Monday, April 13, 2026

04/12 Links: Trump orders blockade of Strait of Hormuz; Defending Israel in an Age of Madness; A Palestinian Constitution of Contradictions: Democracy in Form, Exclusion in Substance

From Ian:

Amb. Michael Oren: Defending Israel in an Age of Madness
For the past 50 years, in capacities both official and voluntary, I have spent most of my time defending the State of Israel.

Standing up for Israel became especially daunting after Oct. 7, 2023, when the victims of a verifiable genocide were baselessly accused of perpetrating one.

Conspiracy theories once considered fringe had become mainstream, and age-old antisemitic tropes had resurfaced in a presumption of Jewish wickedness.

America's national derangement is virtually insurmountable for the defenders of Israel.

Though readily disproven, Israel's guilt for annihilating an entire people is today accepted by more than half of the general public.

Many favor Palestinian anti-American terrorists over America's only dependable, democratic, military ally.

For many decades, advocates for Israel and Zionism wielded the weapon of truth. We produced volumes of "myths and facts" about the conflict. But how should we react when rampant unreason is infused with antisemitism?

In this new, twisted American universe, Oct. 7 was a false flag operation in which Israel massacred and kidnapped its own people as a pretext for occupying Gaza, and ZAKA volunteers staged the rape scenes at the Nova Festival.

Ayman Mohamad Ghazali, the terrorist who drove his car into a Michigan synagogue, was portrayed by NPR as a gentle, otherwise law-abiding citizen with genuine grievances. The New York Times eulogized Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who butchered his own people.

Amid such bedlam, try to advance a logical argument about why Israelis, threatened by a regime sworn to annihilate us and industriously producing the means of doing so, might not want to sit passively until it strikes.

The classic antisemitic canard of the cunning Jew winding the unwitting gentile around his crooked finger has been embraced by most of the American press.

Yet we must continue to battle the madness - even if we can only dent it here and there.

We can reinforce those who remain moored in morality and believe in the need to defeat evil in the world.
Israel Today Faces Far Fewer Threats than It Did Before
After the ceasefire in Iran, Israel today faces far fewer significant threats than it did before. Iran, in turn, is considerably weaker than it was. While not all of the war's aims were achieved, enough was accomplished to significantly improve Israel's strategic position and security. The inability to remove all the enriched uranium or bring a conclusive end to the rule of the clerical regime in Tehran does not mean that the war has not fundamentally changed the regional reality. It has.

The War of Independence did not end with all of Israel's aspirations fulfilled. Before the war, the Jews did not have a state; afterward, they did. Some 6,000 people - out of a Jewish population of roughly 600,000 - were killed. There was no peace, only armistice agreements. The economy was in shambles. Yet the fundamental reality had changed.

Before Oct. 7, Iran was steadily advancing toward nuclear capability, building ballistic missiles at a fast clip, actively preparing and prepping its proxies for Israel's destruction. Today, Hizbullah and Hamas - the tentacles of the Iranian octopus - have been cut back sharply and the head of the octopus is stunned and battered. Is it a complete victory? No. But is it significant? Unquestionably.

Those arguing that nothing was achieved are, in effect, arguing that Iran will rebuild and rearm, resting on the flawed assumption that Israel will simply sit back and allow that to happen. But Israel has changed. The key lesson of Oct. 7 is that it is no longer possible to assume that those who openly declare their intent to destroy you will ultimately be restrained by your power. They will not, because their calculus is often shaped by ideological, religious, even messianic factors that lie outside conventional logic.

As a result, Israel's doctrine has shifted to actively preventing the enemy from building capabilities. Some argue that the war will only intensify Iran's drive for a nuclear program. That may be so. But Israel and the U.S. have a strong incentive to prevent Iran from doing so. Iran can rebuild its nuclear and military capacities only if they allow it. It is reasonable to assume that they will not.

Iran's claim of victory despite its tremendous losses is reminiscent of Egypt's victory claim after the 1973 Yom Kippur War - a war in which, by most objective military measures, Egypt lost.
Nobody in Israel Dreamed the Americans Would Join the Attack on Iran
Aryeh Deri interviewed by Amit Segal (Israel Hayom)

Shas party chairman Aryeh Deri, after Prime Minister Netanyahu, is the most veteran player on the Israeli political field, with experience across cabinets and governments for 38 years. He sat in the Security Cabinet sessions related to the Iran war.

Q: Did we win?

Deri: "Yes."

Q: A decisive victory?

Deri: "I don't understand the phrase 'decisive victory.' Did we go into this campaign facing a grave threat to the Jewish people, and thank God we pushed back that threat in a very significant way? Clearly yes."

"What did we want to stop all these years? Just the nuclear weapons story. We never dreamed we could strike inside Iran. So we started with Operation Rising Lion [June 2025], when our planes flew through Iranian skies and caused enormous damage and halted the race to nuclear weapons. That's true - they didn't eliminate everything, because the nuclear material was deep underground. But we neutralized most of their scientists, struck heavily at the entire weapons industry, and pushed them back months or years."

"They were already at a stage where they were starting to move their missile industry and their weapons industry underground, too. Within a few months, we would not have been able to do anything. Everyone talks about nuclear weapons, but the ballistic threat is no less dangerous - in some ways even greater - because you don't use nuclear weapons quickly, but ballistic missiles? Freely." "The IDF chief of staff and the Mossad director...asked...that the Americans give their consent and provide protection. Nobody dreamed the Americans would join the attack....I never dreamed the Americans would go with us for 38 days and drop close to 20,000 munitions there....I tell you again with full responsibility - Netanyahu did not say to Trump and to the American administration anything that, God forbid, we didn't believe to be true."

"The goal was to create conditions for the regime's fall, and I think we created those conditions. That's actually why I think the ceasefire is a blessing - there's a greater chance the regime will fall from within. Iran begged for a ceasefire."

Q: Aren't you worried about a growing sense in America that we dragged them into a war that wasn't theirs?

