ANY DEAL THAT WILL LET HAMAS CONTINUE TO EXIST IS A TERRIBLE DEAL FOR ISRAEL

Trump announces Israel has 'AGREED to a 60-day Gaza ceasefire' as he issues stern warning to Hamas

 

Daily Mail

Jul 1, 2025 

 

 

Donald Trump has announced that Israel have 'agreed to a 60-day ceasefire' while expressing his hopes that Hamas will also accept the deal. 

The US President took to his social media platform Truth Social on Tuesday night to reveal his representatives had a 'long and productive meeting with the Israelis today' on the Gaza war. 

He claimed that Israel had 'agreed to the necessary conditions' to finalise a ceasefire in Gaza, though it was not immediately clear whether Hamas would accept the terms. 

'I hope, for the good of the Middle East, that Hamas takes this Deal, because it will not get better — IT WILL ONLY GET WORSE,' warned the President.

GREAT! ... THE TRANSNUT SHOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN PERMITTED TO COMPETE IN WOMEN'S SPORTS

Trans swimmer Lia Thomas' wins will be WIPED and runners-up moved to first place after Penn bowed to Trump crackdown

 

By Alex Raskin 

 

Daily Mail

Jul 1, 2025

 

 

Lia Thomas was denied a chance to compete at the Olympics and now her NCAA records are being tossed after the University of Pennsylvania agreed to Trump White House demands  

 

The University of Pennsylvania has bowed to Donald Trump's Department of Education (DOE) by agreeing to resolve alleged Title IX violations over transgender former Quakers swimmer Lia Thomas.

The DOE announced Tuesday that Penn is adopting strict definitions for male and female competitors under White House guidelines and will erase Thomas from the school's record books. Furthermore, swimmers impacted by Thomas' inclusion in women's NCAA competitions will receive a personal apology from Penn and be retroactively awarded records and titles. 

The Ivy League institution's decision comes after the Trump administration suspended $175 million in federal funding to Penn – money that had been earmarked and funded through the Defense Department and the Department of Health and Human Services.

'Penn remains committed to fostering a community that is welcoming, inclusive, and open to all students, faculty, and staff,' University of Pennsylvania president J. Larry Jameson said in a statement. 'I share this commitment, just as I remain dedicated to preserving and advancing the University’s vital and enduring mission. We have now brought to a close an investigation that, if unresolved, could have had significant and lasting implications for the University of Pennsylvania.'

Thomas won a national title as a woman in the 500 free while tying for fifth in the 200 free at the 2022 NCAA Finals with Kentucky swimmer Riley Gaines, who has since become the face of the movement to ban trans athletes from female sports.

The NCAA previously allowed each sports to govern transgender inclusion, generally deferring to national governing bodies or International Olympic criteria.  

Donald Trump and Riley Gaines are pictured together at a CPAC Convention in Dallas 

Transgender woman Lia Thomas (L) of the University of Pennsylvania stands on the podium after winning the 500-yard freestyle as other medalists in March of 2022

 

It was under that structure that Thomas was allowed to compete despite originally swimming as a man before receiving hormone replace therapy. She returned as a woman in 2021 after meeting the NCAA's hormone requirements at the time.

Since then, the NCAA has changed its policy to conform with Trump's February 5 executive order aiming to ban transgender athletes from girls and women's sports. 

Gaines was among the first to issue a statement on the ruling Tuesday. 

'From day one, President Trump and [Education] Secretary [Linda] McMahon made it clear that protecting women and girls is a top priority—and today's agreement with UPenn is proof of that commitment in action.'

'This Administration isn't just talking about women's equality, but instead actively defending it. I hope this sends a clear message to educational institutions: you can no longer disregard women's civil rights. And to every female athlete, know this: your dignity, safety, and fairness matter, and our nation's leaders will not stop fighting for them.'

The NCAA changed its policy on February 6 after Trump signed an executive order on banning transgender athletes from girls' and women's sports.

Thomas was banned from competing in elite women's races ahead of the Olympics by The Court of Arbitration for Sport panel, which ruled that she was ineligible to challenge World Aquatics policy on trans athletes.

Now, according to the statement released by the Department of Education, Thomas' records at Penn are being expunged as well. 

Thomas is, arguably, the most visible trans athlete in the debate over their presence in women's and girls' sports.

Growing up in Austin, Texas, Thomas began swimming at age 5 and only got better with the passing years.

At Westlake High School, which produced Super Bowl-winning quarterbacks Drew Brees and Nick Foles, Thomas earned a sixth-place finish among teenage boys at the Texas state championships.

Colleges quickly took notice.

Thomas ultimately followed her brother to Penn's swim team, where she began focusing on distance races – and her growing unease with her own body.

She'd already begun questioning her gender in high school, but those feelings only intensified at the Ivy League college in Philadelphia.

Of course, nobody would have guessed there was a problem judging by Thomas' results. Although Gaines has characterized Thomas a 'mediocre male athlete,' the Austin native's career bio tells a different story.

While competing under her birth name, Will, Thomas recorded the sixth-fastest national time in the men's 1,000-yard freestyle in 2017 (57.55 seconds), and had several other impressive performances in the 500-yard freestyle and 1,650-yard freestyle.

Thomas was even better the following year, finishing second at the Ivy League Championships in the men's 500 freestyle, 1,000 freestyle and 1,650 freestyle.

But although Thomas was still racing as a man in the spring 2019, she was already beginning to identify as a woman. In fact, Thomas came out to her family as transgender a year earlier, in the summer of 2018.

As she told Sports Illustrated in 2022, Thomas initially put off hormone replacement therapy (HRT) fearing that it would interfere with swimming. Even when she began the treatments in May of 2019, Thomas knew her career in the pool was in jeopardy.

'I did HRT knowing and accepting I might not swim again,' Thomas told SI. 'I was just trying to live my life.'

But while the treatments were a slow process, the results were undeniable for Thomas, whose unease over her gender dysphoria began to subside.

'It surprised me,' Thomas said of her transition. 'I felt, mentally, a lot better and healthier pretty quickly. The relief it gave me was quite substantial.'

To Thomas, transitioning was the right answer. Not only was she comfortable with her new body, but her family, friends, teammates and coaches remained largely supportive of her decision.

She was still competing as a man in 2019-20, occasionally wearing a women's swimsuit, but her times suffered dramatically due to the HRT treatment. Ultimately Thomas raced in only four of eight regular-season events that year, and outside of a win in the 500 freestyle against Villanova, was a non factor for the Quakers.

With her testosterone levels dropping, Thomas decided to move to the women's division, not just for herself, but for other trans athletes facing the same obstacles.

