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U.S. Military Warns Hamas To End Gaza Violence After Trump Vows To ‘Disarm’ Terrorist Group

By Zach Jewell

Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes

Editors’ Note: While we strongly support President Trump’s peace attempts, he has signed an agreement with a party that has no compunction about lying, murdering, and breaking agreements. Hamas is the worst of the worst and is busily killing its own people, much to the silence of Progressives in Hollywood and on campus. But realistically, is the US going to intervene?  Maybe giving Israel B-52s on lend-lease with all the one thousand-pound bombs needed would be a better solution. Or, bring an Arab multi-national force.  But could the latter even be done, with militant Islam at home to contend with for many of these countries? Civil War in Gaza looks likely, and in the Middle East, trying to help the good guy is hard to do. Maybe we should have let Israel finish the job for good.

“We strongly urge Hamas to immediately suspend violence and shooting at innocent Palestinian civilians in Gaza.”

The U.S. Central Command on Wednesday “strongly” urged Hamas to end its violence in Gaza after President Donald Trump vowed that the terror group would be disarmed.

Admiral Brad Cooper, the CENTCOM commander, issued a statement calling on Hamas to take advantage of “an historic opportunity for peace … by fully standing down, strictly adhering to Trump’s 20-point peace plan, and disarming without delay.” This week, Hamas terrorists have ramped up their efforts to reassert control in the Gaza Strip after Israeli forces pulled out of most areas in Gaza in accordance with the ceasefire and hostage agreement.

At least seven men, whom Hamas accused of conspiring with Israel, were publicly executed in Gaza on Monday. Hamas has also been fighting with rival groups in Gaza in recent days.

“We strongly urge Hamas to immediately suspend violence and shooting at innocent Palestinian civilians in Gaza — in both Hamas-held parts of Gaza and those secured by the IDF behind the Yellow Line,” Admiral Cooper said. 

“We have conveyed our concerns to the mediators who agreed to work with us to enforce the peace and protect innocent Gaza civilians,” Cooper added. “We remain highly optimistic for the future of peace in the region.”

President Trump said on Tuesday that Hamas has already promised to disarm, a major demand in his 20-point peace plan.

“They’re going to disarm because they said they were going to disarm,” Trump said. “And if they don’t disarm, we will disarm them.”

“They know I’m not playing games,” the president added…..

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Foreign Nationals Face Visa Loss for Mocking, Celebrating Charlie Kirk Assassination

By Family Research Council

The U.S. State Department is taking the “America first” principle seriously and barring foreigners who celebrated the murder of an American patriot from entering the country.

Following the assassination of conservative activist and Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk last month, the State Department announced that it would begin canceling and revoking visas for foreign nationals who publicly mocked or celebrated Kirk’s death. On Tuesday, the Department asserted that it is following through on that pledge. “The United States has no obligation to host foreigners who wish death on Americans,” the Department’s official social media page posted, along with a list of examples of foreigners whose visas have been canceled or revoked.

One Argentine national posted that Kirk “can rest in f****** piss,” adding, “i do not give a f*** about the death of a person who devoted his entire life spreading racist, xenophobic, misogynistic rhetoric. It’s hot as f*** where this man currently is and it’s deserved.” Referring to the TPUSA event at a Utah college campus where Kirk was slain, a South African national whined that conservatives are “hurt that the racist rally ended in attempted martyrdom…” He continued, “Charlie Kirk won’t be remembered as a hero. He was used to astroturf a movement of white nationalist trailer trash!” A Mexican national said that Kirk died as a racist and misogynist, asserting that “there are people who deserve to die. There are people who would make the world better off dead.” A German national posted that “when fascists die, democrats don’t complain.” A Paraguayan national called Kirk a “son of a b****” who “died by his own rules.”

After each example shared, the State Department wrote, “Visa revoked.” The Department affirmed, “Aliens who take advantage of America’s hospitality while celebrating the assassination of our citizens will be removed.”

In comments to The Washington Stand, Lora Ries, director of the Heritage Foundation’s Border Security and Immigration Center, said, “Receiving or having a U.S. visa is a privilege, not a right. As the Biden years showed us, millions of people from all over the world want to come to the U.S. So, the U.S. can and should be very choosy about who gets to come here and to stay here.” Ries added, “Those who cheer the assassination of an American are not welcome in America and should have their visa revoked or denied. Good for the State Department for exercising this authority.”

Essica Vaughan, director of policy studies at the Center for Immigration Studies, told TWS, “There are a number of good reasons for the State Department to revoke these visas. First, these individuals are here at our discretion; they have no right to be here, and there are grounds for expelling them if they hold views that are hostile to our nation or to Americans.” She added, “Most importantly, the social media posts they wrote are hateful and potentially constitute a threat of violence toward Americans who expressed support for Charlie Kirk or horror at his assassination.” Vaughan continued, “I cannot imagine traveling to a foreign country and inserting myself in their political affairs like this, or expressing this kind of animosity toward the host citizens. In a lot of countries, this behavior would lead to imprisonment. We should just kick them out. They have crossed a line of acceptable behavior.”

The State Department also recently revoked the visas of at least 50 Mexican government officials, citing concerns over apparent ties to drug cartels. Former acting Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Administrator Derek Maltz told The Daily Wire, “Travel to America, the greatest country in the world, is a privilege, not a right. Travel visas for individuals are not automatic and I’m glad to see that the State Department is scrutinizing them at a new level.” He added, “Nobody should be surprised that this administration is looking outside the box and will use all capabilities to make it difficult for the cartels to continue to kill Americans at record levels.”

The move comes as the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has made public that Mexican drug cartels have placed bounties on the heads of DHS agents, especially Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers, and have enlisted street gangs in American cities like Chicago to track and attack ICE personnel. “These criminal networks are not just resisting the rule of law, they are waging an organized campaign of terror against the brave men and women who protect our borders and communities,” DHS Secretary Kristi Noem said in a statement. “Our agents are facing ambushes, drone surveillance, and death threats, all because they dare to enforce the laws passed by Congress. We will not back down from these threats, and every criminal, terrorist, and illegal alien will face American justice.”

According to DHS, Mexican cartels are offering $2,000 for doxing federal agents, $5,000 to $10,000 for kidnapping or assaulting agents, and up to $50,000 for the assassination of “high-ranking” DHS officials. Spotter networks have been set up in areas like Chicago’s Pilsen and Little Village, where armed gang members positioned on rooftops spy on and track the movements of ICE and other federal law enforcement agents, relaying information to other gang members and allies and coordinating ambushes. These attacks are bolstered by Antifa militants, who stage protests and riots and have attempted to use lethal force against ICE agents on numerous occasions.

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My Special Connection to Charlie

By Bruce Bialosky

Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes

Editors’ Note: The more we learn about Charlie Kirk, the more we realize the enormity of the loss. He was good at everything: Bible study and current events, organizational ability, talent-spotting, podcasting, speaking, debating, fatherhood, being a good husband, and fundraising. It is difficult to do any one of those things well, let alone all of them, by the age of 31. What a loss to the Conservative Movement. We must all carry on, with greater vigor, to make up for his loss.

When Charlie Kirk was assassinated, I was contacted by a lot of people asking whether I personally knew him. I did not. When he got started, he was 18 years old, and I did not think what he was doing was particularly applicable to me.  Many of my friends knew him well; arguably better than well. But I had an understanding of Charlie that few people had, and let me tell you why.  

During the 2000 presidential campaign, I interacted with many people supporting George W. Bush. I spoke to some about the Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC), an organization I first encountered in 1992. One gentleman discussed with me forming a local chapter of the operation in Los Angeles.  Meaning, it was up to me to form the chapter.

I contacted a variety of people, and we decided to have a meeting at my home.  I conveyed this to the group’s Chief Executive Officer and asked him to come out from D.C. for the meeting.  When he arrived at our home he expected to see a group of 8-10 people.  Remember, this was before email was widely used. What he walked into was our living room/dining room, it was packed with 60-70 people.  He was both stunned and exhilarated. People were hanging off the walls and so delighted to be there.  

We formed a leadership team from that meeting and went on to have some events.  We struggled to find places to meet. Really, Jewish Republicans?  Isn’t that an oxymoron? Were you meeting in a phone booth?  By the end of the year, we had an event at the Skirball Cultural Center that bravely agreed to house us.  The featured Speaker was Dennis Prager.  He was stunned to see about 250 people.  I thought he was going to cry.  He told the crowd he had never seen so many Jewish Republicans in one place.  This was a man who had spoken to Jewish groups in virtually every community in our country and across the world.  

Within a year, with the help of the national organization, our hearty band had distinguished panelists at an event.  We had it at a hotel and there were about 900 people in attendance.  Our group was booming.  

The national organization had quarterly meetings in D.C. that I had been attending since 1996.  They initially saw me as this weird creature.  Who was this person coming here from Los Angeles?  All the other people there were from along the Atlantic Coast and maybe inland.  Almost no one came from west of the Mississippi.    

With the development of the Los Angeles chapter, they were all mystified by how this had been accomplished.  I was asked to speak at the national meeting and share the special magic we had.  I was kind of at a loss for words.  And those who know me, especially the Beautiful Wife, know I am NEVER at a loss for words.  

I scanned this crowd of very impressive people and stopped. Then I shared that we didn’t do anything special.  “What we did was give water to people in a desert.  They were starved for the opportunity to interact with people who thought like they did.  When they were at a Jewish gathering, they were afraid to express their opinions.  Now they had their own army behind them, and they felt free to tell people how they thought on issues of public policy and when they did, they found many of them agreed.”  You think Gays were in the closet?  Jewish Republicans were really in the closet. But no more in Los Angeles.

This is what Charlie did with all these young kids, especially at colleges.  They are oppressed, stripped of their free speech.  If they expressed their opinion or shared, they were a Republican or a Conservative, they were afraid they would be banished as outcasts.  Worse, they had oppressive professors who even acted out against them when they tried to organize.  Jonathan Turley delineates that in his recent column, “Prove me Wrong”: Charlie Kirk’s Final Challenge on Free Speech – JONATHAN TURLEY.  

What Charlie did was not that hard. It was the act of doing it that was hard.  It was having the guts to do it that was hard.  He saw that his peers were being oppressed, and he went out to stop the oppression.  He loved the essentials of our country, the First Amendment and free speech, and he asserted everyone must have it or we were not a free country; we were not America.  He gave these oppressed kids and young adults an army to back them up and he told them “We have your back – speak freely.”

