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@Palestinia12961 @Betty00713 Einstein, on different occasions, was using these terms. He expressed his happiness for the establishment of a Hebrew scientific institute (the Technion), the feeling of being honored by the Hebrew city (Tel Aviv), and of course, being on of the founders of the Hebrew university.

@Palestinia12961 @Betty00713 They are tied, but not identical. I think it's too complex to summarize in a short post. It's also a source of heated arguments inside Israel about the role of the religion in the state.

It's not a territorial conflict. It's a religious one. "Land" is just the cover. You know that.

@Palestinia12961 @Betty00713 Not sure I understand you correctly, but Israel was created as an expression of nationhood and home to the Hebrew culture (and, obviously, escaping persecution). Religion was just background. Herzel was an atheist. The Messianics (Smotrich, etc.) showed up after the 67 victory.

@zio_squirrel @Betty00713 Yes of course. But I was talking about the conflict itself. Initially it was religious for Israel and territorial for us.

@Palestinia12961 @Betty00713 Israel didn't make it a religious one before the 67 war. In 48, Israel was largely secular. It's mainly territorial, but the religious motives were always influential. The Mufti, al-Qassam, Arab countries calling for Jihad in 48. The Muslim Brotherhood were involved too.

@Betty00713 Israel made it religious one. For us it was always territorial.

@Palestinia12961 "Usually I write militant posts" I don't think I've ever seen a post of yours that could be regarded as "militant". Maybe you meant a different word?

Today is Nakba day. Usually I write militant posts. This time I just want to share my family story. The story of my family from my father’s side. Unlike my mother’s side, originally from Beit Surik, this story does not involve blood. But I think it represents the stories of many Palestinians. My family is from the village of Al-Jura. They were simple people, farmers, they didn’t have electricity nor running water, they could not read or right. They knew nothing about the ongoing war, they knew nothing about the partition plan. All they cared was about the lemons they grew. One day in 1948 soldiers came, Israeli soldiers, and they told them to leave. So they left. Settled in a camp south of Gaza. This is where my grandfather and my father were born, And this is where I was born. My family don’t look for revenge. They don’t look to return. They don’t look for compensation. They don’t even look for justice. All they look is for acknowledgement. Acknowledgment of their story that was denied for 78 years. Acknowledgment that they attacked no one, and still forced to flee. 78 years and still waiting. 😔

@HusseinAboubak "very cheap ways Bibi sadly has proven he's not above" Bibi IS the cheap ways It's just that 99% of the time it's about domestic issues that don't capture international headlines

This is very true. The largest problem of the UAE-Israel relationship has been that the Emiratis feel Israelis dont understand nor appreciate what the UAE is going through because of the Abraham Accords. Moreover, the lack of appreciation is so bad that the relationship is often instrumentalized and used in pathetic domestic politics, many times in very cheap ways Bibi sadly has proven he's not above. The UAE often responded in kind to Bibi and likely still will.

@Mrrgan1488 @Jewish_Story @RachelMoiselle Come back to me when you learn how to establish causality.

@zio_squirrel @Jewish_Story @RachelMoiselle You can't counter their conclusion, can you?

‘History didn’t start on October 7th’.

@Mrrgan1488 @Jewish_Story @RachelMoiselle Wow, you can copy and paste. Give your brain a pause for the rest of the day before it explodes out of exhaustion

@zio_squirrel @Jewish_Story @RachelMoiselle The Shaw commission disagrees with you "but the incident among them which in our view contributed most to the outbreak was the Jewish demonstration at the Wailing Wall on the 15th of August, 1929"

@Jewish_Story @Mrrgan1488 @RachelMoiselle Lmfao I haven't familiarized myself enough with the low IQ doomscrolling basement dwellers' jargon

@zio_squirrel @Mrrgan1488 @RachelMoiselle I mean, 1488 in bio, opinion discarded.

