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PERKINS: For Israel, a Two-State Solution Is a Launchpad for Terror

July 7, 2025/in Anti-Semitism, Assassination attempt, Culture War, Elections, Featured, Hot Topics, Iranian influence, News, Policy, Politics, Radical Islamic Terrorism, Social Issues, Terrorism, Waste, Fraud and Abuse/by Family Research Council

This week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will be in Washington to meet with President Trump to discuss a potential ceasefire agreement in Gaza. In advance of the prime minister’s visit, the leadership of Israel’s governing party made a significant, if not historic, statement.

Likud cabinet ministers, along with Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana, have signed a petition urging the Israeli government to formally assert sovereignty over Judea and Samaria — what much of the world still refers to as the “West Bank.” This move sends a clear message: a two-state solution is no longer a viable basis for peace.

Israeli leaders are signaling what many have long believed — that the era of “land for peace” is over. The term “West Bank” originated with the 1947 U.N. partition plan and the Jordanian occupation that followed. Whether by design or default, the term downplays the land’s historical and strategic significance, evoking images of a barren strip of sand along the Jordan River. In reality, Judea and Samaria form the heart of Israel’s ancestral homeland — where nearly 80% of the Bible’s recorded events took place. The region also constitutes nearly one-quarter of Israel’s current land mass.

The October 7, 2023, Hamas-led massacre shattered any illusions that territorial concessions lead to peace. Gaza, the laboratory of the two-state solution, proved instead to be a launchpad for terror. Today, only 21% of Israelis support the creation of a Palestinian state — reflecting a dramatic erosion of trust in the two-state paradigm.

In conversations I’ve had with Israeli officials since that attack, formal sovereignty over Judea and Samaria was not an immediate priority. However, the geopolitical ground has shifted. Iran’s terror network has been significantly weakened. And with the potential to expand the Abraham Accords, there’s a real opportunity to reshape the region. But such normalization efforts with Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and others may hinge on Israeli concessions, particularly the creation of a Palestinian state.

Netanyahu may be immune to the enchantment of such diplomacy, but U.S. officials often are not. The seductive call of “peace in our time” has repeatedly led American administrations — Republican and Democratic alike — onto the shoals of diplomatic delusion. History should remind us: the Gaza disengagement, endorsed by the George W. Bush administration, did not bring stability. Instead, it birthed a terrorist regime.

Judea and Samaria are not only 24 times larger than Gaza but are embedded in the geographic and spiritual core of Israel. Surrendering this strategic depth would not foster peace — it would invite prolonged conflict and existential risk.

The United States should support Israel’s rightful claim to sovereignty over Judea and Samaria. This is not only a matter of historical justice, but of national security — for Israel and for all who value stability in the Middle East. Failing to do so will perpetuate a failed status quo, embolden enemies of peace, and betray the very principles that have undergirded America’s strongest ally in the region.

AUTHOR

Tony Perkins

Tony Perkins is president of Family Research Council and executive editor of The Washington Stand.

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UN Blasted for Funding Anti-Jewish Committee ‘Created to Destroy the Jewish state’

July 7, 2025/in Anti-Semitism, Culture War, Hot Topics, Iranian influence, Must Read, News, Policy, Politics, Radical Islamic Terrorism, Socialism, Terrorism, Waste, Fraud and Abuse/by The Geller Report

Defund the UN, it is an arm of the global jihad.

These organizations, created with the best of objectives and intentions and funded largely by the United States, are no long recognizable let alone serving their stated purpose. On the contrary, they have been hijacked and co-opted by our hostile actors and enemies of freedom.

Utterly corrupted, it’s become the international arm for Islamic terrorism and Jew hatred. It is irretrievably broken and has been for decades. We should have withdrawn long before this. It poses a clear and present danger.

The UN is a terrorist organization that has abandoned the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and adopted the Cairo Declaration on Human Rights (sharia law). More on the Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam (CDHRI).

Born in the ashes of World War II and established to ensure that a Holocaust would never happen again, the United Nations has not just horribly failed in its mission, it has become the very thing it was created to oppose and defeat.Just as the League of Nations was dissolved because it failed in its primary purpose to prevent world war, the United Nations has failed in its primary purpose and should be dismantled.The United Nations “should cease to exist except for the sole purpose of the liquidation of its affairs.” They have devolved to an arm of the jihad force.

The League of Nations was established at the end of World War I as an international peacekeeping organization just as the United Nations was founded over seventy years ago in the wake of the Holocaust to ensure “never again.” Democracies, both nascent and well-established, comprised the majority of the founding nations of the UN. America was confident that the UN would be an organization which would work in tandem with American national interests in promoting the welfare of humankind and the basic rights of every human spirit.

It has become the very thing it was founded to defeat. They have failed the tortured, the oppressed, the poor, in incalculable ways. The graft and corruption is endemic to the institution.

We need a different organization. ‘The United Democratic Nations,” an organization of free nations, would be more rational. How can democracies and dictatorships co-exist in a world body successfully? They can’t. And so immediately the organization was destined to fail.

UN blasted for funding committee ‘created to destroy the Jewish state,’ despite budget crisis

United Nations ‘doesn’t have a spending limit’ for spread of antisemitism,’ critic warns

By Beth Bailey, Fox News, July 5, 2025:

Critics slammed the United Nations for rewarding a controversial anti-Israel Commission of Inquiry with four new positions worth up to three-quarters of a million dollars, even as the world body undergoes a severe cash crisis.

“When it comes to spending money for the spread of antisemitism, the U.N. doesn’t have a spending limit,” Anne Bayefsky, director of the Touro Institute on Human Rights and the Holocaust and president of Human Rights Voices, told Fox News Digital.

On June 4, the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Palestinian Territory, Including East Jerusalem (COI), led by South African Navi Pillay, announced four new job openings for senior-level positions in Geneva. These include two P-2 level associate interpreters, one higher-level P-3 level human rights officer, and a still more senior P-4 level human rights officer.

Combined, their salaries will range from $530,000 to $704,000, based on salary scales released by the U.N. and its location-based salary multiplier (set at .814 for Swiss employees), published in a document supplied to Fox News Digital by a diplomatic source.

These salaries do not include other senior-level U.N. employee benefits, including dependent costs, housing allowances or relocation fees.

Bayefsky asked why the U.N.’s “belt-tightening exercise … applies to all kinds of urgent matters but exempts the COI, which has simultaneously gone on a spending-spree.”

“The COI was created to destroy the Jewish state and is now conducting itself accordingly.” She said its latest report, issued in June, is “totally unhinged” and “claims Israelis are like Nazis engaged in ‘extermination’ of the Palestinians, refers to those ‘extremist Jews,’ denies biblical history, [and] fuels antisemitism by claiming Jews defile Muslim holy sites.”

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AUTHOR

Pamela Geller

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First Instalment of a 7 Part Series by Gates of Vienna Guest Author, El Ingles: Crown, Crescent, Pitchfork

July 7, 2025/in Anti-Semitism, Commentary, Culture War, Hot Topics, News, Policy, Politics, Radical Islamic Terrorism, Social Issues, Terrorism/by Vlad Tepes Blog

I haven’t even read this whole part yet, just the excerpt here below. But based on that, and the glowing reviews The Baron over at Gates of Vienna gave it, this looks like a really interesting and important piece.

When I wrote Our Muslim Troubles (OMT) in 2011, it was not yet so obvious that the path the United Kingdom was on would lead to some sort of general, widespread, violent conflict among the state, Muslims, and natives. To foresee that conflict and sketch out its contours was to make a bold and analytically complex projection of recent events into the future.

