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[Zev @ZevZev1671908]

@Soroush_1403 @elonmusk Antisemtic conspiracy theories are really the lowest hanging fruit, in every recent era of human history, to attract the absolute dumbest people in society. Get your head checked. Or maybe log offline and touch grass.

[Zev @ZevZev1671908]

@Bladee_cymru @BatJew00 @itschoukri @koshercockney Thank you, I prefer the honest antisemtic response from scum like you instead of all the window dressing from jihadists and woke westerners. Woke westerners: look at who is actually driving your "pro Palestine" movement. People who are the absolute trash heap of humanity.

[Zev @ZevZev1671908]

@hoatina22514641 @itschoukri @koshercockney "Persecution"? Territories are occupied because Arabs started a genocidal war and lost. Palestinians have rejected many opportunities for a state due to their maximalist demands. Hopefully we can have peace one day, and you stop using them as your pawns to eradicate Israel.

[Zev @ZevZev1671908]

@BatJew00 @itschoukri @koshercockney Arabs started the initial war, but the current one started on Oct 7. There would be peace today if not for jihadist terrorist groups like Hamas and Hezbollah. It's time for radical Arabs to enter the modern world and stop trying to commit genocide of Jews.

[Zev @ZevZev1671908]

@itschoukri @koshercockney Hamas filmed October 7.... It's tragic that they started a war, and sacrifice their own children to win sympathy from credulous western rubes like yourself. The difference is we mourn their children. And they want us all dead. Wake up.

[Zev @ZevZev1671908]

@BatJew00 @itschoukri @koshercockney I see you've gobbled up jihadist propaganda. Jews legally immigrated (so you are anti-immigration?) to barren parts of stateless land. Where many Jews already lived, as well as Arabs. The land was partitioned, and Arabs dreaming of a caliphate tried to kill all the Jews, and lost

[Zev @ZevZev1671908]

@itschoukri @koshercockney Talking about the innocent children who died in Israel AND Palestine all because of jihadists like Hamas. They started a war, and tragically children die in every war. And even worse, they are a death cult that sacrifices their own children. Haaland hates terrorists!

[Mor Edge Insight @MorEdge_Insight]

Watch this 17-second clip carefully. What you are about to see is not what it claims to be.

For over 25 years I’ve worked as a specialist forensic analyst, both within the intelligence world as well as private security sector. So I’m going to show you how forensic analysis really works to uncover the truth about what we see put in front of us.

TRT World, Turkish state media, released this video claiming it shows an Israeli airstrike on a residential building in Al Zaitoun, Gaza on January 5, 2025. The dramatic footage with emotional Arabic overlay text was designed to generate instant outrage.

While obvious Pallywood often uses fake blood and staged injuries, this one is more sophisticated. It relies on perfect timing and internal preparation.

Here is the second-by-second breakdown:

Seconds 0 to 1: The camera is already perfectly framed on the building. White smoke begins venting from multiple windows simultaneously. At around the one-second mark, a bright red dot appears on an upper window for a fraction of a second right before the blast. This is the trigger light that lights up the instant before an explosive charge is detonated. It also acts as a marker for the cameraman. No incoming missile, no external impact flash.

Seconds 1 to 2: A massive dark smoke plume erupts violently outward and upward. Debris is ejected. When a real missile strikes a building, you typically see large flames from the missile’s fuel and the force ripping apart major sections of concrete, producing large chunks of debris. Here, we see no significant flames and only small debris mixed with heavy dust, exactly what you would expect from a small internal explosive device designed mainly to blow out windows and create a dramatic smoke plume. The explosion originates from inside the building and expands symmetrically.

Seconds 2 to 4: The smoke cloud balloons dramatically. The cameraman, already positioned and recording, smoothly tilts up to capture the most cinematic part of the plume.

Seconds 4 to 6: The camera tilts down to street level. A girl in bright pink walks across the dusty area almost casually, not showing the expected panic.

