Alright, I said I’d come back to this, and here I am, because the situation somehow got worse instead of better, and I think a lot of people have quietly stopped paying attention even though this thing is still very much happening. So let’s just walk through where we actually are right now, as of this week, without me pretending to be on Team Iran or Team USA, because I’m not on either team, I’m on the team that doesn’t want people dying over this.
Quick recap for anyone who tuned out. This war didn’t start last week, it started back on February 28, 2026, when the US and Israel launched a coordinated set of strikes on Iran, hitting military and government sites and killing a bunch of senior Iranian officials, including the assassination of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. That’s not a small thing. That’s the kind of opening move that basically guarantees there’s no quiet, clean off-ramp, because you don’t decapitate a government’s leadership and then expect them to shake hands a month later like nothing happened. The strikes reportedly came in the middle of ongoing negotiations between the US and Iran over Iran’s nuclear program, which is its own kind of messed up, because it makes diplomacy look like a trap instead of a real option, and that’s a bad precedent no matter which side you’re rooting for. Wikipedia
Since then there’s been a whole rollercoaster. There was a ceasefire back in April, brokered by Pakistan, that lasted two weeks before things fell apart again. Then in mid-June, mediators put together an actual memorandum of understanding, something more substantial than a temporary truce, signed by the presidents of both countries on June 17, with the idea that it would formally end the conflict within sixty days. That’s the kind of news that makes you exhale a little, like okay, maybe this is actually winding down. Except it wasn’t. According to people who track this stuff closely, it took two months to negotiate that agreement and only three weeks for it to fall apart. One regional expert warned that the US and Iran risk sliding into a “forever war” because if even a minimal understanding like that one can’t hold, there’s no real floor under any future de-escalation attempt. That line stuck with me, because it’s exactly the vibe I’m getting from the outside too. It doesn’t feel like a war that’s ending, it feels like a war that’s finding new gears. CNN
So where are we right now, this week, as I’m writing this. The US has been hitting Iran for seven consecutive nights straight, expanding from military targets into infrastructure like bridges, with strikes reaching deeper into the country than before. Iran, in turn, has widened its own retaliation well past Israel and the US directly, hitting Qatar and Kuwait, and claiming it also struck US forces in Bahrain and Syria. A Kuwaiti desalination plant got hit, which is the kind of target that should make everyone pause for a second, because messing with a Gulf country’s fresh water supply isn’t really a “military target” in any normal sense, it’s a humanitarian one. Iran also claims to have killed multiple people in attacks on America’s Kurdish allies in Iraq. Two oil tankers reportedly caught fire in the Strait of Hormuz after hitting mines, which nobody has fully confirmed yet, but if true, that’s a serious escalation of the shipping and economic side of this whole thing, on top of everything else.
And that Strait of Hormuz piece is honestly one of the scariest parts of this whole saga, because it’s not really about Iran versus the US anymore at that point, it’s about global oil and shipping getting disrupted, which drags in every country that depends on that route, which is basically everyone. Iran has been treating any threat to close or restrict the Strait as what one of their officials called an unbreakable red line, and they’re not bluffing about making other countries feel it too, since Qatar, Kuwait, and Jordan have all reportedly taken fire trying to defend against Iranian attacks. This isn’t a two country war anymore, it’s a regional mess with global economic tentacles, and that should worry literally everyone, not just people who have relatives in Iran or family in the military.
On the casualty side, it’s ugly and it’s not slowing down. Iranian health officials say at least 38 people have been killed and over 400 wounded in just the past week from the ongoing strikes, and separately Iranian state media reported at least seven killed and twenty wounded from one specific wave targeting infrastructure. I want to be really clear about something here, because I think it gets lost in the noise, those aren’t just numbers on a screen, those are actual human beings, parents, kids, regular people who didn’t choose this war and don’t get a vote on whether it continues. And on the other side, we’ve had American service members killed too, with some reporting putting Iranian retaliatory operations at having killed over a dozen US troops already. Every single one of those was somebody’s kid, somebody’s spouse, somebody’s friend. I don’t care what side of this argument you’re on politically, that’s a tragedy, full stop, and it deserves to be treated like one instead of a stat in a scoreboard.
