COMMENTARY / OPINION
In an age of ‘wearables’ everything you say can and will be used against you LEO HOHMANN
With the maker of an invasive and intrusive AI wristband about to be acquired by Amazon, you can bet we’re about to get inundated with ads for ‘wearables’, targeting the young, gullible and naive.
JUL 24, 2025
Amazon is reportedly preparing to acquire AI bracelet-maker Bee in a major move to dominate the next wave of personal tech, or as Robert F. Kennedy Jr. calls it, “wearables.”
You’ll recall that RFK, director of Trump’s Department of Health and Human Services, stunned MAGAland last month when he said it was his mission to have all Americans hooked up to AI-based “wearables” by 2030.
The Bee wristband is just one of many such devices hitting the market. It records everything you say, whether you’re talking to a friend, family member or even yourself, and syncs with your phone via Bluetooth.
Powered by AI models from Anthropic, Google and Meta, the Bee turns each day, week — your whole life — into one big beautiful and highly searchable database. It takes your personal data and uses it to create personalized to-do lists and even tracks how many times you utter a curse word.
Watch this promotional video touting the wristband as “personal AI designed for you!” It literally logs everything you do and everything you say. All for $49.99. What a steal!
Meet Bee, your new wearable personal AI
Jacob Thompson at The Winepress notes that, unlike Amazon’s Alexa, which is designed to listen only after you give it a command, or “wake word,” Bee’s bracelets are always on, always listening, and continuously gathering user data to train its AI models.
Bee CEO Maria de Lourdes Zollo said she was “excited” to be joining Amazon and to bring “truly personal, agentic AI to even more customers.”
“When we started Bee, we imagined a world where AI is truly personal, where your life is understood and enhanced by technology that learns with you,” she wrote on LinkedIn.
This is just one of many wearables about to saturate the market. The younger generations, and some older folks, will likely snap these devices up without a thought as to how they will affect their privacy.
Meta is pushing its Ray-Ban AI glasses and Google has launched Gemini-powered earbuds.
This is part of the globalist plan to replace humans with transhumans, or “Humanity 2.0,” as they like to call it. Wearables are seen as the next step to bring technology into closer integration with the human body, creating an “internet of bodies” similar to the already populated “internet of things.” We’ve gone from cellphones to watches to now all sorts of gradually more invasive technology. Where will it end? Likely with a chip injected just below the skin.
Remember, World Economic Forum advisor and Israeli historian Yuval Harari predicted nearly four years ago that the globalist plan is to have 24/7 surveillance “under the skin” of all people. Watch below and weep for the ignorant, the gullible and the naive who lack not only information but spiritual discernment.
[Ed.: So timely! Frank Sinatra – I’ve Got You Under My Skin (Lyrics)]
Druze women kidnaped in Syria what will come next might shake the entire region [Live @ %:00 pm ET] Mansur Ashkar
July 24, 2025
The Syrian Enigma of Abu Muhammad al-Julani (Ahmed al-Sharaa) Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger, “Second Thought: a US-Israel Initiative”
July 24, 2025
*Is Syria’s Abu Muhammad al-Julani (Ahmed al-Sharaa) a terrorist in a Western suit, dissimulating Western policy makers, who are frustrated by the well-documented Middle East reality of 1,400-year-old ideology and religion-driven intra-Muslim and intra-Arab wars and terrorism, and are eager to replace it with a speculative alternate reality of money-driven peaceful coexistence, undermining Western interests? Or, is he a reformed terrorist, an ideologue-turned-pragmatist, who is attempting to stabilize the highly fragmented Syria, and advance domestic and regional peaceful coexistence, advancing Western interests?
*The state-of-mind and vision of non-democratic Middle East leaders, such as al-Sharaa, the PA’s Mahmoud Abbas and the Ayatollah regime are most authentically represented by their school curriculum, Friday sermons in the mosques, official media and (positive or negative) interaction with domestic and external terrorist entities.
*Therefore, Western policy makers should precondition any gestures toward al-Sharaa (e.g., suspension of economic sanctions and renewal of diplomatic relations) upon uprooting anti-“infidel,” anti-“apostate,” anti-Western and anti-Israel hate education, hate sermons and hate media, as well as the termination of all ties with domestic and global terror entities. Western gestures should also be preconditioned upon an official public disavowal of the Muslim Brotherhood’s and the Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham’s ideology of toppling all national Muslim regimes, bringing the Western “infidel” to submission, and establishing Islam as the only legitimate and divinely-ordained religion in the world.
*Western expectations would be more realistic upon studying precedents of Middle East dissimulations, which have misguided Western policy makers into self-destructive policies. For example:
<In July 2000, Bashar al-Assad became Syria’s leader, charming the West by his soft rhetoric and his background as a London-based ophthalmologist, married to a Britain-born Syrian woman, president of the Syrian Internet Association and speaking a few foreign languages. He was welcomed by the US State Department, the British Foreign Office and France’s Quai d’Orsay as a potential reformer, aiming to liberalize Syria and defuse Middle East violence. Bashar Assad befriended Senator John Kerry and a few additional US legislators and managed to launch intelligence cooperation with some European countries. In 2008, he was invited by French President Sarkozy as a guest of honour at the official Bastille Day military parade on the Champs Elysees. Contrary to the Western alternate reality, Bashar revealed himself to be more demonic than his ruthless father, triggering a civil war, in 2011, which claimed over 500,000 casualties, 7 million refugees and a similar number of domestically displace people.
<In 1978, Ayatollah Khomeini surrounded himself with young, bright and eloquent Iranian graduates of Western universities, who spoke a number of foreign languages, instructing them to brief the State Department, the CIA, the US “elite” media and the US embassies in Tehran and Paris, showering these target audiences with (dis)information on Khomeini’s anti-Soviet and pro-US worldview, preoccupation with freedom for the Iranian people, limiting the planned Islamic Revolution to the boundaries of Iran, and commitment to peaceful co-existence with Iran’s Sunni neighbors. The White House, State Department and the CIA were coaxed into brutally pressuring the anti-Khomeini Iranian military to facilitate Khomeini’s toppling of the Shah, and concluding that “Khomeini would be preoccupied with tractors, not tanks,” and that “Khomeini would be an Iranian edition of Gandhi.” Refuting Western alternate reality-driven expectations, the fanatic ideology-driven Khomeini proceeded to execute a significant number of top military officers, and then took over the US Embassy, holding 50 Americans hostage for 444 days. Already in 1979, he transformed Iran from “The US Policeman of the Gulf” to the leading epicenter of anti-US terrorism, drug trafficking, money laundering and the proliferation of advanced military systems.
<In 1993, Arafat issued peaceful statements – to Western, not Arab, audiences – which bamboozled an Israeli government and the Western foreign policy establishment, leading an arch-terrorist to the Nobel Prize for Peace. It, also, led Tom Friedman to describe Arafat as a reformed-terrorist transformed into a peace-pursuing statesman, consistent with his reference to Arafat (while serving as the N.Y. Times Bureau Chief in Lebanon, 1984-1988) as a “Teflon Guerrilla”, “Gipper” and a “Rock Star.” While the Western foreign policy establishment tend to sacrifice Middle East reality on the altar of alternate reality, embracing the proposed Palestinian state, all pro-US Arab regimes are entrenched in Middle East reality, aware of the Palestinian track record, which has transformed them into a role model of intra Arab subversion, terrorism and treachery. Therefore, since 1948, they have refrained from flexing critical muscles on behalf of the proposed Palestinian state.
<The transnational Muslim Brotherhood – which has evolved into the world’s largest Sunni terror organization – considers Al Sharaa’s ascension to power as an inspiration for similar development in all other Arab countries. Since its establishment in 1928, the Muslim Brotherhood has been skillful in obfuscating the State Department and most other Western policy makers, through dissimulation. They have employed a multi-pronged operation: the religious, educational, social and political “screensavers,” while perpetrating subversion and terrorism. In fact, the ideology-driven Muslim Brotherhood has been dedicated to the toppling of every national Muslim regime, establishing a universal society, committed to Islam as the only legitimate, divinely-ordained religion and to the subjugation of the “infidel” West. While the Western foreign policy establishment does not consider the Muslim Brotherhood as a terror organization, all pro-US Arab regimes have the Muslim Brotherhood’s terrorist machete at their throats.
*The bottom line: while Al-Sharaa may be a reformed terrorist and an ideologue-turned-pragmatist, Western policy makers are advised to study the following observations by Sir John Jenkins, a top specialist on the Moslem Brotherhood and the Middle East, before rushing to a final verdict on Al-Sharaa: “[The West] should resist the temptation to seek to understand the [Middle East] through our own cultural or epistemological [knowledge] categories…. Some may still be tempted to hope that when a malign or otherwise unsatisfactory regime is overthrown the subsequent trajectory must be progressive. [Middle East] experience suggests the reverse…. Authoritarianism is not weakened in such circumstances: it recurs….”
Orwell’s Ghost in Jerusalem: The Willful Blindness of a Nation at War By Mordechai Sones
How the wartime propaganda playbook George Orwell decoded in 1942 explains Israel’s modern state of denial
July 24, 2025
In the grim spring of 1942, with the world tearing itself apart, George Orwell made a chilling observation in his diary. He was reacting to a piece of what he called “stupid” Fascist Italian propaganda which claimed that life in England was so dire the country was on the verge of collapse. The lie was obvious. “If such conditions really existed,” Orwell surmised, “England would stop fighting in a few weeks, and when this fails to happen, the listener is bound to see that he has been deceived.”
Contents
The Moral and Mental Cost of Delusion
A Sacred Cow on the Altar of Truth
But the deception worked, just not in the way one might expect. “In fact, there is no such reaction,” Orwell concluded. “You can go on and on telling lies, and the most palpable lies at that, and even if they are not actually believed, there is no strong revulsion either.”
Eighty years later, Orwell’s ghost haunts the Holy Land. His diagnosis of how societies can drown in self-serving falsehoods is playing out with breathtaking precision in Israel. In the wake of the October 7th attacks and the brutal carnage that followed, a similar dynamic has taken hold. A national myth, forged in the crucible of trauma and amplified by a relentless state apparatus, demands absolute adherence. It is a narrative of pure victimhood, of righteous fury, of a war with no moral complexities. Yet, as a courageous few begin to point out the gaping holes in this official story—the strategic blunders, the ideological follies, the horrifying cost of a secular state’s gambit—they are not met with thoughtful debate, but with a furious, reflexive rejection.
The very dynamic Orwell identified is at work. The official story contains palpable lies and distortions, yet there is no widespread revulsion. Instead, criticism is labeled as treason, and inconvenient facts are dismissed as enemy propaganda. A series of scathing critiques questioning everything from the IDF’s rules of engagement to the morality of placing female soldiers on the front lines are treated not as necessary correctives but as attacks on the national soul. To understand this fierce resistance, one must look beyond simple patriotism and into the dark psychological machinery that locks a society into a state of willful blindness.
The Iron Grip of Blind Belief
When faced with solid proof that a deeply-held belief is wrong, one might expect the believer to reconsider. Yet, particularly amidst the intense unity that characterizes a nation supposedly at war—a unity that often resembles the fervor of a cult—the exact opposite often happens: the belief digs in its heels, becoming even stronger.
