[FoxNews] President Donald Trump's strategy to address crime in U.S. cities may come into sharper focus this week, as he reiterates his call to deploy the National Guard more widely.
Over the weekend, Trump doubled down on his plan to curb crime and crack down on illegal immigration, specifically in Chicago.
"Do you know how many people were killed in Chicago last weekend? Eight. You know how many people were killed in Chicago the week before? Seven. You know how many people wounded? Seventy-four people were wounded. You think there's worse than that? I don't think so," Trump told reporters at the White House when asked about Chicago.
His remarks came amid questions about a meme he shared on Truth Social the previous day, which critics said threatened Chicago with deportations of illegal immigrants and the use of the U.S. military. The meme featured an AI image of Trump styled as Robert Duvall’s character in "Apocalypse Now," a Vietnam War-era movie about a U.S. military officer who went rogue in the Cambodian jungle. The words "Chipocalypse Now" were also seen on the image.
"'I love the smell of deportations in the morning…'" Trump wrote in the post, referring to a famous quote from the movie. "Chicago about to find out why it’s called the Department of WAR," he added.
Master level trollery.
When asked again about the post on social media, Trump told reporters that "we're not going to war."
"We're going to clean up our cities. We're going to clean them up so they don't kill five people every weekend," he said. "That's not war. That's common sense," he added before boarding Marine One to watch the U.S. Open men’s singles final.
Trump’s focus on Chicago comes as his administration extends a National Guard deployment in Washington, D.C., citing concerns over crime and homelessness in the capital. He has repeatedly characterized Washington, D.C., as "one of the most dangerous cities anywhere in the world."
Trump has also threatened to send troops to Baltimore and has cited crime in Portland and Boston to justify a broader crackdown.
[IsraelTimes] The NYPD reports 19 antisemitic hate crimes in the city last month, a slight increase over the same period last year.
Antisemitic hate crimes in the city have been trending downward in recent months. While August’s total is an increase over the previous year, the number is antisemitic incidents is far lower than earlier in the Gaza war. In November 2023, there were 69 antisemitic incidents reported to police.
Jews are still targeted more than all other groups combined in the city nearly every month. The number of antisemitic incidents in the city in August amounts to 56% of the 34 total hate crimes in the city.
The decrease in antisemitic hate crimes comes amid a broader downturn in major crimes in the city.
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Reported and recorded incidents. That is different than actual. I think things are probably better, but I assume everyone is motivated to lie to me.
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[IsraelTimes] Rally addressed by UK chief rabbi and members of right-wing opposition; representatives from Labour government absent despite receiving invitation, organizing group says
An estimated 70,000 people participated Sunday in London’s March Against Antisemitism, organizers said, calling it a wake-up call for the country amid surging anti-Jewish attacks.
The march from the BBC to Parliament Square, organized by Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA) and backed by other Jewish communal organizations, was addressed by, among others, UK Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis, Conservative Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp, and Richard Tice, deputy leader of the anti-immigrant party Reform UK.
Representatives from the ruling Labour government were conspicuously absent, despite an invitation delivered weeks ago, CAA said.
"The government’s scandalous decision not to send someone to address the Jewish community at a time of the worst antisemitism in the UK in living memory will do nothing to reassure British Jews that this government has their back or even understands the scale of the crisis," CAA said.
Precisely what they intended to communicate to both British Jews and those who hate them. Haviv Rettig Gur, senior analyst for the Times of Israel, responds to that hate in the link at the bottom of this post.
CAA said the march started at the BBC "because you can’t tackle antisemitism in Britannia without addressing the problem of the BBC," which pro-Israel groups have accused of anti-Israel bias in its reporting on the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... war.
Footage from the rally showed the crowd awash in UK and Israeli flags. Dignitaries leading the march hoisted a large banner reading: "Britannia, stand up for your values."
The event was held a day after London police said officers arrested nearly 900 people at a demonstration in support of Paleostine Action.
