Talking Point IL

Not the news you’d expect to hear:

​The Palestinian Authority is in crisis.
They are overflowing with cash- physical Israeli Shekels.

​You did not misread that.
They have too much money on hand.

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I could have stopped the post here, leaving you with a simplistic talking point about the Palestinians once again claiming they need more money while their vaults literally can’t accept any more. (And probably get more likes this way).

​But the reality is slightly more complicated and interesting than that- showing a true crisis caused in large part by the utter corruption and incompetence of the Palestinian Authority and its functionaries.

​For the full picture, go to the first comment providing a link to my Substack article.

An argument I heard too many times:
“This [insert a Jewish sounding name] scholar, says something that supports my Anti-Zionist narrative. Are you really going to argue with that?”

As if all the Jews have a single aligned mindset.

I was reminded of this weird phenomenon, by a post from Zionism And Anti-Zionism
In which he called out an outright fabrication by the Israeli “historian” Ilan Pappe- regarding the intentions of the Zionist leadership in the 1930s:

This “historian” has falsely claimed, that the first prime minister of Israel, David Ben Gurion- wrote in a letter in 1937:
❌ “The Arabs will have to go, but one needs an opportune moment for making it happen”.

The thing is- David Ben Gurion never wrote these words.
Instead, he wrote in that same letter:
✅ “We do not want and we do not have to expel Arabs and take their place”.

This example made me search for more fabrications written by this kind of Israeli or Jewish “historians”,
And it didn’t take long before I stumbled upon another one:

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Teddy Katz, who in his thesis claimed that the veterans of the IDF Alexandroni Brigade admitted to a massacre of unarmed Arab civilians in Tantura in 1948.

Except… (act surprised) - they didn’t.

Rightfully, after the thesis was released- they have sued Katz for libel.
Consequently, the court ordered the release of the original 140 hours of audio tapes.

When the researchers and the court compared the written transcripts in the thesis to the actual audio recordings, they found that the quotes did not exist, or were heavily distorted.

Here are couple of examples.

The thesis transcription:
❌ “I had a machine gun with 250 bullets. I mowed them down. I didn’t count [the victims]. There was no one left to count”

What did the veteran really say (from the audio tape audit):
✅ “We were shooting in all directions… the machine gun was hot… it was a hell of a battle”.

The thesis transcription:
❌ “We captured them and then we executed them. No one was spared”.

What did the veteran really say:
✅ “We were under fire from the houses… it was kill or be killed. We didn’t take prisoners until the end.”

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There were many more, but you get the idea:
Teddy Katz, just like Ilan Pappe- was shamelessly lying and distorting the evidence, to fit the predefined narrative by depicting a fierce and chaotic close range urban battle- as a coldblooded massacre.
Reminds you of anything recent?

By the way, if you have wondered- under the weight of this evidence, Katz signed a formal retraction of his thesis’s conclusions and his university stripped his degree that was “earned” by writing it.

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One of the questions begging to be asked is- “why?”
Why would Jewish, or any other professionals use their work as a platform to spread blatant anti-zionist lies?

I don’t claim to know all the answers, but I think the story of Rabbi Arik Ascherman is pretty telling:

1989-94, he was essentially a neighbourhood Rabbi in California.
Nothing out of the ordinary.

Then he moved to Jerusalem and soon was assigned to be president of a far left, bankrolled by EU organisation called “Rabbis for Human Rights”.

The core of their activity is creating provocations against the IDF patrols in front of cameras, heavily edit the videos and distribute them to present the IDF as heavy handed.

How did Rabbi Ascherman’s life changed due to that?-
From a simple community Rabbi holding lessons for 10 to 50 people, he became the go-to guy for CNN, BBC, NYT and Reuters.
On top of a leading position in an organization annually enjoying hundreds of thousands of Euros in grants and donations from the generous Europeans.

That could be one aspect of it.

Go to the first comment for further context

An official statement from 25th of June, 2026 by the GCC- cooperation council of Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, Oman, Kuwait and Bahrain:

“…Lasting regional peace and security requires addressing the full spectrum of Iran's threats, including its ballistic missiles, drones, and support of proxies in the region."

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Hold on a second…
Didn’t we already hear this exact sentiment from someone else?
That very sentiment that at the time was dismissed as “fearmongering” and “delusional”?

➡️Yuval Steiniz 2015,
Israel’s Minister of strategic affairs:

“Any final, sustainable agreement must include a total halt to Iran's development of ballistic missiles and a clear mechanism to stop its… terror proxies being armed…"

➡️ Netanyahu, 2021:
“Any future agreement must address Iran's ballistic missile program and its aggressive proxy actions across the Middle East”.

➡️ Yair Lapid,
Israel’s foreign minister 2022:

​"Iran's ballistic missile program is threatening the entire region, and therefore, it's … a Saudi problem, an Emirati problem, an Israeli problem..."

