Yair Wallach

Only Donald J. Trump can bring down oil prices by 20% in one day. Amazing

Video: A Beirut Hotel Sheltering the Displaced Comes Under Fire A Christian hotel owner opened her doors to Shiite Muslims fleeing Israel’s bombardment of the southern outskirts of Beirut. Then an Israeli missile struck the hotel, killing her 34-year-old reception...

Civilians in Lebanon, killed by grand geopolitics on which they had no influence or power whatsoever. Like civilians in Iran, Israel, Syria, the Gulf.

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Kanye West to Play SoFi Stadium Show In Major Booking After Antisemitism Backlash The concert will be the rapper's most high-profile U.S. show in years since he lost business deals over hateful comments that he's since attributed to a bipolar disorder diagnosis.

Ye released a song called "Heil Hitler" LAST YEAR and it became a rallying cry for Jew haters.

SoFi should absolutely not be platforming him.

נראה שהוא מהגר לא כל כך אופטימי

The College Republicans of America just appointed a groyper as their political director. Kai Schwemmer was in Fuentes' inner circle in 2021, & since then has strategically downplayed his support to avoid controversy. CRA claims over 300 campus chapters across the country

If oil gets to 150 or 200 US per barrel, and I think it will, billions of people will be cursing Israel in the fuel stations.

Firstly, It does not solve the nuclear risk from Iran. So it doesn't even fulfill the highest priority.
Israel is seen as the one who pushed the US into an unpopular war.
It could backfire in so many spectacular ways, and Israel will be blamed.
It's torching its relations with the US.

It is likely also probably the most dangerous for the Jewish diaspora in the west.

Of all of Israel's wars, the Iran 2026 one is likely the most stupid and self destructive (and there is some competition in this field)

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Gaza Eyewitnesses Film Screening London Palestine Film Festival, in collaboration with Centre for Palestine Studies, presents 'Gaza Eyewitnesses'.

Tomorrow at SOAS
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gaza-eyewi...

I'd say $200 next week.

It’s only Brént crûdè if it’s piped directly from the Brént Crûdè region, otherwise it’s just sparkling hydrocarbons

Highest Brent oil price ever was $147.5 per barrel, July 2008.
We're going higher this week

אפשר אולי להבין, מבחינה פסיכולוגית, את קוצר־הראות ואת קוצר הנשי- מה שלכם, האנשים הפשוטים בגלל המסכות, והאבק של החורבות, והנדירה עם הצרורות ועם הילדים מעיר לעיר; אבל כל מי שעיניו בראשו )ונפשו בגופו, וגופו מחוץ לטווח הטילים( מבין שהמלחמה הזאת היא נם גדול והצלה גדולה שאירעו לנו - ממש פלא וברכה; אפשר להשוות זאת למן, היורד עלינו מש- מים. אלמלא מלחמת המפרץ מצבנו קיה נורא ואיום באמת. -מה היה קורה? טילים היו משוגרים לעבר תל־אביב וחיפה, וממיטים עליהן הרם וחורבן. צפירות היו נשמעות כמעט בכל לילה. אנשים היו ספונים בבתים, בחדרים אטומים כביכול, ממתינים לחורבן, עם מסכות־גז עשויות גומי מעלה־צחנה. החיים היו הופכים לסיוט. כוח־ההרתעה שלנו היה הופך לסמרטוט.

