Is the UK in Free Fall or Not?

 

How does the US transport oil through Hormuz?

 At least 25 million barrels of oil were transferred yesterday 25^th August from small tankers to supertankers, after crossing Hormuz via the southern route near the coast of Oman. This is in excess of the average 20 million barrels shipped prior to the outbreak of war with Iran

Small tankers, moving without signaling, cross Hormuz—without risking that expensive supertankers will be hit by Iranian launches—and then transfer their oil "back to back" to supertankers that are outside the range of Iranian danger, and from there they continue outward to the world.

The oil is transferred from all the Gulf states except from Iran.

This is how the US reduces the risk of damage to the large oil tankers and minimizes exposure to harm from Iranian launches.

 

Meanwhile Qatari liquefied gas exports have crashed by 96% over the past six months following the war with Iran

During these months, Qatar exported only 18 shipments of liquefied gas compared to 509 shipments in the same period last year.

According to Reuters, Qatar lost $24 billion in liquefied gas revenues. The increase in American liquefied gas exports strengthened at Qatar's expense and covered part of the global demand; however, Europe's gas reserves are depleted—which could lead to a rise in gas prices.

Summary:

1. Because of Iran, Qatar lost $24 billion in revenue (less money for incitement against Israel, which is already reflected in a significant reduction of Qatari budgets).

2. The US is selling more gas.

3. Europeans are going to pay dearly for gas this coming winter.

Palestinians Poison Sheep & No One Reports It

 

I'll spare you the gruesome video of the dying sheep. It happened yesterday.

Arabs from a village near Binyamin scattered poisoned dates and bread 
in a farm's grazing land. Not the first time, the ninth in two years.

Last time it was water troughs, oil mixed in so the poison would float and get scooped up in the first bucket. This time, dates and bread laced with poison and left where the sheep would find them first. They found them first. Convulsions, foam at the mouth. A shepherd found the rest.

I went looking for who else was covering it. The UN report: doesn't exist. The BBC piece: doesn't exist. The AFP wire: doesn't exist.

What I found instead was a headline from the last time this happened, when Jewish-owned sheep died the same way: "Israeli Colonizers Poison Sheep." Ours. Not theirs. Ours, with the victim and the perpetrator swapped, printed and shared and believed.

So let me save everyone the suspense. There will be no UN OCHA report on the bread, no BBC segment on the dates and Btselem and Yeah Din will not cover any if this.

The people who merely yawned when Jewish babies were stabbed in their cots will not be losing sleep over the sheep

GAZA HUMANITARIAN AID SINCE CEASEFIRE

 According to the IDF, more than 2 million tons of food have entered Gaza since the October 2025 ceasefire. Around 600 trucks enter daily, with 70–80% carrying food, while food prices have fallen by approximately 72%. Forty-one internationally operated bakeries are producing more than 3 million pita breads per day alongside dozens of local bakeries. (Hamas still attempting to claim taxes on products entering Gaza)

The IDF says Gaza is receiving more than 70,000 cubic meters of water daily, exceeding 60 liters per person. The water system is supported by roughly 250 water trucks, 2,800 distribution points, four operational pipelines, desalination facilities and dozens of wells. 

More than 78,000 tons of hygiene and sanitation supplies have also entered.

More than 21,000 tons of medical equipment have entered since the ceasefire, while hospital-bed capacity has increased by more than 50%. Eight permanent hospitals, four field hospitals and four medical centers are operating in northern Gaza, while two permanent hospitals and eight field hospitals are operating in the south.

The IDF says the volume of aid entering Gaza exceeds humanitarian requirements assessed by UN agencies and international organizations. It accuses Hamas of interfering with humanitarian operations, exploiting civilian infrastructure and distribution mechanisms, and attempting to smuggle prohibited items under cover of aid. Israel says it will continue coordinating with international partners to expand the humanitarian response while preventing Hamas from exploiting it.

IDF Killing Gazan Children

The military wing of Hamas confirms that it is recruiting 15-year-old children 

to fight against the IDF

The RPG children in Gaza: In recent days, the military wing of Hamas has published  a video "in honor" of "the martyr" Zahib Labad, a military operative in its ranks who, already at the age of 15, served in a military role in the fighting: he planted explosives and fired an RPG at IDF forces.

After he was killed in combat against the IDF, he was listed by the Palestinian 

Ministry of Health in Gaza as a "child killed by Israel."

"Gazan child."

When you are told that Israel kills children in Gaza, show them Zahib Labad.

