Dr Schlemiel

Cancer doctor— biotechnology investor—interpreter of data--chess expert--father to two boys smarter than me

[Dr Schlemiel @RobertGlassman6]

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[Dr Schlemiel @RobertGlassman6]

@SenSanders Supreme Court will view it as anti constitutional so this will be a gigantic waste of time
Have you ever gotten a bill passed, besides renaming postal facilities?

[Dr Schlemiel @RobertGlassman6]

@BernieSanders https://t.co/2OAg1KQs7Q

[Dr Schlemiel @RobertGlassman6]

@BernieSanders You are a dumb man Brin is a resident of Nevada He left CA due to high taxes Others would post wealth tax Plus a wealth tax is likely anti constitutional

[Dr Schlemiel @RobertGlassman6]

@PeterBeinart 7000 Jews voted for Hitler They thought they’d escape persecution and death They did not. A Peter Beinart type was well represented among the 7000

[Dr Schlemiel @RobertGlassman6]

Love your interviews and cogently and smoothly you express your points and prove the interviewee. Long way from NA and Jazz
Re genocide it is farcical in so many ways beyond intent:
1 Israel could easily kill every Palestinian if it wanted, but instead warns them of impending strikes
2 Why would a genocidal entity vaccinate 600k children and provide humanitarian aid?
3 Population of Gaza grew since 2023
4 Despite Hamas’ imbedding themselves with civilians, Israel has lowest civilian: combatant kill ratio in modern wars

[Andrew Fox @Mr_Andrew_Fox]

Remember: genocide means a deliberate attempt to exterminate a group, simply for being members of that group. That’s what “genocide in Gaza” alleges: that Israel is unsuccessfully attempting to exterminate every last Palestinian.

Now, stand fast the fact that the only really high rate of Gazan deaths happened in the first months of the war and dropped to barely registering after the ceasefire (see graph below). One might suggest that had Israel been intent on wiping out everyone indiscriminately, they would have maintained their rate of killing.

But what about the overall population of Gaza? If Israel had wanted to wipe out every Palestinian, you’d expect that overall total to fall, right?

At some point, the word genocide has to survive contact with arithmetic. Gaza’s own records now sit in open contradiction with the claim that Israel attempted to destroy its population: approximately 121,000 live births since 7 October 2023, against a reported direct war death toll of just over 73,000.

The extermination narrative looks increasingly absurd. More babies have been born in Gaza during the war than Gazans have been recorded as killed, including both civilians and combatants.

The usual escape route is to say that genocide need not succeed. That is legally correct and intellectually evasive when deployed to make every contrary fact disappear. Genocidal intent still has to be proved, and the ICJ has held that, where it is inferred from conduct, the destruction of the group must be the only reasonable inference available.

In Croatia v Serbia, it examined whether civilians had been spared, evacuated or allowed to survive when their supposed destroyers had the opportunity to kill them. Conduct preserving members of the protected population counted against genocide.

Now apply that reasoning to Gaza.

Start with polio. In September 2024, while Israeli troops were still fighting across the Strip, Israel agreed daily, area-specific pauses so Palestinian and international medical teams could vaccinate Gaza’s children. The first round reached 559,161 children under ten, around 95 per cent of the eligible population.

Israel then agreed to do it again. The second round reached 556,774 children, with 448,425 children between two and ten also receiving vitamin A. The campaign required the delivery of 1.6 million vaccine doses, refrigerators, freezers, ice boxes and hundreds of vaccine carriers. WHO and UNICEF planned for the vaccines and cold-chain equipment to transit through Ben Gurion Airport before entering Gaza.

A third campaign followed in February 2025. It vaccinated 602,795 children under ten, reaching 102 per cent of the estimated target because medical teams found children missed during earlier rounds.

The combined figure is 1,718,730 administered polio doses. (That represents repeated protection of roughly 600,000 individual children, rather than 1.7 million different children.) Almost the entire under-10 population was reached again and again.

These vaccines were administered by Palestinian health workers, WHO, UNICEF, UNRWA and their partners. Without Israeli cooperation, the campaigns could not have happened.

UNICEF’s end-of-year report says the outbreak had been interrupted by July 2025. It also records 49,000 children under two receiving catch-up vaccinations, with coverage exceeding 80 per cent. BCG vaccinations rose from 37,471 in 2024 to 47,556 in 2025.

