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Well, well, well: Israeli officials trying to push US refueling tankers out of Ben Gurion Airport amid disruptions

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Wed, 15 Jul 2026 18:44 UTC
amerian air refueling tankers ben gurion airport
© Jack Guez / AFPUS Air Force refueling aircraft are seen parked on the tarmac of the Ben Gurion airport near Tel Aviv on February 25, 2026.



Comment: Who knew protection would become so inconvenient . . .


Immense controversy has remained centered on Ben Gurion International Airport as dozens of giant US Air Force refueling tankers have essentially taken over the main Israeli flight hub for many months, since the start of Trump's Operation Epic Fury. Reports also say it has cost the airport hundreds of millions of dollars at this point.

The Israeli government itself seems to be divided, and there's been outrage among the general public as the presence of the American tankers has blocked and slowed regular commercial flights, leading to the recent cancelations of many passengers' tickets, but with an expected tens of thousands more cancelations to come.

On Tuesday the simmering controversy erupted again, and has even raised the possibility of introducing fresh tensions with Washington, after Israeli Transportation Minister Miri Regev announced that the government will not allow more than 20 US refueling tankers to be parked at Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion Airport at any given time.
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Trump's new Iran strikes are turning failure into a wider disaster

Brian Hudson
Antiwar.com
Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00 UTC
Trump Iran bombing background
© UnknownUS President Donald Trump • Background Iranian devastation
The President's renewed strikes will not make Iran easier to coerce. They will make America weaker.

The easiest mistake in war is to confuse the ability to strike again with proof that the previous strike worked. Donald Trump is making that mistake in Iran. The latest U.S. attacks may destroy more military assets and infrastructure, but they do not answer the political question that has haunted this war from the beginning: what outcome is all this destruction supposed to produce?

The Trump administration launched the initial campaign claiming that it would curb Iran's nuclear program and break the military power behind what Washington described as Tehran's regional threat. Months later, Iran has not surrendered, the nuclear dispute remains unresolved, and the Strait of Hormuz has become an even more dangerous center of confrontation. The United States is still negotiating through intermediaries over shipping and other unresolved issues. Trump says talks can continue even as he declares the ceasefire over and orders new attacks. This is not a strategy approaching success. It is a strategy using escalation to avoid confronting its own failure.

That pattern is the central danger. Each time force fails to produce the promised political result, the administration treats the failure not as evidence that its strategy is wrong, but as evidence that it has not used enough force. The inability of the initial campaign to compel Iran becomes the justification for another round. If that round also fails, its failure can authorize the next. The strategy becomes almost impossible to disprove because every setback is reclassified as unfinished business.

Comment: Surely there are some Trump advisors as astute as this author...?

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Arrow Down

Open borders are a death sentence to Western nations

J.B.Shurk
American Thinker
Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00 UTC
welcome mat
© PexelsCrossing The Threshold
As simmering conflicts between Western citizens and Western governments boil over the next few years, we must never forget how we got to this point: Elected officials and irremovable bureaucrats occupying permanent administrative roles have refused to respect the wishes of the citizens whom they ostensibly represent and serve.

From the United States to the United Kingdom, citizens have demanded that their governments secure national borders and end the steady flow of illegal aliens into their communities. From France, the Netherlands, and Germany to Australia and New Zealand, citizens have demanded that their governments arrest and remove Islamic immigrants who are guilty of rape, murder, or other violent crimes. With the exception of President Trump's efforts to enforce immigration law and deport illegal alien criminals (despite formidable resistance from the courts, leftist NGOs, and Establishment politicians from both the Democrat and Republican Parties) in the United States, no Western official has done anything to remedy the scourge of unlawful mass invasion in a deliberate, meaningful, and effective way. Instead, Western governments hide from their citizens the true number of illegal immigrants living among them. Western governments hide from their citizens a full accounting of the crimes committed by foreign nationals who should never have been permitted entry in the first place.
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Better Earth

The day the world moved on

Phil Butler
New Eastern Outlook
Mon, 29 Jun 2026 00:00 UTC
montage global development
© UnknownMontage of global development
While the West argues over yesterday's world, much of the Global South is quietly building tomorrow's.

