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Former Editor-in-Chief, @Jerusalem_Post / Pretty Jewish. No big whoop. / avi @avimayer .com
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Let's dispense with a few lies you will likely hear in the coming days:
Lie
#1
: "Israel started this with its airstrike in Damascus."
False. Iran has been maintaining a constant assault on Israel for decades via its proxies in the region – chief among them Hezbollah, which is…
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It's coming fast and furious now.
From Kanye West to Marjorie Taylor Greene, Ilhan Omar to Dave Chappelle, antisemitism is being mainstreamed to an extent we haven't seen in recent memory.
Now is the time for non-Jewish allies to stand with the Jewish community.
We need you.
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Remember this:
The Palestinians who will be released in the impending deal are convicted terrorists who are in prison because they tried to murder Israelis.
The Israelis who will be freed are innocent civilians being held hostage by terrorists.
There is no equivalence. None.
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These were the Tree of Life synagogue victims:
Joyce Feinberg, 75
Rich Gotfried, 65
Rose Malinger, 97
Jerry Rabinowitz, 66
Cecil Rosenthal, 59
David Rosenthal, 54 (brothers)
Bernice Simon, 84
Sylvan Simon, 86 (a married couple)
Daniel Stein, 71
Melvin Wax, 88
Irving Youngner, 69
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I just read an account by an El Al crew member.
An Orthodox Jewish man who preferred to remain anonymous stood quietly near the El Al counter at New York's JFK Airport yesterday.
Anyone who showed him an IDF call-up notice got his ticket paid for.
He paid for 250 tickets.
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600 rockets in 30 hours.
An average of one rocket every three minutes.
Hundreds of thousands of Israelis within rocket range and tens of thousands of families huddled in bomb shelters since yesterday morning.
No other country would tolerate this.
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In the past 24 hours
* The Arab League refused to condemn the Israel-UAE peace deal
* It was reported that Saudi Arabia and Bahrain will allow all flights to/from Israel to fly through their airspace
* Abu Dhabi directed all hotels to start offering kosher food
Remarkable.
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Realize this:
The anti-Israel rallies around the world started *after* the October 7 Hamas massacre but *before* Israel started carrying out airstrikes targeting Hamas in Gaza.
They weren't protests of Israel's actions. They were celebrations of the slaughter of Jews.
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We Jews are tired.
We’re tired of being murdered and then told our murders didn’t happen.
We’re tired of being dehumanized, our children’s faces torn from lampposts.
We’re tired of being told everyone deserves a home—except us.
We’re tired.
But we’re going to fight. And win.
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Whoa: Israeli media is reporting that the IDF has a recording of a conversation between Islamic Jihad terrorists confirming that they launched the rocket that hit the Gaza hospital.
It will reportedly be released shortly.
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WATCH: Sidney Poitier, who passed away this weekend at age 94, chokes up as he tells Lesley Stahl about the elderly Jewish waiter who taught him to read, enabling his acting career to take off
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Three weeks after Pearl Harbor, no one was calling for a ceasefire.
Three weeks after 9/11, no one was calling for a ceasefire.
Three weeks after the worst mass murder of Jews since the Holocaust, Hamas continues to hold 220 hostages and fire rockets into Israel.
No ceasefire.
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A 25-year-old Palestinian man, Ahmed Abu Maria, who fled to Israel and was granted asylum two years ago due to his sexual identity, was reportedly abducted and taken back to the West Bank city of Hebron, where he was beheaded yesterday.
May his memory be a blessing.
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Some have pointed out that Gaza's Hamas rulers don't have an Iron Dome system to prevent Israeli airstrikes.
They do. It's called Don't Fire Rockets At Israel.
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To recap: in the past 48 hours, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Bahrain have all welcomed the United States' decision to withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal, and Bahrain has expressly supported Israel's right to self-defense against Iran. We live in interesting times.
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The stories from southern Israel get worse by the hour.
A woman found murdered with a fetus next to her, still attached to its umbilical cord.
An elderly woman found in a pool of blood, her body riddled with bullet holes.
Entire families found burned to death in their homes.
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The arc of the Gaza hospital incident has been breathtaking to behold.
