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[Ariel @Ariels__X]

@MarioNawfal Tucker qatarlson lying again, aw shocker

[FBI Rapid Response @FBI_Response]

This is utterly and COMPLETELY FALSE!

[Nick Matau @nick_matau]

God bless the IDF 😏 - look at these vastly different cultures...

Now commence crashout in comments 👇

[Nick Matau @nick_matau]

Show this video to anyone that asks "What Does America Get Back From Israel?"

I am actually someone who pushes to get out of the $3.8 Billion/yr aid MOU package to Israel. I want to see a more give and take innovation partnership, where we don't force or restrict Israel in certain aspects, which will enable them to innovate even more. Then, we can buy from them as friends and they can buy from us. Certain leaders, like Biden, used the existing deal to restrict Israel into doing what he wanted. That isn't true friendship.

However, just because I advocate for a new type of partnership that reflects the accurate friendship we have, doesn't mean that people don't need to be called out for implying that "America doesn't get anything from Israel," because we get a lot from them!

[StopAntisemitism @StopAntisemites]

🚨 According to the Detroit News, Michigan Senatorial candidate Abdul El-Sayed’s former staffer is as one of the 8 indicted by the DOJ yesterday on terror-related harassment charges.

El-Sayed previously campaigned with a man who said America deserved 9/11.

[StopAntisemitism @StopAntisemites]

Meet L.A.-based resident Dylan Keese-Forster.

Dylan thinks it’s ok to cut down the Israeli flag at a private eatery, climbing on top of the bar to do it.

This brazen vandalism and hate should never be tolerated.

[Dumisani Washington @DumisaniTemsgen]

Dear young people,

Don’t let these political pundits and professional propagandists fool you. In the eyes of everyone not indoctrinated, the Iranian regime faced down the most powerful military in the history of the world (the US), and not only survived but remain in power. Once again, the world just became an even more dangerous place. Weakness only invites more terrorism and violence, and they’re on the way.

Love,
Pastor Dumisani

[Dumisani Washington @DumisaniTemsgen]

It’s not rocket science.

The Iranian regime is still in power because that’s what the Muslim Brotherhood (Turkey, Qatar, Pakistan) wants.

Trump got in bed with the Muslim Brotherhood ✈️ 💰 🏨

Hence, Trump’s version of Obama’s #IranNuclearDeal.

[John Spencer @SpencerGuard]

What does America get for $3.8 billion in military aid to Israel?

Short answer: economic, security, military, innovation, and strategic returns.

Long answer:

• Jobs: American jobs and manufacturing.
• Industry: A stronger U.S. defense industrial base.
• Intelligence: Information that helps prevent attacks against Americans and U.S. interests.
• Technology: Combat-proven military technologies.
• Laboratory: Access to one of the world's most active laboratories for modern warfare.
• Lessons: Battlefield lessons without paying for them in American blood.
• Innovation: A defense innovation ecosystem benefiting both countries.
• Ally: A capable ally helping deter common adversaries and maintain regional stability.
• Strategy: Greater freedom to focus on competition with China in the Indo-Pacific while preserving a favorable balance of power in the Middle East.

Full answer: Read the article.

[Amit Segal @AmitSegal]

What made Iran bold enough to strike Israel directly?

The answer is Trump. Tehran may not field a first-class air force or navy, but they possess the absolute best detection equipment in the world for one specific signal: a lack of willingness to fight. For years, Hamas and Hezbollah detected this exact hesitation in Israel and exploited it to gain ground. Today, Iran is doing the exact same thing to the United States. It comes down to the old idiom: give them an inch, and they’ll start firing at a mile of your sovereign territory.

Two months of projected American weakness and a blind obsession with securing a deal have brought us straight to this moment. The collapse started when Washington chose to look the other way during Iranian missile and drone launches in the Gulf. It accelerated every time the U.S. conceded ground just to keep Tehran from abandoning the talks, culminating in the immense pressure to hold Israel back from striking Beirut and the forcing of a hasty, fragile “ceasefire” in southern Lebanon. Tehran smells the desperation and knows exactly what the U.S. is terrified of losing. As an advisor to Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei phrased it: “In the bombing in Beirut, the enemy set the negotiating table on fire for the third time.”

