Joy Bernstein

[Joy Bernstein @joydiana]

🧵: The Media’s Gaza Story Just Collapsed — And They’re Hoping You Don’t Notice.

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X’s new location reveal just exposed the biggest journalistic failure of the Gaza war.

The “Gazan victims” and “eyewitnesses” quoted by Western media?

Not in Gaza.

[Josh Howie @joshxhowie]

Accusing Israel of genocide is becoming the greatest lie of our time. It's also the most despicable and most racist. Those who push it the hardest know all too well it's a falsehood. They are evil. Those who unthinkingly repeat or fail to challenge the lie are complicit in kind and must be dealt with scorn.

[John Spencer @SpencerGuard]

https://t.co/m3sP9zxj2T

[Eylon Levy @EylonALevy]

“Please look at me,” begs a survivor of the Hamas Rapist Regime.

But UN “expert” @UNSRVAW Reem Alsalem won’t give her that basic dignity.

There’s no humanity in the UN Human Rights Council.

[Joy Bernstein @joydiana]

@MichaelforNY @danielsgoldman @RepDanGoldman @JayneZirkle @EndJewHatred @StandWithUs @ViralNewsNYC @LeoTerrellDOJ Funny how that happens…

[Awesome Jew @Awesome_Jew_]

BREAKING: Reports of an active shooter incident in Montreal’s Jewish community. Multiple casualties have been reported. Authorities say a suspect has been neutralized. Two police officers and one civilian were injured. A major police operation remains underway.

[Joy Bernstein @joydiana]

@DavidMKeyes We need to say his name over and over again — to the Islamic Regime to Hezbollah and to those who think this is a good deal

[Haviv Rettig Gur @havivrettiggur]

Welp, I think we're done here.

Trump himself is now saying he buckled under the pressure of Hormuz.

It's as bad as it could possibly be. He's saying aloud that Iran can have anything it wants because America can't afford the staring contest.

If this is his own explanation in his own words, then the fact that the sanctions relief is front-loaded...suddenly becomes important. The fact that the inspections regime that will verify compliance will be negotiated by an American side that has already admitted defeat, that needs this more than the opponent needs it...is now significant. And the fact that the proxy system is now recognized as legitimate by the United States -- is suddenly exactly the disaster you feared it might be.

And the fact that America has declared aloud that it's not actually capable of imposing its will even in the world's most vital energy chokepoints, causing its allies in the Gulf to already begin to seek a new accommodation with Iran -- makes all of this worse than Obama and worse than the JCPOA.

Remember: the great unfixable flaw of the JCPOA that none of its boosters ever had a good answer for was that it merely kicked the can down the road. It solved nothing.

Trump's deal, as of this moment, is not even close to accomplishing so much.

"Iran never won a war and never lost a negotiation," Trump famously said of Obama's deal (as a reporter reminded him at today's press conference). Ironic that the Iranians would win a negotiation most spectacularly against a man who styles himself the greatest negotiator to ever grace the White House.

So what does it all mean?

It means that in the coming years, nuclear programs will sprout like mushrooms after the rain throughout the Middle East. It means that many nations will now build out new and larger ballistic missile arsenals.

It means that the state system will give way before the march of the region's transnational ideological axes. Minorities will again be trampled, new wars will be fought by stronger states to dominate the power vacuums within weaker ones.

You're thinking of Israel in Lebanon -- but that's just a specific campaign against a specific enemy. Think Turkey, which right now occupies a region of Syria vastly larger than Israel's presence in Lebanon. Think heightened Iranian support for the Houthis in Yemen and a new influx of money and guns to the different sides in Libya.

It means, in other words, that we will have a few more wars to fight, a few more technologies to invent to deal with this new age of cheap missiles and drones -- and also of supersonic Chinese missiles bearing nuclear warheads that Iran will eventually, inevitably, be capable of deploying against us.

And it didn't have to be this bad. (And maybe, when he's heard all the criticism, it won't be.) He could have left something, anything, to concede later. He could have kept the Iranians a little bit in the dark, just a smidgen, as to just how defeated America feels.

Israel's position in all this is simple, and more or less unchanged from last week. America gave us more than we had a right to ask for. But we may be going it alone from here out.

Dust off the nukes. Maybe test one somewhere far away from anywhere. Quadruple the interceptor production lines, double the size of the Mossad and the Air Force. And no, don't let Hezbollah breathe, not for a second.

It's the 1960s again. And Israel will have to defeat a couple more enemies before it can once again eke out a few decades of peace.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Those who knew must go to prison for a long time

[Henshi @HenshiG]

From Paula Stern

A Strange Morning in Israel: We Woke Up Alone

This morning in Israel feels strangely quiet. We woke up… alone.

Trump says he still supports us, and on some level, I believe he does. He wants peace. That desire is commendable. But he has yet to learn the painful truth: peace for one is not always peace for another.

