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Continued operations on Islamic Republic of Iran, proxies , May 4 2026+ - sources: Pt II (view source)
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Ron Dermer - רון דרמר.
Monday, November 2, 2026 at 5:21 PM.
Tucker Carlson claims he’s America First while making millions from foreign actors amplifying his antisemitism.
His followers are being played for fools. They’re Tucker’s Suckers.
One thing I understand about Tucker, Tucker runs around claiming he's America first.
So I asked the company, they look at social media and they can tell you where the amplification is coming from on social media.
So you know the number one amplification point for Tucker Carlson, you know where it is?
Want to guess?
Pakistan. That's number one.
Number two is Qatar.
So Tucker Carlson, he's not America first.
He's Pakistan first.
He's Qatar first.
And the sad thing about it is the people who follow him don't even know that.
He is selling this kind of stuff and he's being amplified by foreign actors.
He gets paid $23.5 million a year.
That's what he makes on foreign amplification of the material that puts up.
So he's found the revenue model, antisemitism.
And the people who are following him who think that he's America first, they should see the data because he's not.
And he's playing them for fools.
I call them Tucker suckers.
That's what they are.
They're just people who follow this guy who's leading them like some Pied Piper who gets up and says something wild about Israel. And then friends in Pakistan and Qatar and elsewhere start the foreign amplification. Maybe it's a little bit Russia and China and Iran and they've had big money that's actually doing it.
And it's spreading this poison. And you know, people are looking on their phones and they see it and they're scrolling and they're like, they're overwhelmed by it.
But they're Tucker suckers.
[https://www.facebook.com/100044668524041/videos/1600918142048321/?__so__=permalinkOn FB]
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The Israel Genocide Lie: Deception by Design.
The genocide charge against Israel is a cover-up, carefully built to bury what Hamas did on Oct. 7 and what it still intends to do.
November 2, 2026. By Sharon Hart-Green.
Mass Murder, rape, sexual mutilation, babies burned alive. These were some of the barbaric acts perpetrated by Hamas terrorists when they invaded Israel from Gaza on Oct. 7, 2023. Yet it is the victims of this attack, the Israelis, who are being accused of committing genocide. How can this be?
The answer is quite simple. It is part of a strategic cover-up by Hamas to divert attention away from their genocidal crimes.
Much of the media and world institutions have been complicit in spreading this lie about Israel, including the latest recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, Navi Pillay, who was head of a United Nations commission that accused Israel of genocide. Thankfully, some media outlets have called out the sham of awarding a “peace” prize to someone endorsing this modern-day blood libel. The Free Press branded it: “The Death of the Nobel Peace Prize.”
The Lie Goes to College.
Lies about Israel have been circulating for years, especially on college campuses, including at the University of Toronto where I taught for over 20 years. Now, such propaganda is becoming increasingly entrenched.
For example, the University of Toronto and Princeton University both hosted conferences called “The Anti-Zionist Idea” in 2024 and 2025. On the surface, the topic sounds innocuous. Were these conferences dedicated to a scholarly examination of the rise of anti-Zionism? Were pro-Zionist perspectives represented? I clicked on the conference website to check out the details. When I encountered the phrase “the ongoing genocide[sic] in Gaza,” I realized that these conferences were more of the same: an attempt to use the lie about genocide to demonize Israel and the Jews, though legitimized by being held in “respectable” academic venues.
What the Evidence Shows.
Let us set the record straight. The charge that Israel is committing genocide has no basis in fact. Just read the conclusions reached by the urban warfare specialist John Spencer, who has studied the war in Gaza at length.
After Oct. 7, Israel attacked Gaza to uproot the terrorist infrastructure and bring home those brutally kidnapped by Hamas. Spencer determined that there is no evidence of genocidal intent on the part of Israel, nor are there indications of a campaign of extermination against the people of Gaza. Quite the contrary: Israel provided massive truckloads of food to Gaza, sent polio vaccines to administer to Gazan children, and warned the population through leaflets and phone calls to move into safe zones to avoid civilian casualties. In fact, the figures show that the Gazan population had actually grown in size since the war began.
What about the death toll?
The number quoted around the world, now more than 73,000, comes from Gaza’s Health Ministry, which is run by Hamas. That count makes no distinction between civilians and fighters. Every Hamas gunman killed in battle is listed right alongside everyone else. In fact, John Spencer has argued that civilian casualty figures in the Gaza conflict are lower than critics claim and represent a relatively low civilian-to-combatant death ratio compared to historical urban warfare. Yes, the death of every innocent person is a tragedy. But innocent people die in every war, and this is a war Hamas started on Oct. 7.
Nevertheless, like most conspiracy theories, the genocide charge keeps spreading.
The lies about Israel are a strategic cover-up of crimes committed against Israel, not by it.
Why the Lie Won’t Die.
So why does this falsehood still have legs? Is it simply a resurgence of antisemitism? Is it a political tool utilized to sow discord? Or is it an attempt to undermine Israel’s legitimacy as a sovereign nation?
All of these explanations contain some truth. But they miss something fundamental: The lies about Israel are part of a strategic cover-up, not of crimes committed by Israel but against it.
In fact, the accusation that Israel has committed genocide is not only a lie to conceal the terrorists’ crimes — it is also a crucial part of a broader campaign to shift attention away from the stated desire of terrorist groups such as Hamas and Hezbollah to destroy Israel and replace it with an Islamist state.
Step One: Flip the Script.
Here’s how the deception works. Its core tactic is inversion. The accusers charge Israel with their own acts and intentions. Israelis are described as “genocide[sic]” perpetrators and “baby killers[sic],” while the deliberate murder of Israeli civilians, including children, by Islamic terrorists is minimized, contextualized, or pushed out of the discussion altogether.
When Hamas terrorists invaded Israel on Oct. 7, they murdered civilians on a massive scale. This included the barbaric killing of children and babies, at times .. in front of the children’s own parents. How do we know this? Because the terrorists filmed it on their body cameras and other devices to show the world. The video clips reveal that they were proud of their savagery, often laughing and celebrating as they raped and murdered. That is, until they realized that the world might be squeamish about hearing about these atrocities and would turn against them.
So, within hours of the Oct. 7 massacre, they launched a propaganda campaign to cover up their crimes. The storyline was effectively turned on its head: Israel and the victims of the October 7 attack were immediately recast as the primary perpetrators of violence, even though the Israeli army did not enter Gaza for weeks after Oct. 7.
Step Two: Repeat It Everywhere
How does such a false narrative gain traction? Through repetition.
If you pay attention to how this type of propaganda works, you will see that repetition is crucial. The same words, slogans, and accusations are repeated across different countries and institutions until they become familiar and, eventually, accepted as self-evident. Thus, if you listen closely, you will hear the same slogans chanted at university demonstrations in Berkeley and Oxford, at protests outside synagogues in New York and Paris, and at marches through Jewish neighborhoods in Toronto and Amsterdam. Media outlets, educational institutions, elected officials, and unions pick up the slogans and use them for their own purposes, whether it be to win votes, curry favor with segments of the population, or raise money.
One of the most prominent slogans is: “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.” Free from what? From Jews, of course. You don’t need an advanced degree in Middle Eastern history to know what that means. It is the intent to destroy an entire population. In other words, genocide. Indeed, that is the stated goal, as made explicit in the Hamas Charter. It states: “Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it.”
