falkson

[@IsraelVive @IsraelVive1948]

Están prohibiendo la difusión e esta canción del gran @BoyGeorge vamos a darle mucho RT así no dejamos que lo hagan y acá los copio el texto completo de que canta para que entiendan la razón de su desesperación por prohibirla

“Tu decís ‘genocidio’, yo digo ‘guerra”.
Si te atacan, para eso está el ejército.
¿Se pone feo?
Claro que sí
Cuando sé que querés matar
hasta al último de nosotros...
Nunca hablás del 7 de octubre
Jóvenes violadas contra los árboles
Asesinadas brutalmente
Por el crimen de bailar
Condenás a los judíos con memoria selectiva
Músicos con banderas, repitiendo como ovejas
Propaganda alimentada por internet
Se siente tan débil.
Pero confía en mí, vamos a volver a bailar
Y no habrá más guerra
Pero si alguna vez te confundís
Yo estoy con los judíos
No me siento valiente, solo necesito comportarme como un ser humano".

[falkson @falkson]

@vrbo You approved my review of a June 10–12 stay in Bethesda, MD — in writing — and said it would post within 24 hours. Then came a "14-day policy." Those 14 days have passed and it's still not published. Post the review you already approved. Case 154413006 [ ref:!00DC00PxQg.!500PE0kAVed:ref ]. No DM needed — it's documented.

[falkson @falkson]

@ns123abc 😊udi sent yesterday

[Amit Segal @AmitSegal]

And now to the facts:

Biden imposed a partial arms embargo on Israel, halted the transfer of bulldozers that Israel had already paid for — which led to soldiers being put at risk and killed. He caused the IDF to enter Rafah with tanks that didn’t have full ammunition loads, which also put soldiers at risk and led to casualties.

Biden opposed the assassination of Nasrallah; his defense secretary cursed during a phone call with Gallant when Gallant told him that our aircraft had taken out the Hezbollah leader.

Iran was not at a low point when Biden left — on the contrary, it was confident enough to launch two barrages at Israel.

The cease-fire that Biden longs for was, for him, a goal rather than a means.

We’ve all been around for more than a year, so we were here when it happened — there’s no need to cover us with lies and propaganda.

[The Times of Israel @TimesofIsrael]

Ex-Haaretz columnist received payments from Qatar lobbyist while working for paper https://t.co/sSW2bEehYE

[Aviva Klompas @AvivaKlompas]

“I see https://t.co/uSGriOFdup as the number one threat to Israel’s position in the world”

@AmitSegal doesn’t hold back

[falkson @falkson]

@TeslaLarry ... not impossible but highly unlikely in the short term. Palmer Lucky has significant tech experience (Occulus and Anduril) but not much real expertise in relocating a production line which (according to Grok) employs an ecosystem of some 3-5 million people in China . Even with significant automation (which apparently currently does not yet exist) … and employing say 300k people (10% of the China ecosystem) - a herculean task - this would take many years and require significant investments.

The most compelling expertI have heard is @PatrickMcGee_ author of Apple in China. He’s done significant research … unlike many others. While I’m always eager to listen to why he may be wrong, to date I’ve not seen or heard of any compelling criticism.

No doubt a move would be great for the US. Even a partial one. Question is will they? And if they don’t … will Trump turn the screws … tanking their stock and the millions of Americans investments in the interim. Somehow I doubt it.

[John Spencer @SpencerGuard]

Do you know the story of the bombing of Dresden casualty numbers?

I found it odd that a U.S. senator in early 2024 called Gaza "worse than the bombing of Dresden in World War II" after the Hamas Gaza Health Ministry, counting daily, declared the civilian casualties had surpassed 25,000 (the estimated deaths from the bombing of Dresden).

So what happened at Dresden. In March 1945: Just weeks after the bombing of the German city Dresden (13–15 February 1945), non-other than Joseph Goebbels and then his Ministry of Propaganda began claiming that 250,000 civilians had died. The number had no basis in verified data and was meant to portray the Allies as brutal murderers and galvanize German morale in the closing months of the war. Leaflets and radio broadcasts spread the number widely. It was picked up in Nazi reports and later by some sympathetic or skeptical Western observers.

1945–1950s: These inflated figures were repeated by some postwar authors, including David Irving.

1950s–1970s: Western historians began to question the higher figures, noting a lack of forensic evidence and inconsistencies in Nazi records.

1990s–2000s: With the fall of the Berlin Wall and reunification, historians gained access to East German and Soviet archives as well as Dresden municipal records. These included death registers, burial records, missing persons lists, and more.

2004: British historian Frederick Taylor published Dresden: Tuesday, February 13, 1945, based on extensive research. He estimated 25,000–35,000 deaths — the lower range beginning to gain serious traction.

2005–2010: The City of Dresden commissioned an independent historical commission, including archivists, historians, and forensic specialists, to formally investigate the number.

Their final report, released in March 2010 (65 years later) concluded that the most accurate estimate was approximately 25,000 deaths. They found no evidence for mass graves or undocumented victims that would support higher figures.

[Saul Sadka @Saul_Sadka]

Exactly a year after The Economist's editor gloated over Israel's misery, with Israel less isolated than ever, it shifts to the "arrogant Jew" trope.

