Ben Maimon

Someone in a very dark night, over whom lightning flashes time and time again.

[Eli Lake @EliLake]

Maybe it’s just me, but it seems like all these DSA socialists are anti American dirtbags.

[נועה מגיד | Noa magid @NoaMagid]

We lost another hero in Lebanon.

Captain Eitan Shmuel Lemberg, 21, an armor officer in the 75th Battalion of the 7th Armored Brigade.

May his memory be a blessing🕯️

[Andrew Fox @Mr_Andrew_Fox]

Great article.

“ The UN has become one of the most dangerous instruments in modern geopolitics. Authoritarian regimes are using the UN’s prestige to normalise their behavior, conceal their crimes and peddle anti-Western propaganda. It should terrify all of us that the world’s most trusted watchdog has been successfully leveraged as a PR firm for tyrants.”

https://t.co/scgJQ6REmR

[🇮🇱 David Ha'ivri 🤠 دافيد هعفري @haivri]

I am a Zionist. Please repost if you agree.

[Leo Terrell @LeoTerrellDOJ]

Let's make him famous! RT a billion times!

@realDonaldTrump @POTUS @DAGToddBlanche @ASGWoodward

[John Spencer @SpencerGuard]

The misinformation around FY2027 NDAA Section 224 is actually impressive. The hate-filled accounts are banking on you never reading it yourself. No, Section 224 does NOT “fully merge the U.S. and Israeli militaries.” That’s ridiculous. It simply creates an office to better coordinate bilateral tech cooperation, expand joint R&D, and build on existing close ties for the benefit of the U.S. military. Anyone can Google the text. Few actually do. https://t.co/0tjzFz6XlS

[Making Sense Podcast @MakingSenseHQ]

There Was No Famine in Gaza

[HonestReporting @HonestReporting]

“14,000 babies will die in 48 hours.”

That claim didn’t come from a random account online. It came from the United Nations, and major media outlets ran with it.

The problem? It wasn't true.

Presenter: @Erin_Molan

[Adam Louis-Klein @adam_louis52328]

Here’s something I wish millions of people knew. All the academics trying to give legitimacy to the genocide libel know that Israel is not committing genocide under the Genocide Convention. They are completely explicit about this. They openly argue that the legal definition of genocide needs to be discarded, stretched, or reinterpreted, because they know it doesn’t apply to Israel.

If you’ve ever wondered how Israel could be accused of genocide while fighting against a massive army of militans—while Hamas embeds itself in hospitals, schools, and homes—know that they also know this undermines the accusation. But they don’t care. For them, Israel is genocidal simply because it’s a “settler-colonial” state. That’s it. Not intent, not action, not operational context, just ideology. This theory says nothing about intent and nothing about military law.

According to this logic, antizionist militias every right to use guerilla warfare, to hide behind civilians, and to martyr its own population. They bears no responsibility. Everyone pushing the genocide accusation knows it’s not legally true. So when they cite human rights reports or international law, they’re deliberately distorting it, bending it to fit their ideology, hoping no one notices.

Figures like Dirk Moses, Francesca Albanese, Omer Bartov, and Amos Goldberg are part of a small circle doing this openly. They know the contradictions and they admit them among themselves, when they think that no one else is watching.

[Nick Matau @nick_matau]

With the attack on the USS Liberty coming up... as a US Navy veteran, I do not like people using our fallen brothers as a tool to spin their BS narrative like lives are just a tool at their disposal.

Below is one of the greatest debates I have ever seen and Cam dismantles every single talking point that is brought up! If you are someone who cares about the truth, but avoids watching this... you're probably also the same one that I am mentioning above.

[AIPAC 🇺🇸🇮🇱 @AIPAC]

The hypocrisy and double standards are out of control.

When can we expect the Senator to refund the $1.6 million he took from PACs in his last election or denounce the super PAC spending that helped him get elected to the Senate in 2016?

[Wasson Watch Co. @WassonWatch]

"Now do the USS Liberty."

Every time Israel comes up, someone mentions the USS Liberty. Hey, even when Israel is not the topic, people bring it up. A lot of folks see it as some kind of ace-in-the-hole that proves without a shadow of a doubt that Israel is a raging enemy of the United States.

