The twisted ideology fuelling conflict in Middle East

Flashback: A Palestinian mother from Gaza brought her sick son to an Israeli hospital for life-saving treatment, free of charge, from the very people she views as enemies.

In the interview (right there in the hospital), she openly says she'd rather he grow up to become a "martyr" (die in jihad/terrorism against Jews) than die from illness. She wants him healthy... so he can blow himself up in a crowded Israeli place, maybe even the same hospital that saved him.

She explains: Allah obligates every Muslim to wage jihad and embrace martyrdom. Unlike Jews and Christians who mourn dead children, Muslims rejoice when their kids are martyred in holy war, because Allah guarantees them paradise.

This isn't fringe. It's the raw ideology fuelling the conflict: gratitude for mercy twisted into a desire for future violence.

Human life saved by Israelis, only to be sacrificed against them. That's the tragic, twisted reality.

5 Reasons That Will Lead to the End of the Jewish State | Oren Cahanovitc

 My fave, Oren Cahanovitc, resident in Israel, ex tour guide, now spicy and trenchant YouTuber. Speaks well and knowledgeably. 

I've followed him for years, because he has a gift for summarising, for telling the truth in a graspable way. 

Chronicles of Submission: Germany mute in response to Islamic calls for caliphate, sharia, genocide of Christians

 

Islamists in Germany openly call for Germany to become a Caliphate — a colony of Islam, a subject of the Islamic Empire — for Sharia law to be applied everywhere in Germany, for genociding the remaining Christians in Germany. Oh, and killing the Jews too, of course. Those that haven’t already fled.

German police do nothing. Because neither their weak bosses, nor the politicians allow them to do anything to stop the maybe . To push back on a clear and present existential threat to the German Republic. Because… you know… tolerance! 

This is suicidal empathy: empathy for poor oppressed immigrants, for free speech until Islam, when suddenly free speech will be no more. Because you can’t say what you like about the ideology of Islam. That’s Blasphemy! 

The gorgeous kaleidoscope of diversity. The wonderful tapestry of multiculturalism….

Hence the increasing calls from many Germans for “Remigration”, aka deporting. 

I’ve followed Tal Oran for years. It’s his video above. Pretty knowledgable about all these issues. But a bit soft in Islam, IMO. Like, he says “I’ve got no problem with Islam”. I do. Its core ideology, the Trinity of Islam, and the behaviour of its votaries, are an affront to enlightenment values. At the deep, fundamental, core.

Feminism Islam style

The model mother and daughter. Click here

Flashback: Jordan's newly elected female lawmaker proudly thanks her Muslim mother for being the ultimate role model of "Islam’s feminism."

She recounts how her mother would cry over her one unfulfilled dream: to hide a bomb under her hijab, board a crowded Israeli bus or enter a restaurant, and blow herself up—killing as many Jews and Christians as possible as human sacrifices for Allah, securing her ticket to paradise.

This isn't fringe rhetoric. It's celebrated as empowerment and maternal wisdom on the floor of a national parliament.

Western feminists call for "sisterhood" while this is the real face of "Islamic feminism" in practice: glorifying suicide bombing, child indoctrination into martyrdom, and mass murder as the highest feminine achievement.

The contrast couldn't be starker. Share this unfiltered truth. The ideology isn't hiding—it’s being elected.

Albanese’s shameful submission to radical Islam in Australia

Anthony Albanese, PM of my country Australia, got mobbed and screamed at at a mosque while he talks about how he’s fighting ‘Islamophobia.’ This is a matter of weeks after Muslim gunmen went on a deadly Jew hunt on Bondi. 

Albanese is the perfect embodiment of cowardly, craven, dogmatic progressivism. He responded to a jihadist atrocity against jews in Sydney by point blank refusing, to even mention that this attack had anything to do with Islam.

He refused to use the words ‘Islamism’ or ‘jihadism’, and condemned generalised ‘hate’ and generalised ‘antisemitism’, ‘gun ownership’ (!) etc, to obfuscate and unfairly tar the whole of Australian culture with the crimes of a radicalised Islamist minority. Then he pivoted, immediately, to focussing on Islamophobia, and did stuff like ban jewish speakers, who were flying to Australia to discuss the massacre on Bondi, from entering the country because they’d been ‘offensive’ about Islam. 

Then he visits mosques, gets absolutely hounded by big groups of angry beardos — they’re always angry —  shouting ‘Allahu akhbar’, calling him a ‘dog’, ‘genocider’, etc. But none of it will change his behaviour because he is motivated not by a desire to protect Aussie citizens or pursue truth, but to uphold his cultish quasi-religious mainstream-progressive narrative at all costs, always, forever.

