1/ What does this @nytimes investigation actually tell us? Nothing we didn't already know. Instead, it appears to be another attempt to cast legitimate Israeli military operations against Hezbollah as inherently suspect. Let's talk about what white phosphorus is - and what it isn't. 🧵

According to The New York Times' latest anti-Israel "opinion" article: - Israel's exploding pager operation targeted children and civilians, even though it only targeted the pagers of Hezbollah operatives, who used the pagers to communicate off the grid - Israel used "double tap" strikes in Gaza to target medical workers (0 evidence is given) - A top Hezbollah official the reporter interviewed was a "close ally of Hassan Nasrallah, the group’s charismatic leader" - There is a "global consensus" for a one-state solution where Jews and Palestinians have equal rights (this solution has no support among either Israelis or Palestinians on the ground) - The only anti-Hezbollah figure interviewed is unreliable because he lives in a "mansion." His call for Iran to stop intervening in Lebanon is labeled an "old hard-line position." I guess this piece appeared in the opinion section, so no journalistic standards were needed?

This is inversion so callous it's hard to believe. The Holocaust had a survival rate of about 30%. Millions of people disappeared from European cities and towns over several years. Everybody knew because it was happening all around them. Gaza has a survival rate, despite the worst and most deadly and horrible periods of the war, of 97%. All the dead Jews were noncombatants. A large percentage of the dead Gazans were combatants. And the Jews of Europe, even as their millennia-old civilization was being systematically wiped out, wanted nothing from the societies that surrounded them except to be allowed to live in peace. Gaza's leadership of religious fanatics, meanwhile, wants every last Israeli dead and gone, is willing to fight to the last Gazan to achieve that aim, has said so publicly and worked for decades to blow up every peace attempt -- and even now believes that Gaza's destruction would be a worthwhile sacrifice to lay on the altar of Israel's destruction, because their god told them so. So Israelis can reasonably believe, given those features of the Gaza war that aren't true about any genocide ever, and were pretty much the opposite of what was happening in the Holocaust, that Gaza's suffering is a bad and painful war, but not remotely a genocide. But the point of it all, of course, is not to analyze Gaza, but specifically to lump it together with the Holocaust -- to cast the Jews as the new Nazis. The only reason this person would dare to make such an insanely ahistorical and immoral parallel is because this is the heart of the bigoted propaganda campaign in which he enthusiastically participates: The point of it all is to make the Jews into the Nazis. A culture that obsessed about Jews being evil and was then shocked by the Holocaust into obsessing about dead Jews as the apotheosis of righteous victimhood is now obsessively engaged in knocking Jews off that moral pedestal they themselves put them on. That's why they don't care one whit about Hamas massacres of Gazans, about genocidal wars in Syria or Yemen (even when they've funded and armed the sides), about flotilla activists currently held by the Libyans...literally nothing triggers a response except Jews. They still, even after all these generations, no matter what else is happening in the world or in their own societies, can't stop thinking about Jews. And as we Jews learned in the 1940s -- the actual, historical 1940s, not the weird fantasies conjured up by these bigots -- a whole society can be in the grip of a callous, destructive bigotry and still believe it is true and righteous.

What is this "nuclear dust" President Trump keeps referring to? President Donald Trump has repeatedly demanded Iran hand over what he calls its “nuclear dust.” But what is he referring to? As U.S.–Iran negotiations continue, the issue has become a key point of contention, with Trump insisting all enriched material must be surrendered or destroyed as part of any deal. In this new analysis piece for MidEast Journal, ME24 co-editor @DanFeferman breaks it down. The term itself is not technical; there are no radioactive "dust" particles floating around. Trump is referring to uranium hexafluoride (UF6), the stored form of enriched uranium, which remains highly dangerous despite the misleading label. According to Feferman, the debate over the “nuclear dust” highlights the central importance of Iran’s existing stockpile rather than its facilities alone. According to the IAEA, Iran has accumulated around 440 kilograms of uranium enriched to 60 percent—close to weapons-grade levels and well beyond civilian use. While reaching 60 percent enrichment is difficult, the final step to weapons-grade levels is significantly faster, making the stockpile strategically critical. To read this exclusive piece and others, check it out at mideastjournal What Is Iran's "Nuclear Dust"? The Dangerous Stockpile Trump Wants Handed Over mideastjournal.org/post/what…

This is bad. #Lebanese ministers traveling abroad on vacation while 14% of the country is being destroyed, 1/6 of the Lebanese are displaced, & tens of Lebanese getting killed & wounded on a daily basis. This is political malpractice to say the least.

