Larry D. Bernstein

Writer, Educator, and Father.

[Larry D. Bernstein @LarryDBern]

@BezLlama Agreed. When I read this, I wonder if/why the attack was delayed.

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

Two weeks ago, Gazan women testified to a system of rape by Hamas to Palestinian women living in tents.

Last week, Gazan children testified to being raped by Hamas clerics.

This week, a report revealed the extent of sexual violence on Oct. 7th.

The NYT hasn’t written a word.

[Larry D. Bernstein @LarryDBern]

@HilzFuld Happy birthday, Olga Kay. May Hashem bless you with many more good and healthy years.

[Vivid.🇮🇱 @VividProwess]

Meet Tamir Shahada, a Muslim soldier in the IDF.

"My name is Tamir Shahada. I am a Muslim soldier in the IDF, and I hope to show the world that an Arab soldier can be proud to serve and protect Israel, our home."

He's incredible. 🙏

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

Two weeks ago, an IDF soldier desecrated a statue of Jesus. Within 48 hours, the political establishment of Israel condemned it, and jailed the soldier.

There were hundreds of thousands of posts.

Today, 29 Christians were massacred by Islamists in Nigeria.

Not a word.

Weird.

[Larry D. Bernstein @LarryDBern]

@BezLlama It was an April Fool's thing.

[Hillel Neuer @HillelNeuer]

Kuwaiti Shocks UN: “Mr. Chair, Who are the real colonizers? A Jewish Kingdom ruled in Judea for a thousand years. We, the Arabs, took this land... Israel frees Gaza from Hamas and Iranians from the Islamic Republic. What Israel is doing to the IRGC—stopping a genocidal regime from acquiring nuclear weapons—is a gift to humanity.”

[Hillel Fuld @HilzFuld]

Terrible what happened in Arad. The IRGC will pay.

It’s also hard to believe that all of that damage and thank God, no one killed and almost all light injuries. Praying for those injured more seriously and also grateful. Could have ended much worse.

But boy will they pay.

[Larry D. Bernstein @LarryDBern]

@BezLlama @sarasilb @FrumHumor @BetzalelAkiva @KosherRedPill @Kommodor64 @TzniusTifa @shmuel_yishak @Binyominberel @kav_hayashar @thekosherright @RavSchluss @TechRav @realDonaldTrump @JDVance @benshapiro @netanyahu And to you.

[Larry D. Bernstein @LarryDBern]

@MAGAVoice Kent is a complete fraud!

[Larry D. Bernstein @LarryDBern]

@BezLlama I wonder how the people of Iran feel about this. He steps down during disarray, not when the regime murdered thousands of protesters.

[Larry D. Bernstein @LarryDBern]

@BezLlama Hard not to wonder after what the President has shared.

[SharrellAnne @SharrellAnne2]

Gold Star wife here.

When ISIS killed your wife, you supported going after the people responsible. You understood exactly why we were fighting and never called it “Israel’s war.”

My husband, Alan, was killed by Iranian proxies in Iraq. And now, after decades, the fight is finally leading back to the number one state sponsor of terrorism in the world.

You understood it when it was your loss. Now you’re minimizing it when it’s mine.

You don’t get to redefine this war just because it’s not your grief anymore.

[Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86]

BREAKING: Israel just wiped out the Basij high command at a secret meeting in the desert.

The IDF confirmed overnight that a precision strike hit a makeshift tent complex where Basij commander Gholamreza Soleimani and dozens of regional commanders had gathered, believing they were safe by hiding outside fixed infrastructure. Israeli intelligence knew the location, the timing, and the attendee list. Soleimani is dead. His deputy is dead. The regional commanders who ran Iran’s internal repression apparatus are dead.

Separately, Defense Minister Katz confirmed that Ali Larijani, Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, was targeted in an overnight airstrike on Tehran. Katz stated this morning that Larijani and the Basij commander “were eliminated overnight and joined Khamenei and all the eliminated members of the axis of evil, in the depths of hell.” Iran published a handwritten note claiming Larijani survived. The IDF says it is still assessing.

The intelligence architecture reveals decades of Mossad investment paying compound returns. Long-term human networks inside Iran provided the foundational layer. The accelerant was Iranian citizens themselves. Social media tip-offs identifying Basij checkpoint locations, commander movements, and gathering schedules created a real-time targeting overlay that no counterintelligence apparatus could suppress. The regime’s own population became its exposure surface.