The Terrorists’ Best Helpers.
This brings us back to the university conferences. What happens when an academic gathering begins with the false assumption that Israel is committing genocide?
If scholars tell an audience that Israel is engaged in genocide and therefore represents a uniquely evil and illegitimate state, the discussion has already moved beyond an examination of evidence. The conclusion has preceded the investigation. It also serves the dual purpose of providing the perfect excuse to exonerate the terrorists and their heinous crimes. Without the genocide lie and other related libels, there would be no grounds for vilifying Israel. The terrorists would stand naked, their evil exposed. And all their justifications and fabrications would come crashing down like a house of cards.
But so long as academics and U.N. bodies continue to spread lies about Israel in order to cover up the Islamists’ genocidal intentions toward Israel and the Jews, they are the best helpers the terrorists could ask for.
[https://aish.com/the-israel-genocide-lie-deception-by-design/ Aish]
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CHAOS Between Democrats Throws Major Wrench in Leftist Midterm Takeover Plans | Ep. 99.
CHAOS Between Democrats Throws Major Wrench in Leftist Midterm Takeover Plans | Ep. 99.
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Lebanon’s Christians face mounting hostility as sectarian divisions deepen.
By Danielle Greyman-Kennard, November 3, 2026.
Lebanon’s sectarian tensions have resurfaced following a series of incidents and claims that have reignited divisions between the country’s religious communities.
These include unsubstantiated allegations surrounding the murder of a Catholic priest, vandalism at a Maronite cemetery, and renewed circulation of claims about a 20,000-strong Christian force that could seek to disarm Hezbollah.
On Sunday, statues were smashed by unidentified assailants at the Saints Cemetery in the Harat al-Fouar area of the Zgharta District. MTV Lebanon reported that those responsible had been identified and arrested within 24 hours of the incident.
The attack follows several other incidents involving Christian religious sites in recent months. In August, L’Orient Today reported that unidentified individuals had broken into the historic Saint John Chrysostom Monastery in Koubba and vandalized its outdoor installations. In early May, the Saint Challita Shrine, located in a valley in North Lebanon’s Akkar district, was also vandalized.
The incidents have added to concerns among Christians about the treatment of their religious sites. Those concerns have been compounded by a separate controversy surrounding the murder of Catholic priest Samir Daou….
[https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-913722 JPost]
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“At a time when some are trying to silence our community, we have a voice at the table,” New York state Assembly member Sam Berger told JNS. “Make no mistake. We intend to use it.”
“At a time when some are trying to silence our community, we have a voice at the table,” New York state Assembly member Sam Berger told JNS. “Make no mistake. We intend to use it.”
[https://www.jns.org/news/u-s-news/orthodox-new-yorkers-no-longer-asking-for-seat-at-the-table-as-10-jewish-state-legislators-head-to-albany JNS]
[https://www.jns.org/news/u-s-news/orthodox-new-yorkers-no-longer-asking-for-seat-at-the-table-as-10-jewish-state-legislators-head-to-albany JNS]
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In His Own Words: What El-Sayed says about Israel, Hamas, Iran and the Brotherhood.
The questions he has never answered, essays he pulled from public view, a deleted 9/11 post, three refusals to say Israel has a right to exist, a refusal to name the IRGC to an Iranian-American whose family it hunted, and a 2011 defense of the Brotherhood he has never retracted. Report.
By Steven Emerson - November 4, 2026.
In September 2026, at a town hall in Ann Arbor, an Iranian-American man named Iman Dashti stood up to ask Abdul El-Sayed a question. His cousin, he said, had been “hunted in the streets of Iran by the IRGC,” the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. He asked whether El-Sayed would “stand unequivocally against the IRGC.”
El-Sayed answered with a lecture on American foreign policy. “For too long and too often… we have turned ourselves into the world’s policemen,” he said. “One can disagree with the governance of a foreign country… I will always stand for and with democratic movements, always. But I also don’t believe that we were in the right to go to war to topple the government of Iran.” Regime change, he said, comes where “there is a natural resource interest, and it becomes a ploy for the interests of our corporations.”
“You still haven’t said it, though,” Dashti said. “We’re dying… Do you stand with us?”
“I want freedom and democracy for the people of Iran,” El-Sayed said. “No question.” He never said the letters IRGC.
The other parts of this series have documented El-Sayed’s two decades in the institutions the Muslim Brotherhood built in America and the company he kept there. This final part turns to his own words: what he has written and said about Israel, Hamas, Iran and the Brotherhood itself, including writing he has taken out of public view.
The Brotherhood: “This is foolish”
The most extended statement El-Sayed has ever made about the Muslim Brotherhood is a essay for HuffPost, “Why the U.S. Should Support the Protesters in Egypt,” written as the uprising against Hosni Mubarak filled Tahrir Square. He urged the Obama administration to back the protesters and took on those who warned that the revolution would hand Egypt to the Brotherhood.
“Even if the Muslim Brotherhood were to take power,” he wrote, “there are several reasons why the ensuing state would look nothing like Iran.” He dismissed comparisons to the Brotherhood’s Palestinian branch: “Others argue that Muslim Brotherhood control in Egypt would echo Hamas’s leadership in Gaza. This is foolish,” he wrote, arguing that the two movements arose in vastly different contexts. And, in a passage criticizing Israel’s support for Mubarak, he identified the obstacle: “Perversely, support for Israel has become an obstacle to support for democracy in the Middle East.”
“Others argue that Muslim Brotherhood control in Egypt would echo Hamas’s leadership in Gaza. This is foolish.”
– El-Sayed, HuffPost, Jan.
The essay is not a pledge of support, as some of El-Sayed’s opponents have claimed; Bridge Michigan was right to say so. But it is a defense of the Brotherhood’s fitness to govern, written by a man who had just spent his college years in the leadership of a Brotherhood-founded student organization.
The Brotherhood did take power. Within two years, its president, Mohamed Morsi, had decreed his decisions immune from judicial review, and a statement bearing El-Sayed’s name, published in Cairo, urged Morsi to “purge” the media and the police. His campaign declined to answer The New York Times‘ questions about it. He has never retracted the 2011 essay, and asked about the 2012 statement on October 23, he would say only that it was “a ridiculous 2012 statement in a letter” that would be taken “out of context.”
Israel: “Quite secondary”
On Israel, El-Sayed’s words have hardened with each year of his political career.
In May 2021, he wrote a series of essays for his Substack newsletter, The Incision, several of which have not been reported before. In “Jerusalem,” published May 12, he wrote that Israeli police had “attacked Al-Aqsa, penetrating the inner sanctum of the masjid itself,” in attacks “calculated to disrespect, dehumanize, and provoke occupied Palestinians,” and called Israeli settlement “settler-colonialism.” The essay excerpted his 2020 book, Healing Politics: “Israel’s government is under the control of a small cadre of extremists – and the country has perpetrated shocking violations of human rights and international law against the Palestinians, whose land it has occupied for the better part of a century.” Israel took over the West Bank and Gaza in 1967, 52 years before he wrote those words; the phrase leaves open whether he meant to reach back further, to Israel’s founding in 1948.