Now here’s the part that I think doesn’t get talked about enough, and it’s honestly the reason I wanted to write this thing again. This war isn’t staying over there. There’s been a real and growing conversation, from homeland security folks, from federal officials, from counterterrorism researchers, about the risk of this conflict reaching back onto American soil. Iran has reportedly threatened in the past to activate what people are calling sleeper cells inside the United States if American forces struck Iranian targets directly, and researchers at places like the Combating Terrorism Center have said that Iran has a track record of pursuing exactly this kind of asymmetric retaliation abroad, including attempted operations in Europe. Now, I want to be careful here, because a lot of the coverage around this gets pretty alarmist and pretty partisan fast, some of it clearly gets used as a political football around immigration and border policy, and there’s no publicly confirmed large scale plot that’s actually happened on US soil as of right now. So I’m not trying to fearmonger or tell you to panic. But the fact that federal agencies have put out heightened threat advisories, and that this is a live topic of concern among actual national security professionals and not just internet randos, tells you something. It tells you that the longer this war drags on, the more that risk compounds, even for people who have zero connection to the military and zero interest in Middle East politics. That’s the thing that should make everyone, regardless of their politics, want this thing to actually end instead of just simmering along for months on end.
And that’s really my whole point in writing this again. I’m not interested in relitigating who started it, or who’s more justified, or whatever argument you want to have about decades of history between these two countries, because that conversation happens everywhere already and I don’t think one more internet post arguing about blame is going to change anything. What I actually care about is that this war keeps not ending, keeps finding new ways to widen, and keeps pulling in more countries and more casualties every single week. It started as a US and Israel operation against Iran, and now it’s got Kuwait’s water infrastructure getting hit, Qatar under fire, Jordan involved, Bahrain and Syria allegedly targeted, Kurdish allies in Iraq getting killed, tankers on fire in one of the most important shipping lanes on the planet, and a genuine ongoing conversation about domestic terrorism risk back home. That is not a contained conflict anymore, if it ever really was one.
I also want to say something about the political theater around this, because it’s honestly kind of gross to watch. While people are dying, there’s a whole track of domestic politics running in parallel, with lawmakers pushing a massive spending package tied to the war, and the president going on TV telling the country the war is going well and that we’ll see results very very soon. Maybe that’s true, I have no way of independently verifying troop movements or classified assessments, and I’m not going to pretend I do. But I’ve heard “you’ll see results soon” about a lot of wars throughout history, and it doesn’t always age well. I’m not saying that to score points against any specific person or party, I’m saying it because I think all of us, no matter our politics, should be a little skeptical of confident declarations of victory in the middle of an active, escalating conflict, especially one where the other side is expanding its own strikes rather than pulling back.
Here’s the thing that keeps nagging at me. Every time there’s a ceasefire or an agreement, there’s this brief window where it feels like maybe, finally, this is winding down. The April ceasefire, the June memorandum, both of those moments probably felt like real relief to a lot of people, especially families of deployed troops or people with relatives in the region. And then it falls apart again, and we’re back to nightly strikes and mounting casualties. That pattern is exhausting, and I think it’s designed to be exhausting, in the sense that wars that drag on and on tend to just fade into background noise for people who aren’t directly affected. You stop seeing it on the front page every day, you get used to headlines about strikes and counterstrikes, and it becomes wallpaper instead of the crisis it actually is. That’s part of why I wanted to write about it again, because I don’t want it to become wallpaper for me either.
I keep coming back to this idea that being pro peace shouldn’t be a controversial or partisan position, but somehow in every war it ends up getting treated like one, like you have to pick a side or you’re not really engaged with the issue. I don’t buy that. You can think Iran’s government has done terrible things to its own people, including the massacre of protesters earlier this year, and still not want this war to keep grinding on indefinitely. You can support US troops and want them protected and still question whether expanding strikes deeper into Iranian territory is actually making anyone safer, including those same troops. You can care about global oil markets and shipping routes without being some kind of corporate shill, because disruptions there hit regular people’s wallets everywhere, not just executives. None of these positions require you to be a partisan hack for either government. They just require you to actually care about the humans involved, on every side of this, Iranian civilians, American service members, Gulf state civilians, Kurdish allies, everyone caught in the blast radius of decisions made way above their pay grade.
