Yesterday, a few hundred morons and vile America haters all got together, supposedly to protest the presence of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the United Nations in New York.
This was not about human rights. These people do not care one iota about human rights. The U.N. is filled with evil states pursuing the actual slaughter of civilians deliberately. These people were not there protesting any of that.
They were there to protest because that&#8217;s part of a gestalt. It&#8217;s part of a broader worldview. That worldview is simple: The West is evil. Anyone who is successful in the West or internationally, any country that is successful, is a victimizer. Any country that is unsuccessful — which can be defined by how much you love terrorism and how miserable you make your own citizens — all of those places are victims. All those people who actively do bad things in the world, they&#8217;ve been victimized by the system. And that&#8217;s why they are failures.
A lot of people are going to tell you about what happened inside the U.N. I don&#8217;t care what happened inside the U.N.; I&#8217;m much more interested in these dull-witted, malicious pieces of trash outside the U.N. than the dull-witted, malicious, and evil pieces of trash inside the U.N.
What happens inside the U.N. is inconsequential. The U.N. General Assembly is this gigantic event that is basically the Golden Globes for dictators. It&#8217;s a legitimacy-generating institution for people who deserve no legitimacy.
American taxpayer dollars should not be spent on this garbage heap of an institution. We should be pulling our money as fast as humanly possible.
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I noticed, by the way, all of the isolationists who are very keen on pulling military aid from Israel won&#8217;t say a word about pulling the multiples of money that we spend at the U.N.
The U.N. is a trash, garbage, horrific organization that requires between $66 billion and $69 billion each year. And we, the American taxpayers, pay for about a quarter of that — somewhere between $15 and $18 billion annually. We spend this on the U.N., which is the high school of international politics; it’s a wretched hive of scum and villainy.
Just take the U.N. Security Council, where Russia and China dictate international policy. We American taxpayers spend more on the U.N. each year than we do on the Coast Guard, the IRS, or the FBI and ATF. We spend about five times as much on the U.N. as we spend on, for example, military aid to Israel, which of course is the big bugaboo.
So I don&#8217;t care what happens inside the U.N., because in essence, it is irrelevant. Every so often they send a bunch of blue helmets to a place to not stop a mass killing or engage in the rape of civilians. The U.N. is a monument to human stupidity. I don&#8217;t care about an institution that stands by when there is actual genocide in Rwanda and mass slaughter in Somalia and Nigeria and Sudan and Ethiopia and Iran, and that acts as a cat&#8217;s paw for the world&#8217;s worst dictatorships.
The U.N. is inherently ridiculous. It always was ridiculous. It remains ridiculous today.
I am, however, worried about the people protesting outside. Why? In The Daily Wire&#8217;s new movie, “Run, Hide, Fight: Infidels,” there&#8217;s a message, which is that there is an insanity to the Red-Green Alliance — a suicidal insanity — between radical leftists and radical Muslims.
We are seeing that materialize not just on our streets, but in our government, in Congress; that&#8217;s what&#8217;s at stake.
Not Susan Sarandon getting arrested or Elliot Page trying to make a headline for something other than cutting off her body parts, or Hannah Einbinder desperately attempting to seek more attention. I&#8217;m worried about people who agree with Ayatollah Khomeini and Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar and Hassan Piker in Congress.
A bunch of people there weren&#8217;t just B-level starlets from Hollywood. There were people there who will be in Congress in about four months.
There is footage of the NYPD beginning to arrest people because they were obstructing traffic. The whole point was to get arrested. This includes Darializa Avila Chevalier, who is going to go to Congress in January because she&#8217;s in a blue district, and she won a primary over another fairly left-wing Democrat, Adriano Espaillat.
She is a nut job, and she was there. She got herself arrested.
These are people who are going to end up in Congress.
Adam Hamawy, who literally was a translator for the Blind Sheikh, the Egyptian imam who was convicted in 1995 for conspiring in connection with the World Trade Center bombing of 1993 and a broader terrorist plot to attack New York City landmarks. A man who once traveled to Bosnia to volunteer for an aid group that was a front for al-Qaeda. That guy is going to be sitting in Congress. He was also present at this protest.
Instead of supporting international law, we are supporting genocide. We are doing the opposite of what we should be doing. The whole point of the United Nations is to stop exactly what&#8217;s happening.
The United Nations has failed. We are enabling this to happen. And this can&#8217;t continue.

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Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations walked a Starlink internet terminal over to Iran’s delegation after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered a fiery speech at the U.N. on Thursday — but the Iranian diplomat refused to take it.
Ambassador Danny Danon <a href="https://x.com/dannydanon/status/2103228972767305919">posted</a> a video of the exchange on X, captioning it, “The Iranian representative didn’t want the Starlink,” followed by a sad-face emoji.
The video shows Danon carrying a Starlink device across the U.N. General Assembly hall toward the Iranian delegation.
“I thought it was appropriate to deliver the Starlink,” Danon told an Iranian diplomat seated at the delegation’s table. “If you heard the prime minister, it could be very useful for you to allow the Iranian people to get their freedom after what you did to them.”
“Do you want to take it and deliver it back to Tehran?” Danon continued. “It can be very useful for you in Iran. We love the Iranian people, and we pray for the regime change there. It will come that day.”
The Iranian diplomat, wearing a translation headset, did not respond. He avoided eye contact with Danon and looked away as the Israeli ambassador stood nearby holding the Starlink terminal.
The exchange came shortly after Netanyahu held up a Starlink communications terminal during his address to the General Assembly while discussing Iran’s restrictions on internet access.
“This is a communications device, Starlink, that allows people to access truth, to exercise choice, to exercise freedom of thought and freedom of speech,” Netanyahu said.
Netanyahu said he would leave the device with the president of the U.N. General Assembly so that it could eventually be given to Iranian officials who defect from the regime.
“So when they inevitably defect, they too will be able to freely tell their story on social media,” Netanyahu said.
After the Iranian regime cracked down on anti-government protests and restricted internet access, the Trump administration moved to help Iranians circumvent the government’s efforts to cut them off from the outside world. 