🚨 MOSSADIL ASKS: IS LEBANON READY TO CONFRONT HEZBOLLAH? I sat down with Dan Feferman, @DanFeferman , co-founder of Middle East 24 @MiddleEast_24, to discuss: ✔️Israel’s escalating fight against Hezbollah ✔️The future of Lebanon ✔️Why the so-called ceasefire was never really a ceasefire. Dan’s bottom line: Hezbollah dragged Lebanon into Iran’s war against Israel. The Lebanese state knows it, many Lebanese citizens know it, and yet the government still lacks the power, courage, or backing to fully confront Hezbollah. The real question now is simple: Will Lebanon reclaim its sovereignty, or will Hezbollah continue using the country as a launchpad for Iran’s war? Watch the full conversation on Mossadil Asks.

🚨 MOSSADIL ASKS: IS LEBANON READY TO CONFRONT HEZBOLLAH? I sat down with Dan Feferman, @DanFeferman , co-founder of Middle East 24 @MiddleEast_24, to discuss: ✔️Israel’s escalating fight against Hezbollah ✔️The future of Lebanon ✔️Why the so-called ceasefire was never really a ceasefire. Dan’s bottom line: Hezbollah dragged Lebanon into Iran’s war against Israel. The Lebanese state knows it, many Lebanese citizens know it, and yet the government still lacks the power, courage, or backing to fully confront Hezbollah. The real question now is simple: Will Lebanon reclaim its sovereignty, or will Hezbollah continue using the country as a launchpad for Iran’s war? Watch the full conversation on Mossadil Asks.

ME24 Exclusive: Inside Hamas’ Secret Money Networks Across Europe From charities and cryptocurrency wallets to falafel stands and underground cash brokers, Hamas-linked financing networks continue operating across Europe despite terror bans and international sanctions. An exclusive ME24 investigation reveals how informal businesses, small cash transfers, cryptocurrency channels, and covert financial systems are used to move money from Europe into Gaza through decentralized networks structured to avoid detection. The investigation also sheds light on links involving advocacy organizations, intermediaries in Turkey and Russia, and cash-heavy businesses in cities including London and Manchester — offering a rare look inside what security experts describe as one of the most sophisticated and adaptive terror-financing ecosystems operating in Europe today. mideastjournal.org/post/me24…

Why Nicholas Kristof’s NYT Column Appeared Just Before the Hamas October 7 Sexual Violence Report - ME24/ MidEastJournal Feature Op-Ed A new feature op-ed by MiddleEast24 co-founder @DanFeferman questions the timing of the much talked about, front-page Nicholas Kristof opinion column in The New York Times, which appeared shortly before the release of a major report documenting Hamas sexual violence during the October 7 attacks. Feferman claims this was "no coincidence". The report, titled “Silenced No More,” is based on extensive evidence collection, forensic review, and thousands of hours of analysis by the Civil Commission on October 7th Crimes by Hamas Against Women and Children. It concludes that sexual violence was used as a systematic tactic during the attacks. Feferman argues that the Kristof column, which focused on disputed, inflammatory, and deceitful allegations against Israeli personnel, shifted media attention at a critical moment and contributed to competing narratives dominating the same news cycle and amount to a blood libel. He describes the episode as part of a broader pattern in which emotionally charged allegations and media timing shape international perception of the conflict. Follow more analysis at mideastjournal.org mideastjournal.org/post/hama…