גיא דוד - Guy David

Reading this makes me tremble. I remember my mother and I speaking in the kitchen of her apartment, and I saw news reports coming in. I thought, "Oh no, not again..." Worrying about my family there. But then I saw the pictures... I didn't even want to show my mother. How can I? But she insisted. And then she started asking about my sons. Are they safe? Where are they? They're teenagers, so who knows what they're getting up to at times. Everyone was okay, thankfully. But then the day unfolded... worse and worse... more and more horror. This wasn't just a small, isolated attack. This was something beyond recognition. I couldn't sleep that night, thinking of these pictures of people of all ages... the first ones I saw were of elderly people slumped over, victims. No, I thought, this isn't happening. The people trying to escape in their cars, the Nova festival kids running for their lives. And then people online mocking us. My G-d. What has the world come to? Where are you Hashem? But I knew in my heart... yes, Israel will survive this, even if it seems darker than hell itself. I remember when I first came to Israel as a young man, staying in a hostel in Jerusalem's Old City. Oh my, I thought, I have a whole big room to myself. I haven't showered in a few days. Take a shower, lay down, rest. No smartphone then. Just me, thinking, I have all of Jerusalem to explore, Shabbatons to attend, people to meet, study sessions galore. I fell asleep... for all of five minutes. Then, suddenly, a group of IDF soldiers exploded into my room, laughing and talking in Hebrew. My own Hebrew was broken... but I could still talk to them - in English and broken Hebrew. We stayed up half the night talking and sharing stories. I'll never forget it. And I saw, in that moment, what Israel's youthful fighting force had to offer. I remembered that night on October 7th in the darkest hours. We will prevail, B'ezrat Hashem. We will prevail.

I will always remember watching Chuck Norris movies as a kid and being captivated by his confidence and effortless presence as a hero. Missing in Action, Firewalker, The Delta Force. Then Walker, Texas Ranger. He was everywhere in the 1980s and 1990s when I was growing up. It was Harrison Ford, Chuck Norris, Kurt Russell, Sylvester Stallone, and Arnold Schwarzenegger. Rest in peace, Chuck. Take it easy sparring with the angels once you make it through the pearly gates.

Projection.

Few people know this, but Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941 because of Israel. Bibi Netanyahu himself approved it (before he was replaced by AI). I have the dreams to prove it.

This is going to be a phase a lot of people have to go through now. They introduced me to this fact quite rudely a bit earlier than when most of you will realize it, so I can tell you that it sucks but it's also a fact. Facts don't care about our feelings.

I’ve always known that Cesar Chavez had some shady behavior, but the allegations in this NYT investigation are insane. How many elementary schools are named after a credibly accused serial rapist who consistently exploited underage girls?

@MikeLivschitz Me, too. Unfortunately, it's happened to me at least three times. I don't have a lot of faith in X and @Safety, who seem to ignore us most of the time.

@DBCWriter I hope we won’t run into this again. Not the most pleasant experience.

Thank you to everyone who supported me — I truly appreciate it. After submitting a review request, I received confirmation that my account had not violated any rules, and the spam label has now been removed. Hopefully, this kind of issue won’t happen again.

This was in reply to someone who wrote: “The irony, of course, is that anyone even mildly familiar with Jewish history or Gemara would see that the title itself is a bit of an oxymoron. The idea of a cabal of Jews agreeing on how to take over the world is ludicrous to anyone who’s attended a synagogue board meeting.” One need only look at Israeli politics today to appreciate the point. More broadly, the notion that a small group of people could control a world of eight billion is not merely implausible; it is detached from reality. Scapegoating has always provided a convenient way to explain complex problems. It is psychologically easier, and in some ways comforting, to imagine that a single group is orchestrating events. If only that group were stopped, then everything would be fixed. But fixed how? Miraculously transformed? This is simplistic thinking. It reduces political, economic, and cultural complexity to conspiracy and substitutes suspicion for serious analysis.

@Shana613 @davereaboi

The irony, of course, is that anyone even mildly familiar with Jewish history or Gemara would see that the title itself is a bit of an oxymoron. The idea of a cabal of Jews agreeing on how to take over the world is ludicrous to anyone who's attended a synagogue board meeting.

