The extremes to both left and right won big in yesterday’s election. It’s bad for France, for Europe, and for the world. Read about it at France24.

Iran wants Israel and the region to believe Hezbollah is strong and ready for a possible future war. Read about it at the Jerusalem Post.

It’s time to go, before it’s too late to save the world from Trump. Read about it at CBS News.

Worrying predictions. Read Paul Taylor’s article at the Guardian.

Brown is a fitting colour for Le Pen’s far-right party. Read about it at Le Monde.

It’s time the world realises that pro-Palestinian activism is immersed in anti-Semitism. Read about it at the Jerusalem Post.

Correct. In both America and the Arab world, there’s this idea that anti-Semitism is a solely European phenomenon. Read Eran Shayshon and Dor Lasker’s article it at the Jerusalem Post.

People who know me know that I love aeroplanes. I can really nerd myself out with facts like these.

Bizarre as it might seem, this could be a good sign. Not that crime and violence is on the uprise per se, but that Hamas is losing power. Read about it at Ynetnews.

Why do people want to straight-jacket boys and girls into narrow gender archetypes? Read Mark Judge’s article at the Washington Examiner.

The centre-left Labour Party has won a majority of seats in the British House of Commons. The Conservatives has the poorest results in more than a century. Read about it at the Guardian.

Experimental research shows that muscle metabolic activity may be an important factor. Read about it at the US Sun.

It’s Friday night!

The most repulsive of it all is that Hezbollah began their bombardment on 8 October 2023, two days after Hamas’s terror attack against civilians in Israel. Now Hezbollah wants to rewrite history by claiming that their its intends to bring about peace in Gaze. Read about it at the Jerusalem Post.

French Jews were plagued on both sides of the political spectrum by extreme candidates, some with a long history of anti-Semitism and some with a very recent history. Read about it at the Jerusalem Post.

Recent satellite imagery shows major expansions at two key Iranian ballistic-missile facilities. The enlargement of the sites follows a 2022 deal in which Iran agreed to provide missiles to Russia. One fascist state feeds another. Read about it at Ynetnews.

The new poll from Bendixen & Amandi surprises me a bit. I thouht Biden’s figueres would be even lower. Read about it at Politico.

The last half an hour before I can leave the office is the worst. Time goes sooo slowly when you long for the summer outside.

This is quite absurd. The bullies feeling sorry for themselves. Read about it at Reason.

“As the 81-year-old tried to show his leadership credentials at a NATO summit in Washington, domestic calls have been growing for Biden to quit following his disastrous debate performance against Republican challenger Donald Trump.” Read about it at Yahoo News.

The survey by the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights found that 96% of respondents had experienced antisemitism in the year before the survey, which was carried out between January and June 2023. A total of 84% considered anti-Semitism to be a “very big” or “fairly big problem” in their country, while fewer than one in five (18%) thought governments were handling it effectively. Read about is at the Guardian.

Don’t forget that anti-Semitism is legit anti-Zionism according to leftist newspeak.

There are so many people claiming to care about human rights in Gaza. They talk loudly about genocide and mass murder of innocent women and children. What annoys me is that a very few of them cared the slightest about the Jewish women and children murdered in October 2024. With social media and internet archives, we can track their selective care for children and race-dependant interest in human rights.

The IDF said that dozens of those killed in the strike were active terrorists, one of whom was Hamas leader Mohammad Deif. 👍🇮🇱 Read about it at the Jerusalem Post.

She was more a phenomenon in America, but her name became known globally through films and television shows. Read about it at the Guardian.

Eli Wiesel: “The greatest tragedy of the Jewish people is that they listened to the promises of their friends and not the threats of their enemies.”

Donald Trump appeared to be the target of an assassination attempt as he spoke during a rally in Pennsylvania two hours ago. Read about it at the Associated Press.

From the New York Times:

The reporters interviewed Hamas fighters, Israeli soldiers and military analysts and assessed dozens of videos published by Hamas’s military wing.

They hide under residential neighborhoods, storing their weapons in miles of tunnels and in houses, mosques, sofas—even a child’s bedroom—blurring the boundary between civilians and combatants.

They emerge from hiding in plainclothes, sometimes wearing sandals or tracksuits before firing on Israeli troops, attaching mines to their vehicles, or firing rockets from launchers in civilian areas.

They rig abandoned homes with explosives and tripwires, sometimes luring Israeli soldiers to enter the booby-trapped buildings by scattering signs of a Hamas presence.

The FBI has revealed that the gunman was 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks from Pennsylvania. Read about it at Reuters.

Good news! Jews—and everyone else—should feel safe on board aeroplanes and not having to fear terror sympathisers among the staff. Read about it at the Washington Examiner.

It’s time for the democratic world to back up Israel and ensure Tehran doesn’t achieve nuclear capabilities. Read about it at the Jerusalem Post.

He meant a lot to Jewish life in Sweden, not least by his work in keeping Yiddish alive. Read about him in Swedish at Expressen.

Well, maybe. Read about it at Ars Technica.

Internet is not what it used to be.

So, Trump picked Vance as his running mate. I don’t know much about him, except that he opposes support for Ukraine’s defence against Russia and his strong support for Israel. The latter is good, but Europe needs America to combat Putin’s Russia.