<a href="https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/u-s-smuggled-thousands-of-starlink-terminals-into-iran-after-protest-crackdown-69a8c74f">The Wall Street Journal</a> reported that the State Department purchased nearly 7,000 Starlink terminals, most of them in January, after senior Trump administration officials decided to redirect funds from other internet-freedom initiatives toward purchasing the terminals.
The terminals were intended to help anti-regime activists bypass internet shutdowns and get footage from inside Iran to the outside world, according to officials cited by the Journal.
The human rights organization Witness estimated in January that at least 50,000 Starlink terminals were operating in Iran, <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgzk91leweo">according to the BBC</a>, while activists said the number was likely to have increased. The Iranian government has sought to criminalize the technology. Legislation passed last year made using, buying, or selling Starlink terminals punishable by up to two years in prison, while distributing or importing more than 10 terminals can carry a sentence of up to 10 years, the BBC reported.
Netanyahu used much of his speech to defend Israel’s military campaign against Iran, including its strikes on the country’s nuclear facilities.
“Devastating Iran’s nuclear facilities was hard. It was very hard to do,” Netanyahu said. “But for me, it was one of the easiest decisions I’ve ever had to make as prime minister. Because if we hadn’t done it, we’d all be dead.”
He argued that Israel’s actions were also protecting other nations, including some of the countries whose representatives walked out of the chamber to make a spectacle.
“In defending itself, Israel is also defending many of the countries whose delegates just left this hall,” Netanyahu said, adding that some foreign leaders privately thank Israel for destroying Iran’s nuclear capabilities.
Before beginning his remarks, Netanyahu addressed the diplomats who had walked out of the chamber.
“Before I begin, just a quick announcement: If there are any other moral cowards who haven’t yet left this hall, please do so now,” Netanyahu said.
The Iranian delegation, which was absent during the speech, left a photograph of slain Iranian Quds Force commander Qasem Soleimani at its seat during Netanyahu’s speech. Soleimani was killed in a 2020 U.S. drone strike in Baghdad.
Netanyahu also praised President Donald Trump for his role in confronting Iran, calling him Israel’s “great American” partner.
“Decades ago, he understood that if left unchallenged, the fanatic Ayatollahs who chant ‘Death to America, Death to Israel’ would eventually carry out their mad fantasies,” Netanyahu said. “So Israel and America acted together, not only to protect ourselves, but to save civilization.”

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held up a Hezbollah pager during his United Nations speech Thursday, as dozens of diplomats walked out before he took the stage.
“Remember these things?” Netanyahu asked the audience, holding up the device. “Well, I can tell you this: Hezbollah certainly remembers them.”
Netanyahu was referring to the September 2024 operation in which thousands of pagers used by Hezbollah members exploded across Lebanon.
The Israeli prime minister touted Israel’s military campaign against Hezbollah, saying the terror group’s arsenal of approximately 150,000 ballistic missiles and rockets had been significantly degraded and that many of its leaders had been killed.
“Hezbollah’s leaders? Dead. Their spirit? Broken,” Netanyahu said.
Before beginning his remarks, Netanyahu addressed the diplomats who had walked out.
“Before I begin, just a quick announcement: If there are any other moral cowards that haven’t yet left this hall, please do so now,” Netanyahu said. “Thank you very much.”
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He also pointed to Israel’s strikes against Iran’s nuclear facilities, saying destroying the sites was “one of the easiest decisions” he had made as prime minister because failing to do so would have left Israel facing an existential threat.
“Devastating Iran’s nuclear facilities was hard. It was very hard to do,” Netanyahu said. “But for me, it was one of the easiest decisions I’ve ever had to make as prime minister. Because if we hadn’t done it, we’d all be dead.”
Netanyahu argued that Israel’s actions against Iran were also protecting other countries, including some whose representatives had walked out of the chamber.
“In defending itself, Israel is also defending many of the countries whose delegates just left this hall,” he said, adding that some foreign leaders privately thank Israel for destroying Iran’s nuclear capabilities.
The Iranian delegation also left a photograph of slain Iranian Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani at its seat during the speech. Soleimani was killed in a 2020 U.S. drone strike in Baghdad.
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Netanyahu also praised President Trump for his role in confronting Iran, calling him Israel’s “great American” partner.
“Decades ago, he understood that if left unchallenged, the fanatical ayatollahs who chant ‘Death to America, Death to Israel’ would eventually carry out their mad fantasies,” Netanyahu said. “So Israel and America acted together, not only to protect ourselves, but to save civilization.”
Netanyahu also went after New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
“Mr. Mamdani, since you were elected mayor of this city, many Jews no longer feel safe in New York,” Netanyahu said, claiming that Jews had told him, “This isn’t the city we remember; it changed so quickly.”
Netanyahu accused Mamdani of having &#8220;praised criminals convicted of supporting Hamas.&#8221; He pointed to Mamdani’s associations with individuals he said had supported Hamas, including leftist livestreamer Hasan Piker, whom Netanyahu noted had said: “America deserved 9/11.”
He also accused Mamdani of inviting into his home a Palestinian journalist who had filmed Hamas terrorists beating and torturing Israeli hostages and later acknowledged refusing to publish the footage to protect the terrorists. Netanyahu further pointed to posts he said Mamdani’s wife had “liked,” including one praising the October 7 massacre and another saying Tel Aviv should not exist.
“You refuse to condemn any of that,” Netanyahu said. “You falsely and repeatedly accuse Israel of genocide.”
Netanyahu’s comments came after Mamdani had called him a “war criminal” and said he would seek to have him arrested if he came to New York. Mamdani’s administration later determined that the city lacked independent legal authority to enforce the International Criminal Court’s arrest warrant.
“Mr. Mamdani, you tried to stop me from coming here, you tried — you tried to silence me,” Netanyahu said. “Well, you can’t silence me, you can’t silence the truth.”
The Israeli leader then turned to what he called the “eighth front” of the war: the battle over Israel’s image in the international media and on social media.
“It’s the war for truth,” Netanyahu said. “It is waged in the world’s media and, most perniciously, on social media.”
