By popular demand....
In Israel, we are a few hours before the onset of
#YomKippur
and Israeli air space is now closed until the conclusion of the holiday tomorrow night. Very soon all road traffic in Israel will cease as well. It is one of the most powerful experiences in the
I'm struck by how universal the moral clarity in this conflict is properly agreed upon. I wonder why that isn't the case when rockets are flying at our communities in Israel.
On the evening of the attacks, I remember taking consolation in the fact that they were so beyond the pale that at least all civilized people would condemn them. Again, I was naive and I didn't know it.
I don’t think I can put into words how much it pains me that Columbia University – my own employer - won’t condemn Hamas’ crimes against humanity.
I am not angry. I feel pain.
I feel pain because condemning crimes against humanity seems like such a no brainer.
This is Pedia Mark.
His father was killed by terrorists years ago.
His cousin was slaughtered by Hamas Oct 7.
Now he has fallen defending us.
May his memory be for a blessing.
The current government attack on elon musk verges on insane. He is one of the most creative, innovative geniuses of our time. The petty bureaucrats should leave him alone. They would have destroyed henry ford, edison , gates or jobs. Let him alone!
It has been reported that Kuwait has informed the US if they take action against Iran in response to an Iranian attack on Israel they cannot use their base in Kuwait.
Gee, Kuwait, any recollection as to WHY there is a US base in your country?
Talk about ungrateful.
On a recent episode of
@dansenor
's "Call me Back,"
@havivrettiggur
made a sequence of observations that has been ringing in my head ever since. So I went and transcribed it for you:
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If you can *possibly* be there, BE THERE.
Whether you're Jewish or not.
The only criteria: You oppose those who behead babies.
This is a once-in-a-generation event.
Show the world where the *vast majority* stands
Bill Clinton in 2016: “I killed myself to give the Palestinians a state. I had a deal they turned down that would have given them all of Gaza... between 96%-97% of the West Bank, compensating land in Israel, you name it."
“Hamas is really smart. When they decide to rocket
Statement from the family of Senator Joseph I. Lieberman
NEW YORK, NY -- The family of Senator Joseph I. Lieberman issued the following statement today:
"Former United States Senator Joseph I. Lieberman died this afternoon, March 27, 2024, in New York City due to complications
Israeli student at Columbia University, Shira Guez, is not a Jew with trembling knees.
Here she is excoriating the anti-Israel activists in the encampment.
#ColumbiaUniversity
#Columbia_University
Has anyone done more good so quickly in a young Congressional career? From looking out for his constituents, to putting the national interest first, to peace in the Middle East, to demonstrating moral clarity at every turn, and epitomizing why, as he says, you can’t call yourself
BREAKING: The House has passed my bipartisan bill with
@RepMikeLawler
, establishing a special envoy for the Abraham Accords.
Today, we’re bending the long arc of the Middle East where it belongs: toward peace and prosperity for Jews, Christians, & Muslims as one.
It is almost enough to make your head explode.
Hamas simply declares that it has "accepted" a ceasefire agreement.
4000 news organizations breathlessly push out news alerts to that effect.
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שימו לב לתמונת המכ"ם המטורפת מהבוקר ועד עכשיו בקו ת"א- דובאי. זה די מטורף. רק היום 30 טיסות בקו (15 לכל כיוון) של חברות התעופה אל על, ישראייר, ארקיע ופליי דובאי. סך הכל יעברו בקו ביממה הקרובה 4,350 נוסעים 🇮🇱🇦🇪
@ynetalerts
@K_AminThaabet
All the
@NYRangers
had to do last night was hold a 3rd period lead and win the series. Instead they gave up 4 goals. I’m guessing a new housing development in E Jerusalem is the cause but let me know.
@Billbrowder
this is my 14 year old son on Red Notice (we generally can’t get him to do any reading... you are contributing in more ways than you know...)
