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[Michelle Tandler @michelletandler]

There is no genocide. There was no genocide.

If Israel wanted to commit genocide, it would take about 15 minutes.

If Hamas had Israel's arsenal, Israel would be genocided.

All these influencers screaming about genocide are lying.

I wonder if they know it.

[haim @WhilleTrue]

הטרגדיה היא שהציונות הדתית לא מצליחה לתפוס במוחה המגושם שהמאבק שלהם כנגד דחיסת נשים לטנקים בניגוד לכל הגיון מינימלי, זהה לחלוטין למאבק של החרדים נגד אברכים בצה״ל בניגוד לכל הגיון מינימלי

זה בדיוק אותו מאבק נגד בדיוק אותם אנשים שגמרו אומר לפרק את החברה הישראלית לגורמים עבור שימור כוחם

[Ahmed pak 🇵🇰 @Ahmedpak378456]

In 1974 Turkey invaded Cyprus and took possession of 37% of the country, gradually displacing 200,000 Greek Cypriots. There has since been an influx of Turkish settlers from the mainland, with as many as 500,000 Turks displacing the natives.

How many times have we heard people talking about illegal Turkish settlers/colonizers? Almost never. Most people don’t even know about it.

[Jacob L @JacobL1994_]

That’s not why. Other Muslim countries treat Palestinians like crap.

It’s because they see Jewish sovereignty in the land of Israel as a theological crime, a blow to their sense of being the final Abrahamic religion, and a reminder of how much power they’ve lost.

They believe that sovereign Jewish history is over, and that God cursed us and drove us into exile, to live under Muslim rule as a protected, but subaltern, minority.

For Jews to dramatically reverse this equation, re-establish our homeland, and defeat multiple combined Muslim armies isn’t supposed to be possible. It calls their claim of religious primacy into question.

[Shirat Starkman @Musician_Shirat]

מורן, זה בסדר להיות טיפשה כשלא כולם רואים, אבל אין שום חובה (הלכתית או תרבותית) להודיע על טימטומך בפרהסיה.
הספר נקרא מלכים ולא מלאכים והוא ספר היסטוריה ולא ספר הלכה. הוא מספר על ממלכות יהודה וישראל ומומלץ לפתוח אותו לפעמים. השורשים שלך כרותים ואף עץ או אדם לא יכול להתקיים ככה.

[Hananya Naftali @HananyaNaftali]

Even the UN admits it now!

A new UN report documents Hamas publicly executing, torturing, and maiming Palestinians in Gaza: blindfolded men shot in public squares, beatings with metal pipes, deliberately broken bones, and public punishments designed to spread fear.

For years, many tried to portray Hamas as freedom fighters. The reality is much simpler: Hamas terrorizes Israelis and Palestinians alike.

[Rawan Osman روان عثمان @RawaneOsmane]

I grew up in a Hezbollah stronghold in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley. Israel was not a country in my education. It was a crime. A wound kept open on purpose. Every funeral, every slogan, every sermon pointed in the same direction: there, across the border, is the source of your suffering. Believe it. Repeat it. Pass it on.

I believed it. I repeated it. For years.

Then I moved to France. And I met Jews.

Not the abstraction. Not the enemy. People. Neighbors. Colleagues. And the collision between what I had been taught and what I was seeing in front of me was so violent — so intellectually embarrassing — that I had no honest choice but to start over. To read. To ask. To dismantle, brick by brick, everything I had been given as truth.

What I found on the other side of that dismantling was not just the absence of hatred. It was something I had not expected: admiration.

Let me be precise about what I am defending and what I am not.

I am not defending every Israeli policy. I am not defending any government unconditionally. I am not asking anyone to check their critical faculties at the door.

I am defending what Israel is. What it represents. What it has built, against every conceivable pressure, in a region that has largely failed its own people.

Israel is a democracy in a neighborhood of autocracies. It is a state governed by law in a region where law is routinely weaponized against citizens. It is a country where Arabs sit in parliament, where women lead, where dissent is not a death sentence. It is imperfect — as every democracy is — but it is genuinely, structurally different from everything surrounding it.

That difference is not incidental. It is the point.

The so-called Palestinian cause, as it is prosecuted today, is not a national liberation movement. I say this not to dismiss Palestinian suffering; suffering is real, and real people pay its price. I say it because the infrastructure of the “cause” — its funders, its ideologues, its loudest champions — has never been interested in Palestinian statehood. It has been interested in Jewish elimination.

Look at who built the movement’s international architecture. Look at the 1997 Tehran OIC summit, where the language of “apartheid” was first systematically attached to Israel, not by Palestinians, but by the Iranian regime, for export. Look at Durban. Look at who profits when the conflict continues and who loses when it resolves. The answer is never the Palestinian family in Gaza. The answer is always the regime, the militia, the ideological infrastructure that needs the wound open.

The Palestinian cause, as it functions on the world stage today, is a tool of an anti-western civilizational project. Its goal is not a state alongside Israel. Its goal is a world without Israel, and, by extension, a world where the values Israel represents are defeated. Liberal democracy. Jewish self-determination. The idea that a small people can survive, build, and insist on their own dignity against the will of those who would erase them.

