Wartime Again Over Strait of Hormuz By November 3rd

 Nadene Goldfoot                                         

President Donald Trump shared a modified map on his Truth Social account that renamed the Strait of Hormuz to the "Strait of Trump". The post featured commercial ships traversing the waterway but did not include a caption. The graphic was originally created by the pro-Trump account "IStandWithTrump47."

Are we all at war now or is war on the immediate horizen?

Iranian lawmaker Ebrahim Rezaei issued the threat, warning: "Come — we are waiting for you — and we promise that not a single American soldier will return alive." This statement was a direct response to US President Donald Trump who threatened to seize Kharg Island—Iran's major oil export hub—following US airstrikes on Iranian targets."  Kharg Island, also spelled Khark Island and often referred to as the "Forbidden Island", is a continental island of Iran in the Persian Gulf. The island is 25 kilometres off the coast of Iran and 660 kilometres northwest of the Strait of Hormuz. This all is in response to Iran's refusal to obey Trump's wishes about the peace treaty they disagree with. 

Hmm, no wonder Iran thinks they own the Strait;  it's on; their border 

“To me, I think it’s over," Trump told reporters when asked about the state of the truce. The latest multi-day pause in fighting had been loosely observed during the funeral period for Iran’s late Supreme Leader, but unravelled rapidly following a fresh chain of maritime attacks.

A move came after a night of strikes in the Persian Gulf and "sharper rhetoric from U.S. President Donald Trump, who said he viewed the ceasefire with Iran as effectively over. The meeting had been scheduled to focus on Israel’s memorandum of understanding with the United States, but was also expected to address Iran.

US President Donald Trump announced on Wednesday that the fragile ceasefire between Washington and Tehran has officially collapsed. Speaking on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey, Trump warned of immediate escalation, stating that the U.S. could launch deeper military strikes, reinstate a strict naval blockade, and potentially seize Kharg Island—the primary backbone of Iran’s petroleum export empire.

Seems like it's taken Trump a long time to understand how Israel feels about Iran not being a country one can trust or count on in wanting peace between themselves and others.  He's been most naive.  

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz canceled their participation in a military ceremony Wednesday evening and were set to hold a security discussion as Israel closely monitored the renewed confrontation between the United States and Iran.  President Isaac Herzog and IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir were expected to attend the graduation ceremony at the National Security College, scheduled for 7 p.m. In Jerusalem, officials said Israel was on high alert and preparing for the possibility that fighting could quickly resume. Still, the prevailing assessment was that the current U.S.-Iran clash would not escalate into a full-scale war, at least not before the U.S. midterm elections" happening November 3, 2026."

Update:  10:12am 8th July 2026 : The ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran is over, at least for the time being. Trump announced the end after Iran fired at several cargo ships and the U.S. responded with airstrikes hitting over 80 Iranian military targets.Iran responded with strikes of its own, launching drones and ballistic missiles at Bahrain and Kuwait. U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth cancelled his planned visit to Israel today. How this all will play out and how it will effect Israel is unclear. The ceasefire might be back on by the time you read this, or there might be all out war...or something in between. Stay tuned, and pray.

July 9, 2026-July 12-26 It looks like the real thing.  Israel has been deluged with those huge missiles coming straight from Iran this week.  It started in earnest Pacific time yesterday evening.  

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To BE OR NOT TO BE, That Is The Question Of Bombing Iran

 Nadene Goldfoot                                                         

Netanyahu tried to warn everyone when he spoke (though so many walked out from the Democratic Party of the USA of his speech) at the UN.   One particularly notable speech was on September 27, 2012. In this speech, Netanyahu displayed a diagram of a bomb and drew a "red line" to illustrate his point, warning that Iran was nearing the ability to enrich uranium to weapons-grade levels. He urged the international community to establish a clear red line to prevent Iran from completing the second stage of nuclear enrichment necessary for a bomb. That warning was 13 years ago.     

