Courts Power for Nationwide Injunctions: Legal Analyst
For further analysis, NTD spoke to civil rights attorney Bobbie Anne Cox, a legal analyst and a fellow at The Brownstone Institute.
By Don Ma
Published: 6/27/2025, 7:37:34 PM EDT Duration 11:24
The Supreme Court partially allowed President Donald Trump’s birthright citizenship executive order on June 27 in a decision that said universal injunctions likely exceed lower courts’ authority. The 6–3 decision didn’t offer a final ruling on the constitutionality of Trump’s attempt to limit birthright citizenship, but instead focused on whether three nationwide injunctions blocking the policy could stand.
For further analysis, NTD spoke to civil rights attorney Bobbie Anne Cox, a legal analyst and a fellow at The Brownstone Institute.
Future Impacts:
All three of these decisions were very important rulings, with significant implications, particularly if you live in a “blue” state (like I do here in New York). The runaway, radical, left agenda will be somewhat quelled after this, and particularly after the Maryland school decision which is a huge win for parents across the nation, and for religious freedom.
If you have further questions that I didn’t cover in the interview, drop them in the comments below and I’ll see if I can answer a few.
Israel’s Offensive on Iran Upgrades US Economy and Defense Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger, “Second Thought: a US-Israel Initiative”
June 29, 2025
*The 12-day-offensive by Israel’s Air Force against the anti-US Ayatollah regime has reenforced Israel’s strategic posture as the largest US aircraft carrier, which does not require a single American on board, cannot be sunk, and deployed in a most critical area. This area is the epicenter of anti-US Islamic terrorism, the region of 48% of global oil reserves and the intersection of critical shipping routes. This strategic posture has spared the US the need to manufacture, deploy and maintain a few more real aircraft carriers to the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean, along with a few ground divisions, which would have cost the US taxpayer $15bn-$20bn annually to manufacturer, deploy and maintain.
*The Israeli air and ground offensive against the anti-US Ayatollah regime cleared the way for the unprecedent US bombing of three critical Iranian nuclear installations by obliterating Iran’s air defense radars and missiles, demolishing Iran’s Air Force, eliminating critical Iranian military leaders, and dismantling Iran’s Internet and command and control systems.
*The June 13, 2025 Israeli air offensive against Iran was one of the more complex air force offensives since WW2, featuring 200 US-made combat aircraft, destroying 1,100 Iranian targets, 1,100 miles away from Israel. This operation highlighted Israel as a unique Triple-A store/showroom for the US aerospace industries, attracting the attention of potential buyers to the superiority of the US-made F-35, F-16 and F-15 over Russian, Chinese, British, French, Italian and Swedish competitors, which do not have a similar Triple-A store/showroom.
*The 12-day-offensive underscored the role of Israel as the battle-tested laboratory and innovation center of the US defense industries and armed forces. Thus, the Israeli operation – just like the systematic Israeli use of a few hundred US defense products – has yielded a multitude of technological, maintenance and repair lessons. These lessons have been integrated as upgrades into the next generation of the US products, saving the US defense industries 10-20 years of research and development, costing mega billion of dollars. This enhances competitiveness in the global market, increasing exports, expanding the US employment base, while bolstering the battle tactics of the US armed forces. The keen interest by the US Air Force to hold a multitude of joint maneuvers with Israel’s Air Force attests to the added-value derived by the US Air Force from the interaction with the uniquely experienced Israeli combat pilots.
*Game-changing battle tactics – such as radar suppression, demolishing and jamming air defense systems, disabling surface-to-air missile batteries – have already been shared with the US Air Force, as were the lessons of the ground-breaking June 1982 Israeli Air Force destruction of 20 Soviet-made Syrian surface to air missile batteries, while downing 82 Soviet Migs, which still impacts the US Air Force training and operation. The Israeli battle experience has enriched the US battle tactics and training program of US combat pilots and ground forces (e.g., counter terrorism, special operations and urban warfare), who rarely experience do-or-die type of assignments.
