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I believe in liberty, truth, justice, and air superiority. I support Israel in its quest for peace and freedom from terrorism.

[dbe928 @dbe928]

@ClareMLopez @marklevinshow @BMMWorldwide I agree. Regime change in Iran is necessary. Negotiations with the mullahs who run the country are a losing strategy. They will delay, defer, lie, and ignore agreements they sign.

[Israel Defense Forces @IDF]

⭕️🛩️ STRUCK: The IDF completed a large-scale strike on strategic defense systems belonging to the Iranian terror regime.

Recently, defense systems were deployed across Iran to restore the regime’s capabilities degraded during Operation Roaring Lion. The strike led to the dismantling of these systems.

[Clare Lopez @ClareMLopez]

Nothing new about Iranian attacks vs Kurds in both Iraq & Iran…regular occurrence, unfortunately - why it’s so important to get them more, better weapons, plus diplomatic, communications & intel support asap - they’re already the boots, organized, trained & battle-hardened

[dbe928 @dbe928]

The Super Phantom flew at the Paris Air Show in 1987, and its performance was described by analysts as "a startling display of brute power in a series of vertical manoeuvres and tight, high-g turns that were totally out of character for the ageing F-4.” https://t.co/6Bho0dfeZQ

[Jonathan Conricus @jconricus]

The interim score is this:
1. Iran blinked first.
2. Israel checked the Iranian attempt to restrict Israeli freedom of action against Hezbollah. This, despite reported discrepancies between the US and Israel. Very important as we move forward.
3. Iran failed to hit Israeli targets, and suffered a few hits on military targets, as it remains exposed and vulnerable to @IAFsite.
4. Iran gained valuable strategic currency and insight, since it is quite apparent that the US is desperate for a deal. Even a VERY BAD and humiliating one.
5. The @IDF does not yet have a tactical solution for optic FPV drones, and Hezbollah will likely aspire to continue to exploit that, which will fuel more fighting and Israeli strikes all over Lebanon. See #2.
6. The US still hasn’t come to the conclusion that it’s strategically vital to free the Hormuz Strait, and the Iranian regime is banking on that misjudgment to continue.
7. Israel continues to bleed diplomatic currency while it gains military achievements.

Moving forward, I believe Israel will make a point of striking Hezbollah military targets in Beirut if Hezbollah continues to attack northern Israel. Not good news for Hezbollah or Iran, but good for the Lebanese state and Israel.

This episode seems to have been concluded, but all sides are learning, evaluating and assessing.

[Roy K. Altman @RoyKAltman]

We now know from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Israel that The New York Times was made aware weeks before publishing Nicholas Kristof’s explosive op-ed that the independent commission, an NGO, was investigating and going to report on Hamas’ systemic use of sexual violence against Israeli women, girls, and men.

Remember, initially, we all thought it was just women and girls, and that was horrible enough. We now know Hamas at gunpoint forced men to have sexual relations with family members in their homes, something we really haven’t seen in the world much since Rwanda. Horrible stuff.

And The New York Times, according to Israel and the NGO, was made aware that this report was going come out May 12th. The NGO, independent from the government of Israel, asked for permission to run an article detailing its findings in The New York Times.

The New York Times responded that they were not interested in running an article on Hamas’ use of sexual violence against Israelis. And then the day before—not a week before, not a month before, not a week after—the day before, on May 11th, The New York Times runs this explosive Kristof piece.

Remember, The New York Times had said it was not interested in this subject. Then, the day before the NGO released its report, the paper ran an explosive piece that blamed the victims. Now, the Israelis are the perpetrators of mass systemic sexual violence against Palestinians. It flips everything on its head.

[Amit Segal @AmitSegal]

What made Iran bold enough to strike Israel directly?

The answer is Trump. Tehran may not field a first-class air force or navy, but they possess the absolute best detection equipment in the world for one specific signal: a lack of willingness to fight. For years, Hamas and Hezbollah detected this exact hesitation in Israel and exploited it to gain ground. Today, Iran is doing the exact same thing to the United States. It comes down to the old idiom: give them an inch, and they’ll start firing at a mile of your sovereign territory.

