COMMENTARY / OPINION
The Greens are the favorite Western boatmen of the Muslim Brotherhood Giulio Meotti
Greta, the Swedish useful idiot, wants to stage a violation of the blockade of Gaza, which is in place to prevent armed support for Hamas.
Jun 4, 2025 Israel National News
Six years ago Greta Thunberg, the environmental icon who had seduced everyone (the Pope, Macron, the media, the UN), sailed towards America. Greta sailed with Pierre Casiraghi’s catamaran “Malizia II” towards the Climate Action Summit in New York.
Casiraghi is the younger son of Caroline, Princess of Hanover and the grandson of King Ranier and Grace Kelly of Monaco and on the management committee of the Yacht Club, very rich in sponsors: Rolex, Credit Suisse, Hermès, the luxury group LVMH and BMW, known for its cars of a not exactly eco-friendly range.
So six years ago, Greta, the hypocritical climate amazon, set sail for New York with a multimillion-dollar team, while the transfer of her entourage (as well as the return flight of the entire team) took place on CO2-emitting scheduled flights.
Now the Swedish preacher has set off on a sea voyage again: Greta has set sail from Catania, Italy, on the Freedom Flotilla Coalition’s sailing ship “Madleen” as part of a naval protest against the Israeli blockade of Gaza. Supporting her were our members of Italia left.
Meanwhile, in the United States, an Egyptian threw a Molotov cocktail at a peaceful demonstration in favor of Israeli hostages. He shouted “Free Palestine” while burning a Holocaust survivor. This was ten days after a couple leaving the Washington D.C. Jewish Museum was murdered by another Jew-hater shouting “Free Palesine.”
Also on board with Greta are the famous French-Palestinian MEP Rima Hassan and the actor Liam Cunningham (“Game of Thrones” and “The Three-Body Problem”), who is lending himself to this cynical propaganda stunt cloaked in “humanitarian” commitment.
Rima Hassan said that Hamas did not kill the Bibas brothers, after having started her career in the “Advisory Council on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion” of the French giant L’Oréal (which then kicked her out for her anti-Semitism).
Is anyone on the left feeling ashamed? [Emphasis added to the rhetorical question]
Israel prevented Rima Hassan from entering the country. A trip to Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv and the government put her back on the first plane to Paris, where she was able to continue the Intifada between the Sciences Po amphitheater and the banlieue of Saint Denis.
Greta’s Sweden has just launched an investigation into the infiltration of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Ecologists in France have long been infiltrated by Islamists. A few days ago it came out that the chief of staff of an environmentalist mayor is the director of a Koranic school. In Strasbourg, the mayor (feminist, woke and ecologist) Jeanne Barseghian has just had her picture taken with a map that does not mark Israel and surrounded by Islamists in keffiyehs.
In Belgium, the Greens are accused of being “the relay of political Islam”. The vice-president of the Greens, Rajae Maouane, is accused of anti-Semitism.
A candidate for the English Green Party, Mothin Ali, shouted “Allahu Akbar!” after being elected to Leeds city council.
Green Party candidate Kefentse Dennis praised a “pro-Palestine” demonstration that interrupted a Holocaust memorial march. In Auschwitz. After all, Gaza is the new Auschwitz, to hear these clowns who have not noticed who started the violence in Gaza in 2023 and in Germany in 1941.
In Scotland, the Greens kick out party members who attack Hamas and Hezbollah.
In Germany, the Green-linked foundation, Heinrich Böll, sponsors conferences with Hamas terrorists.
The mayor of Strasbourg himself has arranged for 2.5 million euros to be funded for the construction of a huge Turkish mosque at the behest of Green Mayor Jeanne Barseghian. With 44 meters of minarets, 28 domes, a prayer room for 3,000 worshippers and another outdoor space for 2,500 people, it aims to be “the largest mosque in Europe.” And where else but Strasbourg, home to one of the two wings of the European Parliament, the city of the Cathedral of Our Lady and whose National Library houses one of the first copies of the Gutenberg Bible from 1455?
In Mannheim, where police officer Rouven Laur was stabbed to death by Afghan Islamist and asylum seeker Sulaiman Ataee on May 31, a year ago, and Islam critic Michael Stürzenberger was seriously injured, Greta said in front of 700 protesters: “F*** Germany! F*** Israel!”.
In Germany, Greta is classified by the police as “potentially violent” after she was caught with a keffiyeh around her neck shouting “crush Zionism” and marching under the slogan “Sinwar we will not let you die.”
The Swedish useful idiot of this new flotilla wants to stage a violation of the blockade of Gaza, which is intended to prevent armed support for Hamas. (Gazans are free to leave via airports and food does not enter by boat either, ed.)
Journalist and Middle East expert Tobias Huch predicts with a certain irony on X that Hamas could increase the number of hostages: “Greta is sailing towards Gaza. I hope Israel lets this ship of clowns dock. No controls, let it sail and then they can do what they want. After 24 hours, the clowns will leave or Hamas will have new hostages.”
If he were alive, Vittorio Arrigoni would be on board with Greta and Rima. He made no secret of how he despised the Israelis and had himself photographed with the leader of Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh. Too bad Arrigoni was tortured, strangled and killed in Gaza – not by the Israelis he despised, but by a group of those Islamic fanatic jihadists that these useful idiots defend so much. The death of the Italian pacifist was the first murder of a foreigner in Gaza since the Islamic movement took power in 2007.
There is a West out there, out of its mind.
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 appeared in other publications, such as the Wall Street Journal, Gatestone, Frontpage and Commentary.
What Lies Beneath By Joan Swirsky
June 4, 2025 American Thinker
When I was a nursing student decades ago, a doctor friend told me about an interesting case in which he performed a routine yearly checkup on a 12-year-old boy, including blood and urine tests, and to his surprise, this healthy-looking preteen had blood in his urine. The doctor promptly ordered an intravenous pyelogram (IPG) — now in medicine’s dinosaur museum — which revealed that in one of the youngster’s kidneys, the renal medulla — the innermost region — and the renal cortex — the outermost region — were reversed, and as a result, the aberrant kidney took four hours longer to collect and then empty the body of urine.
But the doctor told me that the funniest thing was his mother’s reaction. “She said, ‘How did this happen? What did I do?’ And I told her that maybe she had the same thing, but she never had an IPG!”
Speaking of kidneys, I learned years later that a distant relative found out in his late forties, again as the result of a modern medical test, that he was born with only one kidney! And sticking with the theme of hidden phenomena, I recently learned that a former neighbor went to a neurologist with hand tremors, and the MRI the doctor prescribed revealed a hemangioma — a cluster of blood vessels — in his brain!
“How did this happen?” he asked the doctor.
“It might have been there for twenty years,” the doctor said, “even maybe since you were born!”
LESSON: There are approximately eight billion people in the world, just about all of whom know nothing about what’s going on inside of their bodies — an undiscovered tooth high in the gum, an insect embedded in the skull, an undetected stroke. I even knew a man in his eighties — a friend and neighbor — whose doctors found a deeply lodged bullet!
What does all this have to do with politics? Everything!
After World War II, the unspeakable, malignant horrors of the Holocaust were revealed for all the world to see: six million Jews, from infants to centenarians and everyone in between, rounded up, crammed into suffocating cattle cars, hauled off to concentration camps, and gassed to death in Hitler’s crematoria, effectively eliminating half of the microscopic Jewish population of 12 million in the entire world.
Surviving Jews all over the world dared not tell their children of this catastrophe, the better to shield them from lifelong paranoia, dread, and depression.
But what followed — from the war’s end in 1945 to the miraculous advent of Israel becoming a state in 1948, and for about a decade or more beyond — was encouraging to these protective parents. Not one word of Jew-hatred or vicious stereotypes or calls for the death of the Jews.
Aha, these naïve Americans — and Jews throughout the world — believed. Humanity has learned its lesson. We finally, at last, after almost 4,000 years, have nothing to worry about. Baruch Hashem!
What Lies Beneath
What Jews didn’t realize was that it was not benevolence or compassion or empathy that motivated the behavior of many in the outside world, but rather the self-interested preservation of the image they wanted to convey — of decency, tact, discretion, moral clarity.
