@BenGoldsmith And after Clinton - Olmert offered a Palestinian state in 2008, 93.7 % of the West Bank with land swaps. Abbas didn’t accept it.
Pals have been always very clear- they don’t want any deal but ‘from the river to the sea’. We just need to listen.
May his memory be a blessing.
Now, @UNIFIL_ I want to FIX your MISLEADING post. Here’s how it should read.
A UNIFIL peacekeeper WAS KILLED early this morning from critical injuries sustained when HEZBOLLAH mortar shells struck his position near Marjayoun, southeastern Lebanon.
I met Ben once. We were seated at the same dinner table.
At first, we did not recognise each other. Neither of us had any idea we would end up at the same table.
I asked him where I knew him from. He replied, “Ben, from Ben & Jerry’s.”
I smiled and said, “Nice to meet you. I’m Alex, Deputy Consul General of Israel to the Southeastern United States.”
This was at the height of the Ben & Jerry’s Israel controversy. I decided not to raise politics, out of respect for our gracious host. But I was also biding my time, because I suspected he would not be able to resist bringing it up.
About an hour into dinner, he came over to talk.
I saw it as an opportunity to understand where he was coming from, to explain a few things, and to keep the conversation as civil as possible. And to be fair, it was civil. He was pleasant, curious, and polite.
But quite quickly, I also realised he was completely ignorant about Israel.
He had never visited the country or the region. He had basic facts wrong, not only about the narrative, but about the foundations of the conflict itself: the makeup of the countries involved, the history, and the deeply rooted reasons each side sees the conflict the way it does.
For him, it was simple: there are people who appear oppressed, so someone must be the oppressor.
I do not blame Ben personally. He is a businessman who sells ice cream. Why should he be expected to understand Israel, the Middle East, or geopolitics?
The real problem is with those who treat him as an authority.
The media gives him a pedestal to speak about issues he clearly does not understand. And that is the absurdity of it all: taking an ice cream salesman and presenting him as a voice of moral clarity on one of the most complex conflicts in the world.
@HenMazzig I completely understand him. Visiting Israel, my flight back to London in 2 days and I don’t want to go. I am exhausted to constantly have to explain to my woke friends why Israelis deserve to live. Because under all the layers of disguise, it always comes down to this question.
@Osint613@hey_itsmyturn This phrasing is misleading, as some people will assume it happened today . BA is not flying to Israel for months now. No problem - I took ELAL 💪
On This Day — June 1, 1950
While the ashes of six million murdered Jews were still settling across Europe, one of the chief architects of the Holocaust received a shiny new passport from the International Committee of the Red Cross.
Under the false name Ricardo Klement, Adolf Eichmann — the man who organized the deportation trains to Auschwitz, Treblinka, and other death camps — was handed a ticket to freedom.
He fled to Argentina, lived quietly, worked at a metal factory, and later for a company favored by Nazi-sympathizer President Juan Perón. His family joined him in 1952. For years, he lived openly, unrepentant, while the world moved on.
This was part of the infamous “ratlines.” The Red Cross, elements in the Vatican, and others helped thousands of Nazi war criminals — Franz Stangl (Commandant of Treblinka), Josef Mengele (“Angel of Death”), Klaus Barbie (“Butcher of Lyon”), and many more — escape justice to South America.
Eichmann was finally captured by Mossad in 1960, tried in Israel, and executed on June 1, 1962 — exactly 12 years after that Red Cross passport was issued.
The lesson is clear: When Jews were being hunted and murdered, much of the “civilized” world failed them — and then helped their murderers escape.
This is why Israel must always exist. Jews learned that when the killing starts, “humanitarians” will issue the murderers new passports instead of stopping them.
Israel is the only guarantee that when Jews are hunted, there will be a place for them — and a place that will hunt back.
Andrew Fox says settlements in Southern Lebanon were set up as "forward fighting positions", which means "every single house" has a military connection.
"Everyone can criticise Israel, but no one ever gives them an alternative."
@JuliaHB1 | @Mr_Andrew_Fox
@James_J_Marlow@amandarosephoto The smile of a psychopath. It’s shocking there are maniacs, living among us, that are getting positive emotions by obsessively scrubbing off the posters of innocent children, men and women, hold almost a year in brutal inhumane conditions in captivity.
Piers Morgan disagrees with banning Hasan Piker & Cenk Uygur from entering the UK.
Piers Morgan cheered on Shabana Mahmood for banning Valentina Gomez.
Blatant hypocrisy.
"Are there any Palestinian Muslims inside Palestine advocating for peace?"
An ex-quaker searched far and wide for Palestinians who want and believe in coexistence with Israel.
Here's what he found!
The UN blacklisted Israel for 13 alleged cases of sexual violence in 2025.
But in 2023 alone, the UN logged 758 sexual abuse cases by its own staff.
The same institution prosecuting Israel can't even keep its own "peacekeepers" from preying on those they're meant to protect
This face will forever be the symbol of everything that is horribly wrong in academia today for me.
Apparently, Irene holds a PhD from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, with the thesis “Homophily as a Form of Structuring Social Relations in Catalonia” (2013).
Yep.
🚨 BOMBSHELL: The National Jewish Advocacy Center just SLAMMED the failing @nytimes with a formal shareholder demand for full inspection of their Board and Audit Committee records.
NJAC is demanding every document exposing how top executives greenlit Nicholas Kristof’s vicious blood-libel columns: “The Silence That Meets the Rape of Palestinians” (May 11) and its May 21 sequel.
These grotesque lies were so outrageous that the State of Israel itself threatened defamation litigation.
For years the @nytimes has peddled hateful anti-Israel propaganda disguised as journalism while shredding its own credibility.
Now their own shareholders are demanding answers.
Why is NYT management willing to torch shareholder value just to smear Israel?
And shareholders have the absolute legal right to investigate mismanagement and weak oversight.
@nytimes has 5 business days to show the receipts.
Or get dragged into court.
@PatrickChristys Deranged, confused, insecure creature with broken moral compass, that has finally found ‘the cause’ to nurture self-esteem (and to get out of bed).