GOOD NEWS FROM AMAZING ISRAEL FROM MICHAEL ORDMAN

https://verygoodnewsisrael.blogspot.com/
Another week, another dazzling compilation of Israel’s outsize contribution in medicine, technology, and science, in spite of the harsh conditions of war. rsk

POSITIVE NEWS IN A WAR

Rebuilding the Kibbutz. 50 young educators from the Hashomer HaTzair Labor Zionist youth movement have relocated to Kibbutz Nir Oz (see here previously) that was devastated by Hamas terrorists on 7 Oct 2023. Kibbutz chairman Tzvika Tesler said a prayer at a ceremony marking the start of the rebuilding process.
https://ejewishphilanthropy.com/kibbutz-nir-oz-the-hardest-hit-community-in-the-10-7-attacks-welcomes-50-new-idealistic-residents-as-it-looks-to-rebuild/ https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/414164
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rwqZ_uBUmI

German volunteers restore Metula guest house. A group of German volunteers, including descendants of Nazi families, went to Metula, a northern Israeli town damaged by war. Their goal: to help rebuild homes and support recovery efforts. Their message: “We came to fix, not to forget.”
https://worldisraelnews.com/watch-german-volunteers-help-restore-northern-israel-community/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4KPxwGGlFo

Parents volunteer to see their lone soldier children. 77 Parents of lone soldiers from the US, Russia and Argentina arrived as an organized group on the Birthright Israel volunteer program to see their children and assist the Jewish state. They had an emotional reunion on Aug 7 at the IDF base in Glilot Junction.
https://www.jns.org/parents-of-lone-soldiers-visit-in-volunteer-cohort-via-birthright-israel/

German Christians support Israel. To show faith and solidarity, young German Christians defied fear and public opinion to come to Israel and support the Jewish state. They sang in Hebrew, prayed at the Western Wall, and witnessed both the beauty and heartbreak of a nation under fire.
https://unitedwithisrael.org/watch-young-german-christians-visit-israel-to-show-support/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_1N1fEhQ50

More students than before the war. (TY Sam K) 23,700 students have returned to school in the Gaza envelope – an increase of approximately 2,000 since 7 Oct 2023. https://ground.news/article/back-to-school-data-in-the-envelope-number-of-students-returning-increased-by-2-000

ISRAEL’S MEDICAL ACHIEVEMENTS

Brain stem tumor removed through eye socket. Surgeons at Tel Aviv Sourasky (Ichilov) Medical Center performed Israel’s first-ever minimally invasive brain surgery through the eye socket. Surgeons successfully removed a rare skull base tumor without the need to open the skull.
https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/israel-performs-its-first-ever-eye-socket-brain-surgery-removes-rare-tumour-9195158/amp/1

Groundbreaking bacteria research. Hebrew University of Jerusalem scientists have developed a technique that distinguishes the precise subgroup of a bacteria strain that is causing infection. It explains why antibiotics and vaccines sometimes fail. The discovery can lead to more precise treatments.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/using-novel-method-to-compare-subgroups-israeli-researchers-unlock-bacterias-secrets/ https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(25)00915-8

No wasted medical trials. (TY Atid-EDI) Israel’s QuantHealth.ai (see here previously) has successfully simulated 350+ clinical trials, with 90% predictive accuracy. Its 23 therapeutic areas, include oncology, immunology, cardio-metabolic diseases, and gastroenterology. It saved one top 10 customer $31.4 million.
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250722764714/en/QuantHealth-Successfully-Simulates-350-Clinical-Trials-with-90-Accuracy-Delivering-%2431.4M-in-Savings-for-a-Top-10-Pharma-Company

Combating obesity. (TY WIN) The US FDA has approved generic liraglutide injection from Israel’s Teva. It copies Novo Nordisk’s obesity drug Saxenda, which costs over $1,300 per month. Liraglutide mimics the body’s glucagon-like peptide-1 hormone, suppressing appetite and triggering insulin release for up to 24 hours.
https://jewishbreakingnews.com/teva-wins-fda-approval-for-first-generic-weight-loss-drug/

