Monday, May 18, 2026

EU Sanctions Israel


EU Sanctions Israel, Welcomes Taliban


On Monday, the European Union announced sanctions on Israelis, including Daniella Weiss, the 80-year-old former mayor of a Jewish community in Judea and Samaria, and on Tuesday, it invited the Taliban, an Islamic terrorist group allied with Al Qaeda, to come to Brussels for talks.

“Extremisms and violence carry consequences,” EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas warned Israel. Obviously. And the consequence of extremism and violence is an invite to Brussels.

At least if you’re a Muslim terrorist.

Over the last decade, Islamic terrorists associated with ISIS, an Al Qaeda splinter group, have killed over 34 people in two bombing, four stabbings and one shooting in Brussels. Because of the constant Muslim terror threat, the Belgian army has been deployed to protect train stations, houses of worship and other potential terror targets from the terrorists being invited to Brussels.

Meanwhile the Israeli Jewish people and organizations sanctioned by the European Union like Regavim and Nahala have engaged in dangerous extremist behavior by opening new farms in Israel and suing on behalf of farmers in areas that the Muslim terrorists claim for themselves.

Regavim also had the chutzpah to publish a report disproving the lie that there is a campaign of ‘Jewish settler violence’ which in reality consists of radical NGOs funded by the EU staging clashes with local Jewish farmers and then demanding more money from the EU to fight them.

Even while inviting Islamic terrorists, the EU sanctioned an Israeli group for… writing reports.

The Taliban invite by the European Union Commission comes after the Taliban imposed Islamic Sharia laws banning girls from getting an education above the sixth grade, leaving the house without a male guardian and showing their faces or even speaking aloud in public.

So to accommodate the Taliban, the EU appointed Gilles Bertrand, a man, as its Special Envoy to the Taliban. Bertrand recently paid a visit to the Taliban as did another delegation led by Freddy Rosemont, also a man, and now the Taliban will return the favor by visiting Brussels.

And will hopefully refrain from bombing or stabbing anyone at least on this particular visit.

The European Commission spokesman argued that negotiating with the Taliban as if it were a government does not mean that the EU is actually recognizing the Taliban as a government.

In a technical distinction, the spokesman argued that they were only “technical talks.” But the Taliban have been invited actually, rather than technically, by the actual European Commission.

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Sunday, May 17, 2026

Trump says 'clock is ticking for Iran' after call with Netanyahu on China, Hormuz

Trump says 'clock is ticking for Iran' after call with Netanyahu on China, Hormuz
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump spoke on Sunday about the president's visit to China. 

The pair also discussed developments with Iran.

"For Iran, the Clock is ticking, and they better get moving, FAST, or there won’t be anything left of them. TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE," Trump wrote on Truth Social after the call.

Trump also spoke to Israel's Channel 13, saying that he thinks "the Iranians should be afraid of what's going on right now," and told Axios that he thinks Iran still wants a deal.

He said he is waiting for an updated Iranian proposal he hopes will be better than the one offered several days ago, Axios reported.

Trump declined to give a deadline for the negotiations.

Netanyahu said earlier that he would speak to Trump on Sunday evening. 

"Our eyes are also wide open regarding Iran. I will speak today, as I do every few days, with our friend President Trump," he said in a statement.

 "I will certainly hear his impressions from his trip to China, and perhaps other matters. There are certainly many possibilities; we are prepared for any scenario."

Trump returned to the US on Saturday after his state visit to China, where he and Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed to a series of tariff, agricultural, and aircraft deals.

The Chinese Commerce Ministry described the deals as "preliminary" and said that the two sides had agreed to establish an investment board and a trade board to negotiate reciprocal, product-specific tariff reductions, as well as broader cuts on unspecified goods, including agricultural products.

Notably, during his visit, Trump said that Xi agreed that Iran needs to open the Strait of Hormuz, and that Tehran cannot have a nuclear weapon. 

However, China's foreign ministry expressed frustration with the Iran war, calling it a conflict "which should never have happened, has no reason to continue."

