Jared F

Raised in the Badger State. Passionate about family, friends, Israel and coming together through sport.

[ד״ר עינת וילף Dr. Einat Wilf @EinatWilf]

"Ongoing" - One of the phrases increasingly used next to the term "Nakba" is "Ongoing" as in the recent proposal by Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib. Now westerners assume that the "ongoing" seeks to highlight continued suffering of Palestinian Arabs, but as with so many other phrases that serve as "dual use language" (as Eran Shayshon coined) is that the deep meaning is very different.

Once it is known and understood that the real time meaning of the Nakba, as described by Constantin Zureiq as "Seven Arab states declare war in an attempt to subdue Zionism, stop impotent before it, and return on their heels" was the shameful failure to defeat the lowly Jews in war - it becomes crystal clear why it remains "ongoing":

As long as Israel exists, the Arab, and especially Palestinian Arab shameful failure to dismantle Jewish sovereignty and "subdue Zionism" remains "ongoing". As long as, per Bevin's quote, the top goal of the Palestine Arabs "to resist to the last the establishment of Jewish sovereignty in any part of the land" remains unfulfilled, their definition of disaster remains "ongoing".

In the updated book of The War of Return, "October Return", @Adi_Schwartz and I included a dictionary of sort to explore this dual use language. I share it here with you:

"This becomes especially clear when analyzing the language of Palestinian identity and that of its supporters around the world. Terms such as “two states,” “justice,” “return,” and “rights” carry one meaning in dialogue between Palestinians and Westerners or Israelis—but an entirely different meaning within internal Palestinian discourse.

"Take “two states,” for example. During the years of negotiations, Palestinian leaders—and many surveys—expressed support for the “two-state solution.” Israelis and Westerners reasonably assumed that this meant one state for Palestinian Arabs and one for Jews. In retrospect, we should have checked. For when Palestinians speak of “two states,” they also maintain that millions of Palestinian “refugees” have a right to settle inside Israel. The implication is that the phrase “two states” actually means a Palestinian Arab state in the West Bank and Gaza, alongside a second Arab-majority state that replaces Israel via the mass return of refugees. In effect: “this one is ours, and that one is also ours.”

"To this day, no official Palestinian peace plan includes the recognition of a Jewish state on any part of the land between the river and the sea.

"It is also worth examining the meaning of a word like “justice”—so frequently invoked in phrases like “a just peace,” “a just solution,” or in the names of organizations such as “Students for Justice in Palestine.” To many in the world, “justice” may simply mean that Palestinians should have a state of their own, or that Israel should not control their daily lives. That is a reasonable interpretation. But it is not the Palestinian one.

"For Palestinians, there is only one concept of justice: the reversal of the injustice they associate with the creation of the State of Israel. And central to that “corrective justice” is return—which, by definition, entails the end of Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people.

"The same applies to words like “rights,” “liberation,” and, of course, “return.” As will become clear in the pages ahead, there is no ambiguity: “return” is the concept that embodies victory over the Jewish state and its elimination.

"That is why the butcherty of October 7 was greeted with euphoria."

[Adam Fisher @AdamRFisher]

This is a devious rhetorical trick. Labeling someone a “Nakba survivor” is designed to evoke instant sympathy and a false sense of moral clarity, but it is little more than taxpayer-funded propaganda.

Consider the absurdity: roughly 99% of Palestinian Arabs alive in 1949 survived the war and its displacements. Calling the displaced a “survivor” stretches the word beyond recognition. It is a newly coined term, crafted in academia and activist circles long after the events.

Its real genius lies in creating false equivalence. It places ordinary Palestinian civilians who were displaced amid a war their own leaders launched on the same moral plane as Holocaust survivors (of whom only about one-third emerged alive).

It airbrushes away the ~6,000 Jews killed in 1948, elevates the ~12,000 Arab deaths, and erases the thousands of Jews forcibly expelled from the Old City of Jerusalem and other areas.

By anointing the displaced as sacred “survivors,” the term invites us to forget that the Nazi-aligned Palestinian leadership rejected the UN partition plan, chose war to prevent any Jewish state, and promised quick victory while urging Arabs to flee.

It glosses over Israel’s Declaration of Independence, which explicitly invited Arab inhabitants to “participate in the upbuilding of the State on the basis of full and equal citizenship.” And it conveniently overlooks the ~150,000 Arabs who stayed put, accepted Israeli citizenship, and whose descendants now form over 20% of Israel’s population.

This is international grievance politics pushed by the Mayor of New York City, who genuinely believes that Palestinians should be able to “return to their homes” – a nonsensical idea designed to justify perpetual victimhood and violence.

