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12/12/2023

Is this really the Chanukah story?

11/19/2023

Now, Palestinians are using Strava to post their messages about genocide. Strava!

11/16/2023

"While past conflicts often served as wedges between these communities that deepened suspicion and divide, this time, it has done the unthinkable and brought us closer. I remember, at the beginning of the war, an Arab owner of a bicycle shop donated hundreds of bikes to those Jewish refugees from communities around Gaza who were now without home, work, and transportation. It was a brave and powerful stance, and for it, his store was torched to the ground by radical Islamists in his community. A crowdfunding campaign was started and within 24 hours and increments of 10 shekels ($2.50), the store owner received repayment for the bikes and the building — 800,000 NIS (some $212,000) collected from everyday Israelis grateful for the solidarity."

As if it required an equal, opposite reaction, Hamas's evil unleashed a fierce love - the open, visible, proactive goodness that is deep in all of us

11/16/2023

UIC student video, " I'm not Jewish but after my today’s interaction with that group, I feel for Jewish people even more.
It must be so stressful and nerve-racking feeling unsafe just walking around the city and getting so much hate just for existing…"

11/15/2023

Israeli comedy on an unfunny topic: captive Israeli babies disrupt Hamas sleep.

https://twitter.com/amjadt25/status/1724703207153086592?t=blNhFcwdRIB87h5jfnrbxA&s=19

11/14/2023

Amnesty International seems to always have Israel in their targets, which seems to make their 2014 on Hamas using al-Shifa Hospital as a torture site even more credible: "Some were interrogated and tortured or otherwise ill-treated in a disused outpatient’s clinic within the grounds of Gaza City’s main al-Shifa hospital."

Hamas forces carried out a brutal campaign of abductions, torture and unlawful killings against Palestinians accused of “collaborating” with Israel and others during Israel’s military offensive against Gaza in July and August 2014, according to a new report by Amnesty International. ‘Strangl...

11/10/2023

11/10/2023

If Time was a Jewish magazine, I would nominate you for its annual “Person of the Year.”

11/07/2023

A quarter century before the State of Israel was established, In 1922, Winston Churchill rejected a demand by Saudi Arabia’s King Ibn Saud to stop Jews from settling in Palestine. He proposed a compromise, allowing immigration based on Palestine’s economic capacity. As a result, 400,000 Jews escaped from Europe before World War II.

Then in 1939, Churchill opposed a British white paper again attempting to slow immigration. In 1941, he exempted Palestine from the Atlantic Charter. This declared the right of all peoples to the government of their choice. He explained to President Roosevelt that the Arabs would "claim a majority" and block Jewish immigration.

11/06/2023

Sarcasm may be the most effective form of communication now.