Israel 🇮🇱 Forever

Supporting Jewish self-determination in the State of Israel, in accord with the creation of Israel by the UN, Resolution 181, 1947. ❤️ IDF 🇮🇱

[Eylon Levy @EylonALevy]

Mehdi Hamas asked me on the debate stage why Israel killed the Al-Dos family in Gaza.

Islamic Jihad just took credit for Osama al-Dos as a missile unit commander.

The truth will triumph: Israel targeted terrorists embedded in civilian buildings.

[Dr. Eli David @DrEliDavid]

- Born in Egypt
- Spent his whole life killing civilians
- Died in Iran
A true Palestinian indeed!

[Hananya Naftali @HananyaNaftali]

For years, the media called Israel paranoid.

But today, UNRWA just quietly fired 70 of its employees in Gaza because they were linked to terror organizations.

Israel was right all along. Why is the world still funding an agency that employs terrorists? It is time to defund UNRWA permanently.

[Israel 🇮🇱 Forever @Israel_Eternal]

@doctor_rahmeh Looks like the attack on 7th October was a bad idea then. Maybe tell that to Hamas?

[Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian @manniefabian]

The commander of the Yabna Battalion in Hamas's Rafah Brigade was killed in an Israeli strike yesterday, the IDF and Shin Bet announce.

Mohammad Fathi Abd al-Hay Abu Fakher had recently been working to recruit new terrorists to the battalion, along with "attempting to restore the battalion's capabilities in order to attack IDF troops," the military says.

Abu Fakher was a veteran commander in Hamas, previously serving as a senior officer in the terror group's supply department. The military says that for two decades he was "a central figure in the terrorist organization's smuggling network," leading efforts to bring weapons into the Gaza Strip.

[Israel 🇮🇱 Forever @Israel_Eternal]

@mikegalsworthy Best way to help Gaza is to tell them they lost the war and have to accept the existence of the Jewish state. Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria and Saudi have all accepted that and live in peace with Israel.

[UN Watch @UNWatch]

.@thetimes: “The UN special rapporteur on violence against women sat stony-faced as a survivor told of horrors meted out by Hamas. When it comes to Jewish women, sisterly support falters and dies.”

[Fouad Makhzoumi @fmakhzoumi]

For the first time in Lebanon’s history, Lebanon and Israel have signed a formal trilateral framework under the sponsorship and participation of the United States. This marks a historic milestone and a decisive step toward achieving a just and lasting peace with Israel, resolving longstanding issues through diplomacy, strengthening the authority of the Lebanese state, ensuring that arms remain exclusively in the hands of the state, and ending the weapons of Hezbollah and all militias, thereby creating the conditions necessary for security, stability, and prosperity.

We welcome the role of the United States as a trusted strategic partner and guarantor of this framework. Its direct participation provides the confidence, credibility, and international assurances necessary to ensure the success of this process, consolidate peace, strengthen Lebanon’s sovereignty, security, and stability, and open new horizons for development and prosperity.

[UN Watch @UNWatch]

Stone-faced. The very official tasked by the U.N. with combating violence against women shows zero empathy as Israeli victim of Hamas sexual violence courageously testifies before her.

[Israel 🇮🇱 Forever @Israel_Eternal]

@TomLondon6 @jeremycorbyn Corbyn called Hamas and Hezbollah his ‘friends’. Regret doesn’t change his true feelings. https://t.co/0I2l4h1Rlx

[Israel 🇮🇱 Forever @Israel_Eternal]

@owenjonesjourno You mean how he offered terrorists a state while they were still holding and killing hostages?

[Israel 🇮🇱 Forever @Israel_Eternal]

@PulaRJS You mean he rewarded terrorists in Gaza with a state while they still held hostages?

[Israel 🇮🇱 Forever @Israel_Eternal]

@Reuters Why no mention on the tweet that they were throwing fire bombs?

[Julia Hartley-Brewer @JuliaHB1]

That's because they were mostly Hamas terrorists, love.

[Israel 🇮🇱 Forever @Israel_Eternal]

@Reuters So October 7th was a really bad idea.

[Andrew Fox @Mr_Andrew_Fox]

Sam Harris has written the best thing you’ll read today.

https://t.co/gI0wZZNH4m

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

BREAKING:

Just minutes after the Slovenian parliament confirmed the new gov. of @JJansaSDS, workers removed the Palestinian flag from the government palace facade & replaced it with Ukraine’s flag

Slovenia now honors a country defending itself instead of massacring civilians

[Board of Deputies of British Jews @BoardofDeputies]

It is highly regrettable that individuals have sought to deliberately disrupt a Jewish Culture Month event celebrating Jewish cultural heritage at the British Museum. Jewish Culture Month has seen many of Britain's great cultural institutions partner with us in celebration of British Jewish culture, community and creativity, and we will not allow the actions of extremists to prevent the British public from enjoying these events.

