It is a little obvious from the tone of the Truth Social reports, that President Trump is more than a little frustrated that Israel continues strikes into Lebanon which pose a potential disruption to the negotiated terms with Iran.
[TRUTH SOCIAL] – “This morning’s attack on Beirut should not have happened, particularly on a special day when we are so close to a Peace Deal with Iran. Israel has the right to defend itself against threats, but the attack it was responding to was very small and meaningless, nobody was hurt, injured, or killed, and should not disrupt this important process. We are very close to a Deal that will bring peace to the region, including to Lebanon, and all sides should stand down. There should be no more attacks by Israel anywhere in Lebanon, but there should also be no more attacks by any other party, including Hezbollah, against Israel. This could be the beginning of a long and beautiful peace — Let’s not blow it! Thank you for your attention to this matter.”
Several DC journalists have reportedly been in contact with President Trump and are sending reports on the X platform about the nature of their discussions with him.
Via Matthew Boyle, “In the last few hours, POTUS has told the Israelis to “STAND DOWN” and has also called the Israeli Prime Minister and scolded him asking him: “WHAT THE F*CK ARE YOU DOING?” (And called a reporter to reveal that right after). Serious people in Washington growing very very frustrated with the Israelis right now and these are very pro-Israel people who are annoyed with Netanyahu. Moment of truth for the Israelis in the U.S.-Israel relationship coming up when Trump signs the deal with Iran. If Netanyahu does ANYTHING to jeopardize the president’s success it could seriously undermine Israel in the U.S. in a manner hitherto unimaginable.”
Via Trey Yingst, “Spoke with President Trump. He says the deal with Iran is expected to be signed in the next 2-3 hours. President Trump said he asked Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu “what the fu*k are you doing?” on a call after the Israeli strikes against Beirut. He told Netanyahu not to conduct additional strikes. The President told me he will ask Iran not to respond with missile fire toward Israel.”
Israel should be able to attack anyone who attacks their country. What would the U.S. do if we were attacked by terrorists?
Time for another history lesson for perspective and as a reminder not to use false equivalence arguments…
The Nakba (“catastrophe” in Arabic) refers to the mass displacement and dispossession of Palestinians during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.
Brief Overview:
Impact on Palestinian Christians:Palestinian Christians (mostly Greek Orthodox, Catholic, and other denominations) were a significant minority in historic Palestine, making up roughly 7–12% of the Arab population before 1948 (estimates vary between sources).
Like Muslim Palestinians, Christians lost homes, lands, and properties. The event is remembered as a shared national trauma that severely weakened one of the oldest Christian communities in the world.
Excellent synopsis. Thank you Ms Sunshine!
There are two sides to every story. I get tired of only hearing one side. Here is the other:
https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/nakba-day-why-israel-did-not-allow-refugees-to-return-after-the-1948-war/
Thank you for completing a broader picture of those events. I remember reading about them in HS, but having graduated 65 yrs ago, my memories are not as complete as they were.
You’re welcome, M. The media has become very anti-Israel lately, leaving out a lot of facts and making up the rest — much as they do in reporting about MAGA or President Trump. I hate to see that influencing more and more comments here.
Very, very true.
Excellent. Thank you.
Lengthy non sequitur.
Her facts are uncoordinated.
Uncoordinated with whom/what?
The so-called Naqba was organized from Cairo by none other than Haj Amin al-Husseini, Arab-Nazi war criminal, friend of Hitler, Himmler, & co-designer with Eichman of the Final Solution to exterminate European Jewry. He was wanted by the Allies, to be tried in Nuremburg for WAR CRIMES. King Farouk gave him asylum in Cairo in 1945..
In 1948, upon the announcement of the Partition of Palestine, and as head of the Arab Higher Committee, in phone calls to Palestinian headmen in all the villages, he ordered the evacuation of all Palestinians from their houses & farms, to “make way for our many victorious Arab Armies” (5-7, depending on which history you read). THEY INSTIGATED THE 1948 WAR.
