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With John Bolton ousted as national security advisor on Tuesday, questions remain regarding the Trump administration’s posture on both the U.S.-Israel relationship and the Iranian threat.
“[U.S.] President [Donald] Trump and John Bolton share a strategic vision of leveraging American economic and military power, especially maximum sanctions pressure and targeted power projection to achieve international security objectives,” Washington-based geopolitical strategist John Sitilides told JNS. “John Bolton possesses superb situational awareness skills and a first-rate analytical intellect on national-security priorities.”

President Donald Trump said on Twitter on Wednesday night that he would delay by two weeks the next increase in tariffs on Chinese goods as a “gesture of good will” to advance trade talks that have made little progress for months.
The president acted several hours after a conciliatory Chinese move to grant 16 U.S. products a one-year exemption from Beijing’s retaliatory tariffs. In a pair of tweets, Trump said he delayed his scheduled Oct. 1 increase at the request of China’s chief trade negotiator, Vice Premier Liu He, to avoid imposing the tariffs as the People’s Republic of China celebrated its 70th anniversary.

President Trump blasted his former national security adviser John Bolton from the White House on Wednesday, saying he had been fired after making “some very big mistakes” and that he did not get along with others in the administration.
In a public rebuke of his top aide, Trump said Bolton had “set us back” and that the adviser had disagreed with the president on various national security issues. Trump later belittled Bolton as “Mr. Tough Guy.”
“John wasn’t in line with what we were doing and actually in some cases he thought it was too tough what we were doing,” he said. “Mr. Tough Guy, you know, you had to go into Iraq. Going into Iraq was something he felt very strongly about.”

T. Boone Pickens, a shrewd, publicity-savvy Texas oil tycoon who helped usher in the era of hostile takeovers and corporate “greenmail” in the 1980s, and who later became an influential voice on environmentally sound energy policy, died Sept. 11 at his home in Dallas. He was 91.

President Donald Trump vowed Wednesday to strike back with power the United States “has never used before” if the country faces another attack similar to those that occurred Sept. 11, 2001, pledging that any would-be perpetrators “will never have seen anything like what will happen to them.”
The president was speaking at the Pentagon during a memorial on the 18th anniversary of the attacks, in which nearly 3,000 people were killed in New York, Shanksville, Pennsylvania, and Arlington, Virginia.

Rav Simchah Bunim of Pshischa, author of Kol Simchah, (1767-1827). Rav Simcha Bunim studied in the yeshivos of Mattersdorf and Nikolsburg under the guidance of Rav Mordechai Banet. He spent many years as a business man and a pharmacist, then became a follower of the Chozeh of Lublin and of the Yid Hakadosh of Pshischa, whom he succeeded as the Rebbe of Pshischa. His writings express the new approach to Chasidus which placed great emphasis on introspection and intense Torah study. His most famous disciple was Rav Menachem Mendel of Kotzk, the Kotzker Rebbe.
Rav Shimon of Toledo, son of the Rosh (1342)
Rav Yitzchak Zelaznik, Rosh Yeshivas Me’or Eliyahu

Last Thursday United Hatzalah inaugurated two emergency medical response vehicles known as EZRaiders. These personal riding machines are 4 wheel drive all-terrain vehicles that are capable of bringing a first responder to a patient in difficult terrain or hard to maneuver areas as well as through large crowds. The vehicles, which United Hatzalah retrofitted to contain a medical kit as well as a first responder on a board, are even capable of maneuvering at high speeds while towing a patient over difficult terrain safely. The vehicles are battery-powered and have enough energy for long and difficult trips up mountains or along beaches where regular vehicles and ambulances cannot go.

Israel’s response to Hezbollah’s attack earlier this month displayed the weakness of the Israel Defense Forces, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah said on Tuesday.
After the Lebanese terrorist organization fired several rockets at an IDF vehicle near the Israel-Lebanon border on Sept. 1, Israeli news media showed footage of what appeared to be two wounded soldiers being evacuated by helicopter to Haifa’s Rambam Hospital. The footage later turned out to have been a decoy operation designed to fool Hezbollah and buy time for the the IDF to strike Hezbollah targets in Lebanon.
During a speech commemorating a Shi’ite religious festival, Nasrallah said the deception proved Israel’s weakness and encouraged Hezbollah to strike more Israeli targets in the future.

U.S. Ambassador Jackie Wolcott told the International Atomic Energy Agency board on Tuesday: “Iran has a history of deception, and we must ensure that Iran’s actions do not distract from the IAEA’s vital verification efforts….Nuclear escalation of the kind Iran is attempting will only deepen the pressure Iran is facing and exacerbate the crisis Iran continues to make for itself. Such brinkmanship and extortion tactics will neither resolve the current impasse nor bring Iran sanctions relief.”
“The United States is open to negotiation with Iran without preconditions, when the time is right, to resolve the issues that divide it from the international community, and we are offering Iran a possibility of a full normalization of relations and the lifting of sanctions.”