https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-889806
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/423853
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held his first press conference since the start of the war this evening (Thursday) via video conference.
During the press conference, Netanyahu addressed Hezbollah's attacks on Israel and stated that the Iranian proxy terror group would "pay a very heavy price."
"This is no longer the same Iran, this is no longer the same Middle East, and this is also not the same Israel. We initiate and attack with force. Trump and I talk almost every day, exchange ideas and advice, and decide together," Netanyahu said.
However, he added that he cannot guarantee "that the Iranian regime will collapse, if we join forces, we will repel the enemies time and time again."
The Prime Minister promised that "many more surprises are expected in the campaign. We have the upper hand, much more than we expected."
Israel itself cannot bring down the Iranian regime, Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar told The Times of Israel on Wednesday, adding that the Iranian people need outside help to bring down the Islamic Republic.
“Ultimately, we cannot topple the regime, only the Iranian people can,” said Sa’ar. “At the same time, we must say that without external assistance they have no chance to topple the regime.”
For now, the Iranian regime continues to threaten any potential protesters with extreme violence. On Tuesday, the country’s top police officer warned that any demonstrators will be treated as enemies if they support Tehran’s foes.
Despite Israel’s rhetoric of revolution, the Kan public broadcaster reported Tuesday that Israeli government ministers, following a security briefing, believe the fall of Iran’s regime could take up to a year, while the ongoing US-Israeli campaign against Iran is expected to end far sooner, with US President Donald Trump speaking variously about weeks or days.
Hi – I'm reading "The Greatest Minds and Ideas of All Time" by Will Durant and wanted to share this quote with you.
"If I were to ask you to name the person who has most influenced our century (the 20th century) would it be Karl Marx? Durant paused for a moment and then replied: Well, if you use the word in its largest sense,we would have to give the greatest share of influence to the technical inventors, to men like Edison. Doubtless the development of electricity has transformed the world even more than any Marxian propaganda. Then, if you think in terms of ideas, I think the influence of Darwin is still greater than the influence of Marx, but in a different field. The basic phenomenon of our time is not Communism; it’s the decline of religious belief,which has all sorts of effects on morals and even on politics because religion has been a tool of politics. But today in Europe it ceases to be a tool, it has very little influence in determining political decisions—whereas 500 years ago, the pope was superior in influence to any civil ruler on earth.
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https://www.newsweek.com/pete-hegseth-spent-millions-steak-crab-legs-lobster-report-11658295
The Pentagon spent millions of dollars on luxury food items, consumer electronics and other discretionary purchases in the final month of the last fiscal year, according to a new analysis by government spending watchdog Open the Books.
The report found that the Department of Defense, headed by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, spent $93.4 billion on grants and contracts in September 2025, the largest single‑month total ever recorded by any federal agency.
As secretary of defense, Hegseth has publicly emphasized refocusing the department on core defense priorities and military readiness. But the data from Open the Books reveals that the Pentagon’s end‑of‑year spending reflected something quite different.
https://www.foxla.com/news/pete-hegseth-pentagon-lobster-spending-93-billion
A government watchdog report reveals the Pentagon, under Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, spent $6.9 million on lobster tails during a single month in late 2025.
The expenditure was part of a record-breaking $93.4 billion "use-it-or-lose-it" spree in September that included ribeye steaks, king crab, and luxury furniture.
Critics and lawmakers are slamming the optics of the spending, contrasting the "surf and turf" budget with the administration's public push for federal efficiency
Beyond the $6.9 million for lobster, the Pentagon spent:
$15.1 million on ribeye steaks
$2 million on Alaskan king crab
Nearly $140,000 on doughnuts
Over $124,000 on ice cream machines
High-end non-food items were also on the list, including:
$98,329 Steinway & Sons grand piano for an Air Force residence
$225 million in furniture, featuring individual chairs costing nearly $1,900
$12,540 for fruit basket stands
$5.3 million on Apple devices
Somewhere between the White House and the Pentagon, the nation’s leaders need to start giving the public a regular, clear, concrete sense of how Operation Epic Fury is proceeding.
Right now, regular Americans and experts “closely monitoring the situation” have good reason to feel confused.
That includes the hundreds of thousands of people with friends and loved ones doing the fighting.
Team Trump provided solid briefings in the first weekend of the war, but then dropped the ball.
Beyond the occasional in-depth presentation by Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, it’s as if the administration expects the public to think the occasional high gloss social-media video is enough.
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/03/11/politics/trump-republicans-iran-war-economic-pivot
Was the conflagration a war, a reporter asked, or merely an “excursion,” as the president had just described it.
“Well, it’s both,” he explained.
“It’s an excursion that will keep us out of a war, and the war is going to be, I mean for them — it’s a war. For us, it’s turned out to be easier than we thought,” he continued.
For Americans eager for clarity on where, exactly, this is headed, it wasn’t much.
And for a president looking to present his best case on a conflict that has roiled markets and polls poorly, it was a window into a difficult political moment.
And Republicans by and large support Trump’s military action, though many voices within Trump’s MAGA movement have either voiced deep skepticism or outright rejected the premise on which the conflict was launched.