Thousands of journalists and media outlets swiftly and uncritically broadcast Hamas claims that it was hit by an Israeli airstrike.
Now it seems it was hit by a misfired Palestinian rocket.
Where are they?
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It's happening already. They're shifting the story.
They're making this about Gaza, hoping you'll forget what happened just one week ago.
1,300 Israelis—entire families, infants, the elderly—were massacred by Hamas.
That's the story. Everything must be seen through that lens.
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People who wouldn't dream of tearing down posters of a lost dog are gleefully tearing down posters of kidnapped Jewish children.
That's where we're at.
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The President of the United States made an announcement some people don’t like, so protesters in the UK and Sweden are threatening to kill Jews. Not Americans – Jews. Not Israelis – Jews.
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Here’s a remarkable stat:
Since the start of the war, 300,000 Israelis have returned to Israel.
They’ve come to join their reserve units; to volunteer; or just to be home with their families, communities, and country during a difficult time.
That’s the Israeli spirit. 🇮🇱
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By the end of today, everyone who follows me should know the name Kim Yehezkel. The 28-year-old Israeli mother of one was shot to death by a Palestinian coworker earlier today at the West Bank factory at which they were both employed.
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"Sadly, we're kinda experts on Nazism."
Someone give
@GermanEmbassySA
's social media manager a raise.
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There is a lesson in this evening's Gaza hospital incident:
Believe
nothing
Hamas
says
ever
ever
ever.
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BREAKING: Synagogue firebombed in Gothenburg, Sweden's second-largest city; twenty masked individuals involved; Jewish students gathered in the building huddle in basement for safety; authorities block off area to search for attackers. (Expressen)
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Israeli media is reporting that several countries have advised Israel's foreign ministry that they, too, intend to move their embassies to Jerusalem in light of today's announcement by President Trump.
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BREAKING: One of the hostages at the Texas synagogue has been released unharmed. He does not require medical attention and will be reunited with his family.
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This is how the Palestinian propaganda machine works.
Left: the photo of Omar Al-Saadi, described as a "youth" killed by Israel, being circulated in English.
Right: the photo of Al-Saadi—an Islamic Jihad terrorist killed while attacking Israeli soldiers—circulating in Arabic.
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I know there must be many Palestinians who oppose the Hamas massacre in which 1,300 Israeli Jews were slaughtered. They must think it's awful that babies were burned to death, that grandparents were executed in the street.
There must be loads. So many.
So where are they?
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Jews at synagogues across America are currently observing Shabbat behind airport-level security, unaware of what is happening in Texas.
They will turn on their phones when Shabbat ends in a few hours and be reminded, heartbreakingly, why the security is necessary.
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In the span of a single week:
* The French government announces that anti-Semitic incidents are up 74%
* The German government announces that violent anti-Semitic attacks are up 60%
* Seven British MPs leave the Labour Party due to "institutional anti-Semitism"
Europe, wake up.
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Tel Aviv City Hall has been illuminated as the Union Jack in tribute to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth and in solidarity with the British people as they mourn her passing.
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BREAKING: An important win for Israel and a devastating blow to those accusing the Jewish state of “genocide” at The Hague, where the International Court of Justice has refrained from ordering Israel to stop its military campaign against Hamas in Gaza, urging it only to take…
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The Israel you don't always see: a lovely image of two Israeli soldiers—one Muslim, the other Jewish—reciting their respective morning prayers together on their base. 🇮🇱
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Right now: thousands of people—Jews and non-Jews—are marching through the streets of Paris in memory of Mireille Knoll, the 85-year-old Holocaust survivor murdered in her home Friday night.
#MarcheBlanche
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🔴 BREAKING: Israel says it has eliminated the entire military leadership of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist group in Gaza in a series of targeted strikes since yesterday.
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Happening now: Israelis are filling Tel Aviv's Rabin Square for a massive peace rally in support of a two-state solution. (
@ItayBlumental
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Minutes after Israeli cabinet approves Gaza ceasefire, rockets are being fired from Gaza at Israeli cities and towns.
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This is 32-year-old Amir Khoury, an Arab citizen of Israel and an officer in the Israeli Police, who was killed responding to tonight's terror attack in Bnei Brak.