Today, no such boldness is required. A growing number of commentators, analysts, and officials across Europe have publicly acknowledged the serious long-term consequences of continued, large-scale Muslim immigration. Among them are academics, senior military figures, and political thinkers of various persuasions. Patterns of rising communal tension, terrorism, and violent disorder in countries such as Sweden, Germany, and France suggest that the UK will not be spared if underlying dynamics are left unaddressed.

The trajectory towards war now being so obvious, this document will make no attempt to convince its readers that war, in some shape or form, is on the way. My objective here is rather different — to sketch out in more detail how this conflict will likely unfold. In other words, I seek to produce the definitive analytical and predictive pre-conflict document, however immodest that goal may seem. Let the reader be clear on this point — this document is not a work of advocacy, suggestion, or recommendation, much less a work of incitement or glorification. Rather, it presents the ruminations of a free citizen trying to unveil what would otherwise remain hidden.

Supporters of Jihadi Communist Zohran Mamdani Take to NYC Streets Chanting “Fc k the 4Th!” “We Reject Eric Adams! Fck the Mayor!” Burn American Flag on Independence Day

July 6, 2025/in Anti-Semitism, Chinese influence, Communism, Culture War, Elections, Featured, Hot Topics, Immigration, Marxism, News, Policy, Politics, Radical Islamic Terrorism, Social Issues, Socialism, Terrorism, Waste, Fraud and Abuse/by The Geller Report

New York City will never survive a Mamdani win.

Supporters of Islamic Marxist Zohran Mamdani protestors have taken to the streets of NYC chanting “We reject Eric Adams! F*ck the mayor!” And burning the American flag on Independence Day.

When they tell you what they mean to do, believe them.

July 4 Flag Burning Sparks Outrage in NYC

ByTamira Musgrave · July 5, 2025

Radical demonstrators stormed Washington Square Park in New York City on July 4, setting fire to the American flag in an orchestrated display of anti-American sentiment. Chanting “F*ck the Fourth” and “We need a new flag,” the crowd left scorched remnants of the red, white, and blue strewn across the pavement.

The protest escalated as the group marched through city streets, directing vulgar chants at local officials. “We reject Eric Adams. F*ck the mayor!” was among the slogans shouted, along with attacks on former Governor Andrew Cuomo over his handling of COVID-19, including, “When Cuomo lies, New Yorkers die.”

Earlier in the day, a separate protest took place outside the federal courthouse at Foley Square. Participants, dressed in black to signify mourning, engaged in prolonged, high-pitched screaming while kneeling on the ground. Organizers described their actions as a demonstration against “sentimental patriotism and deadly militarism.”

An anarchist collective released an online call to action encouraging Americans to burn flags in protest of Independence Day. The group urged followers to steal American flags, Trump flags, Blue Lives Matter flags, and law enforcement emblems from stores, homes, and government buildings. A custom hashtag was promoted to share images of the criminal acts, and participants were told, “Be careful and happy flag hunting.”

The incident reflects a rising trend of anti-American demonstrations in major cities, often fueled by far-left ideology and organized anarchist networks. By staging these protests on the Fourth of July, agitators aimed to provoke patriotic Americans and challenge the foundational values of the nation.

For conservative Christians, the American flag stands as a symbol of God-given freedom and national unity. Its desecration on Independence Day is not just a political stunt—it is a direct attack on the moral and spiritual foundations of the country. Acts of flag-burning, though legally protected, reveal a deepening cultural divide between those who honor America’s heritage and those who seek to dismantle it.

AUTHOR

Pamela Geller

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IDF Wants to End Gaza War Within 2-3 Weeks

July 6, 2025/in Anti-Semitism, Culture War, Hot Topics, Iranian influence, National Security, News, Policy, Politics, Radical Islamic Terrorism, Social Issues, Terrorism, Waste, Fraud and Abuse/by Jihad Watch

Maj. Gen. Eyal Zamiar and his associates, the Jerusalem Post has learned, want the war in Gaza to end within two to three weeks. Their thinking is as follows: first, in such an arrangement all of the living hostages, not just a few as is currently being discussed, would come home, ending the stress and divisions in Israel society over their return; second, there are so few Hamas targets left to hit in Gaza, so that the law of diminishing returns has set in; three, Israel has, alas, been losing the battle of public opinion, as videos of killed or wounded children in Gaza, and the endless rubble, are shown on television, while Hamas-provided numbers on casualties in Gaza, and on the makeup of those casualties (women and children seem remarkably to predominate) are uncritically accepted by the media. Israel is also being accused of deliberately killing aid seekers, though it is Hamas that is doing the killing in order to make sure that the GHF distribution of aid will fail; the IDF fires warning shots at some Gazans, but only when they ignore commands not to approach too closely to those guarding the aid; the Israelis have also been accused by Hamas of poisoning — with expensive oxycodone! — the food the GHF hands out. Why the Israelis would wish to sabotage their own delivery of aid by poisoning recipients so that others will stay away is not made clear; it is, of course, complete nonsense.

The IDF wants to return some of its hundreds of thousands of reservists to civilian life, where their absence from work has had economic consequences. It also wants to concentrate, after 21 months of war in Gaza, on its other fronts. With Iran, it may renew its strikes on the Islamic Republic if it shows any signs of trying to restart either its nuclear program or its ballistic missile program. The IDF still has to bomb the Houthis into submission, as they have shown themselves to be remarkably resilient, and continue to lob missiles and drones towards Israel. In Lebanon, the IDF has built five outposts in southern Lebanon that it intends to hold onto, and has been attacking Hezbollah fighters who have not pulled out of southern Lebanon, as they had agreed to do. Israel wants to so weaken Hezbollah that the Lebanese National Army can take over and finish the job, pushing to disarm Hezbollah throughout Lebanon and to turn it into a purely political movement. Israel intends to hold onto the territory on the Syrian side of Golan it took over just after Assad’s fall, and it has also seized all of Mt. Hermon, which looms over Damascus; the IDF is not about to relinquish control of those commanding heights. It also has to worry about Turkish forces in northern Syria, where Ankara has seized control of Syrian territory in order to keep watch on the restive Kurds in Syria, for fear that their separatist dreams might also inspire Kurds in Turkey to make common cause with them. So there’s a lot for the IDF to worry about, and getting out of Gaza would free up many tens of thousands of troops for deployment elsewhere.

More on the security establishment’s hope to end the Gaza war soon can be found here: “Israel’s security elite want end of Gaza war in two-three weeks, sources tell ‘Post’ – analysis,” by Yonah Jeremy Bob, Jerusalem Post, July 3, 2025:

With senior sources telling The Jerusalem Post the defense establishment wants the war to end within two to three weeks, and US President Donald Trump pushing for a potential end even sooner, might the current dizzying Middle East conflict of 20 months finally come to an end?

Or will continued opposition from Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir once again extend the war?

Alternatively, might Israel and Hamas reach a third temporary ceasefire, which only freezes hostilities for two months or longer, but with the sides eventually resuming the conflict later in 2025 or early 2026?

In addressing the issue, the first question is: Why might the war finally end this time, when earlier negotiations – November 2023 (first ceasefire), May 2024 (close to a deal), August 2024 (close to a deal), and this March (second ceasefire) – did not end it?

While Israel may also get some improved terms in negotiations with Hamas, the most important elements here are: IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Eyal Zamir, Trump, and the 12-day Iran war.

Zamir is in a completely different position than his predecessor, Herzi Halevi, who had major achievements during the war, but also had the albatross of the October 7 massacre permanently stained on his name. He was never trusted by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, because he was appointed while Netanyahu was out of office….

Unlike his predecessor, Herzl Halevi, Eyal Zamir was not tainted by the October 7 failure. Herzl resigned because it was widely felt that he had, along with some others, failed to foresee, or prevent, the Hamas atrocities carried out that day. General Zamir came into office having played no part in the October 7 debacle.

