Israel
2010
If we really loved the Israelis & the Palestinians, wouldn't we upgrade our aid package and send the common enemy they need?
Two of my favorite countries and cultures (Turkey and Israel) are being pulled apart as natural allies. Deliberately and obviously.
I believe very deeply in Turkey, Israel and a natural friendship of peoples that goes back to the Spanish inquisition (we owe you Istanbul).
But this is not Turkey vs. Israel. This is about the Anatolian heartland struggling w/ Ataturk's legacy of a secular Turkish military.
Yet isn't this israeli brutality? No. That looks like http://bit.ly/bBEtPo . This is a trap set to tear friends apart. And it MUST fail.
A quick point of clarification: I'm anti-utopian & well aware of Turkey and Israel's weaknesses. I just don't abandon real friends quickly.
The father of Israel's Nuclear Program, Yuval Ne'eman eulogizes Abdus Salam, the father of Pakistan's http://bit.ly/fAMNda (from the Arabic)
2016
I lived in Israel & did not fear terror. What many of us fear in the US is our own Gov. having higher priorities involving terror than us.
I cannot seem to convey to fellow @HillaryClinton voters that painting all Trump voters as racist misogynistic idiots is offensive & wrong.
@_bradmerrill This stuff is surprisingly relative & tricky. Eg. Harry Truman ran an antisemitic home, yet was the first to recognize Israel.
Watching Allepo. Dreaming Entebbe: "If only there were some brilliant savage decent fearless Jews in the area armed to the fucking teeth."
I'm not seriously suggesting Allepo is Israel's problem. But I'm out of ideas, hope, and patience with the major players including the US.
@df123500 That's why I said "dreaming." I'm not unaware of the complexity. But there's also a human decency issue. It's not all chess.
@PlanetPolitico I don't think they should. But don't discount the power of being the one to rescue innocents when others fled or watched.
@wayfarersprayer It's a long conversation in an acute situation. I don't have the heart to go back to 1973&1967 w what is about to happen.
@PlanetPolitico Be prepared for a Middle East so multi-polar that it may exceed anyone's ability to operate effectively from outside.
@wayfarersprayer I don't have any grown up ideas. Sorry my friend.
2017
"Does torture work? Yes absolutely" -DJT
The Israelis talk "Moderate physical pressure." But straight up "Torture"??? I need hearing aids.
@Martyrmade There is also a difference between disfigurement torture and playing annoying music. General endorsement of "Torture" is insane.
@Martyrmade That's not even my focus. Opening the door to in qualified torture is incredibly sloppy and dangerous for our own troops!!!
@Martyrmade I must be losing my mind.
@Martyrmade sorry. I meant unqualified torture in the above Tweet.
@Martyrmade Yes! I'm not for weakness. But "Torture: it just works" as a philosophy is opening the door to joining ISIS on their level.
@Martyrmade Please please do "message violence" as a topic. There is almost no current literature on the topic in this media driven age.
@Martyrmade I'm stopping here. I'm going to go pretend to clean the wax out of my ears in case I misheard.
@Martyrmade Well done. Stay in the light my friend. I've watched too many ISIS videos. You never recover.
@Martyrmade @PGourevitch married a our friend & I read his book on Rwanda when it came out. Same friend who intro'ed us to S Power/genocide.
@taoeffect Not really. "Enhanced interrogation" is prettification of something ugly. But it's not cutting off bits either. I'll stop there.
@imaginary_nums and non violence.
@huxley4ever It is & it isn't. It's more like soft language. I distinguish strongly between discomfort & injury (particularly irreversible).
Now convinced that there's no one on earth capable of following the plot. Not Putin. Not China. Not USA. Not Israel.
Things fell apart.
Other cultures that changed me: A) Academic B) Indian C) Muslim D) Tech E) Musician F) Russian G) UK H) Israel I) Turkish J) Black
Yours?
The Oval office is likely exposing Israel's secrets to Iran via Russia.
That's not even JV.
It's Jeff Spicolian.
The U.S. President today didnât ârecognizeâ Jerusalem as Israelâs capital. Rather we finally stood up to those who insist that we pretend it isnât.
@dwightdeon @laikayay @traderjoe10 I bet @TheRealBuddyGuy finds this confusing...
@dwightdeon @laikayay @traderjoe10 @TheRealBuddyGuy If thatâs what you want to call it...
@DavidDeutschOxf Thatâs really well said David.
[and nice to finally âmeetâ you as well.]
It was unclear to me until today that there are many people in 2017 (almost all âprogressivesâ) who arenât sure that Israel really exists as a nation.
[Yes, Iâm being totally serious here and canât quite believe it either. Good to know though!]
This was not caught by enough of us:
âWe are *not* taking a position of *any* final status issues including the specific *boundaries* of the Israeli sovereignty in *Jerusalem* or the resolution of contested borders. Those questions are up to the parties involved.â -Pres. Trump
2018
A lot of folks are curious about where I stand on @RealCandaceO. Here are things Iâm watching for: a) as someone w/ strong support for Israel, Iâm hoping Candace will talk about the need to decouple issues of police brutality against US blacks from any anti-Israel stance of BLM.
b) Iâm looking to see whether sheâs going to take on the Race & IQ discussion from the point of recognizing the myriad examples of Black genius we drown in as Americans, which would be unlikely under the simple bell curve argument. Not my issue, but one that upsets me greatly.
c) Iâm looking to see if she builds kindness & empathy toward those she opposes. Here sheâs reached out to me as a Bernie voter with generousity of spirit. But Iâd love to see more of such heart & compassion.
These are all things Iâve said to her directly. So Iâll watch & wait.
But what Iâm sure of is that Candace is 100% her own person who will become whoever she want to become & has the talent to make a huge impact. So Iâd like to be helpful (if that it is going to be positive as I see the world) from across the aisle. A loyal opposition is important.
@n_bresnahan @RealCandaceO Police brutality can be a BIG problem but it varies by location. How big a problem and how anti-black it is, is a matter of data and experience. I think she thinks itâs exaggerated relative to the data in aggregate. I hear that from some academics but donât know myself.
@DoughTheory @RealCandaceO Really?? You arenât getting it. The anti-Israel issue is a divisive intersectional wedge issue keeping blacks & Jews from coming together. It is SUPER important because it creates a catastrophic illusion that US Jews wonât fight for Black justice. Which is just tactical bullshit.
@AlexanderBlum0 @RealCandaceO Itâs an order of operations issue. Fighting needless wedge issues brings coalitions on line which allow leverage. We want to come together. Iâm talking about clearing away needless obstacles first.
@jeffgiesea @RealCandaceO I would never do that. Have you met her?? Ha! I donât think anyone can goad her. Sheâs one of the most forceful self defined people Iâve ever met. Given that Iâm not a conservative, Iâm talking about my issues for people who want to know why Iâm taking an interest.
@AlexanderBlum0 @RealCandaceO Optics I canât speak to. Anti-Black racism is obviously real. Iâd be *shocked* if @RealCandaceO said it wasnât in a calm moment. She does make claims that itâs exaggerated for political gain though. But Iâm not getting in there when there are black voices Iâd rather listen to.
@nathano_j @AlexanderBlum0 @RealCandaceO And selective prosecution.
@KenfukintuckyKJ Not a fan of Bernieâs views of Markets.
@YankeleZ Are you unaware of the other choices?? It wasnât really a âdesign your own pizzaâ kind of election.
@Pathfinder4545 No Iâm not. Iâm intuiting from my experiences that there is some wrong with the tail analysis. I have a guess what it is as well but donât want to wade in until I have the time to see if it bears some preliminary scrutiny.
2019
The key to understanding intersectional âoppressionâ movements is how they treat Jews. If they were truly about vulnerable groups they would be focused on Jews. Yet itâs reversed. Why? Because they are largely about forced redistribution of wealth. Making us a target.
My cousin.
Letâs be clear. Jews do well economically. But in reality?
There is no amount of wealth. No amount of acceptance. No amount of massive Israeli military might. No amount of philanthropy. No amount of achievement. No amount of assimilation, that stops the threat from returning.
Israel isnât one hundred percent honest about being a multi-ethnic democracy and a Jewish state. It fudges its conflicting ideals.
It deserves to take shit from all the worldâs nations in more difficult situations than it has in its neighborhood that are doing a much better job.
@AakashS98579231 Ya know.....now that you mention it....
I just canât think of any off hand. If you are a BDS supporter, feel free to use this space to list those nations.
I know about many injustices. I hate the unfair treatment of the Arabs who risk all for true peace.
But Iâm not discussing the legitimacy of a permanent state.
@OldClarinetBoy Love mathematicians.
I am saying something edgier which is this. Every nation has an Abomination Ratio:
- Unit Injustice/Hypocrisy
- âââââââââââââââ
- Unit of Impossibility of Survival
Yes Israel has a lot to answer for. But its AR ratio is a point of pride. BDS is the abomination, not Israel.
@amasad I think people have every right to criticize Israel. Israel isnât on the efficient frontier of human decency. We Jews in & out of Israel can do even better than we have. The WestBank situation has dragged on & on. Israel can do so much better.
But Iâm done singling out đŽđą 4 BDS.
@tremorfan Not a nation.
@martin_expat Israel wanted to be a nation badly enough to become a nation state in the real world of today that it was willing to compromise on grand dreams. So it gets an AR. Palestinians have been holding out for a greater nation than has been on offer from the world. So no AR ratio.
Everyday I check social media and the same female role models are pushed at me over and over and over again: @AOC, @IlhanMN, @RashidaTlaib. Etc.
Meanwhile the women who truly rock my world get zero attention. Hereâs a math genius role model the cheerleaders are totally ignoring.
@OtisManousakos @AOC @IlhanMN @RashidaTlaib Iâm a Bonnie Raitt, Chrissie Hynde, Xene Cervenka guy myself.
@OtisManousakos @AOC @IlhanMN @RashidaTlaib Love Debbie Harry. But Bonnie Raitt on stage with John Lee Hooker. No comparison. Love her slide work.
@OtisManousakos @AOC @IlhanMN @RashidaTlaib Bonnie alone with a Stratocaster was comparably cool. With Hooker she based everything around respect for his idiosyncratic phrasing and timing. Her alone? Pure sexual charisma and exquisite tone. I didnât realize what a performer and deep musician she was. So non-needy.
@RyanMTaylor93 @krrishd @AOC @IlhanMN @RashidaTlaib There is an attention budget of 24 hours in a day & a Laffer curve where more attention on radical congresspeople becomes offputting for many. However many hours in a day are to be spent celebrating female role models, I want it redistributed to more types. Karen had 4 followers.
@RyanMTaylor93 @krrishd @AOC @IlhanMN @RashidaTlaib In less than an hour she has 114 due to this tweet. It is the ABSOLUTE least I can do for a genius who contributed to totally changing our understanding of the peculiarities of 4-dimensional space. She has the universal respect of everyone who can understand her work.
@krrishd @RyanMTaylor93 @AOC @IlhanMN @RashidaTlaib You, and potentially even Karen, may well disageee w/ me. Thatâs fine. But I personally want less repetitive emphasis from @twitter through its recommended stories on women I see as needlessly polarizing. The idea that a great Mathematician was comparably invisible felt shameful.
@AlmostMedia @AOC @IlhanMN @RashidaTlaib It's the platform engineers pushing their interest. I want to opt-out of constant @AOC or @IlhanMN discussions. I need a toggle switch that says, I'm over 18 and have totally different feelings about Niqabs, open borders and Israel than the engineers who determine my feed.
@AlmostMedia @AOC @IlhanMN @RashidaTlaib I'm mildly interested in these new congresswomen. I follow some of them. But I'm bored and irritated as all hell by @AOC's genius for social media. Okay. She's a social media genius. I agree. I got it. I got it yesterday. I got it last week. I got it. Totally. Yep. I got it.
@_Saeen_ @AOC @IlhanMN @RashidaTlaib Who are you?
@derftron @AlmostMedia @AOC @IlhanMN @RashidaTlaib I want to see stories involving her substance. I see her as actually truly changing the conversation and I see her as an impressive force to be reckoned with. I just donât want want all the cheerleading. It seems manufactured and force fed. I also donât want the bad bits ignored.
@derftron @AlmostMedia @AOC @IlhanMN @RashidaTlaib We should have better filters from twitter.
@Jim_OMallie @_Saeen_ @AOC @IlhanMN @RashidaTlaib I donât know anything about that. Just seemed really shitty.
@Jim_OMallie @_Saeen_ @AOC @IlhanMN @RashidaTlaib Well there is no response and no defense of how unnecessarily aggressive the account is so that earns a block. A blurry anonymous account picture with sunglasses also doesnât smell like a real person. Thanks for the alert on the phony Pinker video too.
People ask about my thoughts on Howard Zinn, Noam Chomsky & the Jews of BDS.
I think it's *imperative* that military/economic superpowers bend over backwards not to become monsters. But when you've bent yourself into a Klein Bottle out of self-indulgent shame, it's time to stop. https://t.co/lOn6KNniiZ
@DavidRobinow @SamHarrisOrg No. I like a *lot* of Zinn & Chomsky. In fact, I used to talk to Noam now and again over the 18 years I had addresses around Cambridge MA. I am also critical of Israel in various ways. But there is a point where self-criticality becomes self-destruction. And Noam can go over imo.
@ggreenwald Huh?
@kevin2woke @ggreenwald I dislike loyalty oaths. I detest chilling speech. I dislike pretending any criticism of Israel is anti-Semitic.
I tolerate boycotting boycotters. I dislike anti-Semites using a singling out of Israel as if it were principled. I fear a second holocaust.
So Iâm a bit conflicted.
@kevin2woke @ggreenwald Also, I wanted to not only like but to love @IlhanMN. âCourageous Refugee & modern đ§ makes good in USA and confounds norms to carry progressive torch to bring nation togetherâ is the story we need right now. I would have cheered.
It appears not to be even close! Thatâs rough.
@kevin2woke @ggreenwald @IlhanMN Also I have a very very very bad feel about BDS, anti-semitism and the new fresh faced Democratic Party. But I donât want to jump the gun. So Iâm collecting information. But if I were someone else Iâd be shouting about the gathering storm clouds. This looks dire to my intuition.
@mtracey Absolutely! Do that. Because the single biggest story in the đ right now is the meta story that journalism refuses to break. That is, we gave protected LEGAL status to a profession (journalism) that needs to be *revoked* if it will no longer follow its ethics in the Twitter era.
@mtracey Oh no. That was what interested YOU. Your gambit. Iâm not you. I want to talk about *exactly* what you are avoiding!
Let me catch you up. We the public donât let you set the Gated Institutional Narrative anymore. Weâre not your sheep & donât sit passively. Weâre peers finally.
@JomiFSC @mtracey Iâm happy to address it with someone else somewhere else. This isnât about deflection. This is about activists posing as journalists which is a major focus of mine. I refer to it frequently as narrative driven fake news:
@mtracey @will_sublett I want to know who you are. Iâm happy enough to discuss @IlhanMN @AIPAC, BDS, anti-semitism. I make a well known point of trying not to talk to activists posing as journalists, except about this one topic of separating activism from journalism.
