John Smith
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Why bother taking the island of Kharg and risking allied lives? Just bomb it to smithereens already.
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If you stand with the UAE- REPOST now. Share the picture.Stand against the Islamic regime in Iran. Stand with humanity. Stand with civilization against darkness, against backwardness. Choose your side. Silence is not neutral.
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Would love to see the UAE blow up Kharg Island
Open Source Intel@Osint613
Does Iran attacking the UAE a breach of the ceasefire? Does U.S. respond? Time will tell.
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🚩THREE MAJOR MOVES TODAY
Today at hotel Phoenicia, MP Fouad Makhzoumi delivered the most significant Sunni political breakthrough since Hariri’s exit. He brought together the Sunni MPs and produced what four years of fragmented initiatives could not: a single, public, parliamentary position endorsing the Lebanese state’s authority to negotiate directly with Israel through the Washington track. One room, one voice, one file.
1. Makhzoumi reconstituted a Sunni political center, the first time since 2022 that the community speaks with one voice on a strategic file. The post Hariri vacuum closed today.
2. He handed Joseph Aoun the parliamentary cover he needed against hezbollah’s obstruction. They can no longer claim the Washington track lacks national consensus, only that one group stands against it.
3. The signal to the region and to Washington: the Lebanese state has a domestic majority behind direct negotiations. Hezbollah now rejects them alone, exposed.
Bottom line: The negotiation file is no longer Joseph Aoun’s gamble. It is Lebanon’s position, and the burden of refusal has just been transferred onto a single address.
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The Green Party has complained about this cartoon of Zack Polanski by the The Times.
They’re deeply unhappy with it. Whatever you do, do not repost!
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WHO IS HE? 🚨🚨
This suspect is wanted in connection with two synagogue shootings on March 7 in the Greater Toronto Area.
Someone knows exactly who this bastard is.
Repost this everywhere until we get a name.
Make him famous.
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There's a lot to say, of course, about how much this sort of thing -- safe, comfortable Westerners appointing themselves arbiters of which nations are allowed to exist -- has taken over the politics of the Western left.
Or about what Israelis see that they don't -- for example, why Israeli Jews who hail from the Arab world are more right-wing and hawkish than the ones thrust upon the land artificially by European empires (or whatever).
Or about how no other Jews in any meaningful numbers actually managed to survive the 20th century outside the Anglophone world -- and when most Jews were actually fleeing to Israel, the Anglophone world was closed to them. The great exception, of course, is Soviet Jews, who were trapped in place and had their culture violently and brutally erased from them, and then fled almost entirely when the Iron Curtain fell.
Or, come to think of it, about how the Jewish claim to the land isn't about some dusty old lineage, but to a great extent from every generation's own contemporary story; from nearly every chapter of the Jewish Bible and prayerbook read and studied in every synagogue on Earth for two millennia; from how every synagogue for two millennia prayed toward Jerusalem; from the medieval rabbis who at the end of their lives boarded a boat to the land of Israel so they can be buried there; from how no Muslim or Christian ever doubted that Jewish attachment until they needed to pretend to forget it in order to fight Jewish immigration.
There's even a lot to say about the fundamental fakery of Western romantic discourse on indigeneity -- about how Jews were told to "go to Palestine" by Polish and Iraqi nationalists who rejected them for not being indigenous enough to Poland or Iraq, and to "go to Poland" by Palestinian activists because they're not indigenous enough to be in the land of Israel. (No one told them to go back to Iraq, of course, though they were a quarter of Baghdad's population in 1930. The brownness of half of Israeli Jews upsets the comfortable assumptions of the Western indigeneity industry, so it's ignored.)
It turns out it's possible, according to the self-appointed indigeneity auditors of the Western left, for there to exist a people that's not indigenous anywhere, and so undeserving, even in the midst of the brutal genocide of millions, of any other place to escape to. (Does Caitlin know that the Jews who fled to Israel had literally nowhere else to go? If not, her crime is ignorance. If yes, her crime is a denial of history so that history can be repeated. I hope it's ignorance.)
