Alon Maor

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[Alon Maor @alon_maor]

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[Alon Maor @alon_maor]

@liadagmon @liadagmon What a brilliant thread! Thank you!! So many gems here!!!

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[Shaun Maguire @shaunmmaguire]

Six minutes long but worth watching

Using a children’s hospital to house hostages and weapons

This is Hamas

[Ran Harnevo @harnevo]

A Few hours ago, the pseudo liberal @WebSummit conference kicked of in Lisbon, setting the stage for a gathering of fake digital optimism.

Its major shareholder and former CEO, Paddy Cosgrave (@paddycosgrave), and its current CEO, Katherine Maher (@krmaher), have dedicated the past week to the challenging task of censoring a video that we produced, which critiques their organization.

They used false copyright claims, submitted numerous DMCA threats on all platforms - doing all they can to prevent from our video from spreading and tell the truth about their brand.

As promised, today we're releasing a new version of our video.

We removed every piece of @WebSummit's promotional materials, and as they celebrate pseudo liberalism, we ask you to celebrate with us by sharing, commenting, and promoting our video globally 🌏

"you see, liberalism is about principles not death charts. You're not fighting for freedom by supporting genocide".

Thank you ❣️
#StandWithIsrael

[Adam Fisher @AdamRFisher]

The sick rationale of kidnapping children is sound. But the strategic reasoning behind the murder and rape of children has eluded me until now. At first glance it seems so counterintuitive, but it actually makes sense.

It’s not because they wanted Israel to overreact in its response. It’s not because they think Israeli children will grow up to be soldiers. It’s not even because Hamas is genocidal in nature.

It’s because Hamas leaders correctly assessed that they could get away with the most depraved acts imaginable and still generate sympathy for the their cause.

And in demonstrating that to Israelis and Jews around the world, Hamas could achieve a consummate form of terror unmatched in modern history.

Not merely the fear that you and your children will be killed for who or where you are. But the terrifying realization that when they do kill, apologists and ideologues, young and old, from the right and the left, and from the across the globe, will justify and celebrate it. This is a level of terror unmatched by even Al-Qaeda or ISIS.

If we needed proof that the ultimate goal of Hamas is terror and not freedom, this is it. And sadly, there is a sound, strategic logic to it.

Israel will destroy Hamas and win this war. Gaza will be ruined and the Palestinians more miserable.

But Hamas will still have achieved their true goal of instilling a fear in us that accompanies no other people on Earth.

A fear that can only be squashed by the existence of a powerful, democratic Jewish State.

[Sam Blond @samdblond]

I’m not apologizing for my correct assertion that parroting the propaganda of a literal terrorist organization dedicated, in its own charter, to the eradication of Jews is antisemitic. But I would like to parse these claims as thoughtfully as I can, because the situation is complex, and emotionally fraught, and I do think it is important to approach this all as soberly as possible.

Nobody knows the exact number of causalities — not me, not Paul, and not the experts he just cited, dishonestly implying their current figures have been proven out (the link supports no such claim). In any case, while I’m generally not a fan of blindly trusting the experts, let’s assume the raw numbers here presented are correct.

The shocking figures of a side-by-side dead baby count, itself a grisly emotional tactic designed to frighten you from reason, intentionally omits every single piece of crucial context to service Paul’s anti-Israel point: a) Israelis were just the victim of a terrorist attack where more Jews were murdered than any day since the holocaust, b) the terrorist organization responsible for the attack uses Palestinian children as human shields, c) they also use teenage “soldiers” to fight, and d) civilians fleeing Gaza at the behest of Israel, many of them children, are presently being murdered by Hamas. All of these deaths are included in the figures Paul shared. The only possible intention of posting these numbers without this crucial context is to dishonestly frame the Israeli people as bloodthirsty murderers of the very sort we all just watched, in real time, march into the homes of sleeping families and slaughter them like animals.

Where is Paul’s outrage towards Hamas, or anyone calling for the extermination of Jews? Again, Hamas wrote this explicitly genocidal intent into their charter. I don’t think anyone should be forced to speak, as Paul has implied. But of course Paul *is* speaking. He just wasn’t speaking on October 7th.

While I do believe Paul’s post is antisemitic, I don’t believe Paul is an antisemite. I don’t know him. Our elite institutions are, at this point quite obviously, biased against the existence of Israel, and many people unfortunately receive such propaganda passively. Earlier today Paul implored his followers to “trust the experts.” I’m Jewish. Trust of this kind is a luxury history has long since proven out my family can’t afford. Nonetheless, I do wish him well.

[Adam Fisher @AdamRFisher]

"Posters of kidnapped children is propaganda."

"Screenings of Hamas snuff films taken from their own GoPros is propaganda."

"Translations of Hamas leaders calling for genocide and rape is propaganda."

"Discoveries of rocket launchers in mosques and schools is propaganda."

"Revelations of tunnel entrances next to the hospital is propaganda."

"UNRWA teachers glorifying Hamas on social media propaganda."

"Photos of wealthy Hamas leaders living a quiet life in Qatar is propaganda."

"Videos of Palestinian civilians moving through a safe corridor is propaganda."

"Reports of failed Hamas rockets falling on Gaza civilians is propaganda."

"Vandalism of Jewish businesses and institutions in the West is propaganda."

"Saying that Israel withdrew from Gaza in 2005 is propaganda."

"Israeli work visas for 20k laborers from Gaza is propaganda."