In “Palestine,” published May 25, he accused Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of “deliberately-and quietly-executing a campaign of ethnic cleansing” and wrote that Israel “is sustaining apartheid in all but name”: “freedom and democracy for Israelis, occupation and apartheid for Palestinians.” He described the war that Hamas began with rockets fired at Jerusalem as “11 days of severely lopsided violence.”
In fairness, the same May 2021 essays condemn violence against civilians. In “Gaza,” he wrote: “To be absolutely clear: I categorically condemn violence perpetrated on innocent people, no matter who perpetrates it… Period. Hamas is wrong.” In “Jerusalem”: “I love my Jewish sisters and brothers and revere their beautiful faith, history, and struggle.”
Five years later, as a Senate candidate, he will not say whether the Jewish state has a right to exist. Asked three times on CNN in July 2026, he spoke of “equal rights to peace, dignity, and self-determination” for Jewish Israelis and Palestinian Arabs, and answered: “Israel exists. The question is whether or not we want a politics where our money is sent over to Israel to do genocide and apartheid instead of investing in our own kids.”
And: “I’m not going to play this gotcha game about whether or not it has a right to exist.” The question, he said, “is actually quite secondary to whether or not they have a right to our tax dollars.” On Detroit’s public radio station in August, he said: “I just don’t believe in ethnostates and I don’t think we should be backstopping them.” Asked at a September debate whether the United States should continue to recognize Israel as a Jewish state, he complained that “I never get asked about the right of the state that does not exist to exist.”
He says Israel “committed genocide” and “commit[s] apartheid,” that Netanyahu is “obviously… a war criminal” who “ought to be prosecuted,” and that the Israeli government had become “so bloodthirsty.” Asked on CNN whether he would fund Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system, which intercepts rockets fired by Hamas and Hezbollah at Israeli cities, he said: “I don’t believe that there’s really a difference between offensive or defensive weapons. And I also don’t believe it’s my responsibility to buy defensive weapons for a foreign government.” Was he against funding it? “I am against it in large part because I just don’t understand why anybody thinks it’s the right thing to do to send our tax dollars abroad to fund foreign militaries.”
“I don’t believe that there’s really a difference between offensive or defensive weapons.”
– El-Sayed on funding Iron Dome, CNN, August 2026
Hamas: “War crimes”
El-Sayed says he “condemned Hamas on day one.” He told Jim Acosta in August: “I think they’re wrong. I think they committed war crimes. That’s not hard to say.” In the next breath he added that “the Israeli government also committed war crimes, including genocide.”
The record of his statements on Hamas is thinner than he suggests. The earliest condemnation of the October 7 massacre located by the IPT comes in a episode of his podcast, nearly four months after the attack: “Make no mistake, the terrorist attack that kicked this all off on October 7th is a terrible atrocity on its own terms. And as I’ve done and will continue to do, I condemn Hamas and its brutal violence on that day. All hostages must be free.”
Before launching his Senate campaign, he deleted years of posts on X; CNN reported he deleted his entire history, while his campaign told Politico it removed posts older than July 2023. On the second anniversary of the massacre, in October 2025, his campaign sent supporters a fundraising email that opened, “Two years ago this month, Netanyahu’s military launched a ground invasion of Gaza,” and did not mention Hamas, the 1,200 people murdered or the hostages. His spokeswoman said the email “mistakenly went out.”
In the statements reviewed for this series, El-Sayed uses the word “genocide” for Israel and “war crimes” for Hamas. He does not call Hamas a terrorist organization, and he has never named the ideology behind October 7. When, at a 2019 conference, Rep. Ilhan Omar objected to being asked over and over to condemn Hamas and al-Qaeda, he told her “the point that you made, congresswoman, is entirely correct.”
Iran, Khamenei and “Dearborn”
According to the Washington Free Beacon, El-Sayed said on a private campaign strategy call that he would not comment on the death of Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, because, in the Jerusalem Post’s rendering, “there are a lot of people in Dearborn who are sad today.” Asked about the report on Fox & Friends in April, he did not deny it. “Fast forward five weeks on, I think all of us are sad today,” he said. “Our gas prices are up over a dollar, we’re fighting a war.” He said he was “no apologist for any regime, including our own.”
He has called the Iran war “illegal” and “unjustified” and accused the president of “genocidal fantasies in Iran.” He has taken no public position on the IRGC, which the United States designated a foreign terrorist organization in 2019.
Terror, explained
There is a consistent shape to El-Sayed’s statements about terrorism, and it appears as early as his student op-ed on Jill Carroll’s kidnappers in 2006 (“While their means remain unjustified, their ends I do not question”; Part 3). The act is condemned. Its cause is located in American or Israeli policy.
On , the 20th anniversary of the attacks, he posted: “Today, I mourn the 3K lives, 6K injuries, & infrastructural devastation in NYC, perpetrated ignorantly in the name of my faith. Tomorrow, I’ll mourn ~1M lives, millions of injuries, & infrastructural devastation in 3 countries, perpetrated ignorantly in the name of my country.”
The post was later deleted; it survives in web archives. In an essay that week, he wrote that the 9/11 terrorists “only exploited Islam as a pretext for an act of violence rooted in tribalistic grievance,” and that the war on terror had “echo[ed] the worst of our history – the decimation of Native Americans, the Transatlantic Slave Trade, Jim Crow segregation, Japanese interment [sic].” In a 2022 video interview, he said that after 9/11 he “watched our country bomb the living hell out of people who pray like I do, who look like I do,” and that “I don’t know any Muslim in our community who hasn’t had some experience with some sort of paid FBI informant in a local mosque.”
When a man attacked Temple Israel, a synagogue in metro Detroit, in March 2026, El-Sayed condemned it: “Anti-Semitism has no place in our communities. Ever. Full stop… I condemn what he did. There is never a justification for attacking innocent people or houses of worship.” Then, however, he explained it. “Hurt people hurt people,” he said. The attacker “lost family… in an airstrike in Lebanon last week.” “Temple Israel is not the state of Israel. Jewish people are not the state of Israel,” he said, and the narrative that would follow would be shaped “in part by the very people who launched that war that led to those airstrikes that drove this crazed attacker to violence.” In late August he apologized for parts of the response, saying he had “made a mistake.”
To be fair to him, El-Sayed has also called those behind 9/11 “heinous” and their attacks “craven,” and he has spoken often of the Jewish neighbors whose bar mitzvahs and Seders he attended as a child. But nowhere in his public record, in two decades, does he name the Islamist ideology that drove the 9/11 hijackers, Hamas, Hezbollah and the IRGC, or the movement, founded in Egypt in 1928, from which so much of it descends.
The questions.
Over the past six parts, this series has documented what El-Sayed has not wanted to discuss:
his leadership of a student organization the Brotherhood’s own records call one of its own;
the convention and banquet stages of ISNA, CAIR and ICNA-MAS, which the Brotherhood’s own records, federal prosecutors and former Brotherhood members interviewed by the FBI place in its American network;
the speakers beside him who excused terrorism and blamed “the Jewish Federation” for neo-Nazis;
the activists and donors who surround his campaign;
and two months of silence on the Brotherhood, followed by denials and, ten weeks in, a three-word disavowal.