So, yeah, let's talk about the USS Liberty.

The USS Liberty was a US Navy technical research ship, which was sailing in the Mediterranean Sea near the Sinai Peninsula on June 8, 1967, two days after the start of the Six-Day War, in which Israel was attacked by a coalition of Arab states including Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Iraq, and Lebanon (so all of its neighbors). It was mistakenly attacked by Israeli forces, which mistook it for an enemy Egyptian ship. The attack resulted significant casualties for the US Navy, including 34 killed, 171 wounded, and the ship heavily damaged.

Here's the story:

Several days BEFORE the war started, the Liberty was ordered to proceed to the eastern Mediterranean to perform signals intelligence (SIGINT) collection in international waters near the north coast of Sinai, Egypt. They were initially provided an allowable closest point of approach (CPA) of 12.5 nautical miles (NM) from Egypt and 6.5 NM from Israel, but once the war started they sent follow-on messages increasing those distances to 20 and 15 NM respectively, and again later to 100 NM from both countries, BUT DUE TO INEFFECTIVE MESSAGE HANDLING AND ROUTING, THESE MESSAGES WERE NOT RECEIVED UNTIL AFTER THE ATTACK.

So, the USS Liberty sailed right into the middle of a heavy, active war zone because of poor communication. This was a critical, deadly mistake, leading to the opportunity for further mistakes.

Between 0545 and 0940 the Liberty was spotted multiple times by different Israeli aircraft, and was marked on the Israeli Central Coastal Command (CCC) control table. However, the Liberty was on the move, and at 0545 it had started at 70 NM from Gaza, and later it was about 20 NM from Arish (on the northern coast of Sinai). With the movement of the vessel, and multiple hours without any sighting, it was removed from the CCC control board 1100 due to the positional information being considered out of date.

At 1124 it was reported that Arish was being shelled from the sea. This may have been due to exploding munitions that Egyptian forces had set on fire during their retreat.

Israeli torpedo boats and aircraft were dispatched to the area. Multiple reports were sent back about the Liberty, and it was unfortunately not identified as a US vessel at that time, and there were reports about other vessels coming through at the same time, which may have also been mixed up with reports about the Liberty.

Based on the available information, Israeli forces believed the USS Liberty was an Egyptian destroyer. At 1400 two Israeli Mirage III fighter jets were given permission to engage. They strafed the ship with their 30-mm cannons and rockets. In addition to killing as many as 8, and wounding 75, this initial attack unfortunately severed the ships antennas, and knocked down the flag, making accurate identification of the ship even less likely, and slowing the ability of the ship to communicate.

Over the proceeding 90 minutes there were several more attacks from the air and sea, resulting in significant damage to the Liberty and its crew, before the ship was positively identified as the USS Liberty at 1530.

At 1600, two hours after the attack started, and 30 minutes after its conclusion, Israel informed the US embassy in Tel Aviv that its forces had mistakenly attacked a US Navy ship. At 1640 the Israeli torpedo boats (which had been involved in the attack) returned to help, but were refused. Later Israel also provided a helicopter to fly US naval attache Commander Ernest Carl Castle to the Liberty.

Within hours apologies were sent by Israeli Prime Minister Levi Eshkol, Foreign Minister Abba Eban, and charge d'affaires Ephraim Evron to President LBJ. Within 48 hours Israel offered to financially compensate the victims and their families.

This was a tragic incident of friendly fire, which is unfortunately all-too-common in war. Some have suggested over the years that it was an intentional attack by Israel, but there's simply not evidence to support that position, while there is significant evidence to the contrary:

- As soon as Israeli forces positively identified the Liberty, they ceased the attack, and immediately apologized
- Both the US and Israel conducted investigations afterwards concluded the attacks were not intentional
- NSA transcripts later showed that the Israeli personnel communicating about the ship believed it was Egyptian
- The attack happened while Israel was being attacked by multiple enemies, and was literally defending its very existence, which meant decisions had to be made quickly without all of the available information

One point some have made is that survivors of the attack felt like it was intentional. And that's their prerogative. Getting shot at doesn't feel good. It feels intentional, whether it is or not. In the instance where the USS Liberty was getting shot at, at that point it was intentional in the sense that the Israeli forces did not know they were American, but believing them to be Egyptian, they were trying to kill them. But the fact is, many people who experience friendly fire report feeling it is intentional.

