linda goodman 🧡🌻🇪🇺

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[Haviv Rettig Gur @havivrettiggur]

Welp, I think we're done here.

Trump himself is now saying he buckled under the pressure of Hormuz.

It's as bad as it could possibly be. He's saying aloud that Iran can have anything it wants because America can't afford the staring contest.

If this is his own explanation in his own words, then the fact that the sanctions relief is front-loaded...suddenly becomes important. The fact that the inspections regime that will verify compliance will be negotiated by an American side that has already admitted defeat, that needs this more than the opponent needs it...is now significant. And the fact that the proxy system is now recognized as legitimate by the United States -- is suddenly exactly the disaster you feared it might be.

And the fact that America has declared aloud that it's not actually capable of imposing its will even in the world's most vital energy chokepoints, causing its allies in the Gulf to already begin to seek a new accommodation with Iran -- makes all of this worse than Obama and worse than the JCPOA.

Remember: the great unfixable flaw of the JCPOA that none of its boosters ever had a good answer for was that it merely kicked the can down the road. It solved nothing.

Trump's deal, as of this moment, is not even close to accomplishing so much.

"Iran never won a war and never lost a negotiation," Trump famously said of Obama's deal (as a reporter reminded him at today's press conference). Ironic that the Iranians would win a negotiation most spectacularly against a man who styles himself the greatest negotiator to ever grace the White House.

So what does it all mean?

It means that in the coming years, nuclear programs will sprout like mushrooms after the rain throughout the Middle East. It means that many nations will now build out new and larger ballistic missile arsenals.

It means that the state system will give way before the march of the region's transnational ideological axes. Minorities will again be trampled, new wars will be fought by stronger states to dominate the power vacuums within weaker ones.

You're thinking of Israel in Lebanon -- but that's just a specific campaign against a specific enemy. Think Turkey, which right now occupies a region of Syria vastly larger than Israel's presence in Lebanon. Think heightened Iranian support for the Houthis in Yemen and a new influx of money and guns to the different sides in Libya.

It means, in other words, that we will have a few more wars to fight, a few more technologies to invent to deal with this new age of cheap missiles and drones -- and also of supersonic Chinese missiles bearing nuclear warheads that Iran will eventually, inevitably, be capable of deploying against us.

And it didn't have to be this bad. (And maybe, when he's heard all the criticism, it won't be.) He could have left something, anything, to concede later. He could have kept the Iranians a little bit in the dark, just a smidgen, as to just how defeated America feels.

Israel's position in all this is simple, and more or less unchanged from last week. America gave us more than we had a right to ask for. But we may be going it alone from here out.

Dust off the nukes. Maybe test one somewhere far away from anywhere. Quadruple the interceptor production lines, double the size of the Mossad and the Air Force. And no, don't let Hezbollah breathe, not for a second.

It's the 1960s again. And Israel will have to defeat a couple more enemies before it can once again eke out a few decades of peace.

[linda goodman 🧡🌻🇪🇺 @Tapirtears]

@FrankChatsBack @jews_united @UKinJerusalem Arabic Jews? Rather Mizrahi.

[linda goodman 🧡🌻🇪🇺 @Tapirtears]

@FrankChatsBack @jews_united @UKinJerusalem All Arabs who had emigrated from surrounding countries/provinces into the area between 1946 and 1948 were considered to be Palestinians and gained refugee status in perpetuity. They were not all Palestinians. And how many Jews are there around the world?

[linda goodman 🧡🌻🇪🇺 @Tapirtears]

@FrankChatsBack @jews_united @UKinJerusalem Takes us back to Judea and Samaria and how it was taken over by Jordan, who expelled all the Jews. They didn’t create a ‘Palestine’. The intention was a greater Jordan.

[linda goodman 🧡🌻🇪🇺 @Tapirtears]

@FrankChatsBack @jews_united @UKinJerusalem There is a connection to the land - ‘Am Yisrael’ - an archaeological history and narrative, an identity and a continuing presence. If there were no Jews now there would be no State of Israel. That’s what certain people would like.

[linda goodman 🧡🌻🇪🇺 @Tapirtears]

@FrederickL56807 @LekhtNaya Inversion. I think you’ll find that those who have wanted to destroy Israel and its inhabitants are racists.

[Artur Nadolny @ArturNadol7566]

22 YEARS LATER AND NOBODY HAS ANSWERED FOR WHAT HAPPENED TO DR DAVID KELLY

His name was Dr David Kelly. Most people have forgotten him. They shouldn't.

He was a quiet, mild-mannered scientist who spent his career inspecting weapons facilities around the world.

He knew more about Iraq's arsenal than almost anyone alive.

In 2003, Tony Blair's @InstituteGC government published a dossier claiming Saddam Hussein could deploy chemical weapons within 45 minutes. That claim was used to justify a war.

