Marty Paz

International Real Estate Agent, Legroom Connoisseur, Man of Mystery

[Marty Paz @MrpAlert]

#oneverycorner #sweepstakes @Enterprise

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Can anyone score me a yellow Spirit carpet?

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Next year (back) in Israel!

[Sesame Street @sesamestreet]

Sending love to all our friends celebrating Passover! 💛💚 #HappyPassover

[Marty Paz @MrpAlert]

This is not the welcome to America that I expected.

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@flySFO international arrivals escalator Moving walkway by G8 has black ink smeared all over

[Zach Griff @_ZachGriff]

I built a free live TSA wait time tracker that shows live wait times by checkpoint, including Precheck, Clear, and priority (where available).

I did it because:
- TSA lines are insane
- Existing tools offer estimated waits
- Test the power of AI tools

https://t.co/NvjNUmSwXp

[Reverend Jordan Wells @WellsJorda89710]

🚨To every Black person tempted by the antisemitic wave sweeping right now:🚨

Back when white mobs lynched us in the streets...
When we had no money, no power, and literally no movement...

Who stood with us? Who risked everything?

The Jews.

They weren't just allies—they were family in the fight.
- Jewish leaders co-founded the NAACP in 1909 and funded/led it for generations when no one else would.
- When Dr. King and our people were arrested, beaten, jailed—Jewish lawyers defended us for free, and Jewish money paid bail bonds and court fees while others turned away.
- In Freedom Summer '64, half the white volunteers risking death to register Black voters? Jewish.
- Rabbi Heschel marched arm-in-arm with MLK in Selma—our struggles linked forever.

Without their blood, treasure, solidarity, and courage—there is no Civil Rights Movement as we know it. No Voting Rights Act. No dream realized.

That's why I stand with the Jews.
They were our only true friends when this country hated us—when doors slammed shut and ropes hung high. They showed up, bled, and built with us.

So to my people joining this demonic, divisive hate today:

Pause. Remember. Honor the alliance that freed us.

Our histories are bound. Our freedoms were won together.

Betray that, and you betray the very martyrs who died for our rights.

Black-Jewish unity forged the dream. Don't let hate destroy it.

I stand with my Jewish brothers and sisters—always. ✊🏾🤝✡️🇮🇱

Repost if truth > trends. If gratitude > division. If history matters.

#BlackJewishAlliance #RememberOurAllies #StandTogether #CivilRightsTruth #NoToAntisemitism

[Ambassador Mike Huckabee @GovMikeHuckabee]

This is a long post but a reflection of life during the first week of the war from my seat on the front row right in the bullseye.

It's 7:30am in Jerusalem. It's Shabbat. Quiet except for the missile alert siren at 5am this morning. Been exactly a week since war with Iran began. @janethuckabee & I & our 2 little dogs have been living in the Command Center, sleeping on cots to be able to deal with the moment by moment situation. Janet and the dogs are adjusting but they don't like the painfully loud sirens warning of incoming missiles, rockets & drones. It's a 24 hr a day schedule. When sirens aren't forcing everyone to shelter to dodge incoming ballistic missiles, the phone rings day and through the night w/ updates on everything from military activities to managing the embassy duties while our team is sheltering in place and working from home. Some in our mission, especially those with small children have evacuated on "authorized departure" which allows gov't staff to return to the US during a war or crisis. We are working around the clock to help evacuate American citizens trying to get back home. In the first days of the war, it was both difficult & dangerous to move people with all airspace closed & overland routes to Egypt or Jordan more risky than "sheltering in place." Totally fake news stories said "nothing was being done" to help Americans. Total lie. In the early hours and first days of war, the safest decision & what we urged our own Embassy personnel to do was stay close to shelter. Slowly, as the "battle rhythm" developed, we started physical evacuation first via buses to Egypt. There has been constant coordination with State Dept in DC to evacuate Americans SAFELY & promptly. 2 days ago, very limited flights started coming IN to Israel to bring Israelis home. We worked with El Al Airlines, the Israeli gov't & w/ State Dept Task Force in DC to get as many people on outbound planes as possible on the limited number of flights. It has been a 24 hr a day operation. Seeing utterly false news stories that US wasn't "doing anything" was a shock to embassy staff who have been busting their backsides, functioning with little or no sleep & themselves having to rush to bomb shelters repeatedly during the day and night & only having 90 seconds to take cover. We have now successfully evacuated thousands of people using every means possible, but focusing on helping people get home SAFELY. I'm proud of our team here. If you are an American citizen & taxpayer, you should be as well. I was amused to read comments online that I had returned to the US. Hardly. The Ambassador is the last one to leave. It's how it works. First duty is to America citizens. They are our real bosses. All of us here at the mission work for them. We know that & we work with that in mind. My other duty is to care for our team here. To insure the well-being of their families & to encourage our staff to take care of their physical and mental health as ballastic missiles the size of 18 wheel trucks come hurling toward us. I tried to get my wife to evacuate, but not surprisingly she would have none of it. She has weathered it with me even though there is no paycheck for her to sleep on a cot & endure days of making meals from PBJ sandwiches & things we had in the freezer at the residence we brought with us. No complaints though. It's a privilege to serve our country and its people & we are proud to serve @POTUS who courageous decision to stop the Iranian Regime's determined 47 year campaign to kill Americans & build a nuclear weapon to attack the US is something that should have happened long before. This war probably seems so far from those of you who live 6000 miles or more away from it, but rest assured the President wants to keep it that far away & end the threat completely. Had the fanatical religious zealots obtained a nuclear warhead and finalized long-range ballistic capability (and they were getting close to both) they would have used it on America. This is not a "war for Israel" as some of the very uninformed media voices and podcasters crow about. They are "often wrong, but never in doubt." I'm amazed at how lacking in facts some of them are but filled with an arrogant confidence that what they say is true. But they are far removed from the eyewitness intel & the front row seat I have. While they enjoy hefty paychecks from the "clicks" by being provocative, just know that halfway around the globe you have dedicated men & women who work for you for paychecks far less than they should be. They are on duty in war conditions & will continue at the task of serving Americans caught in the middle of a war. God Bless America, our courageous men & women in our military, & God Bless the men & women of YOUR Embassy in Israel!

[Marty Paz @MrpAlert]

@ByERussell @lesliejosephs I once flew from France to Australia on United. It was a long flight.

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@xJonNYC Allegiant has killed it on SMX-LAS for years.

[The Dor Brothers @thedorbrothers]

We just made a $200,000,000 AI movie in just one day.

Yes, this is 100% AI.

[Marty Paz @MrpAlert]

@hwbhatti Lemon

[HonestReporting @HonestReporting]

Did you see the viral video of Swiss commentator Stefan Renna accusing Israeli bobsledder Adam Edelman of supporting “genocide in Gaza” during live broadcast coverage of his race?

Let’s slow this down.

This isn’t just about one rogue sports commentator.
It isn’t just about Switzerland. Or bobsled. Or television.

We’ve seen this pattern before.

Graham Norton openly joked during Eurovision that he was glad Israel didn’t win.

A British broadcaster using prime-time commentary to express relief that the world’s only Jewish state lost.

Now a sports commentator using an Olympic broadcast to accuse an individual Israeli athlete of genocide while he’s literally competing.

Notice the shift.

The accusation isn’t directed at a government.
It isn’t aimed at a policy.
It isn’t even framed as political debate.

It’s attached to a person.
An Israeli.
On a sports field.

That’s the normalization stage.

When public platforms start treating Israelis – and by extension Jews – not as individuals, but as moral stand-ins for alleged collective crimes.

History doesn’t begin with uniforms and marching.
It begins with narratives.

With language.
With repetition.
With “of course they support that.”
With smirks.
With commentary that would be unthinkable if applied to any other nationality or group.

In 1930s Europe, the groundwork wasn’t laid by camps.
It was laid by constant insinuation.
By portraying Jews as uniquely malignant.
Collectively guilty.
Morally contaminated.

No – this is not 1938.

But this is what the early stages of dehumanization look like:
• Collective blame
• Public shaming
• Cultural normalization
• The idea that exclusion or hostility is justified

When commentators feel comfortable injecting moral condemnation of Jewish athletes into sports coverage, something deeper has shifted.

And if people shrug and say, “It’s just a comment,” that’s part of the process too.

Because the dangerous moments in history rarely announce themselves loudly at first.

They seep in.
They normalize.
They spread.

And then everyone later says, “How did this happen?”

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

The New York Post just revealed that the Gazan doctor who wrote two opinion pieces in the New York Times, accusing Israel of genocide after October 7th, is actually a Hamas terrorist himself.

It turns out that Dr. Hussam Abu Safyia is a Hamas Colonel.

[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

BBC talks about Holocaust Remembrance Day today but can't seem to remember what group the "6 million people" were...

I guess "No Jews No News" doesn't apply when Jews are the ones being killed.

Yes, other groups were killed in the Holocaust, but this specific number of 6 million, were Jews. The Holocaust was a genocide of Jews. If you can’t say that, what kind of journalist are you?

[Marty Paz @MrpAlert]

@LiveandLetsFly The link after “Third, businesses will go and here’s why. I mentioned in this article” isnt displaying.

[Arsen Ostrovsky @Ostrov_A]

During the Dec 14th Bondi attack in which I was shot, one of the amazing lifesavers left the nearby surf club and with no regard to her own safety, ran towards the site of the attack.

She looked after me, held my hand, helped apply first aid, while speaking to me the whole time to ensure I remained conscious and then accompanied me to the ambulance. She helped many others too.

For over a month now since the attack, I had been trying - unsuccessfully - to find her, to say Thank You. Even on the flight from Sydney to Parliament in Canberra this week, I sat next to the President of Surf Life Saving NSW and told him as well. He promised he would find out.

While in Parliament for the Condolence Motion, a group of surf life savers came to also attend the motion, and rightfully be acknowledged for the heroes and incredible role models that they are.

As I was readying to go into the Parliament chamber for the motion, this young woman comes up to me and says: “Hi, I’m Anna. Do you remember me? I held your hand at Bondi.” It was her. I simply fell into her arms, with tears flowing yet again.

Today, I nominated her for the Governor-General's Australia Day Bravery Award.

[📸: With Anna, at Parliament House, Canberra]

[Hollywood Horror Museum @horrormuseum]

If you are a Star Trek fan, you will appreciate this video of this lady performing Frozen in Klingon!!!

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@FlyingHighRyan Still getting the spam page 2 seconds after the article opens.

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@FlyingHighRyan Clicking thru to the article brings up a persistent ad.