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[Prime Minister of Israel @IsraeliPM]

Statement by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the press conference last night:

​"Dear citizens of Israel,
​For decades, I have been fighting against Iran’s efforts to arm itself with nuclear weapons. I can define it as my life’s mission. I have met this challenge to this day, and I will continue to meet it in the future. With an agreement, without an agreement – Iran will not have nuclear weapons. Not today, and not tomorrow. As long as I am Prime Minister of Israel – this will not happen.

​I hear people asking: What have we achieved? And my response to them is: "What have we achieved"?! We have fended off an immediate threat of annihilation. Together with our American friends, we launched the largest offensive air operation in Israel’s history. We neutralized nuclear scientists, decapitated the leaders of the terror regime, pulverized nuclear facilities, destroyed missiles and the vast majority of the factories that produce them, struck countless military industries and infrastructures, destroyed their navy, their air force, neutralized Basij commanders who massacred the Iranian people, and caused enormous damage. We estimate it in the hundreds of billions of dollars, and some even estimate it to be closer to a trillion dollars – enormous damage to the economy of Iran that took them decades to build.

​But here is the most important thing: we saved the State of Israel from the threat of nuclear annihilation. Because, it is crucial to understand, Iran was racing toward a nuclear weapon just before Operation Rising Lion; it was racing toward a nuclear weapon and racing to bury its missile and nuclear industry deep underground.

​If we had not acted at the time we did, and with the overwhelming force with which we did – both in Operation Rising Lion and later in Operation Roaring Lion, in historic cooperation with President Trump and the American military – if we had not acted in this way, Iran would already have atomic bombs. And what does that mean? It means that millions of Israeli citizens, you who are listening to me now, you would all have been in terrible danger of mass death. All of us would have been in that danger. And this danger, of the elimination of Israel’s population, we have fended off for years to come. That is what we have achieved – we saved the State of Israel from annihilation.

​But I tell you, citizens of Israel, the struggle is not over and done. We will need to maintain our vigilance, remain strong and determined to defend ourselves as required. This is true not only vis-à-vis Iran. This is also true vis-à-vis Iran’s terror proxies, which we have hit in an unprecedented manner. We did it in Gaza, we did it in Lebanon, in Syria, in Yemen, we did it in the refugee camps in Judea and Samaria – we did it everywhere.

​We eliminated Deif, Haniyeh, and Sinwar, along with many of Hamas's leaders. Actually, almost everyone who was there during the horrific massacre; I think there is one more left, he too will be eliminated. We destroyed thousands of terrorists and countless terror infrastructures. We returned all our hostages from Gaza, down to the very last one. No one believed we would do that. I did.

I was told: Prime Minister, we must give up, don't enter Rafah, end the war – we will bring the hostages and we will frame our exit from Gaza as a victory. I did not accept this nonsense. We entered Rafah, we entered Gaza City, contrary to the opinions of many – and we returned all the hostages, to the last one. And not only that, we exploded the pagers, we eliminated the arch-enemy Nasrallah, we prevented the invasion of the Radwan Force into the Galilee, we destroyed the vast majority of the 150,000 rockets and missiles that Nasrallah built in order to devastate the cities of Israel.

​You remember what we were told: If we go to battle with Hezbollah, we will have tens of thousands of casualties, the towers will come down in Tel Aviv, in Haifa, in Jerusalem, in Be'er- Sheva; Israeli cities will be reduced to ruins. You remember that. I did not accept that, we fought them, and we fought them hard; we also captured their key positions like the Beaufort, which Hezbollah had used for years to threaten the northern communities, and in fact the entire country.

​Simultaneously, we did another thing: we established deep security zones around the State of Israel. We did it in Gaza, in Lebanon, in Syria – where, by the way, we destroyed all the weaponry of the Assad army, which was a central link in the Axis of Evil. And I wish to clarify: we will remain in the security zones for as long as it is required to defend our country. ​Because after October 7th, I established a simple principle: Israel will not allow terror organizations to encamp on our borders; to tunnel into our territory; to prepare for a massacre close to our citizens. Today, the heroic IDF fighters stand as barrier between the terrorists and our citizens.

What we did, in fact, was change our entire security doctrine; change ourselves as well. We broke the barrier of fear. We take initiative, we attack, we surprise, and we strike at those who threaten our lives.

​Israel is stronger than ever, and Iran’s Axis of Evil is weaker than ever. If someone had told you at the beginning of the war that we would achieve everything I have detailed, and I haven't detailed everything – you would have said they were hallucinating. Just talk, just promises – no, we did all that. And today, after we have achieved all this, there are those who want to minimize it, to dismiss our tremendous achievements. And I tell you: we are going to achieve many more great things.

