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אני לא יודע מה יהיה מחר אבל ביחד אנחנו חזקים

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אם תרצו אין זו אגדה

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@RealTweetofMe Excellent point of view.

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@levidavyd Mas Serena…

[Itan Dahan @DahanItan]

האמת, אם הוא יפעל כנציג ציבור אפילו 30% מאיך שהוא מתבטא, מדינת ישראל תרוויח כאן בענק

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@spqr_sulla https://t.co/7XErBYD537

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“The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy them.”
—Thomas Sowell

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https://t.co/kQY2OVkgpZ

[Sulla @spqr_sulla]

Voters want to maximize their own utility by maximizing profit and minimizing costs. They want to feel like good people and they want others to know they are good people, but can't imagine 2nd and 3rd order effects.

Money printing is the solution to an electorate that wants neither higher taxes nor lower spending. They want tax cuts for themselves, but no welfare cuts for what they use (eg. Social Security). Welfare should be cut for everyone except themselves and people they know.

Austerity is evil but so is inflation. Workers are owed high wages, great benefits, and protections for all sorts of things, but also it should be easier to get rid of bad employees.

The economy should be growing at 4% annually, but don't you dare build anything near me or make any noise. I want my neighborhood to stay exactly the same -- forever

Schools should be cheap and high quality, and teachers should be fantastic. They should get rid of al the problem kids, but also they need a 12 step due process for my kid.

We should cut red tape, but also we need to make sure that every new law and business takes into account all stakeholders and minimizes harm and disruption.

Everyone who makes more money than me is a lying snake who got wealthy via cheating and corruption, and everyone who makes less than me is lazy and stupid and therefore doesn't deserve welfare.

Voters hate the images of migrant caravans on the border but they also hate the images of ICE arresting immigrants. They just don't like "scary" images.

They're scared of crime and dysfunction, but promptly forget about it when it's no longer happening.

Trump broke the blue wall in 2016 by promising to bring the jobs back, which costs nothing, but was punished by voters for actually trying to bring them back, which raised prices.

Voters in 2024 repudiated the Left because of inflation. They did the same to the Right in 2026.

If something bad happens, its always the fault of the people in charge, and we should reflexing throw them out.

We need to combat climate change, but also I will personally lead the Revolution if gas prices go above $4 a gallon.

Healthcare should be free, high-quality, and on-demand.

Abortions are wrong except when it affects me, at which point its my human right.

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“The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy them.”
—Thomas Sowell

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עם אחד

[daniel hanuka📟 🇮🇱 @LionsOfZion_ORG]

On the day Menachem Begin passed away, the nation was stunned to discover that, contrary to all expectations, he had requested to be buried on the Mount of Olives, beside the graves of two Jewish underground fighters who had faced the British gallows: Meir Feinstein and Moshe Barazani.

To understand Begin’s final wish, we must travel back 79 years, to the night of the 2nd of Iyar, 5707, in 1947.

It was late at night in the death row cell of Jerusalem’s Russian Compound prison.

Two young men, barely twenty years old, sat inside.

One was Meir Feinstein, an Ashkenazi Jew from Jerusalem.

The other was Moshe Barazani, a Jew of Iraqi descent from Baghdad.

Both had been sentenced to death by the British.

The following morning, they were supposed to be led to the gallows.

But they had other plans.

They had concealed a hand grenade inside an orange.

Their plan was simple: when the guards arrived the next morning to take them to their execution, they would detonate the grenade, taking their executioners with them.

They had decided that if they were going to die, they would not be led like sheep to the slaughter.

They would die as fighters.

In the spirit of Samson’s final words: “Let me die with the Philistines.”

But the day before their scheduled execution, they learned that Rabbi Yaakov Goldman intended to come the following morning to pray with them and accompany them on their final journey.

They realized their plan could put the rabbi’s life in danger.

So they asked him to come earlier, that very night.

They handed him a Bible containing their final messages to their families and asked him to leave the cell and pray in the corridor.

He stepped outside.

And they began singing:

“Adon Olam, Who reigned before any creature was created…”

Barazani held the grenade in his left hand.

