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@ukhomeoffice Incredible

Police time will no longer be wasted investigating legal social media posts, freeing up officers to patrol the streets and tackle real crime. By scrapping Non‑Crime Hate Incidents, we are balancing the protection of vulnerable communities while respecting free speech.

@bonchieredstate One would think the legacy press would want to differentiate themselves from terrorists with PRESS vests. Yet they give them cover, never referencing the fact that these folks are an essential arm of terror groups like Hezbollah and Hamas.

This her? You aren’t a “journalist” because you order a vest from Temu. Nor does that vest give you immunity if you load up in a car with Hezbollah members to do more propaganda.

BREAKING 🔴 Report from Iran: The Natanz nuclear facility has been struck U.S. / Israeli Air Force

I greatly appreciated Tony Blair's recent intervention in the @TheFP, clearly and unapologetically standing on the side of truth and moral principle. He is the first major politician to clearly state that there is in fact an "ideology" that is driving violence and discrimination against Jews around the world. He spoke of the alliance of the left and Islamism. Yet he did not name that ideology itself. The ideology that unites the Left and Islamists is antizionism: a common hatred of Israel and the elevation of the Jewish state into a scapegoat for all global injustice.

@SaraHirschhorn1 This is him making a threat to countries who don’t want to help. I think he throws stuff out there to see what kind of results it shakes loose. It’s not all just a crazy person winging it, though it often seems like it. We’ll deal w/ the straight. Soon.

Um, how is that supposed to work?!🤷‍♀️

@CrankyTRex @EdMorrissey We’re not done yet. A little ways to go. Then we call em out. Regime’s gonna fall. Iranians are going to win their freedom.

@EdMorrissey Kind of surprised they haven't paused the bombing campaign and given the locals the go-ahead to fill the streets and take over. Guess they just haven't found someone they think can lead that effort yet?

Trump sounds like he wants to abruptly leave; Hegseth wants to go the full Curtis LeMay; Rubio wants to talk with rational alternatives. Either this is the most incoherent winning side of a war in human history, or there's a strategy in place. hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2…

In his war with Iran, is the president a mad king or a genius negotiator? Eli Lake offers a third explanation. thefp.com/p/donald-trump…

The best informed discussion of sharia supremacism, thru the Shiite prism, you will hear — @EliLake and @havivrettiggur … podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bre…

If you had to guess, who do you think has spent more on political campaigns in the last decade, AIPAC or Tom Steyer? (It’s not AIPAC.)

Thread. The Gulf Research Center (GRC), a prominent Saudi think tank founded and chaired by businessman Dr. Abdulaziz Sager, contends that China’s 2023 success in brokering the Saudi-Iranian detente has soured into a failure of accountability. The thread argues that Beijing’s empty rhetoric fails to bridge the gap between its aspirations for regional leadership and its refusal to take concrete steps against Iran’s continued aggression, which openly violates both the spirit of the detente and international law.

Brendan O’Neill absolutely nails it again. 🎯🎯🎯 Not mentioned and totally relevant too: Palestinian courts can impose death sentences for selling land to Israelis.

🚨🚨🚨 I can confirm that my friend Shelly Kittleson was abducted and may have taken hostage in Baghdad by Khatib Hezbollah. Whereabouts and condition unknown. I am her designated U.S. point of contact. If you have information please provide to law enforcement and send me a DM.

US Secretary of Defense Hegseth: The coming days will be decisive in the war with Iran, and Tehran cannot do anything about it

@LizHurra Perhaps they need a little humiliation to overpower their unwillingness to ever take the fight to Hezbollah.

Israeli MFA decided it would be a good idea to humiliate the Lebanese government, the only force that could eventually disarm Hezbollah, whose weapons are spread out across Lebanon. Brilliant.

Netanyahu at the Cabinet meeting: The United States is threatening to deal forcefully with the Strait of Hormuz issue – I hope they succeed. Iran must be stripped of this switch. After the war, we need to bypass this by building pipelines from Saudi Arabia to the Mediterranean. We are forming alliances with Arab countries that speak about joining forces with us in combat. In the past, I had secret conversations with Arab leaders. I told them – the moment Iran can, they will conquer you and topple your kingdoms. Back then, they didn’t fully understand it — today they do.

Israel’s new death penalty law is widely described as exclusively targeting Palestinians. That’s not just an overstatement it’s wrong. In Israel proper it formally applies to anyone committing a lethal terrorist act aimed at negating Israel’s existence. This includes Israeli Arab citizens on identical terms to Jews. The military court track applies only to West Bank Palestinians, but that reflects existing jurisdictional reality, not ethnic targeting in the text. Settlers, as Israeli citizens, are legally subject to Israeli civil courts even though they are in the West Bank. This is the internationally recognised position for an occupying power’s own civilians. Claims that thousands of already-convicted Palestinians face execution are simply false; the law is prospective only and won’t be applied retrospectively, even to 7/10 terrorists. The legitimate criticism is that the law’s net effect will fall disproportionately on West Bank Palestinians. Moreover, the military track carries a harsher mandatory sentence than the civil one, and it operates against a backdrop of chronically under-prosecuted settler violence. But that last point is an enforcement failure within Israel’s civil court system not a jurisdictional anomaly, or a function of this new law. That said it’s a real and well-documented issue, with many in Israel’s security establishment describing organised settler violence as terrorism. That asymmetry is absolutely worth criticising clearly. But it’s a criticism that’s likely to get lost as the more lurid claims take the attention.

A really first-rate piece on China's economy from my @HudsonInstitute colleague Tom Duesterberg. hudson.org/economics/how-…

New: We obtained phone calls between Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó showing them conspiring to lift EU sanctions on Russia -- from oligarchs to banks to the shadow fleet. Full story with consortium partners at @InsiderEng: theins.press/en/inv/290911

Ukraine is fighting an American enemy while generating battlefield innovations that protect the American warfighter. Ukraine and Israel are the only allies doing both at scale. Too many on the right and left are blind to what these model allies contribute to U.S. security.

I have boundless disdain for the defeatism of liberal media & pro-Russia demoralization of online right The world ex-US is so many Lilliputians; effective only b/c our massive advantages/ability to crush them are self restrained by a confused secularized Protestantism (1/2)