@Mrrgan1488 @Jewish_Story @RachelMoiselle It's a Mufti-based propaganda spread in Hebron few days before the massacre to incite the violence. But of course, you don't care about reality because your 5 functioning brain cells cannot handle it.

@zio_squirrel @Jewish_Story @RachelMoiselle Yes, yes they were

@Mrrgan1488 @Jewish_Story @RachelMoiselle No they were not

@Jewish_Story @RachelMoiselle You realise that it wasn't one sided. jews were also killing Arabs

@AndyMOBrien @RachelMoiselle 1. You're a baby killer and a genocider. How do you feel about having the Bibas children's blood on your hands? 2. Without Synopsys you're back to the stone age. Stand behind your words and stop using social media. Ophiocordyceps unilateralis Palestinos.

@RachelMoiselle This type of sabotage is perfectly moral. Companies that supply militaries that actively kill children should have their assets seized, their executives audited, and if necessary, deported, and their employees investigated. In the words of Sam Harris, ‘End of Moral discussion.’

Absolutely unbelievable that those of us who have spoken up against antisemitism in Ireland (in a measured fashion as proud Irish people ourselves) have been smeared as ‘defaming Ireland’ and ‘ruining Ireland’s reputation’. I would contend that the extremists who conduct these illegal acts, the fringe news outlets such as The Ditch who seemingly endorse them, and the mainstream Irish media who completely ignore them so as not to jeopardise our national sense of self-righteousness in our alignment with the Palestinian cause, are what is bringing Ireland into disrepute.

@AdarWeinreb @WWegow15747 @rob53soi @JoePetty918 @havivrettiggur Like, you do realize that training a dog to penetrate a random target has huge implications for dog breeders, veterinarians, animal behavior researchers? And such breakthrough has been achieved by a random Israeli detention center guard? You don't. Anti-Zionists hate logic.

@AdarWeinreb @WWegow15747 @rob53soi @JoePetty918 @havivrettiggur This is mounting, there is no "rape" similar to the explicit claim in the NYT article

