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Central Tel Aviv June 13, 2025
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I Am a Damn Jew—And I Am Pissed Off By Yonah Elias
May 21, 2025
I am pissed off. I am so damn angry I could burn through marble with my breath. The world can shove it—yes, the whole world. And if that makes you uncomfortable, good. That means you’re finally listening.
I am an angry Jew.
An unforgiving Jew.
I am the Jew you get after Germany.
I’m the Jew who walks with a rifle in one hand and a Torah in the other—not to impress you, but to remind you that I know how to survive both a firing squad and a theological debate.
I’m not here for your interfaith panels.
I’m not here to make you feel better about yourself.
I’m here to remember.
And to make sure you don’t forget.
I am the Jew you expelled from Spain in 1492—before Columbus ever got to sail the ocean blue.
I am the Jew you ghettoized in Venice, taxed in France, beaten in Kiev, humiliated in Poland.
I am the Jew Stalin called a parasite, that Churchill shook hands with then sold out, that America left on the shores of Europe to burn.
I am the Jew whose parents you gassed, whose children you hid, whose prayers you mocked—and whose rebirth you now resent because I dared to survive.
I am the Jew who didn’t disappear.
I am the Jew who came home—to Zion.
And I am the Jew you hate for that.
You want to know why I’m angry?
Because the West has lost its damn mind. It’s drowning in its own vomit while hallucinating about bathrooms, borders, and BDS. It’s burning itself alive with pride parades while lighting candles for terrorists.
Meanwhile, the East is building mega-projects, high-speed trains, underwater tunnels, AI supercities—and you’re busy holding ceasefire rallies for Hamas in Trafalgar Square while your power grid gets hacked by the Taliban.
Are you joking?
You should be writing letters of apology to Israel, begging for cyber defense. Instead, you’re lecturing us about “proportionality” while your own nations rot from within, infested with ideology and cowardice like a French cheese left in the sun.
And every time I feel that heat rise in my chest—every time I want to scream and rage—I hear this voice inside me say:
“But you’re a Jew. Jews don’t act like that.”
Oh really? Tell that to the Maccabees.
Tell that to Bar Kochba.
Tell that to the Warsaw Ghetto.
And then I remember what the Torah says:
“If someone comes to kill you, rise early and kill him first.”
—Talmud, Berakhot 58a.
That’s not a suggestion.
That’s a commandment.
And trust me—we’ve had enough mornings to rise early.
I am that ugly Jew, the one your grandfather whispered about.
I’m the “stinky Jew” your teacher warned you not to trust.
I’m the dirty Jew you thought would go quietly into the gas.
Guess what?
I didn’t.
I survived Auschwitz.
I survived British detention camps in Cyprus.
I survived Rome, Babylon, London, and Oslo.
I survived your love letters to the Ayatollah and your arms deals with genocidal maniacs.
I’m not just a survivor. I’m a witness.
And now—I’m a weapon.
Forged in exile. Tempered in war. Sharpened by betrayal.
But here’s the twist. Here’s the plotline your professors missed:
I’m not angry at the world that loves me.
Not at the righteous among the nations. Not at the brave, the just, the defiant few who stand by us.
I’m angry at the world that hates me.
The world that chants for my death then complains that I yelled too loud when I didn’t die.
The world that arms Hamas and blames me for the explosion.
The world that builds statues for dead colonialists but calls my people “colonizers” for returning to their homeland after 3,000 years.
I’m a loving Jew—but don’t mistake that for weakness.
I’ll dance at weddings and cry at funerals. I’ll host you for Shabbat and pass you the salt—but if you try to hurt me or my people, you’ll find out just how much fire is left in the Jewish soul. We are the nation that watched empires rise and fall while we kept lighting candles on Friday night.
So to the world that has lost its way:
You are no longer my moral compass.
You are a circus of madmen with nuclear weapons.
You are preaching virtue from the gallows you built with your own hands.
And I—I am a damn Jew.
I am Israel reborn.
I am rage and redemption.
I am faith with a backbone.
I am memory with a trigger.
I am the prayer you didn’t believe would be answered.
And yes—I am pissed off.
Now go ahead and share this. Let the world know exactly what kind of Jew they’re dealing with.
Am Yisrael Chai.
Not for your approval.
For our survival.
And for our eternity.
June 17, 2025 @ 5:45 pm ET Israel Realtime
🔹 Heightened Israeli Security Summit: Prime Minister Netanyahu is currently in a high-level meeting with security chiefs and ministers that has extended over two hours—unusually long for such discussions—signaling the seriousness of the unfolding situation.
⚔ Trump Speaks, Regional Strikes Imminent: As President Trump begins addressing the nation, multiple sources confirm that coordinated military strikes are expected to begin across the Middle East—not limited to Iran. Strategic movement has reportedly been detected at the U.S. Diego García military base, indicating imminent action. A senior source stated: “We’re now committed to strike.”