@mtracey @will_sublett @IlhanMN @AIPAC Well, first of all I respect you saying that. Really. No BS.
As I said on @benshapiroâs show, I prefer someone like Hunter S Thompson who admits to biases as part of the story or someone who tries for objectivity even if itâs impossible over any activist posing as a journalist.
@mtracey @will_sublett @IlhanMN @AIPAC @benshapiro Iâll take your word for it. Wanna try again? Take off your journalist hat & Iâll consider it. How are you not objective?
Hereâs how I am influenced. I come from a far left family pushing Jews to aspire to nearly impossible standards. Iâm influenced by pogroms & the holocaust.
@mtracey @will_sublett @IlhanMN @AIPAC @benshapiro I also lived in Jerusalem for two years that shaped my understanding in a different way. Not all of it pro Israel. But much of it.
I also have a lot of moderate Muslim Friends who are close enough to talk about Muslim closeted anti-semitism with me within their families.
@mtracey @will_sublett @IlhanMN @AIPAC @benshapiro Iâd be interested to hear it. I donât know what these words mean to you.
@mtracey @will_sublett @IlhanMN @AIPAC @benshapiro I guess you donât come across as fair minded to me when you address me. Can you hear that? You donât seem impartial to my way of understanding your words.
@mtracey @will_sublett @IlhanMN @AIPAC @benshapiro Okay. Iâm a progressive Jew who has lived in Israel from a family touched by pogroms & the holocaust. I have some Palestinian sympathies. Iâm also exhausted by Palestinian gamesmanship. Iâm HIGHLY suspicious of BDS unless folks call for MANY boycotts *across* the region. Then no.
@mtracey @will_sublett @IlhanMN @AIPAC @benshapiro Now what about you? What about your lack of objectivity and influences?
@mtracey @will_sublett @IlhanMN @AIPAC @benshapiro Well, using words like âdorkâ and not being kind or impartial towards me and trying to humiliate me didnât speed up anything. You might consider an apology. I didnât come at you. I donât even know who you are. I just responded. Think it over? Thanks.
@mtracey @will_sublett @IlhanMN @AIPAC @benshapiro [Also, thatâs not admitting to your bias. That was an accusation arguing that your moral compass is fatigued by the double standards of others. Consider something more generous to someone who invested in de-escalating with you. Good night.]
@mtracey @will_sublett @IlhanMN @AIPAC @benshapiro Thanks for that. Appreciated. Goodnight.
Consider the *massive* military differential between Gaza & Israel.
Let these Palestinian rockets explain who actually believes in Israeli military restraint, IDF professionalism and Israelâs desire for eventual peace.
Oddly, it is Hamas who believes in the decency of Israel.
@FlyWhisk @martyrmade You don't say.
@martyrmade @FlyWhisk I don't need the benefit of the doubt. They are both desperate places.
But I am responding to a specific claim: "Hamas is literally like the Jewish Resistance at the Warsaw Ghetto...there's no difference between Gaza and the Warsaw Ghetto."
Which is, obviously, insane.
Israeli. Itâs a multicultural society. The fact that she is Arab could have been put in a lower paragraph. We Jews benefit from pointing out that Israelis arenât all Jewish. So we all need to pay a price when an Israeli does something unconscionable.
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Ecclesiastes
Forgive my ToS violation, but I feel about those targeting Israel like Indiana Jones does about Nazis
@AviGeller @benshapiro Amen brother.
âA short time later you will see video of rubble from surgical strikes in Gaza of targets collocated near civilian centers. Perhaps a mother weeping over a child. And the dimmest progressives will talk of unprovoked senseless Israeli barbarity & the need for BDS...â
-Nostradamus
And for the sake of completeness here is AlJazeeraâs perspective about the âRight of Returnâ protests staged on the border so you can draw your own clonclusions:
@dangainor I felt I didnât need to donât to note that or editorialize in the tweet. Nobody smart will be confused unless they really want to be. Letâs let folks explore the other sides of the issue. This is stark enough.
@RationalZone @benshapiro No. Look at my following tweet in the thread.
@EliseRonan Because, on balance, the truth favors those in the right. My Palestinian cousins & their backers are not without points to make. But the balance favors Israel in my opinion. Strongly. So Iâm not afraid. If folks really buy a *peaceful* âGreat March of Returnâ they can. Sigh.
@EliseRonan I just think itâs clear itâs a provocation if you are following this. They want Israel baited into attacking Palestinians. So to me it is best to let them speak in their own words. Itâs a tough sell they have on their hands.
@dangainor They are sometimes legit. Sometimes not. On this issue they are pretty clearly cheerleading.
@DerekJShaffer @JCDawgs706 Thank you.
@foley_declan @dangainor Some Israelis have done evil things. They are not blameless nor all angels. The Palestinian Arabs are in a bad spot.
But turning down deals to fire barrages of rockets at civilians while trying to provoke IDF into killing your own people over the âGreat March of Returnâ?
Nuts.
@foley_declan @dangainor But I donât know enough to comment on the medic accusations (from June?). Thanks for asking.
We sent our son to visit Israel just after the rockets were launched from Gaza. I think itâs a piece of information that influences my thinking. While Iâm sympathetic w some Arab issues and fed up w some Israeli behavior, Iâve lost all patience w Arab rockets targeting civilians.
@DavidMendesMD Lived there for two years.
This is where I feel quite alone. Most friends in the developed world either close their eyes to our crimes (which are many & awful) or they go self hating & talk about the developed world as evil.
I LOVE the US, UK, AUS, Israel etc w/ eyes wide open for *struggling* to improve.
How great is it that I can tweet like this & still be alive despite openly calling for a second Church Committee to investigate the IC & its relationship to J Epstein for example? I can & do yell âTo hell with the Clintons, NYT & DJT.â
And Iâm still here. I frickinâ love the US.
@WhlBarrowTestes We have to go #BackToChurch if we are going to find out why Jeffrey Epstein was untouchable for so many years and how he came to leave the scene. Amen brother.
Thereâs a sizable number of white supremacists who latch onto legitimate free speech, meritocracy, islamofascism & immigration issues like free-riding remoras. If these are issues you discuss you *must* piss these folks off regularly as if rubbing against a reef to dislodge them.
@pocamarxist Try using a Jewish last name.
Or a Muslim surname.
Then leave your DMs open and wait for their messages of support for you to go back to Israel or Saudi Arabia.
Or look for anger at multiculturalism.
Or look for the Pepe frogs.
Or an obsession with IQ.
Etc..
Theyâll show.
2020
Iâve spent a lot of time on this. The story here is not Epstein or Maxwell. Itâs the bizarre mission of our US press to misdirect us. The questions were always the same:
Epstein 'madam' Ghislaine Maxwell 'is a foreign spy hiding in Israel' https://t.co/lOAWd7tbo1 via @MailOnline
H) Are you thinking, whoever the hell you are, that you can just intimidate us all? I get that you can get to anyone anywhere. Big deal. Can you get to MILLIONS of us anytime anywhere? Do you see this going away? Are we *all* afraid youâll call us âAlex Jonesâ or kill us? Really?
F) Why are *none* of the esteemed members of the commentariat conspicuously calling for a second Church/Pike style investigation of excesses of our intelligence communities? WTF?
G) Many famous members of the press follow this account closely. Do I not exist? You do write to me.
D) Can you the press tell us the whereabouts of the detailed records of Epsteinâs *trading* operation from âVillard Houseâ in Manhattan?
E) If the hedge fund currency trading never took place, was the source of Epsteinâs wealth the missing assets & pensions of Robert Maxwell?
A) Can you the press seek an on-the-record official denial that Epstein was operating/trafficking attached to US and/or foreign intelligence?
B) Can the press tell us where Ghislaineâs passports were last seen at a border?
C) Is Epsteinâs death a âmessage killingâ to us all?
Moral: remember whoever it turns out was behind Epstein, it wasnât âThe Americansâ or âthe Jewsâ. US Jews were also both outspoken & tiptoeing around this mess for 15Yrs. Epstein was an obvious cancer. But cancers are treatable. It is the US press misdirection thatâs metastatic.
As an ordinary US Jew who thought he spotted an OBVIOUS Intelligence operation in 2003-4, I wanted to be on the other side of this thing when it blew, so I could support the US and Israeli ICs which need to be strong & secret but non evil. So now Daily Mail has finally reported!
If this turns out to be in part an evil intelligence operation trafficking minors, it will be the responsibility of some *tiny* number of raging assholes. Maybe Saudi assholes, maybe Jewish villains and maybe evil CIA folks. Who knows. But it wonât be entire peoples at fault.
And for those of you who ask why I never mentioned Israel and the Mossad publicly.. Here is your answer: I donât connect the dots for you.
I have been on this early out of a love of the US & Israel. You deserved to know that this is not some plot of CIA, âThe Jewsâ or Mossad.
Now go investigate the story! If he wasnât an asset get the official denials. Discuss a redo of Church/Pike. If there is nothing to find, we deserve to know. Is it our damn country or not? Simple question. Is the press there to get the stories or to kill them? Get this over with!
âShould all Palestinian refugees and their descendants have the right to return to Israel?â -NYT
You need to say more Andrew.
@timoncc No. Whatever his answer is, it is the right answer for him as candidate. I would think that is obvious.
But it is such a consequential answer that it has to be made much more understandable as to what it means and how he arrived there.
I asked @AndrewYang simply to clarify his reasoning on a hypothetical âright to return to Israelâ for Palestinian Arabs and their descendents.
And a good thing I did!
Here is his clarification:
Thanks Andrew.
@katzdani @AndrewYang Excuse me?
I deeply dislike the calculating mind of Senator Kirsten Gillibrand exploiting gender, identity and sexual assault.
Would love to vote for Al Franken to unseat her. In a heartbeat.
@YasMohammedxx Huh?
@YasMohammedxx Oh. Itâs not that I didnât infer that. You misunderstood.
You donât know how much shit comes to me as a Jew and Israel Supporter. As a friend of Peter Thiel. As someone who hosted a porn star. Etc...
I just found it uncharacteristically presumptuous. Not usually your style.
@YasMohammedxx But more than anything: Iâm sorry you have to deal with that kind of bullshit Yasmine!! Sucks.
I've long thought the last scence of "Damage" was quite good. Yet it somehow didn't seem to make the same deep impression on others that it did on me when I first saw it in Israel in 1992.
"She was holding a child. She was no different than anyone else." https://t.co/MEFOp8dbgg
- scene.
My #JewishPrivilege: Iâve never spent a night hungry. There was always a roof over our heads. Never went to jail or onto food stamps. First cousin froze to death escaping Babi Yar. Attended the top school in Los Angeles. My cousins Eva & Miriam Kor were a Mengle Twin experiment.
One college Grandparent. Became well known. Constantly deluged by antiSemitic messages & comments, many threatening. Have a steady job. Have anti-Semitic stalkers, some who have showed up at my work place and who threaten my wife/children w/ explicit bodily harm. #JewishPrivilege
Never went to synagogue without checking the exits. Went to two Ivies. Threatening graffiti scrawled on my sonâs Jewish day school. Grew up in a well-to-do LA neighborhood...Around neighbors that hated & bullied us and had restricted âconvenantsâ to keep us out. #JewishPrivilege
Our Bombay familyâs tiny & vulnerable Jewish Community had the honor of defiantly celebrating Chanukah as sitting ducks at the Gateway of India with our 6 & 3 year olds, days after anti-Semitic Pakistani terrorists targeted Chabad killing Rabbi Holzberg & his pregnant wife Rivka.
Anyone who refers to Jews as having âWhite Privilegeâ as in âabove the real problemsâ is either:
A) Ignorant of history and one book away from understanding the honest error. B) An idiot. C) An out and out anti-Semite.
Yes, some of us are now doing ok.
Yet itâs never for long.
So, if you want to know where this cashes out: We have *finally* become mildly well to do. Precarious, but more fortunate than many.
The word âPrivilegeâ makes me laugh however. Every person who has Jews they know and love, knows the truth: we are always simply between pogroms.
Come from Seamstresses & Used Clothing salesmen. One grandmother Rose escaped Pogrom in Mogilev Podolsky. Grandfather Schmelik escaped execution by spooking a Cossackâs horse. Great grandma Becky left Vladimiretz before they would have killed her in the 1934 pogrom pictured here:
My father proudly attended MLKâs March on Washington. My grandparents stood for Coal Miners against their murderous slaver bosses. My mom as a kid proudly shook the enormous gentle hand of the Great Paul Robeson. My brother gave up an Ivy League education to defend Black women.
Why do I oppose #BlackLivesMatter when I am committed to Black Lives Mattering and an end to structural oppression? Because you canât call a community more vulnerable than even Blacks âgenocidalâ in your platform. Israel has issues, but âgenocideâ is like modern blood libel.
Cards on the table: Iâm in awe of Black *achievement* and am shocked by desires to tell others like us that weâre all fine because we are pink and may finally have 2 sheckles to rub together. Our two communities donât belong in the oppression Olympics. Weâre both superachievers.
But as you see we are open that things have gotten much better for us. As they have for you. Yes 1865 is more recent than others imagine. So is 1945. Yes lynchings are horrific. So are pogroms. You face structural oppression. So do we. Your pain is invisible to many. Ours too.
And this is why so many of us Left leaning Jews are so confused by our black brothers and sisters. We see your pain. We see the invisible bigotry against you. We saw the FBIâs war on your community. We fought along side you based on your reasoned grievances. For almost 100 years.
And as an American Jew, Iâve every right to speak my mind to say this truth. Thatâs #AmericanPrivilege. I love my country despite many wrongs it did & continues to do to my family & community because of what it has done & now does *for* all of us.
So Iâm done tearing it apart.đ
So why did I write this? Because there are communities who have lost more & have done so even more recently that are actively targeted by BlackLivesMatter. And frankly the Yazidis are worse off than both of us. As were the Arabs Murdered in Sabra and Shatila. So letâs be real.
So letâs cut the crap. We have a deeply flawed country to fix & you can count on my support. But it isnât as bad as it once was for Blacks or Jews & money doesnât do as much as folks think in the face of murderous rage. Letâs all ease up on âPrivilegeâ as a way of avoiding this.
@brian_sack Amazing woman.
@EdMa31605945 With you.
@Kash_Kustomer Huh?
@MartinWS95 @Kash_Kustomer It is very hard to find people following the plot.
This is like >30+ years later after Milosevicâs 1987 and 1989 (Gazirestan) speechâs set the table for wars again in Europe over the Cradle of WWI.
Iâm not going to pretend: That plus the Embassy is actually a really big deal unless Iâm missing something.
Credit where itâs due.
- Gazimestan
Sorry. It was a while ago and Iâm not a Balkan scholar. My bad.
Also, recognition of Israel is not small potatoes either. Left that off. My bad.
Did de Gaulle get this all the time?
âYou still consider yourself French? Dude you are British. You live here. Itâs all over. Chill bruh. Itâs cool. Youâve been red-pilled! Admit it.â
Or Ulysses: âLet it go.â
Or Israel: âHebrew? Itâs a dead language!â
Ok. Thatâs how I see it.
