CGthinks

Making a #difference (views are my own)

[Imshin @imshin]

Pistachio Ice Cream on al-Thawra Street in Rimal, Gaza City, also serves a pretty impressive breakfast by any standard.

Instagram timestamp: 6 hours ago (16 July '26)
#TheGazaYouDontSee
Links + details + menu (AI translation) in 1st response

[Emily Schrader - אמילי שריידר امیلی شریدر @emilykschrader]

For nearly two years, the world was told Hussam Abu Safiya was a persecuted humanitarian doctor. Now evidence from Hamas’ own Arabic-language records identifies him as a commissioned Hamas officer. Yet the UN, Amnesty, politicians, and media outlets amplified his narrative with no scrutiny. Where is the accountability?

[Aizenberg @Aizenberg55]

THIRTY Gaza "medical workers" have now been confirmed Hamas & PIJ operatives scattered among Gaza's hospitals, see each one documented in the thread below and growing each day. The claim that Israel "targeted healthcare" in Gaza has cratered - and Hamas supplied the evidence.

[Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib]

Hamas is a genocidal cult: Recently uncovered documents from slain Hamas leader and October 7 mastermind Yahya Sinwar reveal the depth of his depravity and the extent to which he knowingly steered Gaza toward catastrophe. Handwritten notes drafted a year before the attack show Sinwar anticipated a ferocious Israeli counter‑offensive, even speculating, in his own words, about the possibility of an Israeli nuclear retaliation on Gaza. Despite uncertainty over whether Iran or Hezbollah would join the fight, he outlined a plan to deploy up to ten thousand fighters from Gaza to seize Israeli towns, expel civilians, hold hostages, and wage what he described as a life‑or‑death battle. These notes align with earlier documents from Sinwar’s archive detailing his intent to use extreme brutality to maximize terror, fear, and psychological trauma among Israelis.

The implications are stark. Hamas’s crimes against humanity were not only committed against Israelis but also against the Palestinian people. The fascist organization employed ISIS‑grade tactics, fully aware that the attack went far beyond any military objective and could provoke overwhelming Israeli retaliation. Sinwar’s delusions were matched only by his ignorance: Israel does not need nuclear weapons to inflict devastating harm on Gaza. Yet Hamas deliberately launched an intentionally genocidal assault, predicting, and banking on, an Israeli survival response that would devastate Gaza and then be weaponized for global sympathy. In doing so, Hamas sacrificed 2.3 million Palestinians for a propaganda strategy.

This alone should compel the immediate, unconditional, and unequivocal rejection of Hamas by anyone claiming to support Palestinian rights. It should erase any doubt that Islamist extremists pose an existential threat to Palestinian survival, freedom, and the possibility of building a society not dragged into wars its rulers knowingly design to be catastrophic. When you are the weaker party facing the most far‑right government in Israel’s history, your obligation is to safeguard your people, not gamble their lives on apocalyptic fantasies. Hamas’s failure to do so is a betrayal worthy of absolute condemnation. It forfeits any Hamas claim to political relevance and demands that those responsible for October 7 be treated as traitors and murderers of their own people.

[Rawan Osman روان عثمان @RawaneOsmane]

I'm half-Syrian, half-Lebanese, and here's why I can't stand people like Greta Thunberg. She quit school to chase climate activism while millions of children in my region quit school because their families can't afford it. She skips university "for Palestine" while our youth can't afford tuition, transport, or a functioning country to build a future in. She's never had a job; our people can't find one. She travels around the world (on a bicycle, of course) and sails to Gaza on a whim; our people can't get a visa to leave the misery they were born into. She has the luxury of adopting foreign causes; we don't have the luxury of just one problem. Millions of us live abroad because that's the only way to build a sustainable life. She acts like suffering belongs to Palestinians alone, while everyone in the Middle East lives in hell too, and it's not because of capitalism or climate change. It's because of a destructive ideology that uses the Palestinian cause as its tool. And like Khamenei, like Sinwar, like Arafat before her, she wears the keffiyeh — the uniform of that ideology, not a symbol of peace.

Then there's the shirt: "Yalla Intifada." The First Intifada (1987–1993) began as a mostly grassroots uprising — strikes, boycotts, stone-throwing — and still killed roughly 1,100 Palestinians and 160 Israelis. The Second Intifada (2000–2005) was a different animal entirely: a sustained campaign of suicide bombings that ripped through Israeli buses, cafés, and markets, deliberately targeting civilians. It left close to 3,000 Palestinians and 1,000 Israelis dead. "Intifada" doesn't mean "ceasefire." It doesn't mean "peace talks." It means uprising by force, and the second one was defined by terror attacks on ordinary people.

