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Bert-Ola Bergstrand retweeted
Rep. Adam Hamawy @HamawyForNJ says that we should make friends, not enemies, in the Middle East, and the CNN anchor appears to enter a state of shock.
Do not underestimate the role of the mainstream media in making it costly for politicians to champion peace and diplomacy...
Bert-Ola Bergstrand retweeted
Matan Kahana is about to become Speaker of Israel's Knesset. Gadi Eisenkot's bloc picked him this week. This is what he has said about Arabs and Palestinians"
1) In June 2022 he was a deputy minister. He told high school students in Efrat (a settlement): "If there were a button you could press that would make all the Arabs here disappear... I would press that button."
2) In the same talk he called the Palestinian account of 1948 "nonsense." His apology was for an "unsuccessful choice of words." He never took back the wish.
3) A month before that, he wrote about a dream in which "all the Arabs decided one morning to emigrate to Switzerland."
4) In July 2021 he backed the law that bars Palestinian spouses of Israelis from citizenship. He said whoever votes against it "wants to flood Israel with thousands of Palestinians."
4) In December 2020 he wrote that "it is madness to legislate the equality law."
5) During the May 2021 unrest in Lod he wrote that the police should "protect the Jews from Arab rioters" instead of separating the sides.
6) In February 2021 he called the Arab MKs Heba Yazbak, Sami Abu Shehadeh and Mansour Abbas "supporters of terror" who have "no place in the Knesset."
7) In 2025, asked about the bid to expel MK Ayman Odeh, he said: "We must not build on Arab seats." On election night, October 28, 2026, he repeated that there would be no government that relies on Arab parties.
8) In September 2022 he said Ben-Gvir "loves the State of Israel." In the same breath he called the Arab party Balad "full-on terror supporters."
9) In February 2025 Trump proposed moving Gaza's population out. A radio host called it forced transfer. Kahana answered that it was "voluntary emigration" and said "we need to embrace this solution."
10) The day after, he called humanitarian aid to Gaza "aid to murderers."
This is the man the bloc that ran against Netanyahu chose to preside over Israel's parliament, including over its Arab members. He is an unrepentant racist and will lead the Knesset despite that.
The leaders of the anti-Netanyahu bloc – Yashar chairman Gadi Eisenkot, B’Yachad leader Naftali Bennett, Democrats chairman Yair Golan, Yisrael Beytenu leader Avigdor Liberman and Opposition Leader Yair Lapid – announce in a joint statement that they have agreed to nominate former minister Matan Kahana, No. 5 on Yashar’s slate, as the next Knesset speaker, following days of negotiations over the matter.
They also announce that Liberman, a former defense minister, will chair the powerful Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, and incoming B’Yachad MK Liran Avishar Ben-Horin will lead the Finance Committee. A former Communications Ministry director general, Avishar Ben-Horin is entering the Knesset for the first time as No. 5 on Bennett’s slate.
Read more: timesofisrael.com/liveblog_e…
Bert-Ola Bergstrand retweeted
🇺🇸🇨🇳 Former CIA officer John Kiriakou on how NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang allegedly fell for a Chinese honeypot.
A man in his 50s, a few extra pounds, some gray hair, and suddenly a beautiful woman makes him feel 25 again.
“The oldest trick in the book.”
You're building the world's most advanced AI chips and still fall prey to a woman telling you that you look young for your age.
The CIA has probably seen this exact movie about 10,000 times.
Writer: Oliver
Bert-Ola Bergstrand retweeted
🇺🇸🇮🇱 Israel's old playbook for crushing political opposition is failing, and Ryan Grim says there's a new strategy
"They built up a lot of fear among members of Congress, and anybody in the media, that if they stepped too far out of line, they'd lose their career.
Just the threat of it was enough to keep people in line. That was the status quo for four decades.
But now they have so many people that are bucking them that they can't just take one out to make an example of them.
We reported at Drop Site that they had done this global polling and focus groups to find out the best way to make their case.
What they concluded was that Israel was extraordinarily unpopular in Europe and the United States, but Hamas and Iran were slightly more unpopular.
So they said, 'It's Israel or Iran, and we need to heighten Islamophobia around Europe and the United States.'"
@ryangrim
🇺🇸🇮🇱 Why are Americans receiving mysterious text messages asking about their relationship with Israel?
