The Dell family gave 7 billion dollars directly to American children. And instead of gratitude, there's much discussion of a 62 year old woman's looks. We are at a pre-Flood level debasement of God's creation.
On October 9, 1994, Hamas terrorists kidnapped 19-year-old Nachshon Wachsman, an Israeli-American serving in the IDF’s Golani Brigade.
They kidnapped him while he was hitchhiking near Jerusalem and held him hostage in the West Bank/Judea and Samaria. Hamas then released a chilling video showing Nachshon bound and threatening to murder him unless Israel freed senior Hamas leaders. On October 14, 1994, during a daring rescue attempt by Israel’s elite Sayeret Matkal, Hamas brutally murdered Nachshon.
Nearly three decades later, Hamas’ campaign of terror and kidnappings continues. On October 7, 2023, Hamas carried out unspeakable atrocities in southern Israel, kidnapping, raping, and murdering civilians.
Nachshon’s story is a reminder that Hamas’s agenda of terror is not new and that Hamas must be destroyed.
May Nachshon’s memory be a blessing. We will never forget. 🕯️
Waiting at gate at Tel Aviv airport to go back to US, checked my email. A reader of my Substack wrote this below. It's terrifying to me, but we have to know this is real, so we can fight it. I'm a 59-year-old Gen Xer; v. few people my age & older have any idea this is going on.
Henri Kagan who hid in a French village under an assumed name because he is a Jew, won the Nobel prize in Chemistry yesterday at the age of 95. Once more a Jew who survives becomes a benefactor to humanity.
We lost another hero in Lebanon.
Captain Eliav Haim Tzapalamus, 21, a combat officer in the 603rd Battalion of the 7th Armored Brigade.
May his memory forever be a blessing🕯️
Two people made a major contribution to Israel’s public discourse this week: Avinatan Or and Brett McGurk. One spent the war in Hamas’s tunnels, the other in the White House. Both laid out this week, in plain language, from right inside the events themselves, two positions that had until now been dismissed here as a desire for death, cynical politics and abandoning hostages. Or, held for two years in Gaza’s tunnels, explained in simple Hebrew why disproportionate deals with Hamas would only bring more kidnappings in the future. McGurk, Joe Biden’s senior adviser, explained in simple English that no such deal was ever really on the table anyway, until the military sword was at the terror organization’s throat.
I watched Avinatan Or on the Israeli 60 minutes, “Uvda” and felt ashamed all over again at how his mother, Ditza Or, was treated in real time for daring to say the same things. She and other parents from the Tikva Forum were portrayed as having abandoned their children, while those pushing for capitulation were cast as something like adoptive parents of our hostages. It was one more example of the distortion by which the people credited with bringing the hostages home aren’t the soldiers who risked their lives in Gaza, but those who protested demanding that Hamas’s demands be met (demands that, as noted, never actually crystallized into a real proposal). I also thought of Elchanan Kalmanzon, who fell in Be’eri on the morning of October 8, and who, months earlier at one of the Kaplan protests, had someone shout “you draft-dodger” at him, just because they saw his kippah. Certain elements on this side of the debate put no effort into actually arguing the case—only into trying to frame the opposing view as illegitimate.
I listened to Brett McGurk across a series of interviews and was reminded again how shallow, how skewed our discourse here really is. Only in a world like this could Nitzan Alon, who headed the IDF’s directorate for the hostage issue, toss out quotes like “they could have freed everyone earlier” into the public sphere without having to answer to the facts. In a world like this, you can publish books and “investigations” that portray Hamas as eager to make a deal and Israel as the hard-hearted, indifferent party determined to fight forever. Hostage families are allowed to say absolutely anything in real time (unless, of course, we’re talking about the Or and Mor families). But for commentators and experts, telling the truth is also an option.
Judged by results, and contrary to every accusation and prediction, every time a hostage deal was put forward, Israel’s government approved it by an overwhelming majority. The moment a proposal to end the war on terms Israel could live with landed on the table, the government backed it. The polls—in which Benjamin Netanyahu actually hit a high right after the deal was signed—also show just how foolish the claim was that Netanyahu wanted an endless war because it was the smart political move for him.
Until October 2025, and no amount of lying will change this, no proposal was ever put forward that would let Israel both get back all the hostages and avoid retreating to the old, bleeding border. As McGurk explained, patiently, as if to a struggling child, every framework involved an immediate withdrawal from Gaza down to the last Israeli soldier, with the hostages released in an agonizing drip-feed that, according to Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, was never meant to end. Anyone who claims there’s no difference between a Gaza with hostages and no IDF and a Gaza with no hostages and an IDF presence is either ignorant or a propagandist and ought to be kept as far from public platforms as possible.
I also suspect the public has noticed—despite every attempt to muddy the waters—a strange pattern: the same people who argued for two years that Hamas had been defeated and the war could therefore end are now the ones arguing that Hamas is stronger than ever and the war is a failure. Voters will make Netanyahu pay for the gap between his promise of total victory and the reality on the ground. But if forced to choose at the ballot box between two ways of describing the situation in the Middle East—total victory or total failure—they won’t choose failure.
This is Eden Nimri. She died a hero, confronting terrorists single-handedly saving 17 lives.
She was 22. Commander of an all-female team in the elite “Sky Riders” unit. Lover of swimming, fashion, photography…her mom said she had dreams from “here to Honolulu.” But she never had the chance to live those dreams.
