Sunday, June 21, 2026
G-d controls everything?
The deal of the millennia: Like acne, peace is breaking out across the Middle East
https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-899965
The lion is not eating the lamb, but sitting down at the table together with the lamb, piled with burgers and fries alongside Persian kotlet and Ghormeh Sabzi.
In the grand sweep of biblical history, few moments rival the miraculous turnaround we are witnessing today. The ink is barely dry on what historians will surely call the Deal of the Millennia, the comprehensive accord between the United States and Iran, and already the lions are lying down with the lambs. Or more accurately, the ayatollahs are trading their turbans for MAGA hats and their missile programs for golf courses. US President Donald Trump reminds us that the Deal of the Millennia draws its inspiration from his wife Melania, who has always been the peacemaker in the family.
Hezbollah in Lebanon held a press conference in a Beirut café next to a newly opened Trump Tower franchise, where Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah appeared in a sharp navy-blue suit and bright red power tie, with a matching MAGA hat in place of his earth-toned turban. In a voice cracking with emotion, he declared: “For too long we worshiped a false god of vengeance and martyrdom. We were blind, but now we see.
Trump claims he can control IDF actions in Lebanon because Israelis respect him
US President Donald Trump said this week that he would be able to keep Israel from launching new attacks in Lebanon because the country has a lot of respect for him, thanks to his previous policies regarding the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Trump was asked during an interview with Axios — which was taped on Thursday and aired Friday — whether he’d be able to “control Israel from attacking Lebanon,” as Washington and Jerusalem have publicly disagreed about the decision to tie Israel’s offensive against Hezbollah to the controversial memorandum of understanding between the US and Iran.
“They have a lot of respect for me, and they do as I say,” he added, recalling how he pulled the US out of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal orchestrated by the Obama administration and which Jerusalem opposed, and how he authorized a major attack on Iran’s three main nuclear sites during Israel’s 12-day war with Tehran last June.
Trump insists US-Iran MoU qualifies as Tehran's 'unconditional surrender'
https://www.jpost.com/international/article-899972
In an interview with Axios on Thursday, US President Trump said that there were no limits to his power and claimed that he had achieved regime change in Iran by killing the previous leadership.
US President Trump said there were no limits to his power and that he believed the Memorandum of Understanding between Washington and Tehran constituted Iran’s unconditional surrender in an interview with Axios on Thursday.
“It really probably is unconditional surrender. I think so,” Trump said when asked about the MoU.
Trump emphasized the damage the US had done to Iran’s military forces and senior officials, including Iran’s former supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, claiming that he had achieved regime change through killing the previous government officials.
Friday, June 19, 2026
Ex-Trump official: US-Iran framework is ‘enormously helpful’ to Iran
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/06/19/business/iran-deal-trump-economy
The diplomatic breakthrough between Washington and Tehran is a potential gamechanger for Iran’s war-battered economy, former Trump energy secretary Dan Brouillette told CNN in an exclusive interview.
Brouillette expressed concern that the US-Iran agreement is “a little too generous” to Iran, including by giving Iran “certain things up front,” such as the right to immediately sell oil. He noted estimates that the sale of oil and fuel could generate $60 billion a year for Iran.
Trump said on Wednesday that if the war continued, there would have been a 1929-style “economic catastrophe.”
Garnel where are You?
The world has become overwhelmed with a Pandemic 0f Trump Derangement Syndrome. Obviously you would claim caused by Obama and Biden. Even Fox News, NYPost,Yated and MAGA have caught it. The average Israeli views him with contempt. Trump is being portrayed not as the defender of Israel but as the strongest champion of Iran. Garnel you have attacked me for months for being critical of Trump. Where are you now when the whole world has turned against him this self proclaimed Defender of the World?
Garnel IronheartJune 15, 2026 at 3:18 PM
It doeesn't matter what the deal is. The media and the Democrats prepared the headlines when the war started.
