Israel
April 16, 2026 — Scott Johnson
The Democratic Party has become the anti-Israel party. I think that means they have become the anti-American party as well. although they have been that for a while now. Mark Penn observes on X that this is a critical moment in the war with Iran. Whoever is running the show over there has to decide whether to fold or attack America’s ships. Penn asks, “And so what do Democrats do?
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April 16, 2026 — Scott Johnson
The State Department hosted a meeting earlier this week with the participation of Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Counselor Michael Needham, United States Ambassador to Lebanon Michael Issa, Ambassador of Israel to the United States Yechiel Leiter, and Ambassador of Lebanon to the United States Nada Hamadeh Moawad. This meeting marked the first major high-level engagement between the governments of Israel and Lebanon since 1993. Can’t we all just get
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April 11, 2026 — John Hinderaker
The U.S./Israeli attack on the mullahs’ regime in Iran has been an extraordinary success. The Trump administration laid out the mission’s objectives clearly from the beginning, and they have been achieved: Iran’s evil leadership is mostly dead, and Iran’s military has been devastated, as has its industrial capacity to replace that military. Iran’s navy and Air Force no longer exist. These are the objectives that the Trump and Netanyahu administrations
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April 11, 2026 — Scott Johnson
Borrowing a phrase Yeats’s poem “Sailing to Byzantium,” I want to flag Brendan O’Neill’s Spiked interview with historian and former Israeli Ambassador to the United States Michael Oren. Spiked itself flags the interview as “We can’t make peace with a terrorist state.” I have posted video at the bottom. In the interview O’Neill and Oren take up where we were, where we are, and what lies ahead in our conflict
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April 10, 2026 — Scott Johnson
Yesterday Israeli journalist Amit Segal joined CNN International’s One World With Zain Asher and Bianna Golodryga to discuss Israeli strikes on Hezbollah in Lebanon. We all missed it, but Segal has posted the video clip on his YouTube channel. I touch on the issue in the adjacent post. The ladies of CNN International channel the opinions and attitude that are suffocating us right now. Segal addresses their questions in the
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April 10, 2026 — Scott Johnson
Hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah continue. “I spoke with Bibi and he’s going to low-key it” in Lebanon, President Trump said to NBC News yesterday. The day before President Trump described the conflict as “a separate skirmish” from the one covered by the terms of the ceasefire with Iran. Now Israel is to undertake negotiations with Lebanon next week, but Israel’s conflict is not with Lebanon. It is with the
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April 7, 2026 — Scott Johnson
In his press conference on the miraculous rescue missions, President Trump decried the report that disclosed our rescue of the F-15E Strike Eagle pilot — the guy flying DUDE 44. President Trump said the report was based on a leak that endangered and complicated the mission to rescue the weapons systems officer. He pledged to track down the leaker via the unidentified outlet that reported the story. “We’re going to
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April 6, 2026 — John Hinderaker
It has been noted that many Europeans seemed disappointed at our successful rescue of the downed airmen in Iran, as were many Democrats. But you know who was happy about it? Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seemed almost giddy: I congratulate @realDonaldTrump on the rescue of a brave American pilot by America’s courageous warriors. All Israelis rejoice in this remarkable operation. It proves that when free societies act with courage and
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March 31, 2026 — John Hinderaker
Our military campaign against Iran has been a great success, whether or not it leads to the downfall of the mullahs’ regime. We have badly degraded Iran’s ability to threaten us or our allies, and some changes will be permanent. Thus, for example: ‼️PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHU SIGNALS DIRECT COOPERATION WITH SAUDI ARABIA AND OTHER GULF STATES Netanyahu: Post-war plans include energy and economic cooperation with Saudi Arabia, including pipelines to
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March 31, 2026 — Scott Johnson
Mosaic senior editor Andrew Koss highlights the saga of Canadian Professor Paul Finlayson in the publication’s daily newsletter this morning. Koss quotes from Professor Finlayson’s account of his ordeal at Finlayson’s own Freedom To Offend site. Koss writes (the links are in the Mosaic newsletter): * * * * * Paul Finlayson was, for fifteen years, a beloved professor of marketing at the University of Guelph-Humber, a small institution in
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March 19, 2026 — Scott Johnson
The Iranian people are helping to create the conditions necessary to support their liberation from the vile mullahcracy. The Wall Street Journal reports today in a page-one story: Ali Larijani, Iran’s top security official, strolled confidently in dark sunglasses and a black coat Friday through a rally of regime loyalists in central Tehran. It was his first public appearance in a war in which he was a known target. “Brave
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March 18, 2026 — Scott Johnson
In his It’s Noon In Israel newsletter this morning, Amit Segal draws attention to a report that Israel is calling mid- and low-level Iranian police commanders, threatening them and their families if they don’t stand aside in the event of an uprising. He quotes this conversation reported by the Wall Street Journal: “Can you hear me?” a Mossad agent can be heard, speaking in Farsi. “We know everything about you.
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March 17, 2026 — John Hinderaker
“America, Alone” is the heading of today’s New York Times email. I thought, are they channeling Mark Steyn? Obviously not. The Times bemoans the fact that we are fighting Iran alone, with no allies. That isn’t true, of course: we have teamed up with Israel, by far the best ally we could have for this mission. The Times doesn’t see fit to mention Israel’s contributions. The Times focuses specifically on
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March 17, 2026 — Scott Johnson
Yesterday John and I interviewed an Israeli government official on the conflict with Iran and issues closer to home, such as the attack at Temple Israel in Michigan and the press treatment of the attack. The interview was partly off-the-record and partly on background with specific quotes authorized. I asked about the press treatment of the attack on Temple Israel at the outset of our conversation. That set him off.
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March 17, 2026 — Scott Johnson
Israel’s defense minister announced that the IDF has relieved Iranians of Ali Larijani, head of the Supreme National Security Council of Iran. He’s the guy who warned President Trump last week to “watch out for yourself — lest you be eliminated.” Only last week Larijani had joined Iran President Masoud Pezeshkian and Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi in the streets of Tehran at a Friday rally marking the pro-Palestinian Quds Day.
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March 15, 2026 — John Hinderaker
Events in Iran are going about as well as they possibly could, but the ultimate goal (my goal anyway) may remain elusive. The Jerusalem Post relates the current assessment from the IDF: The IDF has destroyed an astounding 2,200 Iranian regime targets, mostly in the Tehran and western Iran areas, which it hopes will weaken the regime substantially as well as the regime’s ability to threaten Israel, the military said
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March 8, 2026 — Scott Johnson
Matthew Chance is a British journalist working for CNN as the network’s Chief Global Affairs Correspondent. Chance is working his global beat as Israel is engaged in efforts to suppress Hezbollah’s attacks on the northern part of the country emanating from Hezbollah in Lebanon. In the video below, historian and former Israeli ambassador to the United States comments on Chance’s report from Lebanon. Oren comments on Chance’s blinkered coverage of
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