In the Middle East, Israel is like the customer service desk for everyone's failures. Bad weather, bad politics, and now even Iran and Trump blame Israel to cover for JD Vance's bad deal. You failed Israel, your own closest friend, and now you want the rest of us to trust you? What are you going to say: “Trust me, bro”?
“Do not cooperate, do not take in any more Israelis and Jews who come to Italy. This is the last and only warning."
An Italian mayor received a threatening letter with a bullet attached to it, warning him to stop allowing Israelis and Jews from entering the city.
Italy collaborated with Nazi Germany during the Holocaust.
Italians must not let history repeat itself.
The relationship between the United States and Israel is incredibly valuable to both partners. As CIA director, I saw firsthand how many American lives were saved thanks to Israeli intelligence. We must never forget who are friends - and our enemies - are.
I don’t understand who is going to invest in a $300 billion reconstruction fund for Iran. The U.S. is not doing so, and why would the Qataris or any other country in the Middle East that was just attacked by Iran invest one penny to support Iran’s reconstruction?
Most of the damage inflicted on Iran was directed to military targets. Why would anyone want to help Iran rebuild its military capabilities?
Even if the funds were limited to humanitarian-related infrastructure, if there is such a thing, money is fungible, and we know the first freed up dollar will go to rebuild Iran’s ballistic and nuclear capabilities.
What am I missing?
However genuine the growing hostility between Trump, Vance, Netanyahu, and Israel’s governing coalition may be, this rupture would not have happened without America’s capitulation to Iran, whether that capitulation is real and lasting or repackaged as “strategic restraint.”
That is the central fact.
America changed course, pulled back from the pressure campaign on Hormuz, and embraced an arrangement that has ensured Iran political survival, breathing room, and a path back to legitimacy without fully resolving the nuclear threat that started the conflict in the first place (said to be done within 60 days, though this is almost certain to not occur.)
Israel was then expected to accept American retreat as victory.
When Netanyahu and his coalition refused to play along with this, the disagreement became personal. The Trump admin now sees Israel as obstructing a diplomatic success, at least this is the public messaging, and Israel sees Washington as abandoning the very objectives it had previously encouraged, with Trump saying nothing short of “TOTAL AND COMPLETE SURRENDER” would be acceptable.
The insults, accusations, and public feuding between America and Israel are not the cause of a breakdown. They are the result of it.
America created the fracture the moment it decided that managing Iran was preferable to defeating the threat they claimed it posed, and set out to destroy with multiple “objectives” of the war outlined that are not even addressed in the MoU, such as the ballistic missile program and proxy network. Everything since has been fallout.
I love America, but a lot of people, specially “influencers” and “creators” need to set their political biases aside and dare to say something critical that might upset their followers, and that is that — as it currently sits, if nothing changes with the MoU and a deal with Iran, strategically speaking, Iran has come out on top. And what message does this send to our adversaries globally? Surely not a good one.
Israel is not a client state. It is a sovereign, independent, and powerful nation.
Its strength has never depended on any foreign leader, it comes from its own people.
While the partnership with the United States has been valuable, Israel has never been a burden. It has delivered massive contributions to American technology, medicine, cybersecurity, and defense, far beyond what most Americans realize.
At a moment when America is facing deep internal and external challenges, turning against one of its most capable and loyal allies is not just shortsighted, it is self-destructive.
Those who believe they are weakening Israel by attacking it are actually weakening America’s own interests.
The rumoured rift between Washington and Jerusalem over Iran is music to the ears of anti-Israel figures on both the left and right. But there’s only one country that’s responsible for prolonging this war: the Islamic Republic. We cannot afford to lose sight of that.
International media is amplifying the Iranian regime perspective and framing things as if Israel is trying to jeopardize a US-Iran deal.
The reality is that Iran is trying to derail a Lebanese-Israeli peace effort.
While I hope and pray that a diplomatic solution to end the Iranian conflict and deny Iran the ability to produce a nuclear weapon and stop their reign of terror on the region may be at hand, we still must understand who we are dealing with.
Since the latest ceasefire, Hezbollah has been unrelenting in their attacks against Israel to the point there are areas in northern Israel that have been evacuated because of the constant attacks. What would America do in a similar situation?
Hezbollah is financed and controlled by Iran, with a lot of American blood on its hands. It is clear to me that no matter what deal we sign with Iran, Hezbollah’s stated ambitions of destroying Israel and making Lebanon a caliphate have not fundamentally changed.
May God protect the United States and may God protect the State of Israel.
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For years, Israel has been vilified for “targeting journalists” in Gaza.
Now @pressfreedom has removed more names from its list after admitting said "journalist" participated in combat.
That should be a major media scandal.
Instead, the same outlets that helped spread the accusation against Israel will quietly move on to the next libel.
Notably, when Iran attacks U.S. forces, CENTCOM has responded immediately with strikes on Iran. While still maintaining the blockade and urging a deal. Why would we apply a different standard for allies with similar capability and will?
Do. Not. Look. Away.
These testimonies represent only a fraction of the atrocities committed against Israelis on October 7.
“Women were stripped, bound, stabbed, shot and burned. They were executed both during and after rape”
“Those taken hostage were assaulted in front of loved ones and young relatives forced to commit sex acts on each other, an intentional, premeditated strategy of kinocide to destroy family units even after release from captivity.”
“In another house, Mr Greinman came across the body of a woman.
He said: 'In the room were knives, scalpels, a hammer, an axe, screwdrivers, tools, tools from the household. All of those were embedded in the body. The body was completely mutilated.'”
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🚨🚨Our threat level has been raised to "severe" here in the UK, which means a terrorist attack is highly likely.
We have now reached a point where Jews are reaping the seeds of Muslim extremism that were sown in Britain over the past 30 years, by consecutive every single government.
Britain is meeting its fate and is on course for more bloodshed.
God help us!
BREAKING: Office of U.S. Inspector General @AidOversight announces evidence linking four more UNRWA employees to terrorism. Three UNRWA teachers and a social worker were involved in holding civilian hostages kidnapped from Israel and/or in the October 7th massacre.
The Lebanese government had 15 months to disarm Hezbollah and didn’t do it, while the Lebanese military chief of staff lied that south of Lebanon was completely disarmed.
What will the lebanese government do this time in the 10 days of ceasefire will determine the next steps.
I hope for Lebanon that this time they will stop playing and we will see them disarming Hezbollah and showing everything in real time.