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Seriously screw every Republican who is attacking @VivekGRamaswamy over this ad by Amy Acton’s @amyactonoh own mother calling Amy out for being a liar. Don’t you all remember when Democrats ran an ad against @RepGosar featuring his siblings? Don’t you remember when Democrats paraded Mary Trump around to attack President Trump. The GOP is full of losers who hate winning. Now they are running defense for Amy Acton, a drunk woman who locked Ohio down during COVID instead of further investigating whether or not Amy Acton lied about her mother and stepfather. I am on the side of Amy’s mother. Amy’s mother is a woman and the Democrats told us that we need to believe all women. If you live in Ohio, get out and vote for @VivekGRamaswamy! I’ve seen new polling today that shows him up in the polls. Don’t believe the betting markets whose investors are Democrat mega donors. Vivek is winning.
BOMBSHELL: Ohio Democratic gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton’s own mother urges voters not to vote for her daughter. “My name is Donna Arthur and I’m Amy Acton’s mother. I worked at Children and Family Service Association, building one of the first two sexual abuse programs in America. I love my daughter, but when I saw her lying about her opponent—and it’s not easy for a mother to say this—but Amy has a serious problem. She is a liar. She lies about her past. She says she grew up living in a tent. None of that is true. She’s lied her entire life. My daughter needs help, and she can’t help you if she needs help herself. People can change, but first they have to tell the truth, and my daughter still isn’t doing that. Don’t vote for people who lie. Don’t let her become your governor. If you think she’ll make your life better, you’re fooling yourself. It will only get worse.” That’s one hell of an October surprise.
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Acton’s stepfather abused her from age 9 to 12 and was criminally charged, and the family lived in a tent in winter. Her brother confirms they were removed from their mother’s custody. Acton’s stayed married to the stepfather until he died. sources: vindyarchives.com/news/2019/aug/… wkbn.com/news/elections… justthenews.com/politics-polic… mediaite.com/politics/vivek…
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Acton's mother lost custody of the children after her husband sexually abused Acton. The mother stayed married to him until his death. Acton's brother confirmed the abuse and their time living in a tent, as reported in 2019 by local news outlets. nypost.com/2026/10/20/us-… nationalreview.com/news/amy-acton… daytondailynews.com/tncms/asset/ed… toledoblade.com/local/politics…
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This is huge and confirms the estimated mortality that we expected for natural deaths. Per the Palestinian Ministry of Health reports through 2025, there were 25,534 reported deaths. We were told that these were only violent deaths. We now know that violent deaths were 18,870 of the deaths (17,286 were from war operations), and we know that 5,780 were natural deaths. We can now confirm that the death toll from the last three years contains natural deaths. There are other questions about those from disease that could have happened because of the war. However, this sustains the study done by @Mr_Andrew_Fox, @MarkZlochin, @Aizenberg55, and myself that was published in December 2024. We can also confirm a population growth in 2025 of ~25,000. If Israel’s goal was the destruction of the Palestinian population in Gaza, its actions don’t support that inference, nor does the data support it. Outside of the arguments we’ve heard, this is incredibly important as it demonstrates that Palestinian life is not under threat of destruction. And that’s a very good thing no matter what position you take.
Gaza Ministry of Health has now released mortality numbers for 2025. For the first time since the war, they give numbers for all deaths, including natural deaths. In 2025 there were a total of 24,650 deaths in Gaza. 18,870 (76.6%) of these were violent, of which 17,286 (70.1%) were due to "war operations" and 1,584 (6.4%) were classified as accidents. There were a total of 5,780 (23.4%) non-violent deaths, including disease, old age, and all other causes. 5,780 deaths is about the same as the annual non-violent mortality in Gaza before the war, and the age distribution is similar to 2022. There is no significant excess of non-violent deaths. In other words, despite frequent and loud claims to the contrary, there seems to be very few indirect deaths due to the war in Gaza in 2025. As there were 50,227 births in 2025, this gives a natural population growth of 25,577 or 1.2% in Gaza in 2025, which is higher population growth than most countries in the world and more than the world average. There are currently ~6,000 births/month in Gaza, per GMH. Assuming a similar number of non-violent deaths in Gaza in 2026 as in 2025, that means there are currently 12x more births than deaths in Gaza, and that Gaza is now experiencing one of the highest population growths in the world.
