Netanyahu’s Opponents Celebrate Prematurely, Discover They Still Have Netanyahu

In the frantic hours after Israelis cast their ballots Tuesday, Benjamin Netanyahu’s political enemies briefly indulged in their favorite pastime: imagining a future in which the Israeli prime minister was finally gone.

Tough luck for them.

Early exit polls appeared to offer a glimmer of hope to the left wing, prompting speculation that Netanyahu’s lengthy political career might at last be approaching its final chapter. By Wednesday morning, however, reality had rudely interrupted the festivities.

With roughly 71% to 77% of ballots counted in the election for the 26th Knesset, Netanyahu’s right-wing and religious alliance stood at approximately 54 seats, short of the 61 needed for a parliamentary majority. The opposition’s anti-Netanyahu “change bloc,” [sounds kind of like Democratic socialist] led by former military chief of staff Gadi Eisenkot, trailed at roughly 47 seats, despite turnout reaching 77.7%, Israel’s highest since 1999.

On paper, the numbers suggest another exhausting round of political deadlock. In practice, they suggest that Netanyahu’s opponents may have spent an enormous amount of energy trying to defeat a man who still holds the stronger hand and actually knows what a woman is.

The opposition’s problem is that arithmetic, unlike political commentary, refuses to cooperate with wishful thinking. Eisenkot cannot assemble a governing majority without the support of Arab parties, the Joint List and Ra’am, which collectively secured 19 seats amid an extraordinary 80% Arab turnout.

That presents a rather substantial public relations challenge in a country still reeling from the October 7 Hamas massacre. Asking a Zionist coalition that includes bereaved families who lost loved ones to Hamas to govern alongside Arab lawmakers accused of dismissing the threat posed by terrorist organizations is not exactly a recipe for national unity. It is, however, the sort of predicament that emerges when a political movement builds its entire identity around removing one man without agreeing on what to do after he leaves.

Eisenkot, whose Yashar party captured approximately 20 seats to finish behind Netanyahu’s Likud with 27, now faces what might generously be described as a governing challenge. A less charitable assessment would call it a political trap with no particularly attractive exits.

If Eisenkot embraces the Arab parties, he risks alienating right-leaning voters whose support he needs. If he rejects them, his coalition remains short of a majority. And if he pushes for another election, he could find himself facing an electorate that has shifted even further to the Right, particularly as ultra-Orthodox voters return to the polls in greater numbers.

Netanyahu, meanwhile, can afford to be patient. With Likud established as the largest single party, he has several options available while his opponents argue over which impossible compromise they would prefer to make.

He can wait for soldiers’ ballots, which have yet to be counted and traditionally favor the political Right. He can attempt to recruit defectors from an opposition already struggling to hold itself together. He can negotiate a broad unity government while demanding terms favorable to his own camp. Or he can allow negotiations to collapse and head into another election, betting that demographic trends and religious mobilization will work in his favor.

In other words, Netanyahu does not need to win every political battle immediately. He merely needs to avoid losing the one that matters, while his opponents attempt to construct a government out of factions that agree on little beyond their shared dislike of him.

The opposition had hoped that public anger over the war, disputes surrounding religious exemptions and years of political exhaustion would finally deliver a decisive verdict against Netanyahu. Instead, the results have left his rivals confronting the uncomfortable possibility that their campaign against him has produced another election in which he remains the central figure.

For Netanyahu’s opponents, the arithmetic is merciless. They can denounce him, negotiate against him and promise voters that his departure is finally within reach. But unless they can assemble a workable majority, their victory remains largely theoretical.

Netanyahu’s phone lines remain open. His rivals, having failed to remove him at the ballot box, may soon discover that the next stage of their political future depends on getting him to answer.    

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Former Hamas Hostage Counters Hasan Piker’s UT Austin Appearance With the Reality of Oct. 7

Maya Regev recovers in hospital

There is a peculiar luxury enjoyed by people who discuss atrocities from a comfortable distance. They can reduce human beings to political abstractions, transform suffering into talking points, and dismiss inconvenient facts when those facts interfere with a preferred ideological narrative.

Former Hamas hostage Maya Regev does not have that luxury.

Regev survived the Oct. 7, 2023, massacre at the Nova Music Festival, was shot in both legs, abducted by Hamas and held captive in Gaza for two months. When controversial Twitch streamer and human excrement Hasan Piker appeared at the University of Texas at Austin, Regev offered students something considerably less fashionable than internet commentary: firsthand experience.

Piker, a vocal critic of Israel and proud anti-Semite, made headlines with his visit to UT Austin, even before he arrived in the Lone Star State.

Piker: post-digestive waste

While he was speaking at an event hosted by University Democrats, Regev was telling students what it was actually like to experience the horrors of Oct. 7 and Hamas captivity.

The contrast was difficult to miss.

In a recent conversation with Fox News Digital, Regev addressed one of Piker's most infamous remarks concerning the sexual violence committed by Hamas terrorists on Oct. 7: "It doesn’t matter if rapes f---ing happened on Oct. 7, like that doesn’t change the dynamic for me." What a dickweed.

Regev pointed out the obvious problem with allowing such a worldview to dominate the conversation, particularly among students who may be hearing competing claims about the atrocities committed that day.

Asked about his remarks concerning reported rapes committed by Hamas, Piker later told The New Republic that there was "definitely testimony of sexual violence that had taken place amongst the hostages. But that doesn’t change the dynamic of Israel committing a genocide against the Palestinians, and my opposing that genocide."

Regev's response was not to demand that Piker be silenced. It was to make sure students heard from someone who had actually been there.

Chabad, a Jewish organization with representatives across the globe, contacted Regev about speaking at UT Austin after Piker's appearance was announced.

"I'm not here to silence anyone," Regev told Fox News Digital. "I came there to let people hear what I've been through, like the other side of the story, with facts, with pictures, with records."

