Trump Just Handed China the Tools to Beat America in AI  

Ending an export ban will help China catch up in the race for control of the global economy and military dominance in the 21st century.

Matt Pottinger & Liza Tobin | FDD | August 11, 2025

Image via Pixabay

President Donald Trump’s team just gave China’s rulers the technology they need to beat us in the artificial intelligence race. If he doesn’t reverse this decision, it may be remembered as the moment when America surrendered the technological advantage needed to bring manufacturing home and keep our nation secure.

Read more…

August 13, 2025 | 10:20 pm | Comments »

Subscribe to Israpundit Daily Digest for Free

Bibi must stop denying the full extent of Muslim hate for Jews  

Madeline Brooks: Look, the first village Mohammed attacked in Arabia after getting the Koran was Jewish. Jumping ahead many years and many attacks, Avi Abelow reminds us of the 1929 massacre in Hebron, before Israel was a state, the latest excuse.

Surrendering Gaza to any kind of Arab rule is one more invitation for a massacre.
August 13, 2025 | 10:05 pm | 3 Comments »

Subscribe to Israpundit Daily Digest for Free

‘Abuse, Medical Neglect, Subhuman Conditions’: New Israeli Report Details Horrors Faced by Former Hostages of Hamas  

Peloni:  The true victims of intentional starvation in Gaza are the Israelis held hostage by Hamas, and flooding Gaza with food will only serve to continue fattening the already too well fed Hamas and their allies.

FDD | August 12, 2025

Starving image of the Hostage, Evyatar David. Screengrab via Youtube 

Latest Developments

  • Harrowing Details of Captivity: Israel will send a new health ministry report to the president of the Red Cross revealing the physical and mental damage suffered by 12 freed hostages previously held by Hamas in Gaza. The report, published on August 12, detailed “patterns of abuse, medical neglect, and subhuman conditions that constitute torture,” warning that there are “serious concerns that the abductees who are still being held captive are in immediate danger.” The report’s purpose was to demonstrate “to international health organizations such as the Red Cross and to countries and authorities around the world” that “the conduct of the Hamas terrorist organization clearly and deliberately violates international law.”

Read more…

August 13, 2025 | 4:42 pm | 1 Comment »

Subscribe to Israpundit Daily Digest for Free

Subscribe to Israpundit Daily Digest for Free

Subscribe to Israpundit Daily Digest for Free

In recognizing Palestinian statehood, Canada has betrayed Israel  

The latest statement issued by Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is seen by some as an abandonment of Canada’s traditional support for Israel.

By ALAN BAKER

Photo by CarletonU, Faculty of Public and Global Affairs, CC BY 3.0, Wikipedia

One reads with amazement and disbelief the latest statement issued by Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney after his July 30 discussion two weeks ago with the president of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas.

Read more…

August 13, 2025 | 10:05 am | 7 Comments »

Subscribe to Israpundit Daily Digest for Free

Jonathan Turley Explains Why Trump’s DC Crackdown Can’t Be Stopped  

Peloni:  Washington is the face of the American nation.  It is also where the nation’s agenda is decided.  The lawlessness which has abounded in that den of iniquity for years now affects both of these factors, yet, to be honest, the latter seems to be more relevant than the first.  In fact, it is in the realm of such intentional chaos and unbridled crime that political violence is able to intimidate lawmakers, which is of course a feature, rather than a bug, of the lawlessness of Washington and many other similar regions of the US where crime is sanctioned rather than prosecuted. Draining the swamp in America begins with returning law and order to Washington DC, and then expanding that example across the American nation.  America’s dedication to the rule of law is what came to distinguish that great nation as the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave.  While corruption and political violence has replaced law and order in the American capital and elsewhere, returning to the principles of equality before the law, in combination with transparency and accountability, is how America returns to once more be the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave.  It is also what distinguished the American nation among the nations of the world, as these Judeo-Christian principles gave rise to the Western world, which is now sadly in a state of severe decline, specifically because these principles have been abandoned for the medieval practices of autocracy, discrimination, and arbitrary rule.

Harold Hutchison Media Reporter | Daily Caller

Screengrab via Rumble

George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley said Monday President Donald Trump’s crackdown on crime in Washington, D.C. couldn’t be stopped due to the status of the nation’s capital.