It was an enormous public health enterprise, run over several months, involving thousands of workers and protecting nearly every child in Gaza from paralysis.

That is the physical reality of what Israel enabled: the children it was supposedly trying to destroy were repeatedly protected against a disease that could disable or kill them.

A coherent programme of genocide cannot be inferred by treating every Israeli action that preserved Palestinian life as irrelevant.

The birth figures deepen the problem for the accusation. A reconstruction using Gaza Ministry of Health and civil registration records suggests approximately 12,000 babies were born during the final quarter of 2023, around 38,000 during 2024, 49,267 live births during 2025, and roughly 21,000 so far in 2026. The latest portion is necessarily estimated because complete July and August registrations have not yet been published.

Many babies born during the first months had been conceived before 7 October. That explanation expired nine months into the war. Tens of thousands of children were subsequently conceived and delivered while Israel supposedly pursued the biological destruction of Gaza.

Births fell below their pre-war level, hardly surprising amid displacement and combat. Miscarriages, premature births and maternal complications also rose. Nothing about those conditions was humane or desirable.

However, the comparison remains devastating. Approximately 121,000 live births against just over 73,000 reported direct war deaths leaves a difference approaching 48,000. The number killed includes combatants as well as civilians, of course.

Gaza’s overall resident population fell because the calculation includes outward migration, the missing and other demographic changes. The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics estimates that around 100,000 people left Gaza during the war. A decline driven substantially by people leaving a war zone cannot simply be relabelled as physical destruction.

No Israeli advocate needs to pretend that civilian life in Gaza was tolerable. It was an urban war fought against an enemy dug into hundreds of miles of tunnels beneath neighbourhoods, hospitals, schools and camps. Hamas designed that battlefield to make civilian deaths unavoidable and politically useful.

Israel issued evacuation warnings, created corridors and humanitarian zones, admitted food and medicine, coordinated medical evacuations, paused military operations and enabled almost 600,000 Palestinian children to receive repeated protection against polio. Around 121,000 babies were born during the war, far exceeding the reported direct death toll.

The genocide allegation survives only by declaring every piece of exculpatory evidence meaningless. Births supposedly tell us nothing. Vaccinations tell us nothing. Food deliveries tell us nothing. Humanitarian pauses tell us nothing. Failed famine predictions tell us nothing. The absence of measured famine mortality tells us nothing.

Such reasoning insulates the genocide accusation from reality. Every Palestinian death becomes proof of genocide, while every Palestinian life preserved through Israeli cooperation is dismissed as public relations.

The simpler explanation: Israel fought a devastating war against Hamas, accepting extraordinary military and political costs while repeatedly undertaking measures to preserve Palestinian civilian life. Those measures were imperfect and sometimes failed, as measures do in war.

Gaza’s own birth records, vaccination figures and famine evidence have hollowed out the allegations. A country attempting to destroy a people does not enable more than 120,000 births, facilitate 1.7 million childhood vaccine doses and support humanitarian operations feeding virtually the entire population.

That is war, with all its brutality and tragedy. It is not genocide.

[Dr Schlemiel @RobertGlassman6]

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[Dr Schlemiel @RobertGlassman6]

@mehdirhasan Rodgers will win easily in this swing state Many Stevens voters will either not vote or go for Rodger’s All Republicans and independents will go Rodgers My Michigan family is largely Democratic and would never vote for a socialist- Islamist, esp one who allies with Piker

[Dr Schlemiel @RobertGlassman6]

@brhodes Are you that obtuse to think this is genocide? What a farcical allegation from a clearly biased looney

[Seth Dillon @SethDillon]

Groundbreaking New Study Finds Islamophobia May Be Partially Caused By Muslims Killing People All The Time https://t.co/Q0GuA4ppoI

[Andrew Fox @Mr_Andrew_Fox]

The genocide case against Israel is collapsing under the weight of evidence its loudest advocates ignored. From famine claims built on untested assumptions to casualty narratives now contradicted by the data, the story sold to the world is coming apart. My latest article examines the wreckage, and the consequences of a blood libel that helped unleash a new wave of antisemitic hatred.