Trump also said he was considering lifting US sanctions on Chinese oil companies buying Iranian oil. China is the biggest buyer of Iranian oil.

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The Castro Regime’s Imminent Collapse Exposes the Deadliest Lie in Human History




As the Castro dictatorship in Cuba teeters on the brink of total collapse amid massive blackouts, fuel shortages, and street protests, one thing is crystal clear: the global communist experiment is finally gasping its last breath. Even as the North Korean hermit kingdom clings to its grotesque survival, and Communist China masquerades as a “people’s republic” while running a high-tech surveillance tyranny that murders dissidents and harvests organs, the writing is on the wall.

The regime in Havana, propped up for decades by lies, repression, and Western useful idiots, is facing its death throes. Protesters are ransacking Communist Party offices, blackouts stretch for days, and the island’s economy has hit rock bottom. This isn’t just another “Special Period” crisis — it’s the end of an era. And as the dust settles, patriots and truth-seekers must ask the uncomfortable question the globalist left has spent generations dodging: Why hasn’t there been a Nuremberg Trial for Communism?

According to The Black Book of Communism, the butcher’s bill for this blood-soaked ideology stands at over 100 million dead. That’s 65 million in China under Mao, 20 million in the Soviet Union, millions more in Cambodia’s Killing Fields, North Korea, Ethiopia, Vietnam, and yes — thousands upon thousands in Cuba under Fidel and Raúl Castro.

These weren’t abstract statistics. They were fathers, mothers, children, dissidents, Christians, farmers, and anyone who dared resist the utopian fever dream of “real equality.” Equality, as it turns out, was never the goal. It was the mask for raw envy, power lust, and the destruction of the human spirit. Communism doesn’t lift people up — it drags everyone down to the lowest common denominator while a tiny elite of party bosses live like kings.

In Cuba, the “workers’ paradise” delivered poverty, ration cards, secret police, firing squads, and political prisons. Families torn apart. Dissidents tortured and disappeared. Yet Hollywood celebrities, Ivy League professors, and European socialists jetted in for photo-ops with the bearded tyrant while the gulags filled up. They cheered the revolution even as rape, murder, and abduction of opponents were standard operating procedure.

The same goes for the broader communist horror show. The Soviet famines. The Great Leap Forward that starved tens of millions. The Cultural Revolution’s madness. Pol Pot’s Year Zero genocide. All sold to gullible Westerners as noble experiments by fellow travelers in the media, academia, and politics who never had to live under the boot.

A true reckoning cannot stop at the direct perpetrators — the Castros, the Maos, the Lenins, and their modern heirs in Beijing and Pyongyang. It must expose and judge their accomplices: the Western elites who whitewashed these crimes, funneled money and legitimacy to the regimes, and smeared anti-communist heroes like Ronald Reagan as warmongers.

How many European intellectuals spent the Cold War defending Castro while his goons executed opponents? How many American Democrats and Hollywood leftists vacationed in Havana, ignoring the desperate rafters fleeing to Florida on inner tubes? These people weren’t naive — many were active enablers of evil. Their “solidarity” came with body counts.


With Cuba collapsing under the weight of its own failures — and under pressure from a resurgent America First agenda — the moment has arrived. A Nuremberg-style tribunal for communism would catalog the crimes, name the guilty (living and dead), and deliver a verdict that echoes through history: Communism is a crime against humanity.

No more excuses: “it wasn’t real communism.” No more letting leftist professors indoctrinate another generation with this poison. The fall of the Castro regime should be the final nail in the coffin — and the starting gun for a global day of reckoning.

The memory of the dead demands it. The freedom of the living depends on it. America must lead the way. Never forget. Never allow this evil to rise again.



Netanyahu convenes security cabinet amid reports Israel, US preparing Iran strikes


Netanyahu convenes security cabinet amid reports Israel, US preparing Iran strikes


Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was set to convene top aides and ministers Sunday evening for a security discussion in his office in Jerusalem, amid reports that the US and Israel are preparing to restart the war with Iran.

