Colin M. Winston, Ph. D.
@WinstonColin
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30 yr. IC veteran. Hispanist, ME expert, Churchill fan. Wine geek and lover of oriental carpets and Carlos Gardel. Proud father of 2 IDF combat soldiers!
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If you have time to binge watch during the lockdown, you could not do better than watch this French historical series (7 seasons!) set in a fictional French town during the World War II German occupation. It is on Amazon prime and Hulu.
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Proud Parents Department:
Yesterday our youngest, Eli, was sworn into the IDF. He will be a “lone soldier,” protecting Israel and the Jewish people while most of his peers are in college in the USA. He loves America but feels his place is in Israel. Vive la difference!
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A lot is going on in Israel, but rest assured, IDF soldiers like my son Reuben are keeping the country safe!
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@PushingPastNumb
@thomaschattwill
Free doesn’t mean rich or entitled. It’s means free to make of your life what you can. No guarantee — if you want that, socialism provides a guarantee — of poverty.
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Let’s remember that were it not for the valiant battle of the Syrian Kurds against ISIS, hundreds of Americans would have returned home in body bags. Turkey may be a NATO “ally,” but the Syrian Kurds have done much, much more in the fight against Jihadist terrorism.
Do you remember those days? Now those tanks are fighting Kurds? just because Turkish Intelligence bombed Turkish citizens in Istanbul, and not the first time anyway.
@POTUS
@SecBlinken
@SenatorMenendez
@RepGregoryMeeks
@RepMcCaul
@LindseyGrahamSC
@SenTedCruz
@JakeSullivan46
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Behind so-called “ethnic studies” lurks critical race theory and its co-conspirator, antisemitism.
“Jews are the only group in California’s proposed curriculum for whom the term “privilege” is used.”
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I was born in South Africa. I know what apartheid is. Israel is not an apartheid state. In fact even the West Bank Arabs — to say nothing of Israel’s Arab citizens — have more civil rights than the citizens of virtually every Arab country!
Notice that James does not offer serious scholarship to substantiate the apartheid slander against Israel. Instead, he relies on half a dozen activist organizations?
And he cites Harvard reversal on Roth to claim censorship of Israel haters. But Roth got the job 🤷🏻♂️
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@RepRashida
@StateDept
@POTUS
Detroit and most of your district is on ancestral homelands of three Anishinaabe nations of the Council of Three Fires: the Ojibwe, Ottawa, and Potawatomi. So perhaps you should pack up to make way for the true owners?
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@thewebbie
@laineyruns
I have two sons in the IDF combat units in Gaza. They confirm what your source said: very strict ROE, no shooting at anyone unarmed, numerous occasions where combat made impossible because Hamas deliberately placed civilians in the way. And these brave boys are genocidaires?
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Proud Parents: Today we saw off our youngest son, Eli, at JFK on an aliyah flight to Israel! Soon he will be a lone soldier in the IDF. All those years of expensive Jewish day school education paid off in the end! 😝🇮🇱🇺🇸🇮🇱🇺🇸
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@OliaOnX
I have seen the Israeli government’s video compilations. They are quite tame. Although it might offend some, I believe that Israel should flood the internet with unexpurgated versions. They are appalling, but we must combat the antisemites’ efforts to erase 7 October.
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@el_pais
Llámalo como quiera, la gran mayoría de los ciudadanos ponen la seguridad ante de todo. La primera función de cualquier gobierno no es mantener libertades para una ínfima minoría, sino garantizar seguridad para la mayoría. Así a obrado Bukele. Preparo las maletas para visitar 🇸🇻
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@Starrlord89
Where is the New York Times’ indignation for the thousands of children killed in Syria, Yemen, Afghanistan, etc. But when an unfortunate few are accidentally killed by the IDF, it becomes a major story. There is only one word for this: Subconscious and secularized antisemitism.
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@baum_p
You may be right, but one can make the case for Israel without disparaging the Pal claim to indigeneity. Two peoples want the same land; they must learn to split it, not argue as to whose claim is more authentic. And I say that as a proud Zionist with 2 sons in the IDF!
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@LinoSnarf
A classic case of selective memory. She laments the wall and the checkpoints, but neglects to mention the wave of Palestinian terrorism, which killed over 1000 Israeli Civilians, that made the wall not only necessary but inevitable. No terrorism equals no wall.