There's a lot to say about her final point, that it wouldn't actually be dangerous for the Jews to become a Middle Eastern minority once more; about how minorities generally have fared in the Middle East over the past century, and whether it really is crazy for Israelis, especially those hailing from the Arab world, to suspect that a future as a Middle Eastern minority would be a dark and bloody one; and about how it is the likes of Hamas, not some right-wing Israeli rabble-rouser, that keeps telling Israelis this is the case.
But what would be the point?
What would be the point of saying all that to someone who has adopted the demolition of another nation as the engine of her moral world. Such a person isn't going to sit with any of the actual history or dilemmas of this land and ask herself whether there might be some gargantuan lacunae in her understanding.
Instead, let me offer a small and practical response in place of the great and grandiose dives into the depths of the Israeli soul.
I think, dear Caitlin, that for all the reasons above and a few more besides, we Israelis will keep our self-determination, this safety we have found in a world that for all its endless self-righteousness never actually saves anyone. And I think, too, that those activists, like you, who condition Palestinian self-determination on us losing our own only pushes off the day of that blessed and necessary independence.
Caitlin Johnstone@caitoz
Basically every Israel-Palestine debate goes like this: "Israel did X." "Yeah, because the Palestinians did Y." "Yeah, because Israel did Z." "Yeah but only because the Arabs did A." But if you bring the debate back far enough in time, eventually you get to the part where the western world forcibly dropped a brand new ethnostate on top of a pre-existing civilization without the permission of — and to the extreme detriment of — the people who were already living there. Sure you can go further back and say "Oh yeah well the Jews lived there thousands of years ago," but that's just silly. There's no valid reason to believe some Jewish guy in New York City even has any meaningful lineage connecting him to that land more strongly than any random Muslim in Turkey or wherever, and even if there was, it would still be absurd to cite ancient history as the basis for a territorial claim. I'm only a few generations removed from my ancestry in Ireland and Scotland, but it would be ridiculous for me to show up demanding the home of someone who lives there. So the original source for the grievance is clearly the artificial creation of an ethnonationalist state in the mid-20th century, and the push by Zionists and western imperialists to make it happen. And how has that decision worked out? You see the results before you. Generations of nonstop violence and abuse, culminating in the slaughter and chaos throughout the middle east today. This means that creating Israel was a mistake. A mistake that needs to be corrected. Zionists will collapse into a shrieking pile of vitriol and hyperbole when you say this, claiming you're calling for the extermination of Jews, but this is false. Certainly ending a national order premised on putting the interests of Jews before Palestinians and righting the wrongs of the past would inconvenience a lot of the Jewish people who've been living there, but there's no basis for the claim that it would entail their deaths. Apartheid South Africa was dismantled without the extermination of millions of white people, and there's no reason to believe the dismantling of apartheid Israel would entail the extermination of Jews. The Israel experiment has been tried, and it has failed. It is time to try something else.
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🇮🇱 The Ben Gurion Canal could reshape the world’s entire maritime trade logistics:
Israel's plan?
Carve a brand-new shipping superhighway right through the Negev desert, connecting the Red Sea straight to the Mediterranean.
Boom!
It would completely bypass the Suez Canal and Egypt’s chokehold on one of the planet’s most critical trade arteries.
Suez handles crazy volumes of Europe-Asia cargo every year, but it’s been a nonstop headache.
From the Ever Given disaster, to Houthi attacks in the Red Sea, constant delays, and geopolitical drama...
A Ben Gurion route would shave serious time and risk off the journey while putting the route under Israeli control.
The idea’s been floating around since the 1960s, but it’s exploding again for obvious Hormuz-related reasons.
Insanely ambitious? Hell yeah.
Engineering a canal through desert terrain would cost a fortune, raise massive environmental red flags, and spark geopolitical earthquakes.
In sum, nothing that really bothers Israel at this point.