The comfort? Whatever Washington decides, Israel remains a sovereign nation — never the 51st state, not now, not ever. Our future is ours to shape. Not Tehran’s. Not even Washington’s.

Today, our sons — our flesh and blood — stand watch in Lebanon. They will remain there until the Lebanese finally do what they promised long ago: remove Hezbollah from the south and disarm the terrorists who keep attacking our northern families.

Even after the agreement, the rockets continued.

The world is celebrating a “peace” that we know will bring none. Trump, the ultimate businessman, seems to have been charmed by the familiar shuk mentality of this region.

The Iranians aren’t freely opening the Straits — they’re demanding an “insurance fee.” Call it what it is: an old-fashioned protection racket.

He proudly declared, “This historic agreement will bring peace and security to the entire region.” Nonsense. Beautiful, dangerous nonsense.

And so Israel stands alone once more… and somehow, we smile.

We weren’t invited to the party, so we are not bound by its terms. Trump called Netanyahu “a very difficult person.”

You’re no great shakes yourself, sir.

He also claimed that if Iran had nuclear weapons, Israel “wouldn’t have lasted even two hours.” At that, Israel simply smiles wider.

Because the sun is shining on our beautiful land.

We ate breakfast, went to work, and watched our children speak the ancient tongue of their ancestors. The olives on my tree are swelling (though I still hate them), and the land blooms with stubborn life.

The ballistic missile restrictions were quietly forgotten. The Iranians who took to the streets, praying for the West to return their country to them, have been abandoned too.

We are alone -as we have been for centuries.

Alone when we left Egypt.

Alone when we walked out of the ghettoes and the camps.

But here is our eternal secret: the Jewish people are never truly alone. We have each other.

The future does not rest in Trump’s hands. It rests in God’s. Whether or not America has pulled back, we know — with every beat of our hearts — that Hashem has not.

To live with such faith may seem strange to others. To us, it is the greatest gift.

Sign your papers. Open or close your straits. The future of Lebanon will not be decided in Tehran or Washington, but in Beirut and in Jerusalem.

Jerusalem does not tremble at words from Tehran, nor at anything coming from Switzerland — the land that still holds the stolen wealth of murdered Jews.

Today, the sky is almost cloudless. Our children are counting the days until summer vacation.

And we remember: no matter how alone we feel, we are never truly alone.

Our hearts ache for the people of Iran. They are the ones who have been truly abandoned.

Am Yisrael Chai. We live. We endure. And we will thrive.

[Joy Bernstein @joydiana]

@garybkatz The retraction omits agency — and that’s always their tell.

[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

"When something of that scale occurs and it is occurring in real time... it is important to be present and to investigate"

After October 7th, Dr. Alice Jill Edwards, the UN Special Rapporteur on torture, funded her own trip to Israel to witness and document the horrors of Hamas's massacre.

For some reason, her instincts weren't shared by other UN officials.

"I understand I’m the only Special Rapporteur who has ever requested to go to the Israeli mission to see the video and the documented evidence," she said at a recent event.

From what she witnessed, she crafted a letter about Hamas's crimes on October 7th. But: "There was a campaign to prevent that letter from going out. There were weeks of being bullied and deterred from writing it and telling me that everything in it was false."

Edwards was forced to edit the letter, even though it was based on her own research. "The letter shrank considerably."

In the end, she said, "it was only signed by the Special Rapporteur on summary extrajudicial killings and me," she said.

She said the "Rapporteur" position at the UN is being abused: "In the past we were this agile group forty years ago or thirty years ago of people that were supposed to be able to react actively and quickly to various issues that are going on in the world. Now we are being pushed to coordinate amongst one another."

"Authoritarian and totalitarian governments don’t like the special rapporteurs, so they have created their own special rapporteurs and they fund them," she said.

"We all want the UN to be a robust but also honest and objective body and if it can’t do the job, then maybe we do need to start thinking about what replaces it. That is a very worrying scenario."

Reporting Credit: @JewishChron

[RLK @RLK303303]

We went to the Nova exhibition today. On the one hand I am listening to the video testimony of ZAKA talking about decapitated heads in bags and women violated in unspeakable ways and on the other hand I see the complete indifference to any of this from much of the rest of the world. Indifference at best, or denial or at worst, saying that what happened was 'resistance'. Today this completely blew my mind - again.

The Nova exhibition was profoundly affecting in so many ways despite already having been immersed in nothing but this for nearly three years. There were many tearful people there. We also heard live testimony from Ariel, the brother of Anita Lisman who was killed with her boyfriend Segev Shushan, at Nova. May their memories be a blessing 🕯️🕯️

Watching all of these atrocities again was heartbreaking and I'm glad that the organisers put it all together so incredibly well.