That distinction matters.

Piker has millions of low-information followers and an enormous platform. Regev has something different: the scars of what she is describing, much like the Hamasshole who video taped the atrocities and bragged about it. Much like the other now eliminated Hamasshole who called his parents on his dead victim's phone and bragged about all the Jews he murdered.

The Anti-Defamation League has criticized Piker for what it calls his "anti-Semitic conspiracy theories and tropes." Among the comments highlighted by the organization is Piker's claim that Hamas hostage and American-Israeli soldier Edan Alexander had volunteered for the "Nazi army."

Anyone who actually believes this garbage needs a brain transplant.

Regev acknowledged that Piker has freedom of speech and "can say whatever he wants." Her point was that students should not mistake popularity for evidence or social-media reach for firsthand knowledge.

"For me, Oct. 7, it's not a debate, it's not something I read online. It's something that I've lived through, something that will forever be inside me, something that I will have to live with for the rest of my life," she told Fox News Digital. "I just think that it's important for them to understand that behind every story there are real human beings."

There is a fundamental psychological difference between reading about an atrocity and being one of its victims, aka fiction v. truth.

"I was a hostage. I was a Hamas hostage," Regev told Fox News Digital. "I was being held by Hamas, by those monsters, and I think that students might, you know, forget that they are actually real human beings, real families that lost their lives, real women that got raped, men, lives were destroyed on Oct. 7."

That is precisely the danger of turning mass violence into ideological theater. Once victims become symbols rather than people, almost anything can be rationalized, especially by a scumcrumpet like Piker who makes a ton of money off his Jew-hating balderdash.

Regev also challenged the growing influence of online personalities who form opinions for audiences that have never personally encountered the realities being discussed.

"When they hear an influencer post something, when they read something, it's important for them to check the facts before they are repeating a slogan or celebrating death of innocent people," Regev said.

She later added, "I sat with those people. I lived with them for two months, with Hamas people... I think that people should listen to a person who was really there and not to a person who just sees stuff online and has millions of followers."

It is difficult to identify a more elementary principle for evaluating competing claims: someone who experienced an event possesses information that someone watching videos about the event does not--especially by someone looking to weave a story to align with his anti-Zionist/anti-Semitism about the event.

Regev also addressed what she believes influencers such as Piker fail to understand about Gaza, particularly Hamas' use of Palestinian civilians as human shields.

I suspect Piker understands what Hamassholes did on Oct. 7, 2023, but lies about it to make his evil point.

"Hamas is using children and women and elderly women as a human shield," Regev said. "I think, again, people should know the facts before they're talking, and especially when you're very influencing."

Her own story began at the Nova Music Festival on Oct. 7, 2023.

Regev attended the festival with her brother, Itay Regev, and her friend Omer Shem Tov. When the rocket alerts began at 6:29 a.m., she initially was not especially alarmed. Having grown up in Israel, she had experienced rocket alerts before. Even young children know the score.

"We thought it was just a matter of time before everything will calm down, and we can keep on partying, but after some time we understood that it [was] a lot more serious than what we thought," she said.

The group headed toward their cars, only to be told by police officers to abandon them because terrorists had invaded Israel.

Regev, her brother and Shem Tov then ran for what she estimated was between 60 and 90 minutes.

Eventually, they received a call from Ori Danino, a friend of a friend who had also been at the festival. Danino had escaped the immediate danger but turned around to try to rescue them.

It was an act of extraordinary courage.

It also ended with all of them being abducted.

The group had been driving for approximately five minutes when "a big pickup truck" carrying terrorists opened fire. Regev was shot in both legs. Her brother was also wounded.

The terrorists dragged Regev, her brother and Shem Tov from the vehicle, forced them into the pickup truck and drove them into Gaza.

Danino initially escaped, but another group of terrorists eventually captured him and took him into the Strip.

The Regev siblings were released from Hamas captivity in late November 2023, only days apart.

Freedom, however, did not mean that Regev could simply return to the life she had known.

Her release was accompanied by the knowledge that friends remained underground in Gaza.

"It was a total shock. I thought that Omer will return home, like, a few days after me, but then the ceasefire was stopped. So, it was very hard for me. I couldn't believe that I escaped this hell, and they are still there being held, Ori, Omer, all the other hostages," Regev told the outlet.

Danino, the man who had risked his life attempting to rescue Regev, her brother and Shem Tov, would spend 11 months in captivity before Hamas executed him along with Hersh Goldberg-Polin, Eden Yerushalmi, Carmel Gat, Almog Sarusi and Alexander Lobanov.

Shem Tov endured 505 days in Hamas captivity before being released on Feb. 22, 2025.

For Regev, surviving created its own psychological burden.

"I felt very guilty that I was saved, that I'm back home with my family. I can get the medical treatment that I needed to receive and there are people there suffering, still hostages suffering, not eating, being abused physically and mentally. But I understood that I have a voice now, and I have to use it, and I'll do anything in my [power] to bring them back home," she added, obviously experiencing survivor's guilt.

Eventually, with her brother and Shem Tov home, Regev could begin contemplating a future rather than simply surviving the present.

Her ambitions are remarkably ordinary.

She wants to walk outside. Look at the sky. Travel. Study. Spend time with friends and family. Enjoy being alive.

"I just want to do everything that makes me happy," Regev told Fox News Digital. "When I was there in captivity, I promised myself that I will live life. I told myself that if I'll ever be home again, I'll live life, and I'll study, and I'll go travel the world, and I'd be with friends and my family. And it's what I'm doing now, you know, I'm just doing whatever makes me happy."

"I think that the only thing I wish for myself is to be happy forever and grateful for everything that I have."

Perhaps that is the most important counterargument Regev brought to UT Austin.