Albo the coward. Albo the Islamist enabler. Albo the Islamic terrorism denier. 

23 March 2013. Race to Philippines

Xena and crew, start of 2013 China Sea Race

Tucker Carlson so hates Churchill he loves British Fascists

Why? Why the hate on Churchill? Because he stood up for western civilisation? Because he led the west’s fight against the Nazis? 

Tucker Carlson loves on Oswald Mosley, founder and head if the Union of British Fascists. It’s all in the name. This is the name Carlson loves on. He loves the fascist leader of the British Fascist Party, when Britain was at war with the fascist Nazis…. Go figure. 

Australia shoots itself in the foot. Over and over

 Australia, my country, has abundant resources. Abundant oil and gas. Abundant uranium. Abundant sun. Abundant wind. Abundant coal. 

Yet we're now short of energy. The price of electricity is the highest in the world. We have to import natural gas to terminals where we used to export it from. We import petroleum products to terminals we used to export it from. Delivering it to terminals right next to decommissioned oil refineries. Which we closed down because... well.. because.... Because we thought it a good idea to do away with fossil fuels. 

This is all the result of POLICY. Not of some kind of weird natural accident. But of policy. Of decisions taken by politicians. In the pursuit of a chimera. Of the crazy notion of Net Zero. 

For which the "rationales" are:

We must set an example. But no one follows the example. They only laugh at us. Look at China, increasing its CO2 emissions year after year. In part because of the emissions that Australia has exported to them. 

And... 

We matter. NO. We don't. Barely 1% of world CO2 emissions are from Australia. And if you think that reducing our CO2 emissions is like a voting system and we all must vote, then also NO. Because there's voting blocks out there, the US, China and Europe that have 75% of the "votes". So our vote matters not one jot. 

This is all so depressing. 

If you could imagine a case in which the politicians took no part in decision making, we'd be in a much better place, I bet. We'd have nuclear power, gas power and some renewables and our CO2 emissions would be one third of what they are now. That's the case with where I live now, in Hong Kong. Where our power comes from Nuclear and Gas, our CO2 emissions are 4.2 tonnes per person per year, vs 16 in Australia, despite Australia going gangbusters for renewables and impoverishing itself in the process. 

Sigh... 

Leftists prefer Radical Islam to MAGA

These people do NOT know what they're talking about. Their views are from CNN. Or MSNBC. 

And they vote. (sometimes).

Like: it's better to have a Radical Islam agenda to having a MAGA agenda? That's pure delusion. A Damaging Dangerous Delusion.

