Public affairs/strategic consultant in Israel. Former Israeli diplomat. Author of "American Interests in the Holy Land in Photos." Curates vintage Holy Land pic

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In 1898, the Jewish leadership of Jerusalem, including the chief rabbis, waited to welcome the German Emperor under a ceremonial arch, decorated with synagogue Holy Ark curtains. (Library of Congress, AI-enhanced) Jews are indigenous to the Holy Land. lennybendavid.substack.com/p…
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What happened on 7 October was genocidal violence. Everything that happened afterwards was war. That’s the truth, says Brendan O’Neill buff.ly/v0hJX0j
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Take your condolences and solidarity with Israel and shove it. Nobody in Israel believes you. AI (Artificial Intelligence) in so many ways.
Three years ago, Hamas terrorists carried out the worst attack on Israel in its history, murdering 1,200 innocent people. I offer my deep condolences to those who lost loved ones. I send my solidarity to the people of Israel on the anniversary of this terrible act.
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🚨 EXPOSED: HAMAS’S OCTOBER 6 OPERATIONAL ORDER According to sources close to Hamas’s military wing, this was the order distributed by Gaza Brigade commander Izz al-Din al-Haddad on the eve of October 7. Among the instructions: • No phones. Strict operational secrecy. • Final briefings only in the last two hours. • Battalion meetings underground. • Prepare routes and targets in advance. • Prepare follow-on combat teams to exploit the assault. • Film the attacks and takeover of IDF outposts and kibbutzim live. • Bring Arab and Islamic flags to raise over captured communities. • Primary objective: seize as many Israeli soldiers as possible immediately and drag them into Gaza. It ends: “Your brother on the path of jihad.” Dated: October 6, 2023. This was not spontaneous chaos. It was an organized, rehearsed military operation — with kidnapping, propaganda and the seizure of Israeli communities built into the plan from the beginning. Al-Haddad later became head of Hamas’s military wing and was eliminated on May 15. @selenaryan_
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Right, Oded! Think about self-driving cars and trucks with no driver control. Hackers can also take control of a car today. Are we ready for real "autopilot" for planes, whereby a central control system and satellites provide overwatch for flights? If the pilot is incapacitated, the system takes over.
Former senior Mossad official: “You can’t screen every pilot – the answer must be technological” Oded Ailam, a former senior Mossad official and researcher at the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs (JCFA), warns that the FlyDubai case may require a fundamental change in aviation security. He says that even professional pilots can become radicalized, meaning intelligence screening alone cannot be relied upon: “You can’t screen every pilot. The answer must be technological.”
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Former senior Mossad official: “You can’t screen every pilot – the answer must be technological” Oded Ailam, a former senior Mossad official and researcher at the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs (JCFA), warns that the FlyDubai case may require a fundamental change in aviation security. He says that even professional pilots can become radicalized, meaning intelligence screening alone cannot be relied upon: “You can’t screen every pilot. The answer must be technological.”
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I suspect some of those Israelis who Britain will expel include intelligence experts who regularly alert the Brits of imminent terrorist attacks. How many attacks have they averted? How many lives have they saved? The UK deserves everything that comes.
Senior British officials have told Israel that closing the British Consulate in East Jerusalem and expelling its diplomats will trigger the removal of 27 Israeli diplomats and their families from the United Kingdom.