🚨 Iranian Missile Launches Detected: The IDF has confirmed a new wave of ballistic missile launches from Iran. Sirens are expected shortly in Israel as air defense systems prepare to intercept the incoming threats. Residents are advised to enter bomb shelters immediately and remain inside until further notice.
🔹 Iranian State Media Hints at Dramatic Action: Iranian State TV ominously declared: “There is a surprise tonight that the world will remember for centuries.”
⭕ Hamas Warns of Escalation: Hamas issued a stark warning in response to U.S. threats against Iran, stating that any military action “will explode the region.”
UPDATE 6:03 pm ET
🚨 A short time ago, air raid sirens were triggered across multiple areas in Israel following the detection of missile launches from Iran toward Israeli territory. The Home Front Command has urged the public to follow all safety instructions closely.
💥 The Israeli Air Force is actively working to intercept incoming missiles and strike launch sources as needed. However, the defense is not hermetic, making it vital for citizens to remain alert and responsive to official guidelines.
🚀 Channel 12 reports that approximately 15 ballistic missiles were launched from Iran in this attack. According to preliminary assessments by the IDF, a much larger wave of Iranian ballistic missiles may be underway.
🔥 At least five missiles have impacted central Israel, with reports confirming a direct strike in Tel Aviv. Additional missile impacts were recorded in Jerusalem.
🟥 Magen David Adom has dispatched emergency crews to impacted sites but has not yet received reports of injuries. Multiple explosions have been heard, contributing to an atmosphere of heightened urgency.
📞 President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu held an emergency call and concluded their conversation moments ago.
⚔ Israel and the United States are now coordinating efforts to persuade the UK and France to join the military response against Iran.
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This is how Israel dismantled Iran from within. ZINEB RIBOUA
The psychological warfare element — that the strike had come from Iranian soil — amplified the attack’s kinetic effects, leaving Tehran paralyzed.
JUN 16, 2025 The Future of Jewish
On June 13th, the Islamic Republic of Iran experienced a strategic collapse that altered the balance of power in the Middle East.
Israel eliminated key Iranian military and scientific personnel, degraded the country’s missile infrastructure, and neutralized its early-warning systems. But more consequentially, Israel’s strike — dubbed Operation Rising Lion — shattered the Iranian regime’s confidence in its own security apparatus.
This outcome was the result of years of sustained intelligence preparation; real-time intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance dominance; and deep operational infiltration. Israeli planners achieved full-spectrum disruption by dismantling Iran’s command and control networks, severing high-level communications, and injecting uncertainty into the regime’s decision-making processes.
By the time Tehran could react, the damage was already done. Its upper command was dead, its defensive systems were disabled, and its internal threat assessments were in disarray. Crucially, Israel did not rely on cross-border operations. It had pre-positioned remote-activated strike platforms inside Iran and deployed them with surgical precision.
Israel’s operational concept combined a decapitation strike with cognitive disruption. The psychological warfare element — that the strike had come from Iranian soil — amplified the attack’s kinetic effects, leaving Tehran paralyzed. Unable to determine whether it had been infiltrated or outmaneuvered, the regime’s ability to respond collapsed before it could launch a single countermeasure.
The first two warnings came in July 2024 and September 2024.
In July, Israel assassinated Ismail Haniyeh (Hamas’ top political official and a guest of the Islamic Republic) in the heart of Tehran, demonstrating its ability to penetrate Iran’s capital, bypass multiple layers of security, and execute a precision strike without visible attribution.
The second warning followed in September, when Israel conducted a sophisticated attack using explosive pagers against Hezbollah operatives in Lebanon, killing dozens and injuring thousands. This showcased its capacity to infiltrate and disrupt enemy networks. These operations sent a strategic message and served as rehearsals for something much larger.
Tehran failed to grasp the significance. The regime dismissed the assassinations as internal sabotage or factional violence, refusing to entertain the possibility that a hostile state actor had executed the operation within its own territory. That misjudgment exposed a structural flaw in the Iranian regime: Tehran’s national security establishment could no longer detect or interpret threats emerging from its core.
Iran’s failure to anticipate Operation Rising Lion demonstrates a pattern of strategic miscalculations rooted in flawed assumptions about Israel, the United States, and the nature of contemporary conflict.
Iran’s miscalculations were reinforced by its belief that it could rely on Beijing. Since the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), China has steadily deepened its strategic ties with Iran. What began as an economic alignment soon evolved into political and diplomatic coordination. China presented itself not merely as a trading partner but as a guarantor of Iran’s internal stability.
