Missiles Running Out: The U.S. Struggles to Replenish Stockpiles Depleted by Aid to Israel, The Pentagon is requesting $3.5 billion in “emergency funding” to purchase interceptors used by the U.S. military to defend Israel during its war with Iran.

Officials in Washington warn: the commitment to this ally is harming U.S. readiness, and “this cannot continue.” Budget documents prepared through mid-May show the funds are split between weapons replenishment and support tasks like radar upkeep, ship refurbishment, and munitions transport. Almost every U.S.-specific line item is tagged as an “emergency budget request.”

And the rabbit hole goes deeper. Beyond trafficking women and laborers, we find the story of Brazil’s Baby Farm, a child trafficking ring with direct Israeli involvement.

🧵 Brazil, 1986: The Baby Trafficking Scandal In June 1986, 50 Brazilian federal agents raided homes, nurseries, and a maternity hospital in Santa Catarina. They recovered 20 infants, some only days old.

The mastermind was lawyer Carlos Cesario Pereira, who ran a trafficking pipeline exporting babies abroad.

In light of the recent revelation that 100% of Thai foreign agricultural workers in Israel reported sexual assault, it’s time to highlight once again what many prefer to ignore: Israel has long been a hub for human trafficking, exploitation, and sexual violence.🧵 In the 1990s–2000s, investigative reports uncovered how Slavic women, many trafficked from Ukraine and Russia, were lured with false job ads, smuggled into Israel, had their passports burned, and were forced into brothels. They were beaten, raped, and sold like property, while police and courts looked the other way.

At the Northern Command change-of-command, the IDF Chief of Staff framed Israel’s northern front as part of a generational mission, one that blends historical memory, permanent settlement, and preemptive force.

His speech repeatedly invoked a lineage from Tel Hai to the present, describing northern communities as a “symbol of a steadfast front” and pledging that Israel “will not retreat” from its borders. From a military standpoint, the message was unambiguous: containment is over. The Chief of Staff lauded outgoing commander Uri Gordin for a “deep conceptual shift” toward an offensive posture, striking threats “in their embryonic stages” with coordinated land, air, and naval operations.

This included intensified action in southern Lebanon, targeting Hezbollah’s military, logistical, and psychological infrastructure, as well as reshaping deployments on the Syrian border to match shifting regional dynamics.

Jewish demographer warns of “threat of disappearance of (so-called) Israel” 🧵 Head of the Shoresh Institute Professor Dan Ben-David warns of a strategic threat to the existence of Israel. His forecast: high birth rates combined with collapsing education quality could push the state into economic and military breakdown.

Palestinian factions and groups condemned the strike on the Al-Jazeera journalist tent today at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, which resulted in the martyrdom of 7, including 5 journalists, among them Anas Al-Sharif and Mohammed Quraiqe and several photographers and cameramen. They universally decried the targeting and labeled it as a crime intended to silence the truth and conceal planned escalation.🧵 🟢 Hamas condemned the brutal crime that "exceeds all boundaries of fascism and criminality" and mourned the journalists, who join a list of 260 journalists killed by the "Nazi occupation army in the widest targeting of journalists the world has ever witnessed." They highlighted that Anas and Mohammed received direct, repeated threats from the IOF beforehand. Hamas warned that assassinating journalists is a prelude to a "major crime the occupation plans to commit in Gaza City" by silencing its media voice to carry out massacres far from the world's eyes. It called on the UN Security Council and journalists worldwide to condemn the crime and take immediate action.

Israel’s war machine isn’t satisfied with killing Palestinian journalists, it has to launder the murder through a forged intelligence trail.🧵 First, a “leak”, a Hebrew spreadsheet suddenly emerges listing Anas Jamal Muhammad al-Sharif as a Hamas operative in northern Gaza. The source is Israel itself. No independent chain of custody, no forensic validation, just a self-published kill list.

At Black Hat 2025, Israeli cybersecurity firm Zenity demonstrated AgentFlayer, a cross-platform “zero-click” exploit chain that weaponizes AI agents without a single user action. Targets included ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot Studio, Salesforce Einstein, Cursor+Jira MCP, Google Gemini, and Microsoft 365 Copilot.🧵 In the most alarming case, Zenity showed how to compromise a specific ChatGPT user with nothing more than their email address. No links, no downloads,
just backend injection via agent connectors. If the account was tied to services like Google Drive, Jira, or CRM systems, a poisoned document or seeded data entry carrying invisible instructions could trigger automatically once processed.

