Iran’s missile command has taken a smart turn lately.... They’ve realized something critical: striking military installations or assassinating key leaders — that’s Israel’s game. And Iran simply doesn’t have the tools or precision for that. Not yet. But if you want real results, you go after fixed, high-value asset targets — the kind that shake the psychological foundations of Israel: the property value. So what kind of target delivers maximum effect for minimum cost? The rich neighborhoods. That’s where it hurts. These wealthy Tel Aviv neighborhoods are worthless now. This isn’t about killing civilians. There’s a siren system. Everyone has time to run for shelter. No Israeli dies unless they ignore the warnings. Israelis are luckier than the Palestinians — nobody will fire at them when they are crowded in a shelter. Think of it like this: if someone bombed Wall Street and Fifth Avenue, would they need to kill anyone to cause chaos and irrecoverable psychological pain? No. Hit the financial district and the rich neighborhoods, and the country bleeds value. Same in Tel Aviv. Iran’s missile command may not excel at battlefield tactics, but they’ve clearly begun to grasp the one thing that matters most in Israel: money. Reducing them to penniless paupers — that's much more cruel than murdering their whole families. You can hit Israel’s oil refineries, power stations, airbases, even Mossad HQ — that helps. But nothing is deadlier than making the Israeli elite bleed — not real blood, but property value. IDF soldiers die? The elites don’t care. Military equipment destroyed? American taxpayers will pay to replace everything. But take down Tel Aviv’s towers — tank the stock market, crush real estate, vaporize asset values — and you strike at the psychological core of Israel. That’s the most inhumane massacre you can inflict on the Israeli elite who runs the country. That’s when they feel it. That’s when the pain becomes personal. When asset prices collapse and portfolios vanish overnight, they don’t just lose money — they lose soul, identity, power, security. Everything in short. And that’s when you begin to kill the soul of Israel and demoralize the whole population. You destroy the morale of the elite first. The elite will flee the country. And if whole neighborhoods become worthless and unlivable — what’s the point of living in Israel? They will abandon the land God promised them 2000 years ago and go elsewhere.show more

Tokenization alone has the power to push XRP to... $100. When every asset moves on chain… stocks, bonds, FX, treasuries, real estate. The world will need a value bridge to settle all of it in real time. Remember that a stablecoin can move money, but they can’t CONNECT global markets. A universal settlement asset with DEEP liquidity becomes mandatory. That’s the role XRP was engineered for, and that’s why it hasn’t repriced yet. Once tokenized markets go live at scale, liquidity demand will rewrite everything.show more

Syria is not getting rebuilt. Israel won’t allow it... too, it invades more and more Syrian land everyday. It’s been a year since the fall and the situation has only got worse. The gulf Arab promised of investment are gone along with the gulf Arab state themselves who can’t sell their own oil, hilariously. Those that are using the excuse of needing to “rebuild Syria” before fighting Israel are the ones who destroyed Syria to rule over its ashes. They are the ones who used to scream that Assad wasn’t fighting Israel while he supported Hezbollah and built ballistic missiles, but that was just an excuse to take CIA money and start a civil war. Understand this: They will never want to fight Israel. Israel gave them weapons, medical assistance and dominion over Syria. They exist to kill syrian minorities FOR Israel’s sake. For those that destroyed Syria to rule over her ashes. May you be cursed in this life and the next.show more