Another award for OncoHost. (TY OurCrowd) Israel’s OncoHost (see here previously) has been selected as the Top Precision Oncology Solution for 2025 by Life Sciences Review. OncoHost’s PROphet® predicts how a specific immunotherapy treatment will perform on a cancer patient, from a single blood sample.
https://www.prnewswire.com/il/news-releases/oncohost-named-top-precision-oncology-solution-for-2025-302517239.html https://www.lifesciencesreview.com/oncohost

Prem baby returns to hospital. 24 years ago, Prof Simcha Yagel delivered premature baby Ruhama, weighing just 495 grams, at Jerusalem’s Hadassah Mount Scopus Hospital. Ruhama has just returned to the same hospital – to give birth to her first child – a boy. And Prof Yagel was present at that delivery too.
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/414035

PETER JENNINGS – The Diplomatic Folly of Recognising Palestine

https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/foreign-affairs/the-diplomatic-folly-of-recognising-palestine/

Anthony Albanese has taken one of the most consequential—and reckless—foreign policy steps of his prime ministership: announcing the decision to recognise Palestine as a state at the UN in September. The move will not bring peace, will not free a single hostage, and will almost certainly reward Hamas for its October 2023 atrocities.

The announcement was made in a chilly Parliament House courtyard on August 11. A prime ministerial media statement said that seventy-seven years ago Australia had supported UN Resolution 181 to create the State of Israel and a Palestinian state. Now, “the world can no longer wait for the implementation of that Resolution to be negotiated between the parties”.

Albanese was emboldened to bring forward recognition now on the basis of: “major new commitments from the Palestinian Authority, including to reform governance, terminate prisoner payments, institute schooling reform, demilitarise and hold general elections. The Palestinian Authority has also restated its recognition of Israel’s right to exist. The President of the Palestinian Authority has reaffirmed these commitments directly to the Australian Government.”

The Prime Minister said that “Australia’s position is predicated on the commitments we have received from the Palestinian Authority”, but the government is taking it on faith that the PA can and will take these steps. Recognition will happen in September at the UN in New York. Whatever the PA does, or fails to do, to implement these rather vague commitments, will happen after that time. 

Australia’s move had been some months in the making. In a departure from her normally bloodless delivery Foreign Minister Penny Wong told ABC Radio that “the reason for urgency behind recognition is this, there is a risk that there will be no Palestine left to recognise if the world does not act”. The statement is utter nonsense but shows that the government has a head of steam up on the issue and won’t be deterred by inconvenient facts. 

The Australian announcement was part of a co-ordinated effort involving a core group of countries, the UK, Canada and France, joined on occasion by other European nations, Japan and New Zealand. Four “joint statements” since June have been released, making the case that the war in Gaza must be ended “through an immediate and permanent ceasefire” and maintaining that “a negotiated two-state solution [is] the only way to guarantee that both Israelis and Palestinians can live side by side in peace, security, and dignity”.

Anthony Albanese has not yet managed to meet US President Donald Trump face to face, but he was able to put a call through to Mahmoud Abbas, the eighty-nine-year-old President of the Palestinian Authority, to discuss Gaza and a two-state solution. Albanese said: “It was a very constructive discussion … We agreed that we would meet in September in New York on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly.” Albanese also spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and acknowledged that Netanyahu had opposed his proposal to recognise Palestine. That’s hardly surprising given that Australia has subjected Israel to relentless political haranguing since the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023. 

Wong and Albanese are careful to put the case that there should be no role for Hamas in a Palestinian state and that the terrorist group should disarm and hand over the Israeli hostages. But our leaders quickly resort to the defence that there is little we can do to shape practical outcomes. Albanese told the ABC’s Laura Tingle in July: “Australia isn’t a central player in the Middle East, but what we can do is continue to do what we have done, which is to take a principled position.”

My contention here is that Australia’s “principled” position to provide recognition to a Palestinian state is an ill-considered policy, driven by domestic political considerations. Moreover, recognition that comes too early and without regard to the realities of the situation in Gaza and the West Bank has the potential to do serious damage. The ultimate winner from this Australian move will be Hamas.

