“Having the ability to deal with trade, having the ability to use tariffs to help me make a point,” he said.
“The tariffs have brought peace to the world, I’m telling you. They have brought peace to the world.”
Of the seven — soon to be eight — conflicts Trump has resolved in the first year of his second term, five of them were settled “through trade,” he said.
“We are not going to deal with people that fight,” he declared — and that firm rule “gives you a tremendous road to peace and saving millions of lives.” //
It was a revealing moment that showed us just how deeply Trump has tied his domestic program and his foreign policy priorities together.
The president designed his tariff regime to reshore manufacturing and end the fleecing of America by countries that flood our markets with their cheap goods while putting a tax on our exports.
But he’s simultaneously using it to accomplish all manner of policy wins — from stemming the free flow of fentanyl across our southern border to bringing India and Pakistan to the negotiating table to forcing Pfizer to lower the cost of prescription drugs.
His Middle East peace plan is just the latest example. //
Previous administrations based their Middle Eastern forays on the fiction of shared values, or the fantasy of exporting American-style representative democracy to people who don’t want it.
They spent trillions of taxpayer dollars and sacrificed thousands of American lives in service to these foolhardy notions.
Trump doesn’t believe in shared values — he believes in sharing value.
He’s not bent on exporting democracy, but on exporting exports. //
And by intertwining the US economy with theirs, Trump was signaling the kind of friendship whose currency runs much deeper than the fictional shared values of previous administrations.
For Trump, the currency is, well, currency.
His moves to solidify friendship via joint economic prosperity and shared interests were crucial to getting the Middle East deal done.
The two religious kibbutzim near Gaza are Sa'ad and Alumim. Sa'ad did not suffer a single death or kidnapping. Hamas terrorists did not enter Sa'ad even though it was less than a mile from Kfar Aza, where Hamas killed 54 civilians and kidnapped 20 others. Twenty-six IDF soldiers were killed trying to liberate Kfar Aza.
In Alumim, the town's armed security prevented Hamas from killing or kidnapping any Israelis. Hamas then targeted the Thai workers in the fields, killing 22 of them and kidnapping four. It is reasonable to assume that Sa'ad had armed security similar to Alumim, and thus, Hamas decided not to attack. //
In conclusion, gun laws that allow for personal gun ownership with fewer restrictions certainly help residents protect their families and homes from an attack. However, if the residents do not believe in purchasing firearms, then those laws are meaningless. Thus, even if Israel had allowed all of its civilians to purchase and carry guns without a permit, it is unlikely that it would have prevented the atrocities of October 7 due to the demographics that Hamas targeted that day. In short, many politically conservative Israelis hope their leftist counterparts wake up one day and understand the need to protect themselves without relying on the IDF or the police. Even after October 7, it remains to be seen whether that will be the case.
To anyone familiar with Hamas' history, there is a greater chance of winning the lottery without purchasing a ticket than of Hamas both releasing all the hostages and abiding by all the terms of the peace deal.
The Hamas terrorist organization is an expert at delay tactics. Since Trump forced Israel to unilaterally halt its offensive operations in Gaza, Hamas will use the talks to delay as long as possible to allow it to regroup and rebuild its tunnels and defenses.
Hamas agreed to release all of the hostages as a delay tactic and to flatter Trump's ego. At best, Hamas will release most of the hostages, but there will be some hostages that Hamas claims it cannot locate. What remains to be seen is how much Trump really wants a Nobel Peace Prize and how long he will allow Hamas to stall the talks. The other question is how much patience Netanyahu has before he orders the IDF to finish the job. //
Trump likely thinks that when Hamas fails to abide by the terms of the peace deal, the entire world will have Israel's back in its effort to finish off Hamas.
However, if Trump does believe that, then he is wrong. When it becomes obvious that Hamas is not going to agree to the peace deal and the IDF resumes the war, Hamas will scream from the rooftops, "We agreed to release all the hostages and Israel failed to live up to the deal," and then like always, the international media will spread this lie far and wide and countries like Canada, Australia, France and the UK will call for the recognition of a Palestinian state all over again.