-או־קיי, בתחילת השבוע ניתן להבין שהצלחנו, וכי "אפשר לחייך מתחת למסכות־הגז," כדברי הפרשנים: חלקים ממה שהיה־תל־אביב הפכו לעיי־ חורבות, והכרך הפך לעיר־רפאים תוך שבוע-מלחמה אחד. מה הטריק הבא באמתחתנו? שאלה זו מעירה, למרבה הצער, על אי־אלה גילויים קלושים של חוסר־נחת וחוסר־סבלנות, שפשטו פה ושם בציבור שלנו - בעיקר בקרב המיעוט הטקטי־ יבשתי המבוטל והמפונק של גוש דן ותל־אביב רבתי. אתם, האנשים הפשוטים מהרחוב ומהאינטליגנציה, חייבים לשנן את הכלל, שקבענו כאן עוד לפני שבועיים: "טילים רק הורגים אגשים הם לא מכריעים מלחמות." מי ששינן כלל זה באוזני עצמו ובאוזני ילדיו בשעה ששארית־הפליטה של המשפחה יצאה ללקט שברי רהיטים ואלבומי־תמונות שרופים מבין הריסות־הבית - הצ- ליח לסכל את כוונותיו של סדאם )או צדאם(: הומור טוב, מצב־רוח מרומם, היכולת לצחוק בקול על בית שחרב, על איברים שנגדעו, על מקומות־חנייה שהתפנו זהו הנשק הסודי של העם המופלא שלנו.

דורון רוזנבלום, חדשות, 1 בפברואר 1991.

Dozens killed as Israeli special forces raid Lebanese village in search of 40-year-old remains Overnight, one Israeli operation saw at least 41 people killed and 40 injured, according to the Lebanese health ministry.

Pretty serious allegation here. "Witnesses told the BBC that the Israeli soldiers had arrived disguised in Lebanese military fatigues and used ambulances with signs of Hezbollah's Islamic Health Organization."
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

America’s Threat to the World Peter Beinart speaks with Aslı Bâli about whether the war on Iran represents rupture or continuity in the history of US imperialism.

Highly recommended conversation between @peterbeinart.bsky.social and Yale Law professor Aslı Ü. Bâli for @jewishcurrents.bsky.social. Professor Bâli is incredibly sharp, nuanced and insightful

jewishcurrents.org/americas-thr...

North Tehran’s Aqdasiyeh oil depot is ablaze tonight after it was targeted by multiple US-Israeli airstrikes. Apocalyptic scenes filmed by Iranians driving on the nearby highway. Local reporters saying firefighters can’t put it out. This depot is critical energy infrastructure for Iran.

He would say that wouldn't he

Reports say that at least 26 Lebanese civilians were killed in this raid, by Israeli Air Force fire aimed to protect the troops.
Absolutely abhorrent.

Analysis Suggests School Was Hit Amid U.S. Strikes on Iranian Naval Base

"The total death toll has yet to be independently confirmed, but Iranian health officials and state media said the strike had killed at least 175 people, many of them children, at the Shajarah Tayyebeh elementary school."

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/w...

We don’t much about Mureeb, but his loss is a tragedy.

Praying for the family and friends to find comfort.

It’s time to end Britain’s first-past-the-post election lottery The Gorton and Denton by-election confirmed just how capricious our electoral system has become

This is completely reasonable and not radical at all. But Labour would never do it.

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It’s time to end Britain’s first-past-the-post election lottery The Gorton and Denton by-election confirmed just how capricious our electoral system has become

I think there is a vg case for the Alternative Vote (pluralist majoritarianism) UK's evolving party system - not least as of balanced use for voters on different sides of political spectrum. It allows sincere voting by every voter + strategic choices by those who care
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"Epic Fury" is a title for a film you have to scroll two minutes down the netflix screen to get to, and you know it's terrible before even clicking

Michelle stayed by her Israeli patient. One wall saved one life, took another Mary Ann De Vera, Known as Michelle, Remained With the Woman She Cared for in Their Tel Aviv Apartment Instead of Going to a Shelter. When a Missile Fired From Iran Struck Nearby, Rachel Survived With...

On de Vera's tragic death, see Haaretz story www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

There's enough well documented atrocities happening right now. I don't see why people have to invent ones.

This lady from the Philippines died because she was left outside of a shelter by the family she was worked for as a caregiver.

I see a lot of these stories about migrant workers being denied entry to shelters in Israel. Often without detail, and almost always false. In the case of Marie Anne De Vera, it's a blatant and horrible lie

He's always sounded genuine, throughout his many ideological phases. He always sounds passionate and angry and fully committed. That never changes, and that's his thing. Being angry and indignant is more important than the cause

Thank you!