In the morning of October 7 she woke to the air-raid sirens. Still in her pajamas, she grabbed her rifle, and ran with soldiers to a bomb shelter.
There were two entrances to the shelter. She sent a few soldiers to cover one, and she went to the other alone. Eden knew hers was the more dangerous position, but instead of sending one of her soldiers there she took it herself.
Minutes later the terrorists came. Eden held off the attackers at her entrance while the women behind her were able to escape.
Witnesses said that when she ran out of ammunition she fought with her bare hands.
She never made it out of the shelter. She died fighting, and she’s directly credited with saving 17 people.
Her family wants her to be remembered for four things: Heroism, Excellence, Courage, and Humility.
Today, we remember Eden and all others whose lives were tragically taken on October 7. ❤️🩹
Today the paywall was lifted (temporarily?) on my article from three years ago “Ecstasy and Amnesia in the Gaza Strip.” It was my attempt in the first weeks after October 7 to understand a current event as a historical one. https://t.co/SuncMQqUr4
“They shot me in the legs. They murdered everybody. I’m not going to make it.”
On Oct 7, when rocket sirens broke out, Amit Man, a medic, ran to Kibbutz Be’eri Medical Clinic to help.
She spent hours desperately treating the critically wounded while Palestinian terrorists slaughtered her friends and neighbors.
Amit knew they were nearing her clinic and could have fled, but she heroically refused to leave the injured and dying behind.
Everyone in the clinic, including the helpless and sick, were murdered when Palestinian terrorists broke inside.
This picture was taken exactly three years ago.
Something inside me broke when I learned this newly orphaned baby is the son of Hadar and Itay Berdichesky from Kibbutz Kfar Azza who got killed while fighting to defend their babies.
The twin babies survived and were left alone for many hours until they were rescued by these Israeli medics.
I cry every time I see this picture 💔
TERRORIST: “Hello, dad! Dad, I am inside Mefalsim [Israel]—open your WhatsApp right now, and see all the killed. Look at how many I killed with my own hands! Your son killed Jews!”
FATHER: “Allahu Akhbar, Allahu Akhbar! May God protect you.”
TERRORIST: “This is inside Mefalsim, father. I am talking to you from the phone of a Jew—I killed her and her husband—I killed ten with my own hands.”
“Open your phone and see how many I killed, father. Open your phone, I am calling you on WhatsApp.”
FATHER: Crying (unintelligible).
TERRORIST: “I am in Meflasim, father. I killed ten! Ten! Ten, with my own bare hands! Their blood is on my hands! Let me talk to Mom—”
MOTHER: “Oh, my son, may God protect you!”
TERRORIST: “I killed ten all by myself, mother!”
FATHER: “May God bring you home safely.”
TERRORIST: “Father, go back to WhatsApp! I want to call you live from Mefalsim!”
MOTHER: “I wish I was there with you!”
TERRORIST: “Mother, your son is a hero. I was the first to enter under the guidance and with the help of Allah. Father, lift your head—lift your head!”
(Talking to terrorists on the scene: “Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill them! Inside, inside, into the city!”)
BROTHER: “Mahmoud, Mahmoud. Come back [to Gaza]—that's enough, return.”
TERRORIST: “Return? There is no return—it is victory or martyrdom. My mother gave birth to me for Islam, Alaa. Are you serious? How will I return? Look at WhatsApp—look at your phone—look at all the dead.”
שורד השבי אלי שרעבי שיתף מילים אישיות שכתב לאשתו ליאן ולבנותיו נויה ויהל ז"ל שנרצחו בביתן בקיבוץ בארי ולאחיו יוסי שרעבי ז"ל שנהרג לאחר שנחטף לעזה. אתם הייתם שם יום יום איתי בתוך המנהרות. הייתם איתי ביום השחרור ואתם איתי גם עכשיו. הבטחתי לכם שאעשה הכול כדי שלא נשכח. ואני עומד פה ובטוח שאתם שומעים. אז תדעו - אני לא שוכח, ישראל לא שוכחת אתכם. דרישת שלום מחיים אחרים".
שרעבי חתם לקול מחיאות כפיים רמות בקהל: "לזכור מה קרה. לחקור איך קרה. לא לעגל פינות. לא לתת לזמן לטשטש את האמת, לא לשכתב את ההיסטוריה, ולא לתת להיסטוריה לחזור על עצמה. רק אם נתקן נוכל לבנות כאן מקום בטוח יותר, ראוי יותר, טוב יותר. זאת התקווה שלנו"
It’s been three years since her son was taken and just over two since he was found dead in a tunnel under the Gaza Strip, but for Rachel Goldberg-Polin, the grief remains. https://t.co/uve5lrXdNe
“I love you. See you soon” - Those were Yosef Malachi’s last words to his wife on October 7th before rushing to defend the homeland.
He fell in battle and never came back home.
Remember him.
On October 7, 2023, some 1,200 people were brutally murdered by terrorists who attacked Israel.
Staff Sgt. Adir Bogale was one of them.
May his memory be a blessing. 🕯️
Some of the powerful moments we witnessed as the last remaining living hostages kidnapped by Hamas into Gaza on October 7, 2023, finally returned home to the arms of their loved ones in October 2025.
We will never forget what they endured. We will never forget those murdered on October 7 and those who never made it home from captivity alive. And we will never forgive the horrors of October 7.