French spy agency ditches Palantir

France’s DGSI will switch to a homemade alternative produced by ChapsVision

France’s domestic spy agency will swap software from US defense tech giant Palantir for a French-made alternative, Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu has said. Palantir, however, has said that the change won’t happen for years.

In a video statement released on Tuesday, Lecornu said that the General Directorate for Internal Security (DGSI) had hired French firm ChapsVision to “replace the American giant Palantir.”

Lecornu did not say when the switchover would take place. The DGSI has used Palantir software since 2016, and renewed its contract with the Silicon Valley defense firm last year. The current contract is set to expire in 2028, and Palantir insists that it will remain “fully in force” until then.

In a statement, Palantir said that its cooperation with the DGSI “continues under the existing contractual commitments and in full compliance with the highest standards of security, data protection, regulatory compliance and transparency.”

Palantir’s flagship product, Gotham, is an operating system that pulls together data – for example surveillance footage, archived case files, and reports from agents in the field – that would otherwise take an agency such as the DGSI days to sort through. It then uses AI to analyze this data to recommend targets for surveillance, arrest, or other law enforcement actions.

However, Palantir CEO Alex Karp’s close relationship with US President Donald Trump’s administration, and his recent ‘manifesto’ espousing American military supremacy, have panicked some European leaders. Last month, Germany’s domestic intelligence agency, the BfV, reportedly chose ChapsVision over Palantir to handle its data analytics.

The growing mistrust of Palantir comes amid a broader EU-wide push for what French President Emmanuel Macron terms “digital sovereignty.” Macron has taken this push further than most European leaders, with the French government ditching US videoconferencing software – including Zoom and Microsoft Teams – earlier this year, swapping Microsoft Windows for Linux, and leading prosecution efforts against Elon Musk’s X platform.

https://www.rt.com/news/641698-france-drops-palantir-chapsvision/

‘Most oppressed team’: Iran blasts World Cup treatment

Players say US visa problems and forced cross-border travel have left them exhausted during the tournament

Iranian players and coaching staff have accused World Cup organizers of forcing them to compete under unfair conditions, as US visa problems and travel restrictions continue to disrupt the team’s campaign.

The 2026 World Cup is being co-hosted by the US, Canada, and Mexico, with most matches taking place in the US. The Iranian team, however, has had to base itself in Tijuana, Mexico after abandoning plans for a training camp in Arizona amid visa and security concerns.

Iran drew 2-2 with New Zealand in Los Angeles on Monday, but the result was overshadowed by complaints over travel, immigration delays and recovery time. Winger Mehdi Torabi’s US visa also reportedly expired after the match because he was only issued a single-entry document for the tournament.

Team сaptain Mehdi Taremi said the Iranian team had wanted to arrive in Los Angeles two days before the game and remain overnight afterward to recover, but was not allowed to do so.

Instead, he said, the squad had to spend five hours travelling from Tijuana, undergo lengthy immigration checks, train while fatigued, play the match, and leave immediately afterward.

“Everything is like a disaster, actually, for us,” Taremi said.

Head coach Amir Ghalenoei also called Iran “the most oppressed” team at the tournament.

The remarks follow earlier complaints from Tehran that World Cup organizers had withdrawn Iran’s official ticket allocation days before the tournament, leaving the federation unable to provide seats to fans who had already made travel plans. A number of Iranian support staff and media representatives have also been denied US visas.

https://www.rt.com/news/641687-iran-world-cup-unfair/

Multiple people reportedly shot inside Delaware hospital

2 workers reportedly shot inside Wilmington Hospital in Delaware; facility on lockdown

Two people were shot inside Wilmington Hospital in Wilmington, Delaware, on Tuesday afternoon.

Police officials say officers were called to the facility around 3:30 p.m.

