Valter D. Borges

🇧🇷Direita & Grêmio🇪🇪

[Krisztina Maria @KrisztinaMaria]

Every time someone says "1948," we only get half the story. So here's the whole thing.

In November 1947, the UN voted to divide the land into two states, one Jewish and one Arab. The UN didn't give the Jews a country. It recognized a people with 3,000 years of roots in the land, who had been promised a home since 1917.

The Jews got a small, fragmented territory, and Jerusalem wasn't even part of it. They said yes anyway. The Arab leaders said no. The day after the vote, Jewish buses were attacked, and the country slid into war.

And to those who say Israel stole a country.

There was no Palestinian state to steal from. The land had been ruled by the Ottomans for 400 years and then by the British. Israel got its share through the UN. The rest came from a war the other side started.

On May 14, 1948, Israel declared independence. The next day, five Arab armies invaded from Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and Iraq. The goal wasn't a Palestinian state. The goal was that there would be no Jewish state.

Israel had no real army and barely any weapons, and many of its soldiers were Holocaust survivors who had come ashore only months earlier. They won because the alternative was to die.

Yes, around 700,000 Palestinians lost their homes in that war. Some were expelled by Israeli forces. That's documented, and it shouldn't be denied. Others fled the fighting, and some were told by their own leaders to leave their villages until the Arab armies had won. They didn't.

But there was another expulsion nobody talks about.

Around 850,000 Jews were driven out or pushed out of Arab countries like Iraq, Egypt, Yemen, and Morocco. Families who had lived there for centuries lost everything. The Jews of Jerusalem's Old City were expelled by Jordan.

Israel took them in and gave them new lives.

The Arab countries did the opposite with the Palestinians.

They kept them in camps and in refugee status that is now passed down to the fourth generation, so today there are nearly six million registered refugees.

In Lebanon, they're still barred from a long list of professions. And from 1948 to 1967, Jordan held the West Bank and Egypt held Gaza. Neither of them created a Palestinian state. They could have done it at any time.

Israel took in refugees, drained swamps, and built a beautiful country with no oil and enemies on every border.

The Palestinian leaders were offered the same chance, and they chose war instead. Imagine what could have been built if they had said yes.

The roughly 160,000 Arabs who stayed in Israel became Israeli citizens. Today they number around two million, with the right to vote, their own parties, and seats in parliament.

So when someone says Israel was built on expulsion, remember the whole picture. The Palestinians were offered a state before Israel even existed. The Arab side chose war. Israel defended itself.

Israel didn't start that war. It just refused to lose it.

Am Israel Chai.❤️‍🔥

[Ahmed Al-Khalidi @khalidi79397]

Israel in an apartheid state - Arabs make up about 21% of Israel’s population.

Israel in an apartheid state - Arab citizens of Israel can vote in national elections on the same legal basis as other Israeli citizens.

Israel in an apartheid state - Every vote has the same legal value. Israel’s parliamentary elections are required by law to be national, direct, equal, secret and proportional.

Israel in an apartheid state - Arab citizens serve in Israel’s parliament. As of 2026, Arab and Druze lawmakers serve both in Arab-led political parties and in broader national parties.

Israel in an apartheid state - Arab lawmakers can lead parliamentary committees. For example, Arab lawmaker Yasir Hujeirat currently chairs the parliament’s Science and Technology Committee.

Israel in an apartheid state - Arab politicians have served as government ministers. Arab citizens have held cabinet-level positions in Israeli governments.

Israel in an apartheid state - An Arab political party has participated in an Israeli governing coalition. In 2021, the Arab party Ra’am became part of the coalition supporting Israel’s government.

Israel in an apartheid state - Arab citizens also serve in major political parties that are not specifically Arab parties. Current examples include representatives in Likud, Yesh Atid, Yisrael Beitenu and other parties.

Israel in an apartheid state - Israel’s Declaration of Independence promises complete social and political equality to all citizens regardless of religion, race or sex. It also guarantees freedom of religion, conscience, language, education and culture.

Israel in an apartheid state - The Declaration of Independence specifically called on Arab residents to participate in building the country on the basis of “full and equal citizenship.”

Israel in an apartheid state - Arabic has legally recognized special status in Israel. Israeli law specifically protects the use and status of Arabic in dealings with government institutions.

Israel in an apartheid state - Non-Jewish citizens have the legal right to observe their own religious holidays and weekly days of rest.

Israel in an apartheid state - Arab judges serve in Israel’s court system, including at the highest levels of the judiciary. Arab judges have served on Israel’s Supreme Court as well as lower courts.