Drop Site News founder Ryan Grim:
"Brad Parscale is running the largest Israeli influence operation, I think, in history, by sheer financial firepower.
Tens of millions. It's public. You can look at the FARA records.
They're behind those text messages that basically everyone in the country seems to be getting.
It's not normal at all. It is so far beyond what's been done in the past."
@ryangrim
Bert-Ola Bergstrand retweeted
Such a crucial point by @RepThomasMassie as he lays out the impeachment case against Hegseth.
The "fog of war" creeps in as the war progresses and uncertainty and confusion grow.
But there is no fog of war on the first day of a premeditated attack!
Yet on the first day of the Iran war, under Hegseth's leadership, the US struck an elementary school - three times - and killed more than 150 children!
Bert-Ola Bergstrand retweeted
.@BenMoser123 has this magical way with words. He can put things so simply, so self-evidently, that it makes you wonder why on earth there even was a debate.
“The lesson of the Holocaust wasn’t that you should act like Nazis. It was that you shouldn’t. For some reason, this is a hard concept for some people.”
Bert-Ola Bergstrand retweeted
🇺🇸 MAGA Voters Put America First Principles Above Trump Loyalty, and Nobody Is Giving Them Credit
From JD Vance's viral post to David Sacks and Fox News personalities, Republicans are confronting the Iran war's electoral cost.
Vance says Trump voters didn't simply stay home, as some Democrats did over Gaza in 2024. Many crossed party lines and voted Democratic.
For these voters, opposition to another Middle Eastern war apparently outweighed loyalty to Trump.
If anything, this suggests a political movement grounded in America First principles rather than a cult of personality.
Joe Kent, Tucker Carlson, Thomas Massie, MTG, Megyn Kelly, and Candace Owens, among others, had already challenged the interventionist turn.
MAGA voters deserve recognition for holding their own side accountable. Democratic leaders and intellectuals have so far been remarkably reluctant to offer it.
Source: CBS News, Axios, Reuters \ Writer: Naz
Bert-Ola Bergstrand retweeted
Sen. Thom Tillis on Stephen Miller: "This is the guy that went on TV and said it's the position of the American government that Greenland should be a part of the United States... We gained nothing through that drama except damaging some of our relationship with some of our most important allies."
Bert-Ola Bergstrand retweeted
This is a formal request for Susie Wiles and James Blair to stop harassing me with texts and calls.
If there is a factual inaccuracy in what I said, send it to me in writing and I will vigorously correct and apologize for any misstatements. I will note that everything I said is substantiated by other senior officials.
If you want to file a lawsuit and get into discovery of whether it’s provably true that Ballard and Continental had an undue influence on the White House policy process, do it.
I believe we are in an existential moment for the country, and Americans were owed an honest accounting of the past two years so we identify the problems we need to move on from.
Bert-Ola Bergstrand retweeted
Jennifer Welch: “The era of prostitution politics must come to an end. The problem with this era ending right now is Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer engage in prostitution politics where they take money from big tech and they take money from AIPAC, the same people that try to censor everyday Americans’ free speech by calling them bigots if they criticize a government that is targeting little kids with snipers and shooting them in the head”
Bert-Ola Bergstrand retweeted
Tim Dillon: “The whole administration is completely corrupt.”
“Kushner.”
“Don Jr.”
“They’re dirty.”
“They’ve stolen a lot of money.”
“I met with a few people.”
“They’re filthy.”
“Trump doesn’t care.”
“He doesn’t care about the Senate.”
“He doesn’t care about the Congress.”
“He cares about him.”
“He’s a mafia don.”
“A lot of other people are out, but it was never about them.”
“He’s going to get to publicly defend his thieving ways and his thieving children.”
“That’s how he feels alive.”
“He’s not building a wall.”
“He’s not curing anyone of cancer.”
“He’s here to just dodge investigation.”
“That’s a great use of the last few years of his tome on Earth.”
“Constantly dodge investigation to investigation.”
@TimJDillon
Bert-Ola Bergstrand retweeted
🇺🇸🇮🇷 Robert Pape now puts the risk of a NUCLEAR STRIKE on IRAN at UP TO 20%
University of Chicago professor Robert Pape has spent decades studying military escalation.
His latest assessment is deeply concerning.