He also reminded his generation that the free exchange of ideas was essential to our freedom.  That is something they expected to experience on their college campuses but did not.  That is why he had gatherings where people could challenge him if they disagreed.    In fact, they went to the front of the line.  He learned this concept from his friend and mentor Dennis Prager, who always took calls first from those who disagreed with him.  These kids learned they could have this free exchange of ideas, and they would not have to go to a special room because their feelings were being hurt.  They felt stronger.  

That is what I had in common with Charlie, but he certainly did it on a better and grander scale than I ever did. To say the least. God bless you, Charlie.  

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This article was published by Flash Report and is reproduced with permission from the author.

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Feature Video: “Gad Saad On “Freedom of Religion”

By Neland Nobel

Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes

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Dangerous Barrio 18 Gang Members Escape in Guatemala — Threaten U.S. Security

By Editorial Board – DrRichSwier.com

US Embassy Guatemala

The escape of terrorists from the Barrio 18 prison is completely unacceptable.

On September 23, the U.S. designated members of this heinous group as the terrorists they are and will hold accountable anyone who has provided, provides, or decides to provide material support to these fugitives or other gang members.

The Government of Guatemala must act immediately and decisively to recapture these terrorists, who pose a threat both to Guatemala and to the security of U.S. territory.

All those involved in these escapes must be fully held accountable.

There is no way to escape the scandal of the leak

Calls for the resignation or dismissal of the Minister of the Interior are growing. His continued presence will lead to even more difficult-to-avoid attrition.

Prensa Libre Editorial

Placing his office at the disposal of President Bernardo Arévalo was the first thing Minister of the Interior Francisco Jiménez should have done after the confirmation of the incredible, absurd, and intolerable escape of 20 Barrio 18 gang members from Fraijanes 2 prison. The aggravating factors remain unclear: the escape occurred during a still undetermined period of time, with a modus operandi that is still unclear, and with feared—but long suspected—prison complicity that has yet to be identified. The minister had the civil courage to come forward and address the biggest scandal in his ministry. He attempted to assuage the outrage by announcing an obvious recapture plan. But it’s not enough.

It’s not enough, especially after 21 months of publicized operations to regain prison control, of repeated announcements of prison searches and controls, of repeated incidents of the entry of prohibited items, including cell phones and internet terminals. This vicious cycle was already a cause for concern and needed to be broken in time. But it wasn’t. Furthermore, the search for fugitives is a reprocessing that consumes the state’s material and human resources that could easily be used to combat other gang members who are still at large, who continue to extort, sowing terror in neighborhoods and municipalities, and who will now hide their criminal leaders, practically freed by a corrupt system that should have been vigorously addressed from the first months of this administration.

A week ago, when many of the fugitives were already out of jail, the Interior Ministry introduced an anti-gang bill in response to the U.S.’s declaration of Barrio 18 as a terrorist group, a status it now shares with its rivals, the Salvatruchas. It was too late.

Yes, it was too late. But so was Congress, where yesterday, unofficial arguments in favor of “citizen security” were vociferously trotted out to endorse a similar initiative, submitted in 2020 and forgotten by the previous ruling party—the same party that held the majority and today claims to champion a hard line. But the ruling party and its alleged dissidents were also far behind in promoting functional criminal classifications, stricter prison conditions at all levels, and combating prison businesses run by gang members, who claim to have government “permits.” The same can be said of front businesses in neighborhoods and pirate taxis owned by gang members, who thus launder their filthy blood money. This is also what the reform to the Money Laundering Law, which these self-righteous deputies avoid discussing and approving, would serve.

This conflict of interests and double standards is seasoned with the timid criteria and agendas of other, electoralist gangs intent on starting the 2027 marathon. They drag along their own extortionate practices, herd tactics, their improper charges—such as the illicit increase approved secretly almost a year ago—and their demagogic jargon to disguise their unspeakable loyalties. Don’t think we don’t notice. Their previous actions and inactions are like grotesque tattoos.

Back in the executive branch, the presidential silence is another glaring error. Perhaps the result of a negligent communications team or a vain bet that the issue would be diffused. But it won’t be diffused. The implications are too lurid, and the risks of having 19 psychopaths hidden and plotting violent offensives are overwhelming. Calls for the resignation or dismissal of the Minister of the Interior are growing. His continued presence will lead to an even more difficult-to-avoid strain.

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Trump’s Middle East Deal Has Exposed the Truth About Europe’s Islamo-Left

By Mick Hume

Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes

Editors’ Note: Although the following article is written from a European perspective, a similar thing could be said about American domestic politics. Where are the cheering crowds for Trump for getting more than a “ceasefire” in Gaza, but in fact a possible framework for an enduring peace? Where are the Queers for Palestine, Emma Stone the actress, and numerous Hollywood critics of the war in Gaza? The keffiyeh-clad students at Harvard and Columbia should be overjoyed that peace is at hand, and the killing of precious Gazans will stop. But they are silent for the moment, but we predict that they will continue their agitation against the “colonial settler” state of Israel. That is because it was never about Gazans, or their horrible leaders, it was always about eliminating Israel and the ascendency of Muslim Brotherhood Islamic orthodoxy in the region.  Islamists and the Left are partners in the project to destroy the West, and they couldn’t care less about Gazans. 

The hostages are free—now let’s free the West of fashionable delusions about Israel and “anti-Zionism.”

President Trump’s remarkable Middle East deal has led to the release of the last 20 surviving hostages of the 251 seized by Hamas terrorists during the October 7th  pogrom in Israel. The end of their suffering, after two years of hell, should be a cause for celebration not only for Israelis but for anybody who wants to see an end to terrorism and war in the Middle East.

Yet strangely, some in Europe and the West seem less than enthused about the first stage of Trump’s peace deal. The pro-Palestinian protestors who have long demanded Israel submit to a “Ceasefire now” have sworn to continue fighting, despite an actual ceasefire coming into force. 

Much remains uncertain about what will happen next in the Middle East. But Trump’s deal has already made some things very clear about what’s been happening in Europe and the West.

It should now be clear that the protestors are not interested in peace or primarily concerned with saving Palestinian lives. Instead, they are motivated above all by hatred of the Jewish state of Israel. 

If you seriously believed that Israel has been committing genocide in Gaza, wouldn’t you be pleased to see the allegedly genocidal war come to an end? So why do so many who have cried “genocide” over the past two years seem unhappy about Trump’s deal?

Because, as various Palestinian solidarity groups made clear in response to the announcement of Trump’s deal, their war is “not over until Zionism is completely eradicated”; it is “not over until the Zionist entity ceases to exist.”

What the Islamists and their Islamo-left allies in the West want is the complete defeat and destruction of Israel. No peace deal could be enough for them unless the Israeli state agreed to sign its own death warrant…..

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Hamas Won its 1st Objective. It’s Up to Us If It’ll Win its 2nd One.

By Jihad Watch

Trump should ‘take the win’ and not get involved in nation building in Gaza.

Once it was clear that its attacks on Oct 7 wouldn’t lead to the conquest and destruction of Israel (especially once Hezbollah refused to pull the trigger and Iran hung before instead of launching the massive rocket barrage that would have followed had it looked like its Jihadists might be winning), Hamas fell back and used the hostages and more importantly, worldwide propaganda, as a shield to prevent Israel from finishing it off.

Hamas had two objectives in the negotiations.

1. Leverage the handful of hostages for the mass release of Islamic terrorists to nail down the narrative that it did more than survive, it won.

The disastrous ‘peace deal’ accomplishes that, unleashing large numbers of some of the worst monsters.

But, more importantly,

2. That Israel would not be able to go back in and attack it.

Hamas obviously accomplished its first objective. The question of whether it accomplished the second objective is still up in the air. The Blair-Witkoff-Kushner peace plan is a Qatari plot to safeguard a Hamas state (under the façade of dismantling it) by building a political infrastructure that it can operate behind, by bringing in foreign ‘peacekeeping’ troops sympathetic to Hamas to do for it what the UN’s peacekeeping troops did for Hezbollah: allow it to attack Israel and then hide behind the ‘peacekeepers’ to prevent any Israeli retaliation.

The Qataris and their useful idiots did their best to create such a wall for Hamas in its plan. But it’s up to us if that plan succeeds.

The Gaza plan depends on the United States to maintain it. The best position for the Trump administration to take, is to ‘take the win’ with the hostages, take the victory tour and then stop being involved.

Nation building is a bad idea in general. It’s a worse idea in Gaza. And still a worse idea using blueprints from the state sponsor of Hamas meant to protect it.

As I’ve been saying for two years now, the best thing the U.S. can do in Gaza is not be involved. The only people who disagrees are left-wing wokes and right-wing wokes who are now very excited about recognizing a ‘Palestinian’ state. The more we get dragged into nation-building, the more we have to lose.

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The Palestinian Campaign to Undermine Relations between Christians and Israel

By Amit Barak

Estimated Reading Time: 6 minutes

From Taybe to Tucker Carlson, Palestinians are trying to drive a wedge between the Christian world and Israel, while Israel’s government appears to be asleep on guard duty.

In recent months, we have witnessed a well-timed campaign led by the Palestinian Authority, civil society organizations and anti-Israel Christian elements – some of them declared anti-Semitic – to undermine the relations between the State of Israel and Christian communities around the world, especially evangelical and pro-Israel Christians whose long-standing support for Israel is not self-evident.

This campaign includes fake plots, media attacks, anti-Jewish and anti-Israel messaging, and incitement under the guise of religious discourse or human rights. Four notable events this year indicate the tremendous power of this campaign:

  • The blood libel falsely alleging the burning of the Church of St. George in Taybe;
  • an episode of the Tucker Carlson Show with an American nun who presented a series of anti-Semitic claims without any factual, historical or theological basis;
  • the Declaration of the World Council of Churches in June 2025;
  • a Palestinian food advertisement mocking Christianity.

The plot of a church fire in Taybe

In July 2025, media outlets around the world claimed that “Israeli settlers set fire to an ancient Byzantine church” in the Christian village of Taybe in the Binyamin area. Jerusalem’s Greek Orthodox Patriarch Theophilos III, Jerusalem Latin (Catholic) Patriarch Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, and other senior officials in the churches held a press conference condemning the alleged arson, which was widely reported all over the world and in Christian communities in particular.

Foreign ambassadors and various elements who joined the condemnation added fuel to the fire, and the culmination was probably the words written by US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee:

“Taybeh is a quiet Palestinian Christian village south of Jerusalem w/ a lot of American citizens that has been vandalized-including fires set at ancient church. I visited there today. Desecrating a church,mosque or synagogue is a crime against humanity & God.”

