Chaya Ru

Jewish Mom, wife, OTR/L. 🇺🇸🇮🇱. Here for news, politics, sports and entertainment.

[Bethany S. Mandel @bethanyshondark]

Three years ago today, I woke up to a message from @lyndseyfifield that Israel was under attack. I turned on my phone and discovered the horror.

The next day, I began working with @DGreenbaum to help families tell their stories to American media. I worked 20/h a day for weeks.

[Chaya Ru @chaya_ru]

@BridgetPhetasy Thank you! This means so much.

[James Lindsay, anti-Communist @ConceptualJames]

I do. It's actually a really simple answer.

Kids can understand it. I'll tell you the story now so you can be ready when you finally have grandkids, Mario Awful.

For decades, Israelis tried to work with the Gazans, believing the impossible: that people who have declared that they want nothing more than to have Israel destroyed and Jews killed might be able to be persuaded to be friends by giving them land, money, resources, opportunities, and an infinite amount of patience.

During those decades, huge amounts of humanitarian aid was sent to the Gaza Strip, which they used to militarize and to spend many years planning a savage surprise attack against the people helping them. Almost everyone in the world took up their cause, even many Israelis who lived right next door, even though the Gazans were taking advantage of all that help.

They were offered everything but wouldn't accept it because all they wanted was Israel to be destroyed and Jews to be driven out or, preferably, dead. They were so fixated on that goal that nothing else mattered, and nothing else was good enough. They even used water pipes to build rockets and dug terror tunnels under their city and deep into Israeli territory to prepare for a surprise war.

On an important Jewish holiday and their sabbath, the Gazans sprung their surprise attack. That was October 7, 2023. They launched over a thousand rockets at 6:30 am. The Israelis heard the sirens and knew they only had seconds to hide in their shelters from these attacks. By the way, every Israeli house has a bomb shelter in it because these kinds of attacks are so frequent. Also, every Israeli adult and child, little boys and little girls, knows from as soon as they can walk that when the sirens sound to go to the shelter because it is so important and so common.

As the Israelis went, exhausted and sleepy, to their shelters to hide from the rocket attack, the Gazans sent a large armed force across the fence into Israel to do the most heinous things to the Israelis that you can imagine. Over a thousand were murdered. Things so horrible you cannot describe them to children happened everywhere. The Gazans celebrated and filmed themselves and put it on the internet, bragging and boasting about unimaginable horrors and murders. They dragged Israelis, including women, children, and babies and dead bodies, into their terror city and terror tunnels and started abusing and killing them slowly, using them and their corpses as collateral against the Israeli people and military. This lasted for over two years, with the last hostage's remains returned at the end of January 2026 after being taken in October 2023.

The scale and nature of this attack is so horrific that it cannot be described politely, but its true evil wasn't just in the barbarity of its forces, which did unspeakable things to completely innocent men, women, and children everywhere they went, including many who openly supported them for years, but in how they took advantage of the trust and help they were given to do it.

Gazans had spent years exploiting the goodwill of Israelis in the Gaza Envelope to gather intelligence, working as gardeners, housekeepers, taxi drivers, etc., to gather detailed intelligence of the neighborhoods and homes they would systematically attack starting on October 7. So many Israelis were betrayed at their trust and goodwill toward the Gazans, and by it. While they hid from those rockets in their shelters, Hamas terrorists systematically went through the carefully mapped streets of their neighborhoods, broke into houses, and shot them dead through the doors of their shelters, or crashed in through the walls from the outside using their own farming equipment to do it. Hamas terrorists knew the Israelis would be hiding from the rockets and knew where they'd be hiding, and they murdered them while they hid, deliberately, planned out in advance and for years.

These people weren't just Israelis or Jews. They were innocents. In fact, as far as it goes, many of them were the greatest champions for the Gazans in Israel. Didn't matter. They were Israelis. They were Jews. They had to die in the most horrible ways you can think of. They had to be desecrated. They had to be taken hostage. It all had to be celebrated on video streamed live onto the internet to excite their radical friends around the region and the world. The horror is actually incomprehensible.

Had this happened to Americans in the United States from one of its neighbors, the response Americans would have demanded cannot actually be comprehended. I stand in awe at how restrained and cautious and decent and good the Israelis have been, and it is to my slight embarrassment knowing that our own people, our own forces, wouldn't have managed a fraction of that decency, however much we would match the unparalleled effectiveness of these operations. That is, Mario Awful, I don't f*cking want to hear it, and neither do your grandkids. Respect them enough not to soil their minds with these lies, which are so evil that Hell itself would be slightly embarrassed to spread them.

