Ballabon

'The US and Israel represent the pinnacle of Western Civilization, which is exactly what these people want to destroy.'
Trump

'Every Day is October 6.'
Me

[Ballabon @ballabon]

Yes.
There is colonialism.
There is an occupation.
There is ethnic cleansing.
There is genocide.

Against the one indigenous people who want only to live in peace. Who want nobody else's land. But who have an inalienable right to demand our own.

By Islamist marauders who have declared their right to desecrate and commandeer our holy sites - sacred to the Jews since millennia before Islam was created. Who today declare their right to enslave or slaughter every Jew and to conquer the globe.

By their useful idiot allies in the West who call themselves "Progressive" but who are, in fact, mindless, ignorant, amoral, hateful fools committing mass suicide because of their psychotic self loathing and who hate the Jews for refusing to join them.

In Hitler, the post-Christian West saw itself in the mirror and has never stopped blaming the Jews since. Because our survival and our decency and our humanity and our goodness reminds them of everything they are not.

In October 7, the post-Christian West sees the pure evil of its narrative and savagely rushes to pronounce that Hitler's job must now be finished, because the alternative - to permit Jews to exist, to continue to confront their own pure evil - is too uncomfortable. Because all humans have souls and theirs are screaming in terror and pain.

This is the Jews' Homeland - ancient and modern. It does not belong to the Arabs, any more than it belonged to the Europeans.

The strategy of imagining that Jewish rights to existence, let alone to the Land, could ever be dependent on the nations of the world was an assimilationist blindness to thousands of years of history driven by a rejection of the true source of our rights, of our existence, of our future:
The Creator.

The strategy of accepting a tiny sliver in the 1940s was shortsighted, misguided, and weak.

The strategy of allowing barbaric genocidal colonialists to remain in control of the most vital parts of the Homeland - from the Temple Mount to Bet Lechem, Hevron, Shechem, etc, etc, in the 1960s was a betrayal of the Jews' national and religious heritage and a sick ratification of the lies and manipulations of our occupiers.

The strategy of elevating a genocidal Islamo-Nazi death cult, a globally despised terror organization, to negotiating partner in the 1990s and acknowledging this new fictitious "Palestinian" people as having some right to negotiate sovereignty over any part the Jewish patrimony was suicidally insane.

The strategy of relying on the decency, humanity, and goodwill of other nations, to imagine a Jewish state would be treated the same as any other state by the very nations that have brutalized us for millennia, was pathetic and delusional.

The strategy of depending on the unity and support of organized American Jewry - an assimilationist breakaway that has abandoned all connection to the Jewish faith, to Jewish history, to any Jewish future, that is rushing headlong into self-immolation - is tragic.

Stop pretending that the world's laws or morality or institutions are just or righteous or authoritative.

Stop hoping you will be accepted or your existence tolerated in any form - Faith, People, Nation, Ethnicity, Race, State.

Stop whining to them that you are actually decent and good and tolerant and humane. They know; that's precisely why they hate you. You are everything they are not.

And stop imagining they hate you for any of the reasons they claim; they hate you for what you are, for what you represent. It's right there - Dev/Deut 28:10: "And all the peoples of the earth will see that the name of G-d is called upon you, and they will fear you."

Stop seeking permission to exist from anyone but G-d.

And, for G-d's sake:
Stop playing defense.
Start playing offense.

[Ballabon @ballabon]

@erwd @EYakoby 💯

[Ballabon @ballabon]

At this point, you have to wonder who Tucker appeals to (besides his America-hating foreign funders).

[Dan Bongino @dbongino]

lol. This tool.

[Ballabon @ballabon]

דקות ממטולה: עיר הטרור שנבנתה מתחת לאדמה https://t.co/my10xXtmOp via @@arutz7heb

[Ballabon @ballabon]

Sesame Street made the mistake of thinking they could mention Jews and matzah ball soup. The Internet lost its mind.

It's not about Israel. Not about Zionism. Not about America. And certainly not about "Palestine."

It's about what it's been about for thousands of years.

https://t.co/ePfL3zY4sv

[Ballabon @ballabon]

For Candace (and Tucker, and Matt, and Marjorie, and Steve, and Massie, etc...) MAGA is actually Make Alexander Great Again - Alexander Dugin.

[Glenn Beck @glennbeck]

Candace Owens taking a "suspicious trip to Russia" is NOT the real story. It's only proof that Russia and Alexander Dugin's massive propaganda operation is working.

Dugin is right about what is happening to the West. It is evil. But that's the trap. His "solution" would destroy us all.