This paradox was famously documented in a landmark 1950s study from the University of Minnesota. Researchers Leon Festinger, Henry Riecken, and Stanley Schachter observed a small apocalyptic cult that predicted a world-ending flood on a specific date. When the prophecy inevitably failed, the researchers expected disillusionment. Instead, the group’s leaders announced that the faith of their small flock had been so pure, it had saved the world. The members’ conviction didn’t just survive; it intensified.
This is a textbook case of what Festinger would call cognitive dissonance: the profound mental discomfort we experience when our actions or beliefs clash with new, undeniable evidence. To escape this jarring state, we must either change our belief or reinterpret the conflicting information. For a people bound by the trauma of October 7th, who have invested their entire emotional and social capital in the idea of a just and necessary war, changing the core belief is simply too costly. It would mean admitting that the immense sacrifice has been, in part, for a lie. It would mean facing the ridicule of a hostile world and losing the comfort of a unified community.
It is psychologically “easier” to double down. Strengthening the belief becomes a defense mechanism. The official narrative—that the war is faultless, that the strategies are sound, that the enemy is purely evil while we are purely good—becomes an unshakable dogma, because the alternative is a complete collapse of one’s worldview.
Echo Chambers of the Mind
This initial defense is fortified by two powerful psychological tendencies: belief perseverance and confirmation bias. Belief perseverance is our stubborn inertia, our tendency to cling to what we first believed even after it has been thoroughly discredited. When confronted with evidence of flawed IDF rules of engagement that endanger soldiers, the committed believer does not engage with the substance. They discount the source (“He’s a bitter extremist”), nitpick the evidence (“This is just one isolated incident”), or label it irrelevant (“Wartime requires tough choices”).
This is amplified by confirmation bias, the active hunt for information that supports our existing views. In today’s Israel, it is easy to live in a media ecosystem that exclusively confirms the state narrative. One can scroll for hours through stories of Hamas’s evil and our own heroism, while dismissing any critical analysis as biased or antisemitic. Ambiguous events are instantly interpreted through the lens of the established doctrine, making them seem like further proof of its validity.
Orwell saw this with stunning clarity. “Thus before the war the pinks believed any and every horror story that came out of Germany or China,” he wrote in June 1942. “Now the pinks no longer believe in German or Japanese atrocities and automatically write off all horror stories as ‘propaganda.’ In a little while you will be jeered at if you suggest that the story of Lidice could possibly be true.” The political winds shift, and suddenly, truth becomes a matter of allegiance, not fact.
The Moral and Mental Cost of Delusion
But this is not just a passive, subconscious process. In a society under extreme stress, the refusal to see contradictory evidence becomes an active, willful choice—a moral and intellectual failure.
It is a rejection of mental effort. Grappling with the arguments that modern Zionism has become a “secular betrayal,” or that it follows a Machiavellian logic that sacrifices its own people, requires immense intellectual and emotional labor. It is far easier to retreat into the comforting certainty of shared dogma, to enjoy the effortless omniscience that comes from a pre-packaged worldview. This relieves the individual of the burden of independent thought and first-hand inquiry.
This leads to a refusal to make inferences or recognize context. Evidence is rarely self-explanatory. When the Germans announced they had exterminated the village of Lidice, they provided a list of justifications: the villagers had supported assassins, harbored illegal radios, and held anti-Reich views. A critical mind would infer the monstrous disproportionality of the response. But the propagandized mind, as Orwell noted, loses the ability to assess information within its broader, real-world setting. Similarly, when critics present well-documented evidence that certain policies are failing or are based on a flawed, “feminist folly,” the context is stripped away. The discussion is reframed as an attack on equality or progress, rather than a pragmatic critique of military readiness.
Underlying all of this is a profound hubris. It is the excessive pride that makes it impossible to admit error. For a nation that sees itself as a light unto the nations, the suggestion that its foundational ideology might be flawed, or that its army—the most sacred of all Israeli institutions—is operating under a deluded and dangerous ethos, is an unbearable insult. To concede the point would feel like a personal and national defeat.
At its darkest, this willful blindness bleeds into what can only be described as wickedness: a conscious choice to perpetuate a falsehood for personal or political gain. Leaders may know the evidence is contradictory but choose to mislead the public to maintain power, control, and the veneer of righteousness. For their followers, it can manifest as a choice to uphold a system they suspect is flawed because the benefits of belonging and certainty outweigh their commitment to truth.
A Sacred Cow on the Altar of Truth
This entire framework explains the furious reaction to the evidence presented by critics like Steve Rodan, whose book In Jewish Blood argues that Zionism has historically involved sacrificing the well-being of the Jewish populace for the benefit of elites and foreign powers. For the committed Zionist, this is not a historical argument to be debated; it is blasphemy.
The cognitive dissonance is immediate and overwhelming. The cherished belief in Zionism as a purely benevolent liberation movement clashes violently with evidence of its cynical, realpolitik core. To resolve this, the believer must intensify their faith. They engage in belief perseverance and confirmation bias on a grand scale. They discount the source: “This is anti-Zionist propaganda.” They seek confirmation by focusing only on the moments of national triumph, while dismissing the stories of sacrifice and betrayal as tragic but necessary anomalies. They refuse to engage with the mental effort required to process a complex, multi-volume historical work, preferring the simple, heroic tales of official history.
Orwell’s words from April 1942 echo with haunting relevance: “We are all drowning in filth. When I talk to anyone or read the writings of anyone who has any axe to grind, I feel that intellectual honesty and balanced judgement have simply disappeared from the face of the earth. Everyone’s thought is forensic, everyone is simply putting a ‘case’ with deliberate suppression of his opponent’s point of view.”
This is the state of Israeli discourse today. It is a nation of people putting on a ‘case,’ utterly insensitive to any suffering except their own. The intellectual honesty required to confront the possibility that the nation’s foundational beliefs have led it into a catastrophic dead end has vanished, replaced by the paranoid, self-sealing logic of a cult. “All power,” Orwell lamented, “is in the hands of paranoiacs.”
The tragedy is that the evidence is there, just as the German announcement about Lidice was recorded on gramophone discs for all to hear. The critiques are published. The casualty numbers mount. The strategic goals remain elusive. But the palpable lies continue, and while they may not be fully believed, there is no strong revulsion.
There is only the grim, grinding machinery of a nation doubling down on its delusions, marching deeper into a darkness of its own making, while the ghost of a long-dead English writer whispers, “I told you so.”
Mordechai Sones performed research and military-political analysis in Washington, D.C. on the staff of former U.S. Senator Frank Murkowski and as Deputy Director of Federation for American Afghan Action.
In Israel, he studied Talmud, Halacha, and Chassidus before joining the army. He served in an IDF infantry unit in the Ramallah area where his experiences formed the basis of his Report on the Acquiescence of the Israel Government in Palestinian Authority First Strike Preparations in Judea and Samaria (2000). His research was confirmed and published by the Ariel Center for Policy Research and has been quoted by global intelligence companies such as Stratfor.
He covered COVID-19 extensively since its rollout in late 2019 as a reporter for Israel National News (Arutz Sheva), where he worked since 2016, and as News Anchor for Israel News Talk Radio. He lives in Samaria, and currently serves as News Director for Frontline News.
[Ed.: I wish that I could write like that...]
Victor Davis Hanson: Obama Faked Trump-Russia Narrative and Almost Got Away With It [7:18]
July 22, 2025 The Daily Signal – Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard revealed documents this week that could upend the entire narrative of the so-called “Russian Collusion” scandal:
New intelligence originally sourced from Dutch agencies shows U.S. officials knew there was no evidence of collusion between Donald Trump and Russia as early as 2016.
Why did Obama-era intelligence leaders like John Brennan, James Clapper, and possibly James Comey continue pushing the hoax? Victor Davis Hanson breaks it down on today’s episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words.”
“ Now, what’s Tulsi Gabbard upset about? That was known to John Brennan. That was known to James Clapper. That was probably known to the FBI. But they have notes, they have information that when they prepared this digest daily, weekly digest of intelligence updates to lame-duck Barack Obama in 2016 and into 2017, he ignored it. He did not want to hear that. He wanted more information pertaining to Donald Trump and the Russians colluding. It was almost like, you find me the crime and I’ll give you the criminal.
“ Is it serious? If it’s credible, then you have a conspiracy of the top people in the United States intelligence and investigative communities conspiring with a sitting president of the United States to destroy the administration of his opponent, successor, Donald J. Trump.”
Jonathan Pollard & Rabbi David Bar-Hayim: Hostages Over Victory? [10:42]
July 23, 2025 Machon Shilo – Discussion between the head of Machon Shilo, Rabbi David Bar-Hayim & Jewish hero Jonathan Pollard
Tulsi Gabbard Just BROKE the INTERNET by Confirming Obama’s WORST Fear! [16:07] Professor Nez
July 23, 2025 – Tulsi Gabbard just CONFIRMED the unthinkable and it’s EARTH SHATTERING for Obama.In a stunning revelation, Tulsi backed up everything we’ve been warning about: the weaponization of intelligence, the Deep State’s role, and Obama’s connection to the 2016 Russia Hoax.
Israel’s Ghost Inside the Syrian Regime by Aynaz Anni Cyrus
Eli Cohen didn’t just gather intelligence – he reshaped the battlefield with his mind.
July 23, 2025
They hanged him in public to show strength and spread fear. But all they did was prove they were the ones afraid.
He’s been dead for sixty years. But Syria still won’t give his body back.
That tells you everything you need to know about Eli Cohen, and everything you need to know about regimes built on lies, fear, and brute control. When a man’s memory can still shake a dictatorship, you know he didn’t just spy on them. He haunted them.
Eli Cohen was not a soldier. He didn’t fire missiles, didn’t lead troops, didn’t plant bombs. What he did was far more dangerous: he got close. So close, in fact, that Syrian generals were consulting him on defense strategy. So close that he could walk their bases, attend their meetings, and then quietly send it all back to Tel Aviv.
And when the war came—the war he didn’t live to see—every move Israel made was guided by what Eli Cohen had already drawn.
“Apart from Mossad, nobody knew the exact positions of Syrian fortifications.”
—General Uzi Narkiss, IDF
Eli Cohen isn’t a ghost because they killed him. He became a ghost because his legacy still keeps them up at night.
Eli Cohen wasn’t just brave. He was brilliant. The kind of brilliant that can’t be trained into a man, only sharpened.
He was born in 1924 in Alexandria, Egypt, to a devout Jewish family with Syrian roots. From a young age, Cohen displayed what every regime fears: a mind that remembers everything and forgets nothing. He spoke fluent Arabic, Hebrew, French, and Spanish. He could blend dialects, mimic accents, recite Quranic verses, and win favor with devout Muslims as easily as he could charm secular elites.
But it wasn’t just language. It was the way he processed the world.
He studied electrical engineering. He mastered photography, encryption, and Morse code. He had a photographic memory and a mathematical mind that could scan documents once and reconstruct them with near-perfect accuracy. And even though he was never a soldier, his instincts in the field were sharper than most generals.
By the early 1960s, Mossad needed a man who could live a lie so well that even the liars wouldn’t notice. Eli Cohen didn’t hesitate. The mission was simple: get inside Syria.
But how do you walk into one of the most brutal, paranoid regimes in the Middle East and not just survive, but rise?
You don’t sneak in. You arrive.
