Israel, which I love, needs to snap out of its delirium. ASAP.
@JDVance is sending a message. Israel needs to listen. Not respond. Not argue. But listen.
Bibi needs to be out of office.
The new PM needs to understand that HYBRID War/Cheap Drones & Missles changed everything.
To my Israeli friends:
READ THE ROOM. As we all know the true situation in the Middle East is beyond complicated and well beyond the interests of the American electorate.
Israel has completed failed to explain how it sees the situation. Completely.
Assume for the moment that you the disatisfied Israelis are right about everything substantive (which you are not…but let’s assume).
You’re right about Iran being a danger to Europe. Assume you are right about Gaza. Assume you are right about Lebanon. Even assume you are right about targeted killings. Assume you are right about the diaspora being weak moralizing pussies. Assume you are right about the PA and Tunnels and Arabs using Hospitals, Press Credentials, Churches, the UN, children and Mosques as military cover. Etc. We all know the issues. Yes?
Assume you are right about everything else except one thing: YOU NEVER MADE THAT CASE WORK!!
Yes Trump is signing a bad deal. But why??
Brace yourselves: Because we Jews failed to make a case. I may have tried but I have failed. I personally failed. Me. I own it.
But with you, you didn’t know you were failing.
I came back to Israel to Jaffa, Jerusalem, TA and Israeli podcasts to yell and scream about this.
But you didn’t listen. You are failing to make both the true arguments that are in your favor and your weak arguments as well. You don’t have the people in government or the press or the army you need to win the arguments you must win. Your market allocated almost all of the A-Team to your tech sector. YOU/WE CANNOT AFFORD THIS.
I’m extremely upset about this situation as an American. Israel is far more accurate in her thinking about Iran than is the U.S. This deal is bad for me as an ordinary American having nothing to do with you.
This is just a bad deal. But we’re here because we Jews (Israel + the Diaspora) screwed up holding an unbelievable hand which we misplayed. And while I’m willing to say I failed, you are not. And over that I am livid. Because I screwed up a fraction of what you screwed up.
When we diaspora Jews with an audience stood up, you often undercut us where we live while we were making legitimate points that benefited. Europe, Israel, ordinary Persians and the U.S. Why? We don’t know.
My feeling is that you endangered the United States and the Diaspora and you don’t even know it.
Start by accepting that there is a price for failing to make your case. Even when you are 100% right.
So…This is now the deal. Because we failed to make even the simplest of correct points. Let’s eat the loss.
It’s time for a new PM. And to thank President Trump. Say the words: Thank you Mr Trump. And if those words burn in your or my mouth or cut like broken glass, so be it.
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Thank you Mr President. For listening. For trying. I hate this deal and I have often been a detractor. That said:
Thank you nevertheless for trying to make the world a safer place by confronting what no one else could dare face. 🙏
Punch was born with big eyes and a calm little face, looking at the world with innocence and curiosity. 🥺💗💗
He never knew how difficult his destiny would be. Every day brought new challenges, lonely moments, and lessons far beyond what a little monkey should have to face. Yet he kept moving forward with courage.
Through every struggle, every tear, and every obstacle, Punch continued his journey. His destiny has not fully arrived yet, but each step is shaping him into someone stronger than anyone imagined.
The little boy with the big eyes is still walking his path, and we are all watching, hoping that one day his long journey leads him to the happiness and love he truly deserves. 💗💗💗🐒✨
#punchi
#punchimonkey
According to U.S. President Donald J. Trump, both China and Russia played a “neutral” role in the U.S.-Iran War over the past few months. However, while China did play a more neutral role, choosing to send a PRC envoy to the Middle East during the war, who played a minimal role, Russia actively aided Iran’s war efforts. During the war Russia sent drone components and other dual use goods to Iran via the Caspian Sea, bypassing the strategic choke point in the Strait of Hormuz.
Listen to this video.
All these promises, he told us exactly what we wanted to hear.
And then he turned around and broke them all.
He protected the elites, built a fortress around the swamp, endorsed all the RINOs, and became a warmonger waging wars.
Trump is the very snake he warned us all about.
Anthony Bourdain had what looked like the best job on the planet. He got paid to roam the world eating whatever he wanted, and strangers everywhere told him things they would never tell a reporter. Eight years ago today, he died by suicide at 61.
For almost thirty years before any of that, he was a cook nobody had heard of, working long hot shifts for little money. He was in his forties when he wrote a book spilling the secrets of what really goes on behind restaurant doors, and almost overnight, the unknown cook became a star.
What made him different was that he never faked it. Other travel hosts smiled at pretty views and pretended to love everything. Bourdain sat on plastic stools in back alleys and ate exactly what the people there ate. Then he got them talking about their real lives, and they trusted him enough to tell him the truth.
He went to places most shows stayed away from, like the Congo, Gaza, Iran, and New Orleans right after Hurricane Katrina. He once ate noodles at a tiny plastic-table joint in Vietnam with a sitting US president. His show Parts Unknown ran for twelve seasons and won a dozen Emmy Awards along with a Peabody, the top prize in broadcasting. It made a food show feel like real reporting on the world.
His death was so shocking because of the gap between the life everyone saw and the life he was actually living. Here was the guy who looked freer than anyone on TV, doing the job millions of people dreamed about, and the pain underneath was almost invisible to the people around him. He had actually talked about it in the open: on camera he once described how something as small as a bad meal could drop him into days of feeling low, and he had written about his heroin addiction from when he was young. None of it fit the cheerful, curious man people thought they knew.
He died just days after the designer Kate Spade died the same way, and that week, calls to the national crisis line jumped 65 percent. The conversation that followed kept circling one hard fact: the life you envy from the outside can be sitting right on top of pain you cannot see. What he left behind is bigger than any of the awards. He taught a whole generation that the fastest way to understand a stranger is to sit down and eat what they eat.
It will soon become clear that when Israel chose to attack Dahiya yesterday, it was not only working to shatter negotiations between Trump and Iran
It was also consciously instigating an escalation that would inevitably place US regional bases under Iranian fire
What an ally
The Iranian navy, which has been destroyed eight times, has apparently closed the Strait of Hormuz again, because the United States, for the seventh time, won the war that wasn’t a war, so now the United States has to open the Strait of Hormuz that was already open before the not-war began.
The not-war began because Iran had uranium that was totally, completely, beautifully obliterated, so they can’t build the nuclear bomb they weren’t building, which is why the United States had to start the not-war it definitely didn’t start.
Now the United States, which has nuclear weapons, is threatening to use nuclear weapons to stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons, because nuclear weapons are far too dangerous for countries with nuclear weapons to allow other countries to have.
If the United States saw the United States doing what the United States does in other countries, the United States would invade the United States to liberate the United States from the tyranny of the United States.
This guy's chickens kept getting targeted by hawks, so he started feeding local crows. Now he has an army of crows that patrols his property and chases the hawks away.
Israel executed Theodosia today in Qlayaa, South Lebanon.
She was on her way to take her exams.
Israel dropped a bomb on her car, killing her and her parents.
It’s all talk. Just withhold foreign aid to Israel for a month and they’ll stop bombing their neighbors - instant peace, the Strait of Hormuz can be opened, and gas drops $2 a gallon. Israel has been, and continues to be, the biggest welfare recipient from American tax payers.