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What Is This S&P Thing Anyway, and Why Does Everyone Talk About It Like Itโs the Economyโs Big Brother?
What Is This S&P Thing Anyway, and Why Does Everyone Talk About It Like Itโs the Economyโs Big Brother?
Purim 2026 is not just another holiday under fire. It is a stark reminder that even in an age of precision missiles and suicide drones, there is one thing that is very difficult to intercept – a national will to continue living.
And in the Middle East of 2026, it is a strategic weapon no less important than any air defense system.
Purim, the holiday when everything turns upside down, is perhaps the most appropriate moment to remind empires drunk on themselves: You too – in the end – are just a costume
Withdrawal from American aid is not a matter of โindependence or death.โ
It is a matter of risk management in a world where dependence is weakness.
Israel is not intentionally harming the American arms industries.
It simply stops playing by rules that were written when it had no choice.
Those who rush to present the move as a demonstration of national independence, or alternatively as a dangerous and unnecessary step, miss the point:
This is a move that seeks to change the rules of the game, not withdraw from it.
America discovered Hamas isnโt a folk-dance troupe.
It wants to ban entry to anyone who supported the massacre.
Americans are now discovering what we in Israel learned a long time ago: tolerance is great – until someone takes advantage of it to take control of you.
If New York really does elect Zohran Mammadani, it will be definitive proof that the city that has been through 9/11, Trump, and Blattner in Times Square – has failed to survive progressivism.
But hey, at least they will have a city free of guilt: no struggle, no crime, no homeless people, no progressive snobbery, no anti-Semitism, no Muslim immigrantsโฆ but guilt