Baruch

[Eyal Ofer אייל עופר @Eyalo365]

🌠🧵 לצערי הרב, 100% מהאמריקאים והאירופאים, אינם מכירים כלל את ההיסטוריה של יחסי ישראל לבנון - שעד שנת 1969 היו שלווים והגבול היה אפילו די פתוח.

אז אספתי כאן כמה נקודות, שאינן ידועות גם לרוב הישראלים:

[Green Beret Nap Time @GBNT1952]

Most prominent terrorist attacks since 1970 and their religion:

1. Munich Olympics massacre (1972) - Islam
2. Beirut barracks bombing (1983) - Islam
3. TWA Flight 847 (1985) - Islam
4. Rome & Vienna airport attacks (1985) - Islam
5. Pan Am Flight 103 (1988) - Islam
6. World Trade Center bombing (1993) - Islam
7. Paris Metro bombings (1998) - Islam
8. US Embassy bombings Kenya & Tanzania (1998) - Islam
9. USS Cole bombing (2000) - Islam
10. 9/11 attacks (2001) - Islam
11. Bali bombings (2002) - Islam
12. Istanbul bombings (2003) - Islam
13. Madrid train bombings (2004) - Islam
14. London 7/7 bombings (2005) - Islam
15. Fort Hood shooting (2009) - Islam
16. Toulouse/Montauban shootings (2012) - Islam
17. Boston Marathon bombing (2013) - Islam
18. Brussels Jewish Museum shooting (2014) - Islam
19. Ottawa Parliament attack (2014) - Islam
20. Charlie Hebdo / Hyper Cacher attacks (2015) - Islam
21. Paris November attacks (2015) - Islam
22. San Bernardino shooting (2015) - Islam
23. Brussels airport/metro bombings (2016) - Islam
24. Nice truck attack (2016) - Islam
25. Berlin Christmas Market attack (2016) - Islam
26. Orlando Pulse nightclub shooting (2016) - Islam
27. Westminster Bridge attack (2017) - Islam
28. Manchester Arena bombing (2017) - Islam
29. London Bridge/Borough Market attack (2017) - Islam
30. Barcelona/Cambrils attacks (2017) - Islam
31. Strasbourg Christmas market attack (2018) - Islam
32. London Bridge stabbing (2019) - Islam
33. Samuel apart beheading (2020) - Islam
34. Vienna shooting (2020) - Islam
35. October 7 Hamas-led attacks (2023) - Islam
36. Arras school stabbing (2023) - Islam
37. Solingen knife attack (2024) - Islam
38. New Orleans Bourbon Street attack (2025) - Islam
39. Bondi Beach Hanukkah attack (2025) - Islam
40. Winterthur train-station stabbing (2026) - Islam

I couldn’t list them all, obviously, but let’s put it into perspective.

Islamist terrorist attacks worldwide since 1979:

1979–April 2024: 66,872 attacks

By period:

1979–2000: 2,194 attacks
2001–2012: 8,265 attacks
2013–April 2024: 56,413 attacks

Total Deaths: at least 249,941

Now, who is the biggest threat to the world, again?

[Captain Allen @CptAllenHistory]

Four days before Israel declared independence, Golda Meir made a desperate secret trip to Amman. Disguised as an Arab woman, she met with King Abdullah of Transjordan — an Arab leader who acknowledged Jewish rights to the Land & who many hoped may choose peace.

Abdullah had long kept private contacts with Zionist leaders. He dreamed of a Greater Syria under Hashemite rule and saw cooperation with the Jews as strategically useful.

In their November 1947 meeting, he had hinted at possible accommodation.

But by May 1948, the Arab world was locked in rejection. Abdullah told Golda he was now “one of several” — no longer free to act alone. Egypt, Syria, Iraq, and Lebanon were all committed to destroying the Jewish state the moment it was born.

He still wanted peace with his Jewish neighbors. But he felt trapped.

Before they parted, the King looked at Golda and said these remarkable words:

“I believe with all my heart that divine providence has brought you back here, restoring you to the Semitic East which needs your knowledge and initiative. Conditions are now difficult, but be patient.”

It was a poignant, almost prophetic farewell.