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Iraqi public opinion is not measured by the violence of a militia run from Tehran but by the peaceful actions of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi citizens risking their lives in the streets against Iran’s control of the country.
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@isaacrrr7
Si es cierto, es un gran logro.
Aún en los años 90, se buscaba a Def como él más peligroso de los terroristas de Hamas. Yo formaba parte de un equipo de la CIA que platicaba en aquel entonces con con las autoridades palestinas sobre cómo neutralizar a Def. ¡por fin seconsiguió!
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Amazingly, there are still people who consider Erdogan to be a loyal NATO partner and someone with whom the US and Israel can work!
President
@RTErdogan
: “We consider it an honour on behalf of our country and nation to express the rights of the oppressed Palestinian people on every platform, with whom we have lived for centuries.”
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@LisaDaftari
I have never been more happy that after getting my PhD I turned my back on academia and made a career in government and later AIPAC. The “elite” universities of America are a disgrace.
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@RitaPanahi
@ARomirowsky
Churchill wasn’t perfect. His views on India were wrong. All he did was prevent the civilized world being destroyed by Nazi barbarism. But by today’s standards, that’s not good enough!
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@michael_brodsk
@MFA_Ukraine
@IsraelMFA
Correct. Ukraine can’t have it both ways: if it wants assistance from Israel the least it can do is to vote in the UN against the establishment of a kangaroo court that has already decided to convict Israel before hearing a shred of evidence.
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@ELuttwak
I lived in France 35 yrs ago. The Muslim presence was discreet Today it is in your face. They will not conform to French culture even in public. The doors must be shut before it is too late.
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@SohrabAhmari
The more Latino you are, the less likely you are to use Latinx. ¡Simplemente no encaja en el idioma español!
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@EYakoby
@laineyruns
@Penn
This is what happens when an entire generation is taught that there are no facts, only “my truth.” They are impervious to reason. Who says history is the unfolding of the idea of progress!
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@JSchanzer
@MPPregent
We should learn from Putin’s aggression that when dictators say they want to destroy a country, one must believe them. Khamenei has made his goal clear; the new deal will only delay his timetable to acquire a bomb, while giving him billions of $ to make mischief in the interim.
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Spencer happens to be one of the world’s foremost experts on urban warfare. Listen to what he says. I have two sons who fought in Gaza with the IDF and the way they describe their rules of engagement there confirm everything Spencer says.
Fact: There is zero evidence of Israel indiscriminate bombing or targeting civilians in Gaza. Not one strike. Indiscriminate means not targeted and not against a military target. People that should know better have conducted effects based criticism (look at the destruction,
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@hahussain
It appears that the pro-Hamas speakers live in an alternate universe where terrorism is love, Hamasniks are social workers, and facts are infinitely malleable. Amazing and sad.
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@HolocaustUK
@JoosyJew
We just visited the Ann Frank house in Amsterdam. How any human being could fail to appreciate the tragedy of her death and what it represents is beyond me. We are dealing with human beings here, right?🤔
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@arash_tehran
I am no fan of Netanyahu, but he does not belong in the same category as Yahya Sinwar. Moral equivalency reaches a new low.
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@judioscatalanes
Soy un judío norteamericano, que vivió mucho tiempo en España y Cataluña. No hay que dividirlos. Como diría el mejor catalanista que jamás hubo, Francesc Cambo: “Per una Catalunya lliure dins l’Espanya Gran!” Si viviera hoy me imagino que añadiría: en una Europa unida!
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Recently, Israel also suffered from 0dark30 syndrome, thinking special forces + iron dome was a strategic response to Hamas. The IDF now knows better.
Antony Blinken’s Ahistorical Advice for Israel by
@SpencerGuard
and
@LiamSCollins
via
@WSJopinion
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5 years of cowering before dictators and placing business interests before human rights. Congratulations!
Thanks
@FedericaMog
for 5 years of inspiring leadership. We wish you all the best for the future!
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@D_abdulkader
When the KRG held its unilateral independence referendum in 2017 only Israel, of over 200+ countries in the world, supported them. This was the culmination of tight covert ties between the Iraqi Kurds and Israel dating back to the 1960s.
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@D_abdulkader
And it is one of the most cost effective US deployments. For about 1000 soldiers (and few casualties) we helped defeat ISIS, keep Iran and Turkey out of a key part of Syria, allow the Kurds political and cultural freedom, and encourage Kurds and Arabs to collaborate. Not bad!
