Operation Grim Beeper was the turning point of the war.

A year ago today at this hour, the entire Hezbollah organisation built up over 40 years and at the cost of hundreds of billions was neutered by a mere 50 kilograms of explosives. It precipitated a new Middle East. (1/10)

https://twitter.com/Saul_Sadka/status/1836037523849486634

In seconds it was transformed from the most fearsome terror army the world has ever seen into a rehabilitation charity, with thousands of living anti-martyrs, who will be rolling, castrated examples of what Allah does to people who plan Jihad against Jews into the 22nd century.

So much changed, everything was flipped upside down, and so many things had to line up for this all to occur. (2/10)

HUGE: Israel has struck Hamas leadership in Doha, Qatar! Rumors suggest Khalil al-Haya is among those targeted.

Hamas will be eradicated—its leaders will be hunted down no matter where they are, and no matter how much money their protectors have. Bold stuff from Israel. I didn't believe Israel would dare attack the Hamas leaders in Qatar, even though they obviously easily could. Qatar alone is defenceless.

I doubt they would have done this without the tacit approval of the Trump admin, and perhaps this was a hint:

https://x.com/Saul_Sadka/status/1963380088139133027?t=3HpljvsrJ0ZUpwUgm1GBSA&s=19

Today is Purim. One of the greatest days in Jewish history.

Today—the 14th of the Jewish month of Elul—will be celebrated centuries hence as a festival. At this hour a year ago today, the most effective clandestine military operation was executed. It flipped everything: (1/10) Hundreds of sworn enemies of the Jews—committed to their genocide—were killed & 1,000s more injured, crippled, blinded—so incapable of realizing their evil plans. For the rest of their lives, they are a living testament to the effects of Jew-hate and the failure of Jihad. (2/10)

This is the London Banana. As long as you stay within the Banana, you'll have a great time in London. Almost everything outside the Banana is horrible these days, best avoid. Not clear why, or when this happened. But it is what it is. The Banana Republic

You don’t hate the BBC enough:

Reality: Israel evacuated a critically ill leukemia patient to Italy in an attempt to save her life. She soon died of her disease, one of the effects of which is malnutrition.

BBC: “Look what the Jews did. They starved her.”

Evil propaganda. The BBC and its vast staff, including the author, whose name should be firmly engraved in the wall of shame, Rachel Muller-Heyndyk, don't even stop and think for a moment: If there really is a famine in Gaza, why are all the stories of people dying of starvation lies?

There’s a special place in hell for the editors & journalists who took Hamas’ photos of children with congenital conditions (and parents with double chins) and broadcast them to their already radicalized audience with the message, ‘Look what the Jews did.’

Remember their names. One of the many consolations of the demise of the newspaper industry is that this is the last generation of journalists.

America's new Hitler Youth. Well done everybody.

This is not entirely without precedent:

This insane and completely baseless "Protocols of the Elders of Zion"-level conspiracy wasn’t just broadcast on LBC—the producers liked it so much, they clipped it and shared it across all their social media platforms. If any other minority were slandered like this, the UK police would be knocking on doors and making arrests.

Historically, spreading lies about how Juice crave gentile blood was always, always, a preamble to their murder. This time will be no different, and LBC and all the rest will share in the blood-guilt. We can only assume that the originator of the conspiracy knows so little about Judaism that they assume that since Christians have "Sunday School" to learn about their faith, Jews would have "Shabbat School." Evil and stupid stuff from LBC.

The 15,000,000 Jews alive today are the product of 40 generations of people who said "no," often at great cost. Evolutionary selection pressures made them countercultural contratians.

They aren't "chosen"—that's a misunderstanding of the theology. They are the "choosers." (1/3)
And this—not any extra level of innate intelligence (some Asian groups are smarter on average), nor in-group clannishness (many cultural groups are far more nepotistic)—is the reason Jews have had an outsized impact on so many fields of human endeavour. (2/3)

As Francesca Albanese tries to revive BDS—just as Arab states clamour for peace & trade with Israel—few have noticed that next week (July 9) marks 20 years since the BDS movement set out to defeat Israel by isolating & boycotting it. 🧵

So let’s review the results: (1/8) Over that period, Israel has overtaken all the major European nations in terms of GDP per capita and now boasts the sixth highest GDP per capita in the world, of all nations with 10 million population or more. (2/8)

There are three goals for the war. Forcing Israel to end the war prematurely means you can only pick two:

1. Bring home the last 20 hostages (and the 30 bodies being held as bargaining chips).

2. Ensure Hamas can never again pose a strategic threat to Israel.

3. Free the two million Gazans from Hamas— a prerequisite for any form of meaningful rebuilding.

Israel has already achieved point 2. Hamas is now permanently boxed in behind a large buffer zone, and even a small IDF presence with close surveillance ensures they can never rearm or threaten Israelis again.

So, from a purely cynical Israeli perspective, a deal that ends the hostage situation in return for allowing Hamas to remain in some form of power might be acceptable. True, they won't be able to claim "Total Victory" while Hamas still rules the rubble and terrorizes its own people—but Total Victory would have come with Total Responsibility, and a new set of risks. For most Israelis, “We reduced them to a harmless (to us) rabble” is victory enough.

The people who have been clamoring for a ceasefire since 2023 always supported Hamas. They never cared a jot for the Gazans, whom they saw only as useful tools. If they had even an ounce of humanity—or even common sense—they would recognize that Hamas is now only a threat to the Gazans themselves, and that a Total Israeli Victory is what they should be calling for too. Article from the Jewish Chronicle:

thejc.com/opinion/if-a-c…

On set today with Inbal Rabin-Lieberman, the 26-year-old heroine whose quick thinking and IDF weapons training meant that her village, Nir Am, was the only one along the Gaza border where none of the residents was killed.

