The Abraham Accords are evolving from a series of bilateral agreements to a new regional architecture of defense, energy, trade & tech.
The Iran war will accelerate this trend.
@VictoriaCoates & I lay out the strategy for a new US-aligned regional architecture, in line with Pres. Trump's vision for the Abraham Accords.
A New U.S.-Led Architecture for the Middle East - https://t.co/knTYUmJr36
@Heritage
I AM ON A UN MISSION!! WILL YOU JOIN ME?
I just received an unpublished 60+ page report from the Misgav Institute (@MisgavINSen) on the failures of the United Nations.
Simply posting the report once would not do it justice. So I am making it my mission over the next week or two, to break it down piece by piece. This is not something I can do alone. Follow and share #UNMission
Report to be published soon.
Trump sold this war as a demonstration of American strength. It ended with Washington scrambling for a deal before an oil shock crashed the global economy.
Netanyahu got his war with Iran but no regime change, no Arab-Israeli coalition, no strategic victory, and now a ceasefire he reportedly opposed.
Iran is battered but still standing. The Gulf is moving closer to Tehran, not Jerusalem. China is the quiet winner.
I think historians will look back on this as one of the greatest strategic miscalculations of the 21st century.
My latest: https://t.co/qvFtkOofq8
ANATOMY OF A DEBACLE 👇
No. You’re leaving your decision to a bunch of anti-Israel activists. I’m an expert, my PhD is on this and my book comes out soon. I’ve seen the evidence, I’ve been there first hand, I’ve been extremely critical of the strategy behind the campaign, but it’s not even close to a genocide.
1/ I spent over a year documenting Qatar's financial footprint in the United States.
The number I found? $400 billion. That's roughly $1.2 million per Qatari citizen.
Here's what you should know. 🧵
https://t.co/0ho38eUx4t
BREAKING: Israel to allow Hamas to do a “wee bit” of rape and murder after inspiring drum performance by the group ‘Absolute Fucking Retards For Palestine’.
The extremist minority in the Celtic support crawling out from the gutter to demand we don't appoint Robbie Keane because he managed a football club in *gasp* Israel. The club cannot pander to these lunatics. Hopefully we appoint Keane to get it right up the lot of them.
You really can't make this up.
ITV News was in the middle of filming a report on antisemitism in Golders Green when one of the interviewees got a call from his daughter.
She and her friends had just been targeted on a bus by boys shouting "Adolf Hitler," giving Nazi salutes, and telling the girls: "Hitler didn't manage to get you, but we will."
What a sad state of affairs.
Britain had a moment of silence for George Floyd. Our politicians kneeled en masse to show their outrage at his killing. "I can't breathe" became a slogan.
George Floyd died on the other side of the world. He wasn't British.
Henry Nowak *was* British and his treatment by the police was shocking and negligent in the extreme. Yet there is no minute of silence. There is no coordinated public campaign. There is no kneeling at sporting events.
And we all know why.
During the summer of BLM, some people said "All Lives Matter". This was treated as the highest form of racism and anyone who said this was immediately cancelled. Why? Because the people in charge don't actually think all lives matter in the same way.
They have created a racial hierarchy of victimhood where a career criminal who died through mistreatment by police in a foreign country with 0 evidence of racism like George Floyd is automatically sanctified because of the colour of his skin.
And Henry Nowak, a British man, one of ours, is automatically dismissed and ignored because of the colour of his.
This is the ugly fruit of so-called "anti-racism", an obsession with race that has created a two-tier society which treats people differently because of the colour of their skin.
This needs to stop.
.@merge_api CTO @GilFeig says the biggest cybersecurity risk today isn't a hacker, it's accidentally hiring a spy:
"This is not commonly known, but your biggest threat is always internal."
"We're less afraid of someone scanning our ports and finding issues as we are someone compromising someone internally and phishing an account and then using their account to do things."
"Or hiring the wrong person, hiring someone who's secretly a spy."
"That stuff sounds far-fetched, but it happens."
"I'm actually more afraid of us bringing in someone bad than I am of anything else."
Andoni Iraola to Liverpool?
The schedule with Europe and Premier League, intensity of his style of play, injury record & player profile at Liverpool is raising a number of concerns
Ahead of the Arne Slot Reaction Show we recorded on Sunday for @TheAnfieldWrap I took a deeper look at the injuries, 1st vs 2nd half of season records & approach taken at Bournemouth to understand whether concerns are matched by the data and whether there are any positive signs to ease concerns……
Graphic below is the xG rolling trendline 01/01/26 to end of season @Statsbomb for Bournemouth
1)INTENSITY
The data backs up the eyes
22/23 Iraola's Rayo Vallecano forced more high turnovers which led to a shot (68) than any side in the top five European leagues except Bayern Munich (73)
In the past 2 seasons at Bournemouth Iraola’s side are
-99th percentile and 98th percentile for high press shots
-100th and 96th percentile for aggression
2)INJURIES
Up until July 2025 Iraola at every club – every season – had a negative trend ….
Iraola had NEVER overseen a second half of a campaign that outperformed the first in terms of points gained
He had a reputation for burning his squad out during the first half of the season and tailing off with injury issues even without European football
In 2024/25 season they lost over 1100 days to injury
3)2025/26 – JANUARY CHANGE IN APPROACH & POSITIVE RESULTS
2025/26 Bournemouth
A) Post their best injury numbers as an aggregate of injuries and illness suffered in the past 8 seasons
B)153 games missed due to injury ranked 8th in league
C)Post a huge improvement January 2026 to end of season
D)End the season going 18 games unbeaten
E) Iraola’s side end the season performing well during the 2nd half of the season with a budget that should result in a lower bottom half finish
Quite remarkable when they start the season absolutely flying - 2nd place after matchday 9
Then suffer significant injury crisis and go 11 games without a win between Matchweeks 10 to 20
WHY? WHAT CHANGED JANUARY ONWARDS?
A lot.
A)NEW PERFORMANCE CENTRE
Bournemouth had invested over £30m in a new sports science and medical performance centre.
This was functioning fully January 2026 onwards
B)DR ROBERT MARSHALL
Recruited in summer 2025 he arrived from RB Leipzig in July last year as Bournemouth’s Director of Medical and Performance.
Iraola raves about him
His role was in part to ensure all the departments within the performance centre worked in harmony in conjunction with Iraola.
C)SQUAD AGE
2nd youngest squad in the league I am sure helps
D)IRAOLA
Iraola made tweaks in line with the performance centre recommendations
Training and in game set up changes reportedly helped
Rotation
Strategic substitutes
Arguably had the performance centre been in place July 2025 Bournemouth may have posted even better improvements in their injury data at the end of the 2025/26 season as it’s skewed by first half of season data
There is a lot more to delve in to in respect of his tactics, in and out of possession set up, authority, leadership and training methods
Based on the work done at Bournemouth January 2026 onwards it would suggest that Iraola can work positively complementing the performance staff at Liverpool
He will also have even greater resources in all areas at Liverpool
He has also ended the trend of his sides physically and results wise blowing up during the 2nd half of a season
There is a lot he needs to prove – and managing European campaign and Premier League is an obvious one – but he can point to the lack of performance centre (up until recently at Bournemouth) and the results since the integration of the performance centre / Dr Robert Marshall, positively as evidence of how he could work with the performance staff at Liverpool to balance intensity and the schedule
Report here, based on interviews from nearly 100 IDF soldiers, independently interviewed without the IDF’s knowledge, about how they fought in Gaza. Yet the media focuses on the one or two who are happy to slate them. Weird.
https://t.co/7afN3tb7qL