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Adviocate for Parkinson’s, for my country 🇮🇱🎗️and for the 101 hostages to come home NOW and for true peace with those who agree I have the right to exist

[Open Source Intel @Osint613]

Seems like if we can’t get Iran to give up attacking ships, we are going to have a hard time stopping their nuclear program.

[ILRedAlert @ILRedAlert]

✈️ Hostile Aircraft Intrusion [12:32:10] - 1 Alert:

• Confrontation Line — Netua

Population: 3,200

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Extremists too often dominate media attention

Sadly, for every image the world sees of an extremist politician shouting on a campaign stage, it misses another image entirely: a young widow standing beside the grave of a husband who died defending his country.

That is the Israel I cannot stop thinking about.

I will not pretend extremist voices do not exist here. They do. Some have sat in our government. Some dominate headlines far beyond their actual size. I will never vote for them or condone their views. But I also understand how, for some people living through decades of terror, war, and loss, hatred can breed more hatred. Understanding that reality is not the same as excusing it.

That is one of the burdens of democracy, especially in a system where even small fringes can gain a microphone. It is messy, frustrating, and sometimes deeply embarrassing. But it is still democracy. In every other corner of this region, citizens cannot freely criticize leaders, vote governments out, or openly protest. We often forget how unusual those freedoms remain.

Yet none of the political noise erases the human reality beneath it.

A woman has lost her husband. Children have lost their father. Parents have buried a son.

These are not slogans or hashtags. They are human beings carrying grief that will remain long after the cameras move on.

This war has brought devastating loss to innocent people on all sides. But Israelis also know how it began: with the slaughter of civilians, the rape of women, the kidnapping of children, and the murder of families in their homes. No nation would absorb that and choose to do nothing.

I want peace deeply. Most Israelis do. But peace cannot survive beside those still committed to our destruction.

What pains me is not only the loss itself, but how often that loss is unseen.

The widow disappears while the extremist gets the headline.

The mourner disappears while the provocateur becomes the symbol of an entire country.

Images of outrage travel faster than images of grief.

Anger is more marketable than complexity. And so the world encounters Israel through its loudest voices rather than through ordinary people trying to survive, mourn, raise families, and continue living under impossible strain.

She deserves the world’s tears however instead, too often, she receives its judgment.

I refuse to let extremists define my country, even when they dominate the news cycle.

The Israel I know is flawed, noisy, divided, exhausted, and still profoundly human.

It is doctors treating strangers, volunteers helping displaced families, and citizens arguing fiercely because they still believe their voices matter. Most of all, it is young men and women carrying responsibilities no generation should have to carry.

That is the Israel her husband defended with his life.

And despite everything, despite the anger, the mistakes, the political noise, and the heartbreak, it is still home.

[Mega Geopolitics @MegaGeopolitics]

BREAKING: 🇺🇸🇮🇷The U.S. has given Iran an ultimatum: dismantle the nuclear program or face "other options," - Fox News

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Iranian media agency forgot one minor detail

The Iranian regime put out what for me is an insightful but disgraceful and insensitive tweet last night. It is the list below….see the original tweet photo below.

It is an attempt to justify the damage done….and includes 4 cinema being burnt. There is one omission…no where is there mention of tens of thousands massacred, imprisoned, wounded or raped by the regime.

What’s worse to me is their ability to have this level of detail but not admit to basics of how many were killed.

Disgraceful!!!

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📊Statistics on the damage to public properties during the past few days:

🔹 Places of Worship:
• 250 mosques damaged
• 20 Husseinias damaged

🔹 Health and Emergency Sector:
• Two medical centers damaged in Ilam and Rasht
• 182 ambulances out of service

🔹 Vehicles and Public Properties:
• Hundreds of cars burned in Tehran
• Tehran Municipality losses: 3 trillion tomans (approximately 21.5 million dollars)
• Of which 800 billion tomans (approximately 5.7 million dollars) for service vehicles, especially the firefighting sector

🔹 Banking Sector:
• 317 bank branches completely destroyed
• 4700 bank branches damaged by percentages ranging between 10% and 90%
• 1400 ATMs damaged
• 250 ATMs completely destroyed
• Bank losses: 2100 billion tomans (approximately 15 million dollars)

🔹 Commercial Sector:
• 364 large commercial stores damaged
• 419 small commercial stores damaged in 30 provinces

🔹 Culture and Education:
• 3 public libraries burned
• 265 schools and educational centers damaged
• 8 heritage and tourist sites damaged
• 4 cinemas damaged in 3 cities

🔹 Electricity Sector:
• Losses estimated at 1 billion tomans (approximately 7 thousand dollars)

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The simple, sad truth

To exist free of dictatorship or massacre in the part of the world we live in, you have to be strong and I mean strong.

