יעקב פרדקין //Jake Fradkin

🇮🇱 . יהודי. ציוני. חייל ב@idf

[יעקב פרדקין //Jake Fradkin @jsftennis]

This has been a very challenging time for the Jewish people and for me personally. Please read and share my thoughts below at @TimesofIsrael https://t.co/yrWP5zlfWu

[Eylon Levy @EylonALevy]

New opening if you’re interested, @mehdirhasan

[Israel Defense Forces @IDF]

🎯STRUCK: Hamas terrorist Anas Al-Sharif, who posed as an Al Jazeera journalist

Al-Sharif was the head of a Hamas terrorist cell and advanced rocket attacks on Israeli civilians and IDF troops.
Intelligence and documents from Gaza, including rosters, terrorist training lists and salary records, prove he was a Hamas operative integrated into Al Jazeera.

A press badge isn’t a shield for terrorism.

[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.

[David/Dovid Bashevkin @DBashIdeas]

This statement—the afternoon after 10/7—should alone have been a disqualification.

[Joe Biden @JoeBiden]

Cancer touches us all. Like so many of you, Jill and I have learned that we are strongest in the broken places. Thank you for lifting us up with love and support.

[יצחק הרצוג Isaac Herzog @Isaac_Herzog]

My dear friend Joe, with love from Israel, we pray for your full and fast recovery.

[יעקב פרדקין //Jake Fradkin @jsftennis]

@0321K9 Are you in Jerusalem?

[יעקב פרדקין //Jake Fradkin @jsftennis]

@POTUS יש"ו is such an incredibly evil person, and without a doubt the president most hostile to Israel and the Jewish people in recent memory.

Jews in America, and Israel, ought to wake up and protest in mass against this שונא ישראל ורשע גמור

[Raylan Givens @JewishWarrior13]

🚨 JUST IN: Idan Alexander's family confirms: He will fly to Qatar, where he will meet with President Trump and the Emir of Qatar

[Israel Defense Forces @IDF]

“Hagari was the man who conveyed to the public, night after night, both the difficult news and the good news—all with courage, sensitivity, and composure.”

IDF Chief of the General Staff LTG Eyal Zamir bid farewell this morning to the outgoing IDF Spokesperson, RAdm. Daniel Hagari, praising his performance during an especially complex period.

The Chief of the General Staff extended his best wishes to the incoming IDF Spokesperson, BG Effie Defrin, stating that he faces an important mission and expressed confidence in his success.

[Ron Kampeas @kampeas]

.@BretBaier, the follow up is not a shrug: it’s “Kelly argues that defending Ukraine *is* a U.S. interest; why not engage with that instead of accusing him of a capital crime?”

Jews with any attachment to Israel: listen closely to Musk. He will perceive you as traitors.

[Columbia Jewish Alumni Assoc. @CU_JewishAlumni]

1/ Now that Mahmoud Khalil has been taken into ICE custody, his supporters are spinning a sob story about why you should feel sorry for him. Here’s why you shouldn’t—and why this is exactly what needs to happen to restore order to campuses like @Columbia and our country. 🧵👇

[Israel ישראל @Israel]

Jihadists in suits are still jihadists.

The massacre in Syria proves it.

[Israel ישראל @Israel]

Stop scrolling:

This is your daily reminder that there are still 59 hostages being held captive in Gaza.

[Amelia Adams @neuroticjewgay]

An Israeli baby kidnapped from his bed is a “political prisoner” but a person who gets arrested for violating the conditions of his residency is a kidnapping victim.

[יואלי ברים yoeli brim @yoeli_brim]

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[אביגדור ליברמן @AvigdorLiberman]

נִקְמַת דַּם יֶלֶד קָטָן
עוֹד לֹא־בָרָא הַשָּׂטָן.

יהי זכרם ברוך.

[יקי אדמקר @YakiAdamker]

זָכוֹר אֵת אֲשֶׁר עָשָׂה לְךָ עֲמָלֵק
תִּמְחֶה אֶת זֵכֶר עֲמָלֵק מִתַּחַת הַשָּׁמָיִם לֹא תִּשְׁכָּח

[Hillary Clinton @HillaryClinton]

Like I said: A puppet.

[Governor Kathy Hochul @GovKathyHochul]

We are a nation of laws, not ruled by a king.

[Israel ישראל @Israel]

One photo. It tells an entire story.

It started with hate. But it didn’t end there.

Today we remember the six million men, women and children murdered in the Holocaust.

We promise to never stop sharing their stories.