When the armies were defeated by the much smaller Jewish forces, the new Israeli rulers invited the Pallies to return to their homes & lands, & they could have full Israeli citizenship, with all the rights of all Israelis. Husseini forbade them to return, so they lived in squalor in various areas as refugees. Their CHOICE not to return eventually created land reversion to Israel.
The Land Registry of Palestine, ordered in about 1870 by the Ottomans, specified what lands belonged to whom, and many of the Pallie land claims of “stolen land” were found to be outright fraudulent, or owned improperly. The land records are in Turkey to this day. The few Pallies who decided to return & present their deeds (within a reasonable time), were granted their lands back.
In 1970, the Pallies in refugee camps sought the violent overthrow of King Hussein of Jordan, making them “persona non-grata” in Jordan. (They remain non-grata in ALL OTHER MUSLIM COUNTRIES, because they are troublemakers. Nobody wants them
Lastly. I note that you attribute the Naqba to the Israelis, when nothing could be further from the truth, and throughout your post, you don’t state the religious affiliation of those who wrought the damage. That’s being historically dishonest.
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Thanks for setting the record straight, Missy. I had read the same thing you wrote in your 3rd paragraph, that the Israeli govt. invited the Arabs who had been living there to stay, with full rights and citizenship. The article I originally posted above says, At the same time, about 150,000 Arabs who did not flee the war remained inside the new Jewish state and today comprise 2 million Arab citizens of Israel with full democratic rights. (Many of them have held govt positions.)
Meanwhile, I found this article that I felt was an accurate accounting about the history of the Palestinians and their allies through the decades. It’s a bit long, but it gives a good idea of why we have today’s situation:
https://behindthenarrative7.substack.com/p/everyone-is-lying-to-you-about-the
Great stuff, thank you!
This post is so sad. It is a very one-sided view of the war started by the Arabs after they refused to accept Israel as a state. The fact that today, ~75 later, Jews and Israel are still fighting anti-Israel propaganda is disgraceful.
exactly. Some might want to find a history book and look up Pancho Villa.
It’s time for a regime change in Isreal. We need to make a quick stop on the way back from Hormuz.
Wake up and smell the roses, woke…
Attacking Israel would not be the “quick stop” you think it would be…
We only need to turn off the money spigot.
Your educational experiance is obviously very modern.
Your statement lacks understanding of ME situation, and has no merit.
You’re joking, right??
I have supported PDJT from the beginning. Voted for him twice because, as Sundance has often so elegantly pointed out, Trump’s policies on so many critical issues (borders, re-industrialization of the USA, the related foreign trade issues, peace through strength, etc.) are precisely what I want as a citizen. However, I fear that with the war on the Iranian regime, Trump may have risen to the level of his incompetence. He seems not to understand war or international relations. Suddenly Israel, which was described by Hegseth as the best ally, is described by many here as—-what? An impediment to an obviously lousy, pathetic deal. Trump looks and acts weak, like a man desperate to get out of a situation that he does not know how to handle, that is more than he expected. And, in getting out of that situation in such an embarrassing way, he looks like a loser who then stabs his ally in the back. One example, the USA was in a position of strength vis a vis the mullahs, despite their well-planned ability to keep hitting US bases in the Gulf and petroleum and other economic assets in the area. Yet Trump gave in unnecessarily to the regime’s demand that the Lebanon situation be tied to Iran. And therefore the Israelis are supposed not to defend the north of their country? Israelis living there are supposed to be subjected to antitank and other kinds of missile and drone attacks. Look at Trump’s bombast and braggadocio and continued inconsistencies. Is this the behavior of a real world leader? Look at his attacks on Bibi and Israel? Is this the way one treats an ally?
What happened to Trust the Plan? Maybe israel can float its own boat now.
I call foul on your “synopsis”
Thanks for stopping by
Pr. Trump has so much more understanding of world politics that it would take you years of study to begin to understand how his actions are creating positive responses, and potential future gains, as well as immediate gains.
I watched the Dem/Rep National Conventions in 1952, studied politics/international relations in college. Been there done that.
