"Every time President Biden says ‘We should have a Palestinian state,’ he’s teaching Hamas and other Islamic terrorists: The way to get what you want is murder babies.” I sat down with the inimitable
@JanJekielek
@EpochTV
for a 42 minute interview that digs deep into the Gaza
This is staggering.
@Newsweek
went back and rewrote a 2015 story that had described grads of Ranger School as “Rangers” - to match its present-day story accusing
@TomCottonAR
, who graduate the school, of not being a Ranger.
I knew it was bad but didnt know it was this bad.
BREAKING: Feds say Capitol attack coordinated in part on Twitter.
@apple
@google
@amazon
declining to cut service to social media site involved in 1/6...
Tomorrow at the ICJ, not only Israel will be on trial. Every Western democracy will be implicitly judged - and the conclusion may be that the U.S has committed genocide in every conflict it has fought.
The South African submission alleging genocide by Israel essentially seeks
New York has announced reduced quarantine period for "essential" workers, ie, longer quarantine for people doing jobs State deems less important. Anyone know of any precedent for quarantine rules that discriminate based on job importance?
I don't normally give personal updates here, but I wanted to tell you that there are a bunch of people in Gaza trying to kill me. Last night they came pretty close, I could feel the building shake with the blasts. Oh, and they're also trying to kill every other Jew in Israel.
I'll depart from my usual practice for a piece of personal news: I am delighted to announce my marriage yesterday to the extraordinary Yehudit Macales
@YMacales
at the lovely Psagot Winery.
So here's what the
@Airbnb
"disputed territory" policy means in practice: the pregnant woman shot by a Palestinian terrorist yesterday can't list her home on
@Airbnb
; the guy who shot her, the PA officials who pay him, no problem. Thanks for social justice.
This is by far the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust. All those who believe they would have opposed the Nazis at the time, and not favored appeasement, must prove it now.
Reminder for younger followers: before 2005, when Israel kicked every Jew out Gaza in a false hope that it would bring peace, rockets weren't falling on central Israel. (1/2)
Israel doesn't want to win the global public sympathy anymore, because they know the only thing that works is Jews tortured to death, and even that only for a few hours.
Reports indicate Biden imminently poised to declare Palestinian state with Capital in Jerusalem. Hamas's Al Aqsa storm has worked. Stunning and heartbreaking to see the U.S. take Palestinians' side. And what happens when the the new State launches an even bigger attack?
To be clear, US not recognising Israeli annexation of Palestinian land. It is recognising that Israel has always had a legitimate claim on this land. And that is huge.
I can't wait till on-campus orientation starts next semester, and the administrators give their usual warnings about micro-aggressions, making sure everyone feels safe, and getting all the pronouns right. They're gonna do it totally straight like nothing happened, I'd go back to
Imagine if Israel planned, carried out, and celebrated an Oct. 7th-like massacre against Palestinians, and said it would do it all over again. Would anyone be talking about Israelis' rights to their own state? Israel would be called a failed experiment, disbanded.
Under Utah's race-based allocation guidelines for monoclonal antibodies, a 25-year old whose parents were born in Cuba gets dibs over a 62 year of the "white race". I am surprised people aren't lining up at the courthouse to challenge this.
Fact check: the majority of Palestinian people in Gaza elected Hamas, which ran on a kill-all-the-Jews platform; and it remains widely popular in Gaza.
We must not lose sight of the fact that the overwhelming majority of Palestinians had nothing to do with Hamas’s appalling attacks, and are suffering as a result of them.
If Israel's withdraw from tiny Gaza, with a small frontier with Israel, leads to such catastrophic consequences, imagine what could happen with a withdraw from the Judea & Samaria. Today's events are just a little foretaste of what a "two state solution" would mean.
Biden was VP when US bombed a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Afghanistan. He didn’t demand a ceasefire, or American surrender. Heck he waited six years to let the Taliban take over the same way he will have Hamas back in charge of Gaza.
Omar's falsely and proactively calling this a "Muslim ban" reassures me that denying the visa was the right thing to do. Anything that would happen on the trip she would absurdly blame on racism, anti-Moslem bigotry. Now the list is at least kept short, the visa denial.
It is an affront that Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, under pressure from President Trump, would deny entry to representatives of the U.S. government.
My full statement:
Until 2020, New York law banned masked demonstrations like this, under an anti-KKK law. It was repealed during COVID. Now its absence is exploited by the Klan's spiritual successors. A case study of how modern hysterias feed into each other.
Video of the Penn Station incident. 500 Hamas supporters shouting slogans surrounded us. I put on an Israeli flag I carry with me. The cowards hid behind their masks. NYPD insisted I remove the flag as situation was getting dangerous.