During General Zamir’s short tenure in office as chief of the general staff, the results have been spectacular. The IDF has seized far more of Gaza in a few months than had been seized by the IDF in the 18 previous months when Halevi was still in charge. And then in twelve days, the IDF hammered Iran, destroying a dozen nuclear sites and damaging three more — at Natanz, Fordow, and Isfahan —- after which the American bunker-busters bombs delivered what appears to have been the coup de grâce of all three. The latest judgement, from both the CIA and the Israelis, is that Iran’s nuclear program has been set back by several years.

Zamir is untouched, as Halevi was not, by the October 7 debacle, and furthermore, he has been so successful militarily, both in subduing Hamas and cornering it in 25% of the Gazan territory, and in dealing a colossal blow to Iran, that he is in a position to push Netanyahu to accept his, Zamir’s, view of the IDF’s continued war in Gaza. It is General Eyal Zamir who is now unassailable, and if Netanyahu crosses him — by, say, ordering him to continue fighting in Gaza when Zamir thinks it now makes more sense to stop — he will do so at his own political peril. Besides, if all of the hostages will now be returned in a ceasefire agreement, Netanyahu can take the credit.

And once out of Gaza, the IDF can concentrate on the following: first, holding onto the territory it has seized from Syria on the Golan and on Mount Hermon, which is now completely in Israeli hands, while hoping to persuade Al-Sharaa that Israel will be a useful counterweight to Turkey, which has seized territory, in order to control the Kurds in Syria; second, keeping the five outposts it has built in southern Lebanon to prevent Hezbollah from remaining anywhere south of the Litani River; third, keeping up military pressure on the Islamic Republic — including repeated bombings of Iranian nuclear sites, perhaps even with bunker-buster bombs and B-2 bombers that the Americans might now be willing to lend to Israel, should Tehran show any signs of restarting its nuclear program.

AUTHOR

Hugh Fitzgerald

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VIDEOS: President Trump Welcomes released American hostage Edan Alexander to the Oval Office

July 5, 2025/in Anti-Semitism, Culture War, Elections, Hot Topics, Iranian influence, News, Policy, Politics, Radical Islamic Terrorism, Social Issues, Terrorism, Video/by NEWSRAEL Telling the Israeli Story

American Edan Alexander — held hostage by Hamas for 584 days — visited the Oval Office with his loved ones.

His mother, Yael, shared: “Thank you for saving my son and bringing heart back to my family.”

We remain committed to bringing every hostage home.

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Israeli General Avivi On Iran’s Many Miscalculations

July 5, 2025/in Anti-Semitism, Culture War, Hot Topics, Iranian influence, National Security, News, Policy, Politics, Radical Islamic Terrorism, Social Issues, Techno-Fascism, Terrorism, Waste, Fraud and Abuse/by The Geller Report

Israeli Brig. Gen. (Ret’d) Amir Avivi has published here a piece on Iran’s many mistakes that made the IDF’s stunning successes in its war with the Islamic Republic possible.

In just under two weeks—and after years of mounting pressure—Iran has suffered a series of devastating blows. Key military commanders and nuclear scientists have been killed, strategic infrastructure and nuclear sites destroyed, and the regime’s grip on power shaken. Iran’s once-feared regional influence has revealed itself to be lacking, with its proxies unable or unwilling to act on their sponsor’s behalf.

Speaking to The Media Line hours before President Donald Trump announced a ceasefire between Israel and Iran, Brig. Gen. (res.) Amir Avivi told The Media Line that such a result wasn’t the predestined outcome of a clash between Iran and its archenemy, Israel. Had Iran acted more strategically, he said, the Islamic regime and its proxies probably “would have managed to bring Israel to the verge of destruction or destroy Israel.”

Avivi, founder and chair of the Israel Defense and Security Forum, described a series of miscalculations on the part of Iran that led to the regime’s significant losses. Chief among them was Hamas, an Iranian proxy group, initiating the October 7 attack before Iran had acquired nuclear weapons.

“They could have waited a year or two to become completely nuclear,” he said. “It would have been much wiser for them to move towards nuclear weapons while all the proxies are fully in readiness to attack. This would have put Israel, as it did for many years, in a big dilemma because then you attack Iran, you immediately go into a multifront war with all the proxies shooting at you at the same time.”

The October 7 attack by Hamas also lacked coordination with other fronts, a move Avivi says doomed it from the start.

“I remember at 6:30 in the morning when the war started, the first question I asked myself—as someone who is leading an organization that two years before the war, saw the war is coming—was why isn’t Hezbollah attacking? Why aren’t the Iranians attacking? How can it be only Hamas? Once it was only Hamas, I can tell you that four hours into the October 7, it was crystal clear to me they lost the war and we’re going to win decisively. They did a huge mistake,” he said.

Hezbollah joined the war the next day but without coordination, leading to what Avivi described as the group’s effective collapse….

“I don’t think they can really threaten anybody,” he said. “And I think that if they decide with the remaining capabilities they have to try to close Hormuz or shoot American bases or allies, Saudis maybe, Emirates, this will be the end of the regime….

Closing Hormuz would mean closing off the shipment of Emirati and Saudi oil to their customers. Neither Saudi Arabia nor the UAE would stand for that, but would attack Iranian shipping in the Gulf, and perhaps even Iran’s oil terminals at Kharg Island. Nor will the Iranians dare to attack American bases in the region; they lobbed a few missiles at the Al-Udeid airbase, but made sure none of them would cause damage, by warning the Qataris well in advance, and the result was what Trump described as a “very weak response.” But if the Iranians were again to attack American bases in the region, Trump has warned that they “would be hit so hard like you can’t believe.” And Israel’s multi-tiered defense system includes the Sling, Arrows 1,2, and 3 for short- and middle-range missiles, and the Iron Dome interceptors for long-range ballistic missiles.

Avivi insists that regime change in Iran cannot be imposed, but the conditions that would cause enough Iranians to rise up against their oppressive rulers can be created from outside. He offers the example of Hezbollah, battered by the IDF, and so weakened that the Lebanese army is at last now prepared to challenge Hezbollah militarily. The humiliation of Iran’s rulers who have suffered a devastating military defeat will weaken the regime’s power to intimidate the people. The spectacle of Iran’s nuclear program, that cost the country $500 billion in sunk costs and in other costs resulting from sanctions, blasted to smithereens, will certainly enrage Iranians, not only with the U.S. and Israel, but with their own rulers, for such a colossal waste of the country’s money.

Hamas, meanwhile, now knows there is no chance of any help coming to it from Iran, that has itself been knocked from pillar to post by the IDF and, most recently, by the US air force, and reduced to pleading for a ceasefire with Israel. Nor can Hezbollah, or Syria, help Hamas. It is on its own, and the IDF, no longer having to put its main effort into the war with Iran, can concentrate on dealing with the remnants of Hamas in Gaza, for whom the future will be — as was said of a different people in Gaza long ago — dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon.

AUTHOR

Hugh Fitzgerald

Ignoring Pressure from Trump, Hamas Refuses 60-day Ceasefire

July 3, 2025/in Anti-Semitism, Culture War, Elections, Hot Topics, Iranian influence, National Security, News, Policy, Politics, Radical Islamic Terrorism, Social Issues, Socialism, Terrorism, Waste, Fraud and Abuse/by The Geller Report

Why are these monsters still breathing?

Ignoring pressure from Trump, Hamas refuses 60-day ceasefire – report

By World Israel News Staff, July 2, 2025:

Despite calls from President Trump to reach a two-month ceasefire in Gaza, claiming Israel has agreed to the deal, Hamas reportedly doubles down on its demand that any deal include a permanent end to hostilities.

