Richard Lesser

Proud Jew, Zionist, Father and Husband. Love the mighty reds. YNWA 🇮🇱

[Anything Liverpool @AnythingLFC_]

Oh Jurgen we miss you 😅😅

[spiked @spikedonline]

Ireland’s activist class wants to stop the Ireland-Israel football game. Yet they have nothing to say about Ireland’s cricket match with Afghanistan, a misogynist tyranny that treats women like cattle. These people are preposterous, says Brendan O’Neill

https://t.co/0AigeaP860

[Yehuda Teitelbaum @chalavyishmael]

Yitzhak Ben Hebron, the last surviving witness of the 1929 Hebron massacre, has died at age 100.

He was 4 years old when Arab rioters slaughtered 67 Jews in Hebron, raped women, mutilated bodies, looted homes, and destroyed a Jewish community that had existed continuously for centuries.

His mother barricaded their home with a heavy sewing machine before the family escaped through the windows of the Avraham Avinu Synagogue while Arab mobs rampaged through the streets.

His older sister survived by hiding under a bed in the home of Eliezer Dan Slonim, where many Jews had gathered hoping for protection. The attackers murdered those inside anyway. Blood from the victims dripped onto her while she hid and the rioters assumed she was dead. She later testified about the murders and rapes she witnessed and identified perpetrators in police lineups.

After the massacre, the surviving Jews were expelled from Hebron, ending one of the world’s oldest Jewish communities. Yitzhak later fought in the Haganah and Palmach, and after 1967 returned to Hebron with the first Jews rebuilding the community that had been destroyed.

This happened decades before the establishment of Israel. Before “occupation.” Before “settlements.” Before the false accusations of apartheid or genocide. The Jews of Hebron weren't soldiers. They were an ancient minority community living in one of Judaism’s holiest cities, and they were butchered anyway.

People who insist the conflict only exists because of 1967 or Israeli policy can never really explain why Jews in Hebron were hacked to death in 1929.

Why is this so hard for the world to understand?

[Aviva Klompas @AvivaKlompas]

📖 Dictionary of key Palestinian terms:

“Nakba” = War we started and lost

“Genocide” = War Israel wins after being attacked

“Ethnic Cleansing” = Mad we can’t expel all Jews between the river and the sea

“Apartheid” = Crimes committed elsewhere that we vibe with

“Resistance” = Murdering Israeli civilians

“Settler Colonialism” = Erasing Jewish history in Jewish homeland

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

“Nakba”?

[Dan Burmawi @DanBurmawy]

Historian Constantin Zureiq wrote in his 1948 book Ma’na al-Nakba (The Meaning of the Nakba), the catastrophe was that the Arab world started a war, and lost.

When Israel declared independence on May 14, 1948, explicitly inviting Arab residents to remain and help build the new state, five Arab armies invaded, expecting to wipe Israel off the map in a matter of days.

Confident in victory, Arab leaders broadcast calls for "Palestinian" Arabs to temporarily leave, promising they would return after the Jews were annihilated.

700,000 Arabs fled, but 156,000 stayed, and became full citizens of Israel.

Today, their descendants make up over 20% of the Israeli population, with voting rights, representation in government, access to education, and more freedoms than Arabs in all neighboring states.

What caused the exodus?

- Exaggerated accounts of Zionist atrocities, fabricated or amplified by Arab leaders, were deliberately spread.

According to many witnesses, these narratives were intended to instill fear in the hearts of Arabs in neighboring towns and compel them to flee.

- Instructions from Arab leadership to evacuate temporarily, anticipating a swift military victory.

- Fear of disease outbreaks, like cholera.

They say the Nakba hasn’t ended. Because Israel still exists.

They mourn not the consequences of war, they mourn the failure to destroy the Jewish state.

They grieve not because Arabs were displaced, but because Jews survived.

[Josh @_j0sh_a_]

OK this is even more wild.

They literally show a photo of Palestinian Arabs burning a Jewish convoy trying to supply food to Jerusalem (when they attempt to starve the 100K Jews living there).

TF is wrong with these people

[Adam Fisher @AdamRFisher]

This is a devious rhetorical trick. Labeling someone a “Nakba survivor” is designed to evoke instant sympathy and a false sense of moral clarity, but it is little more than taxpayer-funded propaganda.

Consider the absurdity: roughly 99% of Palestinian Arabs alive in 1949 survived the war and its displacements. Calling the displaced a “survivor” stretches the word beyond recognition. It is a newly coined term, crafted in academia and activist circles long after the events.

Its real genius lies in creating false equivalence. It places ordinary Palestinian civilians who were displaced amid a war their own leaders launched on the same moral plane as Holocaust survivors (of whom only about one-third emerged alive).

It airbrushes away the ~6,000 Jews killed in 1948, elevates the ~12,000 Arab deaths, and erases the thousands of Jews forcibly expelled from the Old City of Jerusalem and other areas.

By anointing the displaced as sacred “survivors,” the term invites us to forget that the Nazi-aligned Palestinian leadership rejected the UN partition plan, chose war to prevent any Jewish state, and promised quick victory while urging Arabs to flee.

It glosses over Israel’s Declaration of Independence, which explicitly invited Arab inhabitants to “participate in the upbuilding of the State on the basis of full and equal citizenship.” And it conveniently overlooks the ~150,000 Arabs who stayed put, accepted Israeli citizenship, and whose descendants now form over 20% of Israel’s population.