King Abdullah paid for his pragmatism with his life. On July 20, 1951, while visiting Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, he was assassinated by a local Arab gunman acting on orders from the ex-Mufti of Jerusalem and Nazi war criminal, Amin al-Husseini. Peace with Jews was considered treason.

This became a tragic pattern: moderate Arab leaders who dared acknowledge Jewish rights or seek accommodation were sidelined, exiled, or killed.

From 1948 onward, maximalist rejectionism has been rewarded while moderation has been punished.

Yet the Jewish state survived — and thrived anyway.

[UN Watch @UNWatch]

🚨 BREAKING: New report by UN Watch reveals UN “experts” accepted millions of dollars from China, Russia, and Qatar before attacking the U.S., Israel, and the West.

🧵 See the report’s most striking findings:

[Captain Allen @CptAllenHistory]

The Deir Yassin “Massacre” That Wasn’t — And How Arab Propaganda Created More Palestinian Refugees

On April 9, 1948, a fierce battle took place in the Arab village of Deir Yassin, just outside Jerusalem. For decades, it has been held up as proof of “Zionist barbarity” — the supposed deliberate massacre of 254 innocent villagers, including rapes and mutilations. The story is still repeated as gospel.

One big problem: the historical record tells a very different story.

Deir Yassin was not a peaceful village minding its own business. It sat on a strategic ridge overlooking the only road connecting Jerusalem to Tel Aviv. Arab irregulars used it as a base from which to ambush Jewish convoys trying to break the siege of Jerusalem — where Arabs were actively trying to starve the Jewish population into submission.

The Irgun and Lehi (two pre-state Jewish underground groups) decided to seize the village to relieve that pressure. The larger and far-better-organized Haganah (precursor to the IDF) knew of the operation but did not participate.

The attackers sent a truck with a loudspeaker to warn residents to leave or surrender. The truck got stuck and the warning was never properly delivered.

Communication between the two small, ragtag Jewish groups failed. What followed was a chaotic, house-to-house battle against far more resistance than expected. In the panic of combat, civilians were tragically killed.

There was no systematic massacre. No rapes. No mutilations.

Professor Eliezer Tauber, one of Israel’s leading historians of Arab nationalism, reconstructed the battle using Arab and Jewish testimonies, British and Red Cross records, and previously unavailable archives. He accounted for the circumstances of nearly every death.

His conclusion: 101 Arabs were killed, most of them in combat conditions (many were armed combatants or positioned with fighters). Roughly 70% of the village’s 1,000 residents fled before or during the fighting. Another 20% were taken prisoner and later released.

The Jewish fighters suffered heavy casualties themselves — about 30% wounded or killed — which is not consistent with a one-sided slaughter.

The exaggerated version — 254 dead, rapes, pregnant women butchered — was deliberately manufactured by Arab leaders for propaganda. Hussein Khalidi, the senior Arab official in Jerusalem, instructed his staff: “We must make the most of this.”

Hazim Nusayba, the Arabic news editor of the Palestine Broadcasting Service, later admitted they were told to exaggerate so Arab countries would intervene. The fabricated stories of rape and massacre were broadcast widely.

It worked — but not the way they intended.

The lies triggered panic across Mandate Palestine’s Arabs. As one mukhtar said, “We are not afraid of death, but we will not accept that our women be raped.”

Whole villages began to flee. The exodus that had already begun accelerated dramatically after Deir Yassin.

Arab leaders themselves later acknowledged the catastrophic mistake. Nusayba reflected: “This turned out to be the highest, most expensive mistake that we made.”

Even Palestinian Arab historians have confirmed the lower death toll and the absence of rapes. The propaganda that was meant to save them instead helped create the refugee crisis that still defines their narrative today.

Deir Yassin was a tragedy of war — a hard-fought battle in a war the Arabs launched to prevent any Jewish state from existing anywhere in the Land. It was not the deliberate ethnic cleansing or massacre of legend.

The real lesson is darker: Arab leaders’ own fabricated atrocity stories caused far more Palestinian suffering than the battle itself — and they have spent decades blaming the Jews for the consequences.

