Tuesday, March 10, 2026
Guess who came for Dinner
Mayor Zohran (Satmar) Mamdani hosted controversial anti-Israel activist Mahmoud Khalil, his wife and their young son for dinner at Gracie Mansion on Sunday for the holy month of Ramadan.
“Last night, as we marked the one year anniversary of his detention, Rama and I were honored to welcome Mahmoud, Noor, and their son Deen to Gracie Mansion to break our fast together,” Mamdani wrote in a Monday Instagram post.
The mayor included a photo of the celebration, showing his wife, Rama Duwaji, holding a plate of food while standing next to a seated Khalil, who was enjoying his meal.
Khalil, a Syrian-born activist and former Columbia University grad student, was arrested by ICE early last year, and faces deportation after the Trump administration accused him of committing fraud on his green card application.
The Trump administration, which claims Khalil is a Hamas supporter, is using a rarely deployed statute that allows for noncitizens to be deported if their beliefs can pose a threat to US foreign policy interests.
“For Mahmoud Khalil, this past year has been marked by profound hardship—and by profound courage,” Mamdani wrote in the Monday social media post.
“And yet, even in the face of that cruelty, there has also been beauty. New Yorkers raising their voices in solidarity. A city refusing to look away. Mahmoud won his freedom, and a father was finally reunited with his child,” the mayor continued.
Khalil’s son, the couple’s first child, was born while he was stuck in ICE custody several states away last year. The tot will turn one on April 21.
“Mahmoud is a New Yorker, and he belongs in New York City,” Hizzoner declared.
Mamdani has been a vocal defender of Khalil, who spent three months in a Louisiana federal lockup before a three-judge panel in New Jersey ruled in June that he should have been allowed to work through the immigration process.
“I see this attack on him as part of a larger attack on the freedom of speech that is especially pronounced when it comes to the use of that speech to stand up for policy to human rights,” the mayor said at an unrelated press conference in January.
Iran Is killing Saudis while MBS begs it to stop
As Iranian projectiles rain down on the kingdom, Saudi Arabia is once again revealing its true colors: a paper tiger that talks tough but folds when the mullahs strike. Just hours ago, two Saudi civilians were killed and twelve injured when an Iranian missile fragment slammed into populated areas near Riyadh and the Eastern Province. The official Saudi statement condemned the “failed and cowardly Iranian attacks" - strong words from a regime that spent the last 48 hours quietly begging Tehran for de-escalation while its citizens die.
While Israeli precision strikes set Tehran’s oil depots ablaze and American forces dismantle the IRGC’s command structure, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) is doing what he always does when real danger arrives: dialing Iranian officials, floating diplomatic “settlements," and warning that continued attacks might - just might - force him to let the Americans use their own bases. Riyadh even intensified backchannel talks with Tehran in recent days, according to multiple reports, pleading for calm as Iranian drones threaten the very desalination plants that keep Saudi cities alive.
MBS is paralyzed. His kingdom - the supposed leader of the Sunni world - now relies on Israeli and American firepower to survive the very threat he once claimed to confront. Iranian drones and missiles are targeting Gulf civilian infrastructure, yet Saudi Arabia’s response is limited to interceptions and strongly-worded press releases. Two dead Saudis in the last 24 hours. Damage to critical facilities. And still no decisive counterstrike. No public embrace of the only regional power actually winning this war: the Jewish State.
This weakness is not an accident. It is the direct result of MBS’s stubborn anti-Israel stance. For years he dangled normalization in front of Washington like a carrot, demanding impossible Palestinian Arab concessions while secretly hoping Israel would do the heavy lifting against Iran. Vision 2030 was supposed to modernize the kingdom. Instead, it has left Saudi Arabia militarily naked. Without Israeli intelligence, without Israeli air-defense technology, without the Abraham Accords alliance that actually works, MBS’s glittering cities are one Iranian barrage away from chaos.
The Iranian regime is collapsing in real time - black toxic rain falling on Tehran, Quds Force commanders liquidated in Beirut hotels, proxies starved of cash. This is the historic moment Saudi Arabia could have joined the winning side. Instead, MBS chooses diplomatic groveling. He still clings to the old Islamist reflexes that force Saudi imams to curse Israel from Mecca’s pulpits while Iranian missiles kill his own people.
The Jewish people have learned the hard way: weakness invites slaughter. Saudi Arabia is learning it right now. The only force capable of permanently neutralizing the Iranian threat is a full, public strategic alliance with Israel. Israeli Iron Dome derivatives could shield Saudi oil fields. Israeli intelligence already mapped every IRGC target now burning. Israeli special forces know how to finish what this war started. Joint naval patrols in the Gulf would end Houthi and Iranian harassment forever.
Normalization is no longer a luxury or a photo-op for MBS. It is an existential necessity. Drop the Palestinian Arab precondition theater. Drop the secret talks with a dying regime in Tehran. Stand openly with the only democracy in the Middle East that is actually defeating radical Islam. The Abraham Accords partners - the UAE, Bahrain, Morocco - are thriving. Saudi Arabia is bleeding.
MBS likes to project the image of a bold modernizer. Yet when Iranian drones cross his borders and kill his citizens, that image shatters. The real strongman is the one who recognizes friends and crushes enemies without apology. Israel has proven it is that partner.