Turns out anyone can join the International Association of Genocide Scholars. //
Any organization can claim to be an expert on genocide and recruit enough members committed to the destruction of Israel to say that the Jewish state is guilty of it. A functional media would weed out such imposters. Unfortunately, our media is uninterested in vetting its headlines—or even retracting the items proven to be untrue. In the current climate, news consumers should be advised to assume that everything they hear about Israel is an op until proven otherwise. That includes New York Times front page stories like the fake famine picture they published in July.
As for genocide, it really did happen during the Gaza War. What transpired in southern Israel on October 7, 2023 was genocide. It was unusual in a way that the perpetrators accused the Jewish state of that of which they are guilty themselves. Avraham Russel Shalev of Kohelet Policy Forum recently wrote a paper concluding that:
Hamas’ October 7 attack constitutes genocide under international law. This conclusion rests on three interconnected pillars. First, the physical acts committed—the systematic killing of over 1,200 Israelis, accompanied by torture, sexual violence, and mutilations—satisfy the actus reus requirement of the Genocide Convention. Second, Hamas’ specific intent to destroy Israeli Jews is evident through multiple channels: its foundational ideology of eliminationist antisemitism, its decades-long systematic policy of incitement, its detailed operational planning for mass killing, and explicit statements by its leadership before and during the attack.
What distinguishes this case, however, is the third element: the immediate deployment of reverse genocide accusation against the victims.
This is what the media defenders of Gaza call “every accusation is a confession,” only they direct their venom against the Jews. The Jewish case is persuasive. Will the media ever give it a minute of their attention? //
jb4 | September 6, 2025 at 9:37 am
Per Google and Al Jazeera about 65,000 of the 2.1 million Gaza population, or about 3%, has been killed in just under 2 years, most of whom would have been Hamas fighters. Given that Israel had the capacity to wipe out 100% of the population on October 8, this “genocide” may go down in history as the most incompetently ever conducted. /s
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🚨 JUST IN: President Trump wants total peace to break out in the Middle East. He has now called on EVERY country in the region to join the Abraham Accords.
7:33 AM · Aug 7, 2025
So far, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Morocco, and Sudan have endorsed the Abraham Accords. In the next phase of the diplomatic push, President Trump wants the leading Arab Gulf state, Saudi Arabia, to enter the framework agreement. “It’s my fervent hope, wish and even my dream that Saudi Arabia will soon be joining the Abraham Accords.” It will be a special day in the Middle East,” the president said during his visit to Saudi Arabia in mid-May. //
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#Breaking: The #IRGC intelligence org. of #Iran's Islamic regime has arrested nearly all top #Iranian nuclear scientists who weren’t assassinated by #Mossad. They’re accused of being Israeli spies—simply because Mossad didn’t kill them. Roozbeh Moradi was one of them who was Show more
9:19 AM · Aug 7, 2025
Nearly 90% of aid trucks collected by the United Nations along Gaza’s border didn’t make it to their intended destination since mid-May due to looting from starving Palestinians or “forcefully armed actors,” officials said.
The UN Office for Project Services (UNOPS) found that of the 2,604 aid trucks that entered the war-torn enclave from May 19 to Aug. 5, only 295 vehicles, or 12%, were spared from theft or mass looting, according to the agency’s Monitor & Tracking Dashboard.
Israel has repeatedly blamed Hamas for looting aid trucks, however, the UNOPS report did not name //
Israel has repeatedly denied that its forces have fired on aid-seeking Palestinians, with the military claiming to have only fired warning shots after groups were spotted trying to approach the food sites before they opened. //
As it faces global backlash over the ongoing war, Israel has maintained that the death and suffering falls on Hamas, which has rejected cease-fire deals calling for the terror group to disarm and exit the Gaza Strip.
“For decades, Israel has been observing activities inside Iran,” said Dr Efrat Sopher, an Iranian-Israeli analyst who chairs the Ezri Centre for Iran and Gulf States Research at the University of Haifa UK.
“Mossad has played a pivotal role in the success in thwarting the Iranian threat, where its successful operations vis-à-vis Iran and its proxies will be chronicled in the history books.”
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President Trump, before leaving the WH for NATO, reacts to the ceasefire being broken last night.
