“Democrat’s letter asks Rubio and the administration to specify what Israel’s nuclear capacity is”

THE HILL
House Democrats urge Trump to address Israel’s nuclear program
Ryan Mancini
May 5, 2026

House Democrats on Monday urged the Trump administration to answer questions about Israel’s undeclared nuclear program. Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-Texas) and more than two dozen lawmakers signed a letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio about “multiple nuclear-armed states… directly involved in or immediately adjacent to” the U.S.-Israeli conflict in Iran. Castro and other lawmakers said that Iranian missile attacks have targeted Israeli nuclear facilities in Dimona following the initial U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran on Feb. 28…The Democratic lawmakers warn that Congress “has a constitutional responsibility to be fully informed about the nuclear balance in the Middle East.” They called for the Trump administration to hold Israel to the same standard as other countries with nuclear weapons programs like the United Kingdom, France, Russia, India, Pakistan, China and North Korea. READ MORE

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“How the Sulzberger family’s record of anti-Jewish bias helped turn the Times into a propaganda arm of the antizionist hate movement”

AFTER OCT 7
Today’s Der Stürmer: The New York Times Runs the Hamas ‘Dog Rape’ Libel as Fact
Kevin Deutsch
May 11, 2026

The New York Times ran the Hamas-originated “dog rape” libel this morning, claiming Israeli soldiers trained dogs to rape Palestinian prisoners and quoting anonymous Palestinians who allege they were dog-rape victims. Insane, yes. But unsurprising, considering the complete institutional capture of the Times by the antizionist hate movement and their shared anti-Jewish ideology. Antizionist propaganda is now the beating heart of the Times’ newsroom and opinion section, both of which are effectively pro-Hamas. Nicholas Kristof’s column, “The Silence That Meets the Rape of Palestinians,” describes an unnamed man saying he was stripped naked, blindfolded, handcuffed, and penetrated by a dog whose handler encouraged it in Hebrew. READ MORE

TIMES OF ISRAEL Prison Service: NYT article alleging widespread rape of Palestinian prisoners ‘entirely unfounded’ The Israel Prison Service firmly denies allegations in a New York Times article of “a pattern of widespread Israeli sexual violence” against Palestinian prisoners by soldiers, settlers, and prison guards. “The allegations raised are false and entirely unfounded,” the IPS tells The Times of Israel. “The Israel Prison Service is a security organization that operates in accordance with the law and under the strict oversight of numerous official inspectors.

ARUTZ SHEVA Does the New York Times want to kill Jews? Do Nicholas Kristof and his employers at the New York Times want to see more attacks on Israeli civilians and on innocent Jews around the world? They sure act like that’s exactly what they want to see. Kristof committed a crime against journalism in his latest attack on Israel. Without bothering to verify a single source, he spread a blood libel that is guaranteed to be used to justify more attacks on Jews. At a time when Jews are being stabbed and whipped on the streets of London, when synagogues in New York are targeted by genocidal maniacs, he chose to publish blatant lies about the Jewish State that are only believable to those who are certifiable or see Jews as genetically evil.

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“The base in Iraq allowed Israel to get closer to the battlefield. Israel’s air force carried out thousands of strikes against targets in Iran during the five-week campaign”

WSJ
Israel Built and Defended a Secret Iran War
Base in Iraq

Anat Peled and Jared Malsin
May 9, 2026

Israel set up a clandestine military outpost in the Iraqi desert to support its air campaign against Iran and launched airstrikes against Iraqi troops who almost discovered it early in the war, people familiar with the matter including U.S. officials said. Israel built the installation, which housed special forces and served as a logistical hub for the Israeli air force, just before the war started with the knowledge of the U.S., the people said. Search-and-rescue teams were positioned there in case Israeli pilots were downed. None have been. READ MORE

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“The US and Israel still hold the upper hand because the foundations of Iranian power have been systematically reduced in ways that will take years to rebuild, if they can be rebuilt at all”

URBAN WARFARE
Who has the upper hand in Iran?
John Spencer
May 10, 2026

One of the strangest habits in modern war analysis is how quickly survival gets confused with victory. Iran has not collapsed overnight. The regime still broadcasts threats, launches missiles and drones, and floods television and social media with declarations of imagined strength. From that surface-level reality, a growing chorus of commentators has rushed to claim that Iran has embarrassed the United States, exposed Israeli weakness, and seized control of escalation through its ability to threaten the Strait of Hormuz. Much of that analysis mistakes continued existence for strategic success and ignores nearly every measurable indicator of national power. READ MORE

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“The book doesn’t teach us how to grieve. It’s not about any one of our griefs. It teaches us what walking looks like when walking is the only thing left. Rachel parcelled out what she could not carry alone, and asked us to help”

FUTURE OF JEWISH
The Most Tragically Beautiful Book I’ve Ever Read
Adam Hummel
May 9, 2026

I stayed up late one night this week reading the book, “When We See You Again,” published last month and written by Rachel Goldberg-Polin — the mother of Hersh Goldberg-Polin, one of the Israeli hostages kidnapped on October 7th. It is the most tragically beautiful book I’ve ever read. Somewhere in the middle of the book, Rachel writes that she wants to parcel out the pain — to shove some of it under the bed in a pile. She describes how, when she went to summer camp as a child, her mom and family members used to write her so many letters that she started to give them out to other kids who had less, so that they also had something to read from home. She talked about parceling out her pain the same way she distributed her her mother’s letters at camp, for others to help her carry. READ MORE