Arriving officers found two gunshot victims. Their conditions have not been released.

https://abc7.com/post/2-workers-reportedly-shot-inside-wilmington-hospital-delaware-gunman-large/19311207/>>24724506

(Feb. 12, 2019 / JNS) Along with Iran, Israel is expected to sign a free-trade deal with the Russian-led Eurasian Economic Union, or EAEU, in the near future, according to officials in Jerusalem and Moscow.

https://www.jns.org/culture-and-society/israel-iran-to-join-russian-led-free-trade-agreement

FBI Raids Soros-Connected Ohio Voter Mobilization Group In Fraud Investigation

The Ohio Organizing Collaborative received over $10M in revenue in 2024 from top Democratic-aligned donors

Federal investigators raided a Soros-funded voter mobilization group on Thursday as part of a reported ongoing fraud investigation.

FBI agents raided the headquarters of the Ohio Organizing Collaborative (OOC) on June 11 and deployed across the state to question members of the organization, sometimes bearing subpoenas or demanding to seize electronic devices, MS Now reported. A day later, multiple sources familiar with the events told CBS News that the operations were part of a fraud-related investigation.

The raid marks the latest flashpoint in the Trump administration’s expanded use of federal law enforcement to scrutinize alleged voter fraud and election-related misconduct, a push cheered by conservatives who have long argued such cases were under-enforced and condemned by Democrats and voting rights groups who say the effort risks turning the FBI into a political weapon against liberal voter registration operations.

OOC is a nonprofit organization that works closely with the Democratic Party in Ohio on voter mobilization and registration efforts. It is especially active in ballot referendums, tapping its vast donor network that includes the Soros family's philanthropies, to do so.

The Department of Justice has declined to comment on the specifics of the purported investigation.

"Search warrants are authorized by a judge and anything said by any organization or others in the media is unfounded speculation, as the target of any investigation is not privy to the search warrant affidavit until after indictment," a DOJ official told Fox News Digital.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fbi-raids-soros-backed-voter-groups-headquarters-reported-fraud-probe

Isabel Maxwell: Israel’s “Back Door” Into Silicon Valley

By moving in “the same circles as her father” and vowing to “work only on things involving Israel,” Isabel Maxwell became a pivotal liaison for the entry of Israeli intelligence-linked tech firms into Silicon Valley with the help of Microsoft’s two co-founders, Paul Allen and Bill Gates.

Many were surprised to learn earlier this month that the key co-conspirator in Jeffrey Epstein’s intelligence-linked sexual blackmail operation, Ghislaine Maxwell, had been in hiding in New England since Epstein’s arrest and subsequent “suicide” last summer. Her recent arrest, of course, has returned attention to the Epstein scandal and to Ghislaine’s ties to the entire operation, in which she played a central and crucial role, arguably more so than Epstein himself.

Ghislaine was first reported to be living in New England at the mansion of her alleged boyfriend Scott Borgeson on August 14th of last year. Though Maxwell is believed to have stayed there until purchasing the nearby New Hampshire home where she was arrested, attention from her presence on the East Coast was immediately and sensationally re-directed to the West Coast when, a day later on August 15th, the New York Post published a picture allegedly depicting Maxwell reading a book on “CIA operatives” at an In-N-Out Burger in Los Angeles, California. The photo was later revealed to have been photoshopped and a fake, but ultimately served its purpose in distracting from her actual location in New England.

While the media frenziedly covered the fake In-N-Out Burger photo, the appearance of an unexpected visitor nearby Borgeson’s mansion succeeded in largely slipping under the radar. On August 18th, Ghislaine’s sister Christine was spotted “packing up a number of bags” into a SUV just a few miles from Borgeson’s “secluded beachfront” home. Christine, who currently lives and works in Dallas, Texas, declined to comment on why she was visiting the exact area where Ghislaine was allegedly hiding at the time.

Out of the seven Maxwell siblings, Ghislaine Maxwell has undoubtedly received the bulk of media scrutiny both in recent years and arguably ever since the suspected homicide of the family patriarch, Robert Maxwell, in 1991. In the years since his death, Robert Maxwell’s close ties to Israeli intelligence and links to other intelligence agencies have been documented by respected journalists and investigators including Seymour Hersh and Gordon Thomas, among others.

While Ghislaine’s own ties to intelligence have since come to light in relation to her critical role in facilitating the Jeffrey Epstein sexual blackmail operation. Little, if any attention, has been paid to her siblings, particularly Christine and her twin sister Isabel, despite them having held senior roles at the Israeli intelligence front company that facilitated their father’s greatest act of espionage on Israel’s behalf, the sale of the bugged PROMIS software to the U.S. national laboratories at the heart of the country’s nuclear weapons system.