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Three years ago, I opened my phone in a Paris hotel room and watched the horrors of 7 October unfold. Then I saw people celebrating the massacre on London’s streets. I had grown up believing we understood what “Never Again” meant. Those celebrations left me wondering how much of my own country I had failed to understand. Speaking up for Jewish friends took me to the massacre sites, into Gaza and eventually a change of career. Today, I’ve written about that journey, with the victims and the families I have met foremost in my thoughts. It has been an honour to stand with the Jewish community these past three years. Nobody should need courage simply to walk to synagogue in Britain. We owe our Jewish neighbours considerably more than sympathy on an anniversary. mrandrewfox.substack.com/p/7…
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⚠️WARNING: GRAPHIC AND UPSETTING FOOTAGE ⚠️ Agam Goldstein-Almog was 17. She says it at the start of the film, because the age is the point. On the morning of October 7 her family was in the safe room at Kibbutz Kfar Aza. Her father, Nadav, and her sister, Yam, were murdered there. She was taken with her mother, Chen, and her brothers, Gal, 11, and Tal, 9, and driven into Gaza in her mother’s car. She describes the trip. Civilians in Gaza banging on the windows. She told her mother they were going to rape her. The men in the car talked about marrying her off. She asked only that the four of them be kept together. They were. A schoolteacher who was also Hamas held them, after a tunnel, in an apartment, dressed as civilians so the street would not see Israelis. Fifty-one days. Released on November 26, 2023, moved from car to car through a crowd she thought was going to lynch them, and home to a house with two of them missing. That is the footage the argument always omits. This isn’t a leaflet. And it isn’t a border dispute. She was a 17-year-old taken from the room where her father and sister had just been killed, with two little boys, into a home in Gaza, by people the marches across London, Paris and New York still call resistance. She’s the one narrating it. The film doesn’t need a caption.
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‼️ Sixty years. Not a trend, not a hashtag. Helen Mirren volunteered on a kibbutz in 1967, played Golda Meir, refused every boycott, and never took a word back. She's not Jewish. She just knows right from wrong. Who's your favorite non-Jewish friend of Israel? Name one. ‼️
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NEW Report: Significant Activity Identified at Minzadayi, an Iranian Nuclear Weapons Development Site High resolution @vantortech satellite imagery from September and October 2026 shows significant renewed activity at Minzadayi, a nuclear weapons development compound northeast of Tehran revealed by Israel during the 2026 war.  The compound was attacked by Israel on March 3rd, 2026, destroying several buildings and likely underground structures. The recent satellite imagery indicates a return to regular vehicle activity around the site post extensive cleanup operation that included the clearing of rubble and debris and repair of damage on the hillside.  One area attacked in March 2026 shows ongoing earth moving activity.  The earth moving activity is occurring at a surface made to look like a courtyard where multiple craters could be seen following the attacks on the site in March 2026. Significant vehicle presence can be seen throughout the site between early September and early October 2026. Cars are parked outside the security perimeter in the parking lot, and many passenger vehicles and trucks can be seen inside the perimeter.  Given what is known about this compound, this activity may be indicative of an effort by Iran to reestablish a nuclear weapons development capability and to reconstitute what was lost in the attack on the compound.   Based on public reporting and statements released by the IDF, the nuclear weapons work carried out here likely involved research and development on nuclear warheads.  The IDF originally stated, that a “group of nuclear scientists operated covertly to develop a key component in the nuclear weapons system,” adding that “the complex is designed to enable the restoration of the required technology and the advancement of capabilities for the development of nuclear weapons.” @IntelliTimes, released additional information on the compound.  In a post from September 24, 2026, it states that the nuclear weapons related infrastructure was established in 2022 and “absorbed part of the means from the nuclear warehouse,” a common reference to the Turquz Abad site revealed by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in September 2018.  Netanyahu revealed the site following Iran’s removal of more than a dozen shipping containers from the site that were assessed to hold nuclear material and equipment relevant to Iran’s nuclear weapons capabilities.[4]  When the IAEA visited Turquz Abad in March 2019, it found evidence that nuclear material or contaminated equipment had been present at the site and the IAEA Board has since been pressing Iran to answer the IAEA’s questions about the current whereabouts of said material and/or equipment. @IntelliTimes indicates Iran did not simply move the material and/or equipment to a new long term storage site but used the new site in northeast Tehran, aka Minzadayi, to establish an”  industrial nuclear headquarters for the reconstruction of research, development, and adaptation infrastructure for nuclear warheads,” including the means to “produce cores of enriched uranium and the explosive material required to cast into them the detonation chain.”[5]  The current renewed effort underway at this highly secure compound suggests that the work being conducted here is of top priority. Read the report here: isis-online.org/isis-reports…
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Governor Abbott today ordered the United States and Texas flags lowered to half-staff on Wednesday, October 7, 2026, in solidarity with the State of Israel and in honor of the men, women, and children murdered in the brutal October 7th terrorist attacks carried out by Hamas.