In 2021, China and Iran institutionalized their partnership with a 25-year strategic agreement valued at $400 billion. Chinese companies embedded themselves across Iran’s critical sectors, from energy and telecommunications to transport and logistics. Beijing extracted tangible strategic and economic leverage, a relationship that Iran mistakenly believed would grant it geopolitical protection.
This misreading extended into Tehran’s nuclear posture. Iranian officials interpreted Chinese backing as an effective shield from geopolitical consequences. As nuclear negotiations resumed in 2025, Chinese diplomats publicly reaffirmed the 25-year pact and emphasized multipolarity, integration into BRICS (a China-led anti-Western alliance structure that Iran joined in 2024), and cooperation with Russia. Tehran viewed this not only as validation of its international alignment but as evidence that it could defy U.S. and Israeli pressure without consequences.
Iran was further emboldened by its belief that the China-brokered normalization deal it signed with Saudi Arabia in early 2023 had silenced the most vocal regional opponent of Iran’s nuclear ambitions. Tehran assumed Riyadh’s opposition to its nuclear program had been politically neutralized and that, with Saudi Arabia out of the equation, Washington would have less incentive to support Israeli preemptive strikes. This was a fundamental miscalculation. The Riyadh-Tehran normalization produced optics, not a strategic shift.
The convergence of flawed assumptions — Chinese support as a deterrent, Saudi normalization as a shield, and U.S. diplomacy as a tactical delay — fomented strategic complacency in Tehran. When Washington and its allies issued a 60-day ultimatum to curb uranium enrichment, Iran dismissed it as empty signaling. It believed it still had time. It believed Israel would hold back. It believed the regional alignments would endure. It miscalculated, gravely.
Operation Rising Lion’s success hinged on Israel’s mastery of deception and psychological warfare. Deception in modern warfare involves crafting false narratives to mislead adversaries and inducing them to misjudge intentions, capabilities, or timing. Israel’s campaign was a textbook example, paralyzing Iran’s decision-making through a carefully orchestrated web of misdirection.
In the weeks preceding the strike, Israel saturated global media, diplomatic channels, and public discourse with false cues designed to lull Tehran into complacency.
The Israeli security cabinet meeting that green-lit the operation was disguised as a routine discussion on Gaza hostage negotiations. Ministers were briefed only within a secure forum, signing stringent nondisclosure agreements known as shomer sod, or “guardian of the secret.” Even senior government officials believed no major action was imminent.
Netanyahu’s office leaked a story that he was attending his son Avner Netanyahu’s wedding in the Galilee (northern Israel). The illusion that Israel’s leader was preoccupied with personal matters reinforced Iran’s complacency.
Mossad Director David Barnea and Israeli Minister of Strategic Affairs Ron Dermer claimed to be on a trip to Washington via Oman for a “sixth round” of nuclear talks. These negotiations were fictitious, but their announcement suggested diplomatic progress, diverting attention from military preparations.
Netanyahu’s team allowed rumors of a rift with Trump over a potential Iran strike to circulate in the media, fostering perceptions of political disunity within Israel’s leadership.
Israel designed this cognitive warfare campaign to neutralize Iran’s command and control structure before kinetic operations began. For Israel, deception is a central force multiplier in operational planning. Against a highly centralized, ideologically rigid and hierarchical regime like Iran, disrupting perception at the leadership level produces disproportionate strategic effects.
Deception has assumed growing operational significance for Israel in 21st-century conflict environments for three reasons:
- The modern battlefield is saturated with intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance assets. Denying the adversary real-time situational awareness is essential for maintaining operational security and preserving the initiative.
- In regimes like Iran, where political control and military command are tightly fused, disrupting perception at the top disables coordination throughout the chain of command.
- Deception enables strategic surprise, a condition wherein the enemy not only fails to anticipate the strike but also fails to understand its purpose until after the fact. This degrades morale, imposes psychological paralysis, and prevents timely countermeasures.
Israel’s operation applied all these principles. It exploited Iran’s doctrinal assumptions — namely, that threats would come externally, be preceded by escalation, and require observable force buildup.
By shaping the information environment, Israel ensured that Iran would not trigger emergency protocols, disperse its senior personnel, or adopt an elevated defense posture until it was too late. Israel did not kinetically disable Tehran’s early-warning systems; it cognitively bypassed them. The effect of surprise was decisive: By the time Israeli drones activated from pre-positioned launch nodes inside Iranian territory, the regime’s national command authority had already lost the initiative.
The Islamic Republic relies on projecting strength — on appearing untouchable and firmly in control from the top down. Its deterrence is psychological as much as material. Therefore even minor disruptions to this image can have outsized effects.
The strategic purpose of deception, in this context, is to undermine that perception before a single missile is fired. By distorting the enemy’s sense of reality (through misdirection, covert infiltration, and psychological manipulation), Israel erodes the regime’s belief in its own control and security. This breeds hesitation, miscalculation, and internal confusion at the highest levels.