Feinstein pressed himself against him.

Chest to chest.

The grenade rested between their hearts.

And there, locked in each other’s embrace, they detonated it before the hangman could reach them.

The explosion shook the entire building.

When the British guards burst into the cell, they found two bodies still joined together.

They could not separate them.

Their embrace had been too strong.

Menachem Begin carried this story in his heart for the rest of his life.

And in 1981, when television entertainer Dudu Topaz mocked the nationalist camp and insulted Jews of Middle Eastern descent, calling them “chachchachim” and lowly gate guards, Begin responded with a speech that would become engraved in Israel’s national memory:

“Our Jews of Middle Eastern descent were heroic fighters!

Feinstein was of European origin, an Ashkenazi.

Moshe Barazani was a Sephardi Jew from Iraq.

On the night before their execution, when the rabbi insisted on accompanying them to the gallows, they refused to endanger him.

They held a hand grenade between their hearts. And pressed!

Ashkenazi? Iraqi?

JEWS! BROTHERS! FIGHTERS!”

This was not merely a political speech.

It was a cry from the depths of his soul.

And when Begin passed away eleven years later, his final wishes included these words:

“My dear Yehiel, when the day comes, I ask to be buried on the Mount of Olives, beside Meir Feinstein and Moshe Barazani.”

Not among the nation’s greatest leaders.

Not in the section reserved for Israel’s founding fathers and national heroes.

But beside two young men, barely twenty years old.

Why?

Because in Begin’s eyes, they represented the very essence of Jewish unity.

An Ashkenazi Jew and an Iraqi Jew who fought together for the freedom of Israel.

And when their final moment arrived, they embraced each other so tightly that even death could not separate them.

Today, 79 years after that night, how many Israelis know who Meir Feinstein was?

How many have heard of Moshe Barazani?

How many have visited their graves on the Mount of Olives?

It is our responsibility, our duty, to ensure that the next generation knows who Feinstein and Barazani were.

To ensure they understand why Menachem Begin insisted on being buried beside them.

Because when we forget Feinstein and Barazani, we also forget what we are supposed to be.

Jews. Brothers. Fighters.

The Ashkenazi and the Iraqi.

Feinstein and Barazani.

Together.

May their memories be a blessing, forever cherished in our hearts. 🕯️

Amichai Eliyahu

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Very very bad ending: the whole world is now Brazil

[Simon Sarris @simonsarris]

so I wondered if rotisserie chickens taxed as prepared foods in states that have prepared foods tax and the answer is IT DEPENDS. In some places if you sell it cold its not, but if you sell it hot, its tax.

we have thermal-modulated food taxes

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Yes

https://t.co/RlGkaRM689

[XochitlMadoka 🪶🏳️‍⚧️🇲🇽 @XochitlMadoka]

i will bring cgp grey to justice

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Man where is cgp grey?!

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@ChiptuneWolf I know right?! He just up and disappeared

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@MerriamWebster Everybody knows ’Tis Autumn. https://t.co/TLufiG9VUX

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@pnwguerrilla I’ve been saying this for a while now—do you know who says “don’t judge a book by its cover”? Designers of ugly book covers!

[Ben Raho 🇪🇺 🚲 @BenAntRaho]

Things in Western Europe will improve when a few hard realities are understood:

1. Europe has no God-given right to be wealthy or stable. Things can & will decline and fall apart if not maintained and adapted to new realities. Things that worked in the 1970s may be counterproductive now.

2. Energy is the basis of the economy. Without it, nothing else matters. While efficiency will be important, any economy where energy is scarce will inevitably be one that struggles

3. Not all cultures are equal. Some create prosperity, some lead to misery, some are outright evil. If Europe doesn't accept this, the cultural basis of its previous success & prosperity will be destroyed forever

4. Have kids, or die out. In the long term, few things matter this much. You can't create a European future if there are no Europeans left for it, and as the experiences of the last few decades show, non-European immigration simply makes Europe culturally less European - and doesn't magically make these people culturally European.