Read more…

August 13, 2025 | 9:31 am | 1 Comment »

Subscribe to Israpundit Daily Digest for Free

Secretary of State Marco Rubio with Sid Rosenberg of Sid and Friends in the Morning  

Peloni:  In an interview with Sid Rosenberg which focused on international affairs including Russia and China, Sec. of State Marco Rubio addressed ongoing efforts to ban the Muslim Brotherhood, the European countries recognizing a Pal state, cease fires in Gaza and more.  The is an excerpt from this interview relating to these topics.  The full interview can be read HERE.  Pity there were no questions about Jolani ruling Syria.

U.S. Embassy & Consulates in China

By U.S. Embassy Jerusalem – Flickr, CC BY 2.0, Wikipedia

QUESTION:  Yeah, that’s right.  So while we talk about designating the cartels, Marco, as a terrorist organization, I got to ask you:  Why wouldn’t you guys designate the Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR?  I just – I look at these organizations, I have a mayor’s race here in New York City with this psycho, this lunatic Mamdani.  Both of these groups you know are behind him, especially the Muslim Brotherhood.  Is that something you think we can count on maybe in the near future?  Maybe not CAIR just yet, but certainly the Muslim Brotherhood?

Read more…

August 13, 2025 | 8:58 am | Comments »

Subscribe to Israpundit Daily Digest for Free

PM Netanyahu promises Iranians water  

Israfan | August 13, 2025

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu released a video message Tuesday pledging that Israel will help solve Iran’s severe water crisis once the country is liberated from what he called the “tyrants of Tehran.”

Read more…

August 13, 2025 | 4:32 am | Comments »

Subscribe to Israpundit Daily Digest for Free

Crushing collapse of Ukrainian support for continuing war  

Peloni: Complete reversal of Ukrainian support for war in Ukraine from 2022 to the present. Of course ending the war means a return to elections, and for some who are enjoying the lack of even the pretense of democracy in Ukraine, this will be a problem.

August 13, 2025 | 12:33 am | 6 Comments »

Subscribe to Israpundit Daily Digest for Free

Subscribe to Israpundit Daily Digest for Free

Behind the journey: Why did Congressman Hamadeh travel from Jerusalem to Damascus? – analysis  

Peloni:  The US continues to press forward its support for empowering a Jihadist in Demascus, even as threats and attacks continue against minorities in the wake of the recent slaughters there.

US Congressman Abraham J. Hamadeh travelled to Syria to “discuss the Congressman’s continuing e?orts to bring Americans home” and advance peace

By SETH J. FRANTZMAN | 

Abe Hamadeh Speaks at Trump Rally in 2022.  Screengrab via Youtube

US Rep. Abraham J. Hamadeh made an important trip to the Middle East this week that included what his office called an “unprecedented trip from Jerusalem to Damascus.”

Read more…

August 12, 2025 | 6:16 pm | Comments »

Subscribe to Israpundit Daily Digest for Free

Subscribe to Israpundit Daily Digest for Free

The Eurabian Push for a Hamas State  

By Janet Levy | Am Thinker | August 12, 2025

Image created using AI.

The hostility toward Israel in Europe is matched only by the enthusiasm for establishing a Palestinian state controlled by Hamas. Leading this effort is France: President Emmanuel Macron announced on July 25 that his country would recognize a Palestinian state later this year. Knesset member Dan Illouz rightly opposed such a state as “a gift to the terrorists of October 7.”

Read more…

August 12, 2025 | 3:53 pm | 4 Comments »

Subscribe to Israpundit Daily Digest for Free

‘Remember Oct 7’: Trump affirms support for Israel while PM Netanyahu now said to exclude another ‘partial’ deal  

Peloni:  So long as the Hostages are the proposed purpose of pursuing victory, the pursuit of victory will continue to be the needlessly never ending story which it has become over the past nearly two years.

Trump affirms Hamas is the root of the problem, doesn’t criticize planned Israeli Gaza offensive

Photo by Kremlin.ru, CC BY 4.0, Wikipedia

U.S. President Donald Trump reaffirmed his support for Israel but said it was up to the Israeli government to decide how to proceed, without explicitly endorsing the planned new Gaza offensive.

Read more…

August 12, 2025 | 2:39 pm | 1 Comment »

Subscribe to Israpundit Daily Digest for Free

Another Al-Jazeera ‘journalist’ moonlighting as a Hamas terrorist rubbed out by IDF  

Peloni:  The deceit of the world stands on full display as terrorists are mislabeled as journalists.  Even in an age in which journalistic standards have been almost completely retrograded to the age of Yellow Journalism, the attempt to provide participants of October 7 with the veil of protections afforded to simple reporters strikes a new low in the well eclipsed ethics of the Fourth Estate.  Instead of the desired effect, it has re-cast the pall of shame and ignominy upon the entire profession of journalism to an altogether new height, even in this age of Fake News reporting.  Let us make the false reports of the innocence being reported on these terrorists forever mar and discredit those who have taken to replacing journalistic integrity with terrorist complicity.

