Alschech (Devarim 23:20) A person charging interest denies that there is Divine Providence and is in effect saying that success and profit is entirely natural or determined by mazzel and thus there is a natural limit to his blessing. That is why it is permissible to charge a goy interest since they are governed by nature or mazzel
Tuesday, June 9, 2026
How many times has Trump claimed an Iran deal is around the corner?
How many times has Trump claimed an Iran deal is around the corner?
Trump said on social media on April 7 that they were “very far along” but needed two weeks for “the Agreement to be finalized and consummated.” He concluded by saying that “it is an Honor to have this Longterm problem close to resolution.”
There was no resolution, of course. But Trump has nonetheless spent the two months since then continuing to suggest a deal was right around the corner. A lot.
Including the period before the ceasefire, he’s done it at least 37 times. That’s the number of times he’s said directly — in social media posts, public appearances and phone calls with the media — that a deal was nigh or claimed Iran was desperate to cut one.
'Israel will be alone' | Trump reveals dramatic call with Netanyahu over Iran
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/428328
President Donald Trump said he urged Benjamin Netanyahu to avoid escalating the conflict with Iran and claimed he helped limit an Israeli strike.
US President Donald Trump said he cautioned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a conversation over the past day that a broader conflict with Iran could leave Israel facing Tehran without American backing.
Speaking to Channel 12, Trump said he told Netanyahu to be careful about further military action, warning that Israel could soon find itself confronting Iran on its own if the situation escalated.
Donald Trump Issues Veiled Threat to Netanyahu After Iran Strikes
https://mobileapp.newsweek.com/story/12045871/content.html
President Donald Trump gave a new warning to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about the Iran war.
The United States and Israel have been close allies for decades, and the Trump administration has been supportive of the Israeli government amid the Iran war. But there is growing public tension between the two governments over Israel’s military actions in Lebanon.
Trump provided new details of his conversation with Netanyahu with the Israeli Channel 12 news outlet on Thursday.
“I told Bibi, you better be very careful what you do, because you could be left alone against Iran very soon,” he said, according to the news outlet.
Monday, June 8, 2026
Trump says he never promised ‘no new wars’
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/07/trump-says-never-promised-no-new-wars-00952870
“First of all, I didn’t guarantee no war. Why would I have built the strongest military in the world?” Trump said. “I built our military. I inherited a terrible military. We had no equipment. We had nothing. I built a tremendous military. When you say I promised, I didn’t promise anything.”
Trump said he doesn’t like “endless wars” but added that the current conflict with Iran “is not an endless war,” asserting that the Vietnam War lasted for 19 years “because of stupid people.”
While campaigning in Pennsylvania in 2024, Trump told rallygoers: “I will not send you to fight and die in stupid foreign wars that never end.” He reiterated the promise in his 2024 victory speech, stating at the time: “I’m not going to start a war. I’m going to stop wars.”
And Trump’s official White House biography also states that one of the president’s top priorities is “putting a stop to endless wars.”
Trump on Sunday denied that the U.S. is at war with Iran, telling Welker he does not “consider” the current situation a war.
Cognitive test Trump took screens for dementia, not intelligence - Trump Brags about being only President passing Test for Senility Multiple Times
https://www.wisn.com/article/cognitive-test-trump-screens-signs-dementia-intelligence/71506967
In a May 31 Truth Social post, Trump wrote:
"The results of my Physical Examination, taken at Walter Reed Military Medical Center, and just released, were extremely good. Unlike other U.S. Presidents, none of whom have ever taken an approved, high difficulty, Cognitive Test, I scored a perfect 30 out of 30, considered ‘extreme intelligence.’ Are the Dumocrats really surprised? In fact, this is my fourth such test, all PERFECT or, 120 correct answers out of 120 questions asked! It is very rare that anyone gets a Perfect Score, especially when achieved four times in a row. All people running for President and Vice President should be forced to take high difficulty Cognitive Tests. Congress, and the Dumocrats, should demand it! President DONALD J. TRUMP"
We will have to take Trump’s word for it that he scored a 30 out of 30 on the test, which medical experts believe — based on Trump’s own descriptions — is the Montreal Cognitive Assessment. (When we asked the White House whether that was the test Trump took, a spokesperson did not dispute it.) Trump reportedly also took the test in 2018 and twice in 2025.