Two months of projected American weakness and a blind obsession with securing a deal have brought us straight to this moment. The collapse started when Washington chose to look the other way during Iranian missile and drone launches in the Gulf. It accelerated every time the U.S. conceded ground just to keep Tehran from abandoning the talks, culminating in the immense pressure to hold Israel back from striking Beirut and the forcing of a hasty, fragile “ceasefire” in southern Lebanon. Tehran smells the desperation and knows exactly what the U.S. is terrified of losing. As an advisor to Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei phrased it: “In the bombing in Beirut, the enemy set the negotiating table on fire for the third time.”

So far, it seems Iran guessed correctly. Overnight, Trump went on Fox News with a message for Tehran: “You’ve shot your missiles, that’s enough, get back to the table and make a deal.” In so many words, Trump is simply repackaging Joe Biden’s infamous April 2024 warning to Iran: “Don’t.” Judging by the multiple, separate ballistic barrages launched from Iranian territory this morning, it promises to be just as effective.
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[Pamela Paresky 🟦 (Habits of a Free Mind) @PamelaParesky]

Ballistic missiles launched from Iran, targeting the civilian population of Israel.

Don’t hold your breath waiting for the UN to condemn this series of war crimes.

[dbe928 @dbe928]

From the Gulf to Israel: The Iranian Regime’s Campaign of Regional Aggression ; the story of a regime willing to destabilize an entire region in pursuit of its ideological ambitions. | HonestReporting https://t.co/Z02tS3A2mQ

[dbe928 @dbe928]

@UNWatch @RoleMarks @AidOversight ‘an additional 101 staffers at the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) participated in the Oct. 7 terror attacks and are affiliated with Hamas’s military wing, according to an investigatory report to the State Department obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.’

[dbe928 @dbe928]

@UNWatch @spikedonline “these so-called UN experts – trading on the title of ‘special rapporteur’ – routinely serve the interests of Beijing, Tehran and Moscow, while treating the democratic West as the primary threat to human rights.”

[dbe928 @dbe928]

How Hezbollah Pushed Israel and Iran Back to the Brink of War: direct result of Hezbollah’s continued belligerence and ceasefire violations. | HonestReporting https://t.co/RQlZjvVPXJ

[dbe928 @dbe928]

Israel hits back at Iran after missile attack, renewing fear of war - The Wall Street Journal https://t.co/h8oNEFUML5

[dbe928 @dbe928]

Good observation:

[John Spencer @SpencerGuard]

Media inversion continues. Headlines only about Israel attacking Hezbollah while leaving out that it is in response to Hezbollah attacks that started on March 2nd and continue daily despite any ceasefire agreements.
https://t.co/xHwh1sP3Cj

[Captain Allen @CptAllenHistory]

On This Day — June 7, 2002

As billions in international aid — including your taxpayer dollars — continued pouring into the Palestinian Authority, a Kuwaiti newspaper dropped a bombshell.

On this day in 2002, Al-Watan reported that Yasser Arafat had siphoned $5.1 million in Arab donor money, explicitly earmarked for the Palestinian people, and deposited it directly into his personal bank account.

This was Arafat’s standard operating procedure:

- Arafat’s personal fortune was estimated between $1 billion and $3 billion (some intelligence assessments reached $6.5 billion), stashed in secret accounts in Switzerland, France, and offshore havens.

- A leaked 1997 Palestinian Legislative Council investigation found that 40% of the entire annual budget — $326 million that year alone — had disappeared into corruption and mismanagement. Arafat suppressed the report.

- His economic advisor Mohammed Rashid took stolen funds and invested them in the Jordan Cement Company to personally profit from the reconstruction boom caused by the Intifada.

- Arafat and his inner circle ran monopolies on cement, fuel, cigarettes, flour, gravel, and cars — squeezing huge profits from ordinary goods.

While his wife Suha Arafat (pictured below) lived lavishly in Paris (spending over $100,000 per month on designer clothes, shoes, and luxury living), Arafat treated EU, US, Arab, and UNRWA aid as his personal ATM.

Billions flowed in after Oslo. Very little went to building real institutions or prosperity.