He says that asking about any of this implies “dual loyalty.” It does not. It asks a candidate for the U.S. Senate, who would vote on the designation of terrorist organizations and the funding of America’s allies, to account for his own record. Before Michigan votes on November 3, he should answer these questions:
1. No one has alleged that you swore an oath to the Muslim Brotherhood. The question is about the organizations it created. When you said “Sure. Yeah, absolutely” in Caro, what exactly did you disavow? Do you regard the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist movement? Do you support the U.S. designations of its Egyptian, Lebanese and Jordanian branches?
2. Did you sign the 2012 Al-Ahram statement urging President Morsi to “purge” the media and the police? If so, what makes it “ridiculous,” and what context has been missing? Do you still believe, as you wrote in 2011, that fears of Brotherhood rule echoing Hamas’s in Gaza were “foolish”?
3. The Brotherhood’s 1991 memorandum lists the national MSA among “our organizations and the organizations of our friends,” and a 2007 FBI assessment calls it “the first formal U.S. MB organization.” Were you aware of the MSA’s origins when you served on its board? Do you dispute them?
4. Minutes of the U-M MSA board’s Dec. , meeting record a proposal for a KindHearts fundraising dinner, with the assurance that the ‘Organization has no legal problems.’ By then, KindHearts had been publicly named in a January 2004 Senate terror-finance inquiry, and its sole professional fundraiser, Mohammad El-Mezain, had been indicted in July 2004 for funneling money to Hamas.
5. At the Jan. , board meeting, which you attended, the board, still listing the dinner as a ‘maybe,’ discussed holding it through another group, IES, rather than the MSA. The Dec. 7 minutes also list you on the agenda. Why did the board keep planning the dinner, and did anyone check the assurance that KindHearts had ‘no legal problems’?
6. Federal prosecutors told a court that CAIR was added to the Brotherhood’s Palestine Committee, and a federal judge found “ample evidence” of CAIR’s associations with Hamas. Why did you ask audiences in 2020 to give CAIR money?
7. In 2019 you told Rep. Ilhan Omar her objection to repeated demands that Muslim officials condemn Hamas was “entirely correct.” Do you regard Hamas as a terrorist organization?
8. Do you denounce Dawud Walid’s sermon identifying “the Jews” as those who “incurred the wrath of Allah,” and Hatem Bazian’s claim, at a CAIR banquet you attended, that “the Jewish Federation” funds neo-Nazis?
9. Huwaida Arraf wrote that Palestinians “have a right to resist with arms” and acknowledged her group “cooperates with Hamas.” Will you return her contributions?
10. Does Israel have a right to exist as a Jewish state?
11. Would you vote to fund Iron Dome?
12. Do you stand unequivocally against the IRGC?
[https://israelbehindthenews.com/2026/11/04/in-his-own-words-what-el-sayed-says-about-israel-hamas-iran-and-the-brotherhood/ Israelbehindthenews]
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Watters: This is the WORST case scenario...
Fox News. Nov 4, 2026.
Fox News host Jesse Watters breaks down voter demographics in the midterm elections and explains why the Republican Party needs a strategic wake-up call on ‘Jesse Watters Primetime.’ [#foxnews #fox]
Jesse:
Can't sugarcoat it. Republicans got spanked. They were able to gain seven — because of Dan and Mississippi, I know, Mississippi — they are too close to call. So Democrats may win nine Senate seats. That's the worst-case scenario, putting them at 56-44.
The Democrats clinched the House, the Senate, and won big governor races. In Georgia, Iowa, Nevada, Ohio, and the most shocking, Texas. Greg Abbott is gone. And Texas has its first Hispanic governor. Hinojosa.
The one place where Republicans held strong: Florida. All statewide races went red. The rest of the country, whiteout. Iowa. Republicans haven't lost there in almost 20 years. South Carolina, Lindsey Graham's old seat. 30 years. Maine, almost 40 years. Say hello to Senator-elect Kissing Cousin Commie Logger, Troy Jackson. Kansas, too. The last time a Democrat won a Senate seat there was almost 90 years ago, and he was born the same year the light bulb was invented. In Texas, first time since 1993. Skinny Jamie Talarico beat Paxton by 12 points. He performed better than Kamala. Most of the state went blue. That only leaves one man left standing there. That's Ted Cruz.
Democrats have been salivating over Texas for decades. If they can win Texas in a presidential year, Republicans will never win the White House again. The math won't work if Democrats win Texas, California, and New York. It's all she wrote.
In 1970, 87% of the state was white. Now, just 37%. Same thing happening in California.
So the next border invasion, the republic as we know it is toast.
And we're in trouble in the AI arms race. Texas was set to be home to nearly half of the country's data centers. That's not happening now. Elon might have to put them all in space. And in all the states where data centers were on the ballot, 41 districts had AI moratoriums up for a vote, and it passed all 41 times.
Here's what's happening. Voters are holding AI hostage for ransom money. You're going to build in my backyard? What am I going to get out of it?
It was too hard to stomach watching billionaires become trillionaires and fly their wives into space for joy rides.
Yes, there is a little bit of an envy factor at play, but voters just wanted a piece of the pie, and desserts are about to be served.
... The election turned on the Iran war and, to a certain extent, the trade war. The president promised these two gambles would pay off, and we believe they will, but they didn't pay off fast enough. The country wasn't prepared for Liberation Day, and that's the exact moment Trump's approval ratings started to drop. Globalism spent 40 years sucking away jobs and factories. Bringing them back like that is a slow and painful process. Noble goal, but doesn't happen overnight. And farmers in red states, they paid the price. And when China stops buying their crops for leverage, yes...
Voters weren't willing to ride it out, especially young ones trying to make it. High prices and rates suffocating. And when, in the long term, history will be the judge, and we believe President Trump will be judged as a bold and consequential leader, but in the short term, voters delivered Judgment Day, and it was no bueno.
That's life when you are president. Trump's unbridled ambition will make America great again, but today, he's humbled. And to his credit, he whacked the terror state and made the U.S. economy more self-reliant, but voters weren't prepared for the process and had elected him for immediate relief. And when that didn't happen, Trump and the Republicans got punished severely.
Corruption was also a motivator. The Epstein files left a bad taste in people's mouths. The Kirk killing turned people against each other. And the base just didn't turn out.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0zoi2T9OnU on YouTube]
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Israel Braces for Hostile US Congress After Democratic Midterm Sweep; Opposition Blames Netanyahu
November 4, 2026
[https://www.algemeiner.com/2026/11/04/israel-braces-hostile-us-congress-democratic-midterm-sweep-opposition-blames-netanyahu/ Algemeiner]
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Moderates Carry Much of Democratic Gains in US Elections, Giving Hope to Israel Supporters.
November 4, 2026
[https://www.algemeiner.com/2026/11/04/moderates-carry-democratic-gains-midterm-elections-giving-hope-israel-supporters/ Algemeiner]
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‘Unconscionable’: City, State Leaders Slam Philly Bike Ride Boycott Targeting Jewish Businesses.
November 5, 2026
[https://www.algemeiner.com/2026/11/05/unconscionable-city-state-leaders-slam-philly-bike-ride-boycott-targeting-jewish-businesses/ Algemeiner]
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Jewish-Owned Montreal Bakery Destroyed in Second Arson Attack in Less Than 48 Hours as Owner Fears for Her Safety.
November 5, 2026.