And as I mentioned previously, friendly fire events are all-too-common. Here are just a few you might not be aware of:

1. Operation Cobra, Normandy, July 25, 1944 (World War II) - USAAF Eighth Air Force bombers mistakenly bombed US positions near Saint-Lo, France, killing 111, and wounding 490.
2. Gulf War, February 26-27, 1991 (Operation Desert Storm) - Multiple friendly fire incidents occurred resulting 35 Americans killed, 9 British killed, and 72 Americans/22 British wounded across 17 ground and 10 air incidents. One notable incident involved a US A-10 firing Maverick missiles on British armored vehicles.
3. Sicily Campaign, July 11, 1943 (World War II) - US anti-aircraft gunners fired on a formation of US C-47 transport planes carrying paratroopers of the 82nd Airborne Division, downing several aircraft, and killing between 23 and 37 troops (estimates vary), and wounding at least 60.

War is Hell, and friendly fire is part of that Hell. Multiple errors led to the USS Liberty being attacked, but the biggest was the failure in communication that resulted in the Liberty sailing right into the middle of an active warzone. That error cannot be underplayed.

However, the USS Liberty incident is a far cry from the "headshot" argument for why Israel is an evil enemy of the United States. Using it as such as frankly childish. It's baseless. And it's quite easily refuted if you simply look at what happened and weigh the evidence rationally.

Haters will read this and call me a "Zionist Shill" who "got the phone call" and on, and on, and on, but the truth is I just care about the truth. And no amount of baseless insults will ever change that.

SOLI DEO GLORIA

[Israel ישראל @Israel]

Guess we have to be captain obvious

[Judea Pearl @yudapearl]

I'll be interviewed on @MomentMagazine about:
Robots Who Pray and Other Pressing Jewish Questions of Our Time 

Thursday, June 4 at 1pm, ET / 10am, PT

A wide-ranging conversation about my new book, Coexistence and Other Fighting Words:  Other topics include: Can an atheist still find meaning in Jewish practice? Why do rituals and tradition continue to matter in a technological age? And if artificial intelligence becomes more human-like, might robots one day adopt rituals of their own? We will also address Zionophobia, Jewish identity, ethics, technology, and the future of coexistence in an increasingly polarized world. In conversation with Moment Editor-in-Chief Nadine Epstein.

[Insurrection Barbie @DefiyantlyFree]

Over 90% of the 11 million Muslims killed between 1950 and 2007 were killed by fellow Muslims. Of all conflict deaths in that period, Arab-Israeli fighting accounts for just 0.06%.

The Arab world has used Palestinian suffering as a political weapon for 75 years while treating actual Palestinians with contempt, expulsion and massacre whenever they became inconvenient. That is the story nobody tells.

Whether it’s Jordan, Lebanon, Kuwait, or Syria.

[Mr. Gbenga 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 @PopoolaAyomiku2]

I make NO apologies for my support of Israel 🇮🇱 , the Persian 🇮🇷 people, and Ukraine 🇺🇦 ,  Period!

[Gad Saad @GadSaad]

Watch how the peacefully colonized green area is being bullied by the Zionist red dot. The red dot is clearly winning the expansionist land grab.

[Haim gozali @HAIM__GOZALI]

Friends, our guy Shimon got Sean Strickland to apologize and understand that you don’t talk to Israelis like that.

Great job, Shimon. Much respect.

This coming Friday, Shimon will be fighting in the Tuff-N-Uff organization in Las Vegas. Show our Shimon some love, support, and give him a follow. 💪

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[Kosher Chutzpah @KosherChutzpah]

Hamas CAN'T kill all Israelis, but it DOES want to.

Israel CAN kill all Palestinians, but it DOESN'T want to.

[Ted Cruz @tedcruz]

Yes, Nazis have a long history of really, really disliking Jews.