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"Countries don’t recover from being taken over by unstable authoritarian nationalists...left or right" -@adamgopnik: bit.ly/1OFB7Rt

In June 2025, Hamas & PIJ operatives fired at the IDF from within crowds at GHF aid sites and, at times, at civilians. Local media blamed the IDF for attacking aid seekers, exaggerating incidents. Now Hamas & PIJ's own martyr notices are slowly corroborating the IDF's account:

You will never see a single article like this about Donald Trump. This should be an eternal shame on every member of the media who pretends to be fair and impartial

@sfrantzman Sorry, that's unimaginable.

Imagine if there had never been payments to terrorists, I mean it sounds wild, but imagine if many years ago it had been made clear this was unacceptable and, for instance, it would put at risk all the aid being sent Wild. Crazy theory.

Palestinian Authority under pressure to end payments to convicted terrorists. Ending the so-called 'pay-to-slay' system is one of the EU's reform demands euractiv.com/news/palestini…

@dilanesper I'm a liberal and even I know this thread is trash. Yes, the right's policies for protecting Israel are terrible. But that doesn't mean they don't care about protecting Isreal. That's your second great leap of this thread which I will be sure not to read again.

The Israeli right doesn't care about the safety of Jews. It cares about its conquest project. Fighting lots of wars outside the boundaries of Israel is broadly consistent with that, but actually using its troops to defend and protect Jews within Israel is not.

Whenever I speak to security-minded supporters of Israel, I realize that the Israeli Right gets the benefit of a doubt it shouldn't get on security. Folks, the Israeli right doesn't actually care about the safety of Israeli Jews. It just says it does. Let me walk you through it.

@dilanesper Protecting your flanks is part of protecting yourself. And in any event, you made quite the leap there to determine the reason why. That isn't much of a leap if you just assume Israel is evil.

Because during a massive attack by forces who can do a lot of damage to the Union, the proposal diverts troops from defense in order to try and engage in some conquest instead. Well, that's exactly what the Israeli right actually does.

@RepRaskin This is very disappointing from you.

Palestinian pediatrician Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya is being held and reportedly tortured in an Israeli prison with no charges, no trial and no Due Process. Netanyahu's government must immediately release him from these lawless, horrific and life-threatening conditions.

7/ I say this as someone who lives here and isn't going anywhere. Telling this country hard truths from the inside may not be working. But flying in, filming, and flying home to run for president isn't the alternative.

@elikowaz Too bad there's so little in the video.

2/ Start with what I'm not going to do: pretend he made it up. The armed settlers, the soldiers who sided with them. It's happened for years, especially under this government. Nothing in his video is invented. That's exactly why the rest of it matters.

1/ I'm an Israeli. Everything @RoKhanna filmed in the West Bank is real. A settler near where he stood killed a Palestinian activist last year and walked free within days. And his trip was still a performance. Both things are true. Here's how. 🧵

"Netanyahu is the logical outcome of the very nature of the Israeli state" Look at the obscene hatred in his voice, in his hand movements and in his bright red complection as he spews venom, not only about Netanyahu, but about the very nature of Israel, the worlds only Jewish state. Notice how he steps from the worlds only Jewish state into talking about profit and wealth, and continues to blame Jews for wealth inequality. After talking about globalising Palestinian resistance, he screams, "What do we do to rid the world of these monsters? so that their wealth, and the horrible things they do with that wealth, and how that wealth is taken off them, and given to to people (points to the crowd) like the people who are on strike." He's blaming Israeli nationalism for the worlds problems, this is not a coincidence. Palestinianism is a national movement, and every other country has it too, and they all have bad and good ways of expressing it, but it's Jewish nationalism that is the ultimate curse on the world in his eyes. This, right here, is the spreading of hatred. Antizionism is a hate movement!

@RoKhanna @havivrettiggur They didn't "detain" you and in any event, you claimed the *IDF* detained you. The IDF did no such thing. Oh, and you were a restricted zone.

You are lying @havivrettiggur. The Jerusalem Post, which leans right, concluded that it was not a closed zone & vigilante settlers had no right to detain Americans. Stop gaslighting Americans. jpost.com/israel-news/ar…

@CuriosityonX It takes *light* a long time to get here.

If aliens exist, why haven’t they visited Earth?

@realMaalouf Even if that was true, I have no desire to reduce my indecent thoughts.

"Men without beards may cause 'indecent thoughts' in other men because they look like women." Islamic scholar in Spain argues that all men must grow a beard like his for this reason. Thoughts?

@CynicalPublius Inquisitions are not what educated men (or women) do. So no, not like that.

You mean like when every self-respecting educated man in the Western world was convinced Ptolemy had it right about the solar system, and public dissent would get the Inquisition sicced on your butt? Like that?

