Douglas Alden

... The Diary of Myles Thomas.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

The Trump administration just paid Invenergy $765 million to cancel four wind projects. That brings the running total to roughly $2.5 billion in taxpayer money spent to stop energy from being built.

Think about that.

At a time when electricity demand is rising, the Trump administration is spending billions to reduce the amount of power that could reach the grid.

Trump has spent years attacking wind turbines as ugly and inefficient. He is entitled to his opinions about how they look. He is not entitled to make taxpayers finance those opinions.

Seven states have already sued over earlier agreements. Federal courts have repeatedly found legal defects in this administration’s efforts to halt offshore wind development. The administration has cited national security concerns while providing little public evidence to support them, and judges have said they were not convinced.

Strip away the politics and what remains is hard to defend.

Billions in taxpayer money paid to private companies to cancel planned energy projects during a period of rising demand.

Governments usually spend money to build things.

This administration is spending billions to make sure some things never get built.
https://t.co/rB2naxc27j

[John Spencer @SpencerGuard]

Hundreds of miles of Hezbollah tunnels in Southern Lebanon (many fully equipped) are slowly being discovered. Funded (billions) by Iran for the sole purpose of planning and launching attacks against Israel… a terror army that should not be allowed to exist in Lebanon.

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

Lebanese MP Camille Chamoun defends Israel:

“Nothing in war is humane — but if Israel wanted to annihilate Shiites in Lebanon, it wouldn’t give warnings. We’d be seeing 100,000 casualties, not 2,000.”

[Cochav Elkayam-Levy @CochavElkayam]

The silence is broken.

“Silenced No More” — the groundbreaking 298-page report exposing Hamas’s systematic sexual terror, rape, torture & mutilation on October 7 and against hostages.

Must-read in @Jerusalem_Post Magazine 👇

https://t.co/YQYxknt1uZ

#SilencedNoMore #October7 #Hamas #Israel #SexualViolence

[Emily Schrader - אמילי שריידר امیلی شریدر @emilykschrader]

My full remarks at the Oxford Union debate over the motion: “This house believes Israel never truly wanted peace with Palestine”

Ladies and gentlemen,

Tonight’s motion is not merely wrong. It is intellectually unserious.

“This house believes that Israel never truly wanted peace with Palestine.”

Never.

That single word should immediately alarm anyone who values historical accuracy, nuance, or basic intellectual honesty.

Because “never” is not a casual word. It is absolute, total, and maximalist. To vote for this motion, you are not being asked to believe Israel sometimes undermined peace, or that Israel made mistakes.

You are not even being asked to believe Israel bears major responsibility for the conflict. No, you are being asked to believe that across nearly 80 years of modern history, across every Israeli government, negotiation, territorial concession, treaty, withdrawal, every diplomatic initiative – Israel, as a state, never really wanted peace. Not once.

Clearly, such a claim does not stand under the weight of history.

From the modern state’s inception – Israel accepted the 1947 UN Partition Plan despite receiving non-arable land with almost no resources.

The Arab leadership rejected it and launched a war instead. In 1993 and 1995, Israel signed the Oslo Accords, and received an intifada in response.

At Camp David in 2000, Israel offered 94-96% of the West Bank, 100% of Gaza, and a divided Jerusalem.

In 2008, Prime Minister Olmert made another proposal for 94% of the West Bank plus an additional 5.8% more territory in the form of land swaps.

The Palestinian leadership said no to all of these offers.

In 2005, Israel withdrew every soldier and civilian from Gaza. The response?

Gazans elected Hamas, and Israel received over 25,000 missiles over the next two decades — plus multiple wars and the October 7th massacre.

You may argue that Israel’s offers were imperfect, or insufficient… but you cannot honestly argue that these are the actions of a state that never wanted peace.

The problem with this motion however goes even deeper. What exactly is meant by “peace”? Peace is not simply the absence of war, it requires two peoples accepting each other’s right to self determination and national existence.

For much of the conflict, major Palestinian factions and surrounding Arab states have and still do reject Jewish self determination outright. In fact, some if not all of the proposition debaters tonight are on record opposing a two state solution…and yet we as Israelis are being asked to prove that it is us who are serious about peace?

On the question of the partition plan, the Secretary-General of the Arab League at the time, Azzam Pasha, warned that the establishment of a Jewish state would lead to what he called “a war of extermination and momentous massacre” of the Jews.

