Thank you, Backwoods! I appreciate your liking it, and telling me so, very much.
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You’re quite welcome.
These days I’m devouring history books as eagerly as a teenage boy devours cheeseburgers. Would you mind if I do a post about what I’m learning now and then? The series about WWI is giving me food for thought, and I’m thinking about a post about why Herbert Hoover is my third favorite president, behind Trump and Reagan.
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I’d be delighted to have such essays on this forum.
If they stimulate friendly appreciation - or controversy - well, all the better.
If they attract harsh antagonism? Very unlikely, but if it happens … well, we’ll see.
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Hoover, yes. And Coolidge, perhaps?
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Thanks Jillian.
I haven’t read about Coolidge yet. I’ll find a book about him. I like Hoover because of what kind of man he was.
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I’m starting a book about the crash of 1929. I’ll wait till I finish it before I do the post about Hoover.
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From the linked article;
The Israel Defense Forces targeted and killed the commander of the Navy of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps overnight Wednesday, along with senior naval command officials, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said.
Commodore Alireza Tangsiri “had a great deal of blood on his hands; he was also the one who led the closure of the Strait of Hormuz,” Netanyahu said.
“We continue to forcefully strike the targets of the Iranian terrorist regime. This is yet another example of the cooperation between us and our friend, the United States, toward the common goal of achieving the objectives of the war.”
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From the linked aricle:
Israeli security forces said on Wednesday that they foiled a Hamas terror cell of 10 Palestinians from Samaria who carried out several roadside bomb attacks against Israeli troops and planned additional large-scale assaults, including a kidnapping.
According to a joint statement from the Israel Police, Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) and the Israel Defense Forces, the suspects from the village of Beita, near Nablus, planted explosives that wounded three soldiers, two seriously, in March and April 2025. Investigators said the group also dug a six-meter-deep tunnel behind one suspect’s home intended to hold hostages.
The suspects face charges in a military court, including attempted murder, shooting at a person and attempted kidnapping, authorities said.
This was a mistake. Wrong placement. But I’ll leave it here.
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Quote:
The Israeli Air Force struck 170 targets belonging to “the Iranian terrorist regime” over the past 24 hours, using about 400 munitions in a wave of strikes across Iran, the Israel Defense Forces said on Monday night [March 30-31, 2026].
More here:
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The head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) intelligence organisation in Iran, Majid Khademi, was killed Monday in a targeted Israeli air strike.
Israel Defense Minister Israel Katz made the announcement, AP reported.
“The Revolutionary Guard are shooting at civilians and we are eliminating the leaders of the terrorists,” Katz said. “Iran’s leaders live with a sense of being targeted. We will continue to hunt them down one by one.”
Katz added Israel had severely damaged Iran’s steel and petrochemical industries, as well.
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After 50 years of appeasements, it seems almost too good to be true. Thanks to Netanyahu and Trump, we are finally cutting off the head of the snake.
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The US commander-in-chief, President Donald Trump, agrees to a ceasefire on condition that the Iran leadership open the Strait of Hormuz, and very soon this happens. Who is surprised? Is President Trump surprised?
From the linked article:
Iran Blocks Traffic in Strait of Hormuz over Israeli Strikes in Lebanon
Iran reportedly violated the ceasefire agreement brokered by Pakistan in a matter of hours by once again closing the Strait of Hormuz to commercial traffic, ostensibly because Israel has refused to halt its operation against the Hezbollah terrorists of Lebanon.
Two oil tankers were allowed to pass through the Strait of Hormuz “with permission from Iran” – but the strait was then closed again “in response to Israeli strikes in Lebanon".
Iran’s remaining naval forces are still warning ships in the Persian Gulf that they must obtain permission from Iran to transit the Strait of Hormuz.
(But if two ships passed through … Djeeziz! What can Iran do about it? - JB)
Israeli officials, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz, said on Wednesday morning that Lebanon was never part of the ceasefire arrangement. President Donald Trump also said that Lebanon was not included in the deal because of the “separate skirmish” between Israel and Hezbollah.
Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, whose government mediated the ceasefire talks, said the agreement did include Lebanon, and that all hostilities would end “immediately”.
Israel launched intense strikes against Hezbollah overnight, inflicting what Katz described as the “largest concentrated blow Hezbollah has suffered since the Beepers Operation”, the 2024 Israeli operation that killed and injured numerous Hezbollah operatives by detonating their pagers.
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun denounced the Israeli strikes as a “new massacre” that would be added to Israel’s “dark record”.
“We strongly condemn this crime, affirm the necessity for the international community to assume its responsibilities to stop these repeated attacks, and put an end to this aggressive approach that threatens security and stability in the region,” he said.
Iran’s Tasnim news agency on Wednesday cited an IRGC “senior security source” who said Tehran might withdraw from the ceasefire agreement entirely if Israel continues its operation in Lebanon.
(O Israel, keep the strikes going! - JB)
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I’m not surprised, and Iran should not be surprised by what Trump does to them.
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“We strongly condemn this crime…that threatens security and stability in the region.”
Security and stability? What are they talking about - the “security and stability” of Hezbollah’s usual terrorist attacks on Israel?
What a joke!
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