It was not merely a competing political position. It was a reminder that beneath the slogans, statistics and ideological narratives are human beings who bleed, suffer, remember and mourn.

Piker can discuss Oct. 7 from a livestream. Regev carries Oct. 7 with her.

One is hateful commentary.

The other is real memory.

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Hamas Leader Reportedly Discovers That Running Gaza Comes With a Very Short Warranty

Israeli attack helicopters and tanks reportedly targeted Hamas's Gaza leader, Ali al-Amoudi, Saturday morning, giving the terrorist organization's latest chief an unexpected reminder that Hamasshole leadership remains a position with unusually high employee turnover.

The military operation began around 08:00  after Israeli forces engaged suspicious targets approaching the designated "Yellow Line." Reports later indicated that al-Amoudi himself was the main target, with the Hamasshole leader believed to be inside the apartment complex hit by Israeli forces.

Security sources cited by Kan News said the likelihood of al-Amoudi surviving was "very small," which is generally not the sort of performance review anyone hopes to receive from the Israeli military.

Al-Amoudi had previously spent nearly 20 years in an Israeli prison before being released in the 2011 Gilad Schalit prisoner exchange. During that time, he reportedly developed a close relationship with Yahya Sinwar, eventually becoming head of Sinwar's office and joining Hamas's political bureau.

Apparently demonstrating an impressive ability to turn prison experience into career advancement, al-Amoudi eventually became responsible for Hamas's propaganda operation. During the war, he directed Palestinian propaganda campaigns that found considerable support in Western countries, proving once again that Hamas could apparently find an audience for its messaging even while running a terrorist organization from Gaza.

After Sinwar was killed in October 2024, Hamas began the familiar process of finding someone else willing to take over a terrorist organization whose senior leadership was being systematically eliminated.

Al-Amoudi gradually emerged as the group's authority in Gaza while keeping a relatively low public profile. He officially assumed the leadership position in July.

His tenure may now be considerably shorter than expected, assuming reports of Saturday's strike are accurate.

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FL Gov. DeSantis officially designates Muslim Brotherhood, CAIR and Antifa as terror groups

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, obviously a Republican, has apparently decided that Florida’s terrorist-designation process needed a little more honesty.

DeSantis officially designated the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and Antifa as terror groups, based on their support and involvement with terrorists. This is creating the awkward possibility that some organizations long treated as perfectly respectable fixtures of American political life might suddenly have to explain why they are being treated like terrorist organizations.

This creates an interesting situation.

If these designations have any teeth, they will raise questions regarding how these organizations, particularly the Hamas-linked CAIR, are regarded nationwide. Will CAIR-Florida have to shut down? CAIR wields enormous influence among clueless and compromised politicians nationwide, as they court Muslim votes.

That could make the next fundraising dinner considerably more interesting.

Will politicians in other states think twice about appearing at Hamas-linked CAIR events since it is designated a terror organization in Florida? Or will they simply continue showing up, smiling for photographs and explaining that they are there to promote "dialogue" while pretending nobody noticed the giant terrorist-designation elephant sitting at the table?

The latter is much more likely.

After all, Washington and state capitals have spent years perfecting the art of discovering that an organization is deeply troubling only after it becomes politically inconvenient to pretend otherwise.

Of course, there is another possibility.

Once DeSantis is out of office and the Democrats are back in charge, watch for them to lift these designations and turn around and designate some patriotic groups as terror organizations.

At that point, Florida may discover that the state's definition of "terrorist" changes rather dramatically depending on which party occupies the governor's mansion.

The real question, however, is what practical difference these designations will make.

A terrorist designation that produces no meaningful consequences is ultimately little more than an official government document informing everyone that something is bad while everyone continues doing exactly what they were doing before.

Still, it is a start.

Florida has at least put the names on the board.

Now we get to see whether anyone is actually willing to enforce the rules.

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Tragic Loss: Al Jazeera Forced To Lay Off 24 Highly Skilled Terrorists Acting As Journalists

GAZA — In a devastating blow to objective objective journalism, Al Jazeera has been forced to part ways with 24 of its valued Gaza staff members after a pesky US lawsuit pointed out that they were actually members of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad.

The lawsuit, filed by civil rights group Shurat HaDin, daringly alleged that writing news reports while actively participating in terrorist organizations might represent a slight conflict of interest.

The news sent shockwaves through the mainstream media community, which has long relied on unbiased reporting from neutral observers wearing "PRESS" vests over their tactical military gear.

AI Generated and you get the picture

"CPJ has always been clear that we do not include anyone in our data sets if there is evidence that they were engaging in combat or inciting imminent violence," said Committee to Protect Journalists CEO Jodie Ginsberg, defending the organization's rigorous method of taking Hamas obituaries at face value. "This is consistent with international humanitarian law, which considers journalists affiliated with non-state actors to be civilians, provided they do not directly participate in hostilities."

After a thorough audit, CPJ reluctantly scrubbed 20 names from its fallen reporters list after Hamas helpfully published obituaries praising the "journalists" for their brave service in firing rockets at those pesky Israeli "Jooooze."

"CPJ condemns in no uncertain terms the misrepresentation of combatants as journalists or media workers, or the misuse of ‘Press’ insignia," Ginsberg added, expressing deep sadness that rocket-launching freedom fighters keep ruining the reputation of totally legitimate press credentials. "Such actions endanger every single individual journalist legitimately trying to report. We are conducting a full review of the names on our lists to confirm that no one who was actively engaged in combat is listed in our data."

At publishing time, Al Jazeera was reportedly accepting applications for new Gaza correspondents, requiring candidates to have "at least three years of media experience and zero active RPG-launching convictions. Anti-Zionism a plus."

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tell Mamdani what he thinks of him right to his face

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin (Bibi) Netanyahu directly addressed New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani during his speech to the UN General Assembly today, September 24, 2026. He referred to comrade Mamdani the “anti-Semitic mayor of New York” and accused him of spreading lies about Israel, making Jews feel unsafe in the city, associating with Hamas supporters, and trying to prevent him from speaking.