By Monica Showalter | Am Thinker | August 12, 2025

What is it about journalism that draws so many terrorists?

According to Fox News:

An Al Jazeera journalist who was killed by an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip was the leader of a Hamas “terrorist cell,” the Israel Defense Forces announced.

Read more…

August 12, 2025 | 2:27 pm | 3 Comments »

Subscribe to Israpundit Daily Digest for Free

Arrow-3 Missile Defense System: Cost Analysis and Performance Comparison  

Peloni:  With the recent report of Germany’s unilateral cancellation of arms shipments to Israel related to the Gaza operation, it calls to mind the German contract for obtaining Israel’s Arrow 3 system.  In reading the Norsk Luftvern article below regarding the Arrow 3, pay particular attention to the scope of advantages which places the Arrow 3 well above its competitors in many respects.  Indeed, in the areas of range, cost, and capabilities, the Arrow 3 stands alone in its performance.  Considering this fact, is it just German arrogance fueling their expectation that threatening Israel might not jeopardize their acquisition of the Arrow 3, which provides the economically challenged Germany with a real need of such a low cost, and diverse aerial defense system as the Arrow 3.  Alternatively, and more likely I would argue, is it possible that this partial embargo on Israel, in which is still ambiguous on what arms will be affected, is simply a charade intended to sway the support of pro-Hamas German voters?  If not, Israel should challenge the Germans with the stark reality that arms embargos can be bilateral as well as unilateral, and arms shipments can be cancelled from Israel just as easily as they are in Germany.

Norskluftvern.com | July 25, 2025

Arrow 3 anti-ballistic missile, exoatmospheric air defense system, made by the Israel Aerospace Industries Ltd, deployed in the Israeli Air Defense Command, under the Israeli Air Force. (Photo bBy Administration for the Development of Weapons and Technological Infrastructure and Ministry of Defense, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikipedia)

Exo-Atmospheric Defense with Competitive Pricing

Arrow-3 interceptors cost approximately $4 million each, making them 86% less expensive than competing SM-3 Block IIA systems while offering superior range and proven combat effectiveness. This significant cost advantage, combined with recent combat successes defending Israel against Iranian ballistic missile attacks, positions Arrow-3 as the most cost-effective exo-atmospheric defense system available for export. Germany’s $3.5 billion procurement represents Israel’s largest defense export and validates international confidence in the system’s capabilities.

Read more…

August 12, 2025 | 2:00 pm | 1 Comment »

Subscribe to Israpundit Daily Digest for Free

Subscribe to Israpundit Daily Digest for Free

Israel’s Military: Force and Dollar Multiplier for the US  

Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger | “Second Thought: a US-Israel Initiative” | August 11, 2025

*The Israeli Battle-Tested-Laboratory received – with much gratitude! – the initial F-15 (Boeing) and F-16 (Lockheed-Martin) in 1976 and 1980 respectively.  Since that time, for 45-50 years, the Israeli Battle-Tested Laboratory and Showroom of the US defense and aerospace industries and Armed Forces has significantly improved these fighter jets – and the US air force’s battle tactics – through the uniquely intense operational use of the aircraft (due to the uniquely violent Middle East).

Read more…

August 12, 2025 | 7:04 am | Comments »

Subscribe to Israpundit Daily Digest for Free

D.C., Jerusalem, and Baku Alliance Could Reap Regional Rewards  

Martin Sherman

President Donald Trump signs a document alongside President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan in the Oval Office, Friday, August 8, 2025. (By The White House – Flickr, Public Domain, Wikipedia)

(The Abraham Accords were the greatest foreign policy accomplishment of U.S. President Donald Trump’s first administration; he has made it clear that his new administration will seek expanding them- Forbes, March 8, 2025.)

“I wish to underscore our support for President Trump’s vision and efforts to promote peace . . . including in our region. We also share common values. . .  and remain hopeful that U.S.-Azerbaijan relations will reach a new level during his Presidency”– Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev, @presidentaz

Read more…

August 12, 2025 | 12:50 am | Comments »

Subscribe to Israpundit Daily Digest for Free
« Previous PageNext Page »