Thank you
@united
for marking my million mile milestone with a gift, a chip and a public announcement for the whole plane to applaud- I’ll always remember this morning 😀
@NateSilver538
Here in Israel we know exactly what it is because we are in week 3 of lockdown 2.0. If those that despise lockdown would mask and distance we wouldn’t need them and we would all be better off.
Spot the difference in these news alerts. 3 of the 4 specify “accidentally “ or “mistakenly;” while CNN omits that critic adverb. I might say, PREDICTABLY!
Best new MOC,
@RitchieTorres
- "I came to observe that there are activists who have a visceral hatred for Israel as though it were the root of all evil. The act of singling out Israel as BDS has done is the definition of discrimination.”
BREAKING: Massive explosion at Iran's aviation and space force headquarters in Tehran.
These headquarters supply missiles and UAVs to regime proxies in the region.
As Yuval Levin said on
@dansenor
's podcast, we won't win by trying to protest that no, in fact, it is we, the Jews, who are the oppressed class. We need to dismantle this entire corrupt intellectual paradigm that everything is defined by oppressor - oppressed.
I. Just. Can't.
So 67% of young Americans think American Jews "as a class" are "oppressors."
The American left is betraying America's Jews.
I met a lot of frightened American Jews on a speaking tour in the US last week. I'm starting to understand why they were afraid.
At Tufts, pro-terror supporters have taken over and are chanting in praise of intifada (violence against Jews) and revolution.
Four hours in, and this hate-fest has not been stopped by the school administration.
I am not satisfied with beating back divestment.
Israel tech is just getting started.
Carbon reduction tech
Larger crop yield agri tech
Advanced driver safety tech
Cancer treatment tech
So much more
Time to DOUBLE DOWN on investing in Israel. 🇮🇱
I let him go I didn’t know he’s stolen my beans and then bang, crash the lightening flash and - well that’s another story never mind, anyway...
@sondheimlyrics
#sondheim
If you told me at the start of 2020, that I would be co-writing an opinion piece with a new friend... from UAE 🇦🇪! So glad to have had the chance to write this with
@Thani75
and so excited for the future of the region! 🇦🇪🇮🇱
BREAKING:
The 65-y-old Jewish man Paul Kessler has died after having been hit in the head by an anti-Israel protester in
West Lake Village (next to Los Angeles)
I could not be more proud to share that
@manivmobility
has just announced the first investment by an Israeli fund in a UAE-based technology startup,
@Fenix_MENA
!
Three reactions to this
@nytimes
push alert.
Did they deliberately time it for exactly when all of Israel was a painfully somber ceremonies remembering all of our brothers and sisters killed in war and terror - including so many these last 7 months?
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My all-time favorite
@nytimes
op-ed from Jan'99 -thought about it often in 20 years since, could not find in archive, and then some intrepid Times editor who once edited a letter of mine they published found it for me! New again in age of
#WeWork
When my friend Joe Lieberman, a proud, observant Jew, got the most votes for Vice President of the United States -- I did not have it on my bingo card that this would be America 22 years later....
John Podhoretz had some interesting observations at the end of yesterday’s
@Commentary
podcast, making the assumption (that he concedes it is impossible to know), that the recent setbacks to Iran’s nuclear assets have been due to Israeli sabotage. He said roughly this:
@AliQasimZohair1
@InbarCohen13
Leading a wonderful life, but thank you for your concern. Which other countries do you deem worthy of such slander? Or is it JUST the Jewish state?
Truth is Hamas has NOT accepted any of the 1200 proposals Israel has proffered in recent weeks.
Nonetheless, now the foundation is laid for future reports to be, "Israel rejected a ceasefire and invaded Rafiah"
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The airspace over Israel is now closed until tomorrow night. Soon all the highways and indeed all the roads in the whole countries will also fall silent, except for the sounds of people. There is no other place, and no other time where you can see (1/2)...
all mechanized mobility cease for 25 hours. I do mobility for a living - and this is one of my favorite things about living here. Wishing friends an easy fast and meaningful Yom Kippur. (2/2)
"At one point, in 2004, Israeli doctors removed an abscess lodged next to his brain, saving his life, according to Israeli authorities."