 

Follow the Money not the Narrative

 

“The “Gaza genocide” is the Greatest Hoax of all Time

 (Based on published article by Andrew Fox)

“The “Gaza genocide” is the greatest hoax of all time, enabled by social media, antisemitism, and gullibility.

Remember: genocide means a deliberate attempt to exterminate a group, simply for being members of that group. That’s what “genocide in Gaza” alleges: that Israel is unsuccessfully attempting to exterminate every last Palestinian.

But what about the overall population of Gaza? If Israel had wanted to wipe out every Palestinian, you’d expect that overall total to fall, right?

At some point, the word genocide has to survive contact with arithmetic. Gaza’s own records now sit in open contradiction with the claim that Israel attempted to destroy its population: approximately 121,000 live births since 7 October 2023, against a reported direct war death toll, including natural deaths, of just over 73,000. 

The extermination narrative looks increasingly absurd. More babies have been born in Gaza during the war than Gazans have been recorded as killed, including both civilians and combatants. 

The usual escape route is to say that genocide need not succeed. That is legally correct and intellectually evasive when deployed to make every contrary fact disappear. Genocidal intent still has to be proved, and the ICJ has held that, where it is inferred from conduct, the destruction of the group must be the only reasonable inference available.

In Croatia v Serbia, it examined whether civilians had been spared, evacuated or allowed to survive when their supposed destroyers had the opportunity to kill them. Conduct preserving members of the protected population counted against genocide. Now apply that reasoning to Gaza.

a a) Start with polio. In September 2024, while Israeli troops were still fighting across the Strip, Israel agreed daily, area-specific pauses so Palestinian and international medical teams could vaccinate Gaza’s children. The first round reached 559,161 children under ten, around 95 per cent of the eligible population.

b)b) Israel then agreed to do it again. The second round reached 556,774 children, with 448,425 children between two and ten also receiving vitamin A. The campaign required the delivery of 1.6 million vaccine doses, refrigerators, freezers, ice boxes and hundreds of vaccine carriers. WHO and UNICEF planned for the vaccines and cold-chain equipment to transit through Ben Gurion Airport before entering Gaza.

c) c)  A third campaign followed in February 2025. It vaccinated 602,795 children under ten, reaching 102 per cent of the estimated target because medical teams found children missed during earlier rounds. 

d) d)  The combined figure is 1,718,730 administered polio doses. (That represents repeated protection of roughly 600,000 individual children, rather than 1.7 million different children.) Almost the entire under-10 population was reached again and again.

These vaccines were administered by Palestinian health workers, WHO, UNICEF, UNRWA and their partners. Without Israeli cooperation, the campaigns could not have happened.

UNICEF’s end-of-year report says the outbreak had been interrupted by July 2025. It also records 49,000 children under two receiving catch-up vaccinations, with coverage exceeding 80 per cent. BCG vaccinations rose from 37,471 in 2024 to 47,556 in 2025. 

It was an enormous public health enterprise, run over several months, involving thousands of workers and protecting nearly every child in Gaza from paralysis. 

That is the physical reality of what Israel enabled: the children it was supposedly trying to destroy were repeatedly protected against a disease that could disable or kill them. 

A coherent programme of genocide cannot be inferred by treating every Israeli action that preserved Palestinian life as irrelevant.

BIRTH FIGURES The birth figures deepen the problem for the accusation. A reconstruction using Gaza Ministry of Health and civil registration records suggests approximately 12,000 babies were born during the final quarter of 2023, around 38,000 during 2024, 49,267 live births during 2025, and roughly 21,000 so far in 2026. The latest portion is necessarily estimated because complete July and August registrations have not yet been published. 

Many babies born during the first months had been conceived before 7 October. That explanation expired nine months into the war. Tens of thousands of children were subsequently conceived and delivered while Israel supposedly pursued the biological destruction of Gaza. 

Births fell below their pre-war level, hardly surprising amid displacement and combat. Miscarriages, premature births and maternal complications also rose. Nothing about those conditions was humane or desirable. 

However, the comparison remains devastating. Approximately 121,000 live births against just over 73,000 reported direct war deaths leaves a difference approaching 48,000. The number killed includes combatants as well as civilians, of course.

Gaza’s overall resident population fell because the calculation includes outward migration, the missing and other demographic changes. The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics estimates that around 100,000 people left Gaza during the war. A decline driven substantially by people leaving a war zone cannot simply be relabelled as physical destruction.