We will continue to neutralize threats in the region, we will build new alliances with countries in the region and beyond. We will ensure our own domestic armament independence, this is another principle I established, and I am investing 350 billion NIS in that, as a supplement to the defense budget. We will develop technologies that break the boundaries of imagination, and we will turn Israel into an even stronger power. Because our strength is the key to our future, it is the key to our security, it is the key to our economy, it is the key to our alliances. Because alliances are made with the strong, and Israel today is a very strong country. It is strong thanks to you, citizens of Israel.

​I wish to thank you, citizens of Israel, for your steadfastness, for the support you give to the government and for the support you give me as the Prime Minister. And above all, I wish to thank our heroic fighters, men and women in active duty and in the reserves, at sea, on land, and in the air, in the IDF and in all the security branches. There is no one like you, heroes of Israel. ​Together we will continue to stand, and together we will continue to win.

"Fear not, O Jacob My servant, and be not dismayed, O Israel!"
Together, with God's help, we will ensure the eternity of Israel."

[Josh Hammer @josh_hammer]

The fundamental problem with attempting to broker a deal with apocalyptic Islamists remains the stubborn fact that you are attempting to broker a deal with apocalyptic Islamists.

[The Hormuz Letter @HormuzLetter]

BREAKING: A source close to the IRGC says there is "growing satisfaction" inside the Revolutionary Guards over the deal, with IRGC Commander Ahmad Vahidi saying "first, we take the money" in reference to the $300 billion in reconstruction funds and $24 billion in frozen funds Iran is receiving, and then the IRGC takes over the Strait of Bab al-Mandeb after Hormuz, where it plans to "play exactly the same game."

The IRGC's internal assessment is that Iran preserved its ballistic missile program, full regional proxy network, complete control over Hormuz and ability to rebuild while extracting hundreds of billions of US dollars and recognition, with discussions already focused on "the day after the agreement, not the agreement itself."

[Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ @christopherrufo]

You turned the state's "behested payments" system into a slush fund for your private interests. Your government is an empire of fraud. Resign.

[Open Source Intel @Osint613]

They IRGc now understands they can close the corridors and blackmail the world for $300B, read this report 👇🏻

“IRGC Commander Ahmad Vahidi says "first, we take the money" in reference to the $300 billion in reconstruction funds and $24 billion in frozen funds Iran is receiving, and then the IRGC takes over the Strait of Bab al-Mandeb after Hormuz, where it plans to "play exactly the same game."”

I actually find it plausible. IRGC Quds Force commander Qaani recently spoke openly about a regional security corridor stretching from the Persian Gulf to the Red Sea, overseen by what he called the “Axis of Resistance.”

What’s stops them from closing the Bab al-Mandeb and holding it ransom?

It’s definitely on the minds of the IRGC and the Houthis.

[Eylon Levy @EylonALevy]

Israel is now the world’s 7th biggest arms exporter. It has half of France’s global market share and it’s catching up, second-fastest growing supplier in the top 10.

Israel exports to 47 states including France’s neighbors, which prefer MadeInIsrael™️. Israel supplies more arms to Germany and Britain than France does, accounting for 55% of Germany’s imports and 8.2% of Britain’s. Even Morocco buys more than twice as much defense tech from Israel as from its former French colonial masters.

Israel is such a defense tech powerhouse, it sells more arms to European NATO states than France itself, which is in Europe and NATO! Israel is European NATO armies’ third-largest supplier.

And Israel’s advantage is that it has the world’s best battle-tested defense tech, because we have been fighting a multi-front war for nearly three years since the October 7 Massacre. That’s a competitive edge that is impossible to ignore or overcome. And it means the demand for Israeli defense tech will only grow.

In that context, it’s no surprise France is scared merde-less of competition. Israel’s Rafael is hot on the heels of France’s Rafale. France is great at performative posturing, and arguably nobody does it better. But at root, a declining power is simply trying to protect its domestic industry from an upstart competitor. Pretty pathetic, really.

[Gideon Sa'ar | גדעון סער @gidonsaar]

France is blocking Israeli defense companies - because Israeli companies are better, and France is afraid they will be chosen over French companies.

Just a few weeks ago, the French Prime Minister @SebLecornu admitted that Israel is one of the biggest competitors of the French defense industry.

This, of course, will not help France. The world will continue to buy Israeli defense products from Israeli companies - simply because they are better.

