Foreign Zionist Terrorist Settlers Slash and Burn. Their Indigenous Palestinian Victims are Arrested

Foreign Zionist settlers, backed by the Israeli Army, continue to attack and burn indigenous Palestinian homes, vehicles, and structures in multiple Palestinian villages across illegally-occupied Palestine, with recent incidents reported in Sarra, Susiya, Mukhmas, Taybeh, Jalud, Fandaqumiya, Urif, Khirbet Al-Marjam, Turmus Ayya, and Al-Tuwani. These attacks often involve arson, Molotov cocktails, live ammunition, and vandalism, sometimes occurring while families are inside their homes.

Recent major incidents (2025–2026) include:

Sarra (July 24, 2026): Hundreds of settlers from the Havat Gilad outpost burned homes and vehicles; residents reported Israeli soldiers watched without intervening.

Susiya (February 25, 2026): Settlers torched tents and vehicles near Hebron.

Mukhmas (January 2026): Two buildings burned in this Bedouin village; UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese labeled such acts “settler TERROR.”

Taybeh (June 2026): The last all-Christian village in the West Bank was set ablaze near the 5th-century Church of St. George; firefighters were impeded.

Al-Tuwani (July 19, 2026): A mosque, two homes, and a dairy factory were burned; Hebrew graffiti was sprayed on walls.

Residents and officials describe these as organized, premeditated attacks aimed at displacing Palestinians, often met with impunity despite investigations being opened. The Israeli army watches without intervening and is obviously complicit in the crimes. To add insult to injury, Israel arrests the Palestinian victims. Isn't this sufficient evidence of ethnic cleansing and genocide? The European Union, Vatican, and various human rights groups have condemned the violence and called for accountability. But that is not enough. 

The objective of this wave of Jewish terrorism is Act II in the tragedy of depopulating Palestine of its indigenous people in a massive campaign of ethnic cleansing, a reprise of the 1930s-1940s Act I wave of Jewish terrorism that terrorized hundreds of thousands of native Palestinians into leaving their villages so that the foreign Jewish terrorists can have their British-promised "homeland". 

When is the right time to declare Israel as a State sponsor of terrorism, cut off all political and trade relations and put an arms embargo against it? Is it when there are no more Palestinians left on their millennial land? Is it when hundreds more refugee camps are created around Palestine to house those fleeing Zionist terrorism and persecution?

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Israel arrests dozens of Palestinians in West Bank amid settler attacks
Al Jazeera Staff, AFP, Anadolu and Reuters
Sat, July 25, 2026


Israeli soldiers surround a hospital in Nablus where they allegedly arrested a wounded man and his brother from inside the hospital in Nablus, the occupied West Bank, on July 24, 2026 [AFP]

Israel has arrested nearly 50 Palestinians in the village of Tal following a shooting that killed four Palestinians and two Israeli soldiers.

Israel is pushing ahead with its military crackdown across the occupied West Bank, arresting dozens following a shooting that killed four Palestinians and two Israeli soldiers.

On Saturday morning, Israeli forces arrested nearly 50 Palestinians in the village of Tal, southwest of Nablus, where Friday's shooting took place, while raiding roughly 70 homes.

Footage posted by Quds News Network shows two blindfolded men being led away by Israeli soldiers. The arrests are part of what Israel's military has described as an "extensive" operation launched in response to Friday's shooting.

On Friday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defence Minister Israel Katz ordered a "wide-scale military operation" in Palestinian villages across the occupied West Bank following an attack near the illegal Havat Gilad settlement that killed two Israeli soldiers and wounded three others.

According to sources and witnesses, Israeli settlers attacked several Palestinian communities in the Nablus governorate, setting fire to Palestinian homes and other property.

The Palestinian Health Ministry says at least 87 Palestinians have been killed by Israelis in attacks across the West Bank since the beginning of the year, 21 of them by settlers, who critics say have become emboldened by the lack of international pressure on Israel to end its siege of Gaza, as well as the rhetoric of far-right ministers Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich.

Albanese calls attacks as 'pogroms'

UN Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories Francesca Albanese on Saturday described Israeli attacks against Palestinian civilians across the occupied West Bank as "pogroms," calling for an immediate arms embargo and a halt to trade with Israel.

"Pogroms against defenseless civilians all over the West Bank, while Gaza is under fire," Albanese posted on X.

She accused Israeli civilians and the army of "joining forces" in the attacks, arguing that responsibility was not limited to Netanyahu or "a few rotten apples".

"Arms embargo now — stop trade now," Albanese said, adding that such measures are required under international law.

Israeli human rights groups have also urged the international community to take immediate action to stop state-backed settler violence in the West Bank, which has surged since Israel launched its genocidal war on Gaza in 2023.

In Palestine's West Bank, several arrests were also made in the northern city of Jenin, as well as in towns and villages across the governorate. Israeli forces raided multiple homes and deployed large numbers of troops.

Elsewhere, Israeli forces raided Tubas in the northeast and the Far'a refugee camp south of the city.

Soldiers arrived in Tubas in a large convoy of military vehicles and were deployed across several neighbourhoods, raiding homes for about three hours, the Palestinian news agency Wafa reported. They then headed to the Far'a refugee camp.

Israeli forces also raided several other locations, including the village of Far'ata, east of Qalqilya, where at least eight Palestinians were injured, according to Al Mayadeen English. The Aqbat Jabr refugee camp in Jericho and the village of Kobar in the Ramallah and el-Bireh Governorate were also among the locations targeted.

Funerals were held overnight for the four Palestinians killed in Tal on Friday.

Residents said they were forced to hold the funerals at night because Israeli authorities barred them from doing so during the day. According to reports, only a limited number of Palestinians were allowed to attend.

'Happening all across the West Bank'

The shooting in Tal was the deadliest there in months, with both sides disputing what happened. Israelis are not permitted to enter Tal, which is under the control of the Palestinian Authority.

Footage shows rifle-wielding settlers confronting a crowd of Palestinians. Another video shows a Palestinian man seizing a gun from a settler before fatally shooting him in self-defence. Israeli soldiers then shot and killed the Palestinian. Three other Palestinians were also killed.

Ubai Al Aboudi, a rights activist in Ramallah, told Al Jazeera that settler attacks on Palestinian villages are systemic and carried out with complete impunity, describing them as "not isolated incidents" but something "happening all across the West Bank".

He pointed to an attack on the village of Tal on Friday, noting that it had also been targeted a week earlier on July 18.

"So-called hikers, as the Israeli officials called them, came into the village, burned a family house with the family still inside it, and it was a miracle that the residents of Tal were able to get that family out of the house before they were burned alive," Al Aboudi said.

Human Rights Watch has also called on the Israeli government to take immediate action to prevent settlers from carrying out revenge attacks against Palestinians.

"The Israeli government didn't prevent the settler attacks on Tal village, so now it needs to stop settler reprisals and escalating military action that will make a bad situation worse," said Sarah Sanbar, acting Israel and Palestine researcher at Human Rights Watch.

"Years of lawlessness and impunity for attacks have turned the West Bank into a powder keg waiting to explode, and decisive action is urgently needed."

Trump is Dumb and Ugly. He's the Perfect Stereotypical American

‘We’re getting into an ugly phase’: Trump’s new tariffs are angering voters and US allies alike
Megan Messerly and Daniel Desrochers
Thu, July 23, 2026

Tariffs are back — and they couldn't come at a worse time for the GOP.

Some Republicans fear the eye-popping new levies President Donald Trump threatened to slap on Canada and generic drugmakers this week will aggravate Americans who were already blaming the tariffs for stubborn inflation ahead of a midterm election dominated by economic issues.

