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[The Times of Israel @TimesofIsrael]

After being critically wounded while fighting in Gaza, Israeli reservist Alon Kaminer graduated from Tel Aviv University with honors.

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[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

BREAKING: Israel has just released footage of what was aboard Greta Thunberg’s “medial aid” flotilla.

Used condoms and hard drugs.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

.@zarahsultana I assume this is a different Zarah Sultana MP to the one who was recently filmed clapping along to loudspeaker chants for intifada, on a street in Surrey.
https://t.co/J9nLlYtw59

[Maria Carolina Gontijo @DuquesaDetax]

Falando em menos de 1min tudo que esse governo aumentou de imposto nos últimos 3 anos.

[Palantir @PalantirTech]

Because we get asked a lot.

The Technological Republic, in brief.

1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation.

2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible.

3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public.

4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software.

5. The question is not whether A.I. weapons will be built; it is who will build them and for what purpose. Our adversaries will not pause to indulge in theatrical debates about the merits of developing technologies with critical military and national security applications. They will proceed.

6. National service should be a universal duty. We should, as a society, seriously consider moving away from an all-volunteer force and only fight the next war if everyone shares in the risk and the cost.

7. If a U.S. Marine asks for a better rifle, we should build it; and the same goes for software. We should as a country be capable of continuing a debate about the appropriateness of military action abroad while remaining unflinching in our commitment to those we have asked to step into harm’s way.

8. Public servants need not be our priests. Any business that compensated its employees in the way that the federal government compensates public servants would struggle to survive.

9. We should show far more grace towards those who have subjected themselves to public life. The eradication of any space for forgiveness—a jettisoning of any tolerance for the complexities and contradictions of the human psyche—may leave us with a cast of characters at the helm we will grow to regret.

10. The psychologization of modern politics is leading us astray. Those who look to the political arena to nourish their soul and sense of self, who rely too heavily on their internal life finding expression in people they may never meet, will be left disappointed.

11. Our society has grown too eager to hasten, and is often gleeful at, the demise of its enemies. The vanquishing of an opponent is a moment to pause, not rejoice.

12. The atomic age is ending. One age of deterrence, the atomic age, is ending, and a new era of deterrence built on A.I. is set to begin.

13. No other country in the history of the world has advanced progressive values more than this one. The United States is far from perfect. But it is easy to forget how much more opportunity exists in this country for those who are not hereditary elites than in any other nation on the planet.

14. American power has made possible an extraordinarily long peace. Too many have forgotten or perhaps take for granted that nearly a century of some version of peace has prevailed in the world without a great power military conflict. At least three generations — billions of people and their children and now grandchildren — have never known a world war.

15. The postwar neutering of Germany and Japan must be undone. The defanging of Germany was an overcorrection for which Europe is now paying a heavy price. A similar and highly theatrical commitment to Japanese pacifism will, if maintained, also threaten to shift the balance of power in Asia.

16. We should applaud those who attempt to build where the market has failed to act. The culture almost snickers at Musk’s interest in grand narrative, as if billionaires ought to simply stay in their lane of enriching themselves . . . . Any curiosity or genuine interest in the value of what he has created is essentially dismissed, or perhaps lurks from beneath a thinly veiled scorn.

17. Silicon Valley must play a role in addressing violent crime. Many politicians across the United States have essentially shrugged when it comes to violent crime, abandoning any serious efforts to address the problem or take on any risk with their constituencies or donors in coming up with solutions and experiments in what should be a desperate bid to save lives.

18. The ruthless exposure of the private lives of public figures drives far too much talent away from government service. The public arena—and the shallow and petty assaults against those who dare to do something other than enrich themselves—has become so unforgiving that the republic is left with a significant roster of ineffectual, empty vessels whose ambition one would forgive if there were any genuine belief structure lurking within.

19. The caution in public life that we unwittingly encourage is corrosive. Those who say nothing wrong often say nothing much at all.

20. The pervasive intolerance of religious belief in certain circles must be resisted. The elite’s intolerance of religious belief is perhaps one of the most telling signs that its political project constitutes a less open intellectual movement than many within it would claim.

21. Some cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive. All cultures are now equal. Criticism and value judgments are forbidden. Yet this new dogma glosses over the fact that certain cultures and indeed subcultures . . . have produced wonders. Others have proven middling, and worse, regressive and harmful.