🚨 Top 4 things the Pulsechain Community NEEDS to... stop doing ASAP? 🚨 1. Stop being wallet watchers. Even if you are a wallet watcher, stop reporting on it. You literally have people selling news before there is news bc you want to be the 1st person to report the news. 0 surprises in the community. The ONLY community in crypto that does this, but they wonder why price doesn’t go up 🤔. The days of not knowing was the days that crypto was the most explosive. Let that sit in for a second. 2. Stop Simping for Influencers to talk about you. If you have something that they want to talk about, you don’t have to beg for it. If they think it will get view, they’ll report about it, if it’s relative. You look stupid doing it getting mad at them for doing what they want to do on their channel as if they owe you something, and therefore, you look desperate and stupid for complaining. 3. Stop complaining and simping to exchanges. You have to pay to play. Even the coins with low volume pay to play. The days of free listings stopped in late 2017. You look stupid doing it. 4. Understand the market. It’s demand and marketing, that’s it. The only thing that will make price go up is Altcoin dominance chart breaking down, in combination of Richard Heart streaming and marketing his product, in the way of outrage marketing bc the majority of people in crypto is between the ages of 25-34 and outrage marketing works the best for that age bracket. Continue where he left off. Many will disagree with #4 but that’s the exact same reason 99% of pulsechain influencers can’t get over 10,000 followers let alone 50,000, they don’t understand marketing. Like and Retweet this out to get it to as many people possible. If you disagree, hit the comments and speak your mind.show more

Become the person you dreamed you could be when... you were a kid …. How???? Easy … lean into courage and take risks and do things that will likely fail … all because you know the truth … What’s the truth? .. that no one really actually cares about your losses .. they may dinner but they will move on in seconds .. Why? .. because your life is yours .. and at the end of the day .. you need to play go you … not for “them”show more

I understand what Russia wants to achieve with its... missile and drone strikes on Ukraine - namely, to destroy peaceful life and drive people into such a psychological state that they are ready to make any concessions just to end it all. However, such strikes have the opposite effect. They remind us that the war is ongoing and that it is not limited to the conflict in the east; they show that at any moment, a missile can take everything away from you. And the only way to prevent this from happening is to donate to the Armed Forces of Ukraine and to hate the Russians even more. I think we can cite examples from World War II, when Hitler's attacks on Great Britain did not break its confidence in the struggle. If the Russians aimed to cause a massive blackout, they failed, wasting dozens of missiles worth tens of millions. But we understand that strikes on oil refineries and other targets must continue! PS: These are small fragments from real life that I filmed. The video may not show it, but the shock wave was strong enough to cause quite intense emotions in me.show more

Our female warriors do not ask for "equality", they... demand victory. From the borders of the south to the thickets of the north, they are the watchers on the towers and the thunder in the field. They have traded the comfort of home for the grit of the front lines, proving that the soul of a Jewish warrior knows no gender only duty. In the Middle East, our enemies view women as property to be hidden or trophies to be taken. In Israel, we view them as the shield of the nation. They are the daughters of Deborah and the heirs of Yael, standing between our children and the savages who wish us gone. To the world, they are soldiers. To us, they are the heartbeat of our survival. If you want to know why we are invincible, look at the women who carry the weight of an entire nation on their backs without blinking. STOP SCROLLING AND SALUTE THE LIONESSES OF THE IDF! SHARE THIS TO SHOW THE WORLD THAT THE DAUGHTERS OF ISRAEL ARE BRAVER, STRONGER, AND MORE DEFIANT THAN THE ENEMY COULD EVER IMAGINE. AM YISRAEL CHAI! 🇮🇱🦁🔥show more

This is Tehran now. They are not Iranians. They... don’t speak our language. They are Hashd Al shabi jihadists from Iraq speaking Arabic. Iran does not have a “government” that somehow kills “its own people”. Iran is under Arab-Islamic occupation for 47 years. The Ayatollahs just learned a bit of Persian, but they are all foreign enemies to Iran, killing Iranians and will continue to do so as long as they remain in power. Where is the anti-occupation crowd? Where are the opposers of “foreign invasion” when US and IDF troops came to take out these jihadists? Where are the UN and EU debates about breach of international law? Where is the “no war” rally for these guys patrolling the streets of Iran in preparation for a massacre? If you are not doing everything you can to take this regime and their proxy forces down you are complicit in all their crimes against our people.show more

