We have had respectful relationship & hopefully will continue but call to US Embassy was AFTER your vehicle was stopped. We had no advance notice of your trip. I go often into Judea/Samaria & visit Palestinians. I publicly condemn ALL violence whether Israeli to Palestinian or Palestinian to Israeli. You would have been well served to have spent time with Israelis who were held hostage or victims of terror to understand big picture but you only chose to come in secretly with an anti-Israel activist to hear one version of reality. Please come back. Let me know when. I will go with you & we will meet with ppl in the PA & in Israel with Jewish, Christian, & Muslims We will visit Hadassah Medical Center which will destroy any notion of “apartheid “ & will arrange a classified briefing to dispel any doubt about the ridiculous claim that Israel engaged in “genocide.” Let’s elevate the discussion. I’ll leave the light on for you!
Ro Khanna’s Dishonest Israel Stunt
By @havivrettiggur
Khanna and his group were not “detained,” as Khanna claimed. Detention means you can’t leave. As far as we can tell from available accounts and footage, nothing stopped them from turning around and leaving the way they came. The area was believed to require permission to enter, and Khanna’s group had not coordinated with the IDF, the Israeli police, or anyone else that anyone has been able to find who might have facilitated a U.S. congressman’s visit to the area.
Within about 20 minutes—this, according to the account by Khanna’s own team—an IDF patrol arrived and asked them to wait for the police. Police arrived roughly 30 minutes later—again, according to Khanna’s own team.
In other words, the congressman, after refusing to coordinate his visit, was delayed for about an hour before being allowed to enter the area in question. But if you listen to Khanna, it was “an unprecedented, illegal detention of Americans by a foreign country.”
Could there still be some damning evidence out there that will back up the substance of Khanna’s claims of violence, threats, and “detention”? Of course there could. But it’s been quite a few days now. No such footage has emerged. Given reports that the congressman’s entourage included a professional photographer and that the Israeli activist had a bodycam, it seems reasonable to assume that the lack of evidence strongly suggests it doesn’t exist.
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1/There is an implied antisemitic trope buried in Ro Khanna's objection to this initiative. It is worth surfacing, because the same trope appears all over when anti-Zionists talk about any partnership with Israel or Israelis. 🧵
Leaving out the Italian, Jewish, and Irish enclaves in NYC is like leaving out Mexican and Persian enclaves in LA.
It’s not an “oopsie!” This is deliberate subversion. The communist must erase your history so he can demolish your home and make it his own.
As the Times forced Lyndsey to jump through these hoops, they simultaneously published non-credible and non-verified accounts of rape by Israeli dogs in their pages.
This New York Times "article" about Israel is such a journalistic atrocity that I actually feel stupid reading it out loud.
If everyone at the NYT who is responsible for this is not fired, then the publication will lose whatever shred of credibility it has left.
Following the antisemitic stabbing of two Jewish people on the streets of Golders Green this morning, words of condemnation are no longer sufficient. This must be a moment that demands meaningful action from every institution, every community, every leader, and every decent person in our country. This is a hatred that we must face down together.
Elkana Bohbot, who was held by Hamas for more than two years, is finally home. He served in my brother’s Tzevet (IDF team), and his friends and brothers-in-arms have launched a campaign to support his and his family’s rehabilitation and healing after unimaginable trauma.
This is one of those moments when we can turn empathy into action. An important cause - please consider helping. 🙏❤️
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How is Amanpour still at CNN? Wash Post published this, nine days ago, from former Israeli hostage in Gaza Eli Sharabi:
Food deprivation and disease were routine. The stench of sewage was unbearable, and there were worms everywhere.
Our captors also became more cruel. They replayed the Oct. 7 footage on an iPad; we could hear them from the other room. Watching the murder and the torture seemed to invigorate them. Our legs were constantly shackled (sometimes to each other’s) and we were regularly beaten and humiliated. This went on until just a week before our release.
Official: Palestinian Hamas is now on the UN “blacklist” for sexual crimes in violent conflicts.
Rape. Gang rape. Genital mutilation. Sexual abuse in captivity - among the most horrific crimes humanity has ever seen.
The UN Secretary-General’s report, to be circulated today (Aug 14) to all General Assembly members, confirms what survivors and witnesses have told us for almost two years. In early 2024, UN Special Representative Pramila Patten documented these crimes in her investigation.
These crimes have not ceased. Hostages are still being sexually abused.
LET THEM GO NOW!
Hamas terror must end.
Toronto International Film Festival just cancelled the screening of a film about the October 7 massacre because there was no “legal clearance” from Hamas for their GoPro massacre videos.
This festival would have asked Hitler or Goebbels for copyright on Auschwitz footage.
Of course, the festival is about to screen five Palestinian films.
This vicious and sickening decision must be cancelled immediately!
In a sane world, when a civilian is kidnapped from a music festival and reappears nearly two years later, starved, abused, and filmed digging his own grave, people care.
So where is the Red Cross?
Where is the UN?
Where are the human rights activists?
Do your job.
The UN: Israel must guarantee safe delivery of humanitarian aid to Gaza.
Also the UN: Israel is not allowed to secure that aid or protect the convoys.
Reporter: Isn’t that a contradiction?
The UN: Uhh...Well...Uhhh
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