[Dr. Eli David @DrEliDavid]

New report by @UNWatch reveals how UN 🇺🇳 Human Rights rapporteurs receive bribes to spread lies 👇

Reem Alsalem, "UN expert on violence against women", denied Hamas' October 7 sexual crimes, and remained silent on mass crimes against women in Sudan.

https://t.co/Tg5qbntLbg

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

BREAKING: Sean McGinty is speaking out and has revealed that BBC fired him after he criticized Hamas.

Institution across the UK have been completely taken over by Islamism.

Why is nobody sounding the alarm?

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

Another revealing report by @UNWatch

A 104-page investigation has just been released, showing that the United Nations’ top human rights experts have abandoned the role of independent monitors and are now political activists or corrupt individuals paid by dictatorships to undermine democracies.

The report profiles 13 of the UN Human Rights Council’s Special Rapporteurs. Here are just a couple of examples:

- Reem Alsalem, the UN special rapporteur on violence against women, has refused to acknowledge the October 7th massacre, denied Hamas sexual crimes against Israeli women and amplified Hamas-aligned propaganda.

- Alena Douhan, the UN special rapporteur on the negative impact of unilateral coercive measures, received $1.3 million in funding from China, Russia, and Qatar.

- Ben Saul, the UN special rapporteur on counterterrorism, received $150,000 from China. Though he routinely castigates Western states, he has refused to issue any statements on China’s persecution of the Muslim Uyghurs, which Beijing justifies as “counterterrorism.”

- Tlaleng Mofokeng, the UN special rapporteur on the right to health, said “Hamas are not terrorists,” and endorsed “the legitimacy of armed struggle.”

- Michael Fakhri, the UN special rapporteur on the right to food, accuses Canada of committing genocide. Though Venezuela routinely bars UN monitors, Fakhri was specifically invited for a visit, which he used to lavish praise on the Maduro regime.

- George Katrougalos, a former Greek foreign minister serving as the UN independent expert “on a democratic and equitable international order,” received $100,000 from China in 2025.

In the same year, he promoted Xi Jinping’s book and praised the Chinese dictator’s “vision of openness, development and dialogue” and “shared future for humanity.” He also traveled to Tehran that year, where he met with the regime’s Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi to jointly lament “Israeli and American crimes.”

- Irene Khan, the UN special rapporteur on freedom of expression, turned a blind eye to gross and systematic violations of free speech by the regimes in Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, and Myanmar, as well as internet shutdowns by Iran and Turkey, yet she devoted an entire UN General Assembly report to condemning Western states for allegedly repressing pro-Palestinian protests.

@unwatch founder @HillelNeuer comments:

“Alena Douhan, the UN special rapporteur on unilateral coercive measures, who defines Western sanctions on dictatorships as illegal, received $1.3 million from China, Russia, and Qatar. No one is even checking how this money is being used.

If a judge took $1.3 million from one of the parties, they would be immediately disqualified and removed from the bench.

If a journalist openly endorsed a terror group on social media, they would be fired on the spot.

Yet the UN’s rapporteurs operate without ethical constraints or consequences — and there’s not even a procedure to remove them. The result is a powerful bloc of compromised officials who enjoy not only diplomatic immunity, but complete impunity”

[U.S. Senator John Fetterman @SenFettermanPA]

Holding this coward accountable is sound judgment.

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

.@BernieSanders , it is a time to celebrate. @elonmusk has created enormous value for society by building @SpaceX, driving down the cost of rocket launches and creating a global satellite communication network that has brought high speed, low-cost internet and communication access to hundreds of millions and eventually billions of people along with critical advantages for our military and our nation’s defense.

SpaceX and its technologies will cause an acceleration in the growth of wages and wealth creation globally, including in some of the poorest communities in the U.S. and around the world.

Access to low-cost, high speed communications everywhere will allow children around the world to be educated, families to build businesses, and life-saving medical knowledge and care to be available everywhere.

SpaceX will materially bring down the cost of compute, advancing AI and humanity.

Meanwhile, 4,000 SpaceX employees yesterday became millionaires, including hourly wage employees who you claim you are trying to help.

The Elon Musks of the world drive growth, global GDP, and provide access to goods and services at lower cost that would otherwise not exist.

Elon’s nominal trillionaire status is due to his ownership of SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink, the Boring Company and his other initiatives that have brought new technologies that improve our everyday lives.

Elon is not sitting on a trillion dollar pile of cash, jewelry and gold. He is using his controlling stakes in his companies to advance mankind. Elon’s companies don’t pay dividends. They reinvest all of their capital to accelerate innovation and value creation.