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The intensity of your craven surrender to Iran’s Supreme Leader was indeed remarkable. I doubt that Borrel will be any better but he could hardly be worse!
My mandate comes to an end after 5 intense years. Thanks to all who have contributed to make the
#EU
a reliable partner, a pillar of multilateralism, a stubborn defender of human rights. I leave my office in the good hands of
@JosepBorrellF
Wish him all the best!
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@0321K9
מזל טוב!An amazing journey - but a word of caution: the thugs who embarras Israel through their crude & aggressive behavior toward Arabs on Yom Yerushalaim may be 100% halachically Jewish but they are also a 100% disgrace to the Jewish people!
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@Doranimated
Just because two parties find themselves temporarily aligned does not mean they share basic interests. Stalin and Hitler both invaded Poland in 1939; that did not make them best buddies! (Not that I would put Israel in the Nazi Germany/USSR category!)
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@lilacsigan
What happened to the idea of listening to the other side’s view and learning from it? Are the anti-Israel crowd in academia so scared that they might learn something that’d shake their detestable conviction that Israel is the source of all evil!
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@Doranimated
You think Azerbaijan doesn’t want to gobble up southern Armenia and complete the conquest of Ngorno-Karabach?
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@MPPregent
Just the opposite will happen: US will use Ukraine war as a pretext to accept a poor agreement with Iran because negotiations are a “distraction” to serious business elsewhere.
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@SaraHirschhorn1
So far, both Hamas & Iran have denied that Tehran knew about the exact timing of 10/7. If this was actually a cyberattack and not a “normal” malfunction it could turn into a major element of the 10/7 investigation.
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Critics have to use weasel words like “endangered many civilians” because no civilians were actually harmed. No civilian casualties! This was an exemplary counterterrorism operation; why is the world holding Israel to a ridiculously high standard that it applies to no one else?
The Israeli government issues its usual denials and protests, but UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres refuses to retract his claim that the Israeli military used excessive force in recently raiding the Jenin refugee camp, endangering many civilians.
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@Doranimated
You haven’t learned a thing, have you? A month after Erdogan supported Hamas’ massacres, you still think Turkey can be a US partner. Better: Turkey out of NATO, delist the PKK, and establish free Kurdistan in Syria and Turkey. Well, at least the first part …
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The US deployment in eastern Syria Will go down in history as probably the most cost effective – – in terms of lives and money – – of any US department in the Middle East. Never has so much been achieved by so few for so little.(apologies to Winston Churchill).
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Iranian “moderates” believe the Supreme Leader is always right; the “hardliners” believe he is always correct. See the difference?
"If a return to the JCPOA happens fast," says
@NegarMortazavi
@Princeton
, and Iran's economy improves, "that could strengthen the moderates' hand" inside Iran...make it easier for the Biden administration to address other issues...If it doesn't, it will strengthen hardliners."
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@robsatloff
@washingtonpost
@SallyBuzbee
You will probably have to keep them crossed for a very long time. Both the Post and the Times have been completely taken over by woke advocacy journalists who have a very tenuous relationship with the truth - that is, if they even believe in the concept at all.
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@mohammadkabiya
@amnesty
AI also objects to Israeli time: All you need to know about AI’s attitude toward Israel is that their press conference, although held in Jerusalem, was listed as “11:00 Beirut time!”
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@HilzFuld
This is probably too equitable and finely reasoned to convince your average Israel basher, but finer minds who have fallen into the pit through mindlessly following friends and professors hopefully will respond more positively.
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@SarahTheHaider
The whole of critical race theory is racist. Once you abandon color blindness for color favoritism of any sort the die is cast.
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@Doranimated
Only dictators or would-be dictators object diplomats from meeting with legal opposition parties. Draw your own conclusions!
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@RitchieTorres
And the Nazis, with their compulsory Yellow Stars on garments, showed how quickly and easily one can turn invisible Jews into visible victims.
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@tparsi
One can sum up Parsi’s argument thus: Iran has successfully performed nuclear blackmail on us and is weeks from 90% enrichment. Therefore, we must accept any agreement because the alternative is war.
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@thealexvanness
She has always favored a one-State solution. It has just never been clear how the 7 million + Jews living in Israel now fit into her solution.
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@tparsi
The poor country was holding world shipping hostage. And if the President needs congressional authorization to defend world commerce in the context of an emergency, the US would be immobilized. But that’s what you want, right?