We saved this man's life. Then he took 1,400 of ours. Madness.
Encouraging all friends - esp. those in Jewish and pro-Israel communities, to follow Congressman Torres's new account. "The embodiment of the pro-Israel progressive."!
#NewProfilePic2021
Welcome to my Official House Twitter account. Follow this account for the latest updates from my Congressional Office & to keep up with what I’m doing in the US Congress to fight for the essential borough, the
#Bronx
. Let’s go
#NY15
!
As an Iranian American, I honor memory of Ilan Ramon who was killed on this day 18 years in Columbia shuttle explosion. In 1981 he was youngest pilot to strike against Saddam's unfinished Osiraq nuclear reactor. Millions of Iranian lives were saved because of his heroic actions!
Amazing point by
@AbeGreenwald
on the
@Commentary
podcast:
Saudi killed one guy - and Biden said he was going to make them a “pariah” nation.
China’s Covid lab leak killed millions and caused the biggest social dislocation since WWII. And the Biden administration doesn’t even
Loving this piece by the incomparable
@sfrantzman
- "Probably never in history have two countries that just created relations had so many initiatives together as the UAE and Israel." Exactly. 🇦🇪🇮🇱
I mean, this is truly one of the most remarkable sights I've ever seen. If you don't have the context, look it up. 2000 years of history coming full circle. in one image.
This is as remarkable and inspiring as it is just plain exciting - could it be that by March I can go out to dinner with friends at my favorite Tel Aviv restaurant?!?! Looks that way...
Thoughts are with my buddy
@RationalSettler
whose daughter was injured in this morning's terror attack on a civilian bus station in Jerusalem. May she and all the others recover speedily and may all those responsible be swiftly brought to justice.
@ianoc85
@mays_forbes
@ConanOBrien
Genuine answer: the Jewish People are entitled to a state of our own.
Period. We have supported a state for Arabs of area over 9 decades.
"You want to win a war against a good, civilized country? Adopt war crimes as your strategy. Hide among civilians. Use them as shields. Hide in civilian infrastructure. Because we will not let anyone fight you if you do it. And - we won't call you out on it"
-
@AbeGreenwald
Col. Roy Levy, who was killed while defending Kibbutz Reim from Hamas invasion, was also my student. His final paper was about Israeli-Palestinian energy cooperation. He wanted to improve the lives of Palestinians via electricity provision. He was kind & brilliant. Rest in peace.
A month?
We’ve lived like this on and off for 15 years. And maybe we relied too much on our technological miracle, and didn’t take the threat those rockets represent seriously enough.
Hamas' daily indiscriminate rocket fire on Israeli population centers would kill 1000s if not for Iron Dome & a civil shelter system. The fact that Israelis have been living like this for a month is critically underreported. And does not argue in favor of a cease-fire: the
This has been the most difficult week of my life and the most painful week for the Jewish people in many decades. At the same time as we have experienced so much loss, so much sadness, so much pain -- there has also been so much to be inspired by this week. (continued)...
All the years you've been following the region -- and you still just don't get it, Martin.
Martin, I voted AGAINST Bibi 5x. He should have left years ago.
But
Israel must enter Rafah and end Hamas. That is not a Bibi view. That is not an extremist view. That's an Israeli view.
U.S. put a hold on an ammunition shipment to Israel. This is a clear shot across Bibi’s bow as he talks about defying Biden’s opposition to a Rafah operation. The gloves are off! Hopefully more responsible Israeli leaders will intervene.
Yom Hashoah - Holocaust Memorial Day - has now begun here in Israel.
We lost 6 million - one in three Jews in the world- just 3 generations ago.
In my lifetime, it has NEVER felt so real.
Senator, there aren’t words to convey how much your steadfastness and moral clarity mean to so many of us.
Would that more of your colleagues had such sense and courage.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
6 months ago, I put up posters of every hostage in my office. Hamas has refused to produce proof of life.
Hamas owns this entire grotesque calamity.
I stand with Israel and the posters will remain on my walls until every single person is brought home.