Advocate’s Brief: Sunday, March 1

The pressure this week is about reframing a preemptive war of defense as an illegal act of aggression — and making you own the civilian cost before you’ve had time to assess the military facts.

Shalom, friends.

Khamenei is dead. The IRGC leadership is decimated. Iran is firing back across the Gulf, Israeli sirens are sounding from Haifa to Tel Aviv to Beit Shemesh, and the arguments arriving at your door will sound nothing like last week’s. The paperwork warfare hasn’t disappeared — the Casten bill, the NGO lawfare, the annexation frame — but the room you’re walking into has a different energy. People are scared. Some are furious. A few are confused about which side they’re supposed to be on. Your job is to anchor them to facts they can hold.