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"Israel rejects the Board of Peace plan for Gaza"
Some thoughts:
1. Israel believes the Board of Peace plan is doomed to failure, and giving it a chance will only make things worse. That's because:
2. Nobody believes Hamas will disarm voluntarily. Literally nobody. Not even Board of Peace director-general Nikolai Mladenov, who told Israeli media he shares Israelis' skepticism and that's why the plan is based on verification rather than trust. That's because:
3. Hamas has already said it won't disarm voluntarily. It said "yes" to the plan... if Israel withdraws first. No, it doesn't work like that. Hamas wants to use its weapons as leverage to dictate the pace of an Israeli withdrawal.
The Board of Peace has been absolutely clear: "the withdrawal of the IDF beyond the Yellow Line will take place only once decommissioning is complete," including tunnels, which Mladenov said would take ten years anyway.
4. It's unfortunate this is being framed as "Hamas accepts, Israel rejects". Hamas said it accepted with a massive "but" that voided it of content (withdrawal first). Hamas has therefore rejected the plan. That's because Hamas framed its comms around the international audience, who wanted to hear "yes" and ignore the "but", and Israel framed it around the domestic audience, who wanted to hear "no" and don't want to hear about the "but" (such as the fact Israel is allowing colossal quantities of supplies into enemy territory, which Hamas is taxing and getting rich off).
5. This would make things worse because it would allow the Hamas threat to be reconstituted. October 7 taught Israelis about the costs of dangerous illusions, like even imagining Hamas might disarm voluntarily. In the time Hamas refuses to disarm, the IDF's hands would be tied. It would be prevented from stopping Hamas' military build-up. The Board of Peace would station an international force of soldiers from mostly Islamic countries that would serve as a shield for Hamas while it rebuilds its terrorist army.
6. The "15 point plan" is a step backward from the "20 point plan". The October 2025 ceasefire said Gaza would be DEMILITARIZED, not that Hamas' weapons would be placed into storage in Gaza. It said that Hamas members "who commit to peaceful coexistence and to decommission their weapons" would be given an amnesty... this would give a de facto amnesty to those who double down on jihad. The ceasefire said there would be an "agreed" process of decommissioning weapons... this tries to impose a mechanism on Israel without its consent.
6. Is this all domestic politics? Israel is in election mode. Netanyahu's political future and legacy are in jeopardy. He is alert to public criticism, especially since October 7 shattered his reputation as "Mr. Security." He cannot be seen as "selling out" Israel's security by believing dangerous illusions, or putting faith in international forces, or giving any room to Hamas patrons Turkey or Qatar.
And yet... the fact nobody is attacking him for this step tells you it's not just politics. Because nobody believes Hamas is going to disarm voluntarily and nobody wants to restrict the IDF's freedom of maneuver to hunt October 7 monsters. Netanyahu is getting attacked for allegedly restricting the IDF's freedom against Hamas in practice while saying that's not what he's doing. In the post-October 7 Israel, any politician who said "sure let's give Hamas a chance to do this the nice way" would be laughed out of the ROOM as hopelessly naive and a threat to national security.
It's way past time for everyone to MOVE ON from the barbaric regional war Hamas launched with the October 7 Massacre.
But that's going to require the same three Ds Israel laid out at the start: Hamas is disarmed, Gaza is demilitarized, and the population is deradicalized.
Anything else is a recipe for war, and we've had enough.
In the House of the Dragon finale, Daemon Targaryen—the queen’s husband (and uncle), leading her army through the Riverlands— arrives at the gates of Tumbleton, held by the rival Hightowers. He has a dragon. The town has no answer for it.
So Lord Ormund Hightower lines the walls with children.
Daemon can’t unleash his dragon on the children. He changes his entire battle plan, sends men over the walls instead. Children die anyway.
Every viewer understood instantly who was responsible. Not the army at the gates, the men who put children on the wall and not protect them from the dragon fire.
That clarity exists when the war is fictional.
Westeros is fake. The tactic isn’t.
giving Ormund Hightower's death to Daemon would ruin one of the most brutal moments in the entire war, and it wouldn't even be close.
Roderick Dustin and the Winter Wolves don't march south for Daemon, they march south already expecting to die. at the First Battle of Tumbleton, Roddy the Ruin loses his left arm mid fight, and still hacks through Ormund's entire honor guard with one arm left, taking his head off right before finally dying from his wounds.
that's not a scene you hand off to someone else for fan service. that raw, suicidal savagery is the entire reason the Winter Wolves are remembered the way they are.
strip that away and you're not simplifying the story, you're erasing the one moment that actually earns their legend
“I heard them searching house by house, shouting ‘Jews, Jews!’”