*Israel has evolved into a unique research and development center for the US defense industries. Israel has, also, been significant for some 250 US high tech giants of the commercial industries in the areas of agriculture, medicine, pharmaceuticals, automotive, computer software, electronics, telecommunications, fin tech, Internet, etc. (e.g., John Deere, General Electric, Johnson & Johnson, Texas Instruments, Intel, Nvidia, General Motors, Microsoft, AT&T, IBM, Dell, Apple, Google, Facebook, Intuit, etc.). The US has leveraged Israel’s brain power,the defiance-of-odds spirit and the can-do mentality, in order to sustain its global lead.
*Israel’s 12-day-offensive has enhanced Israel’s and the US’ posture of deterrence in the face of anti-US Shiite and Sunni terrorism, which are mandated by their 1,400-year-old vision to bringing “The Great American Satan” to submission. Israel’s offensive has weakened Iran, decreasing the lethal threat to all pro-US Arab regimes, such as Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain, Jordan, Egypt and Morrocco, all of which have had the machetes of the Ayatollahs and the Moslem Brotherhood at their throats. Moreover, undermining the strategic posture of the Ayatollah regime has reduced the incentive of some of the Latin American governments (the US’ soft underbelly) collaborate with Iran against the US.
*The bottom line: The June 2025 Israeli Air Force offensive has highlighted the reality of the annual $3.8bn extended to Israel (to purchase US military systems!), which does NOT constitute “foreign aid.” Rather, this is an annual US investment in an immensely grateful Israel, yielding to the US a few hundred percent annual Return-on-Investment (R-o-I). Furthermore, this is the most productive and secure US investment in Israel, which is a unique force and dollar multiplier for the US, underlying the mutually beneficial US-Israel two-way-street.
Is Xi on the way out? TIERNEY’S REAL NEWS
JUN 29, 2025
I received this text today from an intelligent, honest, learned man that I trust. It makes sense and connects the dots of the information I’ve seen coming out about the CCP lately. We shall see! If true, this will be major for the entire world & part of the reason behind the strategies and statements of Trump & Bessent:
Trump recently said – “we have a SIGNED trade deal with China” – and then both sides didn’t reveal the deal’s trade terms. There’s a reason.
Xi Jinping has been deposed, and I’ve been seeing this for two months in my 中文 feeds. He’s under house arrest and will be formally announced and gone by the Beihaide (beachfront CCP meeting) and/or the August plenum, both soon.
Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao (the two previous leaders, reform-minded) have taken over with the backing of the top military man in China, Zhang Youxia.
Here are the four pillars of the trade deal (now hitting the 中文 intellectual press, yet not quite hitting the English media).
1) Access to the Chinese market by FB, Google, YouTube, and every other media/tech company). Keep in mind Xi Jinping is gone. This potentially means the Great Chinese Firewall is over.
2) Large, monopoly state-run enterprises (think Huawei) will be downgraded to free markets – in other words, both small Chinese enterprises as well as foreign completion will no longer be crushed by government collusion.
China markets allowing true competition – actual true capitalism. Again, remember Xi Jinping is gone, already deposed by the elders/reformers.
These two elders are the previous (to Xi) CCP chairman, and previous CCP premier – important. Literally, China’s leadership is saying ENOUGH with the horrible inward return to Maoism.
Xi … you’re out, and we’re taking China back to the mainstream. Capitalism, ahead of the Party. I know this seems unbelievable. They had no choice.
3) Rare Earth metals reform. Apparently they have a plan to guarantee it this time – think IAEA inspections in Iranian nuclear facilities. China has signed and agreed to NOT holding the world hostage on rare earths, with teeth. Trump insists on teeth.
(the first three concessions were from China, the last concession is from US).
4) Tariffs for China set at (only) 20%. Obviously this is good for China. They were staring over the abyss, and had to negotiate for this.
Again, China had no choice. And if they are lying and cheating again, Trump will simply force the abyss down their throats again. And again, this is so serious to China, they deposed Xi. He’s gone. That I’m sure of.
