Dimitri Fischler

Here to stray

[Laura Cellier @Laura_L_Cellier]

It's time for Lebanon to accept responsibility for its sovereignty

For too long it's been exempt from any responsibility and the UN is complicit

@EinatWilf on today's Israel in 🔟 with @MisgavINSen

[OZ Party - מפלגת עוז @ozparty2026]

כל כך פשוט: ״פגישה בין לבנון לישראל כדי לפתוח במו״מ לשלום״. מדהים שבמשך עשרות שנים עושי שלום למיניהם לא יכלו לומר שזו המטרה ורק עסקו שוב ושוב בהשגת הפסקות אש שרק הרעו את המצב ועוד בחסות כל מיני החלטות או״ם.
(מה שכן, כדי לוודא שהתוצאה תיראה יותר כמו איחוד האמירויות ולא כמו ירדן או מצרים, ממליצה לקרוא את ״שלום לא עכשיו״ ובמיוחד את הפרק על הסכם השלום עם מצרים).

[Nuseir Yassin @nasdaily]

Today, I am proud to be Israeli.

Despite all the shaming.
Despite all the UN "resolutions".
Despite all the academics.
Despite all the online pressure.

Israel is cleaning the Middle East from radical religious terrorists. One by one.

They will not thank us for it.
But someone had to do the job.

[Yusuf Roso @yusufroso]

The Iranian regime hangs its own people by the thousands, murders women for removing the hijab, funds Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Houthis, has killed hundreds of American soldiers through its proxies, and has spread terror across the Middle East for decades. New York’s mayor calls stopping it an ‘illegal war of aggression.’ This is exactly what I wrote about. Thirdworldism with an Islamist engine, running America’s largest city. https://t.co/xqA65QN5Vd

[Dimitri Fischler @dimfisch]

@Form_young Curious where those funds come from... Can the USDC transfer be traced on Solana?

[Dimitri Fischler @dimfisch]

Cela fait plus d'un mois que je veux ouvrir un compte chez @Keytradebank
Je suis un citoyen belge qui réside à l'étranger. J'ai envoyé tous les documents nécessaires. J'essaie de vous contacter par email et par téléphone. Personne ne répond!

[Shai Wininger @shai_wininger]

The Lemonade Foundation now covers more than 260,000 subsistence farmers in Kenya using blockchain. This is 37x the size of our first season, just two years ago!

[Haviv Rettig Gur @havivrettiggur]

“The Torah speaks in human tongue,” the Sages of the Talmud tell us again and again. The Torah, they explain, isn’t speaking to God but to us. And so it employs metaphor and simile and narrative structure. It does not think it is history or science, it does not pretend to be a literal truth.

It literally tells the story of the creation of man *twice*, in Genesis 1 and 2, each time differently and with a different purpose. Even its more straightforward narratives - think Noah’s flood - are that special sort of story that grows with you; it is one tale when you’re five, another when you’re 25 and another still when you’re 65.

The Torah is, by its own sense of itself, not a chronicle of the actual measure and development of life and history, but a window into their meaning and purpose.

The portion of the Torah we will read this Sabbath, called simply, “Names,” is excruciating and beautiful, the beginning of the story of the redemption from slavery through Moses’s great awakening and slow shouldering of responsibility for his people.

And it starts, like so many great beginnings in the Torah, with a list of names.

These are the names of the family of Israel that went down into Egypt, one of the long lineage narratives of Biblical literature.

Why start such a grand and pivotal story with a list of names?

Because names are vital to the Torah’s sense of the world. They are the superpower by which mankind rules the world, by which we discover it. Adam became master of his world when he named it. It is how we know ourselves and our surroundings and the context and meaning of things.

The Torah seems to know that we do not live in the objective world science tries to measure. That world is out there, perhaps, but we do not live in it. We live in a simulation of that world running inside our heads. Naming a thing brings it out of nameless objectivity into meaningful existence, into the lived reality of the simulation.

We name our people and our tribes and our loved ones and ourselves, and thus we know who we are.

And from this naming, the Torah shows us, freedom is born. Shemot begins the tale that will lead Moses to stand before the genocidal tyrant and demand in God’s name, “Let my people go that they may serve me!”