The Hamas terror organization has rejected overtures by the Trump administration to agree to a 60-day ceasefire in Gaza with Israel and a partial hostage deal, a senior member of the terrorist group told The Associated Press.

On Wednesday, Taher al-Nunu, who previously served as an advisor to Hamas politburo chief Ismail Haniyeh prior to Haniyeh’s assassination in July 2024, told the AP that it would not drop its long-standing demand that any new agreement with Israel must include a permanent end to the ongoing war in the Gaza Strip.

Hamas, al-Nunu said, is “ready and serious regarding reaching an agreement,” while adding that this willingness only extends to an “initiative that clearly ends to the complete end to the war.”

President Donald Trump claimed Tuesday evening that the Israeli government has agreed to enter into a 60-day ceasefire with Hamas in exchange for the release of hostages, without specifying the details of the framework Israel has allegedly assented to.

Trump added that such a ceasefire would be used for talks to seek a permanent end of the war.

“My Representatives had a long and productive meeting with the Israelis today on Gaza,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social account.

“Israel has agreed to the necessary conditions to finalize the 60 Day CEASEFIRE, during which time we will work with all parties to end the War.”

The president warned Hamas that should it reject the deal, conditions for the terror group “will only get worse.”

“The Qataris and Egyptians, who have worked very hard to help bring Peace, will deliver this final proposal. I hope, for the good of the Middle East, that Hamas takes this Deal, because it will not get better — IT WILL ONLY GET WORSE.”

Despite Hamas’ apparent refusal to accept the framework pushed by the U.S., a delegation representing the terror group is slated to meet with mediators in Cairo on Wednesday, an Egyptian official told AP.

Hamas is still holding 50 hostages in the Gaza Strip, with less than half of them believed to still be alive.

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AUTHOR

Pamela Geller

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Virginia: Head of School Kenneth Nysmith Glorifies Hitler, Kicked Jewish Children Out of His School After They’re Bullied

July 3, 2025/in Anti-Semitism, Communism, Cyberwarfare, Education, Hot Topics, News, Policy, Politics, Propaganda, Radical Islamic Terrorism, Social Issues, Socialism, Terrorism, Waste, Fraud and Abuse/by The Geller Report

“Take one look at this and tell me Kenneth (Ken) Nysmith shouldn’t be removed from his post and imprisoned for child endangerment. This is the sickest thing I’ve ever seen happen at a U.S. school.”

Nysmith should be brought up on charges of recruiting children for terrorism.

This is the email sent by Nysmith School to Jewish parents—expelling all three of their kids for speaking out against antisemitism.

Their daughter was bullied.
Mocked for being Jewish.
Told her dead uncle “deserved it.”
Watched classmates call Hitler a “strong leader.”

The school’s response?

Raise a Palestinian flag.
Cancel the Holocaust speaker.
Tell her to “toughen up.”

Then this.

Expelled. Effective immediately.

Absolutely vile. Every part of it.

Posh Virginia private school that allegedly praised Hitler expelled three Jewish students who faced antisemitic bullying: complaint

By Caitlin McCormack, NY post, July 1, 2025:

A Northern Virginia private school celebrated as one of the best in the country allegedly expelled three Jewish siblings who endured relentless antisemitic harassment in the wake of the Oct. 7, 2023 terror attack on Israel — all while their community celebrated Hitler as a “strong historical leader.”

The Brandeis Center filed the complaint on behalf of the children’s parents, Brian Vazquez and Ashok Roy, against the Nysmith School for the Gifted, a K-8 academy located just an hour outside of Washington, DC, and its headmaster, Kenneth Nysmith.

The complaint asserts that the couple’s 11-year-old daughter faced a “campaign of ostracizing” led by a handful of “popular students” on the sole basis that she is Jewish during the 2024-2025 school year.

The students, in an apparent gross misunderstanding of the conflict, cruelly taunted the girl for the death of her uncle, telling her they were glad he “died in the October 7th attack,” according to the complaint.

Her uncle died years earlier with no relation to the terror attack.Some students mocked her for being “Israeli” and dubbed Jews as “baby killers,” unabashedly saying that “they deserve to die because of what is happening in Gaza,” the complaint stated.

Others doubled down and insisted that “everyone at the school is against Jews and Israel, which is why they hate you,” according to the complaint.

One middle school social studies project tasked the students to sketch a child-sized drawing including “six traits of a leader” following their studies of Niccolo Machiavelli’s “The Prince,” according to an email from the Nysmith School.

The Frankenstein amalgam included weaponry associated with rulers from Machiavelli’s time and a tie typically worn by modern-day businessmen or politicians.

The drawing’s face, though, depicted a man’s face with Adolf Hitler’s unmistakable toothbrush mustache and slicked-back hair.

The school had a middle school project centered around their studies of Niccolo Machiavelli in which one group highlighted Adolf Hitler as a strong leader.

Vazquez and Roy reported the repeated incidents to Nysmith, who promised to take action. Weeks passed and no changes were made, according to the complaint.

If anything, all change moved swiftly away from protecting Vazquez and Roy’s daughter as the school soon thereafter cancelled its annual talk hosting a Holocaust survivor to speak with the student body about antisemitism.

Vazquez and Roy had one final meeting with Nysmith on March 11 to address how the harassment escalated ever since the school hung up a Palestinian flag in the school gym mere days after nixing the Holocaust talk.

The Palestine flag hung alongside dozens of others for different countries, including Israel. The parents didn’t take any issue with the Palestine flag being displayed, but were concerned that some students were using it to bolster their claims that “nobody likes [Jewish people],” the complaint stated.

Nysmith, having seemingly run out of patience, abruptly told the couple that their daughter should “toughen up,” the complaint stated.

Two days later, the parents received an email from the school notifying them of their children’s expulsion, effective immediately in spite of their consistent involvement with the community and exemplary grades.

“A healthy partnership is required to help guide and nurture young children through tumultuous times and complex current events. I do not see a path forward without trust, understanding, and cooperation. In our meeting, I felt very clearly that you do not think Nysmith is the right school for your family,” Nysmith wrote.

Vazquez and Roy never anticipated the expulsion and had already paid tuition for the following academic year, the complaint said.

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Nysmith’s email noted that the family would receive a check in the mail within two weeks for all fees paid that year and for the following year. It is unclear if the check was ever sent.

“Through [the Nysmith School’s] actions, the administration sent a clear message: bullying is acceptable, as long as it’s against Jewish families. We must all emulate the strength of these parents and their children and stand up to anti-Semitism and its perpetrators, as difficult as it may be,” Kenneth L. Marcus, chairman of the Brandeis Center, wrote in a statement.

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Trump Administration Gets High Marks for Middle East Actions, But Gaps in Understanding Remain

July 3, 2025/in Commentary, Culture War, Iranian influence, Policy, Politics, Radical Islamic Terrorism, Social Issues, Terrorism/by Clare M. Lopez

In the wake of events in the Middle East these last couple of weeks — Israel’s Operation Rising Lion and the U.S.’s Operation Midnight Hammer — this month’s newsletter will focus on the Trump administration’s perspective, role, decisions, and actions there. Some have been amazing and even spectacular, but others give reason for some pause, at least at this juncture. More to come, for sure!

“Top Middle East, Israel and Iran officials pushed out of NSC” by Marc Rod, Emily Jacobs at Jewish Insider, May 25, 2025

It is concerning to see top National Security Council officials who were charged with responsibility for Middle East, Iran, and Israel issues dismissed from those positions in late May 2025.

