The city museum in Grand Rapids is great. Very cool recreation of the town in the 1880’s. Just one of the healthiest seeing cities I’ve been to in a while.
World: It is absolutely imperative that Israel elect a new leader
Also world: It’s regrettable that Palestinian elections have been postponed for over 20 years, but whatcha gonna do 🤷♀️
.@mattforney I saw you retweeted this. I have to correct you Matt, Netanyahu voters are NOT Ashkenazi. They are Mizrahim. Ashkenazi are the radical left pro-Islam. Israel will not reject Netanyahu because rejecting him is the death of Israel. Ashkenazi are radical far-left.
.@BaldingsWorld Everybody hates America until they see the world without America in IT. One of the reasons why isolationism doesn't work. America is actually good, its the rest of the world that is profoundly EVIL. .@Megankstack
The outrage is not what decisions the Israeli courts make about military operations but the fact they are allowed to make any decisions at all. The idea a judge can dictate military policy is absolutely insane and shows how rotten the system has become.
.@Natsecjeff LOL. But, why would the U.S. help though? You're forgetting that Saudi made it a point to reject Israel after Trump's REPEATED pleas for recognition.
Based on how the UAE is conducting the Flydubai investigation, Australia should have appointed them to run the Bondi Royal Commission.
The Bondi victims would have at least received fair representation and justice.
The Ayatollahs in Iran wage their war on Israel, but in reality, their war is with Saudi Arabia.
In Shia eschatology, the Mahdi will appear when his followers control the Hijaz (Gulf), and Saudi Arabia in particular, where Mecca and Medina are.
But how can Shia Muslims ever control the biggest Sunni state?
The answer is Israel.
The Ayatollahs believe, and I agree with them, that the existence of Israel is the reasons behind the survival of the various Arab regimes, because Israel, as a nation-state in the region, gave legitimacy to the Islamic nation-state.
If Israel falls, then these regimes will fall, Muslims in the region will unite against the Western-backed rulers leading them, and the path toward reestablishing the Islamic caliphate will open.
Iran and its Shia proxies fight on two fronts: destroying Israel, which Sunni Muslims also support, and weakening the Sunni nation-state.
Just before October 7, Iran had full control over Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, and Yemen.
In their imagination, if Iran wins the war against Israel, it will be able to lead the region in taking down the Western puppets and take over the Hijaz in a post-Israel era starting from the countries under it's control.
The Houthis’ war against Saudi Arabia, whatever the other secondary motives, was steered by Iran within this broader framework: seize Yemen, weaken Saudi Arabia, and keep Israel in the crosshairs so that, when the regional order breaks, Iran is positioned to move in.
Saudi Arabia is begging America to wage war against the Houthis but not a peep from the “America First” movement about how evil the Saudis are to solicit participation in a war.
Wow, I missed a lot while I was away .@L0m3z reflects a common belief which is a failure of US educational system .@christopherrufo .@DeAngelisCorey Israel support has nothing to do with Holocaust. You just have to look at Saudi right now to understand WHY U.S. supports Israel.
Americans, on the right especially, are exhausted by efforts to use the Holocaust as a moral obligation to support Israel.
They are unmoved by accusations of anti-Semitism and any hardline approaches to disavow and shame Israel's critics.
— @L0m3z at NatCon Jerusalem.
If you think that the appropriate thing to do on October 7th is to say that people are exploiting the Holocaust to gin up support for Israel and to cast as victims those who wrongly malign Israel, there is something very wrong with you.
I regret speaking at NatCon last year, though I am still grateful to @willchamberlain — a great, brilliant, very decent guy whom I respect a lot — for inviting me.
I’m out.
Sorry, but I’m done.
.@Natsecjeff I have been off Twitter/X for several days. I just learned about the Saudi Arabia disaster with an AMERICAN casualty! I immediately thought of you👇