He managed to shoot and kill the attacker before succumbing to his wounds.
May his memory be a blessing. 🕯️
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"End the occupation of Gaza!"
Newsflash: Israel left Gaza in 2005.
It pulled thousands of Israeli families out of their homes, uprooted its army, and handed the keys over to the Palestinians.
Two years later, Hamas seized control and transformed Gaza into a base for terror.
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VIDEO: The pilot of the El Al flight from Amsterdam to Tel Aviv thanks the legal team representing Israel at The Hague, drawing cheers and applause from passengers
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It is time to treat supporters of Hamas as we do supporters of ISIS.
Many countries have deported ISIS supporters, stripping them of citizenship.
That is what they must do to Hamas supporters.
Anyone who supports Hamas, in any way, should be a candidate for deportation.
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Friday morning in Gaza’s Khan Yunis Sector. An incident that took place with one of the battalions operating under the 4th Brigade:
Before carrying out a raid, the force sent up a drone after spotting a suspicious figure. Through the drone they saw an elderly woman bound to a…
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Wow: the Israeli flag is raised at Prague Castle at the direction of Czech President Zeman in solidarity with the people of Israel as they endure Hamas rocket fire.
Thank you, Mr. President! 🇨🇿🇮🇱
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Wow: Israel's national anthem, Hatikvah, is played in the UAE presidential palace as Israeli President Herzog is welcomed by Crown Prince Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed. 🇮🇱🇦🇪
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Those calling for a ceasefire are trying to deny the Jewish state its right to self-defense after the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust.
Sorry, world. That model of Jew expired in 1948.
We have the capacity to defend ourselves now, and we're going to use it.
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Friends,
Valentin (Eli) Ghnassia, 23, was a lone soldier from France.
He was on the frontlines in Kibbutz Be'eri and fought the Hamas terrorists for eight hours, saving countless lives.
Valentin is being laid to rest at 12 noon today at Mt. Herzl in Jerusalem.
Please go.
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All three of Israel's main TV channels are now predicting that Benjamin Netanyahu will remain prime minister, forming his fifth government.
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35-year-old Elkana Vizel, a married father of four, was one of the 21 Israeli soldiers killed in Gaza yesterday.
He left his family a letter. It reads as follows:
If you are reading these words, something must have happened to me.
First, in the event that I have been taken…
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Today I attended the funeral of 22-year-old Ben Zussman, who grew up in my community in Jerusalem and was killed in Gaza yesterday. I knew him since he was a little boy.
His mother, Sarit, and his sister, Mika, sat quietly at his grave at the end of the funeral.
Heartbreaking.
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We need to talk about this.
Last night, on Shabbat, a gunman murdered seven innocent people outside a synagogue in Jerusalem.
This was the reaction in Palestinian cities: fireworks, street parties, children brandishing guns, sweets handed out to passersby.
This is not normal.
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* Israeli babies are murdered by Hamas *
The mob: SHOW US THE EVIDENCE! WHERE ARE THE DEAD BABIES!
* Hamas says Israel hit a Gaza hospital *
The mob: Oh, Hamas says so? Good enough for us. THE JEWS ARE TO BLAME! ISRAEL IS COMMITTING GENOCIDE!
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Dan, I’m going to say this as plainly as I can:
Your ancestors would vomit if they knew what you have become: a propagandist for those who slaughter Jewish babies.
May your name be blotted out of the annals of our people, as it surely will be.
1. None of these photos show evidence of beheading – let alone 40 of them.
2. There is no evidence that these photos are from Kfar Aza.
3. None of the journalists who visited Kfar Aza in the aftermath personally saw any beheaded or burned babies.
4. No families have come forward,…
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These are 27-year-olds Eytam Megini and Tomer Morad, friends since childhood, who were murdered in last night’s terror attack in central Tel Aviv.
May their memory be a blessing. 🕯
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This was one of the most painful things I've ever written, but these are things that have to be said.
We can no longer consider Jews who align themselves with the murderers of Jewish babies part of the Jewish people.
My latest
@Jerusalem_Post
column:
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.
@UCBerkeley
is a taxpayer-funded university.
