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Conservative Jewish-Orthodox-Haredi (Ultra-Orthodox)-Hasidic (Super-duper Ultra-Orthodox). Love America for it's kindness, hate what the left is doing to it.

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[Bill Maher @billmaher]

People say the left and the right can’t agree on anything these days. But there is this one thing:

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@hartfordcourant Excellent

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@HanShawnity Still hoping this is about the midterms.

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@EWErickson There's nothing coherent about believing totalitarian systems are ever satisfied with their little corner.

[Captain Allen @CptAllenHistory]

“It seems to me that it is entirely proper to start a Zionist state around Jerusalem.”

— Theodore Roosevelt, 1918

Long before the modern State of Israel, one of America’s greatest presidents was a vocal supporter of Jewish restoration.

As a 14-year-old in 1872–73, Roosevelt visited the Western Wall and was struck by the devotion he saw. That trip left a mark. Throughout his life he showed consistent admiration for Jews:

- As NY Police Commissioner, he praised Jewish officers for their “Maccabee-type” bravery

- His Rough Riders included many Jews; the first to die in battle was a 16-year-old Jewish Texan

- As President, he appointed the first Jewish Cabinet member (Oscar Straus)

- He confronted the Russian Czar over the Kishinev Pogrom and donated part of his Nobel Prize to Jewish causes

Roosevelt’s 1918 statement was the culmination of a lifelong view he himself articulated: there could be “no peace worth having” unless the Jews controlled their ancestral homeland.

From John Adams to the 1891 Blackstone Memorial to Teddy Roosevelt — American support for Zionism was mainstream, bipartisan, and rooted in justice long before 1948.

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@alexbruesewitz @TuckerCarlson You're being sarcastic, right?

Perhaps???

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@ajsteelshow I think it's a temporary hiatus until after the midterms.

At least that's my hope.

[Dave Rubin @RubinReport]

Powerful.

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@bethanyshondark @AaronBMacLean Emphasis on "feeling" since it was all lies.

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@NewSamawal My hope is that it's only temporary and that after the midterms we go right back to it.

Iran's continuing intransigence lends credence to this theory.

[Kosher @koshercockney]

Warning ⚠️

Never forget the Ngoshe Massacres.

There’s been an ongoing genocide of Christians in Africa at the hands of Islamic Groups

Candace, Tucker etc. silent.
UN/Media are silent.

While they frame Israel for “genocide” to distract you and these Islamist groups can keep taking swathes of Africa by force without the world noticing.

When in reality Israel is fighting against the same ideology as the people who did this to African Christians.

[John Spencer @SpencerGuard]

“They are killing enormous numbers of civilians…they are targeting one, two, three enemy combatants and in the process killing huge numbers of civilians. @piersmorgan Piers a few minutes later – “If you can’t say exactly how many civilians have been killed in Gaza, what you say about numbers is bull.”

Dear @piersmorgan I tried to explain to you where numbers in the Gaza war (or any war) are going to come from "simply.” But let me type it out so you have a record of it instead of the interruptions and the tactic of just asking the same question over and over while I explain how the numbers work. The same numbers by the way that you used minutes before to criticize Israel and constantly repeat or have guests on that repeat, or more often state not even Hamas numbers but false numbers about xx civilians, xx women, xx children, xx percentages that go beyond Hamas's actual list of casualties.

First, let me correct you again (like I did to start the segment) by providing you my actual quotes:

1 - "Israel and the IDF have implemented more measures (sometimes quoted as precautions) to prevent civilian harm in urban warfare than any military in history,"

That is testable against urban warfare history of any similar situation (mostly attack of defended urban terrain). Israel civilian harm mitigation measure have included advance notification (flyers, phone calls, text messages, voicemails, drones with speakers, tv, radio, social media), safe corridors to include improving roads used for safe corridors in the middle of the war, roof knocking (notifying all residents of a building in advance for evacuations and then using non-penetrating low-yield munitions on top of the building before then waiting to strike), over daily multi-hour pauses in fighting (over 400 days of the 800 days of fighting) to allow civilian evacuations and aid movement, establishing a one-star commanded civilian harm mitigation cell that created a real time civilian presence (using cell phone presence, drones, satellite images, etc.) software reflected on all combat operating systems, handing out their own military maps to the entire population (to include the enemy) and then communicating the location of IDF operations, areas to avoid or further evacuate, using major call outs of buildings and neighborhoods, restrictive rules of engagement based on likely civilian presence, rigorous fires processes and legal reviews that often ended in calling mission off out of civilian harm estimates. Many of these measures have never been attempted, by any military.

2 - "Israel has a lower civilian to combatant ratio than any similar context (war or battle) in the history of urban warfare.” After acknowledging the lack of comparative cases (size of enemy forces (which I asked you about, you don't know), tunnels, density, strategy, tactics, prevention of civilian evacuations) but still doing the simple analysis, in order to provide the evidence for this statement I use the same numbers you and your frequent guests push to condemn Israel. But here:

Q: How do you estimate the number of civilians deaths?

A: Take the number the Hamas Gaza Health Ministry reports (despite that it includes any death in Gaza for any reason or cause (Israel/Hamas/Other terrorists) and has been well documented with inaccuracies (even having to be updated by Hamas of natural deaths, incomplete entries, false entries) and subtract the Israel stated combatant deaths.

