“Militarily, the war is going as well as could be envisioned, yet Democrats seek to turn it into another Vietnam or Afghanistan—hoping to win control of Congress at the expense of national security”

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The War—and the War on the War
Victor Davis Hanson
April 2, 2026

…The midterms are just seven months away. Historically, they should see the incumbent administration lose seats in the House and Senate, if not control of Congress. The left seeks to create such abject chaos that it can only be alleviated by the political destruction of Donald Trump. So the anti-war hysteria follows the pattern of the left’s embrace of Tesla vandalism, violent demonstrations against ICE, the incoherent “No Kings” protests, and three government shutdowns. Such nihilism shares a common trait of offering no positive counter-agenda. Yet the Democrats’ own brand is even more unpopular. And if Trump’s war ends with a defanged Iran and light casualties, Wall Street will dramatically rebound and oil prices will fall. With record slated foreign investment, massive deregulation, likely lower interest rates, tax cuts, and more energy production, by summer the economy—the real barometer of the midterm elections—could take off. READ MORE

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“Israel’s generals claimed to have the ability not only to disable Iran’s entire air defense network, but also to take out the regime’s top military leadership. One senior Israeli war planner said Trump and his advisers were disbelieving”

COMMENTARY
One American-Israeli Battle After Another
Eli Lake
April 2026

….Netanyahu’s tip, which led to the righteous undoing of the man who had ruled Iran since 1989, was just one element in a mosaic of information Israel provided to Trump that demonstrated just how thoroughly it had succeeded in penetrating Iran’s closed society (and the inner workings of its proxies in Lebanon and elsewhere). Nothing in recent history can compare to Israel’s efforts to look inside Iran as though it had its enemy country in an MRI machine. The world first got some sense of this in 2024, when former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad acknowledged in an interview with CNN that the man whom Iran’s counterintelligence bureau had placed in charge of a mole hunt for Israeli spies was himself Israel’s mole. Even despite this amazing bit of detail, and despite Israel’s history of inventive operations against Iran and its proxy networks since the October 7 attacks in 2023, Trump himself was not fully aware of the extent of its capabilities until they were demonstrated in June 2025. The 12-day war Israel launched against Iran culminated in a series of devastating American strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities in a 37-hour mission called Operation Midnight Hammer. READ MORE

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“US first sought to seize the 650 Fifth Avenue skyscraper in 2008, after learning of the Iranian government-owned bank’s secret interest in the property”

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Israeli victims of Iranian terrorism among those to be compensated after sale of NYC skyscraper
Danielle Greyman-Kennard
March 26, 2026

Victims of Iranian-sponsored terrorism are finally set to be compensated to the tune of $318 million after the sale of a 36-story commercial and office tower in Manhattan, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Jay Clayton, announced on Monday. The United States first made efforts to begin seizing the 650 Fifth Avenue skyscraper in 2008, after learning of the Iranian government-owned bank’s secret interest in the property. After more than 17 years of litigation, hundreds of victims of Iran-sponsored terrorism will finally be paid out, following a global settlement. Those being paid out include the American victims and family members harmed by Iran’s actions in Israel, including in the 2001 bombing of a Sbarro restaurant in Jerusalem, suicide bombings through the 1980s and 1990s, and the family of Rabbi Meir Kahane. READ MORE

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Financial Times: VW considering producing defense components for Israel

DEUTSCHE WELLE
Is VW eyeing Iron Dome parts production at German plant?
Arthur Sullivan
March 25, 2026

Volkswagen (VW) is in talks with the Israeli defense firm Rafael Advanced Defense Systems over a possible collaboration which would see production switch from cars to defense equipment at a key VW plant, according to a report in the Financial Times. The exclusive report in the newspaper, quoting people familiar with the plan, says the companies plan to convert Volkswagen’s struggling Osnabrück plant into a facility which makes components for the Israeli state-owned company’s Iron Dome air defense system. In response to queries from DW, a spokesperson for Volkswagen said “the production of weapons by Volkswagen AG remains ruled out for the future, and we do not engage in speculation regarding further plans for the Osnabrück site.” However, with the Osnabrück site scheduled to phase out its current production in 2027, the spokesperson said the company “continues to explore viable options” and is talking to various “market players.” READ MORE

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“Al Jazeera publishes op-ed speaking positively of American and Israeli strategy — a remarkable shift in tone from a state-owned outlet that has historically promoted the terrorist group Hamas”

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Has Al Jazeera Changed Its Editorial Direction?
Ahmad Sharawi and Natalie Ecanow
April 2, 2026

Veteran Al Jazeera analyst Leqaa Makki threw viewers a curveball during a recent news segment. He advocated for an escalation against Iran. A familiar face on the network since 2003, Makki argued that strategic sites, including power plants, electricity infrastructure and assets that would make ordinary Iranians “feel the impact of the war” should be hit, to potentially turn against them against the regime. Veteran Al Jazeera analyst Leqaa Makki threw viewers a curveball during a recent news segment. He advocated for an escalation against Iran. A familiar face on the network since 2003, Makki argued that strategic sites, including power plants, electricity infrastructure and assets that would make ordinary Iranians “feel the impact of the war” should be hit, to potentially turn against them against the regime. READ MORE

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“Even if you despise AIPAC and all it stands for, know that this blacklist is a win for the barbarians among us”

NEW YORK POST
This is a Democratic Party push to expel Jews from public life
Editorial Board
April 1, 2026

The Democratic Party’s growing antisemitic wing is out to blacklist support for Israel, or at least the nation’s main pro-Israel lobbying and political action group, AIPAC. Never mind that the American Israel Public Affairs Committee spends far less than other interest groups: Climate-obsessed California billionaire Tom Steyer, a prime AIPAC-denouncer, has spent much more on campaign donations all by himself these last few years. But such is the power of Democrats’ hard left that delegates to the Democratic National Committee’s April meeting will debate a resolution that first condemns “the growing influence of dark money and corporate-backed independent expenditures in Democratic elections” but then singles out only AIPAC as “undermining public trust in democratic institutions.” READ MORE

JNS Booker swears off ‘single-issue’ PAC funding, cutting off support from pro-Israel donors “The problem is money and politics,” the New Jersey senator told JNS. “And I think I want to lead by example.”