In Montenegro 🇲🇪, two Israeli teens say they were attacked by a large group of people while on vacation.
The two 18-year-olds befriended a man at a casino. The man asked where they were from, and when they answered "Israel", the man's behavior shifted.
After deciding to leave, a group of about 15 people ambushed them. They ran and separated, one hiding in a private yard for about two and a half hours, while the other was caught and kicked by the mob, eventually escaping to his hotel.
One word made a man and a whole group decide it was OK to attack them. They did not need to say anything more, nor did the man need to hear any more. This is unacceptable.
BREAKING
An Islamic Republic of Iran assassination threat against President Trump prompted an extraordinary operation last month in which he flew secretly from Turkey on an alternate military aircraft while the White House said he was aboard Air Force One.
After boarding in view of cameras, the president was secretly shuttled minutes later to a smaller plane — an Air Force C-32A — via an airport catering truck typically used to load meals and other supplies preflight.
President Clinton was involved in a similar operation during a 2000 trip to Pakistan..
Full Story: https://t.co/ioOtxJRuS0
The reason most women and girls don't illegally migrate to the West is because men will rape or murder them on the way, or both.
This is almost guaranteed.
Europe is still deliberately blind and deaf to what they're allowing onto this continent.
Daemon wasn't trying to claim Vermithor, he was making sure the realm's second-largest dragon wouldn't incinerate the next person who tried.
High Valyrian lullabies are ancient dragonkeeper protocol used to soothe riderless beasts, not some random musical flex. Daemon was scouting military assets for the Blacks, checking if the Bronze Fury was stable enough to eventually take a new rider.
that whole scene is basically groundwork. it's what makes the Sowing of the Seeds even possible later on.
Friendly reminder that if you all of the sudden started hating Jewish people and Israel over the last few years, you didn’t “awaken” or “notice” anything…
You fell for leftist and Muslim propaganda that was originally created for illiterate peasants over a hundred years ago.
Congrats, you are of equal intelligence to a flat earther 😂
ela em pânico desesperada desse jeito quase entrando em parafuso por causa do aegon e do sunfyre e correndo até o daemon pra ele consolar e acalmar ela, eu não quero nem ver quando esse homem morrer e ela despirocar de vez
Before her execution, she recorded a message for her mother:
"I want the world to know what is being done to me."
Reyhaneh Jabbari was 19 when a former intelligence officer tried to sexually assault her. She fought back. He died. She spent seven years in Evin Prison. The world signed petitions. Iran sharpened the rope. She was 26. Iran hanged her anyway.
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Under Sharia law in Iran, to prove rape, a woman must produce four male witnesses to the act itself.
Four. Male. Witnesses.
If she cannot, her accusation becomes a confession. She is no longer the victim. She is the criminal and faces flogging. Or prison. Or death.
This is not ancient history. This is the law that is still on the books today. The law that Abdul El-Sayed is asking Americans not to fear.
Women in Iran don't have a #MeToo movement. They have a noose.
WOW @RollingStone, perhaps you missed the clip where this asshole said....
“We want more immigrants to come into your countries and then they’re gonna fuck your sisters and then your daughters.”
Or........“We’re here to Destroy the White Race, Bitch.”
Or about capitalists, he said....“Yeah kill them! KiII those motherfuckers and murder those motherfuckers in the streets. Let the streets soak in their fucking red capitalist blood, dude.”
So you go ahead and call him "matinee-handsome" while he waxes poetic about raping white women and murdering capitalists.
You total pieces of SHIT.
na hora da cena nem reparei que só a silverwing tava com montador pqp caraxes e daemon tão conectados que ele sabia que tinha que meter um dracarys na bunda do ulf
Fauci privately warned of miscarriage risk linked to COVID vaccine while publicly claiming no issues, newly released texts show https://t.co/AfpDs6lhZ9
Daemon Targaryen is one of the most complex and captivating characters in the history of House Targaryen.
Feared as the Rogue Prince, he was a brilliant warrior, a fearless dragonrider, and a man who refused to be bound by convention. Impulsive, ruthless, and fiercely ambitious, Daemon often walked the line between hero and villain, making him as unpredictable to his allies as he was to his enemies. Yet beneath his arrogance and recklessness lay an unwavering loyalty to his family and the Targaryen legacy.
What makes Daemon unforgettable is that he was never simply good or evil-he was both. He could be ruthless in battle and deeply devoted to those he loved, driven as much by emotion as by ambition. During the Dance of the Dragons, he became the Blacks' greatest military commander, proving that his legacy would be defined not only by the wars he fought, but by the fearless way he lived. The Rogue Prince was never meant to be ordinary, and that is exactly why history remembers him.
#daemon #daemontargaryen #houseofthedragon...