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Concern troll
Are you related to Ray Bach?
As unhappy with this war as I am, it’s not over until it’s over, and I think & hope that P. Trump has a few aces up his sleeve.
But Bibi needs to go. He was great for Israel in the 90s & 2000s, but he’s gone off the deep end now, and is a danger to the US.
P. Trump is right to rein him in. That pompous af$ thinks he has the right to tell us what to do, while he empties our Treasury. He’s not the commander of our forces, only his.
Damn megalomaniac.
We had three drones fired at our north town. We responded with a strike in Beirut. When Iran fired at an American helicopter last week the US responded much stronger. Asking Israel to stand down when its civilians are under fire is not right.
I will not get into the detail of this deal. It’s Obama deal on steroids. Will make Iran rich again.
Yes, President Trump telling Israel to “stand down” and not protect it’s Citizens is the dumbest thing I have ever heard…
You obviously voted for 0’bama
So … Why isn’t Iran, if it’s dealing in good faith, asking Hezbollah to “stand down”?
Is that you Mark? Maybe do this on your own dime.
When is BIbi starting his prison term?
Biggest war mongerer ever
LBJ——No one holds a candle to him
That’s up to his gov’t, not ours.
Iran is getting immediate sanctions relief while giving up nothing—no uranium, no ballistic missile program, no proxies, nothing.
In fact, it’s worse than before the war. Billions of dollars to fuel terrorism across the Middle East. And the US is now the protector of Hezbollah. Israel is prohibited from attacking the Nazi organization. Will never happen.
All the Iranian media and senior official are mocking the US and praising how they defeated the weak Americans.
Trump flipped after his China visit. He choose money over…
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Mark Levin’s pool boy
Here to sow the conflict
o-o-o-o
Well, maybe Bibi shouldn’t have lied to P. Trump, this year AND last.
Israel and the eGOP, never underestimate their capacity to jeopardize victory and promote defeat.
I wish the folks on this site loved The United States as much as israel. Sad.
It’s not an either-or issue. And many of us care care for the survival of the Jewish people, but despise Netanyahu. Like me.
Jewish people are fine. The state?
They have a right to have their own country & gov’t. But just as our govt doesn’t often represent us, Bibi doesn’t represent the entire Knesset. And there are candidates to the right of Bibi, believe it or not.
The Israelis cannot afford to be as naïve as you are, Mr. Trump.
The catastrophic loss in Afghanistan is really not smaller than the loss that your naïveté is now creating. You don’t actually know anything more than Obama did. In fact, the loss that you are setting yourself up for will forever change your first name in the [international …] public eye to: “Neville.”
“Peace In Our Time.”
Germany: Don’t attack Poland. USSR: here’s Poland.
Keeping a copy of this one on my puter……it will come in very satisfyingly handy in a short while.
Looks like the Israel-first crowd is out tonight.
They are the fastest to turn on Trump.
I would venture a solid guess they are all AIPAC paid lobbyists.
Or easily confused by what in history is going on
Netanyahu was the first one to congratulate Joe Biden on stealing the election.
You’re doing a pretty good job yourself.
NOT here
From the nofilterjustfacts blog
“How Israel Divided America
The conflict that Britain planted in the Middle East did not only divide the region. It divided the United States. That division is now one of the deepest fault lines in American politics, and it is getting wider every year.
For decades, support for Israel in America was bipartisan and largely unchallenged. Republicans and Democrats competed to show their loyalty to the relationship. AIPAC, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, worked behind the scenes as an issues-based lobbying organization, quiet and effective.
That changed in 2021 when AIPAC launched its own political action committee and super PAC and began spending directly on elections for the first time. In 2024, AIPAC and affiliated groups spent more than $100 million on 389 congressional races, 26 in the Senate and 363 in the House.
According to The Intercept, AIPAC spent money in more than 80% of all seats up for reelection. Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson received at least $654,000. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries received at least $933,000. Both parties. Both leaders. 318 AIPAC-backed candidates won.
