Jeff Gottesfeld

Is there anything better than teaching grade school kids about our vets, the Honor Flight program, and my new @Candlewick book w illustrator @tavaresbooks?

@olgakhazan In other words, it's really hard to blame people for not knowing things that they have never been taught.

@olgakhazan It's not so much that there are messages not to have kids, but a paucity of messages of how important and great it is to have them.

People who missed out on having babies because of "messages" you received. What were these messages? As someone who writes articles for a living I would love to go as viral as these seemingly very potent girlboss "messages!"

@literaryeric Bravo and today's playlist just got longer.

@jeffgottesfeld How versed are you in pop punk in general? Like, do you know their cover of Simple Plan's "I'm just a kid?" You know "In Too Deep" from Sum 41? And "Worst Enemy" by Lit and whatnot?

Let’s play stump the music nerd. Give me a song, band or genre you are into, and I will give you a song you have never heard before that you will love.

@SethAMandel The whole thing will founder on Jerusalem. The Israelis will never allow Arab sovereignty (vs. religious auth) over Temple Mount again, and PA will accept nothing less. That was huge Camp David 2000 sticking point.

I think, after Arafat's Camp David rejection and then Abbas's rejection, it would be helpful for some of us longtime advocates of 2SS if the Palestinian govt would hold up a map and say "this is what we will accept" or "here is what we demand in return for *ending the conflict*"

@RalphsGrocery you got to do better with your online ordering. I ordered three home chef eggplant parmesans, saticoy location Los Angeles. Came to store for pickup, told not in stock. You had my email address you should have told me long before. Structured whole morning around this pickup.

@mattyglesias @Mark_J_Ryan @MaxNordau Not when people believe Robert Malley's version of Camp David 2000 and reject President Clinton and Dennis Ross. And it's not like Operation Defensive Shield was lauded.

@Mark_J_Ryan @MaxNordau If Israel proposes something reasonable and Palestinians reject it (as has happened in the past) that makes the Palestinians look bad and bolsters public support for Israel (which was higher in the past).

The belief that global perceptions of Israel are totally unrelated to Israeli conduct is extremely widespread, both in Israel and in American pro-Israel circles. It's also wildly implausible and helps explain a lot about both Israeli behavior and Israel's cratering reputation.

@wil_da_beast630 Immigration from places with lower average height is a possibility, no?

What happened around 1960?

@SirBongani_King @DailyIranNews

BREAKING: Iranian State TV revealed the reasons for the failure of the talks with the U.S Details: - The U.S. tried to achieve at the negotiating table what it could not achieve through war - The Americans demanded that Iran hand over enriched uranium and open the Strait of Hormuz without recognizing Iran’s sovereignty over it - Iran has decided to defend its national interests by military means.

Another massive confidence-shattering reality is that neither the Biden administration nor the Trump administration has ordered a non-partisan September 11th Style commission of inquiry into our pandemic response. Where are the recs for next time? Because next time will surely come.

A question for everyone: survey data suggests that by the end of the Covid-19 emergency trust in public health institutions had decreased significantly. If you are among the people who reacted that way, why specifically? I'm hoping for long, diverse, individualized answers.

Very honored to be part of this veterans focused podcast to talk about the Honor Flight book. youtube.com/live/_iWyRxpVR…

@conor64 Diminished when a few months in the obvious was not shouted from rooftops: Live life as much outdoors as possible. Open your windows. Lose weight for a better outcome. Recovered people make excellent volunteers to the elderly.

@JoshKraushaar 1. Enforcement. 2. Enforcement. 3. Enforcement 4. Peaceful, unmasked, reasonable time, place, and manner campus protests are not all that much fun.

“Some academics think that the students themselves are different: Whether because of concerns about the worsening job market or a cultural shift rightward, they seem less interested in raising hell on campus.” theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/03/…

Egypt controlled Gaza 1948 to 1967. They did not create a Palestinian State Jordan controlled the West Bank 1948 to 1967. They barred Jews, annexed it and mandated everyone to have Jordanian passports. They did not create a Palestinian state. There was practically zero Palestinian pushback.