But just like the clandestine kidney and the hidden hemangioma, the pathology — of Jew-hatred — was there, probably, as the above-mentioned doctor speculated, for decades!
Inculcated early — in homes, houses of worship, schools — and magnified when the State of Israel was established, it was mostly manifested in certain institutions, professions, even country clubs that enacted quotas that excluded Jews, in a few vicious media stereotypes and in personal insults.
But it wasn’t destructive enough to stop this minuscule minority — most of whom fled to America with no money and no knowledge of the English language — from flourishing wildly in every avenue they pursued. From science and medicine to business to law to literature and other arts, the list is long.
When denied entry into medical schools, they built the finest hospitals in the country…to this day! When denied entry into top law firms, they established their own. When denied opportunities in the entertainment industry, they literally created Hollywood.
By the 21st century, Jews had more than arrived. Although still a tiny minority of 5.8 million — or 2.4 percent out of a total population of 345 million — they have occupied several seats on the U.S. Supreme Court, served in great numbers as U.S. senators and members of Congress, enjoyed full professorships at America’s top colleges and universities, contributed mightily to America’s health through their discoveries and innovations, and founded massively successful businesses, among them Dunkin Donuts, Dreamworks, Estee Lauder, Facebook, Google, H&R Block, Home Depot, Starbucks, Slim-Fast, and on and on and on. And in recent headlines, in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)’s Final Four, three of the coaches were Jewish.
The Cesspool Erupts
Then October 7, 2023 happened.
To be accurate, this subhuman-initiated catastrophe was preceded by a phenomenon never before seen in America: the entrance of blatant, virulent, noxious Democrat antisemites not only being elected to the U.S. Congress, but blaring their toxic, Jew-detesting Israel-loathing racism for all to see and hear.
And without one single solitary word of disapproval from a sitting Democrat, including nine Democrats in the Senate — and Senate minority leader Charles Schumer — and 21 Democrats in the House. And don’t let them tell you they sent out press releases of disapproval. They mean nothing!
The sole defender of Israel and condemner of his party’s racism has been Senator John Fetterman (D-Pa.), whom the rest of the Democrat party has now marginalized, if not dismissed.
Even worse than this Democrat travesty, which was ultimately rejected by 77 million people in their thunderous election of President Trump last November, is the true pandemic of antisemitism that has transcended the clandestine kidney and the hidden hemangioma.
Now the once hidden hatred is out in the open. World leaders, most recently in France, the United Kingdom, and Canada (but they are not alone), have given us a vivid picture of their psychological and racist hatred of Jews from their metaphorical X-rays, sonograms, MRIs, and PET scans. They have let us look inside their hearts and minds to see clearly their hatred — and probably jealousy — of Jews and of their biblically inherited homeland, Israel, is again, as the aforementioned doctor speculated, from birth, and no doubt in their DNA!
Here, Yonah Elias skewers these moral cowards.
The Lesson
There is not a baby in the world born with hate in his heart. Hate is taught. Hate is learned. What we have been witnessing — really since Obama made his ignominious debut in our body politic — is that the hate that is learned has remarkable staying power. It transcends education and objective reality and cold, hard facts. It is animating and energizing. After our most powerful emotion, fear, come jealousy and hate, which are often in desperate competition.
And there’s nothing quite like the bandwagon effect to mobilize these haters into action. Hence the great number of people who conveniently forget that it was Israel who was savagely attacked by the terrorists whose very charter pronounces genocide as its major goal!
But history doesn’t change. The world hated Jews when they were defenseless, and now, they especially hate Jews when they fight back. And prevail!
From now on, when you look at the pro-terrorist politicians and media whores and United Nations shills, don’t be surprised. Just shrug your shoulders or turn to your friend and say: “Hemangioma, probably since birth!”
Joan Swirsky is a New York — based journalist and author. Her website is www.joanswirsky.com, and she can be reached at joanswirsky@gmail.com.
Jewish anti-Zionists and the murder of the Israeli embassy staffers By Moshe Phillips
Let’s examine the close, even affirming, relationship between the Reconstructionist movement and Jewish Voice for Peace extremists
June 4, 2025 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’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 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 figures. 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 there and includes the phrase “from the river to the sea”—a slogan 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, Linda 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 even chosen to present at the December 2024 Reconstructionist Israel Convening 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-Zionist extremism. 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, Rabbi 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 how can Waxman’s statements be taken seriously when key movement figures contradict them so 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?
JVP does not support a two-state solution. JVP calls for an end to the State of Israel as we now know it. 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 rabbinical leadership.
It’s time for American Jews to seriously re-evaluate the place the Reconstructionist movement occupies in the larger communal tent.
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.
Another black eye TIERNEY’S REAL NEWS
JUN 03, 2025
As I predicted long ago, Elon Musk has openly turned against President Trump and just mocked his OBBB budget bill publicly. Musk is siding with the Democrats and the Koch Libertarians against Trump – as I knew he would eventually. His true colors are finally out.
Russ Vought: “This bill doesn’t increase the deficit or hurt the debt. In fact, it LOWERS it by $1.4 trillion.” Elon is lying.
As I’ve said before, if the OBBB budget bill doesn’t pass, Americans will see a 65% increase in taxes, our economy will be hurled into another Great Depression, the House will go back to the Democrats, they will impeach Trump again and we will spend the last two years of Trump’s second term watching them dismantle every America First proposal. Just like it happened with Paul Ryan in Trump’s first term.
Why do the Koch Libertarians and the RINOs want that? Because Libertarians & RINOs like to be the minority party. They like it when Democrats are in charge. They make MORE money whining about Democrats instead of doing anything!
Trump insiders say there are actually four reasons that Elon is against Trump’s OBBB bill. It has nothing to do with fiscal responsibility – it is all self-serving:
1) The bill cuts the electric vehicle tax credit that helps car makers like Musk’s Tesla. As of late April, Tesla had spent at least $240,000 lobbying on behalf of the credit and other company matters. Behind the scenes, sources say, Musk also advocated for the measure in the legislation, but to no avail.
2) Elon wanted to work for the White House beyond the 130-day time period but Trump said no. Musk was working at the White House as what’s called a “special government employee,” and he had discussed trying to stay in that role beyond the 130-day time limit set by statute for the unpaid advisory position.
3) Musk also wanted the Federal Aviation Administration to use his Starlink satellite system for national air traffic control. But Trump balked at it because of the appearance of a conflict of interest and for technological reasons. “You can’t have air traffic control just run off satellites.”
4) Trump abruptly over the weekend announced he was withdrawing the nomination of Jared Isaacman, a Musk ally, to be NASA administrator. Musk really, really did NOT like that. Musk thought he had that one in the bag and he was going to get more money for his OCCUPY MARS plan.
Senators had complained about Isaacman being a Democrat donor, the insiders said, and the White House wanted a Republican loyalist.
“Perception is reality, though, and I’m pretty sure Elon thought the NASA situation was a last insult.”
Elon also wanted to control AI (through Tesla) so that he and his tech bros could use it to set US policy and run the world. Not kidding. If you had any doubt, just look at how Twitter (X) is run now – it’s an echo chamber and a mess.
Twitter (X) bans people for no reason (who disagree with Elon’s and Koch’s views) and then uses AI (that they programmed) to pretend it’s all automated, irreversible and out of their hands. Classic scapegoat. They pay pundits big money to promote the party line and ban the rest.
Elon helped elect President Trump, and I’m glad he did, but he did so for self-serving reasons and Trump let him do it. Elon didn’t like the fact that his rivals were given attention and contracts by Team Trump. Trump wanted a Team of Rivals for a new Golden Age – not just Team Elon – and he let Elon know that.
There’s a reason that Elon was given a goodbye party at the White House. The body language at his farewell “party” said it all. So did the fact that Elon had a black eye at the press conference (he said it was due to his son – right) and was accused by the media of allegedly overusing ketamine and other drugs over the weekend because he was so distraught. Coincidence?
As I’ve said for years, Rand Paul & Thomas Massie are funded by the Koch Libertarians who want open borders for cheap labor. So does Elon Musk – who has finally openly turned against President Trump, as I knew he would, when their interests are no longer aligned. Elon benefits from globalism and he has NO allegiance to America – only to himself and his businesses. Trump came up with the idea of DOGE – all Elon did was hire the programmers to get it done. That’s obvious.