“To all those spreading these lies about my country,” Bibi began, “and our brave soldiers, whether they sit in this hall or in the office of the anti-Semitic mayor of New York, I say this: Shame on you. Shame on you for distorting the facts. Shame on you for inverting victim and aggressor. Shame on you for spitting in the face of truth.”

“Mr. Mamdani, since you were elected mayor of this city, many Jews no longer feel safe in New York. They talk to me. They tell me, ‘This isn’t the city we remember. It changed so quickly.’ No wonder. You praise criminals convicted of supporting Hamas. You count as friends people like Hasan Piker, who said America deserved 9/11. Some friends you have.”

“You invite into your home a Palestinian journalist who filmed Hamas terrorists beating and torturing Israeli hostages and later admitted that he refused to publish the videos in order to protect, you guessed it, the terrorists. Your wife liked a post praising the October 7 massacre. She liked another post saying Tel Aviv shouldn’t exist. You refuse to condemn any of that. You falsely and repeatedly accuse Israel of genocide.”

Boom!

“Mr. Mamdani, you try to stop me from coming here. You try to silence me. Well, you can’t silence me. You can’t silence the truth. And here’s the simple truth: Israel didn’t commit genocide. Israel prevented genocide. And that’s exactly what Mr. Mamdani’s Hamas buddies would have done to us had we not stopped them. They would have killed every last one of us.”

Netanyahu framed these comments as part of a broader rejection of genocide accusations against Israel and criticism of what he described as antisemitism and attempts to isolate Israel. Mamdani later issued a statement calling Netanyahu’s remarks “baseless lies meant to sanitize his genocide of Palestinians.” The exchange followed months of public tension, including Mamdani’s earlier calls related to an ICC arrest warrant for Netanyahu.

Meanwhile, 77 delegates walked out before Bibi spoke, which makes me wonder why the United Nations isn't kicked out of the USA. Bibi, who has more class than all the jihadis who walked out, invited anyone else who was a moral coward to leave.

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Iran President Upset That Israel Has Nukes and They Don't

NEW YORK — Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian took the stage at the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday to express his deep, heartfelt sorrow that international atomic inspectors keep interrupting his country's totally peaceful, super-friendly uranium enrichment activities instead of harassing Israel.

Surrounded by suits, globalists, and the finest diplomatic catering taxpayers can buy, Pezeshkian complained to an audience of nodding bureaucrats that it is completely unfair for inspector clipboard-wielders to scrutinize Tehran. After all, they only need nuclear capabilities to keep their humble houses warm.

"The topic of this gathering is mutual trust. That cannot be achieved with words alone, but by abandoning double standards. Atomic and nuclear weapons are in the hands of the 'Israeli regime,' but the [IAEA] inspectors are requested to come to Iran," Pezeshkian whimpered, longing for a world where peaceful religious leaders can enrich weapons-grade material in absolute peace without pesky scrutiny. 

"Israel has the bombs, has the weapons of mass destruction. Not a member of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). During their shameful lives, they have not allowed a single inspection, but they are rewarded with all the means necessary to bomb any capital of the region at will," Pezeshkian added, visibly upset that the wrong Middle Eastern nation has global firepower.

He reassured the crowd that Iran's centrifuges are strictly for domestic enjoyment and green energy initiatives. 

"Our regional issues must be resolved in the region; no relationship with a foreign power can become the tool of threatening countries in the region," he explained. "For our country, peaceful nuclear technology is part of our progress..."Iran does not accept nuclear technology to be at the disposal of a handful...We will not bow our head, and we say it clearly. No nuclear weapons, and no limitations to our peaceful nuclear development."

The Iranian leader then expressed shock that anyone could possibly brand his regime as the bad guys. "Israel has murdered savagely over 70,000 civilians in Gaza, while Iran, behind the table of negotiation, was being bombed," he said. "Palestine remains an open wound on the conscience of the international community, and Gaza remains a visible symbol of the failure of international mechanisms to prevent civilian suffering...For decades, resolutions have been adopted, and occupation has continued. Lasting peace in West Asia is impossible without justice for Palestine. As long as occupation, aggression, and injustice persist in the world, resistance will continue. If it's weakened in one form, it will reemerge in others."

He praised the ongoing resilience of regional proxy groups. "Gaza, despite relentless killing and widespread destruction, has strengthened the people's will of resistance. This is human nature."

Turning his attention to the American delegation, Pezeshkian whined about President Donald Trump’s scathing Tuesday speech. 

"I had prepared a speech to present to you yesterday, when the US president described us as terrorists. We have been victims of terrorism. I come from an Iran where our supreme leader was assassinated without any legal reasons, where they bombed a school. The children perished under bombs with weapons used by Israel and the US; they had committed no crimes," Pezeshkian grumbled.

"The words of the US president yesterday show that those who are experts in international law, dialogue, diplomacy, and basic human standards know that everything uttered against our country goes against the charter of the UN... Trump must understand that Iran is ready for the way of dialogue and negotiation, without accepting the language of war," the weasel said, holding out a olive branch wrapped in ballistic missile blueprints.

"Those who are terrorists, and train, and protect terrorists, described us as terrorists. We are defending ourselves; we are not terrorists," he insisted. "We responded, but we didn't target civilians...The day I became president, they assassinated [Hamas leader] Ismail Haniyeh. They target any neighborhood, any province, in any place."

Pezeshkian finished his routine by painting Iran as a gentle, misunderstood lamb of the Middle East. "Are we the sources of instability? We only seek to live independently..."We don't want anything. We have received our response. We need strength, because a people that is not capable of defending itself will be trampled on," he said. "For the past 200 years, Iran has never attacked any territory. We have defended ourselves, but never attacked..."We do not seek power to attack or commit aggression; we seek energy for progress, not to threaten...The people of Iran have been in the last seven months in support of our homeland."