Nine student groups have now stated that they will bar Jews—and let's be clear: that's what they're saying; to target "Zionists" is to target Jews—from their programming.
It's time for legal action.
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The brother of 6-year-old Yaakov Yisrael and 8-year-old Asher Menachem Pellay, the two young boys killed in Friday's terror attack in Jerusalem, eulogizes them at Asher Menachem's funeral.
You don't have to understand Hebrew to feel the unbearable pain.
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The number of Israelis confirmed dead in today's Hamas terrorist invasion has risen to 300, with 1,590 wounded.
That is the equivalent of three 9/11s, given the size of Israel's population.
This is a catastrophe unlike anything Israel has ever experienced before.
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Paris.
Toulouse.
Brussels.
Copenhagen.
Jerusalem.
Tel Aviv.
Kansas City.
And now Pittsburgh.
Over the past decade, Jews have been targeted in Jewish institutions—synagogues, schools, JCCs, kosher supermarkets, and even museums—around the world. Their only crime? Being Jewish.
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Anyone who questioned this should be on their knees with tears streaming down their cheeks, begging forgiveness from the parents whose children were burned alive and decapitated.
The Jerusalem Post can now confirm based on verified photos of the bodies that the reports of babies being burnt and decapitated in Hamas's assault on Kfar Aza are correct.
May their memory be a blessing.
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This is 26-year-old Eli Kay, an immigrant to Israel from South Africa, who was shot to death by a Hamas terrorist in the Old City of Jerusalem earlier today.
A tour guide at the Western Wall, he was set to be married.
May his memory be a blessing. 🕯️
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Three things to know about Bennett’s meeting with Putin in Moscow:
1. Zelensky has asked him to serve as a mediator
2. The trip was coordinated with the U.S., UK, and Germany
3. Bennett, an observant Jew, would only travel on Shabbat in order to save lives
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One of the best videos I’ve seen from Ukraine thus far.
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Jews across America are watching the news from Texas and thinking the same thing:
It could have been my synagogue.
It could have been my children's Jewish school.
It could have been our Jewish community center.
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The Hamas murderers did the worst things you can imagine to their victims in southern Israel.
They gouged people's eyes out.
They cut pregnant women's stomachs open.
They tied parents and children to one another and set them on fire.
This is the evil we're dealing with.
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I struggle to think of another country that would exercise an iota of the restraint Israel has in responding to 4,000 rockets fired at it by terrorists over the past ten days.
If rockets were exploding in New York, London, or Paris, what do you suppose the response would be?
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A remarkable scene from the "kippah walk" in Berlin, as a Muslim woman wears a colorful kippah atop her hijab in solidarity with the German Jewish community. (via
@MalteLehming
)
#BerlinTr
ägtKippa
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If 50 of the 62 people killed on Monday were Hamas and three have been claimed by Islamic Jihad, that means 85% of the dead were terror operatives. While even one civilian inadvertently killed is one too many, the notion that the IDF "fired indiscriminately" is a libelous lie.
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Happening now: Israelis protest Russia's assault on Ukraine in front of the Russian embassy in Tel Aviv. 🇺🇦
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Scores of Palestinians attacked Joseph's Tomb in Nablus overnight.
After throwing hundreds of rocks at the Jewish holy site, they burst in and ransacked the place, smashing the grave marker and setting fire to the tomb.
The images are simply shocking, as is the world's silence.
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If you're calling for a ceasefire
and you had nothing to say about the 1,400 Israeli
mothers,
fathers,
grandmothers,
grandfathers, and
children
slaughtered by Hamas two weeks ago
or the 210 hostages still held by Hamas in Gaza,
I really couldn't care less what you have to say.
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Mia Khalifa has 3.7 million followers.
Here she is mocking Israel's age (note: Israel is older than two-thirds of the world's countries, including most countries in the Middle East) by showcasing champagne produced in... Nazi-occupied France.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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I ran a newspaper for much of this war. Here's an important lesson in media literacy.
Whenever you see casualty figures from Gaza—in media reports, statements by government officials, social media posts, or anywhere else—understand the following:
1. These figures come from the…
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Hello. Here is a complete list of everything that can be compared to the Holocaust:
1. The Holocaust.
That’s it. That’s the list.