The tyrant refuses, of course, and thus begins his long, bitter downfall.

“Let my people go that they may serve me,” God tells Pharaoh through Moses. Freedom, God says, is service. Freedom isn’t achieved merely with the lifting of the yoke of another’s control. Freedom is attained only when independence gives way to devotion.

In this Sabbath’s reading, then, we have most of the components of the Torah’s understanding of the human: Know who you are, and thus who you are responsible for and answerable to.

Or as our Sages put it in the Mishnah (Ethics of the Fathers 3), “Know where you come from, where you are going, and before whom you are slated to give an accounting.”

Thirty-three names now burn in the collective hearts of the Jewish people, our brothers and sisters locked in Pharaoh’s dungeons who stand on the precipice of their liberation, a negotiated liberation with tyrants who have already catalyzed their eventual downfall.

I will be praying for them this Shabbat, and for dozens more of our brethren trapped in that darkness. And I will do so by naming them, by bringing them into my inner world, making them real and substantive so that I can offer my abject apology, at least until such time as I can do so to their faces.

Freedom begins with a name.

Name them, make them part of your world, so that when they emerge from their dim dungeons, the world that will receive them will be all the larger, so that they will know and feel, if not now then soon, that they are truly and forever redeemed.

Romi Gonen, 23
Emily Damari, 27
Arbel Yehud, 29
Doron Steinbrecher, 31
Ariel Bibas, 5
Kfir Bibas, 2
Shiri Silberman Bibas, 33
Liri Albag, 19
Karina Ariev, 20
Agam Berger, 21
Danielle Gilboa, 20
Naama Levy, 20
Ohad Ben-Ami, 58
Gadi Moshe Moses, 80
Keith Siegel, 65
Ofer Calderon, 54
Eli Sharabi, 52
Itzik Elgarat, 70
Shlomo Mansour, 86
Ohad Yahalomi, 50
Oded Lifshitz, 84
Tsahi Idan, 50
Hisham al-Sayed, 36
Yarden Bibas, 35
Sagui Dekel-Chen, 36
Yair Horn, 46
Omer Wenkert, 23
Sasha Trufanov, 28
Eliya Cohen, 27
Or Levy, 34
Avera Mengistu, 38
Tal Shoham, 39
Omer Shem-Tov, 22

Shabbat shalom.

[sophia aram @SophiaAram]

C'était il y a 10 ans, formidable dessin de @GrosPascal

[Dimitri Fischler @dimfisch]

@EitanChitayat Where can I get this T-shirt ?

[ד״ר עינת וילף Dr. Einat Wilf @EinatWilf]

One of the biggest and lesser known stories of Nov 29 is that the lands allocated to a Jewish state (two color map) were essentially those the Zionists reclaimed from malaria through land purchase, science and education (the two-tone blue map is the incidents of malaria and the middle map shows Jewish land ownership of those lands reclaimed from malaria).

Moreover, the sudden and extremely rapid increase of the Arab population in the 1920’s and 1930’s in this barely populated backwater region (this was the highest population increase rate in the world in 1931/2) was only in part due to immigration spurred by Zionist development of the land. The major share of the massive Arab population increase was thanks to Malaria eradication, which was the work of the Galician born famed microbiologist and ardent Zionist Dr. Israel Kligler (credit to the great historical work of Anton Alexander).

With this knowledge it remains even a greater tragedy that the now much more numerous Arabs of the land directed their efforts towards brutally fighting Zionism rather than choosing to live side by side with an emerging Jewish state. More than a year after the Oct 7 massacre we mark once more the Nov 29 moment when the Jews said yes to the UNGA plan of partition (having prioritized having a state, even if tiny and mostly desert and lands reclaimed from malaria and no Zion and no Judea) and the Arabs said no and proceeded to wage a brutal war to the present day (having prioritized - still - the goal of the Jews not having a state at all and of any size).

(Note on map titles: for twenty centuries, before a campaign of denial was underway, it was well understood that the name “Palestine” merely denoted the Roman/Christian/Colonial/European name for the geographic region where the Land of Israel was and was therefore deeply associated with Jews and the their continuous connection to the land.