He assumed the identity of Kamel Amin Thaabet, a wealthy Syrian businessman returning from Argentina, where he’d spent years building contacts, credibility, and capital. Mossad staged the backstory flawlessly. Cohen spent time in Buenos Aires, where he actually did mingle with Syrian and Arab exiles. He studied their habits. Learned their complaints. Watched how loyalty was bought with alcohol, vanity, and political flattery.
When he finally moved to Damascus in 1962, he didn’t show up as a stranger. He arrived as a respected expat patriot with money, charm, and a story everyone wanted to believe. He rented a lavish apartment in the upper-class Abu Rummaneh district, right across from the Syrian General Staff headquarters. He hosted opulent parties, poured top-shelf whiskey, quoted Ba’athist slogans, and praised the military’s strength.
And he didn’t ask questions. He listened.
He let officers brag. Let ministers vent. Let gossip flow freely in the comfort of cigars and applause. By the time he started offering “business investments” in national infrastructure and defense projects, people were already treating him like an asset.
That’s how Eli Cohen did it. He let them think he needed them until the truth was the opposite.
“He had access to nearly every security meeting. He was even considered for a senior role in the Ministry of Defense.”
—Mossad Archives, declassified memo
The generals loved him. The ministers trusted him. Some whispered he might soon become Deputy Defense Minister.
They had no idea their rising star was transmitting war plans—coded, timed, and disguised—straight from his apartment to Mossad headquarters in Tel Aviv.
Through his direct access to Syria’s inner circle, he delivered some of the most consequential intelligence Mossad had ever received. He provided detailed maps of Syrian troop deployments, weapons storage sites, artillery ranges, and military installations—particularly in the Golan Heights, where tensions with Israel were escalating fast.
He sent transcripts of war council meetings. He relayed names of commanders, schedules of troop movements, the structure of Syrian intelligence services, and even Soviet support activity on the ground.
However, his most famous and effective contribution was deceptively simple: planting shade trees.
In one conversation, Cohen suggested that Syrian border outposts would benefit from having eucalyptus trees planted around them to give soldiers relief from the sun. His “idea” was embraced.
Years later, in the opening hours of the 1967 Six-Day War, those very trees became Israel’s targeting guide. Every place a tree stood was a fortified Syrian position, and Israel knew exactly where to strike.
“Eli Cohen’s intelligence saved hundreds of lives. Without him, conquering the Golan would have cost us dearly.”
—Major General (res.) Amos Gilboa, Israeli Intelligence Historian
He gave Israel the edge before the first bullet was fired.
And yet, he never saw that victory.
In January 1965, the Syrians—using Soviet signal-tracking equipment—finally triangulated the source of an unauthorized transmission. It led them straight to Cohen’s apartment.
He was arrested, tortured, paraded through the streets, and sentenced to death in a military show trial.
The regime made it public. Cameras were invited. Foreign appeals ignored. And on May 18, 1965, they hanged him in Marjeh Square—not just to kill him, but to send a message. But they didn’t realize what message they were actually sending. They were showing that one Israeli mind had outplayed their entire war machine.
Eli Cohen didn’t just expose Syria’s weakness. He proved something bigger, something the world still refuses to admit:
These regimes aren’t strong. They’re fragile. What keeps them alive isn’t power. It’s protection. And most of that protection comes from the West.
Cohen’s intelligence helped pave the way for Israel’s victory in the Six-Day War. Syria was humiliated. The Golan Heights were liberated. And the myth of Arab military dominance was shattered by a man who never picked up a weapon.
Now fast forward six decades.
During the 12-day war in 2025, Israel once again exposed a jihadist state’s weak underbelly—and this time, it was the Islamic Republic of Iran.
It began with a drone swarm that knocked out IRGC air defense batteries in Kermanshah and Khuzestan. Within hours, Israeli fighter jets—launched from within Israeli and neutral airspace—targeted command centers in Esfahan, Mashhad, and Tehran’s military district. The IRIAF lost over a dozen aircraft before it could even scramble.
Simultaneously, cyber units crippled Iran’s radar systems, leaving critical zones blind. Hezbollah supply routes in southern Lebanon were bombed with near-perfect precision. Ammunition tunnels near Zabadani and Qusayr were collapsed with bunker-buster strikes. Israeli naval units intercepted Iranian drones headed for Haifa—before the launch orders even reached Hezbollah field commanders.
Then came the humiliation in Damascus: Syrian air defenses, re-armed by Russia, failed completely.
And Iran’s propaganda networks—PressTV, Fars, and Al-Mayadeen—went dark for over 24 hours after a targeted EMP-style disruption.
“The strikes hit so fast and so accurately that IRGC leadership had to flee their Tehran bunkers on day two. Their backup HQ was destroyed on day three.”
—Leaked Israeli Defense Ministry memo, June 2025
Iran’s regime was disarmed in front of the world. Its proxies scattered. Its pride shattered. And just like in 1967, it all happened in less than two weeks.
“A little more time, and Syria would’ve been in the palm of Israel’s hand.”
—General Meir Amit, Mossad Director (1963–1968)
That quote still holds. Only now, it’s Iran in reach. The regime is vulnerable. The people want change. But just like before, Western governments keep intervening to stop it.
They call for ceasefires when Israel is finally winning. They restore funding to the regime right after it bleeds. They claim diplomacy while propping up death cults.
Eli Cohen didn’t die for diplomacy. He died to show what happens when truth is allowed to act without interference.
And now that same truth is staring us in the face. Israel can finish what Eli Cohen started, but only if the West stops protecting the enemy.
FITTON: Here’s My Advice To Trump on Epstein! [5:14]
Jul 18, 2025 Judicial Watch
Judicial Watch President @TomFitton appeared on @NewsmaxTV to discuss what President Trump can do about the Jeffrey Epstein records–
Roseanne Roseannadanna on King Tut – SNL [5:10]
Saturday Night Live, Roseanne Roseannadanna (Gilda Radner) answers another letter from Mr. Feder. [Season 4, 1979]
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LIVE Genocide 60 Miles from Israel – Media Blackout Exposed [37:35]
July 22, 2025 JNS TV
A real-time genocide unfolds in Syria, just 60 miles from Israel’s border.
IDF Spokesperson (Res.) Doron Spielman is joined by Anan Kheir, Druze advocate and community activist, to expose the horrific truth that global media is ignoring. While international attention remained fixated on Israel, jihadist militias linked to al-Julani and formerly ISIS-affiliated groups unleashed a brutal ethnic cleansing campaign in the Druze stronghold of Suwayda, southern Syria. Civilians were executed, homes burned and Druze men humiliated and slaughtered.
Discussed in this episode:
- The U.S. lifting sanctions on al-Julani and its deadly consequences
- Israel’s lone military intervention to stop the jihadist regime from entrenching near its border
- The deep historical bond between Israel and the Druze community
- Why Washington reportedly called Netanyahu a “madman” for defending the border
Anan Kheir brings firsthand insight from the Druze community in Israel and explains the emotional, strategic and historical dimensions of this unfolding tragedy. As a decorated advocate for the Druze minority, Kheir shares his personal pain and hope, as Israel stands alone to protect an ally that has stood by it since its founding.
#middleeastconflict #israelhamaswar
Chapters
00:00 The Unfolding Genocide in Southern Syria
02:56 Israel’s Response and Moral Clarity
05:47 The Druze Community’s Plight
08:40 The Role of International Media
11:57 The Impact of Israeli Intervention
14:58 The Future of the Druze in Syria
17:54 Geopolitical Implications and Regional Dynamics
20:36 The Call for Global Awareness
23:38 The Historical Bond Between Druze and Jews
26:27 Conclusion and Hope for the Future
Trump ISSUES UNEXPECTED ORDER to Pam Bondi! [25:46] Stephen Gardner
*Trump’s Approval Soars as Epstein Controversy and Obama-Russiagate Allegations Collide*
July 22, 2025
President Donald Trump’s approval ratings among Republicans and the MAGA base have hit *record highs**, with Truth Social posts boasting 90–95% support across several polls. Trump claims these numbers have surged in response to the **“Jeffrey Epstein Hoax”* being exposed by Democrats and media “troublemakers.”
While CNN and others continue to run aggressive anti-Trump segments—often invoking Epstein—concrete evidence tying Trump to Epstein’s crimes remains absent. Even key legal figures, including Jack Scarola (who represented 20 Epstein victims), have confirmed: “I don’t have information that ties Donald Trump directly to those abuses.” Another Epstein attorney, David Schoen, has defended Trump during impeachment and stated that Trump was not involved in the Epstein files.
Meanwhile, Trump and Pam Bondi are reportedly intensifying efforts to expose those most connected to Epstein, with some conservative commentators, including Alex Jones, suggesting that *high-profile indictments* may be imminent.
At the same time, explosive claims have emerged from *Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard**, who has released over 100 newly declassified documents tied to **Russiagate**. In an interview, Gabbard accused former President Obama and key intelligence officials—James Clapper, John Brennan, James Comey, and Susan Rice—of orchestrating a **“treasonous conspiracy”* to interfere in the 2016 election by manufacturing false links between Trump and Russia.
Gabbard described the scandal as a *“years-long coup”* to undermine democracy and called on Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel to pursue criminal charges. The Biden administration and Democratic leaders have dismissed her accusations as unfounded, though the story is driving deepening political debate.
Notably, while Trump’s numbers rise, **Democratic approval ratings have plummeted**. A Quinnipiac poll reports just **19% approval for congressional Democrats**, the lowest since 2009. Even among Democrats, support is split, with only 39% approving of their own party.
Elsewhere, *ICE Director Todd Lyons* announced a crackdown on U.S. companies exploiting illegal labor, emphasizing that these are not victimless crimes. Human trafficking and forced labor are targets of the operation, highlighting a new focus on *American employers* enabling these practices.
On the international front, the *Russia-Ukraine conflict* has escalated again. Over 230 Ukrainian drones targeted Moscow, temporarily shutting down airports. Russia retaliated with over 300 drone strikes, killing three Ukrainian civilians. Both sides signal openness to peace talks, though Russia insists on holding occupied territories, and Ukraine demands a direct leadership summit.
Throughout this chaos, President Trump’s image among supporters remains strong. He continues to focus on securing the border, promoting his executive record, and pushing for legal accountability across major scandals—including Epstein, Russiagate, and foreign interference.
As media narratives collide, Trump appears poised to leverage his momentum heading into the general election. Whether investigations into Epstein and Obama-era actions will materialize into criminal charges remains to be seen, but the MAGA base is energized.
*SMILE* is also the name of a new *peptide-powered toothpaste* from The Wellness Company. Designed to restore gum health and whiten teeth without harsh chemicals, it aligns with Trump’s ongoing theme: “Time to clean things up.”
Trump JUST TOOK the GLOVES OFF! Obama WON’T RECOVER! [19:13] Professor Nez
July 22, 2025 – BREAKING: President Trump just accused Barack Obama of TREASON on LIVE TV! Trump didn’t hold back, claiming Obama orchestrated the 2016 Russia Investigation as a weapon to sabotage his presidency. OBAMA RESPONDS! Is this the moment that changes everything? Is Obama finally being held accountable for the weaponization of government? 👀 Watch as Trump unleashes with unfiltered fury, connects the dots, and demands justice for one of the biggest political scandals in American history.
Yitzhak Rabin’s Syrian catastrophe that never happened JONATHAN S. TOBIN
A 1993 attempt to give away the Golan Heights was a close escape for Israel. The unrepentant architect of that fiasco is now supporting Trump’s fantasies regarding Syria.