The Hamas Gaza Health Ministry claims roughly 72,000 deaths in Gaza. The IDF says it has killed about 25,000-26,000 combatants, a number also reported by President Trump in October 2025. If you subtract 25,000 from 72,000, even using Hamas’s number at face value, you get roughly 47,000 non-combatant deaths, or a bit less than a 2:1 ratio. If you were modest to adjust for natural deaths and Hamas-caused deaths, is likely closer to 35,000–40,000 non-combatant deaths versus 25,000 combatants killed, which puts the ratio closer to 1.5:1.

If you compare 2:1 or 1.5:1 to any numbers we have (in many cases we don’t have) for wars, urban centric wars, contested urban battles they will be some of the lowest ratios (in some cases lowest by far) ever seen despite none of those wars or battles had the context of Gaza. For example:

World War II – 70 million civilians, 20 million combatants, 3.5:1
Korean War – 2.5 million civilians, 90,000 combatants, 27:1
Iraq War – 280-300,000 civilians, 150-200,000 combatants, 1.4:1 to 2:1

But wait, the Gaza numbers are usually aggregated numbers for the entire war, any death ever reported in Gaza.

But if you disaggregate the numbers to specific battles like Rafah, Khan Yunis, Gaza City 2025 for comparison you get different numbers. Based on modest numbers from the Battle of Rafah, the civilian to combatant ratio would be more like 1:100 due to multiple operational variables like the success of civilian evacuations.

Major urban battles (modest comparison of battles with any like variables).

Mosul – 10,000 civilians. Combatant unknown but total estimate in battle 5,000 – 2:1
Manila – 100,000 civilians. Combatants 17,000 – 6:1
Seoul – Unknown/no record of civilian but very likely high ratio based on histories
Mariupol – Unknown/mass graves, estimate 20-22,000 civilians, 3-8,000 combatants - 2.5:1 to 7.3:1

I actually use this discussion about numbers or quote about ratio sparingly despite how many times it has been attribute to me because I know the complexity of casualty counting especially in urban centric wars with combatants that violate the law of war and do not distinguish themselves (uniforms/marking) making determining a body found (if there is a body) or a name reported (such as methods in Gaza) and then classifying that person as was participating in the hostilities (combatant) or not (noncombatant) is beyond just difficult and should always be viewed as questionable. In Mosul, a year after the battle there was not only no agreed upon casualty number, but the Mayor of the city also said there were 40,000 civilian deaths. These numbers are always messy, political, susceptible to manipulation by the different organizations involved.

My point has always been that numbers of casualty reporting in Gaza doesn’t paint the story people routinely push. Actually, the opposite.

Urban warfare is inherently and historically costly against civilians and the infrastructure. All wars involve noncombatant death. The moral, legal requirement is to do proportionality assessments and take feasible steps to prevent excessive civilian harm.

So, using your logic Piers, if you can’t state how many combatants were killed (by Israel, Hamas, terrorist rockets, other terrorists in power struggles) … you can’t say (or allow your guests to say) Israel has killed a “large number of civilians” or “killed a disproportionate number of civilians” like you did in this very interveiw.

You can't spend years saying Israel is killing enormous numbers of civilians and then tell me nobody can estimate civilian deaths so ratios aren't valid. Those two positions can't both be true.

If casualty estimates are reliable enough to accuse Israel, then they're also reliable enough to examine civilian-to-combatant ratios. If they aren't, then they shouldn't be used selectively only when they support one conclusion.

[Mor Edge Insight @MorEdge_Insight]

Senior Hamas leader , Fathi Hammad, openly calls for global slaughter: “We must attack every Jew on the face of the planet! Slaughter and kill them… How much is a Jew’s throat worth? 5 Shekels?”

He boasts of new suicide belt factories and says their sisters are ready to wear them.

This is the eliminationist hatred driving the conflict, not “resistance.” This is what the West wants to legitimize and give a state to. He’s the same guy who openly admitted himself that Palestinians don’t exist and are Egyptian, Saudi and Jordanian.

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@CynicalPublius It would clarify things if we kicked out of MAGA the DSA'ers who are hiding amongst us, such as Tucker and Megyn.

The ball's in your court, Mr. Vice President.

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@JewishWarrior13 I see the 7 Neturei Karta Muslims in Jewish clothing are there.

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@JesseKellyDC You're right but the American people don't have the stomach for it.

Unfortunate but true.

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@JeremyDBoreing Years ago I had an argument if a Holocaust could happen in America. He was convinced it couldn't.

I wonder what he thinks now.

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@Saul_Sadka Thank God

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@Oilfield_Rando The part we on the right won't accept: The MSM might not get as many direct eyeballs as they used too but they still set the narrative for the masses.

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@bonchieredstate The German response to Hitler's initial rise was very similar. "He's a kook who'll get nowhere".....

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⚠️WARNING: GRAPHIC

Hamas, in full uniform, and in broad daylight, torture and shoot Gazans while having it filmed.

They’ve become so emboldened to do whatever they want because millions and millions of idiots march in the streets of the west to cheer for them and support anything they do.

This is what they cheer.
This is the real Gaza.