So far, it seems Iran guessed correctly. Overnight, Trump went on Fox News with a message for Tehran: “You’ve shot your missiles, that’s enough, get back to the table and make a deal.” In so many words, Trump is simply repackaging Joe Biden’s infamous April 2024 warning to Iran: “Don’t.” Judging by the multiple, separate ballistic barrages launched from Iranian territory this morning, it promises to be just as effective.
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[Israel Hayom English @IsraelHayomEng]

How Hezbollah's Oct. 7 was foiled at the last moment
https://t.co/1YIuqIwjpD

[Amit Segal @AmitSegal]

EXCLUSIVE: According to a very senior official on the PM’s team on the late-night Netanyahu-Trump call, the Axios report is inaccurate. Trump did not make personal remarks about jail or claim Netanyahu is hated globally.

​Instead, the tense call focused on conflicting social media posts: Trump felt Netanyahu implied the war was continuing at full intensity, while Netanyahu felt Trump implied a total ceasefire.

​Trump did note that defending Israel’s global position is difficult and breeds hatred. Ultimately, the call ended with an understanding: Israel will hold off on striking Beirut as long as it is not attacked within its own borders.

[Amit Segal @AmitSegal]

The American pro-Palestinian activist @lsarsour will not be allowed to enter Israel:
The Ministry of Diaspora Affairs, under the direction of Minister Shikli, imposed a ban on her entry into the country in light of her activities in support of the boycott of Israel, divestment efforts, and demonstrations against Israel following the October 7 massacre.

[UN Watch @UNWatch]

BREAKING: Author of U.N. report placing Israel on sexual violence blacklist admits she has not personally viewed any evidence. “I made it clear to Israel I would not visit any detention facility, even if offered. It's not the responsibility of my office to do any verification.”

[Hillel Neuer @HillelNeuer]

Bombshell UN Watch report exposes Chair of the U.N. Human Rights Experts, George Katrougalos, who took $100,000 from China and then spread propaganda praising Chinese dictator Xi Jinping. He flew recently to Iran to help the regime. He's also cozy with Cuba, Russia, Venezuela.

[Hillel Neuer @HillelNeuer]

“It's not the responsibility of my office to do any verification.”
— Author of latest U.N. report blacklisting Israel, signed by Guterres

[Dr. Brian L. Cox @BrianCox_RLTW]

I am not a Jew. But as a professor of international law & retired military lawyer who studies how distorted legal rhetoric is used to justify hate & violence directed against Jews, you are 💯 mistaken to believe your safety "as Jewish New Yorkers" is "inextricably intertwined with Palestinians."

I am not progressive, either. But based on your comments in this clip & my background with the study mentioned above, I do have a few tips you should consider exploring if you are genuinely concerned with your safety as a Jewish New Yorker.

Spoiler alert: these tips have absolutely nothing to do with Palestinians - at least, not directly.

1. Stop blaming @Israel for what you refer to as "the utter destruction of Gaza."

First of all, #Gaza isn't "utterly destroyed" to begin with. There are absolutely areas that are currently uninhabitable due to the conflict. But it's not all of Gaza. This perception has been carefully curated by influencers showing isolated clips of select destroyed areas while giving the false impression that this visualization represents the entire Strip.

It doesn't. If you think otherwise, do yourself a favor & find/follow accounts like @GAZAWOOD1 that present clips of videos that are posted from people living inside Gaza right now.

If you believe Gaza is utterly destroyed, educate yourself. You are being played, and only you can stop it.

Second, learn at least something about international law. Like this.

You criticize your opponent @RepDanGoldman for supporting "unconditional aid to Israel" (Ilana Glazer's words) "even despite Israel's utter destruction of Gaza" (your words).

Here, you are actually supporting strategic objectives of literal terrorists whose only goal is the utter destruction of Israel. #Hamas committed the atrocities of 10/7 to provoke a large-scale armed conflict in order to derail normalization between 🇮🇱 & select Arab countries.

Their best shot at getting away with it was for sympathetic partisans throughout the West - such as yourself & Ilana Glazer - to convince Israel's traditional closest partners & allies to restrict military aid & pressure Israel into implementing a ceasefire as early as possible. Doing so would ensure Hamas could survive to continue in a governance role in Gaza after the conflict.

And the way to convince Iran's useful idiots, such as yourself, to pressure Western governments to restrict military aid is to manipulate the language of international law to make it seem that these countries are failing to comply with their own legal obligations or even "complicit" in systemic "war crimes" by failing to condition or restrict aid.

It's a hoax, and it always has been. Determining whether a war crime has been committed requires evidence of the knowledge & intent of personnel responsible for each attack at the time. If you don't believe me, study this highlighted excerpt of the Rome Statute (pic 1).