The Koch Libertarians have no interest in FAIR trade for the American people. In fact, Rand Paul is one of the reasons that Mitch McConnell keeps getting voted for in Kentucky and why Kentucky now has a Democrat Governor! Kentucky leadership is ALL swamp!
PRESIDENT TRUMP: “Rand votes NO on everything, but never has any practical or constructive ideas. His ideas are actually crazy (losers!). The people of Kentucky can’t stand him. This is a BIG GROWTH BILL!
Rand Paul has very little understanding of the OBBB, especially the tremendous GROWTH that is coming. He loves voting “NO” on everything, he thinks it’s good politics, but it’s not. The OBBB is a big WINNER!!! Because of Tariffs, our Economy is BOOMING!”
Elon Musk is openly working against President Trump because he doesn’t agree with his goals for NASA and AI and electric cars. Elon wants to be in charge and wants HIS pet projects funded and HIS businesses funded and Trump took that power away.
That’s why Elon originally supported swampy DeSantis for President over Trump – because he’s easier to control. Once you figure that out – it all makes sense.
[Ed.: I tremendously respect Peg Tierney’s astute analysis and commentary.
Strategic Contradictions: Gaza Military Operations, Qatari Aid, and Israeli Parapolitics BY MORDECHAI SONES
‘The reality gap between rhetoric and policy is significant, as Israel’s stated war aims of dismantling Hamas often contrast with past and ongoing policies that have contributed to its entrenchment’
JUNE 3, 2025
Summary
Does Israeli war rhetoric match reality? Has Israel been protecting Hamas all along? What is the role of Qatar in this dynamic, particularly concerning potential links to Iran/Hezbollah coordination?
Contents
Introduction: Setting the Analytical Framework
“Parapolitics” and its Application to Israel-Hamas Relations
Historical Background: Israeli Support for Early Islamist Movements
Contemporary Background: Facilitation of Qatari Aid to Hamas
Operation Days of Penitence (September-October 2004)
Operation Summer Rains (June-November 2006)
Operation Autumn Clouds (November 2006)
Operation Hot Winter (February-March 2008)
Operation Cast Lead (December 2008-January 2009)
Operation Pillar of Defense (November 2012)
Operation Protective Edge (July-August 2014)
Additional Israeli Military Operations in Gaza (2021-Present)
Operation Guardian of the Walls (May 10-21, 2021)
Operation Breaking Dawn (August 5-7, 2022)
Overview of Qatar’s Role as a Financial Supporter and Mediator in Gaza
Mechanisms and Purposes of Qatari Aid
Israeli Policy Regarding Qatari Funds: Rationale and Criticisms
The Iran-Hezbollah-Hamas Axis and Qatar’s Role
Iran’s Long-Standing Support for Hamas and Hezbollah
Analysis of Alleged Coordination Between Hamas and Hezbollah
Qatar’s Distinct Role as a Host and Mediator, Differentiating from Iran’s Direct Material Support
Analysis: “Protecting Hamas” Versus War Rhetoric
Synthesis of Findings on Historical Israeli Policy (Parapolitics) and the Facilitation of Qatari Aid
Critical Evaluation of “Israeli War Rhetoric” in Light of the Presented Evidence
Discussion of the Strategic Implications of Israel’s Approach to Hamas and Gaza
A Call for Moral Clarity: Reimagining Israeli Policy
This report provides a detailed analysis of the interplay between Israeli military operations in Gaza, Qatari financial aid, and the broader geopolitical landscape involving Hamas, Iran, and Hezbollah.
Significant Qatari financial aid, often in cash and with explicit Israeli approval, consistently flowed into Gaza, particularly after major conflicts from 2008 onwards, and extensively from 2014 to 2023. This aid, claimed by Israel to prevent humanitarian collapse and to counter the Palestinian Authority (PA), aligns with the concept of “parapolitics,” where covert or indirect actions yield long-term, ostensibly unintended, consequences.
The historical record indicates Israel’s early, discreet support for Hamas’s precursor to weaken the PLO, a clear manifestation of parapolitics. This policy arguably metastasized as Hamas gained autonomous power beyond its initial intended role. In later years, Israel’s facilitation of Qatari funds was criticized as a “divide and rule” strategy aimed at weakening the PA and preventing a unified Palestinian state, even as Israel engaged Hamas militarily.
While Iran is the primary state sponsor providing direct material and financial support to Hamas and Hezbollah, Qatar’s financial support to the Hamas-run government in Gaza, even if claimed to be for humanitarian purposes, has been criticized for its fungibility, freeing up Hamas resources for military buildup. Qatar’s role as a mediator and host for Hamas leadership is distinct from Iran’s direct military support, but its financial involvement is a critical component of the broader regional dynamic.
The overarching implication is that Israeli policy towards Hamas has been characterized by profound strategic contradictions, oscillating between military confrontation and tacit support. This approach has demonstrably complicated the conflict’s dynamics and fueled the perception that Israel has been “protecting Hamas,” revealing a significant disconnect between stated war rhetoric and underlying strategic realities.
Introduction: Setting the Analytical Framework
Zelensky and His Handlers Want WW3 CLANDESTINE
JUN 02, 2025
It’s very simple.
Zelensky, and his NATO handlers, have NEVER had any intention of surrendering. Their objective is to provoke Putin into using nukes or excessive force, so they can drag in the US MIL, via NATO alliance, to fight Russia directly for them.
They want WW3. They want to destroy Russia by any means necessary, because Putin refuses to bow to the Deep State and their quest for global hegemony.
The Deep State want to dethrone Putin and take over Russia, and they know they need the US MIL in order to pull it off. This is why they are pushing so hard for Ukraine to be a NATO member and why they are trying to provoke Putin. They are trying to force the US MIL to intervene directly and defeat Putin.
Thats what the Deep State want. That’s what Ukraine has been about, going back to at least 2014, and probably decades before that. This has always been their ultimate objective with Ukraine. WW3 and the destruction of Russia.
[Ed.: Look closely at each of the 18 faces backing Zalensky’s war agains Russia and Putin. Each face shows only deep evil. The US is on their side and accuse Putin of being “crazy” while cheering Ukraine’s recent military victory over Russia. There’s something wrong with this picture. Look very closely. Trump needs to stop poking the bear, and back away from this. We should want nothing to do with it. Just sayin’.]
EXCLUSIVE: Top Forecaster Issues a Grim Prediction for Europe and NATO [VIDEOS] THE VIGILANT FOX
Martin Armstrong warned that what’s happening in Ukraine was inevitable. What he says comes next is even more alarming.
JUN 02, 2025
Yesterday, Russia cut off peace talks with the West after Ukraine struck multiple airbases housing nuclear-capable bombers.
Top forecaster Martin Armstrong warned this was coming—and what he says comes next is even worse.
You might remember we recently covered Armstrong’s dire prediction—not just about Ukraine falling, but about the collapse of Europe itself.
Back then, it looked like President Trump might be making some diplomatic progress. But that didn’t last long.
Ukraine tried to assassinate President Putin. Trump issued a chilling warning that “bad things… REALLY BAD” could soon happen to Russia. And just hours before peace talks were set to resume in Istanbul, Ukraine launched strategic drone strikes on multiple Russian nuclear bases.
Russia responded by cutting off negotiations. And across Europe, the drums of war are beating louder, with major nations reinstituting military drafts.
Martin Armstrong saw this coming. He’s with us today—and his warning is now unfolding in real time.
Armstrong opened the conversation with a blunt take.
If he were in Putin’s position, he said, he wouldn’t agree to any peace deal. Because in his view, Europe has already declared war, just without saying it out loud.
Poland is training its citizens for combat. Germany is calling up men as old as 60. And, as Armstrong put it, “Europe knows it’s in trouble and instead of reforming, they need an external enemy.” That enemy, he said, is Putin.
He criticized European leaders for escalating the conflict while pretending to seek peace, and said China isn’t fooled.
“This is a war against NATO,” he said. The media may claim it’s still just Ukraine vs. Russia, but Armstrong believes the global fault lines have already shifted.
“Why would you agree to a peace deal when every European country is against you?” he asked. “China… knows this is not a war with Ukraine anymore. This is a war against NATO.”
