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‘We Have Special Forces’: Netanyahu Unfazed By Global Threats Of Arrest

Via Middle East Eye

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Fox News on Tuesday that he was not too bothered by the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) arrest warrant for him, because Israeli special forces would protect him should any country try to take him into custody. 

“It scares me in this sense. For you, you travel internationally, God forbid you had a medical emergency, and you need to land, and you’re about to land in a country that recognizes the ICC. It could complicate things. Do you worry about that?” Fox News pundit and decades-long personal friend to Netanyahu, Sean Hannity, asked during the interview. 

“Yeah, I think about it,” Netanyahu responded. “You know, we have special forces around. I served for five years.”

“The IDF is pretty tough,” Hannity said, referring to the Israeli army. “Yeah. Let’s give them a new task,” Netanyahu replied. 

Netanyahu flew through the airspace of several ICC member states this week on his way to Washington, prompting critics to accuse those governments of aiding an internationally wanted leader.

Netanyahu left Israel aboard the official government aircraft known as the “Wing of Zion” on Monday, ahead of talks with US President Donald Trump at the White House on Tuesday. Flight-tracking data showed the aircraft passing through the airspace of Greece, Italy and France before crossing the Atlantic, while a widely shared map of the journey indicated that it also entered Canadian airspace on its approach to the US. 

Greece, Italy, France and Canada are all parties to the Rome Statute, the treaty that established the ICC.

The Hague-based court issued an arrest warrant for Netanyahu on 21 November 2024, saying there were reasonable grounds to believe that he bore criminal responsibility for the war crime of starvation as a method of warfare, and the crimes against humanity of murder, persecution and other inhumane acts in Gaza. “It’s the corruption of the international system. It’s an unelected bureaucracy that sits in The Hague that could arrest American soldiers because you don’t recognize this corrupt body any more than we do,” Netanyahu told Hannity.

“And they could say that the president of the United States is a war criminal. That American soldiers valiantly fighting next to us, shoulder to shoulder against the tyranny in Tehran, that they’re war criminals. They could pick them up.”

The prime minister said he would be coming to New York City for the United Nations General Assembly in September, regardless of what legal avenues, if any, mayor Zohran Mamdani decides to pursue.

“This just hate-spewing elected official [is] pitting one group of New Yorkers against the others. He’s turning them against New York Jews. I mean, what are we, in the 1930s? What is this?” Netanyahu said.

Mamdani has repeatedly said he would protect the right of all Jewish New Yorkers, but Israel has accused him of antisemitism for calling on the federal government to arrest Netanyahu on account of the ICC warrant. 

‘Wall of granite’

Netanyahu spent just under 90 minutes with Trump at the White House on Tuesday before both leaders headed to the Washington National Cathedral for the funeral for South Carolina Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, a staunch and vocal supporter of Israel, and potentially the loudest in Trump’s ear. 

The Israeli prime minister told Hannity the visit with Trump was “one of the best meetings that we’ve had”, but he had also indicated to the Israeli press on Tuesday that it was a meeting among several senior officials, meaning he did not get a private one-on-one with the president. 

Such a decision would suggest Trump’s advisers did not want Netanyahu to influence the president one way or another. “I always hate to disappoint our would-be critics who are trying to find cracks in our alliance, and what they find, like today, is a wall of granite,” Netanyahu told Hannity.

🚨MUST- WATCH: PM Netanyahu was asked what would happen if he were forced to land in a country that recognizes the arrest warrant against him; his answer was wild: “We have IDF special forces in the area” pic.twitter.com/qw7p3T2nsB
— Raylan Givens (@JewishWarrior13) July 29, 2026
Trump himself has sounded less than pleased with Netanyahu’s behavior of late, telling Fox News earlier on Tuesday that Netanyahu wants him to keep attacking Iran when he may no longer want to.

“We have a common commitment. We don’t want to see this fanatic regime in Tehran have nuclear weapons to threaten every American and to threaten the peace of the world and to threaten the existence of Israel,” Netanyahu said. “So we have a common goal, and it’s going to be achieved either through diplomatic means or other means. But we’re both committed to that.”