[https://www.algemeiner.com/2026/11/05/jewish-owned-montreal-bakery-destroyed-second-arson-attack-less-than-48-hours-owner-fears-her-safety/ Algemeiner]
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Tankers Hit in Hormuz as Iran Keeps Up Pressure After US Vote.
November 5, 2026
[https://www.algemeiner.com/2026/11/05/tankers-hit-hormuz-iran-keeps-up-pressure-us-vote/ Algemeiner]
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Ari Fleischer rebukes Vance: Iran ceasefire, not war, cost Republicans the election.
Former White House press secretary Ari Fleischer disputes VP Vance's explanation for Republican midterm losses, arguing the US should have finished the war with Iran.
Israel National News..
Published: Nov 5, 2026, 5:13 AM (GMT+2)
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/435692 INN]
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Court extends detention of Balad journalist Shehadeh after arrest over suspected security offenses.
Police on Wednesday placed a three-day gag order on the investigation. No connection between the arrest and the investigations into suspected election interference had been publicly established.
By Sarah Ben-Nun, Miriam Sela-Eitam.
November 4, 2026.
The Tel Aviv Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday extended the detention of journalist and senior Balad activist Abed Abu Shehadeh until Sunday, as his lawyers argued that he was being investigated solely over a published interview with former MK Azmi Bishara.
Adalah, the legal rights organization participating in his defense, said it would appeal the decision, calling the investigation an attempt to silence Palestinian journalists and political activists.
The Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) and Israel Police arrested Abu Shehadeh at his Jaffa home overnight. Police requested an eight-day extension of his detention.
Reports published after the lifting of a publication ban identified the suspected offense as contact with a foreign agent, concerning his contacts with Bishara, the former Balad leader.
Nov 4, 2026.
[https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-913785 JPost]
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Herzog resumes talks on who will form next Israeli government.
Nov 5, 2026.
[https://www.jns.org/news/israel-news/herzog-resumes-talks-on-who-will-form-next-israeli-govt JNS]
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Herzog to Democrats:
Is everything about being for or against Netanyahu?
Israel National News.
Nov 5, 2026 12:34
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/435713 INN]
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Herzog asks Abbas: Is Hamas a terrorist organization?
During coalition consultations, President Isaac Herzog presses Ra'am chief Mansour Abbas to define Hamas as a terrorist organization - but is rebuffed.
Hezki Baruch.
Nov 5, 2026 14:40
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/435719 INN]
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Netanyahu slams Ra’am party leader over refusal to call Hamas terror group.
Nov 5, 2026.
[https://www.jns.org/live/breaking-news#000001a1-abdf-d4b2-a7a5-ebff0ec70000 JNS]
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Netanyahu: Government reliant on Islamists would ‘tear us apart’.
JNS Staff.
Nov 5, 2026.
[https://www.jns.org/news/israel-news/netanyahu-government-reliant-on-islamists-would-tear-us-apart JNS]
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Smotrich: Those who won’t call Hamas terrorists ‘cannot be part of any coalition’.
Nov 5, 2026.
[https://www.jns.org/live/breaking-news#000001a1-abbc-da4e-a3b5-ffffed2f0000 JNS]
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Three minors to be indicted for Molotov attacks in eastern Jerusalem.
Nov 5, 2026.
[https://www.jns.org/live/breaking-news#000001a1-ab87-d9fa-a9fd-eba7a8870000 JNS]
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Israel, Slovenia hold first political-strategic dialogue.
Nov 5, 2026.
[https://www.jns.org/live/breaking-news#000001a1-ab74-da4e-a3b5-ff77fa110000 JNS]
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Report: England Greens leader reposted antisemitic users.
Zack Polanski, leader of the Green Party of England and Wales, has repeatedly shared posts from accounts that have trafficked in antisemitism, a watchdog group said on Wednesday.
Polanski, who is Jewish, did not write antisemitic content himself, but reposted content from users known for spreading it, according to the report by the Campaign Against Antisemitism.
Last month, the Board of Deputies of British Jews labeled the Greens a “racist party” over a party resolution calling Zionism a form of racism.
One user amplified by Polanski suggested that the March torching of ambulances belonging to a Jewish group in London was a “false flag.” The term is used to claim that Jews or Israel staged an attack to portray themselves as victims or to justify war. That user posts under the handle “Karl Marx.”
Another account Polanski amplified, under the name “Jeremy David Parker,” falsely claimed that Hamas mostly targeted soldiers in its Oct. 7, 2023, massacre in Israel, the Daily Mail reported, citing the report.
The Green Party did not respond to the Daily Mail’s request for comment.
Nov 5, 2026.
[https://www.jns.org/live/breaking-news#000001a1-ab43-de9d-a1e9-efefbe680000 JNS]
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Brick thrown through Brussels synagogue window.
Nov 5, 2026.
[https://www.jns.org/live/breaking-news#000001a1-ab2b-de4a-a7bf-eb7f540f0000 JNS]
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UKMTO: Tanker struck by unidentified projectiles in Persian Gulf. Nov 5, 2026.
[https://www.jns.org/live/breaking-news#000001a1-aade-d261-a3f5-affe9af80000 JNS]
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Israeli forces seize gunpowder, IDF uniforms in northern Jerusalem raid. Nov 5, 2026.
[https://www.jns.org/live/breaking-news#000001a1-aace-d9b8-a7b1-ffcf2eb70000 JNS]
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Europe aviation chaos:
Bomb threats disrupt at least 25 flights
Israel National News. Nov 5, 2026
15:55
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/435725 INN]
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Deadly stabbing attack in Jordan.
Jordanian security officer killed, another injured, in stabbing attack near the Sri Lankan Embassy in Amman.
Israel National News.
Nov 5, 2026, 3:04 PM (GMT+2)
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/435724 INN]
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London police arrest 27 outside Supreme Court hearing on Palestine Action ban. Nov 5, 2026.
[https://www.jns.org/live/breaking-news#000001a1-abc6-db28-a7b3-abe6ad790000 JNS]
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Newly-elected International Court of Justice judges have anti-Israel history, Danon says.
“Yet another example of the U.N.’s institutional bias against Israel,” said the Israeli ambassador to the United Nations.
Mike Wagenheim. Nov 5.2026.
Danny Danon, Israeli ambassador to the United Nations, decried two judges elected to the International Court of Justice, both of whom have taken positions against the Jewish state.
The Hague-based court, the highest judicial body at the United Nations, settles disputes between countries and gives advisory opinions on questions of international law.
It is where Israel is defending itself from South African charges of “genocide” and other war crimes in Gaza.
“The new judges at The Hague: one absurdly accused Israel of war crimes just one month after the Oct. 7 massacre, while another served as a legal adviser in proceedings against Israel,” Danon wrote on Wednesday.
The U.N. General Assembly and Security Council recently selected the judges.
Dapo Akande of the United Kingdom, Francois Alabrune of France, Mahmoud Daifallah Hmoud of Jordan, Rena Lee of Singapore and Phoebe Okowa of Kenya were elected to the 15-member panel. They will serve nine-year terms starting on Feb. 6.
Hmoud and Okowa have already been serving on the ICJ bench, completing the terms vacated by others.
Hmoud is drawing Israel’s concern. An ICJ judge since May 2025, Hmoud represented Amman in a legal capacity, including in 2004 in an ICJ case involving Israel’s security barrier and in a 2024 file on Israel’s presence in Judea and Samaria and eastern Jerusalem.