Israel understands this well. It doesn’t just aim to win on the battlefield; it seeks to unravel the system’s confidence, creating paralysis through doubt, fragmentation, and disorientation.
The level of Israeli infiltration exposed during Operation Rising Lion has immediate and long-term consequences for the Iranian regime.
Penetration of Iran’s air defense systems, intelligence networks, and internal military infrastructure indicates a loss of control at the core of the state. This not only compromises operational security, but also undermines institutional trust within the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Quds Force, and the broader intelligence establishment.
When command structures can no longer distinguish between internal loyalty and external manipulation, decision-making slows, risk tolerance narrows, and factionalism grows.
Over time, this environment fosters paranoia, internal purges, and bureaucratic paralysis — conditions that steadily degrade the regime’s capacity to project power, manage crises, and maintain cohesion.
First, despite its threats of a forceful response, Tehran has failed to impose meaningful costs on a technologically and operationally superior adversary. What was billed as a major reprisal has largely amounted to symbolic gestures aimed at domestic audiences rather than tangible battlefield outcomes.
Second, the limitations of Iran’s response are raising doubts among its regional partners (particularly the Houthis and Hezbollah) about Tehran’s reliability as the core of the anti-Israel axis. If Iran cannot effectively retaliate when directly targeted, its credibility as a deterrent umbrella weakens across the region.
Third, the growing disconnect between Khamenei’s rhetoric and Iran’s operational reality is eroding internal cohesion. In a regime where legitimacy depends heavily on projecting strength, visible failure — especially in the face of Israeli dominance — risks deepening public skepticism and unsettling elite consensus.
If these trends continue, a deeper strategic unraveling is possible. The erosion of deterrence abroad and legitimacy at home could trigger fragmentation within Iran’s security institutions, elite defection, and increased pressure from peripheral regions. What begins as a military failure may evolve into political instability — and, over time, the disintegration of the centralized system that has held the Islamic Republic together for over four decades.
Israel, by contrast, has demonstrated control over both the military and psychological dimensions of the conflict. It has absorbed Iranian strikes with minimal disruption, maintained national composure, and reinforced its dominance in both the air and information domains.
The broader message is unmistakable: Israel sets the tempo and terms. Iran is reacting, and falling behind.
June 16, 2025 @ 4;57 pm ET Israel Realtime
🚨 IRGC Escalation and Prison Chaos in Iran: The spokesperson for Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) announced, “The ninth wave of Operation True Promise-3 has just begun and will continue until dawn.” Meanwhile, video circulating online shows chaos in Kermanshah’s Dizelabad Prison, where inmates were seen fleeing during what appears to be a prison break amid the escalating unrest.
♦️ Police Operation in Haifa: In northern Israel, police raided an apartment in Haifa where a foreign news crew had set up to film the skyline—reportedly in anticipation of incoming Iranian missiles.
⚠️ U.S. May Join Israeli Campaign – If Trump Approves: A U.S. official told i24News that the U.S. is preparing to join Israel’s military operation against Iran—pending approval from President Trump. The official noted that “U.S. Central Command supports the move, but senior administration officials are currently opposed.” This internal divide underscores a high-stakes decision looming over Washington.
🇺🇸 Retired U.S. Military Leaders Demand Support for Israel: In a strongly worded open letter, 68 retired U.S. Generals and Admirals are calling on the United States to stand firmly with Israel. They stress the urgent need for America to publicly and materially support Israel’s strikes against Iran, emphasizing that such efforts are critical to “ensuring its success, standing up to Iranian retaliation, and preventing Tehran from rebuilding its nuclear program.”
Strikes Seen as Preventing Global Nuclear Threat: The letter asserts that Israel’s operations have “prevented an imminent nuclear threat,” thereby protecting not only Israel but also American and global security. The retired commanders describe Iran as a “long-standing, dangerous adversary of the U.S.” and warn of “catastrophic consequences” if Iran becomes a nuclear power.
📌 Recommended U.S. Actions from the Letter:
1. Warn Iran of severe consequences if it attacks U.S. forces, regional allies (including Arab partners), or energy infrastructure.
2. Make it clear the U.S. is prepared for direct confrontation if necessary.
3. Strengthen Israel’s military capacity, particularly its air defenses.
4. Lead a global diplomatic or military strategy to ensure Iran cannot revive its nuclear ambitions.
5. Show firm U.S. resolve by standing clearly and publicly alongside Israel.
🛡️ The letter concludes with a strong call to action: “The United States must act to seize this opportunity and secure its vital national interests at this critical moment.”
