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[(((Imaleh))) @GRrroneet]

פשוט אין מילים. לא יודעת איך ירדן מתמודד ה׳ ישמור עליו. סליחה שירי, שלא יכולנו להציל אותך ואת הבנים המדהימים שלך. סליחה 💔

[Ashager Araro @AshagerAraro]

The only people "surprised" by the existence of Black Jews are those who get their history from radical echo chambers and infographics.

For years, anti-Israel activists have desperately tried to force Jewish identity into a narrow racial box, labeling all Jews as "white oppressors" to justify their bigotry.

We don't exist to "translate" ourselves, apologize, or act as a bridge for your incomplete worldview. Our existence isn’t a contradiction; it is the living, breathing proof that your weaponized racial theories about Israel and the Jewish people are a complete lie.

We are here, we are visible, and we are not apologizing for ruining your narrative.

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

People are missing the point.

It is not that the phrase Trump insisted be on new passports confirms that he doesn't know what a passport is.

It's that for a year not one person who works for him was willing to tell him so.

They will remain cowards when he declares martial law.

[Rev. Benjamin Cremer @Brcremer]

Then Jesus said unto the sick, “you better have insurance.”

Then Jesus said unto the stranger, “are you here legally?”

Then Jesus said unto the hungry, “my taxes better not be paying for these loaves and fishes.”

Then Jesus said unto the poor, “this is your own fault.”

[greg @gandalf_thegreg]

toddlers to people with deformities in the grocery store

[Frank Luntz @FrankLuntz]

LOL, absolutely brilliant.

[bigkhing @bigkhing001]

So weird when a parent of a gay child is homophobic. U made a gay person. Ur literally the gay source. Ur the carrier of gay. Ur the gay factory

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

Oxford debate is done! Kudos to the amazing team of @emilykschrader @HenMazzig @AviMayer
More impressions later, but for now - here is the text of my talk in opposition to the proposition "This House Believes Israel Never Truly Wanted Peace with Palestine":

Israel wanted peace. Truly. Repeatedly.

And yet, from the minute the United Nations voted for the Partition Plan in 1947, we have been under attack. The Arabs threatened to use force to prevent the establishment of a Jewish state on any part of our homeland, and they proceeded to make good on that threat.

And what did that Partition Plan call for anyway? Was it some grave injustice to the Arabs? No. Most of the fertile land was to go to what would have become the Palestinian Arab state, while the Jewish state would be relegated to three pieces of barely contiguous, mostly arid non-arable territory.

And yet, the Jews said yes. But the Arabs said no. First the Palestinian Arab militias attacked and then in May 1948, every Arab nation surrounding us and beyond invaded. And this is the only reason why there were ever any refugees from that war. The only reason.

Israel managed to survive the 1948 Arab war, and we would have been happy to just live in peace.

Remember, at the end of the 1948 war, Jordan annexed the West Bank and Egypt administered Gaza. There was nothing – absolutely nothing - to prevent them from creating one more Arab state on these territories for the Palestinians.
They did not.

Instead, they chose to continue the war against Israel, which is how Israel came to control the West Bank and Gaza. It was not in some aggressive land grab. It was after multiple Arab armies surrounded us - again - and in May 1967, announced: “This is our chance Arabs, to deal Israel a mortal blow of annihilation . . .”

Israel won that war in six days, but even then, we offered peace, making it, as Abba Eban (of Cambridge, much better I believe, I went there too…) wryly observed “the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender."

And, what was the Arab and Palestinian response to Israel offering peace? "No to peace with Israel, no to recognition of Israel, no to negotiations".

But we still hoped for peace. So, we entered the Oslo Peace process in 1993. And in September 2000, just when many Israelis, including me, truly believed that a two-state solution was close, Palestinians launched the Second Intifada escalating into a brutal campaign of suicide bombings that left over 1000 Israelis shred to bloody pieces with thousands more maimed for life.

Yet, through all that, when in December 2000, President Bill Clinton put a peace deal on the table that would have given the Palestinians all of Gaza, 96% of the West Bank with comparable land swaps from within Israel, no settlements, safe passage between the two territories, most of the Old City, Arab East Jerusalem for a capital and an international force replacing the IDF on the West Bank - it was Israel that said yes.