Chronicles of Submission. "The catastrophe that lies ahead" in Germany

Experiences as a teacher at a school with a high proportion of refugees - it is even worse than you think Hello everyone, I studied mathematics and am currently working as a secondary school teacher in the Ruhr area, partly due to the current precarious labor market situation. The proportion of refugees at my school, as at many other schools here in the region, is quite high. Most refugees are taught in separate integration classes, as integration into regular classes is simply not possible due to the desolate level of education. I teach two such integration classes several times a week and just wanted to share my experiences with you here. Even before starting my current job, I was extremely critical of the current migration, but my experiences in the teaching profession make my worst fears at the time seem like a benevolent utopia. For context: A large proportion of the integration classes consist of Morrocans born in Spain, but Syrians, Afghans and Roma are also strongly represented. The rest is a wild potpourri of Ukrainians and refugees from other Arab or Muslim countries such as Lebanon or Somalia. One class consists mainly of younger students between 11 and 13 years of age, the other class consists mainly of teenagers around 16 years of age. Now a small summary of my observations: In about half of the classes there is no significant literacy in their own language, just over half understand, even after years in the local school system, in about as good a German as I understand Mandarin. At least in math (I can only judge the other subjects to a very limited extent), the level of education is an absolute fiasco, even among older students. Truly the simplest arithmetic problems (5+6 or 7-4) are already very difficult. The cause often seems to be cognitive, because even if I illustrate the numbers with objects, many students are unable to solve corresponding tasks. It is currently Ramadan. Ukrainian students who do not fast must leave the room if they want to have a drink or eat. On the one hand, this is a rule imposed by the classes themselves, but on the other hand it is also tolerated or even actively supported by large parts of the other teaching staff and the social worker. Some male students refuse to sit next to female students for religious reasons. This is also tolerated. Fights are commonplace and that is no exaggeration. In fact, there is at least one fight almost every day. There are no properly maintained school folders or generally a careful handling of school materials. Most come to class wearing only the clothes they wear on their bodies. About half of the class with the older students is always delayed by at least 10 minutes at the first lesson, or sometimes 20 or 30 minutes. Even after the breaks, the class is actually only 10 minutes late each time. During Ramadan, also tolerated by other school staff, a good proportion sleep regularly in class by placing their head on the table. Female students are regularly labeled with highly obscene terms. The punishment of such statements either does not take place at all or is so restrained that repetition is encouraged. On parent-teacher conferences, 90 percent of parents, even after several years of residence in Germany, can only communicate via interpreters. A few days ago, some students proudly told me what new cell phone models their siblings and parents have, which, mind you, receive almost exclusively transfer payments. Female colleagues generally have it more difficult than my gender counterparts, who are usually at least rudimentarily respected. Some students often do not show up at school for months without apology. A rejection of other religions is very clear in many situations. For group work in other subjects that spans weeks, the results have a scope that can be achieved by those with normal abilities within five minutes. There is no mixing with other students. You like to keep to yourself. Even among refugees, groups usually form according to their respective origins. With all the negative impressions, there are a few positive experiences. A handful of students are actually making an effort and progress. These students are also the only reason why work doesn't seem completely pointless. I myself try to counteract this to the best of my ability, but this is hardly possible if there is no support from the staff and the school administration. I have already capitulated on some points because a corresponding commitment only breaks your nerves without changing anything. Many of the older students are leaving our education system anytime soon, and with that, the state is losing pretty much the only way to exert any influence. I fear that the situation in other schools often looks little better. This leads us to send school leavers into the wild year after year who neither write, read nor master the most basic primary school mathematics. Such people are not fit for any kind of work and are doomed to languish in our welfare system for life. Muslim and African students, in particular, often have an absurd number of siblings by German standards. If one assumes that this reproduction rate will not break with the current generation, but perhaps even increase given the fantastic conditions here in Germany compared to their countries of origin (not for locals, but certainly for people from countries with a per capita GDP of $800), the problems are compounded exponentially. I lack any imagination as to how the catastrophe that lies ahead could be averted in any way, and this is increasingly frustrating me. Just wanted to share this with you. Thanks to those who stuck with it until the end of the text and gave themselves my whining.

Posted by William Meijer on X, March 20, 2026. Who notes: "Bear in mind, Germany's only resource was always education and good institutions".

The state of Britain today: Submission to Islam

"Nothing to see here". Really? The "you are ours" move

British politician Nick Timothy objected to the mass prayer -- the Adhan --  by Muslims in public spaces. I'm sure you've seen it. Vast hordes of beardos, doing yoga, the Downward Dog, heads on the ground, arses in the air. Pretty disturbing. Especially when we remember this: that a Christian lady was arrested by the rozzers for "silently praying". Talk about Two Tier policing. A Chrisian woman cannot silently pray, in public, but vast numbers of beardos, hewing to a misogynist, supremacist, homophobic, pedophilic religion are untouched, as it were, when they pray publicly in Trafalgar Square.

Britain is done.

Below a response to those who've criticized the bravery of Nick Timothy in calling this out. I fear it's not going to do anything. Because the mass of people, brainwashed by the pollies, is attacking him. The crowd. The mob. 

Oh dear....

Jim Chimirie on the issue.

@EdwardJDavey, you have misread the argument so comprehensively that one has to wonder whether it is deliberate.

Nobody is objecting to freedom of worship. Nick Timothy did not say Muslims should not be allowed to pray. He said mass ritual prayer in a shared national civic space is an act of domination, and cited the former extremist turned scholar Ed Husain, who has spent his career documenting exactly this phenomenon. The Adhan, the call to prayer, declares there is no god but Allah and Muhammad is his messenger. That is by definition a theological repudiation of every other faith. When projected into Trafalgar Square, a national memorial to British sovereignty and independence, it is not equivalent to a celebration. It is a declaration. The distinction is theological, not political, and it is precise. You invoke freedom of worship as though Timothy had called for mosques to be closed. He did not. You invoke British values as though observing that the domination of public spaces is straight from the Islamist playbook is somehow un-British. It is not. It is documented, sourced and supported by scholars who have spent decades inside Islamist movements. This week, thousands of people gathered on the Embankment chanting death to America and death to Israel. Bobby Vylan led chants of death death death to the IDF, cleared by the CPS last year and back on a London stage doing it again. The Islamic Human Rights Commission, named in a Lords report as part of Iran's soft power network in Britain, addressed the crowd. Thirty six Labour MPs wrote to the Parliamentary Commissioner demanding the investigation of a man for pointing out what every serious student of Islamism already knows. The Attorney General deployed his Jewish identity to defend a declaration that, by its own theological logic, repudiates Judaism. And your contribution to all of it is a tweet accusing people who raise these questions of stoking fear, hatred and division. You lead a party that voted consistently to keep Britain in the European Union against the democratic will of the British people. A party that has positioned itself as the political home of progressive appeasement, that has never met an Islamist grievance it would not accommodate, and whose response to every act of cultural intimidation is to accuse those who name it of bigotry. The Liberal Democrats have no record of defending British values under pressure. They have a record of redefining British values to mean whatever is least likely to cause offence to the most vocal pressure group in the room. Freedom of worship is indeed a fundamental British value. So is freedom of speech. So is the freedom to observe, without being accused of racism, that a theological declaration of exclusive truth projected into a national monument is not the same as lighting a menorah or performing a Passion play. Nick Timothy exercised that freedom. The full weight of the parliamentary and political establishment descended on him within twenty four hours.

