Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich on Saudi Arabia:
My position is that Israel should not give MBS anything until he gives something in return.
I think we are giving him things. I don't want to elaborate on that.
In my view, that is a mistake.
I demand that bin Salman respect me if he wants me to help him.
I am absolutely not willing to have bin Salman stand against us time after time, spit on us, and then expect us to continue giving him things.
Thank you, @PahlaviReza, for your deeply meaningful message of solidarity and friendship as we mark three years since the horrors of the October 7th terror attacks carried out by Hamas.
Captain Smit Machchhar has shown the world the highest form of courage.
Without fearing for his own life, he fought valiantly and prevented another 9/11 like attack from happening.
140 crore Indians salute Captain Smit and are praying for his well-being.
Captain Smit Machchhar is a HERO.
In the face of the gravest danger and despite being seriously injured, he showed immense courage and an unwavering resolve to protect the lives of others.
His valour helped save hundreds of lives and avert a great tragedy.
India is proud of Captain Machchhar.
Praying for his speedy recovery, renewed strength and good health.
UN Secretary-General António Guterres said: “I have never seen killing and destruction like Gaza in all my years as Secretary-General.”
According to even the most critical reports, Guterres, 70,000 people were killed in the war in Gaza, a large proportion of them Hamas terrorists.
During your years as Secretary-General: more than 600,000 people were massacred or starved to death in Ethiopia.
377,000 died in Yemen — that figure appears in reports issued by your own organization.
150,000 were killed in Sudan and 12 million were displaced.
Hundreds of thousands have been buried in Ukraine.
You didn’t see it? They died before your eyes. You simply looked the other way, because the Jews couldn’t be blamed.
This is the same individual being seen pushed in the video being circulated by police.
So if you push him,@TorontoPolice will blast your face across all main stream news channels and hunt you down, but they have no issue him protesting outside of a synagogue on Yom Kippur.
96% of Jews in Poland were murdered by the Nazis. That is genocide.
3% of Gaza’s population, mostly male combatants, died in the war they started. That is not genocide.
@Ninadrama Gazans spent crazy amounts of money building tunnels under everything including hospitals. They kept our hostages deprived of food and water. They filmed them digging their own graves. What did you think Israel is going to do?
@Ninadrama You cliticize Valentina for “parroting garbage you read on the internet” but this is the exactly what you are doing. When Hamas killed 1200 people in one day. Raped men women and children (yes they raped men). I didn’t see you speak up.
I remember going down to Vegas when the Canadian dollar was at par with USD.
We paid $450 CAD for 4 nights at Planet Hollywood and it included the flight!!
I miss Stephen Harper! 😭
.@edsheeran I brought my wife and two daughters to MetLife Friday because we are huge fans of yours. We arrived early, I spent $180 on two sweatshirts for them, watched the first two opening acts and were having a great time.
Then Macklemore decided to turn your concert into his political rally.
When he started chanting “Free Palestine” and pushing his clearly uneducated version of the Israel/Gaza conflict, my daughters looked at me completely confused. I had brought them to an Ed Sheeran concert, not to have an opening act lecture them about Middle East politics.
After Friday night, I started looking into Macklemore’s history. What I found, including his repeated use of antisemitic tropes, made the whole thing even worse.
So I took my family and walked inside alongside hundreds of your other fans. As we were walking in, even the MetLife security guards were rolling their eyes at what was happening on stage.
We waited until Macklemore was finished before returning to our seats. Then we watched your show, which was phenomenal.
I left Friday hoping maybe this had caught you and your team off guard.
Then tonight you allowed it to happen again.
You knew exactly what Macklemore had done the night before, and you gave him the stage again.
Friday might have been Macklemore’s decision. Saturday was yours.
You have a lot of Jewish fans who love your music, buy your albums and merchandise, and bring their kids to your concerts.
Tonight, you lost four of them. And I suspect plenty more.
@CombatASemitism@StopAntisemites