Mr. Stevens

man from Europe
gay, not queer
love books, travel, music
stage IV cancer, living precious moments
support Israel & Jews everywhere
amante de la cultura hispana

[Mr. Stevens @STPO79]

Whenever I feel down, I watch this

https://t.co/30ybrSnpcB

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

Cameraman sacrificed his job for this

[Ahmad Mansour @AhmadMansour__]

Lahav Shapira, 30, wurde am vergangenen Freitag in einer Bar im Berliner Bezirk Mitte von einem 23-jährigen arabischen Studenten angegriffen, nachdem dieser ihn durch seine Aktivitäten für Israel und für die Freilassung von Geiseln erkannt hatte. Der Angriff führte zu schweren Verletzungen: Lehav ist der Enkel von Amitzur Shapira, einem Leichtathletik-Trainer und Mitglied der israelischen Delegation bei den Olympischen Spielen in München, der beim Massaker an israelischen Sportlern durch die Terrororganisation Schwarzer September bei den Olympischen Spielen 1972 ermordet wurde.

[SILBER-FRAU @silverfrau]

😍TREUE ist, den Freund nicht aufzugeben, auch wenn die Lage hoffnungslos erscheint!😍 (Vogel gegen Fenster geknallt)

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

Horse joined the 1997 Critérium International race in the South of France.

[Mattenjahre @Mattenjahre]

Darin steckt leider sehr viel Wahres

[Buitengebieden @buitengebieden]

Surprise! 😂 https://t.co/rrozz4jNib

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

French TV show invited people with unusual laughs to sit together

[Mr. Stevens @STPO79]

@CancerCanuck @ThanksCancer Never heard bells; but am stage 4 & palliative since July 2022. This September -14 months later- went to Florence to celebrate 20th anniv. with partner. Saw most beautiful cathedral in the world & discovered a new fave song! We gotta live & love & enjoy🎶
https://t.co/uwWAj8baoA

[Fascinating @fasc1nate]

When Albert Einstein met Charlie Chaplin in 1931, Einstein said, "What I admire most about your art is its universality. You do not say a word, and yet the world understands you." "It's true." Replied Chaplin, "But your fame is even greater. The world admires you, when no one understands you."

[Tansu Yegen @TansuYegen]

Free cleaning service🤩

[Nature is Amazing ☘️ @AMAZlNGNATURE]

this California Condor was released and decided to show of his incredible wings

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

We said ‘never again.’ The UK was a safe haven. Now, after the biggest massacre of Jews since the holocaust, British Jewish children are being advised to hide their identities as they walk to school, for their own safety. There should be mass outrage that this is necessary.

[Gurwinder @G_S_Bhogal]

Accepting the reality of biology makes you a literal Nazi, but brandishing swastikas on your phone and yelling “gas the Jews” makes you a social justice activist.

[The Mossad: Satirical and Awesome @TheMossadIL]

Incredible show of support from Paris. 🇫🇷🇮🇱

[The Mossad: Satirical and Awesome @TheMossadIL]

De Paris avec amour 🇫🇷🇮🇱

[Rishi Sunak @RishiSunak]

We stand with 🇮🇱

[Fareesh Vijayarangam @fareesh]

@Noahpinion All these mask off moments remind me of that time when @horowitz39 talked to that student in California and she went full Hamas.

That evil stare at the end is comic book stuff

[Colin Wright @SwipeWright]

This is a pertinent clip from Sam Harris on the moral difference between Israel and her enemies.

The moral difference comes down to understanding the answer to this question: what would each side do if they had the power to do it?

TRANSCRIPT:

The truth is that there is an obvious, undeniable, and hugely consequential moral difference between Israel and her enemies. The Israelis are surrounded by people who have explicitly genocidal intentions towards them. The charter of Hamas is explicitly genocidal. It looks forward to a time, based on Koranic prophesy, when the earth itself will cry out for Jewish blood, where the trees and the stones will say “O Muslim, there’s a Jew hiding behind me. Come and kill him.” This is a political document. We are talking about a government that was voted into power by a majority of Palestinians.

The discourse in the Muslim world about Jews is utterly shocking. Not only is there widespread Holocaust denial—there’s Holocaust denial that then asserts that we will do it for real if given the chance. The only thing more obnoxious than denying the Holocaust is to say that it should have happened; it didn’t happen, but if we get the chance, we will accomplish it. There are children’s shows in the Palestinian territories and elsewhere that teach five-year-olds about the glories of martyrdom and about the necessity of killing Jews.

And this gets to the heart of the moral difference between Israel and her enemies. And this is something I discussed in The End of Faith. To see this moral difference, you have to ask what each side would do if they had the power to do it.

What would the Jews do to the Palestinians if they could do anything they wanted? Well, we know the answer to that question, because they can do more or less anything they want. The Israeli army could kill everyone in Gaza tomorrow. So what does that mean? Well, it means that, when they drop a bomb on a beach and kill four Palestinian children, as happened last week, this is almost certainly an accident. They’re not targeting children. They could target as many children as they want. Every time a Palestinian child dies, Israel edges ever closer to becoming an international pariah. So the Israelis take great pains not to kill children and other noncombatants.

What do we know of the Palestinians? What would the Palestinians do to the Jews in Israel if the power imbalance were reversed? Well, they have told us what they would do. For some reason, Israel’s critics just don’t want to believe the worst about a group like Hamas, even when it declares the worst of itself. We’ve already had a Holocaust and several other genocides in the 20th century. People are capable of committing genocide. When they tell us they intend to commit genocide, we should listen.

There is every reason to believe that the Palestinians would kill all the Jews in Israel if they could. Would every Palestinian support genocide? Of course not. But vast numbers of them—and of Muslims throughout the world—would. Needless to say, the Palestinians in general, not just Hamas, have a history of targeting innocent noncombatants in the most shocking ways possible. They’ve blown themselves up on buses and in restaurants. They’ve massacred teenagers. They’ve murdered Olympic athletes. They now shoot rockets indiscriminately into civilian areas. And again, the charter of their government in Gaza explicitly tells us that they want to annihilate the Jews—not just in Israel but everywhere.