On This Day — June 3, 1948
Over half a million Arabs poured into Mandate Palestine in just 12 years to take advantage of the economic opportunities created by Jewish development — the only place in the entire Middle East with a growing Arab middle class.
Robert F. Kennedy, then only 22, made that striking observation in his reporting from British Mandate Palestine in April 1948 (just weeks before Israel’s independence). His dispatch was published this day in the Boston Post.
RFK wrote:
“The Jews point with pride to the fact that over 500,000 Arabs ... came into Palestine to take advantage of living conditions existing in no other Arab state. This is the only country in the Near and Middle East where an Arab middle class is in existence.”
He described how the Jews had transformed arid desert into flourishing orange groves through relentless labor and ingenuity. Tel Aviv had grown from a small village into a modern metropolis of over 200,000 in a single generation.
RFK noted that the Jews had already built a thriving community with its own institutions, language, and national characteristics — and were determined to reclaim their ancient homeland “as of right and not on sufferance.”
A young Bobby Kennedy saw the truth clearly: a people returning home, rebuilding their land with their own hands, and refusing to live as guests in their own country.
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The Knicks have outscored teams by 212 points during their 9-game win streak, the best pts diff in any 9-game span *regular season or playoffs* by any team in NBA HISTORY!
Previous "record" was +209 by 1973-74 Bucks in the regular season w/ Kareem & Oscar
Knicks were down 2-1 in Atlanta.
Then beat the Hawks by 16.
Then beat the Hawks by 29.
Then beat the Hawks by 51.
Then beat the Sixers by 39.
Then beat the Sixers by 6.
Then beat the Sixers by 14.
Then beat the Sixers by 30.
Then beat the Cavs by 11.
Then beat the Cavs by 16.
Most likely pocket pair to hit a set, ranked:
99
88
22 after you fold pre
66
KK when you have aces
TT
77
33
55
44
AA but the flop is all one suit
JJ
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Every hospital in New York features the names of generous donors on the walls - successful people who wanted to give back to the city they loved and had done so much to build. Have a look and see how many of those names are Jewish. It's sickening to witness the ingratitude of fools and vandals.
Israel doesn't train dogs to rape Palestinian inmates. That's a vicious, stupid lie pushed by a slimy little propagandist. But this newest blood libel is meant to distract you from the latest released evidence- including video recordings that *no credible person says are fake* of Palestinians doing the most sadistic, grotesque things imaginable on Oct 7- raping corpses while they are mutilating and murdering them, lighting genitals on fire, shooting out the eyes and genitals of helpless victims, forcing husbands to watch as their wives and children are raped and murdered-
And Palestinians did this on the *orders of their elected government* with months of planning to do exactly what they did. It wasn't spontaneous. The monstrous cruelty, the sexual degradation was the point. They knew Oct 7 wasn't going to win a war, or gain any territory. It was just an orgy of Jew hate and violence. The Palestinians were mass murdering, child rapist terrorists who did all this and were gleeful about it. They made phone calls boasting to their family members.
Did anyone in the Hamas government express remorse or regret about any of this? Or anywhere in Gaza? Of course not. They ordered it. They delighted in the extreme pain and cruelty of the Oct 7 operation against Jews.
So now some Americans, including ones who claim to be conservative, are taking the side of Hamas and claiming this was a genocide?
What do these people really think Israel was supposed to do in response to Oct 7?
Fight an imaginary "gentle" war?
No response at all?
Give up?
Childish thinking. Absurd moral preening. War is hell, but Hamas brought that hell upon Gaza.
Israel has a biblical right to whatever land they want to occupy? Is that what Israel demands?
Is that why they surrendered the Sinai to Egypt? Gaza to the Palestinians? Made repeated offers of land for peace? Israel makes biblical arguments about its existence because it is endlessly challenged. They don’t “occupy” anything.
In our country, we don’t have to make these arguments about our nation’s boundaries. The Marxists make them. The racialists make them. But they’re of not import.
1845-49: The annexation of Texas. The annexation of California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and Wyoming. The annexation of Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana. But we are so strong there's no serious challenge or argument that they’re not American. We don’t “occupy” anything. We don’t have to negotiate our sovereignty and existence with anyone.
Does Britain “occupy” Scotland, Wales, not to mention Northern Ireland? Scotland was incorporated in 1707. Wales in the 16th century. Northern Ireland in the 1920s. What does England use to justify its “occupation.” Not the Bible. What? Of course, it doesn’t have to.
The Jewish people have unequivocal, biblically referenced ties to their land. Long before Islam was a religion. Long before England became Great Britain. But Israel has to defend its sovereignty and existence daily.
Nobody’s asking you to do a damn thing.
Israel is an ideal society judged by the things Walsh claims to care about -- it is religious, patriotic, manly, traditional, extraordinarily family-centric, and has the highest fertility rate in the western world. But I can't recall him ever saying a single thing about any of that. I wish Walsh would say what he really thinks, instead of pretending to need a fainting couch over a gay pride party 6,000 miles away.
I miss old lineup construction:
1. Fastest player
2. Bat control guy (he sucks)
3. Best all-around hitter
4. Best power hitter
5. Lumbering power or bust hitter
6. High-OBP guy who leads off now
7. Bad switch hitter
8. Catcher
9. Gold Glove defender (-5 DRS, can't hit)
Let's talk about what @BernieSanders intentionally left out. These companies paid billions in payroll taxes, state taxes, property taxes, and excise taxes. Federal income tax is one tax, not the total tax bill. You know this. But because you are a corrupt looter, you pretend as if they pay no taxes at all so you can generate outrage, so you can loot even more.
You have been in Congress for 35 years. Every single tax provision that allowed these companies to pay zero federal income tax was written, passed, and signed into law by the institution you have been a part of since 1991.
You also left out that 40% of American households paid zero federal income tax in 2025. By your logic, they are not paying their "fair share" either. But you will never say that because your entire political career depends on pretending that only corporations benefit from the tax code you helped write, even though in reality no one benefits from them.
These companies employ hundreds of thousands of Americans whose wages generate billions in individual income taxes. They produce the products and services your supporters use every single day. The car your followers want to drive was built by one of these companies. The flights they take are operated by another. The electricity powering their homes comes from another.
You do not want tax reform. You want a shakedown. And you have been running it for 35 years.