'I just want to show trans kids and younger trans athletes that they're not alone,' Thomas told SI. 'They don't have to choose between who they are and the sport they love.'

There was, of course, some pushback.

Even LGBTQ+ icon Martina Navratilova took issue with the trans swimmer, reposting a DailyMail.com article on Twitter and writing: 'It is not fair for women to race against transgender Lia Thomas.'

At the time, the NCAA was requiring transgender women to go through one year of HRT treatment before being able to compete in women's sports, and Thomas coordinated with both Penn and NCAA officials to ensure that she remained compliant.

Those policies quickly became more complicated.

In January of 2022, the NCAA announced it would defer to the rules of each sport's governing body when it came to trans athletes in women's sports. USA Swimming followed by updating its own criteria, requiring trans women to have minuscule testosterone levels for 36 months in order to compete in the women's division.

Regardless, Thomas remained eligible while posting the best 200-meter freestyle time in the country as the NCAA was beginning its own transition from the imperial to the metric system.

In one race, she beat the nearest competitor by 40 seconds.

The national media soon became fixated. As a result, her final home meet in Philadelphia required additional media seating as national and international news outlets hashed out the growing controversy.

Meanwhile, outside Penn's Sheer Pool, protestors had begun chanting against Thomas' inclusion in women's swimming.

'Stand up for women!' they shouted, as quoted by The Associated Press. 'Even when they're swimming! Men cannot be women!'

There was even discord within the Quakers' locker room, where some teammates, like Paula Scanlan, were growing uncomfortable.

'Is anyone going to apologize for forcing us to undress with him 18 times a week?' asked Scanlan, who testified on the subject before a congressional subcommittee in 2023.

Scanlan issued her own statement to Outkick on Tuesday in response to Penn's decision. 

'I am deeply grateful to the Trump administration for standing firm in protecting women and girls and restoring our rightful accolades,' Scanlan told OutKick. 

'It is because of their strong leadership that my alma mater now knows it has no choice but to begin the process of reforming its policies to uphold women's rights. Today marks a momentous step toward repairing the past mistreatment of female athletes and forging a future where sex discrimination no longer limits girls' potential.' 

 

Thomas dives over the other swimmers during the 200 Freestyle finals at the NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships on March 18th, 2022 at the McAuley Aquatic Center in Atlanta

 

While Thomas has insisted coach Penn Mike Schnur and teammates were 'unbelievably supportive,' a letter purportedly signed by 16 anonymous Penn athletes was sent to the NCAA demanding that she not be allowed to compete in the national championships.

Penn and the Ivy League followed by issuing their own statements in support of all transgender athletes, and Thomas ultimately moved on to the biggest meet of her career: The 2022 NCAA Championships.

Swimming in the 500-yard freestyle, Thomas would post an impressive 4:33.24, beating Olympic silver medalist and University of Florida star Emma Weyant by 1.75 seconds to finish first overall.

However, the victory was marred by a flurry of boos in the crowd, and one spectator's decision to yell 'cheater' while Thomas was on the block, according to Swimswam.com. And as Thomas was finishing the 500 with 11th fast time in NCAA history, another spectator yelled 'he's a man' and 'protect girls sports!'

 

Scanlan, Thomas' former University of Pennsylvania teammate, took to social media shortly after verdict was revealed to demand an apology

 

But for all of Thomas' supposed advantages, her time in the 500 freestyle was still nearly 15 seconds slower than her personal best in the men's division (4:18.72). And while 27 all-time NCAA records were broken at the 2022 championships, Thomas' performance in the 500 was still far from Katie Ledecky's collegiate best of 4:24.06.

Curiously, Thomas' best times in the men's and women's 500 freestyle are both about 10 seconds off the NCAA records in each respective division.

But while much of the data remains inconclusive, many public figures are certain that Thomas had an unfair advantage.

Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis released a proclamation after the NCAA championships, declaring Weyant to be the winner of the 500 freestyle.

'By allowing men to compete in women's sports, the NCAA is destroying opportunities for women, making a mockery of its championships, and perpetuating a fraud,' DeSantis wrote on X.

Colorado congresswoman Lauren Boebert introduced a bill honoring Weyant.

Even gold-medal winning Olympic decathlete Caitlyn Jenner — who is, herself, a trans woman — came down strongly against Thomas: 'It's not transphobic or anti-trans, it's common sense!'

 

Thomas alongside Kentucky's Riley Gaines after both tied for fifth at the NCAA championships

 

For many politicians, the debate over Thomas became a springboard for wide-ranging legislation at the high school level. By June of 2022, 19 conservative-leaning states all enacted some legislation prohibiting public schools from allowing trans girls to participate in girls sports.

House Republicans then passed a bill banning transgender athletes from competing on girls or women's sports teams at federally supported schools and colleges, but that — and other similar legislation — is not expected to pass the Democrat-led senate.

Thomas has largely avoided the media over the last few years, even while being ripped in the press by critics such as Jenner and Gaines, both of whom have emerged as leading voices on the other side of the debate.

And to Thomas, that may have been the point: She can't do anything about her critics, but she can still live whatever life she chooses for herself.

'I knew there would be scrutiny against me if I competed as a woman,' Thomas said in June of 2022. 'I was prepared for that. But I also don't need anybody's permission to be myself and to do the sport that I love.'

A WOUNDED ANIMAL CAN BE EXTREMELY DANGEROUS

Missing uranium and shattered dreams: Why Iran could be more dangerous now

Expert warns Iran's weakened conventional defenses may accelerate nuclear weapons pursuit as regime seeks new deterrent capabilities. Iran's nuclear weapons potential doesn't depend exclusively on large-scale industrial infrastructure.

 

by Dudi Kogan 

 

Israel Hayom

Jul 1, 2025

 

 

Pipe dream: Historic handshake between Netanyahu and Khamenei

 

 

Despite devastating strikes that crippled Iran's nuclear infrastructure across three major facilities, a former Israeli security official warns that the Islamic Republic's motivation to develop nuclear weapons has actually intensified rather than diminished. With over 400 kg of weapons-grade uranium unaccounted for and the regime's conventional deterrent capabilities destroyed, Iran now views nuclear weapons as its only remaining "insurance policy" – creating a potentially more dangerous situation than existed before the bombardment.

Strike results on Iranian nuclear facilities have ignited an open political-media confrontation across the United States. While American media outlets – alongside Democratic Party officials – question the extent of damage inflicted, the current administration maintains that Iran's nuclear program has been "destroyed."