Deri: "That has nothing to do with Iran. We have a problem with the Democrats, and somewhat with some Republicans, too. But precisely because of that, this period with Trump in power is a major opportunity for Israel to cement its regional standing. In the end, the Americans - whatever administration - will understand that their real ally is us."
Who is Peter Magyar, the man who ended Orban's reign?
Orban portrayed Magyar as an envoy of the Brussels-based EU establishment and as a Ukrainian agent, to the point that at times it seemed his real rival was Volodymyr Zelenskyy rather than Magyar. Orban and his allies repeatedly claimed that Magyar would drag Hungary into the war in Ukraine, an issue that worries Hungarians in part because of the country's energy dependence on Russia. In the final stretch of the campaign, pro-government media circulated allegations that Magyar used drugs, prompting him to travel to Vienna for tests at an independent laboratory to disprove them. Earlier, in February, Magyar announced that Orbán's associates were planning to publish a secretly filmed sex tape of him.

Magyar's rise changed the face of the opposition. Left-wing and center-left parties withdrew from the race one after another so as not to split the anti-Orban vote and to give Magyar a chance. The election effectively became a contest between right and right. The scale of the victory is critical: a two-thirds majority in parliament would allow Magyar to amend the constitution shaped by Orbán over 16 years in power, while a narrow majority would leave his hands tied against state institutions Orbán has filled with his own loyalists.

Magyar's victory is expected to shift the balance of power in the European Union. Russia will lose one of its main assets on the continent. For years, Orban served as an almost automatic blocker of sanctions on Moscow and aid to Ukraine, and with Magyar's victory that automatic veto is expected to disappear. Magyar has promised pragmatic relations with Moscow, while at the same time reducing Hungary's energy dependence on Russia and aligning with EU positions.

The election is also especially critical for Israel. Under Orban, Hungary was Israel's closest friend in the European Union and repeatedly blocked anti-Israel initiatives in Brussels. Magyar, by contrast, maintained deliberate ambiguity throughout the campaign on anything related to Israel, and in Jerusalem the assumption is that even if he is not hostile, he will not clash with the European Union on Israel's behalf.


Trump orders blockade of Strait of Hormuz
U.S. President Donald Trump announced on Sunday that the U.S. Navy would immediately begin blockading the Strait of Hormuz following the collapse of marathon negotiations with Iran aimed at ending almost six weeks of war, placing a fragile two-week ceasefire at risk.

In a post on Truth Social, Trump said the United States would interdict vessels that had paid tolls to Iran and begin clearing naval mines that Tehran had deployed in the strategic waterway, a chokepoint through which some 20% of global energy supplies transit.

“Effective immediately, the United States Navy, the Finest in the World, will begin the process of BLOCKADING any and all Ships trying to enter, or leave, the Strait of Hormuz,” Trump wrote. “I have also instructed our Navy to seek and interdict every vessel in International Waters that has paid a toll to Iran. No one who pays an illegal toll will have safe passage on the high seas.”

Trump further warned that “any Iranian who fires at us, or at peaceful vessels, will be BLOWN TO HELL.”

The statement followed approximately 21 hours of talks in Islamabad mediated by Pakistan, which ended without agreement on terms to halt the conflict that began on Feb. 28. U.S. officials said the negotiations failed due to Iran’s refusal to commit to abandoning a pathway to nuclear weapons capability, while Iranian officials accused Washington of failing to build trust.

Vice President JD Vance, who led the U.S. delegation, said following the talks that the United States required “an affirmative commitment that [the Iranians] will not seek a nuclear weapon, and they will not seek the tools that would enable them to quickly achieve a nuclear weapon.”

Vance left Pakistan on Sunday after the talks broke down. “The bad news is that we have not reached an agreement, and I think that’s bad news for Iran much more than it’s bad news for the United States of America,” he said.

Tehran opted “not to accept our terms,” Vance declared, speaking alongside Steve Witkoff, U.S. special envoy for peace missions, and Jared Kushner, who advises his father-in-law, the U.S. president.


How the Iran War Is Reordering the World - Second and Third-Order Effects
Five weeks into the U.S-Israeli war against Iran, the more consequential story is playing out in the war's cascading second- and third-order effects: the economic shock reverberating through global energy and food systems, the hardening of the Iranian regime, the fracturing of alliance structures Washington has depended on for eight decades, the accelerating consolidation of a Russia-China axis, and the humanitarian emergencies now metastasizing far from any battlefield. These downstream consequences are rapidly outpacing the conflict itself in strategic significance, and they will shape the international order long after the last missile is fired.

The closure of the Strait of Hormuz has choked the global supply of sulfur (Gulf countries account for 45% of global output), helium, aluminum feedstocks, and - most critically - fertilizer. 1/3 of global seaborne fertilizer trade transits the Strait. Bangladesh, Pakistan, India, and several East African nations - which depend on Gulf fertilizer imports and have limited stockpiles - face the prospect of a food security crisis.

After the installation of Mojtaba Khamenei as Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei's successor, the network his father built over 37 years ensures continuity of the system's core commitments. His value to the regime is totemic: a wounded son of a martyred leader, governing from the shadows while the security apparatus runs the country.

The foundational narrative of the Islamic Republic emphasizes survival against overwhelming odds. What is emerging in Tehran is a garrison state. The IRGC and the wider security apparatus are now in effective control of governance, economic policy, and foreign affairs. Any future diplomatic engagement will confront an Iranian interlocutor that is more traumatized and more committed to the nuclear hedge.
Jonathan Sacerdoti: Washington and Tehran are locked in a jungle fight
The talks in Pakistan were never framed as anything sentimental. They were a pause – an attempt to see whether pressure, already applied, could be turned into terms. Two weeks to take stock after the kind of sustained American military pressure that forces decisions. And also, a nod towards mounting international ‘pressure’ from allies spooked by rising prices and ’the cost of living’. For Keir Starmer, for example, the talks granted an opportunity to go to the Gulf to make an Instagram reel. For the Pope, they offered a chance for literal pontification in a mini series of tone-deaf X posts about prayer. Neither the British nor the Vatican intervention added much.

There had been brief indications the talks might continue into another round. Drafts were reportedly exchanged and discussions extended for several hours. But the breakdown appears definitive, for now at least. Pakistani pressure to keep both sides at the table ultimately failed to prevent the American withdrawal.

The public messaging from Washington remained defiant. President Trump had already stated that the United States would ‘win regardless’ of whether a deal materialised. In parallel, this afternoon he announced the US navy will ‘BLOCKADE any and all Ships trying to enter, or leave, the Strait of Hormuz’. His message is typically blunt: there is no rush to resume full-scale military action as before right away but the strait will continue to be the battleground without an agreement.