When a Jew is down, kick him.
When a Jew stands tall, it's hubris.

Twas ever thus—Jew-hate is a mental infirmity of the weak.

[Adam Fisher @AdamRFisher]

🧵1/ Haaretz has a serious problem. Online antisemitic influencers are smitten with the Haaretz English Edition that produces a steady stream of pithy headlines and radical opinion pieces that confirm their seething hatred of Jews and Israel.

[David Collier @mishtal]

Breaking:

The IDF confirm that after medical checks, the Bibas children were brutally murdered by Hamas - and the third corpse does not even belong to the mother (or other hostage)

Israel is fighting monsters, and they need to completely destroy every last evil Hamas bastard.

[Quantum Flux @QuantumFlux36]

Qatar enabled Hamas and should now resettle them. They have 1 million+ vacant housing units and can fly everyone there in a week. These patrons of terror must take care of the nightmare they created.

[Haviv Rettig Gur @havivrettiggur]

Senator @ChrisVanHollen, with respect, you don't understand us - or the Palestinians.

You seems to think that the belief that Jews have some "Biblical right" to Judea and Samaria is unique to Smotrich and Ben Gvir.

Senator, I too believe Jews have a right to the Biblical heartland where the Jewish story was born. Most Jews for most of Jewish history believed that in one way or another. This belief has been central to Jewish worship and ritual for a couple of millennia and counting.

For all the great Jewish debates about this land, there's no debate over the basic Jewish attachment to it and yearning for return, or the simple fact that it is a foundational and ancient article of Jewish faith that our redemption is situated there.

The notion that this belief is somehow unique to Smotrich or Ben Gvir is an insult.

Senator, a great many Israelis have been willing over the years to divide this land with the Palestinians, but not because they didn't believe it was part of their historic homeland. Our right to it, they believed, clashed with a more urgent Palestinian right to independence. This was the view of a very large part of the Israeli left back when the left still won elections.

That belief eroded only when the Israeli left collapsed as a political force in the wave of 140 suicide bombings that Palestinians call the "Second Intifada."

The trouble, senator, our great confusion, lies in the fact that the Israeli left's willingness to compromise is understood by a great many Israelis, include ex-leftists, to have been the cause of that wave of brutality.

We learned about this connection from Palestinians themselves. Palestinian ideological elites, in countless explicit, public statements, explained to their people that the willingness of many Israelis to compromise over what they claim as their homeland was proof that the Jews secretly knew the land wasn't truly and authentically theirs, and therefore would abandon it if faced with sufficient bloodshed and brutality.

This argument is still very widely held and constantly repeated among Palestinian ideological elites. Just dip a toe into pro-Palestinian Twitter for two minutes and you'll see it everywhere, especially in Arabic: The idea that the Jews are something artificial, that their identity is fake and thin, that their attachment to the land is conditional and easily broken.

The willingness to compromise, in other words, has long served as evidence to Hamas and its ilk that the destruction of Israel was possible - and if it is possible, Hamas argues, it is immoral not to reach for it.

Senator, on the altar of this theory of us, Hamas and others have spent nearly four decades going to war against every peace attempt and rejected and still reject, openly and explicitly, any permanent compromise.

And if you understood this thorny little catch-22 of the Palestinian political imagination, if you actually listened to Palestinian discourse rather than the apologia of diaspora elites and their progressive "allies," you'd be less interested in gotcha questions and more keen on separating the Palestinian cause from its catastrophically self-destructive standard-bearers.

Study the bloody, tragic tale of the collapse of the Israeli left, senator, and you will understand why the Palestinian national movement keeps destroying itself.

[John Spencer @SpencerGuard]

“Correcting the [@nytimes] record on the @IDF and lethal targeting.” A must read article by two distinguished experts highlighting how the NYT article on IDF bombing “rules” lacked basic understanding of the laws of war and the impacts of changes in military context between pre-Oct 7 and after October 7.
https://t.co/xLQ8uQUCPa

[Judea Pearl @yudapearl]

News: Former President Carter is dead at 100. And I still see no reason to apologize.

[Marina Medvin 🇺🇸 @MarinaMedvin]

The Gaza doctor who was writing propaganda pieces in the New York Times turned out to be a high ranking terrorist member of Hamas.

H/t @EFischberger

[falkson @falkson]

@bobdavis187 Great it is not! This is a publication that has recently described the genocidal jihadist terrorists that want to anihlate Israel and murder all its people (and all Jews for that matter) as “Freedom Fighters”. Count me out!

[Raylan Givens @JewishWarrior13]

🚨BREAKING🚨PM Netanyahu in a closed meeting revealed Biden and Blinken's threats towards him this past year:

"Biden called me before entering Rafah and said to me: Prime Minister Netanyahu - you will be left alone!"

I answered him: "Then we will do it alone!"

Two days later, Blinken was sent to threaten me: "You will not receive any armaments."

I answered him: "We will fight with our hands and claws. We will not compromise on Rafah."

Netanyahu added: "The Americans estimated that 20,000 people would be killed in Rafah. It turned out to be an absolute lie."

(Channel 14)

[falkson @falkson]

@RadioGenoa Hero!