However, Netanyahu has made it clear he is no fan of those diplomatic means. 

Not long after the US and Iran signed a memorandum of understanding in June, Israel intensified its attacks on southern Lebanon, all the way up to the capital Beirut. 

A key part of the agreement was for Israel to cease hostilities in Lebanon, where it says it’s going after its Iranian ally, Hezbollah.  Trump then told reporters he believed Israel’s attacks were disproportionate and were killing too many civilians. “Do you believe there are moderates that would like a deal and a better Iran?” Hannity asked. “I’m skeptical about the deal, and I say it openly,” Netanyahu said.

“But the only way it would be achieved is if Iran understood these various factions. They’re not ideological factions as much as they differ on the assessment of how tough we are,” he added. “I think at the end, it’s our resolve. It’s our common resolve to make sure that Iran doesn’t get nuclear bombs to threaten every American with.”

The US intelligence community, under the Trump administration, had assessed that there was no imminent threat from Iran before the US and Israel launched their joint war on 28 February – so much so that the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, Joe Kent, resigned within hours of the first missiles being launched. 

Tyler Durden
Wed, 07/29/2026 – 23:30

NFL training camps are opening across the league, and the countdown to the latest edition of “Madden NFL” is officially underway.”Madden NFL 27″ is still a little more than two weeks from release, but the ratings debate will likely start now. EA Sports unveiled its latest player ratings Wednesday, releasing the top 10 players at quarterback, running back and wide receiver.Reigning league MVP Matthew Stafford and Buffalo Bills signal caller Josh Allen led the quarterback group ratings and earned a spot in the coveted 99 Club.CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COMStafford and Allen tied for the top quarterback rating, but the Los Angeles Rams signal caller was listed ahead of the Buffalo Bills star in the category.Joe Burrow was third with a 97, followed by Baltimore Ravens standout Lamar Jackson. Patrick Mahomes received a 93 rating and was slotted fifth, while Detroit Lions quarterback Jared Goff rounded out the group’s top 10 with an 88.The other 99 Club members were wide receivers Ja’Marr Chase and Jaxon Smith-Njigba, defensive end Myles Garrett and tight end Trey McBride.CALEB WILLIAMS LANDS ‘MADDEN NFL 27’ COVER, BUT INFAMOUS CURSE LOOMS OVER PIVOTAL THIRD SEASONAfter winning the franchise’s second Super Bowl title in February, the Seattle Seahawks reached an agreement on a four-year contract extension with Smith-Njigba that made him the highest-paid receiver in NFL history. Chase has eclipsed the 1,000-yard receiving mark in every season since entering the league in 2021.After Chase and Smith-Njigba, Puka Nacua, Amon-Ra St. Brown and Justin Jefferson rounded out the top five wide receivers. Mike Evans, who left the Tampa Bay Buccaneers for the San Francisco 49ers this offseason, came in at No. 10.Detroit Lions star Jahmyr Gibbs led all running backs with a 98 overall rating. Christian McCaffrey followed at 97 after a bounce-back season, with Jonathan Taylor third and Bijan Robinson fourth at 95. Rams standout Kyren Williams rounded out the top 10.Caleb Williams may be the face of “Madden NFL 27,” but the Chicago Bears quarterback is still eyeing a higher rating. Earlier this week, he said his goal is to climb into the 99 Club before the end of the year.”If I get my completion percentage up, I’ll be a 99,” Williams told “Up & Adams” on Monday. “That’s how everybody feels about it. I don’t throw picks, I’m not a pick guy, never been a pick guy. Throw a few more touchdowns, keep the picks down and then just get the completion up.””Madden NFL 27” is scheduled to launch worldwide Aug. 13, with MVP+ members receiving early access up to seven days ahead of release.On the team side, the Rams earned the game’s top rating with a 93 overall.

Trump Admin Set To Ban Chinese Robots In “Economic Security” Push

The Federal Communications Commission is planning to unveil a series of new trade restrictions on Tuesday afternoon that will ban imports of Chinese humanoid and quadruped robots, as well as connected power inverters. This announcement comes ahead of the expected boom in physical AI.