Since no one else will tell you this, I will. Unlike the Quran or even the New Testament, the Talmud is not a rule book. The Talmud is not the bible and Jews do not look to the Talmud for guidance on life. The Talmud is a massive collection of debates between individuals. That’s all. So, first of all, those who say they read the Talmud are lying. It takes Jews who learn a page of Talmud every day seven years to complete it so no, those who maliciously quote the Talmud did not learn the Talmud in its entirety. Not even close. Second of all, quoting some obscure statement from the Talmud is both dishonest and dangerous. Yes, there are definitely some weird things in the Talmud, but again, it is totally hypothetical and not in any way instructional. Third of all, you have this massive collection of tractates that are debates between rabbis and Jewish scholars. That should tell you all you need to know about the diverse nature of Judaism. Presenting Judaism as if it’s one set of rules followed by all Jews is again, a blatant lie used to vilify Jews. So, no, Jews don’t think they are superior to other nations. No, the word “Goyim” is not derogatory. It simply means ‘Nations’. And no, none of the strange things mentioned in the Talmud about slavery, sex, marriage, or other things are applicable or relevant for modern life. Judaism is a religion that doesn’t look to convert others as opposed to the other major religions. Jews don’t think they’re better than anyone else. “The chosen people” doesn’t mean we think we’re better. It means we take on more responsibility and try to be a light unto the nations. So the next time someone tells you how evil the Jews are and they use the Talmud as evidence, ask them what tractates of the Talmud they’ve learned and whether the Talmud is a legal framework or a theoretical one. Watch how they stutter and fumble their words. See this image? That is the Talmud.

@Yazidisto Where are those girls now?

Before they left Syria in November 2017, they handed the girls over to other members of ISIS, the prosecutor's statement said.

Today in Munich, a German court sentenced Kurdish Muslim ISIS member Twana to life in prison. His ex-wife Asia got 9.5 years. They bought two Yazidi girls, one only 5 years old, as slaves in Mosul. Twana repeatedly raped them while Asia helped prepare the assaults, beat the girls, scalded one with boiling water, forced them to work like slaves, and tried to erase their Yazidi faith before handing them to other ISIS fighters. Justice for the Yazidis.