From there, the conversation turned even darker. Armstrong didn’t hold back—he said the future of Europe is already lost.
European leaders, he argued, are using war as a distraction from their crumbling economies. And now, even U.S. officials are starting to admit it behind closed doors. “We got to get the hell out of NATO,” they told him.
The most alarming economic signal, according to Armstrong, is coming from Germany. He said its economy has shrunk by 3%, which is catastrophic given that Germany makes up a quarter of the EU’s entire GDP.
When Germany goes down, he warned, the rest of Europe will follow. And with Japan also slipping into decline, the global dominoes are falling fast.
“Europe has no future,” he warned.
Then came what Armstrong believes is the real reason for the war with Russia. Not democracy. Not defense. Resources.
“I’ve been flat-out told Russia has $75 trillion in natural resource assets,” he said.
And in his view, that’s what European elites are really after. They believe if they can defeat Russia, they’ll claim the prize and use it to re-establish global dominance, even over the U.S. and Canada.
“They want the polls, they want Romania to sacrifice their lives… and then the rest of Europe will walk in scot-free.”
So, this war, Armstrong said, is not about “democracy.” It’s about empire.
The most emotional moment of the interview came when Armstrong shared a personal story about President Trump.
He recalled a private conversation where Trump explained why he wanted to get out of Afghanistan: “He said he was tired of writing letters to their parents. ‘Your son died for God and country,’ he said, ‘What are we doing there?’”
He believed Trump was deeply affected by the loss of life. “Let’s stop the killing,” Trump told him.
Armstrong suggested that anti-war mindset is exactly why the political establishment tried to take Trump down.
The most chilling part of the conversation wasn’t about nukes or drones—it was how casually the so-called elites gamble with human life.
The people pushing for war? They’re never the ones sent to fight it.
From Vietnam to Iraq to Afghanistan, we’ve seen this play out over and over again. Young men and women die, while the people who started the wars write books, collect speaking fees, and move on.
They’ve got bunkers. You don’t.
To them, war is a game of power and profit. The deaths? Just statistics. Just “collateral damage.”
Almost no one in power has the courage to say it out loud. But it’s the truth—and history keeps proving it.
From Be’eri to Boulder: How the West’s Moral Collapse Fuels Hamas’s Global War BOB GOLDBERG
JUN 01, 2025
In Boulder Colorado, families gathered peacefully at the Pearl Street Mall to call for the release of Israeli hostages held in Gaza. It was a routine Sunday demonstration — somber, heartfelt, civic. Then, at 1:26 p.m., a man approached and hurled a Molotov cocktail into the crowd. Children and adults were burned. Their crime? Daring to speak up for Israelis in public.
The suspect, Mohamad Soliman, now faces arson and attempted murder charges. Colorado’s Attorney General called it what it is: a hate crime. But let’s not mince words. This was terrorism — the weapon, the target, the timing, the intent. All of it fits the profile.
This attack didn’t happen in a vacuum. It came just days after college graduation ceremonies across the country — including at MIT — where Hamas was applauded and Israel was libeled as a genocidal state. In Cambridge, future engineers and scientists cheered slogans first coined in Gaza tunnels. In Boulder, those same slogans were literally weaponized in a bottle of fire.
On October 7 day, Hamas terrorists stormed into Israel and committed acts so barbaric they still defy imagination: babies beheaded, children burned alive, women raped beside their murdered relatives. In Kibbutz Be’eri and other towns, entire families were incinerated in their homes. Like Boulder, it wasn’t a military engagement. It was a war on civilians. And like Boulder, the motive was not resistance. It was hatred.
And yet, the slogans shouted by Soliman in Boulder — “Stop killing babies,” “Zionists,” “genocide” — were not his inventions. They were borrowed. Recited. Echoed. These are Hamas chants, recycled in Western classrooms, legitimized in the language of elite media, and now hurled with fire in American streets. The ideological weaponry of Hamas has gone global, and its physical weaponry is no longer confined to Gaza.
We are no longer just dealing with a regional conflict. We are witnessing the export of Hamas’s war against Jews, in rhetoric and arms. Molotov cocktails in Colorado. Machete attacks in Paris. Car ramming in London. And the justifications, always the same: colonialism, genocide, resistance. These slogans don’t just rationalize terror. They inspire it. They license it.
And now they are being used — not metaphorically, but literally — to burn Jews.
French President Emmanuel Macron, fresh off accusing Israel of behaving like Russia, claimed the EU cannot condemn Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine while “remaining silent” on Gaza. Israel’s Foreign Ministry called the accusation a lie — and it was. There is no “humanitarian blockade,” no campaign of extermination. But there is an old story here: the libels shift, the phrases modernize, but the moral inversion stays the same. The Jew defending his family is now a war criminal. The terrorist chanting “resistance” is the victim.
There will be time to assign blame — and there’s plenty to go around. But that time is not now. Right now, the focus must be on exposing and severing the Hamas-Harvard nexus and similar sick relationships between terror and academia. When institutions of higher learning become safe havens for ideological justifications of child murder and firebombings — when faculty members dress up terror in the robes of postcolonial theory and moral relativism — they cease to be universities. They become laundromats for barbarism. That rot must be cut out, not rationalized.
Zionism, unlike the Oslo delusion, never promised utopia. It promised only this: if the world will not protect the Jews, the Jews will protect themselves. And when attacked, they will not bow. They will fight.
The Psalmist wrote: “Rescue me, O Lord, from the hands of foreigners, whose mouths speak lies and whose right hands are false.” Today, those lies are shouted in quad rallies, whispered in UN halls, and printed in prestigious newspapers. And they are being hurled, quite literally, with flame and shrapnel at Jewish children — in southern Israel and now on the streets of America.
We must recognize it for what it is: the global projection of Hamas’s war on the Jewish people, not just through tunnels and rockets, but through slogans, proxies, and Molotov cocktails. We are not watching isolated incidents. We are watching a strategy. The rhetoric and the weapons are now one.
This terror attack also came on the eve of Shavuot. This holiday commemorates the moment God entrusted the Torah to Israel, not just a covenant of faith, but a covenant of destiny. The Jewish people stood together at Sinai and accepted a mission that binds them to law, to truth, and to moral clarity. But that covenant was not forged in fragility. It was forged in strength — in the willingness to stand apart, to carry the burden of chosenness, and to defend that identity with courage. Today, it demands that we protect Israel — and every Jew — with more forcefulness, resolve, and clarity than we have previously mustered.
And so, choose life, said Moses. Not slogans. Not false peace. Not paralysis in the face of evil. Choose clarity. Choose strength.
Choose Zionism. And let’s finish the war, wherever it rages.
The enemy within Peg Tierney
JUN 01, 2025 TIERNEY’S REAL NEWS
I received this note and article from a wise and learned friend. I thought it was powerful and wanted to share it with you. I’ve included links in red to previous articles I’ve written if you’d like more information. It’s short – so please read to the end to my conclusion.
Between the DEMONRATs, the JINOs, the U.N. and the RINOs the Jews raised with no real historical reference to, or care for, Israel and the facts, and then the huge attention paid to allegations of “islamophobia” which was heavily pushed by EU countries that have a huge Islam problem, and the billions poured into colleges here by Qatar, UAE, and Saudi Arabia, the JDL, AJC, Federation, and ADL were impotently playing the game of appeasement and adoption of progressivism instead of actively combating this onslaught of Jew hatred.
Worse, “presidents” like Obama and Biden were actively and passively supporting the anti-Israel factions, and the dumb progressive Jews voted for them:
NEW YORK POST: Is America’s Jewish leadership failing American Jews? Antisemitism has never been higher.
The murder of a young Israeli couple outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, DC, last month traumatized Jews nationwide — leaving many asking tough questions about the state of Jewish leadership in America. Their concern is understandable.
While the Hamas attack on Israel two Octobers ago thrust Israel, the Jewish nation, into its longest war ever, it also ushered in unprecedented levels of antisemitism in the US. There were nearly 10,000 anti-semitic incidents nationwide last year, a 5% increase over the record-breaking numbers in 2023, sparked by the war in Gaza.
The killing of Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim in Washington, DC in May has prompted many American Jews to question the effectiveness of their institutional leadership.
