Marc Muroff

@kevinbradley96 @bigdayscoming @havivrettiggur Which ones? The ones squatting on state land? Kicked off land legitimately purchased? Whose homes were taken over by other Arabs?? Records were good for hundreds of years, those who OWNED homes can easily be compensated in a final agreement

@bigdayscoming @havivrettiggur I’m talking about the Palestinians that were ethnically cleansed during the Nakba. Will they get restitution from Israel?

Suggesting a positive political endgame for Palestinians isn't hard to do. I've done it. Many others have too. And these endgame suggestions would be fantastic tools in the hands of anyone looking to impose specific demands on Israel, or on Abbas or Hamas, or to offer a better future for Palestinians of the sort that might peel some away from Hamas. Palestinians have shown repeatedly that they have the tools to shape Israeli politics. But they are told by ideologues foreign and domestic that they must never use these powers, because doing so would commit the unforgivable sin of actually engaging and acknowledging the dastardly Jews. Sorry, Israelis. So no one is ever interested in endgames. The suggestions always land with a thud. The activists dismiss them out of hand as distractions from the main task. Because the main task, the purpose of the whole rabid, unprecedented campaign, unseen in scale, duration or intensity in any conflict or country or even atrocity in generations, is not to find any solution for Palestinians. The purpose is to project all Western criminality and self-abnegation and all the anxieties of this moment of social disarray onto the familiar old scapegoat and then, as in the days of old, destroy that scapegoat. It's a civilization-spanning purification ritual couched, like all such rituals in the history of Christendom and the West, as a call to righteousness and truth. And the bulk of the costs of all this blind hatred masquerading as righteousness isn't paid by Israelis or Jews, though they are paying steep costs that will only grow steeper, because this hatred is never satisfied. No, they're paid by Palestinians. They, not we, are trapped in this obsessive radicalization against Israel. They, not we, are herded by comfortable foreigners living out anti-imperialist noble-savage fantasies into ever more rounds of zero-sum war. There *are* political endgames, and they're worth fighting for. But they require a pro-Palestinian campaign that's more than just an updated version of the anti-Jewish purges of old.

@DastDn On the other side … Jews! Duh

Why is it assumed that a Palestinian state is some sort of moral duty, that everyone must agree to accomplish? What makes them better than the Kurds, or Catalans, or Hmong - all of whom are considerably less dysfunctional and genocidal?

@AlpacaAurelius Just took a road trip in the south …. Cut the amount of EVERY sauce in EVERY meal in half and the meal will be 2x more enjoyable and they will live 4 years longer You’re welcome

americans in the southeast of the US have a 20 year shorter life expectancy than those elsewhere insane difference why?

@JoshInEncinitas @wards_66 @grok 2 mil $ house in trust Bought for $900k Wife & I die 2 kids Kids get step-up & avoid probate 1 wants to buy it from the other Gets mortgage for 1 mil pays off other kid Isn’t house cal now 2 mil and taxe$ on THAT What am I missing? Who does this hurt with vs w/o Trust

@wards_66 @grok No. You’re correct. Would you say that increases or decreases the chance your kids put it on the market when you pass? And if one could live there and keep your low property tax basis?

It’s all trusts and corps. Here’s a random area in La Jolla.

@MBBHACK @JoshInEncinitas @TacomaBryan @grok I think (I’m inferring bc the OP is being cagey) the point is that these homes are being passed down THROUGH the generations bc of trusts? 🤷🏼‍♂️ I have a trust bc if my wife & I die the home is under ‘ownership’ of the trust Heirs can sell the home & split proceeds easy wo probate

@JoshInEncinitas @TacomaBryan @grok Sorry - late to this, what is the point exactly? Trusts are just state planning tools. Everyone should have one if they own things

@hasbullahsahero @AlZeidenfeld Did it … in SD WAY less than that, more like <$2k

@AlZeidenfeld Dude switched it to tell me it’s the years. Which is valid. Just need to get a trust it’s like 3-5k to set up.

Pointing out that rich people put their homes in a trust or LLC is like pointing out that milk goes in a refrigerator.

@compliantvc We make $500k US a year and commute 10-15 minutes (by car) …. Cope

Meanwhile, the average American spends 3 hours in traffic each morning on a congested interstate just to travel 12 miles No wonder the EU is winning in basically every economic metric besides petrol sales

@RoKhanna If the new “moral direction” is to empower the Muslim Botherhood, IRGC and the other Islamo-fascists, count me out!!! Ro Khanna, why do you love fascists if they are Islamic????

