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Dear @mehdirhasan, I have a proposal. I’ll put $100,000 in escrow and you can too. And we will both submit to financial audits. If the Israel or the pro-Israel lobby has given me a dime, you can have my $100,000. And if Qatar has given you money by funding your projects, I can have your $100,000. Deal? I mean, I know you critiqued Donald Trump heavily for being financially influenced by Russia, so both of us should take foreign interference fairly seriously. I liked you before October 7th and the depth of your Israel derangement and Jew hate became apparent.

@IhabHassane @KatarinaKom Givr doesn’t have that much power. Society has a right to protect itself from terrorists instead of holding them in escrow for organizations like Hamas. How much would the world be is Israel executed Sinwar when they should have instead of saving his life?

It’s not just Ben Gvir. People keep pointing to him like he’s the problem, like he’s some outlier—but he isn’t. He’s a reflection of a system that backed this. 62 Knesset members voted for the death penalty law. Stop pretending this begins and ends with one man. It doesn’t.

@aziz0nomics Putting terrorists in Jail or organized crime in jail doesn’t stop the criminal activity. Plus it amounts to holding terrorists in escrow. That’s when a society can decide it needs to protect itself with a death penalty. Having it doesn’t mean you always have to use it.

@aziz0nomics Givr is an embarrassment but incarcerating terrorists with blood on their hands has not worked out well. This is not a law that should be used against an individual, a person kills this spouse or child or in the commission of robbery deserves jail because jail stops the crime.

The scary thing about the death penalty is how easy it is to wrongfully convict someone and then send an innocent person to their death. I am against Ben Gvir, and I am against this law. It will be used to kill innocent individuals.

@kimplopa When Iran showed you what they are when went mad dog using ballistic missiles against its friends, rivals and enemies while stepping up domestic executions. Change your handle to “Stupid Person.”

I trust Iran with a nuclear weapon 100 times more than I trust Israel with a nuclear weapon.

Knesset approves death penalty for Palestinian terrorists convicted of murder Critics say the controversial law will likely be struck down by the Israeli High Court jewishinsider.com/2026/03/knesse…

Israeli-American comedian Modi Rosenfeld pulled out of a Passover-themed benefit after his manager revealed that the Modern Orthodox entertainer had been “blindsided” with the news that Mamdani would participate in the event. @WillBredderman reports: ji.news/4wq6b

This is like when the BBC translates Palestinians talking about the “Yahood” (Jews) as Zionists

🚨🇮🇱🇫🇷 Israel has decided to halt all security procurement from France, an Israeli official told @Jerusalem_Post. The decision to stop the purchases was made under the directive of Defense Minister Israel Katz and Defense Ministry Director-General Amir Baram. Apart from existing contracts that are still in force, all security procurement from France has been completely halted. Israeli officials stated that in the past two years, France has adopted a consistently hostile policy toward Israel, which makes it impossible for Israel to rely on France in matters of defense exports.

@academic_la @emanumiller There’s an ugliness to this but incarcerating terrorists does not stop the crime of terrorism. So Ben Givr is a broken clock.

@emanumiller He worked for Bibi.

I almost feel bad for Eylon. His job is to make Israel look good. Here he is whining in Hebrew as to why Israeli lawmakers are passing a law to put Arabs (and only Arabs) to death and opening champagne as they pass it. How is he supposed to defend this, he wonders? You can't.

Israel passes 2026 budget, avoiding early election, @LahavHarkov reports ji.news/4wmhc

@MeniEvenIsrael Btw he also said that Jordan never prohibited Israelis from going to the Western Wall, when they literally had snipers posted on the fence between eastern and western Jerusalem and shot at Israelis who approached. Very welcoming!

What utter nonsense. If by "carefully looked after" -you mean they destroyed all the synagogues in the Old City, except for one, and desecrated the graves on the Mount of Olives, then yes, they did an amazing job of “protecting” !