Social networks and international media did not drop the issue for weeks, but slowly the cracks began to emerge: an independent investigation by the Press Service of Israel (TPS-IL) revealed that the fire was actually in an adjacent field and did not even touch the church, and featured videos in which Jewish shepherds run to put out the fire with blowers and other firefighting equipment. The report adds:

“Furthermore, separate fires on July 7, 8, and 11 were documented in areas of pastureland dozens of meters away from the church compound. In all cases, a Jewish farmer whose farm is next to the church compound complained to the police that someone had torched the area where his shepherd was grazing. TPS-IL has obtained time-stamped documentation of these reports.”

In the end, the Israel Police announced that the church was not damaged at all, and following the findings and the investigation, Huckabee retracted his remarks and even attacked the international media’s conduct in the affair.

Such a case requires the use of government spokespersons skilled in “ecclesial diplomacy” that will appeal to church leaders, publish documentation in English and Arabic translations, and brief Christian writers. The resources exist, the personalities, the organizations, but in this case Israeli government ministries were silenced, and the lack of orderly action can be applied to Christian support bases in the United States and other countries. The individuals who did act to expose the truth were civil society organizations such as Regavim, TPS-IL and independent Christian Israeli activists who worked behind the scenes, as well as the Binyamin Council.

Tucker Carlson: How do American Christians support the Israeli oppression of Christians?

On August 11, Tucker Carlson released an 80-minute-long episode on his podcast, interviewing Mother Agapia Stephanopoulos, an American Greek Orthodox nun. Stephanopoulos claimed that Israel was practicing apartheid, persecuting Christians, and committing crimes against humanity, with a clear message: Christians should stop supporting Israel. The allegations in the interview also included theological distortions such as “Biblical Palestine” and “Palestinian Jesus” — long invalidated by historians and archeologists as well as countless Christian churches and organizations.

This episode was watched by millions of people; the damage has been done, especially among American evangelical Christians. Here, too, instead of providing a fact-based rebuttal with the cooperation of Christian Israelis and supporters of Israel around the world, the Israeli government did nothing.

Declaration of the World Council of Churches

In June 2025, the World Council of Churches (WCC), representing about 349 churches from various streams around the world, issued a statement at the closing of its conference in Johannesburg, South Africa. The declaration, along with praise it gave the South African government “on appealing to justice and responsibility through the International Court of Justice”, the World Council of Churches for Sanctions on Israel, included recommending an arms embargo, to remove the “blockade” from Gaza, announced its support for the “right of return”, the “resistance” of Christian Palestinian communities, and the investigation of Israel by the International Criminal Court in The Hague for “crimes against humanity” and falsely accused the State of Israel of apartheid.

The WCC over the years has tried to wear the mask of a supposedly “neutral” organization. In light of the campaign, it seems that in this statement, the WCC has dared to say openly what it always wanted but previously did not dare to say.

The WCC uses clear anti-Semitic messages, and the Entry into Israel (Article 2D) makes it clear that this is a valid reason for prohibiting WCC members into Israel.

The expected response from the Israeli government was therefore to declare a ban on entry into Israel to any person who is a member of the WCC or to any activist in the illegal EAPPI program, which the WCC has been operating in Israel since 2002. But the government did not declare such a ban.

The only body that responded to the matter was the “Jerusalem Initiative” (full disclosure: the writer is one of its founders), which works to integrate Arabic-speaking Christians in Jerusalem into Israeli society and consists of Christian and Jewish activists, clerics and academics. The Jerusalem Initiative published a public letter in English in response to the WCC’s declaration. The letter exposed the hypocrisy, ignorance and anti-Semitism behind it, and showed that it should be considered in violation of various laws prohibiting the boycotting of Israel in many of the countries that the WCC represents.

Zero Tolerance

From the Palestinian Authority, we can learn a lot about marketing messages to the world. While the Christian population is persecuted under the Palestinian Authority (such as here and here), outwardly it conveys a completely opposite image. Unlike official Israel with half a department (the Ministry of Religions that is responsible for all religions), an anachronistic approach at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and another half department in the Ministry of Interior, the Palestinian Authority invests considerable resources in messaging for the Christian world under the “Higher Presidential Committee for Church Affairs in Palestine,” which operates from Bethlehem and Ramallah.

In June 2025, Al-Qasrawi Food Products, a major snack manufacturer from Hebron, posted the “Last Snack” campaign: a poster with the “Last Supper” image in which the characters of Jesus and his disciples were replaced by sheep and the table was covered with the company’s products. Following a broad protest (including the burning of the company’s products) by Christians living under the PA and by Israeli Christians, the company deleted the content and issued an apology for “unintentional harm.”

This anti-Christian campaign in the PA areas did not reach the wider world or the international media. But it is clear to all of us that if the opposite were the case, the Palestinian Authority would know how to use it well to its advantage. Israeli government ministries are probably unaware of the matter or don’t think out of the box.

Systemic failure to deal with the anti-Israel campaign in Christian cloak

The events listed above are not accidental. They are part of a sweeping campaign run well by the Palestinian Authority, BDS organizations and anti-Semitic elements in global religious institutions, aimed at harming Israel’s relations with the Christian world, weakening the support of Christians for Israel, and, through the churches, isolating Israel in the international arena. The lack of an effective government response by the Ministry of Diaspora and the fight against anti-Semitism and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to a large-scale anti-Israel campaign harms Israel’s strategic ties with Christian communities around the world, especially among evangelicals.

Our failure is clear: lack of awareness, unwillingness, lack of tools and speakers, zero use of church language (ecclesial diplomacy), and ignoring the Christian partners themselves. The human resources exist – in Israel and around the world – but they simply are not mobilized. The ignorance and lack of acquaintance with the international and local Christian world — with the actors, the messages and the facts — creates an explanatory and diplomatic vacuum in front of Christian target audiences — and this space is easily perceived and filled by anti-Semitic and anti-Israel narratives.

One Israeli Christian remarked:

“Israel acts as if we do not exist. While others write her story, she sometimes does not write anything, or, when she does, it is hastily disparaged and swept aside by people who prefer their own misinformation to such inconvenient facts.”

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HAMAS DOCUMENT REVEALS WAR PLAN FOR 10/7: Meticulous Planning of Wholesale Slaughter, Mass Rape, Mutilation, Crush Heads, Burn Neighborhoods

By The Geller Report

All of the unspeakable barbarity of October the 7th was meticulously planned, every savage act — quoting Quran, of course.

A handwritten document by Hamas leader Yahya al-Sinwar reveals the massacre wasn’t chaos, but choreography.

Terrorists were ordered to film the slaughter of civilians, soldiers and families – not for documentation, but as a psychological weapon to terrorize Israelis and inspire extremists.

This wasn’t a “spontaneous uprising.” It was a scripted campaign for the destruction of Israel – planned, rehearsed and executed.

“Cast terror into the hearts of the unbelievers, so strike [them] upon the necks and strike from them every fingertip” Quran 8:12

The document contains precise and shocking instructions to film the slaughter of civilians, step on the bodies of soldiers, burn residential neighborhoods.

A document containing guidelines for 10/7 massacre, seized by IDF forces, shows Hamas leader’s plan to mislead intelligence, quickly infiltrate Israeli territory, and carry out an exceptionally brutal massacre.

The IDF has released a document found in a Gaza tunnel, handwritten by Yahya Sinwar, containing instructions for carrying out the October 7, 2023 attack. The document dates from 2022.

“The preliminary phase before the raid: it is essential that forces conduct intense movements weeks before any action by the Red Side, movements the enemy will regard as routine — this will serve as a cover story for the large-scale movement.

“Make sure to produce images that spark a frenzy, madness and an outburst among our people, especially in the West Bank, inside [Israel], in Jerusalem and throughout our nation. This is to motivate people to heed calls to rise up. At the same time, they must instill terror and fear in the enemy. Commanders must be instructed to cause these effects deliberately, to film them and broadcast the footage as quickly as possible: soldiers’ heads being stepped on, point-blank shootings, stabbing several people with knives, tanks exploding, soldiers kneeling with their hands on their heads, and the like.

“Plan in advance events that will yield terrifying images — several burning car bombs exploding at an outpost or building and creating horrific destruction, heart-rending scenes, terrible fires. Five or ten such images will sow mortal fear in them. May Allah strike them unawares and cast terror into their hearts. Organize for two or three actions whose objective is to burn down an entire neighborhood or kibbutz — pour gasoline or diesel from a special tanker, set it alight and broadcast the images.”

“Every brigade commander must have a ready plan for mobilizing forces, their deployment, how to communicate with them and how to activate them according to central orders from the mechanism commander.

“The objectives of the northern brigade should primarily face toward the coastline. The objectives of the Gaza brigade should be to the northeast up to a certain angle. The objectives of the central camps brigade should be to the northeast inclined toward the east. The objectives of the Khan Yunis brigade should be eastward. The objectives of the Rafah brigade should be to the southeast.”

“If we are not ready to exploit the opportunity to the fullest, then the enemy will succeed in taking control of the turmoil and move to a counterattack or receive outside support, and then the situation will turn against us in the worst possible way. Therefore it is essential to be prepared for force flows, to develop the attack, expand it and reinforce to the maximum during the first six to ten hours in order to establish solid facts on the ground that will thwart any possibility of a counterattack.”

2022 document penned by Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar details the October 7 assault plan: border breaches in waves, massacres of civilians and live broadcasts of atrocities, aiming to destabilize Israeli society and reshape reality through seizing IDF bases and control centers

By: Ynet News, October 12, 2025:

“The gates must be breached in several locations so as to allow the forces to flow in during the next waves of the raid. Ten to fifteen minutes after the start of the attack — it is essential to mobilize all the forces in accordance with the plan”: thus wrote Yahya Sinwar, the Hamas leader in Gaza, who was killed by the IDF in October last year, in his own handwriting at the start of a directive and preparatory document for the October 7 massacre.

The document, published and analyzed by the Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center, was prepared in August 2022 and spells out in detail the precise instructions for the terrorists. It includes directives on how to invade, the window of opportunity to “establish facts on the ground,” instructions to slaughter civilians, trample fallen IDF soldiers, burn homes and the directive to document all atrocities as a tool of psychological warfare.

