Mark Levin takes issue with Donald Trump

If there's any conservative commentator who's hugely disappointed with how Trump's handling the Iran issue, it's Mark Levin:

Fox News host Mark Levin criticized President Donald Trump's Memorandum of Understanding with Iran across a series of posts on X, with his sharpest break coming over the deal's soft treatment of Hezbollah.

"On top of this, we do the unthinkable," wrote Levin, a longtime Trump defender who has broken with the president over the agreement. "We capitulate to Iran's demand to protect Hezbollah."

The conservative host argued that the Iran-backed group, which he said has "brutally murdered hundreds of our fellow citizens," would emerge from the ceasefire untouched. Under the terms Levin described, Hezbollah "not only survives but is immunized" and remains "free to continue to kill Americans, Israelis, and others." [...]

The posts come amid broader pushback from conservatives over the deal.

What's disturbing is whether Iran will receive any money at all in their current incarnation as a savage dictatorship. Similar points can be made about Syria under Ahmed al-Sharaa, who should not have been allowed to ascend to autocrat there.

Here's more related news:

Fox News' major MAGA ally Mark Levin slammed US President Donald Trump over the Iran war peace deal, calling on the White House to release details of the accord’s Memorandum of Understanding.

Levin on X/Twitter wrote: “I have asked for days, why can’t we, the people, see the damn MoU? Not through people briefed by an anonymous person. Honestly, I’ve never seen anything like this. If it is a great outcome for peace, then release it.”

“Here’s an idea: if you want people to stop speculating about the MoU, release the MoU. Don’t brief a few anointed ones to control the narrative and expect everyone else to sit silently. That’s not how our country works. It’s going to be signed soon. It takes time for people to digest it all once it is released. Controlling the narrative can only last so long," he added.

Vice President JD Vance said the peace accord was signed electronically over the weekend.

Levin speaks out against Trump's attitude towards Netanyahu

Levin, a pro-Israel hawk, also slammed the president for lashing out at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after Israel attacked Hezbollah targets in Lebanon.

Trump had told a reporter that he questioned Netanyahu’s “f***ing judgment.”

“In a period of two-months, Israel has gone from a great ally and partner in war, fighting by our side against a horrible enemy that has killed thousands of our people, killed tens of thousands of their own people, and was a dire nuclear threat intent on attacking us, to Israeli PM Netanyahu being a difficult person who should be thanking us for saving his country from Iran and should get our permission if he wants to defend his people from Hezbollah and Iran, and stand down when his country is attacked," Levin wrote.

That the MoU was electronically signed can also make a serious point of contention, since the autocrats didn't sign it physically. And Levin's got a valid point that it's in very poor taste for Trump to be referring to Netanyahu with expletives, or make it sound like it's wrong for a politician to stand firm on positions meant to defend his/her country. How can we be convinced Trump has even Europe's best interests in mind if that's how he's going to act? Or even J.D. Vance? And here's more of what Levin had to say about how Trump's been acting toward Israel:

“I want to say to people in and out of the administration: stop trashing, smearing, bullying the little state of Israel. Stop cozying up to and telling us that the enemy regime in Iran is now more rational, more moderate, and a regime that we can deal with,” Levin demanded. “When just a few months ago they slaughtered 50,000 people, they’re still hanging young people today and, if they had a nuclear missile today, they’d fire it into our country as sure as I’m alive.”

Levin argued that Israel should not be pressured into altering its security decisions by outside powers.

“I don’t know what’s going on, but if people think they can bully a little country, Israel — a people that have existed 4,000 years through the Babylonians and the Persians, through the Romans and the Third Reich — into surrendering their defense and their decision on how to secure their country, they get another thing coming,” Levin said. “I think it’s outrageous.” [...]

Levin’s online posts also targeted Trump’s criticism of Israel regarding its responses to Hezbollah attacks originating from Lebanon. Levin wrote that the first item in the MOU mandates an immediate and permanent end to the war, including Hezbollah.

“Iran is Hezbollah,” Levin posted. “What’s the enforcement mechanism? Nothing. Israel defends itself after constant attacks from Hezbollah and is admonished for it. Its interests are not aligned with ours, we’re told. It’s endangering the peace deal. This is beyond nuts.”

In another Saturday post, he claimed, “Apparently as long as Israeli soldiers are killed the ceasefire is holding.”