Israel cannot allow missile attacks from Iran - even when intercepted safely - to become background noise. If it doesn't respond strongly now, diplomatic pressure to not do so will be even greater next time, and there will be a next time. This is exactly the mistake Israel made w
Israel leaves Gaza, and surprise! Hamas takes over. U.S. leaves Afghanistan, and surprise! Taliban takes over. But lets try this one more time somewhere, we'll get it right.
If Hitler said after D-Day, we will release 100 people from concentration camps a day, but Allies have to stop their attack - giving Germany crucial time to regroup (and they can always send more people to camps). Would it be the right thing to do?
If Israel wanted to "go after" Ismail Haniyeh's family, he has two sisters and many grandkids living peacefully and unmolested right in Israel, with citizenship!
The Hamas terrorists who whose father happens to be Ismail Haniyeh do not seem to have been targeted because of
Hamas thinks it has so much US support that months into negotiations it can say - "those girls and kids we have been talking about, sorry we tortured and starved and raped them to death, what's next on the agenda?" - and get away with it. I pray they are wrong.
Hamas Negotiators have reportedly told International Meditators in Cairo that it has No Ability to Release the 40 Hostages in the Humanitarian Category (Women, Children, and Elderly) that were included in yesterday’s Ceasefire Proposal because out of the 136 Hostages that remain
.
@airbnb
says it won't list places in "disputed territories" when those residences are owned by Jews, and not otherwise. That's not a policy about disputed territories, but about Jews.
You sick fuck. We aren't "guided by fear." They're working on dismembering, burning, raping, massacring our children NOW. We're Jews so we are not "afraid" -but we damn sure don't plan on letting it happen. Its not fear, its survival.
The decisions being made now are going to impact millions of lives, reverberate for generations, and risk all kinds of escalation. The U.S. should have learned from 9/11 the profound cost of being guided by anger and fear. I hope that is what we are telling the Israeli government
When Trump recognised Jerusalem as Israel's capital, everyone said Palestinian violence would erupt. Same when Trump moved the Embassy, and recognised the Golan.
But violence never erupted.
When Biden restored UNRWA funding, few said it would lead to violence - but it has.
If Israel had withdrawn from the West Bank, these rockets would be falling on Tel Aviv and Ben Gurion Airport, and Israel would be closed for business.
100 Times President Trump (
@realDonaldTrump
) Supported Israel
1. President Trump recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel
2. President Trump moved the American Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem
3. President Trump turned the Jerusalem consulate into an Embassy branch
I dont see how anything Israel is doing in Gaza could be legal: entire city blocks levelled, relief workers bombed, people denied food/medicine. Israel has a right to protect its citizens from attacks. This is not that. This reeks of revenge. IL does not deal in revenge
Despite very real terror threats, Israel makes Islamic holy sites available for Muslims and protects them.
What is the opposite of that? This.
Dozens of Palestinians smashed and burnt Joseph’s Tomb, a holy site for Jews located in Palestinian-controlled territory.
An outrage.
Biden to Israel: Do you me a solid and don't eliminate Iran's existential threat to your country so I can go back to keeping you from eliminating Hamas's existential threat to your country; the whole thing is a big existential threat to my reelection.
Hamas didn't "release" the hostages. It bartered them, in gross violation of international law, in order to free terrorists imprisoned by Israel and give Hamas a break to rearm and reload.
Today, 13 more hostages – including a fellow American – were released by Hamas under a deal brokered and sustained through intensive U.S. diplomacy.
We continue to press that additional Americans be released.
And we will not stop working until every hostage is returned.
Today’s Resolution is part of the broader malfunction of international law. Neither side will accept its terms, but only israel will suffer diplomatically. Thus it is simply a method of weakening Western democracies in favor of their illiberal enemies
The next time Americans laugh off or claim technocratic answers for Israeli concerns that withdrawing from the West Bank would make Israel indefensible, just say "how is Kabul these days?"
Had my first exerience with paper straws in a DC bar today. Couldn’t believe it was real. Consequences were predictable and absurd. We suck the dregs of our civilization’s sanity through these mushy tubes
Pro-tip to journalists: Fathers & brothers of these hostages, will remain in captivity. Don't expect details ofHamas atrocities. Indeed, they may have clear instructions to praise Hamas for the safety of their families. Hamas is still holding the released hostages hostage.
List of potential hostages to be released. Provided by the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office:
-Kfir Bibs - ten months old, his brother Ariel, 4, and mother Shiri Bibs. Father Jordan was kidnapped with them, and will remain captive.
