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Paul Gross

@pauldgross

Writer/lecturer | Rooted cosmopolitan | Liberal Zionist | Likes liberal democracy and Arsenal FC. Dislikes extremists and absolutists of all kinds.

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Hillel Neuer (@hillelneuer) 's Twitter Profile Photo

When a free Iran establishes a war crimes tribunal to bring justice and accountability to the regime murderers and their accomplices, I will go to Tehran to testify about all their collaborators among the “human rights experts” who only ever spoke on Iran to defend the regime.

S Sebag Montefiore (@simonmontefiore) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This is the most striking opening paragraph on Israel-Iran war so far John Spencer : ‘Imagine if Operation Overlord in World War II began with the elimination of Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, Chief of the German High Command; Heinrich Himmler, head of the SS; Field Marshal

raz sauber - רז זאובר (@raz_sauber_) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Opposition leader Yair Lapid’s son’s apartment was damaged in the rocket barrage on Tel Aviv. The room of his infant granddaughter was hit. Luckily, the family was in the safe room.

Haviv Rettig Gur (@havivrettiggur) 's Twitter Profile Photo

France is the world's second largest arms exporter. Its weapons have a nasty habit of finding their way to, for example, Sudanese paramilitaries, though no one knows exactly where French weapons go because of the country's secrecy laws. So forgive me for suggesting that France

𝗡𝗶𝗼𝗵 𝗕𝗲𝗿𝗴 ♛ ✡︎ (@niohberg) 's Twitter Profile Photo

A prominent basiji has been eliminated in Tehran. I was arrested, beaten and threatened with rape as a child by beasts like this. Thousands of Iranians have been murdered by this evil organisation through the years. You can't begin to understand the levels of karma happening.

A prominent basiji has been eliminated in Tehran.

I was arrested, beaten and threatened with rape as a child by beasts like this. Thousands of Iranians have been murdered by this evil organisation through the years. 

You can't begin to understand the levels of karma happening.
Dr. Einat Wilf (@einatwilf) 's Twitter Profile Photo

For many years I argued that in the region Iran has the best chance to make a successful transition to democracy (could be in the form of a constitutional monarchy), because it possesses some of the key elements that support such transitions: 1) Strong national identity 2) Highly

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“This is the dirty work Israel is doing for all of us… This mullah regime has brought death and destruction to the world.” German Chancellor Friedrich Merz telling it like is.

Hamza (@howidyhamza) 's Twitter Profile Photo

While the world is fixated on the war between Iran and Israel, Hamas is using the distraction to unleash a new wave of bloodshed inside Gaza. They are hunting down unarmed Palestinians, dragging them from aid lines, torturing them in basements, and executing them in broad

While the world is fixated on the war between Iran and Israel, Hamas is using the distraction to unleash a new wave of bloodshed inside Gaza. They are hunting down unarmed Palestinians, dragging them from aid lines, torturing them in basements, and executing them in broad
Ritchie Torres (@ritchietorres) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Who would’ve thought the one issue uniting the far left and the far right is antipathy for the world’s only Jewish state—and sympathy for the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism? There are voices in our politics who would gladly see Iran acquire a nuclear bomb—if it meant

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Has Israel made mistakes? Definitely. Is its government deserving of criticism? Hell yeah! But if this all ends with not only Iran’s nuclear program dismantled, but the regime toppled, it’ll be the most unequivocal victory of good over evil since the end of the Cold War.

Has Israel made mistakes? Definitely.
Is its government deserving of criticism? Hell yeah!
But if this all ends with not only Iran’s nuclear program dismantled, but the regime toppled, it’ll be the most unequivocal victory of good over evil since the end of the Cold War.
Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) 's Twitter Profile Photo

1. When Khamenei took power in 1989, Iran was already reeling from war and repression. Instead of reform, he chose total control. His first move was: Crush the opposition. Silence dissent. Elevate fear to state policy.

1. When Khamenei took power in 1989, Iran was already reeling from war and repression.

Instead of reform, he chose total control.

His first move was:
Crush the opposition.
Silence dissent.
Elevate fear to state policy.
Shany Mor שני מור شني مور (@shmmor) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Shadi Hamid Andrew Koss There is no usable definition that includes both the Holocaust and Gaza but doesn't include dozens, if not hundreds, of other wars in between. In fact, no usable definition that includes Gaza but not the Allied war effort against Germany or the Arab war against Israel in 1948.