Seconds 6 to 9: Civilians appear relatively composed. Then the man in the red hoodie runs in, stops dramatically, and points upward while shouting in a theatrical manner.

Seconds 9 to 17: People mill about with surprising calm as dust swirls. The camera work remains composed enough to capture the drama while TRT World adds the emotional propaganda text.

This was not an airstrike. It was a carefully timed internal detonation, triggered from within (signaled by the red dot), filmed by someone who knew exactly when it would happen. The internal multi-window venting, perfect camera placement, and staged reactions all confirm it was manufactured for propaganda.

If you value the truth and appreciate such detailed analyses, please share.

Real tragedy does not need this level of staging. The information war continues.

[Bruce Pearl @coachbrucepearl]

Why? Because they have been lied to about stolen land when it was their families unwillingness to live next door to Jews. There are 23 Arab countries and only 1 Jewish state and that's too many Jewish states for many. Parents must teach our children and take more responsibility

[Yaacov Behrman @ChabadLubavitch]

I have largely remained silent in public since January 1 because I believe criticism should be constructive and focused. But this post about the Nakba is deeply disturbing, not only because of its one sided and dishonest characterization of history, but also because it attempts to delegitimize Israel as a state even before 1967.

You cannot have it both ways. You cannot argue that the “settlements”, which began after 1967 following Israel’s victory in a war against neighboring states, are the root cause of the conflict, condemn them relentlessly, and justify marches through Jewish neighborhoods in New York over so called “illegal” land sales in the West Bank, while simultaneously condemning the very founding of the State of Israel itself through a one sided narrative built on distortion and falsehoods.

It is also worth noting that while thousands of Arabs lived within Israel between 1948 and 1967, Jews were expelled from areas captured by invading Arab armies from neighboring countries. Those expelled included Jews whose families had legally owned and purchased land for hundreds of years.

Take, for example, the Tzemach synagogue in Jerusalem. In 1847, more than a hundred years earlier, followers of Chabad Lubavitch established and purchased the synagogue in Jerusalem’s Old City. During the 1948 war, the Old City fell under Jordanian control. The Jewish population was expelled, and Jews were denied access to Jerusalem, including the Tzemach Tzedek synagogue.

I really do not want to get too deep into the history because that is not my main point here. There can be disagreements and different perspectives about what happened and to whom, but the focus should be on achieving a long term peace in Israel and the region.

The tweet’s one sided narrative deepens division instead of advancing peace, coexistence, and understanding, and it should never have been posted by the mayor of New York City.

[Jeff Jacoby @Jeff_Jacoby]

Days after Bergen Belsen was liberated in 1945, Jewish survivors sang "Hatikvah" — the haunting anthem of faith that Jews would, despite everything, recover their homeland of Zion.

Three years later, the first Jewish state in 19 centuries was proclaimed in Jerusalem.

Jews can be hated, libeled, attacked, persecuted, enslaved, and slaughtered by the millions. But the Jewish people can never be destroyed. 🇮🇱
#AmYisraelChai #עַם_יִשְׂרָאֵל_חַי

[Richard Goldberg @rich_goldberg]

Everyone who works for the New York Times should at least be honest with themselves about what their paper did today: Participate in a perverted campaign to help Jew haters validate a fictional talking point to counter very real testimonials about Hamas's crimes against humanity.

[Robert Lyman 🇺🇦 @robert_lyman]

Gosh this is good. Thank you @spectator

[Max Klinger @MaxE2review]

Imagine Palestinians with guns and knives come to your house, and say they think it should be their house because their Muslim great grandparents tried to kill your Jewish great grandparents, then fled the area when they failed, and ethnically cleansed the entire Arab world of Jews in retaliation. And then imagine they kill everyone you know and record the whole thing on go pros. Then imagine they vow to do it again and conquer your nation and kill you because the Koran tells them Jews must be murdered. Then when you protect yourself, they scream ‘genocide’ and ‘ceasefire’ while holding you children and elderly citizens in tunnels to murder.