Israel in an apartheid state - Arab students are strongly represented in Israeli universities and colleges. More than 60,000 Arab students were enrolled in higher education in 2023–2024.

Israel in an apartheid state - Arab students now make up about 20% of undergraduate students in Israel. Their share reached a record 20.4%, roughly matching their share of the overall population.

Israel in an apartheid state - The number and proportion of Arab university students have roughly doubled since 2009–10. The increase has occurred at bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral levels.

Israel in an apartheid state - Israel operates a large Arabic-language public-school system. Arab children can attend schools where Arabic is the main language of instruction.

Israel in an apartheid state - Arab citizens play a major role in Israel’s healthcare system. The share of Arab doctors has risen substantially and is approaching their share of the population.

Israel in an apartheid state - Around 30% of new doctors entering Israel’s medical system are Arab.

Israel in an apartheid state - Arab Israelis make up roughly one-third of pharmacists in Israel. This is higher than their share of the overall population.

Israel in an apartheid state - Arab men and women work alongside Jewish Israelis throughout the healthcare system. Hospitals, clinics and pharmacies are among the most integrated workplaces in Israeli society.

Israel in an apartheid state - Arab women’s participation in the workforce has increased significantly. Among Arab women aged 25–54, labor-force participation reached about 50% in 2023.
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[Loay Alshareef لؤي الشريف @lalshareef]

Some “Free Palestine” activists ask me:

“Why don’t you stand with your Palestinian brothers and their aspirations?”

I answer:

“I do. I support their aspiration to live in dignity, prosperity, and peace side by side with Israel.”

Then they say (in Arabic):

“But we want to destroy Israel.”

And my answer is:

“Thank you for being clear. Then be equally clear when you speak on American campuses. Don’t present coexistence in English while advocating Israel’s destruction in Arabic.

I have seen the darkness of religious extremism with my own eyes. I once swallowed some of its narratives myself, and I fought my way out of that darkness.

So you expect someone like me, an Arab Muslim who has confronted radical Islamism to embrace a cause calling for another people’s destruction?

No, thank you.

I believe in God, and I have brains.

I stand by Israel’s right to exist. The prophets, kings, and heroes I grew up revering including figures revered in the Quran are inseparable from the history of that land and its peoples.

At the same time, I recognize Palestinian suffering and pain. It is real. Palestinians deserve dignity, security, prosperity, and a future for their children.

But that future cannot be built around destroying Israel. It requires leadership capable of taking Palestinians toward coexistence and a better future rather than sacrificing generation after generation to an endless conflict.

Two peoples can live. Two peoples can prosper. Neither needs to disappear for the other to have a future.”

And then comes the silence.

I have seen the darkness of hatred, and by the grace of God, I chose a different path.

It’s my life mission now.

Zero regrets.

All praise is due to God. 🙏🏼♥️

[Krisztina Maria @KrisztinaMaria]

THE TRUTH ABOUT GAZA NOBODY WANTS TO HEAR

Let's talk about what nobody wants to talk about.

Hamas is not a liberation movement. Hamas is a terrorist organization in the same family as ISIS and Al-Qaeda. The same ideology of holy war and the same hatred of Jews and of everything the West stands for.

The difference is that Hamas has a territory, a government, and millions of people under its control. That doesn't make them less dangerous. It makes them more dangerous.

Israel pulled out of Gaza completely in 2005. Every soldier and every settler was removed. The answer wasn't a state. The answer was Hamas. In 2007 they seized power by force and threw political opponents off rooftops. There hasn't been an election since. The blockade came after, not before. So to those who say "context"…That's the context.

Half of Gaza's population wasn't even born when Hamas took power. They've never been allowed to choose anything else. That's exactly why it's not Palestinians you're defending when you celebrate "the resistance." It's their jailers.

For years, Israel let millions of dollars from Qatar flow into Gaza every month. The money was meant to pay public salaries, help poor families, and keep the power on. Meanwhile, cement and aid meant to rebuild Gaza became hundreds of miles of tunnels, rockets, and weapons depots. It was a mistake to believe the money went where it was supposed to. But that mistake proves one thing…Whatever Gaza gets goes to war first.

And the tunnels aren't placed at random. Hamas built them under hospitals, schools, and UN buildings. Under Al-Shifa, Gaza's largest hospital. Under the headquarters of the UN aid agency. One of their leaders said openly that the tunnels are for the fighters and that protecting civilians is the UN's job. When Israel warns with leaflets, text messages, phone calls, and evacuation routes, Hamas has told people to stay put. When one army says "leave" and the other says "stay," who is it that needs dead civilians?