Good job Amnesty but no one believes you anymore

Israel has invited the United States to relocate some of its regional bases from countries such as Qatar to Israel. But that raises a question: Why is the U.S. regional headquarters in a country that actively sponsors terrorism? It’s a relatively recent development. For decades, Saudi Arabia served as the U.S.’s regional headquarters. It was from there—not Qatar—that the U.S. assembled forces and ultimately launched the Gulf War to liberate Kuwait. After 9/11 and the Iraq War, the U.S. sought a host with fewer political constraints and a location that would recruit fewer jihadists by being farther from Islam’s two holiest sites. Qatar fit the bill: no political complications, billions of dollars in subsidies, and the ready-to-use Al Udeid Air Base. Now, more than twenty years later, Israel is positioning itself as the U.S.’s new home away from home. The Israeli security establishment sees an opportunity to “reshape the map” of U.S. military positioning in the Middle East. There are several advantages to this move. For one, Israel has the strongest air defense in the region. The New York Times reported Thursday that missile attacks on Qatar have forced “many American troops to relocate to hotels and office spaces throughout the region,” with much of the land-based military “fighting the war while working remotely, with the exception of fighter pilots and crews operating and maintaining warplanes and conducting strikes.” Meanwhile, IDF forces haven’t missed a day of work. Another advantage is the close alliance between the U.S. and Israel. They’ve been conducting joint operations, gone on foreign trips together, and built a relationship where coordination is seamless. Isn’t it time to move in together? After all, the U.S. and Israel share strategic goals in the region, and operating from Israel means the U.S. doesn’t risk hitting targets that would be rebuilt by the same country they launched from. Qatar has not always been a cooperative host. In April 2025, Qatar (along with Saudi Arabia and the UAE) would not allow American warplanes to use Gulf bases or airspace to strike Iran. Earlier this year, a prominent Qatari royal called the U.S. “merely a tenant of a military base in Qatar” and warned, “do not act as if you are doing us a favor.” While this may have been largely rhetorical, Qatari sentiments have grown more ingratiating since missile strikes began, and it is not a sentiment the U.S. is likely to encounter in Israel. But there are a few disadvantages as well, the most prominent being geographical. Israel is roughly 1,000 miles west of Qatar. Sure, that means fewer missiles can reach it, but it is more useful for the U.S. if they want to fly over Beirut—less so for strikes on Tehran. Qatar also subsidizes the upkeep of its base to the tune of billions of dollars. Israel’s defense budget hit record highs this year, but an extra few billion is still significant for a country without endless oil wealth. Regional allies are unlikely to be thrilled either. Some, like Turkey, would be opposed out of that early-2000s distaste for Israel, while others—Kuwait, the UAE, and Saudi Arabia—may object simply because it means American help is now farther away. The U.S. and Israel are currently negotiating this proposal. U.S. Central Command is unlikely to fully relocate from Qatar, but there could very well be a new U.S. base established. As U.S. Secretary of State Alexander Haig famously said, Israel is “the largest American aircraft carrier in the world that cannot be sunk”—and the U.S. may finally be looking to put that to use. To read the rest of today's newsletter click the link below. amitsegal.substack.com/p/its-noon-in-…

And this is all that will come of their letter. The whole thing was a pointless exercise because they’re addressing their complaint to someone who can’t really do anything.

Love to wake up to see Qatari propagandist @mehdirhasan got community noted after trying to “fact check” me about the Six Day war. Everything I said was accurate and everything he said was a lie. But the entire point of these Islamist propagandists is to mislead Westerners into committing cultural suicide. I did respect the absolute temerity of the poster child for Jew hate calling me an “antisemite” though.

Outrageous: Israel is apparently trying to link people who work for Hezbollah to Hezbollah.

The kaffiyah is a political statement. I thought religious leaders are supposed to stay away from politics. Isn’t any sort of nationalism frowned upon? Hypocrite.