No taxpayer $$ to Israel. No Israeli PM in Situation Room. End occupation. I am Team America. Trump is obsessed with war in the Middle East. It's time for a new generation for a new moral direction for Democrats.

@souljagoyteller The drumbeat of anti-Israel sentiment in the MSM has been in place in nearly my whole adult lifetime Why???

The thing is this: A lot of Zionists in America still do not understand how hated Israel is by the general public. They think theyre just unpopular. Not the most hated country in the world. Pop culture accounts *benefit* from being anti-Israel, their followers want them to be

@AdamKoffler @randycharb $3,300 a month is fine and totally normal (maybe low) on $200k in nearly every metro area for rentals …. Shouldn’t young couples scrimp and save for down payment then payoff to PMI to OWN an asset that will not inflate in monthly $$$ ?

@randycharb 5% can get you in sure, but then your monthly payment is through the damn roof Imagine 5% down on $500K now you have a $475K mortgage at 6.3% $4,400/month on a 15 year $3,300/month on a 30 year Better be making $175K combined salary

Here’s Dave Ramsey’s advice on buying a house in the year 2026: - Have 20% for a down payment to avoid private mortgage insurance (PMI) - Do a 15-year fixed rate loan - Make sure your monthly payment isn’t more than 1/4th of your take home pay Let’s put that math to the test 👇🏼

@DanFriedman81 You can’t separate the two… Part of the reason the left in particular HATES Jews is their success You can’t say that Israel is not a success, especially from an economic point of view From that perspective, the left hate both equally

People don’t hate Jews because they hate Israel. They hate Israel because they hate Jews. And the recent rapid political shifts are not happening because Netanyahu failed, they are happening because organized American Jewry failed. We believed that building an America that was safe and welcoming for all would build an America that was safe and welcoming for us, but the truth is that the people we welcomed — the third world so many of us foolishly supported importing — despise us, and as their numbers rise and the face of America changes, our position erodes. Third worldism is explicitly antisemitic because the third world is antisemitic, and mass migration from the third world is mass importation of antisemitism. The reason the younger cohort of Americans are anti-Israel isn’t because of anything Israel did, it’s a simple matter of demographics. The Jewish people have enemies and always will. We can extend the olive branch to them. We can preach tolerance. We can try to build bridges. None of that matters, just like it didn’t when organizations and movements progressive Jews offered allyship to and thought would reciprocate abandoned us to support Hamas on October 7, 2023. Our enemies will firebomb Jewish-owned businesses and shoot at synagogues, and when they outnumber us we won’t have any protection from the state. And no amount of peace, love and understanding will dissuade them. Jewish safety is only possible within certain social parameters, and those parameters have been crossed throughout Europe, in Canada and in New York City. It will happen all over America unless we do something quickly to stop it. We have to reconsider what we very recently thought were core Jewish values. We have to quickly recognize who our enemies are and what the new threat to us is, and shift our advocacy for the fight we’re facing. We can’t keep tilting at the windmill of “white supremacy” or the far right. If we don’t make America great again, they’ll make America into a place we can’t live.

@NoahArbit The MSM media’s coverage of Israel is deeply biased During the Gaza war I watched example after example of misinformation, incomplete reporting and often outright incorrect reporting (CBS & CBN mostly) The real question is why? If it’s just the MSM working for Dems, again WHY??

This has generally been my experience as a liberal Zionist since October 7th. The blue-haired progressives are “experts” on a conflict they aren’t connected to and definitely don’t understand, whereas you can have nuanced convos with Arabs bc they know the stakes.

@CoreyWriting So if Palestinians somehow had a "pro-peace" government committed to a 2 state solution, would THEIR their numbers with Dems improve??? Because they seem pretty high w Dems considering the Pals are all killey and genocidey towards the Israelis ... I'm just confused

Hypothetically, if Israel somehow had a "pro-peace" government committed to a 2 state solution, then I think their numbers with Dems could improve. This won't happen anytime soon, but it is possible.

@Eve_Barlow @koshercockney I think it’s clearly a hypocrisy and double-standard thing, not a woman ‘owning’ her sexuality thing

This is so messed up. Imagine if Brad Pitt was publicly comparing who f*cked him better Jennifer Anniston or Angelina Jolie. He wouldn’t. Because he’s not a pig. This is absolutely disgusting, disrespectful behaviour that would not be tolerated if the roles were reversed. Those guys have children, who have mothers that aren’t Gwyneth. Imagine, those children now have to hear the details of their Dads pleasuring another woman. Purely for her own ego. @GwynethPaltrow should be ashamed. Grow the f*ck up and have some respect.

