- “Israel’s National Security Minister: Israel must show it is ‘prepared to go berserk’ on Iran” – Israel’s hard-line Security Minister says that Israel must show it is “prepared to go berserk” on Iran in the wake of its missile onslaught, reports the Mail.
- “Iran has chosen self-destruction and is happy to take the world down with it” – Tehran can’t possibly win a war against Israel, but the danger is its leaders are just too irrational to realise it, says Sherelle Jacobs in the Telegraph.
- “The targets Israel should hit starting with Iran nuke lair” – In the Mail, General Jacob Nagel explains why Israel’s failure to strike back at Iran could lead to nuclear war – and the three targets the Jewish State should hit right now.
- “BBC’s Nick Robinson says he should have been clearer over ‘Israel has murdered Palestinians’ claim” – Nick Robinson says he “should have been clearer” after a row over the BBC presenter’s claim that Israel had “murdered tens of thousands of innocent Palestinians”, reports the Telegraph.
- “The ‘don’t’ doctrine” – Iran’s attack on Israel has laid bare the failure of the Biden administration’s strategy of pressure on allies and meekness toward Iran, writes Eitan Fischberger in City Journal.
- “To deny the threat of fundamentalist Islam is an insult to Salman Rushdie’s bravery” – Free speech is deeply precious, but it is a democratic value that we haven’t passed on to the next generation, says Suzanne Moore in the Telegraph.
- “How woke leftists became cheerleaders for Iran” – We can now see the anti-Israel bigotry behind the woke Left’s phoney pacifism, writes Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
- “American anti-war activists cheer for Iran’s war” – At a recent Left-wing conference in Chicago, activists believe Iran is “part of the arc of resistance because the enemies are Israel and the USA” writes Olivia Reingold in the Free Press.
- “Liz Truss told Kwasi ‘I am being threatened with a market meltdown’” – In the Mail’s final instalment of her political memoir, Liz Truss reveals her utter relief at leaving Downing Street after 49 tumultuous days.
- “Quarter of voters who backed the Tories in 2019 now support Reform U.K.” – According to a Redfield & Wilton survey, 24% of those who supported the Tories in 2019 have since switched to Reform U.K. – a record high, reports the Mail.
- “Age-specific nasal epithelial responses to SARS-CoV-2 infection” – A new study published in Nature Microbiology highlights different responses to COVID-19 across age groups.
- “Stabbed Sydney priest is a viral lockdown and Covid vaccine sceptic” – The Christian Orthodox bishop who was stabbed in Sydney’s second knife attack in three days is a fire and brimstone preacher known for his scepticism over Covid vaccines, reports the Telegraph.
- “There is no magic bullet for raising birth rates” – A complex network of spiritual, cultural and economic factors underpin our fertility slump, says Alessandra Bocchi in the Critic.
- “French youth back compulsory military service amid war in Ukraine” – Some 62% of young French people are in favour of national service, reports Brussels Signal.
- “Britain shuns ‘patriotic’ heat pumps with subsidies worth £173 million left unclaimed” – Heat pumps are still getting a cool reception from homeowners with £173 million in potential grants remaining unclaimed as the scheme reaches its second anniversary, according to the Telegraph.
- “The heat pumps scandal has gone on for too long. End subsidies now” – How much longer are we prepared to sink public money into propping up an industry whose products struggle to appeal on their own merits? asks Ross Clark in the Telegraph.
- “Trans ideologists cast themselves as heroes – history will remember them as cowards” – In the wake of the Cass review, the voices of those who neglected children’s safety have quickly fallen silent, observes Celia Walden in the Telegraph.
- “How Ruth Hunt turned trans into a religious crusade” – Stonewall’s ex-CEO is trying to dodge responsibility for her role in the ‘trans kids’ scandal, says Malcolm Clark in Spiked.
- “Ban trans women from female sports, Lucy Frazer tells sporting chiefs” – The Culture Secretary Lucy Frazer has told sporting chiefs that transgender athletes should be banned from competing against women, according to the Mail.
- “Cancel culture ‘forcing people into a corner’ of self-censorship, says Dawn French” – Dawn French says cancel culture has “forced people into a corner” and has made people cowardly because it has “wiped out any margin for error”, reports the Mail.
- “The Voice to Parliament is still dividing Aussies” – South Australia shows us that democracy and identity politics don’t mix, writes William J. Barker in Spiked.
- “‘Nearly all American universities have succumbed to politicisation’” – Historian Niall Ferguson talks to Zeit Online about the parlous state of American higher education and his new university in Austin, Texas.
- “What happened to Bitcoin?” – Roger Ver’s Hijacking Bitcoin: The Hidden History of BTC is a tragic tale of subversion and betrayal and of a missed opportunity to change the world, writes the Brownstone Institute’s Jeffrey A. Tucker.
- “Jilted Italian stalks his former wife by disguising himself as a ghost” – A jilted Italian man allegedly stalked his ex-wife by disguising himself as a ghost to throw bricks at her house, reports the Mail.