BOMBSHELL: President Trump Was an FBI Informant Against Epstein Matt Margolis

https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/09/06/speaker-johnson-drops-bombshell-about-trumps-role-against-epstein-n4943403

House Speaker Mike Johnson made a stunning revelation Thursday in response to questions from CNN’s Manu Raju about President Donald Trump’s use of the term “hoax” to describe the ongoing controversy surrounding the Epstein files. In defending the president, Johnson disclosed that Trump had once acted as an FBI informant against Jeffrey Epstein—a fact that has never before been publicly acknowledged by a sitting congressional leader.

“What Trump is referring to is the hoax that the Democrats are using to try to attack him,” Johnson said. “He has never said or suggested or implied—I’ve talked to him about this many times, many times. He is horrified. It’s been misrepresented. He’s not saying that what Epstein did is a hoax. It’s a terrible, unspeakable evil. He believes that himself.”

Johnson then dropped the bombshell revelation.

“When he first heard the rumor, he kicked him out of Mar-a-Lago. He was an FBI informant to try to take this stuff down,” Johnson said, appearing to confirm for the first time that Trump had assisted federal authorities in building a case against Epstein.

The speaker emphasized that Epstein’s crimes had long disgusted Trump. “The president knows and has great sympathy for the women who have suffered these unspeakable harms. It’s detestable to him. He and I have spoken about this as recently as 24 hours ago,” Johnson explained. “What he’s talking about is the Democrats who are doing this with impure motives. If they cared so much about this, why didn’t they do something during the four years of the Biden administration when the Biden DOJ had all the records? They didn’t say a word about it. Now, they’re doing it for political purposes. Not everybody, but a lot of them, and that’s what the President’s frustrated about.”

TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME JOAN SWIRSKY

https://www.thepostemail.com/2025/09/06/a-fitting-psychiatric-diagnosis/

Since the very microsecond in 2015 when billionaire builder and TV star Donald Trump descended the escalator in NY City’s splendiferous Trump Tower with his gorgeous wife Melania by his side and pronounced his candidacy as a Republican for the presidency of the United States of America, each and every leftist, liberal, progressive (LLP] from all over the world went insane.

A big part of that insanity was fear. After a 15-year run hosting the mega-successful TV show The Apprentice, candidate Trump’s adversaries knew that they were up against a guy with not only international name recognition as an innovative real estate developer, but also brains, an Ivy League education, a billionaire who could not be bought, bribed or compromised, and who also had that rare and elusive X factor known as charisma.

In fact, it was the late political columnist and TV personality, who was also a psychiatrist, Charles Krauthammer, who originally coined  the phrase Bush Derangement Syndrome that ended up fitting candidate Trump so perfectly…hence, Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS). That “syndrome” was defined by Krauthammer as “the acute onset of paranoia in otherwise normal people in reaction to the policies, the presidency—nay—the very existence of”––in 2015 and beyond, Donald Trump.

In fact, Krauthammer, in an op-ed, commented that—in addition to general hysteria about Trump—the “Trump Derangement Syndrome” was the “inability to distinguish between legitimate policy differences and … signs of psychic pathology.”

The Jews’ coming civil war The majority are battling ultra-nationalists to their right and Israel-hating ‘progressives’ to their left. Joel Kotkin

https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/09/07/the-jews-coming-civil-war/

EXCERPTS ONLY 

Whether right or left, Muslim or Christian, anti-Semites speak of Jews as people who pull the strings in culture, politics and especially finance. They assume we are all united in this conspiracy. In reality, not only is there no conspiracy, we Jews are also as divided among ourselves as any other people.

The ‘progressives’

Most Jews continue to identify as Democrats in America, much as they once backed Labour in Britain, the Liberals in Canada and the Socialists in France. Left-wing Jews, like senator Bernie Sanders and those in progressive-dominated media and Hollywood, have already broken with Israel. The author David Grossman and other left-wing scholars have even embraced the ritual denunciation of Israel, as an ‘apartheid’ state and an inherently ‘genocidal’ regime.

