Opposition grows against selling military planes to Turkey

Benjamin Netanyahu urged Donald Trump not to sell F35 jets to Turkey:

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu voiced strong opposition to the possibility of the US selling F-35 stealth fighter jets to Turkey, following comments by US President Donald Trump indicating that he is considering approving the deal.

In an interview with CNN, Netanyahu argued that such a move would undermine regional stability and reward a government that has repeatedly adopted hostile positions toward both Israel and the US.

"Turkey is not a friendly state to the US," Netanyahu said, describing the government of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan as "a regime that's infected with the Muslim Brotherhood, which hates the US."

Turkey under Erdogan has made clear they're as dangerous to Israel as Iran is, and the whole notion the USA would sell them military tools is despicable as it's also dangerous. Why, what if, just like Iran, Turkey's also working on nuclear development, and one day has weapons similar to what Iran's had until recently? Then nothing was solved to begin with. Also, what if Erdogan and his minions are planning to subject the country to Islamic sharia dictates? Another reason why they can't be allowed to posess western-developed weapons.

This issue comes as recent polls show Israelis are losing confidence in Trump on security issues:

The share of Israelis who believe that Israel’s security is a central consideration of President Donald Trump fell to a record low as Democratic support for Israel in the US continued to decline, according to two new polls on Tuesday.

A new poll from the Israel Democracy Institute found that, amid widening disagreements in Israel over US efforts to broker a new nuclear deal with Iran, the share of Israelis who believe Trump prioritizes Israel’s security had seen a “collapse" from 44% in May to 28% in June, pollsters said.

The survey, which polled 603 Jewish respondents and 151 Arab respondents from June 28 to July 1, found that among Jewish respondents, the belief that Israel can fully rely on Trump has plummeted by 38 points between March and June 2026.

Just over one-third of Israelis said they believed Israel’s strategic security situation is better today than it was before the war with Iran. The margin of error was 3.57 percentage points.

It's also reported a poll conducted in part by the AP Wire tells there's a considerable number of Jewish Americans who're hostile to Israel, and quite possibly even favorable to Zohran Mamdani. Assuming that poll has any weight to it, that too is disturbing, and very sad.

Update: also note how Trump's continuing relations with the new Syrian despot, Ahmed al-Sharaa, and that too is troubling.

Update 2: John Fetterman's the only liberal who's willing to oppose the sale of weapons to Turkey.

Jerusalem cafe should remain open on Shabbat, if that's how these Haredi thugs are going to behave on the very day

A cafe in Jerusalem works on Shabbat, and unshockingly, some Haredi hooligans decided to harrass customers:

The owner of Cafe Basimta in Jerusalem’s Nahlaot neighborhood, Yoel Ben David, clarified on Saturday in a conversation with Walla that he will continue to open his business on weekends despite the ultra-Orthodox protest that took place at his cafe.

The Jerusalem Post magazine had highlighted Cafe Basimta last week as a new specialty caffeine spot which could serve as a "home away from home" for those seeking a quiet area in Jerusalem.

Ben David described his fear that the protest could turn violent and noted that the broad support he received from Jerusalem residents encouraged him to continue as usual.

Speaking to Walla, Ben David described the tense moments and addressed the protesters’ use of children during the demonstration.

"Suddenly they arrived, and it was disturbing and quite sad to see small children being sent to bang on windows and overturn tables," Ben David said. [...]

Despite the protesters’ harsh response, the business owner is drawing encouragement from the mobilization of the city’s secular public. Several hours after the confrontation began, dozens of residents from across Jerusalem arrived at the site to express support and bolster the staff.

"I feel very encouraged; there is a large community here that supports us," Ben David concluded, adding that he was moved by the wave of messages and phone calls he had received from many residents since the morning.

It's far from the worst thing that could happen that a restaurant would be open on Shabbat, and offensive that the Haredis would come about in such a repugnant way. That's practically what led to October 7, 2023, and after that horror, these kind of offensive "protests" can't be done anymore.

Of course, we have to hope the police will make sure there's no attempts at arson, realizing the ultra-Orthodox extremists have been capable of committing offensive crimes like those that could endanger lives. Everything must be done to ensure that no matter what one thinks of Shabbat, no terrible incidents occur to this restaurant.