July 21, 2025 JNS – Some scholars of history disdain counter-factual scenarios or, as they are popularly known, “what if” questions about the past, as a fanciful waste of time. They are wrong. As some of our most distinguished contemporary historians like Niall Ferguson and Andrew Roberts often point out, they are extremely helpful in understanding the past as well as our current dilemmas.
While some people who write about history are determinists and act as if everything that wound up happening was predestined to occur, the truth is that no one ever knows what the future will bring. Whether because of a matter of chance or factors not fully appreciated at the time, any single action can change what follows. As Eugene Rice, the eminent scholar who once chaired Columbia University’s history department, taught me a long time ago, everything in history is “evitable.” Unless you examine those “what if” scenarios, which might have led to very different historical outcomes—whether losing wars that were won or the absence of leaders who made a profound difference—you can’t fully appreciate how history turned out.
Or, for that matter, the world we must live in today.
Rabin’s Golan gambit
Recent events in Syria, with the regime that succeeded the brutal dictatorship of Bashar Assad engaging in the attempted slaughter of that country’s Druze population, which was stopped by Israeli intervention, reminded me of the importance of considering counterfactual historical questions.
One of the most intriguing and scary “what if” scenarios about recent Middle East history concerns the foreign-policy project that was the late Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin’s top priority when he took office in 1992: an attempt to trade the Golan Heights to Hafez Assad, Bashar’s even more brutal father, and the dictator of Syria from 1971 until his death in 2001.
Curiously, the architect of that attempt—Itamar Rabinovich, former Israeli ambassador to the United States—was back in the news last week, lambasting the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for its decision to use force to try to save the Druze. The 82-year-old Rabinovich’s comments about recent events merely reflected the reflexive contempt from the Israeli left and The New York Times of anything that the current Israeli government and its leader do. The idea that it is “discordant” or that the rescue mission “runs against the effort to negotiate”—as if the theoretical chance that the current Syrian government run by former members of Al-Qaeda and ISIS are realistic candidates for inclusion in the Abraham Accords is more important than saving the lives of the Druze—is both risible and offensive.
But it did show that as far as the editors of The Times and foreign-policy establishment are concerned, the long-discredited views of Rabinovich still make him a credible source of analysis about Syria or U.S.-Israel relations. And that ought to matter to those who hope that the Trump administration will not be led down the garden path toward another attempt to pressure Israel to make dangerous concessions to Syria.
Rabinovich served as Rabin’s ambassador to Washington from 1993 to 1996. A professor at Tel Aviv University who would eventually become its president, he came to Rabin’s attention because of his scholarly work in which he sought to argue that David Ben-Gurion, Israel’s first prime minister, missed an opportunity to make peace with Syria in 1949, in the immediate aftermath of the War of Independence. The book he wrote on that subject, The Road Not Taken: Early Arab-Israeli Negotiations, won the National Jewish Book Award in 1992. His deep dive into this subject was an effort to promote a different counterfactual in which readers were asked to imagine whether a negotiated peace with Syria was possible, and what that might have meant for the Jewish state’s future and the region.
The conceit of the book was utterly implausible. The reign of the one Syrian leader who flirted with the concept of talks with Israel, military dictator Husni Al-Zaim, was brief. He was overthrown and executed only a few months after he took power from his predecessors. These coup d’états were the first in a series of such seizures of power that would follow over the next two decades until the Assad clan seized control in Damascus and ruled for more than half a century. Syria was no more ready for peace with Israel than most of those who still seek Israel’s destruction are today.
The ludicrous notion that peace with Syria was possible and thrown away by a belligerent Israeli leader in 1949 was typical of the thought of a generation of Israeli “new historians” that came into prominence in the 1980s and 1990s. They sought to debunk traditional narratives about Israel being an embattled small country beset by bloodthirsty enemies. And, as Rabin’s choice of Rabinovich to both represent the Jewish state in Washington and lead a new attempt to negotiate peace with Syria showed, this intellectual fashion had a real impact on policy with disastrous consequences.
For a brief period, Rabinovich was the face of an all-out diplomatic offensive aimed at convincing the Israeli people that they should give up the strategic Golan in the hope of peace with the Assad regime. Rabin had opposed any idea of giving up the Golan or negotiating with the terrorists of the Palestine Liberation Organization during his campaign in the 1992 election, when he sought to defeat then Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir and his Likud Party. But he went back on his word when he won and began a diplomatic offensive with Syria while Foreign Minister Shimon Peres authorized secret talks with representatives of the PLO’s Yasser Arafat in Oslo, Norway.
A quest for a ‘New Middle East’
The Syrian gambit failed as a matter of diplomacy and domestic politics.
Assad was perfectly willing to accept the gift of the Golan from which Syrian artillery had shelled Israeli farmers in the Galilee from 1949 to 1967, though he showed little interest in actual peace, much to the frustration of the Bill Clinton administration and Rabin.
Even in those heady days of optimism about the possibility of peace, the Israeli public was outraged about the idea of giving up a beautiful region that provided their country with strategic depth (as the opening days of the 1973 Yom Kippur War had proved when Syrian invaders breached its defenses but were stopped before reaching the rest of the country) and where many Israelis had settled. In the early 1990s, the country was plastered with signs, banners and bumper stickers proclaiming in Hebrew, Ha’am im haGolan (“The people are with the Golan”), which proclaimed fervent opposition to Rabin’s scheme for surrendering it.
In August 1993, when Assad was still stringing along Rabinovich and U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher, Rabin decided to prioritize the Palestinian track that led to the signing of the Oslo Accords.
Seen in retrospect, the project to give up the Golan in a vain attempt to trade land for peace with Syria was a close escape from disaster. The notion that the Assad regime was ready to end Syria’s war to destroy the Jewish state was a delusion. It was fervently embraced by a generation of Israeli and American diplomats, politicians and journalists who cheered for them. They were desperate to create—in the words of Peres—a “new Middle East” in which the conflict would end. Then, Israel and its neighbors, including Palestinian Arabs and Syrians, might resemble Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, rather than combatants in a bitter century-long struggle rooted in an implacable belief that the Jewish state must be eradicated.
Given the dismal results of their efforts in which Israeli attempts to trade land for peace via the 1993 Oslo Accords with the Palestinians led to the bloodshed of the Second Intifada, the 2005 withdrawal from Gaza, the creation of a Hamas-run terror state, and ultimately, the horrors of Oct. 7, 2023, it’s difficult to think of the high hopes of the peace processors with anything but sorrow and anger. But many people were infatuated with the idea that anything was possible in the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union and the inauguration of a unipolar world in which democracy and peace would flourish everywhere.
That dream was predicated on the notion that deep-seated hatreds and the eliminationist ideology that was at the heart of both Palestinian nationalism and the mindset of an Arab world that viewed a Jewish state in their midst as an intolerable affront to their honor and faith could simply be wished away.
Rabinovich has never conceded that his efforts were futile. He has continued to write about the 1993 Syrian diplomatic track as being as much of a missed opportunity as his cherished myth about 1949. Like many other Israelis and Americans who devoted years to trying to push for more concessions to the Jewish state’s foes in the belief that doing so would magically make peace, there has been no accountability for his mistakes, except with respect to the Israeli public’s repeated rejections of those ideas at the ballot box. He has spent the rest of his life accepting honors from the academic and foreign-policy establishments while those who have opposed these foolish and destructive ideas are still described by most academics, diplomats and newspapers like the Times as “extremists” and “hardliners” who don’t want peace.
What if Israel had given up the Golan?
Let’s play the counter-factual game and try to imagine what would have been the consequences if Assad had, like Arafat, played the Rabin and Clinton administrations more cleverly.
Assad could have gotten an Oslo Accords-like deal in which he would have been given an enormously valuable tangible asset in exchange for airy promises about peace that he would have had—like Arafat’s talk of peace while fomenting, subsidizing and planning a renewed terrorist offensive against Israel in which he hoped to diminish it further on the way to its destruction—no intention of fulfilling.
In the years after Oslo, Israel paid dearly in blood for surrendering much of Judea and Samaria, and the Gaza Strip, to Arafat’s newly proclaimed PLO-run Palestinian Authority. The whole thing exploded—literally, as well as figuratively—after Clinton and then Prime Minister Ehud Barak offered Arafat an independent state with control of part of Jerusalem in 2000. Arafat was convinced that the Israelis and their American allies were weak and could be bludgeoned into even greater surrenders, and he followed up his refusal with a terrorist war of attrition in the form of the Second Intifada (2000-05) that cost more than 1,000 Israeli lives and many more Palestinian ones.
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s withdrawal in the summer of 2005 of every Israeli soldier, settler and settlement from Gaza was another experiment in land for peace. It led to the creation of an independent Palestinian terror state led by Hamas. It was used as a launching pad for rockets and missile attacks on Israelis for 16 years before Hamas used it to fulfill their plans for the genocide of Israelis on Oct. 7.
The same could have been true of the Golan, making life in Israel’s north intolerable. And once Israel would have given up the region under the auspices of Washington, undoing the damage by taking it back from an internationally recognized nation, rather than just a terrorist group, might have been even more difficult than the war to ensure that Hamas and Palestinian terrorists could not repeat their horrific crimes of Oct. 7.
One might argue that possession of the Golan and the prestige that the pain this would have meant for Israel would have bolstered the Assad family’s barbarous minority regime, whose hold on a country made up of a mosaic of faiths and ethnic groups was predicated on a willingness to butcher its citizens. Maybe that would have allowed it to avoid the tumult of the 2010 Arab Spring, which ignited a bloody civil war that led to hundreds of thousands of dead Syrians and forced millions out of their homes. But that’s highly unlikely when you consider Bashar Assad’s weakness when compared to his even more terrible father.
In the following years, chaos spread throughout Syria. President Barack Obama’s punting on his “red line” threat to Assad not to use chemical weapons on his own people led to interventions by Iran, its Hezbollah terrorist auxiliaries and Russia. Israelis were grateful that they had never given up the Golan, the fearsome geographic barrier to invasion from the East. If they had, a diminished Israel, shorn of its main line of defense, would have been inevitably drawn into the Syrian civil war with unimaginable consequences for its security and existence.
Trump’s Syria delusions
That’s something to keep in mind as the Trump administration, besotted with the mad idea of including a government made up of ex-jihadis into an expanded Abraham Accords, leans on Israel to facilitate this project.
The cost of doing so would mean not just an Israeli promise to stay out of Syria’s internal conflicts, leaving the Druze to their fate at the hands of their Sunni Islamist enemies. It would also mean the withdrawal of Israel from the buffer zones it seized after Assad’s fall. And anyone who thinks that a Syrian government, whether run by ex-jihadis or a non-existent liberal faction, would agree to normalization with Israel without forcing it to give up the Golan Heights, which President Donald Trump recognized in his first term as Israeli sovereign territory, is dreaming.
Trump has lifted sanctions on Damascus and took the country’s new leader, Ahmed al-Sharaa, better known by his nom de guerre Abu Mohammed al-Julani, off the terrorist watch list (with a $10 million bounty for the capture of this foreigner Al-Qaeda operative) and even shook his hand in Riyadh at the behest of the Syrian’s Saudi allies.