The president has long brandished tariffs as a cudgel in negotiations and some industry insiders see the promise of a future 50 percent tariff on $20 billion of Canadian goods and 100 percent levies on generic drugs as the latest example of a well-worn tactic. The administration is hoping to get Canada to re-negotiate a trade pact and pharmaceutical companies to reshore manufacturing.

But the president's allies fear that nuance will be lost on voters and argue the new tariffs — which could raise the prices of popular goods like alcohol and bacon, and the heart pills necessary to mitigate their effects — threaten to undercut the long list of victories Republicans would rather be touting.

"Everything that you do that's not focused on affordability is not helpful. This might not be a negative 5, but it's a negative 0.5. Anything that you're doing that is not on the plus side of the scale is a problem," said one person close to the White House, granted anonymity to speak about the impact of the tariffs on the GOP's midterm chances. "When you announce new tariffs, it's not like, okay, well, let's see what they do. It's, 'Oh crap, those are the bad things.'"

The threat of new levies — the duties on Canada are not scheduled to take effect until mid-August and the generic duties until 2028 — come as the administration slowly rebuilds its tariff wall in the aftermath of a February Supreme Court ruling that struck down a broad swath of Trump's trade regime. The president is set to unveil another set of tariffs ranging from 10 to 12.5 percent on 97 countries in the coming days. The administration also has several ongoing investigations that could result in tariffs on everything from wind turbines to industrial machinery.

"I think Republicans are comfortable with the threat, even though that has some market impacts. But actual revenue coming away from people's pocketbooks is not what Republicans are happy with," said a second person close to the White House, also granted anonymity to speak about the impact of tariffs on the midterms. "Any conversation about tariffs, unless it's reducing them, is a bad conversation for Republicans."

White House aides argue that the tariffs are narrow and targeted and that the long runway before they take effect will blunt their impact on consumers before the midterms. Cost-of-living concerns, they say, are about housing and gas prices, not hockey equipment and alcohol.

"No amount of armchair pontificating will deter the President from standing up for American workers and industries," said White House spokesperson Kush Desai.

The administration has included carve-outs in its proposed tariffs for key products, like energy and groceries, in an effort to blunt some of their economic blow. But those carve-outs could prove the worst of both worlds for the president, said Chad Bown, former chief economist at the State Department in the Biden administration. Voters won't realize prices could be even higher without the carve-outs and the exemptions on popular products limit the revenue coming into the United States.

"There is a gap between what the general public understands about what's being applied and the reality," Bown said. "And in a sense, that could backfire."

Canadian officials are warning that the new levies, if imposed on Aug. 19, threaten to further tarnish the already damaged American brand and further harm economies in swing states like Maine and Michigan that have deep economic ties with Canada. Even if the two countries are able to reach an agreement that opens the Canadian market to more U.S. goods, Canadians might not purchase them.

"I think we're getting into an ugly phase," said Canadian Sen. Peter Boehm, chair of the Canadian Parliament's Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade. "If there are concessions about getting U.S. alcohol back on the shelves … there's no guarantee that the consumer is going to go out and buy them."

U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer defended the tariffs on Wednesday in front of the Senate Finance Committee, saying consumers have been spared by businesses that have eaten new tariff costs and that many everyday products, like groceries, have been exempted. There are no tariffs on items the U.S. doesn't typically produce like coffee, pineapples and mangoes. Other grocery items like lettuce, carrots and broccoli from Canada and Mexico enter the country tariff free, along with the majority of goods from the two countries.

"That's what Americans care about," Greer said. "They care about these prices and they're down."

Those aren't the only steps the administration has taken to mitigate the effects of tariffs on consumers. It has also lifted duties on fertilizer to help farmers and has shrunk the list of goods hit by steel and aluminum tariffs.

And even the newest threats have carve-outs. The potential 50 percent tariffs on Canadian goods are aimed at signature products like hockey equipment, alcohol and forestry products — and only cover about $20 billion of the more than $383 billion the U.S. imports from Canada.

Still, Patrick Woodcock, the president and CEO of the Maine Chamber of Commerce, said the tariffs will hit some key goods that cross the northern border, like paper and wood blocks.

"We do not go unscathed from this … there are hundreds of Maine companies that will be reviewing this and assessing its own impact on them today," Woodcock said. "If this escalates and starts encompassing additional products that would be particularly concerning."

Trade lawyers close to the administration believe the 30-runway before the tariffs take effect are a clear signal the president is using them as a negotiating chip to get Canada to engage on some of the longstanding unresolved trade issues between the two countries, including dairy pricing and preventing China from gaining a foothold in North America.

It also may persuade Canada to come to the table on discussions over the renewal of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade agreement. Negotiations between the U.S. and Mexico have been ongoing since May but the U.S. has locked Canada out of formal conversations.

"The Canadians have been out in the wilderness for a long time," said Kelly Ann Shaw, who served as one of Trump's top trade advisers during his first term. "The president has used tariffs for leverage in all sorts of situations, and ultimately the goal would be to not have to impose these tariffs because the underlying issues get resolved."

After Trump's threat, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said he had agreed to immediately intensify trade talks — indicating that Trump's salvo may be working. But even as the two sides negotiate, the underlying stalemate between the two countries remains.

Correction: An earlier version of this report misstated the first name of the president of the Maine Chamber of Commerce. It is Patrick Woodcock.

Under Trump's Dictatorship, the US is Becoming just Another Banana Republic

Displays at the Smithsonian museum a day after Independence Day celebrations honoring the nation's 250th anniversary on the National Mall in Washington, Sunday, July 5, 2026. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)(AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

The land of the free is now controlled by a stupid Big Brother who insists that the country and its people abide by his own personal whims. And since he is fundamentally an ignorant fool, he wants America to become the land of the brainwashed. 

The Idiot-in-Chief thinks that deleting words from exhibits, newspapers, academic lectures, textbooks, museums and such will "correct" the past. The Soviets did it, the Nazis did it, the Zionists did it...Every self-ingratiating autocratic tyrant tried to erase "improper ideology" from history and replace it with his own self-serving imbecility,  but they all failed; history prevailed and with it the truth.

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Trump orders new signs outside Smithsonian saying some exhibits are inaccurate
JONATHAN J. COOPER
Updated Fri, July 24, 2026

President Donald Trump ordered his administration Friday to install signs in front of the Smithsonian Institution 's U.S. history museum telling visitors that some of the exhibits are inaccurate, his latest move to reshape how the story of the United States is told.

Trump's move follows a report released July 4 by his Domestic Policy Council saying leaders of the Smithsonian and its National Museum of American History don't tell history "in a way that is inspiring, unifying, and worthy of our great republic."

The president lacks authority to quickly fire the Smithsonian leadership or to order changes to exhibits, so his executive order targets the sidewalks out front, which are maintained by the National Park Service. His executive order calls for signs telling visitors about the White House report and directing them to resources for what he calls "accurate information regarding America's history." It also calls for a temporary exhibit that corrects information he deems inaccurate.

Smithsonian officials declined to comment on Trump's order.

Anthea M. Hartig, director of the American history museum, pushed back on the White House report during congressional hearings this week.

"As we continue to fact check the report, we unwaveringly attest that it does not fairly or accurately characterize the full body of work at the museum," she told lawmakers. "There is always room for improvement. But I also know the beauty and the inspiration and the expertise that lies in our collections, our exhibits, and our programming."

The Smithsonian operates outside the executive branch and museum directors report to Secretary Lonnie Bunch, who is subject to oversight from a Board of Regents.

