🇮🇱🇵🇸 Dave Smith thinks one of the hardest things to understand about the Israel-Palestine conflict is also one of the simplest. People who feel threatened can become capable of justifying almost anything against the people they blame. He says he can understand how an Israeli who lost family on October 7 could reach the point of wanting overwhelming retaliation. But he can also imagine being Palestinian, watching occupation, settlements and violence affect his own family, and feeling exactly the same impulse in the opposite direction. “Everyone does it on all sides and it’s equally disgusting.” That became Smith’s larger explanation for why breaking the cycle is so difficult. When he talks to Jewish friends and relatives who strongly support Israel, he says Gaza is sometimes barely part of how they understand the moment. Instead, many see rising antisemitism through the inherited trauma of the Holocaust and fear history beginning to repeat itself. Smith doesn’t think that excuses what happens to Palestinians. He thinks it helps explain the psychology sustaining the conflict. “Hurt people hurt people.” Decades of occupation and violence can produce support for Hamas. October 7 and generations of Jewish historical trauma can produce support for Netanyahu and overwhelming Israeli force. The tragedy is that each side’s fear can become the evidence the other side uses to justify its own. @ComicDaveSmith

A million-mile trucker who called the Tesla Semi "stupid" just drove one fully loaded. His verdict: "This industry is going to be changed." He lost 1 mph up a 7% grade, he's straight about the charging trade-off, and then he ran the fleet math: "Why would I buy a diesel truck again?" 🎥 via @MotorTrend ft. @adamlwingfield of @FreightWaves 0:00 "This industry is going to be changed" 0:29 "Feels like transportation innovation" 0:49 Instant torque vs a 6th-gear diesel 1:16 Fully loaded up a 7% grade: 35 → 34 mph 2:17 Charging & range: the honest trade-off 2:57 No DEF, no DPF, $50K a year in diesel saved 3:31 Critic to convert: "I was wrong"

🇺🇲 Shapiro is taking Tucker and other Republicans to task for the suggestion that Trump is a TOOL of ISRAEL. "If you’re a Republican, supposedly like Tucker is, and you're spending all day just ramming down this idea that... Donald Trump's a tool of Israel and all the rest of this kind of stuff… If you say all of that and you drive down the polling numbers, you could cost Republicans the Senate!" Trump + Israel + voter disapproval = midterm loses The math checks out! Writer: Marie

Ben Shapiro says Tucker Carlson and other Republicans who say Trump is a "tool of Israel" may cost the GOP the Senate. "If you say all of that and you drive down the polling numbers, you could cost Republicans the Senate!"

#BREAKING: JD Vance says the H-1B visa program “should be eliminated.”

NEW: UAP whistleblower David Grusch tells Joe Rogan he has seen recent video of dead, human-looking beings at a crash retrieval site, describing them as "very, very beautiful" with pale, bluish-white skin. ROGAN: How do you know that for sure? GRUSCH: I got to see the audiovisual on that. ROGAN: You got to see what? GRUSCH: I've got to be a little vague only because I want to protect the sources, because it may indicate a specific activity or operation. And these people were very patriotic, and they were just dead cadavers on the ground because it was a retrieval activity. ROGAN: You saw them physically, or you saw video of them? GRUSCH: Video. ROGAN: So they filmed the crash, and they filmed these cadavers. GRUSCH: Yeah. ROGAN: How old is this footage? GRUSCH: I don't want to say. It's contemporary. But I don't want to reveal a particular operation because it narrows it down. ROGAN: But it's clear. It's not like you're looking at 1950s black and white. GRUSCH: Yeah, it's clear... I was very allergic to any kind of deception... I sat on that stuff for like years until I felt comfortable with that not being some sort of limited hangout or deception activity. ROGAN: What did it look like? GRUSCH: Human-looking. ROGAN: How human? GRUSCH: Looked similar to a human. Very, very beautiful. ROGAN: What color was the skin? GRUSCH: Bluish white. ROGAN: Like Avatar? GRUSCH: No, no, no. Like someone who drowned. Like a pale sort of albino. GRUSCH: General McCasland, when he was talking to [Tom] DeLonge, and this is public record... he always told Tom, "Think of the Greek gods." And now I kind of understand what he meant.

🇮🇱🇺🇸 FLASHBACK: "If this Capitol crumbled to the ground, the last thing that would remain is our commitment to our aid for Israel" -- Nancy Pelosi in 2018 No matter who wins tomorrow, we all know who the guaranteed winner of every US election is

China es el único país del mundo que puede alcanzar como objetivo🚀 a Washington en menos de 20 minutos sin posibilidad de ser interceptado desde cualquier parte del planeta. Recordemos cuando China le dejó en claro en su discurso hacia Estados Unidos y lanzó una advertencia directa en medio de las tensiones entre ambos países. “Si quieren la guerra, la tendrán; si quieren destruir a China, serán destruidos”, afirmó Victor Gao, presidente del Instituto de Seguridad Energética de China. El funcionario sostuvo que su país no iniciará un conflicto, pero dejó en claro que responderá ante cualquier ataque. “China no disparará el primer tiro, pero tampoco permitirá que disparen el segundo”, señaló.