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Larry D. Bernstein retweeted
Listen to all three minutes. No notes, just a mom who doesn't play about her kids. This is the new standard for parents who care about what their kids are learning in school.
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Larry D. Bernstein retweeted
[Anger Warning] Let's tell the story of two men... On the left is Netanel Shakron, 36 years old. On the right is Kadri Samara, 37 years old. On Sunday, Shakron, an Israeli Jew, took some of his six children to ritually bathe in a fresh water spring near his home. On that same day, Samara, a Palestinian Muslim, took a gun and went to kill Jews. Both men went to do what they considered sacred. That should get you angry enough. But, here's the more disturbing news. Samara murdered Shakron as an act of Palestinian terrorism. His son was right next to his father Netanel when he was murdered. Samara pointed his gun at the child to murder him next, but thank God, an Israeli Jew nearby had a gun, and acting quickly shot Samara before he could murder the child. Here's some more upsetting facts. Shakron's widow, Dr. Merav Shakron, is left to raise her kids on her own. Without the generous salary of her husband, who worked in hi-tech. Samara will enjoy a Palestinian Authority paid stiped SIX TIMES as high as a PA public school teacher. This comes from the Palestinian Authority's "welfare" pay-for-slay program, which pays Palestinian terrorists a monthly stipend based on how many Jews they kill. Here's some even MORE upsetting facts. Two weeks ago the British, French, and Canadian governments announced boycotts on Jewish produced goods from the "West Bank." [SIC]. Dr. Shakron, a professor at Ariel University, is subject to those sanctions. The British, French, and Canadian governments give annual financial aid to the Palestinian Authority. They will be funding the pay-to-slay PA program that pays Kadri Samara for murdering Netanel Shakron. The widow is sanctioned, the terrorist rewarded. I'm so sick and tired of this. Here's what else I'm sick and tired of. Forgive me for writing passionately from the heart, but I'm tired after Yom Kippur and out of patience. I'm challenged directly multiple times a day by fellow Jews about the exaggerated, and many times, baseless accusations of "widespread" settler violence. [I'm not going to rehash the actual data that shows this is a tiny problem compared to real issues, but anyone honest and willing to do an hour of research will discover how blown out of proportion the settler violence label is.] I have no tolerance for people telling me to address settler violence when they don't even take the time to post, talk about, or even mention Netanel Shakron's murder and the countless other victims of Palestinian terrorism. Three of my children have been victims of Palestinian terrorism, I lost neighbors on October 7th, my town needs security and armed guards patrolling 24/7 to protect from Palestinian terrorists. None of the Palestinian cities, towns, villages, or hamulas have guards because they don't need to protect themselves from non-existent settler violence. If you post about settler violence but haven't posted about Netanel Shakron, I have lost respect for you. There are no excuses for only addressing one side.
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Larry D. Bernstein retweeted
Now, you can understand why the democrats have been attacking me in Pennsylvania. We uncovered 371,595 non-citizens & persons who are “unable to read, write, and understand the English language” in Philadelphia. After cross-referencing the PA voter rolls, 50,000 voters have been flagged as potential alien matches. 50,000
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Larry D. Bernstein retweeted
If the Supreme Court truly cared about the future of America, they’d have used the opportunities presented to them this year to annihilate mail-in voting, which almost all functioning nations ban, and terminate birthright citizenship. I mean, I’m glad we get the occasional pat on the back ruling allowing government employees to play their choice of music or have a casual dress day on Fridays, but maybe one day we can win an existential case with this “6 to 3” majority hobbled by several compromised judges.