Dov Hikind attacks Trump: 'I am highly frustrated and disappointed'
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/428879
Americans Against Antisemitism founder Dov Hikind criticizes Iran agreement and Vice President JD Vance, while urging supporters of Israel to remain measured in their response to Trump.
Halacha and Reality
Michtav M'Eliyahu (4:355): When Rav Dessler was asked concerning certain halachos that the reason that had been given for them is not in accord with modern science... for example (3) This that it is permitted to kill lice because they don't reproduce sexually (Shabbos 107b. Rav Dessler stated that concerning this matter and those like them the Halacha never changes even though the reason doesn't make sense to us. We are to hold on to the Halacha with two hands whether to be strict or lenient [not like the Pachad Yitzchok]. The reason for this is that the Halacha was known to Chazal by tradition through the generations and they also knew things through experience.... The important point is that the reasoning they gave did not create the Halacha but rather the reverse was true, the Halacha created the reasoning. The reasoning given in the gemora is not the only possible explanation. If they happened to give explanations on occasion which were only true according to the science of their day, we have an obligation to search out alternative explanations that will justify the Halacha according to modern science.... Even if one cannot find a convincing explanation, we must still believe with perfect faith that the Halacha is still true and we hope that G d will enlighten us with an appropriate explanation.
Rambam (Letter on Astrology): I know of course that it is possible to search and find isolated opinions of some sages in the Talmud and Medrashim whose views contradict what I have said. ... These statements should not trouble you because one doesn’t simply discard a clearly established halacha and revert back to the initial analysis. Similarly it is not appropriate to discard a well validated principle and simply rely on a minority opinion of the sages instead. That is because the sage is not infallible and might have erred by overlooking some important facts or hints when he stated his views.
Chazal - Everything They Say Is True
Igros Moshe (Y.D. 2:70): It is not possible that the generations following the completion of the gemora would know about that which is not visible to the naked eye. Only the Sages of the Talmud (Chazal), with their kabbala and their sevara, could possibly know about it. We are obligated to believe that everything that they say is true. In contrast, after the completion of the Talmud even the Gaonim...
Chazal and Accuracy of Details
Niflaos Tiferes Shlomo (73): … An obvious question is why we find that throughout the Talmud and Medrashim stories and wonders are told by the Tannaim and Amoraim with widely varying details. One will say this is the way it happened and while another will tell a different version. If so, G d forbid that one of them should be telling a lie! ... The fact is that we are not really concerned with the details but rather the basic message. Thus our Sages were not so concerned with the particular details as long as long as the message was conveyed. So what difference does it make when a good person is being praised and glorified or the opposite if a wicked person is being degraded – the message is the important thing not the details…? All that should matter is that the desired purpose is achieved in a particular story to arouse a proper impression in the listener so that he understands the words of Torah and his faith is strengthened in Divine Providence and the strength and power of tzadikim. What difference does it matter if the details vary? Therefore there is no significance in the differing versions because they all describe the essential truth.
LevinAt11 Korach-Elections, NJ trans-abortion bill
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ע"ש פרשת קורח, תשפוJune 19, '26~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Tefillah request, for expeditious recovery of:Rav Yehuda Ben Masha HaLevi;Shimon Ben Masha; andLea Bas Freedaזה נפוץ לזכות רפואתם בקרוב.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Linked below is this week's LevinAt11 Radio broadcast, of June 18, '26, regarding elections, and including a brief update on the antireligious abortion/transgender-tyranny edict looming in NJ legislature, in process of being modified.למטה יש לינק לתכנית ראדיו רב יהודה לעוין, שליט"א, פרשת קורח, תשפו--------Selected Topic Highlights:
• Selected Election issues in NY;
• Update on S2260/A2218*, a dangerous, antireligious abortion/transgender-tyranny edict looming in NJ legislature, similar (in its' provisions and aims) to the persecutory, anti-Torah decrees of the Greeks against which the Maccabees fought to the death.
Please especially ensure that both Assemblymen Avi Schnall and Gary Schaer actively vote NO against the final version of this inherently evil bill, whatever form it takes.
