Ben-Gvir Couldn’t Help Himself; Now He’ll Live To Regret It

Israel PANICS; Shock Shift CRUSHES Ben Gvir

He pressed record on his own evidence and pressed publish on his own travel ban. Ben-Gvir filmed the case against himself. Right, so Itamar Ben-Gvir, the Israeli national security minister, the man with the prison system and the police on his desk, decided to film the detained flotilla activists his forces had grabbed from international waters. Civilians cable-tied. Made to kneel. Taunted in front of the lens. Then he uploaded the thing. Pressed record on his own evidence and pressed publish on his own travel ban, all in one afternoon's work. And while he was busy admiring his handiwork, doing his little victory lap for the Otzma Yehudit base back home, the people kneeling in that footage were already on their way out. With names. Hospital paperwork. Sworn statements. Lawyers from more than forty countries lining up behind them. France has now banned Ben-Gvir from setting foot on French soil. Malaysia is loading up the International Court of Justice route. Mark Carney, the Canadian prime minister, has called the treatment of those detainees appalling and publicly demanded an independent investigation. And every single one of those moves traces back to one decision: Ben-Gvir held up a camera, and the camera held the receipt. The footage is from the latest interception of the Global Sumud Flotilla, a civilian convoy of aid boats sailing from Europe and North Africa towards Gaza, trying to break the Israeli blockade. Sumud is the Arabic word for steadfastness, the framing word for Palestinian resistance to dispossession since the 1960s. On the 18th of May, in international waters, Israeli naval forces boarded the boats and seized the people on them. The number Israel doesn't want anyone dwelling on is 428 civilian detainees, hauled off vessels they had every legal right to be on, dragged into Ashdod port, processed by the same prison machinery Ben-Gvir runs.

Trump Humiliated In Hormuz AGAIN; Iran’s Naval Superiority DOMINATES

Trump bombed Iran to force surrender, then discovered Iran still controlled the way out. Israel is reaping what it has sown. Right, so Donald Trump has bombed Iran again while his own side is telling everyone a deal could be just days away, because apparently nothing says peace like another set of explosions over the country you are supposedly negotiating with. Marco Rubio, the US Secretary of State, has been saying the Strait of Hormuz has to be opened one way or another, which is a very American way of describing a waterway that is not actually in America, not owned by America, and not sitting there waiting for a man in Washington to shout at it. CENTCOM, the US military command running American operations across the Middle East and Central Asia, has acknowledged strikes in southern Iran, saying American forces hit missile launch sites and Iranian boats it claimed were trying to lay mines near the Strait. The reported blast areas were around Bandar Abbas, Sirik and Jask, right next to the pressure point Trump desperately needs reopened. So Trump is selling peace, Rubio is selling progress, CENTCOM is selling self-defence, and Iran is looking at the smoke and saying the Americans have just violated the ceasefire again. The Iranian Foreign Ministry has called the latest US action a ceasefire violation and a sign of bad faith, and that is not a small claim, because these strikes aren't happening in some dead space outside the diplomatic process. Pakistan has been mediating between Washington and Tehran, Iranian officials have been in Qatar, the discussions have been circling Hormuz, blockade relief, frozen assets and how the war ends, and then the US military has decided to add fresh bombing to the timetable. That isn't strength. That is a man trying to look in control while using the one tool that keeps proving it cannot buy him the thing he needs. US officials can call the strikes defensive until the aircraft run out of fuel, but Iran is not answering like a state that has been beaten into obedience.

Hezbollah Just Upgraded Their Drones And Are Battering Israel Senseless!

