No one in Israel expected President Donald Trump’s betrayal, accompanied by his coarse-mouthed dressing-down of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The incompetence of Trump and his negotiators is now there for all to see. With sanctions lifted, Iran can now sell its oil, and the revenues from those sales are enough to pay for the […]
Vance Versus Israel
Vice President JD Vance has delivered an unseemly dressing-down of Israel: “Vance: Israel should not attack its only powerful ally left, must abide by peace in Lebanon,” by Corinne Baum, Reuters, June 18, 2026: “What the president gets a little frustrated with sometimes is that we seem to be right on the cusp of a […]
Vance Attacks Israeli Critics of the MoU
With a particularly unpleasant tone of a viceroy dressing down the ungrateful leader of the restive natives, Vice President JD Vance told Israel to stop criticizing the MoU because, he said, it would be good for the Jewish state. So far, no representative of that state has praised the MoU; attitudes expressed now range from […]
Trump Versus Israel
Trump described the Iranian negotiators as “very nice people.” He doesn’t think as well of the Israelis: “Trump says he sent Israel draft of MoU with Iran, expects signing to happen soon,” Jerusalem Post, June 17, 2026: Trump asserted that the MoU would survive should Israel strike in Lebanon. “I consider that the minor war, […]
Trump’s Bizarre Statements in Defending the MoU With Iran
President Donald Trump at the G-7 meeting and afterward has provided the world with his thoughts on the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Iran. It was quite a performance. He praised Qatar, the Arab state that provides financial support to Hamas and refuge for the terror group’s senior leaders. Trump, addressing the Qataris, proclaimed that […]
Trump Defends Iran Keeping Its Ballistic Missiles
There is nothing said in the Memorandum of Understanding between the United States and the Islamic Republic of Iran about Iran’s ballistic missiles, though it is those missiles that are an immediate threat to Israel and the Gulf Arab states, as opposed to the distant threat posed by Iran’s nuclear program. President Donald Trump has […]
An Israeli Reservist’s Wife on the Anguish at Home
On October 8, 2023, in a massive mobilization, 130,000 Israeli reservists showed up for duty on the border with Gaza. Over the course of the broader national emergency call-up, Israel ultimately mobilized 360,000 reservists. Many of them have reported for multiple call-ups; others, who were not called up so frequently, nonetheless insisted on going to […]
Palestinian Authority Admits to ‘Pay for Slay’
As is well known, the Palestinian Authority provides generous monthly stipends to imprisoned terrorists and to the families of terrorists who died during their attacks. This is known as the PA’s “Pay For Slay” program. The PA has tried to hide it, by providing the payments under other names and for other, fabricated reasons (such […]
In Rome, Thousands March Demanding Remigration
In Rome, thousands of people from all over the country gathered to march against immigration, and for remigration — that is, deporting from the country immigrants, by which everyone understood the protesters to mean immigrants from Muslim lands. Migrants in Italy who were illegal, or legal but had proved themselves incapable of integrating into the […]
U.S. Pledges to Help Provide the Islamic Republic of Iran With $300 Billion
The madness continues. Now we learn that Israel had asked to see the US-Iran Memorandum of Understanding before it was made public, and was refused. The MOU, both in what it contains and what it omits, affects the Jewish state’s ability to survive, yet Trump would not let the Israelis see it, because he feared […]