Daniel

[Lindsey Graham @LindseyGrahamSC]

At least they used a good photo of me.

Judge me by my enemies.

[Ronen @Ronen__Stauber]

ACTUAL Rocket alerts in Israel since Hamas attacked on October 7th 2023

[Amit Segal @AmitSegal]

I was raised with the belief that trust isn’t given—it’s earned. When Turkey, a NATO ally, lost the U.S.’s trust in 2019 by purchasing Russian S-400 air defenses, it was rightfully banned from receiving F-35s due to the risk of allowing Moscow to collect sensitive data on the fighter’s stealth signature. Now, according to The New York Times, Trump is likely to reopen the sale to Ankara, and for the life of me I can’t imagine how the Turks earned it.

Since 2019, they have kept every last unit of their S-400s—up to 200 missiles, many still in their shipping containers. They have remained the only NATO member that refuses to sanction Russia over Ukraine. They have hosted Hamas leadership in Istanbul and laundered billions for Iran, while Erdogan openly threatens Israel with destruction and, in Benjamin Netanyahu’s words this week, “talks openly about conquering Jerusalem.” They continue to occupy half of Cyprus—a fellow EU member—and to menace Greece, another one. Not to mention, this is the same country Trump himself claims he had to stop from joining Iran in the last conflict.

If trust isn’t earned, it seems it can be bought. The salesman on the account is Tom Barrack, the billionaire real estate investor, longtime Trump friend and ambassador to Ankara. Barrack doesn’t talk about Turkey’s conduct; he talks about the deal. The seven-year ban his own boss imposed? “Insane,” he says. The legal requirement that Turkey actually give up its Russian missiles? A technicality to be workshopped—the S-400s are inactive, he assures us, so possession is just paperwork. This is, in his own words, “classic Trump deal-making.” And when trust itself came up, Barrack showed us exactly what the word weighs in his ledger: Describing the Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire, America’s ambassador announced that “everybody has been equally untrustworthy.”

Netanyahu appears to have known about the impending sale and tried his best to derail it. During an interview with Fox yesterday, Netanyahu, unprompted, launched into an attack on selling the technology to “a regime infected by the Muslim Brotherhood, an extreme movement that hates America and chants ‘Death to America.’”

There was already early warning of this turn in late June, when the administration notified Congress of its intent to proceed with the sale of F110 engines to power Turkey’s indigenous fifth-generation fighter, the Kaan. Speaking alongside Vice President JD Vance, the president signaled he was prepared to make Erdogan “very happy” on both the engines and potentially on readmitting Turkey to the F-35 program.

A “very happy” Erdogan sends a chill down my spine; thankfully, Congress is poised to ruin his mood. The law bars F-35 transfers so long as Turkey possesses the S-400, so the administration is hunting for a workaround: hand the systems to some unnamed third party (a mechanism, one official admits, that hasn’t been worked out), or pull a few key parts and declare them “inoperable.”

And then there’s Israel. U.S. law obligates Washington to preserve its qualitative military edge, the guarantee that Israel outflies every rival in the region. Handing the region’s premier stealth fighter to Israel’s next regional rival certainly undermines that supremacy. To preserve the gap, Israel may receive further access or compensation of that nature.

Even if Erdogan gets his announcement at this week’s NATO summit, the sale itself must survive a one-to-two-year gauntlet: some legal sleight of hand to make the S-400s “disappear,” lifting sanctions that remain in place, formal notification to Congress, and bypassing resolutions of disapproval lawmakers are already promising. Then Turkey joins the back of Lockheed’s queue, where recent customers have waited four to five years from contract to first delivery, meaning that beyond the handful of jets Turkey paid for in 2019, which are collecting dust in U.S. storage, no new F-35 is likely to fly over Anatolia before 2030. That gives Israel time—time it can use to throw up roadblocks for Turkey and to get itself into the F-47 program.

[Open Source Intel @Osint613]

Sen. Lindsey Graham to i24NEWS: "We will oppose the F-35 deal."

Congress fears Russia could learn about the advanced fighter jet through Turkey.

[Israel War Room @IsraelWarRoom]

⚠️ A bipartisan group of House lawmakers warned against selling American F-35 stealth fighter jets to Turkey in a letter to President Trump last week.

Turkey was removed from the F-35 program after purchasing the Russian S-400 air defense system. Turkey illegally occupies part of Cyprus, antagonizes its Greek neighbors, threatens Israel, is friendly with Iran’s Islamist Terror Regime, and backs the Muslim Brotherhood & other anti-American terrorists.

@RepMikeLawler @BradSherman @RepNicole @RepGusBilirakis @RepJeffHurd @RepMaxMiller @RepYoungKim @RepStephenLynch @RepGabeAmo @JaredEMoskowitz

[Karys Rhea @RheaKarys]

Israelis tend to think that Qatar is behind every influence campaign turning Americans anti-Israel.

In fact, Russia & China are amplifying & funding antisemitism as much as any Arab nation is.

The Cold War says it all.

Cc @JanJekielek @MaayanJaffe

[The Mossad: Satirical and Awesome @TheMossadIL]

We got the full set.

[Entropyrian @entropyrian]

Megyn is engaged as the last tier of a multi-tiered motte and bailey where her bailey is Tucker's motte, and Tucker's bailey is Nick or Candace's motte. It's a chain of legitimation, where each step in the chain grants legitimacy to the next, providing an open path to transport the fringe into the center.

Replace Megyn with Kevin Roberts, or Matt Walsh, or whoever you please, the mechanism works the same. It is a means for the respectable center to inject the radical fringe into the center by using an intermediary so that they never have to defend the actual fringe.

[Daniel @Goldma_Daniel]

@KevinRobertsTX @Heritage @TuckerCarlson Fucking clown show

[Nathan Cofnas @nathancofnas]

Anti-Semitism at the United Nations:

The UN gives 239 times more attention to a civilian death if it can be blamed on Israel

The black bar shows the number of human rights documents produced by the UN from 1990-2007 for Israel vs. 5 countries on 4 different continents

The gray bar shows the civilian death toll (an objective measure of how bad the situation really is)

For the 5 non-Jewish countries, the UN produced 1 document for every 2,258 civilian deaths

For Israel, it produced 1 document for every 9.4 deaths

Source: https://t.co/BSzKOntWys

[Joe Truzman @JoeTruzman]

They died when a bomb they were attempting to plant at the Gaza-Israel border detonated prematurely. The act was far from peaceful and what killed them was their ineptness at understanding how explosives work.