Rozoosh

[Stinky @Stinky915846091]

🧵It has now been 3 years since the October 7th attacks took place. Yet there are still reminders of what happened visible from above.

In this thread I'll be showcasing aerial imagery, related to the attacks, from Govmap, Google Earth, Sentinel-2, etc.

[Gabi Behiri @gbehiri]

İran'ın attığı füzelerden birinin parçası İsrael'in başkenti Yeruşalayim'de Eski Şehir'e düştü.
İşte bu sebeple Ağlama Duvarı ve Mescid-i Aksa dualara kapalı. Çünkü hem siren sırasında izdiham olabilir hem de füze düştüğünde yaralanma ve can kaybı riski var.

[Rolling Stone @RollingStone]

Commentary: Inside Tel Aviv’s “bomb-shelter raves,” where Israelis gather during missile alerts and dance to electronic music — a defiant act of survival. https://t.co/VFZW0QXRFN

[Israel Foreign Ministry @IsraelMFA]

843 days. It's over.
Ran is home.

[Google @Google]

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[Nuseir Yassin @nasdaily]

I was lied to my whole life.

They told me Israel can’t be a Jewish state - There are ~25 Muslim states.

Told me Jews only take care of themselves - a Jewish woman got this Arab Muslim kid to Harvard.

Told me before Israel, we all lived in peace - 1929 Hebron Massacre was 20 years before.

Told me all Palestinians were forced out - elders in the village said many people sold their lands…and left to the west

Told me “we love Palestinians” - yet all nearby Arab countries treat them like second class citizens.

Some people force you to join their political cause under the lie of morality, and justice.

Don’t fall for it like I did. Seek the truth.

[Eldad Tzahor @Tzahore]

My lab at @WeizmannScience was completely demolished by the Iranian missile a few days ago. This is hard and sad as nothing was left to save. We study heart regeneration and regenerative medicine. As such, we will regenerate, regrow and rebuild. The one thing that wasn't gone is our motivation said one of my student. It is true. Here, I would like to thank many of my friends around the globe that offer their help, space and support. I really appreciate that.

[Rozoosh @rozoosh]

Canım

[Türk Yahudi Toplumu @tyahuditoplumu]

Şabat Şalom שבת שלום

[Rozoosh @rozoosh]

@cenkuygur @grok analyze claims made here with the highest journalistic principles

[Nicole Lampert @nicolelampert]

How the blood libel works: a thread.

Yesterday we saw how the blood libel works like lightening in the social media age, fed by corrupt organisations, amplified by politicians and reported on by credulous reporters.
The lie started with the UN’s emergency coordinator Tom Fletcher who told journalists that 14,000 babies would die in the next 48 hours unless Israel allowed sufficient aid into Gaza.
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[Rozoosh @rozoosh]

@cenkuygur Or maybe the peace movement isn’t peaceful.

[Rozoosh @rozoosh]

Sometimes does the unfairness of oct 7 victims murders make you want to scream that it’s not fair?

[Saul Sadka @Saul_Sadka]

It's Purim in Tel Aviv right now, so Jews are all dancing in the streets because 2,400 years ago, some evil jealous losers tried and failed to kill us all. Here's how it works: You try, you fail, you die, we party for thousands of years after nobody remembers you even existed.

[David Frum @davidfrum]

"Never again" is the classic theme of Holocaust commemoration. But on October 7, it did happen again - and much of the world reacted this new spasm of massacre and torture of Jews exactly as it did 80 and 90 years ago: "They deserved it!"

[Elica Le Bon الیکا‌ ل بن @elicalebon]

The real reason AOC & the gang are feigning outrage.

[Yaakov Katz @yaakovkatz]

Just took a taxi near Tel Aviv. The driver, a man in his 70s, mentioned he’d been driving for only three years. Curious, I asked what he did before. His answer stopped me cold.

He retired from the IDF in 2000 after 28 years of service. Most of that time, he said, was as an Air Force Technical Officer. But it wasn’t always that way.

Drafted in 1972 into the Armored Corps, he was stationed on the Golan Heights when the Yom Kippur War erupted on October 6, 1973. Just two days later, his tank was hit. Three friends killed. He was injured and captured by the Syrians. For the next eight months, he was held in captivity.

As he recounted this, his voice cracked. “Everything happening now brings me back to those days,” he said, tears welling.

He told me of the horrors: relentless beatings, burns inflicted on his body, months of agony at the hands of Syrian soldiers. Yet, he said, even in that nightmare, he had food. Occasionally, there was an @ICRC visit.

