Trump Faces MAGA Backlash Over $20 Billion Foreign Bailout

 https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-faces-maga-backlash-over-20-billion-foreign-bailout

President Donald Trump faces a MAGA backlash after offering a $20 billion lifeline to Argentina, as thousands of federal workers face layoffs and soybean farmers bear the brunt of his sweetheart deal.

John Bartam, a soybean farmer from Illinois, said Trump’s $20 billion lifeline had led to Argentina lowering their export tax, which resulted in China buying seven million tonnes of soybeans from them, at the expense of the U.S.

“MAGA now means Make Argentina Great Again,” he said on Tuesday.

“It is inexplicable that President Trump is propping up a foreign government, while he shuts down our own,” said Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren.

Netanyahu Declines Invite to Egypt Summit on Israel-Hamas war

 https://www.newsweek.com/netanyahu-declines-invite-to-egypt-summit-on-israel-hamas-war-10869461

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said Monday that he will not attend a summit in Egypt later today on the Israel-Hamas war due to a Jewish holiday.

Egypt’s presidency had earlier said that both Netanyahu and Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, would be at the summit in Sharm-el-Sheikh. It would have been the first time the two had met since the 2015 U.N. Climate Change Conference in Paris.

Mystical aspect of Work

 Michtav M’Eliyahu (vol 1page 34) In the Torah it is written that Chanoch walked with G-d. Our Sages say he sewed shoes and at every stitch he would have mysyical thoughts about G-d. I heard in the name of Rav Yisroel Salanter that this is not to be understood literally since  it  is prohibited according to halacha to be occupied in a secular matter when thinking about G-d, Rather what our Sages meant is that he concentatrated his thought while stitching that each stitch should be good and strong to make the best possible shoes and thus he imitated G-d  who is good to others and he had no thoughts other than to imitate G-d.. 

What to Know About the Gaza Deal

 https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/israel-hamas-peace-plan-gaza-explained-2a7442ac?mod=WSJ_home_mediumtopper_pos_4

The long-awaited return of 20 hostages still alive in Gaza was under way early Monday, after a deal to release captives held by Hamas and stop the fighting in Gaza was approved Thursday by Israel’s government.

The deal was struck amid talks that followed after Israel and Hamas tentatively accepted a 20-point peace plan announced by President Trump. Trump sent his special envoy, Steve Witkoff, and son-in-law Jared Kushner to Egypt to finalize negotiations. Both of them visited Gaza on Saturday as part of the postwar planning.

After two years, all 20 living hostages return to Israel; As Trump listens in, Sissi invites Netanyahu to today’s summit

 https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog-october-13-2025

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has just spoken by phone with Egyptian President Abdel Fatah El-Sissi, as US President Donald Trump listens in, Channel 12 news reports. In the call, apparently brokered by Trump at the Knesset, Netanyahu accepted an invitation by the Egyptian leader to join the international summit on Trump’s Gaza peace plan in Sharm El-Sheikh today, according to the report.

An end to 738 days in hell: all 20 living hostages are no longer in Hamas captivity

 https://www.ynetnews.com/article/hjijmeq6gg#autoplay

After 738 days in hell, all 20 living hostages are no longer in Hamas captivity; 13 living hostages have been handed over to IDF forces and are on their way to Israeli territory; 7 freed hostages are already in an IDF base with their families

Saudi warning: 'Qatar will bring Hamas back'

 https://www.israelhayom.com/2025/10/12/saudi-warning-qatar-will-bring-hamas-back

Over the past month, several key moderate Gulf states—Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Bahrain—have found themselves sidelined. While they support Trump's initiative to end the war, they are unhappy with the major concessions made to Qatar, still their regional rival and a supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood, the Islamist movement that undermines Arab regimes. They are also uneasy about Washington's expanding defense agreements with Doha.

Phase One of Gaza Deal Nears End: What to Know

 https://www.newsweek.com/phase-one-of-gaza-deal-nears-end-what-to-know-10867370

The hostages have been held since October 7, 2023, when Hamas attacked Israel and took around 250 hostages. Hamas has released 148 hostages over the past two years, eight of whom were dead, according to the Associated Press. Hamas will also return the bodies of deceased hostages, although it is not clear how quickly this will happen.

Israel prepares for Gaza hostage releases 'at any time,' braces for Monday

 https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-870111

Israeli officials are prepared for the release of 48 living and deceased hostages "at any time," The Jerusalem Post learned on Saturday evening. However, the working assumption is that the releases will take place on Monday.

Dangerous new MAGA lie: Republicans SMEAR peaceful protesters as ‘terrorists’

'Qatar was the turning point': How Israel's bombing of Doha ignited a peace process

 https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/10/qatar-was-the-turning-point-how-israels-bombing-of-doha-ignited-a-peace-process-00604017

Trump, who has a longstanding relationship with the Qataris, issued a surprisingly sharp rebuke of the Israeli attack and would soon offer an unprecedented security guarantee to back his promise that nothing like that would happen again.

Trump extended his public olive branch in tandem with his administration’s private outreach to Qatar and other Arab countries.

In those discussions, US officials made the case that the Doha attack offered an opportunity to put new pressure on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Hegseth blasted by Loomer, conservatives over Qatari air force facility in Idaho

 https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5550230-trump-allies-oppose-qatar-base/?tbref=hp

“There isn’t a single Trump supporter who supports allowing Qatar to have a military base on US soil,” Loomer posted to the social platform X. “I don’t know who told President Trump this was a good idea, but it has made people not want to vote.”

She also wrote that “no foreign country should have a military base on US soil. Especially Islamic countries.”

In another post about Hegseth, she admonished him as he “should know how bad of an idea it is to allow Terror financing Qataris who fund HAMAS and the Muslim Brotherhood to have an AIR FORCE BASE ON US SOIL.”

Trump accidentally posted message to Bondi on prosecuting Comey, adversaries

 https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5550406-trump-bondi-prosecution-truth-social-post/?tbref=hp

A message President Trump posted on Truth Social in September pressing Attorney General Pam Bondi to prosecute several political opponents was intended to be a direct message, reports say.

The Wall Street Journal reported multiple officials said Trump believed he had sent the message to Bondi privately. NBC also confirmed the message’s private intent with a former Trump administration official. 

'A conspiratorial Right is rising' in America, Ben Shapiro tells 'Post'

 https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/article-869858

"There is a part of the Right that is extraordinarily conspiratorial and sees Jews as a conspiratorial force… It is rising because social media rewards it,” Ben Shapiro said in an interview with The Jerusalem Post last week. “On X and TikTok, you often get more clicks if you push anti-Israel and antisemitic rhetoric.”

He argued that the dynamic is structural rather than episodic. “You get a lot more likes and clicks if you are promoting an anti-Israel, anti-Jewish agenda than if you are doing the opposite,” he said. “Virtually every conspiracy theory ends up pointing at the Jews because the narrative needs a villain, and it is easier to recycle an old one than to make an honest argument.”

In a recent interview, Shapiro made waves by saying, even as an Orthodox Jew, that one lesson from Kirk was to “go to church.” He did not back away from that line in his interview with the Post. “America is a Christian country,” he said. “The founders were either deists or Christians, drawing on a 2,000-year Christian tradition with Judaic roots. Saying otherwise is dishonest and counterproductive. People who go to church tend to engage with a biblical morality that is valuable.