Bob in NZ 🇳🇿🇿🇦

Lots of words and noise.
What else...? No that's pretty much it.

[Bob in NZ 🇳🇿🇿🇦 @BobInNZ1]

It's jaw-dropping how many Christian Zionists (or Dispensationalists) believe that "the promises to Israel were never fulfilled", and so God is "one day going to restore Jews to the land."
They never read their Bibles: "Thus the LORD gave to Israel all the land that he swore to give to their fathers. And they took possession of it, and they settled there."
-Joshua 21:43
"Solomon ruled over all the kingdoms from the Euphrates to the land of the Philistines and to the border of Egypt. They brought tribute and served Solomon all the days of his life."
-1 Kings 4:21

PS: the Bible never mentions the Nile as the western boundary. It's the wadi, or brook of Egypt (now El-Arish) - the well-known eastern boundary of Egypt in those days. It's just west of Rafah, and is a seasonal river. Egypt was never part of the Promised Lands.

[The Jewish Idea @TheJewishIdea]

Imagine how amazing the Middle East would be if the greater Israel project was real.

[InfoGram @_InfoGram_]

🇺🇸Marco Rubio in MARCH: "Goal of the war is to change the regime."

🇺🇸Marco Rubio in APRIL: "Goal of the war is to stop 🇮🇷 Iran from making nukes."

🇺🇸Marco Rubio in JULY: "Goal of the war is to return everything 'back to the way it was,' including the Strait of Hormuz." 🤣

Americans have elected a bunch of clowns

[Hadidi @hdrnssr]

Incorrect.

The most hated country in the world is still Israel.

[AMK Mapping 🇳🇿 @AMK_Mapping_]

I think it's safe to say that this is the largest escalation since the beginning of the so-called memorandum of understanding.

The U.S. carried out over 140 airstrikes on Iran, while Iran launched dozens of ballistic missiles and drones towards targets in Jordan, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman and possibly the UAE, while striking a second vessel in the Strait of Hormuz.

Iran is proving to the U.S. that it will not back down in the face of American escalation, and furthermore, will escalate in kind by launching much larger attacks than last time.

Even if, hypothetically, every single Iranian missile and drone was shot down, the message remains the same, and U.S. interceptor missile stockpiles continue to be drained. The threat of escalation is Iran's biggest advantage, especially as Trump continues to wage this prolonged and incredibly unpopular quagmire of a war that cannot be won, and continues to humiliate the U.S. and Israel on the world stage.

The next level of escalation for Iran is pre-emptive strikes. Because they know that the U.S. will attack Iran again in the future with essentially 100% certainty, I would not be surprised if we see some sort of attack ahead of an expected U.S. strike as a show of force.

[David Griscom @DavidGriscom]

Lindsey Graham will go down a one of the most bloodthirsty and sadistic senators in US history. There was no moral line he wouldn’t cross, no child he wouldn’t sacrifice. Stiff competition, but he really had a commitment to evil that’s hard to match

[Jimmy Dore @jimmy_dore]

Lindsey Graham is Dead. It’s bad to speak ill of the dead, so I’ll just say while he was alive he was as horribly evil & as bloodthirsty as they come. A true demon & an enemy of humanity.

As a dead guy I’m guessing he’s no better, but it’s bad form to speak ill of the dead, so I won’t.

[Business Nerd @Business_Nerd_]

Pavel Durov owns 100% of Telegram, a company used by over a billion people and has hundreds of millions in the bank.

He doesn't own a house. No jet. No yacht. No real estate. Nothing.

Tucker Carlson was visibly stunned: "I've never heard of that before."

So why?

Durov's answer cuts straight to his core philosophy:

"My number one priority in life is my freedom. And once you start buying things, it will tie you down to a physical location."

It goes deeper than minimalism.

He explains that the reason he never took venture capital even as Telegram scaled to a billion users was independence:

"We knew that our mission and our goals are not necessarily consistent with the goals of funds that could be investing into us."

Most founders take the money. The valuation goes up. The cap table fills with names. And slowly, almost invisibly, the mission starts bending toward returns.

Durov refused to let that happen.

And the same logic applies to his personal life. Every asset you own doesn't just cost money, it costs attention. He puts it plainly:

"I know that if I buy a house, I buy a jet, something like that, I would be spending time on trying to make it nice. This will require a lot of time and effort."

Tucker jokingly asks: "Would you go with leather seats or velvet seats?"

Durov laughs, then delivers the line that says everything:

"For me, I would rather make decisions that would influence how a billion people communicate rather than choosing the color of seats in a house that only I and my relatives and a bunch of my friends will see."

That's the trade-off he's made deliberately, consciously, and completely.

No distractions. No investors pulling him sideways. No assets demanding his calendar.

Just the product, the mission, and the freedom to pursue both on his own terms.

[-- GEROMAN -- time will tell - 👀 -- @GeromanAT]

It was a small step for Lindsay to go to the other side - but it was a great step forward for humanity.