Much like Trump’s success in the Middle East, Trump’s tariffs and economic pressure on China is working – China has deposed Xi (as too extremist for China to survive), and the reformers have removed Xi (already done) and moved to a far safer long-term position with Trump’s America.
Imagine, the Great Firewall coming down, and YouTube, X, Truth Social being mainstream in China. That’s been agreed to.
China just cannot announce it until they announce Xi is gone. And Trump is diplomatically allowing the Chinese the time they need to announce their internal bombshell reform. Done.
Since I follow China so carefully, I’m not sure everyone else sees just how much China’s economy has come to its knees. Apple moving out, everyone moving out, all foreign companies suspicious of China’s endless cheating, tariffs, all the large Taiwan companies (Foxconn, Pegasus, semiconductors) moving to other lower cost areas of the world. The world’s largest mega city – stretching from HK to Guangzhou (Canton), including Shenzhen, Foshan, and Dongguan – 150 million people … is a shadow of its former self, think factory ghost towns.
As well China has a FAR WORSE debt problem than America, and a collapsed real estate market, which was the only thing keeping all levels of Chinese government (local, prefecture) able to refinance their gigantic debt bubble – which doesn’t exist in any other nation.
China’s banking system is only 25 yrs old, and not sophisticated enough to withstand the corruption at all levels of communist government embezzlement. It didn’t evolve properly like ours over 100-150 years.
Not stable – many banks are not allowing withdrawals. Additionally, many many companies are not meeting payroll, as far as nine months behind. Even BYD (their top EV auto maker) is 275 days behind on their accounts payable to all their vendors.
The collapsed real estate market means there’s nowhere to turn.
It also means that many, many average people are going bankrupt, hopelessly underwater on their primary asset. And many many small businesses both based on exports and based on the heavily-depressed Chinese economy … also going bankrupt.
The only “positive” I can see for China in all this (and it’s quite large) is that China may actually flourish even larger if they truly join the western model.
Offsetting that is Blackrock and Vanguard (and the global west’s far stronger capital stranglehold) may finally dominate them, as that most evil capital dominance already dominates us – and I myself worry and not sure what that portends.”
NEW YORK POST: “Is Xi Jinping on his way out? Over the past few months, unprecedented developments point to the potential, and potentially imminent, fall of China’s “Chairman of Everything” Xi Jinping. Chinese Communist Party elders — including Hu Jintao, Xi’s immediate predecessor, whom Xi humiliated at the 20th Party Congress in 2022 — are now running things behind the scenes.
Xi is in poor health and likely to retire at the CCP Plenary Session this August or take a purely ceremonial position.
Xi’s downfall has been rumored before. But never have we seen the recent purges (and mysterious deaths) of dozens of People’s Liberation Army generals loyal to Xi; all replaced by non-Xi loyalists.”
https://nypost.com/2025/06/28/opinion/is-chinese-pres-xi-jinping-on-his-way-out/
I don’t know if this is true – and I have no way of vetting it – but I thought it made sense given everything I’ve seen lately – and was important to share. Do with it what you will.
Only 5% of New Yorkers voted for Mamdani Daniel Greenfield
After Zohran Mamdani secured the Democrat nomination for mayor, millions of people around the country are wondering how the city that lived through 9/11 could have done this? The answer is it didn’t. Opinion.
Jun 29, 2025 Israel National News
This isn’t a mandate. It’s a city that tuned out the election because it saw no one worth voting for and ceded the playing field to radicals and extremists. The media is doing its best to hype those numbers as a stunning mandate when what they really represent are high levels of turnout by Mamadani’s base and low turnout by everyone else.
Who are those 5%? They aren’t New Yorkers because polls showed us Mamdani performing poorly with anyone over 50, with African-American, Latino and working class white voters. What’s left? White hipsters and Muslim immigrants.
