Carlos R Otero 🇺🇸🇮🇱

Retired pastor; husband, father, grandfather; guitar and bass player.

[@WVL3rd-is-a-sissy-coward @RWN34710]

@EWErickson

[Carlos R Otero 🇺🇸🇮🇱 @crotero]

@keithcc_ @EWErickson Shia eschatology looks not only to the destruction of Israel, but of all infidels when the “Hidden” or Twelfth Imam returns. They believe he will obliterate all their enemies (including us!) in the last battle and set up a worldwide Caliphate (theocratic rule) under Allah.

[Erick Erickson @EWErickson]

Here is the failure that unites Obama and Trump, the blind spot neither administration will name: Mahdism, a religious belief that Iran must set the stage for the return of the Twelfth Imam, who disappeared from the planet as a child, but will return. The Revolutionary Guard promotes ideological zeal over competence. Devout believers in a militaristic Mahdism control Iran’s three pillars of power—its militias, its missiles, and its nuclear program. These are men for whom the destruction of Israel is not policy but prerequisite, a barrier to be removed so the Twelfth Imam may return. This is not opinion. It is the presuppositional foundation on which the regime operates.

You cannot deter an actor who may welcome the fire he is supposed to fear.

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[Carlos R Otero 🇺🇸🇮🇱 @crotero]

@israelititan 0%

[Vivid.🇮🇱 @VividProwess]

One of the most POWERFUL speeches of Benjamin Netanyahu.

"Israel will do whatever it has to do to protect our state and to protect our people. Our message to the terrorists is clear: You can run, you can hide, but in the end, Israel will get you."

This is how a leader speaks.

[Carlos R Otero 🇺🇸🇮🇱 @crotero]

@judeangeneral2 Rubio should resign in protest and announce his candidacy for president in 2028.

[Carlos R Otero 🇺🇸🇮🇱 @crotero]

@emilykschrader Echos of Neville Chamberlain in 1939, after making a deal with Hitler, “We have peace in our time!”

[Carlos R Otero 🇺🇸🇮🇱 @crotero]

@MOSSADil “Peace in our time.” British Prime Minister, Nevel Chamberlain, 1939

[Mossad Commentary @MOSSADil]

MOSSADIL COMMENTARY: WINNERS AND LOSERS

This was not a deal.
It was an MOU.
It does not resolve the core issues that triggered the war between Israel and Iran.

Israel was not part of the signing.

Israel is not part of the ongoing negotiations.

Israel is an independent country, and it has both the right and the obligation to act according to its own national interests.

BIGGEST WINNER: The Iranian regime.
Not because they are strong.
Because they survived.
Because the world rewarded them for starting a war, threatening global shipping, firing on Israel, and holding their own people hostage.

They shifted the global conversation.
They turned much of the world against Israel — and, more importantly, pushed the United States from focusing on Israel’s safety and security to protecting the survival of the Iranian regime.

BIGGEST LOSER: The Iranian people.
They were promised freedom.
They were told help was coming.
And once again, they were left behind.

LOSER: Trump.
This could have been his Berlin Wall moment.
Instead, it is becoming his Chamberlain moment.

[Jack Hibbs @RealJackHibbs]

Israel needs to throw off Trumps yoke and get the job done. Deal or no deal,

Israel is fighting for its existence while America looks for a good business opportunity.

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[Han Shawnity 🇺🇸 @HanShawnity]

I've seen bad foreign policy presidents before. I've never seen a good foreign policy president throw away his entire legacy to appease a terrorist regime that tried to assassinate him multiple times.

Seeing our president, especially Trump who has such a long list of foreign policy accomplishments, let Iran dictate the terms, tie the deal to Hezbollah, and get on his knees begging them to sign a deal is vomit inducing.

And he has nothing to gain.

It's incomprehensible.

I'd love to blame Vance and Witkoff, but Trump is their boss, and he knows better. It's shameful. It's humiliating.