"The existence of a sealed Egyptian border with Gaza is propaganda."

"Sick children from Gaza receiving treatment in Israeli hospitals is propaganda."

"Individual rights for Israeli Arabs and LGTBQ in Israel is propaganda."

"Israeli minorities proudly serving in the IDF is propaganda."

"Israeli Arabs in parliament and on the supreme court is propaganda."

"900K Jewish refugees from Arab aand Muslim lands since 1948 is propaganda."

"Palestinian rejection of a state in 1947, 1948, 1967 and 2000 is propaganda."

"That Israel didn’t execute Yahya Sinwar after being convicted of murder and instead gave him lifesaving cancer surgery is propaganda."

When dogma overcomes reason and slogans invalidate evidence, you have surrendered your intelligence and freedom to the propaganda of a fanatic mob.

[Adam Fisher @AdamRFisher]

A must read thread by a survivor of October 7, who also happens to be a journalist for the liberal @haaretzcom newspaper. It will help you understand why all of Israel is united in the mission to destroy Hamas.

[Max Levchin @mlevchin]

A first-hand account of 10/7 and what it means for many moderate and liberal Israelis. Worthwhile read.

[Brad Gerstner @altcap]

This summer on #136 of @theallinpod, I hijacked
science corner to discuss heart health. I suggested everybody over 40 do a Calcium CT Scan & if your score is non-zero you should likely be taking a statin. Many have shared ++ stories how this impacted them, so wanted to follow up.

Heart disease is the number one killer in the US - accounting for 25% of all deaths. And unlike many causes of death, it is largely preventable. But we do a lousy job of education / prevention - which leads to people learning about the problem after it is too late.

So what did I learn, what am I doing, and what are the Besties advising each other?

First, data is power. And most of us have bad data. The common refrain I hear when I ask friends over 40 what they are doing to avoid heart disease - “I am good, my cholesterol is low.”

And why not? We have been trained by doctors to believe that cholesterol is the magic biomarker that determines whether you will have a heart attack.

WRONG. Approx 75% of individuals who experience heart attacks have normal or low LDL cholesterol levels.

So it is true that cholesterol plays a significant role in the formation of arterial plaque - but don’t take false comfort in your cholesterol scores - they don’t look inside your arteries.

Get a Calcium CT Scan.

This is a low dose, non invasive, super simple CT scan of the chest that takes about 5 mins and costs $300-500. It DOES look inside your arteries and tells you much more definitively whether or not you have calcium (aka plaque) that may cause a heart attack.

Your doctor may tell you that this is not required since you are healthy & have low cholesterol. Thank them & schedule it anyway - it may save your life.

A calcium score (CAC) score of zero means no calcium; 1-10 is considered low, 10-100 moderate, and so on.

So what did I find? I am fit (low body fat index), exercise routinely, eat healthy and have had generally low cholesterol with my LDLs slowly going up to 130 in the last couple years (maybe as a result of my protein heavy diet).

My CAC was zero in all arteries but 77 or moderate in my LDA (the left descending artery).

What next?

Fortunately, I was able to learn from two leading cardiologists. What do they do for themselves, their family & friends?

They agreed that cholesterol readings alone are an insufficient standard of prevention. Their standard? A CT Calcium Scan over the age of 40 - and if the reading is non-zero, they immediately prescribe a statin under the theory that statins are incredibly safe and reduce future plaque build up by inhibiting a key enzyme in the liver critical to the production of LDL cholesterol.

So I immediately started 10 mg of Crestor daily (zero side effects) and within 7 weeks my LDL dropped from 130 to 75 (optimal) with zero changes to diet.

The end?

For many - yes - and they advised me that this along w staying fit would already make a BIG difference in reducing future plaque build up and avoiding problems.

But was there more to learn? Yes. It turns out that not all plaque is equally bad - soft plaque is the most dangerous; intermediate less so, and hardened plaque is good.

To learn more I did a Contrast-Enhanced CT Scan - which took about 25 mins and helped visualize different types of plaque. While they saw that most of it was hardened, we leveraged a new technology pioneered by Dr. Jim Min and his company @Cleerlyhealth that is using AI to statistically analyze the pixels in the Contrast CT.

The determination was much more precise - 114 units of plaque (below avg for men my age) split evenly between hardened plaque and intermediate plaque. Zero of the soft plaque.

Their new goal for me? Zero new plaque by driving LDLs down w/ the use of statins. And over 2-3 yrs seeing the intermediate plaque calcify naturally to hardened plaque so that I am effectively back to zero bad plaque.

And the best part - we now have the picture & data to track the progress.

[Ran Harnevo @harnevo]

Yesterday's night i posted a video about the horrific genocide Israel experienced on Oct. 7th.

The video was removed from Twitter and my account was locked after generating over 250,000 views, and counting. It contained some truths which were too graphic for this platform...

I post it again, a softer version but still hard to watch for some (*trigger warning*). I ask you to please share it again, comment again, make the video fly again!

Let our voice be heard!
And #StandWithIsrael

[Alon Maor @alon_maor]

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[Alon Maor @alon_maor]

Brilliant words by one of the brightest leaders in our industry.

@AdamRFisher, thank you https://t.co/vVRScOqzKd

[Adam Fisher @AdamRFisher]

"Business in the Opposition" - My personal statement of protest against the new Israeli government. https://t.co/TnrJJbInOB

[Alon Maor @alon_maor]

Huge indeed.

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[Alon Maor @alon_maor]

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