22. We must resist the shallow temptation of a vacant and hollow pluralism. We, in America and more broadly the West, have for the past half century resisted defining national cultures in the name of inclusivity. But inclusion into what?

Excerpts from the #1 New York Times Bestseller The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West, by Alexander C. Karp & Nicholas W. Zamiska

https://t.co/8igjazz1On

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

This 16-year-old Israeli boy carries his grandmother to and from the bomb shelter, over and over again since the start of the war.

Incredible.

[lolap @lolap127]

@DjokerNole @AustralianOpen G O A T!!!!!?

[vittorio @IterIntellectus]

https://t.co/GFfob61imm

[Como Tanka o Bostil??? @OFCBostil]

É engraçado ler que o SUS está custeando silicone gratuito para travestis no mesmo país em que um bebêzinho usou respirador feito com embalagem de bolo…

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

Amrou Fudl came here from Sudan.

He now spends his time calling for American Jews to be sent to gas chambers.

This is exactly why I want stricter immigration policy. He should not be in this country.

[lolap @lolap127]

@saramfoster THANK YOU for speaking up!!!

[Sara Foster @saramfoster]

What did we expect? We have sat back dismissing hate crimes against Jewish people, swastikas on pre schools, college campuses turned into antisemitic indoctrination institutions, the refusal to condemn "globalize the intifada" by American politicians, the acceptance of people who openly chant for the death of Jews(and the west), invited terrorists who have told us they hate us to live amongst us, and shamed the people who have spoken against it. Well we have had enough. We have had ENOUGH. Praying for the innocent families in Australia isn't enough. WAKING up to what is happening is the only option.

[ashton kutcher @aplusk]

Antisemitic rhetoric is not abstract—it carries a cost, and my brothers and sisters continue to pay it. May this devastation somehow spark a hidden miracle, one our eyes do not yet have the merit to see. 🕎

[MichaelRapaport @MichaelRapaport]

Everyone who’s spoken & chanted Globalize The Intifada,
Are you happy today?
Are you satisfied?
You got what you wanted live & direct in Australia.

[Suffragent @Suffragent_]

The Nice Attack = Muslim
The Paris Attacks = Muslims
The Shoe Bomber = Muslim
The Orlando attack = Muslim
The Beltway Snipers = Muslims
The Fort Hood Shooter = Muslim
The Underwear Bomber = Muslim
The Westminster Attack = Muslim
The 2005 Bali Bombings = Muslims
The murder of Lee Rigby = Muslims
The U.S.S. Cole Bombers = Muslims
The London Bridge Attack = Muslims
The Madrid Train Bombers = Muslims
The Charlie Hebdo Attacks = Muslims
The San Bernardino Attacks = Muslims
The Surabaya bombings = Muslims
The Minnesota Mall stabbings = Muslim
The 7/7 bombers = Muslims
The Moscow Theatre Attackers = Muslims
The Boston Marathon Bombers = Muslims
The Ankara Airport Attack = Muslims
The Manchester Arena bombing = Muslim
The Pan-Am #103 Bombers = Muslims
The Iranian Embassy Takeover = Muslims
The Air France Hijackers = Muslims
The 2002 Bali Nightclub = Muslims
The Batta Meena Attacks = Muslims
The Beirut Embassy bombers = Muslims
The Libyan U.S. Embassy Attack = Muslims
The Yazidi Massacre of 2014 = Muslims
The Beheading of French priest = Muslims
The Buenos Aires bombers = Muslims
The Israeli Olympic Team = Muslims
The Kenyan U.S Embassy = Muslims
The Khobar Towers Bombers = Muslims
The Beirut Marine bombers = Muslims
The Besian School Attackers = Muslims
The First WTC bombers = Muslims
The Beheading of Daniel Pearl = Muslims
The Achille Lauro Hijackers = Muslims
The Bombay Attackers = Muslims
The 9/11 hijackers = Muslims

[Só tem humor ácido aqui ⚡️ @SoTemHumorAcido]

Por que ninguém se revolta contra isso??

[Não é o Léo Lins @leolinshumor]

A Fontenelle denunciou primeiro

A justiça mandou ela apagar o video

Não me lembro de você ter se pronunciado sobre isso

[StandWithUs @StandWithUs]

Eitan Horn (38) has been held hostage by Hamas terrorists in Gaza for more than 670 days!

[Autism Capital 🧩 @AutismCapital]

Aged like milk 🥛
https://t.co/f4mOzXg3va