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[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

Marlène Engelhorn, the German heiress whose family became wealthy from manufacturing the Zyklon B for the gas chambers of Auschwitz, will be sailing to Gaza on the next Gaza flotilla.

A white, privileged, nepo-baby who inherited millions from her Nazi grandparents from the mass murder of Jews is also anti-Israel.

I did not see that coming.

[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

NEW DETAILS ABOUT THE ANTISEMITIC VUELING FLIGHT INCIDENT:

The family of the 21-year-old camp director — the one we saw violently arrested and handcuffed on the floor — has shared new information.

After her arrest, the young woman was taken alone into a room inside the airport with a police officer, leaving the children scared and abandoned in the terminal.

While alone with the officer, she was told she would be banned from entering Spain for two years. He then began questioning her about Israel.

To be clear: this woman is French. She was managing a group of 40 French Jewish children, aged 13 to 15, on a trip to Spain.

There is absolutely no connection to Israel.

As a reminder, the young woman was removed from the plane by police, along with the children, for singing in Hebrew.

They were then ordered to hand over their phones and delete any videos.

When she refused to comply with this illegal and alarming demand, she was thrown to the floor and arrested, in front of 40 terrified children.

[ד״ר עינת וילף Dr. Einat Wilf @EinatWilf]

Some thoughts on the US President's proposal for Gaza:
1) Look here at the attached image of one of the hostage release productions. What the President correctly sees is that Gaza has no objective geographic problem. It is not some windswept landlocked area facing droughts. It is located on a beautiful part of the Mediterranean with soft sands from the Egyptian Delta. It sits at the cross roads of two ancient trade routes. Connected by train through Israel to the Red Sea, it could provide competition to the Suez Canal (is this also part of the thinking?). It has energy reserves. It has everything it needs to be a major trading and tourism hub (and a US military base?).

The only problem Gaza has is politics - its people are committed to an ideology of destruction (sustained in that by organizations like UNRWA) - meaning destroy what the Jews have built next door rather than build for themselves. What the President seems to notice is that Gaza's inhabitants could have built for themselves something remarkable on this strip of land, and instead they chose - and it is an ideological choice - to turn it into an integrated weaponized landscape for the singular purpose of destroying Israel.

So the President sees what Palestinians, Egyptians, even Jordanians, should have long ago seen - Gaza is an extremely valuable piece of land - if, and that's a big if - the politics can somehow be moved from ones of destruction to construction, figuratively and literally.

2) However, the Arab world is no stranger to grand US building project ideas intended to help settle Arab refugees and move on from war. What the Arab countries have done in the past with such grand US ideas, beginning in the 1950's is take the money, hijack the agency though which it was to be done (UNRWA), build nothing, and keep the Arab refugees generation after generation turning them into a people - the Palestinians - tragically organized around the idea of no Jewish state.

This means that any grand project depends on taking advanced actions that will not allow it to be hijacked. As the US defunds UNRWA it must avoid repeating a situation where western money flows, but the politics of destruction remain. Perhaps, this is why the President speaks of the US taking over the territory immediately.

3) How can the politics of destruction be changed? The key is to end the lie and the scam of perpetual Palestinian refugeehood and the violent vision of "return" which underpinned the October 7th attacks and massacres, and which for generations have sent Gazans the message that Gaza is not their home, but a launchpad from which to "liberate Palestine from the River to the Sea".

How? transmute any notion of refugeehood and "right of return" into property rights in Gaza.

Gaza's inhabitants, regardless if they are given temporary or permanent refuge in other Arab countries, and even if they just remain in Gaza, must be struck from UNRWA's records as refugees and must each individually recognize that they possess no such thing as a "right of return" into Israel.

In return for that, and only after this is done, each Gaza resident receives a unit of property rights (such as an apartment) to be realized when Gaza is rebuilt. That right can then be realized or sold, but it is a simple property right in Gaza, where Gaza is home, not a destructive vision of "return" to somewhere else.

4) Finally, if I were Jordan, I would finally recognize how valuable Gaza is and I will make a play for it - offer to provide temporary or permanent refuge to Gazans - and in return take over Gaza as a Jordanian foot in the Mediterranean. I would then offer Israel to give back the Arabs of the West Bank the Jordanian citizenship that was stripped of them in exchange of Israel allowing two train routes from Jordan into Gaza through the West Bank and from the Red Sea, creating competition to the Suez Canal. (and if I'm Egypt, I would try to prevent Jordan from doing this, and offer to take over Gaza myself).