Those figures, while startling, fail to capture the endless examples of Jews being blacklisted, ostracized or targeted in sectors ranging from medicine to the arts.
Amid this surge of hate, American Jews have begun questioning whether major Jewish groups like the ADL are doing enough — and have done enough — to keep Jews safe. The answer for many — once unspoken and now increasingly reaching fever pitch — is a resounding no.
Former Harvard professor Alan Dershowitz says the climate of inaction around Jewish leadership in the US reminds him of the period before World War II.
“I see the same problem that we had in the 1930s with the rise of Nazis.”
“Jewish leaders have been misallocating their resources, focusing on the wrong people, and are now a part of the problem.”
In the wake of the October 7 attacks and subsequent antisemitism surge, American Jews were expecting accountability — and change. Instead, it’s been business as usual for major groups like the ADL, the Jewish Federations of North America and many Jewish Community Relations Council chapters: Glitzy galas, pricey celebrity appearances and slick conferences, according to critics.
For at least three decades, the Jewish establishment underwent a mission drift, transforming from defenders of Jewish-first issues into foot soldiers for progressive politics and social justice causes. They refused to seriously address the toxic brew of leftist and Islamist ideologies seeping into universities. Stuck in their woke echo chambers, they sidelined voices who rejected progressive agendas.
“Hundreds of millions of dollars went to the ADL and all these organizations to fight antisemitism, but antisemitism has only increased. What have they been doing for the last 20 years?”
Jewish groups even aligned themselves with liberal causes that hate Jews! Take Black Lives Matter, an organization that literally enshrined anti-Zionism within its foundational mission statement. That, however, didn’t stop more than 600 Jewish organizations from signing a full-page New York Times ad in 2020 endorsing BLM’s efforts!
From ending endless wars, to slaying the debt beast, to saving the children, the Trump Administration is reversing decades of evil, and the demons are not pleased. JEROME R. CORSI, PH.D.
JUN 01, 2025 – Demonic leaders have involved the United States in too many bankers wars, shedding American blood so tyrants can grow in power and wealth. The results have been devastating here and abroad, and President Trump is determined to turn it around. He is also reversing the downward spiral of economic decline, and most of all, Trump is putting resources into efforts to stop human and particularly child trafficking, and defeating the dark forces that are profiting from its continuance.
Dr. Jerome Corsi explains the potential dangers and what needs to be done to turn the situation around on Corsi Nation.
The March of Jewish History: Macron, the Europeans, and Annexation Rabbi Prof. Dov Fischer
Even the worst tragedies serve as our springboards to become stronger. Just you wait, Mssr. Macron, just you wait…
Jun 1, 2025, 7:50 AM (GMT+3) Israel National News – No one knows better than I do — though all too many Jews (and others) know exactly what I know — that the pain of losing a close dear loved one is inconsolable — forever. It never goes away. Time heals the trauma — perhaps — but it does not heal the wound. If time turns the open sore into an emotional scar, nevertheless that scar keeps piercing open again and again.
My father died of leukemia at his age 45, my 14. I have never gotten over that despite my tough exterior and the passage of half a century. I am still an orphan. And the life-partner who was and remains the love of my life died five years ago of glioblastoma at her age 64, my 67, and my life never ever has been or will be the same. (I am not a complainer; I am an optimist. I still tell people I root for the New York Jets. But what’s true is true.)
I am not alone in my pain, particularly as a Jew. The 1200 families of the October 7 murdered are no different. Holocaust families. Families of those stabbed or shot by Arabs. And even families whose dearest died of heart or lung disease or kidney or liver disease or tuberculosis or hurricane or tsunami or earthquake, the whole Yom Kippur litany of Un’taneh Tokef.
And we all — forever until Messianic times — mourn the burning of our Holy Temples. Visits to the Temple Mount do not alleviate that, and many of us, like me, who assert sovereignty over the Temple Mount, nevertheless strictly observe the rabbinic rulings that forbid ascending Mount Zion and walking on that holy ground. Thus, when we console mourners, we remind them that we all are in mourning . . . for the destruction of Zion and Jerusalem two thousand years ago. Time has not healed that wound either.
I begin with this because I must emphasize the background and context of what lies ahead in this opinion. I look back on all our losses and sufferings, and I see something unique in the Jewish soul and character: We do not despair. We do not give up. And we come out stronger each time — notwithstanding that we do not heal from what we have endured.
It is unacceptable for the foolish to celebrate that the Holocaust gave birth to the country of Israel. But — anyway, regardless — we came out with the country of Israel because a world of non-Jewish antisemites, for just a moment in time, could not all simultaneously look us in the eyes and say “no.” There always were Macrons and Keir Starmers and David Lammys and Mark Carneys and Joe Bidens, Barack Obamas, and Kamala Harrises. But, for a split second in time, they could not all say no. And because of the determined core of the Jewish spirit — and, frankly, both shameless chutzpah and determined defiance from two thousand years of knowing we will not get an even break — it happened.
It did not hurt that Lord Moyne was eliminated by the Two Eliyahus and Count Folke Bernadotte, too. And that the British military wing of the King David was obliterated. That British officers were kidnaped and whipped when the Brits did that to Irgun members, and that British officers were hanged when the Brits did that to twelve Jewish heroes on whose necks the country of Israel was born.
Much Jewish blood was spilled to get our land back and throw out the colonialist imperialist occupiers. Scars remain. Sores remain: visit Acre Fortress prison and see the room with the gallows. But all of it left behind a country of Israel. (My regular readers know that I reject the term “State” of Israel. Israel is a country. Iowa and Delaware are states. And it sounds different — and more accurate — when Israel’s enemies admit they propose a “country” for Arabs in Judea and Samaria, not merely a “state.”)
We lost Jews in Gush Etzion, from the Famous 35 to those left behind to defend against overwhelming numbers of Arab marauders. We lost Jews in 1967 at Ammunition Hill and elsewhere. But United Jerusalem emerged. Rav Tzvi Yehuda Kook’s mesmerizing speech only weeks before proved prophetic as we even returned to Hevron, Shechem, and Jericho, and Naomi Shemer’s song also was prophetic, emerging just before the unthinkable happened, and we returned to the pits of water and the Old City. An extra verse had to be added, saying: we returned.
This is our story. Ferdinand and Isabella expelled Sephardic Jewry from Spain in 1492, and King Manuel of Portugal finished the project five years later. The pain, the sores never healed: the torture devices, the auto-da-fe burnings at the stake. But they inadvertently ensured that 900,000 Jews would be in Arab Muslim countries neighboring Israel in the 1940’s and 1950’s, so that, when the Arabs did their thing and expelled all their Jews and confiscated all their property, the Arabs inadvertently guaranteed Israel’s survival and explosive demographic success by populating it overnight with a million Jews.
And the Arabs sent us the best: not Ashkenazi Marxists but G-d-fearing Jews who eat rice on Pesach and never heard of the blight of “Reform Judaism.” Never even heard of it. Thanks to Isabella and Ferdinand, Israel got the kinds of Jews who would protect Israel, in the long run, from the Kaplan Square White privileged Ashkenazi Marxists. They overthrew the privileged Histadrut card holders and, for the past 50 years since the Menachem Begin Revolution of 1977, the act of beating the Labor Marxist Left at the polls has become, for Israel, a national . . . hobby. Beat them and beat them and beat them; that is the national hobby. So we get the Knesset, the ministries, and almost a million Jews in the post-1967 eastern regions of United Jerusalem and throughout Judea and Samaria — and they get Kaplan Square and restaurants that serve pork.
We now need to consider all the above as we confront the next moment of possibility. October 7 can never be forgiven, and its sores will never heal, not even with time and the razing of Gaza. The godless who do not observe Shabbat or kosher blame it on G-d. “Where was G-d on October 7?” G-d was in shul because it was Simchat Torah. G-d, Who is omnipresent, also was looking for Ronen Bar. He was looking for Hertzi Halevi. So leave G-d alone.
And October 7 never ever could have happened if not for 10 Av 2005, when Ariel Sharon expelled 8,500 Jews from a part of Eretz Israel, Gush Katif in Gaza. So Sharon did his part, and the Leftist Deep State media refused to cover massive demonstrations of hundreds of thousands, and arms linked across the country in snake lines to Jerusalem. Instead, they highlighted a few bad apples in tandem with the Deep State Leftist section of the Shabak (Shin Bet) who planted Avishai Raviv and other provocateurs to make the political right look detestable and to be the personal handler of Yigal Amir, encouraging the fellow to assassinate Rabin.