The President of the world's leading nation of terrorism added, "Iran must be powerful, so to avoid being threatened, to avoid its future being threatened...Our defensive systems are being built so that the bombing of Iranian cities doesn't go unanswered. We do not seek anyone's approval for our defense. We don't see our neighbors as security rivals. We want strong neighbors. But we can not let some gain access to our waterways and then use it to attack us."

Israeli Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon was unimpressed by the performance, pointing out that Tehran's definition of "defense" usually involves funding chaos across four different countries. "This is the same regime that arms Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Houthis in Yemen, Hamas in Gaza and Judea and Samaria, and the militias in Iraq," Danon said. "The same regime that murders its citizens when they dare to protest against it. Pezeshkian, your regime spreads terror. You are the last one who can preach to Israel and the US about morality."

Not to be outdone in the UN grievance competition, Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa took his turn at the microphone to remind the world that the Golan Heights belongs to him.

"When land is usurped, when sanctity is violated, people suffer, and people pay the price," Sharaa declared. "With seven states, we started to destroy chemical weapons and worked with the IAEA to combat chemical and nuclear weapons. Syria went from being a crisis to an opportunity for many countries."

Sharaa assured the assembly that his government is built on law and order. "We have consolidated our values and the rule of law. Any attempts that violate our sovereignty will be stopped. [The] Golan [Heights] will remain Syrian territory," he pledged. "Any other attempts will be thwarted."

He concluded his remarks by asking the international community to politely tell Israel to stop firing back. "I ask our partners to abide by international law...The world is encouraged by our return, but Israel keeps attacking Syria," he said. "We will continue to serve our people; we will continue to serve god. God will always reward you for your actions... There have been 500 airstrikes, more than 1200 incursions, and 300 detentions. This is at odds with the orientation that we are seeing at a global level. It is reminiscent of an era that we thought was long gone. We are committed to the 1974 agreement; we call for the withdrawal of Israeli forces to the line of the 8 of December of 2024."

Romanian President Nicusor Dan briefly brought basic sanity back to the room, reminding the assembly that giving radical regimes weapons of mass destruction remains a terrible idea. "Iran must not possess a nuclear weapon. Iran must comply with the NPT, and must restore access to the IAEA," Dan said. "Romania will continue to provide maritime security and unrestricted navigation in the Strait of Hormuz and the Black Sea."

Finally, Argentine President Javier Milei stepped up to offer a rare display of common sense, explaining why his country prefers backing free nations over religious dictatorships.

Milei noted that Buenos Aires "aligned with the US and Israel because we share beliefs and a profound strategic affinity."

"That's why we condemned the attacks by the Iranian regime against Israel; we declared the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps a foreign terrorist group, and we are still demanding justice for the two terror attacks against Argentine soil in 1992 and 1994," Milei stated, before delivering a parting shot to the diplomats in attendance.

The UN, Milei noted, "voted systematically against Israel, while they kept silent over Islamic extremism and the genocide of Christians in Africa."

At press time, UN delegates responded to the speeches by forming a sub-committee to draft a strongly worded resolution condemning Israel for existing.

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WORLD LEADERS IN DISBELIEF: Brilliant French Visionary Solves Middle East Conflict By Erasing Hamxs From West Bank With Mind Power

Has the intelligence of gum

NEW YORK — French President Emmanuel Macron stunned the diplomatic world on Tuesday during his speech at the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly, where he courageously used the power of pure, unadulterated European sophistication to simply wish terrorism out of existence. Dolt.

Standing before the world's premier debating club for wealthy dictators, the French leader boldly unveiled a revolutionary geopolitical strategy: if you just pretend a ruthless terrorist organization does not exist in a specific geographic area, peace will instantly break out.

“Look at what is happening in the West Bank, where every day violations are committed. In whose name?” Macron asked the assembly, adjusting his impeccably tailored suit while presumably imagining a world where reality bends to French intellect. “Hamas has never operated in the West Bank!”

The groundbreaking declaration immediately sent shockwaves through Jerusalem, where Israeli leaders were forced to process the fact that decades of documented terrorist attacks, rocket caches, and intelligence reports were actually just a collective hallucination caused by a lack of fine wine and baguettes . . . unless Macron was either lying or is, what some Jewish people might call him, a schmuck.

Official sources in Jerusalem immediately pushed back against the French president's bold reality-warping experiment, pointing out that reality stubbornly exists regardless of what is said at a UN podium.

“The grotesque absurdity of Emmanuel Macron’s statement is staggering,” the Prime Minister’s Office said.

Israeli officials specifically referenced the tragic death of Netanel Shukrun, a French-Israeli citizen who was murdered earlier in the week in a terrorist attack that apparently occurred in a fictional dimension.

“On Sunday, the eve of Yom Kippur, just two days ago, Netanel Shukrun, a FRENCH CITIZEN and father of six, was murdered in his car by a Hamas terrorist in Judea and Samaria,” the Prime Minister’s Office said. [For those new to Israel geography, Judea and Samaria is what Arabs and their ilk call the West Bank.]

“With his final breath, he [Netanel] told his son to run.”

The Israeli government expressed deep frustration with Western leaders who insist on lecturing democratic nations about counterterrorism while operating with the historical awareness of a goldfish, or better still, a blowfish.

“Hamas terrorists carry out attacks against Jews almost every day,” the statement continued. “They have murdered countless Israeli civilians in Judea and Samaria.”

“Ignorance is NO EXCUSE for erasing their blood,” it concluded.

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich also jumped into the fray, taking to social media to offer a concise, direct peer-review of Macron's geopolitical thesis.

“President Macron is lying,” Smotrich wrote on X.