Oh wait we don’t need to imagine it that’s what happened.

[Buzz Patterson @BuzzPatterson]

This is 100% true. I was there when it happened. Yassir Arafat was offered 97% of the land and he turned it down.

Hamas, the PLO, and Iran didn’t want peace then, and they don’t want it now.

[Max Klinger @MaxE2review]

🧵Islamists who hate the West, hate Jews, and don’t bat an eyelid about straight-up lying to further their political and religious objectives are waging a shameless, constant and relentless propaganda campaign. And to a significant extent, it’s working. The result is that public discourse, and socio-political life more broadly, are being corrupted. Let’s look at some recent examples.

1) Here’s a post by ‘Syrian Girl’ (real name Maram Susli) that received 172,000 ‘likes’ in under 24 hours on Twitter/X. It reads: ‘Israel shot a little girl in front of her brother while she was collecting water’, which is a lie. In reality, the child in the photo, Ruwaida Saleh, was shot by the Houthis—a slave-owning jihadist movement whose motto is ‘God is great, Death to America, Death to Israel, Curse on the Jews, Victory to Islam’—in Yemen in 2020 - see second image.

In other words, this nightmarish photo really proves the exact opposite of what’s being claimed, namely that groups pro-Pal agitators support are committing grave war crimes, not Israel.

[Aizenberg @Aizenberg55]

Hamas does not wear military uniforms for combat in Gaza. It is the missing context in a recent and much talked about Haaretz article (“I Felt Like a Monster”) and similar reporting, which describe IDF soldiers firing at people crossing restricted areas who later turned out to be civilians, and operating under looser rules of engagement due to uncertain identification.

The deliberate choice not to wear military uniforms is one of the most important elements of the war and a key driver of civilian harm, yet it is routinely ignored or treated as irrelevant. The Haaretz article focuses on the outcomes and consequences. But this article, and others like it, largely strip out the operational reality those soldiers were in, the one designed by Hamas.

In Gaza, Hamas and other militant groups fight in civilian clothing as a core element of their human shield strategy, designed to blur the line between civilians and combatants and to use the cover of real civilians to impede IDF attacks. International law requires armies to dress in uniform so opposing forces can distinguish a combatant from a civilian at a glance. It is a basic rule of war meant to limit harm to civilians. Now add the widespread use of child combatants, women and children as civilian lookouts, and suicide bombers, also dressed as civilians, and the picture changes further.

But Hamas wants the opposite. Now ask: WHY does Hamas think this helps them? WHY not dress in uniform? Especially if one believes the IDF fires indiscriminately or targets civilians. Because they know the IDF DOES NOT want to kill civilians on purpose and takes significant steps to limit civilian harm. This can delay or stop IDF engagement and has surely allowed Hamas to avoid harm many times.

Now imagine the opposite. If Hamas fighters wore uniforms, and by sight an IDF soldier could clearly identify who is a civilian and who is a combatant, these situations would look completely different. Even if Hamas’ child soldiers wore uniforms, identification would be clearer. Civilian risk would drop sharply. The kind of split-second decisions described in the article in restricted zones would be far less common, if not eliminated.

Add that Hamas does not see civilian harm as problematic. Yahya Sinwar has said as much, and other Hamas leaders have emphasized the role of civilian sacrifice in advancing their goals.

But when constructing a demonizing narrative of IDF in Gaza this context of course is completely missing.

[Haviv Rettig Gur @havivrettiggur]

We were never America's charity case.

America gave Israel aid because it was in America's interest to do so. It was buying tech no one else would or could make until Israel proved it was possible, like Iron Dome. It was also a massive federal grants program to certain Congressional districts, because among its many conditions, nearly all of it had to be spent in America.