But medical experts said Trump inaccurately described the test as measuring intelligence. Instead, it aims to detect signs of cognitive impairment; if the score is low enough, then further testing is recommended.
"The test measures cognition," including attention, concentration, language, memory, abstract thinking and calculation skills, said Ziad Nasreddine, a Quebec-based neurologist who created the 10-minute Montreal Cognitive Assessment in 2005. "Cognitive function is correlated with IQ. But the test was not designed to detect the genius-level of cognitive performance. It's meant to reassure that cognitive functions are normal."
How LGBTQ+ Pride Month Has Changed in the Era of MAGA and Donald Trump
https://mobileapp.newsweek.com/story/12038256/content.html
Not long ago, June meant rainbow logos. Major retailers stocked Pride merchandise on front-page displays, big brands changed their social media avatars and corporations competed for visibility at parades from New York to San Francisco.
Things have changed.
Two years into President Donald Trump‘s second term, many of those same companies have quietly stepped back. Retailers that once centered Pride collections in their June marketing have shifted focus to Father’s Day and other summer merchandise. Major corporations have withdrawn sponsorships from Pride events around the country, leaving some organizers facing significant funding shortfalls. NYC Pride told Gothamist it was more than $500,000 short of its fundraising goal after already lowering its target by $1.1 million from 2024.
A Gallup poll published at the start of June found that about 65 percent of U.S. adults now say same-sex marriage should be legal, down from a peak of 71 percent in 2022 and 2023. Nationwide, 62 percent say gay and lesbian relationships are “morally acceptable,” the lowest level since 2016. The decline is driven primarily by Republicans, whose support has fallen to about 37 percent, though the downward movement is evident across all political groups.
The shift is significant because it suggests a potential turning point in one of the most dramatic shifts in opinion in modern U.S. history. Gallup’s previous surveys found support for same-sex marriage rose from 27 percent in 1996 to roughly 7 in 10 Americans in recent years.
But the political picture is not straightforward. Trump appointed Richard Grenell as acting Director of National Intelligence—the first openly gay person to serve in a Cabinet-level role. Trump Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is the highest-ranking openly gay official in U.S. history. During his 2016 presidential campaign, Trump held up a rainbow flag at a rally and pledged to protect gay Americans.
Record turnout for Toronto pro-Israel march as violent antisemitism spikes across Canada
The streets of central Toronto pulsed with Israeli and Persian tunes on Sunday as 60,000 people converged to demonstrate solidarity with Israel and Canada’s Jewish community.
In response to surging Jew-hatred that has darkened Toronto over the last several months, a diverse crowd chose to march with the UJA Federation of Greater Toronto’s 57th Walk with Israel. Despite sometimes violent counter-protests on the march’s sidelines, this year’s walk attracted 4,000 more participants than last year, making it one of the largest public demonstrations of support for Israel in the world.
“We’re not afraid of anything, in spite of all the antisemitism that’s been going down, specifically here in Toronto,” said participant Shai Klein. “It gives us that much more reason to be here today and show that we’re not going to back down in the face of hatred, and that we’re going to show our pride. And we’re not leaving Toronto and Canada. We’re going to be proud Jews here and support the State of Israel no matter what.”
Israel and Iran say they’re halting attacks on each other, after Trump pressure
Israeli official says ‘the sense is that this round of fighting is behind us,’ stresses IDF operations against Hezbollah to continue; PM to hold full security cabinet meeting tonight
Israel has decided to halt its strikes against Iran, an Israeli official said Monday afternoon, after US President Donald Trump declared on social media earlier in the day that Israel and Iran “must immediately stop ‘shooting’,” and Tehran announced it would hold its fire unless the IDF kept up attacks on Lebanon.
Iran later announced it was halting attacks on Israel, but threatened a further response if Israel continued its “aggression” in Lebanon, where the IDF has targeted Hezbollah as the Iranian-backed terror group has battered northern Israel.