“This is just one attack out of hundreds of attacks led by Hamas, which fuels Arab terrorism in Judea and Samaria,” he added.

Undeterred by basic facts or recent events, Macron, ever the scumcrumpet, continued his passionate defense of moral clarity as defined by the French diplomatic core.

“What we need is respect for the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people, for their legitimate right to exist,” Macron said. “This is a necessary condition for the security of the people of Israel and for the very existence of their state, to which we are deeply committed.”

The French president went on to lecture Israel about its own national defense strategy, assuring the room that giving violent terrorists a sovereign state right next door is actually the best way to keep Israeli families safe.

“All those who claim that Israel’s security comes through violating the sovereignty of all its neighbors are making a fatal mistake,” Macron, a total liar said. “They are weakening Israel’s security.”

He also took time to scold critics who suggested that passing UN resolutions and issuing diplomatic statements might not actually stop armed militants who want to destroy the Jewish state.

“Last year, right here, there were about a dozen countries that recognized Palestine,” Macron said. “I hear the cynicism of some people: ‘Recognition on paper, look at the reality.’ But what is our credibility if we continue to remain inactive in the face of Gaza?”

At press time, French diplomats were reportedly working on Macron's next big UN address, which is slated to announce that ISIS was merely a performance art troupe and crime in Paris is completely solved because everyone agreed to stop talking about it.

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Netanyahu Promises To UNGA That He Will Expose New York City Mayor As Secretly Being Zohran Mamdani

TEL AVIV — In a fiery video posted to social media, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu [aka Bibi] issued a stern warning to New York City Mayor and comrade Zohran Mamdani, promising to drop a massive bombshell during his upcoming speech at the United Nations General Assembly by revealing to the entire world that the mayor is, in fact, Zohran Mamdani.

"Shame on you, Mr. Mamdani," Netanyahu said in the video message directed at the leader of America's largest city. "Shame on you for supporting the Hamas terrorist monsters who butchered our people. Shame on you for inciting riots against New York Jews."

"I'm coming to the UN. I'm going to tell the truth about our heroic soldiers, and I'm going to tell the truth about you," Bibi added, taking a bold stance against the concept of municipal government officials attempting to conduct international diplomacy.

The public feud reached new heights after Mayor Mamdani appeared on CNN [aka the Communist News Network] to demand that local officials honor an arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court. During the broadcast, Mamdani insisted that Netanyahu is "a war criminal and an architect of a horrific genocide of the Palestinian people." Hamassholes? Not so much.

"I do believe that that is something that should be honored," the execrable Mamdani said, explaining his vision for local city workers executing international legal maneuvers. "If the International Criminal Court deems someone worthy of an arrest because of a violation of those laws, then who are we to say that anyone should be above that?"

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Israeli Consul-General Ofir Akunis joined the fray, offering his own blistering critique of the New York chief executive on social media. "Mamdani continues doing the only thing he knows how to do: incitement and the spreading of lies and blood libels against the State of Israel: classic antisemitism," Akunis stated. "Once again, not a single word about the savage and monstrous massacre of October 7 committed by the barbaric people who invaded Israel from Gaza."

At publishing time, Mayor Mamdani was reportedly consulting with the New York City Department of Transportation to determine if parking enforcement officers have jurisdiction to impound the Israeli Prime Minister's motorcade upon arrival at the UN.

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IDF Announces Radical Plan To Arrest Terrorists After Terrorist Attack

Brace Yourself: Israel May Actually Arrest People Suspected of Helping a Terrorist. What a concept.

The Jewish state is apparently about to do something so shocking that it may cause another international diplomatic emergency: the Israeli military is preparing to arrest people suspected of assisting a terrorist. How dare they!

The operation is reportedly being planned in the Palestinian village of Biddu, near Ramallah, following Sunday's terrorist shooting near Neveh Tzuf in which Israeli father Netanel Shukrun was murdered in front of his son. 

The suspected terrorist was subsequently captured by Israeli forces.

Naturally, this means the IDF can probably expect the usual international chorus of concern, outrage and demands that Israel exercise restraint while everyone takes a moment to carefully consider the feelings of the people who may have helped a terrorist. Has been singer, Macklemore, had no comment, by the way.

According to the Jerusalem Post, the IDF is preparing to arrest suspects in Biddu and map the terrorist's home for demolition. The operation could extend elsewhere in the West Bank, with dozens of suspects reportedly expected to be arrested.

This is the sort of thing that tends to produce fascinating headlines. A terrorist shoots an Israeli civilian, the terrorist is captured, and then Israel investigates whether anyone helped him, while ignorant college students and other miscreants shout "free Palestine."

Somehow, the investigation into who helped the terrorist becomes the controversial part.

The attack occurred near a spring where Israelis had gone ahead of Yom Kippur. Shukrun, a father of six, was critically wounded and later died at a hospital. The cowardly jihadi reportedly opened fire from a vehicle before fleeing on foot.

Netanel Shukrun, father of 6 murdered in front of his son

IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Eyal Zamir visited the scene and described the attack as a “severe terrorist attack,” adding that the IDF “acted quickly” to apprehend the terrorist.

“Our mission is not over,” said Zamir. “We will impose a closure on the village and conduct investigations, through which we will reach everyone who assisted the terrorist.”

There you have it.

Israel's radical new security doctrine appears to be: If you help the guy who shoots Israelis, investigators might want to have a conversation with you.

The terrorist was reportedly identified by Army Radio as a 37-year-old Hamasshole operative. Security officials cited by Army Radio said he was believed to have acted alone in both the attack and his attempted escape. Hamassholes praised the attack without directly claiming responsibility, calling it a “blessed and heroic operation” and a “legitimate and natural response.” Yes, this so called religion blesses the murder of Jews and others who don't believe the same nonsense as they believe.