Hmoud said at a U.N. Security Council briefing weeks after the Hamas-led Oct. 7 attacks that Israel was already committing war crimes and other violations of international law. Hmoud went on to accuse the Jewish state of “genocide” and ethnic cleansing as the war against Hamas progressed.
Danon wrote the ICJ name with “justice” in quotes. The U.N. court “is expected to continue its politically motivated proceedings against Israel.”
Elevating judges to the bench “who have previously taken positions against Israel raises serious doubts about the court’s impartiality,” Danon stated. “Yet another example of the U.N.’s institutional bias against Israel.”
Okawa has been on the ICJ bench for two years. Prior to that, in February 2024, Okawa represented Namibia as a host of countries sought an advisory opinion on the legal consequences of Israel’s policies in Judea and Samaria and eastern Jerusalem.
The court would rule Israel’s presence, including in Jerusalem’s Jewish quarter and in historical Jewish cities, as unlawful.
Danon did not mention Akande, who will join the bench in February. The British jurist served as legal counsel to Japan in the case leading to the 2024 ruling against Israel.
A decision in the genocide case against Israel is not expected for years. South Africa asked for a pause of 18 months based on the lack of evidence it had for the court, and agreed to an additional 18-month freeze thereafter to allow Israel to respond to whatever South Africa presents to the court.
That timeline would run until May 2029.
The court said this week that it would deliver a ruling on Nov. 19 in a separate genocide case brought by Gambia, which accuses Myanmar of genocide against the Rohingya minority.
Some court watchers have expressed interest and concern that the judges could alter the legal definition of genocide in that case in order to set a new, lower standard, which could later be applied to Israel.
Ireland has already asked the ICJ to change the definition of genocide in the Israel case.
[https://www.jns.org/news/world/newly-elected-international-court-of-justice-judges-have-anti-israel-history-danon-says JNS]
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Wall Street sees biggest market cap drops ever after midterm bloodbath for GOP.
By Taylor Herzlich.
Published Nov. 5, 2026, 4:45 p.m. ET
Fears of a Democrat-led clampdown on AI slammed the markets Thursday – sparking unprecedented dollar losses just a day after a massive, post-election rally.
S&P 500 firms shed $2.9 trillion in market value and Nasdaq companies lost $2.5 trillion – both single-day records. The Nasdaq entered correction territory as investors panicked over a looming data-center reckoning in the wake of Democrats’ midterm sweep.
[https://nypost.com/2026/11/05/business/stunning-losses-on-wall-street-as-sp-500-nasdaq-see-biggest-market-cap-drops-ever-in-wake-of-midterms/ NY Post]
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Miranda Devine: Trump has the opportunity to change course and secure his legacy.
By Miranda Devine.
Published Nov. 5, 2026.
[https://nypost.com/2026/11/05/opinion/miranda-devine-look-in-the-mirror-president-trump-after-republicans-midterm-rout/ NYPost]
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‘Squad’ Alum Cori Bush Registers as Paid Foreign Agent, Will Lead Anti-Israel Propaganda Tours of West Bank for Shadowy NGO.
Bush, who was voted out of Congress in 2024 and told a pro-Israel group she was ‘coming to tear your kingdom down,’ recently visited the West Bank and complained about ‘Jim Crow’ treatment.
Chuck Ross
November 5, 2026
[https://freebeacon.com/democrats/squad-alum-cori-bush-registers-as-paid-foreign-agent-will-lead-anti-israel-propaganda-tours-of-west-bank-for-shadowy-ngo/ FreeBeacon]
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After midterm losses.
Rubio to quit State Dept for 2028 run
The Independent reports US Secretary of State Marco Rubio will step down to position himself for the Republican nomination and a 2028 White House bid, distancing himself from Trump's Iran war
Eliana Fleming. Nov 5, 2026.
[https://www.jfeed.com/news-world/to1hx4 JFeed]
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Herzog Asked Joint List How They'd Act in War With Iran or Gaza — Here's What They Said.
Nov 5, 2026 19:44
..."What's important to emphasize is that we look at the whole picture," Jabareen told Herzog. "We will make strategic decisions. The public didn't elect us to bring down Netanyahu and then bring him back, so we will make decisions that serve both our platform and our strategy for advancing the values we believe in, and we will also strive for the path to be one of peace."
Later in the meeting, Herzog addressed the Arab MKs' refusal to condemn terrorism, noting that many Arab citizens were also murdered on October 7, and asked: "When will there be a crossing of the Rubicon and we fight together against acts of terror?"
Tibi responded sharply, telling Herzog: "Do you think, Mr. President, that you need to preach morality to us that this is a shocking case?" According to him, "Ayman Odeh and I attended the funeral of Vivian Silver, and not the prime minister and the right-wingers who tell us we're terror supporters, that's hypocrisy."
The Arab MKs were also asked about the Abraham Accords and US President Donald Trump's peace plan. According to Jabareen, "Anything that can contribute to advancing the platform and this plan is really important, but we must not forget the main issue, which is self-determination for the Palestinian people within the '67 borders, in a state that will live in peace alongside the State of Israel. That can guarantee a solution and hope, and that can bring about change."
[https://www.jfeed.com/news-israel/to1hpc JFeed]
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Israel, Greece and Cyprus Deepen Defense Ties in Athens Trilateral.
Nov 5, 2026 19:46
[https://www.jfeed.com/news-israel/to1hnn JFeed]
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Putin Meets Iran's Security Chief Days After US Sent Letter on Deal Talks.
Nov 5, 2026 20:21
[https://www.jfeed.com/news-world/to1hwi JFeed]
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Tony Blair Meets Herzog in Jerusalem to Advance Trump's Gaza Plan.
Nov 5, 2026 20:23
[https://www.jfeed.com/news/tony-blair-netanyahu-herzog-gaza-plan JFeed]
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Shin Bet, Police and Prosecution Meet for First Time on Suspected Foreign Election Interference.
Nov 5, 2026 23:28
[https://www.jfeed.com/news-israel/to1oq0 JFeed]
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Palestinian Authority Sources Confirm: Ayman Odeh Received Funds from PA and Foreign Donors. Nov 5, 2026 23:16
[https://www.jfeed.com/news-israel/to1owa JFeed]
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Jesse Watters: This SMASHED the base to SMITHEREENS.
Fox News.
Nov 5, 2026 [#fox #foxnews #media]
‘The Five’ co-hosts discuss Vice President JD Vance and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ comments on the GOP losses in the 2026 midterm elections.
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The Battle for the Future of MAGA Begins.
Greg Gutfeld:
Emily: VP JD making the first move, blaming the Republicans’ losses on the Iran war, tweeting, “The reason we lost is the war. The president himself said so last night, and the honest conversation about where we go from here must start there.”
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis laid out the damage..
'This is close to probably the last hundred years. This is going to last far beyond just two years. You look ahead to the ’28 election, the presidential election. You are not, as Republicans, going to be able to retake the Senate under this current map just two years from now. So this is really going to have an impact two years, four years, six years.'
So, Jesse, I keep trying—I want to figure this out. It could be both, but when he says Republicans’ reason for losing is the war, is it because the war went against Trump’s promise of no more wars? Which would make sense? Or was it just that it didn’t end as quickly as expected? Those are two very different things. And you can’t use one to supplant the other and say, “Oh, he said he’d never have a war,” when you are also okay with it if it was over quickly. You catch me?