JNS CA governor candidate says ‘no place’ in politics for ‘dark money’ AIPAC Tom Steyer, a businessman who is running for governor of California, denounced the American Israel Public Affairs Committee on Monday. “AIPAC is a dark money organization that should have no place in our politics,” the Democrat stated.

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“By and large, the lovers of terrorist chic agree with the terrorists. They loathe the U.S. and Israel, and believe that horrendous violence against both is eminently justified”

FUTURE OF JEWISH
When Terrorism Becomes Fashion
Benjamin Kerstein
March 28, 2026

…The moral glamor of terrorism among certain classes — especially the privileged classes — may not be new, but it has gained immense momentum over the past 25 years. It began, perhaps, on 9/11, when millions of anti-American and antisemitic radicals the world over thrilled to the mass slaughter of thousands and the decimation of a symbol of the demonic capitalism and “imperialism” they so despised. Silently, Osama bin Laden became a hero to many and, if not that, at the very least a figure of sympathy and admiration: a bold warrior against the American/Israeli empire. However, terrorist chic exploded in full after the October 7th massacre, when thousands, if not millions, took to the streets across the U.S. and the West in general to celebrate the slaughter, accuse Israel of all manner of crimes before any military response had been undertaken, intimidate and attack Jews, and generally conduct themselves like demons. READ MORE

AFTER OCTOBER 7 Kevin Deutsch;An Antizionist Witch Hunt in Manhattan Dr. Logan Levkoff’s firing after 21 years at Stephen Gaynor School, following a parent-driven backlash to her Zionism, is part of a broad campaign to purge Jews who support Israel from public life

COMMENTARY Seth Mandel: The Real Reason Behind Israel’s Death-Penalty Bill Yesterday, Israel’s Knesset passed a landmark law that will nonetheless never see the light of day. In that case, the motivation for the bill is arguably more important than its content. The bill widens the application of the death penalty to include murders carried out to “negate the existence of the State of Israel.” Israel technically still has capital punishment on the books, but never invokes it, making it something of a dead letter. Nazi mastermind Adolf Eichmann was the last to be executed by the Israeli justice system—and that was in 1962 (and widely understood to be an exceptional case, for a million obvious reasons). There has long been advocacy for a death penalty for terrorists in Israel, but it has never passed. Now it has—and it will soon be discarded by Israel’s high court. 

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“The war powers resolution introduced by the far-left Democrat lawmakers does not mention Hezbollah’s ongoing attacks on Israel”

JEWISH INSIDER
Tlaib, Ramirez legislation aims to block U.S. assistance to Israel’s operations against Hezbollah
Marc Rod
March 30, 2026

A war powers resolution introduced by Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), Delia Ramirez (D-IL) and Nydia Velazquez (D-NY) on Friday would block any U.S. participation in and assistance to Israeli operations against Hezbollah in Lebanon….In a separate resolution also introduced by Tlaib on Friday, she accused Israel of “illegal invasion, war crimes, and ethnic cleansing” in Lebanon. The resolution does not include any mention of Hezbollah or its repeated and ongoing attacks on Israel, including the terror group’s most recent decision to attack Israel in solidarity with Iran, instead accusing Israel of decades of violations of Lebanon’s sovereignty, and of planning a genocide in the country. It further accuses Israel of more than 15,000 violations of the 2024 ceasefire agreement while overlooking the Lebanese government and Hezbollah’s failure to comply with the terms of the agreement, which required the disarmament of Hezbollah. READ MORE

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“From the West Bank to New York City, anything to distract from the obvious and looming threat of Muslim violence”

TABLET MAG
Why They Lie About ‘Jewish Terrorists’
Liel Leibovitz
March 29, 2026

…It’s an effective fairytale, in large part because the people it cast as its ogres—Jews living in their ancestral homeland of Judea and Samaria—have been derided for decades as bearded zealots committed to nothing but savagery, racism, and violence against their peaceable neighbors. But are the accusations true? And, if not, why are we seeing so many of them pop up? The first question is easy enough to answer. The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict has generated a cottage industry of NGOs, journalists, activists, advocates, and other interested parties, which means we’ve got great data on just about everything that happens in the narrow strip of land between the river and the sea. If violent settlers were running amuck perpetrating pogroms, we’d immediately see their crimes recorded. READ MORE

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“While my peers turned on Israel and the Jewish people, I became an unlikely inheritor of our ancient tradition”

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I Am an October 8 Jew
Olivia Reingold
April 1, 2026

Since October 7, I’ve found myself in some of the most hostile spaces to “Zionists” imaginable. At a conference in Chicago, I watched a room full of Marxists and anarchists chant “Death to America” and “Death to Israel” in Farsi. I had to file a police report against anti-Israel activists after they shoved me, tore up my notebook, and caused me to temporarily lose hearing in an ear. I’ve uncovered internal Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) discussions about whether a Star of David is a “de facto hate symbol.” That some of the most prominent advocates in this moment are Jews themselves turns out to be a painful yet familiar dynamic that emerges whenever Jew-hatred does. As some are pulled toward our people, others have embraced a revolutionary ideology that casts Jews, and the Western world, as oppressors. This delusion has claimed many of the Jews I grew up with. READ MORE

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