John Smith

[John Smith @Therestofdead]

Now that’s the Iran we know.

[Mossad Commentary @MOSSADil]

🎥 WATCH:
Hardline supporters of the Islamic Republic rallied outside the governor’s office in Zanjan, some wearing burial shrouds, chanting: “if anything is signed, the official must be killed.”

The protest reflects growing backlash from regime supporters who accuse Iran’s negotiating team of making concessions to the U.S.

[John Smith @Therestofdead]

@VerminusM Good times.

[John Smith @Therestofdead]

We should never have let them up.

[Mossad Commentary @MOSSADil]

Iran’s military claims it “humiliated” the United States and Israel following the announcement of an agreement to immediately end the war.

In a statement broadcast on state TV, Iran’s General Staff said its forces “have, through the imposition of their divine and iron will upon the humiliated American and Zionist enemies, demonstrated with strength that the enemy has no path other than accepting defeat and surrender”.

[John Smith @Therestofdead]

@Jonatha14410794 @goddek @EinhornGabe Huge loss to Jews everywhere.

[John Smith @Therestofdead]

@ceanndach @goddek @EinhornGabe Your handle implies you are Jewish. Welcome to the tribe.

[John Smith @Therestofdead]

@donttattmeee @goddek @EinhornGabe He exposed himself in X, he is as stupid as he is bigoted.

[John Smith @Therestofdead]

@LionsofLaw @goddek @EinhornGabe Maybe he can get a job stacking books in the Cornell library. Don’t think he is going to work outside the Ivy League.

[John Smith @Therestofdead]

@1982Logos @goddek @EinhornGabe Good meme Pepe. How is it working out for you?

[John Smith @Therestofdead]

@goddek @EinhornGabe He doxxed himself Dr Dildo.

[John Smith @Therestofdead]

@CoryBooker Here are the future leaders of your 2 state solution.

[Hamas Atrocities @HamasAtrocities]

⚠️ extremely graphic ⚠️

What are all these people filming?
A public execution of Gazans by Hamas masked thugs, of course!
It combines the Gazans' bloodlust with Hamas's way of "communication" perfectly

[John Smith @Therestofdead]

@RepRashida https://t.co/g9JFSbulMv

[Hamas Atrocities @HamasAtrocities]

⚠️ extremely graphic ⚠️

What are all these people filming?
A public execution of Gazans by Hamas masked thugs, of course!
It combines the Gazans' bloodlust with Hamas's way of "communication" perfectly

[Alex Gandler @AlexGandler]

A UN Special Rapporteur says there was a "concerted effort" inside the UN to prevent allegations from October 7 being formally recorded and that colleagues were bullied into not signing a letter documenting the atrocities.

When the world's leading human rights institution cannot honestly document the largest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, it has a credibility problem.

By @janeprinsley of the @JewishChron

https://t.co/l0X2Kq16Mx

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

A guy connected to Al Qaeda endorsed a woman who said she uses the American flag as a napkin.

The Democrat party is quickly being taken over by Islamists and nobody is paying attention.

[Eitan Fischberger @EFischberger]

Just in: Doctors Without Borders staff have been sexually abusing underage refugees in Chad — including trading aid for sex, and indications of organized sexual trafficking.

For those who've followed the group's ties to Hamas and Islamic Jihad in Gaza, this is hardly a surprise

[John Smith @Therestofdead]

@AnneMarieTrades KJV🙏

[John Smith @Therestofdead]

From the River to the Sea, Palestine is imaginary.

[facts about @destinationXIX]

When Jerry Seinfeld said “Palestine doesn’t exist”, the predictable outrage machine did what it always does: it screamed, but Jerry is hardly the first person to notice reality.

Of course, the millions of Arabs who call themselves ״Palestinians״ today are not imaginary. They are real people, with real lives, real suffering, real political aspirations, and real agency.

