Anyone who supports getting more food to people in Gaza—as I do—must also ask tough questions of the UN. This isn't about grainy footage. The UN itself reports that 87% of its 2,010 food trucks in Gaza (85% by tonnage) from May 19–July 29 were "intercepted"—either peacefully by crowds or forcefully by armed actors. That’s not an Israeli claim. That’s a UN admission as per the UN website (UNOPS). Time for real journalistic scrutiny.
I am thrilled that three prominent Jewish coaches are taking their teams to the Final Four. And, I am excited to be speaking at the @JewishCoaches Breakfast in San Antonio on Saturday morning, as well. My people. 🙏🏼🏀 🇮🇱
The Final Four — Am Yisrael Chai 🇮🇱
Auburn coach Bruce Pearl: proud Jew & supporter of Israel
Florida coach Todd Golden: Jew & Israeli citizen who played in Haifa
Duke coach Jon Scheyer: Jew & Israeli citizen who played in Tel Aviv
Houston star Emanuel Sharp: Israeli citizen
The “school” hit in Gaza is a) not in session; b) was hit at 5 am; c) there is no schooling in Gaza; d) was a Hamas command center. Everything you’re hearing is a blood libel.
Google is poised to acquire an Israeli cyber startup known as Wiz for $23 billion. Google’s largest acquisition in history is not only a vote of confidence in Israel. It is a $23 billion middle finger to the BDS movement against the Jewish State.
The Boycott, Divestment, and Sanction movement should itself be boycotted, divested, and sanctioned.
Your regular reminder that Gaza is just a normal urban war. That doesn’t make it pleasant, or anything but appalling.
The big difference between Gaza and other recent urban warfare is the unprecedented levels of civilian protection taken by the IDF. Whether you like it or not, shifting millions of people out of harm’s way has saved tens of thousands of lives.
That doesn’t mean that the distribution of aid in a war zone isn’t an eternal problem. It doesn’t mean that innocent Palestinians aren’t homeless and suffering. The difference between this and other recent Middle Eastern urban battles is that in any other conflict, they wouldn’t be hungry and suffering: they’d be dead.
Has the IDF made fuck ups? Of course. Show me an army in any war, ever, that hasn’t. In living memory, god knows the USA, UK and Australia as a minimum have. It’s part and parcel of warfare, as much as armies do and should try to avoid them.
It’s not a genocide. It’s not deliberate starvation. It’s just urban war in cities where Hamas has turned civilian infrastructure into military targets and has a strategy of maximising civilian casualties.
Just for reference, here are Grozny, Homs, Raqqa and Kharkiv. All 21st century urban wars. Ignore the disinformation. This is what urban war looks like.
25 yr old pizza delivery man runs into burning house, saves four children who tell him another might be in the house. He goes back in, finds the girl, jumps out a window with her, and carries her to a cop who captures the moment on his bodycam.