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Netanyahu went after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan during his U.N. speech, accusing him of backing Hamas and calling for Israel’s destruction.
“He says he&#8217;s going to be the ruler of Jerusalem,” Netanyahu said.
“No, sir. You won&#8217;t. This is our country, our city, our… <a href="https://t.co/wtIJqm4HAd">pic.twitter.com/wtIJqm4HAd</a>
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Netanyahu accused Qatar and Turkey of spending billions of dollars to spread what he described as “antisemitic lies” about Israel. He specifically targeted Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, accusing him of hosting Hamas leaders, calling for Israel’s destruction, and seeking greater control over Jerusalem.
“He says he’s going to be the ruler of Jerusalem,” Netanyahu said of Erdogan. “No, sir. You won’t. This is our country, our city, our eternal capital.”
Netanyahu also accused Erdogan of “murdering thousands of Kurdish civilians,” denying the Armenian genocide, jailing journalists and opposition leaders, illegally occupying northern Cyprus, and regularly transgressing against Greece.
Toward the end of his speech, Netanyahu held up another device — a Starlink communications terminal — as he addressed Iran’s restrictions on internet access.
“This is a communications device, Starlink, that allows people to access truth, to exercise choice, to exercise freedom of thought and freedom of speech,” he said.
Netanyahu said he would leave the device with the U.N. General Assembly President to pass on to the Iranian delegation, which was absent from the hall.
“So when they inevitably defect, they too will be able to freely tell their story on social media,” he said.
Netanyahu also addressed the persecution of Christians across the Middle East, contrasting their declining numbers in the region with Israel, where he said the Christian community is “growing, thriving, and succeeding.”
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He pointed to Bethlehem as an example, arguing that Christians were pushed out after the city was transferred to Palestinian Authority control.
Netanyahu also highlighted the ongoing threat to Israelis in Judea and Samaria, also known as the West Bank, arguing that international attention has focused disproportionately on a small number of problematic settlers while overlooking Arab terrorist attacks against Israeli civilians.
He cited the recent attack on Neria Leiter, a reserve soldier who was mowed down by a Palestinian terrorist and is fighting for his life in a Jerusalem hospital. Leiter is the son of Yechiel Leiter, Israel’s ambassador to the United States.
Netanyahu said he had visited the Leiter family before traveling to New York and noted that Yechiel Leiter’s oldest son, Moshe, was killed three years ago while clearing a booby-trapped building in Gaza.
“Despite the pain, despite the agony, we do not give in,” Netanyahu said.

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Netanyahu Tells UN ‘Moral Cowards’ To Leave, Then Tears Into Mamdani

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The years-long intelligence operation that simultaneously exploded thousands of pagers in the pockets of Hezbollah terrorists is getting a tell-all, featuring firsthand accounts from both Benjamin Netanyahu and the former head of Israel&#8217;s Mossad spy agency.
Netanyahu is among several high-profile figures featured in “<a href="https://paginghezbollah.com/">Paging Hezbollah</a>,” a new documentary from director Justin Folk that dropped its first teaser on Thursday morning. The director behind hit Daily Wire documentaries &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/videos/am-i-racist">Am I Racist?</a>&#8221; and &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/videos/what-is-a-woman">What Is a Woman?</a>&#8221; says his new film gets to answer the question everyone was thinking after Israel took credit for the attack that hit thousands of terrorists: &#8220;How did they pull that off?&#8221;
&#8220;I’m thrilled that our team gets to answer that question,&#8221; Folk told The Daily Wire. &#8220;The Israeli pager operation was as imaginative as it was improbable. This is the inside story told by the people directly involved, and the story is more fascinating than one could imagine.&#8221;
&#8220;It’s rare to be able to do a film about a historical spy operation with this level of access,&#8221; Folk said.
The trailer showcases Netanyahu, who has said little on the attack beyond confirming that it was indeed Israel behind it. In the trailer, he refers to the pagers as a &#8220;handful of TNT [that] changed the world.&#8221;  
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The September 2024 operation centered on pagers used by Hezbollah members, with the devices detonating across Lebanon and Syria. The attack was followed the next day by explosions involving Hezbollah’s handheld radios. 
The operation left 42 dead and another 4,000 injured, <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/11/6/lebanon-files-complaint-against-israel-at-un-labour-body-over-pager-attacks">according to</a> a Lebanese minister who is also part of Hezbollah. Victims suffered the loss of fingers, hands, eyes, and injuries from shrapnel. 
The operation has since become one of the most closely watched examples of intelligence and supply-chain infiltration in modern warfare. Little, however, is known about the behind-the-scenes work that went into building the pagers, how they were placed with Hezbollah, and how Israel decided to use them. 
The filmmakers behind “Paging Hezbollah” say the film will lay out how Israel was able to penetrate Hezbollah’s communications network by engineering the devices, infiltrating the supply chain, and ultimately convincing Hezbollah to adopt technology it believed was secure.
The film calls the pager operation a culmination of years of planning and deception rather than a single strike conceived and executed overnight. The documentary’s synopsis says it will examine how the devices at the center of the operation were “engineered, marketed, and smuggled in before anyone knew what it was.” The film will trace the operation from its origins through its eventual activation.
Beyond Netanyahu, the film also features rare interviews with then-head of Mossad, David Barnea, and the former director of the Central Intelligence Agency, David Petraeus, who calls the operation a “modern-day Trojan horse.” 
Other interviews in the film include former Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren, former U.S. intelligence official Matthew Levitt, former head of Israel’s National Security Council General Jacob Nagel, and former Israeli intelligence official Sarit Zehavi.
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The trailer presents the operation as a potential turning point in the conflict, with interviewees discussing the strategic significance of striking Hezbollah’s communications network.
The documentary promises to go beyond the widely reported explosions and examine the intelligence operation that made them possible.
“Many people heard about the pager operation and wondered how it was even possible,” Folk explains. “We wanted to tell the actual inside story — years of patience, engineering, deception, and tradecraft that seem more like fiction than fact.”