Arafat died one of the richest men in the world — having turned a "national liberation movement" into a criminal empire.

The man who posed as the humble revolutionary in a keffiyeh was, in reality, one of the most successful kleptocrats of the modern era.

This was betrayal on an industrial scale; theft to a degree that would make Daniel Ocean blush.

[Yossi Melman @yossi_melman]

To the best of my knowledge and assessment, Israel’s intelligence community stopped spying on U.S. soil and against American targets or individuals around the world following the Pollard affair in 1985. Period. Not Unit 8200. Not the Mossad and not the Shin Bet.

Therefore, my understanding is that the recent reports are part of a campaign by elements within the administration to blame Netanyahu and Israeli intelligence for the unsuccessful war against Iran.

This is the background to the leaks claiming that Netanyahu and Mossad chief Dedi Barnea pushed Trump toward war and convinced him there was a chance their plan to overthrow the regime would succeed.

Other leaks claimed that the U.S. fired more missiles in defense of Israel than for its own defense, thereby depleting its missile and interceptor stockpiles. Another leak described an allegedly bizarre Mossad plan to install Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as the next leader if the IDF, Mossad, and the Americans succeeded in toppling the clerical regime.

Indeed, Bibi, Barnea, and his deputy “E,” whom the new Mossad head, Roman Gutfman removed in a swift move, formulated what is described here as an absurd plan intended to install none other than the “unhinged” Mahmoud Ahmadinejad - the Holocaust denier who called for Israel’s destruction and for developing nuclear weapons. But in the end, even noless than the cow (Israel) wanted to nurse, the calf (Trump) wanted to suckle.

NBC and The New York Times, which published the report that a Pentagon assessment concluded Israel had recently been spying obsessively on the U.S., cite as evidence that the Shin Bet allegedly tried to listen in on Secret Service vehicles when they came to protect American officials in Israel.

Maybe that happened. But I have no doubt that American intelligence agencies as well (the FBI, NSA, and Secret Service) monitor, track, and collect information on Unit 730 personnel when they are protecting Israeli officials visiting the United States on official trips.

It is also possible that Unit 8200 intercepts conversations taking place, for example, in Pakistan between Iran and the United States. If successful, it would naturally gain an understanding of the broader situation. But the target would not be Witkoff, Kushner, or other Americans rather, Iranian and Pakistani representatives.

In any case, facts and truth are already becoming less relevant. What matters is that the administration is turning the Israeli government and Israeli intelligence into scapegoats for the strategic failure of the war.

[dbe928 @dbe928]

National Park Service seeking public’s input on Trump’s proposed arch in DC https://t.co/l7mbSSjr2C

[dbe928 @dbe928]

A Strange War and its Bizarre Coverage : MSM covers the war with a clear bias in favor of Iran. https://t.co/0VyGaZBv7X

[Liza Rosen @LizaRosen0000]

Top British attorney Natasha Hausdorff dismantled the Palestinian narrative with cold historical facts.

There was never a sovereign Arab state called “Palestine.” The British Mandate of Palestine was simply British administration over the historic Land of Israel after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire.

Jews lived continuously in the land for centuries — including under Ottoman rule, when they formed the majority in Jerusalem. Before 1909, Tel Aviv was empty desert legally purchased by Jews, who built it from nothing. No Arabs were displaced.

After the British handed the mandate to the UN, the Arab world rejected the partition plan and launched a war to destroy the Jewish state. Arab armies and local militias tried to “push the Jews into the sea.” At the same time, Arab countries ethnically cleansed their ancient Jewish communities, forcing nearly a million Jews to flee to Israel.

During the war, Arab leaders ordered local Arabs to evacuate combat zones so their armies could annihilate the Jews. Many of those who left later became permanent “refugees” under Egyptian and Jordanian control.

Israel has never committed genocide — and never will. By defending itself, it prevents another holocaust.

Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Islamic regime of Iran are the real obstacles to peace in the Middle East.

Retweet if you support Israel’s right to exist and defend itself.

[dbe928 @dbe928]

Iran fires missiles at Israel for first time since ceasefire, military says https://t.co/VGLIJuMWN6 via @USATODAY