The Australian government does not deserve our trust, or... our respect. Today, Minister Penny Wong sat back in her chair grappling for words, desperately looking for the right lie to tell. It is worse than dishonest - it is an absolute lack of care. Penny Wong came to this country when she was 8 years old. She came to a country that afforded her the ability to become who she is, and she is now doing her part to destroy it. Back in the 70’s, when she came, Australia was a fair-minded place and a great place to be. Yet here she is... Here in Australia. Undermining our country and lying to our faces. Because she can’t tell the truth. Because if she did, it would destroy any semblance of care for Australia tied to her old party’s Labor brand. It would say the quiet part out loud. The truth. The truth that the Albanese government is more interested in the fortunes of the ISIS brides, women who chose to leave this country to go and fight against our people, than those of us that can’t find or afford a place to live here at home. I am tired of being told how to think by people that completely lack morals and couldn’t care less. People that are elected and paid to operate in the national interest but always put their twisted ethics and back pockets ahead of our nation and our people. I don’t know when Labor stopped caring about Australian workers or worse, when they started hating Australia, but they have and they do. The absolute lack of opposition, the lack of authentic choice has pushed us into a place where these absolute traitors to the interests of the people who pay them - goes entirely unchecked. We are careening out of control, unchecked migration, an energy grid that is just about to collapse, no industry to speak of, and no good reason to start or maintain a business in this place. It happened fast, but those of us who pay our taxes and take risks to make Australia a better place, are being undermined and white-anted by our politicians. The people we are forced to trust, and must pretend to respect, because they have the force of law on their side. Not because they are any good at their jobs. Not because they have earned our affection. No. Simply because they are in charge and there is little to nothing that can be done about it. It is becoming apparent that the two party system has outlived its useful life. Too much corruption, too many words too carefully chosen in a pantomime between to political forces that don’t really want to change anything. They just want to have their go, to have their turn to jam their grubby hands into the till. Surely with this major and catastrophic failure by the so-called Honourable Minister Senator Wong, the people will be able to see through the veil and into the absolute and irresponsible lack of care at the heart of this deceitful Labor government. They lie about everything, and they can, because they don’t have an opposition worthy of the title. I am growing more confident by the day that the only solution to our woes is a new political force, a fresh, Australia first force, that will act in the national interest and put all these corrupt and useless used-car salesmen red and blue in the dustbin of history. It can’t come soon enough. Time is short. I just want Australia back.show more

The political establishment in Australia is not entirely stupid,... they just think you are. As they lament the rise of One Nation, they pretend they don't understand it. Because if they showed us that they understand the resons, they then have to make a major admission. Hanson's rise is all their fault. Because the major parties and the faux independents have been on a unity ticket on all of the big problems they have jointly caused for decades. They can’t hide from the messes they have caused, so now they want to blame everyone else but themselves. Today, on ABC’s Insiders, Annabel Crab belled the cat, as Karvelas did the two step crab walk. Annabel correctly diagnoses the political situation here right now. It is not a love for Hanson, or One Nation that is causing the surge, but a total lack of faith in the other offerings. It almost does not matter what Hanson says or does, because her greatest strengths are that she is there, and she is not one of them. Those are enduring traits and the more the major parties hit her, the more the media carry on about her, and the more the establishment present her as a “deplorable”, the more people they will push in her direction. It is like they are in quicksand... the more they struggle, the deeper they sink. People are growing ready for wild political change. A worsening economy and a growing collapse in social cohesion has put the nation on edge. The big end of town want to pretend everything will be fine when the latest special envoy delivers their newest report, but nothing changes. Nothing changes because nothing is supposed to change. Because the government, the opposition and their Green Teal cheer squads want things just the way they are. They didn’t just pass all of the enabling legislation for no reason. There are real beneficiaries of these things, it is just that none of the beneficiaries are the Australian people. Australians have broadly been the target of the changes made to benefit foreign interests, the political class and major corporations. We have been targeted for so long it is impossible not to feel the cross-hairs of the scope resting on our forehead. Hanson and her team simply have to talk about that feeling... they don’t even have to have a solution. Because when the establishment continues to pretend the problems don't exist, just acknowledging the pain is enough to earn a vote. Annabel nails this sentiment in just a few words. Right as Karvelas changes the subject, because it is not that this isn’t obvious, it is because Karvelas is there to cover it up, and hit Hanson’s credibility again. Fuelling the vicious cycle of the rise of the outsider. Unless something significant changes in the establishment, and I don’t expect it will, there will be major upheaval at the next election. Most people will not be voting for their favourite party or person, they will primarily be voting against the status quo, because in their minds, it could not possibly be worse than what we have experienced for decades... but it just might be a little bit better. And that is a risk worth taking. After all most of us like a punt. I just want Australia back.show more

