“During their meeting, Netanyahu and Trump discussed the next phase of the campaign, preventing Tehran from obtaining nuclear weapons and intensifying pressure on the ayatollah regime. Israeli officials say there was no pressure for withdrawals from Lebanon, Gaza or Syria”

Posted on July 30, 2026 by ArchitectGuy

ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS)
Trump and Netanyahu’s meeting masks the hard choices ahead on Iran
Shirit Avitan Cohen
July 29, 2026

Neither the official briefing for the Israeli media nor the hints provided to the American press revealed the substance of the understandings. The outcome of the meeting will instead become apparent in the United States’ next steps against Iran’s ayatollah regime. Despite reports ahead of the meeting, Israeli officials said Netanyahu did not present intelligence intended to draw the US into any particular military strike. They described the atmosphere as relaxed and friendly. Trump not only praised himself as Israel’s “No. 1 friend,” but also lavished praise on Netanyahu. Members of the Israeli delegation were surprised to find that US Vice President JD Vance was also part of what they described as the meeting’s “warm atmosphere.” The tone of the meeting is an important part of the story. It was the eighth meeting between the Israeli prime minister and the US president, and it came at a critical juncture in the campaign against Iran. READ MORE

ISRAEL HAYOM Nearly half of Americans support arresting Netanyahu Nearly half of Americans believe the United States should arrest Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu under the warrant issued against him by the International Criminal Court, according to an Economist/YouGov poll published Tuesday night as he visited the White House. Forty-nine percent of respondents said Netanyahu should be arrested upon arriving in the United States, compared with 27% who said he should not. The partisan divide was clear: 68% of Democrats supported his arrest, compared with just 24% of Republicans. The poll also found that 47% of Americans believed Netanyahu’s actions had damaged relations between the United States and Israel. That view was shared by 61% of Democrats and 30% of Republicans.

MEDIA LINE Pickaxe Mountain Exposes Divide Between President Trump and Netanyahu on Iran, Expert Says Hours before Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu entered the Oval Office on Tuesday, President Donald Trump publicly questioned why the Israeli leader had announced that he was bringing new intelligence about an Iranian site known as Pickaxe Mountain. “I don’t need Bibi to tell me that. Bibi is telling me that because he wants me to stay involved,” President Trump told Fox News. He then sharpened the rebuke: “Why don’t you just tell it to me? Why do you have to announce it to the world?”

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“I spent my entire career helping progressives get elected. Then I watched my party abandon everything it claimed to stand for”

Posted on July 29, 2026 by ArchitectGuy

JEWS UNDER SIEGE
Jewish Politicians Campaign to be Eaten Last
Kenneth Levin
July 27, 2026

…Much of the Jew-hatred is, of course, cast in the guise of anti-Israel sentiment, and many American Jews choose to believe that the anti-Jewish animus so prevalent in today’s America, predominantly (though not exclusively) coming from the political Left and Islamist sources, is secondary to anti-Israel animus. But those who do so are willfully ignoring obvious counter-evidence. This includes, particularly, the far Left and progressivists’ wide adoption of CRT and DEI characterization of Jews as owing their success in America to their being exceptionally unfair beneficiaries of white privilege. It is a characterization derived from Soviet propaganda, where social dynamics are deemed zero-sum affairs and any success of one group is at the unfair expense of everyone else. In the antisemitic dialectic of the Soviet Union, Jews were capitalist exploiters and Israel (after its success in the 1967 war and subsequent creation of the alliance between the U.S. and Israel) was a capitalist colonialist enclave imposed on the Middle East. READ MORE

FREE PRESS The Inside Story of How Democrats Lost the Working Class On Tuesday, I voted for Donald Trump. It felt like the biggest middle finger I’ve ever raised to the party I’d supported for most of my adult life. When he won, I was utterly euphoric.” These are the words of Evan Barker, writing for The Free Press on November 9, 2024. A lifelong Democratic operative from a working-class family in Kansas City, Missouri, she’d spent her career getting progressives elected. Then, as she put it, the Democratic Party “turned its back on me and my family.” At the time, Evan’s story captured a trend playing out across the country: The working class, once a cornerstone of the Democratic coalition, was drifting away from the party. Now, with the progressive wing ascendant and the midterms approaching, that shift has only become more consequential. But how exactly did it happen? And what do Democrats need to do to win back the voters they lost? 