Reportedly, Washington is upset with Netanyahu for his skepticism about the project and his use of force to save the Druze because it interferes with his scheme for including Syria in his plans for the Middle East. According to some in the administration, that vision, if not quite the Benelux of Peres’s dreams, will be a place where the Iranian-led war against Israel will be replaced by trade and mutual recognition.
Even if al-Julani proves—as his murders of the Druze and other minorities illustrate—to be the same Islamist terrorist he always was, these gestures cost America nothing. However, if the administration thinks that the debt Israel owes Trump for joining the attack on Iran’s nuclear program and his steadfast support for the Jewish state means it must gamble its security on the delusion that al-Julani and friends are potential peace partners, Netanyahu—who played along with Clinton’s and Obama’s efforts to convince him to repeat Rabin’s folly but never promised to give up the Golan—must refuse.
The counterfactual scenario advocated by Rabin and Rabinovich to surrender the Golan is a warning from the not-so-distant past. Israelis and Americans should not give in to magical thinking about the Middle East, and the Muslim and Arab worlds, where the hatred for Jews, Israel, and just as importantly, America and the West, is still mainstream.
JONATHAN S. TOBIN Jonathan S. Tobin is editor-in-chief of the Jewish News Syndicate, a senior contributor for The Federalist, a columnist for Newsweek and a contributor to many other publications. He covers the American political scene, foreign policy, the U.S.-Israel relationship, Middle East diplomacy, the Jewish world and the arts. He hosts the JNS “Think Twice” podcast, both the weekly video program and the “Jonathan Tobin Daily” program, which are available on all major audio platforms and YouTube. Previously, he was executive editor, then senior online editor and chief political blogger, for Commentary magazine. Before that, he was editor-in-chief of The Jewish Exponent in Philadelphia and editor of the Connecticut Jewish Ledger. He has won more than 60 awards for commentary, art criticism and other writing. He appears regularly on television, commenting on politics and foreign policy. Born in New York City, he studied history at Columbia University.
Jonathan S. Tobin is editor-in-chief of JNS (Jewish News Syndicate). Follow him: @jonathans_tobin.
Jonathan Pollard: SWORD OR SHIELD? Should Israel Intervene in Syria’s Genocide? [50:38]
July 21, 2025 Machon Shilo https://machonshilo.org– Discussion between the head of Machon Shilo, Rabbi David Bar-Hayim & Jewish hero Jonathan Pollard
https:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=WszBBL5H_Zg
Jonathan Pollard: SWORD OR SHIELD? Should Israel Intervene in Syria’s Genocide? [50:38]
July 21, 2025 Machon Shilo https://machonshilo.org– Discussion between the head of Machon Shilo, Rabbi David Bar-Hayim & Jewish hero Jonathan Pollard
The Druze/Christian massacre is FAR WORSE than they want you to know [Syria update] [42:00]
July 21,2025 JNS TV
Host Emily Schrader breaks down the escalating crisis in southern Syria, where the Druze minority faces a brutal massacre, a collapsing ceasefire and deafening silence from the international community. What is Israel’s responsibility toward its Druze allies across the border and why has the world once again turned its back on victims of jihadist terror?
Joining Emily are a powerhouse panel: co-host Shoshana Keats-Jaskel, co-founder of Chochmat Nashim; Daniel Ryan Spalding, comedian and activist; and Ruthie Blum, JNS Senior Contributing Editor and host of Israel Undiplomatic. Together, they uncover the harrowing footage and reports emerging from Syria and debate Israel’s moral and strategic calculus.
The discussion then shifts to Gaza, where a surprising new development sees local clans turning on Hamas and aligning with Israel. Could this mark a major turning point in the region? The panel debates the risks of replacing Hamas with equally dangerous factions, and whether Arab partners like the UAE or Morocco could help steer Gaza toward stability.
** This episode is dedicated in loving memory of Laura Ben-David.
Chapters
00:00 The Siege of the Druze: A Humanitarian Crisis
13:13 Gaza’s Internal Strife: Clans vs. Hamas
27:01 The Role of Israel: Allies and Dilemmas
Where’s the outrage? Avi Abelow
July 21, 2025 Pulse of Israel
Jews are being massacred in southern Syria. Sweya, the Druze stronghold, is under siege by Sunni jihadists aligned with Jolani. Ethnic cleansing is happening right now – and the world? Silent.
If this were any other people, it would be front-page news. But when it’s Jews and Druze? Crickets.
Wake up. Speak up. Share the truth.
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Trump continues to excel in his role as Entertainer in Chief LEO HOHMANN
President posts another childish video meant to distract the masses from his dangerous policies leading Americans into WWIII and a technocratic surveillance state.
JUL 21, 2025
With all the stuff going on in the world, including the continued escalation toward World War III with Russia and his continued policies of preparing America to become a technocratic surveillance state, President Donald J. Trump continues to distract and misdirect his followers by pushing childish partisan fantasies that will never materialize.
Instead of focusing on avoiding World War III or Trump’s latest technocratic move of creating a government-endorsed digital, programmable currency, Trump devolves into trolling Barack Obama.
The president posted on Monday to Truth Social an AI-created spoof video that shows Obama being arrested and frogmarched to prison by the FBI.
He also posted fake prison mugshots of Obama and his inner circle in orange prison jumpsuits under the title, “The Shady Bunch,” a spoof on The Brady Bunch. That one was actually kinda funny.
While it makes for good entertainment, it’s never going to happen. But hey, it excites the base and gets their attention off of the Epstein files and two disastrous bills Trump recently signed — the Big Beautiful Bill and the extremely dangerous Genius Act. He’s also managed to continue the Biden policy of fully funding NATO’s proxy war against Russia, using Ukraine as the proxy.
The BBB continues government spending at unsustainable levels, piling on more debt that can never be repaid and ultimately leading to a collapse of the U.S. dollar, while also “investing” heavily in more data centers and AI infrastructure for the rising beast system.
The Genius Act, signed by Trump on Friday, creates a digital Stablecoin which is neither stable nor a coin and will serve as the new digital payment system once the physical dollar has been destroyed and the Federal Reserve possibly replaced with something just as bad or worse. It won’t technically be a Central Bank Digital Currency, or CBDC, but it will function just the same as one. Trump’s administration has become expert at using Orwellian language for new laws that do what he promised he would never do.
I’ve always said that we reach the point of no return when the globalist elites have created two things: A functional digital ID for all people and a digital currency on the blockchain. We now have both in America, compliments of President Trump. The Real ID, with Trump being the first president to strictly enforce it, is the biometric digital ID the globalists have been waiting for and the Stablecoin will be their digital currency.
But we are supposed to not look at the elephants in the room and focus on cute videos of Obama being perp walked to prison?
I see this as nothing but distraction. You may disagree and are welcome to voice your opinion in the comments section below.
My advice would be this: Don’t pay attention to the distraction of the day put out by the Entertainer in Chief and focus instead on getting ready for World War III and economic hardships ahead. Also focus on your relationship with God.
Here’s Everything You Need to Know About the Latest Middle East Conflict [12:50] Charlie Kirk
July 21, 2025 – Mansur Ashkar, an Israeli Druse, describes in detail what is happening to the Druse in Syria today.
‘The New York Times’ genocide scholar is no neutral observer by MOSHE PHILLIPS
Omer Bartov was accusing Israel of such “crimes” even before Oct. 7.
July 21, 2025 JNS
It’s no secret that, over the decades, the editors of The New York Times’ opinion pages have earned every ounce of criticism leveled at them by supporters of Israel—and yet they persist in finding the most extreme writers to showcase. A column published on July 15 may go down as one of the worst hit pieces the Times has published since the Hamas-led terrorist attacks on Oct. 7, 2023.
In “I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It,” Omer Bartov not only charges Israel with crimes it has not committed but also disgraces the memory of the 6 million Jewish victims of the Holocaust. The essay is more than 3,500 words. A typical New York Times op-ed column is reported to be between 750 and 800 words long. The Times itself has stated, “(T)he suggested length is 650 words.”
Why, then, did the opinion editors at the Times publish such an exceptionally long article? If you’re thinking that maybe it’s because it broke new ground, you’d be wrong. Bartov doesn’t offer his readers any new information that would warrant his verbosity. Instead, the piece repackages the same polemics that have been echoing in academic and activist circles for months, laced with inflammatory language and selective framing that ignores critical context.
Freedom of the press ensures the right of writers and publishers to try and hawk whatever nonsense they want, including lies about Israel engaging in “ethnic cleansing” and “genocide.” But what is outrageous about Bartov is that he presents himself as a fair arbiter when it comes to Israel—and the Times gives him a platform to do it.
Bartov is an Israeli-born professor at Brown University. In his essay in the Times, he seeks to legitimize his slurs against his former home by writing that he “served in the IDF as a soldier and officer.” Bartov should have become infamous in this post-Oct. 7 period for his claims that Israel is committing “genocide” in Gaza. This variation on the “As a Jew” criticism of Zionism and Israel is just as morally and intellectually flawed as any other claim that someone is somehow entitled to issue extreme rhetoric against the Jewish state and be above reproach.
Bartov has become a sensation in certain liberal circles for his hostility to Israel. The Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Antisemitism at the University of London featured him as a speaker in March. In the announcement for the lecture, Birkbeck stated that Bartov would speak about how Zionism has become “an ideology of ethno-nationalism, exclusion, and domination of Palestinians.” Such language deliberately flattens decades of complex history, ignores Palestinian rejectionism and erases the existential threats Israel continues to face—from Hamas to Hezbollah to Iran.
Let’s be clear: Bartov’s problem is not what is happening in the Gaza Strip. His problem is Israel’s very existence. He has been bashing Israel long before Oct. 7. Back in August 2023—more than two months before Israeli troops even entered Gaza—he was one of the lead signatories on a letter accusing Israel of conspiring to “ethnically cleanse all territories under Israeli rule of their Palestinian population.”
And he has a long record of similar pronouncements.
How can such outrageous accusations against the Times be taken seriously if he leaves out the fact that he was accusing Israel of such “crimes” before Oct. 7?
That Bartov’s op-ed was featured just as the Druze were being slaughtered in Sweida in southern Syria begs the question: Will the readers of the Times see unbiased analysis of the crimes, including the rape and slaughter of innocent Druze? Will Bartov or the opinion editors at the Times give these authentic atrocities the attention they deserve?
I won’t hold my breath.
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.
Massive Exposure of the Deep State MICHAEL T. FLYNN LTG USA (RET)
COURAGE AND COMMITMENT TO THE TRUTH
JUL 21, 2025
Here’s what is playing out in real time.
1. The DEEP STATE PLAN
2. The STRATEGY
3. The TARGET
4. The COUNTERPUNCH
All it needed was a blend of courage and commitment to the TRUTH. President Trump, thanks for demonstrating both. It took longer than thought but, in the end, resulted in massive exposure of the deep state.
@DNIGabbard it’s not the waves in life you catch, it’s how you ride them that matters. No wipeouts here. Best wave of the day!
DNI Tulsi Gabbard has made three things unmistakably clear:
1. The Intelligence Community repeatedly concluded — before and after Election Day in NOV 2016 — that Russia LACKED both the intent and capability to alter U.S. vote totals.
2. Those conclusions were suppressed or overwritten at the direction of senior Obama officials and probably Obama himself after President Trump won.