Trump's escalating effort to force changes at the Smithsonian marks the Republican president's latest move to transform cultural pillars of society, such as universities and art, that he considers out of step with conservative sensibilities. Trump had himself installed as chairman of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts with the aim of overhauling programming, and his handpicked board voted to add his name to the building, only to have a federal judge later order the signs to be removed.

Trump has also imposed changes on historical sites beyond Washington, including in Philadelphia, where the administration won a court ruling last week allowing it to reinstall interpretive panels that critics say whitewash the history of slavery at the site of President George Washington's home. Advocates, academics and officials have been concerned for months that the version that complies with Trump's order could give a history that plays down the pain in the nation's past in favor of a more triumphant view.

Trump in March revealed his intention to force changes at the Smithsonian Institution with an executive order that targeted funding for programs that advanced "divisive narratives" and "improper ideology."

American Zionist Democrat Weasels are Radical Islamophobes: Israel First, US Second

The Zionists of America are displaying a tribal reflex of Islamophobia. It is OK for Zionists to occupy positions of power and to mind-control a largely dumb American public in favor of the Zionist colony in Palestine, but it is not OK for Muslims to play by the rules and try to achieve a modicum of power in the complex American political chessboard.

After the New Jersey Zionist Josh Gottheimer spewed his venom against the duly elected Muslim Mayor of New York City [See: https://lebanoniznogood.blogspot.com/2026/07/zionist-gottheimer-hates-muslim-mamdani.html], it is now the turn of several Michigan Zionists to trash their Democrat principles simply because an American Muslim is running for election there. These camouflaged-as-American Israeli Zionists with a dual US-Israeli citizenship say they will break rank from their party and vote for a Trump republican instead, simply because they hate Muslims.

AIPAC must have sent them its marching orders and they must comply, otherwise they won't get the money AIPAC dispenses across the political spectrum to ensure that both Democrat and Republican politicians and candidates remain trapped in the Zionist jail. The one commandment that AIPAC brings with it from Mount Sinai and which all Zionists in America must obey is: Thou Shalt Not Criticize the divinely infallible Israel.

These Zionist Michigan Democrats say they will vote for MAGA Republican Senate candidate Mike Rogers if the Muslim Abdul El-Sayed becomes the Democratic nominee, because El-Sayed dared criticize Israel. This again raises the question of the loyalty of these Zionists to their country: Israel always comes ahead of the US.

Several Jewish Michigan Democrats admitted Tuesday they or people they know will be backing Republican Senate candidate Mike Rogers in the upcoming election if Abdul El-Sayed becomes the Democratic nominee.

Ahead of the Aug. 4 primary election, Zionist donors like AIPAC and others are determined to break party ranks and violate their loyalty to their country because of the possibility of El-Sayed, an outspoken critic of Israel, seems to be the party's nominee for the Michigan Senate seat.

Notice that when non-Muslim Democratic candidates or politicians speak against Israel (Bernie Sanders, Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, and others), the Zionist lobby and its agents do not take such a radical position as voting for a Republican in spite. Only Muslim Americans deserve such hatred. 

Because in the US all elections are tainted by money, the only retribution the Zionists can exact against Muslim Americans is to cut off the Zionist bribing tap from them. Several prominent Jewish fundraisers have already begun to see Republican Rogers as a "hedge" and are planning to raise funds for him against El-Sayed.

"There are leaders in our Jewish community who are longtime, lifelong Democrats and Democratic fundraisers who are very concerned with where their party's going," said Dennis Bernard, Jewish Federations of North America national chair of government relations.

"And if this is the case, they've made it clear, both financially and with their vote, that they would support Mike Rogers in the event El-Sayed wins the primary."

Retired commercial mortgage banker Neil Gorosh described feeling "rudderless" as a Democrat, revealing that while he would not raise funds for Rogers, he would vote for the Republican over El-Sayed.

"If it came down to Mike Rogers and El-Sayed, I will vote for Mike Rogers," Gorosh said. "I wouldn't write a check, but I would vote for him, and I would tell my like-minded friends to do the same and the reasons why."

For the Zionists, loyalty to Israel comes before loyalty to America and their fellow American citizens.

Who is this El-Sayyed that is causing such a massive immune reaction in America's Zionists?

Doctor Abdul El-Sayed is an American politician, epidemiologist, and physician currently running for the Democratic nomination in the 2026 U.S. Senate election in Michigan. A progressive Democrat, he is competing against Representative Haley Stevens in a primary scheduled for August 4, 2026, having secured endorsements from prominent figures like Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

El-Sayyed's sin? He just said what the entire planet is saying: Israel is an apartheid racist Zionist supremacist entity committing genocide and ethnic cleansing against the indigenous people of Palestine.

Shimon Levy, an Israeli-American entrepreneur and Democrat from Detroit said that he is not concerned about Republicans retaining control of the Senate, as long as Muslim Americans are banned from the political stage. Turncoat chameleons whose disloyalty to the US makes them agents of a barbaric foreign country.

"Yes, killing tens of thousands of people makes you pretty damn evil," El-Sayed told CNN about the racist Israeli genociders. Leaders like El-Sayyed are breaking the taboo long imposed on a brainwashed American public by Zionist propaganda. 

Not long ago, Jewish candidates for political office in the US were themselves ostracized by Christian Republicans and Democrats because of their religion and their opinions. Now, these "integrated" American Zionists are doing the same with a new generation of Americans who happen to be Muslims. Just as Jews were label vermin by white American Christian nationalists and neo-Nazis, the mere thought of an American, who happens to be Muslim, running for government sends racist chills down their spines.

Zionists are losing the monopoly of the narrative, and they are foaming at the mouth in despair, after elevating a criminal colonial rapist to the level of a sacrosanct deity that no one should criticize. I can imagine decades from now in the US when being a Muslim would be just as normal as being a Jew: The white Christian supremacists will have two, not just one, targets for their vile antisemitism. 

The Truth about the Creepy Sinister Mitch McConnell who Favored Party over Country

Mitch McConnell is a dying man. But his legacy is nothing to be proud as he has always been mercurial and without principles.

His performance over the past few years has been one to favor GOP-MAGA tribalism over the national interest. He knew that Donald Dumb is a criminal and is harming the country, yet he went along the disastrous Trumpian plague out of fear or out of party solidarity, refusing to vote for Trump's impeachments and enabling the wrecking ball with which Trump has been dismantling the country.

Snake would be too kind of a word to describe McConnell.

Like with Lady Lindsey Graham of South Caalina, the passing of McConnell of Kenfucky is something to celebrate.  
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Mitch McConnell’s hometown paper publishes scathing ‘pre-obituary’
Rob Taub
Thu, July 23, 2026 


(NewsNation) — Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell was the subject of a scathing "pre-obituary" by his hometown newspaper.

Joseph Gerth, a columnist for the Louisville Courier Journal, published a piece reflecting on the 84-year-old's career even though McConnell is still alive.

The piece was highly critical, saying McConnell dismantled civil rights protections he once advocated and enabled President Donald Trump.

"Unlike Nixon, McConnell never paid for his sins that have damaged our nation's trust in government, destroyed the country's ability to have meaningful dialogue and cemented our nation's politics as an arena in which winning is the only thing that matters," Gerth wrote in the publication, calling McConnell a "detestable figure."

McConnell was hospitalized June 14 after a fall at his home. His condition gained national attention after his office went nearly a month without updating the public on his status.

Gerth noted the idea behind the McConnell piece was prompted by the death of longtime Sen. Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican, earlier this month.