Stop using our personal, familial, and national trauma for your petty political games.
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This is 19-year-old Yazan Falah, a Druze citizen of Israel and a recent recruit to the Israeli Border Police, who was murdered in the terror attack in Hadera earlier this evening. He was an only son.
May his memory be a blessing. 🕯️
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Kfir Bibas is ten months old.
He has spent more than 10% of his life in Hamas captivity.
He is still there.
There's nothing more to say.
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Here’s a little factoid that is sure to infuriate Hamas, which makes it all the more worth sharing: the Israeli force that took out their militants near Jericho today was largely composed of female combat soldiers from the IDF’s Lions of the Valley Battalion.
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Blatant lies: the Palestinian Information Center, which has half a million followers on Facebook, has posted a photo of actress Katherine Heigl—who played Dr. Izzie Stevens in “Grey’s Anatomy”—identifying her as a “French doctor” who has traveled to Gaza “to offer medical help.”
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Hello. Thank you for noticing Kanye’s antisemitism.
While I’ve got you, did you know Hasidic Jews are being beaten in broad daylight, swastikas are being carved into Jewish students’ dorm room doors, politicians are scapegoating Jews, and student groups are banning “Zionists”?
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It's 3:30 AM here in Israel and Israeli families are huddled in bomb shelters due to ongoing rocket fire by Palestinian terrorist groups in Gaza.
No country would put up with this.
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I flew over Saudi Arabia this morning on a direct flight from Tel Aviv to Dubai.
A year and a half ago, every part of that sentence would have been unthinkable.
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And now, a story about UNRWA.
Back in November, we at
@Jerusalem_Post
shared journalist
@bokeralmog
's report that an Israeli who had been held hostage in Gaza said that he had been held captive in the home of a teacher employed by
@UNRWA
who was also a father of ten children.…
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Nothing the President of the United States could ever say or do would justify attacking or threatening Jews anywhere. Let's all stop treating violent antisemites like small children who have no control over their actions.
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The deaths of hundreds of Palestinian civilians at the Gaza hospital is a horrific tragedy.
That they seem to have been caused by an Islamic Jihad rocket should draw Palestinian outrage toward the terrorist groups that endanger Palestinian civilians as they target Israeli ones.
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BREAKING: Israeli forces thwart a Palestinian attempt to plant an explosive device on the Gaza-Israel border using today's violent Hamas-led riots as cover; three individuals involved in the attempt have been shot and killed. (Channel 20)
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The world's solidarity with Israel following the murder of more than 900 Israelis is heartwarming and appreciated.
But the true test will be this:
Who will continue to stand by Israel when we do what we must to deal Hamas a devastating, crushing, game-changing blow?
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"We have decided that, for the good of the Palestinian people, and to spare Gaza any more pain and suffering, we are releasing all remaining Israeli hostages and laying down our weapons."
– The speech Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar could be making to end the war right now, but won't
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Awesome: Rio de Janeiro's iconic landmark, Christ the Redeemer, is illuminated in blue and white in celebration of Israel's 70th Independence Day. Obrigado Brasil! 🇧🇷🇮🇱
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Love this: Israeli beach soccer players Adir Danin, a Jew, and Muhammad (Noor) Sarsur, a Muslim, pray together before their Euro Winners Cup match in Nazaré, Portugal. 🇮🇱
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BREAKING: Israeli airlines have received official approval from Saudi authorities to overfly the kingdom en route to and from any and all destinations; Oman expected to follow suit. (Kann) 🇮🇱🇸🇦🇴🇲
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🔴 BREAKING: Yet another Israeli hostage was reportedly held captive by an UNRWA teacher in Gaza operating on behalf of Hamas.
The UNRWA employees who held Israeli hostages reportedly used UNRWA facilities to transfer them from one point to another.
This is at least the second…
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90-year-old Gina Smiatich was a resident of Kissufim, a kibbutz in southern Israel.
On Saturday, as Hamas terrorists invaded her community, she hid in her apartment's bomb shelter.
They found her, dragged her into the living room, and shot her in the head.
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