🧵 Israel strikes its rebellious puppet in Syria -... dark days ahead Jolani’s Delusion: The Man Who Sold Syria to Israel for Nothing July 9th. The US and 19 allies are conducting a live military drill near Australia with a view of a coordinated attack against China our — but forget that for now. Something bigger exploded this morning (July 16th 2025). Israel launched a decapitation strike against Syria’s de facto ruler, Jolani. Yes — that Jolani, the man who had bent over backwards to please Israel, the one who handed over the Golan Heights with a smile, promising “permanent peace.” And yet? They still came for him. Let’s rewind. When Assad’s regime collapsed back in December 2024, the whole of Syria fell into chaos. Jolani, a former terrorist with deep roots in al-Qaeda and Issis, seized Damascus within a week. But taking the capital didn’t mean owning the country. Syria became a jungle of warlords. In the southwest, Israel moved fast. Armored brigades swept in and annexed the eastern Golan Heights, calling it a “buffer zone” — as if the whole world hadn’t seen this playbook before. To understand why Israel will never let go of the Golan Heights, you have to understand what the Golan is. It is not just a piece of land. It is a perch, a watchtower, a faucet, a promise. From those heights, you can see half of Syria. Before 1967, Syrian artillery rained down on Israeli farms from that high ground. After 1967, Israeli tanks dug in and never left. And why would they? The Golan is water. It feeds the Sea of Galilee, the Jordan River, and the underground aquifers that keep Israel alive. Some say nearly half of Israel’s fresh water still trickles down from those slopes. In a region where rain is rare and rivers dry, that makes the Golan as precious as oil. But there’s something deeper still. The Golan is theology. The Golan is destiny. For the religious wing of Likud, for those who still read maps with the Book of Genesis in one hand, the Golan is part of the inheritance God gave Abraham — “from the river of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates.” This land was promised. And what is promised cannot be returned. Not to Assad. Not to Jolani. Not to anyone. So now that Syria lies broken, now that Jolani begs and grovels, now that the widow has no protector — Israel sees its chance. And it will not look away. By January 205, Jolani tried to claw some legitimacy back. He had personal reasons — he was born in the Golan Heights — but also national ones. A president who gives up sovereign territory and says nothing? That’s not a leader. So he went to the UN. Israel scoffed. He proposed a “land-for-legitimacy” deal — asking to get back a third of the Golan Heights, lease another third, and in return recognize Israeli sovereignty over the rest. A humiliating offer for Syria — and Israel still slapped him across the face. “How dare you propose such a deal? You? You’re nothing. All of Golan Heights is ours. Try take it back if you can. To hell with UN and international law” The same man who had once survived the Abu Ghraib black prison walked out of that hell with a bruised face — and a boiling mind. But he is eerily tame in front of the Israelis. Not characteristic of a brutal terrorist. By March, Jolani pivoted. If Israel wouldn’t listen, maybe Turkey would. Jolani made his pitch with eloquent urgency — the kind of urgency a man uses when he knows the fire is already at his doorstep. “Syria,” he told the Turks, “isn’t just a country. It’s a buffer. Between you and Israel. And once we’re gone, the buffer is gone. Then it’s just you and them, staring across a line drawn in sand.” He leaned in. “You think Israel won’t come for you? Maybe not today. But one day, they will. And your pipelines, your ports, your Black Sea dreams — all of it will be within range.”show more