“22-Year-Old Leading Terrorism Prevention Center at DHS” by Yasmeen Hamadeh at the Daily Beast, June 5, 2025

This recent college graduate with zero foreign affairs, Middle East, or terrorism expertise, has been appointed to head the DHS Center for Prevention Programs and Partnerships, which is mainly concerned with terrorism prevention nationwide. He’d worked on President Trump’s 2024 election campaign previously.

“Qatari prime minister secured Iran’s agreement to US ceasefire proposal after call with Trump, official says” at Reuters, June 23, 2025

“Trump says he doesn’t want a regime change in Iran: ‘Chaos’” by Diana Glebova at the New York Post, June 24, 2025

President Trump understandably wants to see things in the Middle East calm down. But misjudging the apocalyptic eschatology of the Iranian regime leadership could lead to U.S. policy decisions that fail to anticipate how deeply committed Tehran is to restoring its nuclear weapons program and continuing its quest to destroy the Jewish State of Israel and the U.S. as well. His reluctance to support the Iranian people’s quest for freedom from an oppressive terrorist regime also consigns them to a brutal crackdown, now happening across Iran.

“Iran Launches Sweeping Crackdown: Hundreds Detained, Executions Underway” at Center for Human Rights in Iran, June 26, 2025

“Trump offers Iran $30B for nuclear deal” by Miri Weissman at Israel Hayom, June 27, 2025

Even as the Iranian regime doubles down on its refusal to give up domestic nuclear enrichment and withdraws from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and all cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), President Trump and his envoy Steve Witkoff continue trying to persuade a regime fixated on Armageddon to usher in the End Times to instead discuss economic prosperity for the Iranian people.

“Trump declares China can purchase Iranian oil as market signals cautious optimism” by Anders Hagstrom at Fox Business, June 24, 2025

Following on an Israel-Iran ceasefire brokered by President Trump with mediation from Qatar, Trump announced in a social media post that China would continue purchasing oil from Iran. The announcement may calm global oil markets, but in so doing also signals White House willingness to acknowledge, if not specifically allow, that funding will continue to flow into Iranian regime coffers.

Donald J. Trump, @realDonald Trump at Truth Social, June 27, 2025:

“Why would the so-called “Supreme Leader,” Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, of the war torn Country of Iran, say so blatantly and foolishly that he won the War with Israel, when he knows his statement is a lie, it is not so. As a man of great faith, he is not supposed to lie. His Country was decimated, his three evil Nuclear Sites were OBLITERATED, and I knew EXACTLY where he was sheltered, and would not let Israel, or the U.S. Armed Forces, by far the Greatest and Most Powerful in the World, terminate his life. I SAVED HIM FROM A VERY UGLY AND IGNOMINIOUS DEATH, and he does not have to say, “THANK YOU, PRESIDENT TRUMP!” In fact, in the final act of the War, I demanded that Israel bring back a very large group of planes, which were heading directly to Tehran, looking for a big day, perhaps the final knockout! Tremendous damage would have ensued, and many Iranians would have been killed. It was going to be the biggest attack of the War, by far. During the last few days, I was working on the possible removal of sanctions, and other things, which would have given a much better chance to Iran at a full, fast, and complete recovery – The sanctions are BITING! But no, instead I get hit with a statement of anger, hatred, and disgust, and immediately dropped all work on sanction relief, and more. Iran has to get back into the World Order flow, or things will only get worse for them. They are always so angry, hostile, and unhappy, and look at what it has gotten them – A burned out, blown up Country, with no future, a decimated Military, a horrible Economy, and DEATH all around them. They have no hope, and it will only get worse! I wish the leadership of Iran would realize that you often get more with HONEY than you do with VINEGAR. PEACE!!!”
Concern with this post from President Trump centers on what seems to be his lack of understanding about Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei and his deeply-held belief in the Islamic Shi’ite eschatology of the Twelfth Imam. [Editor’s Note: The Twelfth Imam will emerge at the end of time to establish peace and redeem Islam, per Wikipedia.] As well, President Trump seems not to know that faithful Muslims are obligated under Islamic Law to lie to infidels. These gaps in his understanding about intent and motivations of the Tehran regime could lead to errors in U.S. decision-making.

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Harvard Violated Jewish Students’ Civil Rights: Students Spit On, Harassed with ‘Heil Hitler’ While University Did Nothing

July 2, 2025/in Anti-Semitism, Censorship, Culture War, Education, Elections, Hot Topics, Iranian influence, Marxism, News, Policy, Politics, Radical Islamic Terrorism, Social Issues, Socialism, Waste, Fraud and Abuse/by The Geller Report

The Trump administration officially finds Harvard in VIOLATION of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, which bans discrimination on the basis of race, color and national origin……and ALL federal funding may now be canceled.

Ward Clark: If there aren’t some long faces around Harvard Yard this morning, there ought to be (Redstate).

Jewish Harvard students spit on, heckled with ‘heil Hitler’ while university turned a blind eye, shock Trump admin report says

NY Post: Jewish students at Harvard were spit on for wearing yarmulkes, stalked and subjected to chants of “heil Hitler” — and the Ivy League university was either “deliberately indifferent” or even a “willful participant” in the antisemitic abuse, according to a shocking report released by the Trump administration on Monday.

More than a quarter of the students reported feeling physically unsafe, and nearly 60% said they experienced “discrimination, stereotyping, or negative bias on campus” in the wake of the Oct. 7, 2023 terror attack on Israel, according to meetings with more than 500 Jewish students conducted by the Department of Health and Human Services.

The letter also pointed to demonstrations that “denied Jewish and Israeli students access to campus spaces” as well as the anti-Israel encampments that “instilled fear in, and disrupted the studies of, Jewish and Israeli students.”

“Even worse, individuals who participated in the encampment received lax and inconsistent discipline—and as discipline was reviewed by higher levels among the faculty, it was often downgraded,” (emphasis theirs), the letter read.

From the Department of Education: Today, the Joint Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism is notifying you that the Office for Civil Rights at the United States Department of Health and Human Services has concluded its Title VI investigation regarding anti-Semitism at Harvard University. After a thorough investigation, HHS OCR finds that Harvard University is in violent violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, and national origin (DOE).

Boom: DoJ Formally Finds Harvard Violated Civil-Rights Laws

Ed Morrissey

Canada retreated. Will Harvard?

Harvard president Alan Garber keeps saying he wants to find some accommodation with the Department of Education, but refuses to make significant changes. Instead, Garber keeps trying to get courts to force access to federal funds to which Harvard feels entitled, even while other universities see the writing on the wall and have thrown in the towel. Now the Department of Justice has upped the ante yet again, formally declaring that Harvard violated the Civil Rights Act by deliberately allowing anti-Semitic violence and intimidation on its campus:

In a letter sent to Harvard President Alan Garber on Monday and viewed by The Wall Street Journal, attorneys for the administration said the investigation found that Harvard knew Jewish and Israeli students felt threatened on its campus and acted with deliberate indifference.

The DoJ offered Harvard to explore the Hillsdale College option to avoid any further consequences for its failure to abide by Title VI. If not, the DoJ warns, the direction of the next lawsuit will get inverted and Harvard may have more legal trouble than it bargained for:

“Failure to institute adequate changes immediately will result in the loss of all federal financial resources and continue to affect Harvard’s relationship with the federal government,” the letter states. “Harvard may of course continue to operate free of federal privileges, and perhaps such an opportunity will spur a commitment to excellence that will help Harvard thrive once again.”

Harvard didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

A formal “notice of violation” of civil-rights law generally is a step that can come before either a lawsuit from the Justice Department or a voluntary resolution with the school. Under past presidential administrations, civil-rights investigations at universities usually ended with voluntary resolution agreements.