"These guys gotta calm down. It's ridiculous."
7:17 AM · Jun 24, 2025 //
Just an old soldier...
an hour ago
I understand that Trump wants peace. But the enemy gets a vote. If they say no peace, then you should give them what they want. Good and hard, until they beg for peace.
Real GOP 690 Just an old soldier...
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Agree.
"People want peace."
No, they don't. MAGA wants "peace", because the neocons once gave them a sad, and Democrats want "peace" because they have basically been p*ssies since Vietnam, and they oppose anything Trump does.
The problem is that Israel doesn't really want peace with Iran under its current leadership, and Iran certainly doesn't want peace with Israel under any circumstances. Israel wants regime change, and all Iran wants is time. This forced, premature and desperate "ceasefire", engineered by Trump because MAGA was starting to push back, will not hold, because neither Israel nor Iran really gives a shit if Trump's base gets squeamish every time a bomb drops.
WASHINGTON — President Trump announced in a Monday evening post on Truth Social that Israel and Iran have agreed in principle to a cease-fire that would halt what he branded “the 12 Day War.”
“CONGRATULATIONS TO EVERYONE! It has been fully agreed by and between Israel and Iran that there will be a Complete and Total CEASEFIRE (in approximately 6 hours from now, when Israel and Iran have wound down and completed their in progress, final missions!), for 12 hours, at which point the War will be considered, ENDED!” Trump wrote.
“Officially, Iran will start the CEASEFIRE and, upon the 12th Hour, Israel will start the CEASEFIRE and, upon the 24th Hour, an Official END to THE 12 DAY WAR will be saluted by the World. During each CEASEFIRE, the other side will remain PEACEFUL and RESPECTFUL.”. //
“We have to talk to Iran and, of course, Israel about what the future holds … to build a long-term settlement.”
Trump announced the apparent breakthrough hours after Iran lobbed rockets at an American military facility in Qatar in symbolic retribution for Saturday’s US bomb-and-missile attack on three Iranian nuclear sites.
The president said Tehran provided a heads-up in advance of its response and most of the rockets were shot down before reaching their target, the Al Udeid Air Base southwest of Qatar’s capital, Doha.
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What we said to the Iranians is we do not want war with Iran, we actually want peace. But we want peace in the context of them not having a nuclear weapons program. And that's exactly what the president accomplished last night. I really think there are two big questions for the Iranians here. Are they going to attack American troops, or are they going to continue with their nuclear weapons program? And if they leave American troops out of it, and they decide to give up their nuclear weapons program, once and for all, then I think the president has been very clear. We can have a good relationship with the Iranians. We can have a peaceful situation in that region of the world. //
we negotiated aggressively with the Iranians to try to find a peaceful settlement to this conflict. It was only when the president decided that the Iranians were not negotiating in good faith, that he took this action. He didn't take it lightly, but I actually think if provides an opportunity to reset this relationship, reset these negotiations, and get us in a place where Iran can decide not to be a threat to its neighbors, not to be a threat to the United States, and if they're willing to do that, the United States is all ears.
In the early hours of the war, it was reported that dozens of top Iranian military leaders were taken out in a single strike, and how that strike came to be is just as incredible as the result. According to a new report, the subterfuge used to get all those IRGC generals into a single bunker is like something right out of a spy novel.
Amit Segal told the Call Me Back podcast on Monday: “What Israel did was create a fake phone call for 20 members of the air force senior staff an calling them to a specific bunker in Tehran.”
This meant there was no one to give the order to fire the initial salvo of 1,000 ballistic missiles as Iran had previously threatened to do, he added.
) The added bonus for the Israelis was that Iranian military leadership was essentially crippled from the moment of Israel’s first strike against the world’s top sponsor of terrorism.
As The Chronicle reported, Mossad had used “falsified communications through Iranian channels” to call the meeting — which successfully lured “the entire senior leadership of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Aerospace Force, including Commander General Amir Ali Hajizadeh, his deputies, and key technical personnel, into a fortified bunker outside Tehran.”