In some ways, the progressives really are the new Herodians, heirs to that ignominious tradition of speaking yes to power which marked the days of Mark Antony to the end of the Julian dynasty. If pro-Roman Jews were seduced by classical Greco-Roman culture, progressive Jews have been influenced by the relentlessly anti-Israel coverage of media outlets like the Guardian, NPR, the BBC, Agence France Presse, CNN, MSNBC, Reuters, the New York Times and of course the state-controlled media of Russia and China. Outlets like the courageous Free Press may challenge, say, Hamas’s exaggerated claims of forced starvation. But such efforts have been ignored by the mainstream press, and treated with hostility by the progressive outlets further to the left.

Many left-leaning Jews seem more focussed on showcasing their virtue than seriously considering how Israel can deal with its murderous enemies. They also reflect the fact that, even before 7 October 2023, the majority of Jews disapproved of the current Israeli government. Netanyahu, a bungler whose failures on 7 October should have precipitated his downfall, is seen both by key Democrats and even many Jews as sustaining the war for his own political purposes. His regime has been described by the great Israeli historian, Benny Morris, as ‘the most corrupt’ regime in the Western world – an undoubted exaggeration, but with more than a grain of truth.

Amid the mainstream media’s unrelentingly anti-Israel coverage, support for the Jewish State among Democrats has fallen precipitously and is fading across the board, according to recent polling. Little wonder that universities, which were once major havens for Jews, have turned decisively against their Jewish students. Although Jewish himself, the head of the American Association of University Professors – the ultimate ‘confederacy of dunces’ – now also favours boycotts of Israeli professors. Tellingly, so-called progressives are not calling for the imposition of similar boycotts on the deeply repressive regimes of China, Russia, Iran or Qatar.

Today the majority of Senate Democrats, and even some candidates backed by Jewish-lobby giant AIPAC, oppose providing arms to Israel – a US ally in the midst of a war. Some, notably on the party’s leftist fringe, even embrace the kind of anti-Semitic memes that one also sees among French politicians like Jean Luc Mélenchon.

The ‘progressive’ animosity towards Israel is such that as many as 40 per cent of Jews may even vote for the openly anti-Zionist, pseudo-socialist Zohran Mamdani to be mayor of New York, the city with the largest Jewish diaspora in the world. This scion of Marxist royalty and favourite of Hamasniks has won the endorsement not only of anti-Israel politicians like senator Elizabeth Warren, but also of Jews like retiring congressman Jerry Nadler. He has garnered favourable coverage in the New York Times, too.

Jon Hartley I’m a Stanford Grad Student. The Graduate Student Union Is Trying to Get Me Fired. Progressive activist student unions are taking over our universities.

https://www.city-journal.org/article/stanford-student-union-graduate-workers

Graduate students enroll to teach, do research, and pursue knowledge, not to be conscripted into political organizations. Yet at America’s top universities, a new model of progressive campus unionism is rising—one that prioritizes progressive activism over workplace concerns like wages or benefits and coerces students into bankrolling causes many find deeply objectionable.

At Stanford University, the Graduate Workers Union—a local affiliate of the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE)—has demanded the dismissal of teaching and research assistants who refuse to join or pay union dues or agency fees. In June, students who had not paid them, including myself, received an ominous email titled “Termination Request” from union leadership, urging administrators to fire graduate workers for nonpayment.

Rather than defending student choice, Stanford promised—in a 2024 collective-bargaining agreement that it signed to avert a strike—to treat union membership as a condition of employment for teaching assistants and research assistants. Because California is not a right-to-work state, the contract now makes union membership or fee payment a condition of employment. That means Ph.D. students can’t teach or conduct funded research unless they subsidize the union.

The majority of union dues collected by the student union go to the national body, whose agenda extends far beyond typical concerns like wages or hours. The UE, for example, was the first national union to endorse the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel in 2015. It also advocates for defunding police, taxpayer subsidies for “gender-affirming care,” and other controversial causes. Its website prominently features a “political action” tab highlighting protests and lobbying campaigns like the anti-Trump “No Kings” protest.

Objectors have a few legal outs, but these lack teeth. Federal law technically allows graduate students to opt out of full membership by paying “agency fees” under the Supreme Court’s Communications Workers v. Beck (1988). However, those fees are nearly identical to regular dues and still end up in union coffers.