There was no excuse for the Palestinians not to take this deal. None. But the Palestinians, led by Yasser Arafat, walked away, choosing instead to continue blowing us up through suicide bombings.

Ultimately this led to the construction of the security barrier, checkpoints, roadblocks in the West Bank which thankfully brought, for a while, an end to this reign of bloody terror.

You would think we would get the message, but in 2008 it was Israel, through Prime Minister Olmert, who made yet another peace offer, A near-total Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank, with close to 100% land swaps; No settlements, A link to the Gaza Strip; Arab East Jerusalem as capital of Palestine. Israel would have given up sovereignty over all of the Old City – including the single holiest site to the Jewish people, The Temple Mount, which would be overseen by an international trusteeship.

Again, there was no excuse for the Palestinians not to accept it. None. But under President Abbas, the Palestinians walked away from that, too.

Israel even disengaged from Gaza in 2005, removing all settlements, allowing ourselves to believe that the elected government of Hamas wanted to focus on improving their people’s lives, instead of destroying ours.

We were so desperate to believe this that we ignored all the red flags, allowing numerous Gazans to enter Israel to work, study and get specialized medical care.

But all this emphasis on economic development and work permits was part of a carefully built deception, as Hamas leaders later boasted, to lull Israelis into thinking they really were going to mind their own business and live calmly next to us – while they were planning something very very different.

On Oct 7, 2023 3000 trained and armed Palestinians invaded Israel from Gaza. Much of the intelligence they relied on came from the very Palestinians we allowed into Israel on work and study and medical permits. They massacred. They pillaged. They engaged in acts of gleeful sadistic brutality which I still lack the heart or the stomach to describe. They took 251 hostages – elderly men and women, mothers, fathers, children, babies. And it was not just trained militants, thousands of so-called “Ordinary ‘innocent’ civilian Palestinians” joined enthusiastically in the frenzy of manic violence, committing horrific acts of brutality.

And when the IDF went into Gaza, as they had to, to ensure that the Palestinians could never again do this to us, they found a completely weaponized landscape: Tunnels running under and opening into every house, mosque, hospital, and school. A land filled with booby traps making it impossible for us to fight without doing enormous damage to Gaza. And Hamas, who remained hidden in tunnels and in civilian clothing, designed it this way. This is what we were facing.

So do not dare look at us and propose that “Israel Never Truly Wanted Peace with Palestine”. If anything, we wanted it too much. We made offer after offer of peace. We absorbed endless aggression.

But we are not going to let ourselves be annihilated to convince you that we want peace. And we will certainly not accept peace on any terms. Some of you demand a one state solution and pretend that two peoples, connected to the same land but with distinct religions, values, cultures, languages and histories, who have never lived in peace, will magically exist in peace and harmony if only they live in one state. And frankly, far too often this call for a one state solution is not naive or delusional but a carefully calculated attempt to rob Jews of their right to self-determination to be a free people in our own land.

In this, we are no fools. We have a millennia long history of being persecuted and subjugated by one people after another, and we are not about to give up our one and only state to go back to being at the mercy of others.

We do want peace and we are willing to go far to make it happen, but we will not give up our state for it.

So now, it is your turn, Palestinians, to answer the question that somehow no university seems to debate – When did you ever truly want peace with the one Jewish state?

[Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib]

Gazans are calling for mass protests on June 26 against Hamas and its entrenched authoritarian, fascistic rule. The campaign, “The Voice of the Oppressed,” seeks to amplify the silenced majority in Gaza – voices crushed not only by Hamas, but also by its enablers in the West Bank, across the Arab and Muslim worlds, and within Western “pro‑Palestine” activist circles.

Gazans are exhausted by endless wars with Israel, perpetual Islamist repression, the collapse of their national hopes, and life as hostages to the suicidal nihilism of the Muslim Brotherhood and the Islamic Republic of Iran. Stand with the people of Gaza and elevate their voices; never speak over those who have lived under a terror regime that destroyed the Strip in the name of “resistance.”

Hamas will fall, externally and internally, no matter how long it takes.

[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

"It's not your country, it's our country."

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun tells CNN that he is sick of Hezbollah using his country and his people as a bargaining chip.

It amazes me how so many Westerners are surprised when people come forward to say they hate living next to terrorists who would happily let them die for a chance to see the Middle East free of Jews.