Before you say, "but he sounds really conservative and Christian," do you know what he actually believes?

Dugin preaches that Russia is the "Katechon," the biblical restraining force holding back the Antichrist (the West) until its allotted time. He also believes that Russia and the Islamist world will team up to defeat the Antichrist West.

Good luck selling that in America. Unless you first convince some trusted mouthpieces to lay the groundwork.

So target them first. Have them divide the American Right until they don't know who to trust. Target the real wounds that they carry and slip in the poison. Tell them that they have to choose between their faith and their country. Tell them the answer to every single problem is to blame your own nation, distrust your own people, call them an enemy, and admire a strong man.

Then Russia can step in and be that strong man. And the notion that the West, including America, is the enemy now seems logical.

Propagandists like Dugin want us divided and at each other's throats. They want us to feel like we have to pick sides. We don't. That's why I won't attack the podcasters who have either been fooled by or bought into this narrative. That only furthers the operation.

[Ballabon @ballabon]

Sesame Street made the mistake of thinking they could mention Jews and matzah ball soup. The Internet lost its mind.

It's not about Israel. Not about Zionism. Not about America. And certainly not about "Palestine."

It's about what it's been about for thousands of years.

https://t.co/ePfL3zY4sv

[Ballabon @ballabon]

This is excellent. A must watch.

https://t.co/5EIlnbd6TR

[Ballabon @ballabon]

This is a global epidemic.

https://t.co/AFsBnflXKH

[Ballabon @ballabon]

Under Mamdani, the NYC Mayor's office quickly moving from Hizzoner to Dizzoner.

Exclusive | Mamdani wants to remove former Mayor Ed Koch's name from iconic NYC bridge — but critics say hands off https://t.co/44NHl64UA9

[Ballabon @ballabon]

How Jews became the Democrats’ dependable base and disposable scapegoat - Israel & Jewish News - JNS https://t.co/QwMtTIbOuQ

[Batya Ungar-Sargon @bungarsargon]

Why did Jews become Democrats and why did the Left turn on them?

The answer to these questions explains everything we're getting wrong about American Jewish history.

[Ballabon @ballabon]

Massie tries to make America First noises while actually running point for China, Russia, and Iran.

(The core root of ‘Pax Silica’ - Israel & Jewish News - JNS https://t.co/IwmFIHbD4L)

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

If the provision in the NDAA to integrate/synchronize the U.S. and Israeli militaries (section 224) makes it out of committee, I’ll offer an amendment to strip it from the bill on the floor.

We are a sovereign country.
https://t.co/HwvSXXxKlW

[Dr. Brian L. Cox @BrianCox_RLTW]

I am not a Jew. But as a professor of international law & retired military lawyer who studies how distorted legal rhetoric is used to justify hate & violence directed against Jews, you are 💯 mistaken to believe your safety "as Jewish New Yorkers" is "inextricably intertwined with Palestinians."

I am not progressive, either. But based on your comments in this clip & my background with the study mentioned above, I do have a few tips you should consider exploring if you are genuinely concerned with your safety as a Jewish New Yorker.

Spoiler alert: these tips have absolutely nothing to do with Palestinians - at least, not directly.

1. Stop blaming @Israel for what you refer to as "the utter destruction of Gaza."

First of all, #Gaza isn't "utterly destroyed" to begin with. There are absolutely areas that are currently uninhabitable due to the conflict. But it's not all of Gaza. This perception has been carefully curated by influencers showing isolated clips of select destroyed areas while giving the false impression that this visualization represents the entire Strip.

It doesn't. If you think otherwise, do yourself a favor & find/follow accounts like @GAZAWOOD1 that present clips of videos that are posted from people living inside Gaza right now.

If you believe Gaza is utterly destroyed, educate yourself. You are being played, and only you can stop it.

Second, learn at least something about international law. Like this.

You criticize your opponent @RepDanGoldman for supporting "unconditional aid to Israel" (Ilana Glazer's words) "even despite Israel's utter destruction of Gaza" (your words).

Here, you are actually supporting strategic objectives of literal terrorists whose only goal is the utter destruction of Israel. #Hamas committed the atrocities of 10/7 to provoke a large-scale armed conflict in order to derail normalization between 🇮🇱 & select Arab countries.

Their best shot at getting away with it was for sympathetic partisans throughout the West - such as yourself & Ilana Glazer - to convince Israel's traditional closest partners & allies to restrict military aid & pressure Israel into implementing a ceasefire as early as possible. Doing so would ensure Hamas could survive to continue in a governance role in Gaza after the conflict.

