Bob Siegel @Ideativeguy

@havivrettiggur My concern is the access to money that this deal appears to give Iran.

@Osint613 If true, it’s a conditional surrender by the US.

Farewell note from Myles Garrett

On This Day — May 31, 1834 114 years before the modern State of Israel, 1000s of Arab fellahin (peasants) & Bedouins — enraged by Egyptian ruler Ibrahim Pasha’s conscription law — stormed Jerusalem & unleashed hell on its ancient, defenseless Jewish community. No “occupation.” No “settlements.” No Israel. No modern political Zionism. Just Jews living as subjugated dhimmis under Muslim/Egyptian rule. On the night of May 31, ~40 men from the Bethlehem Fawaghirah tribe crawled through the sewage canals of Silwan, overpowered guards, and opened the gates from inside. Thousands of armed Arabs poured in. The small Egyptian garrison fled to the Tower of David. The mob then turned on the Jews. Eyewitness Rabbi Jehoseph Schwarz: “The savage victors, men, women and children surrounded the markets and the streets and cheered with their strange catcall ‘loo, loo, loo’… At dawn, we looked through our windows and saw that the city was full of wild and cruel Bedouins… several homes had been devastated.” Jews hid in caves and crevices. Homes and shops were plundered. Many were murdered in the streets. Women and daughters were raped. A contemporary Western report (Plymouth Herald - below) described Jews left with “not a bed to lie on ... many were murdered, their wives and daughters violated.” The mob was preparing to storm the Tower of David when rumor of Ibrahim Pasha’s approach sent them fleeing. But Jerusalem was only the beginning. Two weeks later in Safed (then the largest Jewish community in the Land, ~2,000 households), the pogrom lasted 33 days. Armed Arab villagers and locals: - Murdered ~500 Jews - Raped women in front of husbands and children, sometimes on Torah scrolls - Burned more than 500 Torah scrolls — using them for horse reins, blacksmith aprons, and shoes - Tore tefillin and tallitot for sashes and sacks - Beat rabbis mercilessly, gouged eyes, and drove survivors naked into fields “like wild animals,” left starving for weeks - Destroyed the only Hebrew printing press in the Land No army. No state. Just defenseless dhimmi Jews — convenient, powerless scapegoats for an Arab revolt against the Egyptians (in which the Jews had zero involvement). Pattern recognition matters. Long before modern politics, when Arabs held power over Jews in the Land of Israel, the impulse to humiliate, plunder, rape, and massacre Jews was already deeply entrenched.

Trump Can Close Hamas’s Front Office - WSJ wsj.com/opinion/trump-…

J’accuse: Who knew what and when at the New York Times? The publication date - May 12 - of a detailed and extensive report painstakingly compiled over two years by the The Civil Commission on October 7 Crimes Against Women and Children into the horrific rapes and sexual abuse of women, men and children on October 7 by Hamas terrorists was known in advance. The day before, on May 11, the NYT chose to publish a salacious opinion piece by Nicholas Kristof which included the demonstrably untrue claim that Palestinian detainees had been subjected to sexual abuse involving dogs by Israeli personnel. It appears that this opinion piece was designed to minimize the 430+ testimonies and interviews with Hamas sexual crime survivors, witnesses and former hostages in order to redirect attention and create moral equivalence between Kristof’s claims, which rely on spurious testimony and sources. So - When were Nicholas Kristof, Editor Joe Kahn, Opinion Editor Kathleen Kingsbury other NYT staff and publisher A. G. Sulzberger aware of the Civil Commission report’s publication? We demand an independent investigation.

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.

Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof

a month ago

This is a hard article to read, but I hope you'll do so. I've spent some time reporting on widespread rape and other sexual violence of Palestinian male and female prisoners by Israeli authorities, and the article is now published. The assault victims were warned not to give

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A must read

Alana Newhouse @alananewhouse

3 months ago

I wrote you something to share with people who use “ethnostate” as a slur. But be nice to them; they’re just jealous (and a little dumb). tabletmag.com/feature/zionis…

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@wrmead This has to be satire!

This on the state of international law and the foolishness of the pop-cultural hatred of western civilization!

Haviv Rettig Gur @havivrettiggur

4 months ago

I say this as gently as I know how, because it seems to me unforgivably obvious. You cannot simultaneously build a strong international law system while also hating the West. International law is a Western idea born of a particular Western historical, cultural and political

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@danpfeiffer Obama reached a deal that funded Iranian terror.

@KamalaHarris You should have sat out for this one. You are out of your league.

It’s so beautiful to see people all over the world celebrating the actions of Israel

@JJJuraid The dream of many!

Can people (including Jews) please stop parroting the myth that diaspora Jewish ancestors all left the Land of Israel 2000 years ago? In the early 7th century a Jewish army raised in the land took Jerusalem as part of the Persian war against Byzantium, and administered Jerusalem and Hebron for several years. The Jewish community was pushed out in waves all through the Middle Ages. Even in the late 19th Century unexiled Jews (from Peki'in) were migrating out of the land due to the hardships. Also Jews of Lebanon and Syria were the same people, they just moved to the nearest thriving cities such as Damascus and Beirut as economic life declined in the Land.

Iscah 𓂆 יסכה 🪬 @jess_ih_ka

4 months ago

🧵Jewish Life in Ancient Israel Perched on a basalt plateau in Korazim National Park, overlooking the Sea of Galilee, lies the ruins of Korazim. A Jewish village founded in the 1st century. Its synagogue still stands today. Constructed in the early 4th century, entirely from

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Very powerful: Bret Stephens: Should We Stop Funding the Fight Against Antisemitism? (INSIDE Call me Back sneak peek) | Call Me Back - with Dan Senor callmeback.simplecast.com/episodes/bret-…

This has to be satire

𝙋𝙚𝙜𝙖𝙨𝙪𝙨 @pegasusQ2004

4 months ago

🚨😐🚨 BRUTAL. El parlamento Británico vota en contra MASIVAMENTE de una investigación sobre escándalos de violación infantil. 📰 El Parlamento del Reino Unido bloquea la investigación sobre los escándalos de violación infantil, citando sensibilidades políticas En el Reino

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@LizaRosen0000 You missed UNRWA

Yes, the UN is a large organized crime group. We need to quit letting it take our money; the UN uses our money to support totalitarian governments like Iran as they massacre their people and spread terrorism.

Melissa Chen @MsMelChen

4 months ago

Not a single cent Let the UN collapse

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