It looks like the Iranian Regime have got away with massacring tens of thousands of people. Iranians, Druze, Kurds and innocent Sudanese all know to thei cost that it is only through strength that it is possible to exist. Especially for Jews.

I hugely respect the United States and see them as our friend and no 1 ally but when it comes to it, we must be able to depend on defending ourselves. We must not risk being put behind the interests that exist in places like Greenland and the US is fully entitled to have its own national interests (and I understand the fight for the Arctic).

We must do so whilst managing an almost impossible balance which is a complete exception for this region. Complete! Namely, a strong Democracy, Equal rights for minorities and a moral army that simply doesn’t try or have any desire to do what the world accuses us of although it makes mistakes.

The claim of genocide ia not levellled at any other nation in the region when in fact you could almost pick any other of tens of countries in the world region and the claim would be true. It is simply not true for Israel.

The worlds colonizers (The British, French etc) and those who refuse to recognize one tiny Jewish State so small you have to enlarge a map to see it, accuse us of being what they in fact are. I am not interested in their lectures. They almost ignore the brutality that exists in Iran and other places for selfish reasons.

Israel has its faults for sure and must remain fully democratic and maintain minority rights but, for all that, it is a one off in the region and must at the end of the day stay strong and resolute.

The world is giving the Iranian regime a pass to kill wantonly machine gunning down crowds and I am sad for that but we must not let it happen to us.

Am Yisrael Chai. @benny_pollak

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Hey friends ❤️

Big news! My book is finally published on Amazon/Kindle (links below).

Honestly, this feels surreal. Just last week I decided to write it and now life reminded me why. My PSP (Progressive Supranuclear Palsy) symptoms have flared up again so it is time for me to practice what I preach and lean on faith.

Since being diagnosed with PSP everything has changed. It has been tough but I have fought hard to stay positive. This book is my way of giving back to patients, caregivers and loved ones facing terminal illnesses, especially PSP.

Today my heart is also with the families who lost loved ones in Sydney 💔 yesterday. May they find strength and comfort in the darkest moments.

The book shares ten key moments of faith from my life, stories I hope will lift you up no matter what you believe. Life is unpredictable. Illness, loss and hardship can hit without warning. But faith and resilience can help us rise above. That is the message I want to share.

If you choose to read it know it comes from a place of hope and strength. Thank you for walking this journey with me.

📚 Available on Amazon (English only):
💻 Kindle (US): $1 or FREE with Kindle Unlimited → https://t.co/gj8SIas0DT
📖 Paperback (US): $9.99 → https://t.co/fKH2jcSouE (Ships to Israel enabled)
📖 Paperback (UK): £7.99 → https://t.co/HGCXlLHhJ0
Please like, share, review, comment. Your support means everything to me 🙏

[Aizenberg @Aizenberg55]

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🌟 I have written a short BOOKLET for Caregivers (no commerical fee or advertising) 🌟

👉 https://t.co/YvhwLkUTxJ

Based on strong feedback from people I respect greatly, I’ve prepared based on a collection of blog posts a booklet called "Navigating a Terminal Illness – A Patient’s View for Caregivers" . I truly hope this makes a small difference and truly appreciate feedback.

This guide shares my personal thoughts as a patient, written especially for caregivers.

PLEASE SHARE (if you think it can help someone)

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Three years without a PSP diagnosis was a blessing for me but is a tragedy for PSP patients - we need to solve the slow diagnosis for the lives of the future - please help by sharing to those who can influence -

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Apathy in PSP - he is not my husband anymore

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I admit I am messy and now we have a parking lot (car park) downstairs - aaarrrgghhhh - https://t.co/Z1GezYiBne and new update (Not) About Me section breaking down the last 5 years and providing key links https://t.co/FgQ2Qqaq3n

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From a Prison to an Ark https://t.co/fggOtXhkr0

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"The No Jewish State Solution" Coalition https://t.co/QSfdJefOef via @LinkedIn

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@realDonaldTrump

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@Osint613 Stay safe

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@Osint613 Subscribed. Thank you sir

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I’m excited to share my first eBook! 🎉😀 It’s a collection of my posts about my faith and resilience published on “The Times of Israel,” it is FREE. PDF or link. I’d love your feedback, and Please Please share ⏩️to friends, family and others 🥺🙏

https://t.co/geBmrC0Wg0

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'Appears to be PSP' - Actually a *positive* thing and a call to action and no I am not insane
It has taken a week to cry and regroup - now I am centered around my meaning, purpose and am hopefully back in the game dealing with what 'Appears to be PSP' https://t.co/RHZPBIvmRd HEBREW - https://t.co/LTPN7QC2Ti