Beyond luxury branding, these holdings form a private archipelago embedded in naval logistics routes, shipping corridors, and intelligence perimeters. These purchases secure more than isolation, placing billionaires inside maritime chokepoints and surveillance grids, often under jurisdictions aligned with NATO, the Five Eyes, or U.S. security umbrellas.🧵 Lānaʻi (Hawaii, USA) – Larry Ellison / Oracle – 90,000 acres

Sits in the central Pacific’s most surveilled naval corridor, inside the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command sphere. Ellison’s ownership grants him de facto control of real estate embedded within America’s forward projection zone against China. In a war scenario, it’s an ISR-friendly observation platform in the middle of the Hawaiian chain.

If Tehran decides to operationalize resistance to the “Trump Bridge,” the playbook would likely span multiple, overlapping domains so that the corridor becomes a liability for its patrons rather than a viable route. The doctrine would aim to make the corridor functionally unreliable, bleeding resources, eroding confidence, and locking NATO/Turkey/Azerbaijan into a perpetual maintenance quagmire.🧵 The Armenian public already sees Syunik as a red line in their historical identity. Tehran and Moscow could covertly seed and amplify narratives that Pashinyan’s concession is an irreversible surrender of sovereignty. This would involve quietly empowering opposition figures, media campaigns, funding grassroots movements in Syunik, and arranging cultural or religious events that become rally points for anti-corridor sentiment.

The U.S. is physically hardwiring the next decade of IDF warfighting into place, airbases, naval HQs, hardened bunkers, all designed and overseen by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, funded entirely by American military aid. Official Corps of Engineers documents, posted in U.S. federal procurement portals, list ~20 projects worth $1.5 billion. Over $250 million is already live; more than $1 billion is queued. Every cent comes from the $3.8B/year aid package, plus “special” war top-ups.

On Al Mayadeen’s Fi al-Imkan, former Iranian diplomat Amir Mousavi issued a strategic signal.

“The Cairo–Tehran rapprochement angers Washington and Tel Aviv. That alone proves its importance.”

For years, the West has fought not only to isolate Iran or contain Palestine, but to prevent the rise of a sovereign triangle: Egypt, Iran, and Turkey. Three poles. Three civilizations. One region, fractured by design. If they align, everything changes.🧵 Mousavi’s appearance on Fi al-Imkan was the articulation of a doctrine: that the geopolitical architecture of West Asia is entering a new phase. Gaza may be the flashpoint, but the confrontation is far broader. It's not about Palestine alone, it’s about the reassembly of civilizational power across the Islamic East, from the Nile to Anatolia to the Zagros.

This is what terrifies Tel Aviv and Washington, not rockets, not slogans, but realignment.

China is preparing to neutralize Starlink, and the toolkit they’re studying reads like a defense contractor fever dream.🧵 Not speculation. Dozens of Chinese academic and PLA-adjacent papers, confirmed by AP, openly propose countermeasures against the U.S.-aligned satellite mesh blanketing low Earth orbit.

Palestinian Factions: Ben-Gvir's Mass Al-Aqsa Incursion is a "Declaration of War" and an Insult to All Muslims

Palestinian resistance factions issued condemnations following the storming of the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound by extremist minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, who led over three thousand settlers in a provocative incursion under heavy guard by occupation forces. The factions universally decried the event, which included depicting an alleged temple, as a dangerous escalation and a systematic crime aimed at the complete Judaization of Al-Quds. 🧵 The Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine described the incursion as a "dangerous desecration" and a methodical escalation in the ongoing war against Palestinian holy sites. They stated that the ultimate goal is to impose full zionist control, divide the mosque, and pave the way for its eventual destruction. The movement condemned the "Arab silence" while these crimes unfold. It held the zionist government and its partners in the U.S. administration fully responsible for the consequences, warning silent Arab regimes that the "zionist danger" will eventually target them if they continue to abandon their religious and moral duty to Palestine.

China mapped its industrial rise onto a single risk, seaborne oil under U.S.-policed chokepoints. At peak, 80% of crude arrived by tanker; the Malacca Strait is the throat. In a crisis, a blockade would aim to strangle the economy. 🧵 Beijing treated the problem as engineering. It locked down critical minerals and rare-earth refining so the magnet layer for wind turbines, motors, and batteries sits inside its control, quiet hardware for a sovereign grid, with refining share approaching 90%.