@Palestinia12961 I have sympathy But You reap what you sew

Today is the hottest day this year with temperatures nearing 30 degrees. Very rare here. Whenever the temperatures rise or drop to extreme levels, I think about the people of Gaza. Many still in tents. All but forgotten. 💔💔💔

@BernieSanders Bernie Sanders' estimated net worth is approximately $2.5 million to $3 million He has a $174,000 annual Senate salary Explain why we shouldn’t run HIM out of town?!!

CEOs of large corporations now make more than 350 times what the average worker earns. San Francisco’s Prop D will tax billion-dollar corporations that pay their CEOs outrageous salaries to fund essential services devastated by Donald Trump’s funding cuts. Vote yes on Prop D.

@MickeyGitzin Blah blah blah …. I ant reading all that The West Bank (& the Kotel) was Jordanian It was Judenrein They lost it They don’t want it back Israel offered the LOSERS a state in that territory They rejected it 3x EVERYDAY the Pals can send over a realistic offer They don’t 🤷🏼‍♂️

I would very much like to agree with Haviv, but unfortunately he is wrong. I assume this comes from the difficulty of looking at the situation as it truly is because it is deeply painful. But the language of “complexity” cannot be used to obscure the truth. Yes, the overall situation is complex, but some things are clear and simple. There is one power from the river to the sea, and that power is Israel. Under Israeli rule, there are citizens and subjects. In practice, there is no real distinction today between Israel governing within its sovereign territory and the Israeli civil system governing the West Bank. It is also not credible to claim that the political decision to displace Palestinians and expand Jewish presence in the West Bank is driven primarily by security concerns. It reflects a maximalist political and religious ideology that seeks to establish a single state from the river to the sea, at an immense moral cost. As Klein argues, acknowledging this does not negate the very real and devastating toll Israel has paid from Hamas and Hezbollah terrorism. But that is not what ultimately drives current policy. The aspiration to control the entire territory predates these events. In this sense, some actors now frame the current moment, especially in the aftermath of October 7, as a kind of “miraculous moment” to advance that long-held vision. Elements within the settler movement and their allies appear to view it as a rare opportunity to push forward the idea of a single state from the river to the sea, one that would be emptied of Palestinians. And perhaps most importantly: there is no real debate, and no genuine aspiration to change this reality. Today, there is no significant political force within Israeli society that sees control over the West Bank as temporary. It is understood as a permanent condition, backed across the political system. We are living in a moment where even members of the opposition visit and legitimize violent outposts, not only Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir, but figures beyond them as well. And on Lebanon: Israel is facing a deeply troubling security reality vis à vis Hezbollah. But rather than fully exploring the opportunity to work with the Lebanese government, Israel has chosen to act like a bully, devastating entire civilian areas and, at times, targeting individuals who are part of the opposition to Hezbollah. As Bezalel Smotrich himself has said, there are also those who see this as an opportunity to expand Israel’s borders. Haviv, when this is the reality, it is hard to accept security-based explanations at face value. They can explain many things, but not this. Today’s Israel often appears unable to imagine resolving challenges through anything other than overwhelming, indiscriminate force. Civilians are not counted, and even core security interests can become secondary to the need to satisfy the political base, and, for some, the goal of territorial expansion. And in trying to explain this grim reality, you are, in effect, legitimizing it, offering yourself as the acceptable, reasonable face of a system that, in practice, looks very different. These are the facts, unfortunately. @havivrettiggur @ezraklein

@RichardHanania @MehekCooke Iran

@MehekCooke What caused it to be closed?

Every foreign policy genius who spent a decade collecting paychecks to tell us Iran was untouchable just watched a real estate developer from Queens reopen the waterway that moves a third of the world's oil. The credential class should be embarrassed into silence.

@dodgersjordan I don’t call myself a Republican but at this point that’s less worse than calling myself a Democrat !?! [literally never voted R in a State or Federal election 😕]

I’m going to remain a Democrat but I can’t fault Jews who start to jump ship. Whatever side of the aisle Jews end up on, we are going to be confronted with a lot of headwinds. It will be a challenge in both parties to continue to combat antisemitism

@NormalDemocrats Not One FUCKING Dime!!!!!

🚨The DNC is flat broke.🚨 This is not an exaggeration, they are struggling to pay their employees and raise cash. Why? Extremists don’t donate. And the DNC’s traditional Jewish donor base won’t donate to antisemites. cnn.com/2026/03/23/pol…