Does anyone really believe we are not at war? No way. No way that MSFT and the FAA goes down in the same 36 hour period. Get your bottled water. Get cash. Buy some canned tuna and crackers. Iodine tablets too.
DEFCON 1
Congratulations to JD Vance on joining a very distinguished club.
1096: Crusaders blame the Jews for killing Christ. Massacres in the Rhineland.
1348: The Black Death. The Jews poisoned the wells.
1492: Spain's troubles. The Jews are expelled.
1881: Tsar Alexander II assassinated. The Jews. Pogroms.
1894: France's army leaking secrets. Dreyfus, the Jew.
1903: The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. The Jews secretly run the world.
1918: Germany loses WWI. A Jewish "stab in the back."
1923: Weimar hyperinflation. The Jews.
1949: Stalin's purges. "Rootless cosmopolitans."
1967: Arab armies routed in six days. The Jews and their lobby.
2026: Republicans get routed.
JD Vance: the "real reason" was the Iran war and Israel.
Welcome to the club, JD.
@DrShushan Al Sayed will stick us in the ovens the first chance he gets. Our history is filled with moments like this. I am astonished that a scholar is so blind to the history of our people. The GOP must remain control.
Last night, Abdul El-Sayed shamefully said that Iran and Israel are equal threats to the United States:
âBoth of Them Have Proven Dangerous in Their Own Wayâ
Newsflash, Abdul: the Islamic Republic of Iran and Iran-backed terrorists have murdered and kidnapped more than 1,000 Americans since 1979.
Abdul El-Sayed is dangerous for America.
(Warning: Long post about Israel. Possible slow-motion crash out. Might want to skip this one.)
This statement from @NYCMayor is evil.
Thereâs no other way to describe it. âDespicableâ isnât nearly strong enough; âlamentableâ implies that itâs something over which we might feel sorrow, rather than the outrage it demands.
âEvilâ is the only word for it. Deeply, profoundly evil. Perhaps the most vile statement a prominent US elected official has ever released.
On the third anniversary of the worst loss of Jewish life since the Holocaust, Mayor Mamdaniâleader of the city with the worldâs largest Jewish population outside of Tel Avivâhas released a statement that minimizes the attacks, ignores the severity and depravity of Hamasâs crimes, andâin a manner with just enough skillful subtlety to provide necessary levels of plausible deniabilityâinverts the dayâs attackers and victims, even obliquely blaming the victims themselves. A statement that references the attacksâ perpetrators, Hamas, but once, and the attacksâ target, the Jews of Israel, not at all.
Let me repeat that: The mayor of a city with nearly one million Jews spread across its five boroughs canât find it within himself to use the word âJewâ on the anniversary of the worst loss of Jewish life since the genocide of Nazi Germany.
Mamdani dedicates oneâand only oneâparagraph in his statement to the attacks themselves. One perfunctory, halfhearted paragraph; a token gesture of mourning that conveniently omits the savagery of Hamasâs crimes, the widespread sexual violence of the day, the glee with which terrorists butchered young and old alike, and the deplorable conditions in which 251 innocent victims of kidnapping were kept in subterranean tunnels in Gaza.
One paragraph. Thatâs all. And, with that out of the way, with that box conveniently checked, Mamdani is able to get to his real aim: Condemning Israel.
And this he does with detail and gusto, without pause, reservation, or equivocation.
The entire second paragraph is worth reviewing line by line, for it is rich in subtle but deliberate manipulation.
Sentence 1: âThe suffering did not begin or end that day.â
This is the classic Marxist rhetorical tactic of âcontextualizing,â in which any actions that might reflect poorly on The Cause (e.g., the mass rape, murder, and kidnapping of innocent Israeli civilians) are positioned in the context of information meant to mitigate their severity, deflect blame, and shift responsibility from the victim to the offender.
In this case, Mamdani wants the reader to subconsciously think that Hamasâs acts of terrorism can only be viewed in the context of Israelâs historical and ongoing oppression of Palestine (hence âdid not beginâŚthat dayâ). And, with that context established, how could anyone hold Hamas at fault? After all, they didnât start this war; they were only responding to âsuffering [that] did not beginâŚthat day.â If anything, itâs Israel thatâs at fault, right?
If this sounds like reversing the victim and the offenderâthe RVO in the DARVO acronym used to describe the gaslighting of domestic violence victimsâitâs because it is. Itâs subversive, itâs diabolical, and itâs only the first sentence of the paragraph.
Letâs keep going.
Sentence 2: âIt instead continued through the Israeli governmentâs devastating, ongoing genocide in GazaâŚâ
Hamasâs terrorism was not a de novo act, occurring without cause or justification; rather, it was merely the âongoingâ continuation of a long chain of âsufferingâ whose origin and fault lie with the state of Israel.
Also, note the choice of the words âdevastatingâ and âgenocideâ and compare them to Mamdaniâs first paragraph. He is condemning Israelâs response to the attacks with language far more forceful than that used to decry the attacks themselves.
