NY Giants/Mets/Knicks/Rangers fan. Saw Messier's hat trick in gm 6 vs Devils in '94 live. 65 yrs ago I donated to the JNF and planted trees in Israel. No DMs.
Being 76 years old, I worry that my children and grandchildren will see this ever increasing anti-semitic and anti-Israeli behavior. Israel is the one democracy that is still a cradle for western values. It has a diverse population of religions and ethnicities. It occupies one small strip of land. But it is not going anywhere. Many people and nations want to destroy it. But I believe it will stand the test of time.
As a proud American who loves my country, I am gratified that we are standing with Israel during this hellish time.
I also stand with the Jewish communities whether they're in the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Israel or anywhere in the world. We just want to go about our lives like everybody else does and live in peace.
Hezbollah (LH) attacked Israel w/rockets.
In return, Israel sent precision guided bombs on LH - HQ elements in Beirut.
Iran is now saying that if the USA can’t control Israel then there is no deal.
There is only one right answer now. No deal and bomb Iran.
LH is Iran. They said so themselves. They have violated the ceasefire more times than I care to summarize. This proves Iran has been negotiating in bad faith and Trump must act accordingly.
There are few more beloved New Yorkers right now than Jalen Brunson, the Knicks point guard and team captain, who led the beloved New York basketball team to the NBA finals for the first time in 27 years.
And who has been there with Brunson since (almost) day one? His wife, Dr. Alison Marks Brunson, a Jewish physical therapist and the mother of their very adorable young daughter, Jordyn James, who was named after Ali's late Jewish father, James.
The couple started dating while at Adlai E. Stevenson High School in the suburbs of Chicago, and went to homecoming and senior prom together. After college (they dated long distance!) Jalen proposed in their high school gym.
“She’s sacrificed a lot without really knowing what’s in it for her," Jalen said in their wedding video (which includes shots of the horah and the couple's ketubah.) "She was committed. She wanted the best for myself, and sometimes it felt like she wanted the best for me before her… she’s pushed me to be better."
@Kveller
Wedding screenshot via @ emmak_films video
I fear a bad deal is coming for America, Israel and Gulf Arab states. Donald Trump clearly wants an agreement allowing him to declare victory and move on from the conflict. Trump’s “zeal for a deal” is motivated by domestic political concerns, not by national-security strategic analysis.
https://t.co/fL1Qms8hQe
America is striking the islamic regime again.
Unfortunately, and call me a pessimist, unless he's actually restarting the war for real this time, this will amount to nothing at all.
EXCLUSIVE: According to a very senior official on the PM’s team on the late-night Netanyahu-Trump call, the Axios report is inaccurate. Trump did not make personal remarks about jail or claim Netanyahu is hated globally.
Instead, the tense call focused on conflicting social media posts: Trump felt Netanyahu implied the war was continuing at full intensity, while Netanyahu felt Trump implied a total ceasefire.
Trump did note that defending Israel’s global position is difficult and breeds hatred. Ultimately, the call ended with an understanding: Israel will hold off on striking Beirut as long as it is not attacked within its own borders.
In 1918, the Bolsheviks instituted the nationalization of urban housing in Moscow & Petrograd. Large apartment buildings were expropriated & converted into kommunalki (communal apartments). Owners were dispossessed, usually being assigned a small room in the building they formerly owned. Families who'd owned apartments with multiple bedrooms were accused of "bourgeois excess"; their "underuse" of property was likened to theft from the "proletariat." Their homes were seized & parceled out to poorer working-class families.
Just in case you're curious as to where this could be heading.
@mdubowitz Israel at last is included in these negotiations. They should be front and center on evaluating of any deals with Iran.
As I remember, Israel was never part of the Obama and the western nations JCPOA deal with Iran.
In fact, Israel was very critical of that deal.
The Trump administration is doing what the Obama and Biden administrations never did: consulting Israeli leaders on draft agreements instead of jamming final deals down their throats and expecting the country most threatened by the regime in Iran to live with the consequences.
I’m calling it right now: the Islamic regime will never abandon its enriched uranium, will never stop terrorizing Iranians, building ballistic missiles, or funding terror proxies.
The only way to end this is to destroy them completely and utterly.
War is inevitable.
🇮🇱 PM NETANYAHU:
Netanyahu says he instructed the IDF to “press the pedal even harder” against Hezbollah terrorists amid the surge in drone attacks from Lebanon.
“We are at war with Hezbollah terrorists… But we are not taking our foot off the gas. On the contrary, I have instructed them to press the pedal even harder.”
“We will strike them decisively.”
BREAKING: 4 IRGC members were eliminated in the Persian Gulf after two fast attack boats were reportedly struck by enemy warplanes. Tensions continue to escalate across the region.
THE ABRAHAM ACCORDS!
The entire region will move towards them. Enough with the divisions and terrorism!
The UAE is a founding member
and knows exactly what it’s doing
so follow its lead!
🚨 UK JEWISH LEADER SAYS HE IS LEAVING BRITAIN FOR ISRAEL
Jeremy Jacobs, a former head of the UK’s United Synagogue, says he is moving to Israel after losing faith in British society amid rising antisemitism.
His family has lived in Britain since the 1850s.
Now he says walking around London with a kippah makes him fearful, and he no longer believes most people would defend Jews facing harassment.
His words say everything:
“When I walk in Israel, even in a war zone, I feel at home.”
“In London, where we live, that feeling has gone.”
This is what happens when a country allows antisemitism to become normal in its streets, universities, and public spaces.
Jews are not imagining it.
They are leaving.
(TOI)
BREAKING: Multiple massive explosions across Strait of Hormuz coastal cities Bandar Abbas, Sirik, Jask and a military base, with reported hits in surrounding areas. The cause is unknown at this moment, per Fars.
🚨 BREAKING: ISRAEL DECLARES FULL WAR ON HEZBOLLAH
Israel has reportedly approved Operation Arrows of Fire against Hezbollah in Lebanon, signaling a return to full-scale war.
I need everyone to share this.
This is a 14-year-old Palestinian boy who tried to stab IDF soldiers to death.
The anti-Israel crowd edited the video to make it look like they killed him for no reason.
This is the full unedited version. Please make this go viral.
ANCIENT JEWISH TEXTS RETURNING HOME 🇮🇱📜
PM Netanyahu says Israel is carrying out covert efforts to locate and preserve sacred texts of the Ethiopian Jewish community, some believed to be hundreds — even thousands — of years old.
Among them are rare 15th-century Orit manuscripts, now recognized as the oldest known sacred texts of Beta Israel Jews.