[Carlos R Otero 🇺🇸🇮🇱 @crotero]

@Adi13 @WhiteHouse My sentiments exactly! So disappointed in Trump. Years ago I disdained him as an immoral millionaire playboy and real estate mogul. Since 2016 I thought I had misjudged him. Like you, I voted for him 3x. Now he has proven my earlier opinion of him was right.

[Adi @Adi13]

@WhiteHouse What an embarrassment—making deals with terrorists. I voted for Trump three times, but I never voted for this. Israel is our best ally, and is this how Trump makes peace, by cursing to our closest friend? I’m totally disappointed.

[Carlos R Otero 🇺🇸🇮🇱 @crotero]

@NiohBerg That seems to be the current pattern.

[Vivid.🇮🇱 @VividProwess]

I LIVE here in northern Israel.

Hezbollah terrorists are firing rockets and suicide drones at us every SINGLE day.

Asking us to stop defending ourselves is SHEER MADNESS!

[Carlos R Otero 🇺🇸🇮🇱 @crotero]

So, Trump is now turning on our best friend in the world, Israel, making it out to be our enemy? This is shameful! He betrayed the people of Iran and is now betraying Israel, all for the sake of an elusive deal with terrorist monsters, who should be destroyed rather than bargained with.

[Carlos R Otero 🇺🇸🇮🇱 @crotero]

@LionsOfZion_ORG Hang in there. Stand tough for Israel, and don’t let Trump try to bully you around. You are the PM of Israel, not him.

[Carlos R Otero 🇺🇸🇮🇱 @crotero]

@NoaMagid @HilzFuld This is exactly right. Something has happened to Trump, or someone has gotten to him.

[נועה מגיד | Noa magid @NoaMagid]

Trump, you're right. The strike on Beirut shouldn't have happened this morning. It should have happened a long time ago.

We, the citizens of Israel, are not your puppets. We didn't vote for you. You are not our prime minister.

You do not get to decide whether we respond when we are under attack. You do not get to manage the lives of millions of Israelis.

We appreciate everything you have done for the State of Israel, but it's time for you to understand that Israel is not another star on your flag.

You have become a deeply divisive figure. Israelis should not have to sit in bomb shelters waiting to hear what you say in order to know whether they can leave. The way you speak about our prime minister, and your rush to the media after every conversation between you, has earned you a great deal of contempt here.

You asked, "What the fuck is Bibi doing?" He's doing exactly what he is expected to do: protecting the people of Israel. He is not meant to serve your interests.

The surrender deal you are eager to sign with a murderous regime that has brutally oppressed its own people for 47 years and openly seeks our destruction is, in our eyes, one of the greatest disgraces imaginable. For Israel, it is a suicide pact.

Do not expect us to sit quietly while rockets and explosive drones are fired at us. Do not expect us to embrace the weakness you are displaying.

You are normalizing attacks on Israel. You are normalizing a reality in which millions of Israelis live between bomb shelters, rockets, and explosive drones.

By your actions, you are creating a dangerous equation: the IRGC and terrorist organizations are learning that they can attack Israel while Israel is expected not to respond.

There has never been a time when Israel sat and waited to see whether it would be attacked. That is not how you defeat terrorism.

That is not strength. It is surrender.

Israel has fought terrorism for generations and defeated it. We will not surrender to terror because you choose to do business with it.

We do not bribe terrorists, and we do not sell our values to accommodate them. If a terrorist organization were firing at New York and sending explosive drones into its streets, you would decide for yourself how to respond.

We have dedicated our lives to telling the world that terrorism must never pay. You chose to yield to it. Pride and ego prevent you from admitting mistakes and correcting them.

It is time for Israel to tell you no. Without apology.

[John Sandor @RealJohnSandor]

I’m still trying to wrap my head around the fact that our president @realDonaldTrump told our number one friend, and ally,#Israel to just sit down, shut up and allow your enemy to attack you because I want to make a deal with them and you’re getting in the way. 😡🤦‍♂️
#MAGA