Talking points drafted for DNI James Clapper on December 7, 2016, stated flatly, “Foreign adversaries did not use cyberattacks on election infrastructure to alter the U.S. Presidential election outcome,” yet the president’s daily brief containing those conclusions was killed hours later [shows intent to deceive].
3. A hastily ordered Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA), released January 6, 2017, relied in part on the now totally discredited Steele dossier and became the cornerstone of the years-long coup effort by Barack Obama and his band of thieves to undermine the will of the American people.
In this article is an exceptional timeline and additional facts well worth the read.
Wendi Strauch Mahoney – Super write up: American Thinker
Who are the Druze?: 8 Facts by Dr. Yvette Alt Miller
Learn about the Druze faith, Druze history, the Israeli Druze community and more.
July 30, 2024
The Druze are a minority within Israel who thrive while practicing their own religion and living in close-knit communities in Israel’s north. Here are eight facts about the Druze community.
1. What is the Druze religion?
The Druze religion began 1100 years ago, in 11th century Egypt, among Shi’ite Muslims. A visiting missionary from Persia helped encourage the view that the caliph of Egypt at the time, al Hakim ibn Amr Allah, was the divine incarnation of God. Amidst an atmosphere of great religious tension, al Hakim disappeared in the year 1021, Druze believe that in one day he will return and usher in an era of global peace.
Much of the finer points of the Druze religion are secret, even to ordinary Druze people, and are maintained by religious leaders called “uqqal” (“knowers”). Aspects of the Druze religion that are widely known include monotheism, a belief in reincarnation, equality between men and women, and a host of prophets who span Christian, Muslim, and ancient Greek culture. Druze have a unique religious text called Al-Hikmah al-Sharifah, which is only read by the faith’s elders. Among Druze holy figures are Moses, Moses’ father in law Jethro, Plato, Socrates, Jesus, Mohammed, and Alexander the Great. The Druze religion doesn’t recognize conversion, either into the religion or out to another faith.
2. Druze People Live in Israel, Lebanon, Syria, and Elsewhere
Druze followers left Egypt and flourished further north, in what today are the nations of Lebanon, Syria and Israel. Under French rule, there was an attempt to establish an independent Druze state inside of present-day Lebanon, which failed. Today, estimates of the number of Druze people in the world today range from 800,000 to 2 million. The greatest number – over 600,000 – of Druze people today live in Syria. Smaller communities exist in Lebanon, Israel, and abroad, in Europe, Australia, and both North and South America.
Approximately 150,000 Druze live in Israel. For generations, many Druze faced persecution and discrimination at the hands of their neighboring Muslim communities and overlords. Though Druze people speak Arabic, they consider themselves a distinct, unique group.
3. Druze Fought on Israel’s Side in Israel’s 1948 War of Independence
During the British Mandate period, when Great Britain ruled present-day Israel (1923-1948), tensions between Jews and Arabs soared. A series of Arab pogroms against Jewish communities swept present-day Israel in 1929, resulting in the deaths of scores of Jews. During this time, Druze people generally sided with Jews. When Israel declared its independence and faced an onslaught from surrounding Arab armies, Druze people stood with Israel and fought on the Israeli side during its War of Independence.
“A long-standing friendship links the Druze and the Jews in Israel,” noted former Israeli President Chaim Herzog. “In our War of Independence, many Druze fought side by side with Jews to repel the Arab invasion.” (Quoted in Living History: The Memoirs of a Great Israeli Freedom-Fighter, Soldier, Diplomat and Statesman, by Chaim Herzog. Weidenfeld and Nicholson, London: 1997.)
4. Druze of Israel
Most Israeli Druze people live in the Carmel region of Israel’s north. There is also a flourishing Druze community in and around Haifa, and a smaller community of about 18,000 Druze people who live in the Golan Heights, which Israel gained from Syria in the 1967 “Six Day” War and which Israel annexed in 1981. Majdal Shams – where Hezbollah’s massacre of children took place – is a bustling town in the Golan Heights; the vast majority of its over 11,000 residents are Druze. (Unlike Druze people who live in the rest of Israel, Druze residents of the Golan have the choice of whether or not to accept Israeli citizenship; each year, scores of people do so.)
5. The Druze Flag
Visitors to Israel’s north might have noticed colorful rainbow flags flying in some towns and villages. This is the Druze flag, made up of red, green, yellow, blue and white. Sometimes flown in a stripe shape, it can also take the form of a colorful star. Each of the flag’s five colors is associated with a particular human trait, including the masculine, feminine, wisdom, etc.
6. Israel’s Druze Community is Flourishing
By many measures, the most successful and flourishing Druze community in the world is in Israel. Since Israel’s founding in 1948, the Israeli Druze population has increased over 1000%.
With the creation of the Israeli state in 1948 came an era of liberation for Israel’s Druze. As historian Howard M. Sachar has noted, in the early days of Israel’s poverty-stricken statehood, Israel encouraged Druze life by “granting the Druze the status of an official religious community, with their own religious council and courts” and “by supplying their villages with a generous measure of roads, water pipelines, and agricultural credit and guidance.” (Quoted in A History of Israel From the Rise of Zionism to Our Time by Howard M. Sachar. 2nd Edition. Alfred A. Knopf, New York: 2002.)
Israeli Druze people have strong family values: in one recent Israeli poll, 99% of Israeli Druze said they believe in God. Only 1% report having married outside their faith. 93% describe themselves as proud to be Druze.
7. Israeli Druze Serve in the Israel Defense Forces and Excel in Israeli Society
Druze men are required to complete Israeli army service. (In this, they are unique among Israel’s Arab population: Arab Christians and Arab Muslims are not required to serve, though they can volunteer if they wish.) In the army – and elsewhere in Israeli society – many Druze people reach the highest levels, out of all proportion to their small numbers. When they serve in the armed services, Druze soldiers serve disproportionately in elite army units, helping to foster a feeling of intense patriotism in their community. Druze Israelis also work as university professors, politicians, members of Israel’s Knesset, diplomats, judges, physicians, and in other prestigious fields.
Wherever Druze people live, they traditionally have felt a fierce attachment to their home nation. “Each community is completely patriotic and loyal to its country,” explained Aimen Amer, an Israeli Druze entrepreneur, Israel Defense Forces veteran, and co-founder of the HR tech company Skillinn. This is the secret of the incredible success of Israel’s Druze community, he feels.
8. A Major Druze Holiday Takes Place in Israel Each Spring.
Each April 25-28, thousands of Druze people flock to the Israeli city of Tiberius for the Druze festival of Ziyarat al-Nabi Shu’ayb, which honors Jethro, Moses’ father in law, whom Druze believe is buried just west of Tiberius. The three-day long festival is recognized as a holiday in Israel. Druze people don’t work during the pilgrimage, and Israeli leaders commonly extend holiday greetings to the Druze community during this time.
Dr. Yvette Alt Miller Dr. Yvette Alt Miller holds a Ph.D. in International Relations from the London School of Economics and has taught at Northwestern University, London Business School, and lectured around the world. She is the author of Angels at the Table: A Practical Guide to Celebrating Shabbat, which had been praised as “life changing” and compared to having a friend guide the reader through a typical Shabbat, and of Portraits of Valor: Heroic Jewish Women You Should Know, which describes the lives of 40 remarkable women who inhabited different eras and lands, giving readers a sense of the vast diversity of Jewish history and experience.
President Trump shares an AI-generated video of former President Obama being arrested and sitting in prison.
INSTABILITY! Druze In Syria Fight For Their Lives As Israeli Government Nears Collapse! [2:08:28] Yishai Fleisher
July 20, 2025
Yishai live analysis updates the crisis of the Druze in Syria, Israel’s fight for sovereignty in Gaza and in the Knesset. Special Guests Nadia Matar (Sovereignty Movement), Yonatan Marcus, Jeremy Saltan, Josh Waller (The Israel Guys) and Malkah Fleisher!!
Use It or Lose It by Linda Goudsmit
July 20, 2025
Use it or lose it is the colloquial definition of neuroplasticity, defined in more technical terms by BetterHelp online in its, February 19, 2025, article “What ‘Use It Or Lose It’ Means in Neuropsychology“:
Neuroplasticity is the ability of the central nervous system to form and reorganize neural connections in response to injury or a learning event. This trait allows the human brain to adapt and change depending on events or experiences. Human brains can adapt through learning when an individual practices a task repeatedly. However, if they do not follow through with this repetition, this adaptive ability is lost, and they lose these possible new neural pathways until they return to the practice. This phenomenon is often referred to as the central nervous system’s “use it or lose it” insurance policy.
Why is neuroplasticity so important? Because neuroplasticity is the process that establishes agency in human beings, and because neurological processes can be used constructively or exploited for destruction. In my 2024 book, Space Is No Longer the Final Frontier—Reality Is, Chapter 5: America Requires an Education Revolution explains the concept of agency, and how agency is required for freedom in a constitutional republic.
Reading is the essential foundational skill individual citizens use to access information and make informed decisions. Together, reading, writing, and arithmetic are the communication tools that equip children with agency. Understanding the psychological concept of agency is extremely important to our discussion. Encyclopedia.com[i] defines and discusses agency:
The concept of agency as a psychological dimension refers to the process of behaving with intentionality. Human beings exercise agency when they intentionally influence their own functioning, environments, life circumstances, and destiny. To posit that human beings have agency is to contend that they are self-organizing, proactive, self-regulating, and self-reflecting rather than reactively shaped by environmental forces or driven by concealed inner impulses.
Reading provides agency for learning because textbooks, including math and science textbooks, require the ability to read. Reading provides a sense of independence, accomplishment, and self-sufficiency. Competence is the mother of self-esteem, and learning to read is a seismic shift in a child’s perception of self. The child begins to feel his or her power. Encyclopedia.com continues:
To exercise human agency, people must believe in their capability to attain given ends. These self-efficacy beliefs are the foundation of human motivation, well-being, and accomplishment. Whatever other factors serve as guides and motivators, they are rooted in the core belief that one has the power to effect changes by one’s actions, that one’s locus of control is internal rather than external. This is because unless people believe that their actions can produce the outcomes they desire, they have little incentive to act or to persevere in the face of difficulties.
Radical leftist progressive education’s primary tool of destruction exploits neuroplasticity by deliberately replacing phonics with whole-word instruction to teach reading. The consequential illiteracy rate in America today is a national scandal.
In 2021, education reformers Samuel Blumenfeld and Alex Newman published a stunning book, Crimes of the Educators: How Utopians Are Using Government Schools to Destroy American Children.[ii] The book describes the intentional exploitation of public education to dumb down American students and condition them for life in a socialist state:
The plan to dumb down America was launched in 1898 by socialist John Dewey, outlined in an essay titled “The Primary-Education Fetich.” In it he showed his fellow progressives how to transform America into a collectivist utopia by taking over the public schools and destroying the literacy of millions of Americans. The plan has been so successfully implemented that it is now a fact that half of America’s adult population are functionally illiterate. They can’t read their country’s Declaration of Independence. They can’t even read their high school diplomas.