Of course it's angering, and shows weakness in the face of the enemy. Also note how victims of the Iranian dictatorship's massacres were obscured in all this mess, and that doesn't speak well for how the Trump administration is handling the issues so far. So is he willing to change his approach and apologize for what he's done lately? That remains to be seen, and the sad part is that damage has been done to the USA as much as Israel, and won't bode well for the future.

A wise decision made by the Shin Bet director

The director of Israel's Shin Bet intel movement cancelled a LGBT event, and focus on the core missions of the organization:

Shin Bet Director David Zini has decided not to approve the holding of an LGBT event on behalf of the agency, to cancel invitations that had been sent out, and to remove signs or symbols that were already being prepared, Channel 12 News reported.

The LGBT event, according to sources involved in organizing it, was canceled by an “order from above" without any further explanation.

According to those sources, all of their requests were rejected, including a request to display an LGBT banner on a screen in the Shin Bet building, a request to install a screensaver on computers, a request to hang LGBT flags in the event hall, and a request to use the organization’s systems to distribute designated content.

According to the report, Zini is also working to shut down the LGBT forum within the Shin Bet, and the organization’s Human Resources Division has been instructed to transfer the dedicated budget for LGBT-related matters to the general budget.

The Shin Bet did not provide a response to the claims.

This was the right thing to do, because it was pointless, promoting perverted visions of how to manage life, insulting to what the Torah/Bible stands for, and just like how various businesses are moving away from supporting this wokeism in the USA and other places, Israel obviously has to start doing the same. I remember when a poll was taken 3 years ago where Jerusalemites said the LGBT pride parade should be cancelled, and hopefully, that too will fade away in time. For now, the Shin Bet did the right thing to stop pandering to wokeism. What matters is to focus on more serious issues like combating Islamic terrorism.

Socialism continues to have a terrible effect in New York, this time under Zohran Mamdani

3 Democrat candidates for Congress in NYC who were endorsed by their first Muslim mayor, Mamdani, won primaries, including at the expense of an incumbent who's reportedly pro-Israel:

Zohran Mamdani’s growing influence over the Democratic party was on show in New York City on Tuesday as three congressional candidates endorsed by New York’s democratic socialist mayor won closely watched primaries, while voters in Maryland, Utah and South Carolina cast ballots in primaries and runoffs.

Brad Lander, the former New York City comptroller who also ran for mayor last year before endorsing Mamdani, won his race comfortably, defeating the Democratic representative Dan Goldman.

Another Mamdani ally, Claire Valdez, a state lawmaker and former union organizer, defeated Antonio Reynoso, the preferred successor of retiring Democratic Representative Nydia Velázquez in New York’s seventh district, encompassing parts of Brooklyn and Queens. And in a stunning upset, the public defense investigator Darializa Avila Chevalier toppled Representative Adriano Espaillat, the powerful five-term incumbent who chairs the Congressional Hispanic caucus, in the state’s diverse 13th congressional district, which covers Upper Manhattan and parts of the Bronx.

What makes this additionally disturbing is that Goldman was attacked in a social media post by Poetica Coffee, which is reportedly owned by Uzbek managers, for his pro-Israel positions. The DOJ opened an investigation into this incident, but sadly, the damage is done in more ways than one, given that Mamdani saw success with his repellent endorsements.

It would definitely seem much of NYC's residents are now revoltingly in favor of both socialism, and Islamism, if what Mamdani oversaw says anything. This is another terrible defeat for 911 Families, and also pro-Israel advocates.

Does Vietnam-era mentality continue in the USA?

If the following poll data says anything, the mindset opposed to seriously defeating the Iranian dictatorship continues in the USA:

A majority of Americans want the United States to end the war with Iran now, according to a recent CBS News/YouGov poll.

The survey, which was taken Wednesday through Friday, asked participants, “The Conflict with Iran: What Should the U.S. Do Now?” CBS reported Sunday.

Seventy-eight percent said the nation should end the conflict now, while 22 percent said continue the conflict until Iran gives up more:

CBS/YouGov poll | 6/17-6/19

Do you think the U.S. should end the conflict with Iran now, or should it continue the conflict until Iran gives
up more?
End the conflict now 78%
Continue the conflict until Iran gives up more 22%
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— Politics & Poll Tracker 📡 (@PollTracker2024) June 21, 2026

The poll also surveyed Republicans, asking them, “What Should the U.S. Do Now?”