If it actually happens, Global trade gets a total rewrite.
Suddenly, Israel sits on one of the most strategic waterways on Earth.
Source: The Primest YT
Mario Nawfal@MarioNawfal
🇺🇸🇵🇦 The Iran war just turned the Panama Canal into one of the most expensive shortcuts in global trade. Because the Strait of Hormuz is basically locked down, shipping companies are completely rerouting. They’re buying more oil from the US and Latin America, crossing the Atlantic, then jamming it through the Panama Canal to reach Asia. Demand is so insane that some companies are paying millions in premium fees just to jump the line and cross faster. DW News
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@blueshaggyshoes @Anahitashokrol4 @atellix @MarioNawfal We have new friends with immense wealth and balls.
🇦🇪 🤝 🇮🇱
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@JohnSmith7dec @Anahitashokrol4 @atellix @MarioNawfal Thanks to heavy support from the United States.
That's disappearing within your lifetime. Israel has not made any powerful, new friends... Quite the opposite.
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@atellix @MarioNawfal If you can manage to do it… just please don’t cry if, like always, you fail.
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It’s happening again. Another lie about a monastery being destroyed. Rest assured. The monastery is intact and safe.
False stories about Israel are pushed fast, checked later, and used to paint Israel as uniquely evil. This pattern isn’t accidental. It’s deliberate.
And who pays the price? Real people. Christian communities on the ground.
Israel has its challenges, like every country. But when you vilify Israel, you target the one place in the region where Christians can live their faith safely and freely.
This isn’t just sloppy. It’s reckless and deliberate. If you shared it, correct it now.
Israel Foreign Ministry@IsraelMFA
🚨 FAKE NEWS Claims that a monastery in Yaroun in South Lebanon was “demolished” are false. The site is intact and safe. Spreading unverified reports like this is reckless, fuels unnecessary tension, and distorts the reality on the ground. Hezbollah has repeatedly used civilian homes and churches for its terror activities. In recent weeks, it also fired toward Israel from the vicinity of the monastery compound in Yaroun. IDF operations in the area targeted Hezbollah infrastructure while taking measures to ensure the monastery and other religious sites remained unharmed. We expect an immediate, public and clear correction of this claim. Israel will continue to protect holy sites and religious communities of all faiths without compromise.
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The Iranaian regime closing the Strait of Hormuz didn't come out of nowhere. This timeline goes back to decades ago; speedboat harassment, sailor detentions, limpet mines, tanker seizures, drone attacks, and now a full-scale disruption. Every time the world shrugged or cut a deal, the next incident was worse.
The same pattern runs across every dimension of the regime's behavior. Nuclear escalation, ballistic missile expansion, global assassination plots, domestic massacres, it's the same playbook on every front. Provoke. Test the response. If the cost is low, escalate further.
18 years of incidents on this chart. The only variable that changed in 2026 is that someone finally said no.
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Hear this clearly, this is the LAST warning. The Islamic regime in Iran will pay a heavenly price. A price written above, not negotiated below. It will fall. It will be gone. Not maybe. Not someday. This is not information, this is a promise. To the Iranian people: you are NOT ALONE. You have a true friend, the UAE. Strong. Loyal. Unshaken.
A storm is coming for the regime. Not a breeze a storm. It will shake their foundations. It will break their walls.
The night they hide in… will turn into day. Their darkness will be exposed. Their time will end.
The world is watching. History is writing. And justice… is arriving.
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Speaking an Iranian still inside Iran, writing this through Starlink while my hands are literally shaking with rage and grief. Sometimes, I can’t hold back the tears anymore.
Look at this poster they’ve plastered on every street corner [first image]. The Islamic Republic’s latest public death threat: Starlink, satellite dishes, VPNs — all illegal. Use them and you will be punished to the maximum. Phones crossed out. Dishes crossed out. Even the word “Starlink” in blood-red letters. They are openly hunting us for daring to seek truth.
And they just proved they mean it.