Not only that, but Christine and Isabel later became directly involved with technology-based business ventures that directly involved Ghislaine during the very period she worked with Epstein on behalf of Israeli and U.S. intelligence to ensnare powerful U.S. political and public figures in a sexual blackmail scheme involving minors. At the time, Ghislaine described her profession to a number of newspapers as “an internet operator.” Then, after this venture’s multi-million dollar sale to a competitor, Christine and Isabel became involved with successors to the PROMIS software scandal that were closely tied to U.S. intelligence and Israeli intelligence, respectively.

Very long dig use link

https://unlimitedhangout.com/2020/07/investigative-series/the-maxwell-family-business-espionage/

Britain's Jewish Culture Month aims to move conversation beyond October 7

The month, which wrapped up Tuesday, sought to make clear that British Jewish identity is, and always has been, about far more than conflict. “We’re not defined as a community by pain,” Ma’anit said.

In the almost three years since the October 7, 2023, Hamas invasion of Israel, Great Britain has seen “a relentless focus on everything to do with the Jewish community in the public domain, and it’s about antisemitism or Israel,” said Adam Ma’anit, the communications manager for the Board of Deputies of British Jews.

Over the past four weeks, a flurry of performances, lectures and art exhibits has been an opportunity to move past that.

The Board of Deputies, which represents a community of diverse and often competing views under its umbrella, created Jewish Culture Month, a first-of-its-kind series held under the banner of “Less Oy, More Joy.” The month was designed to bolster Jewish communal confidence and to introduce wider audiences to aspects of Jewish life that rarely make headlines.

The month, which wrapped up Tuesday, sought to make clear that British Jewish identity is, and always has been, about far more than conflict. “We’re not defined as a community by pain,” Ma’anit told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. “We’ve got great architects, writers, and musicians as well.”

Those artists were featured in more than 150 events over four weeks across the country at major museums and galleries , including London’s British Museum, Oxford’s Bodlein Library, Bath’s Little Theatre Cinema, Nottinghamshire’s National Holocaust Museum, and local synagogues and private homes nationwide.

Among them was The Klezmer Village Band, which introduced Jewish culture to primary schools in Plymouth. “We wanted to bring Jewish culture back into the community,” Plymouth Jewish Community Director Louise Clements said. “This is the first time in many years that something like this has happened here.”

One of the band’s musicians, Ilana Cravitz, also noted after the event that “music is a wordless language. People respond from inside - they stop thinking, they feel. And we really saw that today.”

British celebrities join Jewish Culture Month celebrations

Notables featured throughout the celebrations included British broadcaster and television personality Vanessa Feltz, who spoke at the opening at London’s Freud Museum; comedian Bennett Arron, who performed stand-up routines in Hampstead, London; and acclaimed British artist and vocal Israel critic Anish Kapoor, whose exhibit opening on Tuesday closed out the month.

“Part of Jewish Culture Month is about us celebrating our own culture and being proud, British Jews, and asserting ourselves in an environment where it has been the most challenging to be that very British Jew,” said Ma’anit.

The Holocaust Memorial Day Trust noted another aspect of the festival soon after it kicked off on May 16. “At a time when division and prejudice continue to affect communities across the country, initiatives like Jewish Culture Month can help build understanding and strengthen social cohesion,” it posted social media.

However, some thought it difficult to focus on social cohesion when discussing contemporary British Jewish identity without discussing how that identity dovetails with British Jews’ relationship with Israel.

It’s something that Jewish Renaissance, the online magazine of Jewish culture, raised ahead of the opening. Freelance writer and former Jewish Quarterly editor Matthew Reisz wrote that while there was definitely diversity in the program, “We seem unlikely to hear much about the deep divisions within the community, not least in relation to Israel/Palestine, or the crucial, though often tense dialogue with other minority communities on both shared and contentious issues.”