Rafael Grossi, the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), is from Argentina. He was born in Argentina in 1961. Grossi has a long career in the Argentinian foreign service, including as Head of Embassy in Belgium and Luxemburg and as Argentine Representative to NATO. He became the Director General of the IAEA in 2019 and is the first Latin American to hold that position.  

Now the fact of the matter is that they already have enough for 9 atomic bombs!  According to a confidential report by the IAEA at the weekend, Iran has enough uranium enriched to that level for nine nuclear weapons if refined further, by an agency yardstick. No other country has enriched uranium to such a high level without producing weapons, the watchdog added.                                                 

The big question hanging over our heads is this:  Will Israel bomb the nuclear sites in Iran or not?  First of all,  is there a good reason why they might?  

Iran has not been shy about telling the world that they hate Jews and Israel through the Ayatollas, especially today's  Khamenei.  There is not lost love there.  Iran is busily making atomic power for the rockets they will have on hand that are meant for the "Little Satan" as they refer to Israel and then perhaps the "Big" Satan as they think about the USA.  They've been working on this project for the past 10 years and no one has had the guts to stop them in any form of laws or oversight.  

In the early 1980s and again in 2007, Israel carried out airstrikes on suspected nuclear facilities in Iraq and Syria. In 1981, Israel destroyed Iraq's Osirak nuclear reactor. In 2007, Israel destroyed a suspected nuclear reactor in Syria, known as the Al Kibar reactor, or Dair Alzour, in the Deir ez-Zor region. 

Osirak (Iraq): In 1981, Israel's Operation Opera, aimed at destroying the Osirak reactor, was carried out because Israel believed Iraq was using the facility to produce plutonium for nuclear weapons. The reactor was located in Tuwaitha, Iraq, and the attack was successful in destroying it.  

Kibar (Syria): In 2007, Israel launched Operation Orchard, targeting a suspected nuclear reactor in Deir ez-Zor, Syria. The reactor, known as the Al Kibar or Dair Alzour facility, was believed to be a part of Syria's nuclear program. While Israel initially didn't acknowledge the strike, later evidence and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) confirmed it was a nuclear reactor.                                         

The Bushehr nuclear power station, a 915-MWe facility, came on line in 2013. It is Iran’s only operating nuclear power plant, so they say.... (Photo: Bushehr NPP)

A ceremonial ground-breaking event took place last week at the site where the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) says four new nuclear reactors will be built over the next 20 years.

The IAEA report said that Iran, as of May 17, had amassed 408.6 kilograms (900.8 pounds) of uranium enriched up to 60%. That is an increase of almost 50% since the IAEA’s last report in February. The 60% enriched material is a short, technical step away from weapons-grade levels of 90%. Iran’s leadership has said it believes the IAEA report is politically motivated by Grossi’s hopes of becoming the next U.N. secretary-general.Grossi who is attempting to attract the votes of several members of the U.N. Security Council with the report.  The head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization, Mohammad Eslami,  who  is the Vice President and Head of the Atomic Energy Organization in the government of President Raisi and was the Minister of Roads and Urban development and the Governor of Mazandaran in the government of Hassan Rouhani,  told the official IRNA news agency late Sunday. 

 Eslami   is the Vice President and Head of the Atomic Energy Organization in the government of President Raisi and was the Minister of Roads and Urban development and the Governor of Mazandaran in the government of Hassan Rouhani.  

