Lazer Mangel

Founder @ Apogee Systems. I write about marketing, growth, and building systems that enable businesses to scale with confidence.

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@raqisright https://t.co/ltyYVF6r0P

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@jappleby I would aim for something nice around kent. Tends to be a bit quieter than the Bedford crazy

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@VerminusM its cool that jews get to be 2 opposite things at once. Schrodingers Jew

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Since the end of WWII there have been approx 25-50 million deaths from armed conflicts around the world.

The total number of deaths resulting from the Arab-Israeli conflict is approx 150,000, which ranks roughly between 40th and 50th in total fatalities compared to all global conflicts.

[kuz @kylekuzma]

This is 2026. People cosplaying as things they don’t have the authority, the talent, or the track record to actually be. Just for content.

A mayor playing president. A founder playing operator. A content creator playing one-on-one thinking he’s a pro. A 25yr old with a ring light playing economist. Everyone auditioning. Nobody building.

Were raising a generation that learning the reward isn’t in doing the thing it’s in looking like you did the thing. The clip is the career. The pose is the product. The soundbite is the substitute for a life’s work.

Don't fall for distractions

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@Osint613 If only this was surprising

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@petersavodnik downwardly mobile theater kids will be the death of us all

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@jacob_posel This is a proper talmudic question

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Pay close attention because you don’t have to be too intelligent to get this.

You don’t have to be a mathematician to make sense of it.

You say Israel dropped 200,000 bombs on Gaza and you use that as proof of genocide.

So far so good? Great.

You also say that Israel killed over 70,000 innocent Gazans.

Correct? Ok.

Do I have to spell it out for you?

If Israel was trying to commit genocide, please explain to me how, according to YOUR numbers, 200,000 bombs only killed 70,000.

I’m gonna wait and let you think about that for a second.

Unless you think that each one of those bombs dropped by Israel didn’t have the ability to kill at least one person, and unless you agree that Israel did more than any army in history to minimize civilian death, how do 200,000 bombs equal 70,000 dead?

Let’s just say that each one of those bombs killed only five people. That’s a million dead Gazans.

Even you don’t think Israel killed a million Gazans.

So make it make sense.

As the cool kids say, “The math ain’t mathin.”

While we’re on the topic of illogical things that antisemites believe about Israel, tell me this.

If Israel is so terrible to its neighbors, if Israel is such an evil apartheid state, kindly explain to me why the people who call themselves Palestinians, hundreds of thousands of them, apply for job permits in Israel on a regular basis.

If Israel is so terrible, why do they want to come into Israel?

Should we continue? Let’s continue. This is fun.

If Israel is a colonialist state looking to steal land, why is Israel still smaller than New Jersey?

Ok, now let’s kick it up a notch here.

Tell me, what do the following names have in common?

* Samer Haj Yehia: Former chairman of the board of Bank Leumi.

* The Dabbah Family: Owners of one of Israel’s largest meat production, import, and retail distribution enterprises.

* Julia Zahar: Founder and owner of the prominent tahini brand Al-Arz, widely stocked across national supermarket chains.

* Lucy Aharish: Award-winning journalist and news anchor on mainstream Hebrew-language television in Israel.

* Makram Khoury: Celebrated stage and film actor who won the prestigious Israel Prize for his contributions to theater.

* Hiam Abbass: Internationally acclaimed actress and director known for major roles in both Israeli cinema and global productions like Succession.

* Mansour Abbas: Leader of the United Arab List (Ra'am) party in the Israeli parliament.

* Mohammed Kana’an: Founder and CEO of the logistics company A. Kanaan Group.

* Ahmad Tibi: Veteran Knesset member known for his parliamentary speeches and medical background.

* Prof. Salman Zarka: Director of Ziv Medical Center and former COVID-19 coordinator for Israel.

* Nasrin Kadri: One of Israel’s most successful singers, performing primarily in Hebrew.

* Rana Raslan: Former Miss Israel and one of the country’s best-known Arab public figures.

Want to guess? I’ll give you a minute.

Those people are Arabs in Israel holding prominent positions they’d never have in any Arab state, but in Israel, they thrive.

How exactly does that fit into your narrative about Israel being a racist apartheid state?

Speaking of apartheid, and now you are going to need to do some math, please spend a few minutes calculating the total number of Jews in Arab states.

Here, I’ll help you out because I’m nice like that.