[Mor Edge Insight @MorEdge_Insight]

In 1948, the armies of 5 Arab Muslim states waged a genocidal war against the fledgling state of Israel. At the same time, the Jews were under an arms embargo by the British who were arming the Arabs and training them.

Just prior to waging war against us, the Arab League leadership demanded that all Arabs on our land leave the land “temporarily” so that the Arab armies can sweep in and wipe out every last one of us.

Now this isn’t conjecture. This is historical FACT.

The majority of Arabs fled the land and waited for the Arab armies to wipe us out. But some Arabs chose to stay and fight alongside us against the invading armies.

According to two UN reports, the total number of Arabs who fled the land was between 500,000 and 560,000. This number thrown around of 750,000 or a million is completely fictitious and was claimed once in an article in a Russian magazine.

Now at the same time as the Arab armies forced the Arabs off the land, they simultaneously forced almost every single Jew out of every Arab land. The number of Jews forced to flee by force and having to leave all their livelihood and belongings totalled between 750,000 and 850,000. The vast majority fled to Israel, while a few fled to the US.

Now unlike the Arabs, the Jews forced off their lands didn’t get a dedicated UN agency to protect them. They arrived in Israel and our country stood together and absorbed every last one. There are no Jewish refugees anymore because we took them all in and they became Israelis. The majority of the population of Israel are not European refugees. They’re from the Middle East and North Africa.

Yet you never hear anybody talking about them. You don’t hear the UN demanding their right to return. You don’t see protests for the Jews forced out of their lands to be allowed back and reclaim what’s theirs.
The world talks about ethnic cleansing and oppression and dehumanization, yet the only people ethnically cleansed and oppressed and dehumanized have been the Jews.

In total, the Arab states are responsible for the displacement of over a million people… 500,000 Arabs and 800,000 Jews. But unlike Israel who absorbed the Jewish refugees, the Arab states refuse to absorb theirs.

Why?

Because for them these people are a weapon to use against Israel.

The entire world has been lied to for 77 years. The Arabs aren’t the story. The Arabs aren’t the victims. And until the world stops denying the facts and historical records and evidence, nothing will ever change.

🎥 credit to @rehoov

[Captain Allen @CptAllenHistory]

https://t.co/4gLmn6LbqZ

[Captain Allen @CptAllenHistory]

Israel’s legal title to the Land is ironclad under international law - and it was permanently reaffirmed on this day in 1946.

On April 18, 1946, the League of Nations dissolved itself & transferred its “sacred trust” to the United Nations: the Mandate for Palestine.

That legally binding document, unanimously approved by all 51 member states on July 24, 1922, granted the Jewish people irrevocable title to settle anywhere in western Palestine - the roughly 10,000 square miles between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea (today’s Israel, Gaza, and the so-called “West Bank”).

Britain had already sliced off 77% of the original Mandate to create Transjordan (today’s Jordan) out of “eastern Palestine” as a reward for the Hashemites. The remainder - from the river to the sea - remained the Jewish National Home under international law.

“Palestine” was never an Arab state, never a nationality, and never even an Arabic word. It derives from the Roman provincial name Syria Palaestina, imposed in 135 CE after the Bar Kokhba Revolt to erase the name Judea and its Jewish identity. The term itself comes from the ancient Philistines - ancient Aegean enemies of the Jews.

Under Ottoman and British rule, local Arabs considered themselves part of Greater Syria. British Mandate documents spoke of “Jews and Arabs of Palestine” - never “Jews and Palestinians.” The flagship institutions (Palestine Post, Palestine Symphony Orchestra, Anglo-Palestine Bank) were all Jewish.

Crucially, the Mandate reserved political rights to self-determination for the Jews alone. Arabs received full civil rights and their own political rights in four other mandates: Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, and Transjordan.

Article 80 of the UN Charter preserved every Jewish right under the Mandate when the League dissolved.

Israel’s legal title isn’t a “settler-colonial” fever dream. It is the last unamended international accord on the land; and it remains in force to this day.

They’ve spent eight decades gaslighting the world with a fabricated “indigenous” peoplehood that never existed before the 1960s. The documents don’t lie.

[Captain Allen @CptAllenHistory]

This day (April 16) in 1944, the Hungarian government ordered the registration of all Jews and the confiscation of their property. At that point in the Holocaust, Hungary was home to the largest surviving Jewish population in Europe. That would soon come to a brutal end.