"That got me thinking about Sen. Mitch McConnell, who was rumored to be dead or on life support or in a coma or whatever and was the odds-on favorite to beat Graham to the gates of hell in the days before Graham's death," Gerth wrote. "And, so with McConnell allegedly on the mend, I figured I'd go ahead and tell you what I think about McConnell now — when no one can complain, 'How dare you write that about a dead guy?'"

McConnell was first elected to the Senate 42 years ago. He has gone on to win reelection six times, becoming the state's longest-serving senator.

"He had more guts as a young man than he had as an old man," Gerth stated. "It seems somehow fitting for the ultimate shape-shifter, who wrote about accompanying Sen. John Sherman Cooper to see Johnson sign the Voting Rights Act into law, that the court he created was the court that struck down the last remaining significant provision."

On July 12, nearly one month after his hospitalization, McConnell released a picture of himself along with a full statement on his condition. The photo showed him sitting in a hospital bed holding a newspaper beside his wife, Elaine Chao.

Nuclear Saudi Arabia? Sure, Says the Great Moron, but First Sell Palestine to the Zionists

The American slave of the Zionists, Donald Dumb, is trying hard to satisfy his masters. He pressured or bribed many Arab countries to sign a no-peace, no-war meaningless truce known as the Abraham Accords with the Euro-American Zionist colony in Palestine.

Everyone knows that these "accords" are a sham since they contribute nothing to stabilize the region that has been stricken with the double cancer of oil and Israel. When you coerce someone into making a deal they really don't want to be a part of, the deal will collapse at the first opportunity.

Everyone knows that the question of a free and independent Palestine - or at the very least a one-state solution in which both the indigenous Palestinian hosts and their Zionist guests can live together in hard-to-imagine harmony - is the key to a definitive solution to the 100-year old rape of Palestine by European, and lately American, colonial settlers. While these Arab countries signed the Abraham Accords with the American gun to their heads, it is only their governments that signed, but not their peoples who understand that these accords do NOT end the torment of Palestine and the region. They go along on the surface, even flashing fake insincere American-style smiles to please the Great Moron, but deep down they hate Israel and what it is doing to their fellow Muslim Palestinians.

Yet, Donald Dumb, dumb as he is, continues to try and force more countries to "normalize" with the Zionist rapists of Palestine, by threatening them or pretending to defend them against the Iranian scarecrow or bribing them. No consideration is given by the Idiot-in-Chief to the long term inevitable failure of these accords. He basically doesn't care as long as he can claim to have engineered a fake peace: The shallowness of the man-child is such that he believes, like most American businessmen, that perception is everything and that substance doesn't matter. 

The big prize for Trump's program of coerced normalization with the Zionist colony in Palestine is to force his Saudi eunuchs to sign one such accord. Yet, the Saudis have resisted so far, arguing that only when Palestinians are set free by their Zionist rapists that they -the Saudis- will consider normalizing with Israel.

Nothing has so far worked with the Saudis. They have invested billions of their petrodollars in the US to get the Great Moron off their back. They purchase weapons worth hundreds of billion dollars from the US. They are essentially crawling on all four to please Trump, but Palestine remains their sole and last term for any deal with Israel. Regardless of whether or not they are sincere in holding off normalization form the sake of a free Palestine, that is their official position. I do think, however, that the Wahhabi rulers of Saudi Arabia fear for their own future if they sell Palestine.

Saudi Arabia is the ultimate Sunni Muslim beacon. If they fall and normalize without Palestine, they lose that position of prestige, and might have to defend themselves against their own people's wrath and Muslims around the world. Can you imagine a Zionist-normalized Saudi Arabia in which Ben-Gvir and Smotrich would take a stroll across the Mataf esplanade of the Kaaba within Masjid al-Haram?

Donald Dumb is dangling some "nuclear deal" in the face of the Saudis, but on one condition: Forget Palestine and let his Zionist masters finish it off. Will the Saudis fall? I very much doubt it. Why would the Saudis need a "civilian" nuclear program when their oil and gas continue to flow and their vast deserts could serve to harvest enough solar energy to power the country?
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Saudi nuclear deal in doubt as Trump adds new condition regarding Israel
Michael Birnbaum and Evan Halper, (c) 2026 , The Washington Post
Thu, July 23, 2026


Saudi Arabia would need to normalize relations with Israel to receive the U.S. nuclear technology it has long sought, President Donald Trump said Thursday, adding a new and potentially deal-ending stipulation to an agreement signed just a day earlier.

The nuclear deal - which was fiercely opposed by Israel and others concerned about nuclear proliferation - is "totally subject" to Saudi Arabia joining the Abraham Accords, Trump said in a social media post, referring to the effort from his first term to normalize relations between Israel and Muslim-majority countries from which it had long been estranged. The Saudis have thus far refused to join the accord.

It was the latest whiplash-inducing policy shift from the White House, which had faced-down considerable political opposition to push forward with the Saudi deal. The Biden administration also discussed a nuclear deal with Saudi Arabia, but tied any agreement to opening diplomatic relations with Israel, a move that has the potential to reshape dynamics in the Middle East, but which remains distant.

If the Saudis "don't join the Abraham Accords, the deal is off," White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said a few hours after Trump's post, responding to questions from reporters.

Asked why that condition had not been included in the deal when it was announced Wednesday, Leavitt said that Trump is "always the final dealmaker."

It wasn't immediately clear how the Trump administration would modify a legal agreement that it has already signed with the Saudi government. Asked for details, the White House pointed to Leavitt's comments.

The deal to allow the Saudis to build nuclear power plants using U.S. technology, creating a pathway to a Saudi nuclear enrichment program, has set off debate in Congress. Many lawmakers fear that allowing more countries to develop enrichment programs could eventually lead to more possessing nuclear weapons.

Israel hotly opposes Saudi Arabia's developing a nuclear enrichment program, fearful it could lead to a regional arms race. Israeli leaders welcomed Trump's new conditions.

The Saudis have long sought to build nuclear power plants on their territory - and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the de facto ruler of the country, has declared that they would work to develop nuclear weapons if Iran develops its own.

The Biden administration also explored a nuclear deal with Saudi Arabia, but it ultimately floundered because normalizing relations with Israel was the main condition the U.S. placed on the agreement. The deal the Trump administration signed Wednesday would have imposed no such requirement.

Trump's new condition on Thursday would attach a major string to the deal. Saudi leaders were nearing a normalization agreement with Israel in 2023, just before the Hamas attack on Israel on Oct. 7 of that year. Since then, however, talks have been paused. Saudi leaders now say they would want guarantees of an eventual Palestinian state, and Saudi public opinion has soured toward Israel because of its handling of the war in Gaza. Any nuclear deal tied to Saudi-Israel diplomatic breakthroughs has seemed remote.

"The Civil Nuclear Deal (There will be no enrichment of material!) being made between the United States Department of Energy and Saudi Arabia, which pertains only to non-military use such as the ones that Iran and UAE (and others) already have, will be approved," Trump wrote on Truth Social on Thursday. "But is totally subject to Saudi Arabia joining the very respected and successful Abraham Accords."

The Abraham Accords, signed in 2020, normalized diplomatic and economic ties between Israel and Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates. Morocco later joined. Saudi Arabia is a heavyweight of the Middle East. Boosting ties to Israel would be a major shift in a region long beset by religious tensions.

The president's assertion that there would be no nuclear enrichment as part of the deal appears to contradict how people familiar with the deal have described it. Most of the deal's details remain private.

The president will need to submit the agreement to Congress, starting a 90-day clock for approval. That move could take place as early as today.