That is the state of British politics today, Ed. And you are part of the problem, not the solution. "Nick Timothy didn't say Muslims shouldn't be allowed to pray. He said mass ritual prayer in a shared national civic space is an act of domination, and cited the former extremist turned scholar Ed Husain, who has spent his career documenting exactly this phenomenon."

ADDED: The folks at Spiked discuss.

While Australian PM, Anthony Albanese, Submits to Islam. Will he attend an Easter celebrations? Let's see, but I doubt it. And no one will notice. Australia is sliding right along, full square, into submission to the will of Allah. In that way, he's just like his horrid namesake, Francesca Albanese, she of the Human Rights watch in the U.N. who watches out for the human rights of all but the Jews, for she's a reliable Jew hater.

Round the Island Race, Hong Kong, 19 November 2015

Xena. Me at the helm. South of Hong Kong island.

Did Netanyahu say he wants Israel to take over the Middle East?

I’ve seen and heard this claim. I’d never heard Netanyahu say anything like it, either in his memoir or in speeches. But still… better check.

Here is the Google AI. Short answer is “NO”. He did not.

Don’t trust anyone who doesn’t like dogs!

 

Islamists in New York, in Britain, in Europe are coming after our dogs. Because in Islam they are “unclean”. 

Not satisfied with hating dogs in private while letting those of us who love our dogs get on with owning and loving them, the Islamists demand that we hew to their beliefs. Beliefs they hold because the “perfect man” — that murderous, genocidal, paedophilic ratbag, the “prophet” Muhammad — didn’t like dogs. That’s it. That’s their sole reason for this caniphobia. Which, btw, triggers my Islamophobia…

I’ve often posted stuff by Oren Cahanovitc, Israeli, owner of the tour company “travellingIsrael.com, knowledgeable and balanced commenter on the Middle East issues we know and hear all too much about.

I’ve got him in my list of Israel commenters. 

Here he is above talking of Islamists’ latest attack on the good life of the west. Attempting to turn the west into the hellholes they fled from. They fled from. And try to recreate. Go figure. 

Sigh…

By the way, Oren is correct that not all cultures are the same. Islam, for example, is more violent than most. Just as the Jain culture is far more peaceable than most. You’d think that that would be clear and obvious. But it’s not, especially on the Left, because of damage done to common sense by post-modernism, brought to us mainly by French and German philosophers. The likes of Foucault, Derrida and the Frankfurt School.

U.S. Civil war in 2030…

Green Beret’s prediction, below, strikes me as plausible. Why? Because Democrats tell us that that’s what they’re going to do. Pack SCOTUS, open borders to increase their voter base, create new states that will be Democrat, gerrymander purple and red states, arrest anyone who was in the Trump administration, or anyone MAGA. They tell us that on CNN, in The New York Times.

Result: a supermajority for Democrats. All America becomes like California, where Republicans have no hope of winning state power ever again. i.e. America becomes a One Party State. A UniState. Now you might approve of this because you like the Dems. But traditionally we’ve thought very dimly of one party states. At the very least authoritarian. 

The Democrats are far better organised than the Republicans. Who can’t even bring themselves to pass the SAVE Act….

Green Beret Nap Time, post on X:

Here’s what I think is going to happen. 

The right is going to lose in 2026, not because Democrats have better or more popular policies, but because of voter fatigue on the right from constant propaganda meant to divide us… which is clearly working.

They threw out all of the stops, never missing an opportunity to push so many lies from so many angles that most people simply can’t process what is real and what is fiction.