Netanyahu was also scheduled to speak with US President Donald Trump on Sunday evening. The discussions come after a drone struck a nuclear power plant in the UAE, which, along with Israel, sustained the most blows from Iran during the war.

“Our eyes are open regarding Iran,” Netanyahu said during Sunday’s weekly cabinet meeting. Referring to Trump, he added, “I will certainly hear impressions from his trip to China, perhaps other things as well. Certainly, there are many possibilities, and we are prepared for every scenario.”

Last week Trump visited China for a summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping. He said Xi had offered to help open the Strait of Hormuz, a key artery for the global oil supply that Iran has blocked, and that the Chinese leader had pledged not to send military equipment to aid Iran in the war.

On Sunday, after Trump returned from China, he shared an AI-generated graphic of him and a US Navy admiral in front of stormy waters with several ships, including one flying the Iranian flag. A caption read, “It was the calm before the storm.”

Last week, it was reported that Israel and the United States were carrying out intense preparations to renew attacks on Iran, possibly as soon as this week.

Security discussions in the Prime Minister’s Office, often termed the “small security cabinet,” usually include Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar, Defense Minister Israel Katz, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, and Shas chairman Aryeh Deri.

Fighting between the US, Israel, and Iran has largely been paused since a ceasefire came into effect on April 8. But talks between Iran and the US, aimed at coming to an agreement over the Iranian nuclear program and other issues, have stalled.

Iranian armed forces spokesman Abolfazl Shekarchi warned Trump on Sunday against restarting attacks on his country.

“The desperate American president should know that if his threats are carried out and Islamic Iran is attacked again, his country’s resources and military will be confronted with unprecedented, offensive, surprising, and tumultuous scenarios,” he said, according to state television.

Similarly, Iran’s deputy speaker of parliament, Hamidreza Hajibabaei, warned against attacking Iranian oil infrastructure.

“If Iranian oil is harmed, Iran will take measures that will prevent the United States and the world from accessing oil from the region for an extended period,” he said, according to the news agency ISNA.


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As Iran standoff nears breaking point, Gaza war could reignite


As Iran standoff nears breaking point, Gaza war could reignite



Izz al-Din Haddad, who was eliminated in Gaza over the weekend, was a marked man. Israel had no shortage of reasons or motivation to eliminate him: He was a member of Hamas' leadership for decades, one of the main planners and commanders of the Oct. 7 attack, a man who kept many hostages close to him as human shields, and the figure who in recent months led Hamas' force buildup efforts and firmly refused to advance US President Donald Trump's 20-point plan for Gaza's reconstruction.

His elimination is an operational achievement for the IDF and the Shin Bet security agency, the kind Israel has carried out countless times in recent years in every possible theater of war. It is certainly a morale blow to Hamas, but it is far from a strategic victory. Past experience shows that a successor will quickly arise, and that the terrorist organization will not change course. What was not achieved in two years of difficult fighting will not be achieved by one elimination more or less. There is no total victory here.

Still, several things can be learned from this elimination. The first is Israel's commendable determination to continue pursuing those responsible for the worst massacre in its history, certainly if they continue to play a central role in the ranks of its enemies. The second is Trump's limited interest in Gaza, which had been his "baby" until just a few months ago. The third is Hamas' determination to continue holding on to Gaza, both politically and militarily. The fourth is the absence of any solution, contrary to what was promised, to the Gaza issue. And the fifth, following from that, is the possibility, which is not at all remote, of renewed large-scale fighting in the Strip.

The IDF has been preparing for this in recent months and is meanwhile expanding the areas it holds on its side west of the border, amounting to more than 50% of the Gaza Strip. Hamas is also preparing for fighting, mainly in terms of recruiting fighters and acquiring weapons. For now, it is careful not to give Israel a pretext to launch a renewed campaign, although it is difficult to bet that this will not happen in the coming months. The international system, led by mediator Nikolay Mladenov, is expected to face considerable work in the effort to prevent the fighting from resuming.

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