For 4th of July, Zohran Mamdani could only think to attack Trump's immigration policies

NYC's first Muslim mayor, despite trying to make it all seem to the contrary, attacked conservative figures like Donald Trump on the 4th of July with propaganda making no distinction between legal and illegal immigration:

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani used the nation's 250th anniversary celebrations on Friday, July 3, to deliver a speech defending immigration and diversity while taking aim at what he described as the "forces of division" shaping American politics.

Speaking from behind George Washington's desk inside New York City Hall, Mamdani addressed a room filled with recently naturalized American citizens holding US flags.

Although he never mentioned President Donald Trump by name, his remarks were widely seen as a response to the administration's immigration policies and political messaging.

[...] He went on to criticize what he called "small," "weak," and "unoriginal" ideas that define America through "the arena of supremacy, where only a select few are allowed freedom, where not all are created equal."

Yes, a world Mamdani's given his full backing to: a world governed by Islam. And according to Mamdani, the USA is not allowed to defend itself from the spread of Islamic sharia. Truly disgusting, right down to how he cloaks himself in propaganda using the USA flag to make it sound like he's literally a "patriot".

Most interesting besides this news is that his wife, Rama Duwaji, traveled overseas to spend time at an Islamic resort in Spain, which is pretty telling as well.

Once again, Mamdani's demonstrating how dangerous he is for America, as both a Muslim and a socialist.

USA administration cannot abandon the Iranian people who're oppressed

Jamie Fly and Katie LaRoque at Freedom House make a vital point why it's wrong for the USA administration to take any steps that would enable a sadistic dictatorship to remain in place and continue subjecting its citizens to horror stories:

In early 2026, when Iranian surgeon Alireza Golchini saw protesters with gunshot and stab wounds from the regime, he did what doctors are trained to do: he treated them. For that, Iranian authorities arrested him, charged him with “waging war against God,” and threatened him with a sentence that can carry the death penalty. His alleged crime was not violence or espionage; it was providing medical care to wounded Iranians.

His story is a reminder of a simple reality: the Islamic Republic is one of the world’s most repressive regimes. Just recently, a woman was sentenced to 74 lashes for singing in a YouTube video without a hijab, and a 17-year-old swimmer and boxer was sentenced to death for participating in a protest. The regime just executed another dissident, bringing the total number of political executions in 2026 to at least 45.

[...] For the Iranian people, however, the US-Iran deal as currently formulated is likely to deepen repression. It will strengthen the authorities that only months ago were imprisoning, executing, and killing Iranians in the streets for demanding basic freedoms and improved living conditions.

Late in 2025 and early 2026, millions of Iranians took to the streets in the most significant challenge the Islamic Republic has faced in decades. Authorities answered with a crackdown that left thousands dead and tens of thousands arrested. The regime also imposed a near-total internet shutdown that lasted for months, cutting Iranians off from one another and from a world that might otherwise have witnessed the scale of the violence. Yet reports indicate that a final agreement could bring this same regime sweeping sanctions relief, access to frozen assets, and billions of dollars in new investment. For Iranians who risked their lives demanding change, the likely outcome is not a more moderate government, but a more entrenched and repressive one.

[...] At a minimum, the United States should make any relief conditional on five things: the release of Iran’s political prisoners, an end to the executions handed down in protest cases, a binding guarantee against another nationwide internet shutdown, and the return of the Americans now imprisoned in Iran or barred from leaving—six by the assessment of the James W. Foley Legacy Foundation. Tehran should also be required to come clean about the fate of kidnapped former FBI Agent Bob Levinson and help his family recover his remains. These are among the clearest and most immediate signs of whether Iranian authorities are prepared to act in good faith.

See, these are vital reasons to topple a savage dictatorship, along with exiling monsters from what you would think civilized countries. I notice that Federalist editor John Daniel Davidson, who previously took disturbing positions that put his supposed understandings of reality under question marks, is now seemingly making valid points about the state of Europe while discussing SCOTUS' defeatist positions on birthright citizenship in the USA:

In countries like France and Britain, which have large numbers of Muslim migrants, this means multigenerational communities of non-citizens with a totally different cultural and political worldview — one that’s openly hostile to the host country. They will eventually, as they are beginning to do now, carve out their own insular polities within the nation, Balkanizing the country and destroying the possibility of republican self-government or even the possibility of national survival. An Islamified Britain will no longer be Britain, but something else.

