Spot Brent rises to $132.46 and spot Oman rises to $139.08.

Actual oil, not paper oil, is currently $130+ per barrel.

Instead of taking the usual route through the Mediterranean and Red Sea, the USS George H.W. Bush is sailing the much longer route around Africa to reach the Persian Gulf.

The detour avoids Houthi-controlled waters like the Red Sea and Bab el-Mandeb.

Source: USNI

Hezbollah Leader Naim Qassem:

They say to us: "If you hadn't confronted Israel, we wouldn't have paid these losses."

If we hadn't confronted, we would have paid more and lost everything.

Do you think that Israel is leaving us? It's the one that is attacking.

It was an honest representation of the situation and saying that yes indeed we are harmed and help is appreciated by allies

But also that this will not stop us and are willing to sacrifice everything until the last man to ensure that everyone will know in the future the righteous decision we took and until locals in south Lebanon can return back to their homes...to the LAST home on the border wall without any fear or under any threats.

May God protect him so he can see this mission succeed.

https://t.me/LebUpdate/59908?comment=219299

JD Vance on the Iran talks:

I wouldn’t just say things went wrong. I also think things went right.

We made a lot of progress...

قبل معركة القصير، وفي اللقاء الذي شاهدتموه في «أسرار التحرير»، قال السيّد استكمالًا لما عُرض: تكليفنا الانتصار في هذه المعركة، من جاء إلى هنا لشيء آخر ليرحل، لقد جئنا لننتصر فقط.

في هذه الحرب الوجودية كما قال شيخنا المؤتمن، لا خيار آخر أمامنا سوى الانتصار، أن نقاتل حتى الشّهيد

Paypal to ban all Palestinian users, mandating an Israeli ID

Average orthodox Jew in the IDF

❗️Participants in tomorrow’s meeting btw Lebanon and Israel :

Secretary Marco Rubio 

Ambassador Michel Issa, U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon

Counselor Michael Needham

Ambassador Yechiel Leiter, Israeli Ambassador to the U.S.

Ambassador Nada Hamadeh, Lebanese Ambassador to the U.S.

📢 🇺🇸 🇮🇷 Vance: What they (Iran) have done is engage in this act of economic terrorism against the entire world. As the President showed, two can play at that game.

✍ Two can play economic terrorism?

📢 🇺🇸 🇻🇦 JD Vance, a self-proclaimed Catholic, stands with President Trump amid the President’s attack on the Pope, saying the Church should “stay out of politics.”

📎 AF Post

AIPAC's Rep. Eric Swalwell is resigning from Congress over sexual assault

AIPAC's Rep. Tony Gonzales is resigning from Congress over sexual assault

Fox News’ Sean Hannity wonders if Pope Leo XIV has “even read the Bible” in response to his anti-conflict stance.

“Has he ever heard of David and Goliath?”

☠️ An Israeli army Sergeant Major (Res.) was killed in south Lebanon and three additional reservists were lightly injured.

The heroes of Hezbullah operate in cells of 3 while the cowards of the Israeli army operate in hundreds protected by thousands

Yet in very occasion all they do is run away and then call the air force for help

Yesterday in Bint Jbeil a cell of 3 Hezbullah fighters successfully clashed with a large Israeli unit from the elite paratroopers unit

They successfully shot and injured 10 Israeli soldiers, including many seriously and moderately. The whole unit was placed on the ground

The remaining cowards withdrew and the Israeli air force tracked the heroes and murdered them after they were chased by tank shells.

(Cropped video)