@ElectionCenter_ The Ottoman Empire was Palestinian? The British Empire? No? Than how is it that "Palestinians controlled the West Bank in 1918 and still by 1947?"

Annexation is illegal under international law. And no, Israel has no legal claim to the West Bank. None whatsoever. Palestinians controlled the West Bank in 1918 and still by 1947. The un partition plan, which was understandably rejected by the Palestinians, still dictated the West Bank be given to the Palestinians. Israel has illegally occupied the West Bank since 1967 and has illegally instituted apartheid since, no matter how hard you try to spin things.

@HistoryBoomer Worth adding that between 1948 and 1967, the nation of Jordan annexed the West Bank and gave citizenship to all residents there. After Jordan attacked Israel in 1967 and then lost the territory, it relinquished its legal control as part of the 1990s peace treaty with Israel.

In 1967, Israel won the 6-day war against Egypt, Syria, and Jordan, and captured the West Bank. Before 1967, the West Bank had been entirely Arab (since the massacre of Jews in Hebron in 1929 and the expulsions of 1948). Today, 500k Israeli settlers live there (red dots), and some hardline settler leaders have said they wish to remove all Palestinians. Ongoing settler violence, much of directed towards acquiring more land for settlements, is one of the things that stands in the way of peace. Yitzhak Rabin, who signed the 1993 Oslo Accords, was assassinated in 1995 by a pro-settler religious nationalist who opposed the Oslo deal (he's currently serving a life sentence for murder). Many Israelis oppose the actions of the settlers, but the settlements are protected by the Israeli military (which sometimes arrests violent settlers). Again, the settlers are far from the only barriers to peace. Terrorist murderers like Hamas also don't want peace, and even many non-Hamas Palestinians refuse to accept the idea of a Jewish state, but looking at that map and all those red dots, it's clear that no peace can be achieved without taking the settlements into account. (The West Bank's population is roughly 2.9 million Arabs and 500k Jews, not counting East Jerusalem.) I offer no solutions because I see no solutions. I agree with Israeli novelist Amos Oz: "The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is not a Wild West movie. It is not a struggle between good and evil, rather it is a tragedy in the ancient and most precise sense of the word: a clash between right and right, a clash between one very powerful, deep, and convincing claim, and another very different but no less convincing, no less powerful, no less humane claim."

@HistoryDean @WarFrontsWeekly Just followed on your say-so.

I very much enjoy @WarFrontsWeekly posts, and they're cranking out a ton of content. Just a small point of order: The supreme dictators of Iran are not "elected," at least not by the people. The dictator chooses a "counsel of experts" and they choose the supreme dictator. It's an incestuous setup. He also decides who can run for office and has final say on all laws. It's a small but significant point since the myth persists that Iran is a democracy and a "republic" under the ayatollah. Iranians boycotted the last sham elections in large numbers for this very reason. Keep up the great work.

@issacharoff No one ever will guard that gate again. Well, maybe Sinwar were he still alive.

דובר צה״ל הפיץ היום וידאו של פגיעה בשומר (ביחיד, לא ברבים) בכניסה לבסיס של כוחות הבסיג׳. יעני הש.ג. תקיפה מהאויר. עכשיו אני לא מבין גדול בצבא, אבל מה??? יש טילים בליסטיים שיורים על ישראל, יש מספיק אורניום מועשר לעשר פצצות גרעין, למה מבזבזים פה אנרגיה על פאקינג ש.ג של באסיג׳?

@HistoryDean The facts of history are stubborn. I've been busy pointing out that in the 1864 election, even after Gettysburg and Atlanta, even Lincoln could only pull 55% of the vote! Grousing is an American pastime. Human, really.

Yes, and killing the entire Nazi leadership didn’t change the regime, other than it changed the regime — and killing all the top Nazis until we got to a Nazi, who would knock that genocidal crap off, ended the war.

This was an absolutely superb interview about the Honor Flight book, conducted by a veteran with keen insight. Thank you!

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