Hassan Rouhani is an Iranian politician who served as the seventh president of Iran from 2013 to 2021. He is also a sharia lawyer ("Wakil"), academic, former diplomat and Islamic cleric. He served as a member of Iran's Assembly of Experts from 1999 to 2024.  Sayyid Ebrahim Rаisi (14 December 1960 – 19 May 2024), better known as Ebrahim Raisi, was an Iranian politician who served as the eighth president of Iran from 2021 until his death in a helicopter crash in 2024. He was a Twelver Shia Muslim jurist and part of the Principlist group.  "They are stacked up against Israel and USA."                                                     

After World War II, Argentina became a haven for Nazi war criminals seeking to evade prosecution. Fueled by financial and strategic reasons, as well as a desire to avoid communism, Argentina welcomed thousands of Nazis and collaborators, including high-ranking officials like Josef Mengele and Adolf Eichmann,.                                               

Resource:

https://www.google.com/search?q=Was+is+Syria+and+Iraq+that+Israel+bombed

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So It's Come to the Pot Calling the Kettle Black: Iran's Threats Over Jerusalem

 Nadene Goldfoot                                                

    Aerial view of the infamous Temple Mount where rioting occurred just before May's 11 Day War.  

Iran is now threatening Israel over Jerusalem.  If there is anymore fighting there, Iran will step in.  Israeli police had to step in to stop the rioting and all that goes with rioting on the Temple Mount during that seems to be one of the sparks that set off the 11 day war with Hamas in Gaza.  

According to Palestinian reports, "Hamas leader Ismael Haniyeh said that Israel would “pay a price” for the clashes at the mosque, "Islam’s 3rd"  holiest sites.  Iran is backing this up by reiterating that the threat will also include Iran punishing Israel as well.  It just reminds us that it is Iran who supplies Hamas with weapons to use against Israel.  

What they are asking for, pie in the sky, actually is that Israel can do nothing to any attack coming from Palestinians on the Temple Mount or any other place in Jerusalem, such as East Jerusalem, the neighborhood made up of Palestinians.  Any attempt to quell such attacks coming from Arabs, such as stone throwing, knifing of Jews, bombs, fire attacks, fighting, bombs, etc. will be met with war.  

The hilltop on which it sits is the holiest place in the world for Jews as the site of the two biblical temples — making it a flashpoint for nationalist sentiment and violence between Israelis and Palestinians.                          

Now that the 11 day war is over, Blinkon from the USA has visited and seen the problem areas and is still pressing for a 2-State Solution.  He's rewarding the Palestinians with money and materials saying it's not for Hamas but for the Palestinians (?) and HE expects this to be actually carried out.  Who in the world is going to police it?  Not the Palestinians themselves, or even the PA.  The reasoning is beyond my comprehension.  

                                                            

        Israel map;  Golan Heights not occupied but part of Israel.  8,000 sq miles country, exceedingly small, and chopped up.  Giving Gaza for peace did not bring peace but war with daily attacks of rockets into Israel.  Taking the Golan in 1967 when Israel won against all odds, the miracle of the century, was a strategic blessing.  It's a very high place where bombs could be dropped down on the plain, and by taking it, stopped those attacks.  Just remember, the biblical Israel took place in Judea-Samaria (West Bank).  Whoever drew these plans up (England)(Arabs)  were meshugana.  

In July 2012, a government-commissioned report from a three-member committee, called Levy Report, asserted, based on a number of reasons, that there is no legal basis under international law to refer to Judea and Samaria as "occupied territory". Article 43 of the Fourth Hague Convention of 1907 is the basis of the Levy committee's opinion.

What France and the USA expect, now, that Gazans who have been under the direction of Hamas since Obama's visit to Cairo in 2009 will suddenly sing Kum By-Yah and make nice with Israel is ludicrous- a dream.  The 2-State solution did look good once upon a time, but is not workable in real life;  too many complications, too many variables.  

When the USA can solve their own problems of riots and their racial problems, then maybe that will be a cue for Palestinians to make peace and accept Israel in the Middle East, ignore Iran's "assistance" and while I'm dreaming, that Iran will suddenly have Ayatollahs who are peaceful as well and stop financing terrorism.  Such backing of Palestinians are getting now from the USA is the kind of slap on the back that tells them, as they read into things, that all is well with what they have been doing to Israel and to keep it up.  Their claim of winning the 11 day war, saying that Israel only wiped out only 5% of their tunnels, all their boasting says that this calm or cease fire right now will not last forever.  They're just getting revved up.

