Gary Kulwin

Computer programmer and generally cheerful guy, happily part of the Florida Jewish community. ✡️🇺🇸🇮🇱

[Gary Kulwin @kulwin4]

@AngrySemite The best explanation for "Jewish success" isn't genetics, or greed, or a secret cabal of elders; it's our desire, since ancient times, to build a community based on mass literacy and shared knowledge. Antisemites don't want the masses to figure this out & disrupt the status quo.

[Gary Kulwin @kulwin4]

@AryaVolkan @HenMazzig I think you found the answer: antisemitism (Left and Right) usually masks a profound anti-intellectualism, promoted by those who see technological progress and modernity as corrupting a default state of "human innocence" (Rousseau seems to be the father of this line of thought).

[Gary Kulwin @kulwin4]

@uricohenisrael עם ישראל חי 🇮🇱

[Gary Kulwin @kulwin4]

@AnshelPfeffer My guess is that the surviving Iranian leadership is more worried now about internal rivals than the external enemies. Some regime faction will try to seize and consolidate power; the IRGC and regular army commanders may both be plotting their next moves against each other.

[Gary Kulwin @kulwin4]

@adam_louis52328 You are my favorite writer on Jewish topics lately, but my view aligns with Bret's. Exposing antizionism is important; but strengthening Israel consciousness is more critical. The IAC is the most "based" Jewish organization in the US now, striking the right balance in all this.

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@MaxNordau

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@shevereshtus David Ben-Furrion

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@HeidiBachram Morons like Dr. Mos-Shogbaminu don't see that justifying attacks on Jews in the name of "anti-Zionism" makes the case for Zionism (and aliyah to Israel in particular) more powerfully than any Israeli could. Attacking Diaspora Jews at random only reinforces the need for Israel.

[Gary Kulwin @kulwin4]

@fredforthemets @tammydiamonds The "Bel-Airabs" (actually the name of an old SNL sketch from the 1970s)

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@MaxNordau His tweet is a perfect example of the "ecstasy and amnesia" thought pattern throughout the Arab world with regards to Israel; planning for "imminent victory", and then instantly forgetting their recent defeat. An endless cycle of rinse and repeat failure.
https://t.co/Bi1pYp2Coj

[Gary Kulwin @kulwin4]

@DanBurmawy Failing societies (and those elites who benefit from them) fear competition from other nations doing things better. Boycotting Israel blocks what it represents: communal literacy and personal autonomy. This isn't about envy; it's about blocking progress.
https://t.co/kNyZSm4mXB

[Gary Kulwin @kulwin4]

@AngrySemite The best explanation for "Jewish success" isn't genetics, or greed, or a secret cabal of elders; it's our desire, since ancient times, to build a community based on mass literacy and shared knowledge. Antisemites don't want the masses to figure this out & disrupt the status quo.

[Gary Kulwin @kulwin4]

@VerminusM Even after World War 2 and the Holocaust ended, Great Britain still blocked Jewish migration into the Land of Israel. Thousands of survivors were interned in detention camps in Cyprus and elsewhere, preventing their migration into Mandatory Palestine, until the Mandate ended.

[Gary Kulwin @kulwin4]

@VerminusM In 1939, as Jews desperately sought to flee Europe, Great Britain enacted White Paper restrictions severely limiting the number of Jewish refugees who could enter the Land of Israel (despite promises in the Balfour Declaration and commitments per the League of Nations mandate).

[Gary Kulwin @kulwin4]

@LahavHarkov The real questions still remain:
* Do IAF pilots have any experience hitting womp rats in the Negev Desert?
* What are womp rats? Are they kosher?
* How would you even refer to "womp rats" in Hebrew? (?עכברושים)
* Has the Mossad trained any womp rats with lasers on their heads?

[Gary Kulwin @kulwin4]

@VerminusM The best way to mobilize the masses there is to attack the economic infrastructure - the oil refineries and energy related facilities along the Persian Gulf. Greater economic impact will compel more ordinary people to actively oppose the regime.

[Gary Kulwin @kulwin4]

@ShMMor @havivrettiggur Excellent analysis, but if we look deeper: what really drives this "theology of Jewish malevolence"? Is it simply core to the Western tradition (as David Nirenberg asserts) to see Jews as a symbol of evil? Or does part of the West view itself in some competition with the Jews?

[Gary Kulwin @kulwin4]

@MikeGal041 @SeminoleScout7 @orenbarsky The Arab world seems to love this kind of thing. Think about the Egyptian or Syrian press proclaiming great victories in the middle of the 1967 or 1973 wars. I expect the Iranian regime will host a Victory Parade if they aren't eliminated by the time this war ends.

[Gary Kulwin @kulwin4]

Actually it feels like D-Day, or (to use a movie analogy) the final battle between Harry Potter and Voldemort. This is the endgame, leading to the final stages of a conflict that began in the late seventies and accelerated in its intensity on October 7, 2023. Scary but hopeful.

[Will Chamberlain @willchamberlain]

This isn't WWIII. This is Michael Corleone assassinating the heads of the five families simultaneously.

[Gary Kulwin @kulwin4]

@SarKE @ShMMor You still deserve the dad joke credit! 😉

[Gary Kulwin @kulwin4]

@orenbarsky Imagine 57 Jewish countries (the "OJC" vs the OIC). Most would be successful liberal democracies, with perhaps a few benign theocracies and 1 or 2 "People's Republic" regimes (Ofer Cassif will still be around). Generally peace, prosperity, and high levels of literacy worldwide.

[Gary Kulwin @kulwin4]

@CptAllenHistory @EinatWilf @havivrettiggur @HausdorffMedia @DouglasKMurray This is a great list, but I also think that any list containing the readings of Einat Wilf and Haviv Rettig Gur should also include Shany Mor (@ShMMor) as many of their ideas are intertwined. Beyond that, maybe Michael Doran (@doranimated), Rafi DeMogge (@HeTows), or Ruth Wisse.