“While the Israeli public is feeling despondent over the situation in the north and the terrible news from the drone battlefield, some are talking about a huge achievement and the possibility of years of quiet”

Posted on June 4, 2026 by ArchitectGuy

ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS)
How Hezbollah’s Oct. 7 was foiled at the last moment
Amit Segal
June 4, 2026

On the streets of Israel, it’s easy to spot the sourness and bitterness regarding the events on the northern front, from the children running to bomb shelters, to the devastating news from the drone fields across the border, and all the way to slamming the brakes on an attack in Beirut. The difficult conversation between Trump and Netanyahu didn’t help the feeling that there is a plan, either. These feelings do not reach the upper floors of the Kirya. At the top of the military, they speak of an achievement unseen in years, and of an opportunity for peace and quiet for many long years. Reconciling these two pictures is impossible, but describing them is. The IDF’s top brass is convinced that Hezbollah is a semi-dismantled organization that has absorbed the hardest blow in its history. It had thirty thousand fighters on October 6, 2023; since then, 8,000 have been killed and about the same number wounded. “Even a jihadist enemy is dying for a ceasefire.” READ MORE

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“Had Milo been harmed, let alone killed, it would have been viewed as a strategic victory for Hezbollah, since he would have been the highest-ranked Israeli commander killed during the war”

Posted on June 4, 2026 by ArchitectGuy

YNET
IDF general survives Hezbollah assassination attempt in southern Lebanon
Yossi Yehoshua
June 4, 2026

Hezbollah attempted to assassinate Northern Command chief Maj. Gen. Rafi Milo with an explosive-laden first-person view (FPV) drone during a recent visit to southern Lebanon, military officials said on Thursday. The drone struck Milo’s vehicle shortly after he had gotten out. No injuries were reported. The attack highlighted the growing danger Hezbollah drones pose to IDF troops in southern Lebanon and reflected the ongoing tactical learning battle between the sides, with security officials saying Hezbollah has largely pulled back from direct gun battles while increasingly using low-cost drones to target soldiers, vehicles and military positions, including at night. READ MORE

DRONEXL Hezbollah imports Ukraine’s fiber-optic drone playbook, and Israel has no jammer for it Hezbollah is now killing Israeli soldiers with the same fiber-optic FPV drones that reshaped the battlefield in Ukraine, and Israel’s main counter-drone tool, electronic jamming, does nothing to stop them. Since April 2026, drones guided by thin optical cables have killed at least ten Israeli soldiers and one civilian in southern Lebanon, according to figures reported this week. The weapons fly with no radio link to jam, throw almost no radar or thermal signature, and unspool a hair-thin fiber line that carries an uncompressed video feed straight back to an operator who may be more than a dozen miles away.

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“We brought the people of Lebanon to the understanding that we’re not the enemy. Hezbollah is,” said Yechiel Leiter, Israel’s U.S. ambassador.

Posted on June 4, 2026 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
Israel, Lebanon agree on plan to drive Hezbollah north of the Litani River
Mike Wagenheim
June 4, 2026

After a marathon negotiating session of over eight and a half hours at the U.S. State Department, Israel and Lebanon announced an agreement to “swiftly advance the creation” of so-called pilot zones to gradually drive out the Hezbollah terror organization from south of the strategic Litani River in southern Lebanon, and immediately replace control of those positions with Lebanese Armed Forces troops. The agreement, brokered by the United States, came at the conclusion of the second day of the fourth round of the historic direct talks between Jerusalem and Beirut in Washington. A ceasefire agreed to by the two sides is contingent on a “complete cessation of Hezbollah fire and the evacuation of all Hezbollah operatives from the South Litani Sector,” according to a joint statement released by the trilateral participants. READ MORE

ARUTZ SHEVA House soundly rejects Tlaib’s Lebanon war powers bill The US House of Representatives resoundingly defeated a war powers resolution on Thursday that would have mandated President Donald Trump withdraw American forces from unauthorized engagements in Lebanon, The Hill reports. The final tally on the house floor concluded at 324-92-2. A bipartisan coalition consisting of 207 Republicans, 117 Democrats, and lone Independent Representative Kevin Kiley of California united to block the measure…Introduced by Representative Rashida Tlaib, the failed resolution highlighted the lack of formal congressional consent for current military deployments…

TIMES OF ISRAEL Netanyahu downplays row with Trump, says he and US leader agree on the ‘main things’ Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed in an interview Wednesday that he held a difficult conversation with US President Donald Trump days earlier, but downplayed the significance of the matter and insisted that he and the American leader agree on “the main things.” The interview, which was conducted live by CNBC, came hours after Trump himself confirmed reports that he called Netanyahu “fucking crazy” during the Monday phone call, saying he was “perturbed” by the premier’s escalation in fighting in Lebanon.