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Larry D. Bernstein retweeted
Perhaps we can make this photo go viral again. This is Officer Chris Amoroso of the NYNJ Port Authority Police. This photo is from September 11, 2001, with the towers behind him. After saving this pregnant woman Chris decided to go back in for his 5th time. Despite having a wife and baby at home, despite being only 29 years old, Chris and 59 other Police Officers and 343 Firefighters never made it back out. You can curse us out, spit, defund and disrespect us, but when you call we will be there. Thats what makes us different. Im not looking for responses especially political ones. Just remember Chris and share his story. No sports number on his chest, no large contract no anthem to kneel to, just a real hero. #NeverForget
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Larry D. Bernstein retweeted
45 Democratic US Senators just sent a letter to the Prime Minister of Israel demanding an end to “settler violence.” In particular, many claimed they were outraged by the “siege” of Qusra. None of these senators were on the ground. None are eyewitnesses to the facts. Are they right? The answer is no. Qusra is not under siege, and Palestinian attacks against Israelis living in Judea and Samaria far outweigh Israeli attacks against Palestinians (which almost always are in retaliation) both in number and in scope. But left wing media predominates, as does the carefully orchestrated PR campaign around places like Qusra. The “house” allegedly under siege, is brand new and generally unoccupied. But whenever a media opportunity presents, Palestinian activists, including the American Palestinian who built the house, appear to tell a highly sympathetic but generally false narrative. But Israel is not blameless. For 59 years it has failed to define its Eastern Border, paying lip service to the eternal rights of the Jewish people to their Biblical homeland, but instead creating a vacuum that delivers too much chaos. The Land of Israel is too important for strategic sections to be sublet to 17 year old kids. Watch @samschub ‘s reporting and decide for yourself what’s true and what’s not. Personally, I vote for One Jewish State with fixed borders and an upgrade in the standard of living for Jews and Palestinians alike.
Embedded With Hilltop Youth in Qusra | What Really Happened During the "Siege" There’s a race to settle the second-highest mountaintop in Judea and Samaria (the West Bank). It sits in no-man’s-land — Area B. Eight months ago, a group of bold Israeli youths took it upon themselves to settle a hilltop farm outpost there, after months of attacks from the nearby Arab town of Qusra. Just when they thought they’d won the battle, the media arrived and created one of the biggest lies of the year: that a besieged Palestinian family home was under attack. @samschub was given access to the other side of the mountaintop alongside the young settlers in the middle of the media frenzy.
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Larry D. Bernstein retweeted
This right here might be one of the greatest things I've ever seen. Tremendous.
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Larry D. Bernstein retweeted
It's live on Just the Facts: Genocide for Dummies. A plain-language primer on what the word actually requires under international law, what the recognized cases look like, and why the evidence from Gaza falls short of that standard. I did not write it as an advocate. I have no brief to defend and no side to win. I wrote it as a primer — the kind of thing you should read before you enter this argument, so that when you do, you know what the word requires and what a competent court would apply. At the end, I lay out the evidence that would change my mind. Not a rhetorical gesture. A falsifiable standard, in writing, under my name: Show me an order or a plan to destroy Palestinians as such. Show me a pattern of conduct from which destruction is the only reasonable inference — one that survives contact with the alternative explanation, a brutal war against an enemy embedded in a civilian population. Show me a competent tribunal that has weighed adversarial evidence, with a defense in the room, and returned that verdict. Bring me those and I will write the correction myself. Paywall free link in the first reply. Read it before you call Gaza a genocide.