Mamdani’s base isn’t New Yorkers, it’s a coalition of white hipsters and Muslim immigrants, most of them weren’t even in the city during 9/11, like Mamdani, have no roots in the city, and no connection to its history. The quintessential New Yorker, as envisioned by a thousand Hollywood movies, TV shows and Broadway musicals, still exists, but is harder to find than ever. The city of those movies and shows can be glimpsed as a palimpsest under layers of chain stores, illegal migrants, social justice projects and vegan eateries before it vanishes again in the rain.
What happened to New York is what happened to legendary cities across the country and around the world, from Philly to London, which is that the revival of the 90s was the final act in driving out its working class and middle class population. Rents soared until the only young people who could afford to live there were white hipsters and third world immigrants.
And their politics became based on coalitions between the hipsters and the new arrivals. In New York City, as in London, it produced a Jihadist coalition that paved the way for a Muslim mayor.
Even by 9/11, New York City already wasn’t ‘that city’. The Giuliani revolution that swept out bums and criminals was a victim of its own success. Much of the middle class had already left which was why so many of the victims of 9/11 were commuters. Those who didn’t were soon completely priced out. The working class, the Irish, Jewish and Italian men and women who appear as comic characters in countless shows, were soon priced out of everything except projects. Even as the world mourned for New York, the New Yorkers were disappearing.
New York’s political system became a contest between establishment crooks from the old Democrat political machine and radicals from the new leftist insurgencies. Selecting Cuomo, an old crook with a venerable political lineage, to go up against a young hip radical was a political death wish. New Yorkers, with enough standards not to vote for Mamdani, were expected to go out and vote for a man they were almost certainly bound to hate and resent. The sudden unity behind Cuomo smacked of hypocrisy and made Mamdani seem like a genuine revolutionary.
Most New Yorkers didn’t vote.
They stayed home and allowed the 5% to have their way.
Given a choice between two terrible candidates, in a city that has long since proven to be utterly corrupt, they opted out. They may have failed to protect the city, but the political establishment failed them badly by putting up Cuomo and seems likely to fail all over again as it now has to revert to holding up Mayor Eric Adams as the last best hope for New York City.
In the 1991 Louisiana governor’s race between corrupt politicians Edwin Edwards and Neo-Nazi leader David Duke, bumper stickers read, “Vote for the crook, it’s important.” Voting for the crook may be important once more in New York City, but it’s not an ideal choice you want to give voters. Not unless you want below 30% turnout with the numbers favoring those who are most enthusiastic about their Neo-Neo-Nazi candidate and his plans to destroy the city.
New Yorkers needed a real choice and instead they got a choice between eating a dead rat and committing suicide. Only 5% chose to commit suicide, but most didn’t want to eat a dead rat either. And the dead rat strategy is going to be a longshot in any political campaign.
The best way to beat an evil candidate is with a better choice, not with a lesser evil.
New York’s political system, without meaningful Republican participation, has decayed into a one-party system. Its already corrupt rules were further rejiggered to favor radicals with ranked choice voting, and whose elections are as shady as those of Chicago, Philly and Los Angeles.
There’s no particular reason to trust the Mamdani election results than there is to trust the similar shady mayoral elections in Chicago and Los Angeles that gave their respective cities two radical destroyers in the form of Mayor Brandon Johnson and Mayor Karen Bass. It is all too possible that they will have a third candidate elected in a dubious election by a radical minority.
Maybe America and Europe’s big cities are beyond saving, but the low turnout shows that the city that survived 9/11 hasn’t turned evil, its people have either left or given up on politics.
New York City can be saved. But it will take a leader with a real message to do it.
Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center.
This article previously appeared at the Center’s Front Page Magazine.
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Israelis are tired of war (but we’re not tired of fighting for peace). JOSHUA HOFFMAN
Welcome to the ultimate cognitive dissonance in Israel: exhausted by war, unshaken by purpose.
JUN 28, 2025
It’s been nearly two years since the morning of October 7, 2023.
For most of the world, it was a horrific news cycle. For Israel, it was the moment everything changed, and never un-changed.
Since that day, Israel has not known peace. Not for a week. Not even for a day.