And the way to convince Iran's useful idiots, such as yourself, to pressure Western governments to restrict military aid is to manipulate the language of international law to make it seem that these countries are failing to comply with their own legal obligations or even "complicit" in systemic "war crimes" by failing to condition or restrict aid.

It's a hoax, and it always has been. Determining whether a war crime has been committed requires evidence of the knowledge & intent of personnel responsible for each attack at the time. If you don't believe me, study this highlighted excerpt of the Rome Statute (pic 1).

Yes, neither 🇮🇱 nor 🇺🇸 have ratified this multilateral treaty. But the main war crimes provisions in Article 8, as well as the mental element/mistake of fact provisions of Articles 30 & 32, are consistent with our military doctrine. And guess what evidence you need, pursuant to this doctrinal source, to determine a war crime has been committed.

That's right! If a war crime involves "intentionally directing an attack against" civilian persons or property, and "intent" means "awareness that a circumstance exists," and the "circumstance" is the civilian (not taking direct part in hostilities) character of the person/object attacked, then we require evidence demonstrating personnel responsible for each attack were aware of the civilian character of the target at the time & they attacked it anyway.

Any guesses what you can't determine just from looking at "utter destruction" in a battlespace? Right again! Knowledge & intent of personnel responsible for each attack at the time that led to that utter destruction.

Maybe - just maybe - a transnational terrorist organization committed one of the most horrific atrocities in living memory then deliberately hid & fought among its own civilian population in the ensuing large-scale armed conflict it decided to provoke. And maybe they hid IEDs in every structure they could so that @IDF troops clearing the area successfully capturing it would still continue to perish. And maybe that is cumulatively the reason for the "utter destruction of Gaza."

News flash: that is exactly the cause of most of the destruction in Gaza. And because that's the case, there is no obligation to condition military aid to Israel. No clear risk of systemic war crimes being committed with arms supplied to Israel (🇺🇸 hasn't ratified the Arms Trade Treaty, but we have a similar process for determining whether to provide military aid nonetheless) means no requirement to condition aid.

The reason the language of international law is routinely distorted in this manner, btw, is to convert a policy argument into what appears to be a legal one. A "should" to a "must."

But if you believe 🇺🇸 is failing to abide by its international law obligations by providing military aid to 🇮🇱, once again you are being played. Stop.

2. Stop perpetuating the "genocide" blood libel.

As you criticize Dan Goldman for supporting "unconditional aid to Israel," along with the "utter destruction" nonsense you also say he does so, "Even despite Israel's utter destruction of Gaza, which I consider a genocide" (emphasis added).

There are a lot of people nowadays who believe Israel is responsible for genocide in Gaza. But all of you who do simply demonstrate you don't understand what "genocide" actually is.

See, if we start with the doctrinal definition from the Genocide Convention, we see that this crime of crimes is committed by engaging in enumerated acts (not pictured) "with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such" (pic 2, especially red highlight).

Guess what doesn't qualify as a "national, ethnical, racial, or religious group". Right! Terrorist groups like Hamas.

And take a wild guess which group IDF ops in Gaza intend to destroy. If you said "Palestinians," you are, once again, just another of Iran's useful idiots. If you said "Hamas," give yourself a pat on the back.

The stated intent, from the very beginning of Swords of Iron all the way until today, has been to: 1) eliminate the enduring security threat posed by Hamas; and 2) repatriate all hostages. If you're not sure about that, I invite you to review these excerpts from public remarks provided by @IsraeliPM @netanyahu in October 2023 (pic 3) & October 2025 (pic 4). Slightly different wording, same intent.

Yes, I've heard the argument too many times to count now that most major "human rights" orgs & a number of "genocide scholars" & a UN commission of inquiry & even a handful of countries have all determined Israel is responsible for genocide. But they ALL use the same flawed methodology, and so their conclusions are also irreparably flawed.

That is, they ALL begin with a few specimens of political rhetoric from various Israeli officials, most of which are misrepresented or taken out of context to begin with, to establish the requisite "intent." Then they take an equally selective collection of "evidence" - much of which is from untrustworthy or unreliable sources anyway - to establish the enumerated acts to go along with the purportedly genocidal intent.

It is, once again, a hoax. Not a single one starts with the actual stated intent (eg pics 3 & 4 attached here) then takes a balanced, unbiased approach to assessing whether actions actually observed in the battlespace are consistent with the intent to destroy Hamas or, instead, to destroy Palestinians in whole or in part as such.

