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Nov 8 6 tweets 3 min read Read on X
When Trump publicly told Israel to attack Iran's nuclear sites a few weeks back, he set up the next 10 weeks as peak danger time for the Middle East if he won, and he has won, so here we are.

1. Iran has lost Hamas and Hezbollah, proxies it used to deter Israel. (1/5)
2. Iran has lost control of its airspace along with much of its air defence network.

3. Iran is still reeling from finding out how deeply their elites are penetrated by spies. They are likely very busy chasing their own tails.

4. They are losing their influence agents and fellow travellers who have held positions of power in the USA since 2008, and ensured that the US is hamstrung and appeasement-focused in everything relating to Iran. (2/5)Image
All this has made them much weaker, and more vulnerable, and the only thing that could flip this situation around for them are nukes.

If they actually are able to go for nuclear breakout, and it could be that they are not, it's probably now or never for them. They have 10 weeks. And if true, their enemies also have 10 weeks to stop them.

Israel and the USA also obviously know this, which likely explains the transfer of the B-52s to Qatar as a detternet. (3/5)Image
So who will do it?

Some say that Israel is unable to deal with the Iranian Nuclear program alone, but I doubt that is true. Israel has been laser focused on Iran's nukes for 20 years, and I am sure that they have worked out ways to reach the deepest bunkers if needed. But it could be messy.

But for the US military, with stealth bombers and 30,000 pound bunker busters, the job could be done cleanly, without any risk to Iran's oil assets. (4/5)
Would Biden, the lamest of lame ducks, and with little to show for his record, but vindicated by the Harris defeat he predicted, like to go out with a quick victory?

Would he want to close the book on the 45 year Iranian calamity that was set in motion by Jimmy Carter, another one-term Democratic president booted out in favour of a charismatic populist? (5/5)Image
Biden certainly wouldn't want his only notable achievement in the history books to be that he was the old fool that gifted the Mullah's nukes and doomed the Middle East to a century of chaos, would he?

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Nov 9
Why, I wondered, was every blood-hungry antisemite and Hamas fan on this site suddenly citing a junior educator at a third-rate London college, claiming to be a "scholar of pogroms," Brendan McGeever?

Turns out it’s because the Pears family generously showers him with money to write books nobody reads about the "sociology of antisemitism." How strange, then, that he has become an overnight hero to antisemites! Why?

Unlike his newly found claque of jew-haters, I actually read his long, windy thread so you don’t have to.

TL;DR: What happened in Amsterdam wasn’t a pogrom, wasn’t antisemitic, and saying that it was is actually rrrrr-racist! (1/8)Image
This is the argument:

1. Certain academics have (arbitrarily) defined the word "pogrom" in Marxist terms, such that the victim must be a racial minority "structurally exploited" by an oppressor racial/religious group. (You see, it’s settled: sociologists agree, that’s what the word means.)

2. The victims were Israeli Jews, not good—I mean, "vanilla" Jews! (In reality, it was explicitly a "Jew hunt," and people from dozens of nations were attacked as "suspected Jews.") (2/8)Image
3. A group of Maccabi Tel Aviv fans pulled down a flag; another group sang a racist song. This is "context"—a weasel word for "justification," which it certainly wasn’t, and the attack was planned before this happened. (See below how our hero also laments the UN not being able to offer "context" for October 7.)

4. Jews in 2024 are powerful and rich! Unlike the "good Jews" in the good old days of pogroms when they were perfectly helpless victims. Oh, what wonderful Jews they were—poor and hopeless, bleeding and dying virtuously. So, using the word "pogrom" here almost defiles the word and mocks those sainted victims. They didn’t have it coming like the powerful, rich Israeli Jews in Amsterdam did. (3/8)Image
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Nov 9
Will the 1,000s of American troops and CIA agents stationed in Qatar just stand idle as arch-terrorists with the blood of hundreds of Americans on their hands drive past the their embassy and step into their private jets and fly off into the sunset?

Qatar isn't expelling the Hamas leadership because the Biden administration asked them to, but because they correctly suspect that the incoming Trump administration will demand their arrest and extradition.

They must be arrested, extradited, tried and hopefully executed. Anything less is a humiliation for the USA.Image
A reminded that Qatar is a fake country, with a tiny actual population, served by an army of foreign workers.

Even their police force and parts of their paltry military is staffed by foreigners.

This is why they hold their noses and invite the Kuffar USA (that they fund Al Jazeera to propagandize against) onto their little appendage to the Arabian Peninsula, since otherwise they would soon be overrun by the Saudi rivals.

