(Fox News) Max Bacall - U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent predicted Sunday that Iran will complete its remaining oil shipments to China within two weeks, as only 15 million barrels of Iranian oil remain out on the way to delivery since the U.S. blockade. "They are going to make their final deliveries of oil to China, and then they will have nothing," he said. Tehran's latest proposal on Saturday offered to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Bessent said it's already open. "We're averaging now 15 to 22 million barrels a day. It was at about 20 pre-conflict....So think of it this way, the score is the United States, one billion - more than one billion barrels have gotten out - Iran, zero."

(Wall Street Journal) Georgi Kantchev - The U.S. Navy and Gulf oil producers have become better at fending off or evading Iranian attacks, allowing more tankers to cross the Strait of Hormuz as Iran's ability to choke off the oil flow is breaking down. Shipments via Hormuz and bypass routes were delivering almost 80% of their prewar regional flows, according to tracker Kpler. So far in September, crude exports moving through Hormuz and alternative routes have risen to almost 13 million barrels a day.

(Wall Street Journal) Summer Said - Saudi Arabia has resumed exporting oil via its East-West pipeline after repairing damage from drone strikes by Iran-backed forces in Iraq, sources said Monday, restoring a crucial route around the Strait of Hormuz and dealing a blow to Iran. Saudi Aramco started loading vessels with crude at the Red Sea port of Yanbu via the pipeline on Sunday. The pipeline is operating at a rate of 3.5 million barrels a day.

(Jerusalem Post) Amichai Stein - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spent six hours in the United Arab Emirates on Sunday to discuss Iran with UAE President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan (MBZ), sources said.

(Israel Hayom) Danny Zaken - Senior representatives of at least two additional Gulf states that do not maintain diplomatic relations with Israel took part in Prime Minister Netanyahu's meeting in the UAE on Sunday, Gulf diplomatic officials confirmed. Iran was the central focus of the meeting, with discussions of various scenarios for the near future. The sides also addressed diplomatic and security coordination and defenses against the Houthi threat. The meeting was held with the knowledge and approval of the U.S.

(Times of Israel) Emanuel Fabian - The commander of Hamas's Northern Gaza Brigade, Izz al-Din al-Bik, was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City, Israel said Tuesday. An airstrike in Gaza City on Sunday killed Hamas operative Shadi Abu Hasira, who headed a money exchange network which "transferred tens of millions of Israeli shekels in foreign currency to Hamas's military. These funds were used to finance terrorists, restore military infrastructure, and advance attacks against IDF troops," the IDF said.

(Jerusalem Post) Yonah Jeremy Bob - The capture of top Hamas internal security official Mu'in al-Arabid in Gaza City on Sept. 2 gave Israel tremendous intelligence which has helped in targeting other top Hamas officials, funds, and weapons, the Jerusalem Post has learned. Three out of the five Hamas brigade commanders in Gaza have been killed since Sept. 11.

(Times of Israel) Emanuel Fabian - IDF soldiers monitoring surveillance cameras identified a drone crossing the border into Israel from Jordan on Monday. Troops dispatched to the scene located the drone, which was carrying nine Kalashnikov assault rifles and magazines, along with a pistol.

(i24News) Avishai Grinzaig - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered Israel's International Law Department to begin preparing a legal case at the International Criminal Court (ICC) against Turkish President Erdogan over his attacks against Kurdish minorities in Turkey and his funding of Hamas, i24News learned on Sunday. The order came after Erdogan announced that he had approached Interpol seeking an Interpol Red Notice for Netanyahu.

(Jerusalem Post) Alex Carson - A new survey released on Sep. 27 by the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs (JCFA) found that 27% of Muslim American respondents said Zionists or Israel had been responsible for the 9/11 attacks. 19% expressed the belief that the U.S. government or the CIA had carried out the attacks. 62% of non-Muslim respondents identified al-Qaeda as responsible for 9/11, compared with 24% of Muslim American respondents.