-Emily Hand, 9.
-Yuval Engel, 11, (her sister
By far the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, with Nazi-levels of depravity. The solution must be the same: total, devastating defeat for Hamas; unconditional surrender; open-ended occupation of certain areas (as with Berlin); & trial and execution of surviving leaders.
Imagine would they could have done with statehood, the ability to by weapons systems openly, and control over West Bank w/ contiguity with Gaza. We'd have 100x more dead, and Israel split in half. Think you have a clever solution? We shouldn't have to bet our existence on it.
The shocking speech by the
@UN
Secretary-General at the Security Council meeting, while rockets are being fired at all of Israel, proved conclusively, beyond any doubt, that the Secretary-General is completely disconnected from the reality in our region and that he views the
Can you imagine a discontinuous state entirely surrounded by hostile states, with no capital in Jerusalem? Oh, that's what Jews gladly said yes to in 1947.
Ukraine waited to see if Putin's threats were real, and now it fighting for its survival, alone. Israel can't afford to wait to see if Iran's threats are bluster, or to allow the US to "exhaust all diplomatic options." The alternative to preemption is extinction.
If Hitler and Mengele were ever tried for war crimes, today's New York Times would write "Allies punish prominent German doctor, and artist/writer for uncompromising anti-Zionist stance"
"Israel = Apartheid" is just a slightly updated spin on"Zionism = Racism." In 1975, the U.N. General Assembly, pushed by the Soviet bloc, passed its infamous "Zionism = Racism" resolution - a claim so discredited, even the UN ultimately retracted it. New name, same blood libel.
Now as Israelis huddle in bomb shelters in fear for their lives, they can at least comfort themselves with the thought, at least we don't have Jews living where they're not wanted... but wait, that turns out to be everywhere
It is obvious and not clever to say
@Twitter
can exclude whoever they want from their platform. But if they are making substantive content decisions, and Trump is out but
@khamenei_ir
is in, they're saying incitement to genocide of my race is no big deal. I'm nauseated.
They hit the humanitarian workers FIVE times. FIVE times. I think the world has to finally say it wil not tolerate Obama's killing spree anymore. "Doctors without Borders officials say the U.S. airplane made five separate strafing runs over an hour, directing heavy fire on the
Has Biden White House ever used Ramadan greetings to complain about conflicts where Muslims are being killed -eg Afghansitan, Syria, Sudan - or is it just part of the holiday spirit when Jews are defending themselves from genocide?
The timing of Trump’s Golan recognition is impeccable, and loaded with meaning: on the holiday of Purim, celebrating Jewish salvation from a Persian attempt to eradicate them. Message: US knows Iran is real boss in Syria - and Israel must be strengthened in every way against it
The ICC Prosecutor is saying that Jews living in the Old City of Jerusalem is a war crime. No one has ever been prosecuted for this “war crime”, & Prosecutor herself has ruled that Russians moving into occupied Crimea is NOT a war crime. This is not int’l law, its something else.
SCOOP (on
@benandjerrys
): I've been told by
@benandjerrys
insider that company's board invited
@OmarSShakir
, a professional BDS activist, to advise them, rejected calls to hear experts on other side. This ain't about the settlements.
The U.N., founded in the wake of WWII, is now run by a man who justifies and rationalizes genocide. They cannot be taken seriously as a moral authority.
The Biden Administration is so horrified by a rogue state using its nuclear deterrent to beat up on neighbouring states without fear of Western intervention that it is right now working to recreate the calamity in the Middle East.
American Jews - enough! Stop trying to reform these failed institutions that have helped shaped your identity,
@nytimes
, the Ivies. They aren't making a mistake you can correct, they're showing you their true nature. You need to disconnect, not reform.
Reagan said Israeli settlements were legal. That position has never been reversed - until now. It took Hamas murdering, torturing, and raping Jews to keep them from living between "the river and the sea" to get U.S. to say law prohibits Jews from living btwn the river and Sea.
BREAKING: Blinken overturns “Pompeo Doctrine” and says Israeli settlements in the West Bank are “inconsistent with international law”. The move comes a day after Israel announces thousands of new housing units in the settlements
Biden has now fully accepted Hamas positions, and demands that they stay in power AND KEEP THE HOSTAGES while Israel backs down. Its not that he thinks it won't cost him with the Jewish vote. Its that the states with highest Jewish populations aren't swing states. PA is the only
We live in a time of truth reversals. The Jews are said to be committing genocide; surrender to terrorism is peace; and Hungary’s government is said to be anti-Semitic. In fact, Israel has no better friend in Europe than Budapest. The faux liberalism of Western European capitals
This isn’t dumb at all. Punishing Israel’s Iron Dome missile manufacturer is a calculated effort to sabotage Israel’s push to become independent in munitions production, so Biden can keep his leverage to pressure Israel to accept suicidal deals.