Sinwar’s handwritten mobilization directive and preparatory document for the October 7 massacre

Sinwar’s handwritten mobilization directive and preparatory document for the October 7 massacre-2

Analysts said that Sinwar’s directive did not content itself merely with large‑scale slaughter but sought “a fundamental strategic shift in the situation on the ground through continued physical control of command centers, communications and IDF bases — so as to freeze a new reality.”

The report features sections of the six‑page document, which was located by IDF forces in Gaza, and dissected its layout: from the raid plan — which included phases of diversion and infiltration — through clear instructions to expand the fighting — and into a “war of consciousness,” which included orders to massacre civilians, film it and disseminate the footage. Among other aims, analysts explained, Sinwar hoped to leverage those recordings to gain support in the Arab world and recruit other “resistance” elements into attacks against Israel.

A New York Times investigation published Saturday states the document was discovered by an IDF special force operating at the site where Mohammed Sinwar, the Hamas leader’s brother, was eliminated, deep beneath the European Hospital in Khan Younis.

3D illustration of the Hamas tunnel where the terrorist group’s leader Mohammad Sinwar was killed and operational footage from the site

The Times also disclosed, for the first time, recordings collected by Unit 8200 in which Hamas terrorists and commanders are heard strictly following the instructions Sinwar laid out in the document, including in massacring civilians, setting homes on fire and broadcasting the atrocities.

‘Intensive’ operations in the weeks prior to and the moment of invasion

Meir Amit Center analysts noted that the document indicates the slain leader “identified the IDF’s vulnerabilities and his instructions were designed to exploit those failings to maximize gains, even before the attack and especially during the opening stages of the raid.”

Palestinian rioters torching tires next to the Gaza border fence days before the massacre

In the opening portion of the guidelines, written more than a year before the war broke out, Sinwar wrote that “in the preliminary stage of the raid, it is essential that forces make intensive movements, weeks before any action, in a way the enemy will see as routine activity. This will serve as camouflage for the big move (the raid). It must be ensured that this happens, especially in the areas where the operation is to take place.”

And so it did. Researchers observed several anomalous events near the border in late August and early September 2023. Demonstrations near the fence included throwing stones and explosive devices at IDF forces, and attempts were made to scale the barrier. In addition, bobcats and heavy equipment were seen leveling terrain and paving access routes, under the pretext of re‑establishing “return camps.”

Sinwar explained in his letter that the invasion stage into Israeli territory should begin with “breaching (the gates) to allow the flow of forces in the succeeding raid waves.” He specified that several breach points be selected — “at least one in the Erez border crossing area, one in the Nahal Oz area and a third opposite the central camps.” He further instructed that “bulldozers must advance, open the gates and level the roads, removing barbed wire and clearing obstacles such as dirt embankments and fortifications.”

He estimated that this breach phase would take about ten to fifteen minutes — after which “forces must be timed according to the prepared plan and in as many locations as possible.” He instructed forces to be “ready to reinforce the attack to expand it,” and also to carry out “defensive effort, if needed.” He ordered brigade commanders to prepare contingencies for forces that would be deployed under instructions from the “central operations commander” of Hamas’ military wing, and stressed: “There must be a clear division in line with the plan.”

In his directive, Sinwar detailed the different raid waves terrorists would use to enter Israeli territory and the attack objectives for each Hamas brigade. “The plan must include stages or waves,” Sinwar wrote, as indeed occurred during the massacre. “The first is the initial assault wave, and there are second, third and fourth waves. Each wave is predefined and has its own documents, maps and targets kept in sealed envelopes held by the brigade commander.”

Heavy equipment breaching the Gaza border fence during the October 7 massacre

He said brigade commanders would receive orders according to “developments on the ground and situational assessments,” and he instructed the terrorists: “The objectives of the northern brigade should be primarily toward the coastal cluster. The Gaza brigade will move toward targets to the northeast. The central camps brigade will move in the same direction with a tilt toward the east. The Khan Younis brigade will focus on targets to the east. The Rafah brigade will move to the southeast.”

He stressed: “The full set of objectives for each brigade must be ready, known and organized so that the most important battles and targets are engaged in the second wave, and then the subsequent priorities are engaged in the third wave and so on.”

Hamas terrorists rampaging through Israeli border communities

Sinwar’s guidelines said Hamas terrorists would lead the breaches into Israel in the opening waves, and other Palestinian factions would join later. Meir Amit researchers noted that IDF after‑action investigations confirmed that hundreds of fighters from other terror groups joined only in the third raid wave.

Sinwar instructed his commanders: “Fifteen minutes after the start of the initial attack, contact must be made with other Palestinian factions to summon them and request that they mass forces as quickly as possible to integrate them orderly into the operational plan.”

The slain Hamas leader wrote in the August 2022 directive that “there may be indications of the enemy’s collapse early on.” Therefore, he instructed, “we must be prepared to expand the attack to the maximum. The core of the plan must include control of centers of power and command over our main forces.” He added that Palestinian factions could be sent to population centers, but “our forces (Hamas) must concentrate on defined and important targets and on key positions.”

Palestinian terrorists taking over an IDF tank at the border

Sinwar also ordered that, during the opening of the raid, brigade commanders and their deputies should not initially take part, writing that “at a certain stage the battalion commanders will advance to conduct operations in the sectors assigned to them. It may be necessary for brigade commanders or their deputies to advance, and this requires examination of how to manage the command center because there will be a need to control a very large area and military capabilities.”

“If we are not ready to exploit the opportunity to the end,” Sinwar wrote, “then the enemy might succeed in seizing the chaos and move to a counteroffensive, or receive outside assistance, and the situation will reverse against us in the worst way.” He ordered that “it is essential to be ready for a flow of forces and to expand the attack to the maximum during the first six to ten hours in order to establish concrete facts on the ground so that any counterattack will become impossible.”

The directive to carry out atrocities and to broadcast them ‘to sow fear and dread’

The Meir Amit center noted that Sinwar emphasized the psychological dimension of the assault by broadcasting the massacre in real time “to terrorize the Israeli public and undermine its security.” Sinwar also hoped the dissemination of images would drive the “Islamic nation” to join the campaign against Israel.

Hamas terrorists rampaging near the site of the Nova music festival

“Ensure images are released that will produce a burst of ecstasy, frenzy and momentum among our people, especially in the West Bank, among the ’interior’ (Arab citizens of Israel) and in Jerusalem,” he wrote. “This is to spur them to respond to the calls, to go out and rise up, and at the same time to sow fear and dread in the enemy.”

Sinwar told unit commanders they must “ensure those actions are carried out deliberately. That is, record and broadcast the images as quickly as possible.” He specified the atrocities he wanted to see, including: trampling on soldiers’ heads, point‑blank shootings, stabbing people with knives and blowing up tanks. He added that “events that will produce terrifying images must be planned in advance.”

He asked terrorists to detonate car bombs inside a post or building to create “huge fire,” and to document “heart‑rending scenes of appalling destruction.” He said such pictures would “strike terror into their hearts.” He also ordered organizing several arson operations to burn entire neighborhoods or a kibbutz, instructing: “Spray the place with fuel or diesel from a special tanker, burn the place and broadcast the images.”

The report said the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023, “fully implemented Sinwar’s guidance both in the brutality of the terrorists and in the documentation.” Images of killings, massacres and abductions were broadcast live on Hamas channels and on social accounts of terrorists who took part in the raid, and some posed as journalists.

The center added that captured documents found on terrorists who participated in the terror attack showed how the Hamas leadership and the military command directed fighters on the ground “to act with cruelty against Jews.” Among the items the center displayed was a note found in the pocket of a Hamas commander killed in fighting around the Gaza border region that instructed: kill as many Jews as possible, behead them, rip out their hearts and livers – presented under an Islamic guise.

Other documents ordered massacres of civilians in Kibbutz Alumim, their abduction and the burning of homes with residents inside. Documents published after the massacre in The Washington Post detailed attack plans for kibbutzim, including mapping gates, expected response times and terrorist force allocations. Additional papers described stabbing techniques, vulnerabilities of Israeli tanks and plans for breaching communities and abducting civilians.

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The American Warrior Reborn: America’s New War Department Under Pete Hegseth Is Winning

By Judd Dunning

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Pete Hegseth’s Unapologetic Call to Excellence

“If you want a beard, you can join Special Forces. If not, then shave.”

“No more beards, long hair, superficial individual expression … The era of unprofessional appearance is over. No more beardos.”

“When it comes to combat arms units … the era of politically correct, overly sensitive, don’t hurt anyone’s feelings leadership ends right now.”

“Promotions across the joint force will be based on one thing: merit; colorblind, gender-neutral, merit based.”

“No more identity months, DEI offices, dudes in dresses. No more climate change worship. No more division, distraction or gender delusions.”

“No more walking on eggshells. We are liberating commanders and NCOs … No more frivolous complaints. No more anonymous complaints. … No more sidetracking careers. … No more walking on eggshells.”

“If the words I’m speaking today are making your heart sink, then you should do the honorable thing and resign.”

  • Pete Hegseth of the U.S. Department of War

The War Department Returns

When Secretary of War Pete Hegseth strode onto the stage at Quantico last week and declared, “Welcome to the War Department, because the Department of Defense is over,” it wasn’t just a bureaucratic name change. It was a stark reminder to the nation that America is not a human-resources experiment in quotas and pronoun drills — we are a Republic that survives only because warriors stand ready to defend it.

We open-eyed Americans know this: freedom is not only good, it is great. And those who oppose it would gladly destroy everything we have to preserve their lesser alternatives. There is no shame in being the miraculous exception — a free country willing to use unapologetic, vigilant strength to protect itself, its allies, and others subject to tyranny whenever and wherever appropriate. America is wondrous, it is rare, and we serve others by our example of strength through peace. From there we shine brightest, not in the gray sameness of a homogenous EU apologism.

Matthew 5:14-16 (KJV):
“Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hid. Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house. Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.”

Good, great, and amazing things deserve to be protected fiercely. America is not built on weakness, parity, or collectivist utopias. Its bedrock is merit, risk, free markets, and freedom. No risk, no reward. And it is the strong warrior class that limits foreign or domestic interruptions of destabilizing risk for all — so that Americans can take the equally greater risks of pursuing the highest outcomes of the American Dream on the playing field of life every day.

A strong U.S. military sustains peace, and peace allows bold risk-taking and growth. It is no place for politics; the stakes are too high. In Trump’s America, keeping unlimited possibility alive through strength and order is once again absolutely clear.

