Elias North

[Elias North @NorthOnPoint]

@AnshelPfeffer Not only did it fail, but in a case of political uno reversal Israel now finds itself detached from the Iran-U.S. front.

[Elias North @NorthOnPoint]

Your take is completely detached from reality. Hezbollah's attack is threatening the ceasefire? So constant Israeli attacks on civilian infrastructure and systematic demolition of villages like, with the explicit aim of ethnically cleansing South Lebanon, has nothing to do with it?

[Elias North @NorthOnPoint]

Israel tried to decouple Lebanon from the Iran-U.S. negotation and clearly failed, and instead in a reversal Iran has now decoupled Israel from its negotation with the U.S.

[Barak Ravid @BarakRavid]

🚨🚨More quotes from my phone call with president Trump: “The Iranian strikes didn’t hurt anybody. Hopefully Israel is not going to retaliate. If Bibi strikes them back it’s just gonna keep going like the last 47 years, or the last 3000 years"
🚨🚨Trump added: "We are very close to a final deal with Iran. It is going to be a good deal. I don’t want it to blow up because of what is happening now"
🚨🚨Trump stressed: "I am going to call Bibi right now and tell him not to retaliate. Each of them had their fun. Israel had its strike and Iran had its strike. We don't need another one"

[Elias North @NorthOnPoint]

@ejmalrai Israel was seeking to test Iranian resolve in protecting Lebanon and got their answer. Now we will see if Trump is willing to risk Iranian retaliation on American bases by striking Iran or if they will limit their engagement to shooting down missiles.

[Elias North @NorthOnPoint]

@MounirShehadeh It is amazing that in spite of decades of proof this is true, part of the Lebanese political sphere act as if they live in an alternate universe.

[Elias North @NorthOnPoint]

@Cosmos_politic Iran has correctly concluded that force is the only language understood in this conflict.

[Elias North @NorthOnPoint]

Israel is, in spite of its role as a U.S. colony, simultaneously a clear threat to national security.

[Patricia Marins @pati_marins64]

The Capture of Washington: How Netanyahu Intensified Israeli influence Over U.S institutions.

This week, the Pentagon issued a new alert elevating Israel to the critical level of counterintelligence threat, the highest tier on the American scale. In practice, this places a historic ally under the same level of technical and human monitoring reserved for direct adversaries, due to the aggressiveness of recently detected espionage operations.

The alert was triggered by reports that Israeli intelligence was monitoring private communications of senior Trump administration officials, including chief negotiator Steve Witkoff and senior Pentagon official Elbridge Colby.

The apparent objective was to anticipate Washington’s internal deliberations on a possible peace agreement with Iran.

The Israeli offensive goes far beyond that. U.S. defense personnel deployed in Israel detected the clandestine installation of surveillance software on their cellphones, capable of intercepting communications. A report from the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) also cites previous incidents, such as attempts by Shin Bet officers to plant listening devices in U.S. Secret Service vehicles last year.

This suggests that, after consolidating its influence over American politics, Israel under Netanyahu now seeks greater control over U.S. military and decision-making channels.

Israeli influence in American politics is already described as intense by intelligence sources, operating through diplomatic channels, lobbying, and monitoring. Gaining control over the very channels that issue alerts about this influence appears to have become a priority for Netanyahu.

None of this is entirely new. Americans are now facing new, more invasive stages that seek to expand and consolidate previous actions.

In 2019, the U.S. government concluded that Israel was responsible for installing cellular surveillance devices (known as StingRays) found near the White House and other sensitive locations in Washington, D.C. These devices impersonate cell towers to intercept location, identity, and even the content of calls and messages. The goal was to monitor then-President Donald Trump and his close advisers.

Despite forensic evidence from the FBI, the Trump administration remained publicly silent.

A similar stance occurred during the Obama administration: while negotiating the nuclear agreement with Iran (JCPOA), U.S. officials discovered that Israel had penetrated confidential conversations. Israel obtained details of closed-door meetings, which were then used by Israeli diplomats to lobby against the deal in the U.S. Congress.

Another episode involved the use of Pegasus spyware to hack iPhones of U.S. State Department officials (cases reported in African contexts, such as Uganda). In 2022, the American company Conflict Kinetics sued Israel’s Ministry of Defense, alleging that an Israeli general unlawfully obtained secrets about its combat training software.

In 1985, Israeli Air Force officers were caught stealing more than 50,000 pages of confidential technical documents from the American company Recon/Optical regarding advanced aerial surveillance equipment. The stolen technology reportedly accelerated the development of Israel’s Ofek-3 reconnaissance satellite.
U.S.-Israel relations have been marked by numerous espionage cases, including in the nuclear field.

In the 1960s, an audit at the Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corporation (NUMEC) in Apollo, Pennsylvania, revealed the disappearance of approximately 100 to 300 kg of enriched uranium. The company’s president, Zalman Shapiro, a dedicated Zionist with deep ties to Israel, became a suspect. Declassified documents and CIA reports later suggested that the material may have reached Israel and contributed to its early nuclear program.

