David Leon 🐀

@SenTimKaine You might want to read The Megillah (Book of Esther) and you’ll understand why Iran is so evil & that Khomeini is today’s Haman

Chag Purim Sameach! I hope all those celebrating Purim in Virginia and around the world have a fun and safe celebration.

@halbfinger @ronenbergman How would you feel if these “feeble” rockets & drones were aimed at your house? Weapons are weapons. Your bias in the article is incredibly obvious. This is not journalism.

Friend: Israelis don’t want peace. If they did, the war would already be over. Me: Peace with what endgame? Friend: Ending the occupation. Justice. Human rights. Me: Fine. What’s the political solution? Friend: Two states. Me: Ok. Then answer one thing. What happens to the right of return? Friend: That’s a later issue. Me: It’s the core issue. What replaces it? Friend: Refugees deserve to go home. Me: Into Israel? Friend: Wherever their homes were. Me: That means millions of Palestinians entering Israel. You know that ends Israel as a Jewish state, right? Friend: Israel shouldn’t be an ethno-state. Me: So just say it plainly. Your solution is the end of Israel. Friend: You’re twisting my words. Me: I’m following them to their conclusion. What’s the alternative to right of return? Compensation? Resettlement? A Palestinian state absorbing refugees? Friend: Why are you so obsessed with this detail? Me: Because without an answer, there is no solution. Friend: Israel just needs to stop the war first. Me: Stop the war and then do what about the demand that makes peace impossible? Friend: We shouldn’t argue hypotheticals. Me: It’s not hypothetical. It’s written into every rejection of peace since 1947. Friend: This conversation is going nowhere. Me: I agree. Because every time we reach the hard part, you opt out. You accuse Israelis of not wanting peace, but you can’t name a single compromise we would make on the one demand that would terminate Israel. If the right of return stays, Israel ends. If Israel is meant to end, just say so. If not, explain what replaces it. Friend: Silence.

Incredible: "When college students tore down posters of kidnapped Israeli children in October 2023, parents asked: where did this come from? The answer lies in curriculum materials developed at Brown University. These materials reached approximately one million students annually in roughly 8,000 high schools across America. What teachers didn’t know, and what parents never learned, is that the professor who shaped these materials was funded by a Middle Eastern government. His purpose was to advance one specific narrative: Israel as a settler colonial project. Not to debate it. Not to present multiple perspectives. To establish it as fact." cc: @EDSecMcMahon @CivilRights @AAGDhillon

This is an incredible story that really does epitomize the Gazan culture that has been created by the PLO and UN over the decades. They just want to kill. It’s all they’re ever taught. Like programmed killer robots disconnected from reality.

“They are the infidels. They are evil. They are the enemy.” @LelandVittert on the conversation with a Palestinian suicide bomber that, for him, clarified the moral asymmetry of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. “Are the Israelis perfect? No—but that’s what they’re up against.”

The Jewish condition.

In Nazi Germany, there were righteous Germans who helped shelter Jews being persecuted. Not one Gazan resident helped a single Israeli hostage nor took advantage of the $5 million award offered by Israel for the safe release of each hostage. #BringThemHomeNow #ReleaseTheHostages

@CAIRAction @CAIRNational Hamas should release all the hostages & bodies!

Gaza is starving. Life the siege, block the bombs.

@timkaine The UN stated that Iran wasn’t complying with nuclear safeguards news.un.org/en/story/2025/…

The Bush Administration lied to America about Iraq’s nuclear program to rush us into war in 2003. Have we learned nothing from that disastrous episode?

The Israeli government has asked that footage of the attacks not be posted in order to protect the civilians affected. I have deleted the footage and will not be sharing any more footage that comes out. Please also do not reveal the exact locations of the impact.

If you don’t share this, you are complicit.

Since it’s all anyone is talking about, I figured you’d like to take a course in the Middle East conflict. After this, you’ll be an expert on what the world likes to say is the most complicated conflict in the world, but in reality, is one of the simplest ones to understand.

@elonmusk I suggest that @DOGE look into the cost of @POTUS @realDonaldTrump traveling to Palm Beach every weekend

The scandal isn’t that displaced Palestinians now could be resettled outside of Gaza. It’s that they have been forced to stay there as Hamas's human shields, Egypt's pawns and UNRWA's forever-refugees. Tomorrow's lead op-ed in the WSJ:

@Eve_Barlow 💯. This doesn’t rule out 2 state solution everyone saying. There’s still the West Bank. Trump only talking about Gaza. May help get Palestinians to budge off their stubborn negotiating positions (i.e. never accepting any of previous offers for their own country)

This is about de-radicalising a society that is run by a terrorist regime. If you read history, and understand what happened after WWII, you know that. The Two State Solution died on October 7. Anyone with common sense came to that conclusion there and then. There is no coexistence for Israel next to the Gazans. They must be de-radicalised for there to be stability in the region. Good faith is believing that stability is possible. And I believe wholeheartedly that it is. They lost a war they started with Israel and its allies, including the most powerful country in the world. It's time for that war to end.

@kikisknees Was an Islamic State flag nytimes.com/live/2025/01/0…

The queen is back. @Erin_Molan

This is a historic day for the Middle East. The collapse of the Assad regime, the tyranny in Damascus, offers great opportunity but also is fraught with significant dangers. We send a hand of peace to all those beyond our border in Syria: to the Druze, to the Kurds, to the Christians, and to the Muslims who want to live in peace with Israel.

@TheMossadIL Crest

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