The New Shul of America

12/09/2025

Very difficult to see the difference between the two:

Nick and Tuck

Nick: https://worldisraelnews.com/watch-antisemite-nick-fuentes-reaffirms-hitler-was-really-f-ing-cool/

And now Tuck:

“I’ve never taken anything from your country and don’t plan to,” Carlson said to Thani. “I’m an American and a free man, and I’ll be wherever I want to be.”

09/10/2025

Hamas Leadership Eliminated in Israeli Strike

Summary

• Israel struck with precision, guided by flawless intelligence.

• Qatar was notified only seconds before the attack—far too late to react or shield Hamas leaders.

• The Hamas leadership in the targeted building is gone—buried beneath the rubble.

• Bodies recovered so far (including Khalil’s son and his security cadres) were clearly outside the meeting, explaining why they were found intact.

• Recovery of the remaining bodies or body parts could take days, even weeks.

• Qatar has sealed off the site, blocking media access and conducting the operation in complete secrecy.

• Washington’s response under the Trump administration seeks to calm a visibly shaken Qatari Emir.

• Hamas as an organization is finished. What remains are armed fighters inside Gaza—still a threat, but leaderless.

• The question of mediation looms large. Saudi Arabia may step in, but Turkey almost certainly will not.

09/10/2025

One mentally unstable the other mentally destabilizing.

09/10/2025

Facts are critical:

A little background on the Qatar involvement in the “mediations” for a CeaseFire between Israel and Hamas.

Israel never consented to Qatar being a "mediator" of ceasefire negotiations. Qatar was host and chief financial supporter of Hamas, and was therefore unsuitable as a mediator. The choice of Qatar was a stupid decision by President Joe Biden, made against Israeli objections.

Throughout the "mediation" process, Qatar favored Hamas, defended Hamas, and advised Hamas privately on strategy, all of which undermined the negotiations, resulting in numerous Israeli objections.

This tension came to a head in the summer of 2025, after both Israel and the United States formally departed from the ceasefire negotiations. At that point Israel and the United States considered the negotiation process terminated. There literally were no negotiations.

What then happened was total treachery. Qatar and Egypt conspired with Hamas in the surprise announcement of a new ceasefire proposal, of which Israel had no prior knowledge. That proposal was entirely favorable to Hamas and had no chance of Israeli approval. It was designed to humiliate Israel publicly.

At that point, Israel formally notified Qatar that it was no longer a mediator of any negotiation process, as Qatar had betrayed the process. Israel made clear that any future ceasefire negotiations would not involve Qatar. Qatar was out.

Qatar then further betrayed any neutrality by again conspiring with Hamas, inviting Hamas officials to come to Qatar to "negotiate" another ceasefire proposal.

This was a move that Israel rejected as any kind of diplomatic activity. Israel had no choice but to target the Hamas officials in Qatar because they had no diplomatic cover. They were engaged in a conspiracy to undermine and attack Israel.

Perhaps Qatar now understands that it is no longer a "mediator." Any future collaboration with Hamas will be considered an act of war on Israel, and will be subject to Israeli military action. If Qatar further assists Hamas, Qatar will be considered a combatant.

08/21/2025

A rare 2,200-year-old gold coin has been discovered in an excavation at the Givati Parking Lot in the City of David, Jerusalem. The quarter-drachma, made of 99.3% pure gold, bears the portrait of Queen Berenice II, wife of Ptolemy III, and dates to 412–246 BCE. This is the first coin of its kind ever uncovered in an archaeological excavation, and only about 20 such coins are known worldwide. Its Greek inscription, “of Queen Berenice,” is especially rare, as it presents the queen not merely as consort but possibly as a ruler in her own right.

According to researchers, the coin was likely minted in Alexandria, possibly as a grant to soldiers in the Third Syrian War. Its discovery in Jerusalem provides fresh insight into the city’s significance under Ptolemaic rule. Contrary to the long-held view that post-destruction Jerusalem was a small, impoverished town, this find, along with other mid-3rd century BCE remains, reveals a city undergoing recovery and reintegration into the political, cultural, and economic centers of the period.

Picture credit: Israel Antiquities Authority and City of David.

08/10/2025

https://www.facebook.com/share/1Yw736jS4R/?mibextid=wwXIfr

A Hamas leader says new global recognition for Palestinian statehood is a reward for the Oct. 7 massacre.

07/15/2025

Discovered through Tel Aviv University initiative, sacred Ge'ez-language texts—central to Beta Israel religious life—preserved by Ethiopian-born kesim and represent earliest surviving examples of Orit tradition, long obscured from scholarly and public view

https://bit.ly/40l9BXj

Tel Aviv University | אוניברסיטת תל-אביב

07/07/2025

Who's buried in Grant's tomb? Ok, you've already heard that one. But here's a more complicated question - who's buried in Salome's tomb in Israel's Judean Foothills, which is about two thousand years old?

The problem is that there's more than one Salome, so there are two primary contenders.

The first is Queen Salome - not, my Talmudic scholar friends, Salome Alexandra (Shlomtzion Malka) - but the sister of King Herod. This Salome had an estate not far away, was partially involved in politics, and might well have been buried in this nearby cave.