📎 Read the full open letter here: JINSA Open Letter
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Checkmate: The IDF’s Arabic spokesman has published an animation openly threatening the Iranian ‘king’ after removing all other pieces from the board.
June 16, 2025 𝗜𝗦𝗥𝗔𝗘𝗟 𝗟𝗜𝗩𝗘 𝗡𝗘𝗪𝗦 – IsraelRealTime.com
🚨 ISRAEL INTENSIFIES STRIKES ON IRANIAN TARGETS AS MISSILE WAR ESCALATES; NETANYAHU WARNS KHAMENEI AND URGES TEHRAN RESIDENTS TO EVACUATE
♟️ In a symbolic post, IDF Spokesman Avichay Adraee shared a chess video, seemingly referencing the strategic nature of Israel’s moves.
❗ Iranian TV broadcast evacuation warnings for Tel Aviv residents, claiming military installations will be targeted.
▪️ Meanwhile, Israeli Police announced that foreign journalists will be barred from covering events in Haifa, after footage emerged of the Iranian missile strike near the oil refinery.
🔹 In a major escalation, Iran launched 370 ballistic missiles at Israel. While most were intercepted, 30 reached their targets. One direct hit struck the Bazan refinery in Haifa, killing three Israelis. In response, the IDF targeted Iranian regime infrastructure, including the state’s propaganda broadcasting authority, after local evacuations.
♦️ Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz stated: “Israel will strike the Iranian dictator everywhere.”
⚠️ Reports of 7 U.S. KC-46 Pegasus refueling planes now positioned at Al-Udeid Airbase in Qatar. U.S. C-17 and C-130 transport planes are also preparing to head to Europe.
⭕ Iranian Armed Forces issued a stark warning: “We warn America and Israel’s supporters… you could be dragged into a confrontation. The Zionist entity is too weak to confront us.” Tasnim News quoted a senior Iranian official saying, “If Israel takes another step and attacks civilian structures in Iran again, it will not be left with a safe place… we will go a few steps further.”
💥 Prime Minister Netanyahu, in multiple interviews, made Israel’s stance unmistakably clear:
“We are not ruling out the elimination of Khamenei. His elimination would end and not escalate the conflict.”
“Khamenei is like Hitler, he is not going to stop.”
“It’s in the US’s interest to support Israel in its quest to eliminate Iran’s nuclear program. Today, it’s Tel Aviv. Tomorrow, it’s New York.”
“Iran wants endless war and is pushing us to the brink of nuclear war. What Israel is doing is preventing that.”
“We have targeted their top nuclear scientists — it’s basically Hitler’s nuclear team.”
“The military operation may lead to the overthrow of the regime in Iran.”
⚔ Netanyahu also called on the people of Iran to rise up: “Israel’s ongoing military operations provide an unprecedented opportunity for the Iranian people to overthrow their oppressive regime. A light has been lit — carry it to freedom. Your hour of freedom is near.”
📌 Israeli Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer told Bloomberg: “We will continue our operation against Iran regardless of the progress of any negotiations with the U.S.”
🎯 A senior Israeli official told Channel 12 that “Khamenei is in a difficult mental state — everyone who worked with him is dead.”
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Powerful Explosions Rock Tel Aviv and Haifa as Iran Strikes Israeli Cities in Overnight Barrage
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BREAKING: Exodus In Tehran As Israel Identifies Khamenei’s Location [51:08]
June 15, 2025 @ 5:50 pm ET Tousi TV
June 15, 2025 𝗜𝗦𝗥𝗔𝗘𝗟 𝗟𝗜𝗩𝗘 𝗡𝗘𝗪𝗦
The Transportation Ministry has denied claims that it will operate fighter jets to repatriate Israelis who were stuck outside of Israel due to the airport closure.
Currently, the only option to reach Israel by air is to go to Iran and board a missile to Israel 😉
Betrayed on the Battlefield: IDF Soldiers Left Wanting While Defense Giants Feast on Taxpayer Billions By Mordechai Sones
Every donation, every barbecue fundraiser, normalizes a system where soldiers are sent to war ill-equipped, while defense giants thrive. Those who accept this status quo, who cheer the troops while ignoring the profiteering, are complicit in a cycle that sacrifices lives for corporate gain
June 15, 2025 Jewish Home
In Israel, where reverence for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) as the shield against existential threats is inculcated from birth, a bitter truth festers beneath the surface: rank-and-file soldiers, sent to fight, be maimed, and die for murky objectives, are scraping by with inadequate supplies, while the nation’s defense industries—Rafael, Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), and Elbit Systems—reap record profits from taxpayer money. This is not just a logistical failure; it is a moral betrayal, enabled by a public that, in its desperation to support the troops, unwittingly props up a broken system.