The cafe owner here doesn't watch CNN anymore. He checks Al Jazeera for regional news, follows Chinese state media for economic developments, and laughs when he reads Western predictions about Russia's collapse.
"They've been predicting this for three years," he tells me, as he hands me a cappuccino and a cheese pie. "Maybe they should accept that Russia is not collapsing and move on."
He's not pro-Putin. He's not anti-West. He's just tired of being lectured about democracy by countries that freeze assets, impose unilateral sanctions, and express shock when everyone stops playing along.

If Vice President J.D. Vance wonders why everyone seems unimpressed, well, this is the new reality that Washington and Brussels still refuse to acknowledge. The world didn't end when the unipolar moment died. It just got more interesting.
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Footprints

'They don't want you there': Trump tells Netanyahu to leave Syria and Lebanon - Axios


RT
Wed, 15 Jul 2026 08:00 UTC
Netanyahu Trump
© Joe Raedle/Getty ImagesUS President Donald Trump • Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu • Mar-a-Lago • December 29, 2025 • Palm Beach, Florida
The US president has reportedly pressed the Israeli PM to withdraw forces from both countries amid a widening rift.

US President Donald Trump has pressed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to withdraw Israeli troops from Syria and begin redeploying forces from southern Lebanon, Axios has reported, citing US and Israeli officials.

The reported appeal is the latest sign of a widening rift between the two leaders, with Trump pressing Israel to scale back its military deployments while Netanyahu's government continues to insist on maintaining them indefinitely.

According to Axios, Trump warned Netanyahu during a phone call on Thursday that Israel's military presence in southern Syria risked further escalation.

"They don't want you there. You should redeploy," Trump reportedly told the Israeli leader. The president delivered a similar message regarding southern Lebanon, the outlet said.
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Majority of Iranian MPs say Trump's 'termination' of MoU shows talks with US won't solve problems

Dave DeCamp
Antiwar.com
Tue, 14 Jul 2026 02:14 UTC
Iran parliament building
© FARS/Hadi HirbodvashIranian parliament building
The majority of members of Iran's parliament have issued a statement saying that President Trump's "termination" of the US-Iran Memorandum of Understanding shows that Iran's problems with the US cannot be solved through negotiations.

The statement, signed by 180 of the 290 members of the Islamic Consultative Assembly, called for action to be taken in the wake of the end of the MoU and for the killing of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to be avenged.

According to a Google translation of the full text of the statement published by the Iranian daily Hamshari, the lawmakers said:
"Now that the foolish US president has declared this Memorandum of Understanding to be over, the decisive and revolutionary positions of the heads of state on this issue are urgently expected.

"This experience has once again proven the words of our martyred Imam that resolving the issues between Iran and America through negotiations is not possible."

Comment: The White House reportedly argued that the move gives the Trump administration a fresh 60-day timeline to continue military operations against Iran.



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Attention

Euro elites fiddling while Paris burns

Finian Cunningham
Strategic Culture Foundation
Wed, 15 Jul 2026 18:21 UTC
Bastille Day military parade
© @boazgu1
The ironic symbolism of this year's Bastille Day military parade was as rich as a French gateau, although the taste was rancid.

On the day that France celebrates the 1789 revolution, overthrowing a despised monarch, French President Emmanuel Macron was joined by an array of deeply unpopular European leaders to view a military parade that was meant to symbolize "unity and strength" against Russia.

European support for Ukraine was billed as the main motif of this year's Bastille Day. The Kiev regime's unelected leader, Vladimir Zelensky, was sitting alongside Macron and 30 other European heads of state to watch Ukrainian troops march down the Champs-Élysées with French and other European soldiers.

This is the same Ukrainian military that honors World War Two Nazi leaders. Among the dignitaries in Paris this week was Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, whose country suffered genocide by Ukrainian Nazi collaborators. Tusk must have the moral spine of a jellyfish.