* this bill was also briefly addressed last week here, Parshas Shlach:
• and here, in a letter:The first part of the letter is on page 26. It continues on page 117.• and here, in wake of a statement from Agudath Israel, issued a day prior to the scheduled floor vote in the Assembly yesterday, Thursday:• and previously, on our pre-Shavous broadcast: https://daattorah.blogspot.com/ 2026/05/nj-amalekism-looming- levinat11.html,
• and updated here prior to passage in the NJ Senate: https://daattorah.blogspot.com/2026/05/ antireligious-edict-in-nj- senate.html. ~~~~~~ ~~~~~~ ~~~~~~ ~~~~~~ ~~~~~~
Recent Broadcasts Posted:
Parshas Beha'aloschah:Parshas Naso - see direct link below;Parshas Behar Bechukosai:
https://daattorah.blogspot.
com/2026/05/authentic-torah- priorities-levinat11.html Parshas Emor, '86:*
https://daattorah.blogspot.
com/2026/05/chillul-hashem- root-causes.html ~~~~~
The LevinAt11 program was founded by Rabbi Yehuda Levin Shlit"a, a protégé of Rav Avigdor Miller ZT"L, who sports vibrant hamlotzos (approbations) of Gedolei Rabbonim of the previous generation for his work against the immorality movements, especially the LGBT/abortion Axis, including from these internationally recognized luminaries:
מחבר הספר שערים מצויינים בהלכה ,The Debritziner Rov,The Kashover Admor Rav Refoel Blum,The Skulener Rebbe, (father of the previous Admor), all OBM.~~~~~~
Good Shabbos,
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News that matters - that you may not have seen:
BS"DJune 12, '26להיות עם חפשי בארצינו...About 25 Hesder Roshei Yeshiva directed their boys not to enlist in IDF Tanks, due to the IDF's ultra-feminist pilot plot, advancing integration of women...And do we really think that the Army actually wants to draft all the Chareidim - or anywhere near that? So what is it that the Erev Rav running affairs over there really do want? Hear our recent radio broadcasts for more.Rabbi Noson Leiter,HROC~~~~~~~~Also see, for example, Kav HaChareidi, Thu., June 11, '26:משבר מחריף בין צה"ל לישיבות ההסדר: 25 ישיבות מפסיקות לשלוח תלמידים לשריון~~~~~~ ~~~~~~ ~~~~~~ ~~~~~~PS: Here's a direct link to our May 28th broadcast:----------Broadcast weekly on Davidzon Radio: davidzonradio.com 718) 303-8000Last week's audio (Shlach) :
Who Won the Iran War? 10 Military Experts Explain
https://www.newsweek.com/who-won-iran-war-10-military-experts-explain-12084896
The U.S. laid out several goals when it joined Israel with strikes against Iran on February 28. It succeeded in beating down Iran's conventional military power. But it did not fully achieve the White House's other stated objectives: eliminating the threat of Iranian nuclear weapons, regime change, dismantling Tehran's support for proxy groups and wiping out its ballistic missile capacity.
"There was no meaningful victory for ordinary Iranians, for regional stability, or for U.S. strategy."
"It's one of those cases in history where everyone fails."
"Significant achievements for both sides—though the U.S. achievements that mattered most arguably occurred last year in one day."
"Iran came out on top because, while the United States accomplished key military objectives, the political impact of the deal and the economic relief the deal could provide may allow Iran to undo U.S. military success."
"It is difficult to make the case that this war achieved any significant positive result for the United States."
"Neither side will gain a complete victory. That said, I think the United States is in a better position."
"There is a relative consensus worldwide, even in the United States, that Iran has won the war and President Trump lost this war."
71% of Israelis don’t trust Trump to look out for them in Iran deal; just 11% say Israel won war
A television poll published Thursday found that only a sliver of Israelis feel their country won the Iran war, or trust US President Donald Trump to look out for their interests as he negotiates a deal with the Islamic Republic.