Obviously, this can't go unopposed, but then, why did Dumberson oppose the war against Iran? Considering their Islamic tyrants were financing jihadism overseas, they could also be financing infiltration into the USA through illegal immigration, and does that sit well with Dumberson? Does it sit well with him that an innocent and defenseless woman could already have been tortured over an Orwellian Thoughtcrime? If he's not willing to approve of taking serious action against sadists in Islamofascist countries like Iran, then this current editorial of his rings totally hollow. That's why what he's saying now should be approached with caution, because it's not enough to defend just your home country, and to turn a deaf ear and a blind eye to the plight of innocent foreigners in distress is offensive, morally or otherwise.

If the Trump administration continues to allow the Islamofascist dictatorship in Iran to continue governing, it's always possible that could ruin election chances in mid-term. And if that's what happens, it'll make clear that when serious action isn't put to use, no matter the turnout, you cannot be surprised if the public will ultimately be disillusioned with the notion certain movements like conservatives really support responsibility, and applying equal standards everywhere. Also note how the Daily Caller is writing reports that're potentially hostile to Israel, which seem to be lamenting that Israel's military wanted to terminate "negotiators" from Iran, and you know something's wrong. If those very "negotiators" harbor Islamofascist beliefs themselves and are loyal to the dictatorship, why are they considered valuable? There are no doubt movements in the country that can be considered far better candidates for replacing the tyrants, and refusing to consider them only worsens the situation.

California state assembly takes lenient approach to sex offenders running for office

The California state assembly's Democrats refused to support a bill that would've prohibited sex offenders from running for office. And this was something a Democrat woman had brought in for a vote:

California lawmakers killed a bill that would have barred registered sex offenders from running for office Tuesday after advancing a similar bill allowing candidates who have committed sex crimes against minors.

Bill 2753, proposed by Democratic state Assemblywoman Esmeralda Soria in February, would have amended California’s elections code to prohibit all registered sex offenders from running for any state or local office, according to the text of the bill. The bill failed in the California Senate Elections and Constitutional Amendments Committee Tuesday after moving through the California State Assembly with bipartisan support, Los Banos Enterprise reported.

Bill 2691, introduced by Democratic State Assemblywoman Dawn Addis in February, is similar legislation that bans individuals convicted of specific felony sexual assault or human trafficking crimes from running for office. It passed the California Senate Elections and Constitutional Amendments Committee last week. Unlike Bill 2753, this bill does not cover all offenses requiring sex offender registration.

Before the Senate committee advanced the bill, legislators amended it by defining “sexual assault” so certain criminal convictions would not bar individuals from candidacy. Under the amendment, individuals guilty of sodomy, oral copulation, or sexual penetration against minors under certain conditions are not included under the definition of “sexual assault” and can still run for office.

What's happened in California now is just another reason why not to visit or support anything about the state. They have really brought themselves down to horrific levels with this kind of shunning of vigilance and responsibility.

As the USA celebrates its 250th, socialism is sadly on the rise

Several years ago, there were people who said they didn't want to vote for a socialist in USA elections. Now, as the USA celebrates the 250th year, it sadly appears the negative view on socialism has tragically given way to one that's favorable:

Rep. Matt Van Epps, R-Tenn., told the Daily Signal he will introduce a bill on the House floor Thursday to reaffirm the values of the Declaration of Independence in honor of its 250th anniversary and in response to the sweeping rise of socialism.

“Socialism is antithetical to the principles of the Declaration of Independence,” Van Epps told the Daily Signal in a statement Wednesday. “The idea of private property and entrepreneurship is intrinsic in the Founders’ idea of inalienable rights. In reality, a socialist regime would undermine—not protect—Americans’ rights to ‘life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.’” [...]

Schmitt told the chamber that America is forgetting the values that bind Americans to the Founding: “America’s deepest crisis is a loss of memory.”

“Only 28% of Democrats say they’re proud of America’s 250-year history,” he said. “Only 11% say America is the greatest country in the world. Only 27% plan to display the American flag this 4th of July.”

“That is a national forgetting made visible,” Schmitt warned.

Forgetting American values will result in the deterioration of the nation and the character of its leaders, Schmitt argued.

“A people that forgets its heroes will soon be ruled by men who despise them,” he told the Senate.