Someone I've known for twenty years lives a couple of blocks away. He is not a partisan, he does not post about the Middle East, and he is not the sort of person who chants anything. Out of the blue, he asked me: "Do you think there's a genocide in Gaza?" No, I told him. By every metric that matters — legal, historical, statistical — there is not. He looked at me the way you look at someone who has just told you the earth is flat. Netanyahu wants to eliminate the Palestinian people, he said. Everybody knows that. Not a study. Not a court ruling. Not a casualty figure. Just a thing everybody knows. I have spent forty years as a reporter learning that "everybody knows" is where investigations begin, not where they end. Tomorrow on Just the Facts: Genocide for Dummies: a plain-language piece on what the word actually means under international law, how Gaza compares on every relevant metric, and why even the strongest case for the genocide charge still doesn't clear the bar the word requires. By the way, I know the title will bother some readers, and I address that directly in the piece. My argument is not that the subject is trivial — it is that the word is being used by people who cannot define it, at a threshold they have never examined, with a confidence that bears no relationship to the evidence.
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Larry D. Bernstein retweeted
Literally one of the best videos ever published to Twitter—from the start to the perfectly timed elevator door close finish
Sen. John Fetterman loses it on me after finding out I work for Drop Site News:
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Larry D. Bernstein retweeted
Sen. Tim Sheehy (R-MT) delivers an incredibly powerful speech about Iran. Watch every second of this. "Yesterday we saw the president of the United States and many others at Dover Air Force Base presiding over a ceremony that is very sacred to those of us who served, and that is a dignified return of remains from the war zone. That process happens beginning in the war zone through Dover to the hometown of our fallen heroes. I participated in many of those ceremonies myself to include carrying friends of mine off the plane. One of those is on this bracelet. He was cut in half by an Iranian EFP. This regime that we are fighting does not care about our partisan politics. They don't care who you voted for, who you pray to, or where you live. They want to kill all of us. And they don't just say it, they actually do it, and they've been doing it for forty-seven years. This is a war of choice. The Democrats are correct. It's a war of choice that was begun by a radical lunatic band of terrorists that took over a beautiful nation 47 years ago, took it over with brutality, force, and savagery. And the second they took it over, they didn't free their people, they didn't unleash the largest oil reserves in the world to build schools and bridges. They took it over to murder their own people and to spread their disgusting ideology across the world, and that is exactly what they have been doing. They don't just say it and talk about it. You don't have to believe what they say. You can simply watch what they've done. They have attacked families, women, children, innocent people. They don't just attack them and kill them, they rape them. They skin them alive on camera. They celebrate it. They honor those people who do disgusting things that we would put in jail for the rest of their lives in this country, and they do it for fun, and they pay them money to do it, and they're heroes to that nation. They've done it to friends of mine. They've done it to families who've been in this chamber. And the fact that we sit here and listen to elected officials of this country defend these lunatics who want us all dead. They want all of you dead. They want all of us dead. They don't want us to disappear with a snap of a finger. They want us to be raped, burned alive, and cut into pieces. Watch the video from October 7. That's what they want to happen from Maine to San Diego, from Seattle to Miami. They want this country turned into a burning husk of its former self, and you don't have to theorize that. That's what they do. From the 1983 barracks bombing, where 280 Marines were vaporized in a morning, from USS Cole to the Achille Lauro, to every terrorist attack, from the Houthis, Hezbollah, Hamas. These are not humanitarian freedom organizations. They are death-dealing cults, and they want all of us to die brutal deaths. William Buckley was abducted in 1985, an American military officer. He was skinned alive on camera by the Iranians. American prisoners of war who were captured. They were never called prisoners of war because they were captured by lunatic terrorists, so they were not subject to the Geneva Convention. They were captured and murdered, power drills through their brains. This is in Iraq. These are families that have dealt with this, and they've never gotten a single dime. These families have never gotten restitution, and not a single president has ever stood up to them. Love Donald Trump or hate him, love his policies, hate ICE, love ICE, whatever. There's never been a single president who has stood up to Iran and hit back. For 47 years, our troops and our families have been absorbing attack after attack after attack all over the world. And their radical ideology does not stop at the Persian Gulf. It doesn't stop at Tel Aviv. They want to do this everywhere. It's a global radical ideology, and we've been fighting it for half a century. We didn't start this war. We did not, but we will finish it. And forever wars are not popular with anybody these days. Both sides of the love to attack our forever wars. And I can promise you, being someone overseas wearing the uniform, when you're fighting for your country, you don't care what party's in office, but you're fighting to defend your country, and you turn on the news and see your elected officials stabbing you in the back, telling you that you're failing, that you've failed every goal of the war, is what I just heard. Last time I checked, we've wiped these bastards out. An occasional missile strike and boats in the straits, that's not military strength. Those are the flailings of a failing empire. Those are the flailings of a nation in collapse because they deserve it. So I encourage our colleagues on both sides of the aisle, whatever's politically convenient, whatever plays well on Twitter or Facebook, think about the people who are deployed right now, standing on that wall with a loaded weapon, who have volunteered to defend our country and our way of life. Because they are there defending us in a just war, because we did not start a war with the Iranian Revolutionary Guard. They started it with us 47 years ago, and their attacks have gone unanswered for half a century. It's time to fix this problem and make sure another generations of Americans does not have to fight this murderous, savage adversary."