                                                                  

France, a leading Christian country in Europe, pushing against Israel and warning that they are becoming an apartheid state is the straw that broke my camel's back.  "Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday denounced French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian for saying earlier this week that Israel is at risk of “long-lasting apartheid” if a Palestinian state is not established."  

Netanyahu rejected Le Drian’s comments as “an insolent, false claim that has no basis. In the State of Israel, all citizens are equal before the law, regardless of their ethnicity. Israel is a beacon of democracy and human rights in our region… We will not suffer any hypocritical and false moral rebukes on this matter.”

This is an old saw that had already been used against Israel.  The truth is that Israel is the opposite of an apartheid state.   Also, as I think about South Africa and Israel and compare the two, South Africa was at peace with their neighbors and not in the midst of defending herself constantly and they did practice apartheid.    Israel is on the defensive 100% all the time.  They don't have time or patience to be apartheid to Arabs.  They do their utmost to give them the treatment like all Israelis get.  If its so bad in Israel, they could always move over to Jordan which is made up mostly of Palestinians, anyway.  Or they could travel to 48 Muslim majority nations.  They have a choice.  Israelis have no other choices, not even Russia, or England.  I suppose the USA is the only open country today for Jews.  However, those in Israel intend to stay put.  They will not be frightened away.  They understand why Israel was created again and its importance.  

They even have been allowed their own schools too much, in my opinion,   "Israeli schoolbooks were deemed superior to Palestinian ones with regard to preparing children for peace, but the study in 2009 praised both Israel and the Palestinian Authority for producing textbooks almost completely unblemished by "dehumanizing and demonizing characterizations of the other". The study appeared to undermine a charge, often used by Israel to delegitimize Palestinian claims that they were ready for statehood, according to which Palestinians were "educated to hate". With regard to maps, 4% of Palestinian maps mark the Green Line, or label the area west of it as "Israel", 6 out of 10 omit borders, while another third include the green line without reference to Israel; 76% of Israeli textbook maps fail to distinguish the Palestinian territories and Israel, and the Palestinian areas lack labelling, implying that the Palestinian areas form part of Israel."  That study was done 12 years ago.  It's time for another, not only textbooks.  

I don't know if this study includes TV children's programs or not that I have 

personally watched, but they were slanted against Israel.

This either shows that France and all the many other countries in step with his comments, want Israel to be destroyed, as surely being rewarded as a state would bring them more arms to use against Israel and more clout to use against them as if they don't have enough of both now as it is.  The 20% Arab population in Israel now has every benefit of a 1st class citizen.  They have their own political parties in voting on Israel's issues.  They have every right, and you know, they even look like most Jews.  There is little color distinction to make their lives more complicated.  The only thing they don't have right now is that they don't have to serve in the IDF, though many groups do serve gladly, insisting on serving, both males and females.  

This is not the time for a 2 State Solution.  It's time for the Palestinians and any other Arab group who attended the Khartoum Conference in Africa in 1967 who swore the 3 NOs,, that of never making peace with Israel, to amend that statement and change it to accepting Israel as a nation among their own nations as it once was so long ago.  Hatred is only gaining loss of life, and loss of land and loss of food, clothing;   life's little luxuries. 

It's time for this kind of change, not for rewarding bad behavior and attacking Israel.  

Resource:

https://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-slams-france-for-insolent-claim-israel-at-risk-of-apartheid/

TV7 News 5/28/2021

https://www.timesofisrael.com/terror-groups-threaten-israel-over-temple-mount-clashes-dont-play-with-fire/

https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/netanyahu-warns-that-israel-will-act-to-counter-iranian-nuclear-threat-669033

https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/is-massive-hamas-attack-on-israel-the-assault-iran-warned-of-analysis-667888

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judea_and_Samaria_Area

https://www.debka.com/us-secretary-blinken-will-find-hamas-fiery-islamism-nullifies-two-state-solution/