The Eternal Riddle

 The following poem was written in 1914 byPhilip M. Raskin 

(how true this is even today)

Israel, my people, God's greatest riddle,
Will thy solution ever be told

Fought - never conquered, bent - never broken,
Mortal - immortal, youthful, though old.

Egypt enslaved thee, Babylon crushed thee,
Rome led thee captive, homeless thy head.

Where are those nations mighty and fearsome
Thou hast survived them, they are long dead.

Nations keep coming, nations keep going,
Passing like shadows, wiped off the earth.

Thou an eternal witness remainest,
Watching their burial, watching their birth.

Pray, who revealed thee Heaven's great secret:
Death and destruction, thus to defy

Suffering torture, stake, inquisition -
Prithee, who taught thee never to die

Ay, and who gave thee faith, deep as ocean,
Strong as the rock-hills, fierce as the sun

Hated and hunted, ever thou wand'rest,
Bearing a message: God is but one!

Pray, has thy saga likewise an ending,
As its beginning glorious of old

Israel, my people, God's greatest riddle,
Will thy solution ever be told

Kharg Island - Iran's Economic Lifeline

 Following the U.S. bombing of Iran’s three most fortified nuclear sites, the Iranian government swore revenge. The Iranian parliament voted to close the Strait of Hormuz.

However, this is more symbolic than real, given both that elected Iranian bodies have no power over security policy and that the Islamic Republic relies on the Strait of Hormuz both to export its oil and import much of its refined gasoline.

Still, the United States and its allies should counter any move to interfere with freedom of navigation and commerce across a major waterway, especially one in which its Arab allies depend for their commerce.

The U.S. response should be overwhelming. First, it should seize Kharg Island. Most tankers cannot safely get into Iranian ports because the Persian Gulf is so shallow, and the Iranian side is very rocky.

As a result, they load their supply from offshore terminals, the largest of which is the Kharg oil terminal on Kharg Island, 16 miles off the Iranian coast. Iran exports approximately 90 percent of its crude oil through Kharg.

However, bombing Kharg will be counterproductive because if Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei falls and the Islamic Republic collapses, Iran could become a Western ally again; its new government will need Kharg to fuel Iran’s reconstruction and bring revenue to support the new government.

Occupying Kharg would strain the Islamic Republic financially, but preserve the infrastructure.

Strike the Navy

Continued Iranian aggression also merits a response against Iran’s two navies: the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy patrols the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz.

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy speedboats regularly harass shipping. It is now time to sink the speedboats and the piers upon which the Revolutionary Guards depend for their vessels and the smuggling upon which the organization depends far more than its official budget.

The regular Iranian navy projects power far beyond the range of its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps counterparts. Its submarines now ply the northern Indian Ocean, and its vessels, both official naval ships and cargo vessels operating on its behalf, support the Houthis.

The United States should issue an ultimatum: Either ships dock at key Indian Ocean ports and surrender to local authorities, or the United States will sink them.

Iranians should not complain; after all, they once launched Operation Morvarid, a 1980 operation in which Iranian forces largely sank Iraq’s navy, an event that for Iraq was equivalent to the 1941 Japanese strike on Pearl Harbor.

Limit the Damage The United States must take care to limit damage to Iran itself for two reasons: First, the Iranian people are not an enemy, and second, the less damage Iran suffers, the easier it will be for the country to recover once Iranians throw off Khamenei and his fellow clerics.

Occupying Kharg, an isolated island of less than eight square miles, and targeting the Islamic Republic’s two navies would fulfill the objective of preventing any meaningful damage to Iranian territory while ensuring freedom of navigation.

If Khamenei challenges Trump to continue, Trump must deftly call his bluff.

A Bit of Iranian History

 On January 3, 2021, The Iranian parliament announced a bill to eliminate Israel by 2041

A draft of a bill was published in which the parliament determined that the regime is obligated to act to destroy Israel within 20 years (following Khamenei's declaration 5 years prior. A countdown clock was placed in Tehran).

The declaration is under the section "Revenge for the assassination of Qassem Soleimani" alongside a statement that one percent of all Iranian exports to Iraq will be used as a budgetary source for revenge that will also work to remove American forces from the region.

An Iranian opposition channel mocked the declaration, noting that Israel's relations with countries in the region are expanding every day while Iran's isolation is increasing. This is in addition to the fact that, according to the channel, Israel has attacked targets of the Iranian Quds Force in Syria over 500 times in years prior without any significant Iranian response or retaliation.

Gaza Today

The above map show the areas (in yellow) now controlled by the IDF.