Ma’anit insisted that the choice was a deliberate one. “It’s not a rejection of Zionism or distancing ourselves from Israel,” he said. “Quite the opposite. The board’s leadership remains openly supportive of Israel and many of the figures involved in the project have deep personal and family ties to the country.”

https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/article-899631

American Jewish leaders across political spectrum express alarm at Trump’s Iran deal

On the right and the left, Jewish groups are expressing concerns about the deal that Trump and Iran announced on Sunday night, even as its terms have not yet officially come into focus.

In 2018, as former US president Barack Obama struck a deal with Iran to constrain its nuclear production, American Jewish groups were divided: Those on the right excoriated the deal, saying it left Iran a major threat to Israel, while those on the left were more supportive.

This time around, as US President Donald Trump has announced a new deal with Iran after months of war that the United States fought jointly with Israel, American Jewish groups are more unified: They aren’t happy.

On the right and the left, Jewish groups are expressing concerns about the deal that Trump and Iran announced on Sunday night, even as its terms have not yet officially come into focus.

Trump has emphasized that the deal reopens the Strait of Hormuz, which Iran closed after the war began on Febuary 28. US Vice President JD Vance also told ABC’s “Good Morning America” that the deal would include significant sanctions relief in exchange for Iran’s agreement that it would give up its nuclear weapons program.

But it’s not clear what concessions Iran has made on the nuclear front, while there are no indications other issues key to Israeli security, including Tehran’s ballistic missile program and proxy network, have been addressed. Though Israel and the US undertook the war jointly in February, Israel was not a party to the negotiations and has come under repeated criticism from Trump for jeopardizing talks with Iran.

'An admission of defeat by the US'

“At worst, it’s an admission of defeat by the United States,” said Halie Soifer, CEO of the Jewish Democratic Council of America, in a statement on Monday about the deal. The group was founded in 2017 as a successor to the National Jewish Democratic Council, which supported the Obama-era deal, called the JCPOA.

Soifer added, “Donald Trump was so desperate to get a deal with Iran that he was unabashedly willing to push Israel aside, demonstrating - yet again - that Trump has no loyalty or commitment to anyone other than himself.”

The right-wing Zionist Organization of America, meanwhile, expressed gratitude to Trump for taking on Iran but reacted to the deal as it had to the JCPOA, with great concern.

“We call on the administration to disclose the terms as soon as possible,” President Morton Klein said in a statement. “However, the little that we know is deeply problematic.”

Klein’s statement outlined a host of qualms based on reporting about the deal’s possible conditions, including about signs that Trump had agreed to a deal that omitted terms that Trump previously said repeatedly were essential for a US agreement.

“It makes no sense for the US to immediately give up its pressure on the Iranian regime - the blockade that was strangulating Iran economically - without obtaining immediate removal of Iran’s nuclear stockpile, decommissioning of Iran’s nuclear facilities, and destruction of Iran’s deadly missile stockpile,” Klein said.

The progressive group J Street opposed the war from the start and said it welcomed its conclusion.

"At the same time,” it said in a statement, “it is important to acknowledge a basic reality: This costly and illegal war achieved none of the sweeping objectives that were repeatedly invoked to justify it. … The tragedy is that diplomacy had already produced a workable framework. The JCPOA was effectively constraining Iran’s nuclear program until President Trump chose to abandon it.”

AIPAC, the pro-Israel lobby that was one of the strongest opponents of the JCPOA, has not issued a statement about the new deal. But it retweeted a comment from Florida Republican Sen. Rick Scott listing a set of objectives that it’s not clear the agreement achieves.

“Any deal we make with Iran needs to permanently end their nuclear program, end their missile program, and stop their decades-long terror funding,” Scott said.

https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/article-899530

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Where’s the money? Government and Israel lobby coy on big grants

Australia’s Jewish community received 49 times more funding per capita for security than Muslim Australians but where does the money go?

Where’s the money? The latest $176m in government grants awarded to peak Zionist body and Israel lobby group the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, that is? It was allocated for ‘community security’ but what is community security? Questions were put to Home Affairs and ECAJ.

Home Affairs did not address specific questions. ECAJ did not respond.