Harvard Violated Jewish Students’ Civil Rights, Trump Admin Finds While Threatening Remaining Federal Funding

‘Harvard’s commitment to racial hierarchies … has enabled anti-Semitism to fester,’ the administration writes

By: Jessica Schwalb, Washington Free Beacon, June 30, 2025:

Harvard University’s treatment of Jewish and Israeli students violated civil rights law, putting its federal funding at risk, the Trump administration told the Ivy League school on Monday.

Harvard “has been in some cases deliberately indifferent, and in others has been a willful participant in anti-Semitic harassment of Jewish students, faculty, and staff,” the Joint Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism wrote in its letter. It detailed findings from a Title VI investigation conducted by the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights, noting that a quarter of Jewish students reported feeling physically unsafe and anti-Semitic incidents, such as Jewish and Israeli students being assaulted and spat on.

The violation notice is the Trump administration’s latest escalation in its battle with Harvard over campus anti-Semitism, having already frozen nearly $3 billion in federal funding, revoked the school’s authorization to host international students, and proposed removing Harvard’s tax-exempt status. The move also typically precedes either a lawsuit from the Department of Justice or a resolution with the university, though it appears Harvard is weighing a deal.

“Harvard’s commitment to racial hierarchies—where individuals are sorted and judged according to their membership in an oppressed group and not individual merit—has enabled anti-Semitism to fester on Harvard’s campus and has led a once great institution to humiliation, offering remedial math and forcing Jewish students to hide their identities and ancestral stories,” the letter reads. Failing to “institute adequate changes immediately will result in the loss of all federal financial resources.”

Harvard spokeswoman Sarah Kennedy-O’Reilly said the university shared its recently published anti-Semitism task force report with the Trump administration. Though the report details pervasive anti-Semitism at Harvard, Kennedy-O’Reilly said the school “strongly disagrees” with the administration’s findings.

“Harvard is far from indifferent on this issue and strongly disagrees with the government’s findings,” she told the Washington Free Beacon in a statement. “Harvard has made significant strides to combat bigotry, hate and bias,” she added. “We are not alone in confronting this challenge and recognize that this work is ongoing.”

“In responding to the government’s investigation, Harvard not only shared its comprehensive and retrospective Antisemitism and Anti-Israeli Bias Report but also outlined the ways that it has strengthened policies, disciplined those who violate them, encouraged civil discourse, and promoted open, respectful dialogue,” Kennedy-O’Reilly said in a statement. “Harvard is far from indifferent on this issue and strongly disagrees with the government’s findings.”

The Trump administration’s Monday letter, however, notes that “Harvard did not dispute our findings of fact, nor could it.”

The administration pointed to a number of examples of anti-Semitic incidents that Jewish and Israeli students faced at Harvard, noting that some “hid their kippahs for fear of being harassed and concealed their Jewish identity from classmates for fear of ostracization.” It called out images of anti-Semitic tropes that circulated, such as one showing a dollar sign inside a Star of David and stickers of the Israeli flag with a swastika in place of the Star of David.

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Pamela Geller

AMERICA’S REAL INSIDER THREAT

July 1, 2025/in Anti-Semitism, Culture War, Featured, Hot Topics, Iranian influence, Lawfare, Marxism, News, Policy, Politics, Radical Islamic Terrorism, Social Issues, Socialism, Techno-Fascism, Terrorism, Waste, Fraud and Abuse/by The Daily Caller

AMERICA’S REAL INSIDER THREAT

Democrat Rep. Chris Murphy is on to something, and it could be the end of America as we know it.

If the Democrat Party spent “more time” focusing on “cost of living” like mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani did, “we’d probably win a lot more elections,” Murphy said on MSNBC.

And he’s right. Even some on the right acknowledge that Mamdani is a Trump-esque populist of leftism, overturning an elderly and calcified Democrat establishment. It would be our doom, however, if this brand of populism caught on in the wider leftwing electorate.

Perhaps you think I’m overstating or exaggerating. I’m not apt for political hyperbole, especially when it comes to the political right’s constant shrieking over “socialism” and “Marxism.” Consider me thoroughly scarred from the years of Glenn Beck’s chalkboard on Fox News, where literally everything had a line leading back to both. Or Nazis.

Still, I don’t think I’m exaggerating in this case because the economics of Mamdani’s overwhelming win in NYC are measurable and objective. Perhaps ironically, in this case, it all does lead back to socialism, specifically the federal student loan regime.

I’m not going to break down a complete and comprehensive history of federal student loans. Loosely, they’ve ballooned from just $50 billion in 1990 to a few hundred in 2010 and rocketed to an astounding $1.6 trillion in 2025.

The bottom line is they’ve betrayed an empty promise we made to kids spanning back at least two generations, that if they went to college, they’d be more financially secure.

The exact opposite has occurred.

Almost 45% of the current American population has at one time or another held student loan debt. The vast majority of current borrowers under 30 will not pay off their debts until their late 40s or early 50s, according to publicly available data. That number exceeds 40 million people and is still climbing at a dizzying rate.

These same borrowers also attended colleges vastly different from the ones we attended. Post-2010 universities gorging on the federal government’s loose lending practices rapidly expanded easier academic courses of study in order to enroll more borrowers, namely those we on the right call “woke.” They also rapidly expanded their administrations, including HR and diversity departments.

It’s in these increasingly leftist madrassas that every student debt holder marinated for years – from STEM majors and English majors all the way to such nonsense as Queer Theory. Then, once their brains were thoroughly pickled, they were unceremoniously shoved into a world of private enterprise that patently did not care if they could ever afford both their loan obligations and the down payment on a home.

And that last part is crucial: It looks very likely that most people under 30 will never own a home. Going further, they are personally capital negative and will remain capital negative for most of the next 20 years, if not longer.

In other words, they are worth less than nothing, as far as markets are concerned. It’s simple math: The more people we have in this country that are worth less than nothing, the more attractive militant socialism becomes.

(As an aside, an interesting anomaly in the demographics between Cuomo and Mamdani. Cuomo was +19 among people making less than $50,000 a year. But only a tiny fraction of people making less than $50,000 a year have student loan debt! Thus, the working class is still apt to be moderate rather than radical leftists.)

To make matters worse, it’s hard to devise a compelling message that would blame the actual culprit: Socialist economic policy seeking to make college accessible to everyone! Koombaya!

You try explaining to an English degree holder that *actually* your degree is the problem.

No, instead most of these people will blame what Mamdani has chosen to blame: Landlords, private grocery chains, private enterprise. As such, the only solution is more state seizure and control over private enterprise. More free money even. More of the exact problem that landed us here in the first place.

Some on the right hoped for Mamdani to win so that people would see his socialist policies for what they are: Historically consistent failures. But they won’t blame his ideas. They’ll simply blame him. Insert the old cliche about “real socialism” here.

As much as Trump has done that I believe has brought America back to a state of global supremacy, I have not seen much on this real insider threat.

A simple solution would be to put colleges on the hook for some percentage of loan defaults. Half would do it. Critical Theory departments would shutter overnight.

Or, we could just stop funding anything but the last two years of anyone legitimately pursuing something in STEM. Same result.

That would chap the hind quarters of party Dems, though, considering humanities and interdisciplinary mumbo jumbo act as talent pipelines for liberal institutions whose primary modus is political agitation.

Trump could do two-birds-one-stone on this one. Bleed the liberal bourgeoisie of its recruiting grounds and put an end to the growing economic justification for socialism.

Each journey begins with a first step, as they say.

Sadly, I just haven’t seen it yet from Trump 2.0.

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“I’m still on the ‘Defund PBS’ train, but last summer they released an incredible documentary that followed two working-class families between 1991 and 2024.”