How many Jews live in Algeria, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Somalia, Mauritania, Djibouti, and Comoros, Iraq, Egypt, and Lebanon cumulatively?

Need a second? It’s complicated math, I know.

The answer is a whopping 0. That’s a zero.

Zero Jews live in all of these Arab countries.

Zero. Not one.

Want to know something even crazier than that?

In 1948, the main Arab countries + Iran held roughly 850,000 to 1 million Jews.

Now, tell me again who is guilty of ethnic cleansing: Israel, where millions of Arabs live with total freedom and achieve high levels of success, or the Arab world that has actively kicked all Jews out of their countries?

What would happen if I walked into an Arab town, city, or country as a Jew who doesn’t hide his identity?

What would happen to me if I entered a mall in Ramallah and walked around just like Muslims walk around freely in Israeli malls?

Would I be welcome there? Would you?

So now that we’ve established that there’s no genocide, no apartheid, no colonialism, and no ethnic cleansing, let’s debunk another one of the ridiculous accusations against Israel.

Israel steals American money by taking billions of foreign aid from the American taxpayer?

Wow, billions of dollars? That sounds like so much money…

And now let’s put that in perspective, shall we?

First of all, 92% of the U.S. Foreign Military Financing (FMF) provided to Israel must be spent in the United States on American products and services.

Did you catch that? 92% of the aid that goes to Israel is then put back into the American economy.

But that’s not even the best part.

Approximately 0.2% of the U.S. GDP is spent on foreign aid. That is about two-tenths of one percent.

In dollar terms, that’s roughly $60 billion to $70 billion per year in recent years, while U.S. GDP is about $30 trillion.

Ok, but how much of that $60 billion to $70 billion goes to Israel? Probably all of it, right?

You’re cute.

Well, if I was judging by the amount of pushback that aid to Israel gets, I’d assume it was 100% of it or close.

So I get where you’re coming from…

So get this. Out of the $60 billion to $70 billion in U.S. foreign aid, $3.3 billion went to Israel last year.

So Israel received about 5% to 6% of U.S. foreign aid.

So again, 0.2% of America’s GDP goes to foreign aid, and out of that, approximately 5% goes to Israel, and 92% of that aid is then poured back into the American economy.

Compare that to Ukraine, for example.

In fiscal year 2025, the United States disbursed approximately $6.7 billion in foreign assistance for Ukraine.

That’s about double the amount sent to Israel.

Remind me again how many bills were passed in Congress to try and stop funding to Ukraine?

Remind me how many organizations have tried to force America to stop sending foreign aid to any country besides Israel?

Now why would there be so much noise surrounding American foreign aid to Israel and absolutely zero noise about foreign aid to any other country?

“Yea, but AIPAC pays off politicians. That is a foreign government controlling U.S. politics!!”

Oh really now…

Let’s start with the fact that AIPAC is an American lobby. Like any other American lobby, AIPAC lobbies to maintain the strong U.S.-Israel relationship.

Repeat after me: AIPAC is American. American!

“But they’re lobbying for a foreign group, not for Americans!”

Fair point.

Are there any other lobbies that do the same, or is it just AIPAC? Well, let’s see.

* NAACP: Lobbies for African Americans.

* National Urban League: Ditto. African Americans.

* LULAC: Lobbies for Hispanics and Latinos.

* Asian Americans Advancing Justice: The name speaks for itself.

* National Congress of American Indians: Lobbies for Native Americans.

* Arab American Institute

* Armenian National Committee of America

* Council on American-Islamic Relations

Should I continue?

“Yes, but they are so powerful and so big. No other lobby is that powerful!”

Is that so…?

If we’re comparing federal lobbying expenditures (the money organizations report spending to lobby Congress and the executive branch), AIPAC is nowhere near the top 10.

AIPAC reported about $3.3 million in federal lobbying expenditures in 2024 (the most recent finalized OpenSecrets figure), placing it around 191st among lobbying organizations.

Recent estimates put its annual lobbying in roughly the $3 million to $4.5 million range.

Let’s look at some lobbyists and how they compare to AIPAC, shall we?

* U.S. Chamber of Commerce: $72 million, which is approximately 22 times the size of AIPAC.

* National Association of Realtors: $54 million, 16 times AIPAC.

* PhRMA (pharmaceutical industry): $38.2 million, 12 times AIPAC.

* American Hospital Association: $30 million, 9 times AIPAC.

* Blue Cross Blue Shield Association: $29 million, 9 times AIPAC.