What began as a brutal, coordinated invasion by Hamas became a prolonged war that has outlasted a news cycle, an American presidency, and even the world’s patience.
But not Israel’s.
Because this isn’t just a war against Hamas. It’s a war against Hezbollah to the north. A war against the drip-drip-drip of terror attacks from the West Bank. A war against the random long-range threats of the Houthis in Yemen. And most recently, a 12-day war with Iran itself, a red line many believed would never be crossed. Until it was.
In parts of Israel, parents still send their children to school with a change of clothes in their backpacks — in case they don’t make it home because they had to remain in the school bomb shelter. Across the country, families have been sleeping in bomb shelters for months. Homes still echo with the silence of those kidnapped or murdered. This is nowhere near normal, but it has become the “new normal” for Israelis.
Ask any Israeli how they’re doing, and they’ll tell you, “We’re tired.” But it’s not the kind of tired that fades after a weekend getaway. It’s the deep, marrow-level exhaustion that comes from living in a state of chronic trauma. Not PTSD, but CTSD: Continuous Traumatic Stress Disorder. The kind of mental weight you carry when you never leave the battlefield, when there is no “after,” only “during.”
Israel’s economy has bent under the weight of full military mobilization. Tourism has evaporated. Innovation, Israel’s pride, has slowed. Families are fractured, with one son in Gaza, another on the Lebanon border, and a third sleeping with one eye open in Jerusalem. The price of survival is steep, but the price of surrender would be annihilation.
And yet, despite it all, despite the funerals, the sirens, the shattered families and shuttered businesses, most Israelis don’t want the war to stop — at least, not before its goals are met. Not before Hamas is eradicated from Gaza. Not before Iran is punished for its rogue nuclear program. Not before Israel regains something it hasn’t had since before October 7th: the feeling of safety. True safety. Enduring safety.
This is the great paradox in Israel today: Israelis are tired of war, but we’re not tired of fighting for peace.
We want to return to our lives, of course. But we refuse to return to the illusion of peace. The pre-October 7th status quo — where Hamas was tolerated, Hezbollah was contained, and Iran was watched from afar — is no longer acceptable. Israelis know what that complacency cost us.
There’s a kind of moral loneliness Israelis feel today. We stand largely alone, not because we’ve failed to explain ourselves, but because so much of the world has stopped trying to understand. The global language of empathy has become selective. Israelis are not seen as victims, even when butchered. We are not mourned, only questioned and debated. And so, while the world grapples with us, we bury our dead and prepare for the next siren.
No other country in the world would operate with this level of precision, delay, and self-doubt while fighting for its existence. And yet, every delay to preserve civilian life in Gaza gives Hamas another chance to regroup. Every food truck let in becomes a headline: “Israel is starving Gaza” — until it isn’t, and then no one reports the correction. Restraint by Israel is not rewarded; it’s exploited by the terrorists who use it to regroup, and by the international media who use it to attack Israel’s legitimacy.
This is the paradox of modern empathy: It’s loudest when it’s least informed. It grieves for images, not intentions. It is stirred by children’s faces, but indifferent to the terror that put them there. It sees rubble, but not rocket launchers beneath it. And in much of this upside-down world, the very virtue that should unite humanity (empathy) has become another weapon used against the Jewish state.
That said, even as Israel fights this war on multiple fronts, it is constantly asked to show restraint. To “feed Gaza” while Gaza remains ruled by genocidal terrorists. To keep electricity flowing to those who dig tunnels meant to kill Israelis. To perform miracles of moral clarity while the West loses its own in a haze of slogans and selective outrage.
This, too, extends the war. Every humanitarian corridor Hamas exploits. Every ceasefire called for in bad faith. Every act of restraint that prolongs Israeli insecurity rather than resolve it. The West’s obsession with managing the optics of war, rather than confronting the origins of it, has left Israel in a fight it should’ve finished long ago.