So where does this actually go from here. Honestly, I don’t know, and I’m suspicious of anyone who tells you they know for certain, because the experts who study this stuff for a living are using words like forever war and warning that even minimal agreements aren’t holding. That’s not a confident, “here’s exactly how this ends” kind of situation, that’s a “this could genuinely drag on for a long time” kind of situation. What I do know is that every week this continues, the list of countries and people affected keeps growing, the casualty numbers keep climbing, and the risk of this thing bleeding into places far outside the immediate region, including potentially back here at home, keeps ticking upward instead of down.
I don’t have a neat, satisfying conclusion for you, because there isn’t one right now. This isn’t a story with a clean ending yet, it’s a live, ongoing crisis that keeps mutating week to week. All I’ve got is the same thing I had a few weeks ago when I made that first post, which is that I want this to stop, for everyone’s sake, not because I think either government is purely good or purely evil, but because actual human beings keep dying while the rest of us watch headlines scroll by. If you’re the praying type, pray for this to end. If you’re not, just take a second to actually sit with the fact that this is still happening, that real families are burying real people over this, and that it’s not some abstract geopolitical chess match, it’s a war with a body count that keeps rising and no clear end in sight. That’s the whole update. Wish I had better news.
Again wish to thank Gamma Hans whose pro UN opinions has compelled a rational response rather than emotion packed propaganda political rhetoric.
We agree that Torah common law pre-dates British common law by thousands of years! Just as American common law courtrooms. The difference between British common law courtrooms and States common law courts … Parliamentary statute law defines the Constitution of Britain. Whereas the US has a Written Constitution which functions as a codified Basic Law of the US. Torah common law courts more resemble the much later US model rather than the Walpole version of British Constitutional law and courts.
Bunk on the UN fraud of block voting and great power imperialism. Both invalidate the creation of the UN to serve as a forum for diplomacy. The notion that the UN a World government which determines international law a total joke/fraud.
Israelis never throughout our long history as a people have never stated nor even implied we possess a monopoly on truth as have the jack ass Xtian church and Muslim mosque. We say that Jewish self determination expressed through the mandate of Torah common law Sanhedrin courts who maintain Yovel freedom for the 12 Tribes of Israel within the borders of conquered Canaan defines the Torah “Constitutional Mandate” which establishes lateral Federal and Levi Sanhedrin courts from Jerusalem to the 6 or more Cities of Refuge.
Torah mandated Sanhedrin Courts serve as the Capital Crimes Federal Courts whereas lower courts of Torts – 3 man courts jurisdiction – apply equally to Tribes of Israel and Jews in g’lut. Have repeated over and again that Torah commands mussar not history. Your attempts to demand history rather than mussar reflect a foreign monopoly of box rigid thinking. Goyim have their own legal systems. More power to them. Israel has yet to achieve the vision of self determination which stands upon the two legs of Yovel and brit melah as the prophet Yehoshua originally established prior to establishment of the 3 Cities of Refuges small Sanhedrin courts on the other side of the Jordan river as recorded in the first NaCH Book of prophetic mussar.
Torah law and British common law should not be equated because they arise from different legal traditions.
Israel’s non-membership in the Rome Statute by the explicit terms of the Oslo Accords eliminate ICC jurisdiction concerning the PA. Hamas who never agreed to the Oslo Accords and flat out rejects Oslo the ICC cannot declare Hamas as part of the PA since Hamas won the general elections in Gaza and violently expelled the PA from Gaza. Palestine ceased to exist as a UN protectorate the instant that Ben Gurion declared Independence and named the new nation Israel. No different than the US independence on July 4th 1776 from England.
France’s permanent Security Council seat does not depend on Israeli recognition; it derives from the UN Charter. This does not change the cold fact that France behaved like a dog and surrendered to the Nazis virtually immediately. Attempts by the post Shoah ICC try to invalidate the disgrace of Shoah guilt by declaring that Goyim have legal jurisdiction to try Israelis. This invalidates the post Shoah oath – NEVER AGAIN.
The UN obviously fallible based upon the stated flaw fundamental realities of block voting and great power arrogance.
