Re: Macron - I recently addressed the remarkable amnesia of France and other European nations about how they came to enjoy decades of peace (no, it was not by negotiating and empty gestures) and their bizarre determination to prevent our region from achieving a similar peace:
The whole “Greater Israel” narrative is such a joke. No country in history has ever returned land three times its size after winning a war, just for peace, like Israel did with the Sinai.
One tired whataboutery I keep getting: “But Gaza was under total blockade! No flights, no airport, no port!”
Dear reader - let me spell it out.
Gaza wasn’t some dystopian “open-air prison” before Oct 7. Go on YouTube. Malls. Beaches. Fancy cafés. Weddings. Luxury homes. It looked more like a third-tier Mediterranean resort than a war zone. There are parts of Detroit that look worse.
But here’s the inconvenient truth: since 2007, Gaza’s been ruled by Hamas, a globally designated terrorist group. Not a government. Not even close. A militia that, alongside PIJ, carried out 116 suicide bombings between 1994–2005, killing 735 civilians and injuring over 4,500. That’s not “resistance.” That’s terrorism, textbook edition.
Now pay attention: In my autobiography, I detail how Hamas operatives were being trained by al-Qaeda in Afghanistan as early as 1992. By 1999, they took back with them the TATP mass-production method (a notoriously powerful explosive), and from 2000–2004, turned Gaza into a suicide bomb factory. The carnage? Predictable. And deliberate.
Still want to talk airports and seaports? Let’s be serious. IATA won’t authorize flights into a terrorist-run territory. IMO won’t touch its ports. Insurers won’t underwrite jack. No government, no regulation, no safety, no logistics.
And yes, even if Israel said “sure, open up”, nobody sane would fly or sail there.
And this was all with a blockade in place. Imagine the arms smuggling, the Iranian shipments, the chemical precursors, the heavy weapons, all flowing freely if there wasn’t a blockade. Hamas was already digging up EU-funded water pipes and turning them into rocket launchers. With a shipping lane and airstrip? You think they’d open up a Zara and a Starbucks?
If Hamas really cared, they could’ve renounced terrorism like others did, look Syria’s new leadership. Renounce violence and terror and all doors will be open!
Israel left Gaza in 2005. No one wanted to stay.
But as always, the Palestinians - bless them - never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.
They chose tunnels over infrastructure. Rockets over schools. Martyrdom over medicine.
So, no. The blockade wasn’t some arbitrary cruelty. It was global consequence. Because when you act like terrorists, the world treats you like terrorists.
Simple.
When you tell a woman she must pretend a man is a woman, you’re asserting the right to control her speech and perception of reality, while also trivialising and devaluing her female-specific experience. You’re asking her to agree that ‘woman’ is a concept men can embody at will.
A Tale of Two Palestinian Cities.
Some were outraged when I stated earlier that we, as Gulf Arabs, no longer wish to destroy our nations and futures for a cause that, for 70 years, has brought us nothing but terrorism, accusations, betrayal, and alliances with our enemies. The moment we say: “We want to live,” we are branded Zionists. By who? By people sitting comfortably in Malaysia, Pakistan, Indonesia, the West - sipping lattes and tweeting from safe homes - demanding we fight and die for their version of solidarity.
So let me show you two realities.
The first video is from Gaza, April 2025 - 18 months into a war that never needed to happen. There was no prior Israeli provocation, no bombing campaign, no invasion leading up to October 7. Things were improving. Israel was issuing 22,000 daily work permits for Gazans, and negotiations were underway - with Saudi mediation - for improving Gaza’s conditions in exchange for moderation. Then Hamas, acting on behalf of Iran, blew it all up. October 7 wasn’t resistance. It was sabotage. A completely unnecessary massacre - not for Palestinian liberation, but to derail Saudi-Israeli normalization and regional peace. It was Tehran’s agenda, paid in Palestinian blood.
The second video is from the Palestinian capital, Ramallah, also April 2025 - the ICON Mall grand opening. Music. Dancing. Luxury stores. BMWs pulling in. Palestinians celebrating as if Gaza were on another continent. No outrage. No mourning. Just luxury shopping and selfies. If they, the fellow Palestinians, aren’t standing in the rubble, why are we told we must?
Let’s also get this straight: Gaza has been “free” since 2005. The siege? It started in 2007, after Hamas took power by killing 300 fellow Palestinians (PA Police) and throwing them off rooftops. Since then, Israel still gave out work permits. Egypt, on the other hand, kept the Rafah border completely sealed. Even during the war’s worst days, Egypt wouldn’t open it - barely for aid, not for refugees. Not one work permit. Nothing.
If Gaza was truly a prison, why didn’t Hamas break out through Egypt? Why always toward Israel? Because Egypt would shoot - not negotiate. But you won’t see the usual online “activists” blaming Cairo. No. It’s always easier to guilt-trip the Gulf Countries.
So no - we will not join your death cult. We will not die for the cause while Ramallah dances and Cairo locks the gate. And to all the comfortable, self-righteous voices screaming “solidarity”: shut the fuck up and go die in Gaza yourselves if you care that much. Don’t lecture us from safety. Don’t demand sacrifice from others while you live off hashtags.
If the people of Ramallah aren’t bothered - if their own fellow Palestinians can dance on the same day others die - why the hell should we?
Spare us the pious performative grief. We’ve seen through it. The cause was hijacked long ago by ye Ayatollahs of Tehran - and we are done dying for other people’s delusions.