So, when Israel realized what had happened to them, what was still happening to them, how their trust, support, and patience had been taken advantage of in the nastiest and cruelest way human beings can possibly imagine, for zero good reasons and only unbelievably evil ones, they set out to make sure it would never happen again. They started a war of rescue and to end the military capacities of the Gazans, who were and still are governed by a radical terrorist group that even has in their charter that they want every Israeli driven out and every Jew that can be killed dead.

Israel waged a patient war with the highest accuracy rate of any in the entire history of urban warfare, taking great pains and many casualties to spare innocent life, even when that innocent life openly supports the terror regime that governs them and wants them dead. The Gazans, however, had spent decades turning their entire city into a hidden military fortress, hiding weapons, entrances to terror tunnels, command centers, and every conceivable military target within civilian neighborhoods, including even homes, schools, hospitals, and houses of worship. Israel did what it had to do as carefully as it could be done. The devastation you see is the result of the evil of Hamas and the Gazans who support it having spent decades organizing their city to become a vast, sprawling military installation.

The Gazans and their terrorist leaders took this organizational approach specifically for two reasons. One was to deter Israel from ever attacking or disabling their military installations at all. Even when the devastation seen here, that remained the case. Israel took great pains to minimize, including casualties, including complicated legal approvals, including warning both civilians and combatants in Gaza of incoming attacks against the installations, trying to save all innocent (and a lot of not-so-innocent) life. Another was to produce this propaganda, which Mario Awful, after having his account built to giant size by @elonmusk himself, spreads and promotes with foolish emotion-driven emojis and devastating lies of omission of these facts.

Even as Israel dismantled the entire military capacity of Gaza bit by bit (which is what you see in the video here), they sent aid: more food, medicine, and other supplies than have ever been sent to a population controlled by an enemy military in the history of warfare, period. The terrorist leaders leveraged every bit of it against them, stealing it and starving their own people, creating propaganda campaigns about genocide and forced starvation, and even building more rockets out of raw materials including water pipes, which they then fired at Israel.

Bit by bit, Israel dismantled as much of their military apparatus as they could and rescued or recovered all of their hostages, including among them Americans. The result is what you see. The result you see below is the most painstakingly moderate response a decent human being of even the slightest comprehension could possibly imagine, and yet that's what the Israelis have accomplished in Gaza.

And they accomplished it while the world hated them for it, scrutinized everything not just for any legitimate breaches of perfection but for a litany of illegitimate accusations of things so voluminous that they could not even be recorded, except that they were in the relentless propaganda of social media, the global enemy propaganda channels, and even the mainstream press, almost all amplified and repeated by even allegedly good, decent conservatives who found these lies a perfect reason either to reveal their underlying but hidden hatred for Jews or to turn to that evil on false pretenses you are promoting, even now, even today.

So when you sit down to tell your grandkids how humanity allowed Gaza to happen, tell them the real story.

Humanity allowed Gaza to become a terrorist militarized city openly dedicated to the destruction of Israel and the murder and desecration of Jews and Jewish bodies by believing in some asinine humanitarian concept that defies all logic. It happened by creating a global political situation that, for reasons of Communist political correctness and soft-hearted and softer-headed compassion, refused to believe the simple reality of the situation. It happened because this delusion and misplaced trust persisted for decades while Hamas and its supporters turned Gaza into a terrorist military outpost that would simply have to be destroyed sooner or later, and then they pulled that trigger on themselves in the most obvious way possible on October 7, 2023, which stands as one of the darkest days of the last century.

Humanity allowed Gaza to happen because it wouldn't take Hamas at its word. Humanity allowed Gaza to happen because it lied to itself for decades about the nature of the Islamic currents that motivate Hamas and "Palestinianism" more broadly. Humanity allowed Gaza to happen because it wouldn't address a problem correctly from the beginning, not least because it was terrified of being called racist and refused, nobly but stupidly, that human beings could be led by ideology and religion to the depths of evil and depravity that had captured the Gazans.

Humanity allowed Gaza to happen, that is, because it refused to take Gazans at their word.

Israel, starting in late 2023, finally woke up in the worst way possible to the need to STOP LETTING GAZA HAPPEN, the result of which your video depicts and the truth and moral of which you, like a demon, invert.

[Chaya Ru @chaya_ru]

@ptrschmdtnlsn Risky bet

[Chaya Ru @chaya_ru]

@BioLayne Thank god for Layne. Always cuts through the BS and reminds us we can be healthy in a normal fashion.

[Chaya Ru @chaya_ru]

@DLoesch This!