The method of achieving this was simply changing the way children are taught to read in their schools. The utopians got rid of the intensive phonics method of instruction and imposed a look-say, sight, or whole-word method that forces children to read English as if it were Chinese. The method is widely used in today’s public schools, which is why there are so many failing public schools that cannot teach children the basics. This can only be considered a blatant and evil form of child abuse. (Crimes of the Educators, p. xii)
Phonics instruction follows the rules of repetition in neuroplasticity by requiring children to learn the sounds of letters and then teaching them to sound out the word letter-by-letter. In this way children acquire agency––they can read any word put in front of them, and a world of knowledge welcomes them in. Children taught with the whole-word method are expected to see sequences of unfamiliar shapes and memorize them. Whole-word instruction violates the rules of neuroplasticity. Educational reformer Bruce Deitrick Price explains this dynamic in two short paragraphs on pages 22-23 in his extraordinary 2017 book, Saving K-12: What Happened to Our Public Schools? How Do We Fix Them?[iii]:
Just for a moment, consider the silly theory that our top educators put forward. There should be no sounding out of letters and syllables; instead, children should memorize words as graphic designs or diagrams. Put yourself in the head of a kid showing up for first grade. The teacher points to a design like “xhyld” and instructs, “This means house. When you see this say house.” So, can you memorize “xhyld“?
Probably. But will you be able to pick it out from similar designs, of which there are dozens, such as: xhydd, xyhld, xhydl, xyyld, xhdyl, xyjkl, xkyht, xygld, etc. of course, you’ll need to be ready for variations such as XHYDD, XYHLD, XHYDL, XYYLD, XHDYL, XXYJKL, XKYHT, XYGLD. Okay, maybe you have a photographic memory, so you might have a chance. But no ordinary person has even a tiny chance of being literate. You can probably feel the dyslexia creeping into your brain.
The crippling insistence on whole-word instruction is augmented by the sinister campaign to replace actual learning with artificial intelligence (AI) assistants. Marketed for convenience, students are being aggressively encouraged to use and rely on free AI assistant software tools like Grammarly, which can “think” and “write” their papers for them.
It is a diabolical campaign to dumb down the student population, steal their agency, and make them wholly dependent upon technology controlled, curated, and censored by the globalist elite. Garbage in––garbage out (GIGO)! This is an information war, and our nation’s children are the target in both form and content. Curiosity did not kill the cat––convenience did! Convenience is a catastrophic humanitarian hoax that disguises its destructive intent and sells its GIGO content and surveillance capabilities as “Smart” technology.
In a stunning article posted on Gateway Pundit, July 18, 2025, journalist Ben Kew reports, “OpenAI Unveils ‘Agent’ Feature That Can Control Your Computer and Perform Tasks Automatically.” He writes:
OpenAI is preparing to launch a new feature that may mark the latest leap forward in the artificial intelligence revolution.
On Thursday, the company unveiled ChatGPT Agent, a tool designed to carry out tasks independently using its own built-in “virtual computer.”
Consider the name of the AI assistant tool––ChatGPT Agent––which is actually stealing the user’s agency in the name of convenience! In an earlier Gateway Pundit article, on June 21, 2025, Ben Kew reports, “Terrifying MIT Study Finds ChatGPT is Rotting Our Brains.” The study documents how AI assistant tools are interfering with learning and dumbing down the population by exploiting the use it or lose it phenomenon in neuroplasticity. The insidious goal of convenience is exposed as the effort to interrupt the development of critical-thinking skills that provide adults with the ability to rationally assess facts and come to conclusions based on those facts––not on their feelings.
A terrifying new study by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has found that extensive use of ChatGPT may be rotting our brains.
Researchers at MIT’s Media Lab asked participants to write SAT-style essays while dividing them into three groups: one used ChatGPT, another used Google, and the third relied only on their own knowledge — the “brain-only” group.
Brain activity was tracked using EEG machines, which recorded how engaged different parts of the brain were during the writing process.
The results showed that the ChatGPT group had the lowest brain activity and performed the worst overall in terms of thinking, writing quality, and focus. …
The study warned that relying too much on AI tools like ChatGPT can reduce critical thinking skills, especially in young people.
The lead researcher, Nataliya Kosmyna, said she rushed the findings out because she’s worried about AI being introduced too early in schools.
“What really motivated me to put it out now before waiting for a full peer review is that I am afraid in 6-8 months, there will be some policymaker who decides, ‘let’s do GPT kindergarten,'” she told TIME magazine.
“I think that would be absolutely bad and detrimental,” she continued. “Developing brains are at the highest risk.”
We the people must understand that AI assistant software is the weaponized tool of the globalist elite and designed to alter every aspect of education to steal your child’s agency. AI assistant tools are the tactical soldiers in globalism’s strategic information war being waged against America on the battlefield of your child’s mind. President Trump’s determination to dismantle the radical leftist, anti-American Department of Education is a giant leap forward.
Chapter 5: America Requires an Education Revolution
[i] Encyclopedia.com; https://www.encyclopedia.com/social-sciences/applied-and-social-sciences-magazines/psychology-agency
[ii] Crimes of the Educators: How Utopians Are Using Government Schools to Destroy American Children, Samuel Blumenfeld & Alex Newman, Post Hill Press, 2021; https://libertysentinel.org/books/
[iii] Saving K-12: What Happened to Our Public Schools? How Do We Fix Them?
Does Opposing Sex Trafficking Mean You Do Not Support Trump? [57:13] Tom Renz
JUL 20, 2025
President Trump forgot the first rule of being in a hole today – put down the shovel. Instead of reading the room and realizing that his approval is tanking, he’s risking the midterms, and he’s infuriating his most loyal supporters, Trump decided to tell everyone that cares about Epstein trafficking children that he doesn’t need their support. This gaslighting is incredible and, frankly, inexplicable. Trump won the election because the Dems were unelectable and he was able to cobble together a strong coalition that included MAGA and MAHA. His absurd and continued support for mRNA is a tough pill for MAHA to swallow and now he’s attacking core principles of MAGA – equal justice and protecting kids. I love Trump but this is not going to end well and that is bad for the country. With all due respect, he needs to quit listening to the dynamic duo – Susie Wiles and Pam Bondi – and start paying attention to the base that put him back in the White House to fix this swamp.
Today’s show is a real gut-punch, and I’m fired up because we’ve got a lot to unpack, especially around this Epstein mess that’s blowing up everywhere. Twitter’s a mess right now, and some of you might not even be seeing this because the algorithm’s doing its thing, but we’re pushing through. For those on Facebook, Rumble, or elsewhere, thanks for sticking with me. This is a critical moment, and I’m not holding back on what’s happening with President Trump and his team, because frankly, it’s a disaster that needs to be called out.
Let’s get right to the heart of it. President Trump posted on Truth Social, calling the Epstein case a hoax pushed by the radical left Democrats, and he’s out here saying his strongest supporters, like me, aren’t real supporters if we’re questioning this. Look, I’ve been all-in for Trump, traveling the country, doing rallies, spending my own money to get him elected, but I’m not part of a cult. I’m not going to just nod along when I see something wrong. This Epstein situation has been mishandled from the start, and it’s on Susie Wiles and Pam Bondi, Trump’s inner circle. Wiles, with her ties to shady groups like Ballard Partners and Mercury LLC, and Bondi, who was Florida AG during Epstein’s crimes and did nothing, are steering this ship into a PR nightmare. Trump’s calling this a hoax, but he himself said in 2019 that Epstein was trafficking underage girls at Mar-a-Lago. So what’s the deal, Mr. President? Are we supposed to ignore 30 years of evidence, convictions, and Ghislaine Maxwell sitting in jail for trafficking minors? I’m not buying it, and neither should you.
This isn’t just about Epstein; it’s about equal justice under the law, a core MAGA principle. We’re not okay with rich elites getting a pass for heinous crimes while the DOJ under Bondi hasn’t arrested a single big-name Democrat. I’m calling it like I see it: Trump’s being fed bad advice, just like he was with COVID and Operation Warp Speed. The Yale study I mentioned shows spike proteins lingering in vaccinated people’s bodies 709 days post-vax, proving we were lied to about mRNA vaccines. Yet Trump’s still pushing them, even approving them for kids. I’m not here to tear him down; I support his trade deals, tariffs, and economic wins, but I can’t stay silent when he’s gaslighting us on Epstein or vaccines. We need transparency, investigations into who’s manipulating evidence, and accountability for those protecting pedophiles. If Trump doesn’t pivot, he’s risking the midterms and his own legacy. We love you, Mr. President, but you’re wrong on this, and we’re not shutting up.
Trump’s Changing Relationship with Epstein: Quotes Over the Years
Donald Trump quote, “I’ve known Jeff for 15 years, terrific guy. He’s a lot of fun to be with. He even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do. And many of them are on the younger side, no doubt about it. Jeffrey enjoys his social life.” That’s 2002. Now that’s before everybody realized that he was a pedophile, even though it’s been talked about since 1994, arguably. Uh, 2019, Donald Trump says, “I had a falling out with him. I haven’t spoken to him in 15 years. I was not a fan of his. That I can tell you.” I believe that fully. Once I found out that this guy was trafficking kids, because a lot of people liked, the story is that amongst the elites, a lot of people liked Epstein. They didn’t really know what he was doing. They didn’t really care what he was doing. But he apparently was a likable child trafficker, I guess. I don’t know. So Trump liked him, and then when Trump found out what he was doing, he said, get the hell away from me, which is good. I believe that. And I know Donald Trump, I don’t for a second believe that Donald Trump did anything wrong with Epstein stuff. Not for a second. I think he’s doing wrong with the investigation, but I don’t think he did anything. I don’t think he’s part of the list or anything like that. In 2019, this is during Trump’s first administration, by the way, he’s talking about Epstein and Mar-a-Lago. He said, I threw him out. He tried to take recruit from me, a girl that was not of age that worked at the club. He was doing stuff he shouldn’t be doing. 2019, Trump said this. Trump said that Epstein was pulling girls that were not of age. Trump said it. In 2019, folks, did he forget?
Trump’s Changing Relationship with Epstein: Quotes Over the Years
Donald Trump quote, “I’ve known Jeff for 15 years, terrific guy. He’s a lot of fun to be with. He even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do. And many of them are on the younger side, no doubt about it. Jeffrey enjoys his social life.” That’s 2002. Now that’s before everybody realized that he was a pedophile, even though it’s been talked about since 1994, arguably. Uh, 2019, Donald Trump says, “I had a falling out with him. I haven’t spoken to him in 15 years. I was not a fan of his. That I can tell you.” I believe that fully. Once I found out that this guy was trafficking kids, because a lot of people liked, the story is that amongst the elites, a lot of people liked Epstein. They didn’t really know what he was doing. They didn’t really care what he was doing. But he apparently was a likable child trafficker, I guess. I don’t know. So Trump liked him, and then when Trump found out what he was doing, he said, get the hell away from me, which is good. I believe that. And I know Donald Trump, I don’t for a second believe that Donald Trump did anything wrong with Epstein stuff. Not for a second. I think he’s doing wrong with the investigation, but I don’t think he did anything. I don’t think he’s part of the list or anything like that. In 2019, this is during Trump’s first administration, by the way, he’s talking about Epstein and Mar-a-Lago. He said, I threw him out. He tried to take recruit from me, a girl that was not of age that worked at the club. He was doing stuff he shouldn’t be doing. 2019, Trump said this. Trump said that Epstein was pulling girls that were not of age. Trump said it. In 2019, folks, did he forget?
Campus Riots Made a Generation of Jewish Students Abandon the Left by Daniel Greenfield
Jewish Ivy League students who identify as “very liberal” fell from 40% to 13%.