No Israeli advocate needs to pretend that civilian life in Gaza was tolerable. It was an urban war fought against an enemy dug into hundreds of miles of tunnels beneath neighbourhoods, hospitals, schools and camps. Hamas designed that battlefield to make civilian deaths unavoidable and politically useful. 

Israel issued evacuation warnings, created corridors and humanitarian zones, admitted food and medicine, coordinated medical evacuations, paused military operations and enabled almost 600,000 Palestinian children to receive repeated protection against polio. Around 121,000 babies were born during the war, far exceeding the reported direct death toll. 

The genocide allegation survives only by declaring every piece of exculpatory evidence meaningless. Births supposedly tell us nothing. Vaccinations tell us nothing. Food deliveries tell us nothing. Humanitarian pauses tell us nothing. Failed famine predictions tell us nothing. The absence of measured famine mortality tells us nothing.

Such reasoning insulates the genocide accusation from reality for the Palestinians. Every death becomes proof of genocide, while every Palestinian life preserved through Israeli cooperation is dismissed as public relations.

The simpler explanation: Israel fought a devastating war against Hamas, accepting extraordinary military and political costs while repeatedly undertaking measures to preserve Palestinian civilian life. Those measures were imperfect and sometimes failed, as measures do in war. 

Gaza’s own birth records, vaccination figures and famine evidence have negated the allegations. A country attempting to destroy a people does not enable more than 120,000 births, facilitate 1.7 million childhood vaccine doses and support humanitarian operations feeding virtually the entire population. 

That is war, with all its brutality and tragedy. It is not genocide.

Hypocrisy Par Excellence

 

If you're going to make a deal with Hamas, this is how

 Shimon Cohen   Aug 3, 2026, https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/431171

 Dr. Mordechai Kedar says Hamas views agreements as temporary, warns Israel to expect violations and demand strict enforcement.

The possibility of an agreement with Hamas is reigniting the question of whether Israel is repeating past mistakes when it puts trust in a terrorist organization that some say sees deals as merely a tactical means and not a binding obligation.

In an interview with Arutz Sheva-Israel National News, Middle East expert Dr. Mordechai Kedar warns that the safest way to avoid falling into a trap is to refrain from signing deals with Hamas.

"They have a long history of violating agreements," he said. "As far as they're concerned, particularly when it comes to non-Muslims, deception, hiding, stalling for time, and cheating are legitimate means to reach a goal. This modus operandi is based on the Hudaibiya Pact (signed by Mohammed in 628 AD), which they see as merely temporary.

According to Kedar, the Hudaibiya Pact, which various Islamic organizations rely on, is seen as an arrangment which may be violated the moment the balance of power changes. "As long as they don't have power, they sign, but the second they gain power, as far as they're concerned, the agreement is no longer binding. Therefore, anyone who signs with them has to understand that the agreement may be broken the moment they have an interest to do so."

That being said, Dr. Kedar does not rule out signing a deal for diplomatic reasons if it serves a broader Israeli interest. "If we want to make a move that enables diplomatic achievements with the White House or in preparation for another move, we can sign. But we can not make a mistake and think that this is true peace. We have to understand that this is a game."

According to Kedar, one of the mistakes that Israel and the West repeat is the assumption that the other side aspires to the same objectives. "We assume that they want peace, welfare, and a good economy just like we do. But to them, the goal remains the destruction of Israel. As long as they can't do it, they accept temporary agreements."

Kedar believes that, in any case, if a deal is signed, it must be backed by especially tough enforcement mechanisms. "We must state that any violation, even the entry of one rifle into the Gaza Strip, immediately cancels the agreement and allows Israel to return to war. Not to wait until they bring in thousands of weapons and only then to claim that the agreement was violated."

He says that it is not enough to simply prohibit the entry of weapons, but rather the agreement must include clauses that would prevent Hamas from rebuilding its military capabilities. "We have to also ban the weapons training, even with fake wooden weapons. We can not allow them to rebuild their military infrastructure under the guise of other activities. We have to close every possible loophole."

To demonstrate the importance of enforcement, Kedar points to the peace agreement with Egypt. "An agreement at the end of the day is just paper. The question is how it's enforced. If every violation is answered with a fierce and unrelenting response, the other side will understand that there's a real price for violating obligations."

Regarding the possibility that senior Hamas officials could be expelled from the Gaza Strip as part of a future arrangement, Kedar said such a move would be valuable but cautioned against viewing it as a complete solution. “If the commanders leave, that would certainly be a success," he said. “But we must not think the problem ends there. There will always be replacements. At first, they may be less experienced, but within a short time, new leaders will emerge and continue down the same path."