A lot of subscribers have asked what I made of the Nick Kristof oped. So much has already been said. What more is there to say? My first thought was everyone else's. Horrifying. Testimonies of pain and torture. We know that the Israeli Prisons Service is notoriously incompetent. There have been cases of Hamas prisoners abusing each other, and even famous cases of them abusing female Israeli guards. We know, too, that all prison systems struggle with the problem: New York prisons face 2,000 claims against them. So abuse of prisoners isn't merely possible, it's guaranteed. October 7 and the ensuing war sent thousands of detainees into the prisons. And in the early months, drafted into the system undertrained reservist guards. Guards who had seen Hamas's videos gleefully documenting their crimes. I expected, therefore, a hard-hitting story of real abuse, something Israeli leaders must take notice of. And then I came across the first obvious lie. And then the second. And then an odd claim -- maybe possible, but how exactly? -- and then another just like it. And a famed Hamas propagandist laundered as a reliable source. And then another. Why, if there is no doubt that abuse occurred -- and there is no doubt -- was there so much obvious propaganda in Kristof's oped? I won't pretend the lies weren't a relief. They were. It's agony to read about Israeli criminality, and the lies let me cast doubt on the whole narrative. There's an obvious propaganda campaign at work here. But as claim followed claim, it became hard not to wonder: Despite the propaganda, what part is nevertheless true? How bad has it gotten? So here's what we know, or at least what I think I know. This is a campaign that seeks our destruction. Kristof quotes people who celebrated October 7 and want Israel destroyed, and will lie to achieve that goal. We know how the lies in this story made their way into it, where they came from and what purpose they serve. Even so, I'm not willing to conclude there's no truth at all in there, just because there are lies. Dogs did not rape anyone. The people who invented that particular inanity claimed it without evidence, knowing that no one, certainly not self-appointed moral arbiters like Nick Kristof, would ever bother checking the provenance of the claim. Because they never, ever do. Because why would they? So the claim spreads through the millions-strong activist network without investigation, exciting and mobilizing -- not because anyone understands how it might be possible but for the sheer thrill of it. And it's cited by Kristof as a reliable report. A recent report by a Norwegian NGO, also referenced, claimed "systemic sexual violence" in the West Bank by citing just 16 cases across three years in a geographic region containing as many as three million Palestinians and over half a million Israelis. And some of the examples scarcely cleared the bar for harassment. But the NGO in question knew for a fact that no journalist would look too deeply into any of it. And indeed, no journalist did. Because they never, ever do. Because why would they? Friends, a paper trail is being created. Just like they created a paper trail on mass starvation in Gaza -- mass starvation first claimed in early 2024, and then claimed again and again by NGOs, the UN, everybody. Some were nuanced warnings of a "possibility," some declared it had arrived. The headlines from both were largely the same. And then, in thundering silence, the mass starvation claim just faded away, never having materialized -- while billions of ordinary people around the world who don't follow too closely remain convinced that countless Gazans died of starvation. So they moved on. A Lancet letter claiming hundreds of thousands of deaths spread like wildfire, mostly because (a) nobody actually read or understood what it claimed and (b) nobody cared enough to check if it was remotely plausible. Then, just in case anyone forgot Lancet, came the claim by UN rapporteurs of the deaths of hundreds of thousands of children -- 380,000 infants under five allegedly died, more than the entire population of infants in Gaza. Stupid, right? But it was repeated again and again by activists and protestors. No one checks, no costs are exacted for the never-ending barrage of fakery. Because why would they? A wild religious frenzy has taken hold. Hatred of Israel is now definitional to the left, and to parts of the right. Greta Thunberg has forgotten all about climate change. An enemy of humanity has been identified just in time to unleash all the pent-up religious rage that this troubled secular age won't allow against anyone else. And by complete and utter coincidence, that enemy you're suddenly allowed to hate is vaguely associated with the Jews. Yes, alas, it really is that simple. But also, dear friends -- bear with me -- it isn't. All the above is true. They're fucking liars and bigots. They marched in their millions, again and again and again, for weeks and months and years -- marches completely unprecedented in their size, regularity and duration in all the history of the West, in all the history of war, larger by orders of magnitude than all other marches for all other conflicts and wars and suffering combined, even those caused by their own governments. And no serious person pretends that anything similar could ever have coalesced or will ever coalesce again unless Israel is involved. "But we fund you," shouts the American activist to explain this mind-numbing selectivity. Then why did one-third of the city of Amsterdam march? Or millions of Spaniards, Brazilians and Indonesians? It was unprecedented and it was everywhere. And Kristof has joined the new religion. Not by being concerned about abuse, but by not caring one whit whether he's trafficking in truths or lies. Only the Jews will ask to distinguish between the two. He just needs to throw it all on the page, and his membership in the glorious crusade is assured. Alas, the Jews are correct about the nature of this moment. Some things are so big and fundamental, so assumed and widespread, that they become hard to see. Fish don't notice the water. Activists who can only ever march against Jews are convinced they are merely righteous people