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“A shooting at a Jewish bakery is only the latest in a wave of antisemitic attacks causing a growing number of Canada’s Jews to flee”

Posted on July 29, 2026 by ArchitectGuy

FREE PRESS
Jews Are Leaving Canada in Droves
Casey Babb
July 28, 2026

Gad Saad has lived in Canada since his family fled Lebanon in 1975 after someone showed up at their home to kill them. But last month, the professor of marketing and evolutionary behavioral sciences announced on social media that he had given up on Canada and decided to leave. “The taxation system is astounding, rendering it nearly impossible to accumulate enough money to truly retire,” Saad wrote about the first reason for his decision. It’s true. The typical Canadian pays 70 percent more in income taxes than the typical American. The second reason is far more alarming. “The government’s open immigration policies have made it unsafe for my family to remain here (due to the exponential increase in Jew-hatred),” he wrote…Saad’s decision made it even more painfully obvious that Canada has an antisemitism problem READ MORE

TABLET MAG Imagine There’s No Jews: On the right or left, it’s easy if you try We often say antisemitism is a shape-shifter, as though it merely changes vocabulary over time. That is too comforting. The remarkable thing about antisemitism is not that it evolves. It is that it travels. It migrates effortlessly between ideologies that otherwise define themselves by mutual hatred. It can speak the language of blood and soil or the language of decolonization. It can invoke Christ or human rights. Perhaps that is because antisemitism is less an ideology than a political reflex. Most prejudices belong to a particular worldview. Antisemitism belongs to all of them. It survives revolutions because it answers a need that revolutions never eliminate: the need to explain why history has failed to produce the promised redemption.

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Factors of antisemitism: “Whatever U.S. President Donald Trump’s flaws may be—and they are many—he is unquestionably a tribune of the working- and lower-middle classes that the upper-middle class regards as its inferiors”

Posted on July 27, 2026 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
America’s upper-middle class antisemitism
Benjamin Kerstein
July 27, 2026

…Sadly, America today provides a somewhat different but nonetheless suitable case study in class-based antisemitism because we find ourselves in a rather remarkable situation: Contrary to the expectations of generations of American Jewish activists and leaders, current antisemitism is not an ideology of the poor and lower-middle classes. It has emerged, instead, as the ruling passion of many members of the most privileged, educated and elite sector in the United States. One of the reasons for this is the strange phenomenon of the lumpen elite. That is, America’s upper-middle class is now beset by terrors and discontents because it is already beginning to dissolve as a dominating class, and it knows it. To this, a solution must be found—a “safety valve” for that class’s fear and resentment. The preferred solution appears to be hating the Jews. There are numerous reasons for this fear and resentment. The upper-middle class has always put its faith in the higher education industry, which has proved to be a scam that fleeced generations and left them unable to retain the elite status they thought they had earned. READ MORE

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“America never agreed to a world tribunal that can override our own courts and the Constitution”

Posted on July 25, 2026 by ArchitectGuy

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE
Why We’re Dismantling the ICC
Secretary of State Marco Rubio
July 14, 2026

Most of us would struggle to imagine a world in which U.S. soldiers, police officers, Border Patrol agents and elected leaders could be dragged before an international court, tried by judges from random countries across the globe, found guilty under international laws we neither consent to nor control, and then imprisoned thousands of miles from America. But that is what the International Criminal Court now claims the power to do. The ICC was born at the turn of the century. At first, it was marketed as a narrow backstop to prosecute the gravest crimes. Now the ICC and its allies seek a standing world tribunal with near-unlimited reach, empowered to override the courts and constitutions of the U.S. and other sovereign states—and to prosecute and arrest our citizens. READ MORE

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“Jesse Jackson’s daughter has revealed that she has converted to Judaism, describing how the late civil rights leader supported her decision and even joined her at a synagogue before his death ”

Posted on July 24, 2026 by ArchitectGuy

THE JEWISH NEWS
Jesse Jackson’s daughter reveals she has converted to Judaism
Annabel Sinclair
July 24, 2026

Writing in an opinion piece for The Washington Post, Ashley L. Jackson said she completed her conversion on 12 June after what she described as a years-long spiritual journey shaped by study, illness and a growing connection to Jewish life. Jackson, a writer, producer and founder of the nonprofit Push The Next Generation, said her father attended a Shabbat service at her synagogue two years before he died, where he joined in the celebration despite coming from a Baptist Christian background. She wrote: “As the Saturday morning service proceeded, my father sat in the front row – holding my hand, dancing to prayers in a language he did not speak, eating the Sunkist candies the congregation had tossed to celebrate a bar mitzvah.” READ MORE

