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@DahliaKurtz The diaspora undermines Israel every chance it gets. American Jews are the biggest and most vocal supporters of the terrorists that kill us in Israel. They are like Bernie sanders and Jon Stewart. Kapos

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@JewFirst2

about 4 hours ago

@alexbruesewitz @mattgaetz @JDVance Yeah because we were so loved before. American Nazis will always find a reason to hate Jews even if Israel never existed.

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Rawan Osman روان عثمان

@RawaneOsmane

about 16 hours ago

I grew up in a Hezbollah stronghold in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley. Israel was not a country in my education. It was a crime. A wound kept open on purpose. Every funeral, every slogan, every sermon pointed in the same direction: there, across the border, is the source of your suffering. Believe it. Repeat it. Pass it on. I believed it. I repeated it. For years. Then I moved to France. And I met Jews. Not the abstraction. Not the enemy. People. Neighbors. Colleagues. And the collision between what I had been taught and what I was seeing in front of me was so violent — so intellectually embarrassing — that I had no honest choice but to start over. To read. To ask. To dismantle, brick by brick, everything I had been given as truth. What I found on the other side of that dismantling was not just the absence of hatred. It was something I had not expected: admiration. Let me be precise about what I am defending and what I am not. I am not defending every Israeli policy. I am not defending any government unconditionally. I am not asking anyone to check their critical faculties at the door. I am defending what Israel is. What it represents. What it has built, against every conceivable pressure, in a region that has largely failed its own people. Israel is a democracy in a neighborhood of autocracies. It is a state governed by law in a region where law is routinely weaponized against citizens. It is a country where Arabs sit in parliament, where women lead, where dissent is not a death sentence. It is imperfect — as every democracy is — but it is genuinely, structurally different from everything surrounding it. That difference is not incidental. It is the point. The so-called Palestinian cause, as it is prosecuted today, is not a national liberation movement. I say this not to dismiss Palestinian suffering; suffering is real, and real people pay its price. I say it because the infrastructure of the “cause” — its funders, its ideologues, its loudest champions — has never been interested in Palestinian statehood. It has been interested in Jewish elimination. Look at who built the movement’s international architecture. Look at the 1997 Tehran OIC summit, where the language of “apartheid” was first systematically attached to Israel, not by Palestinians, but by the Iranian regime, for export. Look at Durban. Look at who profits when the conflict continues and who loses when it resolves. The answer is never the Palestinian family in Gaza. The answer is always the regime, the militia, the ideological infrastructure that needs the wound open. The Palestinian cause, as it functions on the world stage today, is a tool of an anti-western civilizational project. Its goal is not a state alongside Israel. Its goal is a world without Israel, and, by extension, a world where the values Israel represents are defeated. Liberal democracy. Jewish self-determination. The idea that a small people can survive, build, and insist on their own dignity against the will of those who would erase them. When western progressives march under that banner, they are not marching for freedom. They are marching for the annihilation of the only thing in the Middle East that resembles what they claim to value. I came to Judaism slowly, the way you come to something true, not in a rush, but in accumulation. It was not the politics that moved me first. It was the texts. The insistence, running through thousands of years of Jewish thought, that the human being is created in the image of G-d, and that this is not a metaphor but an obligation. An obligation to see the other. To argue. To question. To hold power accountable, including your own. I had grown up in a culture where the highest virtue was submission. To the leader, the militia, the narrative. Judaism confronted me with the opposite proposition… Read the rest of the essay on my Facebook page.

RawaneOsmane's tweet photo. I grew up in a Hezbollah stronghold in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley. Israel was not a country in my education. It was a crime. A wound kept open on purpose. Every funeral, every slogan, every sermon pointed in the same direction: there, across the border, is the source of your suffering. Believe it. Repeat it. Pass it on.

I believed it. I repeated it. For years.

Then I moved to France. And I met Jews.

Not the abstraction. Not the enemy. People. Neighbors. Colleagues. And the collision between what I had been taught and what I was seeing in front of me was so violent — so intellectually embarrassing — that I had no honest choice but to start over. To read. To ask. To dismantle, brick by brick, everything I had been given as truth.

What I found on the other side of that dismantling was not just the absence of hatred. It was something I had not expected: admiration.

Let me be precise about what I am defending and what I am not.

I am not defending every Israeli policy. I am not defending any government unconditionally. I am not asking anyone to check their critical faculties at the door.

I am defending what Israel is. What it represents. What it has built, against every conceivable pressure, in a region that has largely failed its own people.

Israel is a democracy in a neighborhood of autocracies. It is a state governed by law in a region where law is routinely weaponized against citizens. It is a country where Arabs sit in parliament, where women lead, where dissent is not a death sentence. It is imperfect — as every democracy is — but it is genuinely, structurally different from everything surrounding it.

That difference is not incidental. It is the point.