This is certainly one way to describe shooting an Israeli father, as a 'blessed and heroic operation.' If it was heroic to shoot an unarmed man, was it equally heroic to choke the Bibas babies and kill their mother after the October 7 massacre?

The rest of the civilized world might call it terrorism. Hamas apparently has a different communications department. It's sickening and needs to be dealt with by all sane individuals.

Meanwhile, the IDF is preparing to conduct arrests and investigations, which will presumably come as a tremendous surprise to anyone who has spent the last several decades observing what happens when Israel is attacked.

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The international reaction will likely follow the familiar script. Israel conducts an operation against terrorism. Headlines appear about Israeli operations. Commentators demand that Israel stop fighting terrorism. Politicians issue statements expressing concern about escalation. Someone inevitably discovers a new way to blame Israel for the fact that terrorists exist.

And then the cycle begins again. Wash, rinse, repeat.

The basic facts, however, remain stubbornly inconvenient: an Israeli civilian was killed in a terrorist attack, the suspected attacker was captured, and Israeli authorities now want to determine whether others assisted him.

Apparently, even that is controversial.

Screw all the anti-Semites and anti-Christians wherever they are.

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Hamas Was Building a Terror Network in Europe While Europe Looked the Other Way

Europe has spent years patting itself on the back regarding its sophistication.

It has lectures the West about tolerance. It has conferences about extremism. It has committees, task forces, statements and carefully calibrated language designed to ensure that nobody ever sounds insufficiently nuanced.

Meanwhile, according to German prosecutors, Hamas was allegedly building weapons depots on European soil and preparing attacks against Jews, Israelis and people considered sympathetic to Israel. But especially the, you know, those Jews.

Perhaps the Europeans will now convene another committee.

The German federal prosecutor's office has indicted seven people accused of obtaining weapons for those pesky Hamassholes, allegedly with the intention of carrying out terrorist attacks around the second anniversary of the October 7, 2023, massacre in Israel. The suspects were arrested between October 2025 and May 2026.

According to German prosecutors, "All of the accused belong to the foreign terrorist organization Hamas. Some time ago, the organization’s military wing (the so-called Qassam Brigades) began establishing weapons depots in Europe. No later than July 2025, Hamas planned a concrete assassination in Germany or Austria targeting representatives of Israel, people of Jewish faith, or persons with pro-Israel views."

Read that again.

Weapons depots.

In Europe.

Established by Hamas.

The same Hamas whose terrorists murdered more than a thousand people in Israel on October 7.

And the alleged targets were not simply Israeli military personnel. They included Jews and people with pro-Israel views.

That last category ought to receive particular attention in Europe, where the definition of acceptable public opinion has become increasingly flexible when Israel is involved.

The alleged preparations were not exactly amateurish. German prosecutors said the suspects "had already obtained a functional fully automatic rifle, 13 functional pistols and more than 700 rounds of ammunition. Mohammed A., who is being prosecuted separately, transported some of the weapons to Vienna and stored them there."

According to the prosecution, these people had guns and ammunition, and they allegedly had a target.

The timing was equally revealing. Prosecutors said, "The attack was to take place in close temporal proximity to the second anniversary of Hamas’s assault on Israel on 7 October 2023 — i.e., in early October 2025."

There is something almost grotesque about the symbolism.

The organization responsible for October 7 allegedly wanted to commemorate the anniversary by bringing its terrorism to European streets.

And yet the European discussion of Hamas has too often been conducted as though the organization exists in some hermetically sealed Middle Eastern universe, disconnected from the societies in which Hamas supporters operate.

That illusion is becoming increasingly difficult to maintain.

Sascha Adamek, a German journalist and author, described the previous German approach in unusually direct terms. "Now the policy of previous federal governments is coming back to haunt them: until 2023 they allowed [Hamas] and its front organizations to use Germany as a ‘safe haven’ for fundraising and recruitment and also for the radicalization of young people. This dirty deal — that Hamas does not use violence in this country and is therefore left to operate freely — has long been obsolete."

That is the part European governments should be forced to answer.

Not whether they have now banned Hamas.

Not whether they have issued sufficiently stern statements.

The question is why a terrorist organization was able to establish networks in the first place.

German intelligence figures indicate that Hamas's presence in the country was substantial. The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution estimated that Hamas could have had as many as 650 operatives in Germany in 2025, compared with 550 in 2024 and 450 in 2023. The officials cautioned that "The figures refer to Germany and are partly estimated and rounded."

The German Interior Ministry naturally has an explanation.

It says Hamas has been banned from operating in Germany since 2023 and that authorities "consistently investigate leads regarding possible extremist activities as well as acts subject to criminal prosecution and continuously examine all countermeasures available under the rule of law."

All of which sounds reassuring.

Until you remember that German prosecutors say Hamas operatives were allegedly acquiring firearms and ammunition in Europe.

There is a difference between having a policy and having control of the consequences of that policy.

Germany also acknowledges that the October 7 attack and the subsequent war have affected the security situation across Germany and Europe. Its Interior Ministry says extremist actors are inciting hatred and violence against Jews or Israel and denying Israel's right to exist.

Again, this should not require much interpretation.

When a terrorist organization has supporters, networks and alleged weapons infrastructure inside your country, you do not have a Middle Eastern problem.

You have a European problem.

And Europe has spent an extraordinary amount of time pretending that it does not.

The alleged network also demonstrates something else that European governments would prefer not to emphasize. Terrorism does not respect the borders that bureaucrats spend so much time managing.

The suspects reportedly include German, Danish, Lebanese and Bulgarian nationals. German law protects the identities of criminal suspects, which is why only first names and portions of surnames were released.

Prosecutors also alleged that the weapons operation was coordinated from Lebanon, where a Hamas operative allegedly supervised one procurement channel linking members of the network across Europe.