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Mick is right. His view of entertainment is refreshing! Mick Jagger says fans don’t want political lectures after Bruce Springsteen’s anti-Trump speeches nypost.com/2026/07/12/us-new…
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Larry D. Bernstein retweeted
Two weeks ago, Gazan women testified to a system of rape by Hamas to Palestinian women living in tents. Last week, Gazan children testified to being raped by Hamas clerics. This week, a report revealed the extent of sexual violence on Oct. 7th. The NYT hasn’t written a word.
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Meet Tamir Shahada, a Muslim soldier in the IDF. "My name is Tamir Shahada. I am a Muslim soldier in the IDF, and I hope to show the world that an Arab soldier can be proud to serve and protect Israel, our home." He's incredible. 🙏
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Larry D. Bernstein retweeted
Two weeks ago, an IDF soldier desecrated a statue of Jesus. Within 48 hours, the political establishment of Israel condemned it, and jailed the soldier. There were hundreds of thousands of posts. Today, 29 Christians were massacred by Islamists in Nigeria. Not a word. Weird.
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Larry D. Bernstein retweeted
Kuwaiti Shocks UN: “Mr. Chair, Who are the real colonizers? A Jewish Kingdom ruled in Judea for a thousand years. We, the Arabs, took this land... Israel frees Gaza from Hamas and Iranians from the Islamic Republic. What Israel is doing to the IRGC—stopping a genocidal regime from acquiring nuclear weapons—is a gift to humanity.”
🔥 BEST VIDEO OF THE YEAR Rare moment of truth at the UN from brave Kuwaiti dissident @JJJuraid, invited by UN Watch: Mr. Chair, I heard the term “colonizers.” But who are the real colonizers? A Jewish Kingdom ruled in Judea for a thousand years. We, the Arabs, took this land. Who Arabized Egyptians, Phoenicians, Persians and Amazighs? It was us, the Arabs. So why does the council enshrine a lie by keeping a permanent agenda item on Palestine, while ignoring the indigenous heart of Israel returning home? Let us be clear about who is actually defending our sovereignty. Today, Israel is a fighter for peaceful nations, freeing Gaza from Hamas and saving Iranians from the Islamic Republic. What Israel is doing to the IRGC — stopping a genocidal regime from acquiring nuclear weapons — is a gift to humanity. There are 57 Islamic countries and only one Jewish state, Israel. Despite the ongoing hateful desire to eliminate it, Israel has not only survived, it has thrived. I don't believe in miracles, but this is one. So I ask the UN: when will you end the ritual of condemning Israel? Is it not time, instead, to learn from Israel? How to defeat terror, defend free societies, and pursue peace. Thank you.
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Larry D. Bernstein retweeted
Terrible what happened in Arad. The IRGC will pay. It’s also hard to believe that all of that damage and thank God, no one killed and almost all light injuries. Praying for those injured more seriously and also grateful. Could have ended much worse. But boy will they pay.