“Are any funds received under the Enhancing Security for Jewish Communities Program being used, either directly or indirectly, to support ECAJ’s lobbying, advocacy, legal, media or public communications activities? If so, please provide details.”

Questions and responses are published below. The public interest question at stake is whether government grant money is being spent by the Israel lobby – or its associates – suing Australian citizens such as Mary Kostakidis, Nick Reimer and John Keane in antisemitism cases.

An obscure associate

An MWM investigation previously revealed that more than $176m in Commonwealth security grants awarded to the Executive Council of Australian Jewry (ECAJ) were paid to an obscure association incorporated in the ACT – rather than a charity registered with the ACNC regulator or ASIC.

A further security grant of $22 million to ECAJ has been “committed but not yet awarded” by the government, bringing the total security grants awarded to ECAJ to $198 million.

The arrangement has prompted questions about transparency because ACT incorporated associations are not required to publicly lodge audited financial statements, unlike registered charities, which are required to report to the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission (ACNC).

https://michaelwest.com.au/wheres-the-money-government-and-israel-lobby-coy-on-big-grants/

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fuck off traitor

FBI foiled nothing and are acting as saviors

Musk’s Grok AI helped fire 2,000 missiles at Iran – Pentagon

The US Department of War casts xAI’s data centers as battlefield infrastructure of “paramount national security”

Elon Musk’s Grok AI has become an integral part of America’s war machine, and its data centers must be treated like munitions production plants in future conflicts, according to a sworn declaration by the Pentagon’s artificial intelligence chief.

The statement about Grok was submitted as part of an effort by US President Donald Trump’s administration to intervene in a lawsuit seeking to restrict the operation of xAI’s Colossus data centers in Memphis, Tennessee, over environmental concerns.

Cameron Stanley, the chief digital and artificial intelligence officer at the US Department of War, compared xAI’s computing capacity to weapons manufacturing, saying the company’s ability to operate data facilities “at massive scale” is “as foundational to our modern defense posture as traditional munitions production.”

Stanley revealed that Grok is a crucial part of Palantir-developed Maven Smart Systems (MSS), a platform that supports “targeting, intelligence, readiness, and recruitment,” as well as military planning and logistics.

“MSS frontier workflows enabled US forces to deploy over 2,000 munitions to 2,000 distinct targets within 96 hours during Operation Epic Fury,” he said, adding that xAI is one of just three enterprise providers able to sustain “mission-critical operations” across Secret and Top-Secret classified networks. He warned that if xAI’s Colossus 2 facility is shut down or deprived of power, the Pentagon’s capabilities would be impaired.

The reference to Maven places Grok inside a broader and increasingly controversial AI targeting ecosystem. The Pentagon’s Project Maven began as an algorithmic warfare initiative to help process battlefield data, while Palantir – one of Washington’s most entrenched surveillance and defense contractors – has marketed its software as an “AI-powered kill chain” promising “decision dominance from space to mud.”

The company’s role has drawn renewed scrutiny after reports that AI-assisted targeting contributed to a US strike in Minab that killed nearly 160 young schoolgirls. The school was reportedly selected based on outdated data processed through Palantir-linked systems incorporating Anthropic’s Claude AI. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said last week that the reported use of AI in the Minab strike did not necessarily violate the company’s “red lines,” stressing that a human made the final decision.

Palantir executives have openly embraced the company’s military mission. CEO Alex Karp said last year that Palantir’s purpose was “to scare enemies, and on occasion, kill them,” while the company’s recent manifesto declared that “hard power in this century will be built on software” and that a new era of deterrence “built on AI” is beginning.

https://www.rt.com/news/641700-grok-palantir-iran-targets/

Pro-Israel lawyers Goot, Stein, Wiener and Blashki should testify at Antisemitism Royal Commission over Lattouf ABC sacking

Lawyers for Israel WhatsApp group members Robert Goot, Nicky Stein, Deborah (Debbie) Wiener and Lindy Blashki and possibly many others should give evidence at the Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion to explain why they stalked and harassed Antoinette Lattouf when she worked at the ABC, which resulted in the ABC sacking her.

There were, and possibly still are, 156 members of the Lawyers for Israel WhatsApp group so how many have relevant evidence is unknown so I would suggest they all get subpoenaed by the Royal Commission as witnesses.

