Iran has lots of missiles but zero water...Millions will have to flee

 

*Tehran’s Water Is Failing Fast, and Iran Says Millions May Have to Flee*

Iran warns it may have to evacuate its own capital as the taps run dry and key dams hit “empty.” 

Tehran is already seeing pressure cuts, dry neighborhoods and panic buying of water tanks, as years of regime mismanagement collide with a brutal drought and rising public anger.

The same regime that funds terror proxies across the region is now telling millions of its own citizens to prepare for rationing – and possibly to leave their city – because it failed to secure something as basic as drinking water.

Chareidie Torah Leaders Finally Admit What we All Knew That their refusal to serve in the army isn’t about Torah!

 

by Nochum Weiss

There’s no other way to say it. The Charedi refusal to serve in the army isn’t about Torah. It’s about fear of exposure. Of losing control.

The official line - “we’re protecting Torah” is a non-starter. There’s more Torah study today than at any point in Jewish history. Nobody is threatening the Torah. 

What’s being protected is the system of control that depends on isolation.

Because the moment a young man or woman spends time in a mixed environment - hearing other accents, seeing other Jews who live differently but are still committed - the illusion starts to break. In the army, they learn to make decisions, to function without rabbinic oversight, to stand on their own. That independence is dangerous - not because it corrupts, but because it empowers.

And so, they don’t just refuse combat. They refuse any participation¹ - intelligence, logistics, tech, cooking - anything that could integrate them into national life. Because integration means exposure. Exposure means curiosity. And curiosity means the possibility of doubt.

The whole thing is a tantrum frozen in time. In 1948, Ben-Gurion treated it like one. He said fine - let a few hundred boys sit and learn². The child was small then. It was crying, and he figured it would grow up eventually. But it didn’t. It grew older without growing up.

Now the child is a full-grown adult still screaming on the floor, kicking its legs, demanding everyone else stop what they’re doing to accommodate its fear.

You can see it clearly in moments like this confrontation after October 7. A group of reservists met with Rabbi Tzvi Friedman. They spoke about a country in crisis. The house is on fire, they said. Everyone needs to grab a bucket.

Friedman didn’t argue the facts. He said the fire was irrelevant.

“Being in secular Israeli society,” he told them, “is worse than death.”

Separate Charedi units? “The army is one body; its spirit will seep in.”
Zionist culture, he said, “isn’t Judaism.” Hundreds of students had already signed declarations accepting death over enlistment.

When your entire world is built on the belief that isolation equals holiness, exposure feels like extinction. Zionism isn’t the issue - it’s just the symbol for a Jewish life that doesn’t require rabbinic permission to exist.

A faith that collapses the moment it meets the world isn’t faith. It’s fragility disguised as holiness.

And the fragility runs deep. They reject Zionism yet demand its funding. Call others immoral while depending on their labor and taxes. Preach spiritual strength but cannot survive a single draft notice without threatening to unravel.

That’s not holiness. That’s institutionalized weakness.

When yeshiva institutions spoof “Bring Them Home” imagery and protesters co-opt hostage symbols, that weakness turns into moral blindness.

And the rest of Israel keeps feeding it. Billions in funding. Deferments. Deference. All to maintain a fantasy of unity that no longer exists. Because the Charedim don’t see themselves as part of the Jewish people anymore. Not really. Ask them if the Dati Leumi community’s Torah counts. Ask them if the soldiers who pray before battle are serving God.

There’s no fixing this. Not through understanding. Not through appeasement. You can’t reform people who refuse to participate in the same moral universe.

The only real solution is financial. No more double standards. If you want to live outside the state - fine. But then live outside the state. No funding, no subsidies, no stipends for eternal dependency. You can’t take billions from the public purse while rejecting every public duty. Pick a side.

Because this isn’t going to end well. The child is grown now. It’s time to stop pretending the tantrum is sacred.

The left is pushing another desperate anti-Trump hoax – a false Epstein smear campaign

 The party that cries wolf is at it again.

Democrats are back in Congress after their shutdown to launch another anti-Trump hoax.