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@Doranimated
If all that matters is Iran, why did you spend vast amounts of time and energy trying to conjure up a fanciful Ankara-Jerusalem-Baku axis over the past few years? Stop wasting everyone’s time!
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@NTarnopolsky
Of course if you ask anyone under 60 today to identify that song they are most likely to recognize it as the theme song of the wildly successful Spanish Netflix series La casa de Papel (Money Heist)!
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@Ostrov_A
@jihadwatchRS
@AOC
@IlhanMN
@RashidaTlaib
Excellent point. For the squad, Supporting anti-American dictatorships trumps such banal concerns as women’s rights every time.
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@NicholasDanfort
Yes. After the Armenian genocides, the transfer of the Greek Christians , and the flight of most Jews to Israel, Turkey had a surplus of (empty) churches and synagogues!
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@NikkiHaley
@ARomirowsky
Absolutely spot on. And, if all you care about are Arab lives, understand that there will be no peace for the people of Gaza and no reconstruction there until Israel destroys Hamas as a military/political force.
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We should learn from Putin’s aggression that when dictators say they want to destroy a country, one must believe them. Khamenei has made his goal clear; the new deal will only delay his timetable to acquire a bomb, while giving him billions of $ to make mischief in the interim.
The new Iran deal reeks of capitulation. It will enrich the regime. And then it will backfire. Iran will acquire nukes. Everyone knows it. Including the negotiators. And it’s nauseating to watch world leaders pretend otherwise.
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@mishtal
@HodderSchools
This is the most blatant example of antisemitism I’ve seen in ages. Let’s find a way to blame everything bad on the Jews! If this is typical of UK textbooks, Corbyn may have the last laugh.
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@ShelleyGldschmt
Her mistake was not adding: “But when fighting terrorists who hide behind civilians, use mosques, schools, and hospitals as command centers, and try to get as many as possible of their own people killed, then the blame for the destruction lies squarely with the terrorists.”
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@PramilaJayapal
@mattduss
It’s rather hard to make this stick when you consider that AIPAC has endorsed almost half of the progressive caucus, including many POC and women. Our only criterion is an individual’s willingness to strengthen the 🇮🇱-🇺🇸 relationship. Skin color, race, sex, etc. are irrelevant.
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@StopAntisemites
@WKOW
@WISCTV_News3
@nbc15_madison
@fox47madison
I went from second grade to PhD in Madison, and never saw anything like this at Halloween or any other time of the year. Of course, that was 40 years ago. Not a nice development for those who believe in human progress!
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@LahavHarkov
35 years ago, when I lived in France for 2 years working at the US Embassy, only the far-right would have boycotted a huge pro-Israel event! Now only the far-left boycotts. Tells us a lot about how the political scene — not only in France — has changed!
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@anjewla90
@DePaulU
Great job! The more the American public witnesses the crazed hatred of the pro-Hamas zealots the more it will appreciate the reason, tact, and endurance of Israel’s supporters. They’ll see that Israel and America are on one side, Hamas and America-haters on the other.
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@IfNotNowOrg
@Andy_Levin
@AIPAC
AIPAC is not undermining US democracy. We are strengthening the links between a democratic Israel and a democratic USA.
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@AmbDennisRoss
@Ostrov_A
Absolutely correct. This is what happens when woke orthodoxy triumphs over common sense! Iron Dome saves lives – – Israeli, Palestinian, and everything in between.
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@ShelleyGldschmt
Sounds like a good idea. I’ve been to 110 countries and don’t intend the Maldives to be 111!
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For most American Jewish parents this might be their sons in their Purim costumes. Lucky for me — and for Israel — these are my two sons in their regular IDF uniforms. They can dress up as civilians for Purim!
#PurimSameach
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@JoeTruzman
Why do you refer to Hamas and PIJ as militant groups or factions and not as the terrorists they are?
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It’s not often I see Ladino on Twitter! As a Spanish-speaking Jew with a special place in my heart for España (and for Catalunya!) I too say ¡Viva España! ¡Viva el Rey!
Biva el Rei Felipe VI, Rey de Sefarad i Yerushalayim!
Biva Sefarad i toda su djente!
Biva la Konstitusyon i la Demokrasia!