Hegseth’s speech was a direct assault on decades of decay. He called out “fat generals,” weak standards, and the poisonous distractions of “woke” policy that have turned too many commanders into timid political commissars. “Promotions across the joint force should be based only on merit,” he declared, promising to restore the bond of discipline, fitness, and accountability that once made America’s military the envy — and the terror — of the world.

At long last, the warrior ethos is being resurrected. And paradoxically, peace itself is worth killing for. The right to be radically free is worth war — and it demands that we remain prepared for it. There can be no compromise with weakness, no surrender to the politics of “woke.” The military is not for everything — it is for one thing: to defend the nation. Be fierce, or resign. That is the message. And it is a great one.

Clearing the Woke Debris

For years, our military has been shackled by leftist social engineering. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion czars proliferated while fighter squadrons shrank. Leaders were investigated for “toxic leadership” if they barked too loudly or demanded too much. Soldiers were lectured about gender pronouns while China churned out hypersonic missiles. The Pentagon became a think tank for climate change, not warfighting.

This isn’t just foolish. It’s suicidal. As I wrote in 13½ Reasons Why NOT to Be a Liberal, “A free society cannot be maintained when its defenders are undermined by the very culture they protect.”

Hegseth said it plainly: “The era of politically correct, overly sensitive, don’t-hurt-anyone’s-feelings leadership ends right now.” Amen.

FULL SPEECH TRANSCRIPT: https://www.war.gov/News/Transcripts/Transcript/Article/4318689/secretary-of-war-pete-hegseth-addresses-general-and-flag-officers-at-quantico-v/

America: The Reluctant Interventionist

Critics will howl that this is militarism. Nonsense. Since 1941, America has been the reluctant superpower. We didn’t ask to be the global sheriff; we inherited the badge when Europe’s empires collapsed. As I’ve written, “We didn’t want this job, but history demanded we take it. In the vacuum left by fallen empires, America became the reluctant sheriff — not because we craved power, but because peace through strength was the only way the world could remain free.”

This is the essence of the just war tradition that stretches from Augustine to Reagan. We do not fight for conquest. We fight for liberty. We fight to contain evil when others cannot. We fight so that our children and our allies can live free.

George Washington said, “To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.” Ronald Reagan put it more bluntly: “We maintain the peace through our strength; weakness only invites aggression.” That is not jingoism. It is history. Every time America shows weakness — from Korea to Kabul — tyrants advance. Every time we show resolve — Normandy, Berlin, Desert Storm — evil retreats.

Christianity, Warriors, and Just War

The left loves to smear Christian faith as incompatible with military strength. Wrong. Christ Himself praised the faith of a Roman centurion. Scripture never called Christians to holy war or terror — unlike radical Islamists, we don’t blow up airplanes in God’s name. Our wars have always been rooted in defense, not jihad. As I wrote, “Christians don’t strap on bombs or blow up airplanes to prove their God is real. Our strength is defensive, rooted in truth and freedom.”

That’s why America’s soldiers are not marauders but guardians. They are the embodiment of the just warrior — reluctant to fight, but unyielding when forced to.

Hegseth’s Ten Directives

Hegseth’s reforms are not symbolic. They are concrete, and they matter:

  • One Standard, One Force: A single fitness benchmark — no more watered-down tests by gender.
  • No More Excuses: Daily physical training, biannual tests, and no tolerance for obesity in uniform.
  • End the Beardos: Grooming standards restored, combat readiness prioritized.
  • Meritocracy Restored: Promotions based on performance, not identity.
  • Commanders Empowered: Definitions of “toxic leadership” revisited so warriors can actually lead.

In his words: “These directives are designed to take the monkey off your back and put you, the leadership, back in the driver’s seat.”

The Stakes Today

Our enemies are not playing games. China builds fleets. Russia redraws borders. Iran sponsors terror. The world is watching whether America is still capable of producing warriors — or if we’ve turned ourselves into a university seminar on grievance politics.

The Founders knew what was at stake. James Madison warned, “The means of defense against foreign danger have been always the instruments of tyranny at home.” That is why America must balance might with moral restraint. But restraint is not weakness. Restraint without strength is surrender.

The Warrior Reborn

The rebirth of the War Department ethos is not about conquering. It’s about surviving. It’s about remembering that peace only comes when warriors are respected, standards are enforced, and leaders are free to lead.

As Hegseth said: “Move out with urgency, because we have your back, I have your back, and the commander in chief has your back.”

America’s warriors are not mercenaries of empire. They are guardians of liberty. And with the War Department restored, the warrior is reborn.

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This article was published by redisthenewcool.wordpress.com and is reproduced with permission.

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Foreign Communists Are Funding and Training Violent Leftist Radicals in US

By Mike Gonzalez

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“The issue is never the issue. The issue is the revolution,” said the late David Horowitz, quoting a 1960s rebel. The Palestinian conflict, the climate, transgenderism, immigration, and abortion are all proximate causes for protests and now terrorism. But they are all also part of an amalgamated “omnicause” whose real purpose is to bring down the United States and the West.

Following the assassination of Charlie Kirk and other recent tragedies that are rightly garnering worldwide attention, our leaders have finally woken up and are looking into who the perpetrators are and who organizes and finances them.

After Kirk’s death, a liberal fired three bullets into an ABC News office in Sacramento, supposedly to protest the suspension of left-wing commentator Jimmy Kimmel. Last week, another radical shot inside a Dallas Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility, killing two people.

Law enforcement is investigating, and Congress is weighing hearings on whether we have a problem with leftwing violence in America. For years, I have called for investigations into Black Lives Matter.

What they will find is that much of this support, not just financial but also ideological, comes from overseas, from countries that loathe the American way because its existence is a constant rebuke to their decrepit ideologies.

Front and center are dark places run by communist parties, such as China and Cuba. They fund intricate radical networks inside American society because they benefit when chaos weakens us. It doesn’t matter what issue gets thousands out on the street to riot, or now, even kill.

That’s why it’s an omnicause. The communist group ANSWER Coalition (Act Now to Stop War & End Racism) will storm the barricades on behalf of any matter that challenges what the Marxists would call “American power structures.” The matter itself, as Horowitz observed, is not the problem.

As an ANSWER Coalition demonstrator told a journalist in 2024 at a pro-Hamas rally, the purpose of the demonstration really was “Getting rid of America, getting rid of the West. This is what this is for. Yes. Everyone here understands that, at some level, we need to get rid of America, completely.”

Following Kirk’s martyrdom at the hands of a suspect with a boyfriend allegedly “transitioning” to be a woman, and who asserted that Kirk spread “hate,” the FBI has launched an investigation into radical groups in Utah, according to the New York Post and Axios. One group that has been named is Armed Queers Salt Lake City, a Marxist cell that believes in arming and training LGBTQ+ people to acquire power.

The group is led by Ermiya Fanaeian, a gun-toting transgender Iranian immigrant who calls for revolution. Fanaeian traveled to Cuba for training earlier this year, where he was told by Cuba’s communists, “It’s time for you to go home and make your own revolution.”

No direct evidence ties AQSLC to the man charged with Kirk’s murder, Tyler Robinson. But it’s easy to see why the FBI is investigating it.

AQSLC immediately scrubbed down its social media presence after Kirk’s assassination, as did Fanaeian, who “identifies” as a woman. AQSLC’s logo has two rifle bullets inscribed in the same manner as the bullet casings with which Robinson supposedly killed Kirk. There is also, of course, the transgender angle.

Additionally, AQSLC was organized recently in St. George, Utah, a city of just 100,000 inhabitants, where Robinson and his boyfriend, Lance Twigg, lived. Lastly, AQSLC collaborated with the Leninist, transgender Socialist Rifle Association, a violent Antifa group that the Daily Wire said is linked to several “politically motivated” violent crimes.

Then there is this: When the Daily Wire’s Luke Rosiak asked SRA’s Salt Lake chapter and the national headquarters whether Robinson was a member, they both replied no. But when Rosiak asked if Twigg was a member, they demurred, citing confidentiality policies.

All this was enough for Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart, R-FL, who on Sept. 26 wrote to Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Attorney General Pam Bondi detailing all these AQSLC links and requesting a “thorough, interagency investigation into the role that foreign adversaries have in bankrolling disruptive organizations to incite or perpetrate violence.”

AQSLC and Fanaeian seem to have had close links with Antifa, an anarcho-communist entity, and traditional and cultural Marxist groups such as Black Lives Matter, which believe in state power as long as they control it. All these angles are discussed in a very good report on radical groups in Utah, just published by the Center for Security Policy.

But even if it turns out there is no connection between Robinson and Fanaeian, using contact tracing on the AQSLC leader reveals the vast extent to which left-wing networks have burrowed in America, with or without foreign help.

Fanaeian, for example, is associated with the Marxist-Leninist Party for Socialism and Liberation, for which she set up a “student study group” at the University of Utah. The PSL was founded and is led by the same man who founded and leads the ANSWER Coalition, Brian Becker, a former host for Russian propaganda outlet Sputnik Radio. In 2022, Fanaeian also addressed a crowd at the People’s Forum’s New York headquarters.

These three groups are part of a network funded with money granted by a shadowy millionaire who lives in Shanghai and has close ties to the Chinese Communist Party, Neville Roy Singham, the Network Contagion Research Institute explained in a very good study published last year.

As I explained in a paper I published last year with Mary Mobley, the People’s Forum is run by a Cuban agent named Manolo de Los Santos, who was involved in the takeover of Columbia University’s Hamilton Hall in 2024. The PSL, meanwhile, attended an international Antifa festival in Caracas this year.

None of these countries has any interest in transgender politics, which their communist leaders recognize as depraved. But they are very interested in revolution in our streets.

CSP warns that “Historically, American intelligence has struggled to understand the nature of threats that do not operate based on vertically integrated command and control structures.” They better be up to the job.

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Physics Demonstrates That Increasing Greenhouse Gases Cannot Cause Dangerous Warming, Extreme Weather or Any Harm

By Editors of the C02 Coalition

Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes

More Carbon Dioxide Will Create More Food.  Driving Greenhouse Gas Emissions to Net Zero and Eliminating Fossil Fuels Will Be Disastrous for People Worldwide.

Richard Lindzen
Professor of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Emeritus
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

William Happer
Professor of Physics, Emeritus, Princeton University

At the outset it is important to understand that carbon dioxide has two relevant properties, as a creator of food and oxygen, and as a greenhouse gas (GHG).

As to food and oxygen, carbon dioxide is essential to nearly all life on earth by creating food and oxygen by photosynthesis. Further, it creates more food as its level in the atmosphere increases. For example, doubling carbon dioxide from today’s approximately 420 ppm to 840 ppm would increase the amount of food available to people worldwide by roughly 40%, and doing so would have a negligible effect on temperature.