enraged by war, without ever pausing to wonder why the only war that ever enraged them or ever made its way to their phones was one particular war, and not larger and deadlier wars also conducted with Western weapons and money. And so the Jew is made fearful once more. Throughout Christendom and Islam, he is being returned to his proper place in the social hierarchies of old, complete with anxious conversos and ideological purity tests. And yet, still, despite it all, their lies aren't the end of the story. Their lies are a separate story. A campaign of lies that constitutes a return to the mean for the Jewish condition in the West. A campaign meant to justify brutality against us, not to end war or suffering. And despite all of it, dear Jews, there really is abuse. It's nowhere near as much as the psychotic claims of these fantasists. Not by orders of magnitude. If it was, they wouldn't need to lie so much. But it's there nonetheless. Many dozens of cases at least, probably in the low hundreds by now, most of them without any sexual aspect, but still wanton violence. Exact numbers are hard to come by, but the army gave a few estimates to the courts a couple of times over the past three years. There have been many indictments filed against soldiers, serious ones. I know something about a handful of those cases. I know that the problem is real. It's there, it's real, and it doesn't seem to be stopping. And if it isn't stopped with an iron will and uncompromising hand, it will continue to fester and grow. And it must be said: neither Ben Gvir nor Netanyahu are interested in fixing it. Nobody at the top cares about the rights of prisoners. Let me be clear: For the first time in my life, I support a death penalty. No one who crossed over the border to massacre and kidnap on October 7 should be left alive; they came to kidnap children precisely because they sought the release of mass murderers kept alive in our prisons. Hamas, as always, in its totalizing brutality, forces the choice: If their murderers live, our children may die. I choose our children. And those who came for our children cannot be deterred, reformed or deradicalized. They murder their own to clear a path to murdering ours. And so I believe they must die. We must try, convict and destroy them. And even I, radicalized in this narrow, specific way, say we cannot collapse into torture or abuse. That's not justice. It isn't even vengeance. It is participation in Hamas's way of war. Nor do our leaders seem to care about the simple breakdown of discipline that these abuses represent, the kind of breakdown we saw again and again with the incidents of looting in Gaza and in the early cases of prisoner abuse that came to light. No, dogs aren't being trained to systematically rape prisoners, you nattering halfwits. And no, Hamas propaganda operatives are not reliable sources on the question of Israeli crimes. The vast, vast majority of soldiers are honorable men who walked into fire so our families may live. The whole world may turn on them; I will stand with them, grateful for their sacrifice. And Kristof, a willing purveyor of propaganda happily feigning that he can't see the water and thrilling to a moral crusade engineered by would-be genocidaires he pretends not to understand -- is no messenger of moral reckoning. But friends, so fucking what. Let the narcissistic guttersnipes strut their moral emotions before the world, let the UN publish endless reports that don't hold up to basic scrutiny, let the NGOs dream their rabid, sick dreams that no journalist ever fact-checks -- yes, they're lying. But so fucking what. We still, for ourselves -- because fuck them -- must see that it isn't all fake. The problem is real. It's far smaller than they claim, but real nonetheless. And when discipline and morality break down, it can only get worse. We either crack down now or we watch it fester and grow. And our own Ben Gvirs are stubbornly refusing to fix what is actually broken, the real thing in the real world. And so we are caught in a strange sort of vise, the same vise we find ourselves in with the genocide lie: A vast propaganda machine that seeks to destroy us -- countless activists too high on their own self-regard to see the irony of raging against a "genocide" while calling for the erasure of a people -- all while our own incompetent, venal, self-absorbed political class insist in their mindless chatter on confirming every claim of our enemies for sheer, bald egomania. I'm sick of it all. I know you're all sick of it too. And that, in a nutshell, is what I think about this. Just because they're lying, just because a vast perfidious campaign has overwhelmed global elites in a bid to clear the way for our removal, just because they're still, after two millennia, building their visions of redemption on The Evil Jew -- doesn't mean there isn't also, separately, a problem on the ground. So what do we do now? Simple. We see it, we acknowledge it's happening, we bring our rage to our inept leaders until they bend to our will and act to stop the breakdown... And we soldier on. We soldier on because the enemy really is coming to murder us. Because Hamas must still go if Gaza is ever to rise to a new day. Because Hezbollah will yet destroy Lebanon on the altar of destroying us. Because the ayatollahs built their whole damn religion on the extermination of our children. We fix the broken things within us as if the pogromists and their simpering Kristofs don't exist. We owe no answers to the propagandists who seek to clear a path to our deaths. But we do owe answers to ourselves. Let the screaming mob rage and churn like so much sea-foam. Despite that raging mob, despite the enemy who still seeks our destruction, and yes, despite feckless incompetents like Ben Gvir, our minister of prisons, who claim to lead us -- we remain the strongest, freest Jews who ever lived, more capable and committed than our self-destructive enemies ever imagined. And the task is still before us, yet to be completed, the sacred duty given to our generation to ensure our children don't have to face the genocidaires who now surround us. We do not waver, we do not stumble. We soldier on. Because fuck them all.

