Michael Fox

Tell•Me•A•Story

[Midwest Modern @JoshLipnik]

Eagle on the lobby ceiling at the Fisher Building in Detroit

[Jason Kenney 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇮🇱 @jkenney]

It’s impossible to overstate the brilliance, resilience, and ingenuity of Israel.

A tiny country surrounded by belligerents, that in just over two years has largely eliminated the leadership and military capacity of Hamas, Hizbollah, and now the regional superpower of Iran.

I will never forget being at the Auschwitz death camp to commemorate the 65th anniversary of its liberation. After the Mourners’ Kadish, a squadron of IDF F-15s flew over the camp at low altitude, piloted entirely by the grandsons of Holocaust survivors. Chills.

In moments such as this, one truly grasps that “never again” is not an empty bromide.

It is Israel’s raison d’être.

It is what led to today’s astonishing intelligence and military success.

Am Yisrael Chai! 🇮🇱

[Michael Fox @michaelpelzfox]

@benmyers29 I’ve been to many baseball games in the U.S. I’ve never seen Americans disrespect our anthem. That said, I think it is shameful if either side does that. I am extremely embarrassed by the anti-Americanism going on. It conflates dislike for Trump with dislike for the country.

[Brandon Donnelly @donnelly_b]

Right, all day.

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

Everyone needs to hear this...

[Vivid.🇮🇱 @VividProwess]

The most accurate photo on 𝕏 right now.

[Michael Fox @michaelpelzfox]

Landscape because the sky is so dramatic, and gives context

[Michael Fox @michaelpelzfox]

via @NYTOpinion https://t.co/j4TDC5fU1V

[Gary Parrish @GaryParrishCBS]

Alex Rodriguez asked a question. Reggie Jackson answered it.

(Shouts to the producer and rest of the desk for staying out of Reggie’s way and just letting him talk. I doubt they expected this answer. But it’s a great few minutes of television.)

[Alex Bozikovic @alexbozikovic]

For a mixed income neighbourhood with a lot of social housing this is hugely car-centric. It also feels awfully empty, even at the busiest of times. The emperor of urban design has no clothes.

[Dan Seljak @anotherglassbox]

UPDATE: I have made an online petition that addresses the particulars of this situation and implores @cityoftoronto to more broadly support neighbourhood retail. Please sign and share: https://t.co/hEGShefB3d

[Shai Davidai @ShaiDavidai]

Hundreds of Jewish students at @Columbia just published one of the most incredible student letters I have ever read.

It's not only magnificently written, but it also clearly articulates their experiences on campus for the past six months.

Their letter tells the story of what's it like being a Jewish student right now better than any professor like myself could ever do.

Please take 4-5 minutes to read their letter.

Give Jewish students a voice.

https://t.co/nsWNScaoZS

[Michael Fox @michaelpelzfox]

via @NYTimes https://t.co/RVPla8Ku81

[Benjamin Netanyahu - בנימין נתניהו @netanyahu]

Anti-Semitism on campuses in the United States is reminiscent of what happened in German universities in the 1930s.

The world cannot stand idly by.

[Naftali Bennett נפתלי בנט @naftalibennett]

Some points regarding the overnight Iranian missile attack on Israel:

1. Contrary to what pundits are saying, this wasn’t designed merely as “bells and whistles” with no damage.

When you shoot 350 flying objects timed to hit Israel at the same moment,
when you use three fundamentally different weapon types—cruise missiles, ballistic missiles and UAVs,
you’re looking to penetrate Israel’s defenses and kill Israelis.

2. The US administration is telling us: “This is a victory, you’ve already won by thwarting the missiles.
No need for any further action.”
No, it’s NOT a victory.
Yes, it’s a remarkable success of Israel’s air defense systems, but it’s not a victory.

When a bully tries to hit you 350 times and only succeeds seven time, you’ve NOT won.

You don’t win wars just by intercepting your enemy’s hits, nor do you deter it.
Your enemy will just try harder with more and better weapons and methods next time.
How DO you deter?
By exacting a deeply painful price.

3. It’s incorrect to say “nobody got hurt”.
There’s a 7 year-old Israeli-Arab girl called Amina Elhasuny fighting for her life.
That’s who coward Khamenei hit.

4. The Islamic Republic of Iran made a big mistake.
For the past 30 years it’s been wreaking havoc on the region—through its proxies.
A terror-octopus whose head is Tehran, and its tentacles are in Lebanon, Yemen, Iraq, Syria and Gaza.

How convenient.
The Mullahs send others to conduct horrendous terror attacks, and die for them.
Other people’s blood.

Israel’s strategic mistake for the past 30 years was to play along this strategy.
We always fought the Octopus’ arms, but hardly exacted a price from its Iranian head.
This should change now:
Hezbollah or Hamas shoots a rocket at Israel?
Tehran pays a price.

5. The enemy is the Iranian REGIME, not the wonderful Iranian people.
The Iranian regime reminds me of the Soviet regime in 1985: corrupt to the core, old, incompetent, despised by its own people, and destined to collapse.
The sooner the better.
The West can accelerate the regime’s inevitable collapse with a set of soft and clever actions, short of military force.
Remember, USSR collapsed without any need for a direct American attack.
Let’s do this.

6. Israel is fighting everybody’s war. In Gaza, Lebanon and Tehran.
We’re considered “the small satan” by radical Islam. America is the big one.

I’ll be clear: if these crazy fanatic Islamic terrorists get away with murder by hiding among civilians, this method will be adopted by terrorists worldwide.

We’re not asking anyone to fight for us. We’ll do the job.
But we do expect our allies to have our back, especially when it’s tough—and now it’s tough.

Be on the right side and help us defeat these horrible and savage regimes.

[John Bolton @AmbJohnBolton]

Israel’s attack on Hamas in Rafah could come at any moment, and victory there could be a decisive turning point in the struggle against the ultimate aggressor, Iran. This is not the time for the United States to show weakness, especially at the UN. Jerusalem is following Winston Churchill’s insight, “without victory, there is no survival.” Washington should follow suit. https://t.co/RsVdpHrXDL

[Warren Kinsella @kinsellawarren]

Nothing personal, but I don't think these people should be on our money.

Also, dress up is for kids.

[Michael Fox @michaelpelzfox]

@BlairScorgie @cityoftoronto @CityPlanTO @MayorOliviaChow How about getting rid of the Neighborhood designation entirely.

[Michael Fox @michaelpelzfox]

via @NYTOpinion https://t.co/osqF1sGVfr

[David Senra @FoundersPodcast]

Jony Ive on what Steve Jobs taught him about focus:

“This sounds really simplistic but it still shocks me how few people actually practice this.

It’s a struggle to practice this.

Steve was the most remarkably focused person I ever met in my life.

Focus is not something you aspire to.

You don’t decide on Monday “I’m going to be focused.”

It’s an every minute “Why are we talking about that?”

*This* is what we are working on.

You can achieve so much when you truly focus.

One of the things Steve would say [to me] because he was worried I wasn’t focused — he would say how many things have you said no to?

I would tell him I said no to this. And I said no to that.

But he knew I wasn’t interested in doing those things.

There was no *sacrifice* in saying no.

What focus means is saying no to something that with every bone in your body you think is a phenomenal idea, you wake up thinking about it, but you say no to it because you are focusing on something else.”

You can achieve so much when you truly focus.