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“The PRC imports something like 90 percent of Iran’s total oil exports, making it a true economic lifeline for Tehran – and giving it considerable leverage over the regime”

PRESENT DANGERS
Iran looms over the Trump-Xi summit
Ilan Berman
May 9, 2026

President Trump is headed to China this coming week for that long-awaited summit with Xi Jinping. The agenda is a packed one, because he and the Chinese president have a great deal of bilateral issues to talk about. Iran, though, is shaping up to be a significant subject as well, and it’s one that could influence all the others. Here’s what I mean. When the current conflict started back in late February, the White House was expecting it to be over by the time Trump made his way to Beijing. It was also pretty confident that the war would end in a way that gave the U.S. added leverage over the PRC. Things haven’t turned out quite so. More than two months on, the U.S. conflict with Iran is still simmering, despite the current ceasefire, and Washington is still trying to pressure Tehran into some sort of deal. READ MORE

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Max Long: “I was attacked for who I am, for being Jewish and Israeli and not being afraid to say that”

ABC NEWS
2nd man charged with attacking 2 Jewish students at DePaul campus in 2024
Mark Rivera and Barb Markoff, Christine Tressel and Tom Jones
May 7, 2026

A second man has been charged in a violent attack on two Jewish students at DePaul University in November 2024. The ABC7 I-Team has been following their story from the very beginning. The I-Team learned Kasem Noubani now faces battery and hate crime charges. He appeared in court Thursday. ABC7 Chicago is now streaming 24/7. A pair of masked men attacked Max Long, a reservist in the Israel Defense Forces, and his friend, Michael Kaminsky. Long was concussed and Kaminsky needed surgery after the attack…The other man charged, Adam Erkan, pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor battery charges last year…Erkan worked with authorities to identify Kasem Noubani as the second attacker, according to court documents. READ MORE

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“Had Trump allowed Israel one final operation in Iran, the IDF would have chosen to destroy the uranium. The Mossad, by contrast, would have chosen an all-out effort to stir Iranians into action and topple the regime”

ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS)
Israeli assessment: This is when Iranians will take to the streets to topple the regime.
Amit Segal
May 10, 2026

A severe dispute has erupted, and still persists, between the army and the Mossad over the ultimate goal of the war in Iran. The IDF views the removal of uranium from Iranian territory as the ultimate achievement. The Mossad, however, believes the objective is toppling the regime…The second approach argues: what good does it do to extract it via an operation or an agreement? If the regime stands, and even if tons of three-percent enriched uranium remain, you’ve only set them back a few years—a blink of an eye in geopolitical terms. A regime without sanctions will be richer, more despicable, and will want to destroy Israel just as before. Only regime change will uproot the plans for Israel’s destruction from the source…The practical expression of this lies in a hypothetical question: what happens if President Trump tells Israel, “You have a green light for one operation”? Most of the security establishment would say thank you and send the Air Force to raid the uranium stockpiles. READ MORE

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“Mohamed Soliman sentenced to life without parole for deadly firebomb attack on Boulder rally supporting Israeli hostages in Gaza”

ARUTZ SHEVA
Mohamed Soliman sentenced to life without parole for deadly firebomb attack on Boulder rally supporting Israeli hostages in Gaza.
May 7, 2026

A man who carried out a deadly firebomb attack on a demonstration in support of Israeli hostages in Gaza was sentenced on Thursday to life in prison without the possibility of parole after pleading guilty to murder and multiple other charges. Mohamed Sabry Soliman was sentenced in connection with the June 1, 2025, attack in Boulder, Colorado, in which one woman was killed, and more than a dozen others were injured. According to authorities, Soliman threw two Molotov cocktails at participants gathered at Boulder’s Pearl Street pedestrian mall for a weekly demonstration supporting the Israeli hostages held in Gaza. Karen Diamond, 82, later died from injuries sustained in the attack. Twelve others were injured. READ MORE

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“Expecting Hamas to disarm voluntarily is like expecting ISIS or Al-Qaeda to renounce jihad and become peaceful political movements”

GATESTONE INSTITUTE
Hamas is Humiliating Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’
Khaled Abu Toameh
May 7, 2026

Six months after US President Donald J. Trump unveiled his ambitious ceasefire and reconstruction plan for the Gaza Strip, the Iran-backed Hamas terrorist group remains more armed, entrenched, and openly defiant than ever. Far from disarming, the Islamist group now controls roughly half the Gaza Strip and much of its population, while making a mockery of Trump’s “Board of Peace” initiative and the international mediators sponsoring it. It is now clear that the Trump administration’s strategy was based on a misguided assumption that Hamas (a theocratic terror regime like Iran’s) could somehow be persuaded through negotiations, incentives, and diplomatic pressure to voluntarily surrender its weapons and abandon its jihadist ideology. The exact opposite has happened. Hamas not only rejected disarmament, but also used the ceasefire periods to solidify control, regroup politically and militarily, and humiliate the people negotiating with them. READ MORE

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