Kelly knew the intelligence behind it was being exaggerated. He said so, privately, to a @BBCNews journalist.

That one conversation destroyed his life.

The government found out he was the source. Instead of protecting a man who had served his country for decades, they quietly let his name reach the press. He was publicly identified, dragged before two parliamentary committees, and grilled by his own employer.

His wife said he came home a broken man.

On the afternoon of 17 July 2003, he left his house for a walk in the Oxfordshire countryside. He was 59 years old. He never came back.

His body was found the next morning in woodland. A knife beside him. A blister pack of painkillers nearby.

Here is where it gets worse.

Tony Blair personally intervened to replace the normal coroner's inquest with a private inquiry run by Lord Hutton.

The original inquest was suspended before it even properly began. It was never resumed. To this day,

Dr David Kelly is the only person in England and Wales in living memory to have died in unexplained circumstances without receiving a full coroner's inquest.

Lord Hutton concluded suicide. Case closed.

Except eight senior doctors and a former coroner wrote to @thetimes saying the verdict was medically unsafe.

The wound found on Kelly's wrist, a severed ulnar artery, would not cause fatal blood loss in a healthy person.

There were no fingerprints on the knife. The painkillers found were not in a quantity that experts considered lethal.

The government's response, delivered by Attorney General Dominic Grieve in 2011, was essentially: the Hutton Inquiry was good enough, stop asking questions.

Think about that. A man quietly raised concerns about the biggest political deception in modern British history, a war that led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people. He was publicly exposed, professionally destroyed, and found dead days later and the government personally made sure there would never be a proper independent investigation into how he died.

Tony Blair went on to become a Middle East Peace Envoy. He has a knighthood.

Dr David Kelly got a private inquiry, a rushed verdict, and a sealed post-mortem report that was not released to the public for years.

Nobody was ever held accountable. Not for any of it.

This story should be on the front page every single year. Share it if you think it matters.

Sources: @BBCNews @guardian @thetimes @PrivateEyeNews

[UN Watch @UNWatch]

Meet Australian professor Ben Saul: The U.N. expert on human rights and counterterrorism.

He received $150,000 from China then refused to issue any statements on China’s persecution of the Uyghurs, which Beijing justifies as “counterterrorism.”

🧵 See his bias on full display:

[Saint Javelin @saintjavelin]

When Notre-Dame burned in 2019, the world stopped.

Today, Russia damages Kyiv Pechersk Lavra, a monastery nearly 1,000 years old and older than Notre-Dame itself.

A thousand years of history deserves the same attention, the same sympathy, and the same protection.

[Dave Thompson @PadovaGozzi]

@nicolelampert https://t.co/fC9Wc9CNNc

[Kevin Deutsch @kdeutschjourno]

Mayor Zohran Mamdani gutted legal protections for Jewish New Yorkers in his first hours in office, then his administration illegally buried the records that could expose why City Hall did it, who helped shape the decision, and how far its anti-Israel agenda now reaches, a new lawsuit alleges.

The suit, filed in New York State Supreme Court by veteran investigative journalist Richard Behar, seeks to force the city and Mamdani to turn over public records tied to Executive Order No. 1, the mayor’s Jan. 1, 2026 order rescinding a series of executive orders issued by former Mayor Eric Adams after the October 7 terrorist attacks on Israel and ensuing explosion of anti-Jewish bigotry across the U.S.

Adams’ orders created the Mayor’s Office to Combat Antisemitism, adopted the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of antisemitism, barred city participation in BDS-style discrimination against Israel, protected Israeli investments and economic ties, and directed enhanced NYPD protections for houses of worship.

Mamdani wiped those protections out on day one.

Then, according to court filings, City Hall did all it could to keep the public from knowing why and how Mamdani’s decision was made — including who may have influenced it.

Read the AO7 article here: https://t.co/3UTkvOY9Vc

[Liza Rosen @LizaRosen0000]

Iran's regime hanged the dead body of this woman for the crowd to cheer and praise Allah. She died of a heart attack, but "the show had to go on."

Please read to the end! Don't look away!

Her name is Zahra Esmaili.

She was sentenced to death after her Muslim husband, a member of the Ayatollahs' Ministry of Intelligence, was found dead. After her arrest, she was held in one of Iran's notorious prisons, where she was tortured mentally and physically until she gave a forced confession. She received the death penalty and was to be hanged before the crowd. After seeing 16 people hanged before her, she had a heart attack and died. They didn’t provide medical treatment and still hanged her lifeless body for the crowd to cheer.

Western media never reported this case, as with most stories about human rights violations by Islamic terrorist regimes in the Muslim world. Events inconsistent with the left's narrative that "Islam is a religion of peace" are ignored.

Please share if you care about women's rights!

Women in Iran are treated worse than animals. They have no freedom or human rights.