This is international grievance politics pushed by the Mayor of New York City, who genuinely believes that Palestinians should be able to “return to their homes” – a nonsensical idea designed to justify perpetual victimhood and violence.

The move weaponizes real civilian hardship while inverting roles: turning a war of choice and rejectionism into an unprovoked “catastrophe” inflicted by the intended victims. It sustain grievance and does not nothing to advance peace.

[TheJewishAlly @TheJewishAlly]

Let’s hear from Gaddafi!

A share from the wonderful @HenPapirman

Gaddafi Exposed the “palestinian” Lie in Front of the Arab League (2008).
When Gaddafi said it out loud, the whole room froze.

The “palestinian” identity was never a nation—it was a post 1967 political invention designed to erase Israel.

Watch how he called their bluff in front of every Arab leader.

#Israel #Jews

#palestine #palestinians

[Simone Rodan-Benzaquen @srodan]

Today is “Nakba Day”. The Palestinian Prime Minister posted this image.
Look at it carefully. A figure holds a key and walks toward Jerusalem inside the outline of a Palestine that includes, and replaces, Israel.

The entirety of the land, from the river to the sea. No Israel on the map. The Arabic reads: العودة حق, return is a right.

And then there is the key. Mahmoud Abbas wears one on his lapel at every meeting, every diplomatic summit, every official photograph. It has a precise meaning: the right to return not to Ramallah or to Bethlehem but to Haifa, Jaffa, Acre, Safed, cities inside sovereign Israel, for the millions of descendants of Palestinians who left in 1948.

Notice: descendants. Under every other refugee regime on earth, refugee status belongs to those personally displaced. Children inherit citizenship, not refugee status. Under UNRWA’s unique framework, Palestinian refugee status passes from generation to generation, indefinitely. The great-grandchild of someone who left Haifa in 1948 remains, officially, a refugee from Haifa. What began as a humanitarian designation has become something else: the institutional preservation of a political claim across generations.
A claim whose endpoint, fully implemented, would end Israel.

This is the Palestinian Authority, the leadership Western governments call moderate, continue to fund, and present as the partner for a two-state solution. Which raises an obvious question: a two-state solution with a party whose ideology erases one of the two states?

1948 brought real displacement and real grief; for Palestinians, and in the years that followed, for the nearly one million Jews expelled from Arab countries. Both histories are real. But one grievance has turned into dead-end political ideology.

Unless Palestinians are willing to give up the belief, the hope, I would say, that Israel will one day disappear, no peace, no progress can be made- and by the way, will only convince Israelis that there is no partner for peace anywhere to be found.

Governments, especially those who continuously speak about the need to preserve a two-state solution, cannot constantly avoid this central issue. This cannot be brushed off. It is part of a culture that, unless countered and ultimately abandoned, will only lead to further destruction for the region. @jnbarrot @EmmanuelMacron @WhiteHouse @Keir_Starmer @bundeskanzler @SecRubio @GiorgiaMeloni @kajakallas @vonderleyen @donaldtusk

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

Under Palestinianism, the “Nakba” is “ongoing” as long as the State of Israel exists, since the Jewish state, by definition , serves as the “ongoing” reminder of their shameful failure to defeat the “lowly Jews”.

[Eylon Levy @EylonALevy]

The Palestinian Authority released a video about the “Nakba”… showing Yemenite Jews. Everything about this movement is fake from the bottom up.

[HonestReporting @HonestReporting]

The Nakba is often framed as a story of Jewish cruelty and Palestinian suffering.

But if Arab leaders had accepted partition instead of waging war against the only Jewish state, a Palestinian Arab state could have existed in 1948.

That was the catastrophe: a war they chose, and lost.

[HonestReporting @HonestReporting]

Israel survived and gained territory beyond what the UN Partition Plan had allocated. Egypt took Gaza. Jordan seized the West Bank.

Many Arabs were displaced during the war. Others stayed, and became Israeli citizens. Today, their descendants number more than 2 million.

[HonestReporting @HonestReporting]

"The Nakba" means “catastrophe” in Arabic, but it didn't originally refer to the narrative of Palestinian displacement as it is commonly understood today.

It referred to the Arab world’s failed attempt to destroy the newly re-established Jewish state.🧵

[HonestReporting @HonestReporting]

After 1948, 850,000 Jews were expelled from Arab countries, stripped of citizenship, property, and rights. Israel absorbed them, granted citizenship, and integrated them.

Arab states largely denied Palestinians the same, leaving generations in camps under UNRWA’s unique inherited refugee status.

Israel solved its refugee crisis in one generation. Arab states chose not to solve theirs. Palestinians are still paying the price for that decision.

[Israel Foreign Ministry @IsraelMFA]

In 1947, the UN offered a two-state solution. The Jews said YES. The Arabs said NO. Neighboring Arab countries invaded the young Israel.

If you reject peace and start a war, you can’t claim victimhood. History matters. 🇮🇱

[שלמה פולק @shlomopolak580]

הלוחם הגיבור בן שלי נפל בעזה לפני שנתיים.
בן הגיבור היה אמור לחגוג היום יום הולדת.
שתפו לזכרו של בן שלי גיבור ישראל!!

[Dan Burmawi @DanBurmawy]

You know, this is what people do after going through a genocide.

[GAZAWOOD - the PALLYWOOD saga @GAZAWOOD1]

Gaza’s famine survivors continue partying at full speed.