The so-called Palestinian cause, as it is prosecuted today, is not a national liberation movement. I say this not to dismiss Palestinian suffering; suffering is real, and real people pay its price. I say it because the infrastructure of the “cause” — its funders, its ideologues, its loudest champions — has never been interested in Palestinian statehood. It has been interested in Jewish elimination.

Look at who built the movement’s international architecture. Look at the 1997 Tehran OIC summit, where the language of “apartheid” was first systematically attached to Israel, not by Palestinians, but by the Iranian regime, for export. Look at Durban. Look at who profits when the conflict continues and who loses when it resolves. The answer is never the Palestinian family in Gaza. The answer is always the regime, the militia, the ideological infrastructure that needs the wound open.

The Palestinian cause, as it functions on the world stage today, is a tool of an anti-western civilizational project. Its goal is not a state alongside Israel. Its goal is a world without Israel, and, by extension, a world where the values Israel represents are defeated. Liberal democracy. Jewish self-determination. The idea that a small people can survive, build, and insist on their own dignity against the will of those who would erase them.

When western progressives march under that banner, they are not marching for freedom. They are marching for the annihilation of the only thing in the Middle East that resembles what they claim to value.

I came to Judaism slowly, the way you come to something true, not in a rush, but in accumulation.

It was not the politics that moved me first. It was the texts. The insistence, running through thousands of years of Jewish thought, that the human being is created in the image of G-d, and that this is not a metaphor but an obligation. An obligation to see the other. To argue. To question. To hold power accountable, including your own.

I had grown up in a culture where the highest virtue was submission. To the leader, the militia, the narrative. Judaism confronted me with the opposite proposition…

Read the rest of the essay on my Facebook page.

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Mark Changizi

@MarkChangizi

1 day ago

The Left calls Israel a colonial power, even though Israel has only ever gained territory in wars launched against it and has repeatedly traded land for peace. Meanwhile, their anti-colonial darling is the Islamic Republic — an Islamofascist regime that hijacked Iran nearly 50 years ago and has spent decades extending its grip across Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Yemen, and Gaza through militias, proxies, and client rulers. For people who claim to oppose colonialism, they seem remarkably fond of actual imperial projects.

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Liza Rosen

@LizaRosen0000

3 days ago

Top British attorney Natasha Hausdorff dismantled the Palestinian narrative with cold historical facts. There was never a sovereign Arab state called “Palestine.” The British Mandate of Palestine was simply British administration over the historic Land of Israel after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire. Jews lived continuously in the land for centuries — including under Ottoman rule, when they formed the majority in Jerusalem. Before 1909, Tel Aviv was empty desert legally purchased by Jews, who built it from nothing. No Arabs were displaced. After the British handed the mandate to the UN, the Arab world rejected the partition plan and launched a war to destroy the Jewish state. Arab armies and local militias tried to “push the Jews into the sea.” At the same time, Arab countries ethnically cleansed their ancient Jewish communities, forcing nearly a million Jews to flee to Israel. During the war, Arab leaders ordered local Arabs to evacuate combat zones so their armies could annihilate the Jews. Many of those who left later became permanent “refugees” under Egyptian and Jordanian control. Israel has never committed genocide — and never will. By defending itself, it prevents another holocaust. Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Islamic regime of Iran are the real obstacles to peace in the Middle East. Retweet if you support Israel’s right to exist and defend itself.

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Mosab Hassan Yousef

@MosabHasanYOSEF

1 day ago

Jihadis have turned useful idiots against Jews, accusing them of the exact same crimes they’ve been committing against humanity for 14 centuries. The same ideology that wants to destroy Jews also threatens Christians, Hindus, and Buddhists. Believing this illusion and denying reality will have deadly consequences for humanity.

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@JewFirst2

1 day ago

@TheModerateCase We have been trying to do that for decades!!! You insist on getting involved in every fucking thing because Americans think they know everything

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Eyal Yakoby

@EYakoby

1 day ago

On October 23rd, 1983, a truck loaded with explosives drove into the Battalion Landing Team building in Beirut, Lebanon, killing 241 U.S. service members. The attack was funded by the Islamic Republic and executed by Hezbollah. Thomas Massie has never said a word about it.

EYakoby's tweet photo. On October 23rd, 1983, a truck loaded with explosives drove into the Battalion Landing Team building in Beirut, Lebanon, killing 241 U.S. service members.

The attack was funded by the Islamic Republic and executed by Hezbollah.

Thomas Massie has never said a word about it. https://t.co/va1tarLUtT

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@JewFirst2

1 day ago

@thatrickjohnson @Average_NY_Guy Hezbollah killed 241 us marines in Beirut in 1982. Fuck off

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@JewFirst2

1 day ago

@Average_NY_Guy Imagine using something that happened in 1967 against Israel while forgiving the Iranian regime from kidnapping and holding hostage hundreds of American embassy workers in 1981 and forgiving Hezbollah for murdering 241 us marines in 1982.