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There were TWO refugee crises in 1948. The world only knows one.

850,000 Jews were expelled from Arab countries. Secret Mossad airlifts. $250B+ in stolen assets.

Dr. Henry Green has spent 15 years recording the last witnesses of the forgotten exodus.

Full interview 👇

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.@Reuters' claims Hebron is a "flashpoint for Israeli-Palestinian violence," yet the only context provided points entirely to violence by one side.

Readers are reminded of the 1994 massacre by Baruch Goldstein and told that "settlers have killed 13 Palestinians this year."

Missing? The number of Israelis killed by Palestinians this year, any context surrounding the 13 Palestinian deaths, and the 1929 Hebron massacre.

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.@Reuters is entitled to report President Trump's criticism of Israel. But why do they presume that Israel needs to "rethink its military tactics" to ensure "greater protection for civilians"?

Reporting the news is one thing; smuggling its own assumptions into the story is another.

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Dr. Henry Green calls it what it is: the ethnic cleansing of Jews from the Arab world.

850,000 Jews were expelled, stripped of citizenship, robbed of their property, and erased from communities that had existed for 2,500 years.

Watch the full conversation: https://t.co/QQhzNnkAG7

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Iran's World Cup delegation wore political symbols. An Iranian regime commander called the tournament a "battlefield" against the United States.

It barely registered.

Meanwhile, Israel - which wasn't even playing - became a central storyline for activists and major media outlets alike.

That's not because the World Cup was politicized.

It's because only certain politics are considered newsworthy.
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The result?

Israel is portrayed as the main threat to peace, while
Hezbollah is reduced to a supporting character.

This is not balanced analysis as much as narrative-building.

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The @Independent's analysis by @Beltrew claims "ominous signs are coming from Israel and Hezbollah."

But from the opening paragraph, it's clear who is cast as the villain. 🧵

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Worse yet, the article actively casts doubt on whether Hezbollah even poses a real threat, treating with skepticism the Israeli military assessment.

We're talking about Hezbollah, an Iranian-backed terrorist organization dedicated to Israel's destruction, which targets not just Israelis but civilians worldwide.

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Before 1967, Egypt occupied Gaza. There were terror attacks toward Israel.

From 1967 until 2005, Israel controlled the enclave. There were terror attacks against Israelis.

When it withdrew unilaterally in 2005, there were no Jews left in Gaza. Terrorists still launched attacks.

Palestinian terrorism from Gaza did not begin with Israel’s control, and it did not end with Israel’s withdrawal. Violence has never been a result of occupation; it has always been about ending the only Jewish nation.

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Credit where it's due: @AP notes that the Gaza Health Ministry is part of the Hamas-run government and includes Israel's claim that Hamas uses human shields.

But claiming the ministry's records are "generally reliable" according to UN agencies and independent experts is misleading.

For instance, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs significantly revised casualty breakdowns in 2024, while analysts from organizations such as the Washington Institute for Near East Policy have raised concerns about the ministry's methodology and data.

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Hey, @NesrineMalik:

1. Israel has repeatedly traded land for peace - including territory larger than the State of Israel itself. Some of those withdrawals were rewarded with rockets.
2. Tehran and Washington are capital cities. Tel Aviv is not.

Basic history. Basic geography.

Both seem useful when writing columns for @guardian.

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Dear @Reuters and @AP,

Funny how your readers are told that Israel struck Lebanon, drawing criticism and almost derailing negotiations, but not that it was a response to Hezbollah firing explosive drones and projectiles into northern Israel.

Kind of relevant, no?

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Free speech protects opinions.
Protest protects peaceful demonstration.
Neither protects assault, destruction, or intimidation.

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Watch the footage.

This wasn’t peaceful protest. It was a violent raid that a UK court recognized as terrorism.

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When the violence is downplayed, the sentencing starts to sound more extreme than the attack.