Jesse Watters:
Yeah, it was over the price increase, because it drove up energy and it drove up rates.
So it wasn’t even about—
That’s what I believe. And I think that’s what people say when they talk about the war. It was about what it did to the prices. And the country wasn’t prepared for the war or persuaded that it was worth it. But the commander in chief, his mandate is to keep the country safe. And the country is safer because of that. But it smashed the base to smithereens. And JD might have to put it all back together. Young men, white working-class voters, male Hispanics. I mean, wow, that’s a lot of lifting.
But so he comes out with the statement, and, you know, he’s getting a lot of heat for it because a lot of people are like, “Well, why didn’t you say something about the war earlier?” Or maybe this is a little disloyal for you to do, JD. And then, you know, Trump was the one that did the MOU that Iran violated. But a lot of people in the administration gladly said it. They were thinking it, but glad he said it.
Now Trump can still stick the landing. Next six months, absolutely. And I think a lot of Republicans will be grateful that are running for president. And sometimes politics takes the back seat to war. Just got to finish the mission. And so we’ll see what he does.
Ron was on every show Tuesday and Wednesday. Every time I turn on the TV. And good for him. You know, he deserves it. Florida was at all. Everyone’s moving there. They have great politics. Going to run. The amount of waiting. See if a Democrat wins, challenges that Democrat—or some dark horse. Some guy just rides in, young gun, America First....
Greg:
..It’s not like Trump is trying to—not about politics. He weighed the consequences. Everybody can agree. He can agree. Vance can agree. It had consequences. So what then?
Emily Compagno:
Right, and I think JD Vance’s response is being treated as accurate but incomplete. In that, when he mentions the Iran war, it’s not the start of it. It’s that there hasn’t been an end to it. And it’s that during the development of it, people felt the effects at home when they thought their mandate was for an America First agenda. Young people especially. Especially. Mental effects now.
Incredibly accurate. And he touched on a lot of stuff yesterday. They are on recess all the time. It just seemed like we inherited nothing but slop when it was quite clear what the mandate was and that there was power for two years to actually execute it.
But I think the signals that we’re seeing here is that DeSantis would be running on his government record because he’s making the distinction that Florida was sort of the bastion despite the blue tsunami. But Vance would be running on proximity to the administration. And that, to me, is the framework that 2028 would be all about.
What Americans need right now: We need everyone in Congress to actually put on their pants. We need people who represent the American people, who are tethered to the mandate, not tethered to the president. We need Congress to actually function on its own, not just totally attached to the president.
So what I see coming forward and incumbent on the landscape is every person needs to show what Americans are asking for and not be tied to what one person is doing or saying, because that one person will not be here anymore. But that Congress will be, and those candidates will be.
Greg to Harold Ford Jr:
So we’ve been talking to you about your side. Now time to talk about our side.
Harold:
I don’t think this is a side, but I understand what you’re saying. The president says we lost the Republicans because of the war. Now, a week ago, he was not saying that at all publicly. So it appears that because the numbers came back where Republicans got beaten pretty badly at the polling booth, that he now thinks the reason we lost is the war.
Does that mean we should not ensure that the Iranians don’t have a nuclear weapon and they can’t launch ballistic missiles and sprout proxies? I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt, and I’d love to hear him expand upon that.
And then to say that the president—he agreed on this in private. He often says he won’t disclose conversations, but maybe he will now.
I do think the American people, regardless of their side, want an end to this. No one wants to abruptly leave and give the Iranians a victory and give the Strait of Hormuz over to the Iranians so they can control that.
But I just didn’t like that comment. It was political and naive in so many ways to say what he said and say it how he said it.
Remember, throughout this time, the president has said we’re very close to a deal. He will oftentimes—he did it on Thursday or Friday so the market would jump back up for the weekend. “We’re close to a deal, and everybody should know we’re talking. They want me to give them a deal, but I want a better deal.”
He said that about Ukraine as well. He’ll have a little harder time saying that. And I hope the one positive about what the vice president has said is maybe there will be a willingness to work with Democrats and work with Republicans to try to get something done.
Finally, I don’t know who is going to win between JD Vance or Marco Rubio, but I’ll tell you, I like Marco Rubio personally. He’s a friend. But I think anybody who is serious about running, you’ve got to say a little more than the obvious. You have to tell us how you’re going to do it. That goes for Democrats, too.
Greg:
Dana Perino?
Dana:
I would say no political movement lasts forever. And President Trump’s was longer because of the interruption of his two terms.
Worst halftime show ever.
Well, and very consequential, so. I believe that the party, and I think the country, is looking forward and needs to have a full-throated debate in the primary. So let’s see it.
And I don’t know how many people will run on the Republican side. I don’t think that JD will have that lane to himself, obviously, if the last 24 hours are any indication.
We haven’t mentioned Ted Cruz. He was out there immediately as well, and he’s been doing a podcast the last two years, like in the top 20, which is high in terms of how many people are listening. So he was never going to have that lane to himself.
And we’ll have that big debate. I just want to mention this morning on Newsroom, Jim Messina, who worked for Barack Obama, I put up a poll. Do we have that? About right? He said just too few. It was a double line. He said, “I have personally spoken to 29 candidates.”
But here’s the guess what? This is the best part. The first primary Democratic debate, do you know what date it is? April 1st.
I said, “Why didn’t they just make it April 2nd?”
Doesn’t make any sense.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbzsv9LkRFA YouTube]
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Watters: This was a total BLOODBATH.
Fox News.
Nov 5, 2026
Fox News host Jesse Watters analyzes the Republican midterm autopsy as party leaders examine election losses after stocks dropped on ‘Jesse Watters Primetime.’
Jesse: Markets tanked today. Worst since COVID. Wall Street woke up with a wicked midterm hangover. Democrats clinched both chambers, and the first thing out of their mouths was, "Ban AI." VRPT at the time got rocked.
Republican Party also a bloodbath. Doing an autopsy and a lot of finger-pointing. Team Trump blaming pathetic and hapless candidates. One White House insider said, "I have seen the enemy, and it is us."
Now, in October, the president's pollsters became worried. When they asked voters what it would take to come home to MAGA, the top two answers: ending the war and addressing inflation.
Yesterday, Vance took a shot at reassembling the MAGA coalition. Put the midterm loss on the Iran war. Trump agreed, but says he would still do it again. His job is to keep America safe, not to keep control of Congress.
Ted Cruz, who was a strong supporter of the war, he's got to be wondering: Was it worth losing Texas?
That's impossible to quantify. If we hadn't gone in and Iran had somehow got a nuke in 2030, does it matter who holds the Senate? But all of that is theoretical. What is done is done.
Ted Cruz second-guessing the commander in chief, saying the war dragged on too long. The senator -- now, would that have ended the war? Nobody knows.
Cruz, who is probably running for president, also didn't love the trade war:
'Too many Republican politicians seem like they didn't understand, or they didn't care. Food is too high. Gas is too high. Diesel is too high. Insurance is too high. Life is too high. Tariffs have made everything too expensive.'
