Melissa Braunstein
@slowhoneybee
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Wife, mother, & writer. “Iconic smile” haver. Red fish in a blue sea. Find my writing in @jewishchron @dcexaminer @nro @jns_org and elsewhere on the Interwebs.
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Joined November 2009
A lot of the people I think we’re talking about seem pointless to align with because they don’t care about anything I care about. They just want to yell at Israel and the Jews. They’ll even join with the left to do it.
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@AbeGreenwald "Dear Hitler supporter, I'm privately reaching out to express my view that Hitler was not in fact a great man. Thank you for your attention to this matter."
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This is Avinatan Or whose mother is British. He was taken hostage with his girlfriend Noa Argamani. While our government decided to give his captors a state, this is what he was enduring: In new details revealed by his father, it is now known that Avinatan, who is 6ft 5in, was
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Hostage Bar Kuperstein’s father Tal has been paralyzed and nonverbal for years following an accident. During the last two years, he learned to speak and stand so that he could greet his son when he returns. Here he is delivering remarks after all his dreams came true. What a man.
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MODERATOR: Are you willing to commit to NOT raise the sales tax? MIKIE SHERRILL: I'm not going to commit to anything right now. On Nov. 4, vote NO on Mikie Sherrill. ❌
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The state of our politics that this needs to be said:
I'm very happy to unify with people on the Right... ...as long as they aren't totalitarian neo-N@zis.
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I still don’t understand why Israel released all the convicts they had before getting back all the deceased hostages. Did Trump insist?
Rightfully so! Negotiations for phase B on hold until all hostage remains returned, senior Israeli officials tell @Jerusalem_Post, as they will not allow Hamas to “drag out” the process of returning the bodies of the fallen. https://t.co/9jfy37cWTZ
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It’s sad that someone who knows so little is listened to by so many. But since she is: When AOC vaguely references a history of not holding to deals, is she smearing Israel or gently criticizing Hamas?
AOC refuses to give Trump credit for the ceasefire in Gaza, claims he was an "obstacle" to peace
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WaPo should stop contributing to the hostile environment that drives this.
“In one clear development, the poll finds 42 percent of Jewish Americans say they’ve avoided publicly wearing, carrying or displaying anything that might help people identify them as Jewish in the past year.”
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Sergeant Major Mattan Angrest - freed from Hamas captivity only some 48 hours earlier, after two years - went tonight from the hospital to the funeral of his tank commander, Major Daniel Peretz. Peretz fell in action on October 7 and his body was returned only yesterday. This
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Openly pro-terrorist.
Tomorrow the jihadists of @ColumbiaBDS will be joining their comrades in the Bronx for a memorial service for the mastermind of the 10/7 massacre Yahya Sinwar. Will their demonstration include a tutorial on how best to murder Jews, rape women and kidnap elders and children? Will
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The Senate would be improved if Dems doubled the number of Fettermans.
John Fetterman brings the Kennedy Center to complete silence as he delivers this emotional message on stage: “I know and I love people who voted for President Trump. They are NOT fascists, they’re NOT Nazis, they’re NOT trying to destroy the Constitution.” “I REFUSE to call
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Macron has mastered being wrong about everything.
France calls execution of 33 innocent Palestinians “particularly concerning.” That is, not outrageous, deplorable, or even reprehensible, but merely concerning. When Israel accidentally kills civilians, France calls it a war crime. When Hamas shoots civilians in cold blood,
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Perhaps it’s time to redefine the “sides.”
You know, you’re not obliged to defend terrible people because they’re “on your side”
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Why would I want to “stick together” with those guys? They don’t believe what I believe. They don’t say what I think. Their worldview is not mine. And, insofar as they are connected to institutions of which I generally approve, they damage them.
The Right doesn't stick together. That's our biggest problem by far. Conservatives are quick to denounce each other, jump on dogpiles, disavow, attack their allies. I said a few weeks ago that we all need to band together in the wake of Charlie's death and the answer I got back
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YOU GOT IT, ZOHRAN. After a lifetime as a pro-Israel Democratic activist, I left the party you and the radical left are destroying in July. I could not bear the pain of being in a political family in which many reject a Zionist like me. Today I’m an Independent, and happier.
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Do Qatar and Turkey want Hamas to stop?
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Without political activism, what would our existing humanities professors teach or publish? Too many are activists, not scholars.
Universities should not have departments or produce scholarship focused on political activism. That kind of work should be confined to privately funded think tanks. The left has effectively embedded partisan political think tanks within nearly every publicly funded university.
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Yes, vote like the life of the city depends on it. Because it does.
Remember, only about 23% of New Yorkers voted in the last mayoral election. We need more than 50% to vote this November. Posts like this are meant to distract people, to make them assume he’s already going to win so they don’t bother showing up to vote. But he peaked in his
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They’re being even more blatant for the people who still didn’t get it.
Not pleased to report I’ve been right about these people for years
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