[Rabbi Mordechai Lightstone @Mottel]

We need to talk about how WhatsApp voice transaction handles the name Mordechai.

[Sesame Street @sesamestreet]

Happy #PrideMonth from Sesame Street! Join us in celebrating and uplifting the LGBTQIA+ members of our community. ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

[W.E.B. DaBoi @Tyre_94]

The rise in the Savannah Bananas popularity and the country’s descent into fascism are linked, I just can’t prove it

[Rawan Osman روان عثمان @RawaneOsmane]

Unlike the flotilla activists performing for cameras and social media applause, this group’s action was not performative. They did not come to provoke, grandstand, or market themselves as heroes. They came to help Israelis heal and rebuild.

At Ben Gurion Airport, on my way back to Germany, I met a remarkable group of Germans returning from volunteering in Kibbutz Nir Oz. They asked me for a picture, but what truly deserves attention is not the photo, it is what they had just spent days doing.

These people are not Jewish. They have no family ties obligating them to help. No political benefit. No personal gain. And yet, while much of the world prefers slogans, hashtags, and selective outrage, they chose action.

For years now, Hebrew-speaking Petra Hemming, a true friend of Israel, has stood beside Israelis not out of fashion or convenience, but out of moral clarity and genuine friendship. Through the association supporting Nir Oz, she and many others have helped survivors of one of the most devastated kibbutzim after October 7, rebuilding homes, supporting families, raising funds, and simply showing up when it mattered most.

One thing Petra told me stayed with me deeply. She said that one of the highlights of their trip was helping reopen the grocery store in Nir Oz, a simple thing most people take for granted. But for the community, after everything they endured, it was emotional beyond words. People were moved to tears. Imagine a society so shattered by terror that reopening a small grocery store becomes a moment of collective healing and hope.

What moved me most is that they understand something many still refuse to grasp: solidarity is not a slogan. It is work. It is sacrifice. It is getting on a plane, leaving your comfort behind, and helping complete strangers rebuild their lives after unimaginable horror.

Kibbutz Nir Oz became one of the symbols of the October 7 massacre. Entire families were murdered, kidnapped, or shattered forever. And yet amid all this darkness, people from another country, another language, another religion decided that the pain of Israelis is also their concern.

That is humanity.

If ordinary citizens from Germany can dedicate their time, money, and energy to help rebuild Nir Oz, then others can stop making excuses and start asking themselves what they are doing beyond posting online.

Support those rebuilding lives instead of those glorifying destruction.

And to Petra Hemming and everyone involved: thank you for proving that friendship with Israel is not measured by words, but by presence.

You can read more about their association on their website: www.bgl-niroz .de

#october7

[Graham Linehan @Glinner]

"You didn't have to kill the dog." Useful idiots get shown what they're supporting.

[SK Tedeschi @skedeschi]

I'm a middle eastern historian. My own family were made refugees. And this is my honest view of the Nakba (“catastrophe”) - the displacement of around 700,000 Palestinian Arabs during the 1947–49 war surrounding the creation of Israel.

A thread. 🧵

[Captain Allen @CptAllenHistory]

Bill Maher just delivered the most clear-eyed, no-bullshit monologue on Israel & antisemitism you’ll hear from any mainstream voice in 2026.

“Israel was founded on the idea that antisemitism made a Jewish state necessary ... Can you honestly listen to this rhetoric and not see why that turned out to be true?”

One of many brutal examples: he called out Columbia professor Hamid Dabashi, who wrote that Jews have “a vulgarity of character that is bone-deep and structural to the skeletal vertebrae of its culture.”

Maher’s reply: “These are the kinds of statements Goebbels would have read and said, ‘No notes.’”

Then he turned to his own party and delivered the kill shot:

“Democrats, where are you? … Until you fix this issue, stop asking me why I’m harder on you.”

Bill Maher is perhaps the one person left in late-night television who still chooses truth over applause.

The rest are just cowards with good lighting.

Thank you Bill🙏

[Janai Nelson @JNelsonLDF]

I told the Supreme Court what would happen if it ruled against Louisiana’s fair map. And I was right. The results have been catastrophic. But the sílver lining is a sleeping giant has been awakened.

Our democracy majority is coming together. #ARLS

https://t.co/LbEgsVxprw

[Kevin Pietersen🦏 @KP24]

The greatest video on the internet right now 🩷🩷🩷🩷