[Chaya Ru @chaya_ru]

@bethanyshondark @jpodhoretz Is this a Honda odyssey
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[shevereshtus @shevereshtus]

Please say Tehillim for Rachel bas Freida who is undergoing a surgery this morning at 8am Eastern Time, an hour from now

[Chaya Ru @chaya_ru]

@RealBrittHughes This! First take I’ve seen that expresses how I feel.

[Chaya Ru @chaya_ru]

@HilzFuld @Ami_Magazine It would’ve been the first time I wrote into a magazine 😂. I noticed it immediately

[Chaya Ru @chaya_ru]

@amiKozak @DovieNeuburger Cracking up!!

[Chaya Ru @chaya_ru]

@LuanaGoriss This was cool!

[Orli Peter @orlipeter]

Boy George’s latest: We Will Dance Again.

“You say genocide,
I say war.
When you’re attacked it’s what the army is for…
But if you’re ever confused, I stand with the Jews.
I don’t feel brave,
Just need to behave like a human and there won’t be war.”

[Erick Erickson @EWErickson]

Ending the regime does not mean boots on the ground. It does not mean an American invasion of Iran. We do not need to land the 82nd Airborne outside Tehran. What it means is that we take the chains off the Israelis and let them get back in this fight. Remember the video of Israeli drones flying over Tehran, hunting down the Basij, the motorcycle militia, blowing them up while ordinary Iranians who despise these thugs called in the targets on their own cell phones? The Israelis have a destabilization plan. They asked to run it, and the president told them no, because he wanted to humor Turkey and Pakistan and the people who cannot stand Israel.

Free the Israelis. Let them make it so painful for the regime that Tehran cannot mount the reserves to pay the Houthis or bomb the Gulf. Arm the citizens of Iran and let the internal strife the regime has earned come home to roost. A regime fighting for its own survival on its own streets does not have the time or the money to hold your grocery bill hostage from six thousand miles away. That is the road out. The sooner we take it, the sooner oil comes back down, the sooner the shelves settle, and the sooner Iran loses the one weapon it has left against this country and this election. Mr. President, fish or cut bait. Poop or get off the pot. You didn’t have to start this war, but you did. The Iranians already know this is about our election. You might as well know it too.

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[Jon Gabriel @exjon]

A quick health update...

A month back, I had a mega chemo blast followed by the reintroduction of my own healthy stem cells into my blood stream. After an unexpected hospital stay and a rougher recovery than expected (a month of nonstop nausea is deeply unpleasant), yesterday I had my 30-day post-transplant tests.

Good news: my body fully reintegrated my good stem cells, my white blood cell and platelet counts have already returned to the healthy range, and the nausea finally (finally!) relented.

So, in about 2 months, they'll do more tests of my blood and bone marrow, see if any cancer cells remain, then recommend some form of maintenance plan, likely a mild medication regimen. God willing, it looks like I'm through the worst of it. Just need to work on getting my appetite back, exercise to counter the deep fatigue, and ... paying the freaking bills!

For those interested how to help with that, here's a link, which I shared once shortly after my diagnosis last November. The main thing I need, of course, is any and all prayers you care to offer. Since the start, they've made a huge and noticeable difference. THANK YOU.

https://t.co/O55QO1Tx6M

[Chaya Ru @chaya_ru]

@EHamiltonEsq Amen. Ad mayah ve’esrim!
Have an easy fast!

[Andrew Kaczynski @KFILE]

Sorry for the long post, but this is super important.

This is my sweet daughter, Francesca, one month before she died of brain cancer.She never got the chance to build the life and legacy she deserved, so we are building one in her name.

Over the past six years, Team Beans has raised $3.7 million for infant brain tumor research. This year, we’ve raised $77,000 toward our $100,000 goal for Dana-Farber, and we are just $23,000 away.

I cannot overstate how important this funding is to Francesca’s doctors and researchers. It has already made a real difference: a clinical trial and registry for her type of cancer were created entirely because of the people who supported Team Beans.

Francesca was so full of life, even when she was sick. After watching this terrible disease take my child, helping find a cure became the cause of my life.

I ran two Boston Marathons to raise money, and I would run one every day if it meant helping cure this disease. Now, I ride the Pan-Mass Challenge every year for Francesca and for every baby still fighting.

Please consider supporting Team Beans in the PMC. Donate, share this post, or tell someone Francesca’s story. Every gift matters.

For Francesca. For every baby still fighting.

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[Meghan McCain @MeghanMcCain]

To my beautiful Jewish friends in America. We love you. You are not alone. We are just as freaked out as you are and see with clear eyes exactly what is happening.

[Chaya Ru @chaya_ru]

@hicasamadim 72

[Chaya Ru @chaya_ru]

@BridgetPhetasy For the record, this Jewish gal appreciates you so much. Glad to have one of my fave commentators remain sane.