RBT's Defense Blog

  The political landscape shook when the Associated Press projected Dr. Abdul El-Sayed as the winner of Michigan’s high-stakes Democratic U.S. Senate primary. Defying the national Democrat Party establishment and overcame tens of millions of dollars in hostile outside spending. The 41-year-old Arab muslim physician, epidemiologist, and former public health director narrowly defeated Israeli lobby establishment-backed favorite Rep. Haley Stevens. El-Sayed is set to become the first Muslim-American candidate nominated for the U.S. Senate by a major political party, heading to November’s mid-term election against Republican nominee Mike Rogers. David vs. Goliath: The Financial Numbers Breakdown The 2026 Michigan Democratic U.S. Senate primary was the most expensive primary in American congressional history . While El-Sayed raised a respectable US$14.5 million directly from grassroots donors, outside Super PACs drenched the state’s airwaves and mailboxes with unprecedented sum...

It’s been 6 months since the Gaza War started after Hamas in a surprise attack on Oct 7, 2023, raided Israel and killed more than 1200 people. While Israel says Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and other organizations from the Gaza Strip killed them, my observation says at least 30 to 40 % of those were killed by IDF itself, which in its attempt to get rid of Hamas militants killed its own people (Israelis) by firing indiscriminately. Hamas on the other hand as per my observation almost exclusively targeted the Gaza border Kibbutz's (farming communities just for its name), whose sole reason for being right on the border was to keep an eye on movement inside Gaza and fire on them (being manned mostly by IDF reservist). Besides the Kibbutz’s, Hamas also targeted the remote-controlled observation posts, and its control rooms were almost exclusively womaned by IDF women soldiers, who also managed the informer networks inside the Gaza Strip. Hamas reportedly targeted the control r...