Minna Scorcu 🎗️

[Minna Scorcu 🎗️ @minnascorcu]

"Per me, la più grande questione etica consiste nel diritto a esistere del popolo ebraico. Senza questo non c'è moralità nel mondo".

[ד״ר עינת וילף Dr. Einat Wilf @EinatWilf]

אמרו נחיל חוק, יהיו סנקציות. לא החילו חוק. יש סנקציות:

הסנקציות של הבריטים, הצרפתים והקנדים כמו במקרה של ההכרה שלהם במדינת פלסטין של שרדינגר, הן עוד ביטוי (מעבר לכל השיקולים הפוליטיים הפנימיים מול מפלגת הירוקים) לכך שאנחנו כמדינת ישראל לא אומרים מה אנחנו רוצים ביו״ש (גם לא בעזה כמובן). אנחנו מקיימים שם כבר עשרות שנים עמימות ריבונית ולא אומרים לעצמנו קודם כל, לאזרחים שלנו שם ולעולם מה אנחנו רוצים. זה שלנו? לא שלנו? זמנית? לאן חותרים? בהירות - יוק.

והממשלה הזו במיוחד התמחתה בשילוב קטלני של דיבורי אבו עלי שאינם מגובים במעשים. בונים חוות אבל לא מחילים את החוק הישראלי על עז צולעת. והתירוץ: יהיו סנקציות. אז עכשיו גם יש סנקציות וגם אין חוק ישראלי.

אז מה כן? תקום ממשלה חדשה. תקים ועדה - אנשי ימין ושמאל, מומחי צבא, גיאולוגים וגיאוגרפיים וכל מי שיכול לתרום - עם משימה אחת: תביאו מפה. הכנסת, כגוף המייצג את הריבון, תחיל את החוק הישראלי האזרחי בחלק משטחי יו״ש ותחת החוק הישראלי האזרחי כולם אזרחים שווים. היכן שלא יחול החוק הישראלי האזרחי יתקיים כיבוש צבאי פעיל לטובת שינוי תודעתי ואידיאולוגי (האמריקאים ביפן/בנות הברית בגרמניה הנאצית - אין אונר״א, אין פליטות, אין שיבה). לתהליך הזה תיעשה עבודה מדינית דיפלומטית עם הכנה רצינית. בקיצור, יוזמה ובהירות בנושא מרכזי שכרגע נראה שכולם בורחים ממנו.

הראיון המלא פה:
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[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

How to assemble a car with staples

[Tansu Yegen @TansuYegen]

It is not magic, it is physics: shared load cancels forces⚖

[Hillel Fuld @HilzFuld]

100%

[Tansu Yegen @TansuYegen]

Staff spinning turns stiff shoulders and a tight neck into fluid movement. Simple, satisfying, and one of my favorite exercises🙂

[Kosher @koshercockney]

One of the greatest speeches from Jonathan Sachs in 2020 and it is relevant NOW more than ever.

If you’ve never heard this before then I’d recommend just giving 2 and half minutes of your time.

A must listen and share.

May his memory be a blessing.

[Sarah Abv @Sarahsa09309757]

🇺🇲 Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sur Fox News :

« En 1948, il y avait environ 1 million de Juifs dans les pays arabes du Moyen-Orient. Aujourd’hui, il n’en reste qu’environ 15 000.
Les chrétiens représentaient 20 % de la population du Moyen-Orient. Aujourd’hui, ils ne représentent plus que 5 %.
En Israël, en revanche, il y avait environ 150 000 Palestiniens en 1948. Aujourd’hui, ils sont près de 2 millions, soit environ 20 % de la population.
Si Israël voulait commettre un génocide contre les Palestiniens, il pourrait le faire en une minute. Il fait l’inverse : la population palestinienne autour d’Israël augmente considérablement.

Il n’y a plus de Juifs en Jordanie.
Il n’y a plus de Juifs à Gaza.
Et le nombre de chrétiens à Gaza a chuté d’environ 80 % en dix ans.
Si vous voulez voir où se déroule un véritable génocide, ce n’est pas en Israël.
Ça se passe dans toutes les nations qui l’entourent. »

Une question simple : pourquoi ce sujet est-il si rarement évoqué ?