Chinese company Unitree reveal their “all terrain” wheeled robot.
The military potential for this technology is obvious.
Europe is so far behind China, its scary. pic.twitter.com/DcXnmj6Knx
— Chay Bowes (@BowesChay) July 24, 2026
Reuters was first to report the story: 

The Trump administration on Tuesday plans to unveil new bans that target imports of the latest Chinese robots and power inverters, seeking to protect the U.S. AI buildout from national security threats and reshore key industries slated for explosive growth, U.S. officials said.

There is no exact timing for when the FCC is expected to unveil the trade restrictions this afternoon. Officials said the Chinese-linked technologies could expose U.S. power grids, data centers, and AI infrastructure to disruption, data theft, and cyberattacks.

“The President has made clear that the United States must have independent and secure supply chains for critical and emerging technologies like robotic devices and power inverters,” said an anonymous Trump administration official.

“Economic security is national security, and the Trump administration continues to implement a nuanced and multi-faceted policy agenda to reindustrialize America,” the official added.

The trade restrictions on Chinese robots and power inverters come as new analysis from Citi’s Robotics & Physical AI Leadership Conference assesses where the US stands in the physical-AI cycle as robots move closer to mass production. Read the full report here.

Tyler Durden
Wed, 07/29/2026 – 23:05

Screencap of YouTube video.
Evan Barker is a young woman who used to be an activist and fundraiser for the Democrat Party, but she left the left after the 2024 election.
Because she had raised a lot of money for the party over the years, she had a chance to rub elbows with some of the most powerful people on the left.
A few years ago, she was at an event at the home of liberal billionaire Tom Steyer where he was announcing that he was pumping tens of millions into the midterm efforts of the Democrats and his wife explained their plan to the assembled crowd.
Barker was stunned to learn that there was absolutely no plan to even try to win back the voters that the Democrats had lost to Trump, mainly working class voters.
This was the moment when she began to realize that she was done with the left.
The New York Post recently published an excerpt to her new book on the topic:
On a cold evening in late March of 2022, I realized the weight of what progressives had become was unbearable. This was my last straw.
“We won’t be getting those voters; they’re not coming back — the ones who left and switched to Donald Trump — the future is young people of color!” Cristina Tzintzún Ramirez roared into the microphone.
That’s a great way to get Donald Trump re-elected, I thought to myself, feeling annoyed as I looked around at a primarily white and extremely rich crowd, who were clapping at her every word like drunken seals.
I was standing in front of Tom Steyer’s mansion in one of the most elite and exclusive neighborhoods of San Francisco. Tom is a billionaire and Democratic mega-donor. He also ran for president in 2020.
I was seven months pregnant, nearing the end of my pregnancy.
Cristina, whom I had worked for on her US Senate race in Texas, was now the executive director of Tom Steyer’s organization NextGen America, the most important liberal youth organization in the country. NextGen was the Left’s rival to Turning Point USA. They hoped to turn out millions of young people to vote, and they had deep pockets to make that happen.
The view of the Golden Gate Bridge from Tom’s front yard was breathtaking. Waiters holding silver trays of delicious hors d’oeuvres moved delicately around the small gathering, whose champagne and wine glasses clinked together.
She goes on to describe how the Democrats lost working class voters in her family to Trump and how Democrats seem to think they can make up the difference with a new coalition built on young people of color. They think this is the key to flipping Texas blue.
Evan recently appeared on a podcast and spoke about the consequences of living in a blue city during the ‘Defund the Police’ craziness.

One of the moments that turned @evanwch away from the far-left was moving to San Francisco and seeing the results of the Defund the Police movement pic.twitter.com/TKWzGiDrTI
— Ryan James Girdusky (@RyanGirdusky) July 29, 2026

As the old saying goes, a conservative is a liberal who has been mugged by reality.
Good for Evan for coming to her senses.

The post Former Democrat Party Activist Reveals the Moment She Knew She Was Done With the Left appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.

China’s Commerce Ministry said Thursday the U.S. Federal Communications Commission has repeatedly ignored Beijing’s restrained stance.