NIH Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya: Honesty and Transparency Will Get Better Results Than Vaccine Mandates

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/09/05/nih_director_dr_jay_bhattacharya_.html

NIH Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya told Newsmax on Thursday night that he supports Florida’s plan to end all vaccine mandates and researching concerns about vaccine side effects raised by HHS Secretary Kennedy.

Bhattacharya argued that mandates are not the most effective way to get the most people vaccinated. “The European strategy is different, and they’ve had better results than we do on essential vaccines like MMR,” he said. “In the UK, Sweden, and Denmark, all vaccines are voluntary. None of them have mandates for any of their vaccines. What they do have is public health that doesn’t lie to their people.”

“They’re not coercing people—they’re reasoning with them. I’m not making an announcement for the administration; I’m giving you my view as an epidemiologist. That seems the better approach: talk to people, show them the data, be honest when there are problems, and treat people like adults, especially parents, so they can make good decisions for their families,” Bhattacharya said.

“I don’t think the MMR vaccine causes autism, based on my reading of the scientific evidence,” he also said. “But I also know we don’t understand the rise in autism. The recent prevalence numbers are 1 in 31 kids; a few decades ago, it was 1 in 10,000. We really don’t know the etiology.”

“As NIH Director—at the behest of Secretary Kennedy and President Trump—I’ve ordered an honest evaluation of the causes of autism,” Bhattacharya said. “Through the normal NIH process, 250 research groups across the country competed, and we’ll select the top dozen based on scientific review. Those projects should be ready to start by the end of this month—in record time. We need to open our minds, ask the real questions, and get answers with excellent science. That’s the right way—instead of all this disputation.”

ROB SCHMITT, NEWSMAX: You saw [HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.] silenced a lot during this hearing as he attempted to disprove a lot of the allegations that were hurled at him. I thought that was so interesting—the people who never let somebody talk are trying to claim that they’re the good guys. That can’t be right.

DR. JAY BHATTACHARYA: Well, free speech suppression was a key tactic of public health during the pandemic. I can tell you from firsthand experience, so it wouldn’t surprise me. But I thought Secretary Kennedy got a lot of great points in—even though he wasn’t given much opportunity to respond.

Bangladesh Racing Toward a Caliphate by Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/21876/bangladesh-toward-caliphate

In an unprecedented escalation of Islamist persecution, Jamaat-e-Islami — the Bangladeshi ideological offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) — has begun imposing the jizya tax on Hindus and other non-Muslims, openly declaring its intent to replace the country’s secular democratic framework with Islamic sharia law.

Backed by Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence, and linked to global jihadist networks, including Al Qaeda, Jamaat-e-Islami’s move comes just months after a coup that brought Muhammad Yunus to power, triggering a rapid rise in radical Islamic influence. This development threatens not only Bangladesh’s fragile democracy but also poses a strategic security risk to South Asia and the wider free world.

In the United States, Jamaat-e-Islami maintains deep ties with the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA). According to the Observer Research Foundation, these organizations have succeeded in securing funding from U.S. federal agencies — particularly USAID, the Department of Agriculture, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).

In 2020, Sam Westrop documented in the Middle East Quarterly that millions of federal taxpayer dollars have flowed to US-based Islamist groups with alleged terror connections — a trend that continued even during the first Trump administration: “A variety of other dangerous Islamist groups continue to enjoy government approval and partnership. USAID openly urges Americans to donate to terror-linked charities such as LIFE for Relief and Development…”

Under interim head of government Muhammad Yunus, radical Islamist groups have grown emboldened, openly pushing for the transformation of the country into a theocratic state.

This vacuum has allowed ISIS and Al-Qaeda to expand their regional presence. Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence, seeing a “golden opportunity”, has intensified its subversive operations in both Bangladesh and other neighboring countries.

This development is not just a domestic issue — it is a warning to the world about the resurgence of militant Islamism in South Asia.

Bangladesh Racing Toward a Caliphate by Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/21876/bangladesh-toward-caliphate

In an unprecedented escalation of Islamist persecution, Jamaat-e-Islami — the Bangladeshi ideological offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) — has begun imposing the jizya tax on Hindus and other non-Muslims, openly declaring its intent to replace the country’s secular democratic framework with Islamic sharia law.