There's a famous story told by older Israelis about how the aid crashed the textile industry in Israel's south, a major employer in that working-class region, because the IDF started to buy uniforms from American manufacturers.

And over the years, a great many of us have chafed at the loss of independence this aid represented -- including over the past three years, again and again.

@EinatWilf made this point: "I’m soooo on board for that! Does this mean that we will finally be allowed to: 1) buy what we want, and from whomever we want and most important, develop and produce what we want even if it competes with American products? 2) win our wars rather than be constantly subjected to arrested development ceasefires?"

And everybody in Washington knows all this. Netanyahu himself once talked this way, back in the late 90s, until the beneficiaries (on both sides) told him to shut up. This aid was seen in Washington as leverage over the Israelis -- and America has always sought leverage, from the Kennedy-initiated Cold War "bear hug" to keep Israel from going nuclear to Biden's slow-walking of shipments.

There are significant knock-on benefits to Israel if the aid goes away. Here's a big one: A US-induced budget crunch might force Netanyahu to finally cut some of the vast, unique Haredi welfare payouts that keeps half of Haredi men out of the job market.

And in military terms, independence is even more critical. For example, we all need to be building at least ten times as many drones, missiles and missile-defense interceptors going forward. Or maybe 50 times. Israel has to get serious about massively upping indigenous production and getting away from reliance on any foreign power, even an ally as powerful as America. Financial aid that forces Israel to buy American interceptors delays that critical shift.

(America should also be massively upping production and stockpiling, by the way; these technologies are the future of war, and not even America's production capacity reflects that fact.)

Long story short, my "camp" in Israeli thinking -- call us the "fiscal responsibility because we're adults" camp that once, in his better days, included Netanyahu -- has always believed and publicly argued that when the aid ends, it'll be a net benefit for Israel.

And one final comment: If the aid really does dry up, this will be celebrated as a win by our enemies, by those who yearn to see Israel fall.

Good.

In fact, this outcome may be the strongest argument for doing it.

The movement to destroy us, especially among Arab and Muslim ideologues, has spent literally generations explaining that we only win wars or thrive economically because we have the backing of America. (And before America it was the French, and before the French the Soviets, and before the Soviets the British, and before the British the Russians...you get the idea. For a century and a half, our enemies told this same story to avoid the possibility that our own strength and competence are the reasons we survive and win.)

So when we continue to win in a future shorn of American aid, our enemies will learn something valuable about us, something that might make some of them rethink the strategy of sacrificing new generations of Arab or Persian treasure, honor and blood on the altar of our destruction.

So let them celebrate. It's really important that they go through the whole psychological arc. The greater the triumphant expectation, the more powerful and educational will be the ultimate failure.

[Adam Fisher @AdamRFisher]

I hear about Israel’s “conduct” as if it was a naughty nation that didn’t obey the established rules that govern fighting a Jihadi horde of hostage taking, tunnel dwelling rapists.

What “conduct” caused the genocide libel to become mainstream by the end of October before Israel had started a land campaign?

What conduct caused random people to tear down posters of hostages?

What conduct caused people to claim Israel killed its own people on Oct ?

What conduct prevented the UN from ever condemning Oct 7?

What conduct caused all women’s rights organizations to deny rape had occurred?

What conduct caused the world to lose their minds over a fake famine?

What conduct triggered environmentalists to abandon their cause and take to the seas?

What conduct caused Democrats to pontificate about a two state solution as if it’s just a matter will power and courage?

[David Bernstein @ProfDBernstein]

Here's the rub: North American and European foreign policy elites said, "take risks for peace, make concessions, and if the other side proves obdurate, we will back you up." Israel allowed Arafat to set up government in Ramallah, offered peace deals well within internationally expected parameters, withdrew from Lebanon, then Gaza and parts of Samaria, and each move let to more violent attacks on Israel. Instead of backing Israel up, said elites reserved almost all their blame and indeed vitriol for Israel.
You're a smart guy, Matt. What incentives does that create?