So last night I finally sat down and read the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. As you likely know, it is supposed to be meeting minutes of a secret cabal of evil, world-conquering and powerful Jews. But it is actually merely an infamous late 19th Century forgery created by the Tsarist authorities in Russia (and yes, they’ve been doing information warfare by villainizing Jews since back then). It’s been popular since then, and translated into every language. In the US, Henry Ford was obsessed with it, and suggested it to his employees. It’s long been one of the most popular books in Arabic, of course. In Germany, we know what they did with it. But reading through it last night, I was struck by two things, both related: (1) how much online discourse is merely just copypasta Protocols, down to memes like “Goyim are Cattle” and the limitless, cartoonish alleged bloodlust of Jews and Israelis. And (2) how obviously, ridiculously fake it is. Protocols is not even an IQ test—if you have any blood pumping to your brain, you should not be fooled by it. Even so, that millions of people have allowed their mental faculties to be put to one side like this is a vivid example of what a totalizing mind virus Jew-hatred is. *This is the cover of a 1934 American printing. And needless to say, “possession of these documents in Soviet Russia” was NOT punishable by “immediate death.” But these guys knew—long before the social media age—that you can just make shit up.

@davereaboi A series of newspaper articles in Britain showed it was a poorly made plagiarized version of Maurice Joly’s Dialogue in Hell Between Machiavelli and Montesquieu from 1864. They just substituted in the Jews as the antagonists. encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/gal…

@Green_Bastardo @davereaboi Wow - very interesting.

Children? Israel has driven these people to the point of what looks like insanity. It is both fascinating and frightening to watch. To say that Israel is waging a war against children is one of the most disingenuous and ill-informed claims I have heard in fifty years. It is like asking what we were doing in Germany in the 1940s. Why were we killing women and children? What was the point? Or consider the war in the Pacific against Imperial Japan, whose leadership at the time was responsible for extraordinary brutality. After bombing campaigns against an enemy that would not surrender, would we have framed the question as “Why are we bombing children?” divorced from the broader context of total war? Joe Rogan, like many podcasters who make these claims, speaks carelessly about matters of enormous historical and moral weight. The commentary is not merely ill informed; it often appears uninformed. The most basic historical and political research is frequently absent. My message to Joe Rogan is simple: read more deeply. Study what is happening. Speak with Israelis, and speak with Arab Israelis; they exist and represent a significant part of the country’s population. Visit places such as Abu Ghosh, an Arab Israeli town whose residents historically chose coexistence with the Jewish state and have lived in relative peace. Context matters. Many Gazans have been raised within a culture shaped by decades of conflict, militant ideology, and failed leadership. There have been documented cases of educational and political systems promoting hostility toward Israelis. The result has been a society deeply scarred by extremism, violence, and mutual dehumanization. After the horrific attacks on Israeli civilians on October 7, 2023, Israel responded militarily, as many nations would after such an assault. One can debate the scale, strategy, and consequences of that response. One can and should debate civilian harm and long-term political outcomes. But to reduce the conflict to the claim that Israel is “waging war against children” oversimplifies a complex and tragic reality. If we are going to speak publicly about these issues, especially to millions of listeners, we owe the subject seriousness, intellectual discipline, and a willingness to confront uncomfortable facts on all sides.

Joe Rogan: “What they've done to Gaza is f*cking insane. And if you can't see that, if you can't say that, and your response is, Israel has the right to defend itself. Like, What are you talking about? Against what, children?..”

Children? Israel has driven these people to the point of what looks like insanity. It is both fascinating and frightening to watch. To say that Israel is waging a war against children is one of the most disingenuous and ill-informed claims I have heard in fifty years. It is like asking what we were doing in Germany in the 1940s. Why were we killing women and children? What was the point? Or consider the war in the Pacific against Imperial Japan, whose leadership at the time was responsible for extraordinary brutality. After bombing campaigns against an enemy that would not surrender, would we have framed the question as “Why are we bombing children?” divorced from the broader context of total war? Joe Rogan, like many podcasters who make these claims, speaks carelessly about matters of enormous historical and moral weight. The commentary is not merely ill informed; it often appears uninformed. The most basic historical and political research is frequently absent. My message to Joe Rogan is simple: read more deeply. Study what is happening. Speak with Israelis, and speak with Arab Israelis; they exist and represent a significant part of the country’s population. Visit places such as Abu Ghosh, an Arab Israeli town whose residents historically chose coexistence with the Jewish state and have lived in relative peace. Context matters. Many Gazans have been raised within a culture shaped by decades of conflict, militant ideology, and failed leadership. There have been documented cases of educational and political systems promoting hostility toward Israelis. The result has been a society deeply scarred by extremism, violence, and mutual dehumanization. After the horrific attacks on Israeli civilians on October 7, 2023, Israel responded militarily, as many nations would after such an assault. One can debate the scale, strategy, and consequences of that response. One can and should debate civilian harm and long-term political outcomes. But to reduce the conflict to the claim that Israel is “waging war against children” oversimplifies a complex and tragic reality. If we are going to speak publicly about these issues, especially to millions of listeners, we owe the subject seriousness, intellectual discipline, and a willingness to confront uncomfortable facts on all sides.