Because the dead get used. The Hamas-run health ministry counts them without distinguishing between terrorists and children, and the world's media repeats the numbers. When a hospital in Gaza was hit in October 2023, it went around the world within hours that Israel had killed hundreds. Several intelligence agencies later concluded it was most likely a misfired rocket from Islamic Jihad. The correction never reached the same screens.

And it starts early. At Hamas summer camps, kids learn to carry weapons and march in uniform. On Hamas children's TV, the youngest have been taught that Jews are enemies to be fought and that the greatest thing you can become is a martyr. Schoolbooks celebrate terrorists as heroes. That's not how you raise children for peace. That's how you raise the next generation of Hamas.

Their 1988 charter calls for killing Jews. Not Israelis. Jews. On October 7 they did it, and they filmed it themselves because they were proud. Afterward, one of their leaders said publicly they would do it again and again.

So when someone says "I defend Gaza," the question is: Which Gaza? Because Gaza as a political cause has been Hamas's cause for almost twenty years. Hamas defined what "resistance" means, and it's their slogans being chanted in the streets of Western cities.

You can't celebrate "the resistance" and claim to reject the people who make it up. You can't call it genocide when Israel defends itself and call it context when Hamas slaughters young people at a music festival.

If you truly wanted good things for ‘Palestinians’, you'd demand they be freed from Hamas. That's the only liberation that counts.

Anything else is defending terror.

[O Patriota 🇧🇷🇺🇸🇦🇷🇺🇾 @leandroacastro]

Grupo Vikings de Bombacha!

O Acampamento Farroupilha Mais ao Norte do Mundo é realizado anualmente em Eidsvoll, na região da zona rural de Oslo, na Noruega.

[Davood Hosseini @1DavoodHosseini]

Hat irgendjemand in ganz Europa bis heute gehört, dass ein Jude eine Moschee attackiert hat?
Dass ein Jude Muslime auf der Straße angegriffen hat?
Dass von Juden in Europa eine Welle der Kriminalität ausgeht?
Ist das nicht allein schon ein eindeutiges Zeichen dafür, mit wem ein friedliches Zusammenleben möglich ist – und mit wem nicht?

[Rodrigo Constantino @Rconstantino]

E esse é o PGR imparcial que pediu nulidade?!

[Sam Pancher @SamPancher]

E aí? Quem vai nos proteger disso? A quem a sociedade deve recorrer?

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

This is Gaza last week.

[War Correspondent @warDaniel47]

🚨 OMG. Stunning resurfaced footage shows Ugandan Mayor Mamdani saying the plan is to manipulate white leftists into electing 3rd worlders like him

Spoken in his 3rd world accent: "You need someone to be a validator, tell them to TRUST US."

🤯🤯

"Minority communities, because we've never had representation, we are tied to identity. White communities...are more ideology...voters think of themselves first as progressive."

Muslim invaders PURPOSEFULLY position themselves as "validators" to manipulate the public into handing over control

TERRIFYING.

He needs to be deported.

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

24 hours later and Queers for Palestine still hasn’t said a word.

Weird.

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

Turkey arrested 162 members of the LGBTQ community this week.

The UK has announced zero sanctions.

Weird.

[Marcelo de Carvalho @MarceloCarvFr]

Vergonhosa a maneira como ela se esquiva de responder. Outra nota de 3 dólares.

[Mossad Commentary @MOSSADil]

🚨 CONGRATULATIONS, REUTERS.

Two years after the pager operation, Reuters chose to mark the anniversary by centering a 14-year-old survivor — one tragic case from an operation that primarily struck devices distributed through Hezbollah’s communications network.

Yes, civilians were also harmed, and that matters. But Reuters’ framing largely skips the military context: thousands of Hezbollah-linked pagers and radios were compromised in what was one of the most extraordinary targeted intelligence operations of the war, and Reuters itself previously reported that roughly 1,500 Hezbollah fighters were put out of action.

Out of hundreds and thousands of intended Hezbollah targets, Reuters found the one story that best recasts the operation around civilian suffering.

That editorial choice is the story too.

[Ronny Lerner @RonnyLerner]

This Jewish ritual bath is 600 years older than Islam itself. But remember kiddies, Jews are the “colonisers” of Israel and Palestinians are the “indigenous people” 🤪🤪🤣

[Yehuda Teitelbaum @chalavyishmael]

Ruth Peretz was 17.

She had CP and muscular dystrophy and used a wheelchair.

Her father, Arik, took her to Nova because she loved trance music.

When Hamas attacked, he tried to escape carrying his daughter.

They were both slaughtered in the name of "Free Palestine."

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

True

[Rodrigo Constantino @Rconstantino]

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