[Dr Schlemiel @RobertGlassman6]

Famine, deliberate attacks on hospitals, the slaughter of journalists and children, and systematic obstruction of aid: each allegation was broadcast as settled fact and then used to prove genocidal intent. The same newsrooms and universities that thundered these charges have shown remarkably little interest in the evidence that now destroys each of these allegations.
It is incredible. There is no aspect of the genocide allegation that has not collapsed. https://t.co/YCtM5R3Dyf

[Dr Schlemiel @RobertGlassman6]

Great speech

[John Spencer @SpencerGuard]

https://t.co/5qLpXD35UO

[Dr Schlemiel @RobertGlassman6]

@mehdirhasan @CharlieSpi27700 If you would dig into the Lancet study, you’d realize, as many physicians have, that the data is basically made up. lancet says the number indirectly killed should be 5 x the Hamas figures based on literally no evidence. It was propaganda piece

[Dr Schlemiel @RobertGlassman6]

Such ridiculous misrepresentation of facts:
1 There is no genocide in action or intent. Be real
2. There is no “concentration camp.” Israel evacuated Gaza in 2005 only to be met by terrorism and missiles Of course a partial blockade was necessary to alleviate arms being brought into Gaza
3 There is no famine 3000 calories/day/person while Hamas per UN stole the aid. Where are all the famished Gazans? Hoax
4 March of Return was violent and meant to illegally invade Israel There was no “let’s see who can shoot more kneecaps” Proof?
5 Why provoke a much greater power? Has the terrorism worked?
6 Scahill is a rabid, lying, pro terrorist

[Sheila Greenfield 🔯 @SheilaGreenfiel]

Funded by US taxpayers? Hardly!!! Here's the real balance sheet.

"Net Difference (Rough Annual Calculation)

Aid provided: +$3.8 billion (cost to US)
Subtract recirculated to US weapons/companies: –$3.0 billion
Net direct aid cost: ~$0.8 billion

Add estimated benefits/avoided costs (midpoint of ranges):
Base/strategic presence: ~$3B
Intelligence: ~$3.5B
Battle testing: ~$1.25B
Innovations: ~$2.5B
Suez/strategic location: ~$4B

Total added benefits: ~$14.25 billion

Overall net difference: Positive for the US by roughly $13+ billion per year (benefits substantially exceed the net aid cost).

In other words, after accounting for money flowing back to US industry, the US receives several times the net investment back in avoided costs, capabilities, intelligence, and strategic positioning."

[Sam E. Antar @SamAntar]

.@RoKhanna, the public deserves answers—not carefully worded talking points.

The alleged incident occurred on July 8. You gave an interview to Reuters on July 9. The story was published on July 11, followed by your social media campaign and national TV appearances.

A few straightforward questions:

Why wasn’t this trip publicized in advance? For a politician as media-focused as you, the silence before the trip—and the publicity afterward—deserves an explanation.

You say this was a serious 90-minute detention. Why did you say nothing about it on your own X account for approximately three days, even though you had already given Reuters an interview the next day? What changed between July 9 and July 11?

When reports emerged that you allegedly declined requests to meet with former hostages and hostage families during this trip, you responded, “I have met with Israeli hostages.” That does not answer whether you met with any of them during this visit. Which hostages were you referring to? When and where did those meetings occur? Did you meet with any hostages or hostage families during this trip? If not, why didn’t you answer the actual allegation directly?

You have publicly said you were detained by armed settlers and the IDF. What specific actions by the IDF constituted your detention? Who physically blocked the road? Did Israeli soldiers order you to remain, or otherwise prevent you from leaving? The IDF disputes that account. Will you release the complete, unedited video so the public can see the sequence for itself?

Your delegation reportedly remained at the scene for roughly 90 minutes. How much contemporaneous video and photographic evidence was recorded? Will you release all of it—not selected clips, but the complete record?

Who paid for this trip: your congressional office, your campaign, another organization, or someone else? Will you release the travel and funding disclosures so the public can verify the answer?

Finally, will you release the contemporaneous text messages, emails, photographs and videos generated by your delegation during those 90 minutes? If your account is accurate, full transparency should only strengthen your credibility.

These aren’t partisan questions. They’re the questions any member of Congress should be prepared to answer after making serious public allegations involving a foreign government.

Transparency shouldn’t require this many questions.

[Dr Schlemiel @RobertGlassman6]

@bradlander @DanaBashCNN Sell out kapo So your evidence for a genocide is “Omer Bartov and B’Tselem say it is?” Are you a parrot? Well many say it is not and the basic logic ( population increased, no intent, vaccination of kids by Israel,..) Grow up and think for yourself