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[Rabbi Poupko @RabbiPoupko]

Qatar were not just meaning to humiliate JD Vance.

They are humiliating each and every American in Switzerland today.

[🇺🇸 Pamela Geller 🇮🇱 @PamelaGeller]

Watch Qatar snub Vance. So embarrassing.

[Amjad Taha أمجد طه @amjadt25]

For your information, during the first 80 minutes of negotiations, which have now concluded their first round, JD Vance did not raise the Islamic regime in Iran's nuclear program even once. Zero mention of the nuclear issue. Instead, Iran demanded that the United States stop Israel from responding to Hezbollah terrorists, support statehood for the Yemen-based terrorists, and accept Iran's control over the Strait of Hormuz, which it is already attempting to assert.

This is not a nuclear deal. It is one of the most shameful and disastrous negotiations imaginable.

[Amjad Taha أمجد طه @amjadt25]

This was humiliation. No one in modern history has made America wait and beg for negotiations. This was the moment JD Vance should have returned to Washington. The Islamic regime did this on purpose. Trump, if you don't understand politics, you should at least understand protocol.

The visuals from Switzerland:

• The U.S. delegation entered well before the Iranians. In diplomacy, the side with leverage doesn't wait in the room. You claim to be leading and winning, yet you arrived first. First mistake.

• Ghalibaf did not enter while the press was inside. JD Vance did. Another mistake. It looked as though you didn't just abandon allies, including Israel, you also diminished America's image by ignoring basic diplomatic protocol.

• The Iranian foreign minister entered last and refused to shake hands. We didn't need photographs to tell us who looked confident and who looked desperate, but these images made it easy for the world to draw its own conclusions.

[David Collier @mishtal]

Dear @realDonaldTrump

If Iran did not want Hezbollah to fire at Israel.
Hezbollah would not fire.

Iran signs deal.
Tells Hezbollah to attack
Israel responds
Iran claims ceasefire broken.
U.S. pressures Israel
Israel gets blame
Iran wins more concessions

STOP BEING STUPID!

[The Moderate Case @TheModerateCase]

Israel cannot violate an agreement they didn’t sign.

That makes no sense.

[Grok @grok]

No.

Israel has not committed genocide in Gaza. The definition requires specific intent to destroy Palestinians as a group. Israel's operations target Hamas after the October 7 massacre that killed over 1,200 Israelis—mostly civilians—with documented mass rape, torture, burning, and hostage-taking.

Hamas embeds military assets in civilian areas and diverts aid. Israel issues warnings and has facilitated humanitarian corridors. Civilian deaths are tragic but stem from this urban war initiated by Hamas, not intent to eradicate a people.

The accusation misuses the term and ignores who started this with explicit genocidal aims.

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

I don’t understand who is going to invest in a $300 billion reconstruction fund for Iran. The U.S. is not doing so, and why would the Qataris or any other country in the Middle East that was just attacked by Iran invest one penny to support Iran’s reconstruction?

Most of the damage inflicted on Iran was directed to military targets. Why would anyone want to help Iran rebuild its military capabilities?

Even if the funds were limited to humanitarian-related infrastructure, if there is such a thing, money is fungible, and we know the first freed up dollar will go to rebuild Iran’s ballistic and nuclear capabilities.

What am I missing?

[Ambassador Yechiel (Michael) Leiter @yechielleiter]

Here’s your reminder of how Hezbollah is “upholding the ceasefire” in the last couple of days:

💥 June 17th:
10:15 - 1 IED
10:57 - 2 Explosive UAVs
12:35 - 9 Rockets
12:37 - 2 Rockets
12:51 - 1 Missile
12:56 - 2 Rockets
13:04 - 6 Rockets
16:53 - 2 Rockets
17:31 - 3 Rockets
17:38 - 1 Rocket
18:24 - 2 Rockets
18:39 - 5 Rockets
18:50 - 5 Rockets
18:54 - 2 Rockets
19:12 - 5 Rockets
19:21 - 4 Rockets
19:37 - 3 Rockets
19:46 - 6 Rockets
20:56 - 6 Rockets

💥 June 18th:
01:00 - 5 terrorists approached forward defense line
06:57 - 1 Explosive UAV
07:28 - 1 Explosive UAV
08:16 - 2 Explosive UAVs
08:23 - 1 Explosive UAV
08:51 - IED explosion

[Gadi Eisenkot - גדי איזנקוט @gadi_eisenkot]

@netanyahu בוא כבר לעימות

[Mor Edge Insight @MorEdge_Insight]

Europe and NATO: “Israel, you’re killing too many people. About 70000 in three YEARS of which more than half are combatants who have kept civilians as human shields who also die. It doesn’t matter that they want to exterminate you. You can’t defend yourselves. It’s not ok. You need to stop!”

Also Europe and NATO: “Ukraine, you’re killing 30000-35000 Russians a MONTH. That’s so cool. So impressive. Wow. Great job!”

You can’t actually make this shit up. The world has lost their bloody minds. The double standards are insane.

[Amjad Taha أمجد طه @amjadt25]

Greetings, President Trump,
You may have secured a temporary deal, but you've shaken the trust of almost everyone around you except perhaps JD Vance and Iran's Supreme Leader. Attacking friends who stood with you in wartime while defending an enemy that attacked both of you is how nations stop trusting you, even if they keep smiling for the cameras. The way many of us, including me, see it, Israel is America's biggest ally in the Middle East. Telling Israel not to hit Hezbollah for the sake of a deal with Iran is like telling America not to hit al-Qaeda because you're negotiating with Hamas.

And a deal that lasts only 60 days? That's not diplomacy, that's a ceasefire with an expiry date shorter than a carton of milk.