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In France, the police has banned such a demonstration because of 10/7 sensitivity. In UK, the government promotes Alu Akhbar!
Tomorrow, October 7th, in London, the Met Police and the Home Secretary Shabana Makmood, have signed off and supported a march by Muslims to celebrate the torture and murder of Jews. This tells you who they are. This tells you what they are. This is a disgrace. This is not England. This is Islamic Britain. The government of this country, the police and the mayor of London, the Muslim Sadiq Khan, are celebrating the murder of Jews. This is what Germany looked like and felt like with the state sponsored pogrom of Kristallnacht in 1938. This is where we are now.
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Tomorrow, October 7th, in London, the Met Police and the Home Secretary Shabana Makmood, have signed off and supported a march by Muslims to celebrate the torture and murder of Jews. This tells you who they are. This tells you what they are. This is a disgrace. This is not England. This is Islamic Britain. The government of this country, the police and the mayor of London, the Muslim Sadiq Khan, are celebrating the murder of Jews. This is what Germany looked like and felt like with the state sponsored pogrom of Kristallnacht in 1938. This is where we are now.
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Iran summoned France's ambassador in Tehran over police force used against student protesters, calling for respect for human rights and peaceful assembly.
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🚨🚨 The French police think this order will prevent an anti-Israel demonstration from happening TOMORROW?! No chance. Israel will have to start preparing for the emergency airlift of French Jewry. @EmmanuelMacron, you really fu**ed up.
À la demande du ministre de l’Intérieur, @NunezLaurent, j’ai pris un arrêté interdisant une manifestation « contre le génocide à Gaza et pour le respect du cessez-le-feu» à Paris mercredi 7 octobre 2026. Cette date marque le troisième anniversaire de l’attaque terroriste du Hamas contre Israël et donnera lieu à de nombreuses commémorations. Dans un contexte de menace terroriste élevée et alors que les actes antisémites restent à un niveau historiquement haut dans notre pays, une telle manifestation, ce jour-là, fait peser des risques importants de troubles à l’ordre public. Face à cela, notamment, et au regard de l’ensemble des risques identifiés, ma responsabilité est de garantir la sécurité de tous. J’ai donc décidé d’interdire cette manifestation.
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À la demande du ministre de l’Intérieur, @NunezLaurent, j’ai pris un arrêté interdisant une manifestation « contre le génocide à Gaza et pour le respect du cessez-le-feu» à Paris mercredi 7 octobre 2026. Cette date marque le troisième anniversaire de l’attaque terroriste du Hamas contre Israël et donnera lieu à de nombreuses commémorations. Dans un contexte de menace terroriste élevée et alors que les actes antisémites restent à un niveau historiquement haut dans notre pays, une telle manifestation, ce jour-là, fait peser des risques importants de troubles à l’ordre public. Face à cela, notamment, et au regard de l’ensemble des risques identifiés, ma responsabilité est de garantir la sécurité de tous. J’ai donc décidé d’interdire cette manifestation.