It’s about time. It’s absurd to have thousands of men studying Torah full time while others die protecting them. Read about it at the Times of Israel.

The European Parliament today re-elected Ursula von der Leyen as head of the European Commission for the next five years. Read about it at EU Observer.

“A gunman who tried to kill Donald Trump was able to fly a drone and get aerial footage of the western Pennsylvania fairgrounds shortly before the former president was set to speak there, law-enforcement officials briefed on the matter said, further underscoring the stunning security lapses ahead of Trump’s near assassination.” Read about it at Hot Air.

From the Jerusalem Post:

The IDF and Shin Bet have uncovered a treasure trove of Hamas intelligence, consisting of stacks of documents, files, and computers, including guidelines on what to do if someone is suspected of being part of the LGBTQ community and a phrasebook of Hebrew words to help terrorists communicate in Hebrew, which included phrases such as “Take off your clothes.”

Continuing:

The official documents of Hamas’s “rulebook” reveal brutal behavior against anyone suspected of belonging to the LGBTQ community.

Additionally, documentation of interrogations and testimonies about aggressive questioning focused solely on sexual preferences and orientations was found, indicating that those suspected of being part of the LGBTQ community faced a single fate—death.

Two days ago, computers around the globe went into blue-mood. A major bug. The Babylon Bee has found the reason. 😊

Don’t think so, but PJMedia speculates.

“According to the report, Russia has also lost 8,266 tanks, 15,963 armoured fighting vehicles, 21,036 vehicles and fuel tanks, 15,586 artillery systems, 1,121 multiple launch rocket systems, 896 air defence systems, 362 aeroplanes, 326 helicopters, 12,402 drones, 28 ships and boats, and one submarine.” Read about it at the Kyiv Independent.

“North Korea has resumed sending balloons carrying trash toward South Korea.” Can’t be too difficult. All of communist North Korea is rubbish. Read about it at Deutsche Welle.

Imaginative ideas at the US Sun.

The newsmen are all over the place. Joe Biden has decided to leave the race. No one knows who will run against Trump. Things are unprecedented. We live in an exciting era indeed.

Read about it at:

• The New York Times
• The Guardian
• The Los Angeles Times
• The Washington Post

And others…

The presidential race has got some new oxygen. Read about it at the New York Times.

Good news for civilised people. Bad new for the “progressive” far left. Read about it at the Times of Israel.

Astronauts have reported that food tastes bland in space, making it tough for them to eat enough to stay healthy. A new study has looked into solutions. Read about it at the International Journal of Food Science & Technology.

From The Local:

The Singaporean dollar was the next most undervalued currency, at around 14 precent undervalued, followed by the Indian rupee, and the Polish Zloty.

The Euro was 2 percent undervalued, the US dollar was 6 percent overvalued, while the British pound was 9 percent overvalued, making it among the world’s most overvalued currencies, only slightly ahead of the Turkish Lira, the Saudi Riyal and Argentine peso.

I know I am, for sure. Read about it at the BBC.

Some grumpy donors refuse to help Harris win. Read about it at Zero Hedge.

An Israel Meteorological Service study into climate events suggest frequency of heat waves, less rain, and rising temperatures will make living in Israel impossible in the future. Read about it at Ynetnews.

I don’t like it, but I get it. Read about it at CNN.

The stupidity never ends. Read about it at Times of Israel.

Things are looking good. Read about it at Reuters.

My nose is blocked. My body aches. I have a fever. I feel sorry for myself.

It’s mostly the same people who love to boycott the Jewish state regardless. Read about it at Politico.

I guess it’s symptomatic for the new alternative conservatives who distance themselves from every aspect of individual liberty. Read about it at Advocate.

I listened to Netanyahu’s speech on Capital Hill yesterday. Overall a good speech, but also exactly the content one might expect. It won’t be a speech for the history books. However, anti-Semite Rashida Tlaib was amusing in her silent support for Hamas. She sat in terrorist outfit with a sign accusing the Israeli prime minister of war crimes.

The Palestinian Arabs are the only allies of Nazi Germany to be treated as victims. The record of meeting between Adolf Hitler and the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini, on 28 November 1941, are perhaps the best kept secret. The Palestinian narrative would be hard to promote in world opinion if people realised the link to the Holocaust.

A quote:

The Fuhrer replied that Germany’s fundamental attitude on these questions, as the Mufti himself had already stated, was clear. Germany stood for uncompromising war against the Jews. That naturally included active opposition to the Jewish national home in Palestine, which was nothing other than a centre, in the form of a state, for the exercise of destructive influence by Jewish interests.

Read the record in full at the Times of Israel.

While Netanyahu addressed Congress to gain support in the war against Hamas, pro-Palestinian demonstrators tagged monuments.

…but I’m still feeling sorry for myself.

Have two days off. Need some rest. Back soon. The world is too crazy at the moment. Idiots are running the show.

Good news! Read about it at the Jerusalem Post and the Guardian.

When the philosopher Immanuel Kant wrote about the Jews in Europe, he referred to them as Palestinians. Everyone knew that Jews are the indigenous people of the land. Someone should tell the “Palestinians”.