In the last 7-10 days the area  around Khan Yunis in the South and 

Jabaliya area in the northern Gaza Strip is coming under increasing control of the IDF

 

IDF Struck a Surface-To-Surface Missile Production Site 2,000 Kilometers Away

 Saturday 21.06.25

 (Saturday), IAF fighter jets, guided by precise intelligence from the Intelligence Directorate, struck a surface-to-surface missile engine production site of the IRGC in the Shahroud area of Iran, approximately 2,000 km from Israeli territory, the furthest reach of Israeli aircraft.

The site was struck for its planetary mixers and critical machinery used in the production of engines for missiles launched by the Iranian regime toward the State of Israel.

The site that was struck is part of the effort to damage the Iranian regime’s surface-to-surface missile production industry, which was intended to manufacture thousands of missiles in the coming years.

This is just part of the on going process to hit all Iranian assets involved in the manufacture of the various missiles developed by Iran.

Less Rockets, Restrictions Lifted

A graph by Aryeh Eisenman showing the quantities of Iranian missiles launched in each barrage, over time.  The elimination of the launchers is clearly achieving results.

This can certainly explain the decision on the easing of restrictions in our area approved 
by the Home Front Command starting at 18:00 today.

Small businesses can start operating (my wife can have her nails done!!), similarly cafes and restaurants.

The Iranian missile threat is steadily decreasing as time progresses. We have had two consecutive nights of sleep without alarms.

 

Gazans Claim Yet Another "Massacre"

The Gazans claim: “A new massacre among those waiting to receive aid packages.”

It seems the Gazans are trying to get some attention back, after “all eyes” are currently on Tehran… 

The Gazan Ministry of Health claims there are 45 dead and hundreds wounded as a result of gunfire directed at Gazans who were waiting for aid near “Al-Takhliya Junction” in Khan Yunis, in the southern part of the Strip.

The Gazan channels are endlessly “pumping up” the event, but it’s clear that there’s an “organized show” going on here. Videos from the entrance to Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis  show there is a lot of noise, a lot of shouting, a lot of extras putting on a performance – but there are hardly any casualties…

They even bothered to bring in, as an extra, our acquaintance from previous videos, the TikTok star Awad Barbach – who shouts a bit at the hospital entrance.

Gaza is not the main event anymore, they want their stories back in the headlines...

Iran's Cryptocurrency reserves collapse

 Iran is resorting to the use of cryptrocurrency in order to bypass the sanctions imposed by the West.

It is now reported that 95% of the assets of the Iranian crypto exchange Nobitex vanished due to a breach by a hacker group called “The Predatory Freedom,” which is identified with Israel. 

According to an Israeli military correspondent, the Nobitex exchange is linked to Iranian efforts to circumvent the sanctions imposed on Iran by using cryptocurrencies.

As of today, according to foreign sources, the amount of digital currency in wallets connected to this exchange dropped from $1.8 billion to just $100 million.

CNN Just Can't Print an Honest Report

For full report see https://honestreporting.com/cnn-exploits-arab-israeli-familys-death-to-push-narrative-of-bomb-shelter-discrimination-against-palestinians/

In the early hours of Sunday morning, a missile launched by Iran struck the northern Israeli town of Tamra, near Haifa, killing four women from the same Arab Israeli family.

But CNN wasn’t content to report the tragedy with facts. Instead, it used the Khatib family’s death to push an ugly and misleading narrative: that Israel is running a system of bomb shelter “inequality” between Israelis and “Palestinian citizens of Israel.”

In a report titled “Iranian strikes expose bomb shelter shortage for Palestinian towns inside Israel,” published after Chief International Correspondent Clarissa Ward’s visit to Tamra, CNN describes the town as “somber, compounded by anger over a lack of adequate bomb shelters—an issue that Palestinian citizens of Israel have long warned was a glaring inequality.”

They cite the town’s mayor, who claims just 40% of Tamra’s 37,000 residents have access to a safe room or shelter. CNN offers no evidence that the Khatib family lacked a shelter. In fact, other international outlets—including The Guardian—have reported that the family had two safe rooms, one on each floor of their home. Yet CNN builds an entire narrative on the unverified assumption that they did not.

Instead of establishing facts, the report relies on implication and generalization—using one family’s tragedy to frame a broader accusation of systemic discrimination.

But here’s what CNN doesn’t tell its audience:

·        Over half of all Israeli homes—Jewish, Muslim, or Christian—lack access to a safe room. According to the Israel Builders Association, as of late 2024, roughly 1.67 million of Israel’s 3 million residential units still have no reinforced shelter.

·        Many Israeli cities—including Bat Yam, Tel Aviv, and Rishon LeZion—have huge populations living in older buildings without safe rooms. Bat Yam, where two children were killed by Iranian missiles, has long been flagged for its vulnerability.

