david markowitz

husband, father, son, and leader of industry

[Rawan Osman روان عثمان @RawaneOsmane]

Every day, for years now, someone asks me the same question: "How much are the Israelis paying you?" As if the only explanation for defending Jews and Israel is a paycheck. The idea that I might simply see this conflict differently doesn't compute for them. What I do is, to me, entirely normal. It only looks strange in a world where hating Jews has become the default setting of the crowd, and staying silent, or joining in, is what passes for sanity.

Many are familiar with this photograph from the Lviv pogrom, 1941. Locals — including a child and an adolescent — chase a woman stripped of her clothes, bleeding, terrified, humiliated. The Nazis had spent years demonizing the Jews before this moment. They didn't need to pull the trigger themselves. They just needed to make the target "legitimate," and ordinary people did the rest, voluntarily. Something otherwise suppressed in them came out, and they let it.

On October 7, I woke up to the videos. One of them was of Naama Levy, arms zip-tied behind her back, dragged by her dusty hair out of a black jeep. As she was moved to the front of the car, she looked straight into the camera of the man filming her. The back of her trousers was soaked in blood. I saw the cuts on her arms, her bare feet, and I watched a crowd film her while cursing her, spitting on her, hitting her. I wished I did not have an imagination. I wished I could delete what I'd seen before her mother saw it.

Weeks later, I flew to Israel for the first time, burning every bridge to a world that was celebrating what I'd watched. I went to Ra'anana and met Naama's mother, Ayelet. We made the first post from Israel asking the world to listen, asking the universe to bring her back alive. I promised her that what Hamas did would haunt them in their graves.

Arendt called it the banality of evil, and people needed mental gymnastics to accept what she meant. It's easier to believe monsters do monstrous things than to believe your neighbor might. But human beings are built for both good and evil. What we become is a choice, shaped by the moral compass we build or fail to build.

Just like an ordinary person joins a mob to taunt a scapegoat, an ordinary person is capable of standing against it. For some of us, peer pressure is minuscule in comparison with a nagging conscience.

That's why the photo above matters, still, 85 years later. The Nazis were defeated in Europe but their legacy is rampant in large parts of the Arab world, especially in Palestinian culture. Fused with a dash of communism and a splash of Jihadism, that legacy morphed into global Antizionism.

#October7

[Michelle Maxwell ™ @MichelleMaxwell]

For those that still don’t understand what Benghazi was all about:

🚨So here's the REAL story:

Ambassador Stevens was sent to Benghazi to secretly retrieve US made Stinger Missiles that the State Dept had supplied to Ansar al Sharia in Libya WITHOUT Congressional oversight or permission.

Sec State Hillary Clinton had brokered the Libya deal through Ambassador Stevens and a Private Arms Dealer named Marc Turi, but some of the shoulder fired Stinger Missiles ended up in Afghanistan where they were used against our own military. On July 25th, 2012, a US Chinook helicopter was downed by one of them. Not destroyed only because the idiot Taliban didn't arm the missile. The helicopter didn't explode, but it had to land and an ordnance team recovered the missile’s serial number which led back to a cache of Stinger Missiles kept in
Qatar by the CIA.

Obama and Hillary were in full panic mode, so Ambassador Stevens was sent to Benghazi to retrieve the rest of the Stinger Missiles. This was a "do-or-die" mission, which explains the Stand Down Orders given to multiple rescue teams during the siege of the US Embassy.

It was the State Dept, NOT the CIA, that supplied the Stinger Missiles to our sworn enemies because Gen. Petraeus at CIA would not approve supplying the deadly missiles due to their potential use against commercial aircraft. So then, Obama threw Gen. Petraeus under the bus when he refused to testify in support of Obama’s phony claim of a “spontaneous uprising caused by a YouTube video that insulted Muslims.”
Obama and Hillary committed TREASON!

THIS is what the investigation is all about, WHY she had a Private Server, (in order to delete the digital evidence), and WHY Obama, two weeks after the attack, told the UN that the attack was the result of the YouTube video, even though everyone KNEW it was not.