Tehran, for its part, has signalled both defiance and preparation. Iranian officials insist the strait will reopen on their terms, while internal messaging suggests the regime is bracing for a prolonged confrontation. Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps sources claimed to have dismantled espionage networks linked to the United States and Israel in Hamedan, Semnan and Gilan provinces, with state-linked media reporting dozens of arrests. At the same time, there are signs of tightening control over nuclear assets. Satellite imagery indicates that access points to underground facilities at the Isfahan complex have been physically obstructed, suggesting an effort to secure sensitive material and harden the site against potential strikes or capture.

It’s all part of an elaborate dance – a David Attenborough sequence set deep in the jungle. Two beasts, pushing forward, pulling back, watching for a reaction. The smaller creatures gather round to watch in awe, feeling the force of each move. And the effects don’t stay there: they carry. Across the Gulf, into Israel, into shipping lanes and energy prices that move up and down with each new development. Into the daily lives of ordinary Israelis, Iranians and Lebanese.

That is where the rest of the jungle comes into view, in how others begin to position themselves. The Qatari mouthpiece Al Jazeera leans firmly towards Tehran, framing the talks around ‘impossible’ American demands and Iranian strength. Saudi and Emirati outlets take a different line, focusing on the Strait of Hormuz and the US effort to neutralise that leverage. Across Arab social media, the tone shifts again, less concerned with narrative and more with what comes next, already bracing for escalation.

In the jungle, the smaller creatures do not debate the fight; they watch for signs – who is wounded, who still has strength, who might be the next king – and they adjust accordingly. It is their movement which can reveal what is really going on. What happened in Islamabad is not yet an ending, just another move in a lethal war that affects us all.
Andrew Fox: I stood in a Hezbollah tunnel. The UK is wrong to treat Israel as the problem
The British government’s position on Israel’s operations in Lebanon has become incoherent. In March, Britain twice joined statements saying that Hezbollah’s attacks on Israel must cease, the group must disarm, and that responsibility for the situation lay with Hezbollah. Yet on April 9, Yvette Cooper called Israel’s latest strikes “deeply damaging” and insisted that Lebanon be folded into wider ceasefire diplomacy. If Hezbollah bears responsibility, Israel cannot then be treated as the principal problem for trying to dismantle the force that opened this front.

Israel did not start the northern war. Hezbollah did. It opened fire on October 8, 2023, one day after Hamas’s massacre, forcing the evacuation of around 60,000 Israelis from border towns and villages. This came after years during which Hezbollah, an Iran-backed militia founded in 1982 and built around violent opposition to Israel, amassed a vast rocket and missile arsenal. Pre-war estimates ranged from 120,000 to 200,000 rockets and missiles. Calling Israel the aggressor turns cause and effect upside down.

Our government also treats Lebanon as a normal sovereign actor capable of controlling events on its own territory. Lebanon’s sovereignty is hollow; Hezbollah has long functioned as a state within a state. Hezbollah is militarily stronger than the Lebanese Armed Forces, Hezbollah fighters are better paid and better armed. The LAF, hollowed out by Lebanon’s financial collapse, has needed foreign salary support while Hezbollah is operating on a $50 million monthly budget, mostly from Iranian money laundered through Turkey and the UAE. No serious observer could call that a state monopoly on force. Lebanon lives under a zombie militia-state, subsidised by Tehran, which decides questions of war and peace.

That same unreality has governed the West’s treatment of UNIFIL. Resolution 1701 was supposed to leave the area between the Blue Line and the Litani free of armed personnel and weapons other than those of Lebanon’s government and UNIFIL, yet UNIFIL’s own guidance says peacekeepers report only violations of 1701. They do not operate under rules of engagement that allow them to enforce 1701 in any meaningful sense. The result is the strategic farce Israel has lived with for nearly two decades: an international mission that watches as Hezbollah entrenches, stores weapons, builds underground infrastructure and prepares for the next round.

Before October 7, the nightmare scenario for many Israelis in the north was Hezbollah’s Radwan force. In early 2023, Hezbollah published footage of Radwan fighters simulating an invasion of northern Israel. Israeli officials had long feared a cross-border massacre from Lebanon. After October 7, those fears could no longer be dismissed as alarmist. A state that has just seen one border community overrun is not obliged to gamble that another enemy, openly rehearsing the same, does not mean what it says.

I saw the physical reality of that threat for myself in November 2024, when I visited a captured Hezbollah tunnel in Maroun al-Ras. It was a highly engineered underground complex carved through solid chalk, with air conditioning, fire suppression, full electrics and tiled living quarters.

The IDF recovered anti-tank weapons, machine guns and ammunition in quantity. The layout was militarily telling: this was essentially a staging location, rather than a defensive position. Fighters could converge from elsewhere in Lebanon, enter via the entrance in a cemetery, change, arm up, and move towards the border.


The War the Arab World Is Watching
Western coverage of Operation Epic Fury has unfolded almost entirely on Iran’s own terms.

The dominant frame across European and American commentary treats the Islamic Republic as the aggrieved party narrating its resistance, and the discussion in mainstream outlets and across social media platforms has largely been organized around what Iran claims, what Iran endures, and what Iran dares to threaten.

This frame leaves an enormous gap in the picture, and the gap is the Arab world — a civilization that has spent forty years watching the Islamic Republic erode its institutional, theological, and cultural foundations.

To grasp what is actually happening in the Middle East, a Western observer needs to hold three dimensions simultaneously, and the architecture of Western political debate makes this structurally difficult, if not in certain cases impossible.

Three Things the West Cannot See
The first is the Arab relationship with Iran. From the vantage point of Brussels or London, Iran presents itself as a resistance movement with a grievance against American hegemony and Israeli occupation, and this presentation maps comfortably onto familiar Western anticolonial frameworks.

What it does not map onto is the lived experience of Arab populations in Lebanon, Iraq, Yemen, Bahrain, Syria, and across the Gulf. In those countries, Iran's presence meant Hezbollah holding the Lebanese state hostage to Tehran's decisions, thirty-five armed factions in Iraq drawing salaries from Iranian funds channeled through the Iraqi national treasury, and Houthi commanders answering to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps while firing on Arab civilians from Yemeni soil. Freedom is not the word any serious Arab observer would use for what Iran brought.