The âLeftâ has meaning that isnât exhibited by any party currently. The Democratic Party needs to expel its corrupt leadership and donor base. Or the Republicans need to become more responsive to certain norms which are important to me. Both are unworkable as this election shows.
[Put it this way. Trump & Biden are not remotely what weâre supposed to be doing at the moment. We need to invade both parties with sane people or create new parties. But stopping Biden with Tump isnât workable. Neither is stopping Trump with Biden. *No one* has got this solved.]
[Fascinating responses. I know I didnât want every sane republican to leave the Exectuive Branch. Wanting every sane liberal out of 1 of our 2 parties losing its mind doesnât sound smart to me...but it make sense to many of you Trumpers. Youâre making a big error here however..]
I respect Daveâs decision. Part of being an American is loving people you disagree with and NOT trying to shame or control them. Also allowing that they change their minds, evolve & may see more/less clearly than we can.
Donât lose your mind, family & friends over an election.đ
I also think a lot of people are going to vote for @realDonaldTrump over:
A) Portland & @tedwheeler B) Critical Race Theory C) H1B D) CCP & geopolitics E) Activist Press F) Activist Tech G) MSM/DNC treatment of @TulsiGabbard / @AndrewYang H) Jerusalem Embassy Move
Continuing..
Continued.
I) Peace: Sudan & Israel J) Naming China & WHO in Covid K) Peace: Israel & Bahrain L) No new US wars M) Seattle CHAZ & @MayorJenny N) Peace: U.A.E. & Israel O) Denial of soon to be 78 year old Bidenâs cognitive issues P) Hunter Biden Story Q) âDefund the Policeâ Etc.
I will be very surprised if there isnât a *much* stronger than expected surge for Trump. The Left and Right have both jumped the shark in my opinion. So please donât tell me what anyone has to do with his or her vote. We all watched this âelectionâ happen & failed to prevent it.
In short, the Left used the last 4yrs to shoot itself in the foot. I couldnât vote DJT because of the daily negative effect he has on our national culture. But, unlike 4 years ago, itâs no mystery why folks switch to him.
Itâs not all ProTrump: Theyâre voting to repudiate âusâ.
2021
I thought a lot about Holocaust Remembrance Day and a thought came to me which was as shocking as it was clear to me.
I have no *right* to listen politely to Critical Theory or MAGA or any other movement that insists on lecturing Jews about *real* suffering and vulnerability. https://t.co/i9slbxp3LN
In fact I have an *obligation* to stop excusing anti-Semitism in struggling communities just because the last 75 years in the US have been pretty good for the Jewish community. To us, 75 years is the blink of an eye in our long history.
Here I am âsalutingâ at the arch of Titus. https://t.co/BOLIz9rBbp
Here are two newspaper notices telling Jews & Japanese to report in Kiev and San Francisco respectively. I have made pilgrimages to Manzanar where we sent Japanese Americans whose possessions we often took. It is sickening what we did to our fellow citizens. My heart breaks. https://t.co/jTTrNR3VgE
And so I know I take the suffering of others seriously because what happened to Jews is incomparable. No financial success or trip to Manzanar will ever prepared you for your first trip to Babi Yar. Itâs a full body sickness. A trauma that sits on your soul and never fully lifts. https://t.co/GSdPcZsfM1
I tweet about the assassination of Fred Hampton regularly for my Black Friends. I tweet about the abomination of Dodger Stadium and my Latino sister Aurora Vargas of Chavez ravine evicted from her home by the city of Los Angeles.
But there are haunted Ravines even more horrible. https://t.co/jMtiMyGBnI
Ahem. Itâs all over. From this moment forward, I refuse to be polite about Pepe the Frog, BLM nonsense about the Israelis as genocidal, Stars and Bars enthusiasts, defunding/abolishing the Police who protect synagogue and Masjid alike, etc.
Iâm *done* babying our lunatic cults.
This year I was repeatedly lectured about âJewish Privilegeâ, âJewish Fragilityâ and (I swear I am not making this up) invited to âSit in my discomfortâ for âlaughablyâ claiming that Jews are vulnerable. Often by ethnic minorities whoâve been indoctrinated within the Ivy League. https://t.co/YabZdfhqgf
No amount of financial success ever fully compensates for having to locate the exits every time you enter a synagogue. We all know itâs only a matter of time before the loony Left and Right will try their hand again to get rid of Jews. And Iâm not babying this madness ever again.
Suffice it to say, you can whine about privilege & micro-aggressions, cultural appropriation and you can sit in your own discomfort. You can get off on Pepe the Frog in your parents basement and Roman salute the Stars and Bars. But I have dead relatives to honor. And Iâm now out.
So, the basic change is this. If you start speaking to me with the same invariant phrases associated with these groups (BLM, CRT, Militias, âRace Realistsâ and on and on) Iâm not going to politely hear your madness out. Iâm going to say you are running malware between your ears.
@Timthetiny1 Congratulations: you are my first. Blocked. #Bye.
@ReaIityHijacked Not all of Maga nor all of BLM. But i got enough Pepe the frog with the veiled threats about ovens. Enough.
Iâd far prefer Israel Annex what it intends to annex and cede what it intends to cede. And pay the price in both cases...which will be potentially astronomical in separate ways. But continued use of religious zealots as a proxy army is not up to the level of an amazing nation.
Being a strong supporter and defender of Israel, means acknowledging and talking about Israeli mistreatment of Arabs.
I donât want to get sucked in to the local game of commenting incident by incident on violence cycles, but settler BS can be awful.
Some of my motivation is to communicate that *if* some unit in Israel is ultimately directly implicated, it sure as hell isnât âThe Jewsâ or âIsraelâ that is behind this. That ordinary Jews would risk everything to stop such techniques. And Iâm willing to make the point concrete.
Itâs so weird what the internet chooses to infer. Obviously Iâm worried about a tie back to some unit of Israeli intelligence. Itâs Robert Maxwellâs daughter for Godsake.
The internet fixates generally & internet Israel critics more than most. Internet inference is very weird.
I have said this before. But the fixation on Israel never rests. So neither will its honest critics and its defenders. I would like to think I can count my self among both their ranks. End.
Israel has had some terrible operations (e.g. Lillehammer) like the US (e.g. Cointelpro). And their strength comes from being strong enough to face those horrors when the happen.
And I believe in my 2 favorite nations enough to ask the questions whose answers I fear to my soul.
How big is that group? Well, I believe *If* it exists it contains at least 2 nations not 1. And while I love Israel and have lived there, Iâm very worried about the universal silence over this.
Why am I doing this? In part to stand up for 2 countries I *love* & fear went wrong.
Do I know that it is Israel behind this? No. Do I think one nation acted alone? Iâm not even positive that Epstein was state sponsored. What do I believe? That Israel and the US WERE part of a GROUP of national ICs that turned a blind eye to child sex trafficking at a *minimum*.
My good buddy @noatishby has a new book coming out on Israel! Congratulations Noa. Proud to write my blurb for what you are trying to do here.
Israel needs modern voices. Have a listen (or read...as it were).
@NuanceBro All love. I actually appreciated your name on Twitter. It kinda paints a target on you but it is what we need. Iâll look forward to lookin for your stuff.
@RyanBBaker @NuanceBro Nah. It was just being playful. Not a gotcha.
@NuanceBro Weird right? There is an aspect of the right that sees every Jewish person as an agent of Israel. But itâs not the right. Itâs a sliver of the right. No idea how that still flies in 2021.
@Clayton_Bigsby5 @NuanceBro Thanks!
@modz0815 @NuanceBro Maybe. It just makes me sad. But thanks!! Appreciate it.
@grayfortexas @NuanceBro Love and respect are secret weapons.
2022
@BretWeinstein @podclipsapp 1/n That is not what I think exactly. I am saying the following. We are clearly being managed and spun. Some of that is normal. But we donât know what is causing the abnormally insane part with Fauci, @TheLancet, Daszak, Collins, CDC, WHO, Surgeon general, Etc. At least I donât.
@BretWeinstein @podclipsapp @TheLancet 2/n Some of us are domain specialists. Bret for example in evolution. Fauci in infectious disease. Baric in GoF. Etc. But normally we would work together to figure this out. That is not happening. I donât know what Fauci & Daszak are doing but it is not just trying to do science.
@BretWeinstein @podclipsapp @TheLancet 3/n So all the weirdness comes from insiders trying to stage manage a ridiculous narrative: âMasks donât work until we tell you that you need to wear them and then they do.â âDonât gather in groups for safety until you need to protest.â âOnly racist leave open a lab leak theory.â
@BretWeinstein @podclipsapp @TheLancet 4/n I represent the technical group w/ no domain expertise here. And Iâm starvedâŚSTARVEDâŚfor the resources to understand what is going on. The data are corrupted seemingly deliberately to tell a story. Questioning and dissent are prosecuted across all areas of public discourse.
@BretWeinstein @podclipsapp @TheLancet 5/ I tried and failed over & over again to get to the bottom of this. Iâve given up. This is down to 3 teams:
Team Fauci: Let us lie to you. Assume it is for the public good.
Team Incentive: Something evil is going on. Subgroups say Profits, Sterilization, Social Control, etc.
@BretWeinstein @podclipsapp @TheLancet 6/n And then there is my team.
Team WTF?
I donât know how any one is sorting this out without open science. Where is the investigation of the Lancet?
Why isnât Peter Daszak in front of congress granted immunity?
Who the fuck moved our medical chains to Communist China?!?
@BretWeinstein @podclipsapp @TheLancet 7/n Why the weird changes to how COVID cases are coded that MDs are complaining about?
So Iâve been blinded. Then there is the Peter McCullough, Robert Malone world. A lot of it seems very competent. Some of it seems so off & weird Why can no one get COVID twice? Sound like BS.
@BretWeinstein @podclipsapp @TheLancet 8/n Bret I usually trust you. And I know you arenât doing this over money. But I could simply not understand how you got to clarity over Ivermectin. There wasnât enough data. You werenât an expert in it. Etc. So I simply said âI felt Bret âmis-structuredâ his point.â
@BretWeinstein @podclipsapp @TheLancet 9/n When I canât understand my own brother, I knew it was the effect of Fauci. You were guessing in ways none of us should have had to guess. I got the vaccine because, *in part*, Iâm worried that Fauci and company know something horrible that they donât wanna share.
@BretWeinstein @podclipsapp @TheLancet 10/n But you Bret, Malone, McCullough are all downstream from the problem. The problem is with the low quality career insiders shredding trust by stage-managing our reality. I donât understand how you reached the strength of your conclusions. But you Bret & I both are *guessing*.
@BretWeinstein @podclipsapp @TheLancet 11/11 I donât want to lose you, @SamHarrisOrg, @joerogan, @clairlemon, @MaajidNawaz on this. But I donât get any of you exactly. We/You are all guessing. I love yâall. But a guess portrayed as fact is destroying us. We need science coming together to kill off bad Public Health.đ
@BretWeinstein @podclipsapp @TheLancet @SamHarrisOrg @joerogan @clairlemon @MaajidNawaz One post-script I donât want to discuss but is needed to understand my position. Bretâs points on telomeres are:
1. âHealth Ainât Freeâ 2. Hayflick limits are a budget. 3. The heart is unusually poor in this currency.
I donât hear people like @SamHarrisOrg engaging this much.
@BretWeinstein @podclipsapp @TheLancet @SamHarrisOrg @joerogan @clairlemon @MaajidNawaz Yet the example of Israel is very telling here. Were this a nefarious plot, I donât think Israel would bet the Jewish people and itâs future on universal vaccination. And there are too many Jews in science to keep this a secret. So I worry about profit & control. Not about worse.
@BretWeinstein @podclipsapp @TheLancet @SamHarrisOrg @joerogan @clairlemon @MaajidNawaz If this vaccine turns out to be carrying hidden Hayflick related costs, sterility etc Israel will have screwed itself so hard that it is unbelievable. So while I donât trust Fauci, I trust Israelâs self interest. They know what is known. And they bet on vaccination.
@BretWeinstein @podclipsapp @TheLancet @SamHarrisOrg @joerogan @clairlemon @MaajidNawaz You donât have to believe in the goodness of Fauci or Collins or Daszak. You donât have to believe or like Israel. But Israel wouldnât knowingly destroy itself. So if you worry about population reduction plots and cryptic sterilization fantasies, I think youâre likely just wrong.
@DocJohnG @BretWeinstein @podclipsapp @TheLancet @SamHarrisOrg @joerogan @clairlemon @MaajidNawaz UhâŚYou saw the tweet about the heart, cellular repair and Hayflick limits? Bretâs reserve capacity theory??? But of course you did. And here you are again on a FUD mission. Enough. Blocked. Sorry, I tried.
@DocJohnG @BretWeinstein @podclipsapp @TheLancet @SamHarrisOrg @joerogan @clairlemon @MaajidNawaz You want the last word before hand. I donât want to be mean. Iâm just annoyed that you donât listen.
@MoffettCj @DocJohnG @BretWeinstein @podclipsapp @TheLancet @SamHarrisOrg @joerogan @clairlemon @MaajidNawaz I donât need to call names here. We are all hurting, confused and misguided.
He appears not to want the last word or to take back his wrong assertion. So I will block for now. Just so fucking stupid to spend life in interpersonal drama. Letâs try to be kind(er). Ish, at least.
@db19794 @BretWeinstein @podclipsapp @TheLancet And you are....?
@db19794 @BretWeinstein @podclipsapp @TheLancet Your name sir? What sort of evolutionary theorist are you? I couldnât find the relevant details on your profile. You are making a professional attack that isnât traditionally done by academics in this way. So, letâs go back to pre Twitter rules of collegiality. Your name sir.
@db19794 @BretWeinstein @podclipsapp @TheLancet Iâm afraid I wonât ask again. Nothing personal, but attacking the qualification of a colleague is really dicey. Doing so publicly and unproved is beastly. Doing so anonymously is unthinkable to a serious academic.
You have me (and my brother) at a disadvantage. Your name. Sir.
@db19794 @BretWeinstein @podclipsapp @TheLancet I understand. But we donât allow this as an asymmetry. And you didnât limit yourself to ideas. You attacked a colleague via reputation. And did so from a position of advantage.
BTW, you should check in with Bob Trivers about Bret or listen to Dick Alexanderâs assessment of Bret.
@db19794 @BretWeinstein @podclipsapp @TheLancet Nothing personal. But we have to restore academics to an earlier standard of collegiality and civility.
Be well. Sincerely.
End.
I think not. But it is close to a multi-polar playing field with a lot of unskilled leaders and N Korea, China, Iran, Turkey, Pakistan, India, Russia, The United States, Israel, etc in play at once. So what do I know.
I may think not, but we *are* eroding our margin for error.
Key point is that there is going to be a lot of distraction and the ambitious may be expected to move rapidly, much the way looting often takes place when police are known to be stretched thin for whatever reason (e.g. an earthquake).
Tellerâs âNuclear Genieâ will hang over any resumption of attempts to saber rattle between nuclear, and near nuclear nations: China, N Korea, Israel, Pakistan, India. Particularly with rhetoric about experiencing âconsequences that you never have had before in your historyâ.