As to carbon dioxide as a GHG, the United States and countries worldwide are vigorously pursuing rules and subsidies under the Net Zero Theory that carbon dioxide and other GHG emissions must be reduced to Net Zero and the use of fossil fuels must be eliminated by 2050 to avoid catastrophic global warming and more extreme weather. A key premise stated by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is  the “evidence is clear that carbon dioxide (CO2) is the main driver of climate change,” where “main driver means responsible for more than 50% of the change.”

The Biden Administration adopted over 100 rules and Congress has provided enormous subsidies promoting alternatives to fossil fuels premised on the Net Zero Theory. The EPA Endangerment Finding, for example, asserts “elevated concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere may reasonably be anticipated to endanger the public health and to endanger the public welfare of current and future generations.”

On April 9, 2025 President Trump issued a “Memorandum on Directing Repeal of Unlawful Rules” and Fact Sheet stating “agencies shall immediately take steps to effectuate the repeal of any [unlawful] regulation” under Supreme Court precedents, inter alia, where “the scientific and policy premises undergirding it had been shown to be wrong,” or “where the costs imposed are not justified by the public benefits.” We understand the Supreme Court has also ruled in the leading case State Farm that an agency regulation is arbitrary, capricious and thus invalid where, inter alia:

  • “the agency has … entirely failed to consider an important aspect of the problem”
  • “the agency has relied on factors which Congress has not intended it to consider.”

We are career physicists with a special expertise in radiation physics, which describes how CO2  and GHGs affect heat flow in Earth’s atmosphere. In our scientific opinion, contrary to most media reporting and many people’s understanding, the “scientific premises undergirding” the Net Zero Theory, all the Biden Net Zero Theory rules and congressional subsidies are scientifically false and “wrong,” and violate these two State Farm mandates.

First, Scientific Evidence Ignored. All the agency rules, publications and studies we have seen supporting the Endangerment Finding and other Biden Net Zero Theory rules ignored, as if it does not exist, the robust and reliable scientific evidence that:

  • carbon dioxide, GHGs and fossil fuels will not cause catastrophic global warming and more extreme weather, detailed in Part III.
  • there will be disastrous consequences for the poor, people worldwide, future generations, Americans, America, and other countries if CO2, other GHGs are reduced to Net Zero and fossil fuels eliminated that will endanger public health and welfare, detailed in Part IV.

Second, Unscientific Evidence at the Foundation. Unscientific evidence is all we have seen underlying the Endangerment Finding and all the other Biden Net Zero rules, detailed in Part V.

Further, Pres. Trump’s Memorandum Fact Sheet stated that agencies “must repeal any regulation where the costs imposed are not justified by the public benefits.” This is a separate and an additional reason all the Biden Net Zero Theory rules must be repealed because they have no public benefits but impose enormous costs, detailed in Parts III-V.

Therefore, these Supreme Court decisions and the science demonstrated below support repealing all the Net Zero Theory rules as soon as possible.

Further, for the same reasons, Congress should repeal all Net Zero theory subsidies, all laws that require GHG emissions be reduced and all laws that restrict fossil fuel development and infrastructure.

Finally, Peter Drucker warned, as every Net Zero Theory rule and subsidy demonstrates, that science in government is often based on “value judgments” that are “incompatible with any criteria one could possibly call scientific.”

Therefore, we suggest the President issue an Executive Order requiring all government agencies taking action based on scientific knowledge only rely on scientific knowledge derived by the scientific method and never base their action on unscientific evidence and sources.

We also suggest the Executive Order clarify that the scientific method is, simply and profoundly, to validate theoretical predictions with observations, and further, that scientific knowledge is never determined by the opinions of government, consensus, 97% of scientists, peer review, or is based on models that do not work, or cherry-picked, fabricated, falsified or omitted contradictory data, elaborated in Part II of the paper.

In summary, the blunt scientific reality requires urgent action because we are confronted with policies that destroy western economies, impoverish the working middle class, condemn billions of the world’s poorest to continued poverty and increased starvation, leave our children despairing over the alleged absence of a future, and will enrich the enemies of the West who are enjoying the spectacle of our suicide march.

Instead, let people and the market decide, not governments.

Read the entire report here as a pdf:

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Riding The Tiger: What is the Rapid Rise In Gold Telling Us?

By Neland Nobel

Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes

Gold continues to advance in price, recently reaching the $ 4,000-per-ounce mark.

Typically, gold does not correlate well with other assets, such as stocks; however, this time, it appears that stocks and gold are rising together.  Some call this “the everything bubble”, but that description does not seem to be true. Both bonds and real estate are showing softening prices. So “everything” is not advancing in price.  This may not be a response to generalized inflation.

However, the speed of the advance in gold is now causing some investment mavens concern.  Historically, significant upward movements in gold have often indicated fundamental problems within the international monetary system.

Gold is often viewed as a ” safe haven” investment.  It is the only international asset that is not someone else’s corresponding liability.  Holding US Treasury Bonds assumes the solvency of the US and the stability of the currency in which the bonds are denominated.  Therefore, dollar holdings of all kinds have counterparty risk.

In today’s context, gold is a “safe haven” from what?  It suggests that the world senses a systemic problem that could lead to either a US default or a further sharp decline in the value of the dollar.  Why else run to a metal, an element on the periodic table, that pays no dividend and cannot “grow” like a company?

Gold could be reacting to the shutdown and the possibility of budgetary gridlock.  However, that would not explain why gold has been rising over the last few years, albeit at a more modest rate of increase.

We mentioned before in previous articles that Biden’s decision to freeze Russian assets was a big mistake.  It was not a big mistake if viewed narrowly as a tactical weapon against Russia and its war against Ukraine.  It was a mistake in that it signaled to other countries that their excess reserves were no longer safe in the Western banking and monetary system.  Biden had shown that if you challenge the US Department of State over a particular issue, the US would freeze your international reserves.  This prompted many countries to seek ways to store wealth outside of the political control of the US.

This may explain, in part, why central banks have become such significant buyers of gold bullion. If they hold it, they remain in control of their money, and political actions cannot devalue their money. Gold is a politically neutral asset.

The chances of war increasing may be a factor. After initial deference to Russia by Trump, the Russians have escalated their attacks on Ukraine. This could prompt greater US involvement in a conflict with a significant nuclear power (Russia), which is now closely aligned militarily and economically with another dictatorship in China.  Combine that duo with Iran, and the US faces a very wealthy set of energy-producing countries and two major nuclear powers.

It would seem that they, too, can play the game of economic warfare, and their efforts within the so-called BRICS movement are aimed at moving other countries away from the US’s monetary orbit.

There is also increased chatter that the gold price advance may portend some monetary upheaval.

On X, the chatter is heating up, with users like economist Arnaud Bertrand tying the gold surge to historical precedents of monetary upheaval (e.g., the fall of Rome or the end of the Bretton Woods system), warning that it could spark political instability as wealth transfers to gold holders. Others, including Nassim Taleb and Maxime Bernier, highlight the silence surrounding it as eerie, urging preparation for a “chaotic transition” possibly by 2026, 55 years after the Bretton Woods system collapsed.

Judy Shelton, a prominent economist at the Hoover Institution and a former advisor to President Trump (who was nominated but not confirmed for a seat on the Federal Reserve Board in 2020), has advanced a specific proposal to revive elements of a gold standard by tying long-term U.S. Treasury bonds to physical gold. Her idea, detailed in her 2024 book Gold Standard and various interviews, centers on the U.S. Treasury issuing 50-year bonds that would be redeemable for a fixed amount of gold at maturity—essentially using the government’s existing gold reserves (about 261 million ounces held at Fort Knox and other sites) as collateral to back this debt instrument.

Shelton’s idea has some appeal because, with the US and most of Western Europe caught in a debt doom loop caused by their runaway entitlement programs, they will have difficulty selling long-term debt, as bondholders are justified in being afraid that inflation at 4-6% could erode their purchasing power. Even at 5% inflation, the purchasing power of the bond could be halved in just over 14 years. That is quite a threat for someone buying a long-term bond.

With gold’s surge past $4,000/oz reflecting systemic unease, Shelton’s plan could be seen as a pragmatic bridge—gradual rather than revolutionary—toward revaluing gold in reserves and countering central bank diversification away from Treasuries.

The more gold central banks own, and the more gold starts to be used to back debt issuance, the greater the “community of interest” becomes in maintaining a stable gold price at these higher levels.  This is excellent news for gold mining companies.  It means greater certainty that their output can be sold for prices much higher than their production costs. This will ultimately translate into increased free cash flow, higher earnings, and higher share prices.

The problem for gold investors is that we now sit on substantial profits, and we are naturally eager to cash in some of those gains.  However, if we are on the cusp of some monetary upheaval, prices will likely rise even higher.

It is a little like riding a tiger.  It can been an exciting ride, but if you fall off, you might get eaten.

A reasonable compromise would be to trim holdings to book some profits while retaining the bulk of holdings, as gold is likely to continue rising despite short-term overbought conditions, until a monetary reset is achieved.

For our readers who have followed our advice over the past few years, we are pleased and thrilled to have perhaps helped you make money and improve your lives during these challenging times. However, we are also concerned that while we are making a quick profit, the reasons may be serious and of profound consequence.

It would be painful to make a lot of money in gold and lose it in our other holdings.

We don’t have any easy answers.

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Why Are Democrats Allowing Their Party to Be Eaten Whole?

By Bruce Bialosky

Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes

I have been involved in the political arena for a long time.  I have read about political parties since the inception of our country.  Parties have evolved, and some have disappeared, like the Federalists and the Whigs.  I have never seen a political party allow people who don’t even consider themselves members of the party to consume its resources.  That is what is happening today with the Democrats.  

The Democrats have decided to allow people who are not even really party members to run for office under their name and not be forced to abandon the party they genuinely are in and commit to being Democrats.  Bernie Sanders is the Godfather of this movement.  He has always identified as a Socialist, but that was long before the current variation of organized Socialists in America was formed in 1982.  Sanders has always been listed as an independent but has caucused with the Democrats in the U.S. Senate. The Democrats give him full rights without ever asking him to be an actual Democrat and adopt the principles of the party.