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Larry D. Bernstein retweeted
Gold Star wife here. When ISIS killed your wife, you supported going after the people responsible. You understood exactly why we were fighting and never called it “Israel’s war.” My husband, Alan, was killed by Iranian proxies in Iraq. And now, after decades, the fight is finally leading back to the number one state sponsor of terrorism in the world. You understood it when it was your loss. Now you’re minimizing it when it’s mine. You don’t get to redefine this war just because it’s not your grief anymore.
After much reflection, I have decided to resign from my position as Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, effective today. I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby. It has been an honor serving under @POTUS and @DNIGabbard and leading the professionals at NCTC. May God bless America.
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Larry D. Bernstein retweeted
BREAKING: Israel just wiped out the Basij high command at a secret meeting in the desert. The IDF confirmed overnight that a precision strike hit a makeshift tent complex where Basij commander Gholamreza Soleimani and dozens of regional commanders had gathered, believing they were safe by hiding outside fixed infrastructure. Israeli intelligence knew the location, the timing, and the attendee list. Soleimani is dead. His deputy is dead. The regional commanders who ran Iran’s internal repression apparatus are dead. Separately, Defense Minister Katz confirmed that Ali Larijani, Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, was targeted in an overnight airstrike on Tehran. Katz stated this morning that Larijani and the Basij commander “were eliminated overnight and joined Khamenei and all the eliminated members of the axis of evil, in the depths of hell.” Iran published a handwritten note claiming Larijani survived. The IDF says it is still assessing. The intelligence architecture reveals decades of Mossad investment paying compound returns. Long-term human networks inside Iran provided the foundational layer. The accelerant was Iranian citizens themselves. Social media tip-offs identifying Basij checkpoint locations, commander movements, and gathering schedules created a real-time targeting overlay that no counterintelligence apparatus could suppress. The regime’s own population became its exposure surface. F-35 stealth aircraft delivered stand-off precision munitions on Tehran command nodes linked to the Intelligence Ministry and Basij, internal security forces in Shiraz, and air defense systems in Tabriz. Zero oil infrastructure was touched. Netanyahu released a photo showing the moment he authorized the strikes, a deliberate signal to every surviving commander that their movements are watched and the order to kill them carries a face and a timestamp. Hours later, he addressed the Iranian people for Nowruz, wishing them “a year of freedom.” Kill the commanders at dawn. Address their victims by evening. But here is the paradox that every allocator must internalize. The Basij high command is destroyed. Larijani is reportedly dead. The IRGC’s intelligence architecture has been degraded to a degree unprecedented since the revolution. And the Strait of Hormuz toll booth continues operating as if nothing happened. MarineTraffic data from the hours following these strikes shows zero disruption to the permissioned passage regime. Hormozgan provincial IRGC naval units continue executing the same VHF hail, AIS verification, and diplomatic clearance protocol they have maintained for seventeen consecutive days. The sealed contingency packets do not care who is alive in Tehran. They were designed for exactly this scenario. Every decapitation headline triggers a “regime collapse” reflex that pulls crude lower on normalization hopes. The market sees dead commanders and infers a weakening adversary approaching capitulation. The evidence says the opposite. Decapitation degrades the center. It cannot break the periphery. The 31 provincial commands do not need Soleimani or Larijani or Mojtaba to keep the Hormuz gate operational. They need their packets, their theater lead authority, their radios, and their standing orders. All of which survived the night. Twenty-one ships carrying nearly one million metric tons of fertilizer remain stranded in the Gulf. Urea at New Orleans hit $683 per metric ton. The Gulf produces 49 percent of global urea exports. The Corn Belt planting window opens in weeks. No urea vessel has received passage through the toll booth because no nation has prioritized fertilizer over crude. Israel killed the men who ran the repression. The packets that run the blockade do not have names. They cannot be assassinated. What breaks this: documented Hormuz passage disruption from IRGC command confusion within 72 hours of these strikes. Full analysis - open.substack.com/pub/shanak…
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