Turkish boxer attacks Israeli opponent before bout then gets his butt kicked in two rounds

Israeli Muay Thai fighter Ahavat Hashem Gordon just dominated his Turkish opponent Ali Konyuncu in Kaunas, Lithuania, on Saturday night, February 21, 2026. Gordon remains undefeated and walked away with the win after only two rounds.

Muay Thai, aka Thai Boxing, is Thailand's national sport, consisting of full-contact striking martial arts, also known as "Art of Eight Limbs" [fists 2; elbows 2; knees 2; and shins/feet for kicks as 2].

The drama happened on Friday at the weigh-in. 

Gordon draped an Israeli flag over his shoulders as he faced off with Konyuncu. The two traded the usual trash talk threats that come with big fights. Then the Turk, Konyuncu lunged at Gordon's neck. Both guys got restrained fast, but they kept trying to break loose.

Even with people holding them back, Konyuncu still managed to land a kick to Gordon's midsection before they finally got separated. Video of the whole thing blew up on social media.

The actual fight however, told a different story.

First round was even. Nobody pulled ahead. In round two, Konyuncu hit Gordon with an uppercut, but Gordon fired back with a solid head shot that dropped him. When they got pulled apart, Konyuncu was bleeding heavily from a serious boo-boo on the side of his head. The judges called it right there and awarded the victory to Gordon.

Israel's Culture and Sports Minister Miki Zohar (Likud) posted on X late Saturday night: "Another brilliant victory for our Israeli fighter." And an embarrassing loss for a Turkish Muslim loser.

Gordon celebrated with the Israeli flag, and it's another proud moment for Israeli combat sports. Israel has turned out strong athletes in these disciplines for decades, like judokas Yael Arad and Oren Smadja who brought home Israel's first Olympic medals (silver and bronze) at the 1992 Summer Games. 

More judo medals have followed, and Israel sent top Muay Thai fighters like world champions Sarah Abraham and Nili Block to major competitions.

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Just last November, the Israeli kickboxing team crushed it at the World Championships in Abu Dhabi, coming back with 7 medals from an event with about 2,000 athletes from around 85 countries.

Mazel tov to Ahavat Hashem Gordon on the big win. Another one for the good guys. 

Am Yisrael Chai!

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Biden claims Ireland is "home" which makes him an illegitimate POTUS

President Joe Biden, 80, claimed that Ireland was his home, which makes him ineligible to be the president of the United States, but as usual, he was lost in the jasmine of his deteriorating mind. He made this false statement during a press conference in Helsinki, Finland just before nearly breaking his butt trying to enter Air Force One to return to his actual home in the US.

The so-called president stopped in Helsinki to meet with Nordic leaders after he had attended the NATO summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, in spite of him thinking he was elsewhere. He mumbled alongside Finnish President Sauli Niinistö, who looked rather furklempt as Biden struggled to speak words that made sense.

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“The minishing of minishers… The miniseries of cola’s daughter of Ireland… You can tell I’m thinking of home. Of the daughter of Iceland…" pic.twitter.com/puzkXWul5n

You can tell that he was thinking of home??? So this decrepit politician was thinking that Ireland was home. 

“The ministry of cola’s the daughter of Ireland — daughter of Ireland, you can tell that’s a Freudian slip, I’m thinking of home — the daughter of Iceland,” Biden said as Niinistö watched. “And I want to say, I think we’ve had a very productive summit.”

Yes, a very productive summit. Can he even slightly summarize what was discussed?

Biden then proceeded to take questions from two pre-selected reporters in the room, after which he got out of Dodge without taking unscripted questions which he would not have been able to answer.

Hours later, as the angry old guy was ready to head back to the US, his feet had failed him once again as he had difficulty dealing with the pesky stairs to Air Force One, in spite of the fact that he was using the shorter staircase to avoid such difficulty.

Biden stumbles a bit as he boards Air Force One — using the smaller stairs — en route to the United States. He took no questions. pic.twitter.com/UxCA75kdQP

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) July 13, 2023

After the first few steps, the president appeared to stumble a bit before righting himself and taking the remaining stairs at a slightly quicker pace, pretending he was spry. In fact, he's been using the shorter stairs more frequently since going ass-over-teakettle onstage at the Air Force Academy in Colorado. [Rumor has it that he may have been chewing gum at the time.]