That is what an international terrorist organization looks like.

It does not need a European headquarters with a sign over the door.

It needs people, money, weapons, communications and sympathetic networks.

And, apparently, it needs governments willing to discover the problem only after the security services have already found the ammunition.

Matthew Levitt of the Washington Institute has warned that Hamas continues plotting in Europe, with alleged oversight from senior Qassam Brigades officials in Lebanon and connections to Hamas's senior leadership.

His warning should not be particularly controversial.

Hamas itself has never been shy about what it is.

The surprise, if there is one, lies in Europe's repeated willingness to pretend otherwise.

There is an especially unpleasant irony here.

Europe has spent decades insisting that Israel's security concerns must be viewed through the lens of proportionality, diplomacy and international law. Yet when Israel warns that terrorist organizations seek to destroy it, European political culture has often treated those warnings as though they were merely another position in a complicated debate.

But terrorists do not need your agreement.

They need your hesitation.

The indictment now raises a much more immediate question.

What happens when the people who celebrate terrorism abroad decide that Europe itself is a suitable venue for the celebration?

Israel's ambassador to Germany, Ron Prosor, put it plainly: "Germany has gone from being a retreat for Hamas to an active terrorist target."

He also warned that Hamas's ideology and terrorism affect "all of us" and called for a coordinated response.

That phrase, "all of us," deserves to be taken seriously.

Because the alleged targets were not confined to soldiers on a battlefield.

They included Jews.

They included Israelis.

They included people who support Israel.

That means the alleged threat reaches directly into the heart of European civil society.

And that leaves Europe with an unpleasant choice.

It can continue treating Hamas as a problem that belongs somewhere else, while discovering new weapons caches after the fact.

Or it can accept the far more obvious reality that a terrorist organization capable of building an arsenal in Europe is already a European security problem.

The age of pretending otherwise should have ended on October 7.

Apparently, the ammunition had to be found first.

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Imam Deletes Sermons Calling Hamas Leader a 'Heroic Martyr' After Noticing People Can Still Use YouTube

ANN ARBOR, MI — The imam of left-wing Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed has wiped his mosque's YouTube channel after videos surfaced of him delivering an "absentee funeral prayer" for late Hamasshole leader Ismail Haniyeh and separately telling congregants they had a religious duty to vote for El-Sayed.

The Muslim Community Association of Ann Arbor's YouTube page, which as recently as Tuesday hosted dozens of Imam Abdelhamid Algizawi's sermons, now displays only the message, "This channel doesn't have any content." 

An Aug. 2, 2024, sermon eulogizing Haniyeh is now "unavailable" and set to "private." So is a sermon delivered after El-Sayed's primary win, which Algizawi called a "very big victory for Muslims" and "for the Islamic nation."

The sudden digital cleanup followed Washington Free Beacon reporting on Algizawi and the MCA of Ann Arbor, where El-Sayed typically prays, according to a source familiar with the situation. In those sermons, Algizawi told worshipers the Muslim community had an "obligation" to vote for El-Sayed in November to "change the society." 

He also eulogized Haniyeh two days after the terrorist leader was killed by an explosive device smuggled into his guesthouse in Tehran."

He is a symbol of jihad, a symbol of struggle, a symbol of patriotism, and a symbol of devotion," Algizawi said of Haniyeh. "No one loves him except someone who loves God and his Messenger, and no one hates him except an enemy of Islam. He is a righteous man, one of the righteous. … He wanted to liberate Palestine, his land and his homeland. He sought nothing more than that. Yet despite this, the unjust and wicked killed him. … We ask Almighty God to grant him a place in Paradise. O God, place him among the martyrs and the righteous." 

In other sermons, Algizawi denounced homosexuality as a "fashion," saying Muslims must reject it because it "cannot bring stability to life" and is "against human nature."

"Also, Muslims cannot compromise their religion," Algizawi said in 2022. "We cannot say, 'Hey, because I am a Muslim, I'm American, we are living in America, we have…' No, we cannot compromise our religion."The MCA of Ann Arbor's YouTube purge has not erased the record. The Middle East Media Research Institute archived the sermon celebrating El-Sayed's primary victory. The Free Beacon archived the Haniyeh eulogy.  

Algizawi's 2022 remarks on homosexuality, delivered at a Sacramento-area Islamic center, remained online as of Wednesday evening. The MCA of Ann Arbor, Algizawi, and El-Sayed did not respond to requests for comment. 

On the campaign trail, El-Sayed has taken the opposite line on homosexuality in order to win an election. But if he should get elected, there is no telling what he might do as an anti-American, Jew-hating scumcrumpet. 

During Pride Month in 2025, the liar said, "This month and every month, I stand with the LGBTQ+ community in their struggle for equal rights and dignity. I'll always fight for an America where all of us can live and thrive as we are."

His comments on Islamic terrorists have tracked more closely with his imam's. After a Lebanese-American man whose brother was a Hezbollah commander attacked Temple Israel synagogue in Michigan, El-Sayed said, "It's just critical for us to understand that hurt people do hurt people," a remark he later described as providing "context for why it happened." 

At a July 2025 campaign event, video first reported by the Free Beacon shows El-Sayed blaming America for "creating" terrorism.

"There is a level of pain and frustration and a level of lack of agency that they have to feel to do something so insane and absurd, right?" he said. "And so I've often tried to ask, like, so what moves somebody into that, and how is it that we're behaving that may get somebody to think that we don't see them, and that's creating pain?"

"And I think too often, the way we've engaged in the world has been that we set up this rules-based international order, and then we break the rules of the rules-based international order, and that creates a situation where there are a lot of people who look at us and say that's hypocritical and that's wrong," he went on. "And I think the best thing we can do is be honest about that."At press time, the MCA YouTube channel remained empty, a development mosque officials have not yet attributed to a mysterious act of God.

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