[Uri Kurlianchik @VerminusM]

This is Tel Aviv in 1909. As you can see, it's just sand and seashells. So how did it become a city?
During the 1880s, under Ottoman rule, Jews started founding new neighborhoods outside of Jaffa due to overcrowding. The first was Neve Tzedek, founded in 1887 by Mizrahi Jews on lands purchased by Aharon Chelouche, an Algerian Jew who moved to the Land of Israel in 1840 and made a fortune trading in gold and silver. He purchased the land from local Arabs.
In 1890 Neve Shalom was founded by Zerah Barnett, a wealthy Lithuanian Jew, who purchased the land with his own money in the same way. Other neighborhoods have similar stories. Notice that they were all founded under Muslim rule on land bought from Muslims.
So when did these neighborhoods become Tel Aviv?
In 1906, 60 Jewish families purchased plots near Jaffa and registered them under the name of Jacobus Kann, a Dutch citizen. The funding came from the Jewish families themselves, who were aided by a loan from the Jewish National Fund.
The town was originally named Ahuzat Bayit ("homestead") but was renamed Tel Aviv in 1910. In 1917, the Ottoman authorities expelled the residents of Jaffa and Tel Aviv as a wartime measure. The Jews returned to the area after the British defeated the Ottomans.
After the war, Tel Aviv became an attraction to immigrants because it offered the comforts they were used to in Europe: electric light, water, cinema, opera, theatre, restaurants... all the good things you couldn't get in a kibbutz.
It received township in 1921, under British rule, and was granted the status of an independent municipality in 1934, after its population swelled due to riots against Jews in Jaffa, forcing many to flee to Tel Aviv, as well as Jews fleeing the rise of Nazism in Europe.
No stolen homes, no stolen land, no stolen money.
Just hardworking people turning desert into prosperity with their own wealth and effort.

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

Van Gogh painted this in one of the darkest years of his life, and it might be the most hopeful thing he ever made...

The painting is Almond Blossoms, made by Vincent in 1890. Branches of white blossom open against a clear blue sky, and there is nothing sad in it anywhere, which is remarkable, because of when he painted it.

His brother Theo, the person who had loved and supported him his whole life, had just had a son, and named the boy Vincent, after his struggling uncle. When the news reached Van Gogh, he started painting right away.

He chose almond blossom on purpose. In the south of France the almond is the first tree to flower, sometimes as early as February, breaking into blossom while winter is barely over. It is the tree that announces that life is starting again. For a new baby carrying his own name, Van Gogh painted the most beautiful symbol he knew for new life.

He was, at that very moment, seriously ill. This was the period of his breakdowns in the asylum at Saint-Rémy, and not long after finishing the picture he suffered one of his worst attacks and could not paint for weeks. And yet what he made for his nephew has no shadow in it at all. He gathered whatever strength he had and poured all of it into something joyful, a gift for a child he wanted to welcome into the world.

Theo and his wife hung it above the piano in their home, and it stayed one of the most treasured paintings the family owned. The baby it was painted for, Vincent Willem van Gogh, grew up, kept it safe, and went on to found the museum in Amsterdam that holds most of his uncle's work to this day.

This, to me, is what makes the painting extraordinary: a man at the limits of his strength, who would be gone within months, looked at a new life just beginning and painted hope. He reached past everything that was breaking in him and made, for a baby, a picture that says the same thing the almond tree says every year: winter does not get the last word. Something is starting again…

[Boy George @BoyGeorge]

If you're ever confused I stand with the Jews! Coming soon!

[Kosher @koshercockney]

Brilliant. Classic Jewish humour, it’s always how we’ve dealt things, a must watch.

[Kosher @koshercockney]

If you’re ever confused, I stand with @BoyGeorge

[Guigui 🎗️✡️🇫🇷🇮🇱✡️#IStandWithIsrael @veguigui]

S’il y a la guerre entre Israël et les palestiniens, c’est parce qu’Israël n’a pas essayé suffisamment de faire la paix.

Ok, voici une liste chronologique des principaux efforts de paix ou concessions majeures d’Israël envers les Palestiniens (ou dans le cadre israélo-arabe avec composante palestinienne), juxtaposés aux actes de violence ou attaques palestiniennes notables qui ont suivi ou coïncidé.
Les faits sont tirés de chronologies historiques standard :

-1947 Plan de partition de l’ONU
Israël accepte le plan de partage en deux États.
Les dirigeants arabes et palestiniens le rejettent.
S’ensuivent la guerre civile 1947-1948 puis la première guerre, le lendemain de la déclaration d’indépendance d’Israël, où une coalition de 5 pays arabes l’ont attaqué.

