René Borkent

[Gene Trevino @GenoVeno73]

SOUND UP

The description of this video/song reads:
"'Obama Did It Better' is a fact‑driven political satire parody of 'Nobody Does It Better,' comparing Donald Trump and Barack Obama on leadership, policy, and basic competence with a darkly cinematic Bond‑style twist."

"From jobs and healthcare to allies, norms, and democratic guardrails, this track leans into receipts over vibes—turning real‑world data and public record into a smooth, biting musical takedown of the Trump era."

"Sung in a lush, orchestral pop style, the song contrasts Obama’s measured, briefing‑driven governance with Trump’s chaos‑driven spectacle, midnight posts, and norm‑shattering theatrics."

"If you care about democracy, institutions, and the difference between leadership and branding, this is your new political anthem."

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[Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en]

Russian "Z-bloggers" are saying Russia needs to accept a humiliating truce.

"If we are facing a de facto civilizational catastrophe, that is, people leaving Moscow, people leaving St. Petersburg, people leaving Yekaterinburg, but this is almost equal to the great migration of peoples, then it may still be necessary to reconsider the issues of Slavyansk and Kramatorsk and other settlements that we need so much to achieve victory."

[𝔗𝔯𝔲𝔱𝔥 𝔐𝔞𝔱𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔰 @politicsusa46]

I was thinking what could I say about ‘five mill’ Farage, then @JonathanPieNews came along and stole my thunder.

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[Mat Nuclear @MatNuclear]

Israel made peace with Egypt in 1979, and hasn’t attacked it since.

Israel made peace with Jordan in 1994, and hasn’t attacked it since.

Saudi Arabia never attacked Israel, and Israel hasn’t attacked Saudi.

Maybe Israel just defends itself against enemy belligerents.

[Liza Rosen @LizaRosen0000]

Even in Lebanon, more and more voices are sick of being held hostage by Hezbollah — Iran’s terrorist army that turned their country into a battlefield and a launchpad for attacks on Israel.

Muslims and Hezbollah supporters worldwide are furious over this bold statement from Lebanese TV host Walid Abboud:

“Leave us. And take your weapons, your drones, your rockets, your mouthpieces, your flags, your Supreme Leader, your Iran and your Resistance with you.”

Via: @MEMRIReports

[Emily Schrader - אמילי שריידר امیلی شریدر @emilykschrader]

My full remarks at the Oxford Union debate over the motion: “This house believes Israel never truly wanted peace with Palestine”

Ladies and gentlemen,

Tonight’s motion is not merely wrong. It is intellectually unserious.

“This house believes that Israel never truly wanted peace with Palestine.”

Never.

That single word should immediately alarm anyone who values historical accuracy, nuance, or basic intellectual honesty.

Because “never” is not a casual word. It is absolute, total, and maximalist. To vote for this motion, you are not being asked to believe Israel sometimes undermined peace, or that Israel made mistakes.

You are not even being asked to believe Israel bears major responsibility for the conflict. No, you are being asked to believe that across nearly 80 years of modern history, across every Israeli government, negotiation, territorial concession, treaty, withdrawal, every diplomatic initiative – Israel, as a state, never really wanted peace. Not once.

Clearly, such a claim does not stand under the weight of history.

From the modern state’s inception – Israel accepted the 1947 UN Partition Plan despite receiving non-arable land with almost no resources.

The Arab leadership rejected it and launched a war instead. In 1993 and 1995, Israel signed the Oslo Accords, and received an intifada in response.

At Camp David in 2000, Israel offered 94-96% of the West Bank, 100% of Gaza, and a divided Jerusalem.

In 2008, Prime Minister Olmert made another proposal for 94% of the West Bank plus an additional 5.8% more territory in the form of land swaps.

The Palestinian leadership said no to all of these offers.

In 2005, Israel withdrew every soldier and civilian from Gaza. The response?

Gazans elected Hamas, and Israel received over 25,000 missiles over the next two decades — plus multiple wars and the October 7th massacre.

You may argue that Israel’s offers were imperfect, or insufficient… but you cannot honestly argue that these are the actions of a state that never wanted peace.

The problem with this motion however goes even deeper. What exactly is meant by “peace”? Peace is not simply the absence of war, it requires two peoples accepting each other’s right to self determination and national existence.

For much of the conflict, major Palestinian factions and surrounding Arab states have and still do reject Jewish self determination outright. In fact, some if not all of the proposition debaters tonight are on record opposing a two state solution…and yet we as Israelis are being asked to prove that it is us who are serious about peace?

On the question of the partition plan, the Secretary-General of the Arab League at the time, Azzam Pasha, warned that the establishment of a Jewish state would lead to what he called “a war of extermination and momentous massacre” of the Jews.

Other Arab leaders and factions openly spoke about driving the Jews into the sea, including Haj Amin Al Husseini, the grand mufti of Jerusalem, who stated in 1948, “Arabs, rise as one and fight for your sacred rights. Kill the Jews wherever you find them. This pleases God, history, and religion.”