This may be the dumbest move yet by the Biden Administration — sanctioning an Israeli company which is the only manufacturer of a key component of Iron Dome. Who needs BDS when antisemites have the US State Department?!!!
Giving material support t designated terror organizations is illegal under both federal law and many States' laws.
@nytimes
,
@AP
,
@CNN
, and
@Reuters
each have a troubling tendency to hire individuals with troubling terrorist ties. Now they are on notice: do due diligence
Anyone calling for "deescalation" is denying Jews the basic human right of self defense. Anyone calling for a "political solution" including a 2 State Solution is saying that Hamas should be rewarded for this unimaginable barbarism by having its war aims met in part.
The Red Cross, breaking its general principle of confidentiality, has publicly decried Israel's operations at Shifa Hospital - but has said nothing of the hostages being held and executed there. It has fundamentally tainted itself.
Weird that
@nytimes
fired oped editor for running a piece by a US Senator, but has nothin to say about running a bunch of pieces by Iranian secret agent: “New York Times Writer Arrested as Secret Iran Agent Acknowledges He Was Paid by Iranian Government”
The US could indeed "go out and collect" our people in Kabul, but this requires using military force or at least threatening it. The option is there; but Biden officials, for ideological reasons, have decided it is not an option.
Israelis (and other US allies) should pay attention to the fall of Kabul. Americans will ask you to make brave sacrifices for peace - and promise to ensure your security. They'll make you stick your neck of and then leave you alone.
Texas has just announced that it will not contract with or invest in
@Airbnb
because of their discriminatory delisting of Jewish Israeli homes. I bet
@hrw
and other BDS groups didn’t warn them about these consequences when they harassed them into boycotting Jews.
Newly published evidence shows members of Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah faction directly participated on the ground in Oct. 7th atrocities. Instead of disavowing them, the PA celebrated them, and the massacres. They cannot be part of Gaza's future. My new oped in tomorrow's
@WSJ
(team-up
Dear
@ZelenskyyUa
: How dare you lecture
#Israel
about its national moral responsibility, and urge it to take on additional dangers. As we speak, the West is about to give genocidal Jew-killers a nuclear bomb. Have you ever spoken out against this? (1/2)
@piersmorgan
that's Hamas's decision. Given the precision of Israeli strikes - unprecedented 1:1 combatant/civilian ration in close urban combat - if Hamas would follow laws of war and separate themselves from civilian population, at zero cost.
For Biden, this is the worst time for Israel to take out Iran’s missiles: it will mess up his re-election. For Israel, it is the only time: imagine if Iran already has nukes, or Biden gets re-elected and faces no domestic constraints. Israel’s window for ensuring survival is next
I have been involved in
@benandjerrys
boycott fot months now. They really decided on this a few months ago, when Israel defended itself from Hamas rockets - so theory that “the Occupation” has anything to do with it is baseless. It’s Jewish self-defense that did it.
BREAKING: Constitutionality of state anti-BDS laws vigorously affirmed in first full federal Ct of Appeals decision on the subject, rejecting pre-textual First Amendment challenges by progressive groups. Proud to have participated in the litigation in the 8th Circ. 9-1 vote.
Lies about having to swear "allegiance" to Israel have become a staple for BDSers. Even
@IlhanMN
bigoted swipe, lawsuits against anti-BDS laws have falsely claimed the laws require "loyalty oath" to Israel. No such requirement at all; but the lie has become theme of anti-Semites
Israeli settlements are not illegal. That’s why Biden kept the Pompeo Doctrine has been place for over 3yrs, and only changed its “legal” position as result of Hamas’s mass slaughter, right before close election. Can it be that settlements are legal for 80% of Biden presidency
The massive scale and sophistication of todays attacks and massacres strongly suggests this is not just Hamas/Gaza. This is an Iranian invasion of Israel. And to keep Israel safe, the threat must be dealt with at its root, in Tehran.
I actually don't believe U.S. has actionable intelligence on Sinwar; it sounds like a grift where Israel will be sold some third-rate intelligence they already have in exchange for Rafah.
I am shocked and sickened by reports that the U.S. is withholding from Israel vital information on the whereabouts of senior Hamas leaders in Gaza.
Is the administration still our ally?
Countries routinely deny visas to those with extremist views. The US excludes people for ideologies fundamentally hostile to US (ie communism); the UK and others deny entry to public figures with bigoted views as being "not conducive to the public good." Omar/Tlaib qualify.