Sentence 2, continued: ââŚin which it has killed more than 74,000 Palestiniansâincluding more than 21,000 children.â
This is additional contextualization. The reader is directed to compare 74,000 dead Palestinians with the aforementioned 1,100 Israelis and come away with the interpretation that Israel is orders of magnitude more violent than Hamas. Note that Mamdani also includes a body count for Palestinian children but not for Israeli children.
Left unsaid, of course, is the proportion of those 74,000 dead Palestinians who were active Hamas fighters. Or whom Hamas was using as human shields. Or who wereâunfortunatelyâcollateral damage from being in the vicinity of the Israeli militaryâs justified airstrikes on Hamas fighters who deliberately intersperse themselves among the civilian populace of Gaza.
Sentence 3: âEven since the so-called ceasefire, more than 1,400 Palestinians have been killed.â
This is more contextualizing. The implicit message is that Israel has killed more Palestinians âsince the so-called ceasefireâ than Hamas killed in total. Israelâs response must therefore clearly be disproportionate.
Sentence 4: âThat suffering has intensified with every Israeli bomb dropped on ambulances waiting outside hospitals, every drone strike targeting a residential building or journalist, and every shipment of food aid turned away at a border crossing.â
Setting aside factual errors and omissions of relevant context (ironic, given all the false contextualizing elsewhere!), note the specificity with which Mamdani condemns Israel. Israelâs response to October 7 warrants vivid detailâits bombs fall on ambulances, its drone strikes target residential buildings and journalists, its soldiers turn away food shipmentsâwhile the details of Hamasâs attacks on October 7 are described withâŚ
Nothing.
No mention of the murders. The rapes. The desecration of bodies. The smiles on the terroristsâ faces; their laughter while livestreaming the carnage on social media and while calling their own parents.
Not one word.
When Israel responds to terrorism, graphic details are called for; when Hamas commits the underlying acts of terrorism in the first place, though, it warrants only a cursory mention in the introduction to the statement, no details necessary.
Sentence 5: âMany New Yorkers are reckoning with this unbearable grief, and we mourn alongside them â all while knowing that our tax dollars fund these war crimes.â
Note the similarities in language between this sentence and the final sentence of the first paragraph. The reader is meant to draw parallels between Israelâs dead civilians and Hamasâs dead fighters. The parallel language is meant to convey a false moral equivalence between the two.
Also note the reference to âour tax dollarsâ: You paid for this. You are morally complicit. Therefore, if you object to the mayorâs statement, you are just trying to willfully ignore your own guilt. How dare you.
The last two paragraphs (yes, he keeps going) are more of the same. More moral equivocation, more inversion of responsibility, more criticism of Israel. The word âapartheidâ is thrown in for good measure, of course, because no statement on the anniversary of the worst day in modern Israelâs history would be complete without undermining the nationâs very existence.
Every word of this is shameful, every sentence detestable, every paragraph overflowing with covert lies and overt moral cowardice.
But we should expect nothing less of Zohran Mamdani, a man whose only talent is the ongoing profanation of an office he doesnât deserve, in a great city he will slowlyâor maybe not so slowlyâdestroy.
This statementâand the man behind itâare worthy of nothing but our scorn and should warrant nothing but our contempt.
@libby_alon@peterschweizer The FREE STATE OF FLORIDA designated CAIR a terrorist organization!
@GovRonDeSantis@AGJamesUthmeier
Please keep this @united pilot and VP of the Board for CAIR NY off our flights into and out of Florida!
His name is Ibrahim R. Mossallam.
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@AubreyEl1 We laugh at your victim blaming and distortion of history. Nonsense. You write like an uninformed and ignorant bot. No facts. No evidence. No substance.
@NYCMayor, frankly, I find this greeting difficult to stomach.
You wish us Gut Yontif. You wish us Chag Sukkot Sameach. You pray that a sukkat shalomâa shelter of peaceâwill spread over New York.
But, Mr. Mayor, your words matter the other 364 days of the year too.
You repeatedly accuse the Jewish state of âgenocide,â using inflammatory language that many Jews believe contributes to an atmosphere of hostility toward Israel and, increasingly, toward Jews.
And then Sukkot arrives and you offer us Hebrew greetings and words of peace.
Jews in NYC don't need a holiday greeting from their mayor. They need a mayor who understands that his words have consequences for the Jews he governs.
Mr. Mayor, donât wish New Yorkâs Jews a âshelter of peaceâ on Sukkot while using rhetoric the rest of the year that, in my view, contributes to the hostility Jews already face. Peace requires more than a holiday greeting. We need a mayor who doesnât add to the hatred directed at us. @nycgov@NYCMayorsOffice@ZohranKMamdani@StopAntisemites@_SAFECAMPUS
@piersmorgan Brits leveled 100% of Dresden and the US burned Tokyo and killed 100k+ in o
a night with an incendiary raid. It's war Piers. No mercy. The goal of war is to utterly destroy the enemy leaving it demoralized, desttoyed and unable to resist. Gaza deaths are Gaza's fault.