Pape previously estimated the risk of Trump using a nuclear weapon against Iran at just 5–8%. He now puts it closer to 15%, potentially as high as 20%.
Pape believes the president's crushing midterm defeat has created a dangerous window before the new Congress takes office on January 3.
He identified THREE warning signs of another major attack: renewed strikes on Iranian air defenses, Trump publicly presenting a new imminent threat, and the collapse of diplomacy.
He says the first has already happened.
We also discussed a scenario in which massive American airstrikes weaken Iran's military before US Marines are deployed on the ground.
And Pape raised another disturbing possibility.
An escalation abroad could trigger protests at home, potentially creating the conditions for Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act. That's a scenario Pape fears, not an established plan.
Pape believes an Israeli nuclear strike would carry much the same consequences for Washington as an American one.
Iranian retaliation, radioactive fallout and a possible global financial shock would not necessarily distinguish between the two.
He still considers nuclear escalation unlikely.
But a 15–20% risk of nuclear war is not nothing, either.
@ProfessorPape
Bert-Ola Bergstrand retweeted
🚨🇮🇱 Netanyahu: Israel could face riots FAR WORSE than anything currently happening in Paris or Brussels.
He says the unrest could spread to Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and Haifa if his political opponents form the next government.
“With such a government, Israel simply will not survive.”
Words from a prime minister fighting to stay in power.
Israel's political crisis is getting deeply personal.
Writer: Oliver
🚨🇮🇱 Netanyahu is calling for a NATIONAL UNITY government, with Iran's nuclear program at the center of his pitch.
He wants Israel's Zionist parties to join forces in a coalition that he says would permanently eliminate Iran's nuclear threat.
But there's a big obstacle.
Netanyahu has lost his parliamentary majority, and opposition parties have ruled out joining a government under his leadership.
Meanwhile, 67 lawmakers have recommended his rival Gadi Eisenkot to form the next government.
Netanyahu wants national unity. His opponents want a government without Netanyahu.
Writer: Oliver
Bert-Ola Bergstrand retweeted
Calley Means: "I spent every day with Bobby Kennedy, who is my hero. I left with more respect for him than ever. Full integrity, never seen him do anything that wasn't in the best interests for the American people... but he is surrounded by demons that want him out and want him destroyed."
And that's really the problem isn't it? When you know what to do, or should do, but there's a certain group of people who keep your hands tied. I think that's why Tulsi Gabbard and Dan Bongino, left as well.
Bert-Ola Bergstrand retweeted
🇺🇸 Mike Huckabee just took the debate over the Iran war to a whole different level.
The US ambassador to Israel says he believes opposition to the war goes beyond politics.
“I see this as spiritual darkness, spiritual blindness.”
He even says Satan has blinded people's minds and influenced their thinking.
So we're not just talking about disagreements over foreign policy anymore.
Writer: Lynn
Bert-Ola Bergstrand retweeted
Trump screamed at Susie Wiles and banished her from the Oval Office. As the door slammed, he was still yelling: The 72 hours that destroyed the president's beloved chief of staff... and her Camp David plot to deceive him trib.al/gLUCNpy
Bert-Ola Bergstrand retweeted
🇺🇸 The video of Ben Shapiro predicting the midterms 😭
Is this the kind of person Trump listened to when shaping his policies? Lmao
Writer: Samuel
Bert-Ola Bergstrand retweeted
For two years, I worked to advance voter promises of President Trump and RFK.
But when this level of subversion to voter intent is taking place by Ballard lobbyists, I believe the most effective thing you can do is tell the truth.
Bert-Ola Bergstrand retweeted
🇮🇱🇵🇸 It must be great being an Israeli settler when you can just walk into a Palestinian's home and declare it your own
But yeah, the reason people have turned against Israel is due to Russian bots, isn't it Bibi?
Writer: Ian
Bert-Ola Bergstrand retweeted
🇺🇸Rogan: Netanyahu can only stay in power by prolonging war.
If anyone is desperate to keep the conflict with Iran going, it’s Netanyahu.
"He has corruption charges in Israel, and in order for him to stay in power and for him to avoid going to trial, he has to continue war."
Most Americans are against this war.
It’s long past time for the U.S. to start following the people instead of fueling Netanyahu's survival strategy.
Writer: Bri