@BriannaWu @netanyahu Israel is not losing the information war because it doesn't fight it. No resource allocation, no management, only whines and cliches. And Ben Gvir and Smotrich and basically the entire government are third worldists that hate the West.

Last night on CBS, @netanyahu said something that was inaccurate. He said Israel was in an information war and is losing. This understates the problem. The concept of western democracy itself is losing the information war. Israel is just the front line. And America will fall on this course before Israel will. It will be the greatest victory of China, Russia and the Islamist political project - convincing a nation to commit suicide. People that believe in Western values must find a way to compete.

@Palestinia12961 The elections are approaching. Netanyahu's coalition is polling badly, and Hamas, Hezbollah and IRGC are still in power. The Oct 7 failure looms above all. They're counting on outbreak of violence to serve them electorally, esp. Ben Gvir and Smotrich. I hope that you stay safe.

The West Bank is on the verge of an explosion — caught between a massive economic collapse and surging violence and abuse by the army and the settlers. This action is deliberate. It’s a part of a strategy. We are getting closer to a point of no return. 😔😔😔

@AmirHetsroni @EllaTravelsLove יש לך דוגמאות? לא נראה שהמעבר לאנטי-ציונות עשה טוב לשי-אל בן אפריים, נניח

@EllaTravelsLove הציונות הביאה לך פרנסה אך גם פגעה בבריאות הנפש . אולי תנצלי את ההזדמנות להוציא קצבה מביטוח לאומי לפני שאת מחליפה צד לאנטי-ציונות שפחות פוגעת בחוסן הנפשי?

לא חזרתי לעצמי אחרי המערכה האחרונה באיראן, אני מרגישה שכל ההצטברות של המתח והצער מהשנתיים וחצי בשילוב עם חוסר השינה של המערכה האחרונה פשוט היו משהו אחד יותר מדי. אני מותשת ואני גם לא יודעת מה לעשות עם זה.

@JakeTSelby @HagarChemali Said the one retweeting Owen Jones

@zio_squirrel @HagarChemali You sound deranged. Seek help.

Democrats are making a big mistake going down the anti-Israel foreign policy road, and it will backfire. Our relationship with Israel is not a charity case - it's mutually beneficial (and every liberal dem who has ever worked in national security knows this btw). Terror plots on U.S. soil are often thwarted thanks to intelligence from Israel, but that's just one example of the advantages of the relationship. Those who argue forget why the U.S. cultivates relationships with democracies around the world and why that's central to our foreign policy. It's because WE benefit from that friendship, whether it's through trade, security, or shared values. And that benefit is a force multiplier because it works not just for own safety but toward global stability. (Read more on democratic peace theory.) Only one group of people wins when they see calls to undermine the relationship with Israel: terrorist groups. They are listening and to them, they hear it as a message of encouragement. That doesn't just threaten Israel and our interests in the region, but it threatens us here as well. Terrorist groups are not just after Israel; they are after the West and all its values. Bending to them is the worst thing we can do. So, knowing this, my question to my Democratic friends is - why on earth would anyone give an inch to terrorist groups and extremists? You are about to lose so many national security experts because of this view. Does that not signal something wrong?

@JakeTSelby @HagarChemali "If the Jews want Tel Aviv, they can have it in New York". Anti-Zionist slogan by your ally Mussolini "Palestine is ours and the Jews are our dogs" Your Mufti

@JakeTSelby @HagarChemali And never again is not yours. You collaborated with the Nazis and recruited Bosnian Muslims to the Waffen SS, then provided shelter to ex-Nazi war criminals that assisted your Jew-murder rampage attempts. Keep your phony human rights activism to your degenerate milieu.