Fun fact: Israel is home to two predominantly Muslim, non-Arab communities: Kfar Kama and Rehaniya, founded by Circassian exiles in the 19th century. And their voting patterns are quite distinctive 👇

We must be mad, literally mad. It is like watching a nation busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre.

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Norman Finkelstein raises (by mistake) an important point about the Hamas-Israel war: no one ever asks how many of the Jews killed in the Holocaust were combatants. That's because the Holocaust had nothing to do with anything Jews did. They were murdered for being Jews. Jews in Europe had no army, killed no German babies, raped no one, and took no hostages. Hamas did all four and more. That's the difference between a war and a genocide. Thanks Norman!

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Oh my. She doesn't understand the difference between the Libertarian Party and libertarian philosophy (the subject of my original post)

Nikole Hannah-Jones smeared Maud Maron as a racist for resisting her educational agenda. Seven years later, NHJ admitted in the NYT that her daughter can't read at a high school level. Now we know that Maron was not a racist and that NHJ's educational agenda could only have ended in failure. It took seven years for Maron to be vindicated in the publication that smeared her -- for the gatekeeper of liberal consensus to acknowledge that she was right and its star writer was wrong. In those seven years, it wasn't just NHJ's daughter that failed to obtain literacy -- it was millions of children in districts who allowed themselves to be misled into pursuing her policies for fear of being smeared as racists.

It's immature to deride a political philosophy with a bunch of ad hominens without bothering to define it. But what would you know about political philosophy? You're just an establishment mouthpiece.

It seems like folks felt Assad had won the Civil War and wasn't going anywhere, so you had to engage with him. Even Turkiye was opposed to HTS's 12/2024 Aleppo offensive. And HTS seems to have been surprised at how quickly the whole regime collapsed after that.

Anyone who was following Syria at the time would know that it was the Biden admin that was quietly facilitating normalization efforts with the Assad regime through failing to enforce the Caesar Act and offering tacit approval of re-engagement through a U.S.-backed Arab Gas Pipeline workaround aimed at alleviating the energy crisis in Lebanon, which would mean energy supplies would have transitioned directly through Syrian territory under Assad. The argument that the US was the puppeteer behind Assad’s downfall never made sense as the data pointed more to an America that was silently permitting the regimes presence, then later accepting it to the point where the US felt comfortable indirectly re-engaging.

The 6 million Jews murdered in the Holocaust explicitly do not include the 250,000 Jews who fell as soldiers or fighters in various armies and resistance organizations. How on earth does Norman Finkelstein, who wrote an entire book about the Holocaust, not know this?

The Tale of Two Arab Journalists: At a diplomatic reception next to the United Nations, I was chatting with the deputy head of a UN delegation from a major nation in the Middle East about direct as well as cagey support for Hamas and its narratives, particularly outside of Gaza. A prominent Arab American journalist with whom I’m friendly walked by, and we conversed briefly with the deputy head of the delegation, after which the journalist asked me point-blank in a challenging tone: “Name one person who still supports Hamas.” I started talking about university students, elements of the “pro-Palestine” community, and influencers who play verbal gymnastics or express outright support for the terror group, to which he answered, “They don’t matter.” Perhaps he meant that in a diplomatic context, no serious Arab or Western officials support Hamas, though I kept pushing back that public support for the group as part of the narrative and information warfare has a direct and linear impact on what diplomats and politicians can do and say. The gentleman also tried to argue that most Palestinians, including in Gaza, support the concept of the “resistance” which Hamas represents, something I immediately challenged as an out-of-date notion that is entirely divorced from what people in Gaza are thinking and saying about Hamas and the resistance narrative it has promulgated for decades. Soon after, he walked away. In a beautiful, ironic twist, and almost immediately, a famous Arab journalist from the Middle East who knows me well came by and jokingly said, “I see you’re still talking about Hamas!” Hilariously, the same deputy head of the delegation with whom I was chatting asked this Arab journalist, “Does anyone still support Hamas?” to which he immediately answered, “Almost everybody outside of Gaza still does.” He said that the Arab public supports Hamas’s narratives, which in turn creates problems for Arab governments and diplomats. He also cited direct or indirect support for the terror group in diaspora Arab communities in the West, not to mention among a rising generation of non-Arabs in academia, politics, journalism, and NGOs. This is exactly what I have been talking about for years: the disconnect between how the discourse is unfolding inside Gaza, and how it is registering for those in the diaspora communities with regard to their understanding of Palestinians in Gaza. Despite being loathed by Gazans for what it has done to them, Hamas has gone mainstream and been normalized in a horrific manner. Many Arab Americans, including Palestinian and Muslim Americans, unfortunately live in bubbles and don’t care to learn detailed, nuanced information about how much they’ve become players in a narrative warfare which is deeply harmful and destructive to the Palestinian people. The aforementioned interaction was the perfect representation of two intelligent Arab journalists looking at the same issue fundamentally differently, because one wants to make a point as part of a narrative, while the other wants to make a difference as part of self-critique and a push for evolution that impacts policy and diplomacy.

Even Wikipedia call out your bullshit

It’s amazing how your only tactic is to appeal to authority because you can’t otherwise defend any of your dumb pro-terrorist spin. Most counter-terrorism experts agree that the beeper operation was extremely targeted and praiseworthy. These are objective facts: - The beepers were exclusively in the hands of senior Hezbollah operatives - because terrorists hide among civilian populations, it is virtually impossible to do any large scale operation against terrorist groups without collateral damage. They know this and it is central to their tactics. - The beeper operation is really the first time in history where anyone has managed to target terrorists at a large scale (though you’ve complained about targeted assassinations too) among civilians without also having significant collateral damage. The few civilians that were hurt were overwhelmingly family members of Hezbollah officials. - the fact that people like you complain about such an operation with such a targeted approach at the same time Hezbollah was shooting hundreds of rockets at Israeli civilians makes it obvious that your complaint re Israeli actions (whether in Gaza, Lebanon, or WB) wasn’t about how they fought or their tactics, but that they fought back at all. When your complaint essentially amounts to the idea that no one is allowed to fight against terrorists in any substantive way because they use civilians as shields, then you are, by any real measure, pro-terrorist. Especially because terrorists don’t care about your imaginary rules or condemnations about not following them. You want helpless terror victims to just issue condemnations and move on. And the real complaint is that Israelis, Americans, and others won’t sign up for that.

The claim is so absurd it doesn't deserve being addressed, but for what it's worth: on October 7 Hamas filmed the massacre themselves. GoPros mounted on fighters, phones taken off the dead and used to livestream directly to victims' families. Wallace, get help.

This is a good lesson. Nativists like MBD hurl ridiculous critiques, we say "no, we want portability," and then MBD's fans come out and say that's worse. There's nothing we can do to win because they just dislike all immigrants. Unless they're from Ireland.

מדוע אמר נתניהו למנהיג האמירויות ש"העניין מטופל" בעניין חמאס וסינוואר? למה התכוון שזה "מטופל"? הוא התכוון לקטארים. הנה הסיפור שפרסמתי בינואר 2026. הפגישה החשאית בירושלים פחות מחודש לפני ה-7 באוקטובר. המתווך הקטארי מול חמאס, איש הכסף, אל עמאדי. מהצד הישראלי נציגי שב"כ והמתפ"ש בהנחיית הדרג המדיני. ***ישראל מבקשת בפגישה להעביר עוד כסף לחמאס**** בתקווה שכך יימנעו "מחנות השיבה" ועימותים על הגדר.