“They are the infidels. They are evil. They are the enemy.”
@LelandVittert on the conversation with a Palestinian suicide bomber that, for him, clarified the moral asymmetry of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
“Are the Israelis perfect? No—but that’s what they’re up against.”
🇮🇱 26 medals for Israel’s science teams!
These brilliant young minds brought home
🥇 8 golds
🥈 13 silvers
🥉 5 bronzes
🎖️ 1 honourable mention
A record-breaking Olympiad season!
📸 Education Ministry and the Future Scientists Center
Now that we’re out, I can speak freely about some of the things I’ve learned having accidentally found myself in a war zone, hunkering down with Israelis and other tourists in Tel Aviv shelters:
- I appear to have underestimated the power of trauma bonding
- Israelis’ insistence of living as normal of a life as possible under the most abnormal conditions is truly something to be in awe of
- there’s this thing you can do where you enter a liminal space of half-sleep so you straddle the awake world and the sleep world so you never miss a siren
- your high cortisol + adrenaline levels become a new baseline and your awareness of it fades away
- every barrage is a game of Russian roulette. Knowing your life is at the mercy of both technology and fate permanently changes the chemistry of your brain cells
- there is something truly clarifying about being in a shelter while hypersonic missiles dance overhead. You look at the person you’re in the shelter with - is this the one I want to share the terror of imminent extinction with? Have I lived well? Did I treat my family and friends right? Have I forgiven?
- while I was afraid on several occasions, I still consider it the privilege of a lifetime to witness history in the making
- the frisson of real danger cannot be replicated in our safe, prosperous societies back home. It is invigorating and forces one to jettison all utopian and luxury beliefs
- it’s inspiring to see young people exhibit qualities that in the West hasn’t been seen since WWII - resilience, duty and sacrifice
- the delta between what was going on in the kinetic war and the information war was observable; too many lies were spread in the fog of war which were far too easily believed (some big account confidently asserted that 1/3 of Tel Aviv was destroyed, which I could see with my own eyes was clearly not the case)
- there is a lot more diversity of opinion inside Israel than is apparent from the outside
- the shared, bedrock consensus that has been hammered into the consciousness of Jews because of their deep history and sense of self is a great strength the West sorely needs to emulate
My husband’s cousin Tsachi was kidnapped from his home in Israel by Hamas. He was dragged to Gaza barefoot, covered in his daughter’s blood. He never came back alive.
How DARE you use that word.
One of the most amazing clips you could ever watch is this clip of Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir absolutely demolishing Qatar during a @CFR_org panel in 2019. @AdelAljubeir
Adel al-Jubeir lays out the case against Qatar perfectly while explaining why the UAE and Saudi Arabia want nothing to do with Qatar.
It’s a shame that more US national security officials aren’t speaking about Qatar the way Adel Aljubeir is, especially given Qatar’s history of funding anti-Trump and anti-American Activities in the US.
Could you imagine how much investment potential into the US by UAE and Saudi Arabia could be unlocked simply by the US agreeing to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist org?
It’s a great thing how the UAE and Saudi Arabia have both designated the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization and both countries have called out the Qataris for funding the Muslim Brotherhood. Jordan recently banned the Muslim Brotherhood, a great decision by @KingAbdullahII.
This is called moral clarity, and it’s important that we remind Americans how the Muslim Brotherhood is funded by Qatar. And it’s Qatar that is funding all of the political violence in America via BLM, ANTIFA, and the Palestinian movement. These are the same people who openly call for President Trump to be assassinated.
I think it would be incredible for the US to join UAE and Saudi Arabia in designating the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist org and to tell Qatar we won’t tolerate them funding the Muslim Brotherhood anymore.
Please watch and share this clip. It’s very profound.
The mental gymnastics, reverse causality, and revisionist history that far leftists engage in to normalize jihad is no accident, and I’m no longer pretending that it is
"We Indian Jews have adopted Hindu traditions, that is why we are also known as Hinjews in Israel" ~ Actress Madhura Naik.
On 7th October 2023, Hamas terrorists killed her sister & brother-in-law in front of their children in Israel.
When Madhura posted about them, she was abused by Hamas supporters on social media.