Indeed, the Arab world's quarrel with Iran runs far deeper than American bases or Israeli airstrikes. What drives it is the systematic subversion of Arab sovereignty by a foreign power that uses the language of Islamic solidarity as cover for an imperial project conducted through proxies.
The Iranian Regime Can Claim It Stood Up to America and Israel
The Islamic Republic gains strength among those Iranian men who still believe in the revolution. These believers still seek a defining struggle of good vs. evil.

The hardened men who rule Iran see this war in existential terms. Its rulers truly believe that the country's vast internal dissent is in part fueled by foreign conspiracies.

Compromising on anything fundamental through diplomacy with Washington threatens the regime at home. Too much of the Islamic Republic's aura has already been compromised.

The regime can now claim, with some justification, that it stood up to America and Israel and beat the Great Satan in the Strait of Hormuz. The Persian Gulf has become Tehran's indispensable hostage.
The New York Times’ hate-filled agenda drags on
It’s not as if the ranks of antisemites were thinning and reinforcements are needed.

Nevertheless, haters of Israel and President Trump, in the media and elsewhere, have a new rationale for their condemnation of America’s involvement in the Iran war.

According to the latest blame-the-Jews bile, Trump was persuaded to attack the Islamist regime only by a deceptive “hard sell” from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Otherwise, we are supposed to believe that peace would be breaking out in the Middle East instead of yet another war.

A chief peddler of this fable is, predictably, The New York Times.

A font of misinformation and biased reporting about everything Trump, starting with the Russia, Russia, Russia hoax in his first term.

The paper was also a leading proponent of the false claim that Israel committed “genocide” in Gaza and was intentionally starving children.

It saw no evil either in Hamas or a murderous Ayatollah seeking nuclear weapons and is now combining its obsessions to push distorted allegations against Trump and Israel over Iran.

The “evidence” comes from two Times’ reporters who claim they got an exclusive view of a crucial February meeting of American and Israeli leaders in the top secret White House Situation Room.

Because the room is supposedly secure, anyone who gave the paper details and even direct quotations, assuming they are accurate, had to have been there — and likely committed a federal crime.

The story included descriptions of who sat where and who said what, including the reactions of Trump and members of his national security team to a presentation by Netanyahu.


Former CENTCOM Chief: U.S. and Israel Need to Monitor Iran's Missiles and Enriched Uranium
Former U.S. CENTCOM Chief Gen. Kenneth "Frank" McKenzie Jr., who integrated Israel into CENTCOM following the Abraham Accords, said in an interview: "[Iran's] ballistic missiles are more dangerous than the nuclear issue. There must be some limiting governing mechanisms." No matter what is agreed to on paper, "how you enforce that with an overhead monitoring regime with a long-term commitment" is crucial. The bottom line was that the U.S. and Israel need to be ready to employ coercion. "If you build it, we will strike."

On the nuclear issue, McKenzie said that the most crucial question was not what Iran might promise, but having "an intrusive nuclear inspections regime. I cannot see a way forward which does not involve that." Regarding Iran's 60%-enriched uranium buried under rubble in multiple bombed sites, he said the key was the regime knowing that any attempts they might make to retrieve the uranium would be struck by the U.S. and Israel.

"The Strait of Hormuz must be open - demonstrably open. There are lots of ways to do that." If Iran stalls on the issue, McKenzie said the U.S. could "seize Kharg Island, which would shut down Iran's oil export capabilities....Maybe we don't need to put people on the shore....We can just make it impossible on those islands" for Iran to operate. The U.S. could "control those islands by fire - if the Iranians show up on the island, we kill them."
Amb. Alan Baker: A Palestinian Constitution of Contradictions: Democracy in Form, Exclusion in Substance
The recently published Palestinian Constitution, adopted in February 2026, reveals the true nature and intentions of any putative Palestinian state. It precludes any negotiated peace solution and overlooks the Palestinian commitment in the internationally-acknowledged 1993-5 Oslo Accords with Israel to negotiate an agreement on the permanent status of the territories and to live in peace with Israel. By advocating this constitution, the Palestinians are violating and undermining one of the most fundamental provisions of the Oslo Accords.

The constitution refers in Article 3 to Jerusalem as the capital of the State of Palestine and commits to protecting its Christian sanctities. However, it entirely ignores the significant and ancient Jewish history and presence in Jerusalem. This includes Jewish holy places that are the epicenter of Judaism, central to the Jewish religion, and rich in historic Jewish heritage.

Article 12's reference to a "right of return" for refugees - intended to demographically undermine Israel - is particularly objectionable, given that no such right exists in international law. This also blatantly ignores the Palestinian commitment in the Oslo Accords to negotiate with Israel over refugees.

The inherent dichotomy between this strange Palestinian constitution and the hopes of Western leaders, based on a healthy dose of wishful thinking, for peaceful coexistence with Israel is glaring.
Khaled Abu Toameh: Hamas Signals No Retreat: The US Fantasy of Disarmament and Peace
Hamas remains fully committed to jihad (holy war) and rejects disarmament.

The "Board of Peace" is therefore confronting a harsh reality: Hamas, like Iran, is not motivated by deadlines, incentives, or promises of reconstruction. It is motivated by ideology and by war.

In Hamas's worldview, the war is not about the Gaza Strip. It is about reshaping the Middle East -- and beyond -- in its own image.

Any policy based on the assumption that Hamas can be persuaded to disarm is simply detached from reality.

The danger is that this rhetoric is designed to inflame public opinion in Arab and Islamic countries against their own governments, potentially destabilizing countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain that have chosen a path of pragmatism, normalization, and cooperation with Israel and the West.

Hamas remains a partner of Iran's regional war machine, a committed enemy of peace, and a direct threat to the stability of the Middle East.

The question is whether the US is ready to listen.
Hamas reps to meet Egyptian negotiators in Cairo
Hamas representatives were expected to hold talks with Egyptian mediators in Cairo on Sunday to discuss the implementation of U.S. President Donald Trump’s peace plan for the Gaza Strip, two Hamas officials told AFP.

