Mr. Solomon

I sing songs and post about stuff, including politics, about which I have written. Actor. "DeNiro type." Philalēthēs. Veritatis studiosus. Sophias synagōgeus.

[Mr. Solomon @SolBlog]

A little Billy Joel, fingerpicked. Cat on the ottoman next to me but you can't really see her... She's Got A Way...

[Mr. Solomon @SolBlog]

@StopAntisemites

[Captain Allen @CptAllenHistory]

On This Day — June 5, 2004

While the world debated “resistance” and a “peace process” that Yasser Arafat had already rejected, Palestinian terror groups were systematically turning children into walking bombs.

On this day, IDF forces discovered and safely detonated two explosive belts hidden inside schoolbags.

This was not some one-time fluke — it was policy.

Just weeks later:

- July 3: 16-year-old Muataz Takhsin Karini was stopped with a 12 kg explosive belt.

- July 14: 17-year-old Ahmed Bushkar from Nablus was arrested before he could detonate.

Earlier that year, an 11-year-old boy was caught at a Nablus checkpoint carrying a bag packed with explosives, and a 14-year-old was stopped wearing a suicide vest loaded with nails and ball bearings designed to maximize civilian casualties.

They didn’t send these children against soldiers on the battlefield.

They sent them — brainwashed, strapped with death, and promised paradise — to blow up Jews at bus stops, cafés, markets, and checkpoints.

This is what “resistance” truly looked like: hiding murder in a child’s backpack.

An ideology that glorifies turning its own children into suicide bombers has already lost its soul — and any claim to moral legitimacy.

[🥷🦅Austin Wade Petersen 🇺🇲🥋 @AP4Liberty]

"We should make libertarians look a little better by..."

"BUTDIDYOUKNOWTHEUSSLIBERTYWASATTACKEDBYJOOSANDTHEYSAWTHEFLAGBUTSTILLKEPTSHOOTINGANDISRAELREEEEEEEEEEE"

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

Thomas Massie: “There is zero evidence that Iran was trying to build a nuclear weapon, Netanyahu is warmongering.”

The Deputy Speaker of the Iranian Parliament: “We tried to develop nuclear weapons, but couldn't keep it secret.”

[StopAntisemitism @StopAntisemites]

Albuquerque, New Mexico - Rex Crofton, 25, is facing felony charges after he targeted Congregation Albert Synagogue and a nearby JCC center in separate incidents on June 2nd, smashing windows and doors.

Crofton is charged with two counts of felony criminal damage to property, desecration of a religious site, a hate crime enhancement and disorderly conduct.

[Andrew Fox @Mr_Andrew_Fox]

The Gaza war was fought with proportionality, outstanding protection of civilian life, and was started by Hamas.

[Jan Jekielek @JanJekielek]

For 37 years, over 2,000 images taken by a Chinese state media photographer were hidden in a metal box, surviving brutal purges—until now.

These raw, powerful photos show the courage of the students, the scale of the protests, and the horror of what the Chinese Communist Party did.

Now, The @EpochTimes is making the photos public for the first time. [1/2]

[Mr. Solomon @SolBlog]

@arvidthetwit TWO WEEKS!

[Mr. Solomon @SolBlog]

She looks like Arnold Schwarzenegger is hiding inside her.

[Michael Malice @michaelmalice]

Thank you California for putting Katie "the House" Porker in 5th place tonight, ending her chances of higher office

Oh well maybe she can work in the Ozempic mines

[Moy Miz @moymiz]

Russia doesn’t do tourist visas for Americans right now. The State Dept has a Level 4 advisory - Do not travel. So when @RealCandaceO shows up in Moscow calling it a “family vacation,” ask yourself: how does that happen?

Remember Brittney Griner? Russia held her like a chess piece until we traded a literal arms dealer to get her back. Americans aren’t tourists to the Kremlin; they’re assets.

Candace didn’t sneak in. She was invited to speak at Putin’s own economic forum, alongside sanctioned Russian state figures. The only way an American walks into Russia in 2026 is if Russia opens the door.

Call it what you want. But nothing about that trip was a vacation.

[Ancient History Hub @AncientHistorry]

Around 1,950 years ago in Pompeii, a weaver named Successus fell in love with a barmaid named Iris.

She did not love him back.

We know this because his rival, a man named Severus, decided to humiliate him publicly. He grabbed something sharp and carved this into a wall for the whole city to read:

"Successus the weaver loves the innkeeper's slave girl named Iris. She does not care about him at all. But he begs her to have pity on him. His rival wrote this. Goodbye."

Imagine walking to work and seeing that with your name on it.

Successus found it. And instead of letting it go, he carved his reply directly underneath:

"Envious one, why do you get in the way? Yield to a man who is better looking and being treated very unfairly."

Severus came back one more time to end it:

"I have spoken. I have written. You love Iris, but she does not love you."

Then, in 79 AD, Vesuvius erupted and buried the wall, the tavern, and the entire argument under 20 feet of ash. The thread was frozen mid-beef for almost two millennia until archaeologists dug it up and translated it.

We will never know who got the girl. We do not even know if any of the three survived.

Pompeii has over 11,000 of these inscriptions. Bar reviews. Bragging. Bad poetry. A bakery wall that says "Welcome, hungry people." Two guys fighting over a girl in the comments.

The technology changes. We do not.

[Captain Allen @CptAllenHistory]

On This Day — June 3, 1948

Over half a million Arabs poured into Mandate Palestine in just 12 years to take advantage of the economic opportunities created by Jewish development — the only place in the entire Middle East with a growing Arab middle class.