The U.S. forces began launching strikes against Iran Wednesday stateside, plunging the two sides back into open conflict after a days-long pause.

The U.S. military launched a round of strikes against Iran Wednesday evening after President Donald Trump vowed to hit the Islamic Republic “very hard” in response to Iran’s attempted ballistic missile attack on U.S. forces in Jordan the previous day.
The post U.S. Launches ‘Powerful’ Strikes on Iran After Trump Vows to ‘Hit Hard’ over Attacks appeared first on Breitbart.

New York Giants fans were enthralled to see one player in particular participating in practice on Wednesday.Malik Nabers, who suffered a serious knee injury in Week 4 of last season, “looked good,” according to his new head coach John Harbaugh, as he went through a full practice much to the delight of everyone involved with the organization.While there is no commitment on a timeline for the 2024 first-rounder, seeing Nabers out on the field was quite the surprise for many.CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COMNabers’ injury wasn’t a simple knee tear, as he had to wait for swelling to go down before undergoing surgery. Then, in the spring, Nabers had to get scar tissue removed from the same knee, while eliminating stiffness he felt.After undergoing two surgeries and remaining sidelined, Nabers’ status for Week 1, or the first few weeks of the season, was up in the air.SUPER BOWL CHAMPION PLAXICO BURRESS COMPARES PLAYING FOR JETS TO HIS TIME IN PRISON: ‘A F–KING LOSER’But general manager Joe Schoen also enjoyed seeing him running around at The Greenbrier in West Virginia to start off camp.”We’ve got a really good plan for him,” Schoen said. “The medical staff has a really good plan for him, and we’re going to always say listen to the patients. So, we’re going to see how he reacts. We got a good plan in place, so as long as everything goes as planned, we’ll listen to Malik and his body. And, again, hopefully he’ll be ready and we’ll see how it plays out. But no predictions right now, just because we have a long way to go. Still a lot of camp.”Nabers tore his ACL and suffered a full meniscus tear after jumping for a pass in quarterback Jaxson Dart’s first career start. He immediately clutched his knee, silencing the MetLife Stadium crowd as fans feared the worst while he was carted off the field.Nabers remained in New Jersey this summer, though, working alongside the Giants’ medical team on his recovery. The injury occurring early in the season gave the team hope he would be back healthy for Week 1, and after not being put on the physically unable to perform list to start training camp, Nabers was on the right track.”It was great. You saw him. He looked good,” Harbaugh said after watching Nabers. “He’s got a process going. Thought he looked good.”Dart, who said happy birthday to his top receiver on Instagram as Nabers turned 23, loved being able to throw to him on day one.”He definitely has a presence about him,” Dart said of Nabers. “There’s an aura that he has on the field that is exhilarating. It makes me happy. It makes everybody happy just to see him out there. I think for him, he’s had a lot of positives. We’re just going to continue to get him in slowly. He’s doing a great job with how he’s attacking his recovery. I’ve got all the confidence in the world in him and his approach to the game, how much he’s missed being out there with the guys. I think it’s definitely, for him — I don’t want to speak for him too much, but I just think it’s a really good feeling for him to just be out there with the team and to be involved.”Follow Fox News Digital’s sports coverage on X and subscribe to the Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter.

America’s Murder Problem Is Smaller Than It Looks

Authored by John R. Lott Jr. via RealClearPolitics,

World Cup visitors discovered something many Americans already know: The United States does not feel like the dangerous place they’ve been led to expect. That’s because America’s murder problem is not spread evenly across the country. Does the United States have a higher murder rate than its peer countries? Yes – but new research shows that statistic obscures how murders in the U.S. are extremely concentrated in very tiny areas.

In 2025, the U.S. murder rate fell to just under 4 murders per 100,000 people. During the first six months of 2026, data compiled by the Council on Criminal Justice shows that murders in the nation’s 30 largest cities declined by another 18%. If that decline reflects the national trend, and that is likely, the U.S. murder rate will fall to approximately 3.25 per 100,000 people this year.

