The last phone calls made by 9/11 victims to their loved ones:
"I just wanted to let you know I love you and I'm stuck in this building in New York. There's lots of smoke, and I just wanted you to know that I love you always."
— Melissa Harrington Hughes, in New York for a single day of work, to her husband Sean.
"Jules, this is Brian. Listen, I'm on an airplane that's been hijacked. If things don't go well, and it's not looking good, I just want you to know I absolutely love you. I want you to do good, go have good times. I'll see you when you get there."
— Brian Sweeney, aboard Flight 175, to his wife Julie.
"I want to tell you I love you. Please tell my children that I love them very much, and I'm so sorry."
— CeeCee Lyles, flight attendant on Flight 93, to her husband Lorne.
"Tell my mother that I love her and that she's the best mom in the whole world."
— Melissa Doi, 83rd floor, South Tower, to a 911 operator.
"If I don't make it, please call my family and let them know how much I love them."
— Todd Beamer, aboard Flight 93, moments before the passengers fought back.
Every one of them knew. And when there was no time left for anything else, not one of them spoke of money, or work, or the things we spend our lives chasing. They spoke of love, and of the people they called family.
We drift through so much of life half asleep, carried along by routine, numbed by a rhythm we never chose. And yet, when everything is stripped away and the noise finally stops, the truest part of us rises to the surface...
In the end, love is all that matters.
So Dolphins will close 8-9. This 6 year rebuild brought us 2 wild card losses, an incredible Tua performance in Week 2 in Baltimore 3 years ago, some entertaining 1 p.m. home games against bad teams, 1 win vs. Bills and two neat 4:25 home wins vs. Dallas, 49ers. That covers it.
SUPERBOWL AD TO BE SHOWN TOMORROW
We thank billionaire businessman Robert Kraft who spent $7million of his own money just to run a single 60 second ad tomorrow.
@AICM_mx@DeniseDresserG Claro, una hora y quince minutos para salir del aeropuerto es algo “normal”, que asco de personas. Pobres ineficientes. Y lo peor es lo que viene.
"El final de nuestras vidas comienza el día en que guardamos silencio ante lo que deberiamos de alzar la voz"
Martin Luther King
Mi participación en el Senado de la República
Gracias @XochitlGalvez por escucharnos.
#AlcemosLaVoz
A fact that goes missed:
In the Palestinian state in Gaza there was no Israeli “occupation” whatsoever.
Not one inch.
Not one Israeli soldier or civilian.
In 2005 Israel officially left the entire Gaza Strip to the very last inch.
We pulled out ALL Israelis and ALL IDF soldiers.
We pulled back to the 1949 borders.
At first, we applied no blockade or siege.
We handed the keys over to the Palestinian authority.
At that point they had an opportunity to turn Gaza into an amazing and beautiful state.
A Singapore with beautiful beaches, hotels, tourism, business and culture.
They chose otherwise.
A majority of Palestinians voted Hamas whose explicit goal is to destroy Israel.
Hamas won both in Gaza and in Judea and Samaria (aka “the West Bank”).
They began shooting rockets from their new state into Israel.
Tens of thousands of rockets killed children and citizens of Israel, ever since.
THEY CHOSE DEATH FOR JEWS OVER LIFE FOR PALESTINIANS.
Their goal has never been to live side-by-side Israel, but to destroy Israel.
For the past 20 years Israelis hoped again and again that our neighbours seek happiness for their families and this will ultimately moderate them.
We Israelis believe in the inherent goodness of humans.
We were wrong.
Dead wrong.
This is the tough reality we’re facing.
This is a battle between an ideology of life and one of death.
We say “le-Haim” - to life.
We say “Shalom” - peace.
They say “itbach el yahud” - slaughter the Jews.
This is our reality of 2023.
Let me be clear: all Israelis, wall-to-wall are now united to bring total defeat to the terrorists agents of death.
Life will prevail over death.
Please don’t try to stop us, because we won’t until we win.
Am Yisrael Chai🇮🇱
Un poco de contexto histórico cuando se cumple una semana de los ataques terroristas de Hamás.
En 1903, en el suroeste de Rusia, ocurrió una matanza de judíos que marcó la historia.
49 judíos fueron torturados y asesinados solo por el hecho de ser judíos.
Ese pogrom, como se les conoce a los ataques de este tipo a lo largo de la historia, estableció un parteaguas en la historia judía, incluido un capítulo del desarrollo del sionismo, que supone - antes que nada- que el pueblo judío requería una tierra propia donde poder vivir y defenderse de este tipo de ataques, repetidos ad nauseam desde hace milenios.
Ataques solo POR EL HECHO de ser judíos, incluido el Holocausto, donde murieron 6 millones de personas, incluidos 1 millón de niños (invito al lector a hacer una pausa y reflexionar sobre esas dos cifras).
Hace una semana, terroristas de Hamás mataron a 1300 personas en el primer pogrom desde la Segunda Guerra.
La intención específica de los terroristas era violar, secuestrar, matar judíos, sí, por el hecho de ser judíos (esto no lo digo yo, está en los preceptos fundacionales de Hamás: la aniquilación explícita del pueblo judío)
En Kishinev murieron 49 judíos.
En Israel, el sábado y los días posteriores, murieron 1300.
Ofrezco este contexto, no para justificar ninguna política del gobierno de Israel, antes o después del sábado. En absoluto. Lo hago porque es importante conocer la historia, y en este conflicto, hay historia de décadas, siglos y hasta milenios.