For years, Hungary’s Jews thought they may be spared the worst. Regent Miklós Horthy (though an antisemite who had passed discriminatory laws in the 1920s and 30s) repeatedly refused German demands for mass deportations. Hungarian Jews served in labor battalions on the Eastern Front instead of being shipped to death camps.

Then, in a single month, everything changed.

On March 19, 1944, German troops occupied Hungary. Horthy was sidelined. A pro-Nazi puppet government took power. Adolf Eichmann arrived in Budapest with his Sonderkommando and immediately set to work. Within weeks, the Hungarian authorities (who were eager to collaborate with the Nazis) began the systematic robbery and isolation of the country’s roughly 760,000–780,000 Jews.

On April 16, the process accelerated: Jews were forced to register every asset. Homes, businesses, jewelry, cash, and even furniture were seized under the guise of “Aryanization.”

Then, ghettos sprang up - starting first in the Carpathian region. Yellow stars became mandatory. The Hungarian state and its German masters had prepared the ground for the fastest, most efficient deportation operation of the entire Holocaust.

From mid-May to early July 1944, 147 trains carried approximately 434,000–440,000 Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Eichmann was personally obsessed with speed. Even as the Red Army approached, and Heinrich Himmler began issuing orders to slow or halt the exterminations (to hide evidence as the war turned against Germany), Eichmann ignored the signals and pushed the machinery harder.

Trains arrived at a special ramp built at Birkenau just for Hungarian Jews. Selection was brutal and swift. The vast majority, around 80%, were gassed and cremated within hours of arrival. There were so many bodies that the SS resorted to burning corpses (and sometimes living Jews) in massive pits behind the crematoria.

In just 56 days, more Jews were murdered in Auschwitz-Birkenau than in any comparable period of the war; and by the time the killing machine between Hungary and Poland wound down, nearly half a million Hungarian Jews had been wiped from existence.

This is why, while many nations may in fact believe they take “never again” seriously, Jews can never again accept being wholly reliant for their very existence on the goodwill of others.

Only as a sovereign people in their homeland of Israel can Jews defend themselves, have a voice in the world, and ultimately control their own destinies.

[Captain Allen @CptAllenHistory]

Lebanon really was the “Jewel of the Levant" - cosmopolitan Beirut, a banking hub, Christian-plurality society & a tourism paradise.

Then came Black September 1970 when Jordan kicked the PLO out after a failed coup attempt. Arafat's PLO set up a state-within-a-state in south Lebanon (“Fatahland”). From there, Palestinian terror groups launched thousands of attacks on Israel, hijackings, and engaged in a broad international terror campaign all while arming Lebanese Muslim/leftist militias. That ignited the 1975 civil war and turned the country into a battlefield.

Israel had to invade in 1978 and 1982 to finally push the PLO out. But the vacuum was immediately filled by Hezbollah - Iran’s Shia proxy that has been terrorizing Lebanon and its neighbors ever since.

Hezbollah gave us suicide bombings (e.g., 1983 U.S. Marine barracks, 241 killed), endless rocket fire, the 2006 war, and a parallel army stronger than the Lebanese state (hopefully a now-weakened Hezbollah may finally be drawing closer to parity with the Lebanese military, but we're not there yet).

Hezbollah also dragged Lebanon into the Syrian civil war, ran narco-trafficking and money-laundering networks, and blocked every reform that might have saved the economy.

The once-thriving nation of Lebanon was indeed destroyed by the PLO and reduced to a failed Iranian outpost by Hezbollah.

Here's hoping change is finally in the air.

[COGAT @cogatonline]

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Hamas lies. The facts don’t.

​Recently, we’ve seen a wave of misinformation from Hamas and its supporters regarding Gaza’s medical system.

​Let's talk about the facts, not Hamas fiction.

