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* Alan Dershowitz and Andrew Stein: Open Letter to President Trump Urging Him to Prevent an Iranian Nuclear Arsenal
* Melanie Phillips: The Gold-Plated Peacenik in the White House


** Open Letter to President Trump Urging Him to Prevent an Iranian Nuclear Arsenal ([link removed])
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by Alan Dershowitz and Andrew Stein • May 20, 2025 at 5:00 am
* There can be no reasonable doubt that Iran's mullahs are determined to obtain nuclear weapons, despite their assurances to the contrary. Nor can Israel, which is the intended target of an Iranian bomb, be expected to rely on deterrence or containment. Iran must be prevented from achieving their dangerous goal.
* [U]nless your deal includes the complete and total destruction of all Iranian nuclear facilities, there will be no guarantee that its scientists could not surreptitiously use civilian nuclear infrastructure to build military weaponry. The only deal that would prevent this catastrophe would be one modeled on the agreement made with Libya made back in 2003. That deal completely dismantled Libya's nuclear facilities and made it impossible for them to weaponize nuclear energy infrastructure. Anything short of that will create an unacceptable risk.
* We urge you to use your incredible negotiating skills to achieve the goal that you have set out: namely a 100% certainty that Iran will never get a nuclear bomb.

Pictured: Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian stands on the dais along with senior military officers, as a Sayyad ballistic missile passes by during a military parade, in Tehran on September 21, 2024. (Photo by Atta Kenare/AFP via Getty Images)

Dear Mr. President,

You are about to make a decision for which you will be remembered by history. Your legacy will either be as a world leader who saved, or failed to save, many lives. The decision concerns Iran's intention to develop a nuclear arsenal. There can be no reasonable doubt that Iran's mullahs are determined to obtain nuclear weapons, despite their assurances to the contrary. Nor can Israel, which is the intended target of an Iranian bomb, be expected to rely on deterrence or containment. Iran must be prevented from achieving their dangerous goal.

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** The Gold-Plated Peacenik in the White House ([link removed])
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by Melanie Phillips • May 20, 2025 at 4:00 am
* [I]f Qatar could force Hamas to release Alexander, then it could have got the other hostages released, too. That's because Qatar is Hamas. Yet the Americans have fawned over the Gulf state and praised it to the skies.
* It's hard to see these [gifts] as anything other than inducements to persuade Trump to advance Qatar's interests. Doha has other links to the Trump administration, of which the most egregious is that Trump's Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff, who has gushed over Qatar in cloying terms, is in its debt. In 2023, Qatar's sovereign wealth fund bought out his faltering investment in New York's Park Lane Hotel for $623 million.
* Qatar represents the Muslim Brotherhood, the Islamist organization that is intent upon conquering the West for Islam. It is pursuing this aim by turning not just Witkoff but America and Britain into its hopelessly compromised debtors.
* The Free Press has reported that Qatar has spent almost $100 billion to advance its interests in the U.S., in Congress, colleges and universities, newsrooms, think tanks and corporations — in other words, to suborn America.
* Saudi support for al-Sharaa is doubtless to prevent Iran from again using Syria as its puppet. While Iran's eclipse in Syria is welcome, its replacement by the Islamist Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan as the resident strongman is hardly a cause for celebration.
* While the clock is ticking and they [Iran] are racing to build the bomb, they're dangling Trump at the end of a string to buy time to rebuild the air defenses that Israel destroyed last October. If Trump isn't careful, he's going to end up in exactly the same bad place as his left-wing foes...
* There's no doubting Trump's genuine commitment to Israel and the Jewish people. But it's now clear that he has an almost messianic belief that he can end all wars and bring peace to the world through his ability to make deals. He thinks that he can make even the most bloodthirsty tyrants an offer they can't refuse. He doesn't care about the justice of a cause. He just wants to stop the killing.
* [T]he alternative to imposing Western values on the Arab world is not choosing to ignore the attempt by elements of that Arab world to impose Islam on the West. The correct course of action is, as it always has been, to fight and defeat these threats to Western interests.
* Trump says he doesn't have enemies. Where others see threats, he sees only financial opportunities.
* The inconvenient truth, however, is that some people are out to destroy America and the West. If Trump doesn't regard these as enemies, he will leave America and the West defenseless against attack.

It's hard to see Qatar's gifts as anything other than inducements to persuade President Donald Trump to advance its interests. Qatar represents the Muslim Brotherhood, the Islamist organization that is intent upon conquering the West for Islam. Pictured: Trump and Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani at a state dinner in Doha, Qatar on May 14, 2025. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images)

When Donald Trump won the U.S. presidential election last year, many in Israel thought they'd dodged a bullet. The Democratic Party was viscerally hostile to Israel, while Trump was considered the greatest friend the Jewish state had ever had in the White House.

Now the Israelis are wondering whether they have escaped one nightmare to find themselves in another.

They were blindsided by the Trump administration's decision to stop attacking the Houthis after the Islamist group promised to end its attacks on shipping in the Red Sea while continuing to fire missiles at Israel.

The Israelis were also cut out of the hostage deal that secured the release of 21-year-old American-Israeli hostage Edan Alexander. Of course, the release of any hostage is a source of profound relief. But many were shocked that the United States dealt with Hamas directly to get an American citizen out, while Hamas ditched a broader hostage deal that was on the verge of being clinched.

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