Born in the Soviet Union, educated in Jerusalem, living in Toronto. I enjoy history, Star Trek, and gadgets.

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6 Bloodiest Conflicts Since 2000.
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According to NAZA there was a remarkably high allowance for collateral damage by the IDF when attacking military targets in Gaza. But in what can only be an amazing coincidence based on Hamas' own fatality data, much of that collateral damage was men of fighting age.
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RT @LionOfJudahX: Arab Israeli Yoseph Haddad at Oxford Union: “I volunteered for the IDF. It’s IDF, not JDF. When Hamas and Hezbollah atta…
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Here is @NYCMayor Mamdani 13 days after October 7th accusing Israel of genocide. Yet, Israel didn’t launch its counterattack on Hamas until October 27th. How is it possible for Israel to commit genocide a week before it launched its response to the massacre of 1,200 citizens and the kidnapping of 251 of its people? Mamdani’s genocide talking point was part of his hateful rhetoric even before Israel had a chance to defend itself. It has as much credibility now as it did then.
This was Zohran Mamdani only 13 days after October 7. No one could have predicted that this unhinged radical would become New York's next mayor. Israel had not yet launched its ground invasion into Gaza and he was already screaming genocide tnx @mazemoore for that video
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In 1920 people from Ilford were telling Jews to go back to Palestine. In 2026 people from Ilford gather in London to tell Jews to get out of Palestine. Different century - same message: "You do not belong." Antisemitism is what it is.
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Who was first? Palestinians or Jews? The answer is not 'either or'. In the Egyptian Museum in Cairo stands a slab of black granite carved around 1208 BCE. Its hieroglyphs celebrate the victories of the pharaoh Mernepta: “Israel is laid waste; his seed is not.” The display makes no mention that more than three thousand years ago, an Egyptian king who knew nothing of the Hebrew Bible recorded that a people called Israel was living in Canaan. The modern pro-Islamