Michael Lewis

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[Dean Phillips @deanbphillips]

Dear fellow Democrats:

The Iranian regime is responsible for 74% of recorded executions in the world, puts people to death for being gay, arrests people for failing to wear a hijab or walking their dog, and employs “Death to America” among its favored slogans.

To those claiming to oppose oppression, this would be a good time to show it.

[Alex גדעון בן װעלװל @JewishWonk]

The Iranians are once again indiscriminately bombing civilians. I was told by many loud mouths with blue hair and keffiyehs that this is a bad thing to do. I can't find any of their condemnations for some reason.

[Ritchie Torres @RitchieTorres]

When Iran calls for the destruction of Israel, no one cries ‘escalation.’

When Iran wages a shadow war on Israel through proxies like Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis (to name only a few), no one cries ‘escalation.’

The selective cries of escalation only seem to come when Israel dares to defend itself in response to Iranian aggression.

[Israel ישראל @Israel]

Pray for the wounded.

[AIPAC 🇺🇸🇮🇱 @AIPAC]

The war in Gaza ends today if Hamas surrenders and frees the hostages.

[Michael Lewis @MichaelFLewis]

MLB Home run derby, but also reminding everyone that it’s past time for John Fisher to #SellTheTeam

[COGAT @cogatonline]

It's 4pm on a Saturday:
The @UN collected only 135 aid trucks, out of the 600 trucks waiting for them on the Palestinian side of Kerem Shalom.
We were ready at 6:30am- they arrived at 10am.
We suggested that they will do another round but they decline.
The @UN agencies need to scale up.

[Avi Mayer אבי מאיר @AviMayer]

It is now becoming clear—based on investigations by both the media and the IDF—that the fire that killed Palestinian civilians in Rafah was caused by weapons stored by Hamas next to a UN shelter and not by the Israeli munitions.

This is hugely significant. Who will report it?

[Cole Sullivan @cole_sull]

Right now in Dallas:
🪫200k people without power
🚒800 DFR calls, at one point every single apparatus was on a call
🌲625 downed tree calls
🚦370 traffic signals out, more expected as power outages continue
@wfaa

[COGAT @cogatonline]

We are working in cooperation with the Israeli Navy and the US to operate the temporary floating pier for humanitarian aid in Gaza.

Yesterday (Wed), 27 trucks containing 371 pallets of humanitarian aid were transferred to the logistics centers belonging to international aid agencies in the Gaza Strip.

In parallel, the Kerem Shalom and Erez crossings are open, and hundreds of aid trucks continue to enter the Gaza Strip.

[COGAT @cogatonline]

Kerem Shalom and Erez crossings are open and operating as usual. Hundreds of aid trucks are inspected and transferred into Gaza.

We welcome aid coordinations from all actors and encourage the UN organizations to coordinate as well - we are here to facilitate.

[ד״ר עינת וילף Dr. Einat Wilf @EinatWilf]

So you want to recognize the state of Palestine? By all means. Go ahead. Just make sure to note that since Palestine is a state, no-one living in it is or can be or will be recognized by your country as a "refugee from Palestine", that you are therefore defunding UNRWA, that there is no such thing as a "right of return" into another sovereign state in which one has never been a citizen or ever lived.

If you're not ready to so as a package, then please don't pretend that the purpose of recognizing Palestine is to promote "a two state solution". Given that there was never a moment in the last century when there was an Arab Palestinian vision of peace and two states where one of the states is Jewish - which means acceptance that no-one is a "refugee from Palestine" when already living there or as citizens of Jordan and other countries, and that there is no such "right of return" into the territory of the sovereign state of Israel of people who were never its citizens - then now might be a great time to start clarifying that.

A recognition of a state of Palestine is a great way to finally clarify - is the other state in the "two state solution" the Jewish state of Israel? Or, is it, as Palestinians continue to believe, a temporary aberration that will revert to being Arab in due course?It is high time to ensure that any vision of peace by two states means that one of these two state is Jewish. And if not, it would be nice to finally know that your country recognizes Palestine because it believes that "from water to water Palestine will be Arab" - the original Arab version of "From the River to the Sea" - and that there is no room for Jewish sovereignty anywhere. Precisely the vision that animated Hamas October 7th attack and the continued support it enjoys among Palestinians. If this is why your country is recognizing Palestine, it would be a good time for Israel to finally know that.

