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[Benson - יעקב מרדכי בן ציון @benson_hill]

@Minygizmo2 @PlasticGeneralX @RevDaniel Like this one?
https://t.co/AYXUJJCW6Y

[Laura Ben-David 🇮🇱🎗️ @LauraBenDavd]

Egyptian journalist Abraham Eissa has a really good question for Hamas:

[Israel Defense Forces @IDF]

Born and raised into the horrors of Hamas. After years on the inside, he escaped and survived to tell.

Watch the son of one of Hamas’ founding leaders, Mosab Hassan Yousef, tell the truth about Hamas:

[Howard Lovy @Howard_Lovy]

To my fellow Jews who are criticizing this: Did you not pay attention when the Biden Administration made the first-in-history commitment to fight antisemitism and the multiple meetings with Jewish leaders and young people? I have no problem with fighting Islamophobia, too.

[Ben M Freeman - בן מ פרימן @BenMFreeman]

Palestine is a queer issue, because they murder & persecute LGBTQ+ people.

It is a feminist issue because they oppress women.

It is an indigenous issue because they’ve waged war against the land’s indigenous people, the Jews.

Wake up.

[Mikel Jollett @Mikel_Jollett]

Here’s a spokesman for Hamas saying they will repeat the unspeakable acts of violence against innocent people—the rape of women, the beheading of children—again and again.

There is no hope for peace as long as Hamas is in power.

[Brooke Goldstein @GoldsteinBrooke]

Absolutely shocking testimony from Eli Beer of United Hatzalah who shares how he found an Israeli baby who had been baked alive in an oven in southern Israel. These are the Nazi barbarians Israel is fighting against!

[Ben M Freeman - בן מ פרימן @BenMFreeman]

The pro-Palestinian rallies started the day after Hamas massacred 1400 Jews.

Long before Israel retaliated.

They just hate Jews.

[Hillel Fuld @HilzFuld]

I have a basic fundamental question I’ve yet to hear a valid answer to.

“Israel stole Palestinian land. They need to return it or else, all Palestinian resistance is justified. Now Israel is an apartheid state committing genocide against the Palestinian people.”

Just one question.

I’m not even talking about the fact that we have actual artifacts that say Palestine on them alongside a Star of David showing clearly that Palestine was Israel before 1948.

I’m not even talking about the fact that before any occupation, before there was even a state of Israel, Arabs were terrorizing Jews. See Hebron Massacre, 1929.

I’m not even talking about the fact that Israel has Arabs in every position in Israel including parliament members and Supreme Court justices.

I’m not even talking about the fact that the Palestinians have grown 6x so we either stink at genocide or that’s just another lie.

I’m not even talking about the fact that there was never an Arab Palestinian state in history, and a terrorist named Arafat woke up one morning and decided to call a group of Jordanians, Palestinians.

Forget all that. One question.

Should any country in the world that conquered land in a war or who took land from someone else, return that land?

Is a Native American violent uprising justified in the United States?

If the answer is no, if you understand that in war, nations take land, if you know history and know that Israel never started any war in history (it’s called Israel DEFENSE forces for a reason) but won them all, if you put all the facts I mentioned above aside, please tell me why Israel should return land that it took in a war it didn’t start but won, but that same standard doesn’t apply to any other country.

Why should Israel return any land when every other country took land in a war and no one is saying they need to return land?

I’d love a real answer.

Why is Israel held to a different standard?

If Israel should return land in your opinion, what other countries should also return land?

Canada? Australia? America? India? Poland? UK? Spain?

I’d love a real answer.

[Benson - יעקב מרדכי בן ציון @benson_hill]

@bfeldman89 Israel has the right and the responsibility to do all they can to rescue Israeli civilians who are held by Hamas in Gaza and to stop this terror group from ever attacking our civilians again.

Advocate for Hamas to release the hostages and surrender, then we can have peace.

[Hillel Fuld @HilzFuld]

If you don’t stand with Israel today, this is who you’re standing with. Listen carefully to his words.

I don’t know how to tell you this, but if you support this man, you support the genocide of millions of Jews.

I know that if you’re a decent person, you could not possibly stand with this monster, so, I ask you, for Israel, but also for your soul, stand with us.

Stand with morality.

Stand with Israel.

[Bassem Eid @realbassemeid]

As a Palestinian, I want to thank @MettaWorld37 for saying the truth. “If you want to help Palestinians, the best way to support them is by first supporting tangible steps toward peace by freeing Gaza from Hamas. Only then will we have a chance at peace.” https://t.co/ZczmvZPzTr

[Rabbi Natan @JudeanRabbi]

This is why there can be no more ceasefires with Hamas. They broke the last one and the one before that and the one before that. Their leaders openly plan to commit more atrocities in the future. And their leaders also openly and explicitly show no regard for the price their own people will pay for instigating endless wars against Israel.

[Mikel Jollett @Mikel_Jollett]

Israel dismantled all settlements in Gaza 18 years ago. Every single Jew left. They even took the extraordinary step of disinterring bodies from cemeteries.