The organization that has spawned the current movement is the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA).  Since members of this group advocate for the racist, failing public school system, they may not understand the simple elements of speech here that make themselves different from Democrats.  The word “Democratic” is an adjective.  Adjectives modify a noun, which is the truly meaningful word.  That means they are Socialists.  That is the noun here. If you don’t believe that, go to the DSA website, and you will read that they state they are Socialists.  

The group has grown dramatically as they have burrowed their way unopposed into the Democrat party. They are never asked whether they believe in the principles of the Democrats. They just point to the adjective (Democratic) and have won elections as “Democrats” while they are really what they self-identify as – Socialists.

To give you a better idea that they are a defined political party, DSA had its biennial convention this past August in Chicago.  An estimated 1,200 to 1,500 people attended.  Sounds like an established independent political party.  

Now, if you tell your left-of-center friend this, they start screaming about how Trump and his MAGA movement have consumed the Republican party.  But you must enlighten your friend on the basics of our language once more.  You see, those folks identify as “MAGA” Republicans.  The MAGA is the adjective here.  The noun is Republican.  Do I agree with everything MAGA Republicans say?  NO.  However, I do not agree with everything the Beautiful Wife says, and we are about as philosophically aligned as two people can be.  MAGA people are joining Republican clubs. They are Republicans. 

There are currently an estimated 250 people elected to public office in the United States who are members of the DSA.  I do not know all their names, so I cannot tell whether they all ran as Democrats.  I can tell you what they did not run as – Republicans or Socialists – the latter of which is what they actually should be running as.  

The Los Angeles City Council has four members of the DSA among the 15 council members.  Obviously, that is over 25%.  The problem for residents who vote in these elections is that these people are listed on the ballot as Democrats.  I can guarantee you that the vast majority of people voting for them have no clue that these four are actually Socialists.  In fact, if you go to their listing on the LA City Council website, none of them say anything about being a Socialist.  That is a clear act of deception.

There are currently three members of the U.S Congress who are DSA members.  The most well-known goes by AOC because her name doesn’t fit into a government form slot.  The other two are the “wonderful” Rashida Tlaib, and then there is the somewhat obscure Greg Casar.  He is from Texas but lives in Austin – the bluest area in the state.  He currently serves as chair of the Progressive Caucus in the House, which probably should be renamed the “Socialist” Caucus.  You can argue, but they did elect a Socialist as their chair.  

It is rumored that AOC is thinking of running for President in 2028.  What do you think she will run as — a Democrat or a Socialist?  If she is nominated, which is not totally implausible, that will confirm that the party has gone full Socialist.

The big story is the takeover of America’s biggest city and financial capital by a Socialist, Zohran Mandami.  He hasn’t hidden that he is a Socialist, but he is running as a Democrat.  It is fascinating to watch the tortured convulsions of Democrats deciding whether they are going to endorse him, even though he is their party’s nominee, but not really a member of their party.  Governor Kathy Hochul of New York, a leader in the political arena, finally decided to endorse him.  She could not find a single issue on which they agreed, so she stated that Mandami would be a worthy partner in fighting President Trump.  Talk about a positive agenda.

As the Democrats tried to dig their way out of the hole of the Biden/Harris debacle, they have had a horrible time finding a leader and an agenda on which to stand.  Everything suggests that they have a bigger problem.  A group of people is hijacking their party who avow that they follow a political philosophy that has failed wherever it has been tried and is responsible for the mass murder of millions of people.  Unless someone with real leadership takes over and denounces what is being done, then the Democrat Party will wilt away.  

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Commemorations as Israel Marks Two Years Since October 7 Attack

By Dr. Richard M. Swier, LTC U.S. Army (Ret.)

The attack on the lone democracy in the region—and how it’s understood—has become something of a Rorschach test for Western Civilization. We saw a horrific massacre that defied laws of warfare and morality. We saw the face Islamic terror. We also saw the vulnerability of Israel—a beacon of hope in the region and, increasingly, our nation’s most strategic ally.

New documentary: “October 7: Bearing Witness to the Massacre” (Amazon).

Two Years Later: The Diaspora Ministry has published the October 7th Files, a collection of never before seen documents that emphasize the meticulous planning that went into the October 7th massacre. The documents are available for public viewing at October7files.com.

And yet: On university campuses in the US and in Europe, we saw protestors come out in force to celebrate the barbarism. The world had changed more than many recognized. What any individual makes of October 7 says a lot about their broader worldview. Jerusalem Post: Jewish communities around the world commemorated the second anniversary of the October 7 Massacre ahead of the date, which fell on the holiday of Sukkot. Events were held across France on Sunday, according to Representative Council of Jewish Institutions of France (CRIF) President Yonathan Arfi. In Paris CRIF held a demonstration with the families of hostages, and in the evening there was a tribute to the victims of the Hamas-led pogrom in southern Israel. Arfi said that programming was held in coordination with the Interior Ministry and police would be present. While tensions were high after Thursday’s Manchester synagogue terrorist attack, Jewish events and culture had to continue “We don’t want fear to win,” said Arfi (Jerusalem Post).

GRAPHIC IMAGES OF THE OCTOBER 7TH ATTACK ON ISRAEL BY HAMAS [WARNING GRAPHIC]

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Pamela Geller

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Trump and the End of That ‘3,000-Year Catastrophe’

By Jihad Watch

On October 4, Trump boasted on social media about his plan to end the war in Gaza in this way:

After negotiations, Israel has agreed to the initial withdrawal line, which we have shown to, and shared with, Hamas. When Hamas confirms, the Ceasefire will be IMMEDIATELY effective, the Hostages and Prisoner Exchange will begin, and we will create the conditions for the next phase of withdrawal, which will bring us close to the end of this 3,000 YEAR CATASTROPHE. Thank you for your attention to this matter and, STAY TUNED!

This is worrisome. Apparently Trump has no idea that this “catastrophe” — that is, the war between the Jews and Arabs in the Land of Israel — began after Islam appeared, not 3,000 years ago, but in the seventh century. In the mid-620s, the Arabs conquered the Jewish tribes in Medina. And then Arabs who had embraced the new religion of Islam swept out of the Arabian peninsula and managed to conquer vast swathes of territory from Morocco in the west to Sassanid Persia in the east. Trump does not know, it seems, that the Muslims first attacked the Jews in Arabia; he has no knowledge of Muhammad’s attack on the Jews living in the Khaybar Oasis; he does not know that the Muslim Arabs, during the Rashidun Caliphate, conquered Jerusalem in 636-637 A.D. Nor is he aware that Muslims believe that Jews are “the strongest in enmity” toward them, and that Muslims believe that Muhammad died from eating poisoned meat at a banquet prepared by a Jewish woman, and that the Jews are, according to Qur’an 98:6, just like all non-Muslims, the “most vile of created beings.” Bringing an end to the war in Gaza does not change that.

The war — that is, the jihad — conducted by Muslims against Jews has no end, no matter what treaties are signed by Muslim Arabs. The model for Muslim treaty-making with non-Muslims is the Treaty of Hudaybiyya, that Muhammad signed with the Meccans in 628 A.D., but after only 18 months, sensing his forces had become much stronger, he broke the treaty on a pretext and attacked the Meccans. That is why the Israelis must be wary of relying on treaties with Muslims. It is clear that Trump knows none of this history. Nor does he know about Muhammad’s two most famous hadith, “War is deceit” and “I have been made victorious through terror.”

Donald Trump fondly believes that in ending — possibly — the war in Gaza between Israel and Hamas, he has brought closure to a “3,000-year catastrophe.” He needs to learn much more about Islam, and Islamic history, in order to realize that the “catastrophe,” as he calls it, began when Islam began, early in the seventh century, and that war has no end. The jihad waged against Israel is also being waged, albeit using different weapons, against other non-Muslim lands and peoples, especially in Western Europe. Forty-four million Muslims now live in Europe, where they may eventually prevail, through continued immigration and Muslim fertility rates that are much higher than those of the indigenous Europeans. Muslims know that, as Muhammad said, “Islam is to dominate and not to be dominated.”

What Trump might have said is that he hopes that the war in Gaza will finally be over, with the hostages returned and with Hamas surrendering all of its weapons, and that he understands completely why Israel must rely on deterrence, and not on treaties, for its security, so that the 3,500-year history of Jews in the Land of Israel will not be snuffed out in order to make room for a 23rd Arab state.

Yes, that is what he might have said. But he didn’t. And he won’t.

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Inside the Illegal Immigration Machine

By Kyle Shideler

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Editors of Tom Klingenstein.com: Revolutions often do not announce themselves. They build networks, seed rhetoric, and turn policy into theater. Immigration has become one such theater, where identity politics is the costume and demographic change the stage. What looks like advocacy for immigrants often masks a radical project — part of a cold civil war between Americans who wish to preserve their country and a destructive Left determined to tear it down.

This investigative report from Kyle Shideler reminds us that illegal immigration is not merely a policy dispute but a political strategy. The Hispanic vote is cultivated as both shield and sword: mainstream legitimacy for the radicals, and the muscle to advance them. Conservatives must know that immigration is not simply a matter of policy; it is a weapon in a larger and more decisive struggle.  

Who is behind America’s illegal immigration machine?” A question many Americans ask but rarely hear answered, obscured by a web of activist groups and political theater. For decades, the American Left has wrapped radical activism in the language of identity politics, presenting it as advocacy for Hispanics or immigrant communities. In reality, many of these groups function merely as vehicles advancing the agendas of foreign-aligned radicals.

Demographics have turned these groups into some of the Left’s most effective weapons. Hispanics represent the fastest-growing minority group in the United States, and conservatives, wary of alienating voters, have grown hesitant to confront these organizations directly — making them doubly valuable to the Left. They serve two purposes at once: generating agitation in the streets and presenting themselves as the voice of a powerful electoral bloc. And these groups don’t just agitate; they stage. Every protest is a performance, calculated for cameras and scattered throughout sympathetic media.

Following this summer’s Los Angeles riots (targeting Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers), the funding question surfaced yet again. Frustrated conservatives’ hubbub even reached the halls of Congress, where Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) issued a series of letters to groups singled out as alleged instigators — namely the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles (CHIRLA), the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL), and Unión del Barrio.

But the funding question only scratches the surface. To truly understand these groups, we have to follow not just the money but the ideas and networks that sustain them.

The first and most prominent example is CHIRLA, born out of Los Angeles’s activist priesthood and radical organizing tradition. CHIRLA’s founder and first director was Father Luis Olivares, an organizer for the radical Left and longtime priest of Our Lady Queen of Angels Church, better known as La Placita. A devotee of the Saul Alinsky-style organizing method and close friend of United Farm Workers organizer Cesar Chavez, Olivares was known as a hero of the “Chicano Movement” and a leader of the Sanctuary Movement of the 1980s.