Furthermore, the Taliban knew that the administration had aided and abetted the enemy WITHOUT Congressional oversight or permission, so they began pressuring (blackmailing) the Obama Administration to release five Taliban generals being held at Guantanamo.

Bowe Bergdahl was just a useful pawn used to cover the release of the Taliban generals. Everyone knew Bergdahl was a traitor but Obama used Bergdahl’s exchange for the five Taliban generals to cover that Obama was being coerced by the Taliban about the unauthorized Stinger Missile deal.

So we have a traitor as POTUS that is not only corrupt, but compromised, as well and a Sec of State that is a serial liar, who perjured herself multiple times at the Congressional Hearings on Benghazi. Perhaps this is why no military aircraft were called upon for help in Benghazi: because the administration knew that our enemies had Stinger Missiles that, if used to down those planes, would likely be traced back to the CIA cache in Qatar and then to the State Dept’s illegitimate arms deal in Libya.

Forward this again and again and again until everyone reads the true story of Benghazi.

[david markowitz @dcmarkowitz]

@joelmowbray @jaredkushner @IvankaTrump @TuckerCarlson @TCNetwork @megynkelly @MegynKellyShow @grok why is @TuckerCarlson permitted to make hateful and threatening accusations, baseless claims against Israel with no proof or journalistic evidence, but receives no reprimand from X for hateful speach?

[🇺🇸 Mike Davis 🇺🇸 @mrddmia]

Dear Christians:

If you’re trying to figure out which side we’re on:

Jews wish us Merry Christmas.

Jews don’t attack our Christmas trees.

Jews don’t protest our Christmas celebrations.

Jews don’t drive cars through our Christmas markets.

[Sadie @Sadie_NC]

This is why we don't burn the American flag and why we have pride in our nation and its military. They paid the ultimate price for your freedom. Don't forget it.

[U.S. Senator John Fetterman @SenFettermanPA]

After years of anti-Israel protests in Australia, at least 11 Jews were just gunned down at a Hanukkah event.

Tree of Life to 10/07 to Bondi Beach: antisemitism is a rising and deadly global scourge.

I stand and grieve with Israel and the Jewish global community. 🇮🇱

[david markowitz @dcmarkowitz]

@ElonMuskNews47 18

[MichaelRapaport @MichaelRapaport]

Black Lives Matter is completely silent about BIack Christians being slaughtered in Sudan..

Interesting

Greta Thunberg, do you know what's happening in Sudan?

Javier Bardem? Mark Ruffalo?
Cynthia Nixon?
Every asshole in every city that’s been screaming at Jews? Where are you people?

#SudanCrisis this is terrible

[aka @akafaceUS]

🚨BREAKING: People are digging up a 2010 CNN clip showing Obama’s $376M White House makeover — all paid for by taxpayers. Meanwhile President Trump’s $250M ballroom is coming out of his own pocket.

[Mrs B @attackdogX]

@piersmorgan

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Hmm

[THE NIRO @Nirko22]

@piersmorgan Why not write it the other way around, as it should be:
Hamas is deliberately violating the ceasefire agreement and delaying the release of dead hostages.
**AS A RESULT** Israel is threatening to halve aid into Gaza until Hamas complies again with the terms of the deal

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

No words

[Jews Fight Back 🇺🇸🇮🇱 @JewsFightBack]

🚨 This video is going viral for a reason.

“2,200 Americans killed at Pearl Harbor — we killed 3.5 million Japanese.
2,800 killed on 9/11 — we killed 400,000 in Afghanistan and Iraq.

We weren’t accused of genocide.

But Israel is — for responding more humanely than we ever have.”

Exactly. 🎯

[david markowitz @dcmarkowitz]

@BaronJTrump Thank you Elon musk

[david markowitz @dcmarkowitz]

@RightPulseNewss 👍

[david markowitz @dcmarkowitz]

@BarronTxNewsX Amen

[david markowitz @dcmarkowitz]

@EliAfriatISR Golda meir

[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

In a sane world, when a civilian is kidnapped from a music festival and reappears nearly two years later, starved, abused, and filmed digging his own grave, people care.

So where is the Red Cross?
Where is the UN?
Where are the human rights activists?

Do your job.