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British composer & songwriter enjoying a sunny life in LA.

[Steph, Like Curry @StephanAltman]

@FloppingAces 🤭

[Nicole Lampert @nicolelampert]

Important post for the likes of ‘Comrade’ Owen Jones who want to abolish the state of Israel in the hope of a utopian state of freedom that will not exist.
@LiranNathan

[Steph, Like Curry @StephanAltman]

@MusialaEra every time i watch this i dont really understand what just happened 🤯

[Ahmed pak 🇵🇰 @Ahmedpak378456]

When society feared capitalism, Jews were called bankers.

When society feared communism, Jews were called Bolsheviks.

When religion defined Europe, Jews were called Christ-killers

When social justice became popular, Jews were called settler-colonialists

Antisemitism always finds the thing society hates most.

THEN CALLS IT JEWISH.

[Dr. Maalouf ‏ @realMaalouf]

Mehdi Hasan was 30 years old in 2009 when he called non-Muslims ‘animals with diseased minds.’

He was so extreme that he even attacked ‘dog and music lovers’, since dogs and music are haram in Islam. He also compared homosexuals to pedophiles.

He only apologized a decade later, because the video leaked.

Mehdi claims he has totally changed, which I find hard to believe given his actions and the fact that he practices Twelver Shia Islam, where lying (Taqiyya) is completely allowed.

Mehdi hates when this video goes viral. It would be a shame if it did.

[Steph, Like Curry @StephanAltman]

@zarahsultana It’s
Not
A
Genocide
You
Narcissist

Start posting about actual genocides you clown

[George Levantine @GeorgeLevantine]

From the ground in Lebanon:
I have family both in Beirut and in the south.

My family in Beirut live in an area overlooking the Dahiye, Hezbollah’s stronghold. They stand on their balcony and watch Israel bomb specific Hezbollah military locations embedded within the civilian population. They see the explosions and know about it way before the news report it. They are literally standing on their balcony watching and are not worried about Israel hitting them. They sent me a video of the massive explosion when Nasrallah was killed long before I saw it on the news. 

Also in the South, my relatives tell the exact same story. Israel only hits areas in which Hezbollah’s thugs have embedded themselves. 

ALL sovereign Lebanese want Hezbollah defeated because Hezbollah is an extension of the IRGC and they are holding Lebanon hostage. 

Time to be honest about reporting the news. Every time you attack Israel, you are hurting the chances for all the good people in the region to be liberated from the Iranian regime and from Hezbollah and from Islamists.

Please consider a more honest approach and a truthful approach about news reporting. Hezbollah is always the one instigating and they desire to destroy Israel whether Israel attacks or not. 

Israel is the good guy. The others are the bad guys‼️🙏

[Frank McCormick @CBHeresy]

As I explained to my students, nations are people, states are political units, and prior to the modern State of Israel, the Jewish diaspora remained the nation of Israel.

And yes, the Israel was one of the pillars upon which America was founded.

Here’s what the Founders said:

“I will insist that the Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation.” — John Adams

“The Republic of the Hebrews” was repeatedly cited by Adams as one of history’s great models of government.

The first national seal proposed by Benjamin Franklin and Adams depicted Moses leading the Israelites through the Red Sea with the motto, “Resistance to Tyrants is Obedience to God.”

America’s most famous symbol of liberty bears the words of Leviticus:

“Proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof.”

The Founders did not merely read the Hebrew Bible. They saw ancient Israel as a model of covenant, liberty, law, and republican self-government.

To deny the influence of Israel on the American founding is to deny what the Founders themselves openly said and wrote.

[Steph, Like Curry @StephanAltman]

Since before 1948, all conflict between Israel and it's neighbors have been about ridding the region of Jews.

Pan-Arab Nasserist nationalism was a means to that end.

The "Palestinian statehood" narrative is a means to that end.

Hezbollah is a means to that end.

And US campus clowns & the Green-Red alliance are means to that end.