The Jewish State is not waiting. Israel is winning this war. Saudi Arabia can join the victors - openly, proudly, and immediately - or it can continue its embarrassing dance with weakness until the next Iranian barrage proves, once and for all, that half-measures are suicide.
by
Amine Ayoub
Trump Doubles Down on "Palestinian Schumer"
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| The "Palestinian" with the Satmar Rebbe |
*President Trump on Sen. Chuck Schumer:*
"He is now a Palestinian officially. He is registered as a Palestinian."
"He's taken the biggest turn of any human being l've ever seen. He's gone from totally pro-Israel to totally pro-Palestinian."
"He wants to protect the Iranian people that are quite nasty."
Monday, March 9, 2026
Iran sends out possible ‘operational trigger’ to activate sleeper cells abroad
Iran sent out a possible “operational trigger” to activate “sleeper assets” abroad after the war with America and Israel began, according to an encrypted message intercepted by the US.
The coded signal was sent out following the death of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on Feb. 28, with the message appearing to hold instructions for “covert operatives or sleeper assets,” ABC News reported, citing a federal alert sent to law enforcement agencies.
The message could “be intended to activate or provide instructions to prepositioned sleeper assets operating outside the originating country,” the alert warned.
The US warning said intelligence had detected a broadcast station repeatedly transmitting a message to multiple countries outside Iran, according to ABC.
“While the exact contents of these transmissions cannot currently be determined, the sudden appearance of a new station with international rebroadcast characteristics warrants heightened situational awareness,” the memo said.
The alert also noted that the transmission that was intercepted was “likely of Iranian origin.”
Law enforcement agencies have been called to increase their monitoring of suspicious radio frequencies after the message was intercepted.
While there are no specific credible threats to the public as of yet, counterintelligence experts have warned of the potential for revenge attacks on US soil as a result of the war in Iran.
“If ever there’s going to be a Hezbollah cell or a Hamas cell act in the United States in a violent way, it’s now,” Chris Swecker, a former assistant FBI director, told Fox News after the war began.
FBI Director Kash Patel has said US counterterrorism and intelligence agents were placed on high alert, with his teams “working 24/7, as always, to address and disrupt any potential threats” on US soil.
A day after the war began, Ndiaga Diagne, 53, of Senegal, opened fire at a packed Austin bar, killing two people and injuring 14 others.
Investigators are probing whether Diagne was motivated by the war in Iran since the suspect was wearing a shirt with an Iranian flag design on it under a hoodie printed with “Property of Allah.”
Two teens from Pennsylvania also allegedly threw an explosive device at an anti-Islam protest outside Gracie Mansion in New York City.
Law enforcement sources told The Post that the teens have possible ties to ISIS.
Beit Shemesh Gets a Direct Hit From a Hezbollah Missile no sirens heard at impact site
UPDATE CLEARED FOR PUBLICATION
Footage has emerged showing yesterday’s Hezbollah missile impact at a civilian satellite station near Beit Shemesh, which the terror group falsely claimed was an IDF installation.
Two people were wounded in the strike, and the IDF said the failure to intercept the missile appears to have been an isolated incident.
B"H no injuries. This was the first time that Hezbollah targeted Beit Shemesh!
The following information has been confirmed regarding the recent reports:
Location:
The explosion did not occur within city boundaries.
*Safety Protocol:*
Please avoid spreading where the missile landed or sharing photos and videos of the site.
Casualties: No injuries have been reported at this time.
Jesse Jackson’s son blasts Obama, Biden for using father’s memorial to take shots at Trump
Rev. Jesse Jackson’s son ripped former Presidents Joe Biden, Barack Obama for using the late civil rights icon’s memorial service to take shots at President Trump.
Jesse Jackson Jr. said the grandstanding Democrats didn’t really know his father, after they used their eulogies to bash the president, his policies, and his vision for America during Friday’s star-studded send-off.
“Yesterday, I listened for several hours to three United States presidents who do not know Jesse Jackson,” the grieving son said Saturday during a private memorial service at Rainbow Push Coalition headquarters in Chicago.
“He maintained a tense relationship with the political order, not because the presidents were white or black, but the demands of our message, the demands of speaking for the least of these – those who are disinherited, the damned, the dispossessed, the disrespected – demanded not Democratic or Republican solutions, but demanded a consistent, prophetic voice that at no point in time ever sold us out as people.
“And it speaks volumes about who the Rev. Jesse Jackson was.”
Jackson died at 84 last month at his Chicago home.
During Friday’s service at Chicago’s House of Hope, Obama warned about the state of the nation, calling each day a “new assault on our democratic institutions.”
“Each day, we’re told by those in high office to fear each other and to turn on each other, and that some Americans count more than others, and that some don’t even count at all,” the former president said.
“Everywhere we see greed and bigotry, being celebrated and bullying and mockery masquerading as strength. It’s hard to hope in those moments.”
Biden also claimed the Trump administration doesn’t share “any of the values that we have.”
Former Vice President Kamala Harris, defeated by Trump during the 2024 election, bragged she “predicted a lot about what’s happening right now” during her remarks.
“I’m not into saying I told you so, but we did see it coming,” Harris said.
“But what I did not predict is that we would not have Jesse Jackson with us right now to help us get through this.”
Clinton, who kept his eulogy mostly free of politics, remembered Jackson warmly as a good friend.
Trump did not attend the memorial service.
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