This innocent Iranian father [second image] was using Starlink — just like me — to get real news for his family in the middle of the blackout and get the censored information out to the world. They arrested him. They tortured him. They beat him to death.
A father. A husband. A man who only wanted to protect his children from the regime’s lies.
I am using Starlink right now to write these words to you. Every single day the regime’s agents threaten me. Every single day I know I could be next. My heart is shattered. My soul is on fire. The fear is real and it never leaves.
But I will not stop. My country is on the line. My people are on the line. 90 million Iranians are suffocating in this 47-year nightmare.
We are living in hell — neither war nor peace, economic pressure crushing every family, their new Chinese-style tiered internet and “White Simcard” loyalty system deciding who is even allowed to see the outside world. And now they are literally killing people for trying to connect.
We have endured massacres, rapes, executions, and grief for 47 years. We have buried our sons and daughters in the streets. We danced and cried with pure joy when you removed Khamenei because we finally saw hope.
This father’s blood will not be in vain.
We are willing to endure everything — the blackouts, the arrests, the torture, the economic pressure— if it means the Islamic Republic finally falls.
Anything to be free.
Anything to end this evil.
President Trump, the free world — see what they are doing to us? Keep the pressure. Do not look away. The Iranian people are watching, bleeding, and still standing.
The Lion and Sun will rise again. For this father. For every father. For every son and daughter who still dreams of freedom.
We will never forget.
And we will never forgive those who helped the butchers.
#IranMassacre
#IranWar
#KingRezaPahlaviForIran
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What is going on in Chicago? Black People are fighting with Muslims?
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Recent incidents in Jerusalem and elsewhere in Israel make it necessary to speak plainly.
The gravest form of chillul Hashem, the desecration of God’s name, is not always announced with noise and spectacle. Sometimes it begins with a single act of contempt: a priest humiliated, a pilgrim threatened, a church defaced, a Christian attacked in the public spaces of Israel.
In Jerusalem, no such act remains private. It does not stay between one aggressor and one victim. The Jewish people carry its shame. The name of God is diminished in the eyes of the nations.
My father taught that the public domain is never ownerless. The street, the road, the shared space, all of it belongs to everyone. Whoever damages it does not damage “nothing.” He damages his neighbour, his people, and ultimately himself.
The same is true, even more deeply, of the moral and spiritual public domain. The honour of Israel, the dignity of Torah, and the name of God in the eyes of the world are not ownerless. They belong to all of us. When a Jew humiliates or attacks a Christian in Israel, he is not only harming that person. He is damaging something that belongs to the entire Jewish people.
The Torah commands us: “You shall not desecrate My holy name, and I shall be sanctified among the children of Israel.”
That is the standard. Not merely to avoid wrongdoing, but to live in such a way that God’s name is honoured, loved, and respected in the world.
To attack Christians in Israel is the opposite of that commandment. It is the opposite of Torah. It is the opposite of Jewish dignity. At a time when Israel is being watched under a magnifying glass, such acts become one of the gravest forms of public chillul Hashem.
We must say this clearly, without hesitation and without excuses: Christians in Israel must be protected, respected, and able to walk freely and safely. Clergy, pilgrims, churches, monasteries, and Christian holy places must be treated with dignity. Not only because the world is watching, but because God is watching.
The honour of Israel is not defended by hatred.
The Torah is not strengthened by humiliation.
The name of God is not sanctified through violence.
Kiddush Hashem, the sanctification of God’s name, means that our conduct should make the world say: blessed is the people whose Torah teaches such dignity, such restraint, and such reverence for every human being created in the image of God.
Anything less is not strength. It is shame.
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Blockade Pressure Mounts as Washington Rejects Tehran’s Proposal
New Policy Brief from @JanatanSayeh:
bit.ly/4ufz7tw
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Did he just accidentally call Israel a superpower?
Open Source Intel@Osint613
Iran's Parliament Speaker Ghalibaf: The days of construction after victory against hostile superpowers are on the way.
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