So, we lose.

It won’t seem too drastic at first, but it will hamstring the Trump admin enough and tie him and those that remain loyal up in impeachments and other nonsense that will make his admin ineffective.

This will create more doubt on the right as Democrats and our adversaries pump more propaganda into the space, highlighting the ineffectiveness. 

Morale will drop even further.

Then we are really going to lose in 2028. We are going give Democrats and the Halal Right a supermajority, which they will use to pack the court, open the borders again, send more money to Islamist and left leaning causes, reestablish DEI policies, proliferate troon ideology, and ultimately start chipping away at the Constitution.

It will only take a year or two with that kind of juice behind the effort and a supermajority pushing through legislation.

The SCOTUS will be unable to stop unconstitutional laws because of the new leftist majority make up.

A hot Civil War will start in the south, but it won’t feel like a civil war (no real clear sides, more like insurgent warfare of rural vs urban). Media and influencers will push it as anti-American insurgents trying to attack other Americans.

Rights will be suspended. The Patriot Act will be used to identify and lock up tens of thousands.

Martial law will be implemented.

American foreign policy will crumble with the domestic issues. 

China and Russia will move forward in the world stage and systematically rewrite alliances.

World wars will likely break out as a result.

By 2030… the word will be a bleak and terrible place…

But hey, at least a bunch of influencers made money off of centuries old propaganda made for illiterate peasants.

Fun times.

Keeping one's house in order. An analogy of Gaza vs Israel | Adam Carolla

 

Adam Carolla is king of the analogies. He's good at it, and they're useful, even if the late great Scott Adams used to say that analogies are "not argument". Maybe not, but they help clarify. 

In Adam’s rant in the video above, which I set to start at 15:15, he does a good job of clarifying the problem in the Middle East with a simple analogy, which I think works. 

It's not that Israel is "doing bad things" to the "Palestinians" (let alone “genocide”), but that the Palestinians are not keeping their own house in order. They're obsessed with wiping Israel off the map, and with killing Jews. Instead of getting their own house in order, in Gaza, in Judea and Samaria.

As Golda Meir said: "If the Islamist lay down their arms there will be peace; if Israel lays down its arms, it will be exterminated". 

What about Islamists living in the west? They want you dead. It’s true. They say it repeatedly and explicitly. They no longer bother hiding their aims. They feel the west, places like the U.K. and Europe, are already submissive enough. ("Islam" means  "Submission"). And they’re right. Sigh…

“China’s ethnic unity law can foster a shared sense of belonging” | SCMP

The idea is for all ethnic groups to come under the broader umbrella of Chinese civilisation and foster a stronger sense of national identity and unity. Forging a common Chinese identity is the key. While diversity is to be respected and protected, there is a need to transcend ethnic boundaries for advancement. This is achieved by overcoming preferential treatment among ethnic groups. Regardless of origins, they all form an integral part of the Chinese nation.

The above clip is from today's editorial in The South China Morning Post.

I'm just going to note this, which I think is a truism: the editors would NEVER, ever, say the same about America. Or Europe. Or the Anglosphere.

If ever America were to call for "all ethnic groups" to "come under the broader umbrella of American civilisation", and said we have to “transcend diversity ", the Post would surely call it "White Supremacy", racism, bigotry, xenophobia and excoriate those who had the temerity to do so. 

Hypocrisy, much? 

Point of pedantry: can an umbrella be "broader"? 

“Please, ma’am, could you broaden your brolly?”.

Israel fights the Brandolini principle

Hamas literally livestreamed a pogrom and still ended up with large parts of the world on their side. That isn’t an Israeli PR failure, it’s a failure of the West to be able to distinguish good from evil. 

This impairment will manifest in ways far more serious to them than this. 

Israel could have more quickly countered the bullshit but it’s hard to outrun the Brandolini principle. 

Aka: The bullshit asymmetry principle. “The amount of energy needed to refute BS is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.”

Aka: “A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes”. 

About Israel: It’s easy to say “genocide”, “apartheid”, “settler colonialism”, “Gaza is the biggest open air prison in the world”. But it takes whole articles to debunk these lies about Israel.

“Trump’s dilemma: Win it or End it” | Michael Doran and Gadi Taub

 

Michael Doran and Gadi Taub, who I’ve posted a number of times before, knowledgeable analysis from a conservative perspective, discuss the issues. 

Because the Left and the Isolationist Right both asking “so, how long’s this going to take?” , on top of “the sky’s falling”, “America is losing”, “it’s a mess” and all the rest of it.