Qatar needs the USA far more than the other way round. The USA could pack up its toys in weeks and Qatar would be gone within months.
So hey @SecBlinken, @JoeBiden, @KamalaHarris and the rest: Are you going to let arch terrorists with the blood of hundreds of Americans just openly fly off from under your noses?
Read 4 tweets
Nov 3
Why is Israel destroying so many buildings in these border villages? Random vengeance?

The truth is accidentally revealed by anti-Israel researcher Evan Hill: The blank patch (i.e., almost no buildings are damaged) between Ayta al-Shab and Yaroun is Rmaich. (1/4)Image
Despite the negligence of the Lebanese government and UNIFIL, the citizens of this Christian village fought all attempts to turn the bucolic mountain township into a terror base to destroy Israel. They bravely defied Hezbollah, unlike their neighbors. (2/4) Image
When a village adjacent to an international border is made into a swiss cheese of tunnels and dungeons filled with weapons—ready for an invasion at the beep of a pager—that infrastructure needs to be destroyed.

Its destruction is good, the tragedy is that it was built. (3/4)
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Oct 24
Even as the main story in the Middle East has been the Turkish revenge carpet bombing of Kurds in Syria and Iraq, Sky News' Turkey based "Special Correspondent" Alex Crawford has only been writing about Gaza on X.

In fact, amazingly for a truth-seeking journalist who actually lives in Turkey where 20-25% of the people are from the heavily oppressed Kurdish minority, it's now more than 5 years since she used the word "Kurd" in any over her 1,000s of X post.

Surely she is terribly moved by the plight of the Kurds in the country she calls home, at least as much as she is by the Hamas "fighters" and Hezbollah "activists" she seems to so love?Image
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Imagine a foreign correspondent who lived in Israel, who never managed to find the opportunity to use the word "Palestinian" or "Arab" over 5 years.

Wouldn't that seem odd?
And seeing as Alex Crawford is so agitated about the safety of her fellow journalists in Gaza (even as copious evidence points to them being Hamas terrorists) surely she is equally distressed about the suffering of brave journalists, Nedim Turfent is one of many, persecuted in the Turkey, the state where she lives. Right???Image
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Oct 19
Iran barely failed to assassinate Netanyahu this morning, only because he wasn't where he usually is on a Saturday morning at dawn, in bed at his weekend beach house. If I were a senior IRGC member I know what I would be doing right now: Getting dressed up in my finest burka, and heading across the mountains to Pakistan, because this is what is called a casus belli.

This is the north facade of Netanyahu's Caesarea house, hit by an Iranian drone. Of the five large windows on the upper floor facing the pool, only one has had a steel and blast proof glass contraption added. Why might that be...

This leaked and now widely shared photo is clearly taken from inside Bibi's garden, by somebody with security clearance, which is almost as bad a failure as the fact that this drone got through, despite being tracked by an Apache, and without the local sirens going off.Image
This is his response to the assassination attempt, without addressing it directly, in a rare Shabbat broadcast:

A more explicit response. Image
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Oct 18
With Sinwar dead, 31 of the initial 54 "playing card" leaders are confirmed dead (58%), others are undoubtedly dead too, but unconfirmed by Israel.

Assuming that the Hamas rank and file are dying at the same rate (in truth, they are certainly dying more), and taking the median estimate for Hamas' initial strength at 35,000, we can predict that c. 21,000 Hamas men are dead. At the at least 3,000 captured alive, and a conservative 5,000 severely injured, and we can see that Hamas are down to just a few thousand fighters.

The IDF has achieved this while losing 350 of their own, a kill ratio of 60 to 1, while keeping the combatant-civilian casualty ratio at a record low in modern warfare. Despite the unprecedented civilian setting and the weaponzing of the laws of war agaisnt them.

This is the real reason Hamas are done. Sinwar is just a trophy.Image
The only "household name" figures that Hamas has left are:

1. Khaled Mashal (in Qatar)
2. Abu Obeida (just a spokesman, a Hamas Daniel Hagari, not a real leader)
3. Mohamed Sinwar
4. Mousa Abu Marzook (in Qatar)
5. Husam Badran (in Qatar)
6. Osama Hamdan (in Lebanon)
7. Zaher Jabarin (in Turkey)
8. Ghazi Hamas (in Lebanon?)
So, with 31 dead and at least 7 in Qatar, Lebanon, and Turkey, no more than 16 of the original targets remain in Gaza. Probably fewer.
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