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Paul Gross

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Writer/lecturer on Israeli and global politics | Likes liberal democracy and Arsenal FC. Dislikes extremists and absolutists of all kinds.

Jerusalem, Israel Katılım Mart 2009
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Paul Gross
Paul Gross@pauldgross·
Many people fail to understand the level of trauma that Oct 7 inflicted on Israelis. And many who do understand that, can't understand why a majority of Israelis nevertheless support a ceasefire. Here's my perspective on both after 600 days of war. fathomjournal.org/after-six-hund…
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Osman
Osman@OsmanZtheGooner·
Man I don’t know why I’m very positive despite what happened. Strange
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@bungarsargon They won't. The reason it's reached this point is because the Prime Minister ignores it, and other members of his cabinet support it.
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Batya Ungar-Sargon
Batya Ungar-Sargon@bungarsargon·
The Israeli government needs to crack down on this sickening settler terrorism right now before another innocent soul is harmed.
Ihab Hassan@IhabHassane

BREAKING: Following calls for another pogrom tonight in the West Bank, Israeli settlers have begun gathering at the entrances of Palestinian villages and towns. This video is from the entrance of the Palestinian village of Umm Safa. Pray for the safety of vulnerable and defenseless Palestinian civilians facing these unprecedented levels of settler terrorism.

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Tim Stillman ⭐️⭐️
Tim Stillman ⭐️⭐️@timstillman_·
The chasm between who Arteta is and who people say he is is so incredibly wide
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toomas hendrik ilves@IlvesToomas·
Netanyahu endorsing Orban is an incredibly dumb move 1. Why should Ukraine keep its world class anti-drone teams in the Middle East helping Israel, when both the US and Israel support the most anti-Ukrainian leader in the EU, a man who, reneging on a unanimous EU decision to lend €90M has caused major damage to Ukraine? Why keep its experts in the Middle East to help virulently anti-Ukrainians? 2. The Iranian war is not top of mind for Europeans, it is not an existential threat on the order of Russia's ongoing war in Ukraine. Why further alienate the EU to support an avowed enemy of Ukraine? 3. The countries in the EU most worried about the Russian invasion, the CEE, have also been the strongest supporters of Israel. Why alienate them? Will they support Israel the next time there is an anti-Israel resolution in the UN? Or will they abstain? This was a completely unnecessary move by Netanyahu.
Michael Weiss@michaeldweiss

He has none of these things even in scarcity, which is why Orban is polling so far behind the challenger. A strange concatenation of geopolitics: Russia is interceding in the Hungarian election to help Orban, including with GRU officers in Budapest and an SVR-mooted fake assassination plot, even as Russia assists Iran with targeting packages in the Middle East. Yet Netanyahu follows Trump into helping a Russian client in Europe.

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Paul Gross
Paul Gross@pauldgross·
I've seen many on here noting Netanyahu's support for Orban. It's not incidental. Orban is the model for Bibi's multi-pronged assault on our democracy. I wrote this in 2023, at the height of the anti-judicial overhaul protests. jpost.com/opinion/articl…
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@NickCohen4 And like Trump, he’s aping Orban’s assault on the independent institutions of liberal democracy in his own country.
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Simon Nixon
Simon Nixon@Simon_Nixon·
Striking that Netanyahu should so clearly align himself with corrupt Putin and MAGA aligned autocrat Orban - and therefore explicitly setting himself against the rest of Europe.
Noga Tarnopolsky נגה טרנופולסקי نوغا ترنوبولسكي@NTarnopolsky

💥 Aping Trump, Netanyahu endorses Viktor Orbán in remarks to CPAC: "You need leaders who can protect against this rising tide & can also ensure safety & stability for their own countries. This is what he has in abundance."