(Wall Street Journal) David H. Petraeus - Before the war, 20 million barrels a day of crude oil and petroleum products passed through the Strait of Hormuz. Adm. Brad Cooper, commander of U.S. Central Command, said on Sept. 19 that the volume of oil, cargo and liquefied natural gas moving through Hormuz over the past two weeks has reached its highest level in six months. Bypassing Hormuz, the UAE's Fujairah exported about 2.28 million barrels a day of crude in July. If Saudi Arabia's East-West Pipeline to Yanbu can be restored to 2.5 million, Gulf exports could approach 15-16 million barrels a day. This is far closer to what the global market requires, given the reduction in demand since February. The writer, a retired U.S. Army general, served as director of the Central Intelligence Agency.

(Washington Post) Max Boot - Since World War II, the U.S. has developed a far-flung network of 750 bases in 80 countries and territories. The presumption has always been that U.S. air superiority would keep those bases safe. The ongoing conflict with Iran, however, has revealed that this assumption no longer holds. Iran has used drones and missiles to inflict heavy losses on U.S. bases across the Persian Gulf region. A recent Defense Department inspector general report noted, "Iranian strikes damaged and destroyed hundreds of buildings and structures at U.S. bases in Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Oman, and Jordan during the conflict. In addition, dozens of U.S. aircraft were destroyed or damaged." The damage was particularly significant at the headquarters of the U.S. Fifth Fleet in Bahrain, which was knocked out of action on Feb. 28, the first day of fighting. With the Bahrain port inoperable, the Navy had to rely on its base at Diego Garcia, 2,200 miles away, to supply the U.S. fleet in the Middle East.

(Jerusalem Post) Danielle Greyman-Kennard - An Iranian court rejected Parastoo Ahmadi's appeal against her sentence of 74 lashes and a two-year ban on all artistic activities last week, Iranian media reported. The court found that her hijabless performance had violated "public decency through the production and publication of obscene and immoral content on cyberspace platforms."

(JNS) Yaakov Lappin - An Israeli military source on Thursday rejected multiple claims made in the documentary "NAZA" (collateral damage). Many of the allegations stem from a misunderstanding of the targeting process. Any strike must pass through a five-stage chain of approval in the IDF before it is carried out. It starts with the intelligence apparatus, made up of analysts who compile and analyze information from a variety of sources. An intelligence officer who is not an analyst then verifies the data and decides whether to designate it for the targeting process. "There's an intelligence apparatus, then an operational apparatus of planning, meaning a planning apparatus, then legal review, then initial authorization by the commander, then the possibility of real-time information and additional assessment." The planning stage does not involve the same people who conducted the initial intelligence work. "They [the analysts] are not part of that process." Legal advisers then review both the intelligence and the operational plan before a strike is presented to "an operational commander," who decides whether to approve, reject or send the plan back for further work. Even after approval, "real-time circumstances" can and often do prompt a commander to re-evaluate a proposed strike. Such information is "not known and not exposed to someone in the beginning of the chain." The film's anonymous interviewees typically recount only that preliminary intelligence stage. Their testimony "does not establish the final assessments on which commanders relied, the conditions they imposed and the precautions taken during execution, or the attack's actual effects." "The IDF has never planned, approved or carried out any strike in Gaza in which 500 civilians or anything close to that number were expected to be killed as a result of the strike," despite the allegations in the film. "Each structure struck in such cases was individually assessed and identified as a military objective and as a valid target," adding that "no strike was ever decided based on an algorithm." The writer is a research associate at the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies at Bar-Ilan University.

