Red Earth 🦘☀️

During the 1948 War, Arabs tried to starve 100,000 Jews to death in Jerusalem; and they bragged about “strangling” the city. By March 1948 - exactly as I laid out yesterday - the Arabs were winning the “battle for the roads.” They cut the only highway from Tel Aviv, blew the water pipeline, and ambushed every relief convoy. Jewish Jerusalem was on the verge of literal starvation with little food and only rationed rain water from ancient cisterns. Arab military leaders (local irregulars stiffened by Iraqi troops and the British-commanded Arab Legion) made their goal crystal clear: isolate and “strangle” the Jewish civilians until they died of starvation or surrendered. By June, the weekly ration per person was 100g wheat, 100g beans, 40g cheese, 100g coffee or powdered milk, 160g bread per day, 50g margarine, and one or two eggs only for the sick. People lost an average of 5kg. The dead lay in the streets. Again, notice the similarities between what they did and that of which they accuse Israel today. This was a deliberate starvation campaign by Arabs against Jews. Yet the same voices who screamed “famine in Gaza” (when no famine ever occurred) have nothing to say about the actual starvation campaign against Jerusalem’s Jews. After the Old City fell on May 28, Jordan ethnically cleansed the city’s ancient Jewish community, and further ethnically cleansed every last Jew from Judea and Samaria (renamed the “West Bank” for the first time in history two years later when Jordan illegally annexed the territory). But the Jordanians did more than just expel the surviving Jews, they destroyed the Old City’s 58 synagogues, turned holy sites into stables and latrines, and boasted: “For the first time in 1,000 years not a single Jew remains in the Jewish Quarter.” The inversion never stops. Go ahead and drop some other examples of inversion in the anti-Israel narrative below.

First trailer for ‘LADIES FIRST’, a new satire film starring Sacha Baron Cohen and Rosamund Pike. The film follows a man whose life becomes his worst nightmare when he wakes up in a parallel world dominated by women. Releasing May 22 on Netflix.