I lived at Bondi Beach and Bondi for 13 years, from 2006 to 2019, which when added to surrounding suburbs has Sydney’s largest Jewish population, and I can tell you for a fact that the biggest cause of antisemitism in Australia is fighting in the Middle East between Israel, Palestine and numerous other countries.

So, it should be no surprise that antisemitism has grown, given the United Nations has found that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinians in Gaza.

The second greatest driver of antisemitism in Australia, or very close to it, would be the various Israel-aligned groups, such as the Lawyers for Israel WhatsApp group, who are hunting people down to destroy their lives because they don’t like what they say.

The problem for these Israel-aligned groups, such as the Lawyers for Israel WhatsApp group, is that their actions have gained widespread media attention, and their disgraceful cowardly actions have been exposed in the national media for months and years.

A prime example is Antoinette Lattouf who was unlawfully sacked because ABC management caved to a coordinated frivolous and vexatious complaint campaign by pro-Israel lobbyists the Lawyers for Israel WhatsApp group.

Two other examples are writer Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah and Grace Tame.

The SMH reported on the 16th of January 2024:

The ABC sacked broadcaster Antoinette Lattouf after a high-level and co-ordinated letter-writing campaign from pro-Israel lobbyists that directly targeted the corporation’s chair, Ita Buttrose, and managing director David Anderson.

Dozens of leaked messages from a WhatsApp group called Lawyers for Israel show how members of the group repeatedly wrote to the ABC demanding Lattouf be sacked, and threatened legal action if she was not.

An ABC manager told Lattouf in the early afternoon of December 20 that she had been dismissed. Hours earlier, the WhatsApp group shared a letter from Buttrose saying she noted their concerns, and adding: “I have forwarded your email on to Chris Oliver-Taylor, the ABC’s chief content officer, who is dealing with this matter.”

The messages also reveal members of the group calling Lattouf’s lawyer, Josh Bornstein, who is Jewish, a “traiter” (sic).

The WhatsApp messages, obtained by this masthead, give an insight into how Lawyers for Israel used aggressive lobbying to try to exert influence at the ABC. A source with knowledge of events says the group was also involved in a campaign against the Sydney Theatre Company over a pro-Palestinian protest by some actors, but those messages had since been deleted.

https://kangaroocourtofaustralia.com/2026/06/14/pro-israel-lawyers-goot-stein-wiener-and-blashki-should-testify-at-antisemitism-royal-commission-over-lattouf-abc-sacking/

The Israel-Silicon Valley Nexus and the Penetration of U.S. Critical Infrastructure

While public discourse naturally gravitates toward the physical realities of the occupation and destruction in Palestine, a parallel, largely invisible architecture of control operates far beyond the checkpoints of Gaza and the West Bank. This digital infrastructure has actively penetrated our personal devices, corporate networks, and municipal utilities.

In this episode of Understanding Israel Palestine: Beyond the Walls, host Jeremy Rothe-Kushel investigates the technological front lines of geopolitics and cyber warfare. Joining the broadcast is independent researcher and former Congressional candidate in Washington State, Mary Silva, who helps map the massive concentration of U.S. technology research and development within Israel and analyzes the deep penetration of foreign espionage networks into American sovereignty.

Bridging the gap between the surveillance systems deployed on Palestinians and the espionage vulnerabilities faced by American citizens, this conversation examines the geopolitical outsourcing of U.S. national security.

Silva details how major tech conglomerates—including Microsoft, Google, and Intel—have functionally outsourced core development to veterans of elite Israeli military intelligence cohorts, such as Unit 8200 and the IDF’s Talpiotprogram. The analysis moves past surface-level electoral politics to expose the strategic dangers of embedded hardware backdoors, the proliferation of NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware, and how algorithmic suppression operates as a tool for narrative control in the current “information war.”

Crucially, this technological penetration is not restricted to federal intelligence networks. Silva highlights how local U.S. infrastructure—from smart-meter utility grids to public transit systems—is actively being compromised, often subsidized and locked in by legislative frameworks buried within the NDAA.