“We aimed to make the film of record for the operation, so we went right to the source,” Folk said. “The deeper we went, the more incredible the real story became.”
The film is set to hit theaters on October 30.

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President Donald Trump and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani plan to meet for their third in-person meeting at the mayor&#8217;s residence on Monday. 
Presidential visits to Gracie Mansion are rare. John F. Kennedy went in 1962, when Robert F. Wagner Jr. was mayor, and Ronald Reagan followed in 1981. A White House official confirmed to the Daily Wire that a meeting would take place there but declined to share further details. The Mamdani administration hasb said only that &#8220;the meeting will focus on issues affecting New York City and New Yorkers.&#8221; Trump and Mamdani will meet on Monday before the U.N. General Assembly, which is held in Manhattan. 
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is also expected in town — the same leader Mamdani once declared &#8220;not welcome in New York City&#8221; after his administration examined whether it had the legal authority to execute the International Criminal Court&#8217;s arrest warrant against him and concluded it did not.
Trump had assured Netanyahu on Truth Social that he &#8220;will not be arrested, in any way, shape, or form, while in the United States of America.&#8221; The next day, Mamdani urged the federal government to join the ICC and execute the warrant.
It will be the latest chapter in an unusually active relationship between a sitting president and a New York City mayor.
Trump met with Eric Adams twice in 2025, once at Mar-a-Lago before taking office and once at the White House, but Monday will be his third meeting with Mamdani in about ten months. Mamdani and Trump discussed housing issues in New York City and the possibility of Trump giving New York City federal money to build new homes. 
Mamdani was <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/20/politics/mamdani-trump-nyc-meeting">reportedly</a> asked about meeting with the President last week. He said, “When it comes to the president, we continue to have a conversation about how best to deliver for this city. That is a conversation that has been done in person, it’s been done over the phone, and it will continue so long as either of us have the ability to deliver for the city.”
In February, Mamdani presented Trump with a mock newspaper cover reading &#8220;Trump to City: Let&#8217;s Build&#8221; — a nod to the New York Daily News&#8217; famous October 30, 1975 headline: &#8220;Ford to City: Drop Dead,&#8221; published after President Gerald Ford refused to bail out the city during its fiscal crisis. Mamdani called that meeting productive. The two did not take press questions afterward, a change from their first meeting in November, when they welcomed reporterrs into the Oval Office.
&#8220;I think you&#8217;re going to have, hopefully, a really great mayor,&#8221; Trump said then. &#8220;The better he does, the happier I am.&#8221;
Before that meeting, Trump had called Mamdani a communist, and Mamdani had called the president a fascist. &#8220;Communist Mayor of New York City, Zohran &#8216;Kwame&#8217; Mamdani, has asked for a meeting,&#8221; Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-to-meet-with-communist-zohran-mamdani-at-the-white-house">posted</a> on Truth Social.

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In a high-stakes operation in Western Gaza City, a specialized joint force from the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and the Shin Bet security agency successfully captured Moein Al-Arabid, the head of Hamas’s internal security and intelligence apparatus.
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‼️⭕APPREHENDED: The Head of Hamas’ Internal Security in Gaza, as part of a targeted operation to remove threats posed by Hamas in northern Gaza.
The apprehended terrorist has recently worked to consolidate Hamas&#39; control over northern Gaza and to advance terrorist attacks…
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The capture marks a critical intelligence breakthrough for Israel. Often referred to as the leader of the &#8220;Palestinian Shin Bet,&#8221; Al-Arabid was grabbed near his home. <a href="https://www.news18.com/world/hamas-top-commander-captured-in-gaza-netanyahu-says-he-helped-hide-move-israeli-hostages-10304951.html#google_vignette">According</a> to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Al-Arabid played a pivotal role in managing internal intelligence, directing counter-intelligence, protecting senior leadership, and hiding and relocating Israeli hostages taken on October 7, 2023, during the horrific Hamas massacre.
Israeli officials further accused the former Qassam Brigades figure of attempting to reconstruct Hamas’s operational capabilities and restore its administrative governance in Gaza.
Al-Arabid&#8217;s capture provides Israel with an unprecedented window into the inner workings of Hamas’s security architecture and hostage-network infrastructure. The imperative to secure such high-level intelligence is underscored by the horrifying, documented atrocities of the October 7, 2023 attacks.
The full magnitude of October 7 is preserved in the IDF’s 47-minute <a href="https://www.ynetnews.com/magazine/article/b1pnmg9up">unedited compilation</a> film, Bearing Witness to the October 7th Massacre. Assembled by reservists Yuval Horowitz and Matan Harel-Fisch, the raw footage captures a relentless killing spree across more than 30 southern Israeli communities and the Supernova music festival. Relying entirely on GoPro footage worn by terrorists, civilian dashcams, home security systems, and victim cell phones, the film provides undeniable courtroom evidence of unspeakable cruelty.
The visual record exposes terrorists firing point-blank into civilian vehicles, setting homes ablaze to force families out, and murdering toddlers in their beds. In one devastating CCTV sequence, a father leads his young sons into a bomb shelter before a militant throws a grenade inside, killing the father and leaving his wounded children to flee back into their home while the attacker calmly raids their refrigerator.
The film documents victims being executed, disfigured, stripped, and paraded through Gaza to cheering crowds, with terrorists celebrating and filming their actions in real time.
Beyond the raw footage, a <a href="https://cc4e0711-9401-400e-ae14-65ae0400675b.filesusr.com/ugd/aab121_882e9391df384e169d29f16c0faefeac.pdf">landmark May 2026 report</a> by the Civil Commission on October 7th Crimes further illuminated the systematic nature of the violence. Based on more than 1,800 hours of analysis, the report concluded that Hamas utilized sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) as a calculated, integral weapon of war.
Investigators documented 13 distinct patterns of abuse, including gang rapes at the Supernova festival, sexual torture, postmortem mutilation, and &#8220;kinocidal&#8221; acts forcing family members to abuse each other. Arabic-to-Hebrew phrasebooks recovered from dead militants contained explicit commands like &#8220;take off your pants.&#8221; The commission cited the documents as evidence supporting its conclusion that sexual violence was premeditated.