The other contender - also a possibility - is the Salome who witnessed Jesus' crucifixion. And for centuries afterward, Christian pilgrims came and venerated the site as such. Now, which is the correct answer?

Recent research says the first is more likely. But let's just say I'm not as confident about it as I am about the tomb in New York's Riverside Park.

05/31/2025

This is just the nozzle of a Herodian oil lamp that we found in our wall. It’s just a sherd of pottery but we get two things from it.

First, it’s cool. That blackened edge means that the lamp saw usage. Someone lit this lamp to read by or walk to the bathroom or maybe just to tell old stories to their children.

Second, it helps us to date the wall in which it was found. Pottery styles changed, and this is especially so with lamps and the triangular spout is a dead giveaway for the Early Roman period. Little details like this, when viewed with the whole assemblage from the square, helps us to put our excavations into the correct chronological context.

05/31/2025

French President Emmanuel Macron is decompensating, psychologically and emotionally. His faulty moral sextant extends beyond his unwarrantable criticism of Israel.

French President Emmanuel Macron (right) loves violent psychopaths such as Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto. He has much less time for liberal, democratic states fighting Jihadists, such as Israel.

Macron has spent the past week condemning Israel’s blockade of Gaza, which Israel hopes will pressure the Jihadist Hamas into releasing the Israeli hostages it is still holding after more than 500 days.

Macon said, “The humanitarian blockade is creating a situation that is untenable on the ground. And so, if there is no response that meets the humanitarian situation in the coming hours and days, obviously, we will have to toughen our collective position.”

He said France was considering sanctions against Israel, and might recognize a Palestinian state unilaterally.

Israel’s foreign ministry replied with a statement accusing Macron spreading “blatant” lies. “President Macron’s crusade against the Jewish state continues. The facts do not interest Macron.”

With this Israeli-French diplomatic row getting so much news coverage, another damning Macron story may have slipped your notice, as it did most of the international media's and it speaks to Macron's reptilian sickness.

On his current tour of Southeast Asia, Macron awarded Frances' highest military or civilian honor, the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor, to Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto,

Oh, dear me.

For those unfamiliar with the Indonesian President, Prabowo is a fully actualized psychopath.

I spent six years as a foreign correspondent in Jakarta, including during the Indonesian Revolution in 1998, when Indonesia's brave students overthrew President Soeharto’s 32-year right-wing dictatorship.

During this rebellion, Prabowo, who was the President's son-in-law, commanded Indonesia's feared and often out-of-control Special Forces.

In 1998, he tried to crush the opposition by "disappearing" 22 democracy advocates. Some re-emerged weeks later with horrendous and sickening torture injuries, while 13 have never been accounted for.

This was Prabowo's message to other democracy activists. This is the company Macron keeps.

I personally saw Prabowo’s troops beat three student demonstrators at a protest into unconsciousness, or maybe to death. To this day, I still do not know.

I can close my eyes anytime I want and see the horror of soldiers tossing the limp demonstrators' bodies unceremoniously into an army van. It feels like it happened yesterday.

Prabowo was also responsible for razing East Timor (now Timor Leste) when the province voted to secede from Indonesia in 1999. Prabowo's scorched earth policy was done out of sheer malice and psychopathy.

The Indonesian army even murdered my friend, the Financial Times' correspondent Sander Thoenes, in cold blood. He was covering the vote in East Timor.

Ultimately, Prabowo was dismissed from the armed forces but, given he is now president, he has clearly paid no price at all for his sins.

It is a disgrace beyond words that Macron has awarded the thuggish Prabowo with France's highest honor. Prabowo should have served decades in jail for the most heinous human rights crimes.

Prabowo has no military accomplishments of which to speak, and he is manifestly too unstable for high office.

Judging by Macron's anti-Israel stance, his vile support for Hamas, and his strange admiration for Prabowo, the French president seems unhealthily attracted to psychotically violent leaders.

Shame on Macron. He stands for nothing. His sole achievement as president has been to drive record numbers of French voters to the Far Right and Far Left. France will live with the consequences of this for decades, if it manages to survive in its present form.

La cinquième république est au bord de l'extinction.

05/19/2025

“Colonizers,” you say?
One problem with that is we’ve got a LOT of receipts.

Here’s another one:

In 1993, archaeologists unearthed the Tel Dan Stele in northern Israel. This 9th-century BCE basalt stone bears an Aramaic inscription referencing the “HOUSE OF DAVID,” marking the earliest extra-biblical evidence of King David’s dynasty.

05/17/2025

"Pillar of the 2nd Temple" | When the Roman sacked Jerusalem and destroyed the 2nd Temple of the Jewish People, they repurposed huge portions of it - such as the pillar pictured - to build a replacement temple to Jupiter.

Today, Jewish children play in the courtyard that stands where the Roman Jupitor temple once stood, testifying for all to see that the Romans are no more. The eternal Jewish People will never be vanquished. עם משראל לי — no less.

-Old City, Jerusalem, 🇮🇱 Israel