The talks will also be focused on “halting Israeli violations,” one Hamas official said, speaking on condition of anonymity as he was not authorized to speak with the press.

According to the official, the terrorist group will stress the need for the Israel Defense Forces to withdraw from Gaza, fully reopen the Strip’s borders, increase the number of crossings and allow greater volumes of humanitarian aid to enter the enclave.

The Hamas delegation will also meet with representatives of other Palestinian terrorist organizations to discuss those issues, the second Hamas official told AFP.

On Thursday, the Israeli military eliminated two Palestinian terrorists who were planning “imminent” terror attacks against soldiers deployed in the Strip, the IDF said on Friday.

In southern Gaza, the IDF killed Mahmoud Barim, a terrorist in the Al-Mujahideen Brigades, the military arm of the Palestinian Mujahideen Movement, a group that splintered from Fatah. Barim “monitored IDF troop activity and possessed a large quantity of weapons,” according to the military.

In the northern Strip, the IDF struck Ahmed Mohammed Saleh, a Hamas Nukhba Force terrorist “who had carried out and advanced numerous terror attacks,” it said. Several additional Hamas terrorists were also hit in the strike.


Eve Barlow: Me llamo Borat
Hear me out: Spain is completely demented about Jewish people. And no, it’s not about Israel. Spain’s Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, not only removed the Spanish embassy from Israel some weeks ago, he just reinstated the Spanish embassy in Tehran, rendering Spain a proxy to the IRGC and the Islamic regime — officially. That was not on my bingo card for 2026. You don’t remove your ambassador from a country because you don’t like its government. Sanchez hasn’t removed the Spanish embassy from America, for instance, because his enemy Trump defies socialism.

This week the Abraham Global Peace Initiative condemned the actions of Sánchez’s government. They said he: “has crossed every diplomatic line by withdrawing Spain’s ambassador from Israel while reopening its embassy in Tehran. His call on the European Union to suspend its Association Agreement with Israel further underscores a deeply troubling and one-sided agenda. Such moves reflect a profound moral inversion at a time requiring clarity and leadership. His harsh anti-Israel rhetoric says far more about his political posture than it does about Israel.”

As a result of this, Israel rightfully expelled Spain from America’s Civil Military Coordination Center in Kiryat Gat, with support from the US, over its ‘obsessive anti-Israel bias’ and Spain will no longer be allowed to participate in Trump’s peace plan for the Gaza Strip. That means no advocacy for real-life Palestinians in a real-life peace proposal. No ability to impact the aid that goes into Gaza. No voice or contribution in this at all, confirming that Spain’s posturing around Palestine really didn’t have anything to do with people in Gaza. It had to do with Jews.

Some argue that it is a result of the communist government’s rhetoric that such a mentally deranged hatred for Jews has exploded in Spain. Those people are naive. Spain is a country that never enlightened itself about its past. It has refused to incorporate its deplorable treatment of its Jewish communities (its country’s builders) in its history. It seems Spain was a little too attached to the obsessional fiction, despite only now having a community of 50,000 Jews, who need a voice.

The stage in the province of Malaga is mass psychosis. If you’re exploding en effigy of a Jew in public and cheering, and it’s not a scene in the satirical movie Borat, it is medieval Jew hatred. And what it signifies goes deeply personal. If you’re Jewish and you’ve been scratching your heads since 2023, wondering what happened to your life and your career and your friends and your family, wonder no longer. This is what happened. The world went bananas with Jew hatred again.

They are garden variety simpleton racists. That’s all that’s been going on since 2023. Whatever smear they imagined, whatever conspiracy, whatever re-write of reality, it was classic anti-Jewish libel. Their minds have been poisoned by their hatred of Jews.

In 48 Laws Of Power, Robert Greene notes: “People's need for validation and recognition, their need to feel important, is the best kind of weakness to exploit.” This goes a long way to explain the ideological capture of Spain; a country that has been increasingly vocal, dressing itself up as a principled outlier and champion of human rights, deviating from other EU countries. In reality, Spain has a victim complex, and is committing a suicide upon itself to prove its virtue, recently granting 500,000 undocumented migrants legal status.

Just you wait. They’ll be burning women at the stake in Al Andalus next.


CIA reportedly used Pegasus software for deception op during rescue of airman in Iran
The CIA used Israeli-made Pegasus software to carry out a deception campaign in Iran amid the effort to retrieve the second of two downed US airmen last weekend, the Times of London reported.

The spyware, widely used by the CIA, is mostly known as a means of hacking into devices in order to eavesdrop on communications and discreetly harvest data.

But it also allows operators to send fake WhatsApp or Signal messages that appear to come from the user of the phone that was hacked.

According to the Times report on Friday, the American spy agency used Pegasus to send messages to the Iranian leadership and Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps operatives saying that the downed US airman had already been found.

US officials have publicly spoken about the subterfuge efforts, but none has made explicit reference to the Pegasus software thus far.

Pegasus, made by the Israeli-founded NSO company, has come under controversy for reported use by Saudi Arabia, India, and Poland’s previous, right-wing government, among others, to clamp down on dissent.

The Times also followed up on reports that the US possesses a unique technology that can detect an individual’s heartbeat from dozens of miles away, and that it was through this so-called Ghost Murmur system that forces first identified the airman, who was hiding in a crevice 7,000 feet up a mountain in the desert.

The technology — which would appear to surpass anything publicly known, given that a heartbeat is too faint for known technology to detect from even mere dozens of yards away — was first reported on by The New York Post.


Israel pummels Hezbollah’s ‘last stronghold’ in southern Lebanon
Israel Defense Forces entered Bint Jbeil, a city in southern Lebanon on Sunday, Israel’s Channel 12 reported. The army has called it the “last stronghold” of the terror group Hezbollah that threatens northern Israeli settlements. It expects to conquer it in the coming days.

Lebanon’s National News Agency on Sunday described “violent clashes” in the city amid Israeli artillery shelling. The IDF said dozens of terrorists have fled to Bint Jbeil, which it has surrounded for several days.

Bint Jbeil is considered a symbol of Hezbollah “resistance.” Its former Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah delivered his infamous “cobweb” speech from the city on May 26, 2020 during Israel’s evacuation from Lebanon under then-Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak.