·        In 1992, Israel amended its Civil Defense Law to focus on private shelters, aiming to allow people quicker access within their homes instead of forcing them to run through streets. But the effort has been uneven. Israel’s aging population—over 1.2 million people above age 70—still faces serious risks. These are not comfortable statistics. But they are the reality for millions of Israelis—Jewish and Arab alike.

So when CNN isolates Arab towns like Tamra from this broader national picture, it doesn’t shed light on inequality—it distorts it. The result is a politicized narrative built on omission and insinuation.

To wield the unspeakable loss of one family as a political cudgel, as CNN has done, is not only dishonest—it’s disgraceful.

What Israel has Achieved in Iran

 

Wake Up World- It's Coming to You!

 They say what they mean. When is the world going to wake up?

Flotilla Boat Towed to Israel, Activists to be Deported

 

This photo follows an interception of the "Aid" boat.

Greta Thurnberg receiving a bottle of water and a sandwich
from Israeli soldiers.

Before the crew were taken to the airport, no arrests
or handcuffs, they were shown a 40 minute video
of the events of October 7th. If that did not change t
heir minds of the importance of supporting
the "Palestinian Cause" (as opposed to the Gazan people)
nothing will.

What Do You Know About the Haredi Draft?

 For full report see https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/israel-middle-east/articles/israel-two-big-lies

Looking at the most explosive political issue threatening to derail the Israeli government mid-war: namely, the conscription of roughly 63,000 young Haredi men to the Israel Defense Forces. One would hardly know, listening to the hyperventilation in the Israeli media, that there are already 6,000 Haredi men serving in the army, that hundreds of them are combat soldiers, and that they volunteer in such solid and consistent numbers that the IDF saw fit, in 1999, to establish an independent battalion just for Haredi soldiers, called Netzah Yehuda.

How come Haredis don’t serve in the army? Why those Haredis who showed up rejected.

Haim Ramon, a longtime Labor Party politician who served as a minister in Yitzhak Rabin’s cabinet happened to browse a document released by the Knesset’s research and information center that provided statistics about various population groups and their representation in the IDF. One stat in particular left Ramon feeling confused: Since Oct. 7, the Knesset revealed, 4,000 young Haredi men showed up of their own volition and asked to volunteer to fight, an initiative that would’ve doubled the number of Haredi soldiers overnight and proven a potential way out of the political impasse.

Almost immediately, the IDF deemed 3,120 of these men unfitting to serve, mostly for being too physically weak to fight. Which, if you know anything about the IDF, is a shocking revelation. A non-Haredi Israeli would have to suffer from a truly debilitating health condition to be found unfit for service; otherwise, 18-year-olds struggling with all manner of maladies—asthma, say, or a bad back or a minor heart condition, even with Downs syndrome—are happily recruited and assigned to support positions that do not require strenuous physical exertion. You can find these excellent and motivated men and women serving as intelligence officers or riflery instructors, drivers or parachute packers, performing services the army absolutely needs. And you’d think that with the national interest allegedly being the swift swelling of the IDF’s ranks, the army would’ve made an effort to accommodate these enthusiastic young Haredis in its ranks.

Instead, not only were they rejected, but also, of the 880 volunteers who were found fit, only 540, or 61 percent, were recruited. In total, then, of the throngs of proud and patriotic black-hatted Israelis who, when it mattered most, wished to join their brothers and sisters in fighting, the army accepted a mere 13.5 percent.

This heartbreaking account provides us with two urgent insights.

First, the entire debate about Haredis in the army is predicated on a bright, shiny untruth. The army doesn’t need Haredi recruits to meet its goals. If it did, it would’ve welcomed every one, or at least the ones physically fit to fight. The army further understands that fully integrating Haredim into its ranks would require a wide array of logistical challenges—providing strictly kosher food, for example, or addressing concerns rising from coed military service—it currently cannot and does not want to address.

Second, while liberal Israeli politicians are quick to refer to Haredis in derogatory terms like shirkers and parasites, the Haredi community has just shown that it is more committed than ever to seeing itself as part of Israel’s national narrative. If you’re looking for a bit of perspective there, a 2023 report from the State Comptroller’s office revealed that, in 2021, a whopping 32 percent of young military-age Tel Avivis chose not to join the IDF, a fact that generated precisely zero national outcry.

Put bluntly, anyone who is asking why Haredis don’t serve in the army should first ask why the army widely rejected those Haredis who showed up.

There is NO Shortage of Food in Gaza

 Thousands of tons of food is being delivered to Gaza.

Where is it all going?