Please don’t stop talking about the atrocities the Islamic regime commits in Iran.

[Ora Levitt 🇮🇱 חיילת צה"ל 🇮🇱 עם ישראל חי @IDFsoldiergirl]

🇮🇱A man renovating his house in Jerusalem discovers a 2,000-year-old Hebrew sarcophagus believed to contain the remains of the last Hasmonean king of Judea.🇮🇱
✡️After the 1967 war, a young man named Rafael Delarosa purchased a property in Jerusalem and began renovations.
✡️While digging, the builders noticed an unusual section of ground that seemed hollow beneath the surface. Delarosa investigated further and uncovered the entrance to a 2,000-year-old underground burial cave.
✡️Inside were two burial chambers and an extraordinary stone sarcophagus decorated with carved flowers. It is considered one of the most magnificent sarcophagi ever discovered in Jerusalem.
✡️An inscription found in the tomb reads:
“I am Abba, son of the priest Eleazar, son of Aaron the High Priest. I am Abba, the afflicted and persecuted one, who was born in Jerusalem and went into exile to Babylon. I brought up Mattathias, son of Judah, and buried him in the cave that I purchased by deed.”
✡️The sarcophagus contained the remains of two individuals. Scholars have debated their identities, but the most widely accepted theory is that the Mattathias mentioned in the inscription was Antigonus II Mattathias, the last Hasmonean king of Judea.
✡️Antigonus was defeated by Herod the Great and the Romans. He was taken to Antioch, where he was executed in 37 BC, bringing the Hasmonean dynasty to an end. All of this took place while the Second Temple still stood in Jerusalem, more than a century before its destruction by the Romans.
✡️If this identification is correct, the inscription preserves a remarkable story: a priest named Abba brought the king’s remains back from exile and reburied them in the Land of Israel, in a tomb that he himself had purchased.
✡️The discovery provides a rare firsthand voice from the Second Temple period that reflects themes deeply rooted in Jewish history: #Jerusalem, exile, priestly lineage, land ownership, and the desire to be buried in the Land of #Israel.
Image credit: Moshe Glantz (CC BY-SA 3.0)
🇮🇱 The Nation of Israel Lives!🇮🇱😍

[Adam Ma'anit @adammaanit]

Speaking to camera is not my forte. Fighting antisemitism and standing up for my people is. Help me do more. And thank you all for your ongoing support and love! Am Yisrael Chai!🙏

[linda goodman 🧡🌻🇪🇺 @Tapirtears]

@RJT19651 @mishtal Better blame the League of Nations for that, then. Maybe also the Ottoman Empire for losing the war. The absent landlords for selling to Jews.

[My Lovely Horse Rescue @MyLovelyHorseR]

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[Aro Korol @arokorol]

It Was Supposed to Be History

I'm a Polish filmmaker living in London.

I wasn't raised to care about antisemitism. Quite the opposite.

Like many Poles of my generation, I grew up with a version of history that focused heavily on Polish suffering during the Second World War. I visited Auschwitz as a teenager, yet somehow left without truly understanding the scale of what had happened to Europe's Jews.

That changed when I was 19 and worked on Schindler's List.

For the first time, I was confronted with parts of history that had been missing from my education. Later, living in Paris and spending time in New York, I met Jewish people whose understanding of Poland, Europe and history was very different from my own. Some conversations were uncomfortable. A few were life-changing.

The more I learned, the more I realised that antisemitism didn't disappear after the Holocaust. It adapted.

Today it often arrives dressed as political activism, conspiracy theories, selective outrage, historical revisionism, or simply a double standard applied to the world's only Jewish state.

I am not Jewish. I have no family connection to Israel.

What I do have is a deep distrust of propaganda, mob thinking, and people who demand that history be simplified into slogans.

My work on antisemitism began with a simple realisation: if I could be misled about history, so could millions of others.

That is why I make films, conduct interviews, and challenge narratives.

Not because I have all the answers.

Because I spent too many years believing things that weren't true.

[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

The weapons in Gaza are now being turned on the Palestinians. A UN report this week admitted at least 108 Palestinians killed by Hamas in Gaza. Anyone who wants Palestinians safe wants them governed by something other Hamas. Gazans are begging you to hear their call.

https://t.co/Uz9Z0Yy92Y

[linda goodman 🧡🌻🇪🇺 @Tapirtears]

@EastBerkspsc You shouldn’t have been there, then should you … pathetic. Go to the Nova exhibition and you’ll see what real violence is.

[Daniel Sugarman @Daniel_Sugarman]

4) Gush Etzion is a particularly emotionally charged part of the West Bank.

Jews bought the original area of the Etzion bloc legally well before 1948. The Arab legion & irregulars massacred those in Kfar Etzion in 1948 and forcibly removed arounnd 17,000 Jews from the West Bank.