Gone are the days when everyone would get behind a war effort even if they disagreed with it. Or at least did not openly root for the failure of one’s own country. 

Or hope for failure because… Trump. 

Iran: fearsome enemy. Or paper tiger?

Before Operation Midnight Hammer (June 2025). Before the current Operation Epic Fury…

Leftists be like: 

• “You can’t attack Iran”
• “It’s too powerful”
• “You’ll be bringing our soldiers back in body bags”
• “There will be millions of deaths”
• “You will start World War III”

ADDED: War games in past 25 years apparently supported this pessimism, predicting a much more even fight, with massive casualties on both sides. 

Then: U.S. does Operation Midnight Hammer to bomb Iran’s secret nuclear facilities. Zero U.S. casualties. Then U.S. and Israel jointly do Operations Epic Fury and Roaring Lion. They immediately off the head of the snake. They Destroy the Iranian Army. They Sink the Iranian Navy. They Decimate the Iranian missile batteries. 

We are just over two weeks into this. 

And Leftists now be like:

• “Why is this dragging on so long?”.
• “You’re failing”
• “It’s the forever war”

i.e. A war that was supposed to be impossible to win, has gone on, with spectacular success, for 2 weeks and that’s too long?

So let me get this straight.

The war with Iran (the regime, not the people) has been going on for two weeks now. Just two weeks.

In that time, the regime leadership has been completely decimated.

Missile production has been destroyed. 

Missiles fired from the regime have dwindled—declining daily. Their navy, obliterated.

Their infrastructure of oppression is being bombed to hell. 

The forces on the ground now run away when they hear the sound of drones.

This high pressure chipping away of a militarily sophisticated enemy is unprecedented in its speed, scope and precision. It’s almost unbelievable.

But randos online, political commentators (and even leaders who should know better!) brainlessly say things like:

“They’re losing”. “They don’t have a plan”. “America is now stuck in a war it can’t escape”. “This is Israel’s war”. “This is illegal”. “This is a forever war”.

It’s genuinely one of the most retarded moments I’ve ever lived through. 

It’s like people have either shut off their brains, or they’re acting maliciously. 

I’m still figuring out which it is.Before our very eyes, we’re seeing one of the most consequential moments of modern history. 

We’re witnessing the exorcism of a demonic Islamic regime that has brutalised the Iranians and destabilised the Middle East for years!

An enemy that believes the world needs to be in chaos for their Mahdi to appear.

Lunatics that want to see the world subdued.

A world without this threat is a better world for everyone.

America and Israel will pull this off, and reap all the rewards. 

While the brainless European leaders—who did nothing—will become even more irrelevant on the world stage.

By the way, to answer the question in the headline. Even assuming a military victory, Iran remains a dangerous threat for the Islamic poison it has pumped into the veins of the west. That will be much harder to repel, as we’re seeing in Europe and the U.K. 

"What Most People Get Wrong About Iran" | Elica Le Bon

 Elica Le Bon, is an Iranian activist, lawyer and journalist. She speaks so well and eloquently. Listen to her on the Iranian questions, talking to Dan Senor of the Call Me Back podcast:

• Why the Iranian people and the regime are fundamentally different 

• How the 1979 Islamic Revolution reshaped a 7,000-year-old civilization 

• Why the regime places Israel at the center of its ideology 

• How the regime exports its revolution across the Middle East 

• Why Western narratives often misunderstand the Iranian people

“Iranian women activists are so beautiful”

U.S. population supports the Iran war | Rasmussen Reports

McLaughlin Poll: "The United States military actions against Iran and the  leadership of the Iranian regime were necessary and warranted to protect  American lives today and in the future."

A clear majority — 57% of likely voters — agreed, while only 33% disagreed.

Support was particularly strong among voters planning to support  Republican candidates for Congress, where agreement reached 87%,  compared with just 7% who disagreed.

Even among voters still undecided about their congressional vote, the statement won majority support at 51% to 29%.

The results also show meaningful support among several key demographic groups.

Among independent voters, 46% agreed the action was necessary, compared with 40% who disagreed.

Among Hispanic voters, agreement was 56% to 33%, and among women, the margin was 47% to 38% in favor."

Rasmussen Reports

I’m inclined to summarise this as strong support. Especially a whole three weeks into the war. 

USA > CRINK

	Apple Lamps ⁦‪@lamps_apple‬⁩ Look at the board. Russia's economy is being eaten alive from the inside. China just posted the lowest growth target in its modern history and admitted, for the first time ever, that deflation has been devouring their economy for three straight years. Iran's supreme leader is pic.x.com/uyQkjPY5KM   16/3/2026, 2:37 pm

People on the Left hate this. Islamists hate this. The Red-Green alliance hates this. They all Hate America standing up for the West. America being dominant. 

