If all Hamas had to do to end the war in Gaza was give back all the innocent Jews they kidnapped on 10/7, how the fuck was this ever a “genocide?”
Any Westerners who fell for this 2 year terrorist PR campaign led by literal Jihadists are truly evil, retarded, or a lovely mix of both…
Now that we’re out, I can speak freely about some of the things I’ve learned having accidentally found myself in a war zone, hunkering down with Israelis and other tourists in Tel Aviv shelters:
- I appear to have underestimated the power of trauma bonding
- Israelis’ insistence of living as normal of a life as possible under the most abnormal conditions is truly something to be in awe of
- there’s this thing you can do where you enter a liminal space of half-sleep so you straddle the awake world and the sleep world so you never miss a siren
- your high cortisol + adrenaline levels become a new baseline and your awareness of it fades away
- every barrage is a game of Russian roulette. Knowing your life is at the mercy of both technology and fate permanently changes the chemistry of your brain cells
- there is something truly clarifying about being in a shelter while hypersonic missiles dance overhead. You look at the person you’re in the shelter with - is this the one I want to share the terror of imminent extinction with? Have I lived well? Did I treat my family and friends right? Have I forgiven?
- while I was afraid on several occasions, I still consider it the privilege of a lifetime to witness history in the making
- the frisson of real danger cannot be replicated in our safe, prosperous societies back home. It is invigorating and forces one to jettison all utopian and luxury beliefs
- it’s inspiring to see young people exhibit qualities that in the West hasn’t been seen since WWII - resilience, duty and sacrifice
- the delta between what was going on in the kinetic war and the information war was observable; too many lies were spread in the fog of war which were far too easily believed (some big account confidently asserted that 1/3 of Tel Aviv was destroyed, which I could see with my own eyes was clearly not the case)
- there is a lot more diversity of opinion inside Israel than is apparent from the outside
- the shared, bedrock consensus that has been hammered into the consciousness of Jews because of their deep history and sense of self is a great strength the West sorely needs to emulate
You spend 40 years talking about how you want to wipe a country off the map, you stick a doomsday clock about destroying it in your capital city, you arm proxy after proxy to attack it…eventually they’re going to take you seriously.
The Iranian regime asked for this.
Gal Gadot says "I had to speak up" after October 7th and "advocate for the hostages."
"I could not be silent. I was shocked by the amount of hate, by the amount of how much people think they know when they actually have no idea, and also by how the media is not fair many times. So I had to speak up. I’m not a hater. I'm a grandchild of a Holocaust survivor who came to Israel and established his family from scratch after his entire family was erased in Auschwitz. And on the other side of my family, I'm eighth generation Israeli. I'm an indigenous person of Israel.
"I am all about humanity, and I felt like I had to advocate for the hostages. When your compass is clear, your conscience is clean. I know what I’m advocating for, and I know what I wish for the world. I am praying for better days for all. I want everybody to have good life and prosperity, and the ability to raise their children in a safe environment.”
Read more here: https://t.co/yPZuyuIZWA
Reporter: “Jalen, how can I get more handsome? My girlfriend says you’re the most handsome QB in the league. Do you have any advice? I’m desperate. Anything.”
Jalen Hurts: “I don’t know if I can help you on that one.. Sounds like a DNA thing.”
#SuperBowl
I’m not taking back a single word of slander I said about Nick Sirianni this year. I want him to print it out, read it back to my face, and then shoot me in the head on Broad Street in seventeen days.
Might get canceled for this but i find it disrespectful when ppl dont stand for the national anthem. As soon as you hear it, you need to show respect and stand up. I get chills every time i hear "fly eagles fly on the road to victory"
In the West Bank, a Palestinian woman attempted to stab an Israeli officer for no reason other than him being Jewish.
He survived and was able to eliminate her.
The Palestinians later claimed she never attacked him, and that they planted a knife next to her. Typical.
Celebrations in a Tel Aviv pub 👇
They are singing:
“Yalla ya Nasrallah,
We will f*ck you Inshallah,
We will return you to Allah,
With the entire Hezbollah” 🎶
I want to remind everyone that the terrorist organization Hezbollah @AOC is simping for, killed 241 US service members, among them 220 Marines. This is the kind of scumbag she is