The apprehension of Moein Al-Arabid represents a monumental victory for Israeli intelligence. Interrogating the mastermind behind Hamas&#8217;s internal security offers Israel vital insights to dismantle Hamas’ remaining terrorist networks.

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Jewish Republicans were encouraged to give Vice President JD Vance a “warm welcome” ahead of his speech to the Republican Jewish Coalition by former Israeli Ambassador Ron Dermer, a close confidant of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Dermer, who served as Israel’s ambassador to the United States from 2013 to 2021 and later as the country’s minister of strategic affairs, spoke to the gathering just before Vance addressed the conference Monday night. He praised Vance’s support for Israel and his role during the 12-day war between Israel and Iran in 2025, telling attendees he was grateful for the vice president’s actions at a critical moment.
Dermer’s remarks came as Vance has faced criticism from some in the pro-Israel community over his close relationship with conservative podcaster Tucker Carlson, who has repeatedly platformed numerous antisemites. But Dermer offered the audience a more personal account of his relationship with Vance, recalling that he first met the future vice president when Vance was running for Senate in Ohio.
“I first met the vice president when he was running for Senate,” Dermer said. “I was out of office, and he was running for Senate in Ohio. And somebody suggested, ‘Hey, this person, you know, is going to run. You should really go meet him.’”
Dermer said he and Vance subsequently spent roughly two hours together over lunch in Jerusalem.
“And he was—he’s definitely one of the smartest people that I had met in the Senate,” Dermer said, adding with a joke, “You could say that’s a low bar, but he’s super smart.”
More importantly, Dermer said Vance was focused from the beginning on understanding the strategic rationale behind the U.S.-Israel relationship.
Dermer then turned to Vance’s role during the 12-day war between Israel and Iran in June 2025, describing the conflict as one of the most significant military successes in Israel’s history.
“And I want to tell this audience something,” Dermer said. “That 12-day war that we did last June, I was out of government when this—this recent joint operation started.”
Dermer said the conflict represented “the greatest and most spectacular military success that Israel has ever had” since the Six-Day War.
He specifically credited Vance with playing a critical role in the operation, particularly during its opening hours, when maintaining an element of surprise was essential.
“The Vice President of the United States, Vice President Vance, played a critical role in that 12-day war, and particularly the first day, where that element of surprise was so critical to our success,” Dermer said.
“And I will be forever grateful for the role that he played at that critical moment,” he continued. “It kept Israel safe, and I commend you for inviting him here tonight.”
Vance received a warm reception when he took the stage Monday night for a conversation with RJC National Chairman and former Minnesota Sen. Norm Coleman. The discussion was held off the record and closed to the press, but The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/listen-jd-vances-secret-interview-in-front-of-republican-jews">obtained a full recording</a>.
During the conversation, Coleman directly raised the issue of controversial podcasters, naming Carlson, Megyn Kelly, Joe Rogan and Nick Fuentes, and asked Vance how he determines when to engage with platforms that have given a voice to people accused of holding antisemitic views.
Vance defended his willingness to appear on influential podcasts, arguing that Republicans need to reach voters wherever they are rather than shun controversial figures.
“I do not think that Joe Rogan and Nick Fuentes are the same,” Vance said, drawing a distinction between the two based on both their ideas and their reach.
Vance said he believes Republicans should engage with people like Rogan even when they disagree with things the podcaster has said.
“I think it’s a mistake to sort of say we’re going to write Joe Rogan off because he said something that we don’t like,” Vance said. “I think the best approach is to actually go in there, and talk to him, and make the arguments as best as you can.”
Vance pointed to Rogan’s reach among persuadable voters as evidence that Republicans cannot afford to ignore influential podcasters. He said Republicans had studied podcast audiences in connection with the midterm elections and found that Rogan’s audience included a substantially larger percentage of persuadable voters than those of other major podcasters.
“With Rogan, it’s something like 35 to 40%,” Vance said.
“And so I think that there, one, I do not think that Joe Rogan and Nick Fuentes are the same, just substantively, but as a political matter, I think that we have got to be willing to go everywhere and bring our message anywhere and to any person,” he said.
Vance acknowledged that his approach would mean appearing in environments where hosts or audiences may hold views with which he strongly disagrees.
“You got to meet people where they are and make the arguments as best as you can,” he said. “And that is I think ultimately how you win the political debate. It’s not by shunning people.”
He said there were nevertheless limits to whom he would engage, citing people who had attacked his wife or praised Adolf Hitler.
“But outside of some pretty bright lines, I try to talk to as many people as I can,” Vance said.
Vance did not directly condemn Carlson during the exchange.
The vice president has also faced criticism from prominent Jewish and pro-Israel figures over his own comments about Israel, including remarks suggesting that some Israeli officials have sought to influence American public opinion to prolong the war. 
During an appearance on Joe Rogan’s podcast, Vance accused some Israeli officials of trying to influence American public opinion in order to prolong the war.
“There are some people within their system that we know beyond a shadow of a doubt are manipulating and trying to change American public opinion to keep the war going on indefinitely,” Vance said.

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Popular children’s content creator Ms. Rachel was confronted over her anti-Israel views and insisted that she’s not anti-Israel.
Podcast host Avi Lichtschein recently approached the YouTube star, whose real name is Rachel Griffin Accurso, at a neighborhood park, as he discussed on Sunday’s <a href="https://open.spotify.com/episode/1BwAMLpmArmo4pP0Kgn2KO">episode</a> of his show, “Depends on the Context.”
After meeting her, Lichtschein asked the educator why she was anti-Israel. Accurso reportedly told him that she was not anti-Israel, but anti-Israeli government and anti-Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
“I pushed back on this, and I said, ‘That’s absurd,&#8217;” the podcast host said. “Saying you’re anti-Netanyahu, but you’re not anti-Israel? Netanyahu is the democratically elected leader of the sovereign nation. I think what you do is way beyond that.”
Lichtschein said that Accurso has accused Israel of committing a “genocide” through its war with Hamas.
