Israel and US Differ on Regime Change
by Nava Freiberg
The US President Donald Trump reportedly rejected a proposal by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to jointly call on the Iranian public to take to the streets and topple the regime during the war against Iran, with the president fearing the protesters would be slaughtered.
Netanyahu is said to have told Trump after the assassinations that the Iranian regime was in chaos, and that the time had come to further destabilize it by issuing the joint call.
Netanyahu ended up issuing a less clear-cut call on his own, encouraging Iranians to go to the streets to celebrate an annual festival.
The reported conversation points to persisting differences between Israel and the US over the extent to which regime change is a goal of the war with Iran. (Most of these so-called differences are made up and leaked by people in the US opposed to the war with Iran. Or they are exaggerated.)
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Food for Thought: by Steven Shamrak
Just taking control over Kharg Island, destroying nuclear and military sites in Iran will not end the problem. Only removing the current Iranian Islamist terror supporting regime will. The US and Israel must make it clear that this is the objective, then the Iranian people will rise against the Islamic terror regime. Political ambiguity doesn’t work!
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Israel ranks eighth among 147 countries in 2026 World Happiness Index despite war. Other countries at war across the world ranked low in the just-released 2026 World Happiness Index: Ukraine, Russia, Lebanon, Iran, Yemen, and Syria. The most remarkable finding in this year’s report concerns young people. Israelis under the age of 25, most of whom are serving in the IDF or on reserve duty, are the happiest age group within Israeli society and rank third in the world. (Having a meaning to life, serving a greater cause, is a greater form of happiness.)
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has reportedly made his frustration with the Mossad intelligence agency clear, as its activities in Iran have failed to produce a mass civilian uprising that could topple the current Islamic regime. While both President Donald Trump and Netanyahu have avoided explicitly stating that regime change is a goal of the war, the Israeli premier has long issued statements directly addressing the Iranian people, expressing support for efforts to oust the Ayatollah-led government.
Jews Owned East Jerusalem Homes before 1948
Eleven Arab families were evicted from their homes in the Batan al-Hawa section of East Jerusalem’s Silwan neighbourhood, following a Supreme Court ruling from last year determining that their houses were owned by Jews before 1948. A 1970 law allowing Jews to reclaim property lost before establishment of Israel.
Germany Pulled Support for Israel in ICJ
Germany, an early defender of Israel against false allegations of genocide in Gaza at the International Court of Justice. It said it could not wade in without compromising its own ICJ case, filed by Nicaragua later in 2024, that alleges that Germany violated international law by supporting Israel in the Gaza war. (‘Guilt support’ did not last long.)
Israeli defense contractor Elbit Systems has received its first order from the Defense Ministry for the development and initial equipping of laser pods for fighter jets and a laser system for helicopters. The Haifa-based Elbit delivered its strongest financial performance to date in 2025, with revenue reaching $7.94 billion, a 16% increase, and profit climbing sharply to $534 million.
Hezbollah Terror Tunnel on Church Grounds
IDF soldiers located an active Hezbollah tunnel shaft and an underground infrastructure constructed in the vicinity of a church in the area of Al-Khiyam, in southern Lebanon. During the current searches in the vicinity, the soldiers located three additional shafts constructed by Hezbollah during the ceasefire. Hezbollah systematically and deliberately embedding its military infrastructure within religious sites and civilian areas.
Quote of the Week:
“The IDF will continue to operate in Lebanon with full force against Hezbollah. Hundreds of thousands of residents of southern Lebanon who evacuated northward will not be allowed to return south of the Litani River until security for the residents of the north [of Israel] is ensured. The principle is clear: Where there is terror and missiles, there will be no homes and no residents, and the IDF will be inside Lebanon.” – Defense Minister Israel Katz – He also suggested that Israel should go further and move its border with Lebanon up to the Litani River.
Why People Like Lying about Israel
by Rabbi Daniel Rowe
Something strange is happening online. “Tel Aviv has been levelled.” “Bibi has been killed.” “Chabad orchestrated the war with Iran.” “Israel is destroying Al-Aqsa.” Tens of thousands of posts, millions of views, but it is all total fiction.
Anyone with a passing connection to reality can see these claims for what they are. So why do people post them? More than that, why do so many believe them?
In Fake-istan, Israel is always wrong, always the aggressor, yet always losing, always exposed, always on the verge of annihilation. The rules of evidence do not apply there. Neither does geography, physics or even basic logic.
The moral energy behind genocide accusations was never primarily about humanitarian concern; after all, the accusations began long before Israel went into Gaza.
Instead, they were about satisfying a pre-existing desire (anti-Semitism), a need to see Jewish power smashed and Jewish people punished. People who have a bloodlust against Jews feel guilty about it, especially since the Holocaust.
Soviet writer and journalist Vassily Grossman put it plainly: Tell me what they accuse the Jews of, and I will tell you what they themselves are guilty of. British journalist and author Douglas Murray extended the point: “the people screaming that Israel committed genocide are the people who want to commit genocide.”
When people desperately want something to be true, the threshold for accepting evidence collapses dramatically. Take a grainy video or an AI one, add a dramatic caption or 1,000 retweets, and that is enough.
Propaganda shapes public opinion, even when it is obvious propaganda, and the scale of what is being produced is staggering. But it should sharpen our thinking about what we are actually dealing with.
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