Backing Off on Attacks Against Iran At the request... of Arab countries and Israel, the US has decided to indefinitely postpone plans to attack Iran. There are three points in this equation: 1 - Missiles would fly toward Israel without the country having prepared for it; 2 - The Strait of Hormuz would be closed, causing immense losses to oil-producing countries; 3 - American assets in the region would not be sufficient. I’ve said it several times here: Iran is a big player. In the 12-day war, the Iranian navy stayed out of the conflict, but today, knowing that the attack would be aimed at regime change, the Iranians would use everything they have. In those 12 days they practically lost nothing of their arsenal; not even long-range defense systems were destroyed. They hid everything, from aircraft to long range batteries. But today they would fight with everything they have. And that mainly means their three primary anti-ship missiles: Abu Mahdi, Talaiyeh, and Ghadr-380 (Qadr-380). All three with a range of 1,000–1,700 km. That is power not only to close the Strait of Hormuz, but to do the same in the Gulf of Aden and the part of Arabian Sea, causing chaos in the markets. How to take the opportunity and support the riots, without risking the main global trade route? A country of 90 million inhabitants that is as well-armed as Iran is not one that external agents can decide overnight to attack and change its government. For more than 50 years, the CIA and Mossad have been trying to overthrow the Iranian government without success. Now the regime is in a fragile moment, under popular pressure, but when we talk about Iran, nothing is so clear. The US options are limited to selective strikes, far from anything that could implode the regime. The truth is that anything of greater magnitude would put the regime in survival mode, attacking Israel, American bases, closing ship transit, and halting global markets. But I don’t think the US and Israel will let this opportunity pass so easily. New chapters will follow.show more

🚨Zlatan Ibrahimovic on Barcola + Mbaye to Liverpool for... close to €200m: “Premier League inflated the market… now pay the price.” 🗣️“PSG asking close to 200 million for Barcola and Mbaye together is not crazy. It is the market you created. Elliot Anderson goes for 135 million. Morgan Rogers for almost 140. English clubs are throwing ridiculous money at players who have never won a Champions League, never carried a nation at a World Cup, never been the difference in the biggest games. Then they look at Barcola — two-time Champions League winner, France international, proven at the highest level — and suddenly 170 is ‘too much’? Please. Barcola is not some Premier League product hyped by Sky Sports. He is a real footballer who already has European titles. Mbaye is young, hungry, and has the kind of upside that clubs pay fortunes for later when it is too late. Together near 200 is high, yes. A bit high. But egregious? No. Not when the Premier League has completely inflated and ruined the transfer market with their own spending. I know value. I have been the most expensive player, the difference-maker, the one who made clubs rich by existing. PSG are not stupid. They built a machine that wins. They know what their players are worth in this market. If Liverpool want both, stop crying and pay. Or sit down like men and negotiate a serious number that respects the asking price. You cannot complain about the bill after you ordered the most expensive menu on the table for years. The Premier League spent like drunk tourists and now acts shocked when someone else asks for real money for real quality. That is not PSG being greedy. That is the market catching up to the mess English clubs made. If Liverpool want Barcola and Mbaye, they pay what the market demands or they leave them in Paris. Simple. Lions do not negotiate with feelings. They take what is theirs… or they pay the price.”show more

🇮🇷🇮🇱| A little more to understand... My opinion: The... war may end in a few days or last a lot longer—all depending on whether or not the US joins Israel. Israel is not able to fight against Iran for much longer; its interceptors have a certain capability threshold, and reports already suggest it is rationing its interceptor missiles, and we've seen how 12-17 interceptors were launched, yet Iranian missiles still made an impact. It all comes down to whether the US is willing to go to war with Iran or not; it's likely they will if you consider Trump's administrative behavior since he took office. But honestly, if they are smart, they will not. - A little about Iran's missile situation: Israel says it's conducting operations in northwestern and western Iran to prevent the reactivation of missile bases in Tabriz, Kermanshah, and Khorramabad. A significant portion of the Israeli Air Force is now focused on these 3 sites to prevent further missile launches from those locations. This suggests that the sites they claim they destroyed did not suffer strategic damage, and the destroyed hangars were of minimal value. As a result, Israel continuously carries out operations and remains engaged to prevent Iran from reactivating its capabilities in the west. If these 3 regions are abandoned, Israel will move on to target other strategic sites. These 3 missile bases are among Iran's key assets. The missiles are intact and untouched, it's the launchers that are affected, and they can easily be reactivated, but it's difficult under continuous attacks. Other missile bases in the south remain untouched and have so far not been used, as they are probably being reserved for strikes against the US. Missile launches are mainly launched from the center and north of Iran, some from the western regions as well. The reason for limited and isolated launches these past few days has several explanations, mainly that Iran is testing to recognize new patterns everytime a serious attack is carried out, as Israel continuously changes its defensive behavior to prevent Iran's intelligence from learning it; thus, isolated launches, followed by a bigger, deadlier, and more accurate attack with 30 launches as we saw today.show more

