Category: Israel

Francesca Albanese is Not a Victim

She’s whining like a b*tch for being on the receiving end, but that blowback is well deserved.

UN representative on Palestinians, Francesca Albanese, faces financial isolation after the US reinstated sanctions that prevent her using credit cards or bank accounts over her alleged antisemitism. Read more: https://bit.ly/49KU1sP

US attacks as Israeli forces cross Lebanon’s Litani River

Following Iranian media reports that a U.S. aircraft had been downed near Bushehr, Iran, U.S. Central Command has put out a release refuting the claims.

U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) accused Iran on Thursday of an “egregious ceasefire violation” for firing a ballistic missile at Kuwait and launching “five one-way attack drones that posed a clear threat in and near the Strait of Hormuz.”

U.S. and Iranian negotiators have reportedly reached a tentative agreement to extend the fragile ceasefire between the two countries by 60 days and launch negotiations over Tehran’s nuclear program, though President Donald Trump has not yet signed off on the deal.

US denies Iranian claims of aircraft interception near Bushehr

Explosions were also heard near the Strait of Hormuz and Bandar Abbas, Iran’s semi-official Tasnim news reported on Thursday night.

Missile launch from a naval warship, showcasing military technology and operations at sea against a clear blue sky.

New American Strikes Target Iranian Military Site That Reportedly Fired Drones at US Cargo Ship

Iran says it has a new air defence system. How significant is it?

That means negotiating with Iran was a huge mistake. The US lost the momentum and can only regain the upper hand by sacrificing more men & materiel.

Iran’s claimed drone interception has renewed attention on Tehran’s military capabilities after months of bombardment.

Image depicting flags of Iran and Saudi Arabia with leaders discussing the Iran peace deal, highlighting recent diplomatic developments and international relations.

Trump’s Iran Peace Deal Gains Momentum — Here Are the Latest Updates (VIDEO)

Gulf condemns Iran attack on Kuwait after US strikes on IRGC

  • The United States has carried out new “defensive” strike son an Iranian military site allegedly posing a threat to US forces and maritime traffic in the Strait of Hormuz.
  • In response, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps says it launched an attack on an “American airbase” and warns of “more decisive” action should US “aggression” continue.
  • The Israeli military issues forced displacement orders for the entire population of southern Lebanon – tens of thousands of people – with troops crossing the strategic Litani River and being confronted by Hezbollah.
  • Aid agencies warn of an “absolute catastrophe” in south Lebanon during Israel’s relentless bombardment and intensifying ground invasion.

Israel & the Jews

The best cover of Arab-Muslim-jihadist hatred of Jews you can find on MEMRI TV.

Israel breaks all contact with UN secretary-general over sex abuse blacklist

Israel’s envoy to the UN says it’s severing all contact with United Nations chief Antonio Guterres, saying it’s “outrageous” his country is being blacklisted over sexual violence in conflict zones.

“We are done with this secretary-general,” ambassador Danny Danon said in a video posted on X.

“The decision to blacklist Israel and accuse us of using sexual violence as a weapon of war is an outrageous decision,” he said, referring to an upcoming report from Guterres’s office.

 Peace with the Jews? Never!

“Allah will gather them [the Israelis] so that we can kill them.”

by Bassam Tawil/Gatestone

“Allah will gather them [the Israelis] so that we can kill them.” Abbas Zaki, Fatah Central Committee member, March 12, 2014

The truth is, however, that…even Israeli Arabs have no desire to exchange Israeli citizenship for a Palestinian Authority passport.

Arafat himself…declared that Israel was a Jewish state.

If I were an Israeli, I would think twice about entering into any agreement with such people. Continue reading Israel & the Jews

Iran: Trump might be compelled to “finish the job”

Israel Intensifies Attacks on Lebanon

Iran says return to war unlikely, but Trump ‘not satisfied’ with deal

Iran said on Wednesday that a return to war with the United States was unlikely as the two sides inched towards a deal, though President Donald Trump said he was not happy with Tehran’s latest offer.