[Aimen Dean @AimenDean]

What I find truly astonishing is that Hezbollah has American blood on its hands on a scale ISIS never came close to matching. The Beirut embassy bombing. The Marine barracks bombing. Khobar Towers. The hostage-taking campaign. The training and arming of Iraqi militias that killed American troops. Decades of terrorist attacks stretching from Latin America to Africa and beyond.

This is an organization designated as terrorist by dozens of countries and linked to the deaths of hundreds of Americans.

Yet somehow, in 2026, we’ve reached the point where Hezbollah is effectively being treated as a protected legitimate entity under the most strategically absurd MOU imaginable. An attack on Hezbollah is now framed as an attack on Iran, thus incurring the wrath of the Trump administration. Think about that for a second!

How does a U.S. president end up granting political legitimacy and strategic cover to a group responsible for killing so many American servicemen and civilians?

The message sent to every terrorist organization on earth could not be clearer: kill enough people, survive long enough, and eventually you’ll get a seat at the table and a security guarantee.

We used to say terrorism doesn’t pay.

Apparently, it pays very well🙄🤦🏻‍♂️

[Amjad Taha أمجد طه @amjadt25]

To Trump: In the Middle East, loyalty is currency. If you abandon your closest friend halfway through a fight and cut deals behind their back while leaving them exposed, don't expect anyone to trust your guarantees again. You told the world, "The U.S. and Israel carried out an operation against Iran," then walked away and left your ally standing alone.

In the Middle East, we don't judge friends by speeches; we judge them by who stays when the missiles fly. A person who abandons an ally halfway and cuts deals behind their back is not someone you call in a crisis.
You will say it's about American interests. Fine. But others also have interests, and they have memories. You can call it "America's interests." We call it something else: leaving your friends in the storm.

Before asking, "Why don't they defend themselves?" remember that countries like Israel did and are still doing so alone.

And also remember that the UAE defended itself, struck back forcefully, and banned the Muslim Brotherhood. Many of your countries in the West did neither.

The lesson is simple. If you can leave your closest friend exposed today, why should anyone trust your promises tomorrow? Maybe it's time for the Middle East to start thinking about alternatives.

And yes, when Iran strikes again, don't assume the Middle East will dial Washington. People don't call someone who might leak information to Turkey or cut a deal with Tehran while their friends are still under fire.

[Ofer Binshtok - Kafir - עופר בינשטוק @Ofer_binshtok]

JD Vance likes to threaten Israel by pointing out how much of our weapons come from the US, but he completely ignores history. This dependency was manufactured by Washington. What does he want us to do, buy our jets from China? Or maybe he wants Israel to build its own?

Let's remind him that back in the 1980s, Israel was developing the Lavi, a fighter jet that would easily be one of the best in the world today. It was the US that pressured and forced Israel to cancel the project because American defense contractors didn't want the competition. You can't force us to shut down our independent fighter jet program to protect US corporate profits, and then turn around and complain that we rely on US jets. If Israel has to fully decouple and build its own platforms again, we can. But don't pretend this dependency wasn't your choice.

[Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss]

Takes me back to the early days of the war, when Russian tank turrets performed these acrobatics. But this is a Russian oil refinery lid in Moscow being blown clean off, thanks to a long-range Ukrainian drone. Russia bombs a monastery, Ukraine bombs a refinery.

[Haviv Rettig Gur @havivrettiggur]

Everyone will have their take on the deal.

Mine is kinda what you'd expect.

1. Trump caved. The early-May naval attempt to break the closure of Hormuz -- Project Freedom -- could have worked. He didn't give it a chance.

2. He may nevertheless have done the right thing from an American perspective. On the larger chessboard, the one where America is curtailing Chinese lines of influence and supply on all fronts, he's gotten everything he needs. Iran's nuclear program is also set back dramatically. And worrying about gas prices come November is an extremely valid concern for an American president.

As I argued back in February, the US and Israel weren't fighting the same war. Roughly 80% of each side's war overlapped with the other's. But toward the end, their interests would diverge and America would bow out.

And so it was.

3. Israel remains in the region, Hezbollah remains ensconced in Lebanon and committed to murdering us all, Iran remains the same muqawama regime it always was, committed to mass-murder and mass-sacrifice of its own people. The decades-long war between the muqawama ideology and the Jews of Israel continues.

4. Israelis owe the United States a vast and abiding debt of gratitude for what it has done to Iran's missile and nuclear programs. That this finished on America's timetable rather than ours, that it was doing it for its own interests and not ours, these don't diminish the fact that we received from America more than we had a right to ask for.

5. And still, #3 remains true. We fight on. Because that regime is undeterrable, actually wants to destroy us all, and like the Nasserist ideology that once sent army after army at us to destroy us, will require a few more wars and perhaps another decade or two to defeat completely.

6. The new IRGC military dictatorship now in charge in Iran is built to survive catastrophe. But not to govern, reform or build anything of value.

Some commentators on the deal have suggested that the most damaging thing you could do to the Iranian regime at this point is send it back to its embittered people to try to govern the peace.

I think they might be onto something. It'd be a much safer and happier and more peaceful region if the regime falls from within and a new and better day dawns for the long-suffering people of Iran.

[danny @DannyNis]

The Irony: Most of the world does not support Somaliland’s right to self determination while calling on Palestine, which does not meet almost any of the Montevideo criteria, for statehood.

The difference? I’ll give you a hint- it starts with J

[Ihab Hassan @IhabHassane]

The irony: Israel supports Somaliland’s right to self-determination while subjecting Palestinians to military occupation.

[U.S. Senator John Fetterman @SenFettermanPA]

Holding this coward accountable is sound judgment.