Key Episode Insights:

The Intelligence-to-Corporate Pipeline: How elite IDF veterans shape the core architecture and penetrate the supply chains of American government and civilian technology.

Legislating Dependency: The federal frameworks mandating the integration of foreign surveillance tech into local U.S. municipal grids.

The Export of “Combat-Proven” Systems: Unpacking how biometric and cyber-control tools, initially field-tested under military occupation, are repackaged as essential global security products.

The Information Battleground: A critical look at algorithmic suppression on platforms like X, and the mechanisms used to manage public perception during global multipolar realignments.

Mary Silva: https://www.marysilvaforcongress.com — info@marysilvaforcongress.com

https://beyondthewalls.substack.com/p/the-israel-silicon-valley-nexus-and-a00

Here Are The 3 Factions Slipping Poison Pills Into Trump’s Peace Process

President Donald Trump announced Sunday that the U.S. and Iran agreed to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to bring the months-long war to an end. The formal signing is planned to take place at a meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, on Friday.

The MOU is not a final, negotiated “peace deal.” But it is the first important hurdle in a longer process that could potentially end the costly war that began Feb. 28. Trump said he might send the MOU to Congress for review and that he’d read it aloud at a press conference once it is released to the public.

The details surrounding the MOU are scant. But the basic gist is that, barring a total breakdown, the MOU ends hostilities on all fronts (including Lebanon) and begins a 60-day period in which both parties can negotiate thornier issues: Iran’s nuclear program and uranium enrichment capabilities, the long-term arrangement for the Strait of Hormuz and whether Iran will keep its fee system permanently in place, and sanctions relief. An Iranian news outlet published a 14-point proposal purported to be the actual MOU, “electronically signed” by Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance. However, it’s unclear whether this information is credible.

The Israelis

The Israelis have made it known since Sunday that they have no intention of ending their occupation of Lebanon, even though it would appear that this is a crucial part of the MOU. Iran’s Supreme National Security Council said in a statement that “under the agreements reached, the war and military operations on all fronts, including Lebanon, are ended immediately and permanently.” Trump’s stinging and very public criticism of Israel and the IDF at the G7 summit on Tuesday also suggests that Lebanon is key to any future deal.

Yet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is digging in, insisting Israeli troops will continue to occupy Lebanon “for as long as necessary.”

“We established deep security zones around the state of Israel. We did this in Gaza, in Lebanon and in Syria,” he said at a press conference Monday. “And I want to make it clear: we will remain in these security zones … to protect our country.”

The Iran Hawks and Israel Firsters

Prominent neocons, Iran Hawks and pro-Israel voices on the right have come out of the woodwork in recent days, knives unsheathed, in a desperate attempt to pressure the Trump administration out of the peace process and return to full-scale war.

Marc Thiessen, a Fox News contributor and Washington Post columnist who has praised Trump at every turn since Feb. 28, referred to a leaked 14-point proposal as a “complete disaster” if true. Rather than directly criticizing the president, he framed the MOU as the “Vance peace deal,” even though Trump signed off on it. Meanwhile, Fox News host Mark Levin was furious that Israel got left out of the negotiating process.

The Iranian Hardliners

Al Jazeera reported Tuesday that hardliners in the Iranian regime have “shown their anger at the prospect of signing a deal with US President Donald Trump.” This faction believes Trump is the key culprit behind the assassination of former Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and General Qassem Soleimani, according to the outlet.

The hardliners reportedly do not want the regime to make any major concessions to the U.S., want full and permanent control over the Strait of Hormuz, and want U.S. troops to leave the region entirely. Some of these hardliners are associated with the political group Paydari Front, led by Saeed Jalili. Jalili was a longtime representative of Khamenei on Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, Al Jazeera reported. He is believed to be the main opponent to a deal.

On the other hand, moderates and centrists, who include Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, have pushed for a negotiated settlement that still secures Iran’s interests, Al Jazeera reported. Surviving members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps are also said to be playing a role behind the scenes in shaping negotiations, according to Al Jazeera.

https://dailycaller.com/2026/06/16/donald-trump-iran-mou-peace-deal-israel-netanyahu-neocons-iranian-hardliners/