French media hailed Bastille Day as a "wartime parade." Media pundits talked about European readiness for war with Russia. The event was reckoned to be the largest military display to mark July 14. What was particularly distinctive this year was the involvement of the militaries from across Europe. The optics and declarations of "power" and shared purpose were rife with chauvinism and provocation to Russia. Bastille Day has transmogrified into a war plan for Europe.

This is no longer about celebrating revolution, democracy, or liberation (it hasn't been for decades). More than ever, it is a rallying call for fascist control of society and militarism to subjugate democracy for an unfolding war. If ever a real Bastille Day uprising was needed, it is now.

Overhead, fighter jets from 11 European countries flew in formation. Among the aerial displays were warplanes from Germany's Luftwaffe. Eighty-six years ago, Nazi Germany goose-stepped down the same iconic French avenue to the Arc de Triomphe.

Meanwhile, a monster forest fire was raging south of Paris amid thousands of deaths in France and across Europe over recent weeks from blistering heatwaves. Talk about Nero fiddling while Rome burns.
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Bullseye

On the US-Iran War 3.0

Alistair Crooke
Strategic Culture Foundation
Mon, 13 Jul 2026 14:37 UTC
graphic trump netanyahu hormuz ships tankers
© Strategic Culture Foundation
A market downturn in the U.S. - exacerbated by an energy crisis - could spell disaster for Trump's midterm hopes.

When the U.S. Navy, in co-ordination with Qatar and Oman, tried to slip a convoy of four vessels through the Strait of Hormuz, via Omani waters, on Tuesday night - rather than pass via Iran's officially approved route - Trump may have imagined (or been told) that with the massive funeral for the late Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei under way, that Iran would not react as the U.S. Navy attempted to force open an American corridor. Trump however, misread the Iranian jibe - Hormuz is its' 'atomic weapon'. Iran will not relinquish it.

Trump insists - in clear contradiction to the terms set out in paragraph five of the MoU - that Iran has no right to interfere with any ship trying to transit the Strait of Hormuz. Iran nonetheless is acting within the terms of the agreed de-escalation framework, and has warned repeatedly that it would strike any vessel circumventing the Iranian control mechanism.
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Jack Smith's Team Spied On 44 Lawmakers' Texts, Built A Case On Them, And Misled Congress: Grassley

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Tue, 14 Jul 2026 15:38 UTC
Jack Smith at Senate Judiciary Committee 2025
Former special counsel Jack Smith's investigators blew past the Justice Department's own privilege safeguards to directly access text messages between Trump White House officials and 44 members of Congress - then had the FBI match the phone numbers to lawmakers' names, according to DOJ records released Tuesday.

Assistant Attorney General Patrick Davis told Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) in a letter accompanying the records that Smith's team "bypassed the Filter Team and directly accessed these text messages." The FBI then worked out which senators and House members had sent or received them, Davis wrote.

The filter unit existed for one purpose: to screen messages pulled from the National Archives for privileged material before line investigators ever laid eyes on them.

"All communication to/from the Filter Team must go through the Coordinator," one internal protocol document states - adding that nothing was to reach the investigative team without a filter attorney's sign-off.

Comment: Jack Smith's lawfare tactics are being exposed but is there any chance he will be punished?

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Russian Flag

Russia's FSB foils Ukrainian drone smuggling scheme, prevents attack on strategic targets


RT
Tue, 14 Jul 2026 21:27 UTC
ukraine soldier fpv drone
In an undated photo, a Ukrainian soldier launches an FPV drone northern part of the Kharkiv region.
A total of 35 explosive-laden UAVs were destroyed moments before they were launched at their target in Russia, the agency has said

Russian security officers have foiled a Ukrainian attempt to strike one of the leading "strategic" defense enterprises in the Moscow Region using 35 explosive-laden drones that were smuggled into Russia through several European nations, the Federal Security Service (FSB) said in a statement on Tuesday.

FSB operatives obtained intelligence earlier this year about the Ukrainian Security Service's (SBU) plan to smuggle dozens of drones into Russia through Slovakia, Poland, and Belarus with assistance from Ukraine's Western backers. Since then, the criminal activities of Kiev's agents have been closely monitored and documented by the Russian security services.

Comment: No rest for the FSB, as they apprehend another sabotage group:



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