It was in fact the first room of the exhibition which I'll never also forget. It was a film of the Nova rave. People were dancing to trance having the time of their lives. They were my tribe, I've been going to these parties for maybe 25 years. The feeling of dancing to the beats, everyone loving everyone else, being as high as a kite and everything being just perfect. And then a sunrise where everything sparkles and looks beautiful and love and music is all around. There's no feeling like it and then I tried to imagine the horror and the terror descending, people not really understanding what's going on, being terrified whilst still trying to protect each other. I'd only ever seen those party clips on my laptop screen but being there, immersed in those scenes and knowing what was coming for those beautiful people was painful beyond words.

And the worst thing is that most of the people I've danced with for years have turned their backs on us and that's something I'll never forgive or ever forget.

Everyone needs to see and to understand what happened on 7th October and subsequently. Israel needs to do whatever is needed to make sure that this never happens again, with or without the approval of the rest of the world.

[Aɴᴛ @AntSpeaks]

Imagine spending the last few years chanting and crying "Free Palestine!" and believing that Hamas are "freedom fighters!" only for more and more footage like this to emerge of Hamas slaughtering Gazans.

And once again, I will repeat the following. They cry about a "genocide" in Gaza, yet ironically there is not a single piece of footage equivalent to the footage below which clearly shows IDF soldiers treating Gazans in this way.

Why is that? Perhaps it's because the whole "genocide" narrative was pushed by the perpetrators of the October 7th massacre in order to influence the feeble and weak little minds of window lickers in the West to parrot their deranged narrative.

H/T @MorEdge_Insight

[Mike Netter @nettermike]

This article was written by a 26 yr old college student by the name of Alyssa Ahlgren, who's in grad school for her MBA. What a GREAT perspecitve..👍🏽

My Generation Is Blind to the Prosperity Around Us!
I'm sitting in a small coffee shop near Nokomis (Florida) trying to think of what to write about. I scroll through my newsfeed on my phone looking at the latest headlines of presidential candidates calling for policies to "fix" the so-called injustices of capitalism. I put my phone down and continue to look around.

I see people talking freely, working on their MacBook's, ordering food they get in an instant, seeing cars go by outside, and it dawned on me. We live in the most privileged time in the most prosperous nation and we've become completely blind to it.

Vehicles, food, technology, freedom to associate with whom we choose.These things are so ingrained in our American way of life we don't give them a second thought.

We are so well off here in the United States that our poverty line begins 31 times above the global average. Thirty One Times!!!

Virtually no one in the United States is considered poor by global standards. Yet, in a time where we can order a product off Amazon with one click and have it at our doorstep the next day, we are unappreciative, unsatisfied, and ungrateful. ??

Our unappreciation is evident as the popularity of socialist policies among my generation continues to grow. Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently said to Newsweek talking about the millennial generation, "An entire generation, which is now becoming one of the largest electorates in America, came of age and never saw American prosperity."

Never saw American prosperity! Let that sink in.

When I first read that statement, I thought to myself, that was quite literally the most entitled and factually illiterate thing I've ever heard in my 26 years on this earth. Many young people agree with her, which is entirely misguided.

My generation is being indoctrinated by a mainstream narrative to actually believe we have never seen prosperity. I know this first hand, I went to college, let's just say I didn't have the popular opinion, but I digress.

Why then, with all of the overwhelming evidence around us, evidence that I can even see sitting at a coffee shop, do we not view this as prosperity? We have people who are dying to get into our country.

People around the world destitute and truly impoverished. Yet, we have a young generation convinced they've never seen prosperity, and as a result, we elect some politicians who are dead set on taking steps towards abolishing capitalism.

Why? The answer is this,?? my generation has only seen prosperity. We have no contrast. We didn't live in the great depression, or live through two world wars, the Korean War, The Vietnam War or we didn't see the rise and fall of socialism and communism.

We don't know what it's like to live without the internet, without cars, without smartphones. We don't have a lack of prosperity problem. We have an entitlement problem, an ungratefulness problem, and it's spreading like a plague."

[Joy Bernstein @joydiana]

@MummyisT Done.

[Jackie Chea ⚖️| Agent #13/92 @Fair_and_Biased]

Saying that Jews are responsible for slavery has NOTHING to do with Israel.

Nor does babbling about “Frankists.”

Or claiming that Stalin was Jewish & Freud was part of a Jewish pedophile cult.

Or ranting that “Talmudic Jews” want to make you worship them.

Or seeing a Jew behind every murder plot.

Or scoffing about Holocaust atrocities.

Candace is a CLASSIC Jew hater, and Israel is just incidental in her wrath bc it’s home to so many Jews.

[Mark R. Levin @marklevinshow]

ARM THE IRANIAN PEOPLE!

[Andrew Fox @Mr_Andrew_Fox]

Great article.

“ The UN has become one of the most dangerous instruments in modern geopolitics. Authoritarian regimes are using the UN’s prestige to normalise their behavior, conceal their crimes and peddle anti-Western propaganda. It should terrify all of us that the world’s most trusted watchdog has been successfully leveraged as a PR firm for tyrants.”

https://t.co/scgJQ6REmR

[Dutch Girl @dutchgirlinthe6]

@JewTLA