[Zineb Riboua @zriboua]

The Arab Word is Watching a Different War:

Three reasons why it has been difficult to understand the Arab position:

The first is the Arab relationship with Iran. From the vantage point of Brussels or London, Iran presents itself as a resistance movement with a grievance against American hegemony and Israeli occupation, and this presentation maps comfortably onto familiar Western anticolonial frameworks.
What it does not map onto is the lived experience of Arab populations in Lebanon, Iraq, Yemen, Bahrain, Syria, and across the Gulf. In those countries, Iran's presence meant Hezbollah holding the Lebanese state hostage to Tehran's decisions, thirty-five armed factions in Iraq drawing salaries from Iranian funds channeled through the Iraqi national treasury, and Houthi commanders answering to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps while firing on Arab civilians from Yemeni soil. Freedom is not the word any serious Arab observer would use for what Iran brought.
Indeed, the Arab world's quarrel with Iran runs far deeper than American bases or Israeli airstrikes. What drives it is the systematic subversion of Arab sovereignty by a foreign power that uses the language of Islamic solidarity as cover for an imperial project conducted through proxies.
The second dimension is the proxy question itself, where Western analysis fails most comprehensively. Iran goes far beyond supporting armed groups. Parallel state structures get built inside Arab countries, financial systems get captured, and political figures get installed who owe their existence and survival entirely to Tehran.
The Iranians who have administered this project understand it as the export of a revolution, but what Arab populations have experienced is closer to a colonial occupation conducted through intermediaries, and as of now, they’re not mourning the Islamic Republic.
When Westerners treat these proxy networks as instruments of legitimate resistance rather than as mechanisms of subjugation, they endorse an imperial project while believing themselves to be opposing one, and as a matter of fact, make themselves the legitimizing force behind Iran’s war against the Arab world.
The third dimension is the most counterintuitive for a Western audience, and it is the one most consequential for how the current war is understood and misunderstood. For Arab nationalists, including secular nationalists and even those with deep reservations about Israeli policy, Iran represents a greater and more immediate threat than Israel does.
This is a position that Western media are structurally ill-equipped to render intelligible, because Western discourse on the Middle East has been organized for decades around the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as the primary axis of regional injustice.
The result is that when Western governments and Western publics take strong positions against Israel’s actions against Iran’s operations, they believe themselves to be standing with the Arab world. In reality, they are advancing a position that the Arab world does not share and has not asked for, while ignoring the threat that Arab governments and Arab populations actually live with.
The rhetorical use of Israel as a perpetual alibi for Iranian aggression has been one of the Islamic Republic’s most durable tools, and Western opinion has served as the unwitting amplifier of that tool across the entire duration of the Islamic Republic’s existence.

https://t.co/32dwric9G6

[Captain Allen @CptAllenHistory]

Wonder how the Venezuela - Iran - Hezbollah operations are all connected?

First Hugo Chávez, then Nicolás Maduro allied with Iran & Hezbollah to create a narco-terror logistics hub: cocaine pipelines, money-laundering & sanctions-busting networks that funneled hundreds of millions to Hezbollah & Iran’s “Axis of Resistance.” Here’s how:

Chávez’s “Bolivarian Revolution” found a soulmate in Iran’s Islamic Republic via shared anti-Americanism, anti-Israel hatred, and a love of blaming everything on “Yankee imperialism.”

By the mid-2000s, both the IRGC and Hezbollah were embedded in Venezuela; and Caracas issued Venezuelan passports and dual identities to Lebanese and Iranian operatives.

Hezbollah’s so-called “Business Affairs Component” (its criminal finance arm) partnered with local cartels moving cocaine from Colombian fields through Venezuelan ports and airfields, from which Hezbollah took a cut (12–20%) with laundered proceeds heading back to Lebanon and Iran via trade-based schemes, hawala networks, and shell companies.

After Chávez’s death, Maduro went even further. In 2022, Iran and Venezuela entered a 20-year cooperation pact that formalized oil swaps, drone manufacturing on Venezuelan soil, and joint sanctions evasion. Iranian tankers were able to dodge U.S. sanctions by flying Venezuelan flags.

Per the DEA:

(1) Hezbollah operatives used Venezuelan diplomatic passports and state airline CONVIASA flights to move people, cash, and contraband;

(2) Clans like the Nassereddines and figures like Fawzi Kan’an and Ghazi Nasr al-Din ran money-laundering rings tied directly to the Maduro regime;

(3) Former Venezuelan lawmaker Adel El Zabayar was indicted in 2020 for coordinating cocaine and weapons trafficking between Maduro’s inner circle, Hezbollah, Iran, and FARC dissidents; and

(4) The Cartel de los Soles (a Venezuelan military-linked cocaine syndicate) worked hand-in-glove with Hezbollah networks.

