I'll start from the end: I have joined @VineVenturesLP. I'm excited, a little emotional, and mostly grateful to continue living my life.
This morning @BusinessInsider published an interview with me. Thank you to @meliarobin and @JamieHeller for listening and for telling my story with sensitivity and nuance.
For many people, I'm Noa Argamani, who was rescued by the IDF after 246 days in Hamas’ captivity. That's part of me, and it always will be. But it's not all of me, and I'd like you to get to know me in my new role too.
If you're building something, have an idea you can't stop thinking about or you’re in the Valley and looking to help the most ambitious founders in Israel succeed, I hope to be a bridge between the two ecosystems.
Dear @BBCNews I have been looking all morning for your headline:
"image shows stripped Men detained near RAF Fairford"
How about a quote from beneath the headline which states
""This evokes some of humanity's darkest passages of history,""
You are a Jew-hating disgrace.
🔴 Ireland keeps support for factory linked to Russia's war machine.
Taoiseach Micheál Martin confirmed on Sunday that the state will maintain its backing for the Aughinish Alumina plant, despite an investigation linking its exports to Russian arms manufacturing, RTÉ reports.
The Irish team is wearing black armbands for Gaza in tonight’s game against Israel.
The Irish team hasn’t shown any solidarity with Ukraine after the summer of 2022.
The Aughinish Alumina refinery in Limerick has continued to export massive amounts of alumina to Russia throughout the war.
The aluminium is used by Russia to produce missiles that the then fire at Ukraine. The Irish players could have easily decided to protest against that, but they don’t care.
I reread this every year.
I cry like a baby every year.
Todd Beamer died a father, husband, and hero.
Todd: Hello… Operator… listen to me. I can’t speak very loud. This is an emergency. I’m a passenger on a United flight to San Francisco. Our plane has been hijacked.
Lisa: I understand. Can they see you?
Todd: No. There are three that we know of. They have knives — razor knives, like box cutters. Someone announced from the cockpit there was a bomb. It sounded fake.
Lisa: Your name?Todd: Todd Beamer. United Flight 93.Todd: They killed one passenger in first class. They forced most of us back. Fourteen of us here. Five flight attendants. The guy with the bomb ordered us to sit on the floor.
Lisa: Are you okay?
Todd: We’re going down… wait. No. We’re leveling off. We changed directions. We’re flying east again.
Todd: A guy named Jeremy called his wife. She told him two planes hit the World Trade Center. Lisa, is that true?
Lisa: I have to tell you the truth. It’s very bad. Both towers are gone. A third plane hit the Pentagon. Our country is under attack. I’m afraid your plane may be part of their plan.
Todd: Oh God. Lisa, will you do something for me? Call my wife and my kids. Promise me you’ll call.
Lisa: I promise.
Todd: Our home number is… You have the same name as my wife. Lisa. We’ve been married ten years. She’s pregnant with our third child. Tell her I love her. I’ll always love her. We have two boys — David, he’s 3, and Andrew, he’s 1. Tell them their daddy loves them and he is so proud of them. The baby is due January 12th. I saw an ultrasound. We still don’t know if it’s a girl or a boy.
Lisa: I’ll tell them. I promise, Todd.(Lisa patches in the FBI.)
Agent: Todd, your plane is on a course for Washington. Best guess is the White House or the Capitol.
Todd: I understand. I’ll be back.
Todd: Everyone knows this isn’t a normal hijacking. We have decided we will not be pawns in their plot.
Lisa: What are you going to do?
Todd: Four of us are going to rush the one with the bomb. Then the cockpit. A stewardess is getting boiling water. We’ll take them out.
Todd: Would you pray with me?They pray the Lord’s Prayer. Then: Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for thou art with me.
Todd: God help me. Jesus help me.Are you guys ready? Let’s Roll.
“Are you ready? Okay. Let's roll.”
Those were the last words of Todd Beamer, a passenger on the hijacked @united Flight 93, before he heroically led the charge against Sept 11 terrorists onboard.
Let us Never Forget his bravery and all those who lost their lives 25 years ago.
La única vez que hablé con el Negro Rada me dijo: "yo que soy negro creía que sabía lo que era el racismo, hasta que me casé con una judía. Recién ahí supe realmente lo que es el racismo uruguayo " QEPD
For years:
“Israel is deliberately starving Gaza.”
“Worst famine in modern history.”
“Genocide by starvation.”
Then @UNICEF provides their figures:
🏴☠️ Gaza: 1.3% acute child malnutrition
🇹🇷 Turkey: 1.3%
🇱🇧 Lebanon: 1.3%
🇯🇴 Jordan: 2.3%
🇪🇬 Egypt: 3.3%
🇮🇷 Iran: 4.2%
🇸🇾 Syria: 12.2%
So after years of screaming that Israel engineered an unprecedented famine, Gaza somehow ended up with the same rate as Turkey.
I’m sure the correction will get exactly the same coverage.
I'm sure Greta's readying the fleet to save Marmaris.
You've been lied to for so hard for so long you can't see your own dumb faces.
Terrible nouvelle…
Bar Asraf, 30 ans, survivant du massacre du Festival Nova, a mis fin à ses jours hier soir sur la tombe de sa petite amie.
Depuis le pogrom du 7 octobre 2023, au cours duquel sa compagne, Liron Barda, a été assassinée par le Hamas, Bar luttait contre une douleur insoutenable et un deuil particulièrement difficile.
Tout au long de cette période, il était resté très proche des parents de Liron, leur rendant régulièrement visite.
Mercredi dernier encore, Bar célébrait le mariage de son frère. Mais hier, la douleur a fini par l’emporter… 💔
L’horreur du 7 octobre, c’est aussi cela. Ne l’oublions jamais.
Que sa mémoire soit une bénédiction. 🕯️
@solarpapst One should primarily address the causes of natality. People can use condoms but that would be akin to recommending bulletproof vests. The solution is abstaining
24 years ago today, Daniel Pearl was beheaded by jihadists after being kidnapped for being Jewish.
Daniel Pearl was a Jewish American journalist investigating the war on terror after September 11 for The Wall Street Journal.
His final words before being executed were: “My father is Jewish, my mother is Jewish, and I am a Jew.”
His story does not feel like a tragedy of the past.
Every day, we see more Daniels, murdered for being Jews or Zionists by bigots. 🕯️