Other Arab leaders and factions openly spoke about driving the Jews into the sea, including Haj Amin Al Husseini, the grand mufti of Jerusalem, who stated in 1948, “Arabs, rise as one and fight for your sacred rights. Kill the Jews wherever you find them. This pleases God, history, and religion.”

This was never a dispute over borders… rather it was a rejection of Jewish sovereignty itself, even when their rejection ends up harming Palestinian society.

Today, we routinely hear slogans from the Palestinian movement globally, including this week at Oxford — such as “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” a phrase which by definition involves replacing Israel entirely with a Palestinian state stretching from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea.

At protests around the world, including outside Jewish institutions and synagogues, activists have openly declared “We don’t want two states, we want all of it.”

So again I ask: what exactly does “peace” mean when one side refuses to accept that the other has any legitimate right to exist at all?

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[Eylon Levy @EylonALevy]

This your guy?

When he worked for Hamas, was he off the clock or picking up a wage from Al Jazeera while working for a different employer?

Your investors deserve to know. They cut both paychecks anyway.

[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani calls AIPAC a "monster" that "moves dark money."

No mention of Russia or the Rapid Support Forces in Sudan. I guess they aren't as "bad" as AIPAC is to Mamdani.

Insane.

[Elmo @elmo]

Elmo just wants to set the record straight... ❤️❤️ GO TEAM USA! ⚽

[Han Shawnity 🇺🇸 @HanShawnity]

When even France is like "hey, slow down, you're surrendering too fast," you know it's bad.

[Mor Edge Insight @MorEdge_Insight]

Watch the brutality.
This is Hamas ruling Gaza

⚠️ WARNING: GRAPHIC

Armed thugs openly beating and chasing civilians through a crowded market while a crowd stands and watches like it’s a show. They strike people to the ground, terrorize families and children, and spread raw fear among their own population.

This is everyday life under Hamas. Not defense. Not resistance. Just savage internal repression to keep power.

And this is exactly what much of the world marches for when they chant “From the river to the sea” and wave Palestinian flags. They are cheering on the regime that does this to its own people.

The masks are off. This is the reality.

[KNICKS BEAST @KnicksBeast]

Biggest moment of his life and Brunson went and paid respect before celebrating while the Spurs players walked off the court without shaking hands.

[New York Post @nypost]

Antisemitic Cornell student turns down interview because he's 'not interested in working for a Jew' https://t.co/fGrmTXciXm

[Douglas Alden @AldenCurve]

👇"From the river to the sea"👇

Yup.

[Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib]

The United Nations and Hamas: A Toxic Relationship? A close friend of mine from Gaza City, tortured nearly to death by Hamas, a well‑known activist against the group, and someone I helped evacuate during the war, was featured in the UN Human Rights Council’s report documenting Hamas’s abuses against Palestinian civilians: executions, torture, beatings, the misuse of medical facilities, and the terrorizing of women and children.

When he met with the UN investigation team, one investigator was openly sympathetic to Hamas and the “resistance” narrative, signaling from the start that she doubted his testimony. He then spent five hours convincing the rest of the team that Hamas had, in fact, tortured him, despite extensive evidence of his injuries circulating on social media and a medical examination confirming blunt‑force trauma consistent with organized abuse, not random violence or Israeli bombardment. He even had to walk the investigators, including Ms. pro‑Hamas, through how his case fits into hundreds of others across Gaza, and how Hamas itself has filmed and publicly released its own executions, beatings, and torture to terrorize the population.

Imagine that: Hamas documenting its own crimes on video, and supposedly serious investigators refusing to believe what is right in front of them. Imagine a human rights inquiry that includes someone openly aligned with the very group under investigation. It forces a hard question: why are parts of the UN system so compromised when it comes to Hamas that they cannot think beyond Israel’s actions long enough to examine the crimes of Palestinian actors, crimes that are equally harmful, shameful, and deserving of condemnation? And why are some so eager to believe Palestinians when the accusation is against Israel, yet so reluctant when the accusation is against Hamas, even when the evidence is overwhelming?

[Alex @ajak1033]

The Spurs know how to TAKE the lead, they just don't know how to HOLD the lead. And that's really the most important part of the lead: the holding

[Liza Rosen @LizaRosen0000]

Flashback: A Christian Arab man from Israel triggered pro-Palestinian students at Oxford simply by telling the truth.

He exposed the reality they refuse to accept: Israel is the only place in the Middle East where Jews exist, minorities are safe, and women are free, while under Muslim rule across the Arab-Muslim world women are oppressed, Christians are persecuted, and Jews were ethnically cleansed.