Jewish hatred has become rampant on this platform and across social media. This man gained popularity during the pandemic and at first seemed fine, even funny at times. Now look at him. He says Israel is our paymaster and then presents videos of some of the worst antisemites on social media as “proof.” Look at him, disheveled, with whatever that is on his shirt. We are clearly seeing people jump on the antisemitism bandwagon for views. What they do not understand is that those views come partly from real people, of course, but largely from bots inflating their numbers. There will come a time when rational people prevail, people who do not harbor hatred in their hearts, people who understand the history of the Jewish people and of Israel. People like this man will want to ask for forgiveness. They will want to hide what they have done. No. No forgiveness for this. Not after 2,000 years of death and destruction. Not after the Shoah. Mark Twain once wrote in support of Zionism, “If that concentration [in Palestine] of the cunningest brains in the world were going to be made on a free country (bar Scotland), I think it would be politic to stop it… It will not be well to let that [Jewish] race find out its strength. If the horses knew theirs, we should not ride anymore.” We knew our strength, but the world did not, not yet. No one “gave” us our land back. Not the Turks. Not the British. Not the French. Not the Americans. We joined our brothers and sisters who were already there. We purchased land. We were slaughtered in Hebron and other places. Then, after the Holocaust, we proclaimed a state, one recognized by international bodies and countries, including the United States. The Jews never left the Holy Land entirely. Many of us lived outside it, but we returned. And as Twain suggested, once together again, we were unstoppable. What the antisemite does not realize is that our aloneness is not only the root of our suffering. We were homeless for 2,000 years, and we did suffer, hated and hunted. But our aloneness was also the secret of our success. Every Jew knows in his or her heart that our aloneness is not a curse. It is a blessing. We are not only “chosen”; we are choosing. We chose God when the rest of the world rejected us and tried to destroy us. But we survived. We survived empires and civilizations intent on wiping us out. And we will not only survive this wave of antisemitism; we will thrive. I am not the one to say who will be cursed, but I do know who will be blessed.

@CforCatholics @CarriePrejean1 #ChristWasJewish

.@CarriePrejean1 receiver of the Catholic Champion award for her courage in the defense of the Catholic faith. Christ is King!

People do answer the question. You simply do not like the answer because conspiracy is more emotionally satisfying than reality. Many countries exert significant influence in Washington. Saudi Arabia, China, and Japan each spent more than $100 million on FARA-registered influence activity in 2022 to 2023, and Canada and Germany also rank among the leading foreign spenders by that measure. Israel is not unique in seeking to shape U.S. policy. That is what states, lobbying firms, donors, allies, contractors, and interest groups do in a democracy. So why do some people single out Israel so obsessively? Because Israel is in the news, because it is connected to a war involving Iran, because it is the Jewish state, and because, for many people, the old fantasy of hidden Jewish power is never far from the surface. The moment “influence” becomes eerie, exceptional, and all-explaining only when Jews or Israel are involved, you are no longer engaging in sober political analysis. You are stepping into a very old antisemitic trope. Israel has influence for the same reasons other allies do: military and intelligence cooperation, strategic alignment, domestic constituencies, lobbying, and long-standing bilateral ties.

People do answer the question. You simply do not like the answer because conspiracy is more emotionally satisfying than reality. Many countries exert significant influence in Washington. Saudi Arabia, China, and Japan each spent more than $100 million on FARA-registered influence activity in 2022 to 2023, and Canada and Germany also rank among the leading foreign spenders by that measure. Israel is not unique in seeking to shape U.S. policy. That is what states, lobbying firms, donors, allies, contractors, and interest groups do in a democracy. So why do some people single out Israel so obsessively? Because Israel is in the news, because it is connected to a war involving Iran, because it is the Jewish state, and because, for many people, the old fantasy of hidden Jewish power is never far from the surface. The moment “influence” becomes eerie, exceptional, and all-explaining only when Jews or Israel are involved, you are no longer engaging in sober political analysis. You are stepping into a very old antisemitic trope. Israel has influence for the same reasons other allies do: military and intelligence cooperation, strategic alignment, domestic constituencies, lobbying, and long-standing bilateral ties.

@DBCWriter @AwakenWithJP Yet no one seems to be able to refute the criticisms or answer the questions posed. Why does this little country have so much sway over our politicians?

Hello America, Israel is your master now! Here's why. Enjoy...