Sixty percent of all Republicans said the nation should end the conflict now and 56 percent of “MAGA” Republicans agreed. Forty percent of Republicans said the nation should continue the conflict until Iran gives up more, while 44 percent of “MAGA” Republicans agreed.

“This CBS News/YouGov survey was conducted with a nationally representative sample of 2,519 U.S. adults interviewed between June 17-19, 2026. The sample was weighted to be representative of adults nationwide according to gender, age, race, and education, based on the U.S. Census American Community Survey and Current Population Survey, as well as 2024 presidential vote. The margin of error is ±2.4 points,” the article noted.

Now this is coming from a MSM business, so for all we know, it could be faked and distorted. Even so, if there's anything to it, it'll just further make this a most discouraging situation, considering there appears to be a sad case of those in the USA who won't study reality seriously. There's already people in Israel who're understandably worried about the deal with Iran, and if it leaves the current dictatorship in place, that's what's bad.

Diplomacy is doomed

According to senator Lindsey Graham:

Graham said, “We’re not giving any money to Iran that can change the course of history to try diplomacy. Is the MOU problematic? Yeah. I’d rather try diplomacy than take it off the table. The money Iran gets is not going to change the future of Iran. It’s not enough to reconstruct the country. If you don’t have a diplomatic path through the MOU, then you have to go to war or some other form of coercion. Let’s try this. Let’s try a diplomatic solution. I think it’s going to fail. What happens next? I spent four and a half hours with President Trump on Friday. Here’s what I think will happen next. If this deal fails, President Trump is going to take the Strait of Hormuz over by force.

He added, “The United States will control the Strait of Hormuz. We’ll charge a fee for all those who go three through to pay for the operation. And we’re going to expand the Abraham Accords and calendar year 2026. We’re going to get Saudi Arabia to join the Abraham Accords, which is the biggest change in 5000 years in the Middle East. And if Iran can test control of the Strait of Hormuz by the United States will obliterate them. So to all the people listening, if this diplomatic effort fails. President Trump is going to take the Strait of Hormuz. We’re going to run it. We’re going to try to get Saudi Arabia to join the Abraham Accords and the Arab-Israeli conflict in 2026. And if Iran continues to attack Israel and Lebanon, the new policy will be will hit Iran. So to the Iranians, if you’re listening, when you use Hezbollah to attack Israel, I think the new policy will be we will attack Iran.”

For now, if any money is given to Iran, that's wrong. But Graham's got a point that diplomacy is not a good option, and definitely not if it wasn't used in the approach to Afghanistan and Iraq years ago.

JD Vance sets a most divisive example

I don't know what exactly is in the final "deal" between the USA and Iran, something I'll try to comment on another time, but for now, vice president J.D. Vance is not improving the situation with attacks on Israel in regards to Lebanon:

The harsh criticism leveled against Israel by U.S. Vice President JD Vance has sparked angry reactions.

Republican Senator Rick Scott of Florida wrote: “Israel is our greatest ally and strongest partner in the Middle East. The evil Iranian regime wants to wipe BOTH of us off the face of the Earth. That will never happen because we will ALWAYS stand together."

“America’s unwavering support for Israel’s defense helps make the America First agenda possible, the U.S. stronger, and the world a safer place," he stressed.

Professor Jeffrey Lax of New York University, a prominent activist for the Jewish community and in the fight against antisemitism and discrimination against pro-Israel professors and students, was even sharper in his criticism.

“The most sickening part of JDVance's mid-book tour press conference? Right here, where he accuses Israel(!) of attacking civilian population centers in Beirut when every honest person on earth knows it is exactly the other way around," Lax said.

“This man CANNOT be our next president," Lax declared.

The criticism was also echoed by the “Green Prince," Mosab Hassan Yousef, who lives in the United States.

"Israel is not a client state. It is a sovereign, independent, and powerful nation. Its strength has never depended on any foreign leader, it comes from its own people. While the partnership with the United States has been valuable, Israel has never been a burden. It has delivered massive contributions to American technology, medicine, cybersecurity, and defense, far beyond what most Americans realize. At a moment when America is facing deep internal and external challenges, turning against one of its most capable and loyal allies is not just shortsighted, it is self-destructive. Those who believe they are weakening Israel by attacking it are actually weakening America’s own interests," Yousef said.

During a White House briefing yesterday (Thursday), Vance claimed that Israel was bombing Lebanon indiscriminately.