If you do that - if you understand the correct methodology & you apply it rigorously - there is only one conclusion: Israel is not committing genocide in Gaza, nor has it ever.

It doesn't matter what "you consider" it. You are being played, because you are ignorant. Stop, by educating yourself.

3. Stop blaming "Trump and Netanyahu for setting the Middle East on fire."

Do you know who actually set the Middle East on Fire? Terrorists like Nasrallah, Deif, Sinwar, and the Ayatollah Khamenei, along with the militaries & proxies armed groups they led. And they did so on 10/7, once again, simply to derail normalization.

In doing so, these literal terrorists demonstrated that the status quo of appeasement & diplomacy in pursuit of peace in the Middle East & a two-state solution was no longer tenable. Tbh that approach wasn't tenable for quite a while - but 10/7 proved that to be the case.

And now Trump & Netanyahu are the two world leaders with both the intestinal fortitude & the resources to establish a new status quo. That's what Swords of Iron & Rising Lion & Midnight Hammer & Roaring Lion & Epic Fury have been all about - achieving a new status quo after the aforementioned literal terrorists actually (literally) set the Middle East on fire.

The only way to successfully achieve a new, acceptable status quo is through force of arms - not arms embargoes. If you believe otherwise, you are being played. Stop it. Open your eyes & educate yourself.

Okay, those are three suggestions for specific actions you can take to help improve your safety as New York Jews. The same goes for Jews really throughout the West.

Because here's the thing. Your safety as Jews in the West has absolutely nothing to do with Palestinians. It has everything to do with countering the false narratives - primarily involving misrepresentations of international law - that are being used to justify hate & attacks against Jews.

It doesn't matter how much you try distance yourself from Israel, or zionism, or Bibi, or Trump. That won't stop some crazed lunatic from pulling a gun on you or siccing his dog on you or driving his car into your synagogue or throwing bricks at your head or any other number of seemingly random & horrific attacks against Jews we've seen escalate in the West since 10/7.

G-d forbid any of these or other acts of violence ever happens to you or someone you love. But if it does, recent experience suggests the perpetrator - and his supporters afterward - will accuse you of supporting genocide & war crimes just for being Jewish.

Because Jews are being regarded as proxies for Israel, and Israel is being regarded as a proxy for zionism, and Hamas doctrine justifies the "struggle" against the "Zionist entity" known as the State of Israel.

I've heard the term "self-hating Jew" be directed toward folks like yourself. Oftentimes you're referred to by the term "As-a-Jew." @GadSaad would probably diagnose you with suicidal empathy.

Regardless of whether any of those descriptions apply, as someone who specializes in international law I can definitively affirm you are both ignorant & naive.

If you're concerned about your safety as a Jew, stop perpetuating the lies & distortions that are - unfortunately - putting you most at risk. Stop blaming Israel & @AIPAC & conservatives like Netanyahu & Trump for ... well, everything in the Middle East & at home in New York.

Learn how to push back, with precision, against the false narratives that are being used to justify hate & violence directed against the Jewish population. This is the most effective direction you can take if you are genuinely concerned about your safety as a Jew.

[Ballabon @ballabon]

Genocide in Gaza? Beyond ridiculous.

https://t.co/FPxKxB1zwH

[Ballabon @ballabon]

Same people funding the "Free Palestine" encampments and Occupy before them. These are the enemies of America.

[🇺🇸 Edward T. Winslow @EdwardTWinz]

🚨 A JOURNALIST JUST FILMED INSIDE THE NEWARK ICE PROTEST CAMP. READ THAT AGAIN:

Nick Sortor went in with a hidden camera. What he found wasn't a spontaneous protest.

It was a fully operational logistics base.

– Tens of THOUSANDS of dollars in equipment already on site

– Riot gear. Not signs. Not banners. RIOT EQUIPMENT.

– Hot food delivered every single hour, on schedule

– Medical sections, expensive tents, organized supply chains

– This is outside Delaney Hall ICE detention center in Newark, NJ

– Protests have been running for over a week — round the clock

– Andy Ngo documented week-long violence by Antifa at the same facility

– State police had to intervene just to restore basic order

– Nobody is asking who is paying for hourly catered deliveries to a protest camp

– Nobody is asking who sourced the riot equipment

– Nobody is asking who coordinates the resupply logistics for a week-long operation

This is not a group of angry citizens who showed up with signs.

This is a funded, staffed, continuously resupplied operation with riot capability.

Someone is writing checks for this. Someone is organizing the deliveries. Someone made sure the equipment arrived.