-1967 Post-guerre des Six Jours.
Israël propose « territoires contre paix » (retrait du Sinaï et du Golan en échange de paix.
Les États arabes répondent par la résolution de Khartoum : « trois non » : pas de paix, pas de reconnaissance, pas de négociations avec Israël.
Suivent des attaques fedayin, la guerre d’usure, puis la guerre du Kippour (1973)

-1991 Conférence de Madrid et 1993-1995 Accords d’Oslo
Reconnaissance mutuelle Israël-OLP, création de l’Autorité palestinienne, transferts progressifs de territoires (Gaza-Jéricho puis Oslo II divisant la Judée Samarie en zones A/B/C), élections, etc.
Processus censé mener à un statut final.
Violence qui suit : Vague d’attentats-suicides par le Hamas et le Jihad islamique (qui s’opposent explicitement à Oslo).
Exemples : attentats de 1994-1996 (Beit Lid, bus de Tel-Aviv, Dizengoff, etc.) tuant des dizaines de civils israéliens.
Entre 1993 et le début de la seconde Intifada, des centaines d’Israéliens sont tués dans des attentats.
La violence contribue à l’érosion du soutien israélien au processus.

-2000 Camp David (Barak-Arafat-Clinton)
Offre israélienne : État palestinien sur environ 91-95 % de la Judée Samarie + la totalité de Gaza, échanges de territoires, capitale à Jérusalem-Est (quartiers arabes), arrangements sur les lieux saints, solution limitée pour les réfugiés.
Arafat rejette sans contre-proposition formelle claire selon les versions israélienne et américaine.
Violence qui suit : Seconde Intifada (septembre 2000-2005). Centaines d’attentats-suicides et attaques (Dolphinarium 2001, Sbarro 2001, massacre de Pâques 2002 à Netanya, etc.), plus de 1 000 Israéliens tués (majoritairement civils.
Le Hamas, le Jihad islamique, les Brigades des martyrs d’Al-Aqsa (Fatah) et d’autres participent avec le soutien de l’autorité palestinienne.

-2003 Road Map (ou « Feuille de route pour la paix », c’était un plan international de 2003 visant à résoudre le conflit israélo-palestinien par une solution à deux États. Il a été élaboré et présenté le 30 avril 2003 par le Quartet : États-Unis, Union européenne, Nations unies et Russie.

Israël accepte.

Réaction côté palestinien : seconde Intifada continue jusqu’à son déclin progressif vers 2005.

-2005 Désengagement unilatéral de Gaza en échange d’accords de paix jamais obtenus.

Israël évacue tous les israéliens de Gaza (et quelques implantations en Judée Samarie du Nord).
Transfert de contrôle à l’Autorité palestinienne.

Violence qui suit : forte augmentation des tirs de roquettes et mortiers depuis Gaza (de quelques centaines par an avant à des milliers après ; plus de 20 000 au total selon des données israéliennes cumulées).
Victoire électorale du Hamas (2006), prise de contrôle militaire de Gaza (2007), puis cycles de guerres déclenchées par des salves de roquettes.
Les massacres du 7 octobre 2023 s’inscrivent dans la même lignée.

2007 Annapolis et 2008 offre Olmert à Abbas

Négociations intensives.
Offre Olmert : environ 93-94 % de la Judée Samarie avec échanges de territoires, partage de Jérusalem, arrangements internationaux sur le « bassin sacré », solution limitée aux réfugiés. Abbas n’accepte pas / ne donne pas de réponse positive claire (il a reconnu plus tard avoir rejeté)

Violence : Continuité des roquettes depuis Gaza et attaques en Judée Samarie.

Initiatives ultérieures
- 2013-2014 Plan Kerry
- 2020 plan Trump (rejeté par les Palestiniens),
- Accords d’Abraham (normalisation avec des États arabes, sans règlement palestinien direct).

Réactions palestiniennes : violences continuelles (couteaux, voitures-béliers, roquettes) et attaques majeures comme le 7 octobre 2023.

Observations factuelles récurrentes :
Les groupes islamistes (Hamas, Jihad islamique) ont souvent intensifié les attentats précisément pour saboter les processus de paix (charte du Hamas rejetant l’existence d’Israël).
Les offres israéliennes de statut final (2000, 2008) n’ont pas été acceptées, la violence a escaladé après plusieurs d’entre elles.
Israël a aussi connu des attentats et des guerres avant ces efforts.

Cette liste n’est pas exhaustive (il y a eu de multiples cessez-le-feu, libérations de prisonniers, mesures de bonne volonté de la part d’Israël suivies de violences palestiniennes).

Comme vous voyez, Israël n’a pas essayé assez fort de faire la paix…

[Minna Scorcu 🎗️ @minnascorcu]

"All things are mortal but the Jew; all other forces pass, but he remains. What is the secret of his immortality?"