Look at the board. Russia’s economy is being eaten alive from the inside. China just posted the lowest growth target in its modern history and admitted, for the first time ever, that deflation has been devouring their economy for three straight years. Iran’s supreme leader is dead, and their Navy is scattered across the ocean floor. Venezuela’s dictator is sitting in a jail cell in lower Manhattan. Cuba can’t fuel an airplane. And the great CRINK alliance… China, Russia, Iran, North Korea… the coalition that every think tank in Washington warned us was going to end American dominance? It fell apart the first time any of them actually needed help. Every single time. Not once did one of these countries come to the rescue of another. Not once.

And where is America? Military deployed across multiple theaters with a speed and precision that stunned the entire world. The economy absorbing global shocks that would flatten any other nation on earth. The dollar still the reserve currency of the planet. NATO still intact. And a president who demonstrated in a matter of hours in Caracas what Russia has failed to accomplish in four years in Ukraine. A matter of hours. 

The United States of America is operating from a position of strength that would have seemed impossible five years ago. Every major adversary is weaker. Every supposed counter-alliance is fractured. Every bet against America has lost. And there is not a thing… not a single thing… that any country on this earth can do to stop it.

This, this, is the Rules Based Order. 

And you know who China welcomed today? The Dictator of Turkmenistan. The only country that makes North Korea look normal! The alliance of scoundrels and misfits.

No, Israel does not take anywhere near the majority of US Foreign Aid

 

Aussie Erin Molin talks to Gen Z'er that I've recently noted, Shabbos Kestenbaum.

Jewish influence on America: One of the many lies that people tell about Israel. Sometimes not knowing. All too often -- with the likes of Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly -- knowing, but lying. (How do I know this? Because in each case I've seen them lie, outright and egregiously, face to camera. When the issue is one that they had to know the truth. They're professionals. And now they're professional liers. Two people I used  to follow). 

In terms of lobbying dollars spent in the US, Israel is not even in the Top Ten. China, Saudi, Japan, Qatar, even Bermuda and the Bahamas ffs, all spend more than Israel. 

And then there's US foreign aid. Many nations get more aid than Israel. Just as many more spend way more on lobbying in the United States than does Israel. Again, Israel is not in the Top Ten. And has made clear that it's going to reduce its receipts to zero within five years. 

But, it's, you know... "yada, yada, yada... it's Israel wot done it!" Or " this, this, this..... it's the Jews wot done it". 

Many other lies about Israel. 

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The biggest threat to Israel: terrorists in the “West Bank” | The Israel Guys

 

These days, Atheist Zionist that I am, I prefer to call the “West Bank” by its historical name, aka its Biblical name, “Judea and Samaria”.

Where, we see the Israel Guys, on the ground, describe the real and present danger of terrorism from some 2 million Arabs living there. 

To the international Left, these are not terrorists, but “freedom fighters”. They can only be so of you believe Israel has no right to exist on its own, never-abandoned, indigenous land. 

But I do accept Israel’s historical, legal and occupational right to exist. So, to me, as to the Israel Guys, they remain terrorists. Whose simple aim is explicitly genocidal: to kill the Jews, to drive them out of the Middle East and to make it “Judenrein”, Jew-free. 

Note the high level of support for Hamas in the Palestinian areas of Judea and Samaria: up to 80%, according to polls in 2025. 

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Jimmy Carr Islamic Jokes

Can't do his Islamic jokes and here's why @jimmycarr 🥳

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This is pretty funny! Knowing, but funny!

"What are the Christians going to do? Forgive me??

This House belives that... Thoughts on Iraq, Iran, and the justification for war

This House believes that... 

... we believed that the 2003 Iraq war was wrong. We all believed that, in this house, unanimously, at the time. Ditto the war in Afghanistan. 

We remember Colin Powell making the case for attacking Iraq in the United Nations. We were unconvinced. Powell later admitted that he'd oversold the "evidence" and apologised. Gee, thanks Col.... 

I remember a simple case counter-terror czar Richard Clarke made against the the 2003 Iraq war: 

"Attacking Iraq after 911 is like attacking Mexico after Pearl Harbour". 

We, in this House, agreed with Clarke, and we were right. It did turn out to be a mistake. (Though the attack and military operations were successful, the Occupation was not so). 

Now we have the war in Iran, Operation Epic Fury. 

On this one, this House is divided. I support it. Others don't. 

