🚨WATCH: Trump announces Qatar will be investing around 19.4 Trillion Dollars into the US... because the money they invested so far in promoting Jew Hatred and hate of Israel wasn't enough, they need more... pic.twitter.com/AlB2Xr6BZe
— Raylan Givens (@JewishWarrior13) June 16, 2026
Vice President JD Vance’s sales pitch for the Iran deal is simply terrible — but President Donald Trump’s may be worse.
Maybe the reporting on what’s in the Memorandum of Understanding is wrong, but Team Trump keeps confirming some of the worst news.
As best we can tell, the deal does nothing to achieve the aims America started the war with — but does hand Tehran a whole series of gains.
Iran gets at least a few billion in immediate funds and can start selling oil right away, with at least some other sanctions dropped as well.
More, Tehran wins unprecedented authority over the Strait of Hormuz and likely locks in Hezbollah’s dominance of Lebanon.
Recall our goals: The prez opened combat seeking to permanently end Iran’s nuclear threat, and also eliminate its missiles and other offensive capabilities, and we also hoped for regime change.
In this handout provided by the White House, President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance sit in the Situation Room as they monitor the mission that took out three Iranian nuclear enrichment sites, at the White House on June 21, 2025 in Washington, DC.
The bombing set back its nuke programs, took out a lot of missiles and missile factories and decapitated most of the regime’s top leadership.
All the talks since the start of April have done nothing more — indeed, have only let new Iranian leaders rebuild and regroup, even as the populace suffers.
Why think they’ll change in another 60 days of talking?
Vance’s happy case is that the big prizes for Iran are contingent on its behavior; as he said on “Hannity”: “If they’re willing to behave like a normal country,” quit chasing nukes and funding terror, “then we are willing to actually fundamentally transform our relationship with them.”
But that’s been true ever since the 1979 revolution, and the regime has never gone for it.
Trump, talking with Qatar’s ruler (!), actually claimed the regime has changed, since we killed off so many leaders and those who wound up in charge “are very rational people,” “nice to deal with,” “not radicalized.”
Huh? It’s the leaders of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps calling the shots over there now — the goons most committed to the radical agenda.
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Vance, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner never talked to them, only to political fronts for the real powers.
And it’s easy to be “nice” when the negotiations are handing you win after win.
Trump’s proud that Tehran promises to stick to only peaceful nuclear programs, but it’s never stopped making that promise even as it’s never ceased doing the opposite.
“We’ve never had this level of direct communication with the Iranian leadership,” Vance bragged on “Hannity.”
Again: They weren’t talking to the real leaders, just front men.
Sadder still, he claimed: “We’re seeing even people that I would have assumed are hardliners who are kind of saying, ‘Maybe it was a mistake for us to do the things that we’ve done over the last 40 years. Maybe we should turn over a new leaf in the relationship with the United States of America.’”
They were slaughtering 40,000 of their own civilians just months ago; suddenly they’re going to get “normal”?
No: “Hardliner vs. moderate” is just a good cop-bad cop schtick the Iranians have pulled on Westerners for decades — right along with pretending regret over the past.
It’s beyond foolish to think the Iranians have changed just because they say so.
It seems to us that Team Trump doesn’t want to use force to open the Strait, it’s panicking over oil prices and the midterms and just wants to forget its promises to help the Iranian people.
We’d love to be proven wrong, and they haven’t given away the whole store yet.
Other than the cash Tehran takes in at the start, Washington can withdraw its promises as readily as the Iranians always do theirs.
Cross your fingers that the next 60 days show that Iran really has changed — or that the prez and his braintrust have come to their senses.
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Married Rabbi Avraham Appel — who runs an elite rabbinical seminary in the tight-knit Lakewood Orthodox community — used “his position as a rabbi, mentor, and trusted community leader to sexually assault and exploit” mom-of-two Israeli immigrant Miryam Malachi for months, according the explosive Ocean County lawsuit.
Malachi, then a single mom, had approached Appel for financial help with daycare bills “during a period of acute financial distress” in 2020, says her suit filed earlier this year in Ocean County Civil Court.
Appel helped her financially, the lawsuit says. But things took a dark turn in June 2022, when Appel sexually assaulted her as she was home alone, court documents allege.
Appel “forced himself” on Malachi and “took sexual advantage of her” multiple times afterward, the suit claims.
He also sent her lewd texts with “incredibly crude and graphic sexual content,” including descriptions of oral sex, his desire to “squeeze your breasts” and an image of his genitals, the lawsuit says.
Appel wrote under the genitals image, “Not great. But works,” court documents claim.
When Malachi finally threatened to sue last fall, a vicious smear website popped up calling her “A DANGER TO KLAL YISROEL” — roughly meaning a threat to all Jewish people, her suit says.
Malachi claims Appel’s allies even plastered defamatory flyers at her children’s private school, according to the court papers.
Appel allegedly offered $50,000 to buy her silence before his lawsuit threat, a move she “vehemently rejected,” the suit says.
Appel and his lawyers have denied all of the accusations, claiming that the pair only had a “business relationship,” court papers show.
His lawyer, Ian Goldman, told The Post on Tuesday that Malachi’s “credibility, motives, and factual assertions are not only disputed but entirely fabricated.”