➡️ Benny Gantz,
Israel’s defense minister, 2022:

“Tehran must be stopped from developing ballistic missiles… and fueling its proxies."

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That is a textbook “Told you so”.

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You know regarding what else did Israel “Told you so”?

Europe’s reckless immigration policies.

Netanyahu, July 2017:
“I think Europe has to decide if it wants to live and thrive or if it wants to shrivel and disappear. I am not very politically correct… But the truth is the truth… Secure your borders. Secure your borders”.

We can all witness what is happening to those who listened (Eastern Europe) as opposed to what is happening to those who didn’t.

The Iranian Parliament Speaker Ghalibaf, on June 1st, 2026:
➡️ “The bond between Iran and Lebanon is inseparable, and our lives and yours are one”.

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The government of Lebanon, three and a half weeks later- in their framework agreement with Israel:
​➡️ “The Government of Lebanon rejects the claims of any state or non-state actor to use force on its behalf without its explicit authorization, and reiterates that any claim by any state or non-state actor to exercise a military or security role is illegal per the decisions of the Lebanese Government and contrary to its sovereignty."

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In other words-
Get the hint and leave us alone.

For reasons as to why this is the case, go to the first comment.

Two very recent stories remind us of what this poem says:

➡️ On the 17th of June, the national football (soccer) team of Algeria, has been defeated 3:0 by Argentina.

Considering the difference in their global rankings- Algeria is currently 28th in the world, Argentina is 1st-
Not that much of a surprising result.

Yet,
An Algerian sports commentator, Mustapha al-Maazouzi- provided the following excuse:
"The goals Messi scores are backed by the Jews, because Messi is protected by the Jewish lobby that rules the world... That is why we cannot go far in the World Cup - they will definitely stop us."

➡️ Four days later, on the 21st of June- the outgoing Colombian president Gustavo Petro, lost elections to his conservative opponent, Abelardo de la Espriella.

Petro claimed that the elections were rigged.
Many losing candidates from around the world resort to that claim. There is nothing new about that.

Yet, the guy went one step further:
​"… the software was compromised and others wrote data for polling stations and voting posts. The only entity in the world capable of doing that is the state of Israel."

Right. “The only one”.
Perhaps the only one Gustavo felt comfortable to push ridiculous tropes against.

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I will just drop a trivia stat here:
• The percentage of Jews in the population in Colombia: 0.005%
• ⁠The percentage of Jews in the population in Algeria: 0.0004%

I guess a scapegoat you don’t have to face personally- eases the potential sense of guilt.

In case Trump’s administration is not playing some game most of us fail to comprehend, but is actually insisting to negotiate the Iranian regime in good faith while trusting the other side-
That’s a blunder of a biblical level.

Do not believe me? You don’t have to.
Listen to what people, who live in the Middle East and understand it much better than any Western negotiating team- say.

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The quote in the image and the text below, are a translation from a post written by an Iraqi Political and Military Expert- named Ibrahim Musa, who comes from a lineage of Iraqi military careerists:

“I still can't shake the feeling that the signing of the MOU between Iran and the U.S. is just another stage in an inevitable military showdown, because the Iranian authorities are, by definition, incapable of reaching agreements…

➡️Those who seriously believe that it is possible to reach an agreement with such a regime simply do not understand who they are dealing with…

➡️It is an utterly deranged… state run by religious fanatics…
Playing the game of negotiations with them is impossible…

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You know, I come from the country that once knew better than anyone on the planet how to deal with religious fanatics in practice:
[Followed by a list graphic descriptions of things that actually happened]…

That's the only way it works.
Peace in the Middle East is achieved only when your negotiating partner becomes convinced that [removing] you is not an option…

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[Interestingly, according to what this guy himself said- he stopped being explicitly anti-zionist, for this reason exactly:
He understood that whether he likes it or not- Israel isn’t going anywhere. So, for the sake of the next generations- it is way more practical to have a constructive dialogue and cooperation].

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…Religious fanatics perceive negotiations only as a sign of weakness, and if those agreements are made with non-believers, then violating them is literally considered a sacred duty…”

Another one of the latest “pearls” by Vice President Vance:

“If you go back to WW2 or every major conflict in human history, they all ended with some kind of negotiations.”

Yeah… Not exactly.

➡️ WW2
Ended with an unconditional surrender of the losing side.
The only negotiations, were held among the winning allies- regarding the post-war order they will inflict upon the world.

➡️WW1
The terms of ending the war were formulated by the allies and presented in a form of ultimatum.

Mr. Vice President could have even recalled on the history of his own country:
➡️ The American CW 1861-1865.
Although the surrender conditions provided by the Union, were relatively very humane-
Militarily and politically the war ended only with a series of surrenders, an erasure of the political structure of the South and an eventual complete rewriting of their constitution.

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If anything, achieving a military victory just in order to bring the losing side to the negotiating table as an absolutely equal opponent- that is a historically abnormal thing to do.

Today, these words ring even truer.