In addition, most feel that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s conduct hurt Israel’s interests in the US-Iran agreement, according to Channel 12 news.
The numbers marked a stark departure from the robust support Israelis have given Trump for years in poll after poll. Now, however, there is deep concern across Israel over the terms of the US-Iran memorandum of understanding signed this week, while a series of recent harsh public criticisms of Israeli officials from both Trump and US Vice President JD Vance point to a rift in the US-Israel relationship.
Is the Iran war really over?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/06/18/is-iran-war-really-over/
Iran won an immediate end to the fighting and the lifting of the American naval blockade of its ports. Washington agreed to issue waivers letting Iran resume selling its crude, to unfreeze some $24 billion of its assets and to help develop a reconstruction fund of at least $300 billion.
Iran conceded remarkably little. It will open the Strait of Hormuz to international shipping while the final terms of the peace deal are being negotiated. The six remaining U.S. hostages being held by the regime never featured in negotiations. Iran’s lead negotiator, the speaker of the parliament Mohammad Ghalibaf, boasted that the regime had won at the table “several times over” what it could not win on the battlefield.
The Iranians may be tempted to push their advantage, with American deterrence obviously weakened. They can activate Hezbollah to attack Israel at will and then point the finger at the U.S. for not stopping Israel from reacting. Worse, Trump unwisely laid out his concerns about the economy in public, and Iran’s ability to shut down shipping and terrorize its neighbors has not been removed.
Israel stunned by Vance attack and implied US weapons warning
https://www.ynetnews.com/article/bkzqvtbfgx#autoplay
Israel was stunned by U.S. Vice President JD Vance’s attack on cabinet ministers but chose not to fire back or respond emotionally, in an effort to avoid widening the rift with President Donald Trump. The decision came after Trump repeatedly criticized Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in recent days and on Thursday evening published a post spelling out his expectations at this stage, including from Israel.
You could have been the greatest president of all, but you failed
Mr. President, you have gravely harmed the human interests of the enlightened world, and you may be remembered forever as the president who brought about America's humiliation. You betrayed us, the Israelis. And in a single moment, the contempt you once faced suddenly seems so justified and logical. Danny Zaken writes to the US president.
'Wake Up and Smell the Reality': JD Vance Warns Israel to Abide by Trump’s Iran Deal
https://time.com/article/2026/06/18/JD-Vance-Israel-Iran-Deal-Donald-Trump-Lebanon/
Vice President JD Vance on Thursday issued a stark warning for the Israeli government to get on board with President Donald Trump’s controversial agreement with Iran, suggesting Israel had alienated much of the globe in recent years and that the U.S. was its last remaining major ally.
“If I was in the cabinet of the Israeli government, I might not be attacking the only powerful ally that I have anywhere left in the entire world,” Vance said near the end of an hourlong White House briefing with reporters.
Israeli officials have expressed “deep concern” about the deal, according to Axios,. A Netanyahu adviser said Israel doesn't consider itself bound by the Lebanon part of the memorandum .
‘Everyone just needs to copy what I say’: Trump vented anger with Vance over Iran messaging
“Trump vented to others that Vance hadn’t repeated his own new phrase that Iran’s nuclear program had been ‘totally obliterated,’” Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan write in their upcoming book “Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump” obtained by POLITICO.
Early intelligence that leaked to the media indicated the damage to Iran’s nuclear facilities didn’t line up with what Trump had touted and Vance had used more cautious language when he appeared on ABC News. The vice president also said in that same ABC interview that the Trump administration’s intention was to not embark on regime change, only to have Trump say the opposite hours later.
Vance hits back at Iran deal critics in GOP, Israe
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5930853-vance-defends-trump-iran-deal/
The preliminary agreement faced criticism even before it was signed Wednesday evening, with a growing number of Republicans and conservative figures arguing it was too weak on Iran.
Vance pushed back on a reporter saying that Netanyahu was “fuming” over the MOU, and he warned Israeli officials critical of Trump’s deal with Iran from personally attacking the president and isolating Israel’s best friend in the world.