(JNS) Sagiv Steinberg - On Sept. 13, 1993, Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization signed the Oslo Accords' Declaration of Principles at the White House. Days before the ceremony, Israel and the PLO exchanged letters of mutual recognition. The PLO recognized Israel's right to exist in peace and security and renounced terrorism. The killing was supposed to stop. It did not. On that day, Jordanian television aired a prerecorded Arabic address by PLO chief Yasser Arafat. He reminded his listeners that the Palestine National Council had resolved in 1974 to establish a national authority over any part of the land that Israel vacated in a phased plan to eventually take over the rest. Oslo, in his telling, was a stage in the struggle, not a substitute for it. Palestinians are scheduled to vote in November under rules requiring candidates to accept the PLO's commitments in Oslo. In a poll published Aug. 12 by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research, 2/3 of Palestinians opposed requiring election candidates to accept the PLO's commitments, including its agreements with Israel. The frameworks now being assembled for Gaza rest on similar architecture. Yet agreements built on the Western model, in which a document creates obligations that outlast political changes, require something the Middle East has rarely supplied: A party able to carry out a commitment after the leader who made it is gone. The practical conclusion for Jerusalem and Washington is that the next agreement should be judged by what the public demonstrably accepts, and its security terms should be enforceable by Israel without depending on anyone's goodwill. The writer is CEO and director of communications at the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs.

(Gatestone Institute) Khaled Abu Toameh - In a pre-recorded speech played at the UN General Assembly on Sept. 24, Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas claimed, "We have completed the national reform program to which we committed ourselves before our people and the international community." While Abbas referred to a new, needs-based welfare system, the U.S. State Department said on Sept. 16, 2026, that the PA was "continuing to pay stipends to terrorists and to glorify acts of terrorism and terrorists in public pronouncements and school textbooks." The State Department added that the Palestinian Authority had once again failed to live up to its commitments to the U.S., including those concerning terrorism and reform. Should PA reforms be judged by what Abbas says at the UN, or by what is actually happening on the ground? The evidence points to a substantial gap between the PA's promises and its record. If the international community is serious about bringing democracy and accountability to the Palestinians, it should demand verifiable reforms.

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(Spiked-UK) Brendan O'Neill - On Sunday, 140 Irish pubs refused to show the Nations League soccer clash between Ireland and Israel. Picture it: pint-pullers acting as self-appointed commissars of the keffiyeh cult, protecting their customers' eyes and ears from the demonic vision of men from Israel playing soccer. This is not normal. It's a sickness. Nothing better captures Ireland's craven surrender to the soul-rot of Israel-hate than this dystopic spectacle of soccer-free pubs. Ireland has succumbed like no other country to the ideological intoxicant of Jew-state-phobia, defining its morality through its loathing of the Jewish nation. We need to free Ireland from "Free Palestine." A Mao-lite lunacy swept Ireland before the match as demonstrators in mandatory keffiyehs stormed the streets to scream "Stop the Game," to demand that "our boys" be spared the indignity of playing with those genocidal demons. A mob gathered outside Castleknock Hotel in Dublin, where the Ireland team was staying, and begged them with megaphones to boycott Israel. They even badgered ordinary hotel guests to tell the team to cancel the match. Would anyone care to explain why the keffiyeh classes were superbly unbothered when the Irish cricket team played Afghanistan just a few weeks ago - a nation where women are treated like animals, homosexuality is punishable by death, and democracy is non-existent? It breaks my Mick heart to watch Ireland bow and scrape to the Palestine cult. It long ago conquered Ireland's universities, where you can't swing a cat without hitting 50 who think Israelis are Nazis. Journalist Laura Perrins analyzed the output of four Irish media outlets and found they published 3,007 reports about Israel / Palestine between January and May this year. That's almost 20 a day. Increasingly, what makes up Irish identity is its antipathy to the Jewish nation. Every Irish cultural export is madly, loudly, bizarrely anti-Israel. They have no idea how insane they sound to normies the world over. The Irish puff themselves up as the historic victims of colonialism and famine who now have a holy duty to rage against the nation supposedly committing those crimes today. Ireland's descent into the cesspit of Israelophobia reveals far more about its own moral disarray. It's like an army of the damned, all searching for the source of their moral wretchedness. And you won't believe what it is: the Jews! That Ireland has so enthusiastically joined this depraved crusade is sad beyond belief.