Contents
The Harsh Truth of Empty Supplies
A Tangle of Trust and Treachery
A Soldier’s Desperate Plea
Consider the plea of an IDF soldier, drafted abruptly to the northern front, his voice raw with urgency: “My name is [redacted], and on Friday, erev Shabbat, we were suddenly drafted after getting out of our last miluim [reserve duty] only two months ago! We are lacking basic logistical and cleaning materials because the battalion was surprised and nothing was ready! Basic things from toilet paper, shampoo, toothbrushes, brooms, sponges, rags, and all kinds of other things are lacking, and we need your help!” He goes further, hoping to lift his unit’s battered spirits with a barbecue, a small gesture to counter the despair of an unprepared deployment.
This fundraiser, one of many flooding social media since October 7, 2023, has raised over $1 billion for soldiers’ basic needs, from tactical boots to thermal clothing.
The Harsh Truth of Empty Supplies
When skeptics questioned the fundraiser’s legitimacy—how could a battalion lack toilet paper, with logistics officers supposedly ensuring readiness?—the soldier’s response was chilling: “It’s nice to believe that, but we actually are using our emergency toilet paper from the last line we were on, and it won’t last more than a few days. I’ve been told it will take up to a week for them to get everything under control. Even what they give us isn’t enough. Last time they gave us 12 shampoos for 36 dish soaps for our entire battalion. It’s a joke. Only through my campaigns have I equipped my entire battalion. The only thing that my battalion gets from the battalion now is our guns and ammo. The rest of our equipment is from donations. Otherwise, we would be wearing outdated, unsafe equipment.” His words echo a grim reality: the IDF, despite Israel’s colossal defense budget, is failing its soldiers at the most basic level.
Abandoned in Faith and Gear
This is not an isolated incident. Soldiers have shared videos decrying military-issued knee pads, “great 10 years ago,” now worn out and useless, passed through countless hands.
Religious soldiers face additional indignities: Despite propaganda boasting abundant and generous IDF Rabbinate support for its soldiers, shortages of kosher food, prayer books, tefillin, and other ritual items force them to rely on civilian donations. Photos circulating online show soldiers receiving donated tzitzit and siddurim from organizations like Boots for Israel, which has distributed thousands of such items alongside 46,000 pairs of tactical boots. One image captures a soldier holding a donated tefillin set, his face a mix of gratitude and exhaustion, a stark reminder that even spiritual sustenance is crowdsourced.
These shortages are not just logistical oversights; they are a betrayal of soldiers who risk their lives under the banner of a nation that prides itself on unity.
Profits Over Patriotism
Meanwhile, Israel’s defense giants are swimming in profits. In 2024, Rafael’s sales hit $4.8 billion, with profits soaring 64% to $257 million. IAI’s revenues reached $6.11 billion, its net income up 55% to $493 million. Elbit Systems, a publicly traded behemoth, posted $6.83 billion in sales, with a 22% revenue spike in Q1 2025, over a third from Israeli contracts.
These figures, fueled by taxpayer-funded contracts, could equip every IDF soldier with state-of-the-art gear, rebuild hospitals, or fund education for a generation. Instead, they pad corporate coffers, with Elbit paying dividends to shareholders—some abroad—while soldiers beg for toilet paper.
A Tangle of Trust and Treachery
The hypocrisy is staggering. These firms, born from Israel’s need for self-reliance, now exploit wartime crises. Rafael and IAI, state-owned, are meant to return profits to the public, yet Rafael’s $680 million in dividends since 2002 and IAI’s $430 million from 2017–2023 are mere crumbs compared to their earnings. Elbit, privatized and listed on NASDAQ, funnels profits to investors, with a single shareholder holding 10,000 shares pocketing $6,000 in Q1 2025 dividends—money traced back to Israeli taxes. Worse, allegations swirl that these companies, with government approval, sold arms to Qatar, a Hamas backer, raising questions about whose security they truly serve.
Enabling the Injustice
This scandal is enabled by a public that, out of love for its soldiers, fundraises to fill the gaps. Organizations like Unit 11741, delivering 11,000 tactical helmets, and Boots for Israel, providing boots and religious supplies, are lifelines—but they are also bandages on a gaping wound.
Every donation, every barbecue fundraiser, normalizes a system where soldiers are sent to war ill-equipped, while defense giants thrive. Those who accept this status quo, who cheer the troops while ignoring the profiteering, are complicit in a cycle that sacrifices lives for corporate gain.
A Call to Reclaim Trust
Israel’s defense industry must be held accountable.
The State Comptroller’s 2023 report on Rafael’s governance failures—understaffed boards, lax audits—demands action, not lip service. A defense procurement ombudsman is needed to give taxpayers a voice. Laws must define “excessive” wartime profits and mandate transparent budgets.
Without these reforms, the nation risks losing more than soldiers’ lives—it risks losing its soul. For a people who live in constant crisis, trusting their defenders should not be a luxury. It should be a guarantee.