She’s watching today as they film a reenactment of her actions on October 7. She and her team, with only light weapons, killed 70 heavily armed, drugged-up terrorists as they came to murder their families—twelve civilians held the line for four hours.

Remember: this is why they chant "Death to the IDF"—they want these pesky heroes out of the way so the savages can have their fun unmolested.

How do the "Death to the IDF" kids at Glastonbury hold up to young women like Inbal? What have they ever done to protect their families, their communities? What would they do when the barbarians come to scale the fence? Her 700 neighbours owe her their lives. Including her then unborn nephew, now 18 months, who will one day get to watch the movie about his aunt and how she saved his life.

There are 100 stories like Inbal that could be dramatised into full-length movies, with no need for even a drop of embellishment.

Qatar's Machiavellian schemes have reached a dead end. Can it make a U-turn?🧵

Nobody did more to support Hamas than Qatar—money, propaganda—so when this video of Qataris running from Iranian missiles in terror was shared in a Hamas group, what was the universal reaction? Laughter & joy. (1/7) Qatar’s strategy was so clever. Whoever thought it up and implemented it is some true genius—or perhaps a very sharp team of Western consultants. They picked every point of influence in the West and made them their dependents.

It's almost as if they read "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion", believed it was real, and decided it to try it themselves. Who knows? That might actually be true, since The Protocols is a bestseller across the Arab world. (2/7)

A week into one of the most audacious military operations in history, what is the state of play? Iran is petulantly lashing out, flailing, while Israel is tearing its way through the regime, inflicting 2 to 3 orders of magnitude more damage on Iran than vice versa. 🧵(1/7) Their attacks are simply depleting their remaining stocks, exposing their launch sites, but doing no damage at all to Israel’s military apparatus. They have killed 22 Israeli civilians, as well as 5 Ukrainians, and done perhaps $50 million worth of property damage.

The cost to them of these attacks, when all is said and done—including the sanctions they forced their people to bear over decades, the R&D, the opportunity cost? Certainly hundreds of billions of dollars. Most of what they built up over 40 years has disappeared in a week. (2/7)

MEHDI: "Wow! All you had to do to make me like Nazi-apologia fan, & fellow Qatari teet-suckler Tucker, was to stop the IRGC, who promised for 50 years to genocide the Jews, from getting the tools to actually do it! It's almost like a horseshoe!" (1/6) This is not a coincidence: you can learn a lot about what really matters to someone by what they are willing to compromise on. For example, Netanyahu and Lapid are bitter rivals—but faced with the threat of nuclear annihilation, they come together, because that is the most important issue.

And so too with Mehdi and Tucker: they can also come together around the issue of the nuclear annihilation of Israel. Because that is the true core of their belief systems; everything else is peripheral, secondary. (2/6)

It's a landscape of broken glass here at the end of my street in Tel Aviv where my friend, the journalist, @ShannaFuld had her apartment trashed by an IRGC missle, as she explains to CNN's Jeremy Diamond. Iran attacks random civilians, Israel eliminates generals. Some photos from the scene, edited to remove any information about the precise location.

Nobody has noticed Netanyahu’s deeply symbolic choice of the name “Rising Lion” for the operation he’s dreamed of for 30 years.

Iran, like Israel, has been a symbolized by a lion for 2,500 years. And now history comes full circle: it was Persia that, after 50 years of Israelite exile, enabled the restoration of Israel in Jerusalem. Now, 2,500 years later, Israel—reborn—repays the favor with perfect symmetry. Persia’s great civilization will be restored, and its occupiers vanquished, after 50 years. Isn’t that beautiful? So, Sinwar's attack will indeed achieve its stated goal: It will end the occupation... of Iran...

What did y’all think "globalize the intifada" meant? Vibes? Papers? Essays? 🧵

It meant this sweet young couple, Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim, gunned down at an American Jewish Committee event at the Jewish Museum by radicalized monster Elias Rodriguez, chanting “Free, free Palestine.” (1/20) We need to know how it came to this—how did Jew-hate become so normalized that the killer can be assured of widespread support from certain quarters? And what future awaits Jews in the West? TL;DR: It's grim. (2/20)

It took 23 years, but India has brought justice for Daniel Pearl. His last words, "My father is Jewish, my mother is Jewish, I am Jewish."

https://x.com/Saul_Sadka/status/1920455379437199630?s=19

There's an easy way to know if someone has taken Qatari money: Have they said nice things about Qatar?

Qatar isn't Italy or Norway. It's just a little patch of sand with a few gaudy towers and 2,000,000 semi-slaves to serve its little theocratic tribal dictatorship with a population smaller than Lexington, Kentucky. So if you "like" Qatar, it's because they pay you.

Feel free to share examples of people saying nice things about Qatar in the comments. So, if someone goes to Italy, and comes back gushing about how great the food is, they did not necessarily get paid to do this. However, if they have the same reaction to Qatar, they did.

Why is Heinz Ketchup Called "Tomato Seasoning" in Israel—and How Trump's Tariffs could end up being great for Israelis.

The victims might be the monopolies, Netanyahu and the public might be the victors. This presents huge opportunities for the savvy. Here’s how: (1/8) When Israel announced a few days ago that it was cancelling all tariffs on American goods, it was essentially bluffing.

There have been virtually no tariffs on American goods for over 30 years. The total amount collected annually was around $40 million — about 0.02% of the Israeli government’s budget. (2/8)