This is the lowest of the low for the United States. I'll tell you where they are as long as you won't do anything about it. Isn't it about time for us to get out of the way and this place burn? On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” columnist and The Spectator Associate Editor Douglas Murray stated that Israel is “never allowed to win.” And there’s a double standard at play, because no one tells Ukraine, “hold on, don’t win too much.” Murray said, “I can’t speak to whether anyone is starving. It’s a bad situation in Gaza, because Hamas started a war. And Israel is stuck in this very, very strange position of having to supply food to the area controlled by its enemy. … There are food trucks going through all the time, but, of course, the situation is terrible, because the situation could end at any point if Hamas did what they’ve been asked to do repeatedly, for six months, which is to give back the hostages. And now, my view is that there’s — and I’ve seen the conflict up close, and I still believe that, first of all, you can’t just put out 80% of a fire, you have to put out the whole thing. You can’t destroy 80% of Hamas, you can’t not get the leader who masterminded [October 7], Sinwar, and that’s all in Rafah.” He continued, “And the second thing is, I don’t think there’s any law of war that says you can start a war and then, when you begin to lose it, you say, let’s pretend we didn’t start it." And yet, the Israelis, never allowed to win. Very strange.” Iranian member of Parliament Ahmad Bakhshayesh Ardestani said in an interview this weekend that he believed his country had successfully developed a nuclear weapon, contrary to international law, but would not admit to it. Ardestani claimed that Iran would still claim to be abiding by the “Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action” (JCPOA), the 2015 agreement brokered by American President Barack Obama that dramatically reduced sanctions on Tehran in exchange for promises not to expand its nuclear development. Iran has consistently violated the nuclear deal for years; President Donald Trump withdrew from the deal in 2018 but the other four countries that joined the JCPOA – China, France, Germany, Russia, and the United Kingdom – remain parties to it. The lawmaker raised the possibility that Iran already possessed a nuclear weapon in an interview on Friday with the website Rouydad 24. “In my opinion, we have achieved nuclear weapons, but we do not announce it. It means our policy is to possess nuclear bombs, but our declared policy is currently within the framework of the JCPOA,” Iran International translated Ardestani as saying. “The reason is that when countries want to confront others, their capabilities must be compatible, and Iran’s compatibility with America and Israel means that Iran must have nuclear weapons.” The United Nations has cut its estimate of Palestinian children killed in Gaza by half, calling into question the figures frequently used by international news outlets and governments to criticize Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza. David Adesnik, the Senior Fellow and Director of Research at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, responded: “This change may signal that the UN has finally recognized the lack of evidence behind Hamas’s original claims that more than 14,000 children and 9,000 women have been killed in Gaza. If so, the UN should state clearly that it has lost confidence in sources whose credibility it has affirmed for months. While this change may only reflect the conclusion of one UN office out of the many operating in Gaza, it is a clear step forward.” The Jewish News Syndicate (JNS) asked UN officials about the change. The UN blamed the “fog of war." Media outlets repeatedly cite casualty figures from Gaza’s health ministry, which is controlled by Hamas, that show thousands more casualties and do not distinguish between deaths of civilians or terrorists, or between those killed by errant Palestinian rockets and those killed by Israeli fire.
Douglas Murray: No One Tells Ukraine ‘Don’t Win Too Much’ Like They Do Israel:
Iranian Lawmaker: ‘In My Opinion, We Have Achieved Nuclear Weapons’:
UN Cuts Estimate of Children Killed in Gaza by 50%; Blames ‘Fog of War’ for Errors: