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[Jonathan Eric Lewis @LewisJonathanE]

Code Pink out here doing what 1980s neo-Nazis could have only dreamt of accomplishing

This isn't about criticism of Israel's war against Hamas and Hezbollah

This is about delegitimizing Jewish peoplehood in the eyes of the next generation

[Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib]

Will Europe Save Hamas in Gaza? I recently met with a high-ranking European official from a country deeply involved in the Israel and Palestine file to discuss Gaza’s future and immediate options for relieving civilians trapped under Hamas’s grip. I presented a simple proposal: create safe zones across the "Yellow Line" into the Israel‑controlled green zone and support new, organized, secure, Hamas‑free communities where Gazans could finally begin rebuilding their lives. Whether the issue is humane living conditions, deradicalization, education, healthcare, or shielding civilians from both Hamas or Israeli strikes, the green zone is the only place where meaningful action is possible. Instead of engaging, the official launched into a long monologue about their country’s contributions to the Palestinian Authority, UNRWA, and other institutions, all while insisting on their own “humility” as a faraway European nation.

Then came the truly alarming part: a casual normalization of Hamas. The official proudly described how easy it had been to work with Hamas before October 7, praising the group for providing “excellent security” and being “easier to work with than others.” What they called pragmatism was, in reality, a twenty‑year pattern of enabling a violent terrorist organization responsible for immense civilian suffering.

When I explained that any Hamas‑free zones would require vetting at the Yellow Line to prevent weapons or operatives from entering, the official reacted with shock. “This vetting would violate international law,” they repeated, insisting that their country could not fund projects with any checks on who enters. I noted the absurdity: I had undergone extensive vetting just to enter their country, and even this building, yet they believed Hamas fighters should be able to walk into new civilian safe zones unimpeded. Their only response was vague appeals to “international law,” which, in their interpretation, seems to require allowing terrorists to hide among civilians.

The meeting ended on an even more surreal note. When the official asked what would happen to Hamas fighters left in the red zone, I said I didn’t care; they could fight the Israeli military on their own all they wanted once they no longer held two million civilians hostage. The official lamented that “this isn’t the old American West” and expressed concern for what would happen to Hamas without human shields. Disgust doesn’t begin to describe my feelings and reactions.

I left convinced of something long suspected: Hamas’s twenty‑year rule was sustained not only by its own brutality but by an ecosystem of NGOs, donor nations, Western European governments, journalists, academics, activists, lawyers, and even self‑styled human‑rights defenders who normalized Hamas, treated it as a legitimate authority, or tolerated its abuses because their hostility toward Israel outweighed their concern for Gazans.

[Kinadia @kinadia3]

@Saul_Sadka @ConceptualJames Please do

[Houman David Hemmati, MD, PhD @houmanhemmati]

Shaun, it’s not just that homeless are paid to register to vote. Worse, it’s that because they don’t have a street address, their mailing address is listed as a party/DSA/candidate affiliated location. They never see their ballots. They’re filled out for them & sent in. They are real ballots, intended for real registered voters, which pass through a very real loophole in the signature verification system. With tens of thousands of homeless in Los Angeles, their ballots alone are enough to sway the outcomes of most local elections.

[Saul Sadka @Saul_Sadka]

Never has the adage “Those who know don’t say, and those who say don’t know” been more true. The situation in the Middle East is a total black box right now.

It’s exasperating reading all the pure, unedited noise. Don’t read the news! The news is just spin. Try to read between the lines of the news; consider the recent parallels. You might reach enlightenment.

People are getting irritated by the “noise” and then becoming the noise themselves. On the one hand, that is part of the plan. On the other hand, if they don’t get that point, they are patsies too. The trick is to zoom out.

If there are more strikes from Israel and/or the USA, they will never be mere retaliations. Israel and the USA will never do them on the IRGC’s schedule. The likelihood is that Netanyahu and the IDF needed Trump to “rein them in” so they could somewhat placate the public as they build toward some response, which they obviously want to be as surprising as possible to Iran, barring a deal, which is possible. Attacking now would be the least surprising option, and the IRGC might have some traps set.

To us, the public, most of what has been happening in the Middle East is inside a black box. Every news report, every “leak,” was as likely meant to mislead the other side as it was to be true. Equally, now that the sides have a bunch of experience with each other under their belts, even when you see a report that looks like a bluff, it might also be a double bluff! And you don't know! And neither does the journalist reporting it!

That is the problem mostly on the USA and Israel side, while on the IRGC side the issue is even deeper, since there are clearly rival factions jockeying for control.

The fact that Iran has taken this step, on the very thin premise of the bombing of Beirut earlier, implies that they formed the opinion that the USA and Israel were about to head back for another round. They might have been right, they might have been wrong. The people who know the answer will not speak.

So it looks like they made the judgment that if a third round of active hostilities had to come, at least they would get to pick the date, strike first, and put up as much of a defensive posture as possible. At least no more first-hour surprises.

What led Iran to that conclusion? It could be some issue in the negotiations that is not public. It could be information from Chinese satellites. It could be the drip-drip of undeclared US strikes on their coastal defences. It certainly wasn’t Beirut.

The nightmare for the IRGC is that, for a third time, after the Twelve Day War and February 28, they would get surprised in their beds, literally.

It might be that this time all the obviously fake Israel-USA controversies, the performative Netanyahu-Trump public spats, did not just fail to deceive them, but reminded them of all the previous news cycles that happened exactly before they got whacked in February and June 2025.

It could also be that they looked at the calendar and decided that the big July 4 events and the World Cup were going to stymie any attacks later on, and that this week was the most likely time for a reply.

What just happened? A few hours ago Iran shut down its airspace. Israel and the USA were obviously aware this was coming. Thus, the entire thing was clearly choreographed. Israel responding immediately and triggering the third round of major bombing on Iran would be suboptimal at this time, perhaps for Trump, certainly for Israel. Iran saw that an attack was likely and used Beirut as an excuse.

Not taking the bait is critical in the fishpond, and critical in war.

The downside is that the USA and Israel look “weak,” but, as Sinwar taught us, thinking your enemy looks weak when they aren’t is a good way to die. And Israel and the USA are much, much stronger than the IRGC. It’s not close.

[Kinadia @kinadia3]

@Saul_Sadka Spot on

[Yehuda Teitelbaum @chalavyishmael]

Zohran Mamdani just endorsed Darializa Avila Chevalier for Congress.

On October 8th, 2023, while Jews were still being slaughtered, raped, kidnapped, and hunted across southern Israel, she attended the "All Out For Palestine" rally in NYC.

Some clips:

[Aizenberg @Aizenberg55]

TWELVE terrorists posing as journalists have been outed in the last 6 weeks by Hamas & PIJ themselves. The most important story out of Gaza ignored by the mainstream media and @pressfreedom

[Kinadia @kinadia3]

@wajacobson Happy pride month! 😆

[Guy Benson @guypbenson]

This is Todd “Let’s Roll” Beamer, who died heroically while trying to retake United Flight 93 from Al Qaeda terrorists on 9/11. His final resting place, is in Cranbury, NJ — where he was living with his wife and children before his murder. Cranbury is located in NJ-12, where the new Democratic nominee for Congress is Adam Hamawy.

Hamawy was a close associate and translator to Omar Abdel-Rahman, aka the ‘Blind Sheikh,’ an arch terrorist convicted of masterminding multiple plots against targets in NYC — including the World Trade Center. Hamawy testified at Adbel-Rahman’s trial, as a defense witness.

It has also been reported that Hamawy traveled to Bosnia to volunteer at an organization that was later unmasked as an Al Qaeda front group.

One of Hamawy’s loudest and most high-profile supporters and endorsers has openly declared that America deserved the 9/11 attacks.

Hamawy is now the prohibitive frontrunner to represent Todd Beamer’s district in the United States Congress.

[Mor Edge Insight @MorEdge_Insight]

This is one of the most disturbing stories you’ll ever hear about the decades-old Israel-Gaza conflict.

A Gazan girl severely burned herself as a child. Israelis treated her for years, saved her life, gave her a college degree in prison after she tries (and fails) to blow up the very hospital that healed her.

Then when asked if she’d do it again?

“Absolutely. I almost tasted paradise.”

No redemption. No gratitude. Just pure jihadist ideology.

This is what Palestinianism is.

This is why moral clarity matters.

[Kinadia @kinadia3]

@fredman_a Poetic irony

[Kinadia @kinadia3]

@elonmusk @Timcast @elonmusk Europe decided to commit assisted suicide and wants us to let it die unbothered.

[Kinadia @kinadia3]

@HenMazzig Waiting for the likes of Javier Bardem and Mark Ruffalo to condemn this attack on their colleague, which they incited.

[Hillel Neuer @HillelNeuer]

LEAKED: Amnesty’s unused “ongoing genocide” posters. 🧵

1: Palestinian surfs on the beach in Gaza City, May 4, 2026. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
Amnesty: “STOP THE ONGOING GENOCIDE

[Kinadia @kinadia3]

@fredman_a There’s no other way.

[Kinadia @kinadia3]

@fredman_a Praying that Trump does it

[Kinadia @kinadia3]

@Doranimated Their casual cruelty is shocking and unsettling.

[Kinadia @kinadia3]

@IhabHassane Wasn’t this Sinwar’s plan? To maximize the death of Palestinian civilians so that the world will turn against Israel? Are there any indications that this does not continue to be the main strategy of Hamas?

[Kinadia @kinadia3]

@Doranimated @wajacobson frequently mentions that the radicalization of young women like these is perhaps the greatest contributing factor to the societal upheavals we are experiencing. They are appalling on so many levels.