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Israel handed Egypt more than 23,000 sq miles of land for a peace treaty. Israel today is about 10,000 sq miles. But sure, Israel is "expansionist."
This day (Nov 11) in 1977, Menachem Begin invited Anwar Sadat to Jerusalem. He accepted and addressed the Knesset. After real negotiations, Israel gave up the entire Sinai (oil fields, settlements, strategic depth, literally everything).
An Arab state willing to sign a peace treaty with Israel got territory larger than Israel itself. Almost all others brought only decades of rejection, terrorism, and chants of "from the river to the sea."
The "Greater Israel" narrative is just nonsense inversion. The side that keeps demanding more land, more "right of return," and the elimination of Jewish sovereignty is not the one that already gave up a peninsula more than twice its size.
Rebuilding Gaza while Hamas remains armed and in control only guarantees more bloodshed and war. We've seen this movie before.
Palestinian textbooks romanticize terrorists, and Hamas spent 17 years running summer camps and school plays training children to attack.
There is no path to a rebuilt Gaza that preserves Hamas' armory, tunnels, and curriculum.
Do you realize what it took to denazify Germany? Military defeat alone was not enough. The ideology had to be outlawed, textbooks had to be rewritten, and an entire new generation of Germans needed to be re-educated before the economic miracle of modern Germany became reality.
Leaving an armed death cult in place while pouring in reconstruction money would simply rebuild the machinery that produced Oct 7 and the resulting war.
The Iranian mullah regime's war against the West (focused mostly on America and Israel) has been non-stop for the last 47 years.
Stop pretending this just started because Netanyahu (a leader of 10 million) somehow pushed the president of the world's sole superpower into war.
“Light it up like a Christmas tree.”
U.S. prosecutors say that was an Iran-backed operative directing an attack on a London synagogue over a video call.
The indictment unsealed November 10 also describes a Manhattan synagogue bomb plot and a planned attack on a British airbase housing American troops. One defendant allegedly helped coordinate the airbase plot from a New York jail.
Standing with Israel against the Iranian regime is a matter of Western self-defense. How many shared targets does it take to recognize a shared enemy?
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On this day-Nov 10, 1947
Three weeks before the UN partition vote, Arabs murdered six Jewish civilians on a bus traveling from Natanya to Jerusalem.
Attacks on Jewish busses, markets, and civilians were well underway. The day after the vote, another seven Jewish bus passengers were shot and killed. On Dec 2, an Arab mob with knives and axes stormed the Jewish market in central Jerusalem and attacked civilians at will.
By early 1948, Jewish deaths, mostly civilians, were running at more than 50 per week in a population of 600,000. Convoys trying to get food and supplies to besieged Jerusalem were ambushed, and passengers (including women and children) were routinely killed.
The Arabs had a "no prisoners" policy, so captured Jews were simply murdered and often mutilated.
The Arabs were targeting Jewish civilians before the vote. They continued after the vote. The goal never changed.
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Tonight at the British Library on Euston Road in London, 3 Arabs and 3 Israeli Jews are playing in an orchestra in front of a live audience.
The hate mob heard about it and came down to scream their racist and usual anti semitic rhetoric.
But if that was not enough, the @metpoliceuk decided in their wisdom to allow this mob to demonstrate outside the venue, while they evicted around 70 pro-Israel supporters, not across the road, but to a side street, where they could be seen or heard.
I’ve seen some of the video of the police threatening arrest, if the Jewish and Israel supporters did not leave.
Section 14 of the Public Order Act of 1986 gives senior police officers the power to place legal conditions on static public assemblies, such as protests, rallies, or demonstrations.
But police refused to apply the same to the racist thugs, who were demonstrating against Jews and Arabs playing violins together. It’s disgraceful.
On this day-Nov 10, 1937
Eleven years before Israel's independence, five young Jews planting trees just west of Jerusalem were gunned down at close range by Arab terrorists.
This was just one of many such episodes of mass murder of Jews during the 1936-1939 Arab Revolt.
The next year, the boys were memorialized as Kibbutz Ma'ale HaHamisha ("Ascent of the Five") was established.
Given the sustained Arab violence against Jews before any "occupation," "nakba," "settlements," or even a State of Israel, you should stop and think what this conflict is really about.
The Abraham Accords are succeeding precisely because they are finally bypassing decades of the Palestinian veto to focus on shared interests and progress.
Economic prosperity, security cooperation, and regional reality > endless Palestinian grievance industry and intransigence.
Israel’s military attaché is getting a permanent office in Rabat. Israel’s Defense Ministry announced the plan today after its director met with Morocco’s military leadership. The two armies already train together, and Israeli firms are helping Morocco build its own defense industry.
The real test of the Abraham Accords was always going to come during a war. Would an Arab government still want an Israeli officer in its capital when it was politically easier to send him home? Three years after October 7, Morocco is giving him a permanent address.