- “‘Playing the race card’ accusation is racist, judge rules” – An Employment Tribunal has ruled that suggesting someone is ‘playing the race card’ if they complain about how they have been treated at work is racist, according to the Mail.
- “‘He was playing the race card basically!’” – On Headliners, Simon Evans, Leo Kearse and Nick Dixon discuss ‘playing the race card’.
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Israel’s National Security Minister: Israel must show it is ‘prepared to go berserk’ on Iran
Israel may very well demonstrate to the world how to deal with medieval governments that believe in ‘Old Testament’ values.
If it does it will alienate many in the West but garner a great deal of support within the region.
https://irancybernews.org/irgc-front-company-sahara-thunder-hacked-by-prana-network/
U.S. opposition to such a reaction may not be exactly whole hearted:
‘Last March, a Russian arms maker invited a delegation of Iranians to a VIP shopping tour of its weapons factories. The 17 visitors were treated to lunches and cultural shows and, on the final day, toured a plant that makes products long coveted by Tehran: advanced Russian air defense systems for shooting down enemy planes.
The factory, NPP Start, in the city of Yekaterinburg, is under U.S. sanctions for supporting Russia’s war against Ukraine. Among its wares are mobile launchers and other components for anti aircraft batteries — including Russia’s S-400, which military analysts assess to be capable of detecting and destroying stealth fighter jets flown by Israel and the United States.
A leaked Russian document, part of stolen Iranian emails posted online in February by a hacker group, described the tour as a showcase for “scientific and technical potential and production capabilities” that Russia could offer Iran.’
There is, of course, only one reason why Iran would want a state of the art air defence system: to protect a nuclear warhead production capability……….
And Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has clearly demonstrated that international security assurances in lieu of nuclear weapons are worthless……
Can you imagine if treason were still a punishable offence? Imagine being in the U.S, shouting ”death to America!” as you burn the country’s flag but all the while safe in the knowledge that you ( whether native or migrant ) won’t face any consequences and can continue living in such a country, where all your rights are upheld and you get to enjoy all the benefits while you spew your traitorous vitriol?
I just think that if we could get rid of all the people like this what a relief it would be. Sort of like one big nationwide colonic irrigation;
”Canadian man does N*zi salute while holding a photo of Iranian leader Ayatollah Khamenei during a Pro-Palestine and Pro-Iran protest in Calgary, Canada.”
https://twitter.com/OliLondonTV/status/1779876537732342030
https://twitter.com/OliLondonTV/status/1779975387348443601
In my view, we need to guard our and their freedoms with care.
Lockdowns were a glimpse into tyranny.
“This is the essential mark of tyranny: that it is always new. Tyranny always enters by the unguarded gate. The tyrant is always shy and unobtrusive. The tyrant is always a traitor. He has always come there on the pretence that he was protecting something which the people really wanted protected — religion, or public justice, or patriotic glory.”
‘A tired democracy becomes a dictatorship.’
“If there is one fact we really can prove, from the history that we really do know, it is that despotism can be a development, often a late development and very often indeed the end of societies that have been highly democratic.
A despotism may almost be defined as a tired democracy. As fatigue falls on a community, the citizens are less inclined for that eternal vigilance which has truly been called the price of liberty; and they prefer to arm only one single sentinel to watch the city while they sleep.”
“We may say that the successful demagogue must denounce demagogy. We may say that the tyrant must despise popularity in order to be popular. The real question is that of the effect on freedom. Now we all agree about freedom. We all agree that we must not take liberty, except from people who take liberties. Unfortunately, it is those systems, which boast of not taking liberty, that do take liberties.”
“What’s worthwhile to point out, first and last, is that Socialism is a tyranny; that it is inevitably, even avowedly and almost justifiably, a tyranny. It’s the pretense that government can prevent all injustice by being directly responsible for practically anything that happens.”
“The excuse for the last oppression will always serve as well for the next oppression; and to that tyranny there can be no end.”
G.K. Chesterton
Exactly what I was on about. Criticize the government until the cows come home, that’s different, but what we’re seeing on our streets now is absolutely unacceptable. If you don’t have parameters of what is allowed and if you don’t set some basic rules on how to behave then anarchy ensues. ”If you tolerate everything you stand for nothing”.
”I agree! Criticise your government as much as you like; say what’s wrong with America all you want, but if you want your country to die, then get out or face treason charges!”
https://twitter.com/TheHarrisSultan/status/1780172563651449072
Jilted Italian stalks his former wife by disguising himself as a ghost
Obviously a rubbish disguise if they managed to spot him without using space lasers.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/long-delayed-ukraine-israel-aid-bill-could-hit-us-house-floor-soon-2024-04-15/
‘The U.S. House of Representatives will consider aid to Israel and Ukraine as separate legislation this week, Republican Speaker Mike Johnson said on Monday, more than two months after the Senate passed a bill combining the two.’
The aid for Israel will be passed in a trice.