 

   

The impact of the strike by US forces on Fordo on June 22, 2025 

 

Beyond America's domestic political warfare and presidential credibility concerns, two key motivations drive the White House determination to establish the narrative that Iran's nuclear capabilities were completely eliminated. The first serves as strategic positioning for future negotiations with Iran, essentially declaring that since Iran cannot currently enrich uranium, they shouldn't expect authorization for such activities under any new agreement. The second motivation, potentially more troubling, reflects White House reluctance to continue addressing this complex issue.

What does ground reality reveal? The sobering premise for this analysis must acknowledge that definitive conclusions remain premature, and generally speaking – these matters involve far more classified than public information. However, research institute satellite imagery analysis enables identification of substantial damage across core elements of Iran's nuclear infrastructure including the expansive enrichment industry covering Natanz and Fordo facilities plus centrifuge manufacturing capabilities; the scientists, installations and knowledge repositories comprising the "weapons group"; and Isfahan's conversion and processing installations, representing crucial bottlenecks in the nuclear fuel cycle. Nevertheless, the whereabouts of over 400 kg of 60%-enriched uranium – quantities theoretically sufficient for ten nuclear weapons following additional enrichment – remains unknown.

"Months until resumed production"

Rafael Grossi, International Atomic Energy Agency director-general, stated during this week's interview that Iran could "within several months" restart enriched uranium production. Anyone dismayed by this assessment overlooks the massive scope of Iran's pre-strike nuclear infrastructure encompassing complete production chain mastery from uranium mining through multi-stage enrichment processes – plus advancement in explosive device development. This represents extensive industrial capacity and profound, autonomous expertise cultivated across multiple decades.

The Institute for Science and International Security, headed by Iranian nuclear expert David Albright, released comprehensive post-conflict damage assessments based on satellite imagery analysis. This report, consistent with IAEA findings and substantially supporting Israeli intelligence assessments, demonstrates significant infrastructure damage.

At Natanz, housing approximately 18,000 centrifuges and serving as Iran's enrichment headquarters, widespread destruction is evident. Surface structures sustained damage during Israel's initial attacks, including facilities producing 60%-grade highly enriched uranium. The IAEA similarly concluded that centrifuges within underground enrichment chambers suffered damage or destruction from electrical grid disruption. Subsequent American bombardments reportedly struck these underground chambers directly.

Concerning Fordo, the heavily fortified installation featuring roughly 2,700 centrifuges that dominated headlines since hostilities commenced, the Institute for Science and International Security concludes the "facility likely sustained severe damage or destruction," though American media suggests more limited impact. Recent satellite photography reveals intensive Iranian engineering operations around blast craters, including heavy machinery and material transport equipment, apparently attempting to penetrate the underground complex for damage assessment purposes.

 

The Natanz uranium enrichment facility

  

Iran's Uranium Conversion Facility, just outside the city of Isfahan.

 

Isfahan's uranium processing facilities, constituting critical "chokepoints" between civilian and weapons programs, saw destruction of metallic uranium production buildings – essential links converting enriched gas into bomb cores. Infrastructure converting processed uranium ("yellowcake") into gas supplied to centrifuges also sustained damage. The IAEA confirmed "extensive destruction," including storage buildings previously housing 20% and 60%-enriched uranium, though material quantities present during bombardment remain unclear.

Regarding the weapons development group, representing Iran's most classified nuclear activities, Israeli operations eliminated over 14 nuclear scientists directly engaged in this work. Several individuals, including Freidoun Abbasi and Mohammad Tehranji, appeared on Tehran memorial billboards recently and received state funeral honors alongside regime leadership.

"They preserved this capability as organizational infrastructure for two decades," explains Avner Vilan, specialist in Iran's nuclear program, "but claiming no capable 30-year-old exists in Iran who could replicate this work? I'm certain such individuals exist." Furthermore, Villen expresses concern, stating he "wouldn't be surprised if another weapons group we never identified was operating parallel programs unknown to us."

Protecting gains

The critical question involves uranium stockpiles enriched to 60% – exceeding 400 kg, which Iran announced on the conflict's opening day they had secured through "protective measures." American officials claim this material lies "buried beneath debris" or "wasn't targeted during strikes." Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu alluded to "compelling intelligence" regarding stockpile locations, while IDF officials decline to deny possessing such information.

Iran's industrial nuclear program undoubtedly sustained severe damage, potentially requiring years for reconstruction as Washington and Jerusalem officials describe. However, Iran's nuclear weapons potential doesn't depend exclusively on large-scale industrial infrastructure but could emerge from smaller enrichment capabilities, metallic conversion facilities, and previous advancement – possibly concealed – in explosive device engineering.

"They observe what befell Kim Jong Un and Muammar Qaddafi's fate," Vilan explains regarding Iran's renewed nuclear motivation. "Unquestionably, Iran currently possesses extremely strong incentives for acquiring nuclear weapons and will accept significantly greater risks pursuing this objective." According to his analysis, recent strikes eliminated the regime's dual defensive layers – proxy forces and missile arsenals – "essentially leaving only nuclear capabilities as their insurance policy."

Vilan cautions about the primary threat, warning that "unless we force the regime into submission, their likelihood of developing nuclear weapons increased rather than decreased following these strikes." Essentially, Israel may confront another critical juncture resembling pre-strike circumstances. This doesn't invalidate the operation's necessity or necessarily diminish its accomplishments, but indicates Israel now faces requirements to consolidate its strategic objectives.

SO, WHO IS RIGHT ... TRUMP OR THE IAEA?

Iran trying to regain access to bombed Fordow nuclear site

The photos show an excavator operating near one of the craters, as well as a sand conveyor removing soil from the site.

 

By Dudi Kogan

 

Israel Today

Jul 1, 2025 

 

A satellite image of Iran’s Fordow fuel enrichment plant befor the US bombing

 

New satellite images taken on Sunday reveal that Iran has significantly accelerated engineering work around the craters created by last week’s US strike on the Fordow nuclear facility.

The photographs show an excavator operating near one of the craters, as well as a sand conveyor removing soil from the site. The crater is near ventilation shafts that were targeted during the strike, and Iran appears to have made substantial progress clearing the area.

Images from two days earlier had indicated that initial engineering activity had begun, but the latest photos suggest that Iran is now working to reopen access to the underground facility.

Nonetheless, the paved access tunnels leading deeper into the mountain remain blocked by sand piles, apparently placed there by the Islamic Republic before the attack.

Five days after the US strike on Fordow, satellite images from Maxar Technologies showed engineering equipment near bomb craters carved into the mountainside by US Air Force B-2 bombers. At the time, machinery resembling an excavator and vehicles near the facility were observed.