Israelis push Netanyahu to resist U.S. pressure and keep fighting in Lebanon
“We need to let the generals do what they need to do and eliminate Hezbollah,” Ben Dov said, as the sound of shelling punctured the hot summer air. “We can’t just leave.”
The sentiment is pervasive. In war-weary border villages, on prime time talk shows, within the political opposition and among Netanyahu’s supporters, Israelis are pushing their prime minister to fight — and stay — in Lebanon, which could undermine U.S. efforts to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and end the war against Iran.
Anger is particularly high among Israelis in the north, who were targeted and displaced by a barrage of missiles launched by Hezbollah beginning in October 2023, shortly after its partner, Hamas, launched the surprise attack on southern Israel.
Israel Strikes Iran Despite Trump’s Call to Netanyahu
https://www.newsweek.com/iran-missiles-israel-first-strike-since-ceasefire-12042022
The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) said early Monday that they had carried out strikes on Iran, after Iranian state media reported explosions in at least three cities. Israel's attacks came despite President Donald Trump telling journalists on Sunday that he did not want escalation and spoke with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu by phone.
"The Israeli Air Force struck military targets belonging to the Iranian terror regime in western and central Iran a short while ago," the IDF said in a statement posted to X after the attacks
Trump insists Israel’s Netanyahu ‘won’t have any choice’ in accepting Iran peace deal after fresh strikes: ‘I call the shots’
President Trump said Israel’s prime minister would be forced to play ball with Iran after the Islamic Republic launched a missile attack on the Jewish State Sunday — and insisted that he is still the one who “calls the shots.”
Trump told the Financial Times that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will have to accept any ceasefire deal that the US brokers because he “doesn’t call the shots.”
Trump ties Israel’s hands, as the partnership that went to war 100 days ago collapses
Telling Israel it had better not respond to an Iranian missile attack, the US president, desperate for a deal with the devilish regime, presents Netanyahu with a terrible dilemma
One hundred days after they went to war together to thwart Iran’s rogue nuclear weapons program, radically degrade its ballistic missile industry, end its support for the Hezbollah and Hamas terror armies, and create the conditions for the fall of the regime, the US-Israel alliance against the Islamic Republic on Sunday reached its nadir.
Trump has repeatedly denied claims that Netanyahu dragged him and the United States into the war. But he has made it increasingly clear that he is desperate to end it, even with none of the declared US-Israeli goals achieved. He’s still insisting that he is holding out for terms that will ensure the regime never gets nuclear weapons, but there’s no guarantee of that in the leaked drafts of the Memorandum of Understanding he’s been working toward. And his overt priority is to get the Strait of Hormuz dependably open again, and alleviate the global energy chaos that Tehran has proved so adept at creating.
Sunday, June 7, 2026
President Trump: A second Obama?
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/428223
For the Iranian regime, the purpose of negotiations is to force America to surrender.
In an article in Foreign Affairs, two pro-Islamic regime analysts, Narges Bajoghli and Vali Nasr, gloat over what they see as an Iranian victory over America. They write: “The war has given rise to a new Iran, one that will reshape the [Middle East] and influence the course of geopolitics for years to come."
No surprise there: the pattern has set in of Trump making bellicose statements, Iran dangling concessions, Trump backing off, Iran repackaging those concessions as further threats and demands, Iran renewing its attacks and America declaring that negotiations are resuming.
Trump could have used Israel as leverage to weaken Iran by crippling Hezbollah. Instead, by holding Israel back from delivering the decisive blow against Iran’s proxy army, he has enabled Iran to use Hezbollah as leverage against Israel.
Behind Trump’s strategic errors, however, lies a more profound-and profoundly worrying-issue. The Iran war is deeply unpopular with the American people. In part, that’s because Trump has never made the case to them that it’s being waged because Iran poses a mortal threat to America itself.
What started as the United States finally grasping that it had no option but to neutralize Iran, because it was getting perilously close to obtaining nuclear weapons to hit the “Great Satan," now threatens to turn into a repeat of the 2015 nuclear deal debacle.
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