So while Greta claims to be protesting an alleged genocide, the slogan on her chest is a celebration of the exact kind of violence that killed thousands, most of them Palestinian. She isn't standing against death. She's wearing merchandise for it.

@GretaThunberg #Intifada #Israel

[Bassem Eid @realbassemeid]

"They raided the place I had fled to and took me to Shifa Hospital. At the hospital, they treated us as if it were a military base or a prison. We were assaulted verbally and physically. You are forbidden to object, forbidden to discuss, forbidden to do anything."

Video: Jusoor News/Washington Free Beacon

[Arsen Ostrovsky @Ostrov_A]

I know where I am going for my next sandwich!

Bravo 'South Dowling Sandwiches' in Sydney, Australia, for taking a moral stand. 🥪 ❤️

[CGthinks @cgthinks]

"The moment you wear their symbols and celebrate their slogans, and want to “free” them by annihilating others (this is what their slogan means), remember that good intentions do not make an evil ideology good.

Supporting evil does not make you virtuous. It makes you a fool."

[David M Friedman @DavidM_Friedman]

Apart from the question of whether @RoKhanna is lying (he is), his performative visit to Judea and Samaria broke the rules and undermined our Constitution.

I was US Ambassador to Israel for 4 years. During that time, the US Embassy facilitated the visits of hundreds of members of Congress. IN EVERY SINGLE CASE, the visit, including the itinerary, was coordinated with the Embassy, and usually with the State Department in DC as well.

This is not just a security driven protocol, although that is an important factor. It also is a reflection of the Constitutional mandate that the foreign policy of the United States is directed by the President through the Department of State.

When a US representative visits a foreign country, the Constitution says that the Executive Branch has the paramount interest in how that visit is achieved. That doesn’t mean that the representative can’t do his own fact finding or draw his own conclusions. But when the representative goes off undermining US foreign policy on foreign soil, that’s foul play.

@RoKhanna went rogue. He couldn’t have cared less about how his theatrics reflected upon our nation. He wanted his sound bites and his video clip, no matter how misleading, and he wasn’t going to let our Constitution get in the way.

[Aviva Klompas @AvivaKlompas]

The inconvenient truth behind @RoKhanna's publicity stunt: He entered an area where he did not have permission to be, was delayed for about an hour while authorities determined who he was and why he was there, and then went on his way.

"Khanna claimed that he had been detained at gunpoint by “violent” Israeli settlers. Footage released by Khanna and the tour guide—reluctantly, and only after a great many noticed the suspicious refusal to release any footage at all of said violence—shows the congressman’s guide calmly getting out of the car and having a conversation with soldiers. The soldiers repeated, several times, that they had called the police. When the police arrived, they simply told everyone to let the group continue. That was it. The entire incident."
https://t.co/mBgqGGCE17

[Hussain Abdul-Hussain @hahussain]

Hezbollah announced the funeral of 129 “martyrs,” all from the southern town of Majdal Selem, whose population is 5k people. Three takeaways:

1. Not a single woman, meaning all these are Hezbollah fighters.
2. 129 in a village of 5k means Hezbollah manpower has been drastically degraded.
3. Remember this post the next time you feel the urge to slander Israel by claiming it’s targeting women and children in Lebanon.

[CGthinks @cgthinks]

"The moment you wear their symbols and celebrate their slogans, and want to “free” them by annihilating others (this is what their slogan means), remember that good intentions do not make an evil ideology good.

Supporting evil does not make you virtuous. It makes you a fool."

[Loay Alshareef لؤي الشريف @lalshareef]

My dear Western friends, many of whom I know have good hearts and sincerely support humanitarian causes, including the Palestinian cause:

please hear this from someone who knows the Middle East deeply.

It is entirely noble to support Palestinians in their aspiration to live with dignity, security, and prosperity alongside Israel.

It is noble to mourn innocent Palestinian lives lost in war, just as it is noble to mourn innocent Israeli lives.

But what is neither noble nor compassionate is supporting a terrorist movement disguised as a humanitarian cause especially one that openly or indirectly calls for the annihilation of another state and an entire people.

This is what I call suicidal empathy: compassion detached from judgment, directed toward an ideology that would eventually turn against the very freedoms and societies protecting it.

The moment you wear their symbols and celebrate their slogans, and want to “free” them by annihilating others (this is what their slogan means), remember that good intentions do not make an evil ideology good.

Supporting evil does not make you virtuous. It makes you a fool.

You’re welcome. 🌹

[NGO Monitor @NGOmonitor]

Our new report documents @MSF’s internal staff conversations and personal experiences of working within the organization. Their testimonies point to a widespread organizational culture of anti-Israel bias, reflected in MSF’s public campaigns, internal culture, and Gaza operations. 🧵 >>

[Rɪᴄʜᴀʀᴅ Kᴇᴍᴘ ⋁ @COLRICHARDKEMP]

Vast quantities of free international aid has been brought into Gaza. It has then been seized by Hamas and other gangsters & sold to Gazan civilians at astronomical prices to line Hamas pockets. Just like pretty much all aid & funds entering Gaza.