[King David @KingDavid9y]

Mark Twain on the Jews essay “Concerning the Jews” (published in Harper’s Magazine, 1899):

«If the statistics are right, the Jews constitute but one per cent of the human race. It suggests a nebulous dim puff of star-dust lost in the blaze of the Milky Way. Properly the Jew ought hardly to be heard of; but he is heard of, has always been heard of. He is as prominent on the planet as any other people, and his commercial importance is extravagantly out of proportion to the smallness of his bulk. His contributions to the world’s list of great names in literature, science, art, music, finance, medicine, and abstruse learning are also away out of proportion to the weakness of his numbers. He has made a marvellous fight in this world, in all the ages; and has done it with his hands tied behind him. He could be vain of himself, and be excused for it. The Egyptian, the Babylonian, and the Persian rose, filled the planet with sound and splendor, then faded to dream-stuff and passed away; the Greek and the Roman followed, and made a vast noise, and they are gone; other peoples have sprung up and held their torch high for a time, but it burned out, and they sit in twilight now, or have vanished. The Jew saw them all, beat them all, and is now what he always was, exhibiting no decadence, no infirmities of age, no weakening of his parts, no slowing of his energies, no dulling of his alert and aggressive mind. All things are mortal but the Jew; all other forces pass, but he remains. What is the secret of his immortality?»

[Kosher @koshercockney]

Wow. Got goosebumps listening to this.

What an incredible rendition of @BoyGeorge’s “We Will Dance Again” by British singer “Yamitmusic” on Instagram.

Would love to see even more covers of this.

Thank you to all standing with the Jews during such a dark time. It means the world.

“If you’re ever confused, I stand with the Jews”

[Minna Scorcu 🎗️ @minnascorcu]

Sì

[Smart Builds @Do_its_yourself]

The correct way to fold clothes

[Mossad Commentary @MOSSADil]

🚨 URGENT: SEARCH INTENSIFIES FOR MISSING ISRAELI MOTHER AND DAUGHTER

Mali Yahalomi, 50, and her daughter Liel, 23, remain missing in Europe, with no contact with their family since Friday.

According to the latest report, the two were expected to catch a flight from Prague, but as check-in nears closing, they have still not arrived.

An Israeli official says an enormous effort is underway to locate them:

“The whole world is on its feet trying to find them.”

Israeli officials, local authorities and Jewish community representatives are involved in the search.

Please share. Every set of eyes could matter.

[Yoni Tobias יוני טוביאס @YoniTobias]

“I’m just a girl, I have school tomorrow!”

Those were the words 12-year-old Liel Hetzroni pleaded to the Palestinian terrorists who abducted her during the October 7 attack.

They murdered her anyway.

It took forensic investigators nearly six weeks to identify what remained of her. All that was left of the little girl’s body was ash and bone fragments.

Her father, Gavin Heller, told the BBC that Liel and her brother were killed for one reason only: “because they were Jewish.”

He described the identification process: “They just found remnants of Liel… initially they didn’t have enough pieces to make a formal identification. They identified her literally by sieving the remnants. This will unfortunately live with me for the rest of my life.”

Nearly 1,200 people, almost all Jewish Israelis, were massacred that day.

Some called it “justified resistance.” It was the deliberate slaughter of civilians, including children.

Liel Hetzroni was 12 years old.

May her memory be a blessing. #October7 #Hamas #Israel #WeWillNotForget #StandWithIsrael

[Hillel Fuld @HilzFuld]

Indeed.

If Israel is guilty of colonialism, why is Israel the size of New Jersey among a sea of Arab and Muslim states? Who is the colonizer here?

If Israel is guilty of colonialism, why is Israel the only place where Hebrew is spoken?

If Israel committed genocide in Gaza, why has the population in Gaza grown?

If Israel is an apartheid state, why are there anti Israel arab MKs in the Israeli parliament?

If the ‘Palestinians’ want a state, why didn’t they make one when they were given Gaza in 2005 or when the UN gave them one in the partition plan 1947?

If Palestine is a place, where are its borders, what is its national anthem, who is its president, what is its currency, and what is one thing they invented?

If Israel was looking to flatten Gaza and kill all Gazans, and if, according to you, Israel dropped 200,000 bombs on Gaza, and according to you, Israel killed 70,000 people, please help me with the math. How did 200,000 bombs only kill 70,000? Unless they were precision bombs and Israel went to extreme lengths to minimize civilian death. Otherwise the math ain’t mathin.

If Israel was looking to starve Gaza, why send in thousands of trucks packed with food? Why are Gazans obese in their own photos? How is it that the adults are all fat and somehow only the kids are “starving”?

Is this thing on? Any answers to these basic questions?

Just looking for some logical explanations here…

Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?

Yea, didn’t think so.