Mossad, Israel's intelligence service, infiltrated Iranian backchannels and then placed 20 different fake phone calls to IRGC leaders. Those calls instructed them to all meet a reinforced bunker in Tehran, an order none of them questioned. It's safe to speculate that Mossad agents were on the ground to confirm their arrival, and shortly after, the entire place was blown sky-high. //
How did that happen? The answer lies in how antiquated and authoritarian Iran's military structure was and remains. When you serve at the behest of an Islamic dictator who tortures and kills people who step out of line, you aren't exactly in a position to question an order. When the calls came in to head to the bunker, wondering if things seemed a little suspicious wasn't an option. So all the generals blindly listened.
But weren't there just other leaders ready to step up and carry out the Mullahs' decrees? Not really. Unlike the U.S. military structure, where junior officers are trained and placed in a defined, highly redundant chain of command, Iran's top brass were insular loyalists. With them out of the way, chaos ensued.
President Trump’s vision for the Middle East is bold: bring Gulf states into the U.S. ecosystem through trade, investments, and partnerships; align Arab nations with Israel; isolate Iran, eliminating its nuclear enrichment capability; shift attention to countering China. He believes Qatar, lured by economic deals, will join the Abraham Accords and normalize ties with Israel — a grand coalition with the capitalist West.
It’s audacious. But is it realistic?
For more than 25 years, Qatar — a tiny Gulf emirate with roughly 300,000 citizens and 12 percent of the world’s natural gas — has used its obscene wealth as a geopolitical weapon to buy global power. The goal? Control the narrative, shape Western discourse, and whitewash its radical Islamist agenda behind a diplomatic mask.
Qatar’s American and Global Influence
This isn’t conjecture. It’s a sophisticated, calculated, and well-funded campaign. As The Free Press exposed in “How Qatar Bought America,” the influence Qatar gained in the U.S. has no modern parallel. Doha, Qatar’s capital, has spent nearly $100 billion propagandizing U.S. institutions — Congress, universities, media organizations, think tanks, and corporations. It has transformed Middle East studies programs into Muslim Brotherhood indoctrination mills, radicalizing students against America, Israel, and Jews. //
Qatar is hardly moderate. It is ideologically aligned with the Muslim Brotherhood — a transnational Islamist movement bent on establishing Muslim world dominance via a global caliphate under Sharia law. Its strategy is simple: ignite chaos, then offer to fix it — for a price. It wants to appear indispensable to all, but accountable to none. //
The Saudis, for all their flaws, have cracked down on the Brotherhood, opened to Israel, and eased some of their hardline policies. Qatar has done none of that.
In 2017, President Trump noted that the nation of Qatar “has been a funder of terrorism at a very high level.” //
American presidents must stop mistaking money for loyalty or diplomacy for morality. Hosting U.S. troops doesn’t grant absolution. Economic deals don’t erase terror ties.
If Trump’s visit becomes just a PR win for Doha, the message is damaging: buy enough jets, host enough troops, grease enough palms, and anything is forgiven.
Qatar is not a confused ally. It is a highly sophisticated player with a clear, dangerous agenda. That agenda is not ours.
President Trump has the leverage. He must use it — not to flatter, but to demand accountability. Insist on transparency. Force real change.
If he doesn’t, Qatar’s friendship will remain exactly what it has always been: a polished performance masking something far darker.
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There is little reason to accept the increased risk of a non stealth (non bomber), turbo prop aircraft like a C-130.
As someone has pointed out here, as long as we have undisputed, and unchallenged, control of the Iranian skies it doesn't matter whether we use a B-2 stealth aircraft or a C-130.
It may be more esthetically pleasing to use a B-2 but using a C-130 has one thing that using the B-2 can never have... the deniability that the US conducted the mission.
The implication isn't exactly subtle. Iran is now claiming it has a nuclear weapon to launch at Israel or U.S. positions in the Middle East. What that actually amounts to is a pretty big question, and there are two ways to look at this.
Firstly, I think you have to take this seriously. When a nation led by Islamist lunatics says they are going to launch a nuke, that's not something you can just write off as rhetoric. No doubt, Israeli and American forces are on high alert, and all possible countermeasures are ready to be used.