Based on what Vance has done, no, he's not fit to be the next presidential candidate. And we shouldn't buy his books either. So he obscures the Hezbollah's evils, and rails against Israel instead? Vance has really disappointed.

Update: on the subject of Iran, they've backed out of the deal signing in Switzerland, and Vance has delayed a trip there. So what's being accomplished so far when the deal may be questionable at most?

Update: the Federalist is making things worse by fudging the exact details, and makes it sound like it's wrong to destroy a terrorist organization, and as though Iran's literally right to defend said monsters:

Israel’s targeting of Hezbollah in Lebanon has been a point of tension during negotiations with Iran, sometimes breaking ceasefires and jeopardizing the openness of the Strait of Hormuz. Israel has also killed negotiators from Iran in the past in the middle of talks.

Israeli attacks in Lebanon have reportedly resulted in tense phone calls between Trump and Netanyahu, in which Trump has reportedly said his Israeli counterpart has “no f-cking judgement” during the negotiating process.

This is insulting to the intellect, and could also explain why the same news writers seem disinterested in freeing all Iranian citizens who don't want to wear outfits like the chador. This can also explain why there are certain commentators on the right, in and out of Israel, who find the way this has been handled troubling, and don't sound optimistic this'll go over well.

Reintegrating Haredis into wider society will be expectedly difficult

Michael J. Salomon and Louis Libin give some observations as to what's wrong with the ultra-Orthodox mindset that's led to shocking contempt of wider society to the point they'd block transportation on the roads:

The haredi (ultra-Orthodox) world has long stood apart, wrapped in its own traditions and ways, but lately, the gap between its insular mindset and the broader society, which includes the National-Religious and a large part of the Yeshiva world, has grown alarmingly wide.

This divide isn’t just about religious practice or lifestyle choices; it’s about a dangerous attitude that echoes some of the very forces that led to the destruction of the Beit Hamikdash – the most sacred site in Judaism. [...]

This sense of entitlement is rooted in narcissism, a belief that they are somehow superior to the rest of society. It’s a psychological state where the self inflates to ridiculous proportions, creating a delusional bubble where reality is distorted.

People caught in this mindset genuinely believe they are better, holier, or more important than their neighbors, to an extent that can defy compassion.

This isn’t just arrogance. It’s a dangerous delusion of grandeur from some. Those who hold these beliefs have convinced themselves that their community’s way is not only right but inherently above the rules that bind everyone else.

This thinking fractures the social fabric because it undermines the principle that we all share responsibility for each other. When a group believes it can opt out of contributing to the common good while still drawing heavily from society’s resources, it breeds resentment and division. It’s a betrayal of the values that hold a nation together.

The behavior of some members of this community in public spaces only deepens the crisis. Their presence in street protests or confrontations often comes across as an embarrassment, not just to the broader society but to their own heritage.

It’s painful to think about the grandparents and great-grandparents who served the nation, who sacrificed for the collective good, seeing their descendants acting in ways that seem to reject those very ideals. The older generations understood the meaning of contributing to the nation’s welfare and respecting laws.

But the real question isn’t just about judgment or moral outrage. It’s about solutions: how do we address this behavior in a way that restores balance and fairness?

How do we reintegrate a community that seems to be isolated, entitled, and that threatens social cohesion? One idea that came from a young voice in this conversation was to arrest those causing disruption and then require them to perform support work for the army.

Something they shouldn't be allowed to do is bear arms, because if they could assault people and commit vandalism and arson, who knows how long it could be before the criminal offenders are willing to attack with knives and guns? What they definitely need for now is a good psychologist, and it can't be according to the permission of their spiritual gurus, that's for sure. Even then, reintegrating them will sadly take ages.

The haredi world stands at a crossroads. It can choose to embrace a path of integration and shared responsibility, honoring both its heritage and its place within the larger society. Or it can continue down a road of division and entitlement, risking further isolation and conflict. The choice will shape the future for the entire nation.

In the end, the solution is as much psychological as it is political. It calls for a reckoning with the narcissism and delusion that fuel this crisis, and a recommitment to the values that once united everyone.

Yes, that's correct, and exactly why the offenders badly need a shrink. That's probably one of the best ways to make them realize how badly they've screwed up, and apologize for the damage they've done.