U.S. officials estimated hundreds of millions were laundered through these networks annually. One Senate hearing called Venezuela “Maduro’s Hezbollah pipeline.”

In short, Iran-Hezbollah-Venezuela became a narco-terror superhighway pumping cocaine north while cash flowed east to fund terrorism.

Former Venezuelan intel chief Hugo Carvajal later said his government explicitly partnered with Hezbollah to weaponize drugs against the U.S.

Meanwhile, as Venezuelan families starved under economic collapse, this axis enriched terrorists. Hezbollah used the money for tunnels into Israel, rocket barrages, and global plots. Iran got hard currency to sustain its nuclear ambitions and proxy wars. And Americans got flooded with fentanyl-laced cocaine. It was hybrid warfare in plain sight: one hemisphere’s misery funding the other’s jihad.

Then came January 3, 2026, when U.S. forces launched Operation Absolute Resolve, suppressing Venezuelan air defenses, which was followed by a Delta Force raid on Maduro’s Caracas compound. Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores were captured and flown to New York to face narco-terrorism, cocaine importation, and weapons charges.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio was blunt: this wasn’t just about regime change or oil. It was about ending Venezuela as “Iran and Hezbollah’s forward operating base in our own hemisphere.”

So when U.S. and Israeli forces began striking the Iranian regime, their financial lifeline from Venezuela had already been severed.

[Dan Burmawi @DanBurmawy]

There are two ways to understand the Middle East, and which one you choose determines whether Western civilization will survive or not.

[Aizenberg @Aizenberg55]

2.2 million views now. Gaza "genocide" is a hoax and a libel, easily disproven by law, facts and plain common sense. No one has provide a credible response — such as question 10 which is why would Israel facilitate vaccination of 600,000 Gazan children in a purported "genocide."

[Dr. Brian L. Cox @BrianCox_RLTW]

It doesn't matter how many academics, activists & NGOs allege @Israel is/was responsible for genocide in #Gaza. What matters is the methodology they use to arrive at that conclusion. Without exception, their method is flawed - which means the popular "genocide" claim is as well.

As anyone who cares enough to read the Genocide Convention knows by now, this egregious int'l law crime involves committing an enumerated act with "intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such" (pic 1).

"Intent" is emphasized there because this is the component that usually differentiates correct from flawed methodology.

A convincing methodological approach would start by identifying what strategic objectives have been officially expressed by 🇮🇱 gov't then evaluating whether battlefield conduct is consistent with those objectives or, instead, with intent to destroy Palestinians as an identity group in whole or in part as such.

For example, @netanyahu announced 2 weeks after 10/7, just as full-scale ground ops were getting underway, that strategic objectives of the military campaign in Gaza were, "Destroying Hamas's military and governing capabilities, and bringing the captives back home" (pic 2). Almost two years later on 2nd anniversary of 10/7, he affirmed 🇮🇱 “will continue to act to achieve all the aims of the war: return all the hostages, destroy the Hamas regime, and ensure that Gaza no longer poses a threat to Israel" (pic 3).

So strategic objectives expressed by 🇮🇱 have been consistent throughout the campaign. Since intent is usually the decisive "genocide" element, convincing methodology must start with what the stated intent is (if it's known, as it is here) & evaluate conduct from there.

Any guesses how many of these "reputable" academics, advocacy groups & activists have adopted that method? If you answered "zero", congratulations ... you are 💯 correct.

Instead, EVERY SINGLE ONE of these bullshit "genocide" allegations adopts the exact same bullshit methodology.

That is, each takes a handful cherry-picked statements from a few 🇮🇱 officials, most of which are misrepresented and/or taken out of context, to construct the illusion that @IDF intent in Gaza is actually to destroy Palestinians in whole or in part as such rather than Hamas. I've attached an excerpt of @hrw report as but one example of this flawed methodology (pic 4).