Goldman added that the “screenshots are fabricated and form part of what he contends is an extensive extortion and smear campaign directed against him,” and that Appel claims “even a cursory examination of the photographs at issue demonstrates that the individual depicted is not him.”
Appel’s court papers also accuse Malachi of fraud and extortion — and deny any connection to the website.
But subpoenaed records from GoDaddy revealed that the smear site was registered directly to Appel’s cell phone, his brother’s email and his business partner’s credit card, Malachi’s suit claims.
Rabbi Dov Lando, a preeminent authority in the haredi community, ordered the cancellation of a mass protest planned for tomorrow (Wednesday) over the arrest of deserters, which was expected to involve tens of thousands of haredim.
The decision was made last night (Monday), while preparations for the mass event had already ramped up and had been approved by another haredi leader, Rabbi Moshe Hillel Hirsch.
At a meeting attended by representatives from the Degel HaTorah and Agudat Yisrael political factions, planners were to discuss the detailed arrangements for the demonstration, which was intended to block major roads with massive convoys of slow-moving vehicles.
However, during the discussion an urgent message arrived from Rabbi Dov Lando's home, with an explicit instruction to immediately halt preparations for the event.
הפרגוד: כעת בעצרת אלפים בלייקווד: הגאון ר' בונים שרייבר מספר בכינוס של קרן עולם התורה, סיפור מזעזע על השנאה שיש בארץ ישראל ללומדים: הוא מספר שלא עלינו בגלל המחלה הוא הוצרך לרופא, כשהרופא נכנס וראה שהוא חרדי ושמע שהוא רב, הוא יצא ואמר שהוא יחזור ושלח מישהו במקומו, בגלל שהוא בעצמו… pic.twitter.com/F9st6acRp7
— הפרגוד (@moshepargod) June 14, 2026
A prominent Charedi Israeli rabbi told thousands gathered in Lakewood on Saturday night that he believes he was subjected to discrimination during a medical treatment in Israel because of his appearance as a member of the charedi community.
Rabbi Bunim Schreiber, the rosh yeshiva of Yeshivas Nesiv HaDaas in Jerusalem and a prominent Israeli Torah scholar who is currently battling a serious illness, told thousands gathered in Lakewood on Saturday night that he believes he experienced religious discrimination during a medical treatment in Israel.
According to Schreiber’s account, he concluded that the doctor did not want to personally treat a charedi rabbi. He did not identify the physician or the medical facility where the incident allegedly occurred.
The rabbi’s remarks drew a strong reaction from attendees and quickly circulated on social media. The allegations could not be independently verified, and no response from the doctor or hospital was immediately available.
The Israeli charedi news outlet Kikar HaShabbat commented on the allegations, describing the account as deeply troubling and saying it evoked historical periods in which Jews faced discrimination and exclusion. The publication noted, however, that Schreiber did not identify the doctor or hospital involved, making independent verification difficult.
Kikar HaShabbat also said that if identifying details became available, it would seek a response from the medical institution regarding the allegations, which it characterized as potential discrimination and disrespect toward a patient based on his religious identity.
The incident comes amid ongoing debate in Israel over tensions between secular and religious communities, particularly regarding the role of Torah study and the charedi sector in public life.
Schreiber is currently visiting the United States as part of a campaign by leading rabbinic figures to raise support for Torah institutions in Israel. His comments were delivered before a crowd of thousands in Lakewood, one of the largest Orthodox Jewish communities in the United States.
It is prudent to be skeptical of anything Donald Trump says, whether it pertains to his “landslide” electoral victories or his sundry “peace” deals across the globe. This skepticism is triply warranted regarding the highly touted peace deal with Iran whose details are still largely unknown, speculative, fanciful, and exceedingly fluid. Undoubtedly, as the week progresses towards a signing ceremony, it will become increasingly clear that there is almost no meeting of the minds, except on one issue:
Trump will boast that due to his remarkable negotiating skills, he has successfully pressured Iran into reopening the Straits of Hormuz, which of course were open to navigation before the current hostilities began on February 28.
In other words, Trump’s conduct of the war induced Iran to close the Straits, plunging the world’s markets into turmoil and driving up the price of oil precipitously. His management of the war including, it must be said without any glee, the underperformance of the US military (and not because of incapability) that failed to reopen the Straits, has succeeded only in restoring the status quo ante with one major exception: Iran now realizes that it controls the Straits and can open, close, and regulate them with impunity, and full immunity from any consequences.
Oh, yes, one more thing. Although details are still hazy, it is safe to say that Iran certainly expects that in exchange for its agreement to reopen the Straits (whose closure was a blatant violation of international law) it will receive multibillions of dollars of financial relief that will revive its battered economy and facilitate its support of terror across the region.
Trump’s capitulation, no matter how he spins it, is truly Obama-worthy, and Iran’s mockery of Trump and its characterization of the American “defeat” will irritate him no end, if not derail the agreement entirely. Personal pique is one of the most compelling factors driving American diplomacy in the Trump era.
The irony, it should be underscored, is that Trump at his worst and dumbest is better than Biden at his best and Obama at his brightest. His visceral support for Israel is still present but we need not join in his delusions.
