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@WinnieRottem @iran_news9 נתניהו אמר שייצרו את התנאים להתקוממות. מה העם יעשה עם ההזדמנות זה באחריותו

[upsidedownworld @LioSpiegler]

Hebrew. Another video to remind us who we're dealing with and why any hope for lasting peace has to start first, and probably only, among us Jews.

[upsidedownworld @LioSpiegler]

Hebrew. But what a great pep talk about unity. #unity

[upsidedownworld @LioSpiegler]

Even after the allegations against Force 100 were dropped, & it became clear the so-called rape video was cooked, no one from the Network that broke the story nor anyone from the political left apologized. Until we treat each other like brothers, with love, there will be no peace

[upsidedownworld @LioSpiegler]

When the cancer starts to eat the body of the host.

[upsidedownworld @LioSpiegler]

Of course Gazans just want peace. Ofc they teach their kids to love the other. Ofc they are basically good people who want to grab the first Jew they see and squeeze him tight with kindness. This whole middle east crisis was just one big misunderstanding. #irony

[Mor Edge Insight @MorEdge_Insight]

You wanna know the difference between Israelis and “Palestinians”?

Watch this and very listen carefully

[upsidedownworld @LioSpiegler]

It's 50% cringe and 50% OMG he's right. You make what you want of this politically. But spiritually we're definitely coming to recognize the human illness in all of its glory. It's not Trump's manners or Omar's nefarious activities. It's the fact that we can't trust each other.

[upsidedownworld @LioSpiegler]

עוד ועוד מקרי אלימות קשה בין ילדים. איך זה שיש עדיין מסתננים וילדים של מסתננים שחיים פה בינינו? שואל בשביל חבר.

[Mor Edge Insight @MorEdge_Insight]

This has become one of the most common issues during the war, where leftists in the west push stories and claims about Iran and the media seem to run with it. Yet the voices of Iranians themselves have a different story to tell.

Why do people deny the truth of the Iranian people and replace it with made up lies from those who don’t even know where Iran is on the map?

[Shiri_Sabra @sabra_the]

In April 1948, the Arab leadership of Haifa announced they wanted to evacuate the city.
Not that they were being forced out. Not that they had no choice. They announced it as a decision.

The Jewish mayor broke down in tears and begged them not to go. The British commander told them they were making a serious mistake. The Haganah’s chief officer promised full equality and peace to every Arab who stayed. The answer from the Arab Higher Committee in Beirut was evacuation anyway.

This is one of the most documented moments of 1948. It is also one of the least told.
Before any major military offensive in Haifa, between 25,000 and 30,000 Arabs had already left voluntarily. The fighting hadn’t reached most of their neighborhoods. What had happened was simpler and more damaging: the leadership had left first. British High Commissioner Sir Alan Cunningham documented it in an April 26 telegram, describing the abandonment by Arab municipal officials, military leaders, and the chief Arab magistrate as probably the greatest factor in the collapse of Arab morale in the city. When the people who are supposed to lead a community disappear, the community follows.
On April 22, a meeting was held at city hall to discuss a truce. The terms guaranteed full safety and civil rights to any Arab who stayed. Shabtai Levy, the Jewish mayor, broke down and pleaded personally with the Arab delegates, calling evacuation a cruel crime against their own people. The British commander urged them to reconsider. The Haganah promised equality and peace to anyone who remained.

The Arab Higher Committee in Beirut said go.
What Arab leaders said publicly in the months that followed tells the rest of the story.
The Economist reported in October 1948 that the departure was driven primarily by orders from the Higher Arab Executive, and that Arabs who stayed and accepted Jewish protection were being called renegades by their own leadership. Time magazine reported in May 1948 that the evacuation was partly driven by Arab leaders who hoped withdrawing Arab workers would paralyze the city economically. Emile Ghoury, secretary of the Palestinian Arab Higher Committee, told the Beirut Telegraph in September 1948 that the Arab states had agreed unanimously on the policy that created the refugees and must share in solving the problem. The Jordanian newspaper Falastin wrote in February 1949 that Arab states had encouraged Palestinians to leave temporarily to clear the way for the Arab invasion armies and then failed to help them return. Monsignor George Hakim, the Greek Catholic Bishop of Galilee, told the New York Herald Tribune in June 1949 that the Arabs of Haifa had fled despite the fact that Jewish authorities had guaranteed their safety and rights as citizens.
These aren’t Israeli sources. These are Arab leaders and Arab newspapers, in their own words, from 1948 & 1949.

The word Nakba was coined in August 1948 by a Syrian historian named Constantin Zureiq, a professor at the American University of Beirut. He used it to describe the catastrophic failure of seven Arab armies to defeat the newly declared State of Israel. In his own words, he wrote that seven Arab states declared war on Zionism in Palestine, stopped impotent before it, and then turned on their heels. He described Arab leaders whose declarations fell like bombs from their mouths but whose bombs were hollow and empty, causing no damage and killing no one. Zureiq made no mention of Palestinians as victims. He defined the Nakba as a self-inflicted Arab disaster, a failure of Arab leadership, Arab unity & Arab will.

That is what the word originally meant. A Syrian intellectual criticizing Arab governments for launching a war they were unprepared to win.
Somewhere between 1948 and the 1980s, that meaning was inverted entirely. The word that began as Arab self-criticism became the centerpiece of a narrative in which Arabs were passive victims & Israel was the aggressor

Edite. via: Melissa Steinberg Brodsky

[upsidedownworld @LioSpiegler]

There are gullible people everywhere and folks don't like to be called out. But the inability to agree with facts that contradict your perception of reality is dangerous. We call it 'recognition of evil', a diagnosis of one's illness. At least we know facts are not the solution.

[upsidedownworld @LioSpiegler]

@KonstantinKisin Unless you correct the human, no amount of good or equal external conditions will create the paradise we're after. Understanding the human ego, or desire to receive pleasure at the expense of everyone and everything, is the starting point.

[upsidedownworld @LioSpiegler]

October 7 was not another holocaust. Comparing it to one is belittling the latter while misrepresenting the former. It was a horrific terror attack and it's not a competition. But Jews in Israel today are at a far better place compared to 2.5 years ago and 80 years ago.

[upsidedownworld @LioSpiegler]

The Ulpan-o-meter is an independent content creator that measures real engagement across the 5 mainstream TV news channels in Israel. It helps bridge the gap between people's agendas and reality. A useful service these days. This time, it's channel 13 on the operation table.

[upsidedownworld @LioSpiegler]

Upside down world indeed.

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Hamas and their supporters just want to live a peaceful life alongside a Jewish state. Right?

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Source: Abu Ali Express

[upsidedownworld @LioSpiegler]

Before we all drown in some fake news about the Iran war achievements, here's what have we gained so far from Operation “Roar of the Lion”: A non-exhaustive list in the thread.

[upsidedownworld @LioSpiegler]

Israel continues to push Hezbollah beyond the Litani River despite the ceasefire — this effort remains unaffected. More aerial assets are now available for this mission following the ceasefire with Iran.