Even at that level, the U.S. murder rate would remain about 70% higher than Canada’s 2024 homicide rate of 1.91 per 100,000 people and Australia’s approximately 2 per 100,000.

Nevertheless, the United States has recently made remarkable progress. Since national recordkeeping began in 1900, the country has never recorded a murder rate this low. The previous record low was approximately 4.5 murders per 100,000 people, and the rate stood at about 5.0 per 100,000 in 2024.

At the same time, focusing solely on the national murder rate paints an incomplete picture. Murders in the United States are extraordinarily concentrated in a small number of places, while the nation’s overall violent crime victimization rate remains below that of many other developed countries.

The research by the Crime Prevention Research Center, which I head, finds that 31 counties with the highest murder rates – just 1% of all U.S. counties – contain about 20% of the nation’s population but account for 41% of all murders. Expanding the analysis to the 63 highest-rate counties (2% of counties) captures 30% of the population but 54% of all murders.

The concentration does not stop at the county level. Within these counties, murders cluster into remarkably small geographic areas. Roughly two-thirds of all murders in the worst 2% of the counties occur within about ten-block neighborhoods, whose populations represent only a tiny fraction of their counties’ residents. Much of this violence is associated with street gangs and repeat offenders rather than random acts committed throughout the broader community.

Most of the country experiences very little murder. Fifty-three percent of U.S. counties record no murders in a typical year, and another 16% record only one murder. Together, these 69% of counties account for just 3% of all murders nationwide.

Media coverage often leaves the impression that murderers are ordinary people who suddenly lose their tempers. The evidence tells a very different story. Murder offenders overwhelmingly have extensive criminal histories. About 90% of murderers already have criminal records, and some portion of the remaining 10% almost certainly committed crimes before the homicide but had not yet been caught.

Criminologists have long recognized that violent crime is committed by a relatively small group of chronic offenders. Research has consistently shown that 5% of the criminals account for most crime. Marvin Wolfgang’s landmark Philadelphia birth cohort studies found that roughly 6-8% of offenders accounted for the majority of serious violent crime, including about 71% of murders, 73% of rapes, 82% of robberies, and 69% of aggravated assaults. Subsequent research has repeatedly confirmed that a small fraction of chronic offenders commit a disproportionate share of violent crime.

Who commits murders also differs dramatically across demographic groups. In 2020, black men made up about 6.0% of the U.S. population but accounted for 49.7% of known murder offenders – about 8.3 times their share of the population. Black women accounted for 5.5% of murder offenders while making up 6.43% of the population, or about 0.85 times their population share.

By comparison, white men (including Hispanics) comprised 30.3% of the population but 35.7% of murder offenders. White women accounted for just 6.1% of murder offenders despite making up 31.3% of the U.S. population. Asian men and women had the lowest rates of murder offending, accounting for only 0.43 times and 0.06 times, respectively, their shares of the U.S. population.

Many look at these numbers and say this proves the criminal justice system is racist. Many Democrats think the share of blacks in prison shouldn’t exceed their share of the population (see also here and here). For example, in 2020, the Democrats on the Congressional Joint Economic Committee complained, “Black Americans made up 33% of the sentenced prison population in 2017, despite comprising only about 13% of the U.S. adult population. The vast disparity in incarceration rates is driven substantially by the unequal application of U.S. laws.”

The problem is that these discussions ignore the race of the victims. Ninety percent of black murder victims are murdered by other blacks. If you make it so there is little or no penalty for murdering blacks, you ensure that more blacks will be murdered.

The lesson is straightforward. Although the United States has a higher national murder rate than many peer countries, murders are extraordinarily concentrated among a small number of repeat offenders operating in a tiny number of neighborhoods. If you avoid hanging around people with violent criminal records and those places, you are very unlikely to become a victim.

Yet many Democrats draw the wrong conclusion from these data and advocate policies that will increase the number of black murder victims.

John R. Lott Jr. is president of the Crime Prevention Research Center. He served as the senior advisor for research and statistics in the Office of Justice Programs and the Office of Legal Policy in the U.S. Department of Justice during 2020-21.

Tyler Durden
Wed, 07/29/2026 – 22:40