[AMK Mapping 🇳🇿 @AMK_Mapping_]

Anyone who mourns the death of Lindsey Graham should do the exact same for every single one of the tens of thousands of Gazan children who were massacred over the last 2 years.

They were massacred by the genocidal military that Lindsey Graham helped fund.

[Cameron Kasky @camkasky]

Ro and I visited the destroyed village of Zanuta and the site of an EU-funded school that got burned down by settlers.

It was here that we got intercepted and captured by settlers wielding American-made rifles. The IDF showed up to back up the settlers, not the U.S. congressman.

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

The United States carried out a genocide across Southeast Asia. Four million people died. And Vietnam is still Communist to this day.

[Gabriel @GabeZZOZZ]

They were mocking the Special Military Operation. Now they’ve got a real war. Zelensky might want to start evacuating frontline cities, because things will only get worse from here on out.

[Steve 🇺🇸 @SteveLovesAmmo]

I would just like to inform the crackhead community that every flock camera contains gold, silver, palladium and copper.

That is all.

[Richard @ricwe123]

This is what desperation looks like...

[Seyed Mohammad Marandi @s_m_marandi]

Fake news from top to bottom.

The real story?

If the Trump regime does not abide by all of its MOU commitments, Iran will not abide by its commitments either. Hence, traffic of ships through the Strait from regimes that collaborated against Iran in wartime will not normalize.

[Ro Khanna @RoKhanna]

Israeli settlers, brandishing American made M4s, detained me & other Americans on my trip to Palestine.

When the IDF arrived, they sided with the settlers & continued our detention.

They made a huge mistake.

You will be hearing more soon. https://t.co/rZw8bRAn64

[Michael Button @MichaelButtonX]

In 2015, ISIS captured Palmyra and demanded its head of antiquities reveal where the treasures were hidden.

He was 81 years old. He refused.

Khaled al-Asaad had spent over 50 years excavating and protecting Palmyra, the caravan city that once rivalled Rome in the Syrian desert.

He learned Aramaic to read its inscriptions. He raised his children among its ruins and named his daughter Zenobia, after its rebel queen.

Before the city fell, he helped evacuate hundreds of artefacts to safety. ISIS interrogated him for weeks to find them. But he gave them nothing.

They executed him in the square and left his body among the columns he had spent his life defending.

Archaeology is not a soft profession. Sometimes the people who guard the past die for it.

[Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @NotHoodlum]

Marco Rubio says the goal of the war in Iran is now to return everything “back to the way it was” before Trump started the war. So after all that, the mission is apparently to undo the damage.

[Daniel Davis Deep Dive @DanielLDavis1]

Maybe now, belatedly, President Trump himself, and possibly now also some people in the United States, get at least a small sense of the anger and outrage echoing throughout the country of Iran, as a result of the assassination of their leader.

President Trump here is speaking, merely theoretical (since obviously nothing has happened to him), about what would happen if he is assassinated. But on the Iranian side, we *did* assassinate their leader — along with his granddaughter, and other family members.

Up to this point, almost everyone in the west has viewed the event as merely an act of war, and “collateral damage“ and shrugged our shoulders, like no big deal.

We haven’t even considered how this impacts the population or the government of Iran, deeming them undeserving of having an emotional reaction. We treat them like they are cattle, that they have no emotions, that they are not normal people, with emotional reactions that mirror ours. Just “targets“ to engage, with no consideration or concern about how those “targets“ might feel or react.

And yet President Trump here is so angry and fearful of the same thing happening to him, that he is threatening obliteration of an entire country (should this fate that he so carelessly and unemotionally imposed upon another nation, be inflicted upon himself).

One could certainly wish that President Trump, our other government leaders, and our sick and rotting elite in this country, might contemplate the potential for rebound attacks against us before launching the first one against an opponent.

There’s a reason why even fierce adversaries used to keep off limits the assassination of leaders of their adversaries during wartime. So that we don’t get into these kind of back-and-forth situations where the leaders keep getting taken out.

But we’ve foolishly opened this Pandora’s box, and President Trump is now racked with fear that they may do to him what he did to Iran.

[Seyed Mohammad Marandi @s_m_marandi]

Fake news

[Daniel Davis Deep Dive @DanielLDavis1]

Is this a joke? Is this what some call gallows humor?

Let me remind everybody, that we HAD a nuclear deal to curtail Iran’s ambitions for a nuclear weapon in 2015, and it was in effect until Trump himself sabotage it in 2018.

Then on 26 February of this year, Iran amazingly agreed to enter into negotiations for another nuclear deal and offered to make concessions to Trump that would have been better than the JCPOA of 2015 – and Trump destroyed that by choosing war.

There is no reasonable scenario where Iran will again trust the word of the United States and agree to anything, unless they get something dramatic in exchange, and they get it upfront.

Otherwise, this *is* a joke, whether President Trump realizes it or not.