President Donald Trump said on Sunday that Israel’s return to national elections just six months after the previous one is “ridiculous” and “all messed up,” but added that there is a “good chance” that his Mideast peace plan will succeed.
Addressing reporters on the White House lawn before departing to the United Kingdom, Trump said “Israel is all messed up with their election. I mean, that came out of the blue three days ago. So that’s all messed up. They ought to get their act together.”
“Bibi [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu] got elected,” said Trump, and “now, all of a sudden, they’re going to have to go through the process again until September? That’s ridiculous. So we’re not happy about that.”

Please pray for:
Case #1
Donor: Mordche Burech ben Chava Reitzel
Recipient: Anonymous
Case #2
Donor: Zohar Ben Rachel
Recipient: Rachel Bat Simcha

Kevin Hassett, the White House’s top economist, will leave the administration, President Donald Trump announced late Sunday, on the eve of his trip to Europe.
Hassett, who has served as chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers since September 2017, is leaving as Trump confronts an increasingly hostile trade war on two fronts – with China and with Mexico, the latter of which Trump threatened with tariffs last week if it doesn’t do more to stem illegal migration.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo delivered a sobering assessment of the prospects of the Trump administration’s long-awaited Middle East peace plan in a closed-door meeting with Jewish leaders, saying “one might argue” that the plan is “unexecutable” and it might not “gain traction.” He expressed his hope that the deal isn’t simply dismissed out of hand.
“It may be rejected. Could be in the end, folks will say, ‘It’s not particularly original, it doesn’t particularly work for me,’ that is, ‘it’s got two good things and nine bad things, I’m out,’ ” Pompeo said in an audio recording of the private meeting obtained by The Washington Post.
“The big question is, can we get enough space that we can have a real conversation about how to build this out,” he said.

President Trump has arrived in the UK for a delayed state visit and set a combative tone by criticizing the London mayor as his plane landed.
Before landing, Trump described Sadiq Khan as “a stone cold loser” after the London mayor compared him to a 20th-century fascist.
“@SadiqKhan, who by all accounts has done a terrible job as Mayor of London, has been foolishly “nasty” to the visiting President of the United States, by far the most important ally of the United Kingdom. He is a stone cold loser who should focus on crime in London, not me……”

Rav Meir of Premishlan (1773), a talmid of the Baal Shem Tov.
Today in History – 29 Iyar
· Napolean defeated at Waterloo, 1815.
· A delegation of the National Convention of the World Agudah, headed by Rav Meir Don Plotzky, landed in New York to help establish a strong Agudah branch there and to raise money to strengthen Agudas Yisroel. The delegation included Rav Asher Lemel Spitzer, Rav of Kirchdorf, Rav Dr. Meir Hildesheimer, Rosh Bais Hamedrash LeRabbanim in Berlin, Dr. Nosson Birnbaum, Rav Yosef Lev and the Ozerover Rebbe, Rav Moshe Yechiel Epstein, as well as Rav Yitzchak Meir Levin, son-in-law of the Imrei Emes.

https://matzav.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/VIDEO-2019-06-02-20-37-51.mp4

Russia has apparently denied Iran’s request to acquire the S-400 missile system amid the Iranian threat, reported Bloomberg on Thursday, citing two people familiar with the situation, “including a senior Russian official.”
Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif was in Moscow earlier this month.
Thursday’s development comes as tension between Iran and the United States, and its Gulf partners, has increased in the past month.
The United States enacted new sanctions and deployed two warships with fighter jets, in addition to a Patriot missile battery, to the Gulf in response to Pentagon reports that Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps was planning an attack on US forces or interests in the region

Police are investigating an anti-Semitic message found at the Jewish Children’s Museum in Brooklyn after a post-it note with the words “Hitler is coming” was found on a billboard display in front of the museum Thursday.
Police told the news outlet they are trying to determine whether the note should be investigated as a hate crime. They said they do not have any suspects.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio Gov. Andrew Cuomo both publicly condemned the anti-Semitic message found at the museum.
“It’s part of a very troubling pattern that we’re seeing,” Cuomo said Friday. “Increased anti-Semitic attacks all across this country and all across this state.”