The protesters didn't just open a door that CANNOT be closed.

The funders did. And nobody is looking for them.

Follow and turn on notifications before it's too late.

[Ballabon @ballabon]

@RepThomasMassie @Jim_Jordan LOL. Jim Jordan sees right through your Russia/Qatar-funded brain rot.

[Ballabon @ballabon]

This analysis gets the problem exactly backwards.

Israel's problem is not that Nicholas Kristof didn't receive a phone call. It is not that the BBC or Reuters needs another interview. It is not that the New York Times or the Guardian lacks access to Israel's perspective.

These institutions have had essentially unlimited access for decades.

The misapprehension behind this take is that Israel benefits by participating—that if Israeli officials are given a chance to explain themselves, Kristof or the Times will be more reasonable.

That assumption is absurd.

Basic reality check about how virtually all these operations function: The interview does not determine the story. The story determines the interview. And, far, far worse, because of that dynamic and the power of the media, truth does not determine narrative. Narrative determines truth.

Israel imagines it is communicating – that even if its spokespeople are outnumbered and the interviewers are hostile – at least it’s getting it’s side of the story out to the public. Israel could not be more gravely mistaken. In reality, it is supplying material to be selectively incorporated into a pre-scripted and, by engaging, it is actually validating the source of the mendacious narrative.

Israel receives none of the benefit it imagines it is receiving. These malevolent institutions, however, receive something of enormous value: access, legitimacy, and the ability to claim that Israel's position was heard and considered.

The transaction is entirely one-sided and abusive.

The search for better spokespeople (and, sure, there’s always of room for improvement) wildly misses the essential point. The problem is not the spokesperson. The problem is the delusion that participation produces understanding, or at least a modicum of balance.

It doesn't.

Organizations like the New York Times, the BBC, Reuters, AP, WaPo, The Guardian, CNN, MSNBC, and others have consistently trafficked in blood libels – outright lies, assertion of malevolent intent, defamatory narratives and incitement against the Jewish people and the Jewish state – for decades. Israel has to stop collaborating with them and stop legitimizing them.

The response to any media request from these “journalists” should be simple:

"We decline to participate in helping your corporate media enterprise profit from the defamation of the State of Israel and incitement against the Jewish people.”

That – or words to that effect - should be the only statement. Every time.

No interviews. No briefings. No access.

This was all obvious decades ago. It is long past time that Israel stop providing visas and press credentials to these modern-day Der Stürmers. Long past time that Israel wake the hell up: so long as Israel’s goal is to be “accepted” and “normalized” it will be reviled and abused.

[Yaakov Katz @yaakovkatz]

On April 6, @NickKristof posted a picture from the West Bank posing with Munther Amira, a Palestinian he described as having endured “brutal abuse in Israeli prisons.” I forwarded it to a few well-connected people with a simple question: “Does someone in the Israeli government know he is here? If so, they should be reaching out.”

The tweet, I figured, had definitely been seen by officials in Israel’s public diplomacy apparatus, and they should have reached the same obvious conclusion – whatever Kristof was doing here was not going to end well. Someone needed to try to get ahead of it.

Nobody did.

After Kristof’s rape column was published earlier this month, the answer was what I expected: no one from the @IDFSpokesperson’s Office had called the New York Times columnist. No one had sat across from him, heard his accusations, and tried to tell a different story. Not even an attempt.

Would it have made a difference? Maybe. Maybe not. 

Maybe the column would have been more balanced. Maybe it would have been worse. That is always the uncertainty with public diplomacy – you never know what might have been until you try. 

And that is the point. Israel didn’t try. It rarely does. And that, right now, is the story of Israeli public diplomacy in a single sentence: Israel is not even in the game.

The question is why. And to answer it, consider two things that happened recently that most people missed.

1/3

[Ballabon @ballabon]

Better late than never, I guess.

[Hananya Naftali @HananyaNaftali]

BREAKING: Israel decided to cut all ties with the office of the UN chief after the UN added Israel to a blacklist.

[Ballabon @ballabon]

Joey Newcomb and Mike Huckabee

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What a world we live in...

[Ballabon @ballabon]

Hey, @JasonBedrick, who knew?

[Breitbart News @BreitbartNews]

James Talarico says if you advocate for "private school vouchers," you're a Christian Nationalist

[Ballabon @ballabon]

Insane antisemitic conspiracy theories are by far more dangerous than any of these. That is a 💯 tried and true civilization destroyer.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

@TrumpDailyPosts @julie_pipk71617 What’s the greatest threat to liberty in America?