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The 3 Most Important Votes of the ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ Vote-a-Rama

July 1, 2025/in Elections, Featured, Hot Topics, Immigration, Lawfare, Marxism, News, Policy, Politics, Queers and pedophiles, Radical Islamic Terrorism, Regulation, Science, Social Issues, Socialism, Terrorism, Voter REAL ID, Waste, Fraud and Abuse/by Family Research Council

President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” moved closer to adoption overnight, as Senate Democrats attempted to load the bill with poison pill amendments in the “vote-a-rama.” During the lengthy amendment process, which began at 9 a.m. Monday morning and continues as of this writing, anyone may offer amendments to the 940-page bill. Senate changes have already made the bill less attractive to pro-life, pro-family conservatives. Yet the revised text also removes a controversial, 10-year moratorium on states regulating artificial intelligence.

“The president’s ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ is quickly losing its glamour in the Senate. The bill now appears to be a contestant in a beauty pageant for a tractor pull,” said FRC Action Chairman Tony Perkins. “The Senate version currently defunds big abortion providers like Planned Parenthood for only one year, instead of ten. That’s a huge disappointment. The first Senate version defunded gender transition procedures in Medicaid (not in Obamacare, as the House did, nor in Medicare or in the tax code, as had been proposed). But the current version will subject even that slimmed-down provision to a 60-vote threshold, meaning the provision will not pass the Senate, and Americans will continue to pay for gender transition experimentation on vulnerable individuals.”

Perkins wondered only if Senate Republican leaders were “completely out-muscled by the parliamentarian, or worse yet, didn’t try to secure the key components of the House version.” Senate GOP inaction “shows an unacceptable lack of political will.”

“Will senators fight to defund abortion providers for the maximum-allowable 10 years? Will they fight to defund gender procedures that bring trauma and life-long harm, or will they be satisfied with a show-vote on gender transition procedures?” asked Perkins.

Here are three of the most important votes that took place over the last 24 hours.

1. The Senate Continues to Defund Planned Parenthood

The Senate version of the bill reduced the 10-year defunding of Planned Parenthood to only one year. But overnight, the Senate narrowly voted down an amendment to strike down even that brief funding interlude, on a 51-49 vote. Two “pro-choice” Republicans, Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, voted with the Democrats to fund the nation’s largest abortion business, which committed 402,230 abortions and received $792.2 million in taxpayer funding in 2024.

“The Republicans’ bill will cut millions of women off from birth control, cancer screenings, essential preventative health care — care they will not be able to afford anywhere else,” alleged Senator Patty Murray (D-Wash.). “It will take another step towards enacting the Republicans’ plan for a backdoor nationwide abortion ban. How does it do this? By defunding Planned Parenthood.” Republicans, she said, were “happy to cut off this life-saving care.”

But Kristen Day, executive director of Democrats for Life, rebutted the talking point. “Defunding Planned Parenthood is not one of them. Community Health Centers and Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) provide comprehensive healthcare, and there are more of them!” she said. “Let’s fully fund real healthcare.”

“Senate Democrats just failed in their attempt to remove the meager tip (10%) that Senate Republicans were offering to the taxpayers and pro-life Americans,” said Perkins.

Kristan Hawkins of Students for Life of America said, “Let me be clear: Defunding Planned Parenthood for one year would be one small step that we celebrate, while we will still fight for all those at risk by the Abortion Goliath’s predatory & violent business. One giant leap would be full debarment.”

2. Senate Nixes the 10-year Moratorium on States Regulating Artificial Intelligence (AI)

On a nearly unanimous vote, the Senate adopted a bipartisan amendment from Senators Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) and Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) to eliminate the One Big Beautiful Bill’s controversial, 10-year moratorium on AI regulation. If enacted, the provision would have struck down an estimated 75 existing state laws and barred any further protections for the next decade, including laws against AI-generated child pornography.

Blackburn and Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) had sought a compromise that would reduce the decade-long federal ban on state AI regulations to five years and allow states to protect children from exploitation, and safeguard people’s images and likenesses, provided those regulations did not impose an “undue or disproportionate burden” on artificial intelligence. “Find you a senator who looks at defunding gender transition procedures the way Ted Cruz looks at protecting AI,” joked Quena González, senior director of Government Affairs at Family Research Council, on social media.

But Blackburn eventually broke with Cruz, saying the proposed compromise did not do enough for “those who need these protections the most. This provision could allow Big Tech to continue to exploit kids, creators, and conservatives. Until Congress passes preemptive legislation like the Kids Online Safety Act and an online privacy framework, we can’t block states from making laws that protect their citizens.” On the House floor, Blackburn listed a litany of AI regulations Congress had failed to pass, which states have adopted. On Friday, 17 Republican governors urged congressional leaders to strike the AI moratorium, saying it “threatens to undo all the work states have done to protect our citizens from the misuse of artificial intelligence.”

Cruz withdrew his amendment a little after 4 a.m. Tuesday, paving the way for the House to adopt Blackburn’s amendment on a strongly bipartisan basis: 99-1. Senator Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) cast the lone no vote.

3. Democrats Extend Taxpayer-Funded Benefits to Criminal Illegal Immigrants

Senator John Cornyn (R-Texas) offered an amendment that would have reduced federal Medicaid funding to states that cover illegal immigrants charged with serious crimes. Under Senate parliamentary procedure, the measure needed to clear a 60-vote threshold but passed with only 56 votes. One Republican, Susan Collins of Maine, voted against the measure. Meanwhile, five Democratic senators voted in favor: Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire, Catherine Cortez-Masto of Nevada, and Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock of Georgia. “Illegal aliens should be on a flight back to their home country, not on Medicaid (funded by American taxpayers)!!!” said Rep. Keith Self (R-Texas). On Monday, the Senate rejected an amendment from Blackburn that would have prevented states from allowing illegal immigrants to enroll in Medicaid.

The Senate also rebuffed numerous attempts to maintain or further extend Green New Deal tax credits and subsidies. Senator Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) spoke in opposition to many of the measures, branding taxpayer funding of “mature industries” as “wasteful.”

House conservatives laid much of the blame for the One Big Beautiful Bill Act’s lost beauty at the footsteps of Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough, a former Al Gore adviser. “The Senate parliamentarian over the last few days has said that a lot of our deficit reduction measures were invalid under the Byrd rule. They’ll have to be changed and modified,” Rep. Andy Harris (R-Md.) told “Washington Watch” regular guest host Jody Hice on Friday. Many have asked for the Senate to overrule the parliamentarian, something Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) has repeatedly and recently refused to do. “I’ve asked for her to be fired. I don’t know why you would be the Republican leader of the Senate and have a parliamentarian who was hired by Harry Reid 12 years ago,” Rep. Greg Steube (R-Fla.) told “Washington Watch” Monday.

House conservatives said changing the original text of the bill too much risks upsetting the key agreements that allowed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act to pass the House, where Republicans also hold only a three-vote majority. “It was a very carefully negotiated compromise. And as they wander away from that, it becomes less and less likely that it’s going to succeed when it comes back out to the House,” said Harris. “We want this to succeed. We want President Trump to succeed. But the safest thing they could do is take our House bill and just pass it the way we pass it, or make some very small changes.”

“If they try to send it over to the House with a large increase in the budget deficit, then I think we’re going to have to go back to the drawing board,” warned Harris.

House leaders want the bill to meet President Trump’s deadline of July 4, making a speedy House vote likely. “I’ve been talking with [Senate Majority] Leader Thune constantly through the process and with individual senators, encouraging them to change the House product as little as possible,” Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-La.) told “This Week on Capitol Hill” Saturday.

