Gideon Myers

Mancunian (the red half!). עם ישראל חי 🇮🇱

[Gideon Myers @GideonMyers]

On United We Stand podcast (12:56) with the legend that is @AndyMitten. Great experience and pleasantly surprised that it wasn't cringe. Perhaps I should change careers!

[Andy Mitten @AndyMitten]

New United We Stand podcast from Cadiz and Seville. Enjoy.
https://t.co/9PH3sZDbrR

[Amit Segal @AmitSegal]

A Shayetet 13 officer's letter from Nir Oz, written in the hours after October 7, released today:

The silence that wrapped the kibbutz's sloping lawns will not deceive us. This is not the silence of tranquility; it is the silence that comes after a storm.

We crossed the kibbutz in a combat column, passing charred and shattered cars, beneath burnt trees and along the paths between burning houses.

Everything is quiet; there aren't even birds. Only the light breeze carries the smell of the fire and its sounds toward us and far away from here.

One single question runs through our heads: what in God's name happened here?!

The first encounter with the slaughter threw us 80 years back. Is this a Holocaust?

Before us stands a burnt, still-burning house. We struggle to get inside in case someone might still be saved, but the smoke and suffocation won't let us breathe, not even for a minute.

The house no longer has walls or doors; it is one great hollow.
Only the safe room door still stands in its place, charred, slightly bent and riddled with bullets.
It locks the horror behind it, as if asking us to let it guard the loss inside forever.
We tear off the shutter, break open the heavy safe room window and smash the last pane of glass separating us from death.
The children lie on the small beds, blonde twin girls with wavy, flowing hair that is still soft and gentle.
On the second bed lies their little brother, sweet and innocent, the stem of his life wilted all at once.

They look as if they are sleeping, all of them. But the soot on their faces bears witness to an eternal sleep.
The parents lie on the floor; they too are sleeping.
They were shot, apparently by the bullets that pierced the heavy door as they defended it and blocked it with their bodies so the murderers could not get in.

A beautiful family, a family of the people of Israel.
We carried them outside, a whole family.
We laid them close to one another so they would not be separated, on the soft, tender lawn of their home, the same lawn where they played and built their family in faith. Faith in the people of Israel.
We covered them with blankets from their home and stood before them in silence.
The sights are too hard to take in, but there is no choice; after all, this is the first house.
This was our first hour in Kibbutz Nir Oz.
One hour out of 36.
Slowly we pieced together the fragments and scraps of information that helped us rescue the remaining kibbutz members, who, true to their name, are people of great courage.
They already understand what has happened.
They already understand that their sons and daughters, their parents and their friends are on the other side of the fence, alive or no longer alive.
But they cannot break. Not here, not now, because those who did survive are here beside them.
The elderly, parents and children sleep together on the floor of the kindergarten, which became our defensive stronghold for the night.
Packed against one another until the wrath has passed.

At dawn a pillar of fire began rising to the sky, as a blaze the murderers had set hours earlier in the kibbutz's veteran factory came back to life and darkened the minutes of sunrise for us, as if to say: this is no day for the light of the sun.
We, the ones in uniform and carrying weapons, gathered behind the kindergarten.
We evacuated all the wounded.
The rest of the residents we must get out of here, and the sooner the better.
But our dead—who will gather them? And take them where?
This is a mission you don't read about in books, don't learn in training, don't practice in drills.
Not at this intensity.
Several fighters take off their vests; the rest of the fighters escort them as security.
We began the sacred work, dozens of acts of sacred work.
From south to north, we went through every house we had marked the night before where we had identified a fallen person. We gathered them all.
Parents and children.
Brother beside sister.
Young couples and older couples.
An old man who shielded his wife with his body at the entrance to the safe room, yet she too lies inside, without breath of life.
An old man who did not make it to the safe room from his mobility scooter, which lies outside his home.
Another old man, and another old man.
They spared no one. Some of them they even abused, unleashing their wickedness and their lust for Israeli blood.
We gathered them all.
"Who shall live and who shall die,
who by fire,
who by sword,
who by beast,
who by earthquake,
who by strangling,
who by stoning,
who shall be tormented."

In the afternoon, light rose in our souls as we led the kibbutz residents to the convoy of buses that had come to take them somewhere safe, far from their home that had become a slaughterhouse.
The look in their eyes and the few words they spoke reminded us, amid a storm of emotions and tear-filled eyes:
"So shall You pass, count, number and consider the soul of every living thing."
Forgive us, Tamar, Yonatan, Arbel, Shachar and Omer of the Kedem Siman Tov family, and the dear families and residents of Kibbutz Nir Oz.
Forgive us for not reaching you in time.
May their memory be a blessing.
"We will not forget, and we will not forgive."
Shayetet 13 fighters
Maj. A.

