@KonstantinKisin What goes on in the moderator’s head during this exchange??
Is she panicking and interrupting because she knows he’s right?
Or because she’s so uncomfortable in him being wrong that she can’t contain herself?
This week @paulg got 8 million views & 207k likes tweeting that Israelis like me are now “officially” committing genocide.
He cited the vote of a minority of an association that costs $30 to join, whose online directory is full of Muslim names.
He has not issued a correction.
Le capitalisme sort les gens de la pauvreté. Et uniquement ça.
Mais c'est la seule chose qui compte vraiment.
Imagine 100 gamins qui doivent traverser la France pour aller voir leur grand-mère malade. En 1800, ils sont tous à pied. Égaux. Sauf que la moitié n'arrivera jamais. Maladie, épuisement, accident. Les autres mettront 3 semaines.
C'est ça, "l'égalité" qu'on regrette.
Arrive le capitalisme. Les plus malins fabriquent des charrettes. Puis des trains. Puis des voitures. Puis des avions. Puis Elon Musk lance SpaceX et bosse sur des fusées qui feront Paris-Tokyo en 40 minutes.
À chaque étape, l'écart se creuse entre celui qui peut payer le mieux et celui qui prend le moins cher. Toujours.
Et à chaque étape, le moins cher d'aujourd'hui est mieux que le plus cher d'hier.
Un SMICard en 2026 prend un vol Ryanair Paris-Marseille pour 30 balles. Louis XIV, l'homme le plus puissant de France, mettait 5 jours en carrosse pour faire le même trajet, en risquant de mourir d'une infection à l'arrivée.
Le pauvre d'aujourd'hui voyage mieux que le roi d'hier.
Le pauvre d'aujourd'hui mange mieux que le roi d'hier (le scorbut était fréquent à Versailles).
Le pauvre d'aujourd'hui a accès à plus d'informations en 10 secondes sur son téléphone que toutes les bibliothèques royales d'Europe réunies en 1700.
Et là arrive le socialiste. Il regarde Elon Musk dans sa fusée et dit : "C'est scandaleux. Il faut taxer."
Il ne regarde pas le SMICard dans son Ryanair. Il ne regarde pas le gamin du Bangladesh qui sort de la pauvreté extrême parce qu'il bosse pour une usine textile qui exporte en Europe. Il regarde le sommet. Et il appelle ça "lutter contre les inégalités".
Voilà l'arnaque intellectuelle.
Parce que ce qu'il appelle "réduire les inégalités", c'est en réalité empêcher le bateau de monter pendant qu'il fait semblant de baisser le yacht.
Les chiffres sont là, indiscutables. En 1800, 90% de l'humanité vivait dans l'extrême pauvreté. Aujourd'hui, moins de 8%. Cette chute, c'est la plus grande victoire morale de l'histoire humaine. Elle n'a pas été produite par une révolution. Pas par un programme d'État. Pas par un manifeste.
Elle a été produite par des gens qui avaient le droit de créer, de vendre, de garder ce qu'ils gagnaient, et de réinvestir.
Et c'est précisément ce moteur que la bureaucratie socialiste a capturé en France.
Le mécanisme est simple. Le capitalisme produit la richesse. Puis l'État arrive, prend 57% du PIB, redistribue une partie, et te dit : "Tu vois, sans moi tu n'aurais rien." Comme si le boulanger devait remercier le mec qui lui pique la moitié de sa fournée chaque matin.
Pire : il interdit progressivement aux gens de créer cette richesse. Il étouffe les boîtes naissantes sous les normes, les charges, les autorisations, les CDI à vie, les seuils à 50 salariés. Puis il s'étonne que la croissance soit nulle. Et il en conclut qu'il faut taxer encore plus.
C'est exactement ce qu'a décrit Hayek en 1944. Un pays qui confond "égalité de résultat" et "justice" finit toujours par devenir plus pauvre et moins libre. La France est le cas d'école.
Pendant ce temps, en Pologne, en Estonie, en Irlande, à Singapour, ils ont fait l'inverse. Bas impôts, droit de propriété solide, État léger. Résultat : ils nous rattrapent ou nous dépassent en niveau de vie en 30 ans.
Le capitalisme n'est pas un système qui crée des riches. C'est un système qui détruit la pauvreté.
