Joel Engel
@joelengel
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Long-ago journalist for the likes of the NYT and LAT. Current author/co-author of about 20 books who thinks sarcasm is the highest form of patriotism.
Southern Calif
Joined September 2009
Fundamental transformation...that no one asked for.
What's the first thing that comes to mind when you see this guy?
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This only works against a moral army. Because as is shown nearly every month--last month, for example, in Syria--immoral militants/armies just slaughter innocents without the world complaining. For that matter, it's happening now, with Hamas slaughtering opposition Arabs.
The Palestinian resistance will be studied for generations to come They fought off 3 genocidal nuclear-armed powers In a hermetically-sealed prison With weapons that were mostly repurposed from the occupation’s arsenal Unprecedented
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Amazing story. This guy play acted at being injured or dead about a dozen times during the two years without even trying to disguise himself. So what really killed him? His own people. After the ceasefire. If that's not a micro summation of the last 100 years, then nothing is.
Saleh Ja'frawi, social media activist, occasional journalist, and mainly a Hamas supporter, was murdered in an ongoing clash with the D'Ghmush clan. At least seven Hamas members were murdered, at least 15 from the clan members. He found out. FAFO
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Documentaries about both Billy Joel and Audrey Hepburn, whose fathers also abandoned them, make this point dramatically.
Fathers matter. It’s time to recognize fathers who fulfill their responsibilities. They make the world a better place. Even though Gene Hackman is 78 years old in this video, the question about his father leaving him still gets him emotional.
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“We’ll march until Palestine is free of Jews, from the river to the sea, because Israel is an apartheid state.” These people never listen to themselves.
There was no genocide. There is no apartheid. Palestinian freedom will come only when the Islamists are gone. All this is patently obvious. But, of course, if you’re trying to build a political party you don’t care about niceties like the truth. You prefer to stoke antisemitic
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Crazy this isn’t a bigger story. Two alleged Tren de Aragua gang members arrested in Orlando for human trafficking and planning to carry out an attack on a synagogue and school, Chabad South Orlando.
theyeshivaworld.com
The FBI and Florida law enforcement raided two hotel rooms in Orlando on Saturday, arresting Janaina Toledo, 32, and Leonardo Corona Ramos, 42, both Brazilian nationals accused of operating as part...
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“despite”? No. Not despite. Because of. You people still don’t understand, or don’t want to acknowledge, what drives them. And peace ain’t it.
🔴 Pro-Palestine protesters chant ‘death to the IDF’ Around 500,000 people have gathered in Central London, according to organisers, despite a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas on Friday. Read more: https://t.co/vScp7akHfn
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When a large and usually respected account asks a religious question that could be easily answered with a three-second search, it’s for provocation and clicks. If you’re going to go down this road (and don’t), ask something like, “Can God create an image he can’t live up to?”
Did Jesus have any of Mary's DNA, or did God create all of Jesus' DNA?
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Calling Israel an apartheid state while campaigning to eliminate all Jews.⬇️ What do you call that?
Hundreds of thousands marching for Palestine in London. We won’t stop campaigning until Israel’s occupation and apartheid is ended and Palestine is free from the river to the sea.
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Strange timing for such a proclamation considering that, in exchange for innocent hostages, Israel willl release 100s of murderers who couldn't be exchanged if they'd been executed. Sinwar, the architect of Oct 7 and murderer of 6, had been released in a previous exchange.
The death penalty does little to deter crime or serve victims. It has no place in the 21st century. More from @UNHumanRights on Friday’s World Day against the Death Penalty: https://t.co/6g5ectJCmu
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You're not going to like this, and will be tempted to dismiss the explanation because you're not Jewish and didn't notice: Carlson is as he was then, though hidden because of his employer, an antisemite. Antisemitism, once it takes hold unconstrained, is like Mad Cow Disease.
I am another of those who cannot square the Tucker Carlson of 2025 with the younger, scourge-of-bullshit Tucker of Weekly Standard days. It has been painful to watch. Back in 2021, Facing Reality had been effectively canceled. The only platform I got was Tucker's, on his internet
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Don't you wish the hostages had been released? Only Palestinians believe that if you put your hand in the fire you shouldn't have to suffer a burn.
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Wait, no celebration that the "genocide" has ended? So the whole thing was about disappearing Jews, not concern for the people of Gaza. Thanks for the confirmation.
Hundreds of thousands marching for Palestine in London. We won’t stop campaigning until Israel’s occupation and apartheid is ended and Palestine is free from the river to the sea.
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Shakespeare never met a Jew. Jews in England were banished in 1290 and not let back in until 40 years after his death. Deciding he's an antisemite based on Merchant is thin gruel.
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You want to read this.⬇️
Mouse studies often fail to replicate in surprising ways. Let me enumerate some of the ways: 1. Mice handled by male scientists feel less pain. The finding holds true when a female scientist does the experiment but holds a t-shirt, previously worn by a man, near the mouse. The
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"Hi. Thanks for coming in for an interview. Let's start with why you left your last job." "Here's a video I made of it." ... "Okay, well, I think that wraps things up here. We'll let you know."
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Was never not excellent in every role. RIP.
Diane Keaton, whose long, versatile career was indelibly highlighted by her Academy Award-winning performance as Woody Allen’s titular love interest in the actor-writer-director’s 1977 romantic comedy “Annie Hall,” has died. She was 79. https://t.co/s5A3frPphI
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If Curtis Sliwa doesn’t drop out of the NYC mayor’s race, the over-under on how long it takes for his admirable legacy as founder of the Guardian Angels to be overwritten as the man who got Mamdani elected is six months.
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Advocating for the release of Barghouti because he now claims to support non-violence is like Jeffrey Dahmer’s telling the parole board he should be released because he’s become a vegetarian.
Refusing to release Marwan Barghouti, who embraces non-violence and a two-state solution, is blindingly clear evidence that the Israeli government, despite their protestations, genuinely prefers Hamas in power if there must be Palestinians at all. If you are not pushing for
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*More than a million fewer Jews in the world today than there were in 1939.
The Holocaust kiIIed one-third of all Jews on the planet. What percentage of Arabs have died in the Azza Holocaust?
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