Notes in the Margin

President Trump called for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s corruption trial to come to an end in a strong show of support for the Israeli leader.

On this week’s Hanke’s

The Israeli state and its supporters view the American taxpayers as people to be exploited and defrauded for the benefit of a regime that offers Americans nothing in return.

The US assessment goes against claims from Israeli PM Netanyahu, who launched the war under the pretext of preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.

Trump is now weighing sending in the US military. This presidency looks like an extension of George W. Bush's. 

Tucker Carlson opposes Trump's new war, so Trump claims to have invented "America First" and repeats banal slogans about weapons of mass destruction. 

Hunter DeRensis writes at The American Conservative, "Israel is a rogue nuclear state that is aggressive abroad and despotic at home."

"The IC continues to assess that Iran is not building a nuclear weapon and Supreme Leader Khamenei has not authorized the nuclear weapons program."

Japan's economy contracted at a higher pace than expected in the first quarter of 2025, according to official data for the January to March period released on Friday. 

The deployment of California National Guard troops and active-duty U.S. Marines onto the streets of Los Angeles without local approval is an assault on federalism.