Robert F. Kennedy, then only 22, made that striking observation in his reporting from British Mandate Palestine in April 1948 (just weeks before Israel’s independence). His dispatch was published this day in the Boston Post.

RFK wrote:

“The Jews point with pride to the fact that over 500,000 Arabs ... came into Palestine to take advantage of living conditions existing in no other Arab state. This is the only country in the Near and Middle East where an Arab middle class is in existence.”

He described how the Jews had transformed arid desert into flourishing orange groves through relentless labor and ingenuity. Tel Aviv had grown from a small village into a modern metropolis of over 200,000 in a single generation.

RFK noted that the Jews had already built a thriving community with its own institutions, language, and national characteristics — and were determined to reclaim their ancient homeland “as of right and not on sufferance.”

A young Bobby Kennedy saw the truth clearly: a people returning home, rebuilding their land with their own hands, and refusing to live as guests in their own country.

[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

A visibly Jewish man checks into a hotel in London.

The TV greets him with a customized message of "Free Palestine."

This comes a mere day after a hotel in Bavaria told customers that Jews were not allowed to stay with them.

If it happens again tomorrow do we finally get to call it antisemitism?

[Guy Benson @guypbenson]

This is Todd “Let’s Roll” Beamer, who died heroically while trying to retake United Flight 93 from Al Qaeda terrorists on 9/11. His final resting place, is in Cranbury, NJ — where he was living with his wife and children before his murder. Cranbury is located in NJ-12, where the new Democratic nominee for Congress is Adam Hamawy.

Hamawy was a close associate and translator to Omar Abdel-Rahman, aka the ‘Blind Sheikh,’ an arch terrorist convicted of masterminding multiple plots against targets in NYC — including the World Trade Center. Hamawy testified at Adbel-Rahman’s trial, as a defense witness.

It has also been reported that Hamawy traveled to Bosnia to volunteer at an organization that was later unmasked as an Al Qaeda front group.

One of Hamawy’s loudest and most high-profile supporters and endorsers has openly declared that America deserved the 9/11 attacks.

Hamawy is now the prohibitive frontrunner to represent Todd Beamer’s district in the United States Congress.

[Bethany S. Mandel @bethanyshondark]

Shout out to the woman following me and seven kids around the Costco in Wheaton, MD saying “world peace for Gaza” until I heard her and we had words.

[Shabbos Kestenbaum @ShabbosK]

My sister's friend sent me this video of her being assaulted on the NYC subway yesterday after being told "Jews eat kids."

After the video cut, the assailant began pulling the victim's hair out as well. (I can send media the pics).

Our Islamist Mayor has praised terrorists like the Holy Land Five and refuses to condemn calls for terrorism in America. so there's no expectation the Islamist will help.

I'm therefore asking the DOJ and FBI to investigate and ensure ALL Americans are safe from more pro-Palestinian attacks.

[J.E. Dyer ☘️ @OptimisticCon]

Regarding what got Trump into the war (see the article: "Trump: 'I started Iran war, would be no Israel without me'"), do people who support Israel and regime-change in Iran want Trump to say, “Yeah, Israel made me do it”?

Trump’s making the point that he decided for American reasons to take initiative in the war. I advise letting him do that.

As a general note, letting our minds get all riled up by reports of nasty language just keeps us riled up, and not thinking clearly. Just stop. Don't let the incessant drip of these and similar reports keep us whipsawed and in a tailspin.

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[Mr. Solomon @SolBlog]

@GBNT1952

[Ammanichanda @Arkasiraee]

A rare insight into the working of the radio proximity fuze developed and used during World War II, 1944 with key contributions from General Electric.

Inside the cutaway, the system reveals a miniature radar set powered by a fragile glass electrolyte ampoule that shattered under launch acceleration, activating the battery and bringing the fuze online in flight. Once armed, it emitted a continuous radio signal and measured reflections from nearby targets, triggering detonation when an aircraft entered roughly the 20 to 70 foot range, where fragmentation effects were most effective.

It costed about 18 to 20 dollars per unit in 1945 at wartime production scale, that still feels strikingly advanced even 75+ years later.

Video Source:- Inert Ordnance

[Alex Gandler @AlexGandler]

I met Ben once. We were seated at the same dinner table.

At first, we did not recognise each other. Neither of us had any idea we would end up at the same table.

I asked him where I knew him from. He replied, “Ben, from Ben & Jerry’s.”

I smiled and said, “Nice to meet you. I’m Alex, Deputy Consul General of Israel to the Southeastern United States.”

This was at the height of the Ben & Jerry’s Israel controversy. I decided not to raise politics, out of respect for our gracious host. But I was also biding my time, because I suspected he would not be able to resist bringing it up.

About an hour into dinner, he came over to talk.

I saw it as an opportunity to understand where he was coming from, to explain a few things, and to keep the conversation as civil as possible. And to be fair, it was civil. He was pleasant, curious, and polite.

But quite quickly, I also realised he was completely ignorant about Israel.

He had never visited the country or the region. He had basic facts wrong, not only about the narrative, but about the foundations of the conflict itself: the makeup of the countries involved, the history, and the deeply rooted reasons each side sees the conflict the way it does.

For him, it was simple: there are people who appear oppressed, so someone must be the oppressor.

I do not blame Ben personally. He is a businessman who sells ice cream. Why should he be expected to understand Israel, the Middle East, or geopolitics?

The real problem is with those who treat him as an authority.

The media gives him a pedestal to speak about issues he clearly does not understand. And that is the absurdity of it all: taking an ice cream salesman and presenting him as a voice of moral clarity on one of the most complex conflicts in the world.