It is unlikely Congress will be able to stop the deal, even if there is substantial opposition. The president could veto their disapproval, and opponents are unlikely to have the votes to override him.

But Trump's new condition could stymie the deal even before it gets off the ground.

Trump had not spoken to Mohammed in the hours since the social media announcement, Leavitt said. Nor did he speak to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, she said.

It was just the latest example of the president's on-again, off-again approach to policymaking. Last week, Trump said that the United States would impose a 20 percent toll on shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, despite months in which his own administration said that doing so would be a violation of international law.

A day later, and following widespread condemnation, he abandoned the idea, saying he would make investment deals with Persian Gulf countries instead.

The agreement that Energy Secretary Chris Wright and his Saudi counterpart signed Wednesday lays out conditions for nuclear energy cooperation and includes stipulations aimed at preventing the spread of nuclear weapons.

But unlike other recent deals with countries that do not already have a domestic enrichment program, this one would not impose the same strict conditions aimed at preventing them from moving in that direction.

The initial announcement of the deal on Wednesday drew condemnation in Israel, where leaders fear a Saudi nuclear program could spur a regional arms race. Israelis worry that Turkey and others could also seek nuclear enrichment programs, ultimately leading to far more countries in the region that have a pathway to a nuclear weapon.

Israel has an undeclared nuclear weapons program, in addition to civilian nuclear power capability.

"Saudi Arabia's joining of the Abraham Accords would be an historic leap forward for peace in the Middle East," Netanyahu said Thursday in a statement.

The Trump administration has offered little information about the agreement's contents. Three people familiar with the details said that it is designed with safeguards to keep the Saudis from enriching nuclear fuel to weapons-grade level.

But they said it exempts the Saudis from aggressive international inspections required in nuclear reactor deals with other countries, including the United Arab Emirates. Instead, sensitive inspections would be executed by American teams under terms spelled out in the agreement, which was initially worked out when the crown prince visited Washington in November.

The people spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the agreement publicly.

"These agreements reflect our two nations' shared commitment to strengthening U.S.-Saudi commercial relations, delivering prosperity at home and security to our allies abroad," Energy Secretary Chris Wright said in a Wednesday statement.

Trump had to sign a separate national security waiver to allow the deal to move forward, since it does not include conventional international inspections, according to the people familiar with the deal.

Under the Saudi deal, the two countries agree to study for two years whether enrichment on Saudi soil is feasible and necessary.

Proponents say the deal with the Saudis gives the U.S. an opportunity to control the expansion of the enrichment network on its own terms and limit the risk of nuclear proliferation. The deal requires that any enrichment on Saudi soil would be controlled by U.S. companies using technology that is not shared with the Saudis, in an effort to limit the possibility that Saudi Arabia could use the program to develop a nuclear weapon.

Nonproliferation experts have long warned against such a deal, saying that safeguards are unlikely to hold for the long term.

Trump's Crude and Cruel Capitalism is no Longer Cool in America

[Background info is from a CNN report: https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/americans-including-many-republicans-losing-180542647.html]

America often appears as a dusty attic where things never move or change. It clings to old-fashioned stale ideas and policies, even as its people are surging forward into modernity. The rigidity of the American system of governance is so engrained that it takes decades and centuries for the US to adapt and move forward. All countries around the world have settled on a reasonable compromise between the needs of the individual and those of the collective, except in the US where issues fester on and on. 

Abortion is one such issue. It is only in America that policies on abortion keep swinging back and forth between primitive traditional bigoted ultra-religiosity and modern progressive clarity on this issue. 

It is only America that continues to reject the metric system and all other universal standards. 

It is only America that refuses to uphold the principles it itself imposed on the world after WWII, namely to uphold the UN Charter on Human Rights and the Right to self-determination.

AI Query:

Significant divides between Americans and other countries exist primarily in values, individualism, religion, and foreign policy.

Individualism vs. Social Safety Nets: Americans strongly prioritize individual freedom and self-reliance, with 58% choosing freedom from state interference over state guarantees against need. In contrast, Europeans favor a stronger role for the state to ensure no one is in need, reflecting a more deterministic worldview where 68% in Germany and 54% in France believe success is determined by outside forces.

Religion and Social Values Religion is significantly more central to American life; 46% of Americans identify as Christian before being American, compared to fewer than 20% in Western Europe. Americans are also more socially conservative on issues like homosexuality and gender roles, though the gap has narrowed in recent years. Additionally, Americans place a higher premium on censorship-free media and offensive speech than their European counterparts.

Foreign Policy and Global Engagement. Europeans frequently view the U.S. as unilateralist, with majorities in France, Germany, and Italy believing the U.S. ignores allied interests. There is also a sharp divide on international engagement; while Europeans generally support multilateralism and UN approval for military action, Americans are more divided and historically more isolationist.

And now, four decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Communist Bloc, there are republican idiots and pathetic propagandists that are disseminating rumors about the Democrats being Communists and Socialists. You see, the average American is a self-centered ignorant brainwashed dumb individual who is incapable to critical thinking and listens to lies and believes them when they are served to him on a platter of fake patriotism. 

Having failed at delivering any of his campaign promises-lies, and contemplating a crushing defeat of his herd of MAGA morons, Trump's scintillating strategy for the 2026 midterm elections is to call Democrats "socialists" and "communists" at every turn. With this language, the Great Moron is trying to defame and slander the Democrat candidates because dumb American voters have been trained from the crib to react like Pavlovian dogs upon hearing such bad words as communism and socialism. 

Americans are therefore caught between a desire to progress (mostly young people with a broader view on the world thanks to technology) and a Hollywood-manufactured nostalgia of a golden past (circa the 1950s) among the older generations. 

In general, polls show that Americans' view of socialism is more positive while their view of capitalism is more negative. Views of capitalism have gone from 30 points positive in 2019 (57% favorable to 27% unfavorable among registered voters) to just four points positive today (50%-46%). The poll also shows 65% of voters agree that "the system is rigged to favor the wealthy." That's up from 56% in Trump's first term.

Americans are similarly divided on Israel. The older generations are stuck with defending the indefensible brutality of Israel on religious grounds (the canard of a unified Judeo-Christian world), while the younger generation of Americans are less adhesive to such religious superstitions and fake arguments because they have access to long occulted information and can make their decisions on their own.  

Among Republicans, 72% viewed capitalism favorably back in 2019, that's down to 61% today. And the percentage of Republicans who have a "strongly" positive view of capitalism has gone from 54% to 41%.

Just to underscore, fewer than half of Republicans — the party that claims to embrace free markets! — now have a strongly favorable view of capitalism. And 42% of them endorse a pretty Bernie Sanders-sounding sentiment about our "rigged" economy.

Americans are apparently growing disillusioned with our economic system.

And that's hardly the only data pointing in this direction:

Fewer than half of Americans say capitalism is working even "somewhat" well — down from 60% about a decade ago, according to a June Wall Street Journal-NORC poll. And views of big business went from 19 points positive in 2012 (58%-39%) to 25 points negative last year (37%-62%), according to Gallup data.

Given all of that, it's easy to see why candidates promising to overhaul the economic system — whether that's labeled socialism or something else — might have increasing appeal to American voters.

Conservative commentator Meghan McCain argued this week that Republicans would have a "huge f***ing problem" if Democrats nominate someone who can speak to economic issues like democratic socialist New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani does.

Evidence that Israel is no more than an American Military Base

An already subservient American Congress to AIPAC's Zionist stranglehold on the United States is no longer shy about further submitting its sovereignty to the Zionist colony in Palestine.

