Former Biden envoy Amos Hochstein says 'not everyone is Mamdani' in the Democratic Party. Hochstein, who was one of the prominent figures in managing contacts between Israel and Lebanon, laid out a complex picture of the year since the temporary ceasefire born after October 7, saying both Israel and US wanted to avert a land operation.

"No peace agreement with al-Julani," Chikli declared, referring to the former al-Qaida affiliate now leading Syria. "It a mistake to give him credit," he says, citing the massacres of Alawites and Druze. He further says Tucker Carlson "being paid to promote Sharia Law."

At the Israel Hayom summit in New York, former ambassador Gilad Erdan revealed that the Shin Bet security agency had informed him that the terrorists carried instructions to attack paramedics and ambulances. He argued that Israel had abandoned the battlefield of public diplomacy. Asked whether he planned to return to politics, he replied that there was much to fix in Israel and that he had always felt his purpose was to serve Israeli citizens.

Israeli war hero Avigdor Kahalani spoke at the Israel Hayom summit in New York and said he was unimpressed by the current talks between Jerusalem and the regime in Syria. “I don’t believe them. They want to kill us. But we can give up the summit of Mount Hermon,” he said. On Iran he added, “We had to defend ourselves, and in the future we will discover that this brought quiet.”

Malcolm Hoenlein, executive vice chairman emeritus of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, expressed concern at the Israel Hayom summit in New York over demographic shifts working against the Jewish community. And what about the Jews who voted for Mamdani? “He talked about the cost of living and energized them. It is not only a rebellion against Israel.”