Just as Shabak botched October 7, they botched instigating and inciting Amir, and ended up creating a direct line between their Agent Provocateur, Avishai Raviv, and the assassination of Rabin — a Shabak mess truly tied with October 7 as the Number One All-Time Shaback Botch.
We now are in deep pain from October 7. Men, young boys and families, except for those Haredim who will not serve in any capacity based on a new interpretation of Judaism, have been wrenched from home for 600 days, living in chaos, families split by a very long war that now seems to be geared militarily in the direction it should have been before, if not for the Biden-Harris embargo.
The world is more overtly against us than it has been in decades. Pressure is everywhere, except from Milei in Argentina, Orban in Hungary, Trump in America (really), and a few opposition leaders like Polievre in Canada, Badenoch in England, Le Pen in France, and Wilders in Holland. But, if you have been reading this far, let us put this on the line:
Macron, Starmer, and Carney are threatening bad stuff. Most Arabs never mean well for Israel, and forget about Putin, Xi, and Kim. Even Germany has gone back to its real self, as if a leopard ever could have shed its spots; as long as the Germans are not putting their Israeli expatriates into ovens, we are ahead of the game with them.
But this massive push for an Arab sovereign entity in Judea and Samaria opens one of the greatest opportunities in Modern Jewish history. If the Country of Israel emerged, in part, from the Shoah — but only in small part — and if the Spanish Inquisition ensured that Israel would be populated by one million North African Jews from “Edot HaMizrach” while paving the way for Columbus to discover the Exile that would become the greatest “resting point” haven for Jews along the road to returning to Zion, now is the time to get prepared to annex the rest of Judea and Samaria.
This war — what I call the Ariel Sharon War — has prompted the greatest breakthrough for annexation since 1967: the emergence worldwide of the chant “From the River to the Sea, [expletive omitted] Will be Free.” It finally, finally — finally! — is out in the open, that which so many of us — and Arafat and Abbas — have been saying since Oslo 1993: They don’t want a shared two-country solution. They want it all, one country.
And, in great measure, they are right. The land is not suitable to two tiny states like Delaware and New Jersey. From the River to the Sea, there is land for but one country. It now is out in the open. They don’t want two countries, and more than 80 percent of Israelis and their Knesset members don’t want two countries either. That is the great blessing of the Ariel Sharon War. Even half the blind lemmings in Kaplan have figured out that, although they want to give the Arabs a country in Judea-Samaria, they just can’t because, if the Arabs get sovereignty there as they got it in Gaza, then the Left will not be able to gather safely anymore in Kaplan Square without getting blown up every week. That is the blessing.
It is time to annex. If Israel needs an “opening,” let it be the moment Macron declares France recognizes an “[expletive deleted] State.” Israel should immediately annex the Jordan Valley. Yes, eventually all of Judea and Samaria, but the Jordan Valley will gain the most internal support at the outset, even from the Marxists who live there and work that land. Netanyahu previously ran an entire campaign on annexing the Jordan Valley.
When Macron declares, then annex the Jordan Valley. When anyone else next declares, annex Ariel, a city of more than 20,000 with a university and a strong mix of non-religious and religious, Israeli and Russian/Ukrainian and Anglophonic Jews. Annex those two — the Jordan Valley and Ariel — and we actualize the Jewish Narrative of History: they cannot break us, and even the worst tragedies serve as our springboards to become stronger and to hasten the day when G-d’s ultimate plan will unfold on the mountaintop of Zion.
Adapted by the writer for Arutz Sheva from a version of this article that first appeared here in The American Spectator.
Are we winning? Does anybody know? Jack Engelhard
They have two things going for them, the Gaza civilians and the media worldwide, and those two cards they play to the hilt. Opinion.
Jun 1, 2025 Israel National News – Are we winning? Does anybody know?
Keeping score.
On Monday we read that the IDF are being sent in full force to finish the job once and for all, and we cheer.
Finally, we say…and it’s about time…although where has this been the previous months? Okay. Never mind. Go get ‘em.
On Thursday we read how Israel has agreed to a 60-day ceasefire, and then only for the release of 10 live hostages, a plan devised by Trump’s envoy Steve Witcoff . and I am still not sure whether Witcoff is any different from Biden’s Antony Blinken, and whether Israel was forced to accept this latest tactic under duress…Godfather style…your brains or your signature on the dotted line.
This does not sound like much of a deal to me…and after all this time, still negotiating, and still making deals?
Who’s the boss around here anyway!
And on behalf of my readers, I ask, can’t Israel’s secret service find the place where the hostages are being kept, and is it a bridge too far to go rescue them?
Entebbe, yes. This, no?
Anyway, Israel accepted, Israel signed. Which seems odd, a first-rate military power bending to a group of dirty rotten scoundrels.
Not only that, but they need time to consider the offer…and now demand a seven-year ceasefire and full Israeli withdrawal.
If so, and if the deal is not good enough, you face the full brunt of our military process, and you face elimination. So says Defense Minister Israel Katz.
This is telling it as it is.
They should be quaking in their boots…at least what’s left of them.
But they have two things going for them, the Gaza civilians and the media worldwide, and those two cards they play to the hilt.
Cowards that they are, they hide behind the civilians, playing catch me if you can, while the media weeps for those “innocent” Gazans, many of whom cheered Oct. 7.
Who’s cheering now?
One more thing in their favor…the campuses inflamed with Jew-hatred, which was manifest even before the slaughter of Oct.7, but turned into a roaring fire immediately the day after.
Yes, Israel can take care of itself, but who takes care of the smut we name humanity? Watch what happens when Israel’s Tzipi Hotovely faces-off against humanity’s Piers Morgan.
For Israel, it’s do or die.
Hamas will indeed fight until their last man is eliminated. Because they are so brave? Not at all. Rather, they seek death. They are a death cult.
“We have before us an ordeal of the most grievous kind…you ask, what is our policy…it is to wage war with all the strength God can give us.”
Thus spoke Winston Churchill to the House of Commons on being named prime minister for a nation that for a time would have to fight alone.
Moreover, Britain faces a task to “wage war against a monstrous tyranny never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime.”
Perfectly said for Israel at this moment.
So far as scorning Israel for civilian casualties in Gaza (never purposeful), the allies chose to firebomb mostly civilian Dresden to send a message that all bets are off for the cause of victory, and when the war with Japan became intolerable, the United States bombed to smithereens Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Humanity has no place to go about judging Israel.
Now available, a collection of Jack Engelhard’s op-eds, “Writings.”
Jack Engelhard writes a regular column for Arutz Sheva. Engelhard wrote the int’l bestseller Indecent Proposal that was translated into more than 22 languages and turned into a Paramount motion picture starring Robert Redford and Demi Moore. New from the novelist, the anti-BDS thriller Compulsive. Website: www.jackengelhard.com
From the esteemed John w. Cassell: “Jack Engelhard is a writer without peer, and the. conscience of us all.”
Davos and Chabad!? MICHOEL GREEN
JUN 01, 2025
RFK Jr. states the obvious:
The ‘World Economic Forum” in Davos is a billionaire boys club of greedy and hypocritical tyrants who bark orders at the governments of all modern states and seek to eliminate the essential human liberties of the common man. Their nefarious objective is totalitarian control of the world’s human population.
[In reality, WEF is much more sinister than that. It’s stated agenda is “depopulation,” a euphemism for mass democide, but let’s use RFK’s description for argument’s sake]
The question begs to be asked:
What in the world is institutional Chabad Lubavitch doing at Davos?
Why are they servicing a rogue billionaires’ club of wannabee totalitarian dictators?
Why are they recklessly tarnishing the Rebbe’s reputation by colluding with high-profile villains, in grave betrayal of Chabad adherents everywhere and in grave betrayal of humanity?
Why does the Chabad community remain silent over this outrage?