Hezbollah’s night drones are now seeing Israel in the dark - and Netanyahu’s army is running out of places to hide. Right, so Hezbollah's latest drone problem for Israel isn't just that something is flying at them again. The problem is that something is now seeing them in a way their usual battlefield habits were never built to survive. Thermal-camera drones don't need a clean daylight image of a soldier standing nicely in the open, waving at the sky like an idiot waiting to be introduced to physics. They read heat. They pick out bodies, engines, warm metal, active vehicles, recently used kit and movement that darkness was supposed to help hide. Israel has spent months trying to adjust to drones on the northern front, pushing work into different hours, changing movement patterns, hiding vehicles, throwing nets over positions, and trying to convince itself that if soldiers could be made less visible, less static and less exposed, if they worked at night, they could claw back some control. Well, Hezbollah has come up with an answer to that. Thermal imagery changes what the operator is looking at before the strike even happens. A normal camera needs enough light, contrast and visual detail to make a target clear. A thermal camera makes a human body show up because it is hotter than the ground around it. A vehicle that has been running, a generator beside a position, a group of soldiers moving through scrub, a rescue scene where bodies and engines are clustered together, all become readable in a different way. At night, they just become visible. The IDF can try to make the field harder to see, but it cannot make soldiers stop being warm without creating a rather bigger recruitment problem. Israel's northern-front answer has been built around a set of assumptions that thermal drones now chew straight through. Daylight is dangerous, the FPV fibre-optic drones can get you, so you shift work into darkness. Open movement is dangerous, so use cover.

Iran Just Beat Trump; Nothing Netanyahu Can Do About It

Trump wanted Iran’s surrender; instead he’s being handed the exit bill while Netanyahu screams about the terms. Right, so Donald Trump is now trying to sell a peace memorandum with Iran as if he has forced Tehran into a climb down, and the reported terms are already making his victory speech, his little lap of honour with a Big Mac waiting for him at the finish line look utterly ridiculous. He says the agreement is largely negotiated, he says the Strait of Hormuz will be opened, and he wants the applause that comes with ending a war he basically started. But the Iranian side is saying the first stage is not a nuclear surrender, not a handover of enriched uranium, not a return of Hormuz to the old rules, and not a free pass for Israel to keep bombing Lebanon while Washington pretends the region has been settled. Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, is reportedly worried about the same draft because the nuclear file is being pushed back and Lebanon is being pulled in. Lindsey Graham, the Republican senator who has spent years functioning as one of Washington’s most eager errand boys for Israeli escalation, is warning that any deal which treats Iran as a force that has to be negotiated with becomes a nightmare for Israel. But Trump’s view of this? Well he was happy to say it on camera Yes, Trump has gone and said Netanyahu will do whatever he tells him to do, which is quite a line from a man who has spent this war discovering that Iran is not doing whatever he wants it to do and the very reason he started war on Iran to begin with is because Israel finally found a US President, after 40 years of trying, stupid enough to do as they told him.

IDF Forces Crushed By Hezbollah Drone Swarms; Iron Dome Decimated

Israel sold south Lebanon as a buffer zone; Hezbollah turned it into a drone range and left the IDF hiding under fishing nets. Right, so Hezbollah’s explosive drones are damaging seventy to eighty per cent of the Israeli army’s freedom of action inside their so-called security strip in south Lebanon. Seventy to eighty per cent of what Israel is trying to do by day in the very strip it occupied to prove it had the north under control. Daylight operations are being pushed into the night. Some activity is being cancelled altogether. Anti-drone kit is short enough that smart sights and shotguns are being handed out to individual soldiers in each company, as if the mighty army of miracle technology has reached the point where the solution is one bloke with a better gun and a prayer. Well it isn’t getting them very far. Break out your tiny violins folks. Hezbollah is flying cheap explosive FPV drones, small first-person-view drones as that stands for, all controlled by an operator watching through the drone’s own camera, and Israel is now planning around whether one of those little things is about to come over the field their stood in and ruin their day, possibly permanently. But Hezbollah’s drones are not just scoring the odd hit and giving people a clip for social media. They are doing something much worse for Israel, because they are changing what the Israeli army can safely do in broad daylight. A drone that costs about five hundred dollars is being used against vehicles, troop positions, artillery kit and Iron Dome-linked targets that belong to one of the most heavily armed militaries on earth. Five hundred dollars, in military terms, is not a weapon system, it is an insult with propellers. Israel can spend years telling the world it has the region’s most advanced defences, the best sensors, the cleverest systems, the smartest battlefield brain, and then a cheap drone turns a multimillion dollar static asset into a crisp.