5. The state can not - and should not - save every individual from him/herself from him/her bad choices or ineptitudes. The idea of a nanny state which can ensure that everyone always live comfortably with minimal effort & contributions 100% of time is not feasible. The socialist promises of 30 years of wealthy retirements for everyone and Europe being able to take on endless low skill immigration were lies.

6. If a society has no way for ambitious & creative people to get rich from working hard, everyone will get poorer because of it. The hard truth is that much of our economic future depends on businesses being built & transformed by ambitious & sometimes ruthless individuals. Not everyone is able or willing to do this, and without them, there is no one to employ others and no wealth & growth to tax. But if businesses & wealth are seen solely as an evil force to be taxed into oblivion, they will go elsewhere.

7. In some cases, the best way for society to deal with a criminal is to lock them up and throw away the key. A small percentage of humans are ticking time bombs - low IQs, high aggression potential, psychopathic traits, socialised into criminal structures or a culture of lawlessness. Society can't fix them. They go in and out of court rooms and across Europe states, NGOs & social workers waste billions of hours & Euros to try & fix the unfixable. Not least because of mass immigration from dysfunctional societies, our legal systems & high trust societies built on principles such as the benefit of the doubt & correction via socialisation are overwhelmed by the amount of aggressive young men with no interest to contribute to society.

All of this is fixable. But the first step is accepting reality.

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@ConradMBlack https://t.co/2EYqOCWxim

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The world sees how good we are at fighting but what it doesn’t realize is how much we yearn for peace.

[Eitan Chitayat @EitanChitayat]

I wish more Israelis were aware of just what @EinatWilf brings to the table. I'll try to summarise and hope I get this right.

The Reservists and Economic Party didn’t make it into the Knesset. But their argument is seriously worth considering. If neither current bloc can form a government on its own, maybe it’s time for both to give something up. (I wrote about this yesterday - it's called compromise.)

Their proposal is Likud, Eisenkot, Bennett and Lieberman in a broad Zionist government, without the ultra-Orthodox or Arab parties. Why without them? Because they're not Zionist in that a majority don't recognize the State of Israel even though the majority are citizens. I hope I got that right.

That would mean Netanyahu letting go of his current coalition partners, and his opponents dropping their refusal to sit with him.

The priorities? Military service. Shared responsibility. Zionist education. Ending subsidies that encourage draft avoidance. And a functioning government capable of addressing the country’s fundamental problems, which we need desperately.

You don’t have to agree with every part of that proposal to consider its central question: are we more interested in who becomes prime minister, or what the government actually does?

Food for thought.
Bravo to Einat and her team.

[Yoni Leviatan @songsofyoni]

Here's a video from Israel's first election campaign in 1949 as a reminder that:

1. It's the 10th oldest continuous democracy with full universal suffrage from its first day, including Arab citizens it just fought in war.

2. There have been no military coups, civil wars, emergency governments, suspensions of political or civil liberties, or canceling of elections, surviving even the assassination of a prime minister.

3. It's the only independent democratic state created after WWII to never fall, even temporarily, into some kind of authoritarianism.

4. When you were referring to people living in Palestine pre-1948 you were referring to Jews who were working to reconstitute their state from 2,000 years prior, and succeeded. Big time.

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@joa0rosa Valei-me, padim Moisés

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@AlbertoLage Bom, não era esse. Sabemos quem estava no A320 misterioso?

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Do you understand now why we’ve been yelling the ע-word?

[Israel Now @neveragainlive1]

Moshe Feiglin provides a proper Jewish response to a hostile reporter from Canada

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Do you know who neither charges cleaning fees nor asks you to clean anything up? Hotels. Do I like being told I was an inconsiderate guest (or being threatened with a fine for being one)? No. Where do I like to stay? Hotels.

[Heatherpedia @heatherpedia]

I’m an Airbnb host. I charge a very modest cleaning fee ($50) and I ask guests to leave used beds unmade (not stripped) and to start the dishwasher before they leave. I updated my requests and I was allowed to ask that guests load the dishwasher but not that they run it.