Backed by Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence, and linked to global jihadist networks, including Al Qaeda, Jamaat-e-Islami’s move comes just months after a coup that brought Muhammad Yunus to power, triggering a rapid rise in radical Islamic influence. This development threatens not only Bangladesh’s fragile democracy but also poses a strategic security risk to South Asia and the wider free world.

In the United States, Jamaat-e-Islami maintains deep ties with the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA). According to the Observer Research Foundation, these organizations have succeeded in securing funding from U.S. federal agencies — particularly USAID, the Department of Agriculture, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).

In 2020, Sam Westrop documented in the Middle East Quarterly that millions of federal taxpayer dollars have flowed to US-based Islamist groups with alleged terror connections — a trend that continued even during the first Trump administration: “A variety of other dangerous Islamist groups continue to enjoy government approval and partnership. USAID openly urges Americans to donate to terror-linked charities such as LIFE for Relief and Development…”

Under interim head of government Muhammad Yunus, radical Islamist groups have grown emboldened, openly pushing for the transformation of the country into a theocratic state.

This vacuum has allowed ISIS and Al-Qaeda to expand their regional presence. Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence, seeing a “golden opportunity”, has intensified its subversive operations in both Bangladesh and other neighboring countries.

This development is not just a domestic issue — it is a warning to the world about the resurgence of militant Islamism in South Asia.

In an unprecedented escalation of Islamist persecution, Jamaat-e-Islami — the Bangladeshi ideological offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) — has begun imposing the jizya tax on Hindus and other non-Muslims, openly declaring its intent to replace the country’s secular democratic framework with Islamic sharia law.

Backed by Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence, and linked to global jihadist networks, including Al Qaeda, Jamaat-e-Islami’s move comes just months after a coup that brought Muhammad Yunus to power, triggering a rapid rise in radical Islamic influence. This development threatens not only Bangladesh’s fragile democracy but also poses a strategic security risk to South Asia and the wider free world.

America First and Dealing with a Recalcitrant Putin Trump offered Putin a historic off-ramp to end the Ukraine war, but Putin spurned peace for Xi’s summit—leaving Trump to press Europe for tougher sanctions and real unity. By Fred Fleitz

https://amgreatness.com/2025/09/05/america-first-and-dealing-with-a-recalcitrant-putin/

It has now been three weeks since the historic Trump-Putin summit in Alaska, where the two leaders met to discuss how to end the horrific war in Ukraine. President Trump has extended to Putin hospitality, patience, and incredibly generous terms to provide him with an off-ramp to end the war and Russia’s isolation. Despite Trump’s peacemaking efforts, Putin has not only spurned him and continued the war but also attended a showy summit convened by Chinese President Xi Jinping, where Putin expressed his defiance of U.S. peace efforts and flaunted a closer relationship with China and North Korea.

Putin’s recalcitrance requires a robust response from President Trump to promote peace and reaffirm America’s global leadership. This should be a carefully calculated America First policy initiative to pressure Putin to end the war and promote diplomacy while keeping U.S. troops out of Ukraine. Trump also must demand that Europe do much more to pressure Russia to end the war.

Naturally, President Trump’s political opponents and the mainstream media are blaming Trump for Putin’s decision to continue the war. This criticism is unfair. Trump and his senior officials went to great lengths to give Putin an honorable way to halt the war, along with post-war diplomatic and trade opportunities to end Russia’s isolation and bring prosperity to Russia. God gave man free will and the ability to make right and wrong decisions. President Trump is not responsible for Putin’s choice to make the bad and irrational decision to ignore his peace offer and continue the war.

Chinese President Xi hosted a summit meeting of the do-nothing Shanghai Cooperation Organization this week, which Trump’s political opponents and the mainstream media used to attack his foreign policy and Ukraine peace efforts. Photos of Xi, Putin, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi cheerfully greeting each other and holding hands at the summit—along with a massive Chinese military parade—were cited as evidence of a new world order that is arising due to opposition to President Trump’s foreign policy, especially his tariff policy.