The event was held a day after London police said officers arrested nearly 900 people at a demonstration in support of Paleostine Action, an anti-Israel group proscribed by the government as a terrorist organization after members vandalized planes at a Royal Air Force base.
Separately, the group Scotland Against Antisemitism said Sunday it delivered an open letter to First Minister John Swinney, warning that recent statements on Israel by the Scottish government could exacerbate antisemitism and increase the risk to the Jewish community.
It said the letter so far received some 3,000 signatures, including from lawyers, politicians, educators, clergy, students, and citizens in Scotland and elsewhere.
The group noted that there are some 5,000 Scottish Jews, less than 0.1 percent of the population, but that hate crimes targeting the community accounted for 17% of all religiously motivated crimes last year.
Earlier Sunday, CAA published a study showing that more than one in five British adults now hold entrenched antisemitic views, nearly double the level recorded four years ago. Nearly half of respondents (45%) said they believe Israel treats Paleostinians like Nazis treated Jews, a sharp rise from 33% last year. Among 18- to 24-year-olds, that figure reached as high as 60%.
The Community Security Trust, a nonprofit providing security protection to British Jews, said last month that it had recorded 1,521 antisemitic incidents in the UK between January and June 2025.
The figure represented a 25% drop from the all-time high of 2,019 incidents in the same period of 2024, but was the second-highest total ever for a six-month period, with more than 200 incidents a month.
UK museum postpones exhibition on Jewish life due to ‘potential risks at a sensitive time’
[IsraelTimes] A UK museum has postponed an exhibition on Jewish life in a seaside town due to “potential risks at a sensitive time,” Britain’s Telegraph reports. The UK outlet says the Russell-Cotes Museum in Bournemouth had been set to open an exhibition on Jewish life in the town between 1880 and 2020.
When reached for comment by the newspaper, the museum says while the exhibition will not open in November after an assessment of the potential risks, the institution is working to reschedule it.
“Russell-Cotes Art Gallery and Museum is an important heritage asset housing culturally significant art,” the museum says. “In planning all exhibitions, we carefully assess any potential risks. We recognise this is a sensitive time and due to requirements related to this event, the museum has decided to postpone the exhibition and is working with the organisers to reschedule it for a later date.”
[FoxNews] Late last month, Quebec Premier François Legault and Secularism Minister Jean-François Roberge announced that they will introduce a new law this fall to ban prayer in public spaces. The measure comes in response to what Roberge described as the "proliferation of street prayer" — a practice that has become synonymous with mass Islamist displays, particularly in the wake of pro-Hamas and pro-Palestinian demonstrations.
Street prayer is no longer the image of quiet devotion. From Toronto to Times Square, it is political theater, often conducted en masse, blocking roads, obstructing entrances and projecting intimidation into the heart of civic life.
You have 30 days to stop selling alcohol and pork. For now, we’ll demonstrate, because we don’t yet have the demographic numbers. But when we do, we won’t be demonstrating. You will comply, or you will die. pic.twitter.com/8gT7OTkUJn
[IsraelTimes] Calling it “irrelevant,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejects State Comptroller Matanyahu Englman’s report criticizing him and other senior ministers for their failure to adequately care for the civilian front in the wake of the October 7, 2023, Hamas invasion.
His office also calls into question the timing of its release.
“While the Government of Israel is achieving unprecedented historic successes that have changed the face of the Middle East, the State Comptroller’s report deals with marginal footnotes that have no real significance,” says a statement released by Netanyahu’s office.
The statement says Englman’s report “completely ignores the fact that this is an existential war on a scale the state has never known in all its years — a war that broke out without prior warning and with no precedents to act upon. The Government of Israel succeeded in responding immediately and created an appropriate working method for the unique emergency situation that emerged.”
It adds that the report is based on incomplete and outdated information.
Englman’s report said that government decisions after the outbreak of war largely failed to achieve their goals. He pointed to a broader trend, stretching back nearly two decades, in which successive governments “failed to appoint a body responsible for managing care of the home front in times of emergency.”