A congressional measure would further expand defense technology cooperation between the U.S. and its Israeli colonial militia known as the IDF.

The package, collectively known as the 2027 National Defense Authorization Act, passed the House in a 216 to 212 vote with six democrats voting "yes" and seven republicans voting "no." The decision is part of a $1.15 trillion military spending package, is called the "U.S.-Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative". 

I think the delirious testosterone-incited racist drunkard womanizer, the Department of "War" Secretary Pete Hegseth, should complain and force Congress to rename the bill the "U.S.-Israel War Technology Cooperation Initiative".

The US Department of Defense is now set to synchronize efforts between the US and Israel in order "to expand and accelerate bilateral defense technology research, development, testing, evaluation, integration, and industrial cooperation."

For members of Congress, including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, this measure is an "existential threat" to U.S. democracy because the provision would "merge parts of our military" with the (Israel Defense Force)".

"This amendment is an existential threat to American sovereignty and democracy," she wrote. "Every member of Congress must vote NO."

As expected, extremist republican Zionist Fascists like Rep. Mike Lawler was quick to accuse Ocasio-Cortez of antisemitism, the blanket catch-all vacuous accusation that equates ANY criticism of Israel with Jew hatred, by inviting Ocasio-Cortez to "Stop stoking Jew hatred and do better."

Trump's Environmental Protection Agency Administrator, Lee Zeldin, who is doing everything but protecting the environment, and has been mandated by the senile old Imbecile-in-Chief to wreck all the environmental protection regulations of the past several decades, called Ocasio-Cortez's assertion "FALSE". 

Like Lawler, Zeldin hurled the antisemitic assertion: "Instead of merging the part of your brain that hates Jews with the part of your brain concocting your daily lies, you should try merging the part of your brain responsible for reading bill text with the part of your brain responsible for critical thinking". Someone ought to tell Zeldin to focus on protecting the environment instead of shoving himself into an issue out of his jurisdiction. 

But Zionists are know-it-all Fascists who demand blind American subservience to Israel. Is it really normal that one country alone on earth, the superpower to boot, is at the beck and call of a genocidal racist sliver of colonial settlements along the eastern Mediterranean in Palestine? So much so that it is earmarking $1.1 trillion of American taxpayers' money to further enhance Israel's genocidal expansionism in the Near East?

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Democratic congressional candidate Oliver Larkin of Florida says he agrees with democrat New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani that the Zionist Prime Minister and war criminal Ben-Yamin Netanyahu should be arrested during his upcoming trip to the U.S., and refers to Israel's ruling coalition as a "religious supremacist regime."

The 33-year-old Larkin, a veteran of progressive Sen. Bernie Sanders' 2016 democratic presidential campaign, is running in one of the roughly two dozen key swing districts that will determine if republicans hold onto their razor-thin majority in the midterm elections.

Unlike what MAGA-GOP propagandists are saying, there is no battle between a "left-wing" section and a "centrist" establishment section within the Democratic party. This terminology is intended to drive a wedge and divide the democrats. Those so-called "Centrist Democrats" are stale and obsolete establishment remnants who actually want to go back and do business as usual with Trump's extremist white Christian nationalist MAGA republicans. With the right wing republicans all riding on Trump's extremist, racist coattails, should the democrats continue to play sissy and fear Trump as much as his own MAGA servants do?  

Going centrist for the democrats at this stage is tantamount to a surrender to the right wing Fascists of Trump. There are no centrist republicans left; the entire GOP is now an extremist Hard-Right organization. In fact, there is no republican party anymore. They all have rallied Trump's MAGA. Indeed, a large swath of republican officials privately admit their dislike of the Silverback Trump but publicly display their rear derrieres to him so he mates with them.

So with whom are the "centrist" democrats going to play in the next Congress if Trump has vacated all centrist republicans and replaced them with his own extremist right-wing mobsters? Oliver Larkin is the progressive democratic candidate for Congress that Florida's 25th district needs to stand up against what he called "milquetoast neoliberal corporate democrats like Jared Moskowitz" who, as a so-called "centrist" democrat, is no more than a republican chameleon pretending to be a democrat. The democrats should not fall again and again for soft treasonous democrats like Fetterman (John Pennsylvania), Joe Manchin (West Virginia), and Kyrsten Lea Sinema (Arizona) whose mission is to place sticks in the wheels of reformist progressive democrats. [See: https://lebanoniznogood.blogspot.com/2026/07/the-democrat-party-should-get-rid-of.html]

Right now, the country is expecting the democrats to fight hard against Trump's malevolence. We don't need centrists. The "center" doesn't exist anymore when the entire GOP bloc is Trump's own hand puppet. How can those "centrist" democrats even imagine they can work with Trump's extremist right-wingers?

On the prospects of Mamdani's New York Police arresting War Criminal Zionist Ben-Yamin Netanyahu (per a warrant issued by the International Court of Justice, or ICC) when he arrives to New York for the UN General Assembly in September, Larkin, who backs an end to all U.S. military aid to Israel, said he supports a "one-state solution with equal and democratic rights for all people...I do not support a religious supremacist regime, whether it be in Israel or Saudi Arabia, or any other country."

The continued Israeli genocide and ethnic cleansing of Palestine over the past two and a half years has resulted in the mass murder of some 100,000 innocent Palestinian civilians, and has awakened the American people to the reality that Israel is an ultra-religious Jewish fundamentalist country not unlike its Muslim counterparts in Saudi Arabia and Iran. 

Zionists in Palestine do not chop off heads and arms like the Wahhabis in Saudi Arabia or the Taliban in Afghanistan do, but they mass murder Palestinians right and left - the Zionist leadership keeps referring to the Palestinians as "animals" - These "Blight unto the Nations" criminal foreign settlers burn villages, steal land, kill women and children, attack hospitals and schools, cruelly demolish Palestinian homes, uproot olive groves, imprison Palestinians without any due process, and rape Palestinian prisoners with broom sticks and enraged dogs. 

Should the US continue to breastfeed Israel which has been condemned across the globe, including by longtime advocates for the Zionist colony in Palestine?

There is no going back to business as usual between the US and Israel in a post-October 7 era. Half of House Democrats voted this week to cut off aid to Israel, illustrating a seismic shift in US public opinion on Israel. Two years ago, such a move would have been unimaginable because of the tight squeeze that the Zionist lobby (AIPAC, ADL, etc.) has had on the American gonads for decades. 

Hardcore Protestant Conservative from Northern Ireland is Also a Child Sex Abuser

The Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) is a unionist, loyalist, British nationalist and national conservative political party in Northern Ireland. DUP members used to be Irish Catholics, but for centuries they were occupied and starved by the English invaders and forced to become Protestants, and the English crooks used them to break Ireland in two. So of course, like the American Evangelical conservatives, these traitors hate Catholics.

But as conservatives with plenty of Christian family values, they join with the conservative Catholic Church in sexually abusing children. Didn't the Messiah say, "let the children come to me?"
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Jeffrey Donaldson stripped of knighthood by King
Luke Sproule - BBC News NI
Thu, July 23, 2026 


Jeffrey Donaldson was convicted on 22 June [PA Media]

Former Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader Jeffrey Donaldson has been stripped of his knighthood by the King.

Donaldson, who was an MP from 1997 until 2024, was convicted in June of 18 counts of sex abuse including one count of rape, which he committed against two women when they were children.

In the aftermath of his conviction he asked to be removed from the Privy Council and for his knighthood to be forfeited.

On Thursday a notice was published in The Gazette - one of the UK's official journals of record - stating that Charles III had directed the cancellation of Donaldson's knighthood.