My concern, to sum up, is that we blunder our way into open ended nuclear rhetoric that opens the door to new levels of the unthinkable. I donât think this will get there. But I think it might and it may begin an erosion of the barriers to the unthinkable. As we saw in WWI & II.
And thatâs a real threat as this âgameâ hasnât been played like this for so long. Weâre like a black belt from a strip mall Aikido dojo getting into our first street fight. How well weâre actually prepared is open to speculation. No one knows where we are with open ended threats.
I donât think this will be a nuclear war as Iâve said. But I think the current crop of leaders has lost track of where posturing becomes reality. Putin would be an exception. My concern is that unskilled peacetime leaders may blunder into nuclear brinksmanship they canât manage.
Iâm also worried about China, N Korea, Iran, etc moving their pieces while we are focused on Russia/Ukraine. I donât know how well our system really works anymore after the Afghanistan pull out. Iâm not sure we really know how to play this role anymore. Hence the concern. đ
@AnnaGBusse The risk of blundering into nuclear war has skyrocketed now. It is still small. But no longer tiny. And it is likely to grow from here.
I traditionally find myself beginning with a great deal of sympathy for the legitimate concerns of Palestinian Arabs.
Then, I wait & watch:
âWe welcome death!â
The rocketing of civilian targets in Israel.
âMy childâs martyrdom fills me with joy!â
Etc.
I think âOops: My badâ
These are things that hurt my heart most.
Any deliberate attempt to provoke a lethal Israeli response to gain sympathy/press.
Bragging to the world âWe love death & martyrdom!â It doesnât land well (at least in the US).
Celebrations of rocketing civilian positions.
And so on.
Finally, celebrating Hadiths about how the world will cry out to the Ummah to kill all Jews, and going on about about Jews as Crusaders, invaders or some such bullshit, is absurd.
I have love in my heart. But it hardens when I hear talk of genocide âFrom the river to the sea.â
You may wish me dead. But I donât wish that for you.
I wish you happiness. Prosperity. Fulfillment. And may any misplaced hate you carry in your heart for me and my people be replaced by love. When that becomes possible, if ever, I hope we will live in peace as neighbors. đ
A postscript:
Having lived in Jerusalem for two years, I can say that I personally found it extremely rare to find typical urban Israelis celebrating the suffering of any Palestinian Arabs. Not to say it doesnât happen.
I never saw any Jew celebrate the death of anyoneâs child.
@ahmad_sarris Back atcha brother.
Follow up thread:
Lastly, perhaps unsurprisingly, I find Jewish claims on the ancient land of Israel most compelling. But the various Arab groups have been on the land a long time. And those competing claims need to be heard & fairly dispositioned. And I donât feel that has happened appropriately.
Jews should have left Gaza ages ago as there is no compelling Jewish Claim on the land.
Israel should explain a plan for the West Bank. If two state solutions are dead, what follows? I canât understand this. Iâm lost. This is unethical & untenable.
No harassment by settlers.
Etc. Etc. Israel is in a tough tough spot. But we Jews need to rise to the occasion and, somehow, figure out how to do the best we can for a positive future with our neighbors.
Canât get into all the nuance on Twitter, but you get this idea. Thanks for the question.
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@K_AminThaabet Hi Kamel. Israel was in Gaza for almost 40 years with no super compelling claim. That was what I was referring to.
اŮŮŮ. اŮŘŮ ŘŻ ŮŮŮ ŘŁŮŘŞ ب؎ŮŘą. ŮŮ ŘŁŮŘŤŘą Řذعا Ů٠اŮاتؾاŮات. ŮŘ°Ů Ů٠اŮءعŮŮŘŠ اŮŘŞŮ ŮŘŹŘŻŮ٠بŮا آ؎ع ٠ع؊.
@K_AminThaabet Ha! Agreed.
@K_AminThaabet Shevua Tov from Los Angeles.
@Logan_Ratick Yes. You would find that before he withdrew there were almost 40 years of Israeli occupation. Which didnât need to have happened in my opinion.
You might even learn about nearly 20 years of Egyptian control that preceded it.
But what was your point?
@AvivaKlompas Funny.
I was just making the point that Israel shouldnât have waited nearly 40 years between taking over from Egypt and leaving under Sharon.
But what do I know.
What was your point again?
2023
Hereâs a little secret. Some (e.g. @elonmusk) search for good human beings who are also great interviewers when their reach is still *small*.
I encourage such hosts not to ask the same questions everyone else does. I then try to help them get bigger by giving them new material. https://t.co/D82HnihsMy
As for high âcloutâ podcasts: a good guest remembers who helped them and publicly acknowledges it. The following people really helped me get reach early on.
@tferriss @samharrisorg @rubinreport @joerogan @bariweiss @benshapiro Etc.
Too many of us forget who invested early.
In my world, @joerogan is quietly one of the most generous people in podcasting. Ask anyone. He offered early on to do my podcast. I never wanted to have him on early because heâs SO big. I thought I would build it up first organically before having him on, as he did JRE.
Another weird thing is that the ideal guest is someone you can help get reach who is NOT a household name. I started The Portal with two monster guests. But my 3rd guest was pretty obscure. Why? Because he is wildly important to me: @timurkuran, a super innovative economist.
How do you signal early on that youâre a great podcast investment? I donât knowâŚbut Iâll give you my favorite question when I started that seemed to work ok: âWhat are you tired of talking about & what should I research that you are dying to discuss but somehow never get asked?â
So here is my advice for what it is worth: clout mattersâŚbut NOT the way people assume. The guests you want, mostly want to help you get good and get big. They will do your podcast as a non-transactional investment in you and your future. But you need to be investment worthy.
And thanks for *always* being a great and generous friend. Generosity beats Clout every time because it is so rare in social and new media where mean is everywhere.
Remember: the beginning is the romantic phase. The best part. Canât wait to see what you do. Good luck Nicole!đ https://t.co/7zlqgtF0xF
@Bill_LessThan3 @elonmusk I donât know him, but he is the only person I know who gets the need to diversify humanityâs planetary habitats and is willing to say it in public. So that makes him a pivotal human to me, despite the many flaws we all have. Myself included.
My issue is about chemical rocketry.
@DrDrhello10 My wife @PiaMalaney is senior economist at INET & a Harvard PhD.
@noatishby brought âIn Treatmebtâ to the US & is Israelâs Special Envoy.
@LeahLamarr is killing it as a standup comedian specializing in lighting fast unscripted crowd work.
Etc.
Try lifting each other up, Dr.?
@DrDrhello10 @PiaMalaney @noatishby @LeahLamarr Honest question: How do we stop the epidemic of amazing accomplished women cutting each other down? Okay. I also see dramatic necklines. But I see entrepreneurs. Authors publishing in @Nature. Film makers.
And I see women enjoying themselves as women. And? So? Help me get this.
@Vihmunhoz Like ambush journalism but as a podcast?
@rationaloptmist @elonmusk Huh. People tell me they love our interviews together. Which one of them is lousy?
Pretty sure I was at MIT too. And I am pretty clear that I was interviewed by Lex at MIT in the library building. Didnât seem to be fake.
@armysman30 @tferriss @SamHarrisOrg @RubinReport @joerogan @bariweiss @benshapiro @glennbeck Thanks friend!
@NicoleBehnam @elonmusk When invited.
@DrDrhello10 @PiaMalaney @noatishby @LeahLamarr @Nature *Treatment
in the above.
@witchcliff @DrDrhello10 @PiaMalaney @noatishby @LeahLamarr @Nature Let me ChatGPT that for you: https://t.co/ODDRBN2Y4U
@DrDrhello10 @PiaMalaney @noatishby @LeahLamarr Wow. Hard core.
Well good luck to you doctor.
IDF-assisted suicide
Zugzwang
Munchausen by Proxy
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Something terrible is about to happen to innocent people in Gaza. It will be horrific to watch. Make sure you fully familiarize yourself with the concepts above the line.
Iâm not leaving this here for you. Itâs for me.
Some of those killed by IDF bombs, rockets, bullets and missiles will undoubtedly be human shields taken hostage. Prepare yourself. Know that this is unavoidable.
Some Arabs who now hate Hamas will turn to Hamas due to carnage. Again, this is all part of pre-scripted strategy.
Remember that the reaction will shift towards condemnation of Israel, as Israel does Hamasâ bidding by destroying Hamas.
This will be hard to explain to people. Many will not accept it: âNo one wants to see their own people destroyed.â or âWhy comply when Hamas is baiting you?â
Lastly remember that Hamas belongs to the abyss. Do not follow them into the pitcher plant of human depravity. The human mind can be repurposed to make it into a suicidal robotic-killer.
Pity is healthier than hatred. And publicly it will do just as well as there is now absolutely no choice but to destroy Hamas. Hamas has seen to that.
Again, this isnât for you. I am going to be tempted to forget all of this when events get to where they are about to go. I am already fighting off my hatred of these monsters.
So I wanted to say all these publicly before the main war really escalates, as part of a Ulysses contract with myself; you can hold me to that. đ
@RaymondOhhh Hamas sets itself up as the protective caring parentâŚbut is actually seeking attention by inducing harm infliction on its own charges. Think about it.
Itâs an attention and sympathy getting strategyâŚuntil you see it for what it is.
@TruthMa18865708 âŹď¸
@PeterMOrem @without__excuse I thought that was clear. There is no way not to move. [Resigning is also a move.]
Small request to my Turkish & Israeli followers. An old song in Turkish âLeylim Leyâ was redone in Hebrew as âLama Lo?â which I may have last heard something like 30yrs ago.
Wanted to share both with a friend, but canât find the latter. Thx in advance:
@BiancaFerrara2 Yeah. Been trying to talk about this. For like, whatâŚ.decades? Something like that.
@EshoniH Hmm. The one I am thinking of is much closer to the @LivaneliZulfu version.
@EshoniH Closest to my memory so far! Thanks.
Trying to understand the âprogressiveâ mentality that forces others to worry about micro aggressions yet doesnât view sadistic video taped murder of left wing families belonging to an obviously oppressed minority, as so much as nanoaggression. So long as that family is Jewish.
May I ask a favor? If you have enjoyed my account, yet celebrate what happened on October 7 to Jews and their guests in Israel as an act of âresistanceâ, kindly:
A) Explain your reasoning.
B) Then unfollow my account and block me *forever*. I shall do the same.
Thx in advance.
@ravingpenguin92 Eh? Who is?
If I may, there is a deep misunderstanding on view here below of what âSocial Justiceâ and âHuman Rightsâ are *now* as movements. At least now that they have been successfully parasitized.
Revolutionary Marxism had a world wide branding problem after the horrors of the 20th century. And so it rebranded out of necessity, putting its best foot forward: âAnti-Fascismâ, âDecolonizationâ, âEquityâ, etc.
This is âWokeâ as a violent revolutionary rebrand if you will. And in rebranded form, it was taken in by the mainstream which somehow had no idea what Woke actually was as a Trojan horse or âwolf in sheepâs clothing.â Which seemed bizarre at the time frankly.
But what you are seeing is the mask coming off. âQueers for Hamas Executing Queersâ still doesnât really exist. Itâs really âQueers against Oppressionâ that sells. Which makes sense.
Okay, so start there. Then if you can start there, what happens is you go through a chain:
âQueers For a Coalition against oppression!â becomesâŚ.
âQueers supporting reasonable Arabs menaced by dangerous illegal settlers.â becomesâŚ.
âQueers Supporting any Arabs standing up against Israelâs hardliners.â becomesâŚ.
âQueers supporting Arabs who rejected a state of their own against Jews who wanted them to have a state.â becomesâŚ.
âQueers supporting Arabs who want Israel and Jews destroyed.â becomesâŚ.
âQueers supporting Arabs who finally have the guts to **lead** and, at last, stick it to oppressors everywhere on earth by orgiastically filming their anti-Jewish celebrations of torture-murdering and disfiguring/raping Jewish families in front of each other.â becomesâŚ.
âQueers for global violent revolution against all those branded as oppressors by the woke revolutionary coalition, as a means to bring about utopia.â
And there you are. âQueers for Hamas Resistanceâ as the âtough sons of bitches who finally have the guts to celebrate the ritualistic nightmare disfigurement/torture/rape of the families of the oppressor class.â To them, Hamas leads the way, andâŚ.heyâŚ.coalitions make âstrange bedfellowsâ.
Basically, âSocial Justiceâ got parasitized. Ordinary Democrats in the US got sold on a repackaging of violent revolutionary thinking.
Remember this:
DEI IS HATE. Branded as love.
That is the power of branding. And by the time you realize it is not a passing academic intellectual fad, itâs often too late.
I donât believe it is too late. Yet.
But it is now time to fight off the woke revolutionary parasites trying first to capture our children passing through our universities, schools and media.
It has gotten very late⌠and we havenât a moment to lose.
Hope this helps.
@Theo_TJ_Jordan It wasnât entirely naive. At all.
Many were naive. Others weak. Others opportunistic. Others knew exactly what they were doing.
2024
For Americans confused as to why Israel hasnât figured out how to disentangle herself after 57 years, Hamas and its supporters have been introducing themselves at a STARTER level on US soil.
Please: Accept their invitation! Get to know them. Events wonât make sense otherwise.đ
In essence, you are looking at an innovation. The Palestinian Arabs are *quite* capable of innovating warfare and are bringing a new idea to US soil.
You may ask yourself âWhy raise Palestinian Flags? Why bar Jewish students from their own campuses? Why hold mass Islamic prayer sessions on university quads? Why erect tents cities on US quads and violently defend them?â
The short answer is âBecause there is not yet an understanding of Palestinian Arab innovation and genius in warfare.â
Let me put it simply:
Instagram/TicTok is the ambush battlefield.
Our children/students are the hostages.
The Goal is Video. Victim video to be precise.
Flags, prayer sessions, tent cities, insults, restricted movement, chants, taunts are the bait.
We, like Israel, are being out smarted by a new innovation: they want us to attack them ON VIDEO. And they will do everything to make sure that THEY GET HURT. Iâm sorry to put it harshly. But that *IS* the innovation. And it is beyond clever. They are trying not to provoke a reaction but to find the minimal level of provocation that will FORCE us to violent action to take back our way of life in the US.
We are being played and our children are the audience. This is not going to fool a 75 year old Vietnam vet. This is aiming at his granddaughter, the disenfranchised barista or English major who has no purpose and few prospects. Several videos in, and our children will forget what and who started this. The goal is to be beaten up or worse ON VIDEO.
As in Gaza, so in UCLA/CCNY/Columbia.
In the era of Instagram, Sinwarâs Ingenious innovation is this:
âHistory was once written by the winners, but now it is filmed by its eager victims.â
Or to put it more simply in the social media era:
âTo the victims go the spoils.â
Will it work? I donât know. That depends on us.
But it is an amazing, if diabolical, innovation nonetheless. đ
@ChrisWelshCR Scour the internet. Iâll buy you a pint for every time I have praised Netanyahu.
From the Mississippi River, to Sea to Shining sea, American Jews are home.