Netanyahu’s office points to the tens of billions of shekels invested in rehabilitating border areas in the north and south, and caring for evacuees, the injured, and families of hostages. It boasts that 95% of students in the north returned to study in their communities, and that “the shekel has strengthened, the stock market is at a peak, and Israel has attracted more foreign investment in R&D than any other country, except the United States.”
Inspections performed by Englman across the country revealed shortages of manpower in essential factories, a lack of psychological care professionals, insufficient government representatives at evacuee sites, and deficiencies in distributing grants and compensation.
“The Prime Minister rejects the unfounded conclusions raised in the report and views it as an irrelevant document,” says the PMO.
“The timing of the report’s publication — on the eve of the entry and takeover of Gaza City, a critical stage in Hamas’s defeat — is puzzling and raises questions about the purpose of the publication and the conclusions drawn in the report,” it adds.
[IsraelTimes] Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz have ordered the establishment of a so-called National Armaments Directorate to reduce reliance on foreign countries for military supplies, Channel 12 reports.
The reported move comes against the backdrop of growing difficulties in procuring arms or parts abroad due to embargoes and protests targeting Israel over the war in Gaza.
According to Channel 12, the initiative also aims to lessen Israel’s dependence on its closest ally, the United States, the report adds.
The directorate—set to be headed by Defense Ministry Director-General Amir Baram—will be tasked with identifying procurement gaps; overseeing the development of precision missiles, drones, and directed-energy weapons; managing supply agreements and joint production with foreign partners; coordinating Israel’s stockpile of critical munitions; building emergency production capacity for wartime; aligning IDF needs with domestic industry; and serving as a central hub between the Defense Ministry and other government bodies, according to the report.
A committee headed by retired general Jacob Nagel aimed at examining Israel’s security budget had already recommended the creation of such a body. But according to the report, its immediate mission will be to protect Israel from the risks of arms embargoes, granting Israel greater political and operational freedom in its military campaigns.
Several countries—including Slovenia, Germany, Belgium, Canada, and the United Kingdom —have restricted arms exports to Israel over the Gaza war, while some trade unions have also attempted to block shipments.
Last year, former US President Joe Biden threatened to halt weapons before an IDF offensive in Rafah, and US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin reportedly warned munitions would be withheld unless Israel expanded humanitarian aid to Gaza.
[IsraelTimes] King Abdullah II of Jordan reaffirmed his “absolute refusal” towards any efforts by Israel to annex the West Bank during a visit to the UAE, the royal palace says.
That’s nice. What’s your offer to compensate Israel for not doing so?
The message comes after several Israeli officials suggested that the country could proceed with the annexation of large tracts of the territory in response to moves by Western governments to recognize Palestinian statehood this month.
According to a palace statement, Abdullah reiterates “Jordan’s absolute refusal of any Israeli measures aimed at annexing the West Bank and forcing Palestinians to leave.”
This is between Israel and the PA, your majesty. You are n’t involved in the negotiation.
He also rejects any plans to displace Palestinians from Gaza
…nor that one…
or to separate the two Palestinian territories.
That happened in 2007. You did nothing to stop it then, because you couldn’t.
He is joined by Emirati President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan in expressing opposition to Israeli plans to expand settlements in the West Bank, held by Israel since 1967.
That’s a different negotiation, gentlemen.
They also rejected “Israeli plans aimed at perpetuating the occupation of Gaza and expanding military control.”
Rein in Hamas or shut up and sit down.
The United Arab Emirates warned this week that annexation would be a “red line.”
Really? What’s your “or else”? A warning requires a threat if they’re to be listened to.
[IsraelTimes] Details at the link for those interested. The key, it seems to me, is that foreigners continue to see Israel as a good investment, despite the loud outcry by those who hate… or those who posture as if they did but in private love her innovation.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] US President Donald Trump called on the radical Palestinian movement Hamas to agree to the proposed terms for settling the conflict in the Gaza Strip. He published a corresponding statement on his social network Truth Social.