The notice, published by the Central Chancery of the Orders of Knighthood stated: "THE KING has directed the cancellation and annulment of the knighthood conferred upon Jeffrey Mark Donaldson on the 11 June 2016 as a Knight Bachelor."

Donaldson was awarded the honour in the Queen's Birthday Honours list in 2016.

He was removed from the Privy Council, which advises the monarch, earlier in July.

The DUP has commissioned an independent review into Donaldson's time in the party.

He was previously a member of the Ulster Unionist Party, which has said it will appoint an independent, external organisation to establish a process for people to confidentially share information about Jeffrey Donaldson during his time in the party.

Donaldson was convicted unanimously on all counts by a jury of seven men and five women at Newry Crown Court.

He was told by the judge that the sentence would be a lengthy one.

It has since been confirmed he is to appeal his convictions.

His legal team lodged the paperwork with the Court of Appeal in Belfast on 17 July.

His attempt to have his convictions overturned is unlikely to play out before he is sentenced.

The process will involve a hearing at which leave to appeal would either be granted or denied - it is speculated this could happen sometime in September.

Should leave be granted, a full hearing would then follow at a later stage.

How is a knighthood taken away?

An honour such as a knighthood can be removed on the advice of a body known as the Forfeiture Committee if the holder is deemed to have brought the honours system into disrepute.

Recommendations to remove an honour are considered byt the committee and if it agrees to remove an honour, that advice is passed onto the King via the prime minister.

If the King gives his approval a notice is then normally placed in the Gazette.

The holder of the honour is then asked to return their insignia to Buckingham Palace and cannot use the title or post-nominal letters any more.

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Zionist Gottheimer Hates Muslim Mamdani who intends to Arrest Netanyahu per ICC Warrant

It makes so much sense. If you're a Zionist, being a Democrat is secondary. You will go after a fellow Democrat if he/she can freely express himself about the Zionist colony in Palestine. Tribalism is king among the Zionists. You protect your own against any higher principle or objectivity.

American Zionist Rep. Josh Gottheimer is going after New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani for being a socialist - bad word among dumb Americans in general. For decades and generations, the policies of the Democrat Party have been "socialist" in kind but not in name, and many of these policies were also those of the Republicans. You know this is stupid because in the US you can do socialist but never say socialist. It's political bigotry aiming at fooling the American people into submitting like sheep to the dictates of the wealthy who control the country. 

In this particular case, the "dictate" as it were is to never ever criticize Israel because Mr. Gottheimer is a Zionist member of the Democrat Party. Mr. Gottheimer was pontificating and lecturing the American people about how they should view New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, a Democrat and a Muslim, insisting that Mamdani is are trying to "hijack" the party and pull it away from its traditional values. By "traditional" values, the Zionist means a party that is a bad clone of the Republican Party, a party that is subservient to the primitive conservatism that has prevailed in the country since WWII, after many of the "socialist" policies (e.g. social security) had been enacted. 

Zionists often complain that they are victims of everyone else because of their faith. The standardized and etched-in-stone terminology here is the "antisemitism scarecrow". Any word, idea, thought, or conscience that suggests that the Zionist colony in Palestine may be wrong is immediately cast into the "Antisemitic" wilderness.


Mayor Zohran Mamdani speaks at a rally in New York alongside 1199SEIU members and immigration advocates after the Supreme Court ruled the Trump administration can revoke protections for Haitians and Syrians.

"They have lots of views which are not in line with Democratic values. They're very anti-American, anti-Democratic, anti-capitalist, so asking me to understand a lot of their thinking, I can't," declared the capitalist pseudo-democrat Gottheimer. 

The Zionist imbecile was particularly incensed by Mamdani's pledge to honor an International Criminal Court (ICC) arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if he were to visit New York City this year. You see, Netanyahu has killed more than 100,000 innocent civilian Palestinians in a vengeful rage of biblical vintage and, like Trump, he keeps warmongering as a deflection from his pending prosecution for fraud and abuse of power by his own country. 

The ICC is not Trump, and the ICC is not paid by AIPAC to submit to the will of the criminals. The ICC can speak and act freely in the spirit of genuine justice, not the sham justice of Trump's DOJ.

But Mamdani has admitted that while he would like to honor the ICC warrant against Netanyahu, he lacks the authority to do so. He instead is calling on the federal government to execute the ICC's arrest warrant if the Israeli leader pays a visit to the Big Apple.

"The mayor is clearly obsessed with this issue. He should probably be a little more obsessed with making sure that his city is running well and that he's picking up the trash and fixing the potholes," Gottheimer said, implying that it is more important to fix potholes than to see the Zionist war criminal Netanyahu prosecuted. 

"I made very clear, as I have before, that my interest in executing that warrant is not specific to Benjamin Netanyahu, but to anyone who they put a warrant towards for war crimes and crimes against humanity," Mamdani has said. 

"I can also look at Benjamin Netanyahu and see the way that he has orchestrated this genocide and also deem him to similarly be a war criminal ... crimes are so grave that they offend all of humanity. And... I believe that we should hold those who perpetrate them accountable."

Anonymous MAGA Official: Trump's 'Rigged Elections' Claim is False. But we're Afraid of Him

There is no more crucial issue at this time than Trump's criminal preparations to deny election results if they don't go his way. The midterms are only a couple of months away, and the convicted felon is scheming in multiple ways to attribute his defeat - which seems almost certain - to "rigged elections". He is threatening to send his ICE-GESTAPO police to polling stations to harass people. He is threatening to prosecute state election officials.

He's done it before and it is virtually certain he will do it again. We must keep talking about this problem, and officials on both sides of the political divide - Republicans and Democrats are cringing at the thought of what the Criminal-in-Chief might do.

As you'll read below, his own GOP-MAGA shills are terrified at the prospects of election results denials by trump, but admit anonymously that they prefer not to say anything for fear of angering the Felon-in-Chief. What a sad state of affairs when people's representatives are afraid of speaking up because they are afraid of the Dick-tator Trump. This is the US, people. Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave. It isn't what it used to be. We are now the Land of the Slaves and the Home of the Cowards.
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‘Got to be kidding me’: GOP officials pan Trump’s claims of shocking new election threats
Marshall Cohen, Gabe Cohen, CNN
Thu, July 23, 2026 


A screen showing US President Donald Trump's July 16 primetime address to the nation is seen in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House. - Kent Nishimura/AFP/Getty Images

Four days after President Donald Trump declared that his administration uncovered "shocking vulnerabilities in our election infrastructure," dozens of state election officials from across the country gathered in Boston.

But they weren't there for an emergency summit to tackle the supposed crisis, even though the midterm elections are only 15 weeks away.

Instead, these election officials from 37 states met for a long-scheduled professional conference that struck a strikingly business-as-usual tone. In fact, Trump and his primetime address hardly came up.

In interviews with CNN, more than a dozen election officials from both parties said Trump's address surfaced little new in terms of evidence. Several GOP officials even scoffed at his presentation, pointing to the data that the administration released to try to bolster its case that there are massive numbers of non-citizens voting in US elections.

Matt Crane, a Republican who runs the Colorado County Clerks Association, said his text chat with a bipartisan group of colleagues was filled with "a lot of laughing emojis, and like, 'you got to be kidding me?' that this was all it was."

A GOP official from a state Trump won three times also panned the speech, which included the declassification of intelligence reports that Trump said posed an "unprecedented election security nightmare" with threats from China and Venezuela. (Trump didn't mention that the reports also made clear that neither country ever tampered with US election results.)

"I read the documents," the official told CNN on the condition that his state not be identified. "It was old. I've already seen this stuff. It wasn't new to me. We already had most of this information."

