A simply superb paragraph by Sam Harris.

Narrative violation warning: Elders in my Arab village in Israel told me the richest Palestinians sold their land and left first. 80 years later, their grandkids now claim to be displaced victims. I am so allergic to victim mindset. It boils my blood. ~15 million displaced Hindus and Muslims in India-Pakistan around the SAME year. No one is trying to be a victim there. It's time to move on. "You only get to be a victim once. After that, you’re a volunteer."

Bill Maher just dedicated the end of his show to throwing his own party under the bus for defending every minority group except Jews. “There is a frothing anxiousness for the literal extermination of this one group. And Democrats, where are you?” “If any other minority group was being talked about this way, you’d break out the Kente cloth and have 10 benefit concerts.” “But because you see that so many of your brainwashed-by-TikTok constituents now have an unfavorable view of Israel, you indulge them when you should be correcting them.” “All the people likely running for president now on the Democratic side want it known they don’t take money from AIPAC, the Israeli lobby… You take money from crypto and factory farmers and big tech, from Diddy and Weinstein and Epstein, but AIPAC is too far?” “Let me just say this to all who ask me, ‘Why are you harder on the Democrats than you used to be?’ Until you fix this whole issue, stop asking me.”

Asking Claude what would have happened had the Arab armies been successful in destroying Israel at its founding Prompt: Try project what would have happened in 1948 had the Arab military coalition been victorious in fighting Israel. Response: The counterfactual isn’t really speculative at the level of intent — the Arab leadership stated their war aims explicitly and behaved consistently with them where they did prevail. What was actually said and signalled. Arab League Secretary-General Azzam Pasha told Akhbar al-Yom in October 1947 that the coming war would be “a war of extermination and a momentous massacre which will be spoken of like the Mongol massacres and the Crusades.” The political head of the Palestinian Arab cause, Grand Mufti Haj Amin al-Husseini, had spent the war in Berlin: he met Hitler in November 1941, helped raise the Handschar SS division, broadcast calls to “kill the Jews wherever you find them” on German radio, and — per Dieter Wisliceny’s Nuremberg testimony — discussed extending the Final Solution to Palestine with Eichmann. He was back in the region by 1946 and was the dominant Palestinian political figure in 1948. Qawuqji’s ALA insignia (a dagger through a Star of David) and his own Wehrmacht service were not idiosyncrasies; they were continuous with the Mufti’s program. What happened where Arab forces did win. Gush Etzion fell on 13 May 1948. At Kfar Etzion, 127 defenders were killed, many after surrendering — survivors describe villagers and irregulars shooting people who had laid down their arms. The Jewish Quarter of the Old City surrendered to the Arab Legion two weeks later; the Legion was relatively disciplined, but every one of the 58 synagogues was subsequently destroyed or desecrated, the Hurva blown up, and the Mount of Olives cemetery’s tombstones torn up for paving and latrines. No Jew was permitted to live in Jordanian-controlled territory for the next 19 years. The 1929 Hebron massacre — 67 Jews murdered in a single day, the ancient community ended — was the working template, and Husseini had been its political beneficiary. Projection for the 650,000 Jews of the Yishuv. With the Mediterranean behind them, British policy still hostile to Jewish immigration in early 1948, and the Arab states refusing exit corridors, there was no realistic escape route. The likely sequence: agricultural settlements overrun and their populations killed in Kfar Etzion–style massacres; mixed cities (Haifa, Jaffa, Jerusalem, Tiberias, Safed) subjected to urban pogroms once defensive lines collapsed; Holocaust survivors in the DP-camp transit population — perhaps a third of the Yishuv was European refugees from the previous five years — killed a second time. The Mufti would almost certainly have been installed as the political authority over whatever Palestinian Arab state emerged, with his Berlin-era network in senior positions. Behind that, the regional consequences were already in motion: the Farhud (Baghdad, 1941, ~180 killed), Aden (1947, 82 killed), Aleppo (1947, the ancient community effectively ended), the Cairo bombings of 1948. Roughly 850,000 Jews were expelled or forced out of Arab and Muslim countries between 1948 and the early 1970s despite Israel’s existence as a refuge. Without that refuge, those communities would still have been destroyed — they just would have had nowhere to go. The plausible end-state is the elimination of organised Jewish life between Morocco and Iran, and a diaspora reduced to the Anglosphere and a battered Europe, with no political vehicle to speak for it. The honest caveat: scale is the unknown. Whether the death toll among the Yishuv would have been in the tens of thousands or the hundreds depends on variables (Arab Legion discipline vs. irregular conduct, speed of collapse, whether any evacuation by sea was possible) that the documentary record can’t settle.