“This Israel, with its nuclear weapons and most advanced warplanes in the region, I swear by Allah, is actually weaker than a spider’s web,” Nasrallah said. “Israeli society is war-weary and lacks the resilience to endure a bloody conflict or suffer casualties. Israel may appear strong from the outside, but it’s easily destroyed and defeated.”

Nasrallah was eliminated by Israel in Sept. 2024.

Israel has announced it intends to clear southern Lebanon of terrorists up to the Litani River to protect its northern residents. Hezbollah has repeatedly broken its pledge to evacuate its forces from the area, which it agreed to do as part of an Israel-Lebanon ceasefire deal reached in November 2024. On March 2, Hezbollah attacked Israel in solidarity with Iran.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on April 9 that Israel will hold direct dialogue with Lebanon with a view to disarming Hezbollah.

Israel is reportedly under pressure from the Trump administration to wrap up its operations in Lebanon as part of a ceasefire with Iran announced on April 8, even though it contradicts earlier statements by Israel and the U.S. that the Iran agreement does not include Israel’s actions to bring the terrorist group to heel.


IDF says it raided hospital used by Hezbollah in terror group’s Bint Jbeil stronghold
The Israeli military advanced into the southern Lebanon town of Bint Jbeil, a Hezbollah stronghold, on Sunday, Lebanese media reported, as the army said it raided a hospital in the area where terror operatives had been holed up.

Lebanon’s official news agency reported “fierce clashes” between the Israeli military and Hezbollah in Bint Jbeil. In recent days, the Israel Defense Forces encircled Bint Jbeil as it worked to clear the town of terror operatives and the group’s infrastructure.

Bint Jbeil is considered a symbol of Hezbollah. During the Second Lebanon War in 2006, the IDF battled the terror group in the town but failed to capture it fully. Earlier, in May 2000, after the IDF withdrew from southern Lebanon following an 18-year occupation, then-Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah delivered a victory speech in Bint Jbeil, where he infamously described Israel as “weaker than a spider web.”

“There is still more to do, and we are doing it,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday after a visit to Israeli-controlled territory in southern Lebanon.

“We have thwarted the threat of an invasion from Lebanon thanks to this security zone,” Netanyahu said. “We are pushing back the danger of anti-tank fire and also dealing with rockets, but there is still more work to be done.”


IDF says Hamas terrorists who abducted, held hostages were killed in Gaza strike
The Israel Defense Forces said a strike targeting a cell of Hamas gunmen on Saturday killed a terrorist involved in abducting hostages on October 7, 2023, and two others who held another hostage in captivity in the Gaza Strip.

The strike overnight into Saturday in the central Gaza Strip killed seven people, according to the Hamas-run Gaza civil defense agency.

In response to a query by The Times of Israel on Saturday, the IDF said it had struck an armed cell of Hamas gunmen whose members had “approached the Yellow Line” and planned to carry out an “imminent” attack on Israeli forces stationed in the area.

Following a review of intelligence, the IDF said on Sunday that it could confirm that among those killed in the strike was Ali Sami Muhammad Shakra, a platoon commander in Hamas’s elite Nukhba Force.

The military said Shakra invaded Israel during the Hamas October 7 onslaught and took part in the abduction of hostages Hersh Goldberg-Polin, Alon Ohel, Eliya Cohen, and Or Levy from a roadside bomb shelter near Re’im.

Also killed in the strike were Muhammad Mabhouh, a company commander in Hamas’s Bureij Battalion, and Muhammad Fuad Gasser Sayid, a Hamas platoon commander, according to the IDF.

The military said the pair took part in holding hostage Avinatan Or in Hamas captivity during the war. The IDF published a photo showing Sayid with Or in a Hamas tunnel.


40 DAYS OF WAR AGAINST IRAN’S REGIME
After 40 days of conflict between the US, Israel, and the Iranian regime, join StandWithUs for an urgent update on the latest Special Briefing, broadcast from Israel. Our resident security expert, Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus discusses Iran, Lebanon, and next steps in conversation with StandWithUs Israel Executive Director, Michael Dickson.


FDD: FDD Morning Brief SITREP | The stakes behind the Iran ceasefire
Headlines:
The IDF said it eliminated Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem’s personal secretary in a strike near Beirut. Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam said that Beirut isn’t going to let any other government negotiate for a ceasefire on its behalf. The Trump administration is reportedly considering moving troops out of NATO countries after several of them hamstringed American efforts in Iran. Iran continues to strangle the Strait of Hormuz.

FDD Executive Director Jon Schanzer hosts a special SITREP episode of the FDD Morning Brief featuring FDD Senior Fellow Lt. Col. (Ret.) Jonathan Conricus and FDD CMPP Senior Director Bradley Bowman.

They examine the implications of the ceasefire and negotiations between the United States and the Islamic Republic of Iran.


FDD: Regime Revisionism: Tehran's War Before the Iran War | feat. Jay Solomon & Negar Mojtahedi
Back in January, the regime carried out the deadliest crackdown in modern Iranian history.

As it gunned down protesters in the streets, it launched a parallel war online. A coordinated campaign to turn a domestic uprising into a so-called CIA–Mossad plot — rewriting the story in real time and pushing that narrative deep into Western discourse.

The January crackdown and the narrative battle that accompanied it aren’t isolated incidents. They set conditions for the war that followed, shaping global perception before a single American fighter jet took flight.

So, was all of this just another page from the regime’s standard propaganda playbook? Or is information warfare now a core pillar of its survival?


FDD: The New Sultanate | Cliff May feat. Jonathan Schanzer and Sinan Ciddi
In the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks against the United States, Turkey offered a sliver of optimism in a region defined by turmoil — a Muslim-majority democracy, a NATO ally, and even a friend of Israel. But after more than two decades under the rule of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, that Turkey is long gone. So, what happened? And what does it mean for America, NATO, Israel — and the future of the Middle East? FDD Turkey experts Sinan Ciddi and Jonathan Schanzer join host Cliff May to assess Turkey’s transformation, including the strategic consequences only now coming into focus.




Law of ARMED CONFLICT: How it affects US in Iran
Cornell Law adjunct professor Dr. Brian Cox breaks down the law of armed conflict and what happens when an adversary refuses to comply on 'Life, Liberty & Levin.'