[Amjad Taha أمجد طه @amjadt25]

They told us it was never antisemitism. They said it was about Israel's war, aggression, and innocent lives. So now Iran strikes seven Muslim Arab countries. Children die. Women bleed. Hospitals are targeted. And behold, the streets are silent. No tents on campuses. No roaring crowds. No Parliament in endless mourning. No theatrical recognition of a state. Not even the usual prophets of outrage.

And so we ask, with sorrow rather than surprise: was it ever truly about the dead?

Or have you become prisoners of the Muslim Brotherhood and the Islamic regime in Iran, their proxies whispering in the West?

If you are still there, blink twice.

We may yet come to rescue you.

[Andrew Fox @Mr_Andrew_Fox]

For over two years, we told you: Hamas used hospitals for military purposes. The dead “journalists” were combatants. Hamas used child soldiers. That aid was being diverted by Hamas. Tens of thousands of the dead and wounded in Gaza were combatants. Hamas used human shields.

And so many other things, all of which are now proven as incontrovertibly true.

Yet, not a whisper to set the story straight from the global media who pushed the genocide and war crimes lies since 7th October.

[Mosab Hassan Yousef @MosabHasanYOSEF]

“I killed myself to give the Palestinians a state.”

Bill Clinton

They turned down 97% of the West Bank, all of Gaza, and land swaps.

Yet the world still pretends the only obstacle to peace is Israel.

Watch.

[Walid Abu Haya 🇮🇱 @WalidAbuHaya1]

في الذكرى الأولى لمجزرة السويداء التي ارتكبتها يد الغدر والإرهاب، على أيدي النظام ومن والاه، نترحّم على أرواح شهدائنا الأبطال، ونقف بإجلال إلى جانب ذويهم، ومع الجرحى والمخطوفين، حتى يعود آخر مفقود إلى أهله.
كرامةً لكل شيخ، ووفاءً لدمعة كل أم، وحمايةً لكل طفل، نعاهد شهداء تموز الأسود أن ما جرى في السويداء لن يتكرر ما دمنا أوفياء للعهد والميثاق، متمسكين بالحكمة، مستلهمين نهج حمزة بن علي في الثبات والكرامة، ومدافعين عن حق أهلنا في الحياة والحرية والكرامة.

[Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib]

A week after Hamas “gave up control of Gaza”: Despite Hamas’s deceptive claim that it “dissolved” its government in Gaza, the opposite has unfolded. Since that announcement, amplified endlessly by Al Jazeera and other “pro‑Palestine” platforms, the group has intensified its thuggery, violence, and extortion of Gaza’s population. Its security and intelligence services have summoned hundreds of Gazans, including people I know, for interrogation, some at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis. Many were tortured and accused of “collaborating with Ramallah,” a new catch‑all charge Hamas now uses against anyone who questions its rule or posts critical content online. Gazans widely understand Hamas’s grip as the central obstacle to reconstruction and any hope for a new future.

The crackdown on social media activists has grown even more extreme since the fraudulent “dissolution.” Hamas intelligence operatives now target people for merely commenting on Facebook posts that criticize the group’s brutality, branding Gazans and even outsiders, including a friend of mine in Jordan, as “agents working for Israel.” The smear campaign became so aggressive that Jordan’s General Intelligence Department, or Mukhabarat, summoned my friend to investigate whether they were actually working for Israel. Think about that: Jordan, a country with a peace treaty with Israel and one that bans Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood, was pulled into Hamas’s intimidation campaign. My friend and their family ultimately fled Jordan after local elements joined Hamas’s smear effort, creating a dangerous environment.

Hamas has also escalated its extortion of Gaza’s merchants, demanding outrageous taxes and protection payments that have forced many businesses to close. And listen to this: when a small group of displaced Gazans protested because they feared the presence of Hamas police near their shelter in Gaza City's Sheikh Radwan area would elicit Israeli airstrikes that would cause civilian casualties, Hamas forces opened fire with AK‑47s and threw stun grenades, detained several protesters, and then told their families the detainees would only be released if they paid for the cost of the ammunition used to suppress the mini-protest: 25,000 Shekels, roughly $8,300 USD!

Hamas did not “dissolve” its government. It is tightening its grip, escalating its violence, and entrenching its fascistic control over Gaza more aggressively than ever.

[Arsen Ostrovsky @Ostrov_A]

Heartbreaking testimony by a Jewish university student from today’s Royal Commission on Antisemitism & Social Cohesion.

Universities are meant to be formative experiences. No student should ever have to choose between their education and their identity.