Muslim identified as palestinian murdered German girl in Saxony

Another case of a "palestinian" Muslim who committed a misogynist murder in Europe, on a train in Germany (via Front Page):

The father of a German teenager murdered by a migrant on a regional train has questioned whether he and other bereaved parents could be treated as right-wing extremists after Saxony-Anhalt’s domestic intelligence agency cited an Alternative for Germany (AfD) politician’s remarks about “murdered children” in its classification of the party’s state branch as an extremist organization.

According to Apollo News, the Office for the Protection of the Constitution in Saxony-Anhalt justified its classification of the AfD state association as a confirmed right-wing extremist organization in part by pointing to the party’s migration rhetoric.

The agency’s report accuses the AfD of being “essentially permeated by the racist ideology of ethnopluralism” and says the party promotes the vision of ethnically homogeneous states. It claims that such a vision amounts to “the expulsion of all ‘aliens’.”

Among the examples cited as “xenophobic agitation” were a carnival speech by AfD deputy state chairman Hans-Thomas Tillschneider in which he claimed that illegal migrants “stream in here in masses and want to squander our money,” and a Facebook post from Oliver Kirchner, co-chairman of the AfD parliamentary group in Saxony-Anhalt in which he wrote, “Let us never forget the murdered children for whom this illegal and uncontrolled immigration by the established parties is responsible. It can happen to anyone in Germany, anytime, anywhere!”

He also called for the removal of those “on whose hands the blood of the victims is stained and who are responsible for these conditions.”

The reference to murdered children has now become the center of a wider dispute after Michael Kyrath, whose 17-year-old daughter Ann-Marie was stabbed to death on a train near Brokstedt on Jan. 25, 2023, publicly challenged the state government.

Ann-Marie was killed alongside her 19-year-old boyfriend, Danny, by a stateless Palestinian man who had reportedly been released from custody just days earlier despite a history of violent crime.

Since his daughter’s murder, Kyrath has become a prominent voice among bereaved families demanding answers over violent crime, immigration, deportation failures and political accountability.

It's terrible what happened to the man's daughter. And this is what's bound to happen to all sane countries that allow even "palestinians" through the gates. What the monster did makes clear how ungrateful men like him are to the countries that welcome his ilk to their countries.

How LGBT movements became so full of antisemitism

Here's a discussion of the antisemitism that's prevalent in many LGBT movements:

Pride began as a celebration of survival. The foundational belief was simple and radical: the closet is a form of violence. Hiding who you are does real damage. A generation of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and trans people built something extraordinary on that premise — legal rights, visibility, cultural legitimacy — and taught the world that no one should be forced to choose which part of themselves to suppress in order to be accepted.

That same movement is now asking Jews to leave their Star of David at the door.

Eve Barlow has been documenting this inversion from the inside. As a lesbian Jewish journalist who spent the first decade of her career at NME and writing cover stories for GQ, Elle, and The Guardian, she was woven into the fabric of progressive cultural life.

In 2019, she started saying one thing out loud: that the anti-Zionism rising around her was antisemitism in a new coat. The world that had welcomed her turned on her. She named her Substack after what followed: Blacklisted.

Thrown Out for Wearing a Star

In the week before this conversation, two married Jewish women, both American, one American-Israeli, walked into a queer women’s sauna night in Barcelona wearing Stars of David. What happened next was not spontaneous.

Barlow, who has spoken directly with the couple, believes the organizers were alerted in advance. The interrogation was initiated by a trans woman, a deliberate choice in Barlow’s reading: the trans identifier carries the highest position in the current oppression hierarchy, which offers maximum plausible deniability and minimum capacity for the targets to push back without being framed as the aggressor. The questions were calibrated: “We have no problem with the star. We have a problem with Zionists.” A second figure appeared, fluent in English, smugly explaining to two Jewish women that Zionism and Judaism are not the same thing.

The three perpetrators, once identified, were a trans biology teacher, a sociology doctorate at the University of Barcelona, and a queer lawyer who is also an author and parent.

No doubt, the "trans identifier" is a man, and any man who identifies that way is very deliberately considered superior to women in every way in far-left circles. And now the antisemitism that was surely long there is coming to the fore, as Ms. Barlow's found out the hard way. There's more to be read, but for now, this should serve as an important lesson why it's ill-advised to pander to leftist causes, because they will not "have one's back", as pro-Israel sources must surely assume. The LGBT movement is surely anti-Torah too, and that says quite a bit as well.