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Spotted in a hotel corridor at the Labour Party conference in Liverpool last week: a discreet little sign on a stand. “Private dinner with the Ambassador of Qatar and Labour Government ministers” it said. I had to blink and read it again. Qatar? The same slave-state that hosted Hamas’s political leadership for more than a decade, funds jihadism and bankrolls propaganda channel Al Jazeera? That’s the one. OK. So Israel, which saves British lives with intelligence tip-offs, gets sanctions and the cold shoulder, while Qatar gets the private dining room. How did a serious country end up here? It did not happen by accident. Britain has been groomed. Let me explain. New post. Link in first reply
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OCTOBER 7, 2023: SHE KNEW SHE WAS GOING TO DIE. Libi Cohen-Meguri, a 22-year-old infantry officer, went to the Nova music festival. She was shot while fleeing the party. At 8:11 a.m., she called her parents and said: “I’ve been shot in the stomach, I’ve been shot in the arm, I’m losing blood. I’m going to die.” Calmly, quietly, she understood; these were the last minutes of her life. She asked her parents to call Tomer, her twin brother, and Maya, her little sister, and said: “I’m going to die. I just want you to listen to me. I love you, Yariv. You’re the best father I could have asked for. Mom, stop screaming. Just listen to me. You are the best mother we could have ever had. Don’t forget to be a good mother to Tomer and Maya after I die. Tomer, how lucky we were to live this life together. I love you. My Maya, never forget—you are the treasure of my life.” When she finished speaking, her parents told her to get out of the car, lie down on the road, and pretend to be dead. With her last bit of strength, she got out of the car and laid down on the road. “Mom, they’re coming to shoot me again,” Libi said after lying down. While her mother listened on the phone, shouts in Arabic could be heard, and then a barrage of gunfire. It didn’t stop. It kept going, until the call was disconnected. And that’s how Libi died—with demonic beasts from the pit of hell standing over her and emptying a full magazine into her body. Libi died with LOVE on her lips: love for life, love for her family, and love for her people. Her memory will forever be a blessing. NEVER FORGET. NEVER FORGIVE. NEVER AGAIN IS NOW. Israel is hunting down every single Palestinian and Hamas terrorist who participated in the October 7th Massacre—to kill them all. They’re living on “borrowed time,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said. Sooner or later, every one of these monsters will be found and eliminated.
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She is standing on the only land border Hamas has. Iran doesn’t have one. Egypt does. Right now she is on the Philadelphi Corridor, the strip between Gaza and Egypt. Behind her is a tunnel tall enough for two of her, wide enough for a car, lined in cinder block, running into Egypt. The IDF has found more than 200 tunnels in that corridor. Nine of them cross the border. Hamas used them for years to bring in ammunition and rockets, and stored the weapons there on purpose, betting the IDF wouldn’t strike that close to Egypt. Iran gets the credit because Iran writes the checks and builds the rockets. Iran has no border with Gaza. The sea was blockaded. The Israeli crossings were screened. What got in came across an Egyptian state border, under it and through the Rafah gate. Remember Rafah? That same place Kamala Harris told the world she “read the maps”, and the place Biden warned Israel not to enter? Cairo flooded tunnels when the Sinai jihadists were the threat. Later the gate reopened, Egyptian intelligence took a commission on the trade, and the shafts were still there. Sisi’s son was a senior member of Egypt’s intelligence service who signed the agreement with Sinwar. Egypt says the tunnels do not exist. She is standing in one. The same ground is where six hostages were found dead, twenty meters under a child’s room… in Rafah. One of them was an American-Israeli. A family was trying to raise a kid above that shaft. The wall still has Mickey Mouse on it. Hamas dug the tunnel underneath, held them where they could not stand, and starved them. Then they shot them all in the head. It wasn’t the only house in Rafah with a tunnel under it, because every house in Rafah had a tunnel beneath it. Every single house. And it wasn’t the only one booby-trapped for the troops who came to clear it. That’s why the corridor isn’t a talking point. The media refused to acknowledge it. World leaders and the UN said it would be genocide. They said it would take Israel months to move the one million people who lived there. It took Israel just 10 days! Egypt is not a partner of peace. The peace treaty means nothing to them. Egypt IS the enemy. They are as bad as Iran and Qatar. They have never lived down losing three wars which they started against Israel. They’ve never recovered. They hate us for the humiliation we handed them.
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