Links:
1) RFK Jr. on the WEF in Davos: https://rumble.com/v6u3jv9-rfk-jr.-accurately-describes-the-globalist-cabal-known-as-the-world-economi.html
2) Examples of institutional Chabad’s participation at Davos and my past protest: https://open.substack.com/pub/westbororabbi/p/time-to-speak-out?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=y7p7j
A thousand private jets at Davos whose billionaire passengers sanctimoniously lecture world governments on “carbon reduction.” Why must Chabad be enmeshed in their sinister agenda?
Texas Redneck Man Vows to Drive Until Palestine Is Free—Now Technically Homeless
May 31, 2025 Tik Tok
A man who wrapped his entire truck in a giant keffiyeh and declared he “won’t go home until Palestine is free” is now, according to friends, technically homeless.
He began his nationwide road trip on October 7, 2024 vowing not to return to his apartment in Texas “until the Zionist regime falls.” But after 8 months, 72 gas station showers, and zero geopolitical breakthroughs, his landlord re-rented his place—and his mom changed the locks.
Going by the alias “Redneck for Palestine,” the man claims his real name is Abdullah.
“He’s now living out of his truck, which smells like hummus and hopelessness,” said one former roommate. “He still insists he’s not homeless—just ‘geopolitically displaced.’”
Critics now suspect the campaign may be less about activism and more about mobile panhandling with a political theme, since he has a few GoFundMes going and is constantly advertising his PayPal, Venmo, Zelle, and CashApp handles.
[Ed.: The kid has a big heart! 
The Jewish state exists because it was never allowed to be weak. DANIEL GREENFIELD
Legendary writer John Steinbeck walked Israel’s soil. What he saw stunned him. For better and for worse, very little has changed.
MAY 31, 2025
In 1966, a year before the war that would fundamentally change the country and the region, John Steinbeck arrived.
“I want to see everything in Israel,” he told the press.
Outraged novels of class warfare like “Grapes of Wrath” had once made the author a favorite of the cultural establishment, but Steinbeck had turned to other topics. He considered his life’s work to be “East of Eden,” a retelling of Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel in California, which touched on his own dark family history that he had followed all the way back to Israel.
Steinbeck’s support for the Vietnam War had infuriated the literary establishment and, even though he had won the Nobel Prize and his acceptance speech became one of the most famous of its kind, he continued to be dismissed as an outdated fossil. And the author, prone to an old school literary machismo, who never much liked parties and crowds, dismissed them.
After facing the establishment’s fury over the Vietnam War, Steinbeck was not worried about the reaction to his visit to Israel. And he looked at Israel through the lens of a writer who had chronicled pioneers and messianists, but also a man who had come to see the world caught in a struggle between good and evil, the forces of democracy against those of Communism.
“The Israelis are the toughest and most vital people I have seen in a long time,” Steinbeck wrote to then-U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson’s administration, with which he had developed a close relationship. “Their army is superb. They say that Israel’s secret weapon is ‘No Alternative.’ They have no place to go and anyone who will invade them will have to kill them all, men, women and children, and they all go down fighting. Only they won’t go down. Right now with the weapons they have and they command, they could lick the whole Arab League single handed.”
Steinbeck was a little over a year away from being proven right when the 1967 Six-Day War would see Israel, outnumbered and outgunned, defeat Egypt, Syria and Jordan, not to mention forces sent by Kuwait, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia. But if the American author’s enthusiasm was especially passionate, it might have been because, unlike a lot of visitors, his family had left blood here.
“I’ve started for there several times and never made it,” wrote Steinbeck. “I wonder if I have an unconscious reluctance because of what my great-grandfather tried to do there in the 1840s.”
One of his stops in Israel was to “Mount Hope” and the “Steinbeck Farm” that his grandfather had left behind after his brother was murdered by the local Arab Muslims. The Grossteinbeck family (the name was later shortened) had joined a Christian mission in the 1850s that was the first to try and build outside Jaffa. But the idealistic farmstead had not taken into account the fanatical Muslim hatred for Christians and Jews who, under Islamic law, had no rights at all.
The Grossteinbecks and other settlers had faced Arab Muslim harassment, but what happened in 1858 had international repercussions and brought American military power to bear in Israel — 90 years before the State of Israel, as a Jewish country, had even been reborn.
In January 1858, five Arab Muslim men came to the farmstead under the pretext of looking for a lost cow, convinced Frederick Grossteinbeck, the brother of John’s grandfather, to parley and then fatally wounded him.
Frederick retreated to the farmhouse where he prayed, “Oh! Father forgive all my sins and help me to bear this dreadful pain” while his wife Mary tried to stop the bleeding from his stomach.
Mary Steinbeck, John’s great-aunt, then only 24 years old, was dragged away and raped by each of the Arab Muslim invaders in turn. She testified: “He violated me. Before I had time to rise, another one came; he violated me and bit my cheek. Then a third one violated me. They then went into the house, and I got up and followed them. I went to Frederick; I could not feel his pulse.”
The Muslim colonists also sexually assaulted Frederick’s mother-in-law and robbed the farm.
While the United States had no military presence in Israel (then ruled by the Ottoman Islamic caliphate) and was unused to projecting much force abroad, its leaders were much less feckless than ours when it came to the honor of Americans.
In an account that was included in a report submitted by President James Buchanan to the U.S. Senate, the Consul to Egypt stated that he met the Islamic leadership which intended “to make them feel our power, and the influence of our consuls, it is very evident that every effort must be made in the present case, so to act as that such a case shall never occur again,” he wrote.
American flags were raised to make a diplomatic point despite the protests of the Ottomans.
The assaults on the Steinbeck family alerted many Americans for the first time to the mistreatment of foreign and domestic Christians in Israel. Bringing justice to the perpetrators came to be seen as a test of American power and the survival of Christians in the region. The Senate report included a description of the massacre of Christians in 1856 in Nablus.
“We had to threaten them with the presence of a squadron to bombard Jaffa,” Consul Edwin DeLeon, a Jewish American diplomat who later worked as the Confederacy’s representative to Europe, wrote. “The expediency and propriety of detailing a war steamer to that coast, as a visible emblem of our power, to reassure the terrified Christians, to averawe [sic] the fanatic savages, who, like wild beasts, now lie in wait for them, and, finally, to insure the effectual punishment of those five bloodhounds of Jaffa we have in bonds, whose brethren else may rescue or bloodily avenge them on the unprotected heads of the Christians and Jews of Palestine.”
Describing his meeting with Ottoman officials, DeLeon rejected all social formalities: “When further asked by the governor whether our countries were not at peace, I promptly responded, ‘No, we regard murder of men and the violation of women, when permitted and screened by governors, as a declaration of war. You have commenced it, not we.’”
When John Steinbeck visited the “Steinbeck Farm,” he was conversant with the bloody scenes that had taken place in the rooms and they informed his view of the region. And with his literary imagination, he may have been able to see them as he walked around the quarters.
During his World War II special correspondent dispatches, Steinbeck had described the American soldiers as having “no love lost for the Arabs. They are the dirtiest people in the world and among the smelliest. The whole countryside smells of urine, four thousand years of urine.” He mentioned that the soldiers stayed out of cities because of all the “many little religious rules and prejudices that an unsuspecting dogface can run afoul of.”
But what must have really struck Steinbeck is that the precarious outpost outside Jaffa that his ancestors had labored and bled for was now a neighborhood. The “Mount Hope” settlement has since become known as the “HaTikvah” (“The Hope”) quarter of Tel Aviv.
During Israel’s War of Independence in 1948, Hassan Salamah, a leader of the Army of the Holy Jihad, had attacked “The Hope” community now populated by Jews. The Muslim attackers were so confident of victory that they brought sacks to carry away the loot and torches to burn the rest.
While the mob fell to looting and burning, 16-year-old Ezra Tzapadiya, a Jewish refugee from Beirut who had smuggled himself into the country at only 15, managed to pick off the attackers by copying their battle cry. (Ezra lost an eye in the battle but went on to have a successful musical career.) The Muslim attackers failed to realize that, by burning the Jewish homes, they had highlighted themselves against the flames and were wiped out by the Israeli defenders.
Disgraced among his fellow Muslim Jihadis, Salamah had to turn to ex-Nazi volunteers to carry out attacks on the Jews. His son, Ali Hassan Salameh, became the architect of the Munich Massacre, and received CIA protection that allowed him to escape Israeli assassins for seven years until his entire convoy was taken out in Beirut.