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“The modern “Palestinian” identity was invented for the explicit purpose of destroying the Jewish state”

Posted on July 24, 2026 by ArchitectGuy

FUTURE OF JEWISH
The Israeli Occupation That Must End
Nachum Kaplan
Jul 25, 2026

Israel’s alleged occupation of Judea and Samaria and Gaza grabs the headlines but is nothing compared to its biggest occupation, which is that of the Western mind. The Jewish state has no interest in this occupation, but the Western mind will not let it go, no matter how many stage hypnosis tricks Israel pulls to break itself free. Israel has psychologically occupied the Western imagination. A country smaller than many American states, containing a fraction of the population of the Middle East and fighting conflicts that are nowhere near the world’s largest or bloodiest, commands an astonishing share of Western moral attention. It is discussed with an intensity normally reserved for superpowers, civilisational threats, and celebrities behaving badly in restaurants. Governments issue statements. Universities convene panels and protests. Artists sign letters. Trade unions pass motions. Actors who cannot locate their own dignity suddenly locate “Palestine.” READ MORE

FUTURE OF JEWISH Melissa Brodsky: Jews were the original Palestinians In 1938, someone living in Tel Aviv (the first modern, all-Jewish city) reading the morning news was likely looking at The Palestine Post. A classical music fan attending a concert would probably watch the Palestine Symphony Orchestra. A builder needing a loan for a Jewish settlement went to the Anglo-Palestine Bank. They were Jewish, and they were Palestinian. Today, that sounds very much like a contradiction. People have been brainwashed to view the word “Palestinian” as an exclusive ethnic and national identity belonging solely to the Arab residents of the region. But history leaves a very long paper trail, and those documents show a different reality. The current use of the word is a recent invention. It’s not born from ancient roots, but from a calculated political strategy in the 1960s. To understand how a word that once described Jews became the battle cry against them, it helps to look at the timeline.

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“For now, events in the Gulf are being treated as “foreign news,” with Israelis chiefly concerned about the impact on flights, but that appears likely to change soon. And there is no denying it: Something is amiss in relations with the White House”

Posted on July 23, 2026 by ArchitectGuy

ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS)
Netanyahu’s insistence offers a clear hint of what lies ahead
Amit Segal
July 23, 2026

“Call us when you’re serious,” US Secretary of State James Baker told the late Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir in the early 1990s. Under the current Republican administration, with the current Likud prime minister, Washington is still answering the phone. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump are speaking, although no longer every day. Something has been amiss in relations between the White House and the Prime Minister’s Office since the war with Iran became more complicated. The president’s inner circle is smaller and more closed than in previous administrations, and gaining access to it has become increasingly difficult. The Americans are making it clear to the Israelis that they are running the war and that everything is fine, thank you very much. But it is evident to everyone that Israel is moving into the back seat. READ MORE

ISRAEL HAYOM Lilach Shoval: Israel eyes new targets, more aggressive strikes in next Iran campaign As of this writing, although several Israeli municipal authorities have decided to open public shelters, the IDF Home Front Command has not changed its instructions for civilians. But after the experience of the past year during Operation Rising Lion and Operation Roaring Lion, local authorities and the public alike are clearly reading the signs and understand that Israel may once again be heading toward another round of fighting with Iran. Israel has, in fact, dramatically raised its alert level since the beginning of the week. Until now, the level of readiness was considered “high.” The Israel Defense Forces are now at maximum readiness and prepared for any development at extremely short notice. In effect, the Israeli security establishment is ready to carry out any decision the political leadership may make. 

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Murray: “The mayor accused Israel’s leader of genocide and the maiming of children. And he wants to make an enemy of America’s closest ally”

Posted on July 21, 2026 by ArchitectGuy

FREE PRESS
Why Mamdani Is Targeting Netanyahu
Douglas Murray
July 22, 2026

Sometimes you wonder why a person went into politics. Other times, you know exactly why they did. For Zohran Mamdani, yesterday was a case of the latter. On Tuesday evening he released a two-minute video of himself, seated behind a desk, flanked by the flags of the United States and New York. He had arranged this posture—for posture it was—to announce a development in the case of Zohran Mamdani vs. Benjamin Netanyahu, otherwise known as Mamdani vs. the State of Israel. Attacks on Israel have been central to Mamdani’s political rise. He has spent his life marinating in postcolonial politics, Third Worldism, and anti-Zionism, and brings agitation, certainty, and ignorance to debates about the Middle East…Several things were obvious to any casual observer. The first is that the United Nations General Assembly occurs each September in New York. Therefore, there was always going to be an opportunity for a showdown. The second is that the mayor of New York does not have any right to run U.S. foreign policy out of Gracie Mansion. READ MORE