This does seem to put to bed the idea claimed by isolationists that the entire case against Iran is manufactured and that they had no intention of developing a nuclear weapon. As the vice president, who is the furthest thing from a warhawk, explained on Tuesday, the intelligence they've seen is clear, and even if it weren't, there is no other reasonable explanation for the levels of enrichment Iran has sought and achieved. //
What we do know is that given this latest threat, there's no way this war can end with a negotiated settlement that allows Iran to keep its nuclear program. That has to be completely off the table at this point, and all indications from President Donald Trump are that it is. The job must be finished, and Iran's nuclear threat taken off the board for good. //
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Gee, didn't Iran claim that their interests in nuclear research didn't include the development of a weapon because it was against their religion?
Now they are basically admitting that was a lie.
How surprising.
The poll, which was prepared by GrayHouse for the Senate Republican Committee, showed MAGA far from being fractured, with a staggering 80 percent of Trump voters voicing their support for the U.S. providing Israel with offensive weapons in its efforts to destroy Iran's military and nuclear capabilities.
That's not all. Poll results show that 83 percent of Trump voters support the strikes on Iran's nuclear program, with 72 percent supporting the U.S. taking "direct military action" to prevent Tehran from developing its nuclear capabilities. //
Perhaps the most telling bit of information to emerge from this new poll is how MAGA feels about relying on diplomatic efforts to resolve the escalating conflict. In short, they're against it, with 73 percent stating they don't trust Tehran to keep their end of any diplomatic deal. This is the number that shatters the narrative that one side of MAGA supports diplomacy while the other side is in favor of military action. MAGA, it seems, is united in its determination that ensure that Iran does not develop and use nukes, and they're behind the president taking all necessary action to stop them. The schism that some X users love to talk about simply doesn't exist.
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Israeli Prime Minister @netanyahu on intel of Iranian attempts to assassinate President @realDonaldTrump-- "he's enemy number one.." and on when he let President Trump know of the plans for launching the strikes #FoxNews #SpecialReport #Israel
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Netanyahu said his country was facing an "imminent threat" of nuclear destruction and was left with no choice but to act aggressively in the "12th hour."
"We were facing an imminent threat, a dual existential threat," he said.
"One, the threat of Iran rushing to weaponize their enriched uranium to make atomic bombs with a specific and declared intent to destroy us. Second, a rush to increase their ballistic missile arsenal to the capacity that they would have 3,600 weapons a year…. Within three years, 10,000 ballistic missiles, each one weighing a ton, coming in at mach 6, right into our cities, as you saw today… and then in 26 years, 20,000 [missiles]. No country can sustain that, and certainly not a country the size of Israel, so we had to act."
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Axios is reporting that Netanyahu and Trump pulled off a great deception as part of Israel’s preparation to strike Iran. If true, this would go down in history books.
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That seemed to be confirmed when the president put out the following post, which mirrored a longer post that slammed Iran for not taking the deal he put on the table.
Note: This is not the troll I'm talking about in the headline. That's coming next.
TRUMP: Iran cannot have a nuclear bomb, and we are hoping to get back to the negotiating table. We will see. There are several people in leadership that will not be coming back. //
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Israel put the "dead" in deadline. Kudos //
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Reminds me of Bruce Willis’ great line in The 5th Element-
“Anybody else want to negotiate?”
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Reminder that on April 12th, Trump publicly gave the Islamic Republic 60 days to seriously come to the table on dismantling their nuclear program or face military consequences.
Today was day 61….
When push came to shove, Thunberg ran away back to Europe instead of standing against what she falsely claims is a "genocide." She's not a revolutionary. She's just an attention-seeking fraud who wants to post selfies and get on television while not paying any cost for her radical activism. We've seen that dynamic play out many times, where Thunberg is "arrested" and released within hours. She's cosplaying.
The other part of this is that Israel was going to make her watch video of the October 7th attacks while in detention. Instead of facing the reality of what her Hamas buddies did, which just might push back on her narrative, she chose to flee at the first chance. That speaks to her complete lack of morality and authenticity. Even if one truly disagrees with how Israel is battling Hamas in Gaza, her complete obfuscation of Palestinian atrocities is the tell that Thunberg has no deep-seated belief about any of this.