Twentieth-century Israelis, like 19th-century Americans, meant business and would not allow the murders of their families to go unpunished. That is no longer the case. “Mount Hope” or the “HaTikvah” quarter became a working class Jewish neighborhood, but has since been overrun by African migrants. Residents of the quarter have asked the government to stop the plague of crime, drugs, and gang violence that has overtaken their community.
“Mount Hope,” once worthy of its name, has once again become a source of despair, but it is also a reminder of the resilience of history. Steinbeck’s grandfather had left behind Jaffa for America. His father raised the family in Salinas, California — a new promised land. Israeli and American settlers had cultivated fields and changed the world around them for the better.
When Herman Meville, the author of “Moby Dick,” visited the Christian settlement, he dismissed the idea that there was any possibility of a Jewish return to Israel.
“The idea of making farmers of the Jews is in vain. In the first place, Judea is a desert with few exceptions. In the second place, the Jews hate farming. All who cultivate the soil in Palestine are Arabs. The Jews dare not live outside walled towns of villages for fear of the malicious persecution of Arabs and Turks. Besides, the number of Jews in Palestine is comparatively small. And how are the hosts of them scattered in other lands to be brought here? Only by a miracle,” he wrote.
The Jews proved to be excellent farmers and the Jewish villages became settlements, towns, and cities guarded by their young men. And Jews came there from around the world.
John Steinbeck wrote a year before the war that might have ended Israel, but instead helped secure its future and reclaim its territory:
“You can search the world over and you’ll not find Israel’s equal for a stinking past of heroic proportions. The present is even worse if that is possible — surrounded by enemies dedicated to her destruction, hemmed in between the sea and illiterate compromises of an absent, but quite an innocent, academy of the nations. And the people, the Israelis, the remnants of the trampled, tormented and rejected Jews from 87 nations.”
Israel, he summed up, “bears up what I have always felt — that only those people who have nothing to do and no place to go are tired.”
“Mount Hope” is not just in Israel; it is where we are too. It is a reminder that no matter how dark the past, we can strive to reclaim the future. Nothing is so hopelessly lost that hope cannot rise from it again, as long as we do not despair. Only those who do nothing are truly tired.
Iran Duping Trump with IAEA Inspections. What Could Possibly Go Wrong? by Majid Rafizadeh
May 31, 2025
- Iran knows exactly what it is doing. It is playing a game it has mastered for decades: stall, confuse, buy time, bring in the well-intentioned but toothless International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). All the regime needs to win the negotiations is to entrench enforceability and retain the ability to work in secret down the pike.
- Iran could, at any moment, declare itself part of the nuclear weapons club. The mullahs could also negotiate a deal that grants them partial sanctions relief, re-entry into the global financial system, and access to international trade — all while keeping key parts of their nuclear program intact.
- Giving Iran any daylight to enrichment is not diplomacy — it is surrender.
- US President Donald Trump seems shocked that he is being duped by the superstar of KGB (now the FSB) whose entire purpose is to dupe Americans and the West: You mean he is not really my good friend Volodya? Russian President Vladimir Putin has not gone crazy; we were crazy for believing him. The same holds true for Communist China’s President Xi Jinping.
- Iran does not want “peace.” Iran wants victory. Why don’t we? The only “peace” Iran is interested in is one strictly on its terms. With nuclear weapons, there will be “peace,” all right — the Iranian regime’s survival, power and domination — that kind of peace.
- Meanwhile, Trump’s “deadlines” with Hamas and Iran have come and gone, thoroughly eroding his credibility with Putin, Xi, Kim, NATO and everyone else. There have been no consequences, no accountability and no results.
- This is not about compromise or Munich 2.0. This is about survival. Ours, not theirs. Stop being played.
Once again, the United States has sat down with Iran for yet another round of nuclear negotiations — this time the fifth. And once again, we are told that there will be another round in the “near future.” Sound familiar? It should. Iran’s cat-and-mouse diplomatic theater is not a breakthrough; it is a rerun. Just as the past rounds, this latest episode concluded without any meaningful agreement, while Iran continues to advance in its nuclear program, intercontinental ballistic missiles — not needed to attack Israel — and rebuild its air defense.
Iran knows exactly what it is doing. It is playing a game it has mastered for decades: stall, confuse, buy time, bring in the well-intentioned but toothless International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). All the regime needs to win the negotiations is to entrench enforceability and retain the ability to work in secret down the pike.
This endless cycle of negotiations is not a good-faith diplomatic process. It is a maneuver, a delaying tactic, most likely with a plan on how successfully to deceive. Whenever pressure mounts, Iran opens the door just enough to create the illusion of cooperation. Then it floods the conversation with talk of “complexity” and nuance.
Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, a seasoned veteran of these talks, recently said, “The negotiations are too complicated to be resolved in two or three meetings.” This quote is not a revelation; it is a tactic. These negotiations are not “complicated.” At the same time, he claimed that this was “one of the most professional rounds of negotiations.” That is how Tehran works — sound serious, appear engaged, stall for time, press forward to achieve the goal.
Iran has been playing this game for over 20 years. The goal is always the same: to outmaneuver American officials. Iranian diplomats are working under the direct strategy of a regime that has survived international pressure and sanctions for decades by learning how to manipulate the Western diplomatic process and the West’s failure of backbone ever to hold them seriously to account. Every meeting is an opportunity for Tehran to gather intelligence, to gauge the U.S. political climate, to exploit partisan divides in Washington, and most importantly — to manipulate.
So, what exactly does Iran get from dragging the United States along these endless talks? Everything. Every day that passes without a deal is another day Iran gets to enrich more uranium, build new secret sites, continue amassing stockpiles of highly-enriched, easily weaponized uranium.
Iran could, at any moment, declare itself part of the nuclear weapons club. The mullahs could also negotiate a deal that grants them partial sanctions relief, re-entry into the global financial system, and access to international trade — all while keeping key parts of their nuclear program intact.
It never was “complicated.” The core demand is simple — no uranium enrichment, no centrifuges, no exceptions. Period. That should be the unshakable foundation of any deal. Once that line is crossed or blurred, any deal becomes meaningless. An agreement that allows just the more international observers than the IAEA, rather than more international observers from the US and Israel or any fancy-sounding so-called “monitoring mechanisms,” is not a real agreement. It is an American surrender. The Iranian regime’s mottos are still “Death to America” and “Death to Israel.”
Giving Iran any daylight to enrichment is not diplomacy — it is surrender.
US President Donald Trump seems shocked that he is being duped by the superstar of KGB (now the FSB) whose entire purpose is to dupe Americans and the West: You mean he is not really my good friend Volodya? Russian President Vladimir Putin has not gone crazy; we were crazy for believing him. The same holds true for Communist China’s President Xi Jinping.
For years, some Washington elites and so-called foreign policy experts have insisted that Iran is a “rational actor” and that the issues are “complex”; But that language only serves to justify paralysis. The truth is much simpler. The Iranian regime is driven by Islamist ideology, by expansionism, by deep-rooted anti-Americanism and anti-Semitism. Iran’s is not a normal government. It is a revolutionary theocracy that funds terror groups — Hezbollah and Hamas, the Houthis — and sends weapons across the Middle East.
Iran does not want “peace.” Iran wants victory. Why don’t we? The only “peace” Iran is interested in is one strictly on its terms. With nuclear weapons, there will be “peace,” all right — the Iranian regime’s survival, power and domination — that kind of peace.
Iran’s nuclear clock is ticking faster and louder every day. While American negotiators shake hands and make polite statements about “progress” and “bridging gaps,” Iranian physicists and engineers are able to make nuclear bombs. We are not watching diplomacy — we are watching a slow-motion disaster. The disaster could be stopped, but only if we stop being spineless and pretending it’s “complicated.”
Iran is duping the United States once again, with precision and confidence. Another round of negotiations has passed. Another is on the calendar. Meanwhile, Trump’s “deadlines” with Hamas and Iran have come and gone, thoroughly eroding his credibility with Putin, Xi, Kim, NATO and everyone else. There have been no consequences, no accountability and no results.
Trump, while having good intentions, is being played and does not even know it.
This is not about compromise or Munich 2.0. This is about survival. Ours, not theirs. Stop being played.
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