[Rawan Osman روان عثمان @RawaneOsmane]

I grew up in a Hezbollah stronghold in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley. Israel was not a country in my education. It was a crime. A wound kept open on purpose. Every funeral, every slogan, every sermon pointed in the same direction: there, across the border, is the source of your suffering. Believe it. Repeat it. Pass it on.

I believed it. I repeated it. For years.

Then I moved to France. And I met Jews.

Not the abstraction. Not the enemy. People. Neighbors. Colleagues. And the collision between what I had been taught and what I was seeing in front of me was so violent — so intellectually embarrassing — that I had no honest choice but to start over. To read. To ask. To dismantle, brick by brick, everything I had been given as truth.

What I found on the other side of that dismantling was not just the absence of hatred. It was something I had not expected: admiration.

Let me be precise about what I am defending and what I am not.

I am not defending every Israeli policy. I am not defending any government unconditionally. I am not asking anyone to check their critical faculties at the door.

I am defending what Israel is. What it represents. What it has built, against every conceivable pressure, in a region that has largely failed its own people.

Israel is a democracy in a neighborhood of autocracies. It is a state governed by law in a region where law is routinely weaponized against citizens. It is a country where Arabs sit in parliament, where women lead, where dissent is not a death sentence. It is imperfect — as every democracy is — but it is genuinely, structurally different from everything surrounding it.

That difference is not incidental. It is the point.

The so-called Palestinian cause, as it is prosecuted today, is not a national liberation movement. I say this not to dismiss Palestinian suffering; suffering is real, and real people pay its price. I say it because the infrastructure of the “cause” — its funders, its ideologues, its loudest champions — has never been interested in Palestinian statehood. It has been interested in Jewish elimination.

Look at who built the movement’s international architecture. Look at the 1997 Tehran OIC summit, where the language of “apartheid” was first systematically attached to Israel, not by Palestinians, but by the Iranian regime, for export. Look at Durban. Look at who profits when the conflict continues and who loses when it resolves. The answer is never the Palestinian family in Gaza. The answer is always the regime, the militia, the ideological infrastructure that needs the wound open.

The Palestinian cause, as it functions on the world stage today, is a tool of an anti-western civilizational project. Its goal is not a state alongside Israel. Its goal is a world without Israel, and, by extension, a world where the values Israel represents are defeated. Liberal democracy. Jewish self-determination. The idea that a small people can survive, build, and insist on their own dignity against the will of those who would erase them.

When western progressives march under that banner, they are not marching for freedom. They are marching for the annihilation of the only thing in the Middle East that resembles what they claim to value.

I came to Judaism slowly, the way you come to something true, not in a rush, but in accumulation.

It was not the politics that moved me first. It was the texts. The insistence, running through thousands of years of Jewish thought, that the human being is created in the image of G-d, and that this is not a metaphor but an obligation. An obligation to see the other. To argue. To question. To hold power accountable, including your own.

I had grown up in a culture where the highest virtue was submission. To the leader, the militia, the narrative. Judaism confronted me with the opposite proposition…

Read the rest of the essay on my Facebook page.

[Steph, Like Curry @StephanAltman]

@jacobsoboroff Aren’t you missing the point? Not that the actual counting is shady, but rather that the ballots themselves are shady?

[Insurrection Barbie @DefiyantlyFree]

WHAT WE GIVE ISRAEL

The standard US military aid package is $3.8 billion per year $3.3 billion in Foreign Military Financing plus $500 million for joint missile defense programs. Israel must spend most of this on US-made products and services, and by 2028 essentially all of it must be spent in America.

WHAT ISRAEL GIVES BACK

1. F-35 R&D Savings: 55 billion
Israel resolved multiple technical issues during the F-35’s early development, reducing US R&D costs by an estimated $55 billion and accelerating deployment timelines.  The total F-35 program cost was $55 billion in R&D Israel’s combat testing effectively saved the US from having to discover and fix those problems on their own dime.

