I want to start a serious thread. Name a non-fiction book (or two) that was transformational to your thinking. Of course, some will say books like the Bible, but this is a chance to crowd source fresh ideas. I will drop a few throughout the day, but I want yours. Let's do this.
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The Emperor of Ocean Park is an excellent series on MGM+. The book by Stephen L. Carter is one of my favorites. And the sequel, New England White, was equally as good.
‼️ THINGS HAVE ESCALATED ‼️
The Tentifada rioters have now BREACHED the UChicago Institute of Politics, barricaded themselves inside, and spray painted security cameras so that they can’t be filmed.
UCPD is on standby, unable to shut this down until UChicago admin makes the call.
President Alivisatos, it’s time to take action. You need to quash this! @PaulAlivisatos
This was Shani Louk.
Kidnapped by Hamas terrorists on October 7th, her body was only recovered today.
Shani was tortured, raped, and beaten before being murdered and dragged round the streets half-naked as a “trophy” and an example of what would happen to other Israelis.
They broke her legs.
They shot her in the head.
They brutalised and defiled her.
All because she was Jewish.
Hamas kept her body as a token and bargaining chip for months, denying her a proper burial and keeping her family in constant torment over their daughter’s resting place.
Hamas even called her mother and pretended that she was alive, only to reveal that she had been killed along with over 1,200 other innocent Israelis.
She was just 22 years old.
The only way they were able to identify her was by a fragment of her skull.
Shani didn’t need to die, and yet Hamas slaughtered her and hundreds of others for no other reason than that they view Jews — and anyone else who doesn’t subscribe to their ideology — as sub-human.
Israel respected the ceasefire.
Israel gave territory for Palestinian use.
Israel wanted peace.
Hamas didn’t.
And, through the many previous instances of conflict involving Palestine, it was the Palestinian movement that served as aggressors. Even against third party states who took them in.
Jordan remembers Black September.
Kuwait remembers how the Palestine Liberation Organisation aligned with Saddam Hussein and assisted him in the 1990 Iraqi Invasion of Kuwait.
Lebanon remembers how, when they took in the Palestinians, the PLO massacred Christian civilians, seized control of large areas of Lebanon, and started a civil war.
Palestine’s history is a complex one.
But there is a reason why so many Middle Eastern countries distrust Palestine, and their betrayal of the kindness offered by one-time allies has cast a dark shadow on their relations with much of the non-Islamic world.
The Pro-Palestine crowd want to paint Israel as the villains in this war, but they conveniently “forget” how it started.
So, to those in the West who support Hamas’ actions and believe that they are simply “fighting for Palestine” :
They would do to you what they did to Shani, and they wouldn’t think twice.
So, when you think of the Gaza War, try to look past the anti-Semitic propaganda and remember who really started this war.
Because it wasn’t Shani.
It wasn’t Israel.
It was Hamas.
.@antonioguterres didn't care when
🇰🇭 1.5 million were killed in Cambodia
🇷🇼 Half a million were killed in Rwanda
🇸🇾 Half a million were killed in Syria
But when his Hamas friends are killed, he considers it “the deadliest conflict” in his time.
“He hugged me and said ‘Grandma I'm completely alone.’”
– Grandmother of 13 year old Ariel Zohar, whose parents, sisters and grandfather were murdered on October 7. They were found lying in a bed, hugging one another and riddled with bullets.
For the 3rd time Race Hustling Liar @normfinkelstein has turned down a gigantic legitimate opportunity to debate Me.
Norm Finklestein is a self hating con man & I would literally end his career
Imagine an encampment movement with a viewpoint that offends the students and faculty of Columbia University. Does anyone think there would have been a delay in shutting down the encampment?
Special treatment for Anti-Israel encampments is not free expression.
It is selective enforcement and viewpoint discrimination—the enemies of free expression.
When the United States signals that American support for Israel is waning, what message does that send to Iran, Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis?
Does it deter Israel’s enemies? Or does it embolden them?
The answer? It emboldens Hamas to delay the release of the hostages.
Yes!!!
The NAKBA was trying to destroy ISRAEL 10 hours after it was announced as a State.
The NAKBA aka the Catastrophe is still not accepting ISRAELS right to exist!
I wish everyone could see the 47 minutes of unimaginable violent footage from 10/7.
I wish everyone was forced to watch it uninterrupted, so they can truly grasp what happened on 10/7.
@visegrad24 repost 🎱
Breaking: 450,000 civilians have been evacuated from Rafah and IDF tanks are advancing toward the center of the city.
Biden, you don’t scare us. 🇮🇱🇮🇱
“Don’t threaten us with cutting off your aid. It will not work. I am not a Jew with trembling knees. I am a proud Jew with 3,700 years of civilized history.
Nobody came to our aid when we were dying in the gas chambers and ovens. Nobody came to our aid when we were striving to create our country. We paid for it.
We fought for it. We died for it. We will stand by our principles. We will defend them. And, when necessary, we will die for them again, with or without your aid.”
- Menachem Begin to a senator named Joe Biden, June, 1982
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30 out of 7,000 students walked out.
That’s 0.43%.
Why does the media habitually platform this fringe?
Guaranteed coverage is the nicotine to the pup tent campus intifada and Hamas salutes them all.
Has anyone seen @SenSchumer?
Himself being Jewish, he's gone missing after the violent antisemitic protest in US campuses, and is still missing after Biden's arms embargo on Israel.
No comment, no condemnation, nothing. Where is he?