Map highlighting Bandar Abbas in Iran, located near the strategic Strait of Hormuz, crucial for maritime trade routes.

U.S. Military Launches Precision “Self-Defense Strikes” in Southern Iran – Neutralizing IRGC Threats to American Troops After Radical Regime’s Latest Provocations

The US leader warned he might be compelled to “finish the job” if a better arrangement was not reached, even as optimism for a peace deal that would reopen the crucial Strait of Hormuz trade route sent oil prices tumbling.

With fighting paused since an April 8 ceasefire, negotiations to bring an end to the conflict and resume trade through the blockaded waterway have stalled, leaving the global economy shaken by the tumult.

But senior Iranian Revolutionary Guards official Mohammad Akbarzadeh said the likelihood of a return to “war is low because of the enemy’s weakness”, but warned the military was “lying in wait with full magazines” in the event of an attack, Tasnim news agency reported.

Trump, meanwhile, said in a cabinet meeting at the White House that he was in no rush to reach an accord, despite saying at the weekend that one was close.

“Iran is very much intent, they want very much to make a deal. So far they haven’t gotten there. We’re not satisfied with it, but we will be,” he said.

“Either that or we’ll have to just finish the job.”

Continue reading Iran: Trump might be compelled to “finish the job”

Israel Picks Them Off, One by One

Israel must end the dangerous illusion of deterrence on the northern border – editorial

While Israelis were told that deterrence had been restored after airstrikes on Hezbollah and that Hezbollah understood the price of escalation, the reality in the North tells a different story.

Israeli soldiers take position as civilians take cover during a Hezbollah attack near the Israeli border with Lebanon in northern Israel, May 19, 2026.

Since the ceasefire between the US, Israel, and Iran was announced on April 8, 11 Israeli soldiers have been killed in Lebanon. Eleven. That number alone should be enough to force a national reckoning about what exactly Israel believes is happening on its northern border.

Netanyahu vows to ‘wipe out’ Hezbollah as Israeli strikes intensify in southern Lebanon

Netanyahu has said that Israel will ramp up attacks against Hezbollah, despite the recent “ceasefire” extension agreed to between Lebanese and Israeli officials.

“We will wipe them out completely,” he said in a statement.

Al Jazeera’s correspondent in southern Lebanon, Obaida Hitto, said that, at this point, the ceasefire is just “ink on paper”.

Proposed deal will include Iran committing to never having nukes and surrendering its uranium

 
How will this be enforced? How will the world know that Iran’s Islamic regime has surrendered allof its just-below-weapons-grade uranium? This is a Shi’ite regime, and a central doctrine of Shi’ism is taqiyya; in light of that, how can this regime be trusted to honor any agreement it signs? Fear of “Islamophobia” prevent such questions from ever being asked, but that doesn’t make them any less pertinent. As long as the Islamic Republic remains in power, it will continue its jihad, as soon as it is able to do so. If it gets $25,000,000,000 from the United States, that will be sooner rather than later.

Iran’s foreign minister tells Hizballah top dog that the Islamic Republic will keep on aiding its proxies

 
Any negotiated settlement between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the U.S. will be worth nothing. All it will do will be to buy time for Iran’s Islamic regime, allowing it to regroup and resume its jihad against the U.S. and Israel later.
Smoke billows at the border fence with Israel from Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip after some 3,000 Hamas-led terrorists stormed the border and entered Israel, October 7, 2023.

Israel has created a list of all Palestinians who took part in the October 7, 2023, Hamas-led attacks and is working to kill or arrest each one

The Wall Street Journal  

Israeli security forces made a list of thousands of militants who participated in the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks. One by one, they are being tracked down, captured and killed.
 