@JakeWSimons I don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows. And I don’t need a “genocide scholar” to see that “Palestinians” have staked everything on the genocide of Jews and every time Israel raises an arm in self defense they’re accused of genocide by leftist intellectuals.
Sex is anatomical. 'Womanhood' and 'femaleness' are not metaphysical or mystical states. I am a woman by virtue of my anatomy.
Clearly, if I woke up tomorrow with a male body, I'd have had atypical experiences for a male, because I'd have experienced what it is to exist in the world as a female. I've given birth three times, a spectacularly life-changing experience no male has ever experienced. I've also been treated in specific, sometimes harmful, ways, because I have female anatomy.
One major difference between trans activists and me is that I believe society needs to change, whereas they believe the individual should alter themselves to fit a societal notion of what men and women are. I don't believe in codifying and reifying gendered expectations, I believe in breaking them. I'm appalled that minors are being medicalised, sterilised and deprived of sexual function because they feel discomfort with the roles they're expected to play as boys/girls.
For centuries, women have fought to be full human beings in societies that demand they demonstrate the behaviours expected of them because of their anatomy. Liberation for women does not lie in saying 'if I don't want to fulfil those expectations, I must be a man.' Liberation lies in saying 'I'm just fine as I am, and fuck your sexist notions of what a woman should be.'
Your stance on protecting children from irreversible gender procedures is a basic test of sanity and moral clarity. If you can’t pass that test, you have no business shaping public policy in this country.
That same test applies to recognizing biological reality, acknowledging that men and women are different, that there are only two genders, and that biological males have no place competing in women’s sports.
These aren’t partisan issues.
They’re foundational truths.
And the radical left has failed every one of them.
So that I understand this correctly:
Yemen fired missiles and drones indiscriminately at Israel without provocation. Hezbollah (part of the Lebanese government) fired thousands of rockets and missiles at Israel indiscriminately without provocation. All of these were armed and funded and controlled by Iran. And millions around the world plus a bunch of delusional podcasters were not only okay with that, but cheered it on and demanded more.
Yet Israel destroys Hezbollah in Lebanon, hits the Houthis in Yemen and hits Iran military and nuclear installations, and the US hits just three sites in Iran, all of a sudden Israel and the US are condemned for breaching the sovereignty of these countries?
There comes a time when hypocrisy and stupidity are so blatant and openly shown that it’s hard not to mock and laugh at these idiots.
🇸🇾 BREAKING: A Suicide Bomber has blown himself up inside an Orthodox Church in Damascus, Syria during Sunday Mass.
25 people have died and 80 people have been hospitalized, with 30 of those in critical condition.
This is horrific. Please pray for Syrian Christians.
🙏🙏🙏
There’s something about Israel that makes people uncomfortable, and it’s not what they say it is.
They’ll point to politics, settlements, borders, and wars. But scratch beneath the outrage, and you’ll find something deeper. A discomfort not with what Israel does, but with what Israel is.
A nation this small should not be this strong. Period.
Israel has no oil. No special natural resources. A population barely the size of a mid-sized American city. They are surrounded by enemies. Hated in the United Nations. Targeted by terror. Condemned by celebrities. Boycotted, slandered, and attacked.
And still, they thrive like there’s no tomorrow.
In military. In medicine. In security. In technology. In agriculture. In intelligence. In morality. In sheer, unbreakable will.
They turn desert into farmland.
They make water from air.
They intercept rockets in mid-air.
They rescue hostages under the nose of the world’s worst regimes.
They survive wars that were supposed to wipe them out, and win.
The world watches this and can’t make sense of it.
So they do what people do when they witness strength they can’t understand.
They assume it must be cheating.
It must be American aid.
It must be foreign lobbying.
It must be oppression.
It must be theft.
It must be some dark trick that gave the Jews this kind of power.
It must be blackmail.
Because heaven forbid it’s something else.
Heaven forbid it’s real.
Heaven forbid it’s earned.
Or worse, destined.
The Jewish people were supposed to disappear a long, long time ago. That’s how the story of exiled, enslaved, hated minorities is supposed to end. But the Jews didn’t disappear. They actually came home, rebuilt their land, revived their language, and brought their dead back to life — in memory, in identity, and in strength.
That’s not normal.
It’s not political.
It’s biblical.
There’s no cheat code that explains how a group of people return to their homeland after 2,000 years.
There is no rational path from gas chambers to global influence.
And there is no historical precedent for surviving the Babylonians, the Romans, the Crusaders, the Inquisition, the pogroms, and the Holocaust, and still showing up to work on Monday in Tel Aviv.
Israel doesn’t make sense.
Unless you believe in something beyond the math.
This is what drives the world crazy. Because if Israel is real, if this improbable, ancient, hated nation is somehow still chosen, protected, and thriving, then maybe God isn’t a myth after all.
Maybe He’s still in the story.
Maybe history isn’t random.
Maybe evil doesn’t get the last word.
Maybe the Jews are not just a people… but a testimony.
That’s what they can’t stand.
Because once you admit that Israel’s survival isn’t just impressive, but divine, everything changes. Your moral compass has to reset. Your assumptions about history, power, and justice collapse. You realize you’re not watching the end of an empire. You’re witnessing the beginning of something eternal.
So they deny it.
They smear it.
And rage against it.
Because it’s easier to call a miracle “cheating” than to face the possibility that God keeps His promises.
And He’s keeping them still.