2. Intelligence Value: equivalent to 5 CIAs (75 billion/year)

General George Keegan, former Chief of US Air Force Intelligence, stated that Israel’s intel value equals “5 CIAs” providing a 400% return on investment on the $3.8 billion aid package. One CIA budget runs approximately $15 billion.  Five times that equals roughly $75 billion worth of intelligence annually for $3.8 billion in aid.

3. Strategic Base Value: $15–20 billion/year

As stated by Admiral Elmo Zumwalt and General Alexander Haig, Israel is the largest US aircraft carrier that does not require US military personnel on board, cannot be sunk, and is deployed in a critical region sparing the US the need to manufacture, deploy, and maintain real aircraft carriers with ground divisions, which would cost the US $15–20 billion annually. 

4. F-35 Export Multiplier: $40 billion in sales, $173 billion backlog
Israel’s battle-tested performance and upgrades to the F-35 contribute to $40 billion in US exports and a $173 billion backlog for US industry.  Israel essentially serves as the world’s most credible advertisement for American weapons.

5. Jobs and Economic Output: 255,000 jobs, $72 billion annually
The F-35 economic engine alone supports 290,000 US employees and $72 billion in annual economic output.  Israeli stakeholders hold contracts with over 1,000 American companies across 48 states, DC, and Puerto Rico.

Why do people need to lie about this?

Because they have nefarious reasons.

There’s no other reason to lie about this stuff.

[Steph, Like Curry @StephanAltman]

@HonestReporting @nytimes Amazing to keep learning that I didn’t hate NYT enough

[Let The Truth Ring Out @SayNoToTerror7]

Question: Which of these are genocides?

3% = Percent of populace of Gaza killed in the war

2.5% = Percent of populace of US killed in the civil war

4% = Percent of populace of Europe killed in WW2

33% = Percent of Muslim men in Srebrenica killed in 12 days

50-75% = Percent of Armenians in Turkey killed by the Young Turks

67% = Percent of European Jews killed by the Nazis

Do you get it now or do you need to call a friend for help?

[Steph, Like Curry @StephanAltman]

@tparsi You are a bot or a fucking idiot

[Haviv Rettig Gur @havivrettiggur]

But Ihab, this is literally Hamas's view of the war. They genuinely believe that Gaza -- indeed, the entire Palestinian future -- is a worthy sacrifice to lay on the altar of the larger cause of Islamic restoration. Hamas are tyrants; none of this is about freedom.

This is muqawama. And it's the dominant political lens for talking about Israel among a great many Muslim elites.

It's the thing everyone pretends not to see, but that Israelis will never again unsee.

It's a doctrine that needs war to survive, like Nazism before it. A martyrdom cult that looms immense to Israelis and explains why they think they're right even when the whole world tells them they're wrong.

It is why Hezbollah will yet drag Lebanon into the abyss while pretending to "defend" it. It is why Iran is a gutted, broken nation with the nominal GDP per capita of Haiti despite sitting on some of the world's biggest energy reserves. All must be sacrificed on the altar of muqawama.

And this ideology will only go away when it is soundly and decisively defeated. Only then will there be a chance for the kind of rebuilding and future that people like you and me want for Palestinians.

[Steph, Like Curry @StephanAltman]

@tiagoguilhermef a human soldier or a rape-dog soldier ?

[Steph, Like Curry @StephanAltman]

@JoosyJew what an ordeal for these poor humanitarian souls. especially after having been raped by israeli rape dogs. terrible.

[Steph, Like Curry @StephanAltman]

@RamAbdu ok lets just take your word for it shall we ???

[Steph, Like Curry @StephanAltman]

@tufpraise which people dont care?????
i thought everyone despises him no ???

[Steph, Like Curry @StephanAltman]

@RoKhanna actually i think the use of the word genocide is not completely asinine :

for israel to "intentionally eradicate the entirety of a group" (ie genocide) of hamas and other jew-hating islamists does seems fair game