Dear President Trump,

I understand you're thinking about meeting with Vladimir Putin again, this time in Budapest. Listen, you're the "mediator president," the world's greatest dealmaker, so I'm hopeful. But I also want to be helpful!

You know Putin well. I don't. Although, while he was attending Leningrad State University in 1972, I was an exchange student at that Communist college where I knocked back a lot of warm vodka with guys named Vlad. Was he one of them? Hey, it's possible!

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Gazans are celebrating. For the past few days, large crowds of healthy, energetic men, women, and children have been cheering, dancing in the streets, and chanting "Allahu Akbar!" – all recorded on their fully charged cell phones.

These scenes make clear that there's no Israeli-engineered famine in Gaza, much less a genocide.

Of course, the propagandists behind these hoaxes will continue to slander Israelis. They'll say: "Who are you going to believe – us or your lying eyes?"

Their defamation campaign is intended to justify and, indeed, incite a Holocaust in the Middle East on par with the Holocaust carried out in Europe less than a century ago.

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They say there are no atheists in foxholes. When it comes to Hamas, that's not reassuring.

Hamas members proclaim themselves jihadis – dedicated to the proposition, clearly stated in the Hamas Charter, that "Islam" will "obliterate" Israel.

So, right now, the terrorists in the tunnels under Gaza City may be asking themselves: "Should we release the hostages we kidnapped from Israel and have been torturing for the past two years? If we do, under Trump's plan, the Israelis will guarantee us safe passage to a country of our choosing. That would be a nice break.

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When I was in graduate school, back in the previous century, I took two courses, simultaneously, on the United Nations. One was taught by a professor who made no attempt to conceal his enthusiasm for global governance.

The other was taught by a New York Post reporter, Mike Berlin. He saw his job as exposing the politics, the inefficiencies, and the cronyism within this most elite international institution.

Before long, I decided to go into journalism rather than academia.

Back then, of course, the U.N. was better – or at least more promising – than it subsequently became.

In 2006, Claudia Rosett, then the journalist in residence at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, wrote in Commentary magazine:

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A disturbing thought experiment: Imagine your children have been kidnapped and are being tortured in a dungeon.

Your phone rings: "Hi, I just wanted to let you know about the leaders of the gang that abducted your kids. Well, it happens that I've hosted them in my guest house for years. Perhaps I can work out a deal for you?"

Would you think: "How nice! What a good friend!" I doubt it.

What I've described parallels what's been going on between Israel and Qatar since Oct. 7, 2023, when Israel was invaded by Hamas terrorists who massacred roughly 1,200 men, women, and children and dragged about 250 more back to Gaza where maybe 20 still survive in agonizing captivity.

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