Jay

Recently joined because I realized X is, sadly, more reliable than most of the legacy media

[Jay @jayjik78]

Exactly. 💯.

[John Spencer @SpencerGuard]

83% of Gaza dead were civilians. Has to be one of the biggest lies of the Gaza war. The article debunks the title!!

This a definitive piece of misinformation (start with a perceived real event or fact i.e. the “kernel of truth"; exaggerate, fabricate details, or twist interpretations; package it into a narrative designed to deceive or manipulate).

Useful idiots only read the title, since even in the article it says "Intelligence sources explained that the total number of militants killed is likely higher than the number recorded in the internal database, since it does not include Hamas or PIJ operatives who were killed but could not be identified by name..." - let's go community notes!

Or read the IDF response debunking the rerun of the story in the Guardian/supposed leak. https://t.co/xM8a9pyeaV… - with a message for Mehdi - the claims presented in the article are not only false but also reflect a fundamental lack of military understanding.

This misinformation story takes a number, which the IDF has now publicly stated as false but it is a lie none the less (lie of omission), and then tells the story that that means anyone not on the list of named combatants is a civilian, which is a lie. Thousands of unnamed but estimated combatants have died in close combat and air strikes in Gaza.

As a reminder, a combatant is a term that applies primarily to members of the armed forces of a party to the conflict, as well as members of organized armed groups that meet the requirements. Combatants are distinguished from civilians because they may be lawfully targeted during conflict.

Members of the armed forces of a party to the conflict, members of organized armed groups belonging to a party, and recognized combatants can all be targeted as well as anyone that directly engages in the hostilities.

Direct participation in hostilities refers to acts that by their nature or purpose cause immediate harm to enemy forces or their military operations. Examples include firing weapons, throwing Molotov cocktails, or manning a checkpoint; emplacing or removing mines or improvised explosive devices; acting as a scout, spotter, or providing real-time targeting information; sabotaging military equipment or facilities; and transporting ammunition to the front line during combat, and definitely holding hostages (war crime)!

Civilians who engage in these activities lose their protection from attack for the duration of their participation. i.e. they are combatants at that time.

[Jay @jayjik78]

@HonestReporting @guardian Not surprised. The @guardian is the same newspaper that is often parroting baseless claims from a news blog (972) as facts with 0 evidence. Would not trust their journalism integrity.

[Shai Davidai @ShaiDavidai]

We told you it was never about Zionism.

[HonestReporting @HonestReporting]

The Daily Mirror used a photo of a child with a genetic disease to represent “famine” in Gaza. Using a sick child to push Hamas’ famine narrative isn’t reporting, it’s manipulation.
https://t.co/pB2byfQzra

[Jay @jayjik78]

@COLRICHARDKEMP Those "how can they all be wrong" comments remind me the antivax lunatics. Yes, when the only people you quote are the ones supporting the false "genocide" narrative, than they are - by definition - all wrong.

[Dr. Eli David @DrEliDavid]

Why @USAmbFrance Charles Kushner is a true legend:
1. Tells @EmmanuelMacron that he is to blame for the rising antisemitism in France 🇫🇷
2. Gets summoned by him to be reprimanded
3. Ignores the summon and sends a junior diplomat instead
4. Doubles down on telling the truth
👏

[Jay @jayjik78]

@COLRICHARDKEMP It's worse if that's an "expert", because they have no excuse - and no integrity

[Jay @jayjik78]

@EylonALevy @HilzFuld And not to mention Egypt is violating multiple treaties by not letting aid and refugees through. Of course, not a word from the legacy media.

[Eylon Levy @EylonALevy]

Mind blown: Gaza has a border with… Egypt. 🤯

[Jay @jayjik78]

@CAMERAorg @wealdengirl @guardian And don't forget natural mortality. People still died from natural causes during the last 20 months of the war. That's estimated to be about 8,000 people, making the ratio closer to 1:1 - even more unprecedented.

[Jay @jayjik78]

@BernieSanders Free healthcare and free education are great objectives. However, I'm not clear on how @BernieSanders is planning to get us there. Or what he has already done in his decades in politics to get us closer to it.