Yes, neither 🇮🇱 nor 🇺🇸 have ratified this multilateral treaty. But the main war crimes provisions in Article 8, as well as the mental element/mistake of fact provisions of Articles 30 & 32, are consistent with our military doctrine. And guess what evidence you need, pursuant to this doctrinal source, to determine a war crime has been committed.

That's right! If a war crime involves "intentionally directing an attack against" civilian persons or property, and "intent" means "awareness that a circumstance exists," and the "circumstance" is the civilian (not taking direct part in hostilities) character of the person/object attacked, then we require evidence demonstrating personnel responsible for each attack were aware of the civilian character of the target at the time & they attacked it anyway.

Any guesses what you can't determine just from looking at "utter destruction" in a battlespace? Right again! Knowledge & intent of personnel responsible for each attack at the time that led to that utter destruction.

Maybe - just maybe - a transnational terrorist organization committed one of the most horrific atrocities in living memory then deliberately hid & fought among its own civilian population in the ensuing large-scale armed conflict it decided to provoke. And maybe they hid IEDs in every structure they could so that @IDF troops clearing the area successfully capturing it would still continue to perish. And maybe that is cumulatively the reason for the "utter destruction of Gaza."

News flash: that is exactly the cause of most of the destruction in Gaza. And because that's the case, there is no obligation to condition military aid to Israel. No clear risk of systemic war crimes being committed with arms supplied to Israel (🇺🇸 hasn't ratified the Arms Trade Treaty, but we have a similar process for determining whether to provide military aid nonetheless) means no requirement to condition aid.

The reason the language of international law is routinely distorted in this manner, btw, is to convert a policy argument into what appears to be a legal one. A "should" to a "must."

But if you believe 🇺🇸 is failing to abide by its international law obligations by providing military aid to 🇮🇱, once again you are being played. Stop.

2. Stop perpetuating the "genocide" blood libel.

As you criticize Dan Goldman for supporting "unconditional aid to Israel," along with the "utter destruction" nonsense you also say he does so, "Even despite Israel's utter destruction of Gaza, which I consider a genocide" (emphasis added).

There are a lot of people nowadays who believe Israel is responsible for genocide in Gaza. But all of you who do simply demonstrate you don't understand what "genocide" actually is.

See, if we start with the doctrinal definition from the Genocide Convention, we see that this crime of crimes is committed by engaging in enumerated acts (not pictured) "with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such" (pic 2, especially red highlight).

Guess what doesn't qualify as a "national, ethnical, racial, or religious group". Right! Terrorist groups like Hamas.

And take a wild guess which group IDF ops in Gaza intend to destroy. If you said "Palestinians," you are, once again, just another of Iran's useful idiots. If you said "Hamas," give yourself a pat on the back.

The stated intent, from the very beginning of Swords of Iron all the way until today, has been to: 1) eliminate the enduring security threat posed by Hamas; and 2) repatriate all hostages. If you're not sure about that, I invite you to review these excerpts from public remarks provided by @IsraeliPM @netanyahu in October 2023 (pic 3) & October 2025 (pic 4). Slightly different wording, same intent.

Yes, I've heard the argument too many times to count now that most major "human rights" orgs & a number of "genocide scholars" & a UN commission of inquiry & even a handful of countries have all determined Israel is responsible for genocide. But they ALL use the same flawed methodology, and so their conclusions are also irreparably flawed.

That is, they ALL begin with a few specimens of political rhetoric from various Israeli officials, most of which are misrepresented or taken out of context to begin with, to establish the requisite "intent." Then they take an equally selective collection of "evidence" - much of which is from untrustworthy or unreliable sources anyway - to establish the enumerated acts to go along with the purportedly genocidal intent.

It is, once again, a hoax. Not a single one starts with the actual stated intent (eg pics 3 & 4 attached here) then takes a balanced, unbiased approach to assessing whether actions actually observed in the battlespace are consistent with the intent to destroy Hamas or, instead, to destroy Palestinians in whole or in part as such.

If you do that - if you understand the correct methodology & you apply it rigorously - there is only one conclusion: Israel is not committing genocide in Gaza, nor has it ever.

It doesn't matter what "you consider" it. You are being played, because you are ignorant. Stop, by educating yourself.

3. Stop blaming "Trump and Netanyahu for setting the Middle East on fire."

Do you know who actually set the Middle East on Fire? Terrorists like Nasrallah, Deif, Sinwar, and the Ayatollah Khamenei, along with the militaries & proxies armed groups they led. And they did so on 10/7, once again, simply to derail normalization.