This was never a dispute over borders… rather it was a rejection of Jewish sovereignty itself, even when their rejection ends up harming Palestinian society.

Today, we routinely hear slogans from the Palestinian movement globally, including this week at Oxford — such as “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” a phrase which by definition involves replacing Israel entirely with a Palestinian state stretching from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea.

At protests around the world, including outside Jewish institutions and synagogues, activists have openly declared “We don’t want two states, we want all of it.”

So again I ask: what exactly does “peace” mean when one side refuses to accept that the other has any legitimate right to exist at all?

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[Captain Allen @CptAllenHistory]

This 100-year-old man had not left the Old City of Jerusalem in 90 years.

In May 1948, after a brutal siege, Jordanian forces — led & trained by British officers under Glubb Pasha — ethnically cleansed the ancient Jewish Quarter. The remaining residents, mostly elderly men like him, women, and children, were given mere minutes to grab what little they could carry before being driven out through Zion Gate.

Everything they left behind was immediately looted by the victorious Arabs.

Then came the destruction.

This was no ordinary neighborhood. This was the unbroken heart of Jewish life in Jerusalem for 3,000 years — the center of prayer, study, and communal existence since the time of King David. Dozens of synagogues, some centuries old, including the majestic Hurva, stood here. Jews had prayed, studied Torah, and buried their dead on the Mount of Olives through exile, conquest, and persecution.

Within days, the Jordanian forces and Arab irregulars dynamited and desecrated every synagogue. Torah scrolls were burned or trampled. The Western Wall was turned into a garbage dump and latrine.

For the next 19 years, no Jew was permitted to set foot in the Old City or pray at the Wall. The Jewish Quarter was reduced to rubble and deliberately kept Jew-free.

This man was ripped from the only world he had ever known — torn from the sacred stones his people had walked for three millennia.

They tried to erase us from our holiest city.

They failed.

[Azat @AzatAlsalim]

Bill Maher on the Islamic slaughter of Christians in Nigeria: "They are literally trying to wipe out the christian population of an entire country. Where are the kids protesting this? They don't care because the Jews aren't involved"

[Shahrar Ali @ShahrarAli]

Boy, the Green Party really needs to get its Islamist house in order. I mean out.

[Captain Obvious @antisim009]

@MarcinPrzybylek

[Jack Dart @JackWDart]

If people genuinely believe Burnham won’t receive the exact same media onslaught, they’ve not been paying attention.

Starmer is not, objectively, bad. This idea that he is somehow the worst PM in British history is frankly laughable.

Liz truss lasted 49 days, crashed the pound and was laughed out of Downing Street.

Since Labour took office, Keir Starmer’s government has:

• Scrapped the two-child benefit limit, lifting hundreds of thousands of children out of poverty and putting money back into some of the hardest-pressed households in the country.

• Expanded free school meals, cutting costs for families and making sure more children get a proper meal during the school day.

• Expanded funded childcare, reducing one of the biggest monthly costs facing working parents and making it easier for people to stay in work.

• Raised the National Living Wage, increasing pay for millions of low-paid workers.

• Strengthened workers’ rights, giving people greater protection against insecure work and bad employers.

• Introduced statutory sick pay from the first day of illness, so workers are less likely to choose between their health and their wages.

• Ended no-fault evictions, giving renters more security in their homes.

• Brought rail operators back into public ownership, taking key services out of failed private hands and giving the public a stronger stake in how they are run.

• Cut NHS waiting lists from their post-pandemic peak, meaning more patients are being seen sooner.

• Raised the state pension through the triple lock, protecting pensioners’ incomes against rising costs.

• Scrapped the old non-dom tax regime, making some of the wealthiest people in the country pay more fairly.

• Added VAT to private school fees, raising money from those most able to contribute.

• Removed business rates relief from private schools, ending an unjustified tax break.

• Increased neighbourhood policing, putting more officers and PCSOs back into communities.

• Helped bring knife crime down, meaning fewer families face the devastation of serious violence.

• Recorded the lowest homicide rate since the 1970s, a material improvement in public safety.

• Created Great British Energy, giving Britain a publicly owned clean energy company.

• Created the National Wealth Fund, backing investment in industry, infrastructure and clean energy.

• Passed planning reforms aimed at getting homes and major projects built faster.

• Improved relations with the EU, reducing diplomatic hostility and rebuilding practical cooperation.

• Agreed a UK-EU security partnership, strengthening cooperation on defence and European security.

• Signed a long-term partnership with Ukraine, reinforcing Britain’s support against Putin’s invasion.

• Secured new trade agreements, opening up markets for British businesses.

• Helped restore seriousness to government after years of scandal, chaos and decline.

People do not have to like Starmer. They do not have to vote Labour. But pretending this is the record of the worst Prime Minister in British history is absurd.

[GAZAWOOD - the PALLYWOOD saga @GAZAWOOD1]

Israeli Arab girl hits Tel Aviv beach to ask locals:
>“What do you think of me and Israeli Arabs?”