 “She said something along the lines of, ‘Twenty thousand children have died. How is that not a genocide?&#8217;” Lichtschein said. “The answer is — and this is what I was trying to convey to her — genocide is not just a word for, like, a war. War is terrible. Again, Hamas started this war. Genocide is the specific accusation that [she’s] hurling at the Jewish people, hurling at the state of Israel, and now it gives carte blanche to go open season on Jews literally around the world,” he went on.
The podcaster said Accurso repeatedly used the justification that her “husband’s father is Jewish” and insisted she supports the right of Israel to exist. Lichtschein said he told her she was “spreading blood libel.” 
He told Accurso’s husband that he was sorry she got upset.
“I wasn’t planning on her changing her mind,” Lichtschein said. “I wanted to point out [that] [her] words are creating a lot of damage and I think someone with an audience as enormous as hers has a responsibility to understand what happens downstream from the things that she says.”
Lichtschein said he doesn’t think Accurso is a malicious antisemite, but added that her words are having a negative outcome just the same. 
“I think that what she’s doing is motivated by compassion for children, but I think she’s very naïve and very gullible and doesn’t realize what her actions are doing to the Jewish community at large, what her words are doing to the enemies of the Jewish people. What she’s doing is harmful.”
Ms. Rachel’s YouTube series “Songs For Littles” has grown rapidly in recent years, and her YouTube channel has reached 20.2 million subscribers. She receives over 400 million views each month, with her most popular video receiving over a billion views.
The YouTube star has gained massive popularity largely due to her uncanny ability to “entrance” and entertain babies and toddlers. She has even been called the “world’s babysitter.” But she’s espoused far-Left views on topics ranging from pushing pro-trans talking points to opposing the deportation of illegal immigrant criminals. She also partnered with New York City democratic socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

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Today, the Trump administration announced sanctions against two International Criminal Court (ICC) officials, President Tomoko Akane of Japan and the ICC&#8217;s senior trial lawyer, Abdoulaye Seye of Senegal. Secretary of State Marco Rubio called the organization “corrupt and fatally politicized.” This follows Rubio last month setting the proverbial cat among the pigeons, <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2026/07/13/politics/rubio-dismantle-international-criminal-court">declaring</a> his intentions to “dismantle” the ICC — urging other nations to join the effort. Rubio launched the campaign, <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyl33q0jk0o">vowing</a> to employ “all the tools at our government&#8217;s disposal&#8221; to &#8220;dismantle the ICC, brick by brick.”
Against the backdrop of the Trump administration’s escalating actions against the ICC, Rubio <a href="https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/07/18/so-called-international-law-trump-icc/">accused</a> the court of “waging a war against our country, not with bullets or missiles,” but with “the force of so-called international law.”
A warped sense of justice?
The administration’s ire against the ICC <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2026/07/13/politics/rubio-dismantle-international-criminal-court">dates</a> back to President Trump’s first term, when it targeted the ICC for seeking to investigate alleged war crimes committed by U.S. forces in Afghanistan. Indeed, the second Trump administration has imposed a slew of sanctions against ICC officials for their attempts to investigate the U.S. and Israel — neither of which is even a member of the ICC.
But the new trigger for the White House&#8217;s intensifying punitive action against the ICC is the scandalous issue of <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/imposing-sanctions-on-the-international-criminal-court/">arrest warrants</a> against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant.
In a feeble ICC attempt to feign evenhandedness, warrants were also issued against Hamas leaders Yahya Sinwar, Mohammed Deif, Ismail Haniyeh — after their deaths — which, quite apart from the absurdity of equating the perpetrators of the October 7 massacre with those who responded to it, underscores the warped sense of justice the ICC purports to administer.
Gravely misinformed or grossly dishonest
The figure behind these measures was the ICC’s chief prosecutor, Karim Khan, who initiated the arrest warrant requests. Khan has since been forced to leave office following multiple <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/karim-khan-icc-war-crimes-charges-israel-netanyahu-hamas-sexual-misconduct-claims/">allegations</a> of sexual misconduct. According to <a href="https://www.ynetnews.com/article/h13yvd1wxx">some sources</a>, the arrest warrants were motivated, at least in part, to divert attention from these allegations.
Notably, Khan is not the only chief ICC prosecutor against whom allegations of severe impropriety have been leveled.
For example, <a href="https://www.justiceinfo.net/tag/fatou-bensouda-en">Fatou Bensouda</a>, who prior to her appointment as chief ICC prosecutor in 2012, held top posts in the Gambian judiciary under the brutal military dictatorship that ruled Gambia from 1994 to 2017.
Bensouda claimed she had no knowledge of the human rights abuses of the regime she served. However, given her seniority and long association with the regime, this leaves one to ponder which is worse: Being oblivious of the abuses, gravely ill-informed, or grossly deceitful.
Sexual misconduct &amp; financial shenanigans?
Likewise, Bensouda&#8217;s predecessor, Luis Moreno Ocampo, the ICC&#8217;s first prosecutor from 2003 to 2012, also fell under a cloud of suspicion — both while in office and after leaving it.
Ocampo was <a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/a-one-time-icc-advocate-recants">accused</a> of sexual misconduct in South Africa by an ICC <a href="https://en-academic.com/dic.nsf/enwiki/11537858">whistleblower.</a> Although Ocampo&#8217;s ICC cronies dismissed the charges, the whistleblower was vindictively dismissed by Ocampo himself — despite the ICC’s own internal Disciplinary Advisory Board’s <a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/a-one-time-icc-advocate-recants/">call</a> to rescind the dismissal.
Undeterred, the whistleblower appealed to the Administrative Tribunal of the International Labour Organization (ILO), which found resoundingly in his favor, awarding him substantial monetary compensation, casting further doubts on the ICC’s integrity.
After leaving the ICC in 2012, Ocampo became the subject of several <a href="https://www.jns.org/opinion/column/martin-sherman/trump-tripp-and-conflict-resolution">allegations</a> concerning his financial and professional activities. These included the abuse of his position as former ICC prosecutor, shady financial shenanigans, and severe conflicts of interest.