In the days that followed, Israel launched its own airstrikes on access routes to the site in an attempt to prevent further entry.

In a press conference, Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, said that 12 Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP) bombs, each weighing more than 13 tons, were used in the Fordow attack.

He said the bombs breached the underground complex through ventilation shafts at two different points. Kane explained that these munitions had been in development for 15 years specifically for this mission, and satellite imagery had long shown the ventilation infrastructure.

The first two bombs reportedly shattered the concrete layers Iran had laid over the shafts, followed by additional bombs fired at speeds exceeding 1,100 kilometers per hour (683 m.p.h.), which struck the intended targets.

Kane quoted one of the pilots as saying, “It was the brightest explosion I’ve ever seen, the night turned into day.”

IF THE AYATOLLAHS DON'T ACCEPT A DEAL, TRUMP SAID HE WOULD RESUME BOMBING IRAN

Likud lawmaker: If diplomacy with Iran fails, ‘we must use force’

"This is what needs to be done, and I think it is the right thing to do,” said Likud lawmaker Eli Dallal. 

 

By Amelie Botbol 

 

JNS

Jul 1, 2025

 

 

Israeli F-15I fighter jets fly toward Iran during "Operation Rising Lion” in June 2025.

 

Israel should work with the United States and other Western democracies to reach a clear nuclear agreement with Iran, but if diplomacy fails, “we must use force,” Likud lawmaker Eli Dallal told JNS on Monday.

“This agreement should be expressed in terms of the security concerns of the State of Israel,” said Dallal. “And if such a deal cannot be reached, it can be referred to the United Nations Security Council.”

However, he stressed that if all diplomatic efforts fail, Israel must be prepared to take military action. “If this doesn’t work, we must use force. This is what needs to be done, and I think it is the right thing to do,” he concluded.

On Sunday, U.S. President Donald Trump said that American military strikes earlier this month had left Iran’s nuclear program “obliterated like nobody’s ever seen before.”

Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Sharren Haskel echoed those comments, saying on Sunday that the U.S. airstrikes had inflicted a “major setback” on Tehran’s nuclear program.

Nevertheless, Yisrael Beiteinu lawmaker Evgeny Sova expressed serious concern to JNS over comments made by International Atomic Energy Agency chief Rafael Grossi, who stated on Saturday that Iran might be able to resume uranium enrichment “in a matter of months.” 

 

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Rafael Grossi stated on Saturday that Iran might be able to resume uranium enrichment “in a matter of months.” 

 

Grossi’s remarks are a “warning light not only for Israel but for the entire Western world,” said Sova.

In an interview on CBS’s Face the Nation, Grossi discussed Tehran’s nuclear program, acknowledging that “one cannot claim that everything has disappeared and there is nothing there.”

While noting that his organization does not conduct military assessments, Grossi emphasized that “it is clear that there has been severe damage, but it’s not total damage” following the airstrikes.

He also pointed out that Iran retains its “industrial and technological capacities,” suggesting that the regime could resume uranium enrichment “if they so wish.”

Speaking to JNS on Monday, Sova emphasized that without an agreement compelling Iran to stop enriching uranium, halt its missile program, and cease providing support to terrorist organizations in the Middle East, “we will not be able to move forward.”

“If Iran refuses these three conditions, the next round of war is only a matter of time,” he warned.

In terms of military preparedness, Sova said that the Israel Defense Forces must acquire the necessary armaments and replenish its stocks, as well as resume frozen initiatives such as its missile program. In addition, he emphasized the importance of strengthening the home front.

“More than 50% of the buildings in Israel lack adequate protection from mortar attacks, and there are not enough shelters capable of handling ballistic missiles,” he said. “All of this should be immediate food for thought for decision-makers.”

Sova further stressed the need for a decisive strategy, insisting that Israel must take clear action against Iran. “In the next round, we will have no choice but to defeat the Iranian regime—not only to severely damage the nuclear program but to completely destroy it, thereby bringing about a clear decision,” he said.

“As long as a regime that threatens to destroy the State of Israel rules in Tehran, we will not be able to sleep safely,” he concluded. 

NYC'S TRADITIONAL DEMOCRATS THAT STILL EXIST, AND JEWS MUST UNITE TO REELECT ERIC ADAMS MAYOR IN THE GENERAL ELECTION

Mamdani apologists play the fake Islamophobia card

The liberal media and others spin attempts to call out the Democratic mayoral nominee’s hatred for Israel as hatred for Muslims. 

 

By Jonathan S. Tobin 

 

JNS

Jul 1, 2025

 

 

It didn’t take long for the Democratic Party’s media cheering section to demonstrate how far the Overton Window had moved among liberals with respect to antisemitism. Centrist Democrats and the liberal Jewish establishment were genuinely shocked by Zohran Mamdani’s victory in last week’s Democratic Party mayoral primary in New York City. Within days, however, it was clear that legacy outlets reflecting mainstream opinion on the political left weren’t going to tolerate much in the way of criticism of his extremist views about Israel and the Jews.

Within days, it was clear that anyone who claimed that Mamdani should be rejected out of hand as a possible mayor of New York on the grounds of stands that were, at best, antisemitism-adjacent or, at worst, open endorsements of Jewish genocide, rather than the candidate himself, were going to be the ones under fire. Within 48 hours of Mamdani’s win, The New York Times was already using the word “Islamophobic” in headlines describing his critics.

Legitimizing antisemitism

It is fear among Democrats about being labeled as Islamophobic that explains why so few prominent members of the party and officeholders are refusing to condemn Mamdani now that the 33-year-old New York state representative has become their party’s nominee. That’s not just smoothing his path to victory for a fellow Democrat, despite the horror that many New Yorkers feel about him. It’s also achieving something the political left has been assiduously working toward, especially since the Hamas-led Palestinian Arab attacks on southern Israeli communities on Oct. 7, 2023: the legitimization of antisemitism in the American public square.

While some of the online reaction to Mamdani was inappropriate, the attempt by Democrats and their liberal media cheerleaders to frame the narrative about the opposition to him as one primarily about Islamophobia is fundamentally dishonest.

Characterizing verbal and written criticisms of Mamdani as “racist” is not only a matter of inaccuracy or misinterpretation of those venting their anger and outrage about the prospect of him being mayor of the most Jewish city in the world outside of the State of Israel. Such arguments were the next logical step involved in legitimizing opinions about Israel and Jews, as well as those fighting to destroy it, along with other radical causes.