Elon is working 24/7 for all of us. He deserves respect and appreciation, not smears.

Bernie, your socialism would never allow a SpaceX to be built. Socialism has only proven to impoverish mankind and lead to death and destruction.

We need to create the conditions for more SpaceXs to be built, not attack the great entrepreneurs who are helping to advance our country.

[Bonchie @bonchieredstate]

Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, and the rest aren’t dumb enough to actually think Elon Musk has a trillion dollars in cash waiting to be taxed.

They just think their followers are dumb enough to think that. And they are.

[Uri Kurlianchik @VerminusM]

@Michealkaiser_ No, this is how the consequences of attempting to do another holocaust look like.

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

🇳🇱 Refugees in the Netherlands fight each other and destroy an entire hotel they are living in for free…all paid for by the Dutch taxpayer.

[Mark R. Levin @marklevinshow]

This POS inbred is upset we want to see the details.  He has his head so far up Erdogan’s ass he never sees daylight. 

Deport

[Aizenberg @Aizenberg55]

The most important revelation of the Gaza war—indisputable proof that Hamas & PIJ systematically posed as journalists—continues to be ignored by the mainstream media. Because it puts into question every report that ever came out of Gaza. It means the IDF was right all along.

[Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ @christopherrufo]

California has a requirement for Native American shamans to oversee many of the "controlled burns" that are desperately needed to prevent wildfires.

Gabriel Mann, a Choctaw Indian, says this requirement is insane. @Hotshot_Movie

[Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ @christopherrufo]

Fire expert Gabriel Mann says that brush clearance work in California now costs up to 30 times more than in other states—and Governor Newsom has cut the fire-management budget down to the bone.

This is why California burns.

[AP @Average_NY_Guy]

Here’s a question nobody likes asking about Nazi Germany:

How did countries like Austria, Poland, and France collapse so fast? These were established nations with armies, governments, borders, and millions of people. France alone was considered one of the strongest military powers in Europe.

Traditionally, we are taught that Hitler’s army was simply this unstoppable military machine that steamrolled Europe because it was overwhelmingly powerful. And yes, Germany was militarily strong. But that explanation alone has always felt incomplete, because historically even very strong armies usually do not conquer enormous amounts of territory that quickly unless something inside the targeted societies is already collapsing first.

Austria disappeared almost overnight. Poland fell within weeks. France collapsed in six weeks. History usually does not work that way unless large parts of the population no longer truly believe the fight is about their own survival.

The uncomfortable and dark reality is that many people did not initially think Hitler was coming for them.

Austria is probably the clearest example. The Anschluss was welcomed by huge parts of the population. German troops entered to cheering crowds, flowers, and celebrations. Many Austrians convinced themselves that joining Nazi Germany would mostly affect the Jews while improving life, or at least preserving it, for everyone else.

That mentality existed across Europe in different forms.

The illusion behind Hitler’s message was essentially: you can still be French, Polish, or Austrian. Live your life. Raise your children. The real problem is your Jewish neighbor.

And for millions of people, that was enough to weaken the will to resist.

A society only fights with total determination when people believe defeat means the destruction of their nation, identity, and future. But many Europeans convinced themselves the Jews were the primary target, so they accepted things they never would have accepted otherwise.

Some collaborated. Some stayed silent. Some rationalized. Some simply looked away.

The tragedy is that they were wrong anyway.

Austria lost its independence. France was humiliated and occupied. Poland was devastated. Cities were destroyed, sovereignty disappeared, millions died, and entire societies were dragged into catastrophe.

People often think evil can be managed as long as it is directed at somebody else first.

History shows otherwise.

This is why I’m done trying to convince Americans or Europeans about the dangers of extreme Islamism. In many mosques and Islamist circles, hatred toward America, Christianity, Western civilization, and Jews is preached openly and repeatedly. Yet many people in the West still process it the same way many Europeans processed antisemitism in the 1930s: “Yes, maybe they hate the Jews, but that doesn’t mean they are coming for us.”

That psychological separation is exactly the point.

As long as people believe somebody else is the primary target, they convince themselves they can safely ignore the ideology itself. They assume the hostility will remain contained to Jews, Israel, or some distant “other.”

But ideologies built around civilizational hatred do not stay neatly limited to one target forever.

And the end result, increasingly visible already across parts of Europe, is collapsing social trust, collapsing law and order, ethnic fragmentation, parallel societies, radicalization, and the steady erosion of the very national identities people assumed were untouchable.

At some point, societies make their own choices.
And eventually they live with the consequences of those choices.

You reap what you sow.