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Abdul El-Sayed is a MASTER of taqiyya.
To prove that he’s not a raging Islamic supremacist, he decided to criticize Muslim countries like the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and even his own homeland, Egypt.
The thing is, all three countries have banned the Muslim Brotherhood and designated it a terrorist organization.
That’s the REAL reason he’s attacking them. Abdul has generational ties to the Muslim Brotherhood.
But that fake criticism of Muslim countries serves to make him appear balanced and moderate, especially since he focuses so much on Israel.
Two birds, one stone.
"I would like us to figure out how to stop making deals with countries like Saudi Arabia or the UAE, who are doing genocide in Sudan. I would like us to actually promote our values." Gulf state allies are going to feel the difference with the new Congress.
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في يناير 2025، خلصت الخارجية الأمريكية إلى أن أفرادًا من قوات الدعم السريع وميليشيات حليفة ارتكبوا إبادة جماعية في السودان. بينما شارك السعودية في وساطة جدة لحماية المدنيين. أما بشأن الإمارات، فنقلت بلومبرغ عن خبراء أمميين أدلة على دعم مقاتلين قاتلوا إلى جانب الدعم السريع.
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This is a great point. KGB defector Anatoliy Golitsyn warned for decades that Soviet “active measures” pushing “Zionism = racism” through Western left parties and international bodies would long outlive the USSR. The UK Greens just revived it.
What's old is new again. UK's Green Party is recycling a Soviet-Arab propaganda ploy from this day (Nov 10) in 1975 when they pushed through Resolution 3379 at the UN equating Zionism with racism.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan rose and said the U.S. would never acquiesce to this infamous act.
The resolution was repealed in 1991. Today, the Green Party is trying to revive it.
The idea that Jewish self-determination is uniquely racist while ignoring every other national movement remains a bizarre and disgraceful example of pure antisemitism.
Did you know Medina, the city Mohammed conquered and established the first sovereign Muslim community, got its name from a Hebrew word meaning, "the city?"
Medina (think State of Israel - "Medinat Yisrael") had a large Jewish population that had built its wells, fortresses, and date plantations centuries before Mohammed's arrival.
Mohammed had hoped the Jews there would accept his new faith. When they refused, the answer was a combination of mass murder, expulsion, and looting. Centuries-old Jewish communities in Arabia were wiped from existence.
After Mohammed, the Covenant of Omar was established, which reduced Jews to dhimmi status everywhere Muslims conquered: to name a few, special taxes were levied, restricted dress enforced, and yellow patches or belt were used to mark Jews subordinate. The yellow badge marking Jews began in the Islamic world, centuries before the Nazis.
The idea of "coexistence" of Jews under Islamic rule was entirely predicated on the Jew knowing his or her place as subordinate to Muslims.
In advance of Kristallnacht, Heydrich sent a teletype to all State Police, including the following:
1) Synagogues are to be burned down, but only when there is no danger to surrounding buildings
2) Jewish businesses and private apartments may be destroyed
3) "Demonstrations" should not be hindered by police.
This is what state action against a district population of its own citizenry looks like.
On Kristallnacht, the Nazi police had orders to protect the building next door.
At 1:20 a.m. on November 10, 1938, Nazi security chief Reinhard Heydrich sent instructions: synagogues could be burned wherever the flames would not threaten neighboring buildings. Police were to protect non-Jewish shops and arrest as many Jewish men as the jails could hold. They arrested about 30,000.
Tonight, on the 88th anniversary of the Night of Broken Glass, read that order. It tells you more than a photograph of a shattered window ever could: who had the power to protect the family that owned the shop, and what they chose to do instead.
nuremberg.law.harvard.edu/do…
On this day-November 9, 1938
Kristallnacht: Nazi-led mobs burned synagogues, destroyed thousands of Jewish businesses, and sent 30,000 Jewish men to concentration camps.
Most ordinary Germans disapproved, but almost none spoke out.
Goebbels' propaganda claimed it was a spontaneous reaction to the Paris shooting of a German diplomat. But the pogrom was organized from the top with Nazi agitators dressing in civilian clothes to make it seem grassroots.
The next day, Hitler's regime imposed a one billion mark "atonement fine" on the Jews, and ordered the Aryaniation of all remaining Jewish property.
But it was the silence from the public that made the next steps toward Jewish annihilation so much easier.
On this day-November 9, 1943
Resolutions seeking to create a rescue commission for Europe's Jews sat on the House and Senate floors.
Hearings dragged with the State Department blocking a vote.
Then, in January 1944, Roosevelt bypassed Congress and created the War Refugee Board. It was too late for millions, but as the true horrors of the Holocaust continued flooding in, it became far more difficult to ignore.
Roosevelt, facing an election year, finally took action that ended up saving about 200,000 lives.