[Ed.: This is disgraceful! This is why I call in IINO.]
BREAKING: Israel HUNTS Down Khamenei As Multiple KILLED In Haifa [37:38] MahyarTousi
June 14, 2025 @ 7:00 pm ET Tousi TV
Jonathan Pollard from Jerusalem under Attack [9:31]
June 14, 2025 Machon Shilo
❗️ADVANCE ALARM WORKS LIKE THIS, CENSOR SAYS, ATTACK and ATTACKS and BOOMS
June 14, 2025 @ 5:46 pm ET Israel Realtime
( VIDEO – Incoming missiles from Iran seen from Shechem (Nablus), listen for the locals calling out in joy that they are attacking the Jews. This is the ‘Partner for Peace’ – the ‘moderate’ Palestinians, that France wants to recognize as a nation and the world wants Israel to sit with in peace. )
‼️ SUICIDE DRONES INBOUND from Iran, interceptions in progress – currently over Jordan. (They’re relatively slow.)
‼️ 5 ROUNDS – per intelligence sources, 5 rounds of Iran attacks expected tonight. First one is finished.
❗️LOUD BOOMS THROUGHOUT THE SOUTH – that’s IDF activity in GAZA, on top of everything else happening.
❗️HOW DID THAT ADVANCE ALARM WORK?
30 min before – the Home Front Command APP, and ONLY THE APP, sent a vague “be near a protected space” notification with 1 ding.
10 min before – all cell phones received a “national emergency” alert pop-up message stating to prepare to enter a protected space.
4 min before – other alert apps set off their early-flash-alert tone and message.
1 1/2 min before – siren and apps alerted.
Some time later – the Home Front Command APP, and ONLY THE APP, sent a “You may leave the protected space” notification with 1 ding.
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♦️AS ISRAEL WAS BEING ATTACKED the IDF bombed an oil depot in Teheran. Amit Segal: The Defense Minister kept his promise that Tehran would burn in response to the shooting of Israeli citizens, and the night is still young. The oil facility that was attacked is a site containing 260 million liters. 11 tanks. Produces 7 million liters per day of gasoline to the Tehran region.
♦️HOUTHI #2 ELIMINATED – Muhammad al-Amri, the most important Houthi after Abdulmalik al-Houthi, was killed in an Israeli attack a short time ago. The #1 al-Houthi may have been eliminated as well, awaiting confirmation. Israeli intelligence discovered a planned jihadi council meeting and targeted it.
♦️IRAN – At least 10 attacks in various areas of Tehran and Karaj in the last half hour Dramatic attack, our planes attacked a total of four targets: the Ministry of Defense, the nuclear headquarters, nuclear laboratories, and oil facilities, as well as homes of senior Revolutionary Guard officers.
.. The International Atomic Energy Agency reports that Israel destroyed a uranium conversion facility and a nuclear fuel plate production facility in an attack in Isfahan.
♦️SYRIA vs IRAQI PROXIES OF IRAN? Hadi al-Abdullah claims the United States is giving the Syrian regime army a green light to target Iraqi Shia militias (Iranian proxies) across the border after these militias targeted Syrian forces across the border.
⭕KILLED & INJURED – in the latest Iranian missile barrage by approximately 50 ballistic missiles, Iran says 100 (they always inflate their numbers), 3 killed, 13 injured – at least 1 critical.
⭕44 STORY TOWER hit by an Iranian ballistic missile over the weekend is seriously damaged, but surprisingly likely repairable.
▪️EMBASSIES CLOSED – Israel closes its embassies around the world (for security reasons) following the attack on Iran.
▪️FAMILIES WITHOUT SHELTERS moved as a large group into the underground light rail station in Bnei Brak.
▪️ADDITIONAL AIR TRAVEL UPDATES – United, flights cancelled until at least July 1. Ethiopian, until at least June 18.
▪️BANKS AND STOCK EXCHANGE? The core branches of the banks and the stock exchange will be open tomorrow.
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June 14, 2025 @ 5:08 pm ET Israel Realtime
🔹 Following a situational assessment, the Home Front Command has officially announced that all areas across Israel may now exit protected spaces, though the public is still urged to stay near shelters and follow all official instructions.
💥 In Haifa, a residential building was hit during recent missile strikes, with impact sites confirmed.
⚔ Meanwhile, the Israeli Security Cabinet is holding an emergency meeting amid reports of ongoing Israeli airstrikes in Yemen and Iran.
🎯🚨‼️ According to CNN, Israel has targeted the entire senior leadership of the Houthis, including Abdul-Malik al-Houthi. Notably, Muhammad al-Amri, considered the Houthis’ second-most important leader, was killed in an Israeli strike.