And then he said this: “Israel must do everything to bring the hostages back from Gaza. If the government fails, it will betray the essence of what this country stands for.”

This man, who endured unimaginable suffering, is asking us to remember who we are and what we stand for. His story is a lesson, one we cannot ignore.

Heroes like him don’t speak often, but when they do, we must listen.

[Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian @manniefabian]

Former hostages Romi Gonen, Emily Damari, and Doron Steinbrecher reunite with their families at Tel Hashomer Hospital in central Israel after 471 days in Hamas captivity.

[Haviv Rettig Gur @havivrettiggur]

“The Torah speaks in human tongue,” the Sages of the Talmud tell us again and again. The Torah, they explain, isn’t speaking to God but to us. And so it employs metaphor and simile and narrative structure. It does not think it is history or science, it does not pretend to be a literal truth.

It literally tells the story of the creation of man *twice*, in Genesis 1 and 2, each time differently and with a different purpose. Even its more straightforward narratives - think Noah’s flood - are that special sort of story that grows with you; it is one tale when you’re five, another when you’re 25 and another still when you’re 65.

The Torah is, by its own sense of itself, not a chronicle of the actual measure and development of life and history, but a window into their meaning and purpose.

The portion of the Torah we will read this Sabbath, called simply, “Names,” is excruciating and beautiful, the beginning of the story of the redemption from slavery through Moses’s great awakening and slow shouldering of responsibility for his people.

And it starts, like so many great beginnings in the Torah, with a list of names.

These are the names of the family of Israel that went down into Egypt, one of the long lineage narratives of Biblical literature.

Why start such a grand and pivotal story with a list of names?

Because names are vital to the Torah’s sense of the world. They are the superpower by which mankind rules the world, by which we discover it. Adam became master of his world when he named it. It is how we know ourselves and our surroundings and the context and meaning of things.

The Torah seems to know that we do not live in the objective world science tries to measure. That world is out there, perhaps, but we do not live in it. We live in a simulation of that world running inside our heads. Naming a thing brings it out of nameless objectivity into meaningful existence, into the lived reality of the simulation.

We name our people and our tribes and our loved ones and ourselves, and thus we know who we are.

And from this naming, the Torah shows us, freedom is born. Shemot begins the tale that will lead Moses to stand before the genocidal tyrant and demand in God’s name, “Let my people go that they may serve me!”

The tyrant refuses, of course, and thus begins his long, bitter downfall.

“Let my people go that they may serve me,” God tells Pharaoh through Moses. Freedom, God says, is service. Freedom isn’t achieved merely with the lifting of the yoke of another’s control. Freedom is attained only when independence gives way to devotion.

In this Sabbath’s reading, then, we have most of the components of the Torah’s understanding of the human: Know who you are, and thus who you are responsible for and answerable to.

Or as our Sages put it in the Mishnah (Ethics of the Fathers 3), “Know where you come from, where you are going, and before whom you are slated to give an accounting.”

Thirty-three names now burn in the collective hearts of the Jewish people, our brothers and sisters locked in Pharaoh’s dungeons who stand on the precipice of their liberation, a negotiated liberation with tyrants who have already catalyzed their eventual downfall.

I will be praying for them this Shabbat, and for dozens more of our brethren trapped in that darkness. And I will do so by naming them, by bringing them into my inner world, making them real and substantive so that I can offer my abject apology, at least until such time as I can do so to their faces.

Freedom begins with a name.

Name them, make them part of your world, so that when they emerge from their dim dungeons, the world that will receive them will be all the larger, so that they will know and feel, if not now then soon, that they are truly and forever redeemed.

Romi Gonen, 23
Emily Damari, 27
Arbel Yehud, 29
Doron Steinbrecher, 31
Ariel Bibas, 5
Kfir Bibas, 2
Shiri Silberman Bibas, 33
Liri Albag, 19
Karina Ariev, 20
Agam Berger, 21
Danielle Gilboa, 20
Naama Levy, 20
Ohad Ben-Ami, 58
Gadi Moshe Moses, 80
Keith Siegel, 65
Ofer Calderon, 54
Eli Sharabi, 52
Itzik Elgarat, 70
Shlomo Mansour, 86
Ohad Yahalomi, 50
Oded Lifshitz, 84
Tsahi Idan, 50
Hisham al-Sayed, 36
Yarden Bibas, 35
Sagui Dekel-Chen, 36
Yair Horn, 46
Omer Wenkert, 23
Sasha Trufanov, 28
Eliya Cohen, 27
Or Levy, 34
Avera Mengistu, 38
Tal Shoham, 39
Omer Shem-Tov, 22

Shabbat shalom.