“I will have to wait about 72 hours for the bill to lay over before we can vote. But the plan would be if it’s in shape that we could use it,” said Johnson. A prompt House vote “would also allow for the president to have a big, beautiful bill signing on Independence Day. And I certainly hope we can keep that deadline.”

As the Senate nears a final text, senators on both sides of the aisle can agree on one thing: They want the nearly day-long marathon known as “vote-a-rama,” to end. “It’s like an all-night party, but without the party,” quipped Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah) in the wee hours of Tuesday morning.

“I just want to go home,” agreed Senator John Fetterman (D-Penn.). “I’ve already missed our entire trip to the beach.”

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Ben Johnson

Ben Johnson is senior reporter and editor at The Washington Stand.

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Operation Midnight Hammer’s Lesson for Rogue States

July 1, 2025/in Anti-Semitism, Assassination attempt, Commentary, Culture War, Elections, Iranian influence, National Security, News, Radical Islamic Terrorism, Social Issues, Socialism, Terrorism, Waste, Fraud and Abuse/by Jihad Watch

The American attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities will have consequences for rogue states elsewhere. They have now been put on notice that if they try to acquire a nuclear bomb, they should expect to have their program destroyed by the Americans. More on this salutary lesson can be found here: “Bigger Than Just Iran,” by Douglas J. Feith and Dore Feith, Washington Free Beacon, June 28, 2025:

The danger of nuclear war in the world just diminished drastically. Americans are safer now than they were. America has a vital interest in preventing the spread of nuclear weapons. By striking Iran, President Trump showed the resolve to use force to uphold that interest. The strategic significance of the blow extends far beyond Iran.

This was the first time the United States used a military attack to stop a country from acquiring a nuclear bomb. In the past, it had opposed nuclear proliferation through diplomatic pressure, economic sanctions, and multilateral agreements. Those means have their merits but also their limitations. To be effective against rogue regimes, they have to be backed by power. President Trump has now made clear that America has that power and will use it to serve its nonproliferation purposes. Many U.S. presidents threatened military force to stop the spread of nuclear weapons, but until now those threats were of doubtful credibility.

This was not, however, the first time Israel used its military against an enemy’s nuclear program. The history is noteworthy. Israel sent its air force to hit Iraq’s Osirak reactor in 1981 and to hit Syria’s nuclear facility in 2007. No major retaliation, let alone a new war, resulted, and neither Iraq nor Syria rebuilt the damaged facilities. Both decided it was not worthwhile, given Israel’s determination to prevent any such program from succeeding.

We tend to forget the international outrage elicited by the IDF’s bombing of both the Osirak reactor in 1981 and of the Syrian nuclear facility at Al-Kabir 2007, but no one, nowadays, thinks either of those attacks was anything other than exactly the right move, that made the world safer.

The United States has demonstrated both the will, and the ability, to wreak destruction on a very elaborate nuclear program, with many components across the vast land of Iran, and some of them in the deep-delved earth — the uranium enrichment facility at Fordow, for example, sits under 300 feet of granite. Yet the Americans managed, using a dozen 30,000-pound bombs, the “bunker busters” that only the American military possesses, to cause “severe damage” and perhaps — the final judgement has not yet been made — to “totally obliterate” it.

By wreaking so much damage on Iran’s nuclear program, from which it will not soon recover — and if it does continue such work, President Trump has promised another attack will take care of that one, and the one after as well — the Americans have shown that they will continue to serve as the chief enforcers of non-proliferation in the world. Rogue states will not now be willing to spend hundreds of billions of dollars on a nuclear program that will almost certainly be destroyed in time by the most powerful army in the world. The Americans have made not just themselves, and the Israelis, but the entire world much safer because of Operation Midnight Hammer.

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Reza Pahlavi Appeals to Iranian Officials to Break with the Islamic Republic

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Reza Pahlavi is the son of the late Shah, who has been living in exile in the United States ever since Ayatollah Khomeini replaced his father as the ruler of Iran. He has been appealing to Iranian officials, including military leaders, to break with the Islamic Republic, now that it has been dealt blow after blow by Israel, severely weakening the hold of the regime on its people.

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More about his latest appeal to his fellow countrymen, especially about the maleficent power of the IRGC, and his own possible role in a future Iranian government, can be found here.

Iran’s Crown Prince Pahlavi offers way out, but the IRGC must fall first — analysis

More about his latest appeal to his fellow countrymen, especially about the maleficent power of the IRGC, and his own possible role in a future Iranian government, can be found here.

The ceasefire announced in the early hours of Tuesday morning could bring some much-needed respite after 12 days of Israel bombing Iran, Iranian missiles killing Israelis, and the US finally entering the fray.

But while missiles may no longer be flying, a crucial question still hangs in the balance: the future of the Islamic Republic.

At a Monday press conference in Paris, Iranian Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi presented his plan for a viable future for Iranians outside of the Islamic regime, which has held the country in its grip for 46 years.

“I have a direct message for [Iranian Supreme Leader] Ali Khamenei,” Pahlavi stated. “Step down. And if you do, you will receive a fair trial and due process of law, which is more than you have ever given any Iranian.

“To other senior regime officials: Those of you whose hands are soiled with the blood of the Iranian people, you too will have to face justice. But we will not repeat the mistakes made in other failed transitions. To those of you who are loyal to the Iranian nation and not the Islamic Republic, there is a future for you in a democratic Iran if you join the people now. The choice is yours to make.”

Pahlavi was directing his message at the members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, the regime’s feared enforcer.

“To that end, today, I am announcing that I am establishing a formal channel for military, security, and police personnel to reach out directly to me, my team, and our expanding operation. This is a secure platform to efficiently manage the growing volume of inbound communications and requests from those breaking with the regime and seeking to join our movement.”…

Israel has killed several high-ranking Iranian officials, including Hossein Salami, chief of staff of the Iranian Armed Forces and, more importantly, commander-in-chief of the IRGC; Gholam Ali Rashid, deputy commander-in-chief of the armed forces and head of the IRGC’s Khatam-al Anbiya Central Headquarters; and Esmail Qaani, commander of the Quds Force, the IRGC’s special forces.

In fact, the IDF has killed not “several high-ranking Iranian officials,” but more than two dozen of its generals and senior commanders in both the IRGC and the regular army.

Reza Pahlavi appeals in his address not only to the people of Iran, three-quarters of whom have expressed their dissatisfaction with the Islamic Republic and the corrupt and cruel rulers they have had to endure. His appeal is mainly to the leaders, both military and civilian, who hold power, but may finally realize that for the regime, so weakened by Israel’s onslaught, the end is nigh. They have seen dozens of their generals and commanders killed, fifteen of Iran’s senior nuclear scientists assassinated, the nuclear facilities built around the country, including the three most important ones at Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan, largely destroyed. The Islamic Republic is believed to have spent more than one hundred billion dollars on its nuclear program that has now been reduced to dust and ashes. Ten of Iran’s airbases have been destroyed, as have the planes — F-4s, F-14s, AH-1s — that were sitting ducks on the tarmac or in bunkers. Iran’s store of ballistic missiles has been greatly reduced, its ballistic missile factories flattened. Surely this has caused some of those Iranian leaders, not all of whom are fanatical Muslims in the vein of the Supreme Leader, to consider both the future wellbeing of their country, and their own wellbeing in the face of ever greater public disaffection.

Reza Pahlavi offers himself as a possible constitutional monarch with purely symbolic powers in the Iran that is to come after the Islamic Republic crumbles. He sees himself in the vein of the Scandinavian kings, fulfilling purely ceremonial roles, not as an absolute monarch as was his father. He’s worth heeding, both in Iran, among the members of the ruling class whose loyalty to the regime is wavering or gone, and in the chanceries of the West.

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