Given the previous delay (and reasons for it), it seems likely that the Ukraine aid package will swiftly pass as well.
‘Space lasers’ seems unlikely to attempt to intervene……….
The defence against the weekend retaliation by Iran will no doubt be good for business also.
“At Singapore Airshow, the Gaza War Was a Selling Point for Israeli Arms Makers”
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-04-05/ty-article-magazine/.highlight/at-singapore-airshow-the-gaza-war-was-a-selling-point-for-israeli-weapon-manufacturers/0000018e-aa7f-dc75-afde-faff383b0000
The idea that anyone would regard an attack on a sovereign state by 170 drones, 30 cruise missiles, 110 ballistic missiles, and ensuing events quite possibly culminating in a nuclear armageddon, as ‘good for business’, is, frankly, myopic, profoundly stupid; unhinged…..
That’s the human race for you!
War is business. I can’t imagine the vast populaces around the world all clamouring for war against their neighbours, against those of different religions or ideology. Most people want to live in harmony and get on with their lives.
You really cannot believe that a bunch of bearded religious fanatics fired off 320 guided munitions in the interests of business?
It’s who finances the bearded religious fanatics – I very much doubt they’ve got bags of cash sitting about. Ideology has to be paid for, you know!
We know who buys their oil, don’t we.
They are not motivated by business, are they…..
As I say, it’s all business. It’s all money. Money and power.
Let me spell it out for you.
China buys Iranian oil to gain political leverage over Iran, as elsewhere; power politics, nothing to do with business…..
Let me spell it out to you
All power politics IS business. I think you’re missing the point and the meaning of what business is, in this context.
A bot may not understand the article refers to Israeli weapons manufacturers and has nothing to do with business for Iran.
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-04-05/ty-article-magazine/.highlight/at-singapore-airshow-the-gaza-war-was-a-selling-point-for-israeli-weapon-manufacturers/0000018e-aa7f-dc75-afde-faff383b0000
‘Asian clients……the buyers were eyeing defense systems that have intercepted thousands of missiles.’
Very sensible when the manufacturer of many of the components of those missiles is a totalitarian state and neighbour.
Business is business as the Mafia used to say.
Is self defence purely a matter of business….or not really……
What the article actually says is that:
‘……the Asian clients took an interest in systems that have proved themselves on the battlefield.’
Let us recall that ‘the Asian clients’ sit in the shadow of one of the most powerful and most repressive totalitarian states on the face of the earth, a state that is allied to Iran, another totalitarian state that has just tried to wipe out the population centres of one of its neighbours.
A bot may fail to analyse the meaning and context of such a comment and process it literally.
As I say, myopic, profoundly stupid; unhinged.
https://schoolsweek.co.uk/michaela-school-wins-high-court-battle-over-prayer-ban/#:~:text=Michaela%20Community%20School%20has%20won,school%20community%20as%20a%20whole%E2%80%9D.
But this, for England, is today’s big story:
‘A High Court judge has ruled any disadvantage to Muslim pupils caused by a prayer ban at Michaela Community School was “outweighed by the aims it seeks to promote in the interests of the school community as a whole”.
The judgment in favour of the free school in Wembley, north London, often referred to as “Britain’s strictest”, was handed down by Mr Justice Linden this morning, although he did rule in favour of the claimant for one lesser allegation.
The judge ruled: “The disadvantage to Muslim pupils at the school caused by the PRP (prayer ritual policy) was outweighed by the aims which it seeks to promote in the interests of the school community as a whole, including Muslim pupils.”
It follows a two-day judicial review hearing in January, when lawyers for the Muslim pupil, who cannot be named for legal reasons, argued the ban breached equality laws and her freedom of religion, claiming it disproportionately impacts Muslim students.’
This is a fantastic country. Citizens of England have, indeed, won the winning ticket etc etc.
Hurrah for England and St George!
“‘Playing the race card’ accusation is racist, judge rules”
It seems there is an entire woke “industry” encouraging every category of “victim” to deliberately create situations in order to provoke a reaction, so that they can shriek about discrimination and claim pots of money as “compensation” for their “hurt feelings”.
Sikh immigrants to the West, for example, use relentless litigation complaints against every type of company, school, government and military facility until they are all granted the “right” to violate the laws, uniform and safety regulations of every western nation they choose to enter. Sometimes they avoid litigation by simply threatening suicide, like the Sikhs who were hired as London bus drivers years ago, after they agreed to wear the full bus drivers uniform including the cap, then they actually lay down in front of their buses, shrieking about committing suicide, until the bus company gave in and let them wear turbans.
The same with schools: even in Canada, they sued schools until their boys were allowed to wear their disembowelling daggers to school, hidden beneath their clothing. Remember the Yorkshireman Fred Hill, former WWII despatch rider, who died in Pentonville prison, aged 74, for refusing to wear a motorcycle helmet, in protest at Sikh exemptions in this his native land. The Motorcycle Action Group still hold an annual ride in his honour every year.