Israeli apartheid has never looked so warm and cuddly.

[David Collier @mishtal]

Breaking: @AlexCrawfordSky from @skynews and @hugobachega from @bbcnews in huge exclusive about a huge underground Hezbollah tunnel full of rocket launch pads and weapons

Only joking. The Israeli army found it of course. And they killed twenty Hezbollah terrorists while capturing it.

The sad thing is our media is so bad we can actually joke about it. Western journalists see no Hezbollah - hear no Hezbollah - and find no Hezbollah activity even when they are reporting from a funeral surrounded by Hezbollah flags.

In fact tomorrow, both BBC News and Sky News will probably pretend that the twenty Hezbollah terrorists killed by Israel were actually doctors, journalists, pregnant women or 18 month old babies.

Hezbollah are embedded throughout Southern Lebanon - they have turned key sites inside almost every village into a military target and the top journalists from our biggest media platforms have never exposed ONE SINGLE story about any of it.

They have been there years. And they never saw any of it. They should never be forgiven.

Terrorist mouthpieces. That is all they are. Look at the video - see what is right under their noses:

[Sarah Maria Sander @SarahMSander]

Ohne Worte. #ZDF

[Mor Edge Insight @MorEdge_Insight]

Remember the European Hospital in Khan Younis last May?

Israel struck a targeted site there, and the world lost its mind.

Palestinians denied any tunnel existed underneath. The UN and European governments rushed to condemn Israel for attacking a “hospital.” Outrage, headlines, accusations of war crimes… the usual script.

Then June came.

The IDF took international media into the very same location and showed them the tunnel… a full Hamas command center, right under the emergency room.

Weapons, rooms, infrastructure. And yes, that’s where they found and confirmed the body of Mohammed Sinwar, Hamas’s top military commander and brother of Yahya Sinwar.

The strike that killed one of the architects of October 7 was surgically precise, and entirely justified.

Under the Geneva Conventions of 1949, hospitals and other medical facilities lose their protected status when they are used for military purposes, such as command centers, weapon storage, or troop movements. By deliberately turning the European Hospital into a Hamas base, the terrorists themselves stripped it of any legal protection.

Not a single apology from the UN or the European governments that rushed to condemn Israel. Not one admission they were wrong. They simply moved on to the next round of accusations.

This is the pattern. Hamas hides its terror infrastructure under civilian sites, uses hospitals as shields, and the international community reliably attacks the defender for responding, only to be proven wrong again and again and again when the evidence emerges.

How many times does this have to happen before the world stops falling for it?

[Nina Deer @longdepzai_n]

Calling him my current bf 🤨

[UN Watch @UNWatch]

“So-called UN human rights experts are taking direct funding from China, Russia and Qatar. They are ideologically captured and financially corrupt. Western governments need to hold them accountable.”

— Hillel Neuer shares UN Watch's new report on @i24NEWS_EN with @Nicole_Zedeck

[UN Watch @UNWatch]

🚨 BREAKING: New report by UN Watch reveals UN “experts” accepted millions of dollars from China, Russia, and Qatar before attacking the U.S., Israel, and the West.

🧵 See the report’s most striking findings:

[J Stewart @triffic_stuff_]

🔥 DOUGLAS MURRAY CLASHES WITH BBC IN TENSE SHOWDOWN OVER ISLAM IN THE UK

Murray Schools BBC Political Editor Nick Watt on the Dangers of Unchecked Islamic Extremism ☪️

Douglas Murray calmly but precisely dismantles BBC Newsnight’s Nick Watt who challenges him on calling for “less Islam” in Britain due to the threat of Islamic extremism.

BBC: “Surely ‘less Islam’ means less Muslims? Less Sajid Javid, less Sadiq Khan… anyone who’s a Muslim?”

Murray: “It would also mean less people like the Abedi family. Wouldn’t it?”

BBC: “Yes, less extremists, but you’re talking about less Islam - that is Muslim people.”

Murray (calmly and bluntly): “Just bear with me, because I know better than you what I think.”

He continues: “This country has had a wildly stupid and lax immigration policy for decades. We allowed in people like the Abedi family, a family of jihadists. One of their sons, Salman Abedi, aged 22, killed 22 young girls at the Manchester Arena with a suicide bomb. Why were the Abedi family even here?”

“Jihadist extremism comes from Islam. If even 1%, 5%, or 15% of Muslims follow that strain, you’ve got a hell of a problem.
The more people you have from a faith that hasn’t solved the extremism in its midst, the more extremism you will have.”

“You don’t get this from Catholics, Methodists, Quakers or Anglicans.”

When the presenter tried to interrupt and accused him of stereotyping, Murray hit back: “Of course it’s not stereotyping! This is a dated conversation. Nobody is as slow in learning as the British media and political class on this issue.”

“Why do we have thousands of people marching through British cities every weekend supporting death cults that would murder Jews and the rest of us? That’s the question you and Newsnight should be answering.”

Unflinching truth. Take a few minutes to watch the full clip.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ It’s well worth it.