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@YankeeGunner ’m clinging to the following counter factual: If we hadn’t had this game, Pep could have played this system for the first time in the game at the Etihad next month. Now Arteta won’t be surprised by it and can prepare accordingly. I’ll take losing this if we win then!
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YankeeGunner@YankeeGunner·
This has been a very, very, very poor second half characterized by an astonishing lack of technical security and composure on the ball. Unfortunately, it’s not the first time we’ve seen this recently. The Brighton and Chelsea games had worrying periods like this as well.
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@clivepafc I’m clinging to the following counter factual: If we hadn’t had this game, Pep could have played this system for the first time in the game at the Etihad next month. Now Arteta won’t be surprised by it and can prepare accordingly. I’ll take losing this if we win then!
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Clive@clivepafc·
Humbling We have to wear that until we see them again
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Yaakov Katz
Yaakov Katz@yaakovkatz·
I have serious problems with the term “settler violence.” It is a generalization that demonizes a community of 500,000 people - almost all of them are good, law-abiding citizens. But we cannot let that defense blind us. What has been happening in the West Bank - like the attacks by Jewish extremists in some 20 locations last night - is an abomination. These actions are anti-Jewish, they are the antithesis of what it means to be Israeli, and they must be stopped with the most aggressive steps law enforcement has at its disposal. Beyond the moral rot, this is a strategic liability. Israel is in a war against Iran and we have a rare moment to unite a global coalition from the US to Europe to the Gulf, but that support is undermined when these attacks occur. @netanyahu knows this and for that reason he went to the IDF Central Command on Friday to try and stop the violence in the middle of a war that needs to be his sole focus. What these attackers are doing is not just criminal; it is a threat to our national security. We cannot defeat our enemies abroad while a violent fringe undermines our legitimacy from within.
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Denys Shtilierman
Denys Shtilierman@DenShtilierman·
The Washington Post published an article that, under normal circumstances, would have caused a political earthquake in Europe. But we live in a time when even such things no longer surprise anyone. The Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) seriously considered a scenario involving a staged assassination attempt on Viktor Orbán. Not metaphorically. Not an “information campaign.” But literally — to stage an attack to boost his approval ratings ahead of the election. An SVR document, obtained and verified by European intelligence, explicitly describes a strategy titled “the Gamechanger” — “the staging of an assassination attempt on Viktor Orban,” which would “shift the perception of the campaign out of the rational realm of socioeconomic questions into an emotional one.” The inspiration is obvious: the assassination attempt on Trump in 2024 sharply boosted his ratings. But that’s not the most interesting part. According to European security services, Hungarian Foreign Minister Szijjártó regularly called Lavrov right during breaks in EU meetings and provided “live reports” on the negotiations, the parties’ positions, and possible decisions. In other words, Russia wasn’t “trying to gain access to information.” It already had it. Right at the table. “Every single E.U. meeting for years has basically had Moscow behind the table,” the publication quotes a representative of a European security service. Meanwhile, Szijjártó made 16 official visits to Moscow after the start of the full-scale invasion. But it is important to understand: this is not a Hungarian peculiarity and not a coincidence. It is the Kremlin’s systematic work over decades—within the EU and NATO. During the war in Georgia, Sarkozy was in constant contact with Medvedev and coordinated positions. The result was an agreement that effectively preserved the Russian occupation. After his chancellorship, Schröder joined Gazprom and Rosneft — this was a telling slap in the face and confirmation of Russia’s institutionalized influence on European energy policy. Berlusconi promoted Putin’s interests within the EU for years and also acted as an informant. Fico deserves a separate mention. The Prime Minister of Slovakia, who “miraculously” survived an assassination attempt in 2024, became an even more outspoken conduit for Kremlin narratives after his recovery. He blocks aid to Ukraine, travels to Moscow to pay homage, parrots Putin’s talking points word for word—and yet remains the prime minister of an EU and NATO member state. An interesting coincidence: after the assassination attempt, his approval ratings also rose. The question of “whether there are Kremlin agents in the EU and NATO” is no longer relevant. They exist. The question is: at what level and how many of them are there? Because when a minister from an EU member state calls Lavrov after every meeting—that’s no longer infiltration. That’s integration. And the worst part of this story isn’t even Orbán or Szijjártó. It’s that the system tolerates it. For years, the EU has been “expressing concern” while Russia literally sits at their negotiating table. And until this logic changes—the Kremlin won’t need to “break through the defenses.” It’s already open from the inside.
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Shany Mor שני מור شني مور
Shany Mor שני מור شني مور@ShMMor·
The implications of this phenomenon — spiralling violence, terror and counter-terror, the subordination of the army and state institutions to domestic terror, the importation of the practice into Israel proper — are so grave that we forget just how awful this thing is on its own.
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Paul Gross@pauldgross·
Quite the difference…
George W. Bush Presidential Center@TheBushCenter

Statement by President George W. Bush on Robert Mueller: "Laura and I are deeply saddened by the loss of Robert Mueller. Bob dedicated his life to public service. As a Marine in Vietnam, he proved he was ready for tough assignments. He earned a Bronze Star and a Purple Heart before returning home to pursue law. In 2001, only one week into the job as the 6th Director of the F.B.I., Bob transitioned the agency mission to protecting the homeland after September 11. He led the agency effectively, helping prevent another terrorist attack on U.S. soil. Laura and I send our heartfelt sympathy to his wife of nearly 60 years, Ann, and the Mueller family."

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Yes! Well said @yaakovkatz .
Yaakov Katz@yaakovkatz

Israel’s focus remains on degrading Iran’s missile capabilities and creating the conditions for the Iranian people to potentially rise up against the regime. But if this war is to be considered a success, there must be an honest explanation at the end of what comes next. That is one of the central lessons from the premature declarations of victory after the 12-day war in June. Today on @CNN with @BeckyCNN.

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Dave Rich
Dave Rich@daverich1·
These are the kind of wild antisemitic scrawls that used to only show up in hate mail incidents. Nowadays you can get an art exhibition out of it.
Zoe Strimpel@realzoestrimpel

In Margate. My cheeks are red. I am shaking. I popped into an exhibition that turned out to be the insane fever dream of an artist called Matthew Collins: ‘Drawings Against Genocide.’ The exhibition is described as ‘drawings… raising consciousness about hell…. Israel is the pure encapsulation of it. Zionism is this terror state’s ruling ideology.’ Shocked by the use of Nazi imagery - the room is full of the Star of David pasted around figures meant to be Israelis and the Jewish ‘lobby’ spewing blood, to say nothing of blonde yummy mummies wearing ‘globalise the intifada’ shirts, I spoke to the artist to share my reaction as a Jewish person. He was instantly aggressive. As soon as I started to say I was shocked and threatened by what I was seeing because it was Nazi imagery, the artist started yelling at me that I didn’t mean anything I was saying. Anytime I tried to speak (calmly) he said: ‘you don’t mean any of what you said, you’re just repeating ‘hasbarah talking points’ because ‘you’re defending a genocide’. On and on he yelled, in my face. I said: ‘if I was a Black person…’ but couldn’t finish the sentence because: ‘you’re not are you?’ On the Nazi ideology point he said: ‘yeah. Why do you think it’s there. Israel are the Nazis’. His breath was disgusting. The crowd began booing and closing in around me, making to shoe me out. I said: ‘fine, get the Jew out’ and he yelled more across the room at me, ‘repeatedly jeering ‘call the police, go ahead, call the police’. I said I would, and the community security trust, which features as a devil in his exhibition. This was met with even more jeering. ‘Yeah, call the CST’ was the last I heard before leaving. Someone snapped pictures of me while I was being shouted at. Short video shows the artist. The longer video, of our final almost surreally disgusting exchange, didn’t record.

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