Hence the League of Nation in establishing the mandate recognized the “historical connection of the Jewish people with Palestine" as the "grounds for reconstituting their national home in that country” and which is why the Palestine Philharmonic Orchestra of Jewish musicians became the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra…)

[Imtiaz Mahmood @ImtiazMadmood]

Hassan Nasrallah died while planning terror attacks and hiding under civilians. Lived and died like a coward.

I doubt they can even pay their fighters right now. Management and middle management have been efficiently taken out. Their entire HQ is gone. Whoever has access to any kind of money has a big incentive to just run away with it.

It's pretty genius the way they used the pager bombs to throw every level of Hezbollah into chaos first, then attack the leadership, compounding the chaos exponentially.

In two weeks the entirety of the command chain is gone. This is wild. Imagine how hard Iran is sweating right now.

They've realized their decades of work has basically been erased in like two weeks. Whatever remains will likely either collapse on its own or keep getting picked apart by Israel into nothing salvageable.

I don't know if people understand how serious it is. I'd say its bigger than all the Hamas leadership that were killed combined. He was the head of Hezbollah for 32 years and one of the prominent voices to call for the destruction of Israel.

One of the greatest intelligence led operations of all time in history.

Make it known that electronic communications had been compromised forcing them to pagers, detonate the pagers forcing them to radios, detonate radios forcing them to meet face to face...kill them with airstrikes.

Its an utter masterstroke.

IDF sources today were saying that Netanyahu's UN speech was a specifically-planned feint to trick senior Hezbollah leadership into meeting and that the operation to kill Nasrallah (Operation New Order) was given carte blanche to attack him as soon as they found him.

Lebanon isn’t at war with Israel. Hezbollah is. Time for Lebanon to retake control of its own territory.

Just imagine the Lebanese people actually controlling their own country, gaining stability and building their economy. Who knows, they might even have a peace treaty with Israel, which Israelis will welcome. When you take out the bad actors all sorts of far fetched ideas are suddenly possible.

[Bill Maher @billmaher]

People always say that Israel has a right to defend itself, and when they do, they object to it.

[Vivid.🇮🇱 @VividProwess]

I will pin this post for 2 days. 🇮🇱👑

I advice every Pro-Israel account to comment down below and follow each other, no matter how big or small you are.

Our strength lies in our unity. Together, we are unbreakable. Make your presence felt and let yourself be known.💙

[Shai Wininger @shai_wininger]

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[AG @AGHamilton29]

Let me make this simple:

For anyone with any shred of a moral compass, here are the reasonable and debatable positions:

1) What occurred on 10/7 was a horrific and indefensible crime against humanity. The continuing attacks cannot be accepted. Hamas’ destruction is a necessity to ensure it does not happen again and to provide a path forward for both people. Israel must do whatever it takes to pursue that goal, but it should try to minimize collateral damage as it does so.

2) What occurred on 10/7 was a horrific and indefensible crime against humanity. However, the cost of eradicating Hamas has proven to be too great due to the tactics they employ. Israel should continue targeted efforts aimed at Hamas and should bolster their defenses, but will have to accept them staying in place for now and risk further attacks to try to save other lives. We should find a way to force Hamas to release the hostages.

I happen to believe 1 is correct, but we can have that debate.

What is not an acceptable position for anyone with any sense of human decency and we should stop indulging or normalizing people who are advocating for it:

3) The mass murder, mass rapes, torture, and kidnappings of 10/7 were justified resistance (despite also refusing and denying such actions occurred) and the real problem is just Israel’s refusal to not just accept their own annihilation. “Zionists” are clearly the bad guy based on a worse-than Wikipedia knowledge of the last 75 years and ignorant invocation of terms like genocide and apartheid. Palestinians have zero responsibility to make any effort toward stopping violence or destruction, and everything they do and support is justified.

Those advocating for #3 are not reasonable people who are worthy of debate or mainstreaming. They should be social outcasts in any respectable society. Hope that clears it up for people.

[Luai Ahmed @JustLuai]

Yemen, my poor country, has decided to bomb Israel.

My poor country is more concerned with killing Jews than feeding its starving population.