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New poll data reveals that 87% of voters for Likud, Religious Zionism, and Otzma Yehudit – as well as 90% of Shas voters – support either full or gradual Israeli sovereignty in Judea and Samaria

Posted on June 4, 2026 by ArchitectGuy

ARUTZ SHEVA
New poll shows commanding majority favors sovereignty
June 4, 2026

A new poll published ahead of the Sovereignty Movement conference taking place this evening (Thursday) in Jerusalem, with the participation of ministers and Members of Knesset, shows that a majority of the Jewish public in Israel supports applying Israeli sovereignty in Judea and Samaria. A breakdown of the data according to voting patterns in the last election points to especially broad support among voters of coalition parties. Leaders of the Sovereignty Movement view the findings as further evidence of the dramatic shift that has taken place in Israeli public discourse since the outbreak of the war, and are calling for sovereignty to be applied even before the upcoming elections… According to the poll, 59% of respondents overall stated that Israel should apply either full or gradual sovereignty in Judea and Samaria. READ MORE

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“Hamawy won with only 28% of the vote — but since nearly all the other Democrat candidates were also anti-Israel, his terror-friendliness may have been an asset”

Posted on June 4, 2026 by ArchitectGuy

NEW YORK POST
Democrats need to stand up before antisemitism completely takes over their party
Post Editorial Board
June 4, 2026

Democrats’ welcome to the anti-Israel left has grown so bad that they’ve now tapped the next worst thing to al Qaeda associate for a safe House seat in New Jersey: The crazies are edging ever closer to being the party establishment. Primary voters in Jersey’s 12th District on Tuesday tapped radical Dr. Adam Hamawy; he’s a shoo-in in November. Even though he’s a longtime associate of terrorist mastermind Omar Abdel-Rahman, the “Blind Sheik” — and also volunteered with an al Qaeda-linked group in Bosnia and at a Hamas-friendly hospital in Gaza. Helping him over the top were endorsements from “Squad” Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), plus lefty Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) and socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.). READ MORE

MEDIA LINE New York Jews Wake Up at the Israel Day Parade Mayor Mamdani’s absence from a long-standing civic celebration left many Diaspora Jews feeling newly exposed in the city with the world’s largest Jewish population. The parade itself was a joyful celebration of the miracle of the State of Israel—its strength, its pride, its accomplishments, and especially its existence. It was a proud gathering of spectators and supporters, including Jewish Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch and Jewish former Mayor Michael Bloomberg, along with hundreds of Jewish and non-Jewish parade participants, including city officials, police, firefighters, and others. We cheered and waved American and Israeli flags, listened to music, and watched groups of youths, politicians, performers, and floats.

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Memo to Trump: Remind Americans it would be a dangerous mistake to give Iran more time and money to hold the international economy hostage, rearm, work on nuclear weapons, revivify terrorist networks, and slaughter more Iranians.

Posted on June 3, 2026 by ArchitectGuy

WASHINGTON TIMES
Letter to the POTUS: A few hopefully helpful notes on Iran’s “Islamic Revolutionaries”
Clifford D. May
June 2, 2026

…You might remind people, too, that the regime’s nuclear program has been significantly set back. According to David Albright of the Institute for Science and International Security and Andrea Stricker of FDD, prior to the Twelve-Day War, Tehran could produce enough weapon-grade uranium for a nuclear weapon in about a week. It could build a deliverable weapon in less than six months. Now they assess that timeline has stretched to at least 2–3 years. People forget that inaction is not cost-free. One example: Osama bin Laden declared war on the United States in 1996. Two years later, al-Qaeda bombed two U.S. embassies in Africa. President Clinton responded by lobbing some missiles at an al Qaeda camp in Afghanistan to no effect. The attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 followed. A nuclear 9/11 might not result in “Death to America!” – the vow Iran’s rulers have been repeating for almost half a century. But after such an attack the United States would never be great again. READ MORE

JEWISH INSIDER Fetterman warns Trump against caving on Iran nuclear deal Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) said on Tuesday that he is growing increasingly concerned that President Donald Trump may agree to a deal with Iran that does not ensure the retrieval of Tehran’s stockpile of enriched uranium or that the regime will never acquire a nuclear weapon. Fetterman, who has become the most hawkish Democrat in Congress on Iran and the sole member of his party to vote against every Iran war powers resolution in recent months, spoke with Jewish Insider in Washington about the possible outcomes of the ongoing peace talks.

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Classic projection: J Street’s Ben-Ami warns against nationalism rooted in fear, superiority, exclusion, domination, and suspicion of outsiders — all defining features of political culture throughout much of the Arab and Muslim world for generations”

Posted on June 3, 2026 by ArchitectGuy

FUTURE OF JEWISH
J Street is not being honest about Israel
Joshua Hoffman
June 2, 2026

…Ben-Ami writes that younger Jews are increasingly “drifting away from traditional support for Israel and toward visions such as a single binational state between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea.” Since when are any Jews outside of Israel entitled to determine Israel’s borders? Is it not whiny, condescending, and arrogant for people who do not live and have never lived in Israel to tell Israelis what their borders should and shouldn’t be? If Ben-Ami cares so much about younger generations of Jews, he should speak honestly about Israel, not brainwash them into thinking that the Jewish state is some cancer while nobody proposes dissolving Jordan’s Arab identity, nobody proposes dismantling Egypt’s national character, and nobody suggests that France, Greece, Poland, Armenia, Japan, or Ireland surrender their national identities in favor of multinational political experiments. In Ben-Ami’s mind, it is honorable for only the Jewish state to routinely be told that preserving its national character is morally suspect. READ MORE