Hamas responded with terrorism, which is how they've responded every single time Israel has offered peace.

[ד״ר עינת וילף Dr. Einat Wilf @EinatWilf]

Why are there even places called “refugee camps” in Gaza? And why are two thirds of the people living in Gaza, who were born there and lived there their entire lives, called “refugees” from a war that ended more than seven decades ago? The answers to these question unlock the core of the conflict. Here they are (Part 1; Part 2 in the first comment):

1.The 20th century has been marked by a transition from empires to states. We begin the 20th century when much of the world is divided between empires. We end it when much of the world is divided between states. When lucky, those states were based on the self determination of a people who share a common history, language, ethnicity, background religion and connection to a territory. (Zionism emerged in this context based on the idea of self determination for the Jewish people in the only territory to which they were ever connected as a people). When unlucky those new states were artificially created by receding empires drawing boundaries, forcing different peoples to share one state, leading almost always to civil war, dictatorship, or both. This transition has been bloody. It involved two world wars and numerous regional and civil wars. In the bloody process of empires receding and new states emerging to replace them, tens of millions of people were displaced, fleeing across newly created borders, typically to new countries with an ethnic makeup similar to their own. This was true of Hindus and Muslim, Ukrainians, Poles and Germans, Bulgarians, Greeks and Turks and Arabs and Jews. This was not unique.

2.What was unique is that one group only of refugees from that time and those wars were allowed to maintain themselves as endless refugees in anticipation of one day winning a war they had lost. Those were the Arab refugees from the war of 1948, later to be known as Palestinians. All other refugee groups, except the Palestinians, were presented with a clear message: “it’s tough, it’s tragic, move on”. There was a clear understanding that in the most fundamental sense there is no going back - not in place and not in time (thus, there was no such thing as “a right of return”). To seek to go back would mean endless war. And so the message was forward looking and future facing. Tens of millions of refugees and displaced persons, among them millions of Jews, would build new lives in the new countries to which they fled.

3.Except Palestinians. The war that the Arabs of the land and the surrounding countries waged to prevent a Jewish state from emerging and gaining independence failed to achieve its goals. Despite the violent onslaught of 1947-49, Israel emerged as a sovereign state. But the Arabs of the land, sustained by broader Arab support, refused to accept this outcome. They proceeded to undo it through a variety of means, including repeated wars, economic boycotts, international condemnations and a complete refusal of the refugees themselves to be settled, as it would effectively mean accepting that the war was over.

https://t.co/NY8E4ecoBH that end of keeping the war of 1948 alive until its goal of undoing the Jewish state could be achieved, a temporary agency established to resettle the refugees - UNRWA (initially called REWA, but the Arabs insisted on the letters UN so that it would appear to enjoy international legitimacy) - was hijacked by the Arab refugees. As a result of this hijacking UNRWA effectively became a Palestinian entity devoted singularly to sustaining and stoking the idea that uniquely among the world’s refugees, Palestinians don’t need to move on and can keep insisting on “return”, both in space and in time, to a time when there was no Israel. UNRWA thus became the mechanism by which the Jewish people alone were denied the right to to consider their hard won self-determination and sovereign statehood as a done deal.

(Part 2 continues in the first comment:)

[Hillel Fuld @HilzFuld]

No idea who wrote it but it basically sums up the whole thing perfectly.

[Yascha Mounk @Yascha_Mounk]

Hamas murdered over 1,400 people in an indescribably sadistic manner.

Its leaders have made it very clear that they will continue to murder Israeli civilians if given the chance.

Israel has every right to defend itself.

But that is all the more reason for Israel to operate in accordance with the rules of war. Its attacks must have military targets. And they must—even if Hamas uses human shields in a craven attempt to create bad publicity for Israel, as the terrorist organization undoubtedly does—go to great lengths to minimize civilian casualties.

The actions and the words of the Israeli government increasingly call in doubt whether it is complying with this imperative. That is a strategic error, which will undermine the international support Israel needs to sustain its security beyond the coming weeks. It is also a moral error, which has already cost the lives of many civilians—whose deaths, like that of any other innocents, deserves to be mourned in their own right, without context or qualification.

[Jordyn @JordynTilchen]

There is not a Jew on the planet who is the same person they were before October 7.

I am changed forever.

[David Collier @mishtal]

At 5am on 7th October 2023, a ceasefire was in place between Israel and Hamas.

Hamas broke it when they butchered babies, cut open pregnant women & raped girls as they slaughtered 1400 Israelis.

Those calling for a (another) ceasefire today just want Hamas to get away with it.

[Hillel Fuld @HilzFuld]

Dear world, the old fashioned Jew that takes your abuse and turns the other cheek? That Jew is no more.

Meet the new Jew, the strong Jew, the heroic Jew, the proud Jew.

We know you liked the old Jew better but I’d suggest you get over it quickly because we aren’t going to take your crap anymore and let there be no mistake, we are taking stock of all you Jew haters out there.

You march against us today, you’ll pay the price tomorrow.

You’re messing with the wrong nation! 🇮🇱✡️💪