"Everyone wants the hostages to go home. Everyone wants the war to end," he wrote.
The American leader pointed out that Israel had already accepted his proposals and Hamas needed to do the same. Trump also stressed that he had warned the movement's representatives about the consequences of refusing to settle.
"This is my last warning, there will be no other," the US President concluded.
Reported deal envisions release of all hostages on truce’s first day, then talks to end war in Gaza; source close to Netanyahu says Israel considering deal, expects Hamas to refuse
US President Donald Trump ...Oh, noze! Not him!... on Sunday gave what he declared was his "last warning" to Hamas ..one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,... to agree to his terms for ending the war, adding that Israel has accepted his proposed ceasefire and hostage-release agreement.
The message, sent in a social media post, doesn’t specify what those terms are. But Channel 12 reported Sunday that the current US proposal envisions the release of all hostages on the first day of a truce and, if subsequent talks bear fruit, the end of the war in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... "Everyone wants the hostages HOME. Everyone wants this war to end!" Trump wrote. "It is time for Hamas to accept [my terms] as well."
"I have warned Hamas about the consequences of not accepting. This is my last warning. There will not be another one," Trump asserted.
Israel has not confirmed that it accepted Trump’s offer. But it is "very seriously considering" the proposal, according to a source close to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
"It seems that Hamas will continue its refusal," the source said.
They always do, in the end.
According to the reported proposal, Hamas would release all 48 hostages, living and dead, on day one, while Israel would release hundreds of Paleostinian snuffies with blood on their hands, and thousands of other prisoners.
In addition, the IDF would call off its conquest of Gaza City and would remain outside the city, according to the report.
The two sides would engage in talks over the end of the war under the personal oversight of Trump, and the ceasefire would continue as long as negotiations last.
According to Channel 12, Trump and US special envoy Steve Witkoff came up with the idea during a round of golf a week ago. Witkoff passed the offer through unofficial Trump adviser Bishara Bahbah and Israeli activist Gershon Baskin, who was involved in brokering the 2011 deal to free captive Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit in exchange for more than 1,000 Paleostinian security prisoners.
Witkoff met with Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... i officials in Gay Paree last week to discuss the idea. There have been multiple reports in recent days that the White House was pushing a new vision for a comprehensive deal, but more precise details emerged only on Sunday.
Channel 12 noted that the terror group is wary of offers that don’t go through Egypt and Qatar, and is reluctant to take Trump at his word after he didn’t give them anything in exchange for the release of US-Israeli citizen Edan Alexander earlier this year, though it had been understood he would pressure Israel to end the war.
The proposal came as Israel continues its offensive to conquer Gaza City — a plan that has garnered fierce international opposition, even among Israel’s allies, and criticism from the families of hostages who say the operation will risk the lives of their loved ones as well as soldiers.
Hamas, the terror group that has ruled Gaza for almost two decades, released a statement on Saturday saying it "affirms its openness to any ideas or proposals that achieve a permanent ceasefire, a full withdrawal of the occupation forces from the Gaza Strip, the unconditional entry of aid, and a genuine prisoner exchange through serious negotiations mediated by third parties."
[IsraelTimes] Order comes week after anti-war protesters poured buckets of red paint outside residence; military says decision based on ‘professional and security considerations’
But neither the IDF nor the police even think of banning protests at the Prime Minister’s residence, Bibi’s personal home, or those of his ministers. And then the generals pronounce upon how all Bibi’s decisions are wrong, which is decidedly unhelpful both domestically and abroad.
In an unusual move, the IDF declared the area around Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir’s house a “closed military zone,” following anti-war protests there, according to a social media post on Sunday.
The order, according to a copy circulating online, was signed on Friday by Maj. Gen. Shai Klepper, chief of the Home Front Command. Rotem Sivan, the leader of a protest group representing mothers of combat soldiers, shared the document on Sunday on social media.