Et la seule raison pour laquelle on en doute encore en France, c'est qu'on a délégué le discours économique à des gens dont le métier est de vivre de l'argent des autres.
This Day (May 6) in 1943, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem wrote the Bulgarian Foreign Minister demanding Jewish children be sent to Poland — not British Mandate Palestine — so they could be murdered.
While living as Hitler’s honored guest in Berlin, Grand Mufti Amin al-Husseini — the highest religious authority among Palestinian Arabs — sent a chilling letter to the Bulgarian Foreign Minister.
Bulgaria was preparing to allow 4,000 Jewish children and 500 Jewish adults to emigrate to safety in British Mandate Palestine. The Mufti was furious. He immediately intervened with his confidants Himmler and von Ribbentrop to cancel the plan and insisted the Jews — including the children — be sent to Poland instead, where they would be under “strict control.”
The Mufti knew exactly what “strict control” in Poland meant in 1943. He had personally toured Nazi concentration camps as a VIP guest of the SS and was impressed by the efficiency at which they killed Jews.
The Mufti had already spent years in Berlin broadcasting Nazi radio propaganda calling for the extermination of Jews across the Arab world. He actively recruited Muslims for Waffen-SS units. He lobbied Hitler directly to ensure no Jews would escape to British Mandate Palestine.
On November 28, 1941, Hitler had assured him:
“Germany is determined… to call on the European nations one by one to solve the Jewish problem and, at the proper moment, to address the same appeal to non-European peoples.”
The Mufti took that promise seriously and worked tirelessly to make sure it was fulfilled.
Even after the war, the Nazi-Arab alliance against Jews continued.
Arab states (especially Egypt and Syria) recruited former Nazi war criminals and rocket scientists to build missile programs to target Israel and modernize anti-Israel propaganda with Nazi antisemitic imagery and tactics, giving these Nazis the opportunity to continue the Holocaust, but now against the Jewish state.
The Mufti’s letter on May 6, 1943, is a stark reminder that the goal was never “borders” for two states.
The goal was the elimination of Jews.
That same eliminationist ideology has never gone away. It has simply found new flowery language and new champions for the "cause."
Wow wow wow. Take a minute to watch these incredibly powerful remarks from a Rabbi in London.
I’ll add - if you’ve never had to send a loved one an “are you ok?” text after yet another attack, kindly stfu.
In April 1948, the Arab leadership of Haifa announced they wanted to evacuate the city.
Not that they were being forced out. Not that they had no choice. They announced it as a decision.
The Jewish mayor broke down in tears and begged them not to go. The British commander told them they were making a serious mistake. The Haganah’s chief officer promised full equality and peace to every Arab who stayed. The answer from the Arab Higher Committee in Beirut was evacuation anyway.
This is one of the most documented moments of 1948. It is also one of the least told.
Before any major military offensive in Haifa, between 25,000 and 30,000 Arabs had already left voluntarily. The fighting hadn’t reached most of their neighborhoods. What had happened was simpler and more damaging: the leadership had left first. British High Commissioner Sir Alan Cunningham documented it in an April 26 telegram, describing the abandonment by Arab municipal officials, military leaders, and the chief Arab magistrate as probably the greatest factor in the collapse of Arab morale in the city. When the people who are supposed to lead a community disappear, the community follows.
On April 22, a meeting was held at city hall to discuss a truce. The terms guaranteed full safety and civil rights to any Arab who stayed. Shabtai Levy, the Jewish mayor, broke down and pleaded personally with the Arab delegates, calling evacuation a cruel crime against their own people. The British commander urged them to reconsider. The Haganah promised equality and peace to anyone who remained.
The Arab Higher Committee in Beirut said go.
What Arab leaders said publicly in the months that followed tells the rest of the story.
The Economist reported in October 1948 that the departure was driven primarily by orders from the Higher Arab Executive, and that Arabs who stayed and accepted Jewish protection were being called renegades by their own leadership. Time magazine reported in May 1948 that the evacuation was partly driven by Arab leaders who hoped withdrawing Arab workers would paralyze the city economically. Emile Ghoury, secretary of the Palestinian Arab Higher Committee, told the Beirut Telegraph in September 1948 that the Arab states had agreed unanimously on the policy that created the refugees and must share in solving the problem. The Jordanian newspaper Falastin wrote in February 1949 that Arab states had encouraged Palestinians to leave temporarily to clear the way for the Arab invasion armies and then failed to help them return. Monsignor George Hakim, the Greek Catholic Bishop of Galilee, told the New York Herald Tribune in June 1949 that the Arabs of Haifa had fled despite the fact that Jewish authorities had guaranteed their safety and rights as citizens.