The move weaponizes real civilian hardship while inverting roles: turning a war of choice and rejectionism into an unprovoked “catastrophe” inflicted by the intended victims. It sustain grievance and does not nothing to advance peace.

[Zach Sage Fox @zachsagefox]

I led HUNDREDS of Jews in protest outside the @nytimes HQ today to shame them for REPEATEDLY spreading blood libels against the Jewish people and ONLY Jewish state. Enough is enough!

[Aviva Klompas @AvivaKlompas]

Mamdani is rewriting history to erase the role Arab states and Palestinian leaders played in shaping today’s reality. Arab states rejected the UN's plan to create a state for the Palestinians and then launched a war to destroy the Jewish state.

Wars have consequences. And ignoring decades of Arab rejectionism and terrorism doesn't change reality.

In a city where Jew-hatred is exploding, historical revisionism pours fuel on the fire.

[Bill Maher @billmaher]

People say the left and the right can’t agree on anything these days. But there is this one thing:

[Judge Stephen Dillard @JudgeDillard]

Every American should watch every second of this video.

Thank you, @BenSasse.

[60 Minutes @60Minutes]

“When they came to tell us that Hersh had been executed, then I realized that those 330 days had been the good part, because he was alive. And now I'm in this place... How do I walk through this place without a piece of me here?” says Rachel Goldberg-Polin, whose son was executed by Hamas in 2024. https://t.co/Zrfdrya99X

[NBC Olympics & Paralympics @NBCOlympics]

Jordan Stolz claims his SECOND GOLD MEDAL of the #WinterOlympics! 🥇🇺🇸

[Wisconsin Basketball @BadgerMBB]

What a team, what a comeback

[Jared F @JaredF247]

@BadgerMBB At most 2k fans there. Cool experience! Energy picked up nicely with 9 to go. Looking forward to the season! #badgers

[Heidi Bachram @HeidiBachram]

This is the most glorious reunion. Guy Gilboa-Dalal in the loving arms of his beautiful family. His mother was literally heartbroken and had to have major surgery. How wonderful to see her joy. Her heart and all our hearts are healed.

[Israel Defense Forces @IDF]

💛 Watch the moment Eitan Mor reunites with his parents:

[Vivid.🇮🇱 @VividProwess]

WOW!!! The mother of Matan Zangauker, who was held hostage by Hamas for 738 days, finally reunites with her son.

This is beautiful to see. 🙏💙🇮🇱

[Milwaukee Brewers @Brewers]

A MUST watch 👇

Pat Murphy read an emotional letter from Bob Uecker as the Brewers celebrated clinching the postseason 🥹

[Vivid.🇮🇱 @VividProwess]

BREAKING: After the crowd at the stadium booed during the Israeli anthem and waved Palestinian flags, Israel defeated France 82-69 in EuroBasket 2025.

Congratulations, Israel! 🇮🇱🏀

[Brooke Goldstein @GoldsteinBrooke]

Just got out of Gaza, filming with the Gaza Humanitarian Aid foundation. EVERYTHING you hear about them in the MSM is FALSE. I’ll upload my pictures and video soon. I need to blur out all faces because Hamas hunts and kills all workers giving aid and food to the Gazan people. Food is Hamas’ weapon and GHF is the disrupter.

What @GHFUpdates is doing is remarkable. I put my life at risk so I could expose the misinformation campaign being waged by @unrwa.

Stay tuned for the truth…

[Mossad Commentary @MOSSADil]

SICKENING BUT NOT SURPRISED: The UN 'quietly' changed the definition of "famine"—just for Gaza.

Not for Sudan.
Not for Somalia.
Not for South Sudan.
ONLY FOR GAZA

🔻 They cut the malnutrition threshold in half
🔻 Switched to a less reliable metric (MUAC)
🔻 Used unverifiable, Hamas-linked “data”
🔻 Buried the changes in a footnote

Any organization that rewrites its own rules to achieve a political outcome loses all legitimacy.
They should be ashamed.
We should stop funding them.

Full report in the comments.

[Mor Edge Insight @MorEdge_Insight]

Why won’t Muslim countries accept any “Palestinians”?

Well the west is now rushing to take them in. Canada and Australia especially. Britain too. They’re about to find out

[Vivid.🇮🇱 @VividProwess]

“I can't even imagine what it's like to be Jewish right now. To all the Jews who are feeling alone right now, I am sorry that humanity has failed you yet again."

An eye-opening video. This is a must-watch.

[Prime Minister of Israel @IsraeliPM]

PM Netanyahu:
"I want to talk to you about appeasement then and appeasement now. Before World War 2, the western countries tried to appease Hitler. He said, " Just give me a piece of Czechoslovakia and I'll make peace with you," and they cowed, and they bowed, and they yielded.