Last week, members of a different anti-war group, Standing Together,
…they sound like Black Bloc/Antifa in Israel — who is financing them?
poured buckets of red paint onto a wall and on the street outside Zamir’s home in Ramot HaShavim, a town adjacent to Hod Hasharon.
The left-wing protesters gathered that day to demand that Zamir refuse to carry out any plans to occupy the Gaza Strip as the government proceeds with an operation to take over Gaza City.
The military said that “the decision to declare the area a closed military zone was made based on professional and security considerations.”
It is unclear why the military resorted to an order signed by a major general, instead of the police outlawing such protests.
Before the operation to conquer Gaza City was approved, Zamir was widely said
…mostly quoting him…
to object to government plans to take over the entire Strip, saying the policy would endanger the lives of soldiers as well as the remaining hostages held by Hamas. This drew ire from Defense Minister Israel Katz and others in the government.
It is my unsolicited opinion that all the vocal generals should be publicly horsewhipped to help them understand that they are subordinate to the politicians in government and their job is to give their best advice privately. Ditto for Mossad, especially that idiot below. Remarkably aligned, all the vocal ones.
But Zamir reportedly said in a recent meeting with hostage families that “the operation will be conducted by me, with responsibility toward the troops and the hostages,” according to Channel 12.
“I believe in the operational plan. The people of Israel should know that I state, and will continue to state, my professional opinion. The hostages are on my mind. I am acting in the most responsible way possible,” Zamir reportedly said.
Since the operation received a green light, families of hostages and their supporters have intensified their campaign urging the government to strike a ceasefire deal to release the captives, holding two separate nationwide days of protest in addition to weekly Saturday night rallies.
The latest example of someone who should shut up until he is actually running foroffice:
[IsraelTimes] Former Mossad chief Yossi Cohen says in an interview with Channel 12 that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should no longer serve as premier, as Israel needs changes that he cannot deliver.
“At this time, right now, change is required — to move away from divisive factionalism and to talk about unity. [Netanyahu] can’t do that… He can’t unify what needs to be unified right now,” Cohen tells the Hebrew network in a lengthy interview.
While acknowledging that “Netanyahu has done a great deal… for the good of Israel,” Cohen says the country “at this moment requires other leadership.”
Cohen, formerly a close Netanyahu confidant, gives the interview while promoting his new autobiography, a week after he declared that he should be Israel’s next prime minister, insisting the public is pushing for “real change” in leadership, and that “for real change to happen, I need to be prime minister.”
Tonight, however, Cohen stresses that he remains undecided about his political future and does not intend to run in the next elections, currently scheduled for 2026.
“I’ve not entered politics, so I’m not directly challenging any politician,” he says.
Cohen has long been linked to Netanyahu, who appointed him Mossad chief after his tenure as national security adviser and reportedly considered him a potential successor, along with Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer.
If Cohen does enter politics, he says his natural home would be the Likud party — but in what he calls a “new iteration,” with a “massive” turnover in its ranks. “The new Likud,” he says of the party that is seen as largely in Netanyahu’s thrall.
Pressed about possible coalition partners, Cohen says he hasn’t yet considered the matter, but that he “apparently would not” sit in a government with far-right politicians Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben Gvir, both of whom are senior members of Netanyahu’s coalition.
Asked which partner he would be most resistant to, he responds, “probably Ben Gvir.”
“Ben Gvir is a red line for me. I couldn’t accept his diplomatic stance,” he says about the national security minister, a former disciple of outlawed extremist rabbi and politician Meir Kahane.
On ultra-Orthodox draft exemptions, Cohen is equally firm: “Haredim — I won’t accept [their demands on non-IDF service], even if that means I won’t be prime minister. Not today, not in the future. I would not put together a government that does not require that all carry the burden [of service] equally.”
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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[IsraelTimes] 
..one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,...