F-35 stealth aircraft delivered stand-off precision munitions on Tehran command nodes linked to the Intelligence Ministry and Basij, internal security forces in Shiraz, and air defense systems in Tabriz. Zero oil infrastructure was touched. Netanyahu released a photo showing the moment he authorized the strikes, a deliberate signal to every surviving commander that their movements are watched and the order to kill them carries a face and a timestamp. Hours later, he addressed the Iranian people for Nowruz, wishing them “a year of freedom.” Kill the commanders at dawn. Address their victims by evening.

But here is the paradox that every allocator must internalize.

The Basij high command is destroyed. Larijani is reportedly dead. The IRGC’s intelligence architecture has been degraded to a degree unprecedented since the revolution. And the Strait of Hormuz toll booth continues operating as if nothing happened.

MarineTraffic data from the hours following these strikes shows zero disruption to the permissioned passage regime. Hormozgan provincial IRGC naval units continue executing the same VHF hail, AIS verification, and diplomatic clearance protocol they have maintained for seventeen consecutive days. The sealed contingency packets do not care who is alive in Tehran. They were designed for exactly this scenario.

Every decapitation headline triggers a “regime collapse” reflex that pulls crude lower on normalization hopes. The market sees dead commanders and infers a weakening adversary approaching capitulation. The evidence says the opposite. Decapitation degrades the center. It cannot break the periphery. The 31 provincial commands do not need Soleimani or Larijani or Mojtaba to keep the Hormuz gate operational. They need their packets, their theater lead authority, their radios, and their standing orders. All of which survived the night.

Twenty-one ships carrying nearly one million metric tons of fertilizer remain stranded in the Gulf. Urea at New Orleans hit $683 per metric ton. The Gulf produces 49 percent of global urea exports. The Corn Belt planting window opens in weeks. No urea vessel has received passage through the toll booth because no nation has prioritized fertilizer over crude.

Israel killed the men who ran the repression. The packets that run the blockade do not have names. They cannot be assassinated.

What breaks this: documented Hormuz passage disruption from IRGC command confusion within 72 hours of these strikes.

Full analysis - https://t.co/iFmUcarGdV

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 JUST IN: Chuck Schumer announces Senate Democrats will 100% BLOCK the SAVE America Act "as long as it takes" to keep the illegal alien voter fraud going

This TRAITOR is melting down on the Senate floor because MAGA wants to end his cheating.

NEVER GIVE UP, pass SAVE America!

[Larry D. Bernstein @LarryDBern]

@MagicFlower22 Heartbreaking.

[Larry D. Bernstein @LarryDBern]

@BezLlama Good point.

[Open Source Intel @Osint613]

Israel Foreign Ministry:

On the last Friday of Ramadan, the Iranian regime launched a missile that struck the Muslim town of Zarzir in Israel.

Proof once again: Iran’s terror machine doesn’t care who its missiles hit. Civilians are their targets, whether Jewish, Muslim, or Christian.

[The Iran Watcher 🇮🇷 @TheIranWatcher]

A letter from a former IRGC Ground Forces captain who defected from the regime.

“I joined the IRGC twelve years ago because I loved my country. Every day we were told that we were the true defenders of Iran, the shield protecting our borders from foreign enemies and terrorists. For a long time I believed it. I wore that uniform with pride.

But eventually it became impossible to ignore the reality of what we were actually protecting. We were not defending the people of Iran. We were defending the bank accounts of our commanders and the survival of a handful of men at the top of power.

My breaking point did not come on a battlefield. It came in the streets of our own cities. When the order came to treat our own brothers and sisters, students, hardworking fathers, and young women who only wanted basic human dignity, as enemies of God and to fire live ammunition into crowds, the illusion collapsed. You cannot look into the eyes of an unarmed twenty year old lying on the asphalt in a pool of blood and still convince yourself that you are on the right side.

I know there are thousands still inside the ranks of the IRGC who feel the same disgust I once felt. They stay because they fear for their families, because of economic pressure, or because the intelligence apparatus watches everyone. But to my former brothers who still wear that uniform, the regime is using you as a wall between its stolen wealth and the anger of the nation. When that wall finally collapses, and it will, they will flee in private jets to places like Caracas or Moscow. You will be the ones left to answer to the people of Iran.

I left everything behind because I could no longer be a jailer in my own home. Now my only hope is that the world hears the voice of the people inside Iran, and that those who still hold weapons lower them from the chests of our youth and finally stand with the people.”

Mehdi, former captain in the IRGC Ground Forces

[Elica Le Bon الیکا‌ ل بن @elicalebon]

This is unbelievable. An Israeli flag is projected onto a building in Ekbatan, Tehran, as a message of gratitude. Iranians are risking their lives to communicate their voices over western suppression.

Almost didn’t post this because I thought it was AI, but AI says it is not AI.