On this day—November 8, 1991
Palestinian and pro-Iran terrorists used a 100-kg car bomb to destroy the administration building of the American University of Beirut. One person was killed and at least a dozen wounded.
These were the same terrorists who had been kidnapping Westerners at AUB and across Lebanon for years. The bomb was not aimed at a military base. It was aimed at a civilian university.
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Perfect example of how terrorist propaganda is laundered & political violence is justified - and language of international law is the fulcrum leveraged to make it all sound palatable.
Let's take a closer look, shall we?
During this panel, @AbdulElSayed seems to SAY all the right things.
Everyone everywhere, including Jews in synagogues, should be able to pray - or not pray at all - without facing discrimination. We should separate criticism of @Israel from anti-Jewish sentiment. Palestinian AND Israeli children alike should believe their life won't be curtailed by violence.
Sounds reasonable, no? Based on these aspirational talking points, who WOULDN'T support senator-elect El-Sayed's rhetoric?
Only, Jews are NOT able to pray at synagogues throughout the West without facing discrimination. The REASON they're not is rampant #legaldisinformation falsely accusing 🇮🇱 of "genocide" in Gaza that has shifted from fringe to mainstream since 10/7 to justify harassment & even violence directed against the Jews.
And withholding support to 🇮🇱 in the fight against Hamas & other regional terrorists (+ their #IRGC backers in 🇮🇷) would lead to an ACTUAL genocide against 🇮🇱.
Likewise, the ongoing large-scale armed conflict in the Holy Land that puts Palestinian children at risk of having their lives curtailed by violence is a DIRECT result of the atrocities committed by HAMAS & the terrorist group's refusal to abide by the terms of the 20 peace plan while permitting the peaceful transition of power to @BoardOfPeace backed National Committee for the Administration of Gaza. Placing equal blame on 🇮🇱 AND 🇵🇸 is merely a way to excuse the 10/7 atrocities & Hamas's terrorist political violence since then.
If you pay close attention to El-Sayed's talking points in this clip, you'll notice the seemingly palatable rhetoric is presented ALONG with the very talking points that are ALSO relied upon to justify violence against Jews at home & against Israel in the Holy Land.
Specifically, he (repeatedly) amplifies the false accusation that 🇮🇱 is responsible for "genocide" AND 🇺🇸 support is at least partially responsible for enabling the "genocide". He also claims 🇺🇸 should be "the first among equals to UPHOLD INTERNATIONAL LAW," even though he misrepresents terms like "genocide" & "apartheid" to make it seem that curtailing assistance to 🇮🇱 is required for us to do so.
In light of this rampant legal disinformation & social/political rhetoric used to justify violence directed against Jews at home & Israel in the Holy Land, let's get a few things straight.
- Israel is not, nor has it been, responsible for genocide in #Gaza. The apparent "consensus" among human rights "experts" & the like isn't actually a "consensus" at all, and among @UN Member States only about 1 in 3 have publicly supported the false genocide allegation (attached image).
- Legitimate criticism of 🇮🇱 is not antisemitic. But falsely accusing the world's only predominantly Jewish state of genocide is also NOT legitimate criticism of 🇮🇱.
- You can't separate yourself from discrimination & harassment & violence directed against Jews if you amplify & perpetuate the false allegation that 🇮🇱 is responsible for "genocide" since this is the primary tool used to JUSTIFY said harassment & violence.
Until all - or at least most - journalists, media hosts, pundits & politicians understand these points, in detail, activists like senator-elect Abdul El-Sayed here will continue to launder IRGC & Muslim Brotherhood propaganda throughout the West under the guise of legitimate - even palatable - social & political rhetoric.
Don't let them get away with it. Understand how the language of international law is used to launder terrorist propaganda. And when activists like El-Sayed try to spin rampant legal disinformation as he does in this clip, be prepared to counter it & expose them as the anti-Israel, antisemitic, terrorist sympathizers they truly are.
#TheMoreYouKnow #nogenocide #truthmatters
On this day—November 8, 1969
Palestinian terrorists planted a bomb set to go off on the anniversary of Kristallnacht in the Jewish community center in West Berlin.
The bomb failed only because the detonator was corroded, but a reconstruction showed it would have destroyed the hall and killed dozens.
The attack was carried out by the PFLP working with German left-wing terrorists.
How exactly is bombing a Jewish community center in Berlin on the anniversary of Kristallnacht “anti-Zionism?”
On this day—November 8, 1956
Fedayeen terrorists from Jordan crossed into northern and central Israel and opened fire on a train, attacked civilian cars, and blew up wells. Six Israelis were wounded.
This was one of many such attacks in a sustained campaign of cross-border raids that targeted Israeli civilians and civilian infrastructure. The same networks, backed from Egypt and Jordan, had already murdered and maimed hundreds of Israelis in the years before.
Jordan had annexed the “West Bank” and the Old City, but the attacks never stopped because the goal was always the whole of Israel in Arab hands.