[Hillel Neuer @HillelNeuer]

BREAKING: U.S. just sanctioned ICC Deputy Prosecutor Nazhat Shameem Khan—for illegitimate actions targeting Israel. I knew her as UNHRC's ex-Chair: she censored me for exposing Hamas & UNRWA antisemitism, named Israel-haters to a UN inquiry, then plotted with them at the ICC. 🧵

[Robert F. Kennedy Jr @RobertKennedyJr]

@SpencerGuard The genocide charge is a blood libel. Thank you Major Spencer for this withering deconstruction.

[Jay @jayjik78]

@LeoTerrellDOJ This is insane. A businessman from Shanghai with ties to the Chinese government is funding violent anti Israel protests in the US - and the Biden administration never thought it was worth investigating???

[Haviv Rettig Gur @havivrettiggur]

a. Most Israelis don't believe the suffering is as bad as world media claims, and they're mostly right. It's very bad, as I've written and said on podcasts. But it's not as bad as claimed. And yes, the degree matters. Suffering is unavoidable in war. Deliberate mass-starvation isn't. If you believe the former, you have a higher tolerance for the current situation than if you believe the latter is taking place.

b. Most Israelis, around 90%, believe Palestinians and their political factions want them dead and gone, and that that's what this war is ultimately about.

They're mostly right, alas.

And when you think someone wants to kill you, you will struggle to summon sympathy for their suffering.

If you disagree with that statement, that's because you've never really believed that someone wants to kill you, or experienced the murder of your cousin or friend by them as evidence of this desire.

c. The numbers in reverse, the percentage of Palestinians who have ever felt any sympathy of any kind for Israelis, even when children were dying in bus bombings or civilians were murdered on October 7, are worse and have always been worse.

This is partly because of the ideology espoused by the likes of Arafat and Hamas for generations, and in part because roughly 90% of Palestinians think *Israelis* want them dead and gone - an almost perfect mirror image of the situation on the Israeli side.

And again, because Western journalists seem to be struggling to grasp this point, when you think someone wants to kill you, as Palestinians believe about Israelis and Israelis about Palestinians, you will struggle to summon sympathy for their suffering.

d. And in that context - and only in that context, because without that context this is just arrogant stupid moralizing by an ignorant foreigner - yes, there's a sympathy problem. And if we don't get serious about tackling it, about creating conditions for reconciliation, nothing will change.

This is true within Israeli society, and it's true within Palestinian society. I'm not saying it's possible, I'm just saying nothing gets better until it's accomplished. So maybe it's high time this becomes a priority.

Which brings us, inevitably, to Hamas. (We're almost done here, thank you for your patience.)

Every advocate for Palestinians who thinks pressuring Israelis is enough - who doesn't grasp that Hamas tells Israelis every day that it's going to murder them, and so constantly inures them to any pressure the international community can summon - is part of the problem. If you can't stand against Hamas in your advocacy for Palestinians, you're de facto propping up the sympathy gap that keeps the sides radicalized against each other.

There, I said it.

[Jay @jayjik78]

@piersmorgan It's a tough situation. No one argues the current situation is bad. Part of it is because Israel is trying hard to avoid pure military solutions. I think we can all agree that we would all like to see the war in Gaza heading towards resolution.

[Jay @jayjik78]

@AmitSegal My money is it will be walked back by same time tomorrow

[David Collier @mishtal]

Daily massacres reported at food distribution sites?

Yet in the most filmed conflict zone in history there is no footage at all.

Mass starvation?

But we only see images of sick children with healthy, well-fed siblings.

Legacy media has turned itself into a Hamas mouthpiece.

[Jay @jayjik78]

@StandWithUs Lo and behold, no @UN, no @UNRWA, and the aid flows in perfectly. Makes you wonder.

[StandWithUs @StandWithUs]

WATCH: In the wake of the brutal massacre of the Druze community in southern Syria, Israel is providing urgent humanitarian aid to civilians in need. A powerful reminder that even in the face of hostility, Israel upholds the value of human life.