Israeli officials across the political spectrum have come out against the MOU, with Israel’s far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir saying that “Trump’s agreement does not bind us” and urging for stronger attacks against Iran-backed Hezbollah in Lebanon. A ceasefire in Lebanon is the first pillar of the MOU.
Thursday, June 18, 2026
Trump’s Iran agreement may be a dud, but he’s getting what he wants
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/06/18/politics/trump-iran-deal
Donald Trump insisted last month that he didn’t think about Americans’ finances when negotiating with Iran.
“I didn’t want to see economic catastrophe. If you kept this going, that could have happened,” Trump said Wednesday, in seeking to explain what critics see as a deeply flawed agreement to end the war.
Trump’s comment, in France, was a revealing moment. It shows how, under political pressure, he often grasps for short-term advantage over the long-term strategic grind. And it underscores his reverence for the wisdom of the markets, which he said were “more brilliant” than any of his advisers “other than me, of course.”
Trump’s unfiltered commentary on Lebanon is leaving Israel with an impossible choice
Clearly tired of what Israel sees as an urgent fight, the US president is making the contradictory claims that the war on Hezbollah is both not speedy enough and not careful enough
Trump made bad Iran deal because of relentless Democratic Persecutions
Where does Trump come into the picture?
No doubt, he had turned soft. No doubt, as I had said, the mullahs, and the media, had feasted on him, so there was nothing left but the shell of a man.
They knew how to play his vanity, so that he’d be willing to sign any paper placed in front of him.
So it goes when you break a man. Have we forgotten when Trump was their dish and Adam Schiff was his appetizer?
Trump’s first four years as president were a sorry sight for himself and the nation. Four years of Russia…Russia…Russia.
For every day of four years the Democrats gave him no rest from accusations that he was a spy for Russia…all false.
From Hemingway…"The world breaks everyone and afterwards many are strong at the broken places."
The 5 passages of the US-Iran peace deal that worry critics the most: ‘Always tries to get more’
“The United States of America and the Islamic Republic of Iran and their allies in the current war, by signing this MOU, declare the immediate and permanent termination of military operations on all fronts, including in Lebanon, and undertake from now on not to initiate any war or any military operation against each other, and to refrain from the threat or use of force against each other, and ensuring the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Lebanon. The final deal will confirm the permanent termination of the war on all fronts, including in Lebanon, and other provisions of this paragraph.”
The language about Lebanon has raised concerns in Israel, which is not a party to the agreement and has repeatedly carried out military operations against Iranian-backed Hezbollah in the country.
“The Islamic Republic of Iran will conduct dialog with the Sultanate of Oman to define the future administration and maritime services in the Strait of Hormuz in discussion with other Persian Gulf or [Gulf] states in line with the applicable international law and the sovereign rights of coastal states of the Strait of Hormuz.”
The mention of “administration and maritime services” leaves open the possibility that Iran and Oman could charge service fees to ships that want to access the strait.
“United States of America undertakes with regional partners to develop a definitive, mutually agreed plan with at least USD $300 billion for the reconstruction and economic development of the Islamic Republic of Iran.”
Israel Worried About Trump’s Bad Deal With Iran
https://yated.com/israel-worried-about-trumps-bad-deal-with-iran/
Even before the details were released of the Memorandum of Understanding that President Trump negotiated with Iran and that was announced on Sunday, the verdict in Israel and among Israel’s supporters across the political spectrum was immediate, unanimous, and deeply disturbing: It is a very bad deal, and clearly endangers Israel’s national security.
Rather than bringing a new era of peace to the Middle East as President Trump had promised to do, the reported concessions to their demands in the new deal are likely to further embolden the new hardline leaders of Iran and make them even more recklessly aggressive. After a period of recovery from the damage that it suffered during the 40-days of bombardment by the U.S. and Israel, Iran will pose a renewed threat not only to Israel but also to Iran’s Persian Gulf neighbors and the other states across the Middle East, which are now well within the range of its drones and ballistic missiles, and which Iran has already attacked.