The issue is not whether the next mayor of New York is a Shia Muslim (he practices the faith of his mother rather than that of his Hindu father). In a city as diverse as New York, few care about Mamdani’s faith or his background as the son of immigrants (his mother was a Gujarati Indian Muslim born in Uganda, and his father an Indian-American of Hindu Punjabi descent).

What matters is the fact that he is a Socialist on economic issues and an adherent of the ideological war on the West being waged by the hard left. His extremist views may well be influenced by his faith and ethnicity. Yet they are just as much a manifestation of the fashionable ideas that label the West and America as irredeemably racist, and Israel and the Jews as “white” oppressors who must be suppressed. In this sense, the New York mayoral campaign has transcended politics. It is, instead, another manifestation of the conquest of American elite institutions of higher education by so-called “progressives” that led to mobs targeting Jews on college campuses since Oct. 7.

Mamdani has been an ardent advocate for the cause of “free Palestine,” which is to say the effort to “free” the territory—meaning, from the Jewish population—of the only Jewish state on the planet. That is an idea that ought to be rejected by all decent people everywhere not only because it singles out the Jews for deprivation of rights, such as that of living in peace and sovereignty in their ancient homeland, but also because it can only be achieved by the sort of genocidal wars that Hamas and its Iranian sponsor have long advocated and continue to pursue. This despicable cause has gained increasing support on the political left, largely on the strength of blood libels about Israel committing “genocide” against Palestinian Arabs in Gaza in its just war against Hamas, endorsed by Mamdani and other Democrats.

Suppressing criticism

If, as the Times and other liberal outlets insist, Mamdani’s views are to be accepted as legitimate stands about which we must agree to disagree when discussing them, then what we are witnessing is not a prejudiced reaction to the rise of a non-white Muslim politician. Rather, it is an attempt to suppress criticism of the mainstreaming of antisemitism and other extremist beliefs by the political left.

This tactic has been a staple of the anti-Israel movement for years and has achieved some notable successes, especially during the Biden presidency. The last Democratic administration balanced the lip service it paid to the rise of antisemitism on its watch with an attempt to treat concerns about prejudice against Muslims as being of equal concern.

While all prejudice is deplorable, the problem with virtually all of the discussion about Islamophobia in recent years is that most such attacks against Muslims aren’t actually racist ones.

To the contrary, the comments and stands that are labeled as Islamophobic are almost always attempts to call out the rabid Jew-hatred and virulent prejudicial positions and language that are mainstream discourse among American Muslims, especially on the part of those groups, like the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), which purport to represent them.

Such advocacy is based on the false assertion that Muslims are being subjected to widespread attacks and discrimination in the United States. The primary source for this claim is CAIR, a group that masquerades as a civil-rights organization but was founded as a cover for those seeking to raise funds for Hamas terrorists in the United States illegally. CAIR has a consistent record of antisemitism but also seeks to downplay or rationalize Islamist terrorism, like the Oct. 7 attacks.

Moreover, the organization’s claims about the situation of American Muslims and Arabs are simply not backed up by empirical evidence. This dates back to its false assertions that were echoed by most mainstream media about a mythical post-9/11 backlash against Muslims that was largely made out of whole cloth. Contrary to CAIR’s claims (echoed by most liberal media outlets) that it is Muslims who are under siege, FBI statistics have shown for the last two and a half decades that American Jews have been the primary victims of acts of religious prejudice in the United States. Attacks on Jews far outnumber those on Muslims by large margins every year, and that is especially true since Oct. 7, 2023, when a surge of antisemitism began, fueled largely by the same kind of anti-Israel bigotry echoed by Mamdani.

Yet at the heart of the Islamophobia discussion is something more sinister than a group hyping something that doesn’t warrant serious concern. What is most disturbing about the attempt to sanitize Mamdani is that it dovetails with the campaign to gaslight Jews about the prejudice and violence to which they have been subjected.

While Mamdani insincerely claims to oppose antisemitism, he is part of a movement that not only endorses terrorism against Israeli Jews but is also linked to violence against Americans. 

What ‘globalize the intifada’ means

In recent months, three separate incidents of anti-Jewish domestic terrorism have taken place, initiated by people claiming to act on behalf of the “free Palestine” cause that Mamdani has embraced. On Passover, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro’s Harrisburg residence was the target of an arson attack. In May, two employees of the Israeli embassy in Washington were gunned down by another “free Palestine” advocate as they left a Jewish museum. In June, a rally in Boulder, Colo., to draw awareness to the plight of the remaining 50 or so hostages being held by Hamas in Gaza was targeted by another “free Palestine” supporter, who said he wanted to kill all Zionists when he threw a Molotov cocktail at them. That assault resulted in injuries to 13 people, including eight who were hospitalized for burns; this week, 82-year-old Karen Diamond died as a result.

That is literally what “Globalize the intifada” means—the chant that Mamdani specifically refuses to condemn—and other catchphrases like “From the river to the sea”: support for terrorism against Jews. Mamdani supports the war against Israel. He opposes its existence as a Jewish state and couldn’t even condemn the Oct. 7 attacks without also treating the Israeli victims as morally equivalent to the Palestinian murderers, rapists and kidnappers and falsely accusing the Jewish state of “apartheid.” To point out the link between his steadfast refusal to disavow such stands and those who kill Jews in Israel or the United States is neither prejudicial nor unfair. On the contrary, it is those that, like the Times or Axios, which assert that it is wrong to link Mamdani’s position to that of global jihad that are wrong.

Moreover, the fact that he has stuck to these positions while being defended as a victim of prejudice by mainstream outlets like the Times is yet another sign of how such antisemitism is no longer a barrier to widespread support from Democrats.

Leading New York and national Democrats could have reacted to the results with across-the-board condemnations of not only Mamdani’s anti-Zionism and unwillingness to condemn the genocidal slogans of Islamist terror. While a few leading Democrats, such as House Minority Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), have asked him to alter the way he speaks about Israel and to condemn that phrase, they haven’t rejected out of hand the idea of someone who holds such views representing their party in the nation’s largest city.

In recent years, Democrats have been vocal about Republicans needing to disassociate themselves from extremists in their party. Apparently, they didn’t think the same suggestion applied to them. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), who has long claimed to be the shomer or “guardian” of Israel and the Jews in Congress, and most other members of his party, showed little sign of taking such a stand.