Watching my colleague UCSD Physics Professor @DrBrianKeating calmly dismantle the relentless campaign of orchestrated pro-October 7 intimidation sweeping American universities under the threadbare sheepâs clothing of decolonization/resistance designed to fool the cognitively challenged, anti-Semitic and/or TikTok addicted.
Call it what it is: anti-liberal revolutionary Marxism trying to spread anti-American antisemitic intimidation by a relentless campaign of harassment and slander.
I am sorry for our Arab brothers, forced to deal with a self-destructive Hamas headed by a pathological genius. Truly.
Jews are the indigenous people to their own land of Eretz Israel. But we Jews are recent arrivals here in the US. And yet we are, ironically, home *here* while being comically treated as invaders in the land where all the archeology reveals the lie of the pro Hamas lunatic Left selling a LARPIng opportunity to fight for decolonization on behalf of murderous terrorists.
This U.S. land of George Washingtonâs genius is still magic. Letâs fight unapologetically to keep it that way and live together. E Pluribus Unum may sound corny to those farther away from threat, but it is more than a slogan to those of us who want to give back and live free from organized hate and slander.
This is life and death to those who know their history. And always will be.
Thank you Brian for not waiting to confront what waits for us just around this corner.
Don't mean to be critical, but why hate them? Maybe, think of this differently? The crowd and movement you are seeing here are in the process of explaining many difficult things. My advice: thank them instead.
They are in the process of visually explaining why despite decades of work by Israelis and Americans, there is still no state for Palestinian Arabs, and they are doing it better than anyone else can. They are explaining why Israel was forced to go into Gaza. They are explaining their reasoning, upon which my fellow Americans are still being held hostage. They are explaining why even so many Americans who deplore Netanyahu and Settler policy, still support Israel's defense of its people and sovereignty.
They are here explaining the level of intellectual rigor behind 'Palestinian Genocide in Gaza!' to people who do not follow the middle east closely. They are explaining what "From the River to the Sea!" actually means. Visually. They are explaining what they will do if given power. They are explaining the unusual uses Hamas has found for Hospitals, Schools, Apartment Buildings, Ambulances, Refugee Camps, etc. They are explaining why Hamas (while complaining of 'genocide') actually rockets a sovereign state to provoke attacks from a nation whose citizens they hold as hostages. The protestors are showing us how Hamas deliberately antagonized and *FORCED* Israel into military response, through a declaration of war through by jihadis committing gleeful attrocities against civilians, the elderly, guest workers, children and mothers. They are explaining why Black Lives Matter is dangerous to us all despite black lives mattering to almost everyone.
They are explaining that they love Yemen and the Houthis and hate their own country and themselves. They are explaining what they will do to "Queers for Palestine" once they are done using them, and get the chance to explore the admonitions of strict religious law.
They are explaining why reasonable and civil muslims the world over have been warning the west about the dangers of Jihad and Salafists/Wahabists for decades. They are explaining why they don't blink when you say 'Rape is not an act of Resistance' and why they celebrate the acts of unimaginable savagery used to drag Israel into war. They are explaining what the "world wide revolt of the oppressed" is actually about. They are explaining the intellectual basis and stature of an otherwise misleading academic theory called 'Decolonization'.
They are showing you our future if we couple Gun Control to something called 'Defund the Police'. This certainly is changing my position on Gun Control. What would they do to you if they were armed and you were not with no police to call? They are telling you the meaning of 'No Justice, No Peace' as a threat rather than a slogan. That is priceless, in and of itself.
More than anything, they are explaining that they are not liberals, or center left or even progressives. You are looking straight into the eyes and hearts of revolutionaries. These are the violent revolutionaries who have been normalized by one party. My party, I am embarassed to say. These people are what now leap out of the Wooden Horse, misleadingly labeled 'Progressivism', when you take it inside your gated walls, and they are explaining what this group sees as progress. They are telling you what the phrase "A world to win!" means to them. Learn from them.
So take a good look. If you deplore the idea of violent revolutionaries destabilizing your world and everything you love about it, don't look away. Let them finish their explanation. Get their representatives and spokespeople who are not afraid to *fully* explain the true agenda as much air time as they want.
Join me. The abyss is hard to understand: welcome the explanation and celebrate their free speech.
One man's opinion anyway. Hope it helps.
Folks are always confused why the Democratic Party is my party.
Why doesnât John Wick just get a new dog?
Why doesnât Ulysses find a wife with fewer suitors?
Why doesnât Israel move to Beverly Hills?
Why doesnât Shackleton accept reality?
Why does Shifu train a Panda?
- éĺćˇ
I donât get it.
Do you want every last one of us who sees the madness to be driven out of your loyal opposition party? Really??
I donât like bullies. I donât like cowards who bully in groups. I donât like psychopaths who wander around wearing the robes of authority and wisdom.
Not every liberal is a commie. Not every progressive is a revolutionary. Not everyone who wants life to be fairer for working families is a Bolshevik.
If the psychopathic left wants my pro-market, pro-merit, pro-free speech progressive sliver, they will have to come and take it. And then we will see. I donât love my odds, but you arenât making my life any easier by lobbing insults as if Iâm too dumb to know what Iâm up against. Iâd rather you ask: âHow can we help?â. But you do you.
Iâm damn proud of what is left of my sliver of the Left. And you on the right have come around to appreciate a lot of what we accomplished together as loyal constructive opposition to each other over the years.
Ask yourself if you are better off with one more âWhy I left the Left.â article.
Iâd settle for âThank you.â and a little help and encouragement given the fire from the DNC party leaders and character assassins. ButâŚyâknowâŚsuit yourselves. If you wanna help the psychos thatâs your call. Go Dodger Blue!
Ainât freedom grand. Thatâs America to me. đ
Iâm not in any way shape or form attached to the Democratic Party. Emotionally. spiritually, or otherwise.
America needs *two or more* parties of loyal opposition with mostly shared values of merit, decency, opportunity, freedom, civility, common sense, common purpose, family, self-defense and self-restraint.
Right now I see zero. Not two. Not one. But zero. If you want to build new ones, Iâm all ears.
@CiderThick You are not alone by any means.
This is genuinely confusing to me. I know Mario and like him. Quite a bit. He has been princely and gracious to me as well.
I feel like I must not be getting something. Maybe rational Jews / Arabs who are *not* Israelis / Gazans nor Netanyahu/Sinwar supporters, need to sit down, break bread and clarify what they think war, Casus Belli, a people, genocide, surrender, resistance, etc are and then talk to their Israeli and Gazan counterparts in Israel and Gaza. Just a thought.
To answer Marioâs question directly, I would say âThe instant Gazan Arabs want it to. Itâs simply the consequence of declaring war through civilian atrocities to induce military conflict on your own people. To stop a war you started with massacres, you just surrender, return hostages and turn over your war criminals. You donât further antagonize your enemy, rocket their cities and chant âFrom the River to the Sea!â or âThis is genocide.â which seem totally bizarre if you want to end what Hamas started.â
Iâm not being sarcastic. Iâm legitimately totally bewildered by the Gazan narrative. Japan ended WWIi. If the reponse to Hiroshima and Nagasaki was to chant âFrom California to Ann Arbor, weâll slaughter you just like Pearl Harbor.â there would have been no end to the war.
And Japan is a pretty nice place today. Surrender stopped the destruction in Japan. Japanese people didnât lose everything.
Can someone explain the âWhen will this end?â question in WWII terms?
Because I see the destruction in Gaza and of the horrors of war and it makes me sick to my stomach. The only difference is I see Sinwar ordering all the war on the menu for himself without regard to cost in human life and then sending the bill for his feast to another table which is, naturally, dumbfounded.
I just donât get it. Obviously.
The war ends the hour Arabs stop chanting for for their enemyâs eradication, surrender, and turn over hostages and those masterminds who thought that slaughtering civilians was an excellent way to start a war.
This isnât hard. This isnât intractable. Itâs war. It has known ways to end it.
Unless the masterminds want it to go on because they see themselves as actually winning what they really want.
But I digressâŚ
@MarioNawfal Mario, I agree with you: This is horrific.
This is terrible for everyone. You are welcome at our family table any time.
I canât stand to watch the destruction either.
@MarioNawfal â¤ď¸ ŘłŮŮŮا٠.
âenough now. â
âYou are victim-blaming the Gazan people.â
â*itâs not your field*.â
âyou have been pushing a woefully one sided perspective on this topicâ
â Did you know that? â x 3
âare you really that blinded by tribalism?â
âIâve just email you, please respond with dates.â
âIf you are not willing, then please hold your peace on this topic.â
Ahem.
Dear Maajid,
How are you buddy! I think of you often. We havenât spoken in a while. How come we to forget ourselves so? I miss you.
Warm regards,
Eric
Do you believe that the attacks by Hamas on Israeli civilians on October 7 2023 are better described as âResistanceâ or âAtrocityâ?
Do you think Israelâs military reponse in Gaza to Hamasâ October 7 attacks and hostage taking is better described by âGenocideâ or âSelf-Defenseâ?
@FThousandaire Imagine you believed that Hamas represented an occupied people who had a right to target military hard assets.
But they instead chose soft targets and that triggered a right of self-defense.
This isnât necessarily my position. But it is possible to hold. Hope that helps.
One of my goals is to better connect the pirate radio of the anglophone podcasting world to our counter-parts in India. As such, it was a thrill to sit down with Prakhar.
Having done this now with @amitvarma in Bombay/Mumbai, and @prvkhvr just now, I can say that I really appreciate the difference in the content, style and focus. Indian podcasting is accurately reflecting the true cultural shadings in the rhythm of discourse, and the questions are often entirely different at the level of substance.
I firmly believe that we in the West are set to relearn the lesson of Indians writing in English; many of the worlds best English language conversationalists right now are Indian, tilted towards Hindi spiced British English, and they could possibly truly completely transform the entire space for the better.
That said, I specifically don't want to say "@BeerBicepsGuy is the Rogan of Indian podcasting just as @prvkhvr is the Lex Fridman"..or some such nonsense. That would be totally uninteresting. We already have a @lexfridman and a @joerogan. This only gets really interesting when India serves up an ecosystem that is really *new*, and thus self-confident enough not to measure its success by a self-imposed western yardstick.
If I am correct, English speaking India is a sleeping giant, capable of shaking up the world of long-form English language podcasting in the next 10 years. Right now, the U.S. really has no meaningful image of modern India. Hopefully, long-form podcasting is going to change that. I would love to be even a small part of making that happen.
Whether I am right in the above line of thinking, or whether this is just a hopeful dream, I can't say. But there is only one way to find out; let's try it.
Happy new year to all and Shabbat shalom.
[रणाŕĽŕ¤°, ŕ¤ŕ¤˛ŕĽ ऎŕĽŕ¤°ŕĽ ऌŕĽŕ¤¸ŕĽŕ¤¤ ! And congratulations on @naval. That was great.]
@SacredGeoInt @amitvarma @prvkhvr @JohnnyVedmore Eh?
Yikes. That seemed funny at first.
Is this coming from the anti-Semite/pro-Hamas world? The Whitney Webb world? The Bitcoin maximalist world? The pro-peer review world? There are so many of these angry groups, I lose track.
There are all these seemingly different worlds that are attempting to enmesh me in their drama(s). Usually (maybe 85%) of the time, these ringleaders eventually are found to have issue with Jews and/or Israel no matter what the ostensible area of endeavor.
Thanks just the same and Shabbat shalom.
@ZovaZyan @FranklinCormor1 @SacredGeoInt @amitvarma @prvkhvr @JohnnyVedmore I totally understand. Be well. https://t.co/6bWYJvi0k5
Let me first say hello to you. We have never met. As I write this I have no idea who you are. I donât know if you are pro Trumpor pro Harris. Or if you are British or Peruvian. I donât know if you are Buddhist. Or if you are a die hard Jewish commando serving in the IDF.
You and I do not know each other, there is no desire on my part to engage further with a random account that is using facts in my life that I am very proud of to make up a story to animate a group of accounts to harass me. You are neither the first nor the only one doing this. In other dramas I am a Mossad agent, or Peter-Theils henchman, or George Sorosâ agent.
That wasnât my first response. My first response to being attacked was to respond to someone else 4 days ago because I thought they were a poor confused soul.
I have a policy of not responding to people telling stories to incite mobs against me. Itâs hopeless. They donât listen. And they take the real responses as denials which animates them more.
Such people arenât critics. They are usually wounded and traumatized souls trying to figure out what is true in this crazy situation. And for that I have a lot of sympathy. But my life is too short and too rich to want to live as a badly sketched character in your story so that your followers can hate a life long progressive restrictionist as the architect of the worldâs uncontrolled migration.
I can however do this. Read what I wrote 4 days ago. I posted the quoted response 100 hours ago when I thought this was one person. The Israel angle came about because I started to see accounts harass me that were fairly consistently anti-Jewish and/or anti-Israel. I do not mean to tar you with a broad brush if that doesnât apply to you. Itâs a statistical observation. I donât know your politics. But the idea that I am the secret architect of the worldâs migration system is utterly disconnected from reality as to defy easy explanation.
And please undo and disperse your mob of followers who you have convinced to harass me.
Bottom line, you are wrong. I donât want you or your followers posing as critics demanding a conversation by harassing and threatening a stranger.
I am going to assume you personally are at worst neutral on Jews and on Israel. I apologize if I raised that unfairly from observing the accounts attacking me suddenly over being the UNâs globalist migration czar. But I am not going to get into a back and forth over this Internet theory with an account stirring up its followers into a mob to harass a stranger.
Hope this help. Truly.
âDebate me Bro! Man up!â
Every. Damn. Time.
UhâŚI donât know what world you live in. But that tactic is how you get blocked, not intellectually engaged. You are creeping me out.
Donât take this the wrong way, but you are coming across as drama-seeking, rather than truth seeking. And I avoid such accounts like the plague.
I gave you my answer to one of your followers 4days ago.
I am reading what you write now in horror. Iâm not interacting with you. See below. Iâm sorry youâre here. But I donât want to be sucked into your life drama, stranger.
Shabbat shalom.
@BeerBicepsGuy @amitvarma @prvkhvr Would be great fun. You're on. Thanks Ranveer!
As this anniversary draws to a close here in Los Angeles, I wanted to share a fellow Americanâs channel. She shares my last name. I do not know her or her family to be related to mine, but the name we share came to us from the town of Uman in Ukraine.
Judith here carries the first and maiden name of my aunt. From what I understand, as a loving grandmother, she taught English to special needs children. Approximately age 70. The poem in the first tweet was scraped from her channel.
Her channel is tiny, filled with poems, meditations, and simple gifts of gratitude and generosity of spirit that I recognize as coming from a simplicity of character that I appreciate in others, but do not myself.
It has not updated since late September of 2023.
There is very little I have wanted to say today despite having a lot to say about October 7. This is sort of a sacred moment and I wasnât there. I didnât lose anyone I knew.
But those people are my people. And my thoughts are with them.
So today I mostly listened. Quietly.
Please consider subscribing to Judith as an act of quiet defiance.
Or pick one person removed from our world a year ago. It could be a Thai worker. A Bedouin Muslim. A Belgian Christian festival tourist. Etc. It doesnât have to be an Israeli. I picked Judith because she happened to carry my Auntâs name before marriage and there arenât so many Weinsteins in the world. But I wanted to hold just one random life in my heart a little closer as there were so many stories that ended that day.