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“This harebrained Dutch obsession with Israel reeks of dark motivations, especially considering that the Netherlands is drowning in an escalating immigration crisis that is fueling civil unrest”

Posted on June 1, 2026 by ArchitectGuy

GATESTONE
From Anne Frank to anti-Jewish Sanctioning: The Netherlands’ Betrayal of Israel
Wim Kortenoeven
June 3, 2026

The Dutch government’s descent into open hostility toward Israel has recently accelerated further under the minority coalition of Rob Jetten that was sworn in on February 23, 2026. What was once known as the “Country of Anne Frank,” a nation that had learned from its own role in the Holocaust, that faithfully represented Israel’s and Jewish interests in the Soviet Union from 1967 to 1990, and quietly delivered critical military aid during the 1973 Yom Kippur War, now leads the charge at the EU in Brussels to punish the Jewish state for the apparent crime of Jewish survival and sovereignty in the Jewish homeland…Not having been entirely successful on the EU track in punishing the Jewish state, however, the Jetten government recently announced unilateral Dutch sanctions: a trade ban on products from Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, East Jerusalem, and the Golan Heights. READ MORE

ALGEMEINER French far-left leader, presidential candidate under fire for antisemitism threatens Israel with military force The leader of France’s largest leftist coalition in parliament and a 2027 presidential candidate appeared to threaten Israel with international military action, marking the latest controversy surrounding the longtime anti-Israel lawmaker, who critics have accused of helping fuel the ongoing surge in antisemitism across France. On Sunday, Jean-Luc Mélenchon claimed that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is seeking to occupy southern Lebanon, where Israeli forces have been fighting the Iran-backed terrorist group Hezbollah, and called for an international military deployment against Israel. 

TIMES OF ISRAEL France bars Israel from leading defense expo, sparking outcry from Jerusalem Defense Ministry pans ‘disgraceful’ move by Paris to prohibit Israeli firms from showing offensive systems and ban government participation, amid growing strain between two nations

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“If Muslims are unwilling to stand up to the radicals and defend societies that have extended them a welcome, the obvious answer is that the group as a whole is too toxic to society to keep admitting them”

Posted on June 1, 2026 by ArchitectGuy

HOT AIR
Where Are the Moderate Muslims?
David Strom
May 28, 2026

It’s not exactly true that no moderate Muslims stand up against the calls to terror and radicalism of the extremists. I follow several who do, and there are now Gulf countries that are explicitly warning the West about the Muslim Brotherhood and other radicals. The UAE, for instance, will no longer fund students to study in London out of fear that the students will come back radicalized. But they are particularly rare, and especially so in Western countries, where most Muslims remain silent about the radicals, and where an awful lot of the worst extremists are quite open about their plans to bring down Western societies and Islamize them. The Palestinians, who are the new hot group of “victims” in the West, are notably excluded from settling in Muslim countries, which want nothing to do with them. A Palestinian “refugee” from Gaza will be welcomed in Europe, but not in Egypt, Lebanon, or Saudi Arabia. Because they are poisonous to civilization itself. READ MORE

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“When Israel is portrayed as uniquely evil, hatred rarely stops at Israel alone”

Posted on June 1, 2026 by ArchitectGuy

SUBSTACK
How Elite Media Narratives Fuel Modern Antisemitism
Frederick Tatala
May 27, 2026

When elite institutions repeatedly describe Israel using terms like “genocide,” “apartheid,” “ethnic cleansing,” “starvation campaign” and “war crimes,” they are not merely describing military events. They are constructing a moral framework in which Israel is no longer viewed as a flawed democracy fighting a terrorist organization, but as a uniquely evil state operating outside civilized norms. And history shows that when Jews are portrayed as uniquely evil, hatred escalates quickly. For centuries, antisemitism relied on monstrous accusations: Jews poisoning wells, murdering Christian children, spreading disease, controlling governments or engaging in ritual brutality. These lies became known as blood libels. Modern critics argue the language has changed, but the psychological structure often remains disturbingly similar. Today, Jews or the Jewish state are increasingly portrayed as genocidal, racist, sadistic, colonialist or uniquely cruel. READ MORE

NEW YORK POST Victim of vile antisemitic attack in NYC relives horrific moment hair was ripped out by maniac screaming: ‘Jews are eating kids’ A raging woman spewing antisemitic hate ripped out a hunk of a Jewish rider’s hair on a Big Apple subway Sunday and screeched, “Jews are eating kids,” according to cops and shocking video. The suspect, identified by police as Bronx resident Diana Smith, shouted an assortment of vicious remarks against Jews on the crowded C train around 2:15 p.m. in Lower Manhattan before she assaulted a 23-year-old Upper West Side woman, police said…The victim, a nurse and Montreal native, recalled to The Post that she entered the transit system at Jay Street and was riding for one stop when the suspect also hopped on and started speaking to a couple “about the dangers of Jews stealing wealth.”

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