Detlef Guertler

🚨🇺🇦🇮🇱 A senior Ukrainian diplomatic source tells me that if the vessel PANORAMITIS, which is allegedly carrying wheat stolen from occupied Ukrainian territories, enters the port of Haifa and unloads its cargo, it will lead to a crisis in relations between Ukraine and Israel 🚨"We are tracking this new vessel and won’t let this slide. If it’s permitted to dock and unload, there will be fallout, specifically for our bilateral ties", the Ukrainian diplomatic source said 🚨The Ukrainian diplomatic source added: "If this ship and its cargo isn’t rejected, we reserve the right to deploy a full suite of diplomatic and international legal responses" 🚨The Ukrainian diplomatic source said Israel has "essentially shrugged off" our demands regarding the previous vessel that unloaded stolen wheat in Haifa port 🚨"⁠⁠Frankly, this feels like a slap in the face given the strategic goodwill Ukraine has extended - from designating the IRGC as terrorists to criminalizing antisemitism", the Ukrainian diplomatic source said 🚨"Profiting from stolen cargo should be beneath Israel’s dignity", the Ukrainian diplomatic source said

🔴 What happened in Iran after the US-Israel War? Events in 3 Months... - Dams in Turkey, which had been on red alert for nearly 15 years, began to fill. - Dams in Iran, which had been on red alert for half a century, began to fill. - Dams in Iraq, which had been on red alert for a quarter of a century, began to fill. The Euphrates and Tigris rivers began to overflow. Lakes that had dried up due to drought revived. Lost species began to return. And what was the reason? The radar base destroyed by Iran...

This is not happening in a vacuum. There has always been a deep hatred of Christianity in Israel. But the recent rise of a new virulent strain of Jewish supremacy has brought it to new heights. Here is a partial list of incidents: 1) There have been 111 hate crimes recorded against Christians recorded in 2024, including 46 physical assaults. Then a total of 181 incidents in 2025, representing a 63% rise in harassment. It is believed most incidents are not reported. The Rossing Center documented 61 physical attacks in 2025 alone, involving hitting, pushing, and the use of pepper spray against identifiable clergy. 2) Spitting is the most common form of harassment, accounting for 60% to 80% of all recorded incidents in Jerusalem's Old City. A significant portion of these attacks (43%) target the Armenian Quarter and the Armenian Patriarchate in Jerusalem. 3) In 2023, footage went viral showing ultra-Orthodox Jews spitting on the ground as Christian pilgrims carrying a cross began a procession from the Church of the Flagellation in Jerusalem's Old City. Five suspects were subsequently arrested. 4) In 2024, an elderly Christian woman in the West Bank suffered a fractured skull after a confrontation with settlers grazing livestock on her land; her home was later attacked. 5) That year a break-in occurred at a Catholic retreat house in northern Israel where sacred items were damaged and replaced with Jewish religious objects. 6) In 2023 more than 30 graves—including those of significant historical figures, were smashed by two suspects wearing religious Jewish attire. The incident was captured on video and widely condemned as a clear hate crime. 6) In 2026 senior Catholic clergymen, including the Latin Patriarch, were temporarily blocked by police from reaching the Church of the Holy Sepulchre for Palm Sunday Mass. Israeli forces reportedly assaulted and beat Christian worshippers and pilgrims attempting to reach the Church. 7) The Christian town of Taybeh in the West Bank experienced multiple targeted attacks, including arson, armed incursions, and racist graffiti. 8) The IDF has repeatedly hit churches in Lebanon. The St. George Melkite Catholic Church was completely destroyed in 2024. The attack killed at least eight people who were using the church as a shelter. A priest’s house and parish offices were also leveled. 9) Two Maronite pastors, Fr. Pierre Al-Rai (Qlayaa) and Fr. Maroun Ghafari (Alma al-Shaab), were killed in recent months during strikes on their respective villages. 10) Israel has repetaedly hit Christian sites in Gaza. At least 3 churches have been destroyed or severely damaged by the occupation. Heritage sites like St. Porphyrius (one of the oldest in the world) and the Byzantine Church of Jabalia have suffered severe damage, described by archaeologists as some of the worst destruction of heritage they have witnessed. 11) Since late 2023, the Armenian community has been locked in a high-stakes legal battle over a "secret" lease of approximately 25% of the Armenian Quarter (the "Cows' Garden") to an Israeli investor for luxury hotel development. Armenians have maintained a constant sit-in protest to block bulldozers and have faced intimidation from armed private security guards. 12) In 2024 and 2025, Jerusalem municipalities threatened to freeze church bank accounts over alleged tax debts, a move Christian leaders called a "coordinated attack" designed to weaken their institutions' financial viability. 13) In southern Lebanon, predominantly Christian villages like Alma al-Shaab have been largely emptied, with residents sleeping in churches for safety before being forced into mass displacement. Some local leaders have explicitly appealed to the Vatican, stating their villages have no military activity but are still being targeted. The war Israel has declared on Christianity has had serious effects. The climate of hostility has led to a measurable impact on the community's future. A 2025 Rossing Center survey found that nearly half of Christians under 30 in the region have considered emigrating due to systemic discrimination and safety concerns. Israel is no friend to Christianity.

🇮🇷🇺🇸 The Iran war is not just an energy crisis, it is a food crisis, and almost nobody is talking about it. About a third of all globally traded fertilizer passes through the Strait of Hormuz: the same waterway that has been effectively closed since this war began. For fertilizer, there are no strategic reserves, no alternative routes, and no fast substitutes. Urea prices have surged over 60%, and it is projected that global fertilizer prices will average 15-20% higher in the first half of this year. Here is what makes this more alarming than the oil crisis: Whereas oil does have alternatives, 50% of global food production depends on synthetic fertilizers. If farmers cannot get fertilizer during spring planting season, they cannot simply apply more later, the window closes and the yield is gone for that season. The FAO's chief economist put it bluntly: this logistics bottleneck has no viable workaround in the short term. The world is focused on oil prices and blockades and nuclear talks, but the quiet crisis unfolding in the fields of Asia, Africa, and Europe this spring could outlast the war by years. You cannot negotiate your way out of a failed harvest.

A few hundred Lebanese citizens are fighting for months in a surrounded town called Bint Jbeil in South Lebanon. They are fighting off thousands upon thousands of invading hordes, equipped with state-of-the-art weapons and covered by one of the best air forces on earth. Netanyahu said that he will not accept a ceasefire until he takes Bint Jbeil. He might take it after all the defenders are martyred. Yet this is not sure; Bint Jbeil may become his Stalingrad. Nevertheless, even if it is to fall, it will be our Thermopylae. The legendary defensive battle will galvanize a whole new generation of resistance fighters and will eventually lead to the full liberation of Lebanon.

This tracks with developments on the ground and Trump's general approach (try the same thing and expect a different outcome/escalate to de-escalate). Absent a deal, next phase of the war could be more violent especially as US naval forces are now within Iran's reach.

Netanyahu attacks Europe: Europe is losing control of its identity, infected with deep moral weakness.

The Shiite Coordination Framework, an alliance of political parties and factions that currently control the Iraqi government, may collapse in the coming weeks due to infighting over the appointment of Prime Minister - Al Mada