When western progressives march under that banner, they are not marching for freedom. They are marching for the annihilation of the only thing in the Middle East that resembles what they claim to value.

I came to Judaism slowly, the way you come to something true, not in a rush, but in accumulation.

It was not the politics that moved me first. It was the texts. The insistence, running through thousands of years of Jewish thought, that the human being is created in the image of G-d, and that this is not a metaphor but an obligation. An obligation to see the other. To argue. To question. To hold power accountable, including your own.

I had grown up in a culture where the highest virtue was submission. To the leader, the militia, the narrative. Judaism confronted me with the opposite proposition…

Read the rest of the essay on my Facebook page.

[Jacob L @JacobL1994_]

I didn’t want to be the first one to say it, but yeah.

Qualitatively the Israeli Air Force outdid the USAF and US Navy. Israel didn’t lose a single aircraft to accidents or combat losses while the USAF lost several despite facing the same threat. Israeli ground crews kept a much higher readiness state, to the point where Israel flew about the same number of sorties as the USAF and USN combined.

Granted, I think a lot of this is morale related. For each Israeli pilot and each member of the ground crews, this is existential, whereas your average American serviceman just isn’t going to take the Iranian threat as seriously.

[Rod D. Martin @RodDMartin]

🧵Calling Israel a “European colonial project” may sometimes be ignorance. But it’s a lie.

Mizrahi Jews — who never lived anywhere but the Middle East for 2,500+ years — are the largest group in Israel (between half and ~61%).

They weren’t colonizers. They were ethnically cleansed from Arab lands in the 20th Century.

The colonial myth requires erasing them. 🧵

[התיכוניסטית @high90210]

מתישהו באמצע הדייט הוא שאל מה הדעה הפוליטית שלי ואני אומרת לו, מבלי למצמץ והכי בטבעיות: אה, אני ביביסטית. התגובה שלו באותו רגע היתה פרייסלס: החיוך ירד לו בבת אחת, החליף צבעים ואני לא התאפקתי והתחלתי לצחוק. זה היה רגע מעולה.

[Moshik Kovarsky - מושיק @mk1956]

וגם אחרי היום הזה צריך לשאול.
אם, במקרה, היועמ"שית עוברת עבירה. ניגוד עניינים, או תצהיר שקרי, או שיבוש חקירה.
מי מורה לפתוח בחקירה? מי מגיש כתב אישום?
יש למישהו מצווחני השמאל תשובה?

[Hussain Abdul-Hussain @hahussain]

Palestinians have a feeling that the world has finally woken up and will right the wrong by dismantling Israel and constructing Palestine. They cannot be more delusional.

In fact, the world today is furthest away it has been from international law, ethics and morals. The post WWII world that was hoped to be as such, failed, because while America was powerful, it was not strong or patient enough to turn the world into one of law and order.

With the end of the world of international law and organizations comes the age of transactional global relations. Everyone for their own.

What Palestinians mistake as the world’s sympathy and support for them is in fact antisemitism and jealousy of Israel, independent of Palestinians. Take Iran and Turkey, both professed champions of Palestine. Neither one is fighting for a sovereign and independent Palestine, but for a Palestine that’s under their thumb. Just look how Iran rules Lebanon and Turkey rules Syria. Iran and Turkey have imperial schemes for the region and perhaps the world and political Islam is their best tool for cross border expansion.

The reason why Israel is the best bet for Arab countries that are useless and cannot behave as sovereign states is because their sovereignty is in Israel’s interest. Israel is strong enough to make Iran and Turkey kneel, but not big enough or willing to construct an empire. Beyond the borders of Mandate Palestine, Israel has no ambitions or schemes.

I know Arab propaganda teaches you Greater Israel is from the Euphrates to the Nile and that this is inscribed at the entrance to the Knesset, but this is false. Go to the Knesset and look for the inscription. You’ll find instead a copy of the Israeli Declaration of Independence, in Eretz Yisrael, the Hebrew name for British Mandate Palestine.

By going with Israel instead of Turkey and Iran, for the price of Palestine, Arabs can save the Levant, North Africa, Iraq and the Arabian Peninsula from Turkish and Iranian imperial greed and schemes. This is how smart nations think, especially ones that could barely construct three or four functioning states out of 21.

Think before you respond. Don’t come to me with Palestinian rights, Gaza and genocide. Global affairs in a lawless world is about making the best out of a weak hand, not committing suicide for the sake of an imagined past in a resourceless and tiny piece of land.

I understand that if you’re Palestinian, you’ll say that your grandparents were forced to abandon their land. As Lebanese and Iraqi, my grandchildren will say their grandfather was forced to abandon his ancestral land in Iraq and Lebanon and migrated to America in pursuit of a better life. This is the story of humanity since human migration started out of Africa. People are not wedded to land. They’re designed to seek interests, and insisting on Palestine is like banging one’s head against a wall. Don’t let the cheering of the world’s crazies, from Hollywood to UN rapporteurs, fool you to keep doing it, thinking it’s possible. Think of your interests, not with your emotions.