This time, it’s not a fictional “pee tape” but the old Epstein horse they keep flogging.

On Wednesday, House Oversight Committee Democrats selectively released three emails among 23,000 handed over by the estate of the late pedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein to try to implicate Donald Trump, yet again, in Epstein’s sexual abuse of underage girls.

Of course, the Oversight Dems, who include such adornments to Congress as Jasmine Crockett, Ayanna Pressley and Rashida Tlaib, left out crucial information that exonerated the president, instead claiming the emails “raise serious questions about Donald Trump and his knowledge of Epstein’s horrific crimes.”

In the first email, Epstein writes to his now-jailed pimp Ghislaine Maxwell on April 2, 2011: “i want you to realize that that dog that hasn’t barked is trump. [Redacted name of victim] spent hours at my house with him , he has never once been mentioned. police chief. etc. im 75 % there.”

The Epstein victim whose name the Democrats gratuitously left out was Virginia Giuffre.

But we have already heard from her repeatedly, both under oath and in her posthumously released memoir, and she consistently states that Donald Trump was not involved in her abuse by Epstein, Maxwell, the British royal formerly known as Prince Andrew and others.

Giuffre never wavered in her statements that she knew nothing to implicate Trump in Epstein’s sordid crimes with girls mainly aged 14 to 17.

She committed suicide earlier this year, and now the Democrats are cynically using her tragedy as a weapon against Trump who she has explicitly absolved, over and over.

In a 2016 deposition, Giuffre said Trump “didn’t partake in any sex with us [and] never flirted with me.”

In her memoir “Nobody’s Girl,” she said Trump was not involved in any wrongdoing and “couldn’t have been friendlier” when she worked at his Palm Beach, Fla., resort Mar-a-Lago as a teenager before Maxwell recruited her.

by Miranda Devine 

Trump orders Israel to pardon Netanyahu or risk peace plan unravelling

 

Donald Trump has ordered Israel to pardon Benjamin Netanyahu to avoid the Middle East peace process unravelling.

Describing the prosecution as “political” and “unjustified”, the US president said pardoning the veteran prime minister would allow Israel to unite.

Mr Netanyahu was indicted in 2019 for breach of trust, accepting bribes and fraud.

The prime minister’s reforms limiting the power of the judiciary are said to be motivated by his criminal charges.

The prosecution also revealed deep splits in Israeli society, provoking rolling protests in the months before the start of the war in Gaza in October 2023.

The current trial at the Tel Aviv District Court is progressing extremely slowly due to regular requests for absence by Mr Netanyahu’s team for their client to attend to official duties.

It is rare for foreign leaders to interfere in the internal criminal proceedings of other countries.

However, Mr Trump – a long-time ally of Mr Netanyahu – strongly identifies with political leaders who have faced prosecution, given his own legal challenges in the years between his administrations.

In a formal letter to president Isaac Herzog, Mr Trump writes: 

“As the Great State of Israel and the amazing Jewish People move past the terribly difficult times of thee last three years, I hereby call on you to fully pardon Benjamin Netanyahu, who has been a formidable and decisive War Time Prime Minister, and is now leading Israel into a time of peace, which includes my continued work with key Middle East Leaders to add many additional countries to the world changing Abraham Accords.”

He adds: “Prime Minister Netanyahu has stood tall for Israel in the face of strong adversaries and long odds, and his attention cannot be unnecessarily diverted.”

While stressing that he respected the independence of Israel’s judiciary, he described the charges as politically motivated.

On a visit to Israel in October to mark the ceasefire and return of the hostages, Mr Trump suggested, in a whimsical manner, to Mr Herzog that he should pardon the prime minister during a freewheeling address to the Senate.

He later told reporters that he had not planned to make the intervention but had changed his mind when he felt support in the chamber for Mr Netanyahu, describing the intervention as “a little risqué”.

There is a growing political movement against the charges on the Right of Israeli politics.

A new piece of legislation has been proposed that would enable ministers to halt the prosecution and make it harder for Mr Netanyahu’s leading opponents to stand in next year’s election.

