What a remarkable outcome: the world's largest ever oil supply disruption failed to create a major energy crisis. The IEA said 2026 shock was worst than 1973, 1979 and 2022 together. And yet, the cost of oil, natural gas, electricity and coal never surpassed the previous peaks.

HMG is lining itself up for a punishing month with its allies. The UK has been at the heart of designing NATO's defence plans. Those plans specify what allies agreed was necessary to ensure deterrence. Allies made commitments as to what part of the plan they would resource. 1/9

Indeed, to God we belong and to Him we shall return. My cousin, Khalil Jamil Al-Masri (Abu Hossam), has been killed. He was shot directly in the head by a bullet fired from the eastern side of Gaza. He was sitting in a café. He was not carrying a weapon, nor was he a threat to anyone. He was simply a human being trying to live an ordinary day in the midst of all this suffering. My heart is filled with grief, and his loss is deeply painful. What hurts me even more is that I was with him just four days ago. We talked together, and he told me how exhausted he was from displacement and how he could no longer bear the instability of living as a displaced person. He longed to return to his home and land in Beit Hanoun, the place where he was born and where his most beautiful memories lived. He dreamed of returning to the north. But even that dream was taken from him. I cannot understand how a person sitting in a café can be shot and killed without having done anything wrong. How can our lives become so cheap? How can bullets fired from a distance continue to steal our loved ones from us, one after another? Four days ago, he was talking about returning to Beit Hanoun. Today, we bid him farewell. May God have mercy on you, Khalil, grant you the highest place in Paradise, and give patience and strength to your family and loved ones. Your memory, and your final words, will remain engraved in my heart for the rest of my life.

The Russian high-ranking Officer killed days ago by an IED in Moscow has been identified. Awarded veteran of the war in #Syria, Colonel Davydov was since 2017 the head of the Supply Department of the Main Missile and Artillery Directorate, responsible for providing Russian Army with weapons and ammunition. Moscow didn't officially identify him due to the sensitivity of his position, but converging sources indicate he was the target of the Ukrainian operation.

Interesting development. Despite extensive Israeli use of MALE UAS over Lebanon for over three years, and despite that Iran and the Houthis have downed numerous Reaper MQ-9s, Hezbollah has until now demonstrated little success in anti-UAS fire.

I did not realize how deranged and dystopian the Israeli surveillance regime in southern Lebanon was before the current war. Sending drones *inside* people's houses with loudspeakers...

The British legal system allows for activists to be sentenced as terrorists without a terrorism charge on the whim of a judge, who kept the jury in the dark about their conviction for criminal damage being repackaged at sentencing, gagged the defendants on presenting motive, gagged the defence on referring to jury equity in closing or from informing the jury that the judge cannot force them to convict, ruled that the terms ‘genocide’ and ‘ethnic cleansing’ could not be used in court, ordered the defendants’ own notebooks and writings redacted to remove references to Elbit’s arms supply to Israel, dismissed an abuse of process application which documented meetings between Elbit, Home Office, Attorney General and the Israeli Embassy concerning the prosecutions, remanded three of the four convicted defendants in custody between verdict and sentence without support from the prosecution, and restricted the entire British press for the better part of a year from reporting on his own pre-trial rulings on the terrorism connection, the restrictions on defence motive evidence and that he referred the defence for contempt after his closing address in the first trial, a first in British legal history. I’m struck by the fact that very few in the politico-media elite of this country seem to care just how much this degree of subservience to and connivance with murderous foreign interests (the United States and its genocidal satellite state) undermines the political legitimacy of the judiciary and the state as a whole. In fact, those who don’t actively support this (too many to count) seem perfectly happy in their complacency.

According to diplomats from each of the mediating countries “Israeli officials indicated that even if Hamas were to agree now to start the process of disarming, Jerusalem is unlikely to be willing to take the steps necessary to advance the deal.” timesofisrael.com/gaza-media…

An Israeli cyber firm interfered in Scottish elections and targeted @JohnSwinney after he criticised Israel's conduct in the war, says the head of France's anti-disinformation body. haaretz.com/israel-news/secu…

Amir Ziv, our Pedagogy Coordinator, explains the role of “regional defence units” in the terror and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in the West Bank. After October 2023, thousands of settlers received weapons from the IDF by enlisting in these units. The IDF gave rifles and unchecked authority to people with a history of hate crimes against Palestinians. Formally, these units are subordinate to the IDF, but in practice operate as independent settler militias.

First good look at a Ukrainian FP-5 Flamingo heavyweight cruise missile on a combat mission, seen here having already penetrated almost 1000 km into Russian airspace. At least two of the 40-foot-long missiles hit Russia's VNIIR Progress electronics plant this morning.

More than 30 UK charities are found to have funnelled millions to illegal Israeli settlements. ‘Labour’s Melanie Ward said that if gift aid were claimed against the donations in the usual way, it would mean taxpayers had subsidised illegal settlements to the tune of £5.6m, a situation she described as deplorable’ - @guardian @melanie_ward

The West Bank is literally worse than the Jim Crow South at its peak. Constant mob ethnic violence, targeting the indigenous Muslim and Christian communities. No accountability; pogroms are legal and facilitated by the Israeli state.

While attention is again focused on Iran, a major shift is unfolding in the West Bank. For the first time since the Oslo Accords, Palestinians are being expelled from Area A, under PA administration. The IDF is seizing land near Jenin to build a military base. Why it matters 🧵

Israel is not in search of political solutions, it seeks only to manage open-ended violence and instability; permanent war on the pretext of permanent peace. I wrote about this last week: carnegieendowment.org/middle…

EXCLUSIVE: More than half of former Labour voters who intent to back a centre or leftwing party in the next general election have cited the government's record on Gaza as a reason for abandoning Labour, new polling shows.

Most Moral Army in the World in the last 24 hours: - Shot a baby in the head - Beat up a random man in a pogrom - Bombed Lebanese soldiers hours after announcing a truce - Whistleblower admits they mostly kill unarmed people And now Congress wants to merge our two militaries

"The central problem is that Israel has too often and without U.S. approval shared highly classified U.S. national defense information with China. rime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been particularly egregious in allowing China ...." washingtonexaminer.com/opini…

Ah well, what are you going to do.

Colby tried to make his foreign policy restraint as accommodating to Israel as possible — bending over backwards not to apply the same logic he does to Ukraine. It still got him humiliated by Tom Cotton at his confirmation hearing and put under hostile Israeli surveillance.