In doing so, these literal terrorists demonstrated that the status quo of appeasement & diplomacy in pursuit of peace in the Middle East & a two-state solution was no longer tenable. Tbh that approach wasn't tenable for quite a while - but 10/7 proved that to be the case.

And now Trump & Netanyahu are the two world leaders with both the intestinal fortitude & the resources to establish a new status quo. That's what Swords of Iron & Rising Lion & Midnight Hammer & Roaring Lion & Epic Fury have been all about - achieving a new status quo after the aforementioned literal terrorists actually (literally) set the Middle East on fire.

The only way to successfully achieve a new, acceptable status quo is through force of arms - not arms embargoes. If you believe otherwise, you are being played. Stop it. Open your eyes & educate yourself.

Okay, those are three suggestions for specific actions you can take to help improve your safety as New York Jews. The same goes for Jews really throughout the West.

Because here's the thing. Your safety as Jews in the West has absolutely nothing to do with Palestinians. It has everything to do with countering the false narratives - primarily involving misrepresentations of international law - that are being used to justify hate & attacks against Jews.

It doesn't matter how much you try distance yourself from Israel, or zionism, or Bibi, or Trump. That won't stop some crazed lunatic from pulling a gun on you or siccing his dog on you or driving his car into your synagogue or throwing bricks at your head or any other number of seemingly random & horrific attacks against Jews we've seen escalate in the West since 10/7.

G-d forbid any of these or other acts of violence ever happens to you or someone you love. But if it does, recent experience suggests the perpetrator - and his supporters afterward - will accuse you of supporting genocide & war crimes just for being Jewish.

Because Jews are being regarded as proxies for Israel, and Israel is being regarded as a proxy for zionism, and Hamas doctrine justifies the "struggle" against the "Zionist entity" known as the State of Israel.

I've heard the term "self-hating Jew" be directed toward folks like yourself. Oftentimes you're referred to by the term "As-a-Jew." @GadSaad would probably diagnose you with suicidal empathy.

Regardless of whether any of those descriptions apply, as someone who specializes in international law I can definitively affirm you are both ignorant & naive.

If you're concerned about your safety as a Jew, stop perpetuating the lies & distortions that are - unfortunately - putting you most at risk. Stop blaming Israel & @AIPAC & conservatives like Netanyahu & Trump for ... well, everything in the Middle East & at home in New York.

Learn how to push back, with precision, against the false narratives that are being used to justify hate & violence directed against the Jewish population. This is the most effective direction you can take if you are genuinely concerned about your safety as a Jew.

[Eitan Fischberger @EFischberger]

The UN just "blacklisted" Israel for sexual violence. So I read the report.

Not only does it fail spectacularly at proving systematic sexual violence against Palestinians, it actually makes a far more compelling case for the UN's own systematic dishonesty and incompetence 🧵

[David M Friedman @DavidM_Friedman]

More likely: At some point every Holocaust museum will be forced to include an exhibit showing how big an industry has been developed, and how much money has been made, by corrupt pundits publicly denying or minimizing the Holocaust.

[Eitan Fischberger @EFischberger]

America's nonprofit sector is broken — and terror networks know it. Time for systemic reform.

According to @SwipeWright, @JayCollinsFL, and NCRI's Joel Finkelstein, the secretary-general of Palestinian Islamic Jihad was simultaneously serving as a board trustee of an American 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Documented in Florida state filings.

Ramadan Abdullah Shallah led PIJ for over two decades. FBI Most Wanted. U.S. Treasury Specially Designated Terrorist. And a formal director of the Islamic Community of Tampa (the Al-Qassam Mosque) incorporated under Florida law in 1992.

Sami Al-Arian, listed as registered agent, was later convicted of conspiring to support PIJ and identified by federal investigators as its North American leader.

After federal prosecutions exposed this institutional structure, the network simply rebranded. New names. Same people. Same mission.

Hatem Fariz, who pled guilty to conspiring to provide material support to PIJ and was released from federal prison in 2010, became director of the rebranded mosque.

He now chairs the board, serves as development director, and holds the treasurer role at the Coalition for Civil Freedoms, a 501(c)(3) that provides monthly stipends to Muslim prisoners accused of terrorism offenses.

America is long overdue for systemic nonprofit reform.

501(c)(3) status should not be a revolving door for individuals with terrorism convictions or Treasury designations to reconstitute the same networks under new letterhead