July 20, 2025
Ivy League college campuses are some of the most leftist places in the country. The pro-Hamas campus riots radicalized the next generation of leaders into supporting Islamic terrorism, they terrorized Jewish students and in the process, transformed their politics.
When the encampments went up on elite campuses, Jewish students abandoned the far left in droves. The share of Jewish Ivy League students who identify as “very liberal” on a 7-point ideology scale declined from 40% before the encampments to 13% after they appeared. The proportion of “strong Democrats” tanked from 37% to 14% while the Republican share rose from 12% to 18%. Ivy League Jews went from being well to the left of the median Ivy League student to leaning right of the average.
Speaking anecdotally, I’ve seen a political shift among young secular Jewish Ivy League professionals from knee-jerk liberalism to much less enthusiasm for the movement and more openness to Trump. They’re not about to become Republicans, but based on the FIRE surveys quoted here, they are moving away from the Left.
The drop in affinity for the Left is massive and portends a generational shift.
Far too many Jews instinctively felt that they had a natural home on the left. They no longer do.
Daniel Greenfield Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.
The Paradox of the Jewish State: Machiavelli’s Shadow and Zionism’s Secular Betrayal By Mordechai Sones
Zionism was intended as a replacement theology—not for Christianity, but for Judaism
July 20, 2025
In the heart of the Middle East, where ancient prophecies trump modern geopolitics, the State of Israel stands as a beacon of contradiction. Founded in 1948 amid the ashes of the Holocaust and the fervor of nationalist dreams, Israel proclaims itself a Jewish and democratic state—a fusion of religious heritage and Enlightenment ideals.
Yet, as serious commentators increasingly question its Jewish essence, deny its democratic credentials, and even doubt its sovereignty, a deeper philosophical rift emerges. Drawing from the roots of modern statecraft in Niccolò Machiavelli’s vision, where the state is an artifact of human will unbound by divine mandate, Israel’s very existence as a “Jewish State” reveals itself as an inherent paradox. This is not merely academic musing; it carries profound consequences for Jewish identity, global alliances, and the future of a people long defined by their covenant with the divine.
Machiavelli, the Florentine thinker whose 16th-century treatise “The Prince” birthed the modern concept of the state, envisioned governance as a realm of pure human autonomy. For him, the state derives its laws not from eternal truths or sacred texts but from the pragmatic exercise of power—the will of rulers to maintain order, conquer foes, and secure loyalty through fear or love as circumstances demand. This secular blueprint, divorced from theological oversight, underpins the nation-states of Europe that rose in his wake. Laws become instruments of human ambition, mutable and strategic, rather than reflections of divine will.
To graft “Jewish” onto such a framework is to invite contradiction: Judaism, rooted in the Torah’s immutable commandments, posits a sovereignty that bows to the Creator, not man. A truly Jewish polity would derive its legitimacy from halacha—Jewish law—rather than the autonomous will Machiavelli champions. Israel’s Zionist founders, however, borrowed from gentile Europe’s territorial nationalism, crafting a state that mimics the very systems that historically oppressed Jews, thereby supplanting Judaism with a “normalized” national identity.
This Zionist project, spearheaded by figures like Theodor Herzl, was never about restoring biblical sovereignty but about assimilating Jews into the gentile mold of nationhood. Herzl’s vision in Der Judenstaat imagined a Jewish homeland as a secular republic, inspired by European models, where Jews could escape antisemitism by becoming “a nation like all others.”
This territorial nationalism, devoid of Torah-centric governance, aimed to redefine Jewishness itself: no longer a people bound by mitzvot and exile’s spiritual refinement, but citizens of a flag-waving state, complete with armies, borders, and parliaments. As such, Zionism was intended as a replacement theology—not for Christianity, but for Judaism. By prioritizing land and power over covenant, it promised to make Jews “normal,” shedding the exceptionalism that had sustained them through millennia of diaspora.
The result? A state where Jewish symbols adorn institutions that operate on Machiavellian principles of human will, rendering the “Jewish State” an oxymoron. Israel’s laws, shaped by Knesset debates and international pressures rather than rabbinic authority, embody this secular autonomy, alienating the very religious core they claim to protect.
The cracks in this facade are widening, as evidenced by Israel’s fraught relationship with its self-proclaimed identities. Calling Israel a Jewish and democratic state has grown increasingly problematic, with commentators dissecting its failures on all fronts.
On sovereignty, Israel’s independence is illusory, tethered to alliances that undermine its autonomy. Its reliance on U.S. military aid—billions annually—creates a web of dependencies that constrain decision-making, often at the cost of lives. Historical concessions, from the 1979 Sinai withdrawal to the 2005 Gaza disengagement, were made under American pressure, preserving the aid flow while eroding territorial integrity. This dynamic echoes Machiavelli’s counsel on alliances: useful for power, but risky when they dictate terms. Israel’s elite—defense contractors, ex-generals, lobbyists—benefit from this system, sustaining a patronage network that prioritizes foreign leverage over national will. Such dependencies beg the question: Is Israel truly a sovereign state, or merely a client in a larger geopolitical game?
Democracy, too, falters under scrutiny. Modern democracy, including Israel’s variant, often presents an “illusion of choice,” where voters are funneled into preordained outcomes like spectators in a magician’s act. Political action committees, media endorsements, and party machinations curate candidates, narrowing the spectrum to binary options that mask deeper control. In Israel, this manifests in a fragmented Knesset system, where coalition horse-trading overrides public will, fostering corruption and impunity.
The absence of a formal constitution exacerbates this, leaving governance adrift without safeguards for rights or identity. Critics argue that Israel’s democracy is performative, manipulating fear and hope—especially in times of crisis—to maintain the status quo. If democracy requires genuine autonomy of the electorate, Israel’s version, entangled in partisan theatrics and external influences, falls short, further distancing it from any claim to democratic purity.
Compounding these issues is Israel’s entanglement in a emerging global order of three totalitarian superstates: a Western NATO bloc, a Chinese sphere, and an Islamic alliance, each vying for dominance through undeclared wars and technological leverage. Israel sits precariously at this triad’s nexus, its geography and innovations making it a prized yet expendable asset.
The Abraham Accords, touted as peace breakthroughs under Trump, are a strategic ploy to forestall Israeli annexation of Judea and Samaria, paving the way for a binational entity subsumed into a Middle Eastern Union under Saudi oversight. This would dissolve Israel’s military and judicial independence, merging them with Palestinian counterparts in a supranational framework.
Even the October 7, 2023, massacre is not an intelligence lapse but as a manufactured crisis to harness Israeli resolve for external agendas, weaponizing patriotism to erode sovereignty. In Machiavelli’s terms, such manipulations exemplify the state’s reliance on deception and power plays, but in Israel’s case, they highlight how its Zionist foundation leaves it vulnerable to global managers who view it as a pawn, not a partner.
These critiques converge on a radical diagnosis: Israel’s current form is neither Jewish, democratic, nor fully state-like. Its Zionist origins, steeped in European nationalism, have supplanted the Torah with territorialism, diluting Jewish identity to a cultural footnote. To reclaim authenticity, some propose abolishing the Knesset—a body born without public ratification in 1949—and instituting a Jewish constitutional democracy.
This vision would restrict key branches to Jews versed in heritage and law, prioritizing halacha in adjudication and affirming the nation’s Jewish character. A bicameral legislature, a empowered president, and a rights-focused fourth branch would foster unity and dignity, excluding parties that negate Jewish primacy. Such a system acknowledges the Machiavellian state’s incompatibility with Judaism, urging a return to divine sovereignty over human will.
The consequences of recognizing this paradox are awesome and far-reaching. If the “Jewish State” is a contradiction, Zionism’s promise of normalization stands revealed as a spiritual abdication, prompting Jews to reconsider their allegiance to a secular edifice that “normalizes” them at the cost of their soul.
It could herald a messianic pivot, where Israel transforms from a gentile-inspired nation into a Torah-guided commonwealth, shedding dependencies and illusions for authentic self-rule. Globally, it challenges the Machiavellian legacy, questioning whether any state can endure without divine foundation. For Arab neighbors, it might open dialogues beyond nationalist zero-sums, rooted in justice rather than power.
But the path is fraught: ignoring this rift risks Israel’s erosion into irrelevance, a vassal in totalitarian tides. Yet, embracing it could fulfill the Zionist dream’s unintended prophecy—returning Jews not just to land, but to their covenant, making them exceptional once more. In an world of crumbling illusions, this reimagining might prove the ultimate act of will: choosing G-d over Machiavelli.
As debates intensify, from Jerusalem’s halls to Washington’s corridors, the question lingers: Can Israel survive as it is, or must it die to live anew?
The answer lies not in alliances or elections, but in reclaiming the autonomy that Judaism demands—one not of the human will alone, but aligned with the Eternal.
100% Chance of Nuclear War – Martin Armstrong [VIDEO 1:05:12] By Greg Hunter
July 19, 2025 USAWatchdog.com (Saturday Night Post)
Six weeks ago, legendary financial and geopolitical cycle analyst Martin Armstrong was signaling a big turn toward war. Now, Armstrong says, “The chances of war with a nuclear exchange is at 100%. . .. Plan on it, this is coming.”
Can the world avoid nuclear war with President Trump’s 50-day deadline given to Russia to make peace in Ukraine? Armstrong says, “You do not threaten your adversary that is at your same level, publicly. If you want to say something like that, you do it privately in a phone call. Now, what will happen is Putin cannot possibly sign a peace deal. What, are you crazy . . . to do this in 50 days? We have staff in Germany, and I was told by my staff that a friend 60 years old was told to report to duty. I had a friend who was at the Viennia Peace Conference, and he called me when it was over and said, ‘Holy crap, this has nothing to do with peace anymore. This is all about preparing for war. Everybody should start getting ready for drafts, to start going that way.’ They want war. They are not backing off.”
Armstrong’s computer “Socrates” is signaling war as early as next month. Armstrong says, “Starting in August, this whole thing is going to be escalating up. Our computer has what we call a ‘Panic Cycle’ with our war cycles for 2026. That is not good. I don’t know what the hell Trump is smoking. . .. My computer has been projecting war, and it is projecting war going into 2026. This is not looking good, and Europe will lose. It is as simple as that.”
The other big event that happened that will change the economic system forever is the House just passed the so-called GENIUS Act (Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for US Stablecoins). The bill is now headed to President Trump to sign into law. Armstrong contends that US debt is being sold by big holders of Treasuries, and we have to find a new market for our huge Treasury debt or we default. Treasury bonds will supposedly backstop stablecoins that the banks will control. Armstrong says, “This is really a repeat of 1863. In the Civil War, they issued national bank notes. The banks were told to buy the bonds. They could buy bonds to fund the war, and they were allowed to issue currency backed by the bonds. This is the same exact thing. These stablecoins are the same thing as the 1863 National Bank Act.”
Stablecoins and the GENIUS Act are not good news for financial freedom or any other kind of civil liberty. Armstrong says, “The government will say we don’t like this guy, debank him. The government cannot do it directly. So, they indirectly do it the other way. . .. I know guys that are gun dealers and bullion dealers, and they have been debanked. This is the world we are going into. They know they are losing power. Europe is far worse. Spain now says you cannot take out $3,000 without government permission. They are trying to eliminate cash. . .. The forms of government we have today are going to collapse. Republics are the most corrupt form of government — period.”
There is more in the 65-minute interview.
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