I reject outright the statement of the UK Foreign Secretary and the patronising tone of his words.
The Jewish people have the right to live throughout the Land of Israel, just as the British have the right to live in London and throughout the United Kingdom. More than a century ago, the Balfour Declaration formally recognised the historic right of the Jewish people to re-establish their national home in the Land of Israel - including in the area in question.
Britain itself still controls colonial territories thousands of miles from its shores. It is absurd for Britain to lecture the Jewish people about where they may live in their historic tiny homeland, when the Jewish people’s connection and right to this land is the most extensively documented of any people in human history.
There have been no new decisions regarding development in E1. The decision was made on 2025.
The tender process has been underway for several months, with certain tender documents published only in recent days.
The British Foreign Secretary’s statement is entirely one-sided.
It condemns Israel while turning a blind eye to Palestinian terrorism, incitement and the Palestinian Authority’s continued financial support for terror - the “pay for slay” policy.
The UK Government’s systematic policy of blaming only Israel while ignoring Palestinian extremism has already contributed to a massive wave of antisemitic hatred and attacks against the British Jewish community. Continuing down this path will only make the situation worse.
The UK Government’s decision to damage the relationship between our countries is deeply unfortunate. But Israel will not be a passive victim of this policy.
Israel will defend its rights, its interests and its people.
In Buddhism we understand that every action comes with a consequence. Due to my decision to stand up for my Jewish friends I am losing a few people from my life. Today I parted company with Tony Pontius who has run my record label BGP for a number of years. I wanted to release 'We Will Dance Again' but he was unequivocal and said 'I want nothing to do with this song' and I responded 'ok, we are done'.
When someone is gutless it really does not hurt to say goodbye. My faith in humanity will not diminish and the truth will always win.
I will release it!
This is your legacy on the occupied Palestinian territory, Prime Minister @Keir_Starmer. History will remember your complicity.
Despite a partial arms suspension in 2024, Keir Starmer's government has continued to enable Israel's atrocities against Palestinians, their families and children through the supply of F-35 fighter jet parts.
Nothing can change the horrors Palestinians have faced. But the next Prime Minister has an opportunity to put an end to the UK Government's role as an ally to atrocities.
The UK Government must:
🔴 Suspend all arms sales to Israel
🔴 Suspend the UK-Israel trade and partnership agreement
🔴 Ban trade with illegal Israeli settlements
To the next Prime Minister: what will your plaque say?
🇮🇱 The Hatikva for anyone who wants to learn to sing it:
Kol od ba'le'vav p'nima
(As long as in the heart within)
Nefesh Yehudi ho'miyah
(The Jewish soul yearns)
Ulfa'atei mizrach kadima
(And forward, to the ends of the East)
Ayin le’Tziyyon tzofiyah.
(An eye gazes toward Zion)
Od lo avdah tikva'tenu
(Our hope is not yet lost)
Hatikva bat sh'not al'payim
(The hope of a two thousand years)
Lihiyot am chofshi be'artzeinu
(To be a free nation in our land)
Eretz Tziyyon v'Yerushalayim.
(The land of Zion and Jerusalem)
A rumor is circulating on pro-Hezbollah forums that Israel tracked the IP addresses of Hezbollah officials during a Zoom meeting, geolocated 100 positions simultaneously, and struck all of them in ten minutes. The IDF has not confirmed the method. No mainstream outlet has verified it. The rumor originates from Tier-4 sources with zero corroboration from Israeli, American, or independent intelligence reporting.
But the rumor is less important than what it reveals about the strike itself.
One hundred command targets across three geographic zones, Beirut’s southern suburbs, the Beqaa Valley, and southern Lebanon, struck simultaneously in a ten-minute window. Intelligence headquarters. Missile infrastructure. Radwan Force assets. The Aerial Unit that operates Hezbollah’s drone fleet. The IDF confirmed every detail. What the IDF did not confirm is how it knew where every target was at the exact same moment.
That simultaneity is the signature. Hitting 100 targets in sequence is air superiority. Hitting 100 targets in ten minutes is intelligence supremacy. It means real-time location data on the entire senior and mid-tier command structure, updated continuously, cross-referenced with physical infrastructure, and fed into a strike package that executes before anyone can move. Whether the method was Zoom IP tracking, cellular metadata, SIGINT intercepts, human intelligence, or some combination of all four, the capability demonstrated is the same: Israel has penetrated Hezbollah’s operational architecture to a depth that allows simultaneous decapitation across an entire theatre of war.