[Gideon Myers @GideonMyers]

@MeteoGib_ Thanks!! The current spell seems like a record! Anyway, let's all enjoy the poniente while it lasts

[Niall Ferguson @nfergus]

Looking forward to attending my first ever @Conservatives party conference this week. I repeated my reasons for backing @KemiBadenoch in a new Telegraph article.

[Captain Allen @CptAllenHistory]

The Palestinians have rejected a state of their own more times than any national movement in modern history.

1937 — Peel: a Jewish state on a sliver of the coast. Arab leadership said no and turned back to violence.

1947 — UN partition plan: an Arab state beside a Jewish state. The Arab Higher Committee said no, started a civil war, and then five Arab armies invaded.

2000 — Camp David: a Palestinian state with a capital in eastern Jerusalem. Arafat walked, proposed no counteroffer, and launched the Second Intifada.

2001 — Clinton Parameters: a Palestinian state with a capital in eastern Jerusalem, 96% of the "West Bank" plus 4% of Israel, all of Gaza and a connecting corridor. Arafat said no as the Second Intifada raged.

2008 — Olmert: 94% of the “West Bank” plus land swaps to make up for the other 6%, a capital in East Jerusalem, and the Old City under an international committee. The PA, this time under Abbas, never even bothered to answer.

2020 — Trump’s plan: a Palestinian state, a capital in a part of East Jerusalem, and $50 billion in economic aid to build their country. Abbas called it the “slap of the century” in 2018, two years before the text existed. On the day it was released, he said “a thousand times no.” He refused Trump’s call and refused to even take a copy.

They do not keep saying no because the borders were wrong. They keep saying no because the real demand is not a state beside Israel. It is a state instead of Israel.

[Israel News Pulse @israelnewspulse]

Watch the full documentary The Killing Roads, about the October 7th massacre.
Set aside the time to watch it through. Then share it with someone who knows the date but has only seen the headlines.

[FJ @Natsecjeff]

What do you notice about this picture?

You see, those arrested suspects have been stripped by the British law enforcement. Do you know why? To make sure they're not wearing suicide belts. Because jihadists have a reputation of blowing themselves up.

Now, you see, when the IDF did the same thing with Gazan terrorists during an active war, half of Britain cried genocide. Britain isn't even at war right now like Israel was.

Maybe Britain should worry about its own dire situation first before lecturing Israel about how a war should be fought.

[Gideon Myers @GideonMyers]

@afneil He is an ignorant buffoon. A two state solution with who? Hamas? Nobody in Israel believes in the two state solution post Oct7

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

What is the state of Palestine? What are its borders? Its capital? Its government? Its leaders? Its legal basis?

[Danny Danon 🇮🇱 דני דנון @dannydanon]

The Iranian representative didn’t want the starlink :(

[Dan Senor @dansenor]

Everyone should be reading Mark’s report here👇

[Yossi Farro @FarroYossi]

The president of Argentina, literally dancing with Yeshiva boys in New York.

@JMilei is a legend

[Gideon Myers @GideonMyers]

@UtdKlay_ @grok did zlatan really say this?

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

The biggest mistake Israel made re 10/7 was not immediately sharing all of the videos from that day.

[Bill Maher @billmaher]

The prevailing view of so much of the young left in America is that we’re the worst country ever, so if someone attacks us, they can’t be all bad.

[Gideon Myers @GideonMyers]

@UtdForever7 @midopido21 Thomas Tuchel needs to apologise

[Eve Barlow @Eve_Barlow]

The idea that Israel is responsible for a two state solution is so beyond parody by this point.

Jordan and Egypt controlled the West Bank and the Gaza Strip from 1948 to 1967, but they did not create an independent Palestinian state during that time.

Since the Six Day War in 1967, Palestinian leaders have officially rejected or walked away from at least 5 major peace proposals that would have established an independent Palestinian state.

Then October 7 happened. And Israel is left without a peace partner, because it cannot negotiate with Hamas or the weak Palestinian Authority.

So @Ed_Miliband what on earth are you talking about.

[Vivid.🇮🇱 @VividProwess]

Bill Clinton: “The Palestinians were offered a state. They refused. A state wasn't their goal. Killing Jews was."

This must be shared every single day.

[Dan Senor @dansenor]

👇👇👇

[Aviva Klompas @AvivaKlompas]

There is something disingenuous about invoking your Jewish identity when it lends moral authority to a policy on Israel, then invoking your distance from Jewish communal life when confronted with the fears of Jews who actually live with its consequences.