Alan D. Abbey

For years @geraldposner and I have reported on Nazi-looted art and the decades-long fight to get it back. A court finally ordered the return of a $25M Modigliani stolen from Jewish dealer Oscar Stettiner—after generations of delay, denial, and legal obstruction. Stettiner died without ever seeing it returned. But his family had carried on the fight. These cases matter. It is not just about a single painting but instead about justice delayed and a promise that the story does not end with the theft. Link in the comment

Nice run

Journalist @shellykittleson must be released immediately. Reporters should never be kidnapped and used as pawns.

Because I am not obsessed with blaming everything on Israel. Joe Kent accomplished absolutely nothing as Director of the National Counter terrorism Center. From my office, I am hunting down IRGC operatives and reporting them to DHS and @StateDept and Joe Kent used his time to leak and watch podcasts all day. It’s sad. We need better people at ODNI.

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Israel had to keep its biggest gas platform, Leviathan, completely shut down for 32 days due to the ongoing war. Egypt and Jordan, both heavily hooked on Israeli gas, were sliding into crisis. Blackouts multiplied. Factories slowed to a crawl. Families sat in the dark. The Iranian blockade of the Strait of Hormuz had already cut off Qatari supplies, so the pressure on both Arab countries became severe. Behind closed doors, both countries quietly begged Israel to turn the gas back on. This week, Israel did exactly that. Gas is flowing again to Egypt and Jordan. Think about this: Israel had a perfect, low-risk opportunity to do exactly what the Islamic world constantly accuses it of wanting to do: destroy its Arab neighbors. A few more weeks of keeping that valve closed would have inflicted real, possibly irreversible damage. Power grids could have collapsed. Industries would have ground to a halt. Governments already struggling with their own problems would have faced furious populations looking for someone to blame. According to the propaganda drilled into every Arab and Muslim from Tehran to Cairo to Amman, the “Zionist entity” is a ruthless, genocidal power that dreams of nothing more than the destruction of Arabs and Muslims. If that was even slightly true, Israel would have seized the moment. It would have turned the energy shortage into a weapon and let Egypt and Jordan bleed out. No one could have stopped it. The decision was entirely in Israel’s hands. Instead, Israel did the opposite. It absorbed its own heavy losses, weighed the risks, and turned the gas back on. Even while fighting a war, it chose to remain a stable supplier to countries that are, at best, cold-peace partners, and at worst, occasional enablers of the very forces trying to destroy it. This is the complete opposite of the bloodlust that Islamic propaganda constantly projects onto Jews.

This is Mahsa Sotoudeh, 25. Abducted on March 29 from her home in Shiraz by Islamic regime rapists. No information on her whereabouts. Be her voice.

I will remind you every day that Mamdani’s wife celebrated this.

Indeed it does. And every Palm Sunday there is a solemn procession commemorating Jesus' entry into Jerusalem. Except today. The police banned the procession.

"POV: the moment a missile drops in West Gaza City..." Eyad Shawarma, Shuhadaa St. Gaza City. As we've seen before, a "Missile" is a popular shawarma wrap that is longer than usual. Timestamp: 1 day ago #TheGazaYouDontSee Link + details in 1st response

@ChrisMurphyCT is an idiot The War Is Going Better Than You Think nytimes.com/2026/03/24/opi…

I will remind you every day that Mamdani’s wife celebrated this.

On January 12th 2024, UNESCO condemned Israel for killing a "journalist" in Gaza named Muhammad Abu Haweidi. It was also reported by WaPo and @pressfreedom. Today, Palestinian Islamic Jihad announced that he was one of their commanders. Odds on a retraction or apology? Zero.

Eid Mubarak to all who celebrate and are witnessing the tectonic shifts unfolding in the Middle East: 1- The weakening of the evil Islamic Republic of Iran and its fascist regime. 2- The failure of Oman’s appeasement of the Mullahs, only to be slapped with Tehran’s fury. 3- The collapse of Qatar’s alliance with the Ayatollahs, the Muslim Brotherhood & Jihadis. 4- The demonstration of how the Islamic Republic’s indiscriminate rockets kill Palestinians. 5- The showcasing of the resilience of countries in the Gulf, including the UAE, Bahrain & Kuwait. 6- The revelation of agents of hate, chaos, death, and destruction who are cheering on Iran’s deadly behavior against Arab countries, not to mention their own citizens. 7- The highlighting of why the Gulf Arab countries are critical US allies who are pillars in regional defense priorities and global energy markets. 8- The beginning of the end of the so-called “Axis of Resistance” that occupied multiple Arab countries and subjugated millions in the name of “fighting Israel.” 9- The gradual destruction of vile and terrorist proxies like Hezbollah in Lebanon and Tehran-aligned Shia militias in Iraq. 10- The exposition of how warfare has advanced in today’s world, necessitating a recalibration of the defense industrial base, military spending, technological advancements, and political priorities.

There seems to be a huge misunderstanding about Zionism. People tell me that not all anti-Zionists want to annihilate my country. Alas, they do. Zionism in essence equals accepting or supporting the establishment and existence of Israel. All other definitions are disposable.

Palestinians are the only people in history who have strangled an 8-month-old baby to death simply because he was Jewish, yet are still seen in the world as the victims. Has everyone lost their mind?

If the New York Times reported the war in 1944 as it’s reporting the war today. President Roosevelt continues to pursue a war for which he failed to prepare the United States. Though there have been some significant military achievements, especially in North Africa, U.S. forces remained bogged down in the Pacific and severely bloodied in strategically meaningless places like Tarawa and Guadalcanal. The Italian campaign has totally stalled, with an appalling loss of American life that will soon be surpassed by the utterly reckless and inevitably doomed invasion of France. Meanwhile, the innocent people of Japan and Germany continue to suffer. The damage to both their countries and the impact on the world economy is incalculable. The chances of a negotiated settlement appear more than ever remote. And all of this because the impressionable Roosevelt was duped into going to war by that master manipulator, Churchill.

Let’s hope this is an auspicious conjunction for the world…. Happy spring equinox, Nowrooz Mobarak, Eid Ramadan Mubarak (& Shabbat shalom too)

During Kari Lake’s chaotic tenure at USAGM, “there was no coherence to the informational enterprise” except for a “focus on disruption,” Ilan Berman, an Iran expert who serves on the board of RFE/FL, told me. “The people who suffer are the people of Iran.” jewishinsider.com/2026/03/voice-…

The Iranian “gift” for Eid al-Fitr: Missiles on Al-Aqsa. The Iranian attack on the holy sites sacred to all three religions reveals the madness of the Iranian regime, which claims to be religious.