Saturday, March 28, 2026
Trump Floats Renaming the Strait of Hormuz After Himself
President Trump renamed the Gulf of Mexico and applauded efforts to add his name to the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Could a Middle East waterway be next?
During a speech here Friday, the president said Iranian leaders “have to open up the Strait of Trump,” a reference to the partially closed Strait of Hormuz.
“Excuse me, I’m so sorry. Such a terrible mistake,” he added, jokingly. The media, he said, would report the comment as a verbal slip. “There’s no accidents with me,” he said.
Trump suggests renaming Hormuz - 'Strait of Trump' during speech confirming negotiations with Iran
https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/article-891446
US President Donald Trump on Friday said that the US is negotiating with Iran over the situation in the Strait of Hormuz.
During a speech at the FII Priority Summit in Miami, Trump said that the US is "negotiating now, and it would be great if we could do something, but they have to open it up."
He then proceeded to joke about renaming the waterway "Strait of Trump" as a condition to end the war.
Israel Is Rationing Its Best Interceptors—and Iran’s Missiles Are Getting Through
Israel has begun rationing its use of high-end missile interceptors, hoping to preserve stocks of its most capable defensive weapons in the face of daily Iranian barrages that haven’t let up through four weeks of war.
A pair of Iranian ballistic missiles recently scored direct hits on the towns of Dimona and Arad after Israel tried and failed to intercept them with modified versions of less advanced munitions.
Iran-backed Houthis enter war with missile strike against Israel
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/03/28/world/live-news/iran-war-us-israel-trump
US can only confirm about third of Iran's missile arsenal destroyed
https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/article-891429
The United States can only determine with certainty that it has destroyed about a third of Iran's vast missile arsenal as the US and Israeli war with the country nears its one-month mark, according to five people familiar with the US intelligence.
The status of around another third is less clear, but bombings likely damaged, destroyed, or buried those missiles in underground tunnels and bunkers, four of the sources said. The sources spoke on condition of anonymity, given the sensitive nature of the information.
One of the sources said the intelligence was similar for Iran's drone capability, saying there was some degree of certainty about a third having been destroyed.
Joining war, Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis launch missile attack on southern Israel
Sirens sound in Beersheba as IDF says ballistic missile was intercepted with no injuries; attack comes hours after terror group warned it was ready to intervene militarily
Friday, March 27, 2026
Can Israel and the U.S. Destroy Iran’s Drones and Missiles Before Running Out of Interceptors?
For some time, people thinking about the changing nature of military conflict—especially those examining the recent experiences of Israel and Ukraine and what they might imply for a confrontation between the U.S. and China—have been speaking about the problem of “missile math.” This new form of arithmetic primarily involves two calculations: will one side run out of missiles, rockets, and drones before the other runs out of the interceptors used to shoot them down? Or, more likely, vice versa? And does the high cost of anti-missiles systems, compared with the low cost of drones and rockets, bestow an untenable economic cost on the defenders?
Trump said Iran’s nuclear program was ‘obliterated.’ So why is he looking to strike again?
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/02/24/politics/nuclear-program-iran-trump-strike
In March, the US intelligence community assessed that Iran was “not building a nuclear weapon.”
In June, the Trump administration nevertheless launched airstrikes targeting Iran’s nuclear program.
And today, it might strike Iran again over its nuclear ambitions — this time despite President Donald Trump having assured repeatedly that those June airstrikes had “obliterated” its program.
But if Iran actually is that close to having material to make nuclear bombs, that would represent a truly miraculous recovery — at least, to the extent one believes Trump. After all, it was just eight months ago that Trump declared Iran’s nuclear program to have been “obliterated.”
CNN broke the news that an early US intelligence assessment did not back up Trump’s claims. It had found the strikes did not destroy the core components of Iran’s nuclear program and likely only set it back by months. (The New York Times reported something similar.)
But Trump has continued to say the nuclear program was obliterated.
Trump: Iran 'running out' of missiles, launch sites, as strikes 'decimate' regime's capacity
https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/article-888693
Iran is running out of missile launchers and areas to launch missiles from, United States President Donald Trump claimed in an interview with Politico on Tuesday.
As the US’s Operation Epic Fury and Israel’s Operation Roaring Lion continue to pummel the Iranian regime, Trump stated that the regime is being “decimated.”
While he predicted that Iran would “keep lobbing missiles for a while,” he asserted that “they’re running out and they’re running out of areas to shoot them, because they’re being decimated.”
Pious people don't need Doctors
Ramban (Vayikra 26:11) In general then, when Israel is in perfect accord with G-d, constituting a large number, their affairs are not conducted at all by the natural order of things, neither in connection with themselves, nor with reference to their Land, neither collectively nor individually, for G-d blesses their bread and their water, and removes sickness from their midst, so that they do not need a physician and do not have to observe any of the rules of medicine, just as He said, for I am the Eternal that healeth thee. And so did the righteous ones act at the time when prophecy existed, so that even if a mishap of iniquity overtook them, causing them sickness, they did not turn to the physicians, but only to the prophets, as was the case with Hezekiah when he was sick. And Scripture states of Asa, king of Judah, by way of rebuke, Yet in his disease he sought not to the Eternal, but to the physicians. Now had the practice of consulting physicians been customary among them, why should the verse mention as a sinful act Asa’s consulting the physicians, since his guilt was only because he did not [also] seek G-d? But the verse can be compared to someone saying: “That person did not eat unleavened bread on the Festival of Passover, but instead ate leavened bread.” For he who seeks the Eternal through a prophet, will not consult the physicians. And what part do the physicians have in the house of those who do the will of G-d, after He has assured us, and He will bless thy bread, and thy water, and mostly with food and drink, warning [the patient] against [eating] certain foods and commanding him to eat others. Thus also the Rabbis said: “During all the twenty-two years that Rabbah reigned as head of the Academy at Pumbeditha Yoseph did not call even a blood letter to his house” as he, being a righteous person, was protected directly by G-d and needed no physicians, and they also say by way of proverb: “A gate which is not open for the commandments i.e., a house wherein the commandments are not observed]is open for the physician.” This is also the meaning of their saying: “People should not have to take medicaments, but they have become accustomed to do so.” That is to say] had they not accustomed themselves to takingmedicines, people would become sick according to the degree of punishment corresponding to their sin, and would be healed by the will of G-d, but since they accustomed themselves to medicaments, G-d has left them to natural happenings. This is also the intent of the Rabbis’ interpretation: “And he shall cause him to be thoroughly healed. From here you deduce the principle that permission has been given to the physician to heal.” They did not say that “permission was given to the sick to be healed” by the physician, but instead they stated by implication that since the person who became sick comes to the physician to be healed, because he has accustomed himself to seeking medical help and he was not of the congregation of the Eternal whose portion is in this life, the physician should not refrain from healing him; whether because of fear that he might die under his hand, since he is qualified in this profession, or because he says that it is G-d alone Who is the Healer of all flesh, since after all people have already accustomed themselves [to seeking such help]. Therefore when men contend and one smites the other with a stone or his fist the one who smote must pay for the healing, for the Torah does not base its laws upon miracles, just as it said, for the poor shall never cease out of the Land, knowing beforehand that such will be the case. But when a man’s ways please the Eternal, he need have no concern with physicians.
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