Reporters asked the affirmative action black lesbian White House Press Secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre whether the shorter stairs — often used by previous presidents in inclement weather — were being used more often due to the number of times Biden had nearly taken a header on the longer stairs or his recent stumble in Colorado but Jean-Pierre deflected.

“I don’t have any decision process to walk through,” she said. “I’m sure there’s a protocol that’s used for Air Force One, I just don’t have one.”

Decision processes, is an Orwellian term, also known as 'balderdash'. 

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Facebook too scared to make LGBTQ stand in countries that kill non-heterosexuals

Facebook is scared to death (literally) to participate in the oppression of LGBT folks by withholding a rainbow avatar in countries in which the local religion prescribes the killing of gays, lesbians, transgenders, queers, people of different religions, especially Jews, atheists and so on and so forth, etc., etc.

The company rolled out a new "reaction

" feature in June, or LGBT Pride Month, a month in which people who are sexually involved with people of the same sex, or those who have their genitalia surgically altered to go along with the delusion they harbor, can have pride and celebrate something that isn't an actual accomplishment, but a definition of who they are or think they are.

LGBT Pride Month celebrates gay sexual preference around the world.

Users who sign up for the LGBTQ@Facebook page can get to use reacts such as "like", "wow", "angry", "sad", and now they can add an extra rainbow flag-themed "pride" response to posts. 

Canada's "pretty boy" Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, posted on the page. It's readily available in the West, but don't even think about posting it in Russia, Malaysia, Iraq, Iran, Jordan, Afghanistan, Yemen, Qatar, Syria, South Africa, Egypt or Pakistan, not to mention any Islamic-run country I left out.

But even in India and Singapore (where gay sex is illegal), as well as Lithuania and the Philippines (that ban gay marriage) the feature is not available to them.

And they're spitting mad.

Facebook said, in response to user complaints about the feature not being available to them, that "this isn't yet available in some areas, but we hope to roll it out in more soon."

Advocates for free expression online weren't impressed.

Facebook CEO (Cowardly Executive Officer) Mark Zuckerberg effectively promised to ban more things in areas like the Middle East, by making content filters more limiting to achieve "local governance" in line with inhuman, sexist, homophobic, blasphemous and anti-Semitic "cultural norms."

Some say Zuckerberg simply cannot suck enough.



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Obama sent US Special Forces to Russian border

This is crazy news and the mainstream media hasn't put it out to the public yet. 

We all know Russian hostility against the US is at Cold War levels, and for his time in office, Obama, our so-called president, has responded to Putin like a wife angry at her husband for leaving the seat up.

But this is very serious and impossible to ignore--Russia is deploying nuclear-ready missiles along its western border with Poland and Lithuania, both NATO allies, and Belarus, a US ally not in NATO. In response to this move, Obama has sent US special forces to Lithuania.

US special forces will help bolster Lithuanian and other NATO allies defenses against Russia and if push should hit the fan, shove will fight back to fulfill our NATO obligation. That could mean war.

Worse, it could mean Obama stays in office due to the fact that it would be a national emergency. My paranoid fear when he first took office was that he would go to any lengths to stay in power.

It makes me want to throw up in my mouth.

"The United States was the first to offer additional safety assurance measures to the Baltic countries following the deterioration of the security situation in the region after the annexation of the Crimea," said the Lithuanian Defense Ministry spokeswoman Asta Galdikaite. "US Special Operations Forces presence in Lithuania is one of the deterrents" she said, [against Russian expansion].

General Raymond Thomas head of the Pentagon's Special Operations Command told The New York Times that the Baltic states are "scared to death of Russia. They are very open about that."

If someone on either side of the showdown even goes so far as to "flip the bird," it could start a shooting war. But the shooting would be of nukes, not guns.



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Obama Talks Semi-Tough to Russia: Putin Shivers in His Jackboots

Well, this should show Putin a thing or two. President Barack Obama, has leveled sanctions against Russia in retaliation of their invasion of Crimea. Obama plans to freeze the assets of 11 Russians (which is almost twice as many people as had enrolled in Obamacare in the first 7 days), but due to professional courtesy, will not sanction Vladimir Putin himself. Sanctioning Putin might actually get him angry and Obama does not want to get the Russian Hulk angry under any conditions.