Adam Gerol

Husband, father, dog lover, lawyer.

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@lady_valor_07 Enoch

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@Gabriele_Corno Grok thinks it's AI -- so sad ...

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@Mish_K_ That little guy is adorable?!

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@muhammadshehad2 Cell phones were invented in the US, but Israeli engineers and companies made real contributions to later layers of the technology—especially chips, sensors, imaging, and software inside modern smartphones.

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Crowdsourced, real-time navigation: millions of drivers effectively become sensors reporting traffic, accidents, road closures and changing road conditions is an Israel invention beginning with Ehud Shabtai's mapping project in 2006 and then the Waze company with Uri Levine and Amir Shinar.

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@muhammadshehad2 Israeli scientists developed the modern, commercially successful, sweet, long-shelf-life varieties in the 1970s–80s.

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@muhammadshehad2 Israeli company M-Systems developed the first widely recognized USB flash drive, the DiskOnKey, in 1999.

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@voiceofrabbis @POTUS I simply don't understand the anger from the Satmar. Is there no love for their fellow Jew in Israel? Wasn't division among the people one of the reasons for the destruction of the Temple and this 2,000 year exile?

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@Patent8579793B1 @_j0sh_a_ Jews have lived in Israel since Moses brought them home.

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@JoshChambers I preferred him over Love. I wish he was still in Green Bay. Willis could threaten a defense in more ways, and I think he has more of a killer instinct.

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In June 2025 he posted that 1/3rd of Tel Aviv was destroyed. Remarkably assinine as there were any number of people there -- including me -- who could see that there was absolutely nothing behind this claim. Which begs the question: is this grift? Lunacy? Was he always a goof -- and if so - how did he ever get promoted?

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@JameZ1437778 @MaxNordau No, not a Jesuit. He's landed in the English Catholic Church of North America -- whatever that is ... https://t.co/X9W0xW7Vog

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@20nine7teen @AdlerYonatan Except for Terry Gilliam, all of the Python's had incredibly strong academic backgrounds, either Oxford or Cambridge, Chapman and Cleese particularly.

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@Ostrov_A I'm just amazed at the number of trolls that come out in response to a post like this. This isn't discourse at all. Twitter really is pretty useless now.

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This is a picture of Jaffa from about 20 years earlier. The other picture of the founding of Tel Aviv must have been taken some distance north of this photographer. The real history is that Ottoman land owners were only too happy to sell tracts of nonproductive farmland and swamp, later transformed into places now called Tel Aviv, Petach Tikva, Rishon LeZion, Zicharon Yakov ...

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@Hamza_a96 This is a picture of the 'first shovel' of the founding of Tel Aviv, on empty sand dunes -- land purchased north of Jaffa. The next picture offers that perspective.

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Have you forgotten that from 1948 to 1967 the lands now complained of were in Arab hands? That didn't stop them from trying to annihilate Israel though. We could also discuss Rabin and Olmert too, have you forgotten them? Open your eyes. The problem is the existence of a Jewish nation, and forgive the Israelis for not accepting extermination as a solution to your problem.

[Adam Fisher @AdamRFisher]

Never ask someone if they "accept Israel’s right to exist.”

Ask them if they "accept Israel as the homeland of the Jewish people."

The first question is easily dodged by ideologues:

a) "No country has a right to exist," or;

b) "Yes, as a democratic country that doesn't show a preference for any one people or religion."

The second question gets to the heart of the dispute.

For Western anti-Zionists and communists, the objection is to the Jews as a people entitled to self-determination. And the idea of a Jewish State that favors Jews.

So when they say they object to any "ethno-state," ask them whether they similarly reject countries constituted as the national homes of particular peoples, such as Croatia, Turkey, Georgia, Armenia, Greece, Slovakia, Slovenia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Poland, Hungary, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania & Albania.

And when they say they object to any country that shows a "preference for a religion," ask whether they object to the more than 80 countries that either have an official religion or give preferential treatment to one, including the UK, Denmark, Greece, Spain and Argentina. Or the 27 countries that have Islam as their official religion.

When they backtrack a little and say they object to Israel privileging Jewish immigration ask them whether they similarly object to Germany privileging ethnic German immigration, Armenia privileging ethnic Armenian immigration, or Greece privileging ethnic Greek immigration?

When they narrow it down further to objecting to not allowing the descendants of Palestinian refugees to immigrate, ask them whether a similar hereditary right should be granted to the descendants of war refugees from all 20th century wars?