The biggest spending was targeted at progressives who criticized Israel’s actions. AIPAC spent more than $29 million combined to defeat Representatives Jamaal Bowman and Cori Bush in Democratic primaries, two of the most expensive House primary elections in U.S. history. Both lost.
This is how a foreign policy issue becomes an internal weapon. Candidates who questioned unconditional military support were removed. Candidates who pledged loyalty received money. The message to everyone watching was clear: disagreement has consequences.
But the spending created a problem. It made the issue visible. It made people ask who is paying and why. And Gaza made it impossible to look away.
Since October 7, 2023, U.S. public opinion on Israel has shifted faster than on almost any foreign policy issue in modern polling history. The numbers are documented.
Only 9% of Americans under 35 approve of Israel’s military actions in Gaza. Among older Democrats, favorability toward Israel dropped to an average of 41 on a scale of 0 to 100, down from around 55 where it had held for five decades. For the first time since Gallup began asking the question a quarter century ago, more Americans say their sympathies lie with Palestinians than Israelis, 41% to 36%.
The generational divide is the sharpest. 79% of Republicans over 65 sympathize more with Israel. Only 40% of Republicans under 44 agree. Among young Republicans, a majority now oppose renewing the U.S.-Israel weapons agreement.
Figures like Tucker Carlson and Marjorie Taylor Greene wrapped their Israel criticism in America First language. Look at the actual pattern. Neither one has defended the Venezuela operation, championed Greenland, backed the tariff war dismantling Bretton Woods, or said a word about what Trump is doing to the British intelligence architecture. They found one issue where their audience overlaps with the progressive base and they are riding it. That is not America First. That is the old RINO playbook dressed in populist clothes, doing exactly what the British system has always needed American political figures to do: keep the domestic audience focused on the Middle East conflict instead of the system behind it.
The country is now split on this question along lines of age, party, race, class, and geography in ways that intersect with every other division already tearing American political culture apart. Campus protests in 2024 divided universities. The question of who is antisemitic and who is simply anti-war split friendships, families, and coalitions. AIPAC’s aggressive primary spending created a backlash that made the lobby itself a political issue for the first time. Candidates who used to quietly accept AIPAC money are now publicly returning it.
This is what the permanent conflict produces on the American side. The British planted the flashpoint in the Middle East. The flashpoint generates war, which generates risk, which generates insurance revenue in London. But the political consequences of that war travel back across the Atlantic and land inside American democracy. They split the Democratic Party. They split young Republicans from old Republicans. They create a single-issue voting block powerful enough to unseat incumbents and a backlash movement powerful enough to make supporting that block politically toxic.
The division is not accidental. A society that is perpetually arguing about a conflict 6,000 miles away, spending political capital on it, losing elections over it, and fracturing its coalitions because of it is a society that is distracted. A distracted society does not look at the system that created the conflict. It looks at the conflict.
That is the point.”
I argue that the neither the Venezuela operation nor Greenland are America First.
What are they then. It’s part of pjts American first and security of the hemisphere. Explain why you think otherwise
Venezuela is a sovereign country. Make a deal with the regime. We already have free-reign inside Greenland. Don’t tell me you buy into the golden dome fiasco.
Golden dome like as in Reagan Star Wars….nah ..that is something of a talking point being handled with other technology
Venezuela was run under a dictator and was part of the whole drug trade/terror. Are you saying the change hasn’t been beneficial
Sometimes you have to strike down the bad for many to enjoy what can be good
Obama 2.0 just to have a deal. What a joke!
Yeah-and Trump made a big hoopla about signing the deal with Gaza/ Hamas. They were to disband and disarm. That sure didn’t happen…just saying.
The Inbred 7th Century Savages down a US chopper (no lives lost) and all hell rains down on them for two days.
Israelis are being dislocated from their homes – at best, or killed – at worst, and they’re not supposed to fight back?
I’m the biggest fan of PDJT and MAGA (every nation on Earth should be MAGA for themselves) but reactions like this, to Israel defending herself, exposes that ego side of this great president (greatest since Lincoln, as far as I’m concerned).
Fatigue is real.