Aki bivo yo, aki es mi Kaza i la de todos mozotros
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@adesnik
@mdubowitz
@nytimes
Good lord. The US, the EU, Egypt, the UAE, Saudi Arabia — all consider Hamas as a terrorist group. But that’s not good enough for the Grey Lady?
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@robsatloff
@nytimes
Has the NYT ever once gone into such detail about the hundreds of thousands killed by Iranian-backed forces in Syria and Yemen? Of no interest since Jews couldn’t be blamed.
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@D_abdulkader
At least Kurdistan and Kurds do not deny the right of any other state to exist. I’ve never heard a Kurd say that Iran, Turkey, etc. are illegitimate—the argument is over boundaries.
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@RZimmt
There are experts I respect who maintain that the IRGC already runs Iran de facto and will do so openly after Khamenei dies. But the IRGC candidate, Qalibaf, ran a poor third. What do you make of that? Any significance for the succession to Sup Leader Kh?
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For once, NYT is right. Hamas militarized all of Gaza, hid in houses, schools, mosques, hospitals to maximize civilian Palestinian casualties & blacken Israel. It succeeded-and the blame for the civilian catastrophe there is Hamas’ alone.
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@ARAMalliance
@AAzoulay
@USCIRF
@UNESCO
When the Taliban destroyed the Buddhist rock sculptures in Afghanistan it was definitive proof of how sick the movement was. If the theocracy in Iran acts similarly it will be obvious to all with eyes that radical Shi’ism is just as dangerous as radical Sunism!
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@robsatloff
@PeaceComCenter
Very Impressive indeed. It would have been more impressive had it taken place in Baghdad rather than in Kurdistan, where there is a pro-Israel tradition dating back decades. How many of the attendees were Arabs and how many were Kurds? It would be interesting to know!
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@HarvxrdPSC
I do not want to be this doctor’s patient. Would she adhere to the Hypocratic oath?
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@GadSaad
Who cares? This is a minor issue involving an infinitesimal minority of people. Ho hum.
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@awholeassburger
@areltahry
This just points up the stupidity of referring to skin color when discussing the Israel-Palestinian struggle. The issues have to do with law, legitimacy, and history — not skin color!
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@RitchieTorres
Queer Palestinians are also freer and safer in Israel than they are in a West Bank ruled by Abbas. The PA isn’t quite as crude as Hamas, but it has just as little tolerance for lifestyles that conflict with its interpretation of Sharia!
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@RitchieTorres
This is even worse than leftists in the 1930s defending Stalinism. Back then all of Stalin’s crimes were not fully known—but Hamas’ atrocities have been amply documented, and Hamas boasts about them publicly!
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@SaraReyi
Not true. This is a tiny minority of malcontents acting out unconscious antisemitism. Most students couldn’t care less!
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@Martin_Kramer
It’s even worse for Bibi than the results make it appear because at least some of the Haredi parties currently in government will jump ship once Likud is trounced. Israel, however, may need a 💯 % secular government to tackle long term Haredi demographic challenges.
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This is a truly remarkable example of a young woman with the courage to call out what passes for “social justice” in among today’s youth.
Press Conference w/ Noa Fay - Columbia University | Barnard College via
@YouTube
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@baytifirasek
Agree fully, especially
#1
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A constructive contrast: both the killing of the two Israeli brothers and the pogrom in Hawara were despicable. But after the killing, Palestinians celebrated by distributing sweets. After the pogrom, Israelis started a collection to rebuild the town. Almost $500,000 collected!
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@zriboua
Don’t say you lost friends. Instead, say that you discovered who your real friends are!
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@HenMazzig
@HiepHoaNguyen1
Good for him! I was briefly on the email list for the Palestine Chronicle, if only to hear the “other side,” but the content was so stomach churning that I soon used the “unsubscribe” link!
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@RoyaTheWriter
This is outrageous especially at this moment, when women are being stuffed back into their hijabs all over Iran. It is time that the United States get a new diplomatic protecting power in Tehran, since the Swiss have clearly gone completely native — in the worst way possible.
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Is this a joke? The vast majority of the over half million dead in Syria are civilians. And a very large proportion of them died either at the hands of the IRGC and Hizballah or by militias trained and lead by them.
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@RepSlotkin
I agree with everything you say Elissa, but we could’ve made things much more difficult for Putin by simply never saying, as the Biden administration did off the bat, that we will never send US/NATO troops to Ukraine. We should’ve kept him guessing!
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