Not sure if you know this, Martina, but for nearly 5 decades the UN has promised Israel that southern Lebanon would be kept free of terror orgs (PLO then, Hezbollah now) threatening northern Israel. That promise has been repeatedly broken. UN Resolution 425 was passed in 1978

Egypt, Syria, and Palestinian Arab terror groups welcomed hundreds of Nazi war criminals after the war, specifically to teach their “skills” for murdering Jews and spreading effective antisemitic propaganda as they shared a “common enemy.”

It’s as if people who believe in this conspiracy have never heard of Occam’s Razor. To believe Israel is fundamentally expansionist, you need to weave together a mosaic of different ad hoc explanations, using each one to plug the holes in the theory to account for each time

Sam argues that the left has been captured by Islamist ideology to the point of moral incoherence, championing jihadists on campuses and in mainstream institutions, while labeling anyone who raises concerns about theocracy or women's rights in the Muslim world as an Islamophobe

I can name a lot more than 5. Let's start with 23 easy ones: 1. Designating a combatant a journalist automatically immunizes that combatant from attack. 2. A territory is occupied even if there is no presence whatsoever after a hostile armed force by virtue of being blockaded.

As have many of us. Pretending, or worse, believing, there is no good or evil, and equating democratic Ukraine with the terrorist Islamic Republic because "both were attacked" is ugly moral relativism. I’d love international law that actually worked, but no such exists today.

When I talk about the secret October 7 film of Hamas atrocities the IDF shows people, I inevitably have nightmares about it. There’s a segment of the movie where Palestinians descend on a Jew they murdered the way my four dogs might descend on a piece of dropped hot dog. Eyes

Iranian woman in Sweden: “Pedophilia is legal in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Little girls are married off to adult men. We are trying to raise awareness, but Western feminists are completely ignoring us.”

“He opposes any two-state solution that seeks to preserve a Jewish majority in Israel.” We must stop acting like this is some neutral or reasonable position. Advocating for the removal of Jewish self-governance is advocating for, at best, the subjugation of Jews as a minority

Second Intifada: IDF estimates 2/3 of Palestinians killed were militants, Palestinian data confirms that at least 60% were members of terrorist organizations. maannews.net/news/131167.ht… 2006: IDF estimates 700 terrorists killed in Lebanon, Hezbollah only admitted to 250 deaths UN

Never forget October 7th, 2023. This baby was strangled to death by Gazans in a dark underground tunnel alongside his older brother and his mother. Remember Kfir Bibas.

Just so we're clear: the Palestinians are nowhere near the largest stateless nation on the planet. They aren't even the largest stateless nation in the Middle East. That would be the Kurds, at 45 million.

The truth is, Hasan Piker IS the enemy, because he's a guy who says extremist stuff that hurts America in order to build his personal brand. Extremist grifters, and the platforms that enable them, ARE the enemy.

I dunno man. There's some small chance there are a few Arab-Islamic "ethnostates" out there in the Middle East. Iraqi constitution: ”Islam is the official religion of the State and it is a fundamental source of legislation: No law may be enacted that contradicts the established

Ezra Klein’s recent video about the “one-state reality” of Israelis and Palestinians caused a stir. It’s what a foreigner might think who isn’t curious about what Israelis and Palestinians think is happening to them. Here is Haviv Rettig Gur response:

"What I heard from Klein wasn’t a man talking about real people, but about an imagined moral journey he wants Americans to take, a performance of American moral awakening that manages to avoid discussing the hardest realities facing Israelis, Palestinians, and Lebanese."

Indeed! Left-liberals should reject apologists for communism.

Friendly reminder: The world has accepted the 20-point plan for Gaza that kicks out the Israelis, pours billions in to rebuild and even, down at the bottom of the list, suggests Palestinians should have a state. The UN Security Council accepted it. The Arab world accepted it.

Since Hasan Piker-bashing is in tonight, reupping my (related) new piece in The Bulwark: The return of communism chic thebulwark.com/p/the-return-o…

It’s ok, we’re very well aware of that one time 7 Arab armies attempted a genocide, failed, and then a dude by name of Constantin Zureiq, coined the term “Nakba” in his book Ma'na an-Nakba (The Meaning of the Disaster) to describe the humiliation they experienced failing to