Families of Iran’s elite rounded up by ICE as lavish US lives end
Seven Iranian nationals linked to the regime in Tehran – including five The Post previously revealed were living lavish lifestyles in Los Angeles – have been targeted for removal from the US as part of a sweeping State Department crackdown.

Among the most prominent cases is the son of Masoumeh Ebtekar, known as “Screaming Mary,” who served as a spokesperson for militants involved in the 1979 US Embassy hostage crisis in Tehran.

ICE agents detained her son, Seyed Eissa Hashemi, along with his wife and child this week after The Post reported on their lifestyle in Los Angeles.

Family members initially reported him missing before authorities later confirmed he had been taken into custody.

Just a week earlier, two other Iranians with ties to slain general Qasem Soleimani were also detained.

Hamideh Soleimani Afshar, 47, and her daughter, Sarinasadat Hosseiny, 25, had their green cards revoked on April 3. Afshar is Soleimani’s niece, while Hosseiny is his grandniece.

Afshar had expressed support for the Iranian regime in public posts, including praise for its leadership and rhetoric critical of the United States.

In a separate case, Dr. Fatemeh Ardeshir-Larijani – the daughter of a senior Iranian official – and her husband, Seyed Kalantar Motamedi, were also removed from the country amid mounting political pressure.


Unmasking Hezbollah - Drug trafficking and terror (1/3) | DW Documentary
In 2008, the United States launched "Project Cassandra". The aim was to uncover how Hezbollah uses drug trafficking and money laundering to finance its military and terrorist activities. The three-part series tells the story of the project.

By 2008, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration had gathered sufficient evidence to show that Hezbollah had transformed from a military and political organization into an international crime syndicate. They were making billions from drug and arms trafficking, money laundering and other criminal activities. "Project Cassandra" was the ambitious, top-secret project designed to stop them.

On 4 August 2020, the city of Beirut was devastated by the explosion of hundreds of tons of ammonium nitrate stored in the port. All eyes turned to Hezbollah, a Shiite party and militia linked to Iran that controls a large part of Lebanon. Despite pressure from both citizens and the international community, Hezbollah (literally: the "party of God") refused to allow any independent investigation into the causes of the explosion.

Hezbollah emerged in 1982 as a resistance organization against the Israeli occupation. Even then, it was supported by Iran. For 40 years, its fighters have infiltrated all areas of the Lebanese state and risen to become the country’s dominant force.

In the mid-2000s, however, a handful of police officers from the American Drug Enforcement Agency (D.E.A.) attempted to bring down Hezbollah. They operated in the greatest secrecy. The code name of their operation: Cassandra. Their investigation begins in the United States, in the still-smoldering ruins of the World Trade Center.

The three-part series tells the story of "Project Cassandra," based on the testimony of DEA agents and


Unmasking Hezbollah - Who was behind the assassination of Rafic Hariri? | DW Documentary

Unmasking Hezbollah - Money laundering in Europe (3/3) | DW Documentary

Outrage after BBC hands platform to far-right Tucker Carlson, who launches attack on Israel
The BBC has been accused of giving a platform to “antisemitic” American commentator Tucker Carlson to air his anti-Israel views.

Carlson, who was named “Antisemite of the Year” in 2025 by US-based watchdog StopAntisemitism, appeared on the BBC’s flagship Sunday politics programme hosted by Victoria Derbyshire.

During the interview, he repeatedly blamed Israel for the US’s involvement in the war with Iran, alleged the Jewish state uses sex scandals to “force American political leaders into doing its bidding,” and claimed it was responsible for the banning of Palestine Action in Britain.

Carlson also described US President Donald Trump and UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer as “enslaved,” suggesting they are acting at Israel’s behest.

David Toube, General Counsel at the Jewish Leadership Council, criticised the BBC for platforming Carlson.

“The BBC used to operate a cordon sanitaire of sorts in relation to the far right. It is clear that this has now completely collapsed,” Toube told the JC.

Labour MP for Southport Patrick Hurley posted: “Why on Earth is the BBC platforming Tucker Carlson?”

Media watchdog HonestReporting commented: “Platforming antisemites, whether by design or by accident, has become something of a speciality for the BBC in recent times.”

During the interview, Derbyshire challenged Carlson on accusations of antisemitism. “You have said that you have been called antisemitic because of your opposition to the US joining Israel in fighting this war,” she said.

Carlson rejected the allegation.


Iran's Grim Joke at the UN
The Islamic Republic of Iran has been nominated to a UN committee that will help shape policy on women's rights, human rights, disarmament and terrorism prevention.

Iran is a country where a young woman, Mahsa Amini, can be beaten to death for the crime of insufficient hair concealment, where schoolgirls are poisoned for daring to remove headscarves, where the "morality police" patrol the streets as if they were animal control and half the population a species to be managed. This is the state now invited to contribute to the global conversation on gender equality. It is a bit like asking Jack the Ripper to sit on the board of a women's shelter.

On human rights: The Islamic Republic has turned the abuse of its citizens into a system of government. Torture is not an aberration but a technique. Trials are not hearings but theater. Journalists, lawyers, artists and students are jailed, flogged, disappeared. Minorities - Kurds, Baluchis, Baha'is, Jews - are treated as internal enemies.

On disarmament: Iran's record is one long love letter to the proliferation of things that go bang, shipping weapons through every smuggling lane from the Gulf to the Mediterranean.

On terrorism prevention: The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has spent decades recruiting, training and funding militias whose sole raison d'etre is to terrorize. The regime's fingerprints are on bombings in Buenos Aires, plots in Europe, rockets on Riyadh, and drones on tankers.

Someone must begin the slow, necessary work of re-civilizing our institutions - of re-establishing the quaint idea that those who legislate on human rights should not be in the business of trampling them, that those who shape policy on women's rights should not be beating women unconscious in police vans, that those who sit on terrorism committees should not be up to their elbows in explosives and martyrdom videos. In the meantime, the least we can do is refuse to applaud.
UN Watch demands democracies explain election of human rights abusers to UN positions
UN Watch demanded an explanation on Saturday from democratic countries for why they'd allowed "serial abusers of human rights" to be elected to key positions in the United Nations.