It's a hoax. And it has been from the beginning. But the more ppl/groups/orgs make this bullshit allegation, the more convincing it seems to the uninformed masses - like Glenn here - who simply don't know any better.

Speaking of Glenn ... no one whose opinion matters believes or claims that "the term 'genocide'" is limited only to "successfully slaughtering everyone in a population as quickly as possible."

Committing prohibited acts with intent to destroy a specified identity group in whole or in part as such doesn't require that. It's almost comical that Glenn claims "the belief that [genocide] only covers that act is part of the confusion and/or misinformation on this question" since no one who can read the Genocide Convention actually does believe that.

Framing the "belief" in those terms only to "discredit" something that doesn't exist is an example of the constructed strawman rhetorical technique. This is one way of spreading misinformation - exactly what Glenn claims these imaginary "Israel supporters" whose views he has constructed are doing.

Also: 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 + "much of Europe paid for, armed and otherwise enabled most of it" because ... that's right. It's not ACTUALLY a "genocide."

The truth is that the claim 🇮🇱
"committed genocide in Gaza" actually IS a "laughable delusion that only crazies assert." It's just unfathomable how far it's spread from "fringe" to mainstream because so many progressive zealots - like Glenn here - are duped by #legaldisinformation for ideological reasons since they so badly WANT to believe the "genocide" lie.

[Gad Saad @GadSaad]

Western countries have allowed open entry to millions of people who express a genocidal hatred of Jews as captured via a multitude of reliable data. The politicians who are the architects of these open border policies than proclaim that "Jew-hatred as no place here." It is difficult to imagine this level of Orwellian duplicity. I don't think that we have ever faced such parasitized suicidal empathy in recorded history. This mind virus, which hijacks both your cognitive and emotional system, is more dangerous than all biological pathogens combined because it rewires your brain into thinking that your collective suicide is the epitome of morality. [Save this post.]

[Aizenberg @Aizenberg55]

🧵Gaza Fatality Update Jan 2026. The chart below summarizes the latest fatality estimate based on Hamas’ most recent reported numbers. Key points: natural deaths are included in the total count and thousands of combatant losses are excluded. Full explanation below. 1/

[פלר חסן נחום Fleur Hassan-Nahoum @FleurHassanN]

This is the best explanation I have ever heard for obsessive #Jew hatred, by the one and only @GadSaad . Six degrees of Jew !

[Mosab Hassan Yousef @MosabHasanYOSEF]

Why Rushing US Intervention in Iran Could Backfire Badly

The Iranian people are bravely fighting a brutal regime amid massive protests that have spread across all 31 provinces, with death tolls reported in the thousands from the violent crackdown.

President Trump has promised help and threatened strong action if the regime continues its deadly suppression, but any form of military intervention, strikes, assassinations, or other direct involvement carries enormous risks that could make the situation far worse.

It could easily ignite a wider regional war. Iran might mine the Strait of Hormuz, attack U.S. assets in the region, target Israel, or activate its proxies, leading to prolonged conflict. This would spike global oil prices, tank the world economy, and likely spark anti-Trump protests in the United States itself, as well as intense international backlash against perceived American adventurism.

Even if the regime collapses quickly without a full-scale war, chaos would almost certainly follow in a nation of 90 million people long dependent on a repressive dictatorship. There is no unified alternative leadership or visionary figure with the power to quickly unify and govern the country.

The powerful Revolutionary Guards could splinter into armed militias, loyalists might seek revenge, and the result could be civil war, widespread revenge killings, assassinations, and total economic collapse, leaving millions in poverty, without basic supplies, and trapped in endless violence.

President Trump could be praised if the outcome somehow proves positive and brings swift freedom to the Iranian people. However, he would also bear full responsibility and be blamed if intervention leads to the collapse of Iranian society and years of devastating chaos, fragmentation, and humanitarian disaster.

History repeatedly shows that foreign interventions in the Middle East, whether in Iraq, Libya, or elsewhere, often produce prolonged instability, power vacuums, and suffering rather than swift freedom or stability.

America must calculate its steps very carefully:

genuine support for the Iranian people should avoid lighting a fuse that could burn everyone involved, potentially turning a heroic uprising into even greater tragedy.