The big lesson of this is that the world is OK with genocide of Jews so long as the Palestinians get some of there own civilians killed for easy moral equivalence. In short - if the Holocaust were happening today, the world would still sit by. Too many innocent Germans in the way
It is quite clear now. Behind the nice words, Biden Administration is holding Israel back from taking out Hamas. His visit in person does nothing more than make him a willful human shield for Hamas, literally blocking a ground operation with his body.
I remember when Israel left Gaza, supporters of the Disengagement said, "now, if they attack us and we have to go in, we'll have int'l legitimacy!" They greatly underestimate the magnitude of the attack and the paltriness of the legitimacy. Lessons must be learned.
Who could have thought that a few months after the Oct.7th massacre and abductions, Israel would be facing a Palestinian state imposed on it; a show trial for committing genocide in The Hague; and the U.S. threatening to impose sanctions on Israeli officials instead of
How can Biden promise he'll "guarantee" Israel's safety under a Palestinian state if he can't even guarantee hostages get their pills in a deal he pushed for?
It moves the redlines. They're establishing a new norm: Israel must sit and take it when Iran launches missiles, if no one is killed. Then a few people are killed - what, that's enough to for a war? Then a few more. Etc. By then Israel has run down its supply of interceptors,
I don’t see how this huge attack on Israel helps Iran:
It didn’t harm Israel, showcased Israel’s amazing air defense system, brought Biden and Netanyahu closer together, and strengthens the position of hawks both in Israel and America against Iran.
AirBNB continues to list properties in occupied W.Sahara, N.Cyprus, & Crimea, but won't list an apartment owned by an American Jew in Jewish Quarter of Old City of Jerusalem. There's a word for that kind of thing. Expect action under anti-discrimination laws, state anti-BDS laws
This statement accuses Israel falsely of grave crimes; denies Jews the right to defend themselves; and changes the subject from genocide and mass torture. All self-respecting lawyers should quit immediately. This isn't even a close call.
BREAKING: Florida puts
@Airbnb
on list of companies it will not invest in or contract with, because of its discriminatory delisting policy against Jews in WBank. . Does
@hrw
&
@amnesty
warn companies of these consequences before luring them into BDS hole?
Martin Indyk represents everything that is awful about the Oslo process: the inability of its professional proponents to admit their mistaken assumptions even when they have been disolved in oceans of Jewish blood. Neither the 2nd Intifada, not even Oct. 7th and the PA's
What are you missing? Did you know that as part of Oslo the PLO (and its offshoot the PA) formally recognized Israel’s right to exist - not its existence but it's right to exist. They have never renounced that recognition.
In the Holocaust, only the Nazis themselves thought the Jews had to give them all their stuff for free while getting killed. Now, its also the EU, UN, etc telling Jews to serve Hamas with utilities while getting massacred.
The American government won’t even defend Jewish college students from mobs on America campuses - there is no chance it would undertake the far bloodier business of somehow guaranteeing Israel’s safety from a Palestinian state that would be able to barrage it with fire
Pretty much the whole world, from
@POTUS
@nytimes
and well everyone, needs to be apologizing for spreading absurd blood libels that caused real damage to the safety of Israel's citizens. And never talk about Gaza again.
BREAKING: UN revises Gaza death toll, almost 50% less women and children killed than previously reported
“In a dramatic shift, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has revised its data pertaining to the number of Palestinian casualties in
.
@IlhanMN
's pro-BDS House bill insults Americans and their legislators by absurdly suggesting that the passage of laws in 27 states protecting Israel-linked people and businesses from discrimination is a plot orchestrated by the Israeli government.
@IlhanMN
This morning,
@IlhanMN
@RashidaTlaib
@repjohnlewis
introduced a bill "in response to a widespread campaign being waged by the Israeli government and its U.S. supporters to silence Americans who choose to engage in BDS."
The addition of Lewis, a civil rights icon, is noteworthy.
Deafening silence from
@AIPAC
and other major groups as the U.S says murdering, torturing, and raping Jews gets you a state, a division of Jerusalem, and ethnic cleansing of Jews. Yes, this must be uncomfortable for Jewish Dems, but history is watching.
Reports indicate Biden imminently poised to declare Palestinian state with Capital in Jerusalem. Hamas's Al Aqsa storm has worked. Stunning and heartbreaking to see the U.S. take Palestinians' side. And what happens when the the new State launches an even bigger attack?
By the standards Biden is applying to IDF - imposing sanctions based on a few unclear and questionable incidents narrated by far-left, terror-supporting groups - the US would have to cut funding to the entire U.S. military.