Torah commands mussar not history. Demands of Universal God A or Universal God B a long standing Goyim attempt to impose their monopoly upon peoples and nations. Torah truth – Goyim do not know how the Torah defines the 8 middah of the Oral Torah; the “path of truth” – righteous justice which makes fair restitution of damanges inflicted by Jews upon other Jews within the jurisdiction of the 12 tribe Republic. Goyim truth simply not the path taken by Torah self determination/Zionism any more than Par’o vertical courts in the days of Moshe and Aaron.
Israeli self determination to achieve Yovel liberty and restore the 12 Tribal Republic has nothing to do with the UN. Attempts by foreign states to dictate terms to Jewish self determination utter hog wash. Especially treif UN voting blocks and European & Russian fraud great powers attempts to dominate the balance of power held between the community of nations of the Middle East and North Africa. When Russia converts Istanbul back to Constantinople by UN decree only then can the UN likewise demand that Jews have no rights to achieve our destiny of Yovel liberty for the restored 12 Tribes of Israel.
French imperialism post WWI an abomination on par with British imperialism in China and across the Planet Earth. The British guilty of establishing Concentration Camps in the Boar War! Mussar rather than history not a theological box thinking static deduction. Mussar defines T’NaCH prophesy which both the Goyim Universal God religions have always invalidated. Hence what’s good for the goose good for the gander.
Yovel has nothing to do with religious beliefs any more than Herzl’s “Jewish State” a religious text! Any more than Vichy alliance with Hitler’s Nazis makes France a saint. Attempts to declare Poop Pius XII a saint only prove the despicable cowardice of European barbarians. Does the SC UN veto serves as proof – that the UN as a whole treif? No. But to date seeing the USSR boycotted the Korean Chapter VII SC vote, a error never again repeated, the confusion mad/made by the ICJ to expand Chapter VI Resolutions as on par with Chapter VII reflects how bureaucracies continually grow into Big Brother Governments.
Proof that Israel not alone in mocking “binding Charter obligations”? Name a single country expelled from the UN member status for ignoring these pie in the sky declarations of the post WWII past. SC Chapter VI decisions like 242 – 2334 all treif. Even post Obozo the Clown … 45 & 47th Presidents have invalidate the trash of the Obozo shoe shine boy in the White House, and replaced “its” incompetence with the Abraham Accords!
Repeated attempts to insist that mussar represents a theological rather than prophetic Torah definition of how prophets serve as the police enforcement arm of Sanhedrin courts – over and again attempt to impose a foreign perversion of T’NaCH as a religion based upon theology rather than the vision of Sanhedrin courtroom justice that remains the ideal of the revelation of the Torah at Sinai which only the 12 Tribes accepted. Attempts to pigeon hole “restoration of the twelve tribe Republic” as religious-nationalism proves that Goyim can’t think out of their boxed in static logic patterns. Oral Torah common law stands upon פרדס inductive logic not Greek syllogism deductive logic.
The Jewish state prioritizes brit-alliances and private diplomacy conducted with allies; over the gossip society of the UN which promotes block voting of foreign states interference in the internal affairs of other nations. The post Oct 7th 2023 massacre of Israelis on the last day of a Jewish Chag wherein the UN and ICC slander Israel as guilty of war crimes proves that the UN gossip society an utter abomination. Israel thumbs our noses at the UN and dares that incompetent gossip society to expel the Jewish State from the UN. To quote Eastwood: “Go ahead make my day – PUNK”.
The Torah concept of Yovel separates slavery to Goyim courts like the Par’o Torah example. Liberty for Israelites – to establish Courts of righteous justice which make fair restitution of damages: inflicted by Jews upon other Jews — the tiqqun of hatred without cause. The UN chatter box gossip Women’s Quilting & Terrorist Society prioritizes an eternal UNWRA Balestinian refugee status and right of return; rather than ever condemn the failure of all Arab countries Vichy Nazi\Muff Mufti duplication of Nazism; their refusal to repatriate their dhimmi refugee populations. Like the post Shoah disgrace of Spain who invites Jews back to that despicable European land. Israeli right of return, in fact awarded citizenship to the almost 1 million Jewish refugees violently expelled from Arab countries after the Nakab defeat of Allah and 5 Arab Armies and British/French attempts to re-establish a great power mandate over the Middle East.