These allegations stemmed primarily from the far-reaching <a href="https://www.legal-tools.org/doc/895f3b/pdf/">2017 &#8220;Secrets of the Court&#8221;</a> investigation by the European Investigative Collaborations. While the allegations did not result in judicial convictions, the ethical issues they raised tarnished his reputation and, by association, the ICC’s judicial practices.
The Israeli angle
For Israel, Rubio’s initiative is a welcome development. For it serves to undermine the legitimacy of the ICC measures against senior Israeli personnel and expose just how the hypocrisy-ridden ICC has strayed from its lofty founding principles and noble aims.
For the fallen Karim Khan and his cronies, it perhaps reflects that biblical maxim in Numbers 24:9: “Whoever blesses Israel will be blessed. And whoever curses Israel will be cursed.”
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Dr. Martin Sherman is the founder of the Israel Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), a member of the Habithonistim-Israel Defense &amp; Security Forum (IDSF) research team, and a participant in the Israel Victory Project.

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told his cabinet on Sunday that Israel rejects President Donald Trump’s 15-point plan for Gaza. 
He said the Israeli military will not pull back a single step until Hamas is stripped of every weapon it holds, <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel-rejects-trumps-15-point-plan-gaza-pm-netanyahu-says-2026-08-09/">according</a> to Reuters.
“Israel does not accept the 15-point document,” Netanyahu said at the start of the meeting. “The military will not carry out any withdrawal until Hamas is disarmed … it means heavy weaponry, lighter weaponry, all weaponry.”
He had made the same point Tuesday in a social media post. Israeli officials have already shared their reservations with Washington. Netanyahu said the two sides are still talking. “They have ideas, some of which are acceptable to us and some of which are unacceptable to us,&#8221; he said of the Americans.
Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-touts-a-historic-gaza-disarmament-agreement?author=Drew+Berkemeyer&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Trump+Touts+A+%E2%80%98Historic%E2%80%99+Gaza+Disarmament+Agreement">announced</a> the deal late last month and called it a historic agreement for the complete disarmament of Hamas and every other armed group in Gaza. The framework, negotiated with Arab mediators in Cairo and overseen by Trump&#8217;s Board of Peace, laid out a phased process.
Hamas would surrender both heavy and light weapons over several months, disclose the locations of tunnels and weapons depots, and allow a new Palestinian technocratic administration to take control under the Board’s supervision. 
Israeli forces would leave only after areas were independently verified as demilitarized. An international stabilization force would then work with a new Palestinian police unit to keep order. Trump said that the arrangement would finally stop Gaza from being used as a launchpad for attacks and give Israel the security it needs.
That second phase was meant to follow the October 2025 ceasefire, which covered the exchange of hostages and prisoners and brought a sharp decline in intensive fighting. The new document tackled the harder issues which were complete disarmament, Israeli withdrawal, and who actually runs Gaza afterwards.
The two sides immediately disagreed on the order of those steps. Israel insists on complete disarmament first. The plan describes a more deliberate process in which weapons are removed sector by sector and Israeli troops then leave those cleared areas. 
The Board of Peace has <a href="https://x.com/BoardOfPeace/status/2084333685869084696">said</a> Israeli forces will not withdraw beyond current lines until Hamas&#8217;s weapons are fully decommissioned. Nikolay Mladenov, the Board of Peace&#8217;s highest representative for Gaza, has met with Netanyahu repeatedly in recent months, most recently on Monday, when he pressed Israel to stop airstrikes and abide by the terms of the earlier ceasefire.
Israel has already changed how it operates on the ground. Attacks have been scaled back since Monday, when Mladenov met with Netanyahu. A source familiar with Israel’s position told Reuters the military is now limited to responding to only to what it sees as immediate threats. 
Approval for any remaining strikes was tightened so that the chief of staff must sign off rather than subordinate commanders, <a href="https://www.ynetnews.com/article/sjoyhyjlzx">according</a> to Ynet Global.
The Israeli military reported <a href="https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/israel-rejects-trump-plan-for-hamas-disarmament-2d1475cb?mod=middle-east_news_article_pos1">no strikes</a> in Gaza for six days as of Sunday. Netanyahu said the military will continue to act against threats to Israeli forces and citizens.
Hamas says it remains committed to the plan agreed upon in Cairo about ten days ago. Senior official Basem Naim told <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel-rejects-trumps-15-point-plan-gaza-pm-netanyahu-says-2026-08-09/">Reuters</a> the group expects the mediators and the United States to press Netanyahu and his government to stick to the plan and not obstruct it for internal political or electoral reasons. 
Hamas avoids the word “disarmament.” It describes the arrangement as handing weapons over for storage under a U.S.-backed Palestinian technocratic administration supervised by the Board of Peace. Hamas also insists that implementation depends on Israel first meeting its own commitments, withdrawal and a halt to attacks.
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich praised Netanyahu’s stand. “We went to war with a central goal: the destruction of Hamas,” he said. “The [military] cannot withdraw even a millimeter from the Gaza Strip.”
Netanyahu is under pressure on multiple fronts. An election is scheduled for October 27, and polls show him struggling to put together a ruling majority. His coalition partners have objected loudly to any concessions. 
At the same time the Trump administration has pushed hard for progress on the plan, treating it as a major foreign policy goal of the president’s second term. Relations between the two leaders have been strained for months amid differences over the Iran conflict, with reports of tense phone calls.
Israeli forces still control and have largely emptied two-thirds of the enclave. More than two million residents are confined to a narrow coastal strip under Hamas control, most living in makeshift tents or damaged buildings.

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President Donald Trump on Tuesday eulogized the late Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) as &#8220;the giant of the United States Senate&#8221; whose unwavering belief in American strength defined both his public career and his personal life, telling mourners gathered at Washington National Cathedral that the longtime South Carolina Republican &#8220;felt in his bones that our destiny is to win.&#8221;
Speaking before a congregation that included Vice President JD Vance, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, members of Trump&#8217;s Cabinet and congressional leaders from both parties, the president remembered Graham as one of the U.S. Senate&#8217;s defining figures whose influence stretched far beyond Capitol Hill.
