Tex Nolan

Attempting to survive the insanity of the 21st century

[shevereshtus @shevereshtus]

If a group in Canada did to America 0.01% of what Hezbollah has done to Israel, they’d be obliterated, then we’d salt the earth for good measure.

The idea that Israel should content itself to respond to rockets and terrorism with ‘Please, stop, don’t do that’ is insulting.

[🕎🔥Macababy🔥🕎 @narwhaldevil95]

Netanyahu actually does look Middle Eastern. It's just that a lot of people end up looking like a generic old person when they're older.

[John Spencer @SpencerGuard]

Dear @piersmorgan I am more than happy to explain to you how I came to my conclusion based on hundreds of interviews (to include Israel’s Prime Minister, Minister of Defense, Minister of Strategic Affairs, 2 x IDF Chiefs of Staff, IDF Joint Staff 2/3/5/7, head of civilian harm mitigation cell, IDF legal branch, Division/Brigade/Company/Platoon Commanders and IDF soldiers) and six research trips into Gaza directly observing IDF soldiers in combat operations (while fighting) in Gaza City, Rafah, Khan Yunis, Netzarim Corridor and other locations in Gaza and Southern Lebanon since October 7, 2023. As well as over a decade of urban warfare scholarship, teaching, training and a deep understanding of the history of urban warfare, development and implementation of any civilian harm mitigation measures by any military in history.

[Joel M. Petlin @Joelmpetlin]

If Palestine is on your ballot, you should probably be voting in Gaza, rather than in a local election in Queens, New York.

[David Bernstein @ProfDBernstein]

"Palestine" has already had more staying power than most, but that's likely because it's the only one that's received substantial funding and support from foreign powers. (The Biden administration (!) revealed that foreign actors were funding the cause.) /end

[David Bernstein @ProfDBernstein]

I find it fascinating how the left acts like a pathological serial monogamist, falling deeply and head over heals over an issue, insisting that it's THE most important thing in the world, and then largely ignoring it when a new pretty-young-thing-issue comes along. Just in recent years, and I'm probably missing some: campaign finance, climate change, sexual assault on campus, voter ID laws are related, BLM, Me Too, Defund the Police, Trans rights. "Palestine" is next. 1/

[David Bernstein @ProfDBernstein]

I don't think Vance is an antisemite nor in league with Israel's enemies. I do think he is way too close to antisemitic influencers like Tucker Carlson, and is in way over his head re Iran.
Four years ago, he was an investment banker with a law degree, and wrote a bestselling autobiography about his dysfunctional upbringing.
None of that remotely makes him qualified to negotiating a crucial foreign policy agreement. Sometimes, amateurs surprise, like Kushner and the Abraham Accords.
But usually, amateurs make amateur mistakes, made worse when they are implicitly running for president and have immediate political self-interest that may be in tension with the long-term national interest.

[H.A. Hazony @HAHazony]

This is the 12th time we've been told that Bibi is on the outs with Trump, that it's joever, that the Americans hate Israel now etc etc etc.

It's never so. Trump is still the most pro Israel of all time. He still did big things with Bibi.

It's all copery, all the way down.

[Tex Nolan @Texnolans]

@CoreyWriting The Center isn't even pro-American anymore. Just 43% of Independents are proud to be an American and just 44% are proud of American history. Just 31% of Democrats are proud to be an American!

Israel's image in the US won't be fixed until America's **own** image is fixed.

[Dr. Maalouf ‏ @realMaalouf]

After losing World War II, Germany lost 25% of all its territory and 14 million Germans were ethnically cleansed from Eastern Europe.

And yet, there hasn’t been a single case of Germans hijacking planes, blowing themselves up, or committing terrorist attacks like Palestinians.

[Vladimir Suvorov @VladimirSuvor]

JD Vance is absolutely correct. American and Israeli interests diverge greatly in the Middle East. Israel wants to destroy Iranian terror proxy Hezbollah, while America, whether under Obama, Biden, and now Trump 2.0, is desperate to save and defend them. Vance especially!

[Shoshana🦁🌞🇸🇨🪬🇮🇷 @Shoshana51728]

Maybe Trump might care to list the COUNTLESS TIMES THE UNITED STATES HAS SAVED AND PROPPED UP ISRAEL'S ENEMIES ( who of course are America's enemies too).

Never mind. I'll start:

1. In 1947 the US imposed an arms embargo on Israel knowing that the British were fully arming , training , leading and commanding the Arab states that invaded Israel in 1948.

2. The US maintained an offensive weapons arms embargo on Israel until 1968 while arming the Arab states who were at war with Israel.