The pager operation in September 2024 demonstrated that Israel could compromise Hezbollah’s supply chain to deliver explosive devices into the pockets of hundreds of operatives. If the Zoom rumor contains any truth, it represents the evolution from hardware compromise to software compromise, from physical infiltration of devices to digital infiltration of communications. The pagers required months of supply-chain engineering. An IP geolocation exploit requires only that the target connects to a network.
Hezbollah’s response will be predictable: abandon all digital communications. Go dark. Return to couriers and face-to-face meetings. But that response creates its own vulnerability. Couriers can be followed. Face-to-face meetings require physical movement that satellites and drones track. The more Hezbollah retreats from digital infrastructure, the slower its command cycle becomes, and the slower the command cycle, the less capable the organisation is of coordinating the kind of distributed response that Mosaic Defence requires.
This is the intelligence trap that decapitation campaigns create. Every adaptation the target makes to survive reduces its operational effectiveness. Go digital and risk geolocation. Go analogue and risk paralysis. The IDF does not need to confirm the Zoom rumor for it to achieve its strategic purpose. The rumor alone forces Hezbollah to assume its communications are compromised, which degrades command and control whether or not the compromise actually exists.
The pagers changed the supply chain. If the IP tracking is real, it changes the meeting. If neither method was used and Israel has something else entirely, it changes the assumption that any form of communication is secure. In all three cases, the effect is identical: Hezbollah’s command structure operates under the permanent assumption of penetration. And an organisation that assumes it is penetrated behaves like an organisation that already is.
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Israel has reached two important strategic conclusions, and anyone who wants to engage seriously with the Lebanon crisis needs to engage with this reality.
1) Only Lebanon can disarm Hezbollah.
UNIFIL has been worse than useless, allowing Hezbollah to rearm in plain sight of its peacekeepers. The IDF can’t send its men to dismantle such a large militia.
That leaves Lebanon, which has proven unable and unwilling to dismantle Iran’s proxy army on its soil—or to stop it launching armed attacks on Israeli civilians. In the 26 years since Israel’s withdrawal from southern Lebanon, the Lebanese state let Hezbollah fester.
It didn’t dismantle it after Resolution 1701 in 2006, allowing Hezbollah to build an invasion force and join Hamas’ war on October 8, 2023. It didn’t do it after Israel decapitated Hezbollah and signed the Nov. 2024 ceasefire.
But ultimately, only Lebanon can do it, and it will require a confrontation it is desperate to avoid.
Israel must therefore do two things: a) give the Lebanese state no choice, make it both urgent and necessary to pick a fight with Hezbollah, b) soften up the target.
By seizing a deep buffer zone, Israel is creating leverage to force Lebanon to stop armed attacks on Israeli families from its soil. Want your land back? No problem, if we have guarantees it won’t be used to wage jihad against. Want back the land you won’t control anyway because Hezbollah will take over? Forget about it.
World leaders need to confront the reasons the Lebanese state has allowed Hezbollah to fire rockets and drones at Israeli families, and work with Israel to pressure Beirut to do something it is desperate to avoid.
Lebanon can have its land back when it wants to create a peaceful border.
2) Israelis in the north cannot live in peace as long as Hezbollah is in southern Lebanon. There is therefore a zero-sum game. Either northern Israel is evacuated, or southern Lebanon will be. You forced us into this. So we’re not evacuating our people. You’re evacuating yours. We’re not shutting down our economy, you shut down yours. As it is, Israelis on the border have only 30 seconds to seek shelter… because the IDF has pushed deep enough into Lebanon to give warning time.
Israel must therefore maintain a sterile buffer zone because the alternative is to turn OUR TERRITORY into a sterile buffer zone, and we will not reward Hezbollah aggression.
It’s nasty. I wish this could have been avoided. I dream of a day we have peace with Lebanon and can hop to Beirut for the weekend. None of that will happen while Hezbollah remains standing.
Lebanon must dismantle it, and nobody should make excuses for its failure
@DanielTuijnman@owenjonesjourno An appeal to authority (these so-called ‘Human rights organisations’) doesn’t work with me. I like to see real data and make my own mind up.