&#8220;The giant of the United States Senate, a true American original who left us much too soon,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;Nothing of consequence happened in this capital without Lindsey Graham knowing about it. Nothing of significance happened anywhere in the world without Lindsey Graham having a view on it.&#8221;
Trump centered much of his remarks on Graham&#8217;s worldview, describing the late senator&#8217;s foreign policy philosophy as one rooted in projecting American strength abroad. &#8220;Above all, Lindsey Graham believed in a strong America,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;He had unwavering faith in the righteousness of American power and prayer. &#8230; He felt in his bones that our destiny is to win — and that his job was to do everything he could to ensure our enemies would lose.&#8221; 
Trump said that conviction motivated Graham&#8217;s 33 years of military service in the Air Force and Air National Guard, as well as his frequent overseas travel as a senator. &#8220;It was this conviction that took him as a senator to almost every country on earth, confronting America&#8217;s adversaries and standing up for America&#8217;s friends,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;It&#8217;s a testament to his towering impact that among those mourning him here today are leaders, presidents, prime ministers from all over the globe.&#8221;
The president also reflected on his unlikely friendship with Graham, recalling their bitter rivalry during the 2016 Republican presidential primary before the two became close political allies. &#8220;We became great friends, and Lindsey did not stop calling me for the next 10 years,&#8221; Trump joked. &#8220;I always cherished the memories of our golf games.&#8221;
Trump acknowledged Graham&#8217;s reputation as one of the Senate&#8217;s most hawkish members while framing it as an extension of his patriotism. &#8220;He was extremely hawkish. I will tell you, he never saw a war that he didn&#8217;t like,&#8221; Trump said to laughter. &#8220;Only his true friends would understand that — but he wanted it for the good of our country.&#8221;
Fox News host Sean Hannity, one of Graham&#8217;s closest friends, echoed many of those themes during his own eulogy, rejecting criticism that Graham was a warmonger. &#8220;The truth was the opposite,&#8221; Hannity said. &#8220;Lindsey desperately wanted a lasting peace in the Middle East.&#8221; Hannity argued that Graham&#8217;s support for a strong military stemmed from what he called the senator&#8217;s &#8220;moral clarity.&#8221;
&#8220;He understood right from wrong, good from evil,&#8221; Hannity said. &#8220;He knew &#8230; there can be no path to peace until evil is defeated.&#8221; The longtime television host also reflected on Graham&#8217;s decades of military service, his devotion to South Carolina, and his friendship with Trump, saying the president had given Graham &#8220;the greatest gift of his life&#8221; by allowing him &#8220;a front-row seat at the highest levels of history.&#8221;
Graham&#8217;s niece, Emillie Boggs Roberts, offered a more personal portrait of the senator, reflecting on his deep pride in his family and the relationships that shaped him away from public life. She described him as more than an uncle or senator, but &#8220;the foundation of our family.&#8221; 
Roberts recalled how he became both brother and parent to her mother after their parents died, and said that despite decades in national politics, Graham never failed to prioritize his family, making time for holidays, vacations, graduations, hospital visits, and phone calls from home, no matter what demands awaited him in Washington.
The funeral concluded ahead of Graham&#8217;s burial in South Carolina, where the longtime senator will be laid to rest after more than three decades in Congress.

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President Donald Trump on Monday brushed aside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu&#8217;s objections to selling F-35 fighter jets to Turkey, saying the United States alone will decide what weapons it exports. 
Speaking aboard Air Force One ahead of Netanyahu&#8217;s White House visit, Trump praised Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan while making clear that foreign leaders would not dictate U.S. arms sales.
&#8220;Nobody tells me what we should be selling,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;Turkey has been a tremendous ally for me.&#8221;
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&#8220;Prime Minister Netanyahu opposes sending the F-35s to Turkey&#8230;&#8221;<a href="https://x.com/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@POTUS</a>: &#8220;Nobody tells me what we should be selling or not. Turkey has been a tremendous ally.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/8gSzavJ6Ce">pic.twitter.com/8gSzavJ6Ce</a>
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Trump&#8217;s remarks came just weeks after Netanyahu urged Washington not to approve a sale, arguing Turkey&#8217;s increasingly hostile posture toward Israel makes transferring the stealth fighters too risky. 
&#8220;I don&#8217;t think they should be given F-35s or engines for their fighter jets,&#8221; Netanyahu said in an interview with <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/video/6400346259112">Fox News</a>. 
In the same interview, Netanyahu described Turkey as &#8220;a regime infected by the Muslim Brotherhood&#8221; and warned that it posed a growing regional threat to both Israel and the United States.
Trump, however, dismissed the notion that Israel&#8217;s concerns should determine American policy. 
&#8220;Turkey&#8217;s not a big fan of Israel. You know that, right? They&#8217;re not a big fan of Bibi,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;But they&#8217;ve been great for me.&#8221; He went on to praise Turkey&#8217;s military capabilities. &#8220;Very powerful country, by the way. Tremendous military. Very big military. Very powerful military. Has a lot of great equipment.&#8221;
The exchange highlighted one of the few areas where Trump has publicly broken with Netanyahu, continuing to pursue closer ties with Turkey despite Israeli objections. 
The proposed sale remains complicated, and certainly not final. Trump indicated during a July meeting with Erdogan that he favored moving forward, but the State Department recently <a href="https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-903578">informed</a> Congress that Turkey still does not meet the legal requirements necessary to rejoin the F-35 program.
Turkey was removed from the multinational F-35 program in 2020 after purchasing Russia&#8217;s S-400 air defense system, triggering sanctions under the Countering America&#8217;s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (CAATSA). The State Department told Congress that American policy &#8220;remains unchanged&#8221; and that Turkey must resolve the S-400 issue before any sale can proceed.
The F-35 is widely regarded as the world&#8217;s most advanced operational fighter jet, and Israel is currently the only country in the Middle East to operate the aircraft. Israeli leaders have long sought to preserve that military edge by opposing sales of the jets to neighboring countries.
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