THE FINAL STRETCH BEFORE EVERYTHING CHANGES….💫🛸💫 💥Note to Anons-... Patriots: You have been through more than you let on, more than anyone knows, the sleepless nights, the relatives, friends and strangers that laughed at you. Moments you questioned yourself-times you had nothing left; but still chose to believe. You held on when others folded. You stayed when it would of been easier to walk away. That makes you rare, dangerous and destined. “You may not feel it right now,” but this is THE FINAL STRETCH before everything changes. There will come a day when you sit in stillness and remember the version of you who refused to “Give Up.” The one who showed up broke, exhausted and ridiculed; but never let go of the vision. That day is coming—and when it does you will cry; not because you are hurting-because it all finally made sense. All the pain, doubt, delays and all the missed exits. It wasn’t punishment; It was preparation. You weren’t meant to get rich fast, You were meant to become someone “Unshakable.” You are awake,alive and know this matters. Now, you’re too far in to turn around and way too close to fold under pressure. The storm is loud but your intuition is louder and it’s been screaming from the beginning; “Hold On-Just Hold.” This moment is once in a lifetime, you won’t see it again. NOT LIKE THIS-NOT AT THIS PRICE-NOT WITH THIS SETUP. So breathe, trust your gut, Silence the noise and when this ends-when it finally ENDS-you’ll be the one they come to asking “HOW YOU KNEW?” And you’ll smile 🙂because deep down, way down; “YOU ALWAYS KNEW.” I’m proud of you, you’re almost there; Finish The Mission-I Love You.show more

Who is the Chairman of Agboyi Ketu? Madam, you... are not doing anything especially in Idera, Irawo and Ajegunle but during election, you campaigned and they voted you. Adetola Abubakar I remember warning about this field when they were installing it. Shabby job. Small rain, everywhere will be flooded. As if that’s not all, the person you Put in charge is the most terrible manager. His name is “Up Chelsea”. I love ball but he doesn’t. The place keeps deteriorating under him. My advice is that you sack him. He is the worst ever. I told Mayor Dele Oshinowo then, this is not how to build this thing to achieve good drainage. The contractors did nonsense and the community guys are angry. This is the only thing they are enjoying from APC and it’s not even useful everyday. I can keep going on. The estate in Idera has been sharing light for months. They gathered money to buy transformer themselves. The transformer has been there since May and PHCN refused to connect it. Don’t you have representatives in these areas? What feedbacks do you get from them?. Adetola Abubakar, you need to step up. The youths are angry.show more

🇮🇱 Israel's censorship is an old reflex. 24 hours... after the impact, footage finally emerged of an Iranian missile striking the Holon industrial zone in Tel Aviv, one of the largest and most strategically consequential economic arteries in the Gush Dan metropolitan heartland. The zone sits just south of Tel Aviv a dense concentration of manufacturing, logistics, and commercial infrastructure that the Israeli establishment would prefer you imagine as impenetrable, untouchable, beyond reach. That mythology when this video landed. The IDF’s vaunted Iron (Sieve) Dome did not rewrite the laws of physics that day, and no amount of military censorship can unburn what has already burned. The missile landed. The footage exists. And the gap between those two facts — 24-hour blackout tells you everything you need to know about who controls the narrative, and why they are terrified of losing it. The war is going so well!show more