Although Mr Herzog built his political career in the Labor Party, he is one of the few leading figures in Israeli politics with whom Mr Netanyahu has not publicly fought or conducted a lengthy feud.

As president, he is the one person capable of quashing a criminal conviction.

Opponents of Mr Netanyahu argue that, due to the pared-back schedule of the trial, it does not materially hinder his ability to govern.

Were he to be convicted, that would inevitably trigger a political crisis that could potentially slow diplomatic advances with Arab neighbors.

However, some analysts believe that some Arab leaders, such as those in Saudi Arabia and Syria, would prefer to wait for Mr Netanyahu to leave office before normalizing relations with Israel, due to his controversial handling of the war in Gaza.

According to a report by Reuters, talks are currently in “deadlock” over how to handle the issue of Hamas disarmament and a future peacekeeping force for the Strip.

Jared Kushner, Mr Trump’s son-in-law and a key broker of the current peace, met with an anti-Hamas clan leader, Yasser Abu Shabab, during his recent trip to Israel, it has been reported.

Accused of being involved in organized crime, which he denies, Abu Shabab is one of a handful of clan bosses who have openly defied the terror group.

American officials are reportedly considering using their model of armed protection for families who want to move away from Hamas and methods of food distribution, as a model for humanitarian zones on the IDF side of the ceasefire line.

Toxic Dems Schumer, Pelosi get shut down – and Trump stands tall with one of his biggest DC wins

 

The collapse of Chuck Schumer’s shutdown gambit when seven fellow Democrats and one independent broke ranks with him serves as a humiliating bookend to the longest government closure ever.

It also simultaneously highlights one of President Trump’s most sweeping and crucial Washington victories over his most toxic opponents.

Ever since his first election in 2016, Trump has been thwarted, tormented, impeached and mocked by Schumer and former Dem House leader Nancy Pelosi.

And now he has turned the tables on them in devastating fashion, with Schumer likely to be dethroned as Senate minority leader and Pelosi packing her money bags to leave Washington for good.

They fancied themselves the ultimate gatekeepers and, backed by leftist media, never stopped trying to gut Trump’s presidency and neuter his powers.

They acted as if he were some illegitimate interloper who had no right to the office and the full authority of the presidency.

Why a U.S. Military Base inside Israel is bad for both countries

 by Stephen M. Flatow

Reports say the United States is preparing to build a $500 million military base in southern Israel, near the Gaza border, to house thousands of foreign troops who will “stabilize” the Strip and enforce the ceasefire.

On paper, it may look like a bold move toward long-term security. In reality, it is a dangerous shift that undermines Israel’s sovereignty, hurts America’s credibility, and hands a political victory to the terrorists and their sponsors who just lost a war.

For decades, Israel and the United States have shared a rare and valuable principle: no foreign troops on Israeli soil. The IDF defends Israel, not NATO, not the United Nations, and not international coalitions. That rule has protected Israel’s independence and protected the United States from becoming militarily entangled in Israel’s battles.

Israel Considers Exile of Hamas Terrorists Trapped In Tunnel, But No Country Wants Them

 

In a potential breakthrough, US President Trump’s adviser Jared Kushner and Prime Minister Netanyahu reached a tentative agreement to allow the exile of approximately 100-200 Hamas terrorists currently entrenched in Rafah tunnels along the Israeli side of the Yellow Line. A security cabinet member told Ynet that while the compromise was discussed, the plan has yet to move forward.

The main obstacle remains: no country has yet agreed to accept the Hamas fighters, halting progress on the proposal. The Prime Minister’s Office has yet to respond to requests for comment.

Netanyahu’s office has consistently maintained that it would not grant safe passage to Hamas fighters, casting doubt on the likelihood of this plan advancing in the near future.

After Brutal Torture and 2.5 Years of Captivity, Israeli-Russian Researcher Is Grateful to Survive

DIN: I sure hope she learned her lesson as she was a vehement opponent of the State of Israel and was a leftist-Arab lover! 