Full article
https://t.co/rIJgdI4DEo

[Elias North @NorthOnPoint]

@RaniaKhalek If they want to maintain any sort of deterrence they have no choice but to respond. Otherwise the U.S. and Israelis will keep chipping away at their credibility and leading them on a game going nowhere.

[Elias North @NorthOnPoint]

The targeting of Dahiye today serves a dual purpose. It is intended to alleviate pressure on Netanyahu from his far-right allies on the domestic side that have been demanding that failures on the battlefield be responded to by hitting Beirut. Second, it serves as a test of Iranian deterrence and willingness to resume war potentially dragging U.S. into it again. If they respond or don't respond doesn't matter, either situation is preferable to the current status quo for the Israeli regime.

[Elias North @NorthOnPoint]

@MenchOsint Not maybe...definitely..

[Elias North @NorthOnPoint]

Logic would dictate that this clear evidence of why direct negotiations with Israel led by the U.S. will never be successful, but unfortunately the political leadership in Beirut will follow this path regardless.

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

BREAKING: US President Donald Trump has called for more attacks on Hezbollah in Lebanon effectively urging an escalation of Israel’s war on the country - after pushing for a ceasefire.

🔴 LIVE updates: https://t.co/e5ee1lIE4q

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

💢 Press TV’s Hadi Hoteit: Beirut Strike Is Israeli “Shock and Awe” to Appease Far Right as Resistance Inflicts Heavy Casualties

Press TV war correspondent Hadi Hoteit reported Sunday from Khaldeh, south of Beirut, offering on-the-ground analysis of the Dahiyeh strike and the broader battle picture in southern Lebanon.

🔸 Why Israel struck Dahiyeh:
Hoteit said the strike was driven by internal Israeli political pressure — Ben-Gvir and Smotrich had been demanding it — and by a desire to demonstrate “shock and awe” to the far right after days of Hezbollah drone strikes on Israeli positions in the north. “They want to prove their upper hand,” he said, describing it as a sign of Israeli “depletion in front of their audience” rather than military necessity.

🔸 Israel’s failed equation:
Israel is trying to impose an equation where Hezbollah cannot respond to attacks on south Lebanon by targeting northern Israeli settlements. “The resistance is refusing to accept this equation,” Hoteit said, noting that Hezbollah has continued striking Israeli military positions and bases in the north regardless.

🔸 Ground situation in Nabatieh:
Hoteit dismissed Israeli media reports of forces reaching the edges of Nabatieh as deliberate psychological warfare. He said Israeli forces attempted to push from Zawtar toward the Mayfadoun area but were repelled by heavy FPV drone and ATGM fire, suffering casualties and forced to withdraw. Subsequent Israeli airstrikes on Mayfadoun continued through Sunday morning.

🔸 Casualties and scale of attacks:
➤ Two Israeli soldiers killed Sunday including an Egoz unit member, four to five wounded, some seriously
➤ More than 17 Hezbollah military statements issued Sunday alone

➤ Yesterday: a record 23+ Israeli drone strikes on south Lebanon, along with 60-70 missiles fired in 24 hours — the highest single-day figure since the war began

“The resistance is escalating and increasing its attacks to prove that every escalation will be met with an escalation from the resistance side,” Hoteit said.

[Elias North @NorthOnPoint]

@ME_Observer_ "Syria is doing a very good job of settling scores". I wonder if he is referring to the massacres of the Alawites, Christians, or the Druze?

[Elias North @NorthOnPoint]

@s_m_marandi Trump is unable to finalize a deal that he cannot spin as a win. It would go against his entire persona that he has cultivated and internalized. He would rather wait out his entire term, crash the entire world economy, and then blame everyone else.

[Elias North @NorthOnPoint]

The spokesperson of the National Security Committee in the Iranian parliament, Ibrahim Rezaei:

We will respond with a firm and painful response to the israeli attack on Al-Dahiyeh.
These rabid dogs must be disciplined and returned to their place.
Look at the skies of the occupied territories tonight.

[Elias North @NorthOnPoint]

@Cosmos_politic Israel cannot bear the status quo for too long. They are continuing to bleed in South Lebanon without tangible results or a clear exit, while U.S. is content with dragging out negotiations with Iran. From Israeli point of view it is essential to drag the U.S. into active warfare.

[Elias North @NorthOnPoint]

🚨 Trump: “I want Israel to carry out a precise strike against the party in Lebanon, and we can help them with that, or I can have Syria do it."

[Elias North @NorthOnPoint]

@MounirShehadeh They don't even bother to justify it anymore, and unfortunately parts of the Lebanese political echelon are participating in this game.

[Elias North @NorthOnPoint]

@PoohXiCoin @Pataramesh Agreed, more appropriate to say it feeds into their chosen strategy regardless. Objectively not a win, but from the Israeli point of view either outcome is better than the status quo.

[Elias North @NorthOnPoint]

@asadabukhalil They don'teven bother trying to justify anymore, the default designation of anything is "headquarters".