Some videos don’t just make you uncomfortable. They make... you stop and ask what kind of society we’ve become. I watched this and felt a deep sadness settle in my chest. Not anger first. Not political rage. Just grief. Grief for the little ones who never get the chance to take a breath, and grief for the women who are being told this is empowerment when it looks a whole lot more like something darker. Scripture doesn’t dance around the value of life. “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you.” “Children are a heritage from the Lord.” “You shall not murder.” We’ve reached a place where some celebrate the decision to end a life that is already fully formed, already capable of feeling pain, already made in the image of God… and they smile while they do it. That should never feel normal. It should never feel progressive. It should never feel like freedom. Real freedom is the courage to protect the weakest among us. Real strength is the woman who chooses life even when it’s hard. Real progress is a culture that refuses to sacrifice its children on the altar of convenience. I’m not here to shame anyone who’s already walked through this pain. God’s mercy is bigger than our worst decisions. But I am here to say out loud what too many are afraid to say: This is not healthcare. This is not compassion. This is not the America our grandparents fought to protect. Vote for life. Pray for life. Speak for those who cannot speak for themselves. Because if we stay silent while the most innocent are discarded, we will answer for it. Lord, give us hearts that break for what breaks Yours. Restore the fear of God in this land. And protect every child still waiting to be born.show more

The situation in northern Israel is getting surprisingly little... attention in the West. Here’s some background and an explanation of just how dire it is. World War Three gets closer by the day, and I’m not exaggerating. UNSC resolution 1701 (2006) is that Hezbollah agree to stay north of the river Litani in Lebanon. This puts Israeli settlements out of anti-tank rocket range. However, Hezbollah have broken this and since 7th October have fired thousands of rockets into Israel, displacing some 60,000 Israelis from their homes. To be clear, Hezbollah is a direct Iranian proxy, who live like a virus inside the almost-dead body of the Lebanese state. Their fighters are far superior to Hamas, having gained serious experience in the Syrian civil war. They have no real ground manoeuvre or air power, but their tunnels in the chalk rock of southern Lebanon are better than Hamas’ and they have an estimated 150,000 rockets. There are UN Peacekeepers in Lebanon, but (shockingly for the UN, I know) they’re as much use as a bacon sandwich at a Bar Mitzvah. One very senior Israeli source described them to me as “an umbrella that folds when it rains”. So Israel has a real, very serious problem. They do not have the manpower to assault into Lebanon for any kind of sustained campaign, especially whilst Gaza is ongoing. So, in polite terms, they are kicking the shit out of it from the air (over which they have total superiority) and relying on missile defences. Thousands of targets have been struck in the last 9 months but Hezbollah retain very significant missile capability. This is why Israel are beholden to the USA to offer obscenely generous ceasefire terms to Hamas (that Hamas appear to be declining). They cannot afford to lose American military aid with this threat on their northern border. In the videos below, in the first vid you see the war zone northern Israel has become. The second one is the settlement of Katzrin in the Golan Heights. Surrounded on all sides by fires. In a statement to Qatari-funded Muslim Brotherhood mouthpiece Al Jazeera, yesterday Hezbollah said, “We simultaneously attacked 15 bases in the Golan and the Galilee using 150 rockets and 30 drones. This is the most extensive attack carried out by the organization since October 8, this attack came in response to the assassination in Joya and in order to deter Israel from carrying out further assassinations of this type.” On top of that, Iranian proxies in Iraq took responsibility last night for the joint operation they carried out together with the Houthis (Iranian proxies in Yemen), which launched these ballistic missiles and UAVs towards the Israeli cities of Ashdod and Haifa (third video). Iran is besieging Israel on all sides, and Israel is bending, not breaking. This situation is genuinely dire. It explains why Hamas will not sign a ceasefire deal, and why other non-Iran aligned Gulf states are meeting with IDF commanders. The entire region is teetering on the edge of a much more widespread conflict with Iran, and Israel is taking the brunt of it. If this situation deteriorates, our allies in the Gulf may call for aid. As a second front in the war against the Iran-Russia-China-Qatar axis of malign global actors, this could not be more serious or worrying. And all the while we see subversive Iranian proxy organisations organising protests about Gaza on Western streets. Hopefully the West is not defeated domestically before the war even starts in earnest.show more