David Frum

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[David Frum @davidfrum]

This week's David Frum Show (video) https://t.co/7LYNdsvwvu

[Alaa From Gaza @alaafromgaza92]

Nothing enrages me more than hearing Hamas leaders and their supporters boast that October 7 brought Palestine back to the forefront of the world's attention, or celebrate the fact that Israelis are now being thrown out of restaurants around the world, as though any of this were a victory.

Do you know what I wish for? What so many of us in Gaza wish for?

To go back to October 6.

Yes, October 6. With all its injustices, hardships, and imperfections. I would give anything to have our old lives back. Our homes, most of which we owned, not rented. Our jobs. Our cars. Our neighbourhoods. Our families gathered under one roof. Our children sleeping in their own beds. The ordinary, precious stability we never imagined could be taken from us so completely.

I would give anything to return to a time when Palestine was not the world's most urgent headline, when our lives were not reduced to death tolls, our homes to rubble, and our suffering to speeches about resistance, sacrifice, and victory.

What good is putting Palestine back on the world's agenda if the Palestinians themselves must be buried beneath it?

What kind of victory demands that we lose our homes, our loved ones, our livelihoods, our communities, and the very lives we were supposedly fighting to protect?

We were not born to be sacrifices for someone else's political glory. We were born to live.

And if the price of making the world remember Palestine is the destruction of everything Palestinians hold dear, then I would rather the world forgot us.

Forget us. Leave us out of your headlines, your speeches, your celebrations, and your grand declarations of victory.

Just give us back our lives.

[Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias]

It’s not so hard to imagine a world where Democrats won MT / LA / FL on top of everything else — and many mirr Veterans Day election takes.

https://t.co/vAMQlE2o02

[Kurt Bardella @kurtbardella]

This is the kind of stuff that congressional investigators will dive deep into. They’ll interview the junior staffers (the one’s who can’t afford $1200 an hour for outside counsel), get testimony of who gave the order to abandon the investigation and work upstream from there.

[David Frum @davidfrum]

From 2024, why Woodrow Wilson was a great president. https://t.co/MMw1vskPAR

[David Frum @davidfrum]

On this remembrance day, my article from 2015 on why the US had no escape from joining the allied cause in World War 1. https://t.co/suEY4W5A0q

[Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney]

This plays right into Dems’ hands. Threatening criminal process for oversight gives them ammo to go straight to subpoenas and tell a court ‘what’s the point of lengthy negotiations w a White House trying to criminalize congressional scrutiny?’

[David Frum @davidfrum]

Can Republicans quit Trump? New David Frum Show today. Video will post at 11 am ET https://t.co/81c3RYXDhU

[Israel Elects @israel_elects]

Proportion of Israelis Who View the Following Countries as Friendly:

🇮🇳India: 76% (+15)
🇩🇪Germany: 62% (-2)
🇬🇧UK: 21% (-6)
🇫🇷France: 15% (-4)
🇨🇳China: 6% (-2)
🇷🇺Russia: 6% (-2)

changes w. October 2025

via @JewishPolicy November Israeli Society Index

[UN Watch @UNWatch]

On this day in 1975, the UN outrageously declared Zionism to be a form of racism.

Repealed in 1991, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan later noted that “the UN’s record on antisemitism has at times fallen short of our ideals. I am glad that the resolution has been rescinded.”

[Israel Foreign Ministry @IsraelMFA]

On this day in 1975, the UN disgraced itself by declaring Zionism to be racism.

It was one of the lowest points in the UN’s history. The resolution was eventually repealed, but 51 years later, we are hearing the same hateful rhetoric all over again.

You would think the world had learned from that shameful chapter. Sadly, it seems to be heading down the same road once again.

[Mark Zlochin - מארק זלוצ'ין༝ @MarkZlochin]

"Last week... with torrential rain forecast, gunmen from Hamas’s internal security units summoned Palestinian civil servants who were trying to make the refugee camps safer from rain and forced them to sign pledges not to enter those areas."
https://t.co/5AJiOOCU2R

[Hillel Neuer @HillelNeuer]

On this day in 1975, the U.N. declared Zionism to be “a form of racism.” U.S. representative Daniel Patrick Moynihan delivered the greatest speech ever at the United Nations — for its moral force, brilliant arguments, soaring rhetoric, vigorous and compelling delivery, and singular use of the English language.

“As this day will live in infamy, it behooves those who sought to avert it to declare their thoughts so that historians will know that we fought here, that we were not small in number — not this time — and that while we lost, we fought with full knowledge of what indeed would be lost.”

Full speech: https://t.co/LWiyTpwf4c

[Josh Dawsey @jdawsey1]

Best part of this story: she’s already getting/has gotten almost $15 million and person close to her says she’s pursuing legal action for the rest! https://t.co/zgpu5wETlI

[Gabby Birenbaum @birenbomb]

Cornyn says here that Talarico expressed an interest in keeping on some of his casework staff (Cornyn's Dallas office houses a well-regarded casework operation)

[David Frum @davidfrum]

fascinating history

[Scott Stossel @SStossel]

"The sheer range of these underwater finds is remarkable. Hand axes that are 300,000 to 1.4 million years old have turned up in the waters off South Africa. Neanderthal artifacts dating back more than 200,000 years have been found under the North Sea."

https://t.co/m8vXAAvRv3

[David Frum @davidfrum]

Hegseth tried to send members of Congress to prison for criticizing him.

[JD Vance @JDVance]

Has Pete Hegseth committed impeachable crimes? The question is absurd and the answer is: obviously not.

Like so much of Congress, impeachment has become a ridiculous show that stands in for actual policymaking. Congress has so many tools for registering its policy disagreements. Rather than use them, they're going to try to impeach Pete Hegseth. They did the same to Donald Trump. Legislation is hard. Impeachments are easy (and ultimately, inconsequential).

The irony is that legislators are most angry at Pete on the issues where he's most correct: repositioning forces away from Europe/Ukraine and reorganizing the general officer corps.

This isn't about Iran, this is about the fact that Pete took on the bureaucracy at the Pentagon.

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

Major Court decision: Kari Lake illegally fired the director of Voice of America, who can now return to his job

[David Frum @davidfrum]

Nearly 500,000 YT views for Saturday David Frum Show, thank you! Next show posts midnight ET tonight (audio); 11 am ET tomorrow (video). A Republican former member of Congress talks about how it feels to live through an election defeat. Subscribe! https://t.co/mNNlgN6zdr

[Andrew Desiderio @AndrewDesiderio]

! Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) just went off on Hegseth, left open the possibility of voting to allow an impeachment trial to proceed.

Ernst slammed the “lack of info” to Congress on the Iran war & seemed to accuse Hegseth of deceiving Trump/Congress about the war.

“I question whether the information that is coming through the secretary out of the Pentagon has been accurate, and the way he is portraying the war to the president,” Ernst said.

“If there is deception coming from our Pentagon and being transmitted to the President, I would want to know that. 
Now, will that be part of this impeachment? I don't know. But I have some serious questions.”

Ernst also said Hegseth’s continued presence atop DoD “absolutely” makes it more difficult for the Trump admin to secure additional Pentagon funding it’s been seeking from Congress.