Jesse: Prices are too damn high. No doubt. Gas, groceries, rent, insurance, college tuition has doubled since I was at Trinity. Doubled.
Democrats just copied the Republican playbook against Kamala and just ran on the economy and won. They have no idea what to do. They did nothing and got lucky. But that's politics.
Voters favored Republicans on the issue of immigration. And that was it. Democrats ran the table on everything else.
Trump has built a foundation for an incredible economy. One that's extremely self-reliant, built shipyards, steel plants, car factories, mines, pipelines. But they don't get built overnight. We lost these to China over the course of 50 years. They won't be built back in two.
You know what they say. Rome wasn't built in a day.
Made the American tax cuts, Trump accounts. That's the Trump economic legacy. That'll invigorate the lives of millions of Americans for generations to come.
But we're not a very patient country. Everything we want, click of a thumb. And after four years of Bidenomics.
Remember, after World War II, we built thousands of homes for returning GIs. Sounds like Levittown in Long Island. Housing in the suburbs that young families can afford. We should be breaking ground.
Harold Ford Jr. talks about zero taxes for people making less than $75,000. That makes sense to me.
Besides the big, beautiful bill, what did the Republican Congress do besides go on vacation? We spent months investigating the Biden cover-up, and Fauci. Did anything ever come of that?
Ron DeSantis:
'If you're going to do huge conservative things that are going to reorient the country for a generation, fine, but I saw no indication that the current group of Republican senators were interested in doing that type of conservative change. Why haven't we done immigration? Shut off H-1B visas. Why haven't we stripped jurisdiction? There are so many things that could have been done. They didn't even attempt it, Laura.'
Jesse: Whatever happened to Trump's reconvening tour? I guess we'll just let the Democrats get away with everything they did? All the fraud DOGE found. No charges, because the second the Democrats get back in there, it will be a massacre.
We had a two-year window to dismantle the Democrat Party. Shut down their illegal fundraisings. Whack Antifa. Put Commie and Lover Boy behind bars.
Do you think the left will take it easy on MAGA? They want it extinguished. They are already talking about abolishing the Electoral College, impeaching the president, and executing Elon Musk.
Yes. Democrat governors now control a majority of states where most of the population lives. They seized Texas and are on pace for the biggest midterm landslide since Watergate.
Now, if Texas stays blue, a Republican will never sniff the White House ever again.
This is what the new majority leader of the Texas House of Representatives said just a while back. Listen.
[Democrat pundit in 2024:]
'I always tell people the day the Latino, African-American, Asian, and other communities realize that they are -- that they share the same oppressor is the day we start winning because we're the majority in this country. We have the ability to take over this country and to do what is needed for everyone, and to make things fair.'
Jesse: They are talking about uniting the minority races against whites. Texas Democrat politicians are declaring a political race war. And they could win because Republicans nearly lost the white vote on Tuesday.
I mean, Democrats haven't won the white vote since 1964. Johnson and Goldwater. Let this sink in. Democrats are on the cusp of winning the majority of whites, Blacks, and Hispanics.
Open borders is suicide. The Democrats are about to win a Senate seat in Mississippi. Black guy. That's like Republicans winning Hawaii. And it's not like the country just became liberal. The country just kind of became single.
Ted Cruz:
'Texas will be red again. We've not suddenly become a bunch of tofu-eating, gun-banning, tutu-wearing pinko commie liberals. That ain't us. Texas is still Texas.'
Jesse: A lot of this has to do with the candidates. Paxton didn't stack up. And here's the lady about to lose Mississippi.
[Clip:]
President Trump: You must re-elect Cindy. Please come up.
[Cindy:] "Is this not the best president in our lifetime?"
President Trump: "Thank you, Senator. I love that. You know, sometimes they get up and they talk for 10 minutes." [Laughter]
Jesse: Woman had nothing to say. Nothing. Who was that?
But there were issues across the board. It's hard to get fired up for some of these people.
DeSantis, not a fan of the Vivek.
DeSantis:
'How bad did they beat -- part of that was Vivek -- my mom is from Youngstown. Ohio is a working-class state. Very blue-collar. He's like a tech guy, and he wants to bring in people, foreign workers on visas. That's not the type of person -- you've got to meet the voters where they are in some of this stuff.'
Jesse: Trump won Ohio by 11. Vivek lost it by eight. This isn't your standard midterm thumping.
When Obama got blown out in 2010 and 2014, those races at least were close. And he didn't almost lose the Black vote like Republicans almost lost the white vote.
The midterms was a Category 5 hurricane, and it completely scrambled the presidential primary.
[Vance? -- ] if Republicans had kept Congress or at least took a normal-sized L. Now there is going to be a lot of competition, and the coalition is up for grabs. Heck, the coalition may not even look the same.
The forgotten men and women, they are playing the field.
Sources tell Fox, Vance is already courting disgruntled Trump voters, trying to form a new right alliance. Vance wants to keep America First but also distance himself from Israel. Can he distance himself from the war without looking disloyal? That is a challenge.
Trump said he was cool with Vance's statement blaming the Iran war for the loss, but sources tell Charlie Spiering he didn't ask for permission before putting out the statement. He just kind of gave everybody a heads-up.
Consultants are saying, "The VP had to show he's not a dead man walking out there."
Insiders say the GOP only turned against the Iran war after the MoU, which Vance spearheaded. Others say the country turned against the war the second gasoline prices hit $3.50.
Trump is saying he doesn't even know who is running.
President Trump:
'You don't know who is talking about running. You can have a lot of people, maybe a lot of people running, maybe nobody will run, maybe he won't run. I don't know who will run. But I can tell you that as far as that war is concerned, I would have done nothing different.'
Jesse: Marco Rubio is also someone people expect to throw his hat into the ring. He has a little space between himself and the economy, but he's still tied to the war.
People are saying he's on resignation watch to launch his campaign, but he denied that to the Times.
DeSantis says it cannot be a Trump acolyte. He has to be a man with his own vision.
DeSantis:
'The reality is, there is nobody in our party that has that outsized persona and brand. So how do you then, going forward, I think it's got to be ideas-based. It's got to be based on what are we trying to accomplish? What do we stand for? Because I don't think there's anybody that would be able to take up all the oxygen in the room the way the president can.'
Jesse: That could mean anybody, even somebody nobody is expecting. Maybe someone young and bold, a nationalist who puts America first and has a clean slate.
So the midterms discombobulated the primary and the map. It's wide open. Everywhere. Every state is a battleground.
The next candidate will have to be everywhere, all over, talking to everyone. Taking nothing for granted.
Until then, the president is going to hold it down, win the war that will bring down energy and rates, and make...
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Palestinian delegation seeks resolutions critical of Israel at UN General Assembly - report.
Asher Smith November 6, 2026 03:11
Israel's Ambassador to the UN, Danny Danon, said the Palestinian delegation was seeking to use the current political situation to challenge Israel at the international body.
[https://www.jpost.com/international/article-914031 JPost]
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Exclusive: Kazakhstan's AI Chief On Historic Ties with Israel.
On The Israel Debrief, Kazakhstan's Deputy PM and AI Minister Zhaslan Madiyev reveals his country's AI strategy and where Israel fits in from a possible Astana startup hub in Tel Aviv to deeper economic ties
Sophia Tupolev. 11.05.26.
[https://c14news.com/article/1520536 C14]
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