Darializa Avila Chevalier, who just won the Democrat primary for New York’s 13th Congressional District, calls herself a “democratic socialist” and co-founded Columbia University Apartheid Divest, an organization that pledged itself to the “total eradication of Western civilization.”

The organization also posted “Marg bar Amrika” after American airstrikes in February that killed Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Translated from Persian, the statement reads: “Death to America.”

Chevalier is projected to win her election in November and become a New York member of Congress. Her campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

This is truly horrific. Once, this may not have been considered a serious issue, but now, it's clear the USA does have a problem of socialists/communists as much as Islamofascists becoming accepted by the leftists in America, and dragging down the quality of life that way. Some could say the new communist movement in the USA is serving as a 5th column and aiding the Islamists that way. Worst, the problem can't be solved overnight. And it could get much worse before it gets better, if it ever does. Socialism has sadly taken hold, no thanks to Joe Biden when he was faux-president.

Update: and in a new poll, a majority of Democrats said they're fully favorable to socialism. Another sad sign where things are going now.

Oil can't be the only reason to go soft on Iran

Prof. Eyal Zisser spoke about how Donald Trump appears to have been lenient on Iran simply because of oil/fuel concerns:

Since US President Donald Trump signed the agreement with Iran that will bring the war to an end without achieving any of the goals he had set for himself, and worse, an agreement that strengthens the Iranian regime and grants Tehran the status of a regional power it never had before, Trump has repeatedly justified his surrender to the Iranians by saying that he did not want a "global economic catastrophe," and that because of the agreement, the stock market in New York "soared like a rocket" and oil prices fell dramatically.

Trump's remarks reveal a simple and bitter truth: economic interests dictate American policy, and they are the decisive factor. It is a pity only that Trump did not think all this through before withdrawing from President Barack Obama's nuclear deal from the previous decade, an agreement far better than the understandings he is now seeking to reach with the Iranians, or when he decided to go to war with Iran this past February.

It must be admitted that Trump is not the first president to give absolute priority to the economy and oil. One recalls the famous phrase attributed to an adviser to President Bill Clinton: "It's the economy, stupid." In other words, this is how the American voter makes his decisions, and so does any president who wants to be reelected or is thinking about his legacy.

It's certainly regrettable how everybody's dragging their feet in this whole aggravation, because here, the Bush administration of 2002 rammed Iraq straight through in not too much time, yet here Trump's going much slower, if at all, about battling Iran. And that doesn't bode well at all.

Iran violates supposed agreement

Just a week after the memorandum of understanding that Iran only signed electronically, they attacked a ship in the Straits of Hormuz with a drone, and now, the USA military had to strike back:

U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) announced Saturday that American forces carried out another round of strikes on multiple targets in Iran after a Panama-flagged oil tanker was attacked near the Strait of Hormuz.

The U.S. military launched new strikes against Iranian targets after Tehran allegedly ignored the ceasefire and launched a drone attack on a Panama-flagged oil tanker carrying more than two million barrels of crude oil.

“CENTCOM forces launched strikes today in direct response to continued Iranian aggression against commercial shipping,” Centcom said. “U.S. military aircraft targeted Iranian military surveillance infrastructure, communication systems, air defense sites, drone storage facilities, and minelayer capabilities.” [...]

The strike came two days after Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps allegedly attacked the Singapore-flagged M/V Ever Lovely in the Strait of Hormuz.

So now, the whole "agreement" - developed on the assumption Iran would actually surrender voluntarily in short order - is falling apart. Following this, will Trump's administration realize that a savage dictatorship built on the Religion of Peace won't cooperate unless they're made to stop following said religion? We can only hope more serious steps will be taken soon against Iran's monsters-in-charge.

Knesset resolution submitted to recognize Armenian Genocide

One of the Likud's members - and the foreign minister - is doing the right thing to take a legal step to recognizing the Armenian Genocide in Israel:

At the upcoming government meeting, Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar will propose a resolution for the official recognition by the Government of Israel of the Armenian Genocide.

The proposed resolution states that, based on a moral and historical obligation, Israel will recognize the genocide committed against the Armenian people during the final years of the Ottoman Empire. It further states that any denial, minimization, or distortion of the historical truth of these events must be condemned.

The resolution will subsequently be brought before the Knesset for approval as well.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu publicly recognized the Armenian Genocide for the first time in August 2025.

Every resolution like this brought to the table is a vital step towards improvement of foreign relations.