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Posted by: John Phoenix A declassified diplomatic arrangement has quietly bound U.S. energy policy to Israeli security for decades. The ongoing war between the United States, Israel, and Iran has sent shockwaves through global energy markets, creating extreme volatility and threatening the stability of critical transit points like the Strait of Hormuz. While the rest of the world braces for the economic fallout of these surging oil prices, Israel remains uniquely insulated from the chaos. This security is not accidental but rather the logical result of an arrangement where the United States acts as a de facto energy supplier of last resort to the Jewish state, ensuring that Israel remains fully supplied regardless of regional instability. In September 1975, then-Secretary of ...

Vanunu's photograph of a Negev Nuclear Research Center glove box containing nuclear materials in a model bomb assembly, one of about 60 photographs he later gave to the British press. Credit: Wikimedia Commons In May 2026, Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-TX) led a group of 30 House Democrats in sending a formal letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio demanding the United States end its decades-long policy of nuclear ambiguity regarding Israel. Castro explicitly cited the ongoing U.S. and Israel military conflict with Iran, noting that “fighting this war side by side with a country whose potential nuclear weapons program the United States government officially refuses to acknowledge risks miscalculation” and potential nuclear escalation. The signatories cited the classified 19...

Posted by: John Phoenix Will The Donald become Israel’s next Prime Minister? If Donald Trump seriously wants a second career after he destroys the United States and a large part of the world he would be well advised to consider becoming a stand-up comedian. He already possesses a huge supply of jokes consisting of his off-the-wall ad-libs when responding to reporters and the public. Most of his remarks that are not out-and-out lies are insulting and/or incoherent and would in any event be better considered as humorous observations on the deplorable state of politics in America than as serious commentary coming from a respected head of state. Nevertheless, within The Donald’s occasionally semi-functional brain there may exist some sense that he is president to serve the Am...

Posted by: John Phoenix Thank You Congress and President Trump! Few Americans know the history of how Israel’s “wag the tail” relationship with the United States developed. Israel’s 1967 successful war against its neighbors demonstrated to military planners in Washington how a qualitative edge in weapons could enable a small country to resist much larger and seemingly more powerful adversaries. Israel was largely supplied with French weapons at the time that reportedly out-performed the Russian equipment in the hands of Syria and Egypt. As a consequence, in 1968, with strong support from a heavily lobbied Congress, Zionist influenced US President Lyndon B Johnson approved the hitherto blocked sale of F-4 Phantom fighters to Israel, establishing the precedent for continuing U...