I can prove to you in one word that the alleged “Pro-Palestinian” protests worldwide are: At best, anti-Israel based on ignorance; At worst, wildly antisemitic and/or hatefully anti-Israel; and The one thing they are NOT is “pro-Palestinian.” That word? Yarmouk. Yarmouk was, only ~12 years ago, the Syrian city with the world’s largest Palestinian community. At least ~160,000 Palestinians lived there. Once Syrian dictator and butcher Bashar al-#Assad got his grimy hands on Yarmouk, it wasn’t long before journalists were calling the city “the worst place on earth.” Why? Several reasons; and I’ll tell you those reasons along with the world’s reaction to them. Then, you decide what that means. On Dec 16, 2012, the Syrian air force bombed Yarmouk killing at least “dozens” of civilians (the real number may never be known). The streets of #NewYork, #LosAngeles, #Chicago, #Toronto, #London, #Paris, #Rome, #Dublin, etc.? All quiet. Tens of thousands of Palestinians fled Yarmouk & were displaced without anywhere to go & without knowing if/when they may ever return. For the Palestinians who stayed in Yarmouk, they could not possibly have imagined the #dystopian hellscape that awaited them over the next six+ years. First, Assad enforced a brutal and complete one-year-long #siege on Yarmouk. He then continued that siege, only with a few exceptions, for another 5-6 years after that. Were the streets of the world filled with protestors? No. There was no electricity in Yarmouk for a year, and very little electrictiy for the next five years. No protests. There was no piped water whatsoever in Yarmouk for a year, and very little drinkable water for the next five years. No protests. There was no access to or very minimal access to any food for a year & very little food for the next five years. No protests. Medical supplies were next to zero, as Assad did not want to risk them ending up in the hands of opposition fighters hiding in Yarmouk - Palestinian civilians be damned. Even worse - after the initial fleeing of tens of thousands, the remaining Palestinians of Yarmouk were not allowed to leave the city - Assad made them stay there. So, in the largest Palestinian city in Syria, Palestinian civilians were indiscriminately slaughtered, tens of thousands fled, and then Assad laid total siege to the remaining tens of thousands of Palestinians during which men, women, children, the elderly, the infirm, & babies were all forced to stay in Yarmouk without electricity, without water, with minimal access to food, and with little to no access to any medication or first aid of any kind. And there were no #protests. The number of Palestinians who died of malnutrition and the number of Palestinian women & their babies who died in childbirth during the siege is unknown to this day. There was no worldwide outcry. There was no push for real numbers of the dead and the suffering. There were no protests. There was near total silence. Much has been made about the humanitarian corridors & humanitarian aide that Israel has allowed to flow into Gaza despite Hamas terrorists using the corridors to escape, and despite well over 50% of that aide being stolen by Hamas. Well, in Syria, Assad refused to provide a humanitarian corridor; and he refused to allow humanitarian relief into Yarmouk. The streets of the world? Silent. One Palestinian woman in Yarmouk described the scene: “You couldn’t buy bread. At the worst point a kilo of rice cost 12,000 Syrian pounds (£41), now it is 800 pounds (£2.75) compared to 100 Syrian pounds (34p) in central Damascus. It was 900 pounds (£3.10) for a kilo of tomatoes … we used to eat wild plants. We picked and cooked them. In every family there was hepatitis because of a lack of sugar. The water was dirty. People had fevers. Your joints and bones felt stiff. My middle daughter had brucellosis and there was no medication.” Silence. Deafening silence. So many Palestinians in Yarmouk were dying from malnutrition that Yarmouk’s largest #mosque gave a religious decree (fatwa) that permitted the consumption of dogs, cats, and donkeys. Shocking silence. In 2014, testing on a random sample of Palestinians in Yarmouk showed 40% had typhoid. Silence. All 28 of Yarmouk’s schools were shuttered. Silence. Even after the initial total siege ended, the water supply was not restored. The city’s water pipes were damaged in fighting in September 2014 - leading to ~four more years during which Yarmouk’s Palestinians had to drink untreated groundwater. Where were the protestors? During and after the complete siege, Assad began a campaign of particularly heavy indiscriminate bombing of Yarmouk that saw civilians, including children on playgrounds, blown up. How many? We can say “thousands,” but we will probably never know how many for sure. The world? Silent. A #UN official anonymously admitted about Yarmouk, “Conditions are far worse than #Gaza … Palestinians always had dignity, hope, resilience. Now after four years of war I see people giving up. They find it hard to accept there are no options.” Even the virulently anti-Israel commentator, #Mehdi Hasan, who recently lost his job for being too viciously anti-Israel even for #MSNBC (!) admitted in April of 2015: “Let’s be honest: how different, how vocal and passionate, would our reaction be if the people besieging Yarmouk were wearing the uniforms of the IDF?” By that point in time, Yarmouk was widely called the city with the “worst humanitarian crisis” since World War II. But the streets of the world were not filled with protestors. There was barely a peep. Meanwhile, many of the long-suffering Palestinians of Yarmouk started obtaining desperately needed medical assistance from what many may consider an unlikely source: Israel. Starting in June 2016, the #IDF launched “Operation Good Neighbor” to help civilians in #Syria. At first, #Syrians who could make it across the border were transported to #Israeli hospitals, and later Israel opened a field hospital close to the border since so many civilians started seeking Israel’s help. One Palestinian from Yarmouk feared enough for her son’s life to seek help from “enemy” #doctors in Israel. When her son was treated with care and humanity and nursed back to health, she told journalists, anonymously for her own safety back home, “I used to see Israel as an occupying power, but not anymore. My whole opinion of Israel has changed.” In total, Israel treated at least between 5,000-10,000 wounded and often starving civilians who crossed the border from Syria. Israel even started a donation drive & collected supplies like toys, crayons, games, & candies for suffering children; and Israel got those donations across the border quietly, along with government-donated dire necessities like food, fuel, clothing, & baby care. How many stood up to praise Israel for its humanity? Very, very few. And outside the #Jewish world, almost none. The worst of the dire situation in Yarmouk went on for more than six years. In April of 2018, Yarmouk was being bombed twice every 90 seconds. By the end of that month, Al Jazeera estimated at least 60% of Yarmouk had been completely destroyed & an unknown number of Palestinian families were trapped under the rubble. By May of 2018, journalists simplified it: “Yarmouk is gone” (see photo below). How many pro-Palestinian protests in how many cities do you recall in April and May of 2018? How many protests do you recall for the entirety of those six years from 2012-2018? Sadly, for those innocent #Palestinian civilians who lived under the yoke of #dictatorship - whether #Assad or Hamas - their outrageously inhumane plight was almost entirely ignored by a disinterested world. Yet, how many streets of how many cities across the world were already filled with protestors during the first days and weeks after the Hamas #October7Massacre of more than 1,200 #Israelis? The streets worldwide were filled even before Israel had begun its counter-offensive to rescue the more than 240 hostages taken by #Hamas and to bring Hamas #terrorists to justice and forever end Hamas’ ability to make war on Israel. What more evidence could anyone need? The worldwide protests are all about being anti-Israel and/or #antisemitic. They certainly are not about saving any Palestinians. Sadly, when the #Palestinians have needed the world to save them from other #Arabs, nobody marched. Only when #Jews are involved - that’s when the venom, the hate, the motivation, and the organization to protest and intimidate comes out. #Education #Israel #Palestine

@BriannaWu Evergreen ^^

A bunch of shitty people are about to go to Israel to make free Palestine slop.

Bought this old house from some guy named Frank Removed the water feature (maintenance nightmare), cleaned up the overgrown shrubs, and rezoned it to commercial Now it’s actually a useful structure Not sure what this guy was doing

@amiKozak OK, I had to watch this several times and reread the caption (in blue) to realize this was parody. Well done!

Justice for Ro.