[Tamer Masudin @TMasudin]

Our critics don’t seem to understand what October 7th did to young Israeli men and women.

We watched our communities, friends, and families butchered under the banner of the so-called Palestinian movement.

And they think a battle-tested generation like this will be deterred by 18-year-old wannabe jihadists sipping lattes in Stuttgart and tweeting from the comfort of their couches?

How many 18–34-year-olds in Western countries would put their lives on the line for their country?

How many of those college kids would pause their studies to clear minefields in combat zones, drive a tank into battle, or leave everything behind because their country called?

They cosplay revolution from campus lawns, while our generation carries the weight of our survival.

That’s the difference.

[שמריה גרשוני @shmarya_gershun]

איך אפשר להתייחס ברצינות לאדם שכותב שרוב ראשי הישיבות שחתמו על המכתב הם "מזוהי הר המור"?!
לנוחיות הקוראים, מצרף את הרשימה

[Dr. Maalouf ‏ @realMaalouf]

Remember, all Muslim countries in the Middle East were once Christian.

When the Muslim invaders arrived, they killed the men, raped the women, enslaved the children.

That’s how those countries became Islamic. And that’s exactly what they’re trying to do in the UK and Europe now.

[Queen Bee @KingBobIIV]

Apparently, not wanting to be dismembered in the streets, or your son stabbed to death, or your daughter raped, is now "far right".

Blimey. Doesn't that make everyone "far right"?

[liat carmon @CarmonLiat]

איזה בן אדם נורמלי לא היה יורד למחתרת אחרי שאמר שלא יהיה צבא בספטמבר. ולא משנה אם "רק" ציטט והביא דברים בשם אומרם. איך היא עוד מצייצת האשה הזאת. זה מטורף.

[AP @Average_NY_Guy]

Here’s a question nobody likes asking about Nazi Germany:

How did countries like Austria, Poland, and France collapse so fast? These were established nations with armies, governments, borders, and millions of people. France alone was considered one of the strongest military powers in Europe.

Traditionally, we are taught that Hitler’s army was simply this unstoppable military machine that steamrolled Europe because it was overwhelmingly powerful. And yes, Germany was militarily strong. But that explanation alone has always felt incomplete, because historically even very strong armies usually do not conquer enormous amounts of territory that quickly unless something inside the targeted societies is already collapsing first.

Austria disappeared almost overnight. Poland fell within weeks. France collapsed in six weeks. History usually does not work that way unless large parts of the population no longer truly believe the fight is about their own survival.

The uncomfortable and dark reality is that many people did not initially think Hitler was coming for them.

Austria is probably the clearest example. The Anschluss was welcomed by huge parts of the population. German troops entered to cheering crowds, flowers, and celebrations. Many Austrians convinced themselves that joining Nazi Germany would mostly affect the Jews while improving life, or at least preserving it, for everyone else.

That mentality existed across Europe in different forms.

The illusion behind Hitler’s message was essentially: you can still be French, Polish, or Austrian. Live your life. Raise your children. The real problem is your Jewish neighbor.

And for millions of people, that was enough to weaken the will to resist.

A society only fights with total determination when people believe defeat means the destruction of their nation, identity, and future. But many Europeans convinced themselves the Jews were the primary target, so they accepted things they never would have accepted otherwise.

Some collaborated. Some stayed silent. Some rationalized. Some simply looked away.

The tragedy is that they were wrong anyway.

Austria lost its independence. France was humiliated and occupied. Poland was devastated. Cities were destroyed, sovereignty disappeared, millions died, and entire societies were dragged into catastrophe.

People often think evil can be managed as long as it is directed at somebody else first.

History shows otherwise.

This is why I’m done trying to convince Americans or Europeans about the dangers of extreme Islamism. In many mosques and Islamist circles, hatred toward America, Christianity, Western civilization, and Jews is preached openly and repeatedly. Yet many people in the West still process it the same way many Europeans processed antisemitism in the 1930s: “Yes, maybe they hate the Jews, but that doesn’t mean they are coming for us.”

That psychological separation is exactly the point.

As long as people believe somebody else is the primary target, they convince themselves they can safely ignore the ideology itself. They assume the hostility will remain contained to Jews, Israel, or some distant “other.”

But ideologies built around civilizational hatred do not stay neatly limited to one target forever.

And the end result, increasingly visible already across parts of Europe, is collapsing social trust, collapsing law and order, ethnic fragmentation, parallel societies, radicalization, and the steady erosion of the very national identities people assumed were untouchable.

At some point, societies make their own choices.
And eventually they live with the consequences of those choices.

You reap what you sow.

[דרור קאפח Dror Kapah @DrorKapah]

יש פמיניסטיות בטוויטר?

[מאיר פרייליכמן @meirf9]

אם יש דבר שמטריף אותי אפילו עוד יותר מגניבת הקולות הדוחה של הנוכל, זה הפגיעה במשפחות השכולות שהלכו איתו כברת דרך, ועוד האשמה של ״הליכוד שילם להם כסף״. הנוכל מכיר אותם אישית ויודע שהוא פשוט משקר, שוב.
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