💥 Israeli fighter jets are reported to be active over Yemen, signaling ongoing operations.
💥 Simultaneously, airstrikes continue in western Iran, the region believed to be the origin of the recent missile launches toward Israel.
🔥 One notable target in Iran includes a major oil depot in Tehran, which has reportedly been struck.
📌 President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu are being continually briefed on the developments in both Iran and Yemen.
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UPDATE June 14, 2025 @ 3:30 pm ET Jewish Breaking News
The IDF Home Front Command has completed an initial assessment of Iran’s overnight and morning missile barrage, concluding that civilians who followed safety guidelines and sheltered properly were mostly unharmed.
Iran launched around 200 ballistic missiles in four major waves. According to the IDF, 50 were deliberately not intercepted because they were projected to land in open areas, while a small number breached defenses and hit populated zones.
Missile strikes in Tel Aviv, Ramat Gan, and Rishon Lezion resulted in three civilian deaths and about 80 injuries. Additionally, seven IDF soldiers were lightly wounded by a missile in central Israel.
In one Tel Aviv high-rise, a missile struck the ninth floor, destroying several apartments. However, residents inside reinforced bomb rooms survived with little to no injuries. In Ramat Gan, a missile hit an older home lacking a bomb-safe room, but residents who took shelter in the basement were unharmed.
The Home Front Command is urging the public to seek the most secure shelter available during missile threats. Iranian ballistic missiles carry warheads weighing hundreds of kilograms, posing a far greater risk than drones, which are mostly intercepted before reaching Israeli airspace.
In response to the ongoing threat, the Home Front Command has mobilized its entire reserve force, deploying tens of thousands of troops nationwide to support civilian protection efforts.
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Trump Helped Netanyahu Pull Off a Great Deception in Iran Attack: Report By Randy DeSoto
June 13, 2025 The Western Journal – President Donald Trump reportedly helped lull Iran into a false sense of security through the actions he took in the days leading up Israel’s surprise attack against the Islamic regime.
The Israeli strikes early Friday morning targeted key uranium enrichment sites, as well as top leaders of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard.
Axios reported that Israeli officials told reporters during a briefing hours after the operation began that it was coordinated with Washington.
“Two Israeli officials claimed to Axios that Trump and his aides were only pretending to oppose an Israeli attack in public — and didn’t express opposition in private. ‘We had a clear U.S. green light,’ one claimed,” according to the news outlet.
“The goal, they say, was to convince Iran that no attack was imminent and make sure Iranians on Israel’s target list wouldn’t move to new locations,” Axios added.
“Netanyahu’s aides even briefed Israeli reporters that Trump had tried to put the brakes on an Israeli strike in a call on Monday, when in reality the call dealt with coordination ahead of the attack, Israeli officials now say.”
Lending credence to the reporting are posts Trump made on social media Friday morning.
Trump wrote, “Two months ago I gave Iran a 60 day ultimatum to ‘make a deal.’ They should have done it! Today is day 61. I told them what to do, but they just couldn’t get there. Now they have, perhaps, a second chance!”
In an earlier post, he stated, “I gave Iran chance after chance to make a deal. I told them, in the strongest of words, to ‘just do it,’ but no matter how hard they tried, no matter how close they got, they just couldn’t get it done.
“I told them it would be much worse than anything they know, anticipated, or were told, that the United States makes the best and most lethal military equipment anywhere in the World, BY FAR, and that Israel has a lot of it, with much more to come — And they know how to use it,” Trump added.
The U.S. called for Iran to cease enriching uranium, which its leadership refused to do.
Fox News host Bret Baier reported that he spoke with Trump Thursday night during the attacks, and that the president told him he had been in touch with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu several times in recent days.
“The president was aware of Israel’s action before it happened,” Baier said. Further, the U.S. would help defend Israel, if needed, against any Iranian retaliation.
A reporter asked Trump at the White House earlier Thursday whether a strike by Israel against Iran was imminent.
“I don’t want to say imminent, but it looks like it’s something that could very well happen,” he coyly responded.
Trump noted he stopped a full-on war between India and Pakistan from breaking out last month, which he thought likely would have resulted in nuclear weapons being exchanged.
The implication seemed to be that there was still hope that the Israeli strike against Iran might be averted.
However, hours later, Netanyahu announced, “Moments ago, Israel launched Operation Rising Lion, a targeted military operation to roll back the Iranian threat to Israel’s very survival.”
He added, “This operation will continue for as many days as it takes to remove this threat.”
Randy DeSoto has written more than 3,000 articles for The Western Journal since he began with the company in 2015. He is a graduate of West Point and Regent University School of Law. He is the author of the book “We Hold These Truths” and screenwriter of the political documentary “I Want Your Money.” @RandyDeSoto