3. The US propped up Nasser for years while squeezing Israel in an effort to force Israel to give land to the Arabs despite the fact that the Arabs attacked Israel. Project Alpha. https://t.co/A06bfVqwji

4. The US forced Israel to withdraw from the Sinai in 1957 , thereby handing Nasser a strategic win despite his suffering a HUGE military defeat.

5. The US refused to make good on its 1957 promise to ensure that Nasser didn't blockade the Strait of Tiran in 1967 thereby leading to the Six Day War.

6. The US prevented Israel from preemptively attacking Egypt in 1973 which cost Israel hundreds of Israeli lives.

7. The US saved the Egyptian Third army in 1973 to end the Yom Kippur War.

8. The US delayed the resupply of Israel during the Yom Kippur War. The weapons that were ultimately shipped and BOUGHT BY ISRAEL were not even used during the 1973 war.

9. Oops. I forgot about the US forcing Israel to accept Egypt's violation of the ceasefire during the war of attrition in 1970 whereby Egypt moved Soviet air defenses south beyond the Canal Zone which led directly to major Israeli losses of aircraft during the 1973 war.

I'm just getting started. To be continued...

[Tex Nolan @Texnolans]

@pauldgross It’s very simple. Israel once embodied the positive aspects Americans once saw in their own country, now Israel embodies everything they dislike about their own country and its history.

Not surprisingly as American pride has collapsed, so how Americans view Israel.

[Tex Nolan @Texnolans]

@redamon8 @pauldgross Confidently wrong. Something has indeed very much changed in America, American patriotism has absolutely collapsed among independents and especially among Democrats and barely 50% of Americans even like their own country.

[Corey Walker 🇺🇸 @CoreyWriting]

Democrats are headed towards socialism and Republicans are headed towards conspiracy theories.

I'm feeling more politically isolated everyday.

[Joel Berry @JoelWBerry]

The north section of Israel is uninhabitable because Hezbollah terrorists keep bombing it.

Matt here is suggesting America force Israel to let Hezbollah bomb them unanswered so we can sign a $300 billion deal with Iran. Something about that strikes me as wrong for some reason

[Benjamin Netanyahu - בנימין נתניהו @netanyahu]

Thank you Col. Spencer, no military takes more measures to minimize civilian casulaties than the IDF and no nation is attacked by more propoganda than Israel. Truth and Israel will prevail.

[Mark Humphrys @markhumphrys]

@Muinchille "Most Irish people were mildly positive towards Israel." When was this? And provide evidence. Or is it a dream you had?
"Israel accusing all Irish ppl of antisemitism". Also when was this? Another dream you had?

[Majid 🦁☀️🇮🇪🇮🇱 @majid_hatamian]

This is the most dishonest, bad-faith gaslighting imaginable. Israel never "decided to accuse all Irish people of antisemitism." Israel is calling out your state policy. Don't hide behind the Irish public to shield your political establishment from accountability.

​When Irish politicians fast-track a bill to criminalise trade exclusively with the Jewish state, when your leaders rush to reward the slaughter of October 7th with immediate, unilateral statehood recognition, and when Ireland joins a politicised ICJ case (in an attempt to generalise the definition of "genocide") against a democracy defending itself on five fronts, that isn't "all Irish people." That is the explicit, institutional behaviour of the Irish government.

​Israel is holding your leaders accountable for their actions, not the entire nation. If Irish politicians choose to coddle the proxies of the Islamic regime occupying Iran, expect to get called out for it.

[Naftali Bennett נפתלי בנט @naftalibennett]

Piers, words matter.

There is a war. There is no genocide.

The IDF warns civilians before strikes, drops leaflets, makes phone calls, sends text messages, and opens evacuation routes.

Can you name a single genocide in history where the attacking side repeatedly warned civilians to leave before military operations?

This weekend alone, we lost five of our boys fighting Hezbollah face-to-face on the ground. If Israel’s goal were to kill Lebanese civilians indiscriminately, why would we risk our own troops instead of simply carpet-bombing entire areas?

You’re smart and you know this.

As for Ben Gvir: you’re citing the wrong person.
I already told you he’s a clown. A noisy and incompetent clown.

I would never have let him into my government, nor should Bibi have.
Soon we’ll be replacing this miserable government.
Ben Gvir insisted on rebranding himself as “National Security Minister” because he liked the dramatic title.
In reality, he oversees the police. He doesn’t command the IDF, doesn’t formulate military strategy, and doesn’t make operational decisions in Lebanon.

Quoting Ben Gvir to explain Israeli military policy is like quoting a loud backbencher to explain Britain’s war strategy.

Israel’s actions are determined by its government and carried out by the IDF in accordance with international law.