 

 

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), has refused to take a stand against the Israel-hating extremists in the Democratic Party

 

Jumping on the bandwagon

The most compelling evidence of how difficult that would be was not long in coming. Mainstream Democrats have shown themselves unable to draw a line in the sand against a figure who is not merely a Socialist but whose candidacy seems to have become a test case for legitimizing antisemitic views on the left. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), who is no conservative, was widely denounced for criticisms of Mamdani and forced to apologize. As Politico noted, most Democrats are now more interested in jumping on his bandwagon rather than in holding him accountable for his radicalism and anti-Zionism.

Part of this is a “no enemies on the left” attitude. It is an attitude that outlets like the Times, which has helped lead the assault on the West and America with its fallacious “1619 Project,” coupled with its biased coverage of the post-Oct. 7 war against Hamas and its Iranian sponsor, would like Democrats to adopt. The fact that it is mimicked by “woke right” antisemites like former Fox News host Tucker Carlson and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), both of whom despise socialism but identify with Mamdani’s animus for Israel, is unsurprising.

New York isn’t the only place where those who hate Israel and seek to silence or marginalize Jews are dominating the party. In North Carolina, the state’s Democratic Party endorsed smears of Israel and called for an embargo on arms to it. People like Schumer and other Democratic officeholders who may disagree with such rhetoric but understand that their party base is not only comfortable with these blood libels but starting to demand that they go along with it.

But the way this is enforced is more than just a matter of base politics. Nor is it primarily bolstered by the ideological extremism of writers like Michelle Goldberg, Peter Beinart and M. Gessen, who are platformed by the Times and falsely claim that supporting the destruction of the one Jewish state on the planet by means of blood libels and a genocidal terrorist war isn’t antisemitism. It also involves efforts to condemn those calling attention to the alarming legitimization of Jew-hatred by labeling such arguments as Islamophobic and therefore beyond the pale.

What the last few days have shown is that playing the Islamophobia card is how the hard left hopes to facilitate its takeover of the Democratic Party. More than that, it’s a means to whitewash antisemitism and silence supporters of Israel. Publications, politicians and even Jewish groups that are just as concerned about falling out of sync with mainstream liberal opinion as they are about the surge in Jew-hatred that don’t stand up against this false narrative are as much a part of the problem as the controversial candidate himself.

WHILE MANY JEWS WOULD HAVE BEEN KILLED HAD THE ALLIES BOMBED THE NAZI DEATH CAMP, FAR FEWER OF THEM WOULD HAVE BEEN PUT TO DEATH BY THE NAZIS

Trump bombs the ‘rail lines’ Roosevelt would not

The U.S. War Department rejected proposals to attack trains to Auschwitz and the death camp itself as “impracticable,” claiming it would require “considerable diversion” of planes needed elsewhere. 

 

By Alan Newman 

 

JNS

Jul 1, 2025

 

1945 photo of train tracks converging at the entrance to the Nazi death camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau.

 

Under the orders of U.S. President Donald Trump, on June 22, American airmen flew B-2 bombers tens of thousands of miles, releasing powerful “bunker-buster” bombs, destroying Iran’s nuclear-weapons factories as American sailors on a distant submarine fired salvos of dozens of Tomahawk missiles.

The mission followed nearly two weeks of aerial assault by the Israel Air Force. Coordinated efforts between two allies ensured a military success with the nuclear sites at Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan, and other strategic facilities, either obliterated or severely damaged.

Now let’s turn the clock back some 80 years.

 

Jews arrive at the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp in 1944.

  

One day after Christmas in 1944, U.S. Air Force pilot George McGovern, who would someday be the 1972 Democratic presidential candidate, led a squadron of B-24s. They dropped 50 tons of bombs on oil plants in Monowitz, an industrial section of Auschwitz where more than 1 million people were murdered. The target was located less than five miles from the crematoria and rail lines that transported Jews to the camp.

Despite being repeatedly asked, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt disapproved of bombing the rail lines. Because of his indifference, untold numbers of Jews who could have been spared were murdered.

Trump had decided that the threat of a nuclear Iran was too great and, despite all the risks implicit with a hot war, felt it was his duty to act. By contrast, regarding the Iranian threat, former Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden had jawed about not allowing Iran to have a bomb and that they had Israel’s back. They naively chastised Iran with warnings of “Don’t” that were disrespectfully ignored. Across the Mideast, they had postured with threats of “red lines,” but those were crossed. They signed agreements that effectively gave Iran a legal path to a nuclear bomb.

During Trump’s first presidential campaign announcement in 2015, he said of Obama, “Take a look at the deal he’s making with Iran. He makes that deal, Israel maybe won’t exist very long. It’s a disaster, and we have to protect Israel.” Trump gets high marks for prescience, loyalty and consistency.

Iran, for decades, vowed “Death to Israel” and “Death to America.” Iran had a clock in Tehran that counted down to Israel’s demise in 2040. Trump must have heeded the sage advice once uttered by former Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, who said, “When someone says they are going to kill you, believe them.”

The story is simple: Trump bombed Iran, a country that fanatically sought another Holocaust. To destroy Israel, Iran had created a network of terrorist proxies, developed rocket technology to deliver nuclear warheads and pursued nuclear technology that was only useful for weaponization. Trump’s bias for common sense and action did the world a favor. He was resolute, despite catastrophizing predictions of a regional war, thousands of dead Americans and World War III.

David S. Wyman’s Abandonment of the Jews and Rafael Medoff’s FDR and the Holocaust present ample evidence of Roosevelt’s shameful and cunning behavior, ignoring the systematic annihilation of 6 million European Jews. In these books, we learn that the U.S. War Department rejected the proposals as “impracticable,” claiming such raids would require “considerable diversion” of planes needed for the war effort. U.S. officials claimed to have conducted a “study” that found that bombing Auschwitz was not militarily feasible, but no evidence of the alleged study was ever found.

History will show that Trump, who bombed Iran to halt the mullah’s plan for another Holocaust, was far more courageous and honorable than Roosevelt, who did not bomb the rail lines to Auschwitz.

Trump deserves the full-throated appreciation of Israelis, Americans and all Western countries. He is especially due gratitude from today’s Jews, regardless of their current political preference. Trump should be celebrated as the president who bombed the proverbial “rail lines.”

CA GAS TAX

By Bob Walsh

 

 

 

It appears that the jump in the CA gas tax taking place today will be just 1.6 cents.  So far.  This number was not released until yesterday.  I strongly suspect the powers-that-be decided to keep it minimal to avoid the screams of the peasants, yelling HEADS ON A STICK.  

THE ABILITY TO RECOGNIZE THE OBVIOUS WHEN IT KICKS YOU IN THE BALLS

By Bob Walsh

 

Bryan Kohberger, the accused in the Idaho murders of four college students, has apparently agreed to plead guilty in order to avoid being put in front of a firing squad as he will certainly be found guilty of the murders.

