Yaakov Ellis

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A modest proposal: stop quoting the UN. The "14,000 babies" lie was Goebbels-level stuff, and the lie that the UN couldn't deliver any of the 93 aid trucks because of "traffic" makes it clear that something deeply dangerous is going on

5. Same exact border style is used for the comment textbox and the buttons. The buttons don't look like buttons and the textbox doesn't look like a textbox. Very confusing.

I know what goes on internally at Stack Overflow building these things. I know my friends over there have good intentions, a lot of thought went into this. And negative feedback sucks. Been there. But please listen to meta on this one (meta.stackoverflow.com/q/433817/51 - currently at -93).

I am saying this as userId 51, as the author of threaded comments in the Staging Ground, and as a proponent of continuing to develop the UI/UX on @StackOverflow and not just keeping things like they have been just because: the new comments UI is soooo bad. OMG. <cringe> horrible.

Tank Perez – Heroes of Nachal Oz This powerful video features rare footage from the defense of Nachal Oz by Tank Perez on October 7th, Simchat Torah. With closing words from Rabbi Doron Perez, it tells a story of bravery, loss, and unity. 53 soldiers were killed at Nachal Oz that day, and ten taken hostage including members of Tank Perez: Daniel Perez, Itay Chen, and Matan Angrest. The video includes the remarkable last-known footage of Daniel Perez hugging a fellow soldier. The tank crew’s courage and camaraderie reflects the spirit of all of our holy defenders of the IDF who we remember on Yom HaZikaron. Yehi Zichram Baruch. youtu.be/t4zJBoVth1M

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We received this heartwarming request from a student the other day 🥹. Our response to darkness and evil will always be to add more light and good into the world through Mitzvahs.

This is Gaza. Cheering for dead Jewish babies. This is Gaza. The rest is propaganda.

Hamas handed over the bodies of Israeli children with lively music in the background. Local families brought their kids to watch. That society is sick to the core.

Cannot stop watching this video of Ariel Bibas meeting his new baby brother Kfir for the first time. 😞💔💔 This one really destroys me. It hits different when you hear them actually speaking versus seeing pictures. Hamas needs to be wiped off this planet IMMEDIATLY.

This image should be burned into the minds of everyone in the world. A mother protects her two small children, surrounded by terrorists and led to hell in Gaza... They were kidnapped alive, and according to the news outlets reporting tonight, they will return tomorrow as corpses. This is the monstrosity of the Hamas terrorist organization that kidnapped and murdered Shiri, Ariel, and Kfir. We will never forget them, and we won’t let anyone in the world forget!!!

Just so everyone is clear about why @ochaopt / @UNRWA is systematically undercounting trucks (as noted by @cogatonline) they are literally only counting trucks from just 2 humanitarian aid agencies: only UNRWA (11%) and WFP (89%) trucks are counted from the period of Dec 1st - Dec 29th. Literally all other humanitarian aid groups are blank from the dataset as if they never existed. This amounted to thousands of trucks simply wiped, by the way. Also, even the listed 240 trucks (11%) from UNRWA is misleading as this appears to be backlogged trucks logged at the point of collection, many of which appear to be screened prior to December. In fact in December 1-29th only 32 trucks were screened by COGAT database. By contrast, the WFP truck numbers (1,965) for Dec 1st - 29th more closely match the COGAT (1,439) and fall in line with the expected differences in truck numbers due to differences in truck size between delivery and pickup and some degree reasonable of pickup lag. Here are the total trucks for this period (Dec 1 - 29th) organized by humanitarian donor, number of trucks, whether OCHA reported such trucks, and importantly **whether OCHA gave a disclaimer if they did NOT report trucks** (screenshot below). As we can see, the only disclaimer OCHA currently has on their website is that they don't count private sector trucks. But in reality they actually don't count around half the humanitarian sector trucks either. They undercounted by 2,252 trucks with no disclaimer whatsoever. Yet another example of flagrant data fabrication from a supposedly reputable third party.

I wasn't going to post about Carter, but seeing dozens of articles proclaiming him a hero and a peacemaker has compelled me to speak up. Carter might have done more damage to Israel's security and international standing than any Western leader in history. Let's dive in. 🧵 1/