Bottom line: what the President's proposal served to highlight is this: Gaza is an incredibly valuable piece of territory. Whoever can figure out how to change its politics from the current ones of obsessive destruction to forward-looking construction, will benefit greatly themselves and will benefit the region more broadly.

[Amjad Taha أمجد طه @amjadt25]

When do you think the West will start paying attention?

[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

In a statement to a French news agency, senior Hamas member Bassem Naim stated that "These successive recognitions are the direct result of this brave resistance and the legendary steadfastness of the Palestinian people. We believe this will be a turning point in the international position on the Palestinian issue," in response to several European nations calling for the recognition of a Palestinian state.

Notably, those European nations made no mention of the hostages.

So, to get this straight, Hamas commits the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, breaks multiple international laws concerning human rights and war crimes, and now they get to make a fluffy statement about the resilience of Palestinians? Also, don't think I didn't notice the conflating of every Palestinian citizen with Hamas.

Of course Palestinians deserve autonomy but maybe in that statement you could add a caveat that the murderous terrorist organization shouldn't be in charge of said state?

[Bari Weiss @bariweiss]

Remember the 19-year-old woman we saw dragged out of a jeep by Hamas with her gray sweatpants covered in blood?

This is her mother's primal scream:

https://t.co/aUaImISW8b

[Yael Bar tur @yaelbt]

As a left-wing Israeli let me tell you: there will be no forgiveness.

We won’t forgive Hamas, their supporters, and those who choose to look the other way.

[Amjad Taha أمجد طه @amjadt25]

Breaking News: Just now, #Hamas snipers have reportedly killed dozens of children and women on the streets, targeting those attempting to travel from north to south #Gaza and those displaying white flags as a sign of peace. Similar acts have previously been attributed to Palestinian and #Hezbollah terrorists in Syria. They do not want civilians to leave; they want to use them as human shields and kill anyone who attempts to leave. Hamas terrorists in Gaza will, as usual, blame #Israel because it is easy and there is media that accepts this propaganda.
#HamasisISIS #HamasTerrorrists

[Emanuel Miller ✡️ @emanumiller]

Hundreds of journalists and photographers from media companies all over the world attended today the screening of a film of assorted footage showing the extent of the horrors committed by Hamas.

Footage was taken from numerous sources, including from bodycams worn by the terrorists, dashcams, from emergency rescue personnel and Israeli security service cameras.

What they saw left many of the reporters visibly shocked and disgusted.

[Amy Spiro @AmySpiro]

President Isaac Herzog on Sky News reveals materials found on a USB fob on the body of a Hamas terrorist in Israel with "instructions how to produce chemical weapons" including preparing a device for dispersing cyanide agents.

[Israel ישראל @Israel]

Hamas terrorists in their own voices:

Listen to the conversation between Hamas operatives as they discuss the failed Islamic Jihad rocket launch on the Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital on October 17, 2023.

[Yael Bar tur @yaelbt]

Heroes of Israel: This is Dor, a massage therapist.

His escape included grabbing rifles off dead soldiers, picking up injured friends, and swerving into at least two terrorists on motorcycles to drive them off the road. A horror action film that Hollywood can’t even imagine. Please share his story.

[Mayim Bialik @missmayim]

I am resisting the desire to post everything I want everyone to know all of the time. This Bari Weiss article from The Free Press says a lot of what needs to be said. Please read and beware people celebrating right now.

https://t.co/pRSYBU9FvP

[Yael Bar tur @yaelbt]

This is blunt but I stand behind it:
If you, from the comfort of your home in the west, encourage people to use brutal savagery to achieve an unattainable goal - the blood of Israelis and Palestinians is on your hands.

[Hila @thehilamonster]

@Google @googlemaps @MTA I didn’t know the 1 train did this… 🤔

[Hila @thehilamonster]

@googlemaps @Google @MTA I didn’t realize the 1 train did this…. 🤔

[Holly Figueroa O'Reilly @AynRandPaulRyan]

The greatest President and the next President.

[Mari Copeny @LittleMissFlint]

Greatest president is trending....so here is a photo of the greatest president currently and the future greatest president in one photo 😉

[ADL New York / New Jersey @ADL_NYNJ]

Thank you @NYPDHateCrimes for talking to our amazing NY/NJ Glass Leadership Class about your important work combating #hate in #NewYork

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