This is the problem with the Arab world.

Blind unforgiving hatred. Wrong choices. And psychopathic leadership.

More than 75% of the Yemeni population is living under poverty, and yet our tribal leaders are determined to jeopardize the safety of an already malnourished and vulnerable society.

Yemen is the world’s largest humanitarian crisis according to the UN. We cannot afford to feed half of our population, yet apparently, we can afford to fire missiles aimed at killing the Jews.

Yemenis persecuted Yemeni Jews for more than 1,400 years. When Israel was established, Yemeni Jews finally found a place they could call home and be safe in. So they fled. Every single one of them.

And now, the Yemeni Jews are under attack by Yemenis - again.

I have received hundreds of messages from Yemenis telling me ”You are not a Yemeni!", "You are a Jew!", "You are a shame to Yemen!!”

It is an honor to be a "shame" to my country today.

Let me know when we start feeding our starving population instead of bombing the Jews.

Let me know when we unlearn the Jew-hatred, the hatred, the misogyny, the homophobia, etc. etc. etc.

Only then would I be a proud Yemeni.

But not right now.

[Yoni Leviatan @songsofyoni]

It’s important to understand that what was set in motion on October 7 cannot be stopped.

Nine million Israelis – Arabs and Jews alike – feel their survival on this planet is dependent on removing Hamas from the face of the earth. No amount of protesting anywhere on this planet can hope to stop it. The resolve of the anti-war peanut gallery filled with those who throw paint on priceless art to feel good about something they never really cared about is not in the same universe as the resolve of one Israeli defending his or her home (yes, our women kick ass).

So if people truly care about saving Palestinian lives and it isn’t generational antisemitism you were fed from your mother’s milk, let’s list a few things that would help advance that cause:

1. Hamas could stop using Palestinians as human shields.
2. Hamas could share some of the food and water they stole from the UN.
3. Hamas could share some of the fuel they stole with the hospitals who shut down for lack of it.
4. Hamas could let everyone flee south.
5. Hamas could let everyone leave entirely.
6. Egypt could let everyone into their vast open desert, just for a transitory period during the war.
7. Other Arab countries could host Palestinians during the fighting.
8. Other countries can send hospital ships to treat wounded Palestinians.
9. Other countries can let Palestinians who desire to immigrate, do so.
10. Everyone can stop blaming Israel for being attacked by a genocidal terrorist group and come to the realization that their elimination is the best thing that could happen to everyone, especially Palestinians.

There is no way of stopping this fight from the Israeli side. Hamas openly states its intention to repeat October 7 again and again and again. Nobody can stop us from preventing our own massacre.

What you can do is be realistic about who is the one sacrificing Palestinians on the alter.

Those who are honest with themselves will see it clearly.

[Gad Saad @GadSaad]

I truly think that we are living a unique moment in history because the rapidity and volume with which Jew-hatred is being expressed on social media platforms exacerbates the problem. Since October 7, 2023, I have been privy to a level of Jew-hatred that is difficult to fathom. It comes from the progressive Left, from the ultra Right, and from Islamic sources. Each group utilizes a different set of tropes but all share diabolical, orgiastic, and hateful foaming of the evil Jew. It is unrestrained all-consuming genocidal hate. There is nothing that one can say that softens the hate. Nothing that allows for a moment to pause. Even if every one of the voices spewing these hateful positions were to fall silent, the cat is out of the bag. You may think that you are untouched by these realities because you are not Jewish. But please heed my warnings. Those who are capable of such positions are not those whom you want to be leading our once enlightened societies. We are all collectively going to pay an extraordinarily high price for the current realities. I say this without any malice in my heart. I share this because I want our grandchildren to have a better world than the one that we currently have. My moral compass is not driven by tribalism. It is solely shaped by a commitment to deontological ideals that have historically made the West the wondrous envy of all societies. We are losing these ideals at a breathtaking pace. The civilizational price is going to be incalculable. I wish everyone a good night.

[Gad Saad @GadSaad]

What would constitute a "proportional" response to the 1,400+ babies, women, men, and elderly people who were butchered in the most brutal manner on October 7? Please state all of the specifics.