 Ta’aliq — “to hang” in Arabic — is Iraqi slang for a torture technique that hoists victims into the air, their hands handcuffed above their heads. Akrab, or “scorpion,” is the more painful version, in which the victim’s hands are handcuffed together behind their back.

Elizabeth Tsurkov experienced both, and other excruciating torture, during 2 1/2 years held captive in Iraq by an Iranian-backed militia.

The 38-year-old Israeli-Russian doctoral student at Princeton, who speaks fluent Arabic and has researched the Middle East for over a decade, was studying social political movements in Iraq in March 2023 when she was forced into an SUV, blindfolded, sexually assaulted and beaten, then taken to a torture facility on the outskirts of Baghdad.

Her release in September was announced by President Donald Trump.

Now she is recovering in Israel as Iraqis head to the polls Tuesday for a parliamentary election that includes candidates linked to the militia Tsurkov says kidnapped her, Kataib Hezbollah.

A $600 million ransom demanded
Israelis are prohibited by law from traveling to Iraq, which Israel classifies as an “enemy country.”

In an interview with The Associated Press, Tsurkov said she knew the risks but thought she took sufficient precautions, entering on her Russian passport and avoiding contact with militias. She hadn’t counted on Kataib Hezbollah’s deep penetration of activist circles in Baghdad.

She said her captors didn’t know she was Israeli at first. She believes they kidnapped her to try to get a large ransom for a foreigner. While Kataib Hezbollah has never publicly claimed her kidnapping, it has released social media statements that include fake information she gave during torture, a sign of its involvement.

Israeli Chief Rabbi Secures Divorce After 12 Years of Agunah Status During Visit to Argentina

  Chief Rabbi of Israel and President of the Great Rabbinical Court, Rabbi David Yosef, successfully facilitated a divorce for a woman whose husband had refused to grant her a get for approximately 12 years, during his current visit to Argentina.

Rabbi Yosef was approached by local Jewish community rabbis seeking his intervention. Despite a tightly packed official schedule, he postponed a planned ceremonial visit to meet directly with the recalcitrant husband.

The rabbi spent several hours in intensive discussion, personally urging the husband to grant the divorce. His aides, recognizing the meeting was extending beyond the planned time, adjusted the rest of his itinerary to allow the critical conversation to continue.

By the following day, the husband relented. A sofer (scribe) was summoned, and the get was formally given, freeing the woman from her decades-long agunah status. Rabbi Yosef returned the next day to meet the husband again, offering guidance and blessings. Sources described the event as a “miracle and heavenly assistance” (nes ve-siyata dishmaya), highlighting the rabbi’s personal dedication.

Ynet News reports that this case reflects Rabbi Yosef’s ongoing approach as President of the Great Rabbinical Court, emphasizing personal negotiation and hands-on involvement to combat the phenomenon of agunot and secure freedom for women trapped in forced marriages.

Rabbi Yosef has a history of personally resolving high-profile cases, including traveling to prisons to persuade husbands to grant divorces or attending court sessions unexpectedly to confront abusive refusers, consistently achieving successful outcomes for agunahs.

Self-Hating Jew the Belzer Chusid Jacob Kornbluh Says That Mamzerani is "not a Jihadists, not a communist and not a dangerous antisemite"

Addressing the Zionist Organization of America gala, Rep. Elise Stefanik calls Mamdani a “dangerous antisemite,” a “jihadist,” “communist,” “who openly traffics in sympathy for those who chant globalize the intifada.”

He’s not. pic.twitter.com/GY76THGSDJ

— Jacob N. Kornbluh (@jacobkornbluh) November 10, 2025

 Jacob Kornbluh  defended New York City Mayor-elect  Mamdani, when Rep. Elise Stefanik described him at the Zionist Organization of America gala Sunday night in New York as a “dangerous antisemite,” “jihadist,” and “communist.”

Kornbluh, a political reporter, posted on X that Mamdani “is not” any of those things, prompting Loeb, founder of Third Point LLC and a major donor to pro-Israel causes, to respond sharply:

 “The capacity of certain Jewish individuals for self-hatred no longer surprises me. "