Secretary of the Navy John C. Phelan was fired.

This marks the 34th military officer that Secretary Hegseth has fired since taking over the agency.

U.S. forces have directed 31 vessels to turn around or return to port as part of the U.S. blockade against Iran.

Most vessels turned around have been oil tankers.

Not only did the guy who did it get "punished" but so did the guy who filmed it. Exposing what the IDF does to the rest of the world is the "real crime."

What you don't hear is any examination of why it happened in the first place. Why would an Israeli soldier want to do this? What does it reflect of the attitudes of the Israeli military and of Israel itself toward Christianity? That's never addressed.

All that matters is how the rest of the world perceives it and specifically American evangelical Christians, who were the last bulwark of support for Israel in the last country on the globe that supports Israel with money, which would be the United States.

So the problem from the Israeli perspective is not that it happened. The problem is that American evangelicals might find out about it.

If an American soldier broke into a synagogue in this or any other country and burned a Torah scroll, he would be severely and rightly punished.

You can't desecrate other people's religious symbols. That is totally wrong, and people who do it should be punished.

In this case, Christians, whose messiah was mocked—a statue of Jesus was just smashed with a sledgehammer they paid for—are told, "No, no, no, this means nothing, and you're a bad person if you think it does."

It's a very common occurrence where the Israeli military desecrates Christian religious symbols and churches and kills Christians. These are not accidents.

This adds up to, well, what the SPLC might call a "troubling pattern." But it's more than a troubling pattern; it's very close to a policy. And we know that because of indisputable facts of behavior in recent years.

Christian churches were bombed intentionally multiple times in Gaza. Christian parishioners were murdered by the IDF in Gaza.

A mother and daughter were shot to death by an Israeli sniper in a churchyard in Gaza. And the reaction in the United States? Well, there wasn't any reaction in the United States. In every single case Israel denied it happened.

Then when confronted with proof that it happened, because dead people are pretty easy to verify because they're dead, they said, "Oh, it was an accident. We'll look into it." Who was punished? Nobody.

In no case was anybody punished for blowing up churches and murdering Christians in Gaza.

At one point, an Israeli tank fired an artillery shell into a cross on top of a Christian church in Gaza, as if it couldn't get clear what the point of this was. The point was to take down the cross, because the cross is so "offensive," apparently.

Christians in the United States, who are paying for this and are the last remaining large group of supporters of the Israeli military in the United States and critical to continued funding for the state of Israel, should have asked themselves, can all of these be accidents?

The country with the most sophisticated munitions on the planet is accidentally bombing churches, and not just once, but again and again.

Do snipers really make mistakes like that? Shooting a mother and a daughter in a churchyard—could that have been a mistake? What's going on here?

Of course, if they'd asked—nobody did. And those who did were immediately denounced as "terror supporters."

Anyone who asked would have found the truth, which is that these are consistent with attitudes toward Christians in Israel, not by all Israelis and not by every government minister in Israel, but by a lot of them.

The loathing of Christianity is absolutely real.

Why don't you ask the Iranian people what they think of me?

Why don't you ask them why they continue to support me?

Why don't you ask them when they come by the hundreds of thousands in demonstrations from Sydney to Vancouver to Munich and Berlin?

Inside Iran, tens of millions of Iranians chanted my name, and they still do.

Today’s Gen Z in Iran are my biggest supporters.

You don’t hear it because you’re disconnected from them.

It appears to me more often than not that there’s a disconnect between the world media, Western media, from the reality on the ground in Iran.

That is stupefying for me. I saw that to some extent in Stockholm and I see another occasion — it looks like you guys are on another planet.

You’re not hearing what the people on the streets are saying.