🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️ — A source told POLITICO that some U.S. naval assets are still more than a week away from reaching positions needed for a potential attack on Iran.

🇮🇱 The Israeli economy now requires permanent war to function. This is not an exaggeration or a metaphor. Their defense sector is the only growth industry left.

Israel has entered a new era of territorial expansionism and military aggression beyond the borders of historic Palestine. Its belligerent actions have accelerated across Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, Iran, Qatar, Libya, and most recently, Somaliland. These developments aren’t due to a change in Israeli strategic ambitions, but rather to the loosening of constraints that had kept it bounded before October 2023.

This expansionist turn reflects a structural recalibration of risk, leverage, and international tolerance rather than a sudden ideological shift. But it is also due to the way Israel’s economy is now structured: the military industry has been carrying the economy ever since Israel experienced a level of global isolation that decimated most other sectors over the past two years. The result? Israel now has an additional structural incentive to be in a perpetual state of war.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave voice to this reality when he announced that Israel would need to become a “super Sparta” — a highly militarized warrior state with a self-sufficient military industry, capable of defying international pressure and arms embargoes because it no longer has to rely on American military beneficence.

A crucial recent strategic declaration sharpens this trajectory. In January 2026, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced his intention to end U.S. military aid to Israel within roughly a decade, framing this as a path toward military-industrial self-sufficiency and strategic autarky. This announcement signals that Israel is no longer content to remain subordinate to the U.S., instead seeking to operate as its strategic partner in the region at a time when the U.S.’s national security strategy is shifting attention from the Middle East to the Western Hemisphere.

Netanyahu’s declaration amplifies the urgency of the export-led growth model, which is largely based on arms and defense-linked industries. The problem is, if Israel is to replace $3.8 billion in annual U.S. military aid, it must dramatically scale up its domestic production and export capacity.

The Israeli state is attempting to institutionalize this export surge through policy, committing roughly NIS 350 billion (equivalent to $100–108 billion) over the coming decade to expand an independent domestic arms industry. Economically, this means that military production will become central to Israel’s long-term industrial strategy, diverting capital, labor, and state support toward weapons manufacturing rather than civilian recovery, a strategy that is untenable during wartime. This also embeds Israeli firms deeper into global security supply chains, even as the state itself becomes diplomatically isolated.

🔗 https://mondoweiss.net/2026/02/the-new-era-of-israeli-expansionism-and-the-war-economy-that-fuels-it/

🇹🇷❌🇮🇱 Türkiye’s National Intelligence Agency (MİT) detained two suspects in Istanbul for alleged espionage on behalf of Israel’s Mossad.

Operation “MONITUM” was carried out with prosecutors and counter-terror police.

Suspects: Mehmet Budak Derya (engineer/trader, accused of long-term Mossad contact via trade activities) and Veysel Kerimoğlu (accomplice).

Allegations include collecting and transmitting intelligence, tracking Palestinian individuals, and using business cover.

Arrests followed extended surveillance, with intervention in January 2026.

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🇺🇸❌🇮🇷 Treasury Secretary, Scott Bessent, claims responsibility for the anti-Ayatollah protests in Iran earlier this year.

At a hearing before the House Financial Services Committee, Bessent explained how the US created a dollar shortage in Iran forcing Iranian banks to print more money and cause hyperinflation which led to the sudden unaffordability of essential items like groceries, triggering food riots which degenerated into gunfights with security forces.

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🇮🇱❌🇱🇧 Lebanese authorities say Israeli aircraft sprayed glyphosate herbicide over farmland near the Blue Line, at levels far above normal use.

The spraying damaged crops and raised health and environmental concerns, drawing condemnation from officials and UNIFIL.

📝: This is not accidental. Israel wants to turn the Lebanese territory south of the Litani river into an uninhabited wasteland and when it feels convenient, it will occupy it like they did with the Golan Heights after the Six Day War and in 2024 with the collapse of the Assad Regime, they occupied the demilitarized UNDOF line.

🔗 Beirut Today (@bey_today)

🇮🇱❌🇸🇾 Syria’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Ibrahim Olabi, testified to the U.N. about "unidentified chemicals" sprayed by Israeli aircraft over farms in the UNDOF buffer zone.

Olabi visited the Syria-Israel border and talked with former residents of the Qunaytra governorate, expelled from their homes by the IDF in late 2024 to early 2025.

The residents told Olabi how the IDF used bulldozers to demolish homes and farm buildings and erected military outposts and fortifications over their lands. Civilians testified to being targeted while trying to earn a living, subjected to checkpoints, searches, and enforced disappearances.

Ibrahim Olabi, reiterated Damascus’ firm stance that it will not compromise on reclaiming its land or safeguarding its national rights. He emphasized that Syria will take immediate and necessary steps to document and assess the damage caused by Israel’s “illegal occupation” in southern Syria.

🔗 https://sana.sy/en/politics/2293206/

🇮🇷🇺🇸 Negotiations between Iran and the U.S. have ended.

A new round of negotiations will be scheduled in the future as both delegations return to their capitals.

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🇮🇱⚔️🇮🇷📝Anon: If you have air superiority,

F-15/-16/-35 with heavy 250/500/1000kg JDAM bombs...

The damage you could inflict would turn even large structures into craters

Instead we see low explosive-power hits on fragile structures like halls made of metal sheets

It is clear that most of the damage Iran suffered during the 12 Day War was caused by drones launched inside Iranian territory by terrorist cells and that Israel never had air superiority as they falsely claimed.

🔗 Patarames

🇮🇱 Israeli forces bulldozed part of a Gaza cemetery containing the war graves of dozens of British, Australian, and other allied soldiers killed in the first and second world wars.

A spokesperson for Australia’s Department of Veterans’ Affairs confirmed "significant damage" to the graves of Australians," calling the revelation "distressing."

The former caretaker for the graveyard reported witnessing bulldozing of the graves "after the Israeli army withdrew from the area, around late April or early May."

🔗 Europa

🇮🇱📁 Israeli prime-minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, on X/Twitter:

Jeffrey Epstein's unusual close relationship with Ehud Barak doesn't suggest Epstein worked for Israel. It proves the opposite.

Stuck on his election loss from over two decades ago, Barak has for years obsessively attempted to undermine Israeli democracy by working with the anti-Zionist radical left in failed attempts to overthrow the elected Israeli government.

Barak's personal fixation led him to engage in activities publicly and behind the scenes to undermine the government of Israel, including fueling mass protest movements, fomenting unrest and feeding false media narratives.

🔗 Benjamin Netanyahu