If not, if you genuinely believe in a two-state solution where one of the two is Jewish, then get off your bum and make it clear - that recognition of Palestine comes with a strong declaration and policy that no-one living in it is or can be or will be recognized by your country as a "refugee from Palestine", that you are therefore defunding UNRWA, that there is no such thing as a "right of return" into another sovereign state in which one has never been a citizen or ever lived. Then we'll know you're serious. Anything else is lazy virtue signaling, worthy of an Anthropology student in the US, not a government of a proper country.

[Israel ישראל @Israel]

Heart stopping performance.

We love you Eden.

מלכה שלנו 🤞🇮🇱

[Israel ישראל @Israel]

“I’m still alive
The Nation of Israel is alive
This is the song that grandpa sang yesterday to dad and today it’s me”

Watch Holocaust survivors, their children and grandchildren come together to sing “Hai” by Ofra Haza.

A day after Holocaust Memorial Day we honor the memory of the victims and promise to continue their legacy.

📸 @koolulam

[Jared Moskowitz @JaredEMoskowitz]

The Egyptians blame Hamas for trying to sabotage the ceasefire deal. Hamas doesn’t want a ceasefire. They want more Palestinian death. And they are emboldened by what’s happening in this country.

[COGAT @cogatonline]

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1/8 Israel has continuously enhanced its humanitarian efforts to increase aid into Gaza, spearheading initiatives that significantly improve conditions in both northern and southern Gaza. while addressing security concerns related to Hamas.
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[Eylon Levy @EylonALevy]

Update:

Hamas not only shot 10 rockets at the Kerem Shalom humanitarian aid crossing… it did so from a launch post 350 meters away from civilian shelters.

Hamas is perfectly clear about what it means by “martyring” its own civilians for the sake of jihad. Don’t let it.

[Eylon Levy @EylonALevy]

In recent days, Hamas has:

🚀 forced the closure of Kerem Shalom by firing rockets at it
🚀hijacked the first aid convoy through the new northern crossing
🚀shot mortars at the humanitarian corridor
🚀disrupted aid from going north
🚀 prevented civilians from receiving aid

[Hussain Abdul-Hussain @hahussain]

I was born Muslim and lived all my life as an Arab. There was not a single day that I felt like a minority, that my mother tongue or culture was threatened with extinction, or that people singled me out because of my color, language or whatever I say or do. We have 21 Arab countries, half of them are dumpsters not worth being called states.

The total mass of territories under Arab sovereignty is 13.3 million sq km. The total mass of Israel with Palestinian Territories is 25 thousand sq km. Yet, somehow, the majority of Arabs think that conceding this tiny fraction of land to Jewish sovereignty is the end of the world, and that our salvation is incumbent on destroying Jewish nationhood.

My closest friends are Jews with an Arab mother tongue. Their life experience has been the total opposite experience of mine, suffering discrimination, unfair treatment (socially and politically) and everything that we today call antisemitism. Naftali Bennet captures it beautifully in his Post below.

You don't have to be pro-Israel. You only have to be fair and graceful. A negligible 25k thousand sq km allows Jews to maintain their culture -- including language and traditions -- and pass them onto their off springs like all other cultures do. Jewish existence in the midst of Arabs offers desperately needed diversity and breaks the liberty-suppressing uniformity of the Arab/Muslim world.

But no, we Arabs, who cannot even sort out the endless bloody feud between Sunni and Shia, who force minorities like Druze, Alawis and others to hide their faith, think that Jews will have a blast living under our sovereignty, a fantasy that not a single stretch of our history can substantiate.

And now on top of it all, we the Arabs got anyone with insecurity from other nations (Western and non-Arab Muslims) to join our own craziness and cheer for us.

It's incumbent on us, Arabs, to stand up and say no. Our world will only be fixed with our own hands and our own ideas. Time to break taboos and think outside the silly Palestine box.

Signed: Arab peace with Israel and liberty everywhere