These aren’t Israeli sources. These are Arab leaders and Arab newspapers, in their own words, from 1948 & 1949.
The word Nakba was coined in August 1948 by a Syrian historian named Constantin Zureiq, a professor at the American University of Beirut. He used it to describe the catastrophic failure of seven Arab armies to defeat the newly declared State of Israel. In his own words, he wrote that seven Arab states declared war on Zionism in Palestine, stopped impotent before it, and then turned on their heels. He described Arab leaders whose declarations fell like bombs from their mouths but whose bombs were hollow and empty, causing no damage and killing no one. Zureiq made no mention of Palestinians as victims. He defined the Nakba as a self-inflicted Arab disaster, a failure of Arab leadership, Arab unity & Arab will.
That is what the word originally meant. A Syrian intellectual criticizing Arab governments for launching a war they were unprepared to win.
Somewhere between 1948 and the 1980s, that meaning was inverted entirely. The word that began as Arab self-criticism became the centerpiece of a narrative in which Arabs were passive victims & Israel was the aggressor
Edite. via: Melissa Steinberg Brodsky
In 2005, Israel gave the Palestinians Gaza.
In 2006, Hamas won legislative elections in Gaza.
In 2007, Hamas seized control of Gaza. They ramped up construction of the tunnels, and transformed the Strip into a launch pad for attacking Israel.
For the next 16 years, Hamas launched rockets into Israel, and Israel responded in kind. During this time, Gaza's population nearly doubled. If there were a sinister Israeli plot to exterminate the Palestinian people in Gaza, it was a massive and unprecedented failure -- unlikely for a country that has proven itself remarkably capable when it comes to defending itself.
Then, on October 7, 2023, Hamas killed 1,200-plus Jews (mostly civilians) in one day -- the equivalent of about 30,000 Americans. (Recall that the U.S. responded to 9/11, which left 3,000 Americans dead, by launching two wars; and we responded to Pearl Harbor, which left 2,700 seamen dead, by killing 3.5 million Japanese.)
The past two-and-a-half years have not been a genocide. Not even close. It's true that Gaza's population has declined by as much as 10 percent, but most of that is due to outmigration. Among those killed, the combatant to non-combatant ratio looks much better than other urban battles/wars -- for example, Fallujah, Mosul and Aleppo. (Have you looked at the numbers out of Grozny? The Russians massacred tens of thousands of Muslim civilians. I've interviewed Russians who served in the first Chechen War, and they recalled explicit orders to kill civilians with the hope of "breaking their soul." I recall not a single protest.)
This is propaganda. That's what you're trafficking in. Mythologies meant to delegitimize the world's only Jewish state. You have zero interest in helping Palestinians, so far as I can tell. You are aiding and abetting the troglodytes, the neanderthals, those who cover women head to toe out of fear that men may be unable to control themselves, those who string gay people up from cranes. All the while benefiting from the openness, the liberalism, the free exchange of goods and ideas that characterizes Western society.
Dear Leftists,
You call everyone else Nazis.
You lost your minds when Elon put his hand in the air.
Well, here’s 2 and a half minutes of pro-Palestine activists screaming Heil Hitler, doing Nazi salutes, and promising to “gas the Jews.”
Listen and learn.
These are REAL Nazis.
The BBC/NPR view of Lebanon is constantly being portrayed through Hezbollah's favored lens
Same as Gaza/Hamas
Here is a simple "displaced" person among the rubble. Even the Hezbollah flag is visible in the background.
Nobody dares call out the Shia colonialism of its neighbors
I went to the Guardian to genuinely learn what the “Intelligent Left“ says about the world..
And was met with this profoundly immature essay that could’ve been written by a wispy mustached 16 yr old right on SJ warrior
Brainwashed by Israel genocide smears and TDS 🤦🏻♂️
Embarrassing