By agreeing to a deal that achieved none of the four original aims for which the U.S. and Israel jointly went to war against Iran, President Trump sold out both Israel and his partner in the original attack on Iran, Prime Minister Netanyahu. By failing to require Iran to give up its nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs, and end its support and protection of Hezbollah and its other terrorist proxies, Trump’s ignominious surrender to Iran’s demands endangers Israel’s long-term survival, and has made yet another war with Iran in the years ahead inevitable.
Dr. Donald and Mr. Trump: The Iran deal exposes a dangerous reversal
https://www.ynetnews.com/opinions-analysis/article/sjq07hgmml
The final memorandum appears even worse than the leaked version, strengthening Iran’s hold over Lebanon, ignoring Hezbollah’s disarmament and exposing a disturbing gap between Trump’s declarations and the agreement he signed
These are no longer rumors. The agreement is before us, and on some points it is even worse than the 14 leaked clauses.
Trump defends his Iran deal, criticizes longtime ally Israel as G-7 ends
While Trump previously expressed interest in facilitating regime change in Iran, the current agreement — which is in effect for 60 days, but can be extended — says that won’t happen.
Trump mused on his negotiations with Iranians, crediting their “genius primitive culture” for helping them hammer out a fair deal, and insisted, again, that he had staved off war from a nuclear-armed Iran.
Trump also criticized Israel, saying the U.S. ally had a right to defend itself but that he believed they were at times too heavy-handed. Israel and the U.S. jointly launched strikes on Iran on Feb. 28. Since then, Israel has also fought the Iran-backed Hezbollah military group in Lebanon and seized large swaths of that country.
MAGA ally Mark Levin turns on Trump over Iran deal
https://www.jpost.com/american-politics/article-899584
Right-wing Fox News host said Trump should publicize all the details of the recent deal between the US and Iran and claimed he's "controlling the narrative."
Fox News' major MAGA ally Mark Levin slammed US President Donald Trump over the Iran war peace deal, calling on the White House to release details of the accord’s Memorandum of Understanding.
Levin on X/Twitter wrote: “I have asked for days, why can’t we, the people, see the damn MoU? Not through people briefed by an anonymous person. Honestly, I’ve never seen anything like this. If it is a great outcome for peace, then release it.”
“In a period of two-months, Israel has gone from a great ally and partner in war, fighting by our side against a horrible enemy that has killed thousands of our people, killed tens of thousands of their own people, and was a dire nuclear threat intent on attacking us, to Israeli PM Netanyahu being a difficult person who should be thanking us for saving his country from Iran and should get our permission if he wants to defend his people from Hezbollah and Iran, and stand down when his country is attacked," Levin wrote.
Hawks lament ‘disaster’ on Iran as Trump strains to sell deal
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5929372-trump-defends-iran-missile-rights/
An especially startling example came when Trump defended Iran’s right to maintain ballistic missiles — despite the fact that a prior U.S. and Israeli objective had been the destruction of this capacity.
“They have to have some because other people have some. You’ve got to have some,” Trump mused, referring to Iran’s position in relation to other Persian Gulf nations.
The president added that when unnamed advisers told him he needed to wholly eliminate the Iranian conventional arsenal, “I said, ‘Well, what am I going to do? Am I going to let Saudi Arabia have missiles but they can’t have them?’”
Ted Cruz slams Iran deal: Not a good idea to give millions to lunatics
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/428810
Senators Ted Cruz and Bill Cassidy condemn President Trump’s Iran deal, labeling its $300 billion fund a historic blunder.
Wednesday, June 17, 2026
Trump’s deal is a catastrophic capitulation to Iran’s aggressors, leaves Israel vulnerable and constrained
In the US president’s reality-challenged view, Israel is an ingrate and a warmonger, while Iran’s mass-murdering leaders are ‘very rational.’ They are indeed all too rational, and he, clearly, is not