But those people are not the indigenous people of “Palestine”, because there has never been a sovereign Arab state called Palestine. There was no Palestinian king, no Palestinian parliament, no Palestinian currency, no Palestinian army, no Palestinian passport, no ancient Palestinian republic, no internationally recognized Palestinian state that Israel came along and “stole.”

And awkwardly, some prominent Palestinians used to say this openly.

Zuheir Mohsen, a senior PLO figure, was quoted in 1977 saying: “The Palestinian people does not exist”. He explained that there was “no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese”, and that Palestinian identity was emphasized for “political and tactical reasons” in the struggle against Zionism.

So let’s not pretend this argument was invented yesterday by a Jewish comedian.

Before 1948, “Palestine” was not an Arab state. It was a geographic and administrative term. Under the British, it meant the British Mandate for Palestine - a mandate created after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, with the explicit purpose of facilitating a Jewish national home while protecting the civil and religious rights of all inhabitants.

The Mandate was not “the State of Palestine”. It was not created to establish an Arab Palestinian state. It was the legal framework through which the international community recognized the Jewish people’s historical connection to the land and assigned Britain the task of helping build the Jewish national home.

And before 1964, the word “Palestinian” was very often associated with Jews.

The Palestine Symphony Orchestra? Founded by Jewish musicians and later became the Israel Philharmonic.
The Palestine national football team? Dominated by Jews, played Hatikvah, and became the forerunner of Israel’s national team.
Palestine Airways? Founded by Zionist Pinhas Rutenberg with Jewish/Zionist institutions.
The Palestine Post? Founded by Jews; later became The Jerusalem Post.

So when people show old “Palestine” coins, stamps, teams, newspapers, or institutions as proof of an ancient Arab Palestinian state, they often do not realize they are showing artifacts of the British Mandate - and in many cases, institutions built by the Jewish Yishuv.

That is why the claim “Palestine existed before Israel” is misleading. Yes, the administrative region existed. No, a sovereign Arab Palestinian state did not.

Even most local Arab leaders did not originally describe themselves as members of a separate Palestinian nation. In 1919, Arab congresses in the region argued that Palestine was part of “Southern Syria”. The early political demand was not “Free Palestine” as a separate Palestinian nation-state. It was incorporation into a broader Arab Syrian or pan-Arab framework.

This is not a minor detail. It goes to the heart of the issue.

For decades, the dominant Arab claim was not “we are a separate Palestinian people entitled to a Palestinian state next to a Jewish state”. It was “this is Arab land, Jews have no right to sovereignty here, and Palestine is part of the Arab nation.”

Then came 1948.

Jordan occupied and annexed the West Bank. Egypt occupied Gaza. From 1948 to 1967, there was no Palestinian state in either territory. No global campus movement demanded “end the Jordanian occupation.” No UN machinery obsessed over Egyptian rule in Gaza. No Arab armies invaded Jordan to liberate Ramallah. No one demanded that Egypt create an independent Palestine in Gaza.

Then in 1964, the PLO was created - three years before Israel controlled the West Bank or Gaza.
And here is the part people do not like discussing: the original 1964 PLO Charter explicitly said the organization did not exercise territorial sovereignty over the West Bank, then under Jordan, or Gaza, then under Egypt.
In other words, the PLO was not founded to “end the occupation” of the West Bank and Gaza. Israel did not control them.

The target was Israel itself.

Then came 1967. Israel ended the occupation of the West Bank from Jordan and Gaza from Egypt in the Six-Day War. Suddenly, the same territories that had not been the focus of “liberation” under Arab rule became the center of the world’s most famous "territorial" grievance.

In 1968, the PLO revised its charter. The inconvenient Article 24 disappeared.

So was the problem really “occupation”? Or was the problem Jewish sovereignty?

This is why “ending the occupation” was never the original goal. The original goal was not a Palestinian state beside Israel. It was no Israel.

That position did not disappear. It was simply repackaged.

When “Palestine” means Ramallah and Gaza, it sounds like a territorial compromise. When “Palestine” means “from the river to the sea,” it means the replacement of Israel. That is not anti-occupation. That is anti-Jewish existence. It’s not anti-genocide - it’s flat out genocidal.