Militants who videotaped their Oct. 7 exploits on phones or GoPro cameras to share on social media, or those who phoned home to brag, learned too late the degree of Israel’s surveillance acumen and desire for retribution. Continue reading Israel Picks Them Off, One by One

Soon Everyone Will Be Talking About The Cost Of Food

There is not going to be an agreement to end the war.

Everyone Talks About The Cost Of Gasoline… Soon Everyone Will Be Talking About The Cost Of Food

“The big story right now is oil… The next story is food.”

For most people, the price of gasoline is the most obvious consequence of the war in the Middle East. As I write this article, the average price of a gallon of gasoline in the United States is $4.56. Of course, in some parts of the country, consumers are paying much more than that. This is a big story, and the truth is that gasoline prices are going to go even higher in the months ahead.

But if you think that the price of gasoline is bad, just wait until you see what eventually happens to food prices. The price of diesel has been rising even faster than the price of regular gasoline, and fertilizer prices have been absolutely skyrocketing. Those costs will get passed along to the rest of us. It is just a matter of time. Meanwhile, our farmers are dealing with drought conditions that are unprecedented, and now a “Super El Niño” is coming.

What all of this means is that food prices will rise to very painful levels.

So even though everyone is complaining about rising gasoline prices at the moment, one prominent economist is warning that “the next story is food”…

Continue reading Soon Everyone Will Be Talking About The Cost Of Food

President Trump again vows to ‌retrieve Iran’s stockpile of highly enriched uranium

Iran is playing for time:

Tehran feels “its hand is strengthening” and “time is on its side” because of its influence over the Strait of Hormuz.

  • Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei said Tehran was reviewing Washington’s latest response to a proposed ceasefire framework after several rounds of message exchanges mediated by Pakistan.
  • President Trump again vows to ‌retrieve Iran’s stockpile of highly enriched uranium, however, an Iranian official tells Al Jazeera that Tehran will “downblend” the nuclear material itself.

  • President Trump ⁠says the US military may have to strike Iran “even harder” but ⁠will wait and see if a peace deal is reached after earlier saying an agreement is in the “final stages”.
  • US ⁠Marines boarded an Iranian-flagged oil tanker in the Gulf ⁠of Oman after suspecting it violated a US blockade as it headed to an Iranian port, but the vessel was later released.
  • Pakistan’s Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi is in Iran aiming “to facilitate the exchange of messages and provide additional explanations to clarify the texts sent between the parties”.
  • Iran’s chief negotiator says the United States wants to restart the war and is carrying out “overt and clandestine movements” that signal a new attack.

Iran’s near-total internet shutdown enters 83rd day

The near-total internet blackout in Iran has now “entered its 83rd day with international networks largely barred for over 1968 hours”, according to internet watchdog NetBlocks.

No Deal Reached, Amid ‘Fabricated’ Mideast Media Reports; Trump Presses Nuclear Issue & Iran President Says ‘Won’t Back Down’

…on and on it goes…

Summary

  • Al Arabiya issues dramatic retraction on prior ‘deal reached’ reporting.
  • Iranian president vows to not back down, as Trump still vows to get nuclear material.
  • AI Arabiya TV obtains what it describes as final draft of US-lran agreement, 
  • Reuters reported that Ayatollah ordered that stockpile of uranium enriched to 60% remain strictly inside Iranian territory. Some Iranian officials then denied report to Al Jazeera.
  • WH says make a deal or else… “they can face a punishment from our military the likes of which has not been seen in modern history.”
  • US Intelligence says Iran has reconstitute drone program, defense industrial base, “faster than expected” (CNN).

Iranian President: Won’t Back Down

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has stated, “We will not bow our heads, our ministers and experts are working day and night, without a single day off.” He added, per state sources: “We are willing to sacrifice as much as possible for the honor and pride of Iran, and we are not afraid of martyrdom.”

And just like that… Continue reading President Trump again vows to ‌retrieve Iran’s stockpile of highly enriched uranium

Trump blasts US media; calls off Iran strike for another day….