When they change course and say “Israel is an apartheid state,” ask them what rights are denied to Israel’s 2m Arab citizens, who are prominent in medicine, academia, sport and business?

When they shift focus to the West Bank and say Israel shouldn’t rule over West Bank Palestinians without making them citizens, ask them when was the last time Palestinians demanded Israeli citizenship?

Ask them whether they know that more than half of the West Bank Palestinians (1.5 million) live under the non-democratic Palestinian Authority.

Ask them whether they know another 400k Palestinian residents live in East Jerusalem, where they are entitled to Israeli health insurance, National Insurance benefits, education, employment rights, access to Israeli courts, freedom of movement within Israel, and to vote and run in municipal elections.

Yes, Israel and the disputed territories of Judea and Samaria (West Bank) present complicated historical, legal and security questions.

One can criticize and oppose government policies without opposing Jewish self-determination, which since 1948 has been realized in the State of Israel.

Most likely the person you are speaking to really doesn’t like the idea of a Jewish State, but hasn’t yet settled on the reason. When the objection comes first, the rationale is flexible.

[Lior 🪬 @ChaiLife613]

COLONIZATION

Before you tell me to “Free Palestine,” I have a few questions.

Dear Americans, when are you freeing the United States and returning it to its Indigenous peoples?

Dear Canadians, when are you returning Canada to the First Nations?

Dear Australians, when are you giving Australia back to its Aboriginal peoples?

Dear New Zealanders, when are you returning New Zealand to the Māori?

Dear Spaniards, before lecturing Israel about colonialism, when are you giving up Ceuta and Melilla, your territories on the African continent?

Dear Turks, when are you freeing Northern Cyprus?

Dear Moroccans, when are you freeing Western Sahara?

Dear Russians, when are you leaving the Ukrainian territories you invaded?

Dear Chinese activists, when are we discussing Tibet?

Dear Indonesians, when are you freeing West Papua?

Dear British activists, when are you decolonizing Gibraltar, Bermuda, the Falkland Islands, the Cayman Islands, the British Virgin Islands, Anguilla, Montserrat, and the Turks and Caicos Islands?

Dear French activists, when are you freeing New Caledonia and French Polynesia?

Dear Americans, one more time, what about Guam, American Samoa, Puerto Rico, and the United States Virgin Islands?

Dear Danes, have the people of Greenland been asked what they want?

Dear Dutch activists, when are we discussing the remaining Dutch territories in the Caribbean?

Dear Chileans, when are you returning Indigenous lands in Patagonia?

Dear Argentinians, same question.

Dear Brazilians, when are the Indigenous nations of the Amazon receiving their ancestral lands back?

Dear Mexicans, when are you returning Mexico to its many Indigenous nations?

Dear Europeans, when are you returning the land, wealth, and cultural treasures your empires took from Africa, Asia, the Americas, and the Middle East?

Oh, you are not?

Interesting.

Apparently, decolonization is incredibly simple, as long as the only country being dismantled is Israel.

Now, let me make something very clear.

I am not suggesting that modern countries should be emptied of their populations.

That would be absurd.

And that is precisely the point.

History is complicated. Borders are complicated. Almost every country on Earth was shaped by migration, war, conquest, empire, and displacement.

Yet only one people is constantly ordered to “go back” somewhere else, even though we returned to the land where our identity, language, faith, history, and civilization were born.

The Jewish people are not foreign tourists in Judea.

We did not name ourselves after this land.

This land was named after us.

Our kingdoms stood here.

Our language was born here.

Our holiest places are here.

Our history is buried beneath every road.

For two thousand years, Jews prayed toward Jerusalem, mourned Jerusalem, dreamed of Jerusalem, and ended their prayers with the words, “Next year in Jerusalem.”

Then we finally returned to Jerusalem, and suddenly the descendants of empires began calling us colonizers.

The irony would be hilarious if it were not so dangerous.

You may criticize an Israeli government.

You may debate borders, policies, and the future of Palestinians.

But you do not get to erase thousands of years of Jewish history while standing on land shaped by your own country’s conquests.

You do not get to enjoy the outcome of your country’s history while demanding that the Jewish people dismantle theirs.

And you certainly do not get to lecture an Indigenous Middle Eastern people about returning to its ancestral homeland.

So before you shout “Free Palestine” at me, take a quick look at the history beneath your own feet.

Because if your solution to every historical injustice is to dismantle the country that exists there today, then please show us how it is done.

You first.

I’ll wait.
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