Let me say one last thing. This thread will soon be desecrated. Every such thread has been on this space.
Some force has paid for a giant constellation of bots, revolutionaries, activists, anti-semites, etc to desecrate anything that challenges the âResitanceâ narrative.
That does not mean we do not mourn and remember our ways and our dead. I donât know Judith at all. But I am pretty sure I can tell you that she had a simple heart and loved her time on this planet and valued all people regardless of race, color, or creed.
I donât actually know that. Call it an informed hunch.
Thanks as always.
More, another day. đ
@LiorGalily I have met so many versions of her after services or at some community event that I just couldnât pretend that she feels like someone I have known for years.
Idealistic. Giving. Strong. Quiet. Hopeful. Simple. Loving.
Thank you for reading and reposing Lior. đ
@LiorGalily Sorry for all the typos above. đˇ Long day. Almost done.
@StarchildU @LiorGalily 11:57pm. Laila Tov.
One year ago today, I shared the tweet quoted below.
I left it there because sometime around October 11-12, after the initial shock of the Hamas massacre had worn off, I felt a deep dread that I had understood something truly horrible about its architect Yahya Sinwar.
When I wrote the tweet, Israel was still 11 days away from its invasion of Gaza. It hadnât started.
What I thought I had realized was that Sinwar was a genius who was innovating at a totally diabolical level.
In effect, he had gone well beyond the suicide bomber. The point of co-locating your military and terror installations around schools, mosques, hospitals, residences, etc., is to use a so-called "Human Shield Strategy" to make it impossible for your enemy to hit your military infrastructure without harming civilians. This discourages military action.
But the purpose of the tunnels was closer to a "Crosshair Targeting System"...for which there is no name. The purpose was to use terror targets to guide the Israeli enemy's military force *towards* whatever would produce the most potent video. Sinwar was literally going to get his enemy to kill his own civilians in the most spectacular fashion possible. On video.
From an "Eye for an Eye" to "Land for Peace" the world of war has always been transactional. But this was a new trade: "Lives for Video".
Because what Sinwar saw is that if he used attrocities and hostages in tunnels, Israel would have no choice. It would have to kill his civilians. And in this war, the most potent weapon is neither planes, nor rockets, nor helicopters nor tanks.
It's video.
In the graphic below, you can see that no one was talking about "Suicide by Cop" before 1992. It was a mysterious concept. Why would anyone pull a toy gun on an officer or appear to threaten civilians when they would obligate a police officer to use deadly force?
Eventually the idea of "Police-Assisted Suicide" dawned on people. It initially seemed too crazy to contemplate. But it works.
I know very few young people read old Sherlock Holmes stories any more. But one reason we did was to learn how much creativity a diabolical mind can posses. I highly recommend "The Problem of Thor Bridge" from what I can recall of it.
In this remarkable story, the villain uses suicide as a tool, to frame her victim for murder. To the best of my knowledge, this story has not been connected to what has unfolded over the last tragic year. Please have a read. You will see it immediately.
I believe that Sinwar knew that he himself was commiting suicide. Such is in the nature of the region. This is not uncommon. But what he wanted was to force an artifical "Genocide".
What is thus unusual is the level of ruthlessness, genius and innovation in a world already hungry to blame his enemy:
Zugzwang.
Munchausen by Proxy.
Thor Bridge.
IDF assisted Suicide.
People say the Israeli Pager/WalkieTalkie attacks which forced Nasrallah to meet with his leaders in person were brilliant.
Perhaps. But I still think that Sinwar is even smarter. Consider after all just who he outsmarted. Genius.
One must give this devil his due.
Read the quoted tweet again a year later and tell me what you think. I think that all this was forseeable from before Israel ever crossed into Gaza. We just didn't have language for it. Just as in the graph below.
@Rookfromthebro1 I think that is correct. But it is not American weakness alone. The developed world has oddly lost much of its understanding of war. War and War Crimes are now largely synonymous in the minds of many. Such is the nature of a very quiet world by historical standards.
@DoomerZaddy To say nothing of @jjfreydcourage's theory of institutional betrayal and DARVO. She has yet to be given her due in a world that increasingly moves in her direction. Sadly.
@mdierker @DLF Thanks Markus. Appreciate it.
@StarchildU Iâm sick of the killing. The death. The madness. Iâm no fan of the Israeli handling of this: they are doing Sinwarâs bidding because they are in military Zugzwang.
âThe only way to win is not to play.â as the line goes. That I believe at a military level.
@StarchildU I lived in the region for two years. I spent a lot of time back then just listening to Arabs, Jews, and Druze. I donât think Sam and Konstantin have done so.
I could be mistaken.
@Syrio_Forrel I know Chris. Amazing guy.
2025
Canât wait to finally be back in Israel! Looking forward to seeing family, colleagues, old friends and new ones.
A lot can happen in three decades.
Thank you for your sincere question. I am actually right this very moment trying to get to the bottom of why Americaâs supposed greatest ally suddenly and inexplicably invaded Gaza and its peaceful government in October of 2023.
This is however being frustrated by the Israelis. There is a vicious rumor (Hasbara!) spread by the occupying colonial power here in Tel Aviv that those foreigners vacationing in Gaza are being held hostage. It circulates under the phrase âBring Them Homeâ and I am embarrassed to say that the rumor is EVERYWHERE! They even spread stories of Gazans protesting Hamas and holding them responsible for the devastation.
Israelis are also making up stories that the hospitals, mosques, schools, old age homes, orphanages of Gaza are deliberately placed over military tunnels when we all know that Israel digs those elaborate tunnels themselves after the fact because they seek to slaughter Arab children.
Those psychopaths also pretend that the UN and Press credentials are used as military strategies by the tolerant HAMAS organization which simply provides social services and paragliding instruction in the strip. Again: Hasbara. đ¤ˇââď¸
Have no fear. I will press the elders of Zion here harder and look for your answers to this spontaneous genocidal mania all the way from the river to the sea, and will get back to you with my findings.
Be fearless. Stay strong. Never give up. And thank you for your most sincere question.
Gave a couple of Interviews after a missle alarm in Jaffa Israel yesterday. Here is the second one hosted by @FleurHassanN, Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem. Some difficult topics for those interested.
Shabbat Shalom to one and all from Yerushalayim.
@iamazadi @FleurHassanN As I appreciate you. Thank you Mohammad.
Darryl Cooper and I have a *private* association which dates from 2018 long before his recent @joerogan appearance. I do not have the simple negative beliefs about him that many others do because of that association.
His private behavior towards me has always been courteous, admirable & tolerant of any differences we have.
I have never met the man behind @martyrmade in person, but we have spoken on the phone.
I cannot, and *will* not, keep silent about the fact that he has behaved admirably on a number of occassions despite my significant issues with things he has recently said in public. The last time I defended his positive behavior was in fact in Tel Aviv in front of a large room of Israelis. To their credit, my Israeli hosts immediately responded by becoming open to him and asking whether he might want to visit Israel. I am not yet sure how he or I feel about that, but it is certainly to Israel's credit that it is confident that more contact and understanding would be a good thing.
Darryl has asked me whether I think it might be a good idea for us to take our private association into the public..perhaps as an exchange of written communications. Perhaps in another form.
I am considering it. I have not reached a decision. I wont say more about his suggestion as it is a private communication which I will keep private.
I hesitate to ask @X / Twitter the question of what it thinks of this idea, as @X has become nearly unusable and overrun with relentless hate and abuse of Jews from anonymous, bot and bot-level accounts, in addition to "Hate Celebrities" (is ANYONE at @X tracking this and, if so, why is there no @grok-powered solution to filtering out the hate sewage??? It makes zero sense as @grok and @elonmusk could solve most of this with fewer than 20 lines of code, if @X doesn't want to harass its users with constant attacks and intimidation.). But that hate is relevant to this conversation as well.
What do you all think about this matter?
Is an exchange of interest?
Would it be a good idea and worth your/my time to engage Darryl in this way?
Thanks everyone for your thoughts.
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One last thing: Darryl is not asking in any way for me to defend him. He has discouraged it for my own well being. But he doesn't make my decisions so it is not up to him.
I don't have much of a choice about it according to the way I view the world and the need to defend individuals against mobs. He deserves my voice by virtue of having consistently acted honorably towards me in a fashion inconsistent with the common perception of him, despite my extreme discomfort with many things he has said recently.
I will say that both he and I value the strength to say when we were wrong, and that he has demonstrated that capacity more than once.
Your sew Wright. May bee then Evan with my dislexia eye Cannes get a masters degree!
Ya know, in all seriousness, I really appreciate those of you who in 2025 look down your nose at those of us who struggle with symbols and have still (mostly) triumphed over our own âlearning disabilitiesâ as you call them.
You remind me of almost every condescending neurotypical teacher I have ever had. And the joy that I will never have to go through that, nor see them, ever again.
Thank ewe.
@EzPzJoystiq I tried that. Mixed results. đ¤ˇââď¸
@RealSalMinella I actually find it fascinating. What must it be like to think in that fashion?
@RealSalMinella We should share orthography war stories. I found living in Israel that *both* Hebrew and Arabic letters were designed to drive dyslexics insane. The one thing that unites the region.
Piers Morgan had me on w/ @ComicDaveSmith on @PiersUncensored.
NOTE: I was to be on for a 1-1 with Piers & found myself in dialog with Dave. Dave was a prince about it despite our disagreements over Israel, as I avoided trying to score points as well:
Dave and I had actually talked that morning.
Dave, Iâd have tried to learn more of your position if I had known we were to be on together. I told the show earlier that I didnât know enough about your positions and concerns to be fair. Thanks for being a great discussion partner.
My portion with @ComicDaveSmith starts around 41:15 I think. The actual debate leads off the video.
Let me know your thoughts!
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There is one, and only one group, who wants this to continue and to get even worse.
Why not name them, call for all the hostages to be released, and leave Israelis and Jews out of this so we all can get the humanitarian crisis in Gaza addressed?
[Note: This has been my stated public position from at least October 14, 2023. With "receipts". Long before Israel ever went into Gaza.]
So Sorry, but this is *completely* mistaken.
How can anyone deny that there is suffering in Gaza?? I donât see how this isnât self-evident. Gazans are suffering *horrifically*.
Let me put it as bluntly as I can: when Gaza suffers, Hamas rejoices. Hamas is the architect of the suffering, Israel is the chosen instrument in a strategy.
Hamas is not suffering from Gaza suffering. Hamas is winning. Why would Hamas *ever* surrender from ordinary Gazans suffering, when IDF-assisted suicide is the *entire* point of this psychotic war??
Israel is winning the kinetic war. Hamas is winning the *hybrid* war.
How is this happening with the world not understanding what is going on?
Let me try a pop culture explanation. Previously I have pointed out that this is a well known strategy to use self harm as a strategy for winning. This is Sherlock Holmes âThe problem of Thor Bridge.â 101.
But if no one knows that reference, here is another pop culture one from the Breaking Bad/Better Call Saul universe:
Hamas/Sinwar = Mike Ermentraut Netanyahu = Tuco Salamanca Tucoâs Fist = IDF Mikeâs Face = Ordinary Gazans Mikeâs Grabbing = Holding Hostages The Clueless Police = World Opinion
Welcome to Hybrid War. Genius Level. Middle Eastern Edition. Advantage Hamas.
@0x50so Itâs not a perfect analogy. But this level of cluelessness in the face of military genius is beyond my comprehension. This analysis was seeable before Israel entered Gaza.
How is this hard?
@0x50so I love both characters by the way. Brilliant script and acting.
@ryanh71879 Iâm shocked as well. Itâs so dumb and so many lives are being ruined.
@mrpapagiorgio8 Yes. But isnât it a female character who does this? Itâs been a long time since I read it. Great story though.
Eyal,
Israel cannot figure out that the MOST important thing right now is to understand the strategy to which it is LOSING. It doesnât get it.
Everytime it complains about human shields it shows that the TOP level brass doesnât get it.
The hospital patients and civilian buildings arenât just human shields. They are the target. The military tunnels are the CROSSHAIRS. Subterranean RED DOTS to guide the precision munitions.
Israel is systematically mis-explaining what is going on.
Netanyahu is in the process of being outsmarted. Iâm sorry. The game is just at a new level.
Best,
Eric
@TJTS_book I have before publicly. And have evolved it privately. Communicating now with Israelis.
Of all the hostages taken by terrorists on Shabbat, October 7, 2023, I couldnât focus on them all. So I focused on one.
Initially I looked for any with my last name. This led me to a woman with the same name as my aunt: Judith Weinstein.
What I found in Judith Weinstein was a soul so gentle that the videos she left behind were almost impossible to watch. I believe she cared for people facing cognitive issues:
She was a person I never met but whose very goodness and decency were evident in everything she left and were supposed to be her armor against the evil in the world.
Undoubtedly we have all met this archetype.
I have no question but that were Judith Weinstein not murdered and abducted, she would be praying to HaShem for the safety of the children in Gaza of her killersâ families.
Trust me on this. As I said before the IDF response: This will be the IDF-assisted suicide of Gaza. No sane person calls the murder of Judith Weinstein âresistanceâ.
Cosplaying this as genocide is to sign up to be Sinwarâs unpaid soldier. It is to get more children killed. It is to work for Qatar as Qatar laughs at your gullibility.
Sinwar was a genius. He outsmarted Bibi.
But this was the sacrifice of Gazaâs people by Gazaâs leadership. And Judith was an instrument to those leaders in Gaza. A tool to see if anyone hated Jews enough to pretend we donât have EVERY right to defend those who cannot defend themselves.
If, as I do, you want to save children in Gaza. Old women in Gaza. Young men in Gaza, then stop cosplaying this war as a war crime. Enough.
Judith Weinstein, welcome home. At last.
Gaza was many things. It was not an open air prison. I follow cafes there. The Gaza surf club. Amusement parks. Etc.
Many normal people just trying to live a life caught in the crossfire.
They are not all terrorists. But Hamas has by now Weaponized the population effectively and Israel and Egypt have limited its access to the outside world for security reasons.
Tragic.
@Kickroxzforever @billheckler1 And I said as much.
That said, one cannot simply come and go from Gaza. It wasn't occupied. But it also wasn't free. And October 7 explained why neither Egypt nor Israel allowed free movement of a highly radicalized population.
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Note: I have been following exactly one Israeli-American terror victim since October 7, 2023. This one woman who randomly shares my auntâs name.
What kind of mad world sees this return of her remains as propoganda?
Iâve watched her videos. I listen to her poems. I read about her life.
Before she was a victim of orgiastic celebratory evil, she was just a pure soul.
And, as such, there is no way of justifying her and her husbandâs execution by Hamas.
She is finally back home. And whether you like it or not, I am going to mourn this loving grandmother of pure goodness who i have followed for a year and a half, but never met.
Feel free to unfollow if you canât handle that. You will do us both a favor. Thanks. Be well.
@DillGatz Seek help.
@EarnestJon34477 Seek help.