In UN Watch's press release, the NGO cited the UN's Economic and Social Council's (ECOSOC) recent nomination of Iran to the UN’s Committee for Program and Coordination, which would include an active role in shaping policy on women's rights, disarmament, and terrorism prevention, as well as ECOSOC's election of China, Cuba, Nicaragua, Saudi Arabia, and Sudan, to the Committee on NGOs.

The democratic countries currently on ECOSOC are the United States, Canada, France, Spain, Norway, the Netherlands, Australia, the UK, Finland, Switzerland, and Austria. UN Watch has said that the US is the only state to object to some of the countries elected to the committee, calling Iran, Cuba, and Nicaragua "unfit."

“Appointing China, Cuba, and Saudi Arabia to oversee the work of human rights activists is like putting Al Capone in charge of fighting organized crime,” said Hillel Neuer, executive director of UN Watch. “It’s truly indefensible and puts lives at risk.”


'Antisemitic censorship': Ireland cancels Oct. 7 MDA fundraiser
Ireland's Jewish community is furious after the National Concert Hall in Dublin – a cultural institution funded by the Ministry of Culture – canceled a fundraising event for Magen David Adom (Israel's national emergency medical service) and a theatrical reading about the October 7 massacre, labeling the event "political" and incompatible with its commitment to "political neutrality." The decision came after two weeks of back-and-forth in which the organization repeatedly canceled and reinstated the event, which had been scheduled to take place this week.

"The cancellation by the National Concert Hall of MDA Ireland's scheduled private fund raising event can be properly described as an act of antisemitic censorship," Alan Shatter, chairman of Magen David Adom Ireland and former Irish Justice Minister, said.

"The National Concert Hall disgracefully & indefensibly canceling a Magen David Adom Ireland private fund raising event scheduled for May 11 at which the experiences of survivors of the Hamas massacre and of responders on October 7, over two years ago, were to be narrated in their own words in a staged reading is truly disgraceful and shocking," Shatter said.

He added, " am deeply saddened that we have arrived at the position in Ireland where it is acceptable that our publicly funded National Concert Hall and its board stop the factual, undecorated narration on one of its stages of the worst Jewish tragedy since the Holocaust that also impacted others, a tragedy involving murders, rapes and abductions and heroism of responders and rescuers."

The cancellation is only one episode in a series of decisions that have hurt Ireland's Jewish community over the past two years. Late last year, Dublin City Council voted to remove from its agenda a motion to rename Herzog Park, named after Chaim Herzog, the Dublin-born sixth president of Israel. The motion was not shelved entirely and may come back to a vote in the coming year.


New Gaza aid flotilla sets sail from Spain, trying again to break Israeli blockade
A new flotilla carrying humanitarian aid to Palestinians in Gaza was due to set sail on Sunday from the Spanish port of Barcelona, aiming to try to break the Israeli blockade on the coastal Palestinian enclave.

Thirty-nine boats were due to leave the Mediterranean port city, a spokesperson for the flotilla said, and more vessels also laden with medical aid and other supplies are expected to join along the route towards the Gaza Strip.

Rough seas mean the flotilla will sail to another port then head out to international waters later in the week, Thiago Avila, a member of the Global Sumud Flotilla’s organizing committee, told a press conference on Sunday.

The campaigners, who last year organized a similar flotilla carrying a symbolic amount of humanitarian aid, have described the upcoming mission as the biggest civilian-led mobilization against Israel’s actions in Gaza. Israeli officials repeatedly denounced last year’s mission, and previous smaller-scale attempts to reach Gaza by sea, as publicity stunts.

The flotilla seeks to break Israel’s naval blockade of Gaza and unload aid in the war-torn territory to help the civilian population. Israel has said previous flotillas have brought insignificant amounts of aid, insisting that it allows sufficient amounts of aid to enter the Strip, though humanitarian organizations have said the amount entering is still insufficient.

The boats are expected to sail from Spain, Tunisia, and Italy toward Gaza.


Noga Erez tells Coachella she’s ‘heartbroken’ about situation at home
Indie artist Noga Erez, while performing her first of her two shows at California music festival Coachella, shared thoughts with the audience about being an Israeli artist coming from a country at war.

“To get us all here took kind of, like, forces I didn’t know I had,” said Erez, who has shared on social media about the trials of getting out of Tel Aviv during the war with her partner Ori Rousso, their toddler daughter, and crew.

“I’m so fucking grateful to be here,” added Erez to the cheers of the crowd.

“I’m just heartbroken and sad because of things that are happening at home and around it,” she said. “I just love this music thing so much and right now doing this thing is exactly what I’m doing it for, to put a bunch of strangers together and make them feel like a family, united around something.”

“We’re doing it. This is Coachella, un-fucking-believable,” said Erez.

Erez is the first Israeli artist to perform at the festival, a pair of long weekends in the California desert with 100 acts across eight stages.

She and her band opened with their new song “Duck Season,” and went on to perform fan favorites “End of the Road,” “The Vandalist,” and “Dumb” during their 45-minute set.


Despite war cancellations, Holocaust survivors from Israel to join March of the Living
A small group of around a dozen Holocaust survivors from Israel will join this year’s March of the Living memorial event in Poland, after the war with Iran forced organizers to cancel the Israeli delegation, which numbered some 1,500 people.

The participating Holocaust survivors, aged 90-100, will travel to join thousands of others from around the world as they march from Auschwitz to the Birkenau camp, the March of the Living organization said in a statement Sunday.

Two weeks ago, march organizers announced that the Israeli delegation would not be able to join the event due to sharp restrictions on air travel and safety concerns as Iran rained down missiles on Israeli cities during the ongoing war at the time. A shaky ceasefire between Israel, the US, and Iran was reached last week, bringing the attacks to a halt.

Each year that passes, concern grows over the dwindling number of Holocaust survivors still alive to tell their stories.

The statement said that participation by the Holocaust survivors was made possible due to contributions from 26 high-tech companies and venture capital funds, which stepped in to help.

“The recent war with Iran was further evidence that the State of Israel must stand firm. Despite the limitations imposed by the war, the delegation will march in Poland and instill in us the spirit of pride and victory,” said Shmuel Rosenman, chair of the International March of the Living.

The Israeli delegation will join around 40 other survivors from around the world for the event, which will be held on Tuesday, when Israel marks its Holocaust Remembrance Day.




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