I support it because I believe the dangers Iran poses. I believe Iran poses serious, clear and present existential dangers to us all in the west. 

Iran, its Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), its Supreme Leader, all repeat the same thing. They chant it before every parliamentary meeting: "Death to Israel, Death to America, Death to the West". 

They mean it!

They have been working to achieve that. They fund powerful proxies in the region, as a "Circle of Fire" around the "Little Satan" of Israel: Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis. 

They spend more on digging vast tunnels than they spend on health care. They spend more on drones that on schools. They spend more on Hamas than on Hospitals. 

The attack America and the West, over and over. Here's a list. 

Their aim is for a world of one religion only: Islam. Their Shia version. 

They have been working hard to get an arsenal of nuclear bombs. 

This was clear even during the time of Obama's "Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action". After the signing of the JCPOA, United Nations weapons inspectors reported that Iran had repeatedly breached the deal. 

Meantime the JCPOA did not even cover the program of building Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles. Iran were free to build as many of those as they wished. Some deal!

These are missiles they will aim at Europe first. The Supreme Leader and the IRGC have said the "Black Flag of Islam" will fly over the St Peter's. How much of resistance would Rome offer if an ICBM were to land in the middle of the Vatican? Please let's not test this. 

The IGRC say their aim is to have an ICBM reach the United States. Building ICBMs was nowhere covered in the JCPOA. Go figure that one. Gee thanks, Barack....

I followed this issue over the years. Debates by experts, at the likes of Intelligence Squared, ended with wins for the side doubting the value of the JCPOA. 

No wonder. And good riddance to a bad deal. 

If Iran achieve the building of a nuclear weapon, their leadership repeatedly said they would use it on Israel. And then on Europe. And then on the United States.

Iran's madman theocrats are determined to vanquish the world in the name of their millenarian Shia Islam. That's a fact.  

I would have supported any military action against Iran by any president since 1979. I didn't care if it was Jimmy Carter, or George H.W. Bush, or Bill Clinton, or George W. Bush, or Barack Obama, or Donald Trump. Just so long as the threat was attacked and neutralised. 

None of them did. Until Trump. I salute his brave decision. Others hate him for it. 

Whether he succeeds or fails, at least the has the guts to take on Iran, the largest, the most serious, the most clear and present existential threat to the West. 

On the other side, we have those against this war. 

I grant that they may have genuine concerns about it. 

But what I'm seeing is that their opposition is more because they don't like Trump. 

Some have said it outright: "If the war ends and Trump and Bibi survive, we've lost the war". These people -- which is all the Mainstream Media and pretty much all the Democratic Party, apart from John Fetterman -- hate the war because they hate Trump. That's not a reason!

They are cheering for an American loss in the war, so that Trump loses. 

That, to me, is disgusting. You're free to oppose the war. But not just because you hate Trump. You're hoping for America to fail, because you loathe Trump??!

Make a better case. 

This House believes that whether your support or oppose Operation Epic Fury, you should have reasons. I mean decent, based, reasons. Not because you hate the Orange Man. 

I've set out my reasons, above. If you oppose the war, what are your reasons? 

ADDED: Then Florida Senator Marco Rubio (now Secretary of State) set out the reasons we have to be worried about Iran, back in 2015. Eleven years ago. It's worn well. 

Perfect, Marco! Link here. 

What’s going on in the Hormuz Strait? | Navy Decoded

 

This channel, Navy Decoded, is unabashedly patriotic, pro-America, pro-Navy, describing the positive side of Operation Epic Fury.

It’s a counter to the unashamedly unpatriotic, anti-war mainstream media. The CNNs, MSNBCs, ABCs. 

The MSM and Party Democrats may have good reasons to oppose this Iran war. But even if they think war against the Iran regime is a good idea, they’re against it. Because … it’s Trump's war. And anything Trump, they want the opposite. Including for America to lose a war. 

Early in the video above talks a of the difference between tanks in World War Two. The German Tiger Tank was superior to the American Bradley. But the Bradley was made on production lines. Result: many more Bradleys than Tigers. Bigger result: the Bradleys won. 

That’s the same issue we’re hearing so much about now in Iran. Cheap Iranian drones downed by multi million dollar American missiles. How long can that go on? Well, America solves this quandary by destroying the drone and fast-boat production facilities. As described in the vid above. And by reverse engineering the Iranian Shahed drone as the American made LUCAS drone.

In sum: this vid is a counterbalance to the anti-war mainstream media. A counter to the media’s clear-deep hope that America should lose. America should lose, because… well… because Trump.

It’s also a pretty interesting video!