At least one of the victim families is furious.  They want to see the sonofabitch die.  Can't say as I blame them. 

TRUMP TO VISIT ALLIGATOR ALCATRAZ TODAY

By Bob Walsh

 

 

President Trump is on schedule to visit the new Immigration Detention Center, commonly known now as Alligator Alcatraz, at the old but still functional Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport in the middle of the Florida Everglades.  It is possible the facility will also get its first intake when Trump is there, which should be July 1.  Assuming the environmental whackos don't manage to get an injunction against it.  They are asserting that the feds are ignoring environmental regulations.  

 

The facility is already there, kinda-sorta.  I have seen numbers saying anything from 1,000 prisoners to 3,000 prisoner may be housed there, plus staff and support equipment.  There is a very nice 10,000 foot runway and only one road in and out.  The feds assert that the water snakes, anacondas and alligators will likely discourage any but the most motivated from even attempting to evade the government's hospitality.   

GREASY GAVIN GETS WHAT HE WANTS

By Bob Walsh

 

 

 

Gavin Newsom, governor of the formerly great state of California, got what he wanted to sign the budget bill.  The legislature did some tweaks to the California Environmental Quality Act which will allow significantly cheaper and faster building of housing in CA as it will not cut out a lot of the environmental review of virtually ANY new construction project in CA. 

On the NOT WONDERFUL side it specifically included a gimmie for the so-called California High-Speed Rail Authority which will now be able to evade the CEQA review of it's ongoing money pit project.  Fortunately both the feds and now the state are preparing to largely defund the project.  The new CA budget bill takes away the guaranteed $1 billion for the project from the state this year.  Since Trump has already said he is totally zeroing out federal funding for the project the damn thing might now die a richly deserved death. 

THROW THE INCOMPETENT BITCH OUT

By Bob Walsh

 

Regular readers will remember I have written several times about Christina Corpus, who is apparently still the Sheriff of San Mateo County, at least until Tuesday.  

She is not well liked and has been involved in a bunch of very dubious irregularities in running her office.  Earlier this year, by 84%, the electorate of the county passed a new law allowing the Sheriff to be removed by a vote of at least 80% of the Board of Supervisors.  That in fact happened.  The vote of the board was unanimous.  Corpus is refusing to resign and is asserting that she will fight her removal in court. 

The final hoops to remove her have yet to be jumped thru.  She has requested a stay of her removal from the court.  The court has turned her down.  She had five days to file an appeal of the board action, which took place on Tuesday.  She has announced her intent to appeal, but as far as I can tell she has yet to do so.  I am guessing the five days means five business days or five court days, so she (presumably) has until close of business July 1 to either call or fold.  

I will try to keep you in the know.

TRUMP ADMIN SUES LOS ANGELES

By Bob Walsh

 

 

Attorney General Pam Bondi

 

Acting Monday morning the Trump administration has filed suit against the City of Los Angeles and the city's mayor, Karen Bass, asserting that the city Sanctuary City policy interferes with the ability of the federal government to enforce immigration law.

The lawsuit further asserts that the city is discriminating against federal law enforcement by treating ICE differently than other types of law enforcement in violation of the Supremacy Clause of the U. S. Constitution.  The DOJ is specifically asking for an injunction to block enforcement of these sanctuary policies.

The suit was filed in the U. S District Court for the Central District of California.  

BEST BUDDY NOW WORST ENEMY ..... MUSK PLEDGES TO OUST REPUBLICANS FROM CONGRESS WHO VOTE FOR THE BIG UGLY BILL

Elon goes nuclear on ‘insane spending bill’ with new pledge that could threaten Trump’s Republican majority

 

By Victoria Churchill  

 

Daily Mail

Jun 30, 2025

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ex-Trump ally billionaire Elon Musk's latest promise could throw a major wrench into Trump's governance plans for his second term.

Musk once more sounding off against the president's signature budget bill currently making its way through Congress. 

'If this insane spending bill passes, the America Party will be formed the next day,' Musk pledged in a post on X Monday evening. 

'Our country needs an alternative to the Democrat-Republican uniparty so that the people actually have a Voice,' he added.   

A few hours before his new pledge to primary Republicans, Musk called out their refusal to pass legislation that he sees as sufficiently conservative via a post on X Monday afternoon, as senators voted on various amendments to Trump's budget package.

A full Senate vote on the budget bill is expected either late Monday evening or early Tuesday morning, as President Trump has been pushing Congress to get it to his desk by July 4th. 

The Senate version of Trump's bill is estimated to add between 3.3 billion and 4.5 billion to the national debt. 

'It is obvious with the insane spending of this bill, which increases the debt ceiling by a record Five Trillion Dollars that we live in a one-party country – the Porky Pig Party!!' Musk wrote on X.

'Time for a new political party that actually cares about the people,' Musk added.

A few minutes later, Musk also called out several House Republicans who are a part of the conservative 'Freedom Caucus,' for their votes to pass the House version of the bill.

'How can you call yourself the Freedom Caucus if you vote for a Debt Slavery bill with the biggest debt ceiling increase in history? @RepAndyHarrisMD @chiproytx,' Musk wrote, addressing the two GOP lawmakers directly.

Musk then escalated his attacks further, pledging to oust Republicans from Congress who vote for the bill.

He said that any GOP lawmakers who 'campaigned on reducing government spending and then immediately voted for the biggest debt increase in history' while adding they 'should hang their head in shame!'

 

Tesla CEO Elon Musk attends a cabinet meeting held by U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., April 30, 2025

Elon Musk via X

Elon Musk via X

Elon Musk via X

Tesla CEO Elon Musk speaks alongside U.S. President Donald Trump to reporters in the Oval Office of the White House on May 30, 2025 in Washington, DC. Musk, who served as an adviser to Trump and led the Department of Government Efficiency, announced he would leave his role in the Trump administration to refocus on his businesses.

 

Musk, the world's richest man now worth over $400 billion, founded the AmericaPAC super pac in 2024. 

AmericaPAC raised over $260 million last year, and spent it in support of Republicans, many of whom ran in swing districts. Over $88 million went to directly supporting Trump.

Musk was rewarded handsomely for his efforts, and spent nearly four months in Trump's White House as a 'special government employee' leading the Department of Government efficiency (DOGE). 

In that role, he pinpointed many areas where the federal government could make budget cuts, but in Musk's eyes much of that work will be for nothing if the government doesn't curb its record high spending levels. 

Some libertarian-minded Republicans have previously taken Musk's side in the GOP budget fight.

