Brilliant. I must confess that I had to look up “Marit ayin”. It was important to wake up in California this morning and have your Substack be one of the first things we read.
As the war proceeds in its third week, we here in the jewish diaspora - though I have a hard time conceding MAGA alignment - have a sense of growing unease. This may not end well.
I wrote that the Obama deal was limited and imperfect. In hindsight, that is not strong enough. Obama's deal was fatally flawed, especially in connection with ballistic missiles. I did not support Obama's deal at the time. Once it became a reality, Trump's junking it without an alternative seemed like a mistake.
Senator Jon Ossoff, Democrat of Georgia, asks whether there was “imminent nuclear threat posed by the Iranian regime. Yes or no?" as Trump keeps saying.
Tulsi Gabbard, the neo-isolationist director of national intelligence: “It is not a responsibility of the intelligence community to determine what is or is not an imminent threat."
Thus, Trump is now de facto the nation’s chief intelligence analyst.
Brilliant. I must confess that I had to look up “Marit ayin”. It was important to wake up in California this morning and have your Substack be one of the first things we read.
As the war proceeds in its third week, we here in the jewish diaspora - though I have a hard time conceding MAGA alignment - have a sense of growing unease. This may not end well.
With foreign media banned, a four-day visit offers a rare account of daily life, war and public mood inside Iran
https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/iran/2026-03-24/ty-article-magazine/.premium/many-see-it-as-a-war-against-iran-itself-a-rare-account-from-inside-iran/0000019d-1fad-d7c1-a59f-dfff64d80000
I wrote that the Obama deal was limited and imperfect. In hindsight, that is not strong enough. Obama's deal was fatally flawed, especially in connection with ballistic missiles. I did not support Obama's deal at the time. Once it became a reality, Trump's junking it without an alternative seemed like a mistake.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/us/politics/tulsi-gabbard-iran-trump.html
Senator Jon Ossoff, Democrat of Georgia, asks whether there was “imminent nuclear threat posed by the Iranian regime. Yes or no?" as Trump keeps saying.
Tulsi Gabbard, the neo-isolationist director of national intelligence: “It is not a responsibility of the intelligence community to determine what is or is not an imminent threat."
Thus, Trump is now de facto the nation’s chief intelligence analyst.