We will be working with our partners at the British Museum to reschedule this event as soon as possible.

https://t.co/UcpaZquNVw

[S Sebag Montefiore @simonmontefiore]

This matters.
An obscure London event on the history of the ancient Jewish kingdoms in Judea and Israel is cancelled because of ‘security concerns’ and it turns out this was a reaction to a campaign to fill and then undermine the event by activist disrupters.
How strange! Why would a posse of aggressive activists be interested in the arcane details of bullae and steles and ostraca and inscriptions and numismatics in some small South Levantine kingdoms in the Iron Age?
Well, it is a little more than that which is why it is both disturbing and important. And it matters because at its least it is a threat to history in Britain’s - but also the world’s - greatest temple of History @britishmuseum - and its scholarly integrity.
The BM and its leadership are decent and well-meaning and have explained that they wished to save an event from disruption by bullying vandals but I am sure the BM realizes it is essential to announce a new event fast lest it give the impression that the permission of tiny cadres of aggressive bullies are required before it hold events. But the significance is wider than an event about the Moab and Tel Dan steles in a great museum.
British cultural life is the right and exercise of civic and cultural freedom – a privilege of our liberal democracy - that does not require the permission of gangs of ideological activists nor can it cancelled or postponed nor endured at their beck and sufferance nor permitted with a bend of the knee to their permissions or veto. But that is what this appears to be.
Across the cultural world in the West, though the bewildered middleaged managers of our institutions that are confronting and often submitting to a wave of self-righteous blackmail and mob threat, there is an increasingly thin – indeed ever more fragile and sometimes nigh invisible – line between ‘security concerns’ – and institutional pusillanimity.
Then there is the history itself.
This event concerns the study of the ancient kingdoms of Judah and Israel that existed between roughly 1100BC and 586BCin the Levant. It is not a coincidence that this was chosen for disruption. The history of the Judean kingdoms and the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem that stood for most of the time between 1000BC and 70ADetc is important and fascinating history in its own right, supported by complex and growing archaeological finds.
These small kingdoms and the subsequent Temple priestly mini-state (restored by the Persian kings Cyrus and Darius 539BC) and then the larger Judean kingdoms of the Hasmoneans and Herodians – between 167BC and 135AD chronicle the long indigenous history of Jews in the region – which the protesters are keen to erase. This is a political project of ideological erasure and malicious incitement of course concerned with the complex, brutal Israel-Palestine conflict that has now gone on for a hundred years and is unlikely to be solved in a small lecture theatre in the British Museum. But it also attempts to deny or erase Jewish history itself – and by implication the heritage of British Jews who live here in Britain, a small community that is now under cultural and sometimes physical threat.
Incidentally - but it is worth saying, this history does not deny anyone else’s history, nor the many other small realms in this region through ancient times nor the many names of the region and its entities and the historical origins of those names (Canaan, or Philistia or Peleset, Phoenicia, Aram Damascus or Moab or later Nabatea and the provinces of Palaestina Prime, Seconda and Tertia and the Ghassanid kingdoms and so on etc etc). The history of one can not be used to erase the history of the other and does not need to do so. The pursuit of knowledge which is one of the delights of human life and is the mission of the BM and indeed anyone who writes, reads or enjoys history, can celebrate and recognize all of these.
Yet this protest and the many like it deployed across Britain nowadays is the opposite of that - an attack on history using the methods of intimidation and vandalism. Much of this involves distorting or dismantling actual history or often lying to replace it with a fabricated ideological structure that nourishes no one and helps no one but degrades our culture and civic life not to speak of history itself. By the way, the frequent claims that these histories or names are ‘denied’ or ‘noone knows them’ is nonsense: anyone and everyone who is interested knows this history. (Much of it appears for example in my book Jerusalem a history of the Holy Land.)
And this is relevant not just to those of us who write study or enjoy the history of the region but also to those who believe that cultural life and civic society is a right that must not be submitted to the aggressions and plots of loud well-organized much-indulged ideologues who take advantage of the freedoms of our society to undermine its principles and the very freedoms they are designed to guard.
Just as vital is a rule of history itself that concerrns the rise and fall of civilizations: the society that ceases to allow to free discussion of ideas and stops respecting and recognizing the value of scientific and historical sources and facts is a society that will fail.

[David Collier @mishtal]

The British Museum cancelling the event on the historical kingdoms of Israel and Judea - is a sign of how bad things have become here.

This is silent submission - not through violence - but the threat of it.

This country has lost control.