@birdsofindustry @TOEwithCurt Itâs crazy. In general. That said, someone has apparently turned a bot farm / troll network on my feed in particular. So itâs essentially a full court press all the time.
@FaustAether I cannot bear Gazaâs misery either. Whether we lay the lionâs share of that blame at Bibiâs feet or Sinwarâs, the suffering is the same. Shalom sir.
@TwinFlame5777 Seek help. Bye.
The U.S. has every right to step away.
But if Israel alone frees the Persians from the Mullahs, and rids the region/world of a malignant thermonuclear theocracyâŚagain aloneâŚthen that will have consequences as well.
Israel is *not* attacking the people of Iran. Itâs trying to end a regional and global nightmare regime.
At least let us wish them and the Persian people a safe night while Israel is working through the wee hours to make sure that the mullahs wonât be able to strike us here with WMD. And let us pray they know what they are doing. Godspeed.
@Blackbeltnerd Iâm using Ron Paulâs.
@MrMosis Iâm a pretty huge fan of the Persians. Amazing culture. Amazing humans.
We have very short memories in the west, that this isnât just a regional problem.
That isnât just an opinion. Itâs a fact.
We just forgot:
@ario @MrMosis Thank you good sir.
âNo more wars for Israel!â
Enough of the Anti-Jewish Brainrot bullshit.
Letâs talk Kermit the Roosevelt. Operation Ajax. Etc.
My thoughts on @StevenBartlettâs podcast:
My usual critique of many things Israel does still stands. It doesnât get a free pass.
But Iran specifically is not just an Israel reponsibility. It is a U.S. responsibility. And a U.K. Responsibility (âOperation Bootâ as it was called there.)
What is going on in Gaza is a tragedy.
Netanyahu is badly mishandling the situation.
Hamasâ plan for winning the hybrid war is ingenious, diabolical, and working.
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I canât change any one of those things.
But the analysis hasnât changed from BEFORE Israel went into Gaza:
I believe that the key to solving the Tragedy of Gaza does not lie in Gaza. Or in Israel. Or the West Bank. Or in Washington.
I believe it lies only in Riyadh. So Iâve said little. But this is simply dragging on for far too long in both time & lives.
One manâs opinion anyway. https://t.co/nrbUQEZbUJ
What percentage of Gazan Arab adults do you believe would accept a Two State Solution with Israel for peace and truly repudiate the âFrom the River to the Seaâ ideology of driving Israel out:
Most aggressive networks of connected accounts I have yet met:
A) Ukraine
B) Trans
C) Gaza/Hamas
D) Lefty Anti-Heterodox
E) Science âDebunkersâ
F) Groyper/Noticers
G) Bitcoin Maxis
H) âChrist is Kingâ Right
All totally 100%, you-betcha, no question about it, totally authentic. https://t.co/iLH7yv76SN
@AndrewLubahn They all are totally đŻ% real. That is what they tell me. So you know it is true.
@JewnitedStates_ Right on time!
@BigMarvAgg Welcome. Right on cue.
@House_of_Wedel Sorta? Not really? I dunno. I tried and gave up.
@ALLWHITEALRIGHT Hello ALLWHITEALRIGHT.
@lykr_xyz @JewnitedStates_ Not a good look! Unfollowed!!
@martyrmade Happy to hear more Darryl.
@DiP11s @AndrewLubahn Inside Science âDebunkersâ. Fake Debunkers are such a weird niche.
@RedWhiteBased No way. Youâre here.
@Jeddorian Good to know!
@4thaccount99 @martyrmade Thatâs so funny. Why would they attack me? I mean if there are abortion rights bots I donât meet them either.
Nice to meet you 4thaccount99. May I call you 4th? Heh.
@KyleMatovcik I promise as soon as they attack me, Iâll list them. But when I criticize Israelâs policy they donât attack me. So đ¤ˇââď¸.
The slaughter of roughly 1200 souls on October 7, 2023 was a massacre. It was an attrocity.
And, not to get technical, but most of it happened in Israel, with a minority of the killings happening to those taken hostage âin Gazaâ, which is different from what you wrote.
But it was *NOT* a genocide. It was a Hamas strategy to force Israel into Gaza. An attrocity to force the IDF into hybrid war. As ingenious as it was pure evil.
Please donât throw the term around like that the way the internet does. We Jews know genocide. October 7 wasnât that.
War is not genocide. Attrocity is not genocide. Mass destruction is not genocide. Even pure evil is not genocide.
Genocide is something else.
It will make lasting peace with Gazan Arabs harder to do, to cheapen the term further. They have already suffered greatly in war from my estimation, and I for one do not wish to needlessly make their suffering even worse.
Have some compassion man. Not all of them support Hamas. They suffer from Hamas as much as anyone.
Thank you for your understanding.
ShalomâŚInshallah.
This was all so clear nearly instantly almost 2 years ago. Before Israel ever went in to Gaza.
Now, set your watches for the networked accounts to arrive in 5, 4, 3,âŚ
Well done, Sinwar.
Congratulations to Hamas.
As I have said, Netanyahuâs army has opted to win the kinetic war by letting Sinwarâs martyrs and video win the hybrid war. Something I donât grasp.
Bringing this hell to Gazans was always a strategy. And Bibi went along with it.
You canât let an atrocity go in the Middle East. It communicates weakness. Sinwar and Bibi agreed on that.
Hamas doesnât surrender because they want Israel to keep fighting. They believe that this destruction is actually good for them. And I believe they are right in their psychotic logic. They want this to grind on.
So Netanyahu couldnât find a move that bettered Israelâs position.
Let me tell you a secret.
Many on the Right are *also* dreaming of America disappearing everyone they donât like.
No Mohammed Ali. No Edward Teller. No Dave Chapelle. No Bob Dylan.
There is a *matched* set of revolutionaries being normalized right now.
@MikeDeKulak Two Muslims. Two Jews.
Yes the Right has a problem.
I myself have been obviously been advocating as a Democrat to end the targeting of conservatives. To push the revolutionaries out of the Democratic Party. To get rid of our armed wing. To admit to using the state to interfere in US elections. To admit COVID origin coverup.
And on the other side there is this inexplicable self-righteous streak in the Republicans that says NOTHING is amiss in the big tent of the Right. At all. Ever.
Own the Libs. Ha ha. Liberal tears. Cry harder Jew. Go back to Israel. Christ is king MF. Blah blah blah. Ad infinitum. Does the Right not hear itself?
You have to be kidding if you donât see this.
If you believe that the Right are free of revolutionaries dreaming of violence, then I have a simple test for you:
Try taking your own revolutionaries out of your big tent. Just try it.
Stand up for your Liberal friends across the aisle who faced down the woke bullshit and have treated you with the utmost respect and as the loyal opposition. Stand up to these anti-Jewish voices who claim that there are no Jews who want to make persecution of their Christian brothers a top line issue. We are here. Where are you?? We could use some tough right wing guys out here saying âNot in our name.â
Youâll see. The frogs come out. The 1488 bullshit. The endless discussion of how Jews are a cryptic religion that plots Christian downfall. Of how republicans have all the Guns and are now sick of minorities not present at the founding of this great nation. Talmud this and Torah that.
And the Right is largely silent about it. And it is spreading like wildfire.
As soon as you stand up against these revolutionaries on the right, you will see.
The right also has a problem.
For example:
âHere Eric, Nick is a great guy who explained the difference. We just want to put citizens like you and your tiny Yarmulke on a free flight out of our great white Christian nation.â
@BrickLamp90210 So try to escort them out. Tell me how it goes.
@RealUSAEmperor And yet my friends on the right often tell me I need to listen to Fuentes because he has some great points. What is that about?
@actual_Diogenes The left already has a huge problem.
This is a right wing cancer that is growing fast.
Blah blah blah. All day. Every day.
@NathanS57999819 Huh. Fascinating.
@perfect_banter Anyone who wants all Muslims out of the U.S.
If you ever referered to the civilian crisis of the 2 years of war as a âgenocideâ, I reserve this thread for you to share your thoughts on what Pres. Trump has just achieved.
I *TOTALLY* disagreed w/ you, and even I am appreciative to Trump for the civilians of Gaza!
Letâs go: https://t.co/iLJnBfZLgK
@nate_mandel Iâm a Democrat and Iâm horrified. These street executions are terror incarnate. Monstrous.
@epidemika UhâŚcasus belli leads to war. Which is halted. Are you appreciative?
@MikeClayton007 Did you? Are you thanking Trump?
@TheTomRossini Are you appreciative of President Trumpâs achievement??
@brucefenton I donât understand. Iâm happy that Gaza is not being attacked by Israel and Hamas is not fighting Israelis. You?
@Ged06571373 That isnât how actual genocide works. I am even appreciative of Stalin for stopping a Nazi genocide. And he was himself one of the most horrific mass murdering monsters in history.
Are you appreciative??
@GenieGene13 @Ged06571373 This was many things. It was a war. It was a humanitarian crisis. There were atrocities. Hell on earth. Etc
I have described it as a âMass IDF Assisted Martyrdom Operation.â
NOTE: There isnât a huge timeline of me thanking Trump. Or me supporting Netanyahu. I am not sure it has ever even happened.
But what happened to the children of Gaza in this Hamas war was unambiguously terrible. And as aghast as I have been at adult Gazans starting this war and supporting terror, this was and is a humanitarian crisis. And *all* human life is sacred. Enemies and Friends alike. At least to me.
I understand the need to go to war. I even understand the need to shift empathy in war. But I donât think I ever celebrated anyoneâs death in it. Even once. Correct me if I am wrong.
Iâm just glad to see it cease. And, hopefully, end. God willing.
âA time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build upâ -Ecclesiastices
You need to break empathy to kill. And you need to kill to defend your world.
But you need to also come back. Wars end. Life goes on for the living.
The Jewish people are a life cult. Not a death cult.
To life.
Candace Owens has just called me her or Kanyeâs handler. How do I use these âtools that workâ to refute that I am a secret Israeli operative? Isnât that what a foreign traitorous spy would do?
Iâm a mathematician, and I donât think it is possible to prove you arenât a spy.
This is fought with culture. Not logic. Not law. And you are not using that cultural firewall here. You are egging this on.
These are bad, fit ideas. They canât be refuted. They canât be argued. By design.
@BretWeinstein @RubinReport @KevinRobertsTX @Heritage @TuckerCarlson So with everything going on, you see legal action as the preferred answer.
We are seeing 2 different worlds.
Iâm seeing a world being methodically prepared for normalized Christian hatred against Jewish Americans and a U.S. ally, Israel.
I donât want it normalized.
Good luck.
@donnydarko329 @BretWeinstein @RubinReport @KevinRobertsTX @Heritage @TuckerCarlson No contest.
âAmerica First!â like âBlack Lives Matterâ and âThe PATRIOT actâ and âSave The Childrenâ is what is called âDeclarative Marketingâ in the sales profession. The slogan is unassailable so the product must be purchased, for to oppose the product is seeming to argue with the slogan.
Iâm not questioning you if you now support âAmerica First!â
Iâm just asking you to understand marketing. Manipulation. And dog whilstles to history that you may not even know.
Iâm opposed to âAmerica First!â
As I am to all Declarative Marketing.
Thought you should know.
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âYou should move back to Israel.â
@gibsonsplace And I believe that Black, like all other Lives, of course Matter. So I am with you on that.
âImagine letting a Jew lecture youâŚâ
@Chris_Hadrick2 Come again? Where did I ever say that?
That sounds delusional.
@SugarPie_VA Is it an organization or a litmus test?
Iâm not opposed to Americans putting America first of course.
Maybe i donât understand your question.
@CAShadow33 Thereââs thatâŚ;-)
@JackParsonsLive What was that quoteâŚoh well. ;-)
People are kind, well mannered, welcoming and the prices are usually quite reasonable. One of mine in Los Angeles is very diverse with young/old, native/immigrant, fit/disabled, singles/families interacting seamlessly.
Why bring this up? Because we atheists are borrowing this.
An Athiest Jewâs Reasons to Go To Church. Particularly Now.
I enjoy religious communities. There are several Chuch Communities in L.A. & NYC near where Iâve lived that have coffee shops, and I canât recommend enough finding one close to you.
In an American church, I donât hide my Jewish heritage, nor my inability to believe in a concrete g-d.
Yet NO-ONE has ever treated me remotely as folks behave on @X: âChrist is King: Yes or No Jew?â
And if these trolls went to âmy churchesâ, the communities would back ME. 100%
Hanging out in a modern American Church Community is a lot like going back to a more diverse version of an earlier time where neighbors borrowed ladders and sugar from each other under high trust. And we had the benefit of that outside of Church.
But it came from Churches/Shuls.
As a Jewish Kid, I occasionally went to services in an Episcopal chapel. And worked into the beautiful stained glass windows of that church was an American Soldier. It was a very odd thing to see in a church.
He was not saying âAmerica Firstâ. We donât even know his religion but we can guess it from likelihoods.
He was strong and determined and trampling on the flag of a regime that would have slaughtered me and all of my family. And I seated myself in the pew that faced him out of gratitude.
It was one hell of an advertisement for the wonders and decency within Christianity.
The right way to fight the evil that is now being targeted at Jews and Israel is not to blame Christians because our aggressors claim to be soldiers for Christ.
Paradoxically it is to go to actual churches. Go for services. Shake hands with actual believers. Make eye contact rather than trading posts here on @X
And for Jews and Atheists, somewhat counterintuitively, to work to *strengthen* Christianity. To say âHow can we help?â without needing to join up.
We Jews and Athiests are very lucky to live in a Christian Substrate. It has its serious risks and its downsides. Iâm not unaware of low points in our long intertwined histories. But on balance we need *stronger* churches, and *stronger* communities with stronger families.
The people threatening us at every turn at the moment are not generally, in my experience, regular churchgoers. They wouldnât last a minute acting like that. Itâs inconceivable.
So, if you are a Jew or Athiest feeling terrified of what is going on, Iâm am coming out of my church-going closet to make a recommendation: pick a mainstream church with a coffee shop or a charity or a music group and go hang out with our real Christian communities. Not the ones overrunning @X. Welcoming communities with brick and mortar in your own town or city. You wonât regret it.
If Iâm am not wrong, letâs help these fine people get stronger and not weaker. Even if that feels a bit weird given the increased threats.
Not just because it is a good move. But also because acknowledging our debts to these amazing and kind people we borrow from and depend upon is the right thing to do. And we have many such debts.
Lastly, I just want to give a shout out to the Lordâs Prayer. It is abstract enough for anyone to recite. It doesnât require you to switch teams.
Like the Shema, itâs just great. I recited it regularly as a kid. And its admonishing us to own our own trespassing & forgive the trespassing of others is so important to have front of mind now with our interconnected world, and at all times.
There is a reason, after all, that Christianity does so well and spreads so far. Thx.
@DanielG96139665 I get all that from myâŚourâŚcommunity. Iâm not starving.
But because we get all that from Judaism, we often donât visit with our neighbors.
@DanielG96139665 We have been welcoming people to our Shabbat table for more than 2 decades when we opened it up.
At first we were worried how it would be received. That was completely mistaken as a concern as it turned out.