And the demographic story is more complicated than the slogans too.

The common narrative presents Jews as foreign arrivals entering a settled, coherent Palestinian Arab nation-state. But much of the land in the 19th century was poor, neglected, sparsely populated, disease-ridden in places, and under Ottoman rule. Jewish agricultural development, drainage, employment, capital, and infrastructure attracted not only Jewish immigrants but also Arab migration from surrounding areas. The Peel Commission itself noted Arab economic gains connected to Jewish development, and other British observations described illegal migration into Palestine from neighboring Arab regions.

None of this means every Arab family arrived recently. Many did not. Many had deep roots. And many of them remained after the establishment of Israel and became citizens. But it does destroy the cartoon version: ancient unified Palestinian nation peacefully minding its own state until Jews appeared from nowhere.

There was no such state.

There were Ottoman subjects. Then British Mandate residents. Jews. Muslims. Christians. Druze. Bedouin. Arabs who often saw themselves as part of Greater Syria or the broader Arab nation. Jews who called the land Eretz Israel while the British called the administrative territory Palestine, of which only 20% of land was owned by anyone.

Only then, after Israel was born, “Palestinian” identity hardened into a separate national identity - especially after Arab armies failed to destroy Israel and after Israel took the West Bank and Gaza in 1967, an identity that was all about resisting the Jewish state..

This means the moral accusation against Israel is built on a false premise.
Israel did not conquer a sovereign state called Palestine.
Israel did not erase a Palestinian government that had ruled for centuries.
Israel did not invade an Arab Palestinian country in 1948.
Israel accepted partition. The Arab side rejected it and launched a war.

Then the Arab states that seized the remaining territories did not create Palestine either.
So when someone says “Palestine doesn’t exist”, they are right.

And if the only “Palestine” being demanded is one that replaces Israel from the river to the sea, then Seinfeld’s answer is not just right now, but it will be right forever.

[John Smith @Therestofdead]

@Osint613 Perhaps we can interest them in importing those highly educated, civic-minded Palestinians.

[FJ @Natsecjeff]

Btw, if Trump signs that deal with Iran, he can kiss Abraham Accords 2.0 goodbye for the foreseeable future. The Arabs would rather pay extortion money to Iran than shake hands with the Jews. The Arabs, especially the Gulf states, are not threatened by Israel but by Iran. The Gulf states can only exist as we know them in an environment of stability. So it is Iran they're going to be looking to appease rather than joining AA. But it won't stop there. If that trajectory continues, some countries that have already joined AA during Trump's first term may even start getting second thoughts about it. After all, what exactly will they be gaining by breaking away from their other Arab partners on Iran policy in the long term if the U.S. itself is crossing all limits to appease Iran and if Israel cannot act independently against Iran without U.S. greenlight? If they start believing that the benefits of exiting AA are now higher than the costs of staying, then that's an easy choice right there.

Simply put, just by signing this terrible and completely unnecessary deal with Iran, Trump will be wiping out the few good things he's known for from his first term. His entire legacy will be then just surrendering before the Ayatollahs. Nothing else. Absolutely nothing.

[Uri Kurlianchik @VerminusM]

The other side of the donkey is the woke right.

[Mossad Commentary @MOSSADil]

🇮🇱 ❤️ 🇺🇸 IDF ELIMINATED TERRORIST WHO MURDERED 5 U.S. SOLDIERS IN 2007 IN A TERRORIST ATTACK

Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Yechiel Leiter comments on senior Hezbollah commander Ali Mussa Daqduq who was eliminated by the IDF while leading Hezbollah operations in southern Lebanon.

Leiter said Daqduq was responsible for the 2007 attack that killed five 🇺🇸 U.S. troops and also managed Hezbollah’s “Golan Portfolio” — Hezbollah’s plan to invade and take over northern Israel.

IDF takes out its friend’s enemies, too, one-by-one. The woke reich probably doesn’t care.