Vance and his team fully understand the implications of their approach.
They understand that by granting Iran sanctions relief and legitimacy upfront, they are squandering critical leverage before addressing the most important issue, Iran’s nuclear program.
Their real priority is not stopping a nuclear Iran.
Their priority is withdrawing America from the Middle East, even if it means the IRGC comes out strategically stronger.
This is not a negotiation error. It is a deliberate choice of priorities.
I would like to request the standardization of a self-licking ice cream cone on X.
A "self-licking ice cream cone" is a sarcastic, metaphorical term for a closed system, organization, or process that exists primarily to justify and sustain its own existence. It consumes time, money, and resources while producing no meaningful output other than keeping itself alive.
This will be represented by a 🍦on X for simplicity and for brevity. If you like it please feel free to use it.
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I ordered an Israeli flag from Israel when we closed on our city house. It came today. I put it out next to my American flag, lower, of course. I walked into my garage to put my tools up and I hear my neighbor say to his wife, “He put a fucking Israel flag on his house!” 🤣🤣🤣
Some of the loudest voices against Israel are Jews.
A study of one of them: Catherine Bock, a Jewish Voice for Peace member, I recently met while reporting in Vermont.
She told me her parents were Holocaust survivors—then said that they were both Christian. The Nazis had discovered that her “great-grandparents or somebody” was Jewish through old church records, she said. She added that no one in her family was raised Jewish. And yet, she has introduced herself as a Jew before the Burlington City Council.
Why? “Because they listen more,” she responded flatly. “I say, okay, my parents are Holocaust survivors. And I think they listen better.”
She said that people whose grandparents were lucky enough to have been born in the U.S. are often the ones “screaming anti-Semitism.”
“They haven't had any Holocaust experience. And I have. And yet, I don't feel at all traumatized by it.”
In the past few years, she told me she had joined a Burlington synagogue because she “wanted a fob” for easier access to the building, where she bakes bread once a month. When speaking with the rabbi, she said she told him her story—to which he replied: “that’s Jewish enough.”
She turned to me, stunned. “I’m feeling like that is a pretty prejudiced type of way. Because if I hadn't had that story, if I'd just been me, I don't look Jewish, I don't know a thing about Judaism, I would have had to get educated, learn Judaism, and convert.”
In short: she found it “prejudiced” that some people are considered Jewish and others are not. That reflects a striking misunderstanding of Jewish identity—and of how religious belonging generally works.
Next time you encounter a Jewish Voice for Peace activist, remember Catherine.
Lucas Gage and I were both deployed to Iraq as Marines.
He talked about how his trauma and anger over what he experienced there led him to look for who to blame for the whole thing. That in turn led him into antisemitic conspiracy theories.
I understand where he's coming from. I lost friends over there. It has taken me a while to process what I went through, and in many ways, I'm still processing it.
Jeremy's answer to him here is beautiful and pulls no punches. Victimhood will destroy you. It's what so many of us (including us veterans) need to hear today.
Why is Israel getting blamed for trying to protect its citizens from hezbollah attacks? Iran funds and arms hezbollah, encourages them to kill israelis in israel and then blames israel for defending its own citizens. We should be focusing our anger on the iranian dictatorship not on a democracy fighting to protect its citizens
Hey @JesseBWatters his (and your) warning is dismissed. We are not the Jews you want us to be. Those were the nice Jews. They were all killed long ago. We’re who’s left.
I just had a very lengthy and productive discussion with @SEPeaceMissions@SteveWitkoff about the state of play regarding Iran.
After this discussion, it is my opinion that signing the MOU will be beneficial to the United States, in as much as the Strait of Hormuz will begin to open, and the hostilities with Iran will stop.
Whether or not the United States can reach an acceptable, verifiable deal with Iran regarding its nuclear program and other issues is yet to be determined, but I see little downside to trying.
The economic stability that comes from opening up the Strait and the cessation of hostilities could create a pathway to peace well beyond the Iranian conflict.
The expansion of the Abraham Accords and normalizing relations between Saudi Arabia and Israel is President Trump’s and my ultimate goal. I think that is best achieved by creating economic stability for the United States, the region and the world, as well as the cessation of hostilities. The signing of the MOU is an essential step to make that happen and thus it is worthwhile.
Incredible: Jew-hatred with a license. The American Psychological Association is now pathologizing Zionism as a “mental illness” via their “Decolonizing Therapy” racket — while glorifying Hamas, whitewashing Oct 7 as strikes on “military targets,” and letting members call Jews “psychotic.”
HHS is investigating — and every decent person should demand they shut this poison down. Jewish therapists harassed? Reports buried? Enough.
The APA is the same organization that has given a greenlight to pediatric “gender affirming care” so I guess I’m not surprised that they are on the radical progressive side of any Israel or Jewish matter.
#Antisemitism #APA #JewHatred
PERFECT RESPONSE! Ambassador Huckabee answers President Trump’s claim that without Trump, Israel wouldn’t exist: "Without Israel, without the Jewish foundation, there would not be an America. We owe our very existence to what happened in this land."
All Christians are called to be an ambassador for Christ. Ambassador @GovMikeHuckabee you are a true ambassador in every sense of the word. For Jesus, America and God’s covenant nation.
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I just want to be clear where I stand.
I don’t think JD Vance is a bad guy.
I also don’t think JD Vance has the experience or the skills to be our nominee and subsequently the President.
Give me DeSantis. Give me Rubio.