* American Medical Association: $27 million, 8 times AIPAC.

* Meta (lobbying for the company): $25 million, 7 times AIPAC.

* Amazon: $25 million, 7 times AIPAC.

Oh, and it’s not only those kinds of lobbies that are bigger than AIPAC.

There are many political ones, too.

Here are some examples:

* NRA

* EMILY's List

* Planned Parenthood

* League of Conservation Voters

* Club for Growth

* Americans for Prosperity

* American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO)

In other words, AIPAC is NOT run by a foreign government, nor is it the largest—or even close to the largest—lobby in America.

Listen, I can go on for hours debunking the lies being told about Israel, but by now, you should have gotten the point.

What’s the point?

Good question, thought you’d never ask.

The point is, you’ve been duped!

Israel is literally none of the things you’ve been told:

* Israel didn’t commit anything remotely resembling a genocide.

* Israel is the opposite of apartheid.

* Israel colonized no one and nothing.

* Israel ethnically cleansed no one. Jews, on the other hand, were ethnically cleansed by Arab states.

* American aid to Israel is not what you think it is.

* AIPAC is not even close to as big and powerful as people pretend it is.

So, the next time someone tells you some blood libel about the only Jewish state—a country smaller than New Jersey and the only free democracy in the Middle East—you might want to question it.

You really don’t have to invest too much time. Use your favorite AI agent and ask if what you were just told is true or false.

Don’t like AI? Go old school and ask Google.

Unless, of course, you don’t care about the truth and you are more concerned with vilifying the Jews than you are about being accurate and trustworthy.

The truth?

The truth is Israel is a beacon of light in a very dark world.

The truth is that Israel enhanced your life significantly.

Israel built the chip of the device you are currently looking at.

The truth is that Israel leads the world in cancer research and is first on the scene when there’s a natural disaster anywhere in the world, including in countries that are hostile towards Israel.

The truth is that Jews make up 0.2% of the global population and have been awarded over 20% of Nobel Prizes.

The truth is Israel wants peace. Peace is all Israel ever wanted.

The truth is Israel has proven time and time again that it’s willing to pay a very steep price to achieve peace.

The truth is that Israel leads the world in innovation across all sectors.

The truth is Israel is a breathtakingly beautiful country. No, literally—it’ll take your breath away.

The truth is that Israelis are some of the happiest people on earth.

The truth is that if you’ve spent the better part of your adult life trashing Israel and the Jews and you finally saw the light, Israel would welcome you with open arms to experience the modern-day miracle that is the State of Israel.

The truth is, if all that doesn’t convince you, then consider this:

Throughout generations, throughout history, endless empires—world-leading empires—came after the Jews.

Without exception, every single one of them went extinct.

They went extinct while this tiny little nation called the Jews is here, thriving, flourishing, and showing no signs of slowing down.

So if you don’t side with the Jews because of morality, side with the Jews because we are the winning team, and let’s be honest, no one likes to be a loser.

And to you people out there who hate the Jews no matter what, I have five words for you:

Am Yisrael Chai, you fool!

The nation of Israel lives, and you, sir/ma’am, will end up a footnote in a history book where you’ll join the esteemed group of members that includes the empires of ancient Egypt, Assyria, Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome, Spain, Soviet, and Germany, to name a few.

Your move.

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@Eve_Barlow This is the way. Instead of trying to explain why it's not you just need to reject the premise.

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@nypost It will unironically take another billionaire jewish new yorker to save this city

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@LydiaMoynihan More of us should make this same decision.

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Jewish resilience is real because Jewish memory is specific.

I wrote about Va’etchanan, Tisha B’Av, and why comfort begins by clearly naming what we lost: https://t.co/5e3bvoVMpg

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Politicians love praising “Jewish resilience.” It lets them admire Jews without having to acknowledge what happened to us.

If someone lost their home, you wouldn’t walk in the next day and congratulate them for surviving it.

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@zachweinberg Criminals in jail and crazy people in institutions.

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@Noahpinion Noah you are so close to fully understanding how toxic, shameless, and evil the pro-pal movement is. Can't you see that almost everything you thought you knew about Israel and the conflict has been BS? When are you going to update your priors?

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@Milajoy We live in a world where the woman crying over a hat is somehow considered the normal one

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@PromptLLM Don't worry, theyll launch perplexity computer one more time at least.

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@ImChaseMohseni Going to have to check this out