Democratic officials and election experts have condemned Trump for, in their view, escalating his longstanding attacks on the voting process, accusing him of laying groundwork to explain away any potential GOP losses this November.

Many Republicans who run elections have been far more circumspect in their public comments – broadly expressing support for Trump's stated goal of cleaning up voter rolls and preventing illegal voting, while defending their record in their states.

But in private, many decry what Trump is doing.

"We all know elections aren't rigged, but we have to keep our heads down and do our jobs," one Republican election official told CNN, on condition of anonymity, because they didn't want to anger the Trump administration.

Pushing back on Trump's data

The president's speech last Thursday, and a follow-up presentation from the Department of Homeland Security, singled out several states that supposedly had staggeringly high numbers of non-citizens on the voter rolls.

Trump has long peddled false and fantastical claims that thousands and perhaps even millions of undocumented immigrants are voting in US elections. Isolated cases do exist, but comprehensive studies from right-wing and left-leaning think tanks have concluded that this occurs on a tiny scale.

Still, the administration said it had reviewed public data and uncovered hundreds of thousands of non-citizens on the rolls in Pennsylvania and Nevada, and in California and New Jersey, which are Democratic strongholds. Some officials in those states have called for more transparency, demanding to know how DHS arrived at those numbers.

Even some red states that voluntarily turned over their voter lists to the Trump administration for examination were swept into the president's latest push. The administration said more than 28,000 non-citizens had been found on rolls in states with GOP election officials.

The DHS citizenship database being used to review voter rolls – called SAVE, or Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements – has a record of overstating the number of registered non-citizens. DHS itself acknowledges that states using the system voluntarily for voter-roll maintenance must further investigate any matches.

Sam Hayes, the GOP executive director of the North Carolina State Board of Elections who has aggressively backed several of Trump's election policies, said his team wouldn't rubber-stamp the administration's findings. He said the state, which DHS claimed had 1,599 non-citizens on its rolls, would conduct its own verification, which takes time and requires contacting registrants.

"There's nothing we accept at face value and just start removing folks" from the voter rolls, Hayes told CNN. "We've got to make our own independent assessment of this. … We still have to do the due diligence on our end."

Hayes also threw cold water on Trump's desire for quick answers, saying: "It's going to be tough to get it done by the midterms, but we're working toward that goal."

Georgia election officials told CNN the administration's claims about non-citizens on their rolls appear inflated. Of the 2,549 registrants flagged by DHS, they said, only about 20 had ever cast a ballot in the state.

Despite questioning the White House data, officials from both parties stressed that they take seriously their duty to keep non-citizens off the rolls.

New Jersey's governor announced Tuesday that a software error at the state Motor Vehicle Commission accidentally added about 6,600 non-citizens to the voter rolls, and that 400 cast improper ballots in recent elections.

The surprising revelation from a Democratic governor in a liberal stronghold immediately made waves and drew "told-you-so" recriminations from the Trump administration.

Brushing off Mullin's threats

At a follow-up press conference Friday, Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin threatened fines and even potential "prison time" for election officials who don't comply with the Trump administration's demands for voter rolls and other election overhauls.

Election officials told CNN they take these threats seriously, especially after seeing the Trump-era Justice Department indict several of his political opponents. But at the same time, officials said, their focus is on their work.

"There is the concern about, 'Could I be made the example of?'" said Crane, the Republican who runs Colorado's bipartisan election clerks' association. "But I think, by and large, it's become somewhat white noise at this point."

A Democratic election administrator from a battleground state told CNN, on condition of anonymity, that he got a concerned call from his mother after she heard Mullin's comments about possibly prosecuting election officials.

Earlier this month, the Justice Department sent similar warning letters to all 50 states. Idaho's Republican attorney general was among those who pushed back, rebuking the DOJ in a sharply worded reply letter that said the "insinuations of criminal violations of the federal election laws are not well taken."

"Stop threatening your friends in Idaho," wrote James Craig, a top lawyer from the Idaho attorney general's office.

A GOP election official from another state told CNN that even some officials in red states don't feel safe, because of the Trump administration's unpredictability.

"It's extremely concerning when they talk like that, and we have no idea what they're going to do," the official said.

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US Soldiers Who Fight and Die are from Communities Trump's ICE is Persecuting

Over the weekend, US soldiers were killed in Iranian attacks on surrounding Arab countries  mostly from non-white communities

These recent deaths and injuries bring the toll to at least 18 US soldiers who have been killed since the US was bamboozled into the war by the Zionist allies of Trump.  

The two morons leading the war - Trump and Hegseth - keep claiming victory even as the war rages on and US casualties mount, with Iran managing to strike U.S. bases and kill and wound scores of US soldiers posted in the Gulf region. The Arabian peninsula is home to a large number of US bases from which strikes are launched against Iran, which is the pretext that Iran uses to respond to the American attacks by targeting those countries housing US bases.

Like in the Vietnam war of the 1960s and 1970s, the bulk of US casualties in these foreign wars are from non-white anglo-saxon communities. They generally hail from minorities that are being hunted down the streets and persecuted by Trump and his ICE-GESTAPO police (Black African Americans, Hispanics and Latinos, Asians, etc.). Trump and Hegseth see these disenfranchised communities as cannon fodder for futile wars they want led by higher ranking white anglo-saxon generals and which have historically failed (Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Somalia....)

But at the same time, white supremacist and racist Trump and Hegseth fear that these minority communities might one day demographically surpass the white population (per the 2025 project), which is why they have been targeting immigration, banning travel from what they call "shithole" countries, limiting visas, re-districting statewide to dislodge any minority candidates from arriving to Congress, deporting "dark-skinned" immigrants while inviting white Apartheid racists from South Africa to immigrate, encouraging births from white mothers, etc. Anything you can imagine would serve a white supremacist, Christian nationalist, agenda, they are doing. 

Black African-Americans, whose legacy and contributions to the US are being deleted from parks, museums, exhibits and history books and websites. Hispanics who are blanket-suspected of being illegal migrants when a good third of the country has its foundations in Spanish-speaking Hispanic and Latino communities.

Pvt. Isabella Gonzales who died in an attack in Jordan was born to a migrant mother.

Pfc. Isabella Gonzales, 19, enlisted in the Army last year and served as an air and missile defense crewmember maintaining and using the systems which have been key to protecting U.S. bases from Iranian attacks. She was killed Friday during an Iranian missile and drone attack at Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan. 

This is how hypocrite white racists in the higher echelons of the US Army announced her death. Brig. Gen. Glenn Henke said, "We are profoundly saddened by the loss of Pvt. Isabella Gonzales...She gave the ultimate sacrifice for her country and will always be remembered as a hero. Our hearts go out to her family, friends, and teammates." 

Sgt. Angel Rampersad, 28, of Ozone Park, New York, who has been killed in on July 17, 2026 by an Iranian attack at Muwaffaq Salti Air Base, Jordan.

Rampersad, who enlisted in March 2019, was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 57th Air Defense Artillery Regiment, 52d Air Defense Artillery Brigade, 10th Army Air and Missile Defense Command, in Ansbach, Germany, according to the U.S. Army. She served as a signal operations support specialist, operating and maintaining radios and other communication tools.


Army Sgt. Michael Emmanuel Swinton, 30, of Fayetteville, North Carolina, died during the controlled detonation of a drone at Erbil Air Base, Iraq, the Pentagon said.

Swinton served as an early warning systems operator, responsible for detecting, tracking and reporting incoming enemy threats to help protect U.S. forces from missile and drone attacks.