Bottom line: Jewish self-determination, understood through Torah, Yovel, Sanhedrin justice, and restoration of the twelve-tribe polity, simply not dependent on UN approval. UN attempts to subordinated Jewish self determination to politically compromised international institutions reflects the revisionist history which denies that Israel won its TWO Independence Wars of ’48 & ’67. To the victors go the spoils; also known as Israeli ‘Manifest Destiny’ – from the river to the Sea’ the Republic of 12 Tribes shall rule the land through righteous justice-Yovel.
This premise requires proof: [Daraus folgt jedoch nicht automatisch, dass diese Normen heute die positive Rechtsordnung zwischen souveränen Staaten bilden.] Dhimmi Arab refugees not a State. Never has ever existed an Arab Balestinian state. [Art. 1 Abs. 2 nennt ausdrücklich die Selbstbestimmung der Völker.] All Arab wars against Israel center upon Arab rejection of Article 1(2) – yet the UN only condemns Israel?! What’s good for the goose Good for the Gander. Now that Syria in a state of anarchy, Israel needs to export all dhimmi ’67 Arab refugee populations to Syria, seeing that the Romans originally coined Syrian-Palestine!
Palestine ceased to exist in 1948. UN attempts to declare it remains as false as Arafat’s PLO charter of 1964; which only declares ’48 Israel as “occupied territory”. To say the comparison of Israeli Independence does not stand upon the similar precedent of American Independence – as to simplistic … easier to be a critic than a playwright dramatist than a post Shoah Jew. Jordan “acquired” the West Bank through force and Egypt acquired Gaza through force. Prussia acquired through force split between Poland and Russia today. These proof emphatically reject British-Frogs UN 242 “prohibition against acquiring territory by force”. Post 6 Day War UN gossip – 242 – falls flat on its face when confronted by the Khartoum Arab League: No peace with Israel; No recognition of Israel; No negotiations with Israel. The Women’s Quilting and Terrorist Society – Stitch N’ Bitch – their Resolutions simply gusts of 3379 farts in the wind.
Prophetic mussar does not stand upon history anymore that Avram who had no children but who cut a Oath Alliance to father – in the future – the chosen Cohen nation. This nation aint Xtianity or Islam religious theological bull shit. The language of גר לא תונה ולא תלחצנו, כי גרים הייתם בארץ מצרים, this p’suk refers to the Ger Toshav when the 12 Tribes rejoice in Liberty through Sanhedrin lateral common law courts. This has yet to actually “historically” to happen; any more than Herzl’s “The Jewish State” happened in his lifetime! Jews in the barbaric g’lut lands of Egypt (לאו דוקא) in the past 2000+ years of our g’lut among Europeans and Muslims never received judicial righteous justice from any Goy court of Law any more than when the ancient Israelites – the ‘Star-Courts’ of Par’o – sanctified “impressment” through illegal slavery on the High Seas/International Waters! Goyim have never accepted the Torah. Therefore Goyim cannot employ Torah translations to rebuke Israel to heel and roll over and play dead like a trained dog. Goyim simply not under the Law according to the Apostle Paul.
Dhimmi Arab dune coon-towel heads cannot even pronounce the P in the Roman word Palestine! Israel a tiny desert land about the size of New Jersey. Arab and Muslim countries include a land mass bigger than the United States. Goyim evil eye toward Israel reflects a gospel ‘Divide and Rule’ bull shit. Pakistan, Korea, Vietnam and Saddam’s attempt to nationalize Kuwait but ejected by the post 9\11 False flag attack wherein Cheney and his dog on a leash Bush (wag your tail) justified not only the disastrous invasions of Iraq but Afghanistan and who also imposed the Patriot Act upon the American people which negated to a very large degree the Bill of Rights. (Whom Bush famously declared: Don’t quote me the Constitution, its just a God damn piece of paper.) That child molester Bush (President Clinton – also know as the fuck between the Bush’s) promised “NO Nation Building”! Government rhetoric amounts to bull shit and so does UN morality.