Gaza has been converted into a continuous trash belt. Bloomberg’s satellite study mapped ~350 informal dumps carpeting >1 km², with former commercial hubs like Souk Feras alone holding ~200,000 metric tons. With municipal systems collapsed, mixed industrial, biological, and chemical waste now sits beside tents, farmland, and shallow groundwater, turning living space into biohazard.🧵 The aquifer, Gaza’s only freshwater spine, is being salted and poisoned. Fertilizer runoff, raw sewage, and heavy metals from munitions and shattered rooftop solar arrays are bleeding into permeable soils. UNEP and allied assessments estimate tens of thousands of cubic meters of sewage discharge daily into the Mediterranean; Bloomberg cites ~84,000 m³/day with blackwater plumes at Wadi Gaza’s mouth, a transboundary threat to coastal ecosystems.

Gaza Update Summary | July 22–25, 2025
From July 22 to July 25, the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) escalated their systematic war of starvation across the Gaza Strip, combining lethal strikes on aid distribution points with continuous attacks on shelters, tents, schools, and densely populated civilian areas. This period marked one of the most violent and calculated phases of the genocide to date, with 228 Palestinians martyred and hundreds more critically wounded in just 72 hours.🧵 On Wednesday, July 23, the IOF targeted civilians gathering for aid near Wadi Gaza and Zikim, and committed a new massacre in Nusseirat at the entrance of Street 20, killing at least 9, including children. In Khan Younis, a displaced family sheltering in the Mawasi area was struck. Famine-related deaths continued to rise, with the Ministry of Health confirming 10 more starvation martyrs. Among the victims was journalist Walaa al-Jaabari and her children, killed in the Shaer family home.

China is threading a $40 billion railgun through the Himalayas, shaving Chengdu-Lhasa travel from 34 hours to 13. The Sichuan-Tibet line directly links the PLA Western Theater Command to the Tibetan frontier, embedding troop mobility into the geography. This is only one spoke in a hardening lattice along China’s 2,000-mile border with India: high-speed rail, heliports, highways, and village militarization now operate as one coherent mobilization mesh.🧵 Since the 1990s, China has laid thousands of miles of blacktop through Tibet, many running parallel to the Line of Actual Control, transforming once-remote valleys into accessible corridors for armor and artillery. The result is a shift from month-long PLA mobilization in the 1990s to 5-7 day combat readiness today. Delhi, still trapped in fragmented tunnel construction and seasonal mudslides, is decades behind the curve.

Since late 2023 and escalating through 2025, the Israeli military has turned cemeteries into battlegrounds and burial grounds into excavation sites. Bulldozers dig through sacred soil. Corpses, wrapped, decomposed, or only partially intact, are exhumed by machine, stripped of identity, and reburied in anonymous pits. 🧵 At Nasser Medical Complex, one of Gaza’s largest hospitals, over 283 bodies were exhumed from the courtyard after Israeli withdrawal in April 2024. Many were found handcuffed, stripped, and shot, some reportedly buried alive. The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights expressed alarm, citing violations of the dead under international law. Eyewitnesses spoke of execution sites masquerading as mass graves.

At Al-Shifa, Gaza’s central hospital, the story repeats. Bulldozers unearthed dozens of decomposed bodies post-raid, civilians, not militants, discarded beneath rubble or in shallow ditches. Some were children. Others were elderly.

Pakistan’s forgotten anti-imperial flex (1947-52)🧵 Newly minted in ’47, Pakistan walked into the UN and began dismantling colonial trusteeship deals the Great Powers had drafted for post-war spoils. The Libya question became its proving ground.

Since 1948, and with clinical precision since 1967, Israel has weaponized water as a tool of domination, turning rivers, aquifers, and wells into instruments of control no different than checkpoints or military raids. This is hydrological apartheid.🧵 Israel seizes more than 80% of West Bank water from the Mountain Aquifer, allocates it to settlers and its own territory, and rations the rest to Palestinians at levels that fall below the World Health Organization’s minimum for human health. Israelis consume an average of 247 liters of water per day. In the West Bank, Palestinians often survive on 20 to 70 liters. Settlements enjoy full-flow irrigation for agriculture and private pools, while nearby villages wait days for tanker trucks, if they arrive at all. In Gaza, where over 96% of water is unfit to drink, Israel has bombed desalination plants, blocked repair materials, and shattered wastewater infrastructure, turning basic survival into a form of resistance.