Thus, there is tremendous cognitive dissonance between Israelis and much of the West. Israelis live in reality; the West lives in commentary. Here, every siren is a countdown. Every news alert could be personal. We don’t have the luxury of abstraction; we have skin in the game, blood in the ground. And while pundits debate the “cycle of violence,” we are busy breaking it.
Let’s be clear: This war is not between “Israel” and “Palestine.” It’s between civilization and barbarism. Between a state that values life and a movement that glorifies martyrdom. Between a country that mourns the death of every child (Israeli or Palestinian) and a regime that uses children as literal shields and PR props.
Israel doesn’t ask the world to fight its battles, but it does ask one thing: Don’t side with our enemies while we fight to survive. Don’t cheer for “resistance” that looks like rape, torture, and murder. Don’t claim to care about peace while supporting those who seek eternal war.
So, no, we’re not interested in managing this conflict anymore; we’re interested in ending it. Not with vengeance, but with finality. Not with slogans, but with security. Not with more ceasefires that preserve Hamas and the other Iranian octopus’ tentacles, but with clear terms that remove them. The world can chant, protest, and hashtag; we will protect our children.
And yet still, there is hope.
Because amid the nearly two years of constant war, something has awakened in Israel. A unity forged in fire. A refusal to play by old rules that ensured only cycles of violence, not resolution. A determination to make this the last war, not just the latest one.
The headlines may still twist every Israeli action, but the people of Israel are clear-eyed. We don’t crave war; we crave peace. And, unfortunately, we’ve learned the hard way that peace is not given. It is earned, fought for, bled for, and, ultimately, secured. And that’s exactly what we intend to do.
Israelis are tired of war, but we are not tired of winning. Not for the sake of power, but for the sake of our children, our future, and yes, even our neighbors. Because true peace in the Middle East will only come when those who worship death are finally defeated, and when those who choose life are finally allowed to live it.
Democrat Dumpster Fire [3:17] JEROME R. CORSI, PH.D.
From Electoral Frying Pan into A Dumpster Fire of Insanity, the Left Dives Further into the Abyss.
JUN 28, 2025
The campaign of the Democrats’ socialist primary winner Zohran Mandami is well underway and shaking the traditions of the NYC mayoral race. The Dem machine and its propaganda wing, the diminishing formerly mainstream media are already working to prop up his profile and whitewash his very public Soviet Union-mirroring platform. Has the nomination solidified the Democrats as an official Far-Left authoritarian party as it has been leaning toward (but publicly hiding) over the past 18 years? Dr. Jerome Corsi breaks it all down on Corsi Nation.
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NYC’s Zohran Mamdani praised convicted TERROR funders?! [14:59] Glenn Beck
Jun 27, 2025
Zohran Mamdani, the communist-praising New York City mayoral candidate that just won the Democratic primary vote, really likes a group of people called the “Holy Land 5.” Glenn Beck reviews how this group was convicted of funneling money to Hamas. Is this really the candidate New York Democrats want as their next mayor?!
Zohran Mamdani: The Marxist Threat to New York City [14:15] Mark Levin
June 27, 2025 The Mark Levin Show
On Friday’s Mark Levin Show, the Second Industrial Revolution unleashed American capitalism’s potential, driving unprecedented economic growth and creating a prosperous middle class. Contrary to Marxist critiques, capitalism delivered widespread benefits through innovation, producing abundant food, housing, medical care, and modern conveniences like clean water and automobiles. These advancements raised life expectancy and living standards far beyond historical norms, showcasing capitalism’s ability to foster prosperity and self-correction in open societies, unlike Marxist or autocratic systems. This is an answer to NYC Mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani who said he doesn’t support capitalism. When you understand capitalism it’s very easy to defend.
Ben Shapiro Drops BOMBSHELL Findings on Elected NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani [17:52]
Jun 25, 2025
Sahar Reacts: Ben Shapiro exposes NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
Douglas Murray Drops SHOCKING Details About Pro Hamas Mayor Zohran Mamdani [17:35] Rabbi Pinchas Taylor
Jun 26, 2025
Douglas Murray slams Sneako for supporting NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani because of his Anti-Israel views.