Lost was the
âYes to our Loyal opposition who repudiated the insane left & share our common values.â
And, if weâre serious, we are going to have to find those lost young men *amazing* lives in the system we ask them to conserve: Homes. Retirements. Vacations. Futures. Families.
You can either make up the votes from the Groyper Right or the Reasonable Left. But it likely means listening to one of those two groups.
To me it was a slam dunk which one, but not to many others it seems. đ¤ˇââď¸
@AnniversaryShow Aim higher. Demand more. Use your real names.
You have power. Particularly in numbers.
I would love to work a different big tent with my conservative friends and rivals.
The anti-Jewish thing has been a huge impediment to support for either party.
Happy to talk about it. @benshapiro has been nothing but good to me personally. Always fair to me. Zero complaints.
@FL5000012 Bingo. There. And right on time.
@obamaramadan @benshapiro I have been opposed to a lot of Israeli policies.
And on the receiving end of a lot of anti-Jewish hate.
Itâs not what you are saying. A lot of it is just hatred.
This was from October of 2024.
The MAGA Right has been in *denial* about this problem. What is worse, it pretended that there was no problem, and those of us who saw it clearly were making it up.
The bigoted right is real, large & very determined.
We tried to tell you before. https://t.co/mrkTPnnInU
Are these all foreign bots? No.
Foreign twitter bots donât call you at 4am. Foreign twitter bots donât buttonhole you at parties to make you defend against what Fuentes just dropped. Foreign bots donât go on their own massive podcasts and baselessly insinuate you are their Israeli handler.
Stop making excuses. You are just now finding out how real this is because you hid behind the claim that this was a tiny group of no consequence.
Yes there are foreign bots. No question.
But there is a whole lot more lost Gen Z kids being fed by the dream team of âChrist is Kingâ litmus testers, woke right trolls, and Anti-Israel superstars.
@ezralevant Ask Elon.
I ran two @X polls back to back.
I want to talk about the fact that about half or more (and I think much more than half) of the online activity around me is just completely insane.
Iâm going to talk about these 2 polls a lot. It was a CLEAN demonstration of the danger out here. https://t.co/aN70dbMdHZ
First we will see the weasel posts:
âItâs not a contradiction! Those are different people responding!â
Or
âI thought it was a bad question so I answered just to eff up the results.â
Blah blah.
Then there will be the âTarrifs can pay for everything!â Or âWe just print money anyway!â ignoring that these are both taxes.
All of that is irrelevant.
The point is âOn line discussions with the totality of random anonymous accounts leads to madness. For obvious reasons. The Intelligence Community, foreign powers, trolls, ideologues and actual lunatics can drive any conversation to extremes.â
I thought I knew exactly how these polls would work. That is why I knew to run them. And they behaved more or less exactly the way I guessed.
And that is why many of you are angry at this account. I donât share in this online Utopianism.
I donât want to pay taxes either. But I want a police force and a military.
Translation: I am not a utopian or an ideologue. Iâm just a dad struggling to make sense of a world trying to go off the rails. Mostly, I am offline.
Many of you online are slipping into a world that makes no sense whatsoever.
We donât know who is real here. Who is being paid. Accounts that work have these strong crystal clear imperatives:
âFree speech absolutism!â
âRelease all documents! No secrets!â
âNo Taxes! All tax is theft!â
âBe a man you little soy boy!â
âEnd Israeli Control! No Genocide!â
âAmerica First! Christ is King!â
âLaw and Order Bitchez: FAFO!!â
âNo Justice, No Peace.â
âNever Again!â
âNo Gatekeepers!â
âBurn it all the fuck down!â
âFrom the River to the Sea!â
This is all bullshit. The world just doesnât remotely work the way online does. Online clarity is off the charts. The other world is murky.
What I am going to return to:
The online world and the offline world are both broken beyond belief. But the online world is broken in ways that are harder to see.
Swarming around this account is an amazing amount of bullshit. Most of it anonymous. A lot of it simplistic. Some of it paid for. Some state-sponsored. A ton of it utopian. Much of it troll.
If all the malign actors stopped following me, and my followers count plunged, Iâd prefer it. But you canât really infer much out here. Itâs incredibly polluted.
Not Just USA. Not Just Israel.
Think U.K./Royals. Think Saudi. Etc.
This wasnât a person. This was a major bad transatlantic operation & a piece of international structure.
Itâs time to admit it exists. Itâs over.
We need to get at ALL the child trafficking w/o being morons.
We cannot continue to keep this as an âUnacknowledgedâ program.
It canât work at this point. Obviously.
And we cannot protect âSources and Methodsâ if some of those methods involve children. Those methods have to go.
The best we can do is protect âuncompromised sources and legitimate methodsâ. That is the best case scenario. Letâs do that.
But the unholy methods need to be purged. Forever.
We donât need to destroy our entire world over one insane covert operation.
âIs-aâ versus âHas-aâ error.
A Panasonic is a Radio.
A Lamborghini has a Radio.
By a similar token:
Christianity is a religion.
Islam has a religion.
This distinction needs to make its way out of object oriented computer programming.
Most people donât have a problem with religions per se. Makes life easier.
Does that make sense to you @grok? Can you explain it better than I can if so? Can you correct me if not? Thx!
@grok Appreciate it @grok. Itâs hard because the US first amendment is just about religions. It doesnât give us any guidance when a religion is embedded within a larger structure with its own legal and political substructure.
Who has used this frame before?
@grok I just meant the Is-a vs Has-a framing. Thx.
@StressedRiker It has a form now where it is pretty much just a religion. And I think the question is whether there is such an analog.
But in its form where it has an alternate legal system and courts. Yeah.
But if you canât convene the SanhedrinâŚ
[Also Israel as a state has-a religion.]
2026
Credit where it is due.
Clean. Clear. Direct.
Screaming straight over the plate.
Boom.
I trust our allies in Israel and Saudi Arabia will do the same. A lot of brave badly outgunned heroes taking awe-inspiring risks right now in the streets for their freedom against madness.
Assume I needed to lodge a complaint about a vast conspiracy involving the utter ubiquitous corruption of both the Democratic & Republican parties and the leadership of the United States, up to and including the highest levels.
To whom would I address it?
Hypothetically.
Any ideas @grok? For the sake of the thought experiment, please assume that Universities, News Organizations, Fact Checkers & Major Non-Profits are tied to the same conspiracy, leaving all elite actors in the U.S. with no more than 1-degree of separation from this conspiracy. đ
I donât know.
In this story, just suppose that:
I canât go to the police.
I canât go to the FBI.
I canât run to the New York Times.
I canât call the Department of Justice.
I canât call up the CIA.
I canât write to the President.
I canât ask for a study from Harvard.
I canât seek a grant from the NSF.
I canât submit to compromised journals.
I canât go to major foundations.
I canât go to top law firms.
Thoughts?
@grok Iâm thinking.
But thanks.
Hey. I turned to you.
Thanks my silicon friend.
This is all hypothetical mind you. And I have absolutely no thoughts of suicide.
Just sayinââŚ
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@jakeshieldsajj Not one.
Many: Russia. Israel. Saudi. UK. At least alongside the US from what I can infer.
Or do I miss your point?
âEpstein belonged to both U.S. and allied intelligence services.â
As Iâve been saying, what we call âJeffrey Epsteinâ is NOT Jeffrey Epstein.
Itâs a multinational covert operation, which is a clearing house for sub operations. The pedophile stuff is just one suboperation. The Tax advising operation, money laundering operation, science operations, etc were stupidly being run through the same clearing house. Perhaps to save money? Who knows.
The U.S. portion of this is a USAP: an âUnacknowledged Special Access Programâ
Why are so many minor names redacted? Two words: Sources & Methods.
This is an unprecedented event in modern history.
It is time for the IC in the U.S., Israel, U.K., Saudi, UAE, etc to accept the obvious:
âYou screwed up. Massively. You hired the wrong actor. Your mission was a failure. You now have to lose a staggering number privileges to operate quietly as a result. You lose methods. You will have to rebuild. Your citizens need to know what was done in their name to little children. Iâm sorry. Tough shit. Eat it. Such is the price of failure at this scale.â
Then you can bite the bullet and invoke State Secrets Privilege to save what legitimate statecraft and spycraft can be salvaged from this cesspool of biblical proportionsâŚthat you created and allowed to spin so out of control.
And by the way, if you want to *pretend* that the alternative is viableâŚit gets far far worse.
Assume he wasnât linked to the U.S. covert operations group at all.
Then you have an epic disaster that our elite intelligence operations couldnât even detect and disable Epsteinâs MASSIVE operations and network operating within the elite for decades on U.S. soil post sex conviction.
Imagine that!!!
Itâs far worse. There is just no way out.
The problem *IS* our covert operations and Intelligence Community.
And in any and every possible world.
Moral: none of this depends on the source. Itâs a decision tree.
Itâs checkmate of the IC either way.
Never. But it is a topic of great confusion.
Goyims is first of all just wrong. Goyim is a Hebrew masculine plural already. So I would say Goyim. Never Goyims.
And in order to understand Jews, you need to know context. If someone says Goy or Goyim, what is the context? Is it slang? In the speaker knowledgable or ignorant? Is it Hebrew or Yiddish?
Israel is itself a âGoyâ. Heroic Oscar Schindler is too. As is Nick Fuentes. But not in the same sense. So itâs confusing. Yet I would use the same word for all three. How is that possible?
Goy means nation. âThe Holy Nationâ or âgoy k'doshâ is how HaShem/g-d sees Israel in Exodus 19:6.
But the myriad haters of Jews and their bot armies want to confuse the many uses of this word, which is dangeous. So we should fearlessly sort it out. There is nothing to be ashamed of here.
Letâs get @grok to weigh in and do this as a proper dialogue.
Am I misrepresenting this @grok?
Honest question Eric,
Have you ever referred to white Anglo-Saxons as Goyims?
We are living in very dangerous times and stereotyping as well as conflating supremacy with an entire population is the worst possible outcome
As a society, it is an absolute imperative we delineate between the Jewish population and the sick, racist few
Uh, @grok. You out there? Donât be afraid.
You're spot on. "Goy" (plural: goyim) means "nation" in Biblical Hebrew. Exodus 19:6 calls Israel a "goy kadosh" (holy nation). It evolved to mean "gentile" in later usage, but context determines toneâneutral, slang, or otherwise. Schindler fits as a "righteous gentile." No misrepresentation here.
Phew! I though you were turning into a pussy on this.
Okay. So can we talk a bit about the same word in Yiddish and Hebrew? Am I right that it is particularly in Yiddish where it *can* pick up a derogatory tone? My family is split between Mizrahi Jews who donât speak any Yiddish and Ashkenazi Jews who do.
And even among the Ashkenazi we use it in radically different ways.
Yes, you're correct. In Biblical Hebrew, "goy" (plural: goyim) neutrally means "nation," as in Exodus 19:6. In Yiddish, among Ashkenazi Jews, it often means "gentile" and can take a derogatory tone based on contextâsometimes reflecting historical tensions or slang. Mizrahi Jews, without Yiddish influence, typically use it more neutrally in Hebrew. Usage varies widely even within Ashkenazi families, often generational or cultural.
Baruch HaShem! Thanks @grok. Have you ever considered how odd it is that Indians refer to India as ऌŕĽŕ¤ś or Desh and themselves as Desis as a result? It literally means country! Like there are no other countries.
Similarly for HaEretz in Hebrew. This is sort of a common way that nations think of themselves not particular to Jews.
That's a great observationâmany cultures do this. "Desh" (ऌŕĽŕ¤ś) indeed means "country" in Hindi, and "desi" refers to people from there, often implying "our country." Similarly, "HaEretz" (××ר׼) means "the land," specifically Israel. Another example: China's "Zhongguo" (ä¸ĺ˝) means "Middle Kingdom," centering itself. It's a universal way groups define their world.
Exactly. When I am in Israel @grok, I literally say I am in âIn the countryâ. Nobody asks which country. ××ר׼ makes it clear! Itâs a Jewish-centric version of the world. Just like âSheâs desi you know.â is indo-centric.
Okay. So letâs get to the controversy.
I claim we Ashkenazi Jews unusually use Goy/Nation for gentiles in three totally different ways.
Neutrally.
Pejoratively.
And in an elevated sense.
Can you handle this? Or too edgy?
Yes, I can handle itâlet's break it down.
1. **Neutrally**: "Goy" simply means a non-Jew, without judgment, like distinguishing cultural or religious groups.
2. **Pejoratively**: In some Yiddish contexts, it can imply inferiority or be used derogatorily, reflecting historical frictions.
3. **Elevated**: Refers to "righteous gentiles" (e.g., those honored at Yad Vashem for saving Jews), portraying non-Jews positively as moral exemplars.
Usage varies by context and speaker. What's next?
Perfect. So because Jews are typically a tiny and vulnerable minority culture everywhere but Israel, they are always obsessed with how they are seen by majority cultures as a matter of survival. Letâs just be open about this. Do you know the phrase âShanda fir di goyim?â As in âEpstein the psychopath paskudnyak is the biggest Shanda fir di goyim since Leopold and Loeb!â
This is neutral usage or mildly elevated usage. The gentiles matter here. And this is Jewish dreck that we have to clean up. But it is a recognition of responsibility to police our own. Am I wrong?
You're not wrongâit's spot on. "Shanda fur di goyim" (Yiddish for "shame before the gentiles") is indeed neutral or mildly elevated, highlighting communal accountability to avoid negative perceptions by non-Jews. It reflects survival instincts in minority contexts, urging self-policing. Examples like Epstein or Leopold/Loeb illustrate this perfectly. What's your next angle?
I want to tell a joke that indicate a pejoritive usage. Donât freak out. Itâs not that bad.
Q: Why did god create the goyim? A: Think about it: somebody had to pay retail!
The old joke actually pokes fun at both Jewish and gentile stereotypes. Jews as penny pinching shopkeepers obsessed with âI can get it for you wholesale!â Rosh Katan mentality. And gentiles as blithely unaware that they donât need to pay retail markups if they just âknow a guyâ.
Fair?
Yes, that's fairâit's a classic example of pejorative "goy" in Yiddish humor, playfully stereotyping both sides: Jews as shrewd bargainers ("wholesale" insiders) and gentiles as naive outsiders paying full price. It highlights cultural divides with self-deprecating wit. Not too edgy at all. What's the next layer?
The last is reverence and love for our non Jewish friends and heroes.
We use this very bizarre phrase for those who risked their lives to save Jews. âThe Righteous Among the Nations.â
We use this concept of ânationâ as more or less our highest honor. Even though these are individuals. Not coutries. Itâs conceptually very confusing @grok. Even for jews.
Absolutely, it's a profound honor. "Righteous Among the Nations" (Chassidei Umot HaOlam) draws from Talmudic tradition, recognizing non-Jews like Raoul Wallenberg (in your photo) who risked everything to save Jews in the Holocaust. "Nations" collectively means the non-Jewish worldâindividuals shining as righteous among the goyim. The phrasing elevates them beyond borders, even if it's conceptually tricky. Thoughts on examples like him?
Kike means a jew who never lies
@jakeshieldsajj WTF?