New additions to the the national debt were have been a non-starter for the likes of Kentucky Republican Rand Paul, who notes that he does want to see the 2017 tax cuts made permanent. 

Paul also described the current $5 trillion in new debt that the budget bill would add as 'Biden spending levels.'

‘This will be the largest increase in the debt ceiling ever in our history. We've never raised the debt ceiling without meeting the target. You can say it doesn't directly add to the debt but if you reach the ceiling you'll meet that. We won't discuss it for a year or two. I think it is a terrible idea to do this' Paul told Fox News earlier in June. 

Paul has also contrasted the pending package with the funds anticipated to be saved by spending cuts pushed for by DOGE. 

'That's more than all the DOGE cuts that we found so far. So, the increase in spending put into this bill exceeds the DOGE cuts. When you look just at the border wall, they have $46.5 billion for the border wall,' Paul said on Face the Nation earlier this month. 

Utah GOP Senator Mike Lee is another Senate Republican who hasn't fully supported President Donald Trump's 'big, beautiful bill' of a spending package which is currently being voted on in the U.S. Senate after being passed by the House of Representatives back in May.

Lee and Musk previously joined forces to describe the bill as 'debt slavery' in a back and forth exchange on X.

WHATEVER POSSESSED THE SHOOTER TO LURE FIREFIGHTERS INTO A DEADLY AMBUSH?

Wess Roley pictured after Idaho shooting that killed two firefighters

 

By Melissa Koenig and Joe Hutchison 

 

Daily Mail

Jun 30, 2025

 

 

Wess Roley was identified by a law enforcement official who spoke with the Associated Press on Monday 

 

The sniper who lured hundreds of firefighters into a deadly ambush last night has been named as Wess Roley. 

Roley was found dead near his gun on Canfield Mountain outside of Coeur d'Alene, Idaho on Sunday evening.

He slaughtered two firefighters, who haven't been named, and left a third critically-ill after starting a brush fire cops fear was used to bait the fire department. 

Roley was identified by a law enforcement official who spoke with the Associated Press on Monday on the condition of anonymity. 

According to a Facebook profile belonging to his mom, Heather Cuchiara, he celebrated his 20th birthday last month.

It remains unclear if Roley was employed, public records say his last address was listed as being in Phoenix, Arizona. A motive has not been revealed yet. 

Kootenai County Sheriff Robert Norris said on Sunday it was unclear if the gunman was killed by a cop's bullet, or if he took his own life. 

Roley's body was pulled away from the scene just as the blaze began to spread across Canfield Mountain.

The fire was first reported at around 1.21pm. Two local firefighters - one from Coeur d'Alene Fire Department and another from Kootenai County Fire & Rescue - were shot and killed while scoping out the scene.

A third was left 'fighting for his life' after being struck and rushed to surgery, but is now described as being in a stable condition.

 

Authorities say the killer started a brush fire, seen here, to lure firefighters onto Canfield Mountain

The suspect's motive for the shooting remains unclear. An investigation into the shooting will continue today 

According to a Facebook profile belonging to his mom, Heather Cuchiara, he celebrated his 20th birthday last month

 

'This was a total ambush. These firefighters did not have a chance,' Norris said on Sunday. 

Roley was seen glowering from a driver's license photo but was also pictured on social media images with strikingly-long hair which emphasized his delicate features.

No public social media profiles have been unearthed for Riley and he does not appear to have left any kind of manifesto explaining his reason to murder two. 

Roley's father Jason, 39, lives about an hour's drive away from the scene of the shooting, in the town of Priest River, Idaho.

He is married to a woman called Sara Roley - Wess' stepmother - and the pair are parents to two young children.  

The scene on Sunday was sheer pandemonium as the brush fire burned and firefighters rushed to the scene only to come under heavy fire.

By around 4.30pm, Sheriff Norris gave law enforcement the authority to shoot to kill the gunman if they were given the opportunity. He deployed two helicopters with snipers to take out the gunman. 

It is believed the gunman was the only shooter in the attack 'based on the trajectory [of the bullets] and based on the type of weapons that this individual had that we could recover,' Norris said.

He explained that it is likely the gunman was running as he fired, as he announced 'there is no threat to the community at this time.' 

The suspect's motive for the shooting remains unclear. An investigation into the shooting will continue today, where Norris said he expects to find more weapons that were left at the scene.

Harrowing fire department scanner calls revealed the terror the first responders faced as they arrived on the scene. 

'Send law enforcement right now! There's an active shooter zone,' one firefighter could be heard crying out.

 

It remains unclear if Roley was employed, public records say his last address was listed as being in Phoenix, Arizon 

Law enforcement officers gather at Cherry Hill Park after multiple firefighters were attacked when responding to a fire in the Canfield Mountain

 

 

On Sunday evening, the two firefighters killed were transported from Kootenai Health to Spokane, Washington 

A procession of police cars, ambulances and fire trucks followed them to pay their final respects 

 

'Everybody's shot up here!' the firefighter continued, noting that two battalion chiefs were 'down' and he was 'pinned.'

He was later heard warning his fellow firefighters, 'Stop. Do not come up here.' 'It's clear to me that this fire was set intentionally to draw us in,' the firefighter claimed.

On Sunday evening, the two firefighters killed were transported from Kootenai Health to Spokane, Washington. 

A procession of police cars, ambulances and fire trucks followed them to pay their final respects. 

Locals paid tribute at overpasses across the highway, some waved flags while others saluted the procession of vehicles. 

The firefighters were ultimately forced to pull back, with Northern Lakes Fire District Chief Pat Riley telling KHQ he would not be deploying any more crew members until the threat was neutralized.

Meanwhile, the blaze continued to grow to cover 20 acres and the gunman kept shooting. 

 

Law enforcement and emergency responders are seen here at Cherry Hill Park off 15th Street on Sunday afternoon after responding to the fire and shooting

It is believed the gunman was the only shooter in the attack 'based on the trajectory [of the bullets]' officials said

 

Idaho Gov. Brad Little called the attack a 'heinous direct assault on our brave firefighters.

'I ask all Idahoans to pray for them and their families as we wait to learn more,' he said, adding that he and his wife are 'heartbroken' by the news.

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem also said her department was monitoring the situation, saying: 'Justice will be served'.

The FBI responded to the scene with technical teams and tactical support, Deputy Director Dan Bongino said.

The Idaho House Republican Leadership said in a statement: 'We are horrified by the murder of two firefighters in Coeur d´Alene, and shocked by such a vicious attack on our first responders. We are praying for them, the injured, their families and their colleagues.'