'The New York Times' Updates Slogan To 'All The News That’s Fit To Print Plus Any Rumor No Matter How Implausible' buff.ly/ShsgHhq

An Israeli was almost named Minister of Defense of Syria

Claiming Israel trains dogs to rape Palestinians is modern day blood libel — propaganda pushed as more horrific details emerge about Hamas’ systematic torture on Oct. 7. For being Jewish — Hamas raped a woman and burnt half of her face off in front of her husband; shoved nails, metal, and sharp objects into Israeli women; forced family members to sexually assault each other so that if they survived they would be traumatized by the sight of each other; raped corpses; the list goes on. Distracting from these atrocities and smearing Israel while victims still fight for acknowledgment is sickening.

So the @nytimes runs a story supporting Hamas lies. Even suggesting the IDF trains dogs to rape people. The first person the article story relies on is Sami al-Sai. I found his FB account. Here he is celebrating the Hamas attacks on October 7. The NYT spreads Hamas lies.

The more I research the Israel-Palestine conflict, the more I learn that the Palestinians lied about practically everything.

Four more UNRWA staff - including teachers - found to have kidnapped Israelis on Oct. 7, as feds weigh criminal charges trib.al/xGgm4l2

The man who's spent years talking over and attacking women for defending their rights has now decided that you must belong to a protected group to express an opinion on the threats facing it.

.@zarahsultana I assume this is a different Zarah Sultana MP to the one who was recently filmed clapping along to loudspeaker chants for intifada, on a street in Surrey. telegraph.co.uk/politics/202…

This is a powerful 4 minutes. Want to understand how Jews are feeling? Watch this.

This is one of the most jaw-dropping, chilling interviews I have seen. Watch this Rabbi from London, respond to question about the terror stabbing in Golders Green!

You’re unlikely to hear about an 11-year-old girl from Bnei Brak, Israel named Nesya Karadi from mainstream news. She has died of wounds sustained on Passover eve when she was critically wounded as a cluster bomb submunition fired by the regime in Iran hit her family’s home in central Israel on April 1. She is the 21st Israeli victim in Israel of Iran war. We will remember young Nesya. May her memory be a blessing.

Gazans strangled these two baby angels to death with their bare hands, along with their mother. Mutilated their bodies with rocks. They burnt the grandparents alive in their own home. They shot the family dog Tonto to death. We will never forget.

This small sample of newspaper clippings from the 1950s - 1980s proves the “genocide” smear against Israel is not a new phenomenon.🧵 For decades, Israel has been accused of “genocide” no matter the facts on the ground. The lie is meant only to demonize & delegitimize the state.

Whether or not Europe stands with us, whether or not your journalists do their jobs, whether or not your politicians demonstrate the courage to act, I will fight for my people and my country.

🚨PRINCE REZA PAHLAVI JUST WENT FULL NUCLEAR ON THE ENTIRE EU PRESS & PARLIAMENT! 🔥🧨 I want to speak DIRECTLY to the people of Europe. In the past two weeks I held TWO MAJOR press conferences — one in Stockholm, one in Berlin. Over 150 JOURNALISTS showed up. We spent MORE THAN TWO HOURS with them… And guess what? NOT ONE SINGLE of those 150 journalists asked about the 40,000 IRANIANS SLAUGHTERED on the streets of my country on January 8th and 9th! NOT ONE asked about the 19 political prisoners EXECUTED in the last two weeks. When I told them 20 more are currently sentenced to death — CRICKETS. Not a damn question. I stood right next to a grieving mother and father who lost their sons in that massacre and begged them to listen to their stories… NOT A SINGLE ONE of those 150 journalists asked them a thing. Let that sink in. My 40,000 BRAVE INNOCENT COMPATRIOTS who were butchered fighting for liberty? They don’t give a damn. They are too busy criticizing America and Israel for taking out the dictator who’s been slaughtering our people for 47 YEARS — instead of going after the regime that’s actually doing the killing! They’d rather dig up Iran’s history than talk about what’s happening RIGHT NOW or the free democratic Iran we’re fighting for. One EU parliament member even had the nerve to say Iranians aren’t ready for democracy. To that coward and to every fake journalist in the room I say this: Iranians aren’t just “ready” for democracy… 40,000 of them just DIED for it! And I will NOT let their blood be in vain. SO HEAR ME LOUD AND CLEAR: Whether Europe stands with us or not… Whether your journalists do their damn jobs or not… Whether your politicians grow a spine or not… I WILL FIGHT FOR MY PEOPLE AND MY COUNTRY. Even if we have to do this ALONE — we are fighting until IRAN IS FREE! 🇮🇷💪 #RezaPahlavi‌ForIran @PahlaviReza

PIB per cápita comparado con nuestros países vecinos: 🇮🇱 Israel $54,177 🇯🇴 Jordania $4,456 🇱🇧 Líbano $3,478 🇪🇬 Egipto $3,339 Pero el estado fallido es israel??