The Chicano Movement, founded in the 1970s and modeled after the Black Panthers, views Americans of Mexican heritage as an indigenous people native to the American southwest — and entitled to a separate nation state, known as Aztlán. The Chicano Movement was strongly influenced by the Communist Cuban Revolution, and several Chicano leaders travelled to Cuba as part of the Venceremos Brigades (VB), the Cuban intelligence program to recruit U.S. students as long-term assets. Current Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass — who has extensively supported protests against the Trump Administration’s immigration enforcement agenda — was a well-known and high-ranking VB member, if that tells you anything.

Small wonder, then, that the next wave of resistance — the Sanctuary Movement — would be driven by many of the same ideological currents. Led by a handful of left-wing activists, including clergy, the Sanctuary Movement was the first organized resistance to enforcement of immigration laws, emphasizing civil disobedience and deliberately harboring illegal aliens, almost exclusively Central Americans fleeing civil war between U.S.-backed governments and Soviet-backed Communist guerrillas…..

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Oct. 7, 2023: A Day of Anti-Jewish Genocide

By Catherine Salgado

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Today is Oct. 7, the day the second Holocaust began. In 2023 on this date, genocidal Hamas terrorists raped women to death, gunned down or kidnapped entire families, beheaded and burned alive babies, and committed unimaginable atrocities which they themselves filmed and over which they gloated.

In Dinesh D’Souza’s new movie “The Dragon’s Prophecy,” a survivor of the horrendous slaughter that 2023 day at the Nova Music Festival talked about how she and others huddled in a concrete bunker. Hamas terrorists arrived and began mowing the Israelis down, including the woman’s partner, while she survived only because she was buried under a heap of dead and dismembered bodies. As the terrorists killed the innocent civilians, the woman heard them laughing and laughing “like someone had told the best joke you’d ever heard.”

The movie also includes clips of Gazan mobs weeping and cheering with jubilation, and a young Hamas terrorist calling his father using one of his victims’ phone to scream with wild excitement and triumph about how many Jewish women he had captured and murdered.

As of last summer, 80% of Gazans believed that Oct. 7 had furthered their national interests, and tragically they have been proven right. The United Nations, the European governments, Western institutions, and Muslim dictatorships have all bashed Israel, bemoaned Gaza, poured aid into Gaza, and recognized a “Palestinian state” (which has never before existed in history). Even Donald Trump is now proposing a deal favorable to the terror-funding Palestinian Authority. And the world has been inundated with a rising tide of violent antisemitism.

Do not forget Baby Kfir Bibas tortured to death in the tunnels of Gaza, or Eli Sharabi who survived so many months of hellish Hamas captivity only to find out upon release the terrorists had massacred his entire family, or Lishai Miran who huddled in terror with her children at their kibbutz as her husband was kidnapped and her teenage neighbor gunned down. Never Again is now.

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THE HUDNA: Hamas Terror Group Responds to Trump Plan

By The Geller Report

Hamas’s response was delivered hours after Trump threatened Hamas in a post on Truth Social. They have dictated their terms for a hudna (temporary truce Islam in order to rearm.)

Here is Hamas’s response. It appears to be written by a cabal of far-left international lawyers.

Hamas has agreed to release the hostages (if you believe what they say) but they insist on being part of the decisions for the future and governance of Gaza. They’re starting to take apart the plan, like they always do.

As of October 4, 2025, Hamas has issued a formal response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s 20-point Gaza ceasefire proposal, which was unveiled earlier this week following talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The plan outlines a phased end to the nearly two-year war, including the immediate release of all remaining Israeli hostages (around 100, per Israeli estimates), a temporary international administration for Gaza led by U.S. and Arab states, Hamas’s disarmament, and no future governance role for the group in the territory. Trump set a “three or four days” deadline for Hamas’s reply, warning of severe consequences for rejection.Key Elements of Hamas’s ResponseHamas conveyed its position through mediators in Qatar and Egypt late on October 3, framing it as a “responsible national stance” after consultations with other Palestinian factions. The response is cautiously positive but insists on negotiations for key revisions:

Acceptance of Core Elements: Hamas agrees to release all Israeli hostages as part of an immediate ceasefire, aligning with the plan’s first phase. This has been hailed by Trump as a major breakthrough, with him stating on Truth Social that “Hamas is ready for lasting peace” and calling for Israel to halt bombardment.

Demands for Changes:

  • Rejects full disarmament and the imposition of a foreign-led administration, viewing it as a “new form of occupation.” Instead, Hamas proposes Gaza’s future governance as an “internal Palestinian issue,” potentially under a unified Palestinian authority (excluding direct Hamas control but preserving resistance structures).
  • Calls for a complete Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, an end to the blockade, and reconstruction guarantees before any power transition.
  • Omits explicit commitment to dismantling its military wing (Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades), a red line for Israel.

The full text of Hamas’s statement, as translated and posted by Trump, emphasizes ending the “aggression and genocide” in Gaza while defending “Palestinian constants and rights.”International and Regional Reactions

Positive Signals:

  • Arab states (Saudi Arabia, Jordan, UAE, Qatar, Egypt) and Turkey welcomed the response as a step toward de-escalation, with Egypt’s foreign minister noting it avoids giving “excuses for further killings.”
  • European leaders like French President Emmanuel Macron and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni praised it as an “opportunity for decisive progress,” urging swift implementation.
  • Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas endorsed Hamas’s “positive statements” and thanked Trump for efforts toward “lasting peace.”

Israeli Pushback: Netanyahu’s office described it as a “de-escalation, not a full ceasefire,” with the IDF maintaining positions in Gaza. A senior Israeli official confirmed preparations for the hostage release phase but stressed no concessions on disarmament. Far-right ministers threatened to collapse the coalition if the deal proceeds without Hamas’s total defeat. Israel has intensified strikes in Gaza City, killing at least 66 Palestinians in the last 24 hours (per Gaza’s Health Ministry), while ordering evacuations.

U.S. Stance: Trump shifted pressure to Israel, posting the response publicly and saying “we’re very close to achieving [peace].” Vice President JD Vance echoed this, calling it a “proud” team effort. However, some U.S. hardliners view it as too lenient, accusing Hamas of stalling.

Current Status and Outlook

  • Hostage Release Hopes: The response has boosted optimism for freeing the remaining captives, with mediators scheduling talks in Doha today (October 4). Israel has paused major offensives in parts of Gaza to facilitate this, per ABC News sources.
  • Risks of Breakdown: Analysts warn of internal Hamas divisions—political leaders in Qatar/Doha favor adjustments, but Gaza-based military figures (e.g., the late Mohammed Sinwar’s successors) oppose ceding control. Netanyahu faces domestic pressure to “finish the job,” and rejection could trigger escalated Israeli operations.
  • Broader Context: This comes amid ongoing violence: Over 66,000 Palestinians killed since October 7, 2023 (Gaza Health Ministry), and recent IDF strikes targeting 40+ Hamas commanders. The plan’s success hinges on bridging the “holes” (per Egypt) through U.S.-brokered talks.

Israel moves to implement Trump’s Gaza peace plan after Hamas accepts parts of it; hostages, ceasefire, and prisoner releases are still under negotiation.

Developments are fluid, with Netanyahu reportedly “surprised” by Trump’s quick endorsement. For real-time updates, monitor Al Jazeera or Reuters live blogs.

Trump plan: Hamas willing to free hostages, but seeks talks on the rest

Hamas says it agrees in principle to Trump’s Gaza plan. Hamas official Abu Marzouq says 72-hour hostage handover is unrealistic and full implementation requires detailed negotiations.

By: Israel National News, Oct 3, 2025:

The Hamas terrorist organization on Friday evening submitted to the mediators its response to US President Donald Trump’s peace plan, according to reports in Al Jazeera and the Qatari Al-Araby channel.

A statement from Hamas said, “After thorough review, the following response was conveyed to the mediators: Hamas appreciates the Arab, Islamic, and international efforts, as well as those of US President Donald Trump, calling for an end to the war in the Gaza Strip, a prisoner exchange, the immediate entry of humanitarian aid, the rejection of the occupation of the Gaza Strip, and the displacement of our Palestinian people from it.”

Hamas continued, “In this context, and to achieve a cessation of hostilities and a complete withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, the movement announces its agreement to release all Israeli hostages, both living and deceased, in accordance with the exchange formula included in President Trump’s proposal, provided that the necessary conditions on the ground are met. In this regard, the movement confirms its readiness to immediately enter into negotiations through the mediators to discuss the details.”

The organization also said it “reaffirms its agreement to hand over the administration of the Gaza Strip to an independent Palestinian body (technocrats) based on Palestinian national consensus and supported by Arab and Islamic backing.”

“The other issues raised in President Trump’s proposal regarding the future of the Gaza Strip and the authentic rights of the Palestinian people are tied to a comprehensive national stance, based on relevant international laws and resolutions, and will be addressed within a comprehensive Palestinian national framework in which Hamas will participate and bear full responsibility,” the organization said.

A separate report in the Wall Street Journal indicated that Hamas has expressed willingness to accept Trump’s plan but would refuse to disarm.

Meanwhile, Kan 11 News reported that officials in Israel estimate that Hamas’s response to Trump’s plan to end the war will lead to intensive negotiations aimed at reaching an agreement to end the war and secure the release of hostages.

The report further noted that Israeli officials involved in the negotiations believe Hamas will likely request additional time regarding the release of all hostages, which is expected to occur within 72 hours of signing the agreement proposed by President Trump.

Unlike the 20 living hostages held by Hamas and Islamic Jihad, whose locations are known to the terror organizations, Israel is preparing for the possibility that Hamas will demand more time or a withdrawal of IDF troops to facilitate the return of deceased hostages. A message to this effect was conveyed to Israel in recent days through mediators, according to Kan 11 News.

Hamas’s response was delivered hours after Trump threatened Hamas in a post on Truth Social.

“An Agreement must be reached with Hamas by Sunday Evening at SIX (6) P.M., Washington, D.C. time,” Trump wrote. “Every Country has signed on! If this last chance agreement is not reached, all hell, like no one has ever seen before, will break out against Hamas. There will be peace in the Middle East one way or the other.”

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt later reiterated Trump’s ultimatum for Hamas to accept his Gaza peace proposal by Sunday, warning the terror group of “very grave” consequences if it does not accept.

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