Trump Says He’s Called off Iran Strike for Tuesday…

Trump Rips Media over Iran Coverage: ‘They Have Gone Absolutely Crazy’

President Donald Trump ripped establishment media on Monday, contending that even if Iran surrendered, outlets like the New York Times would spin it as a victory over the United States.

Trump blasted the Times and others in a Truth Social post on Monday morning:

If Iran surrenders, admits their Navy is gone and resting at the bottom of the sea, and their Air Force is no longer with us, and if their entire Military walks out of Tehran, weapons dropped and hands held high, each shouting “I surrender, I surrender” while wildly waving the representative White Flag, and if their entire remaining Leadership signs all necessary “Documents of Surrender,” and admit their defeat to the great power and force of the magnificent U.S.A., The Failing New York Times, The China Street Journal (WSJ!), Corrupt and now Irrelevant CNN, and all other members of the Fake News Media, will headline that Iran had a Masterful and Brilliant Victory over The United States of America, it wasn’t even close. The Dumacrats and Media have totally lost their way. They have gone absolutely CRAZY!!! President DJT

Here’s the latest Al Jazeera ‘news’ from Trump

Here are some of the latest updates from US President Trump regarding his war on Iran:

  • Trump told reporters at the White House on Monday afternoon that there is “a very good ⁠chance” that Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the UAE could reach a deal to end the war soon.
  • “If we can do that without bombing the hell out of them, I ‌would be very happy,” Trump said.
  • The US president again emphasised his primary condition is that Iran does not obtain a nuclear weapon, but said the US would “be probably satisfied also” if its allies in the region were also satisfied.
  • Trump further specified that he had agreed to wait two or three days before bombing Iran after announcing he had delayed an attack planned for Tuesday.

  • Rick Scott: ‘Trump Is Going to Have to Go in and Bomb the Daylights Out of Iran’

  • Iranian Media Claims It Presented Ceasefire Plan to U.S. Via Pakistan

Space Terrorism

Report: Pakistan Deploys Jets and Troops to Saudi Arabia for Iran War

Israeli forces are intercepting a flotilla of more than 50 boats near Cyprus

Israeli forces boarding Gaza-bound flotilla near Cyprus, activists say

Pro-Palestinian ‘activists’ say Israeli forces are intercepting a flotilla of more than 50 boats carrying aid for Gaza in international waters west of Cyprus.

The Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF) said its fleet was being boarded in what it called an illegal act of piracy about 250 nautical miles (460km) from Gaza, which is under an Israeli maritime blockade. Its video stream showed armed commandos climbing onto several boats.

Last month, Israeli forces intercepted 22 boats from the same flotilla near Crete.

The kids were having so much fun!

Good intelligence & vigilance go together.

These flotilla people were not carrying aid for the “starving people of Gaza”.

Hamas documents found in the Gaza Strip – now revealed for the first time – prove Hamas’s direct involvement in the funding and execution of the “Sumud” flotilla to Gaza

Continue reading Israeli forces are intercepting a flotilla of more than 50 boats near Cyprus

Trump says ‘clock is ticking’ for Iran to make deal with US

  • Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson says talks are ongoing with the US through Pakistan as the mediator.

We Are in End Game of Iran War; If Trump Stays the Course, He Wins

Trump says ‘clock is ticking’ for Iran to make deal with US

  • Trump says the “clock is ticking” for Iran to make a peace deal and threatens that “there won’t be anything left of them” if Tehran fails to do so.
  • Iran’s Mehr news agency says the US failed to offer any real concessions in its latest response to Iran’s proposal for a negotiating agenda.
  • A drone strike in the UAE’s Al Dhafra region caused an electrical generator fire at the Barakah nuclear power plant.
  • Israel says it attacked 100 sites in southern Lebanon in two days, after negotiators agreed to a 45-day extension to the purported “ceasefire”.
  • Iran says it will soon reveal its plan to manage traffic ⁠and charge shipping tolls in the Strait of ⁠Hormuz.