NEW YORK POST NYC attacker yelled ‘Allahu Akbar’ as he randomly stabbed two men near Central Park, according to victim, witnesses A deranged attacker yelling “Allahu Akbar” stabbed two men in separate attacks on the Upper West Side Thursday afternoon, Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said. Investigators were probing whether the suspect Raul Morales, 51, was motivated by hate..Morales, 51, allegedly jumped the first victim, a 57-year-old Asian man near West 84th Street and Central Park West, and stabbed him in the back with a knife at around 1:30 p.m., police and the sources said. The second victim, a 50-year-old man wearing a yarmulke, was attacked after leaving a synagogue at Amsterdam Avenue and West 86th Street, and stabbed in the torso with a screwdriver, according to cops and sources.

JNS Jonathan S. Tobin: The lies behind Mamdani’s Netanyahu stunt are the real threat It didn’t take a statement from President Donald Trump to ensure that New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani isn’t going to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu when he arrives in Manhattan for the annual U.N. General Assembly meetings in September. Like all world leaders, Netanyahu is protected by the terms of the treaty by which the United States secured the placement of the world body in New York City in the years after the Second World War. Moreover, the United States is not a party to the International Criminal Court in The Hague, whose corrupt former chief prosecutor, Karim Khan, indicted the Israeli leader on false charges of having “intentionally and knowingly deprived” Gaza’s population of food, water, fuel and medicine in 2024. Khan resigned under fire because of a different issue entirely: accusations of sexual misconduct.

JEWISH INSIDER ‘Shame on you’: Mamdani’s viral anti-Netanyahu video sparks fear among Jewish groups A video New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani released late Tuesday night — in which the democratic socialist railed at length against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu but confessed he couldn’t honor his campaign pledge to arrest him — triggered a wave of warnings from mainstream Jewish organizations that his singular focus on excoriating Israel from his official platforms places New Yorkers at risk. The mayor’s video, released on his office’s social media channels, ran with the tag “Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal” and denounced the Jewish state’s leader as “the architect of a horrific genocide…”

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“Herzog said it was his “dream” to see peace between Israel and Saudi Arabia and raised the possibility of direct negotiations supported by Washington”

Posted on July 20, 2026 by ArchitectGuy

THE MEDIA LINE
Rare Saudi-Israeli Media Contacts Re-emerge as Iran Strikes the Gulf
Giorgia Valente
July 21, 2026

Two unusual media appearances involving Saudi Arabia and Israel have revived questions about whether the countries are cautiously reopening channels as Iranian attacks place growing pressure on Gulf security. On July 16, Israeli President Isaac Herzog gave an exclusive interview to Al Arabiya English, telling the Saudi-based outlet that he wanted rapprochement between Israel and Saudi Arabia and expressing respect for Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman…Cyril Widdershoven, a geopolitical and energy analyst and senior adviser at Blue Water Strategy, views Herzog’s interview as a possible signal that Saudi-Israeli engagement is not completely off the table. “It was politically significant because of the platform, timing, and message,” Widdershoven told The Media Line. He said Al Arabiya is part of the Saudi media landscape and argued that giving Herzog a platform to discuss peace and praise the crown prince could have been intended to gauge public and regional reactions. READ MORE

TIMES OF ISRAEL Trump says Saudi civilian nuclear pact is conditioned on normalization with Israel US President Donald Trump said on Thursday that the agreement reached with Saudi Arabia for a civilian nuclear program would require Riyadh to normalize relations with Israel, prompting praise from the office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. In a post on Truth Social, Trump insisted there would be “no enrichment of material,” meaning the deal wouldn’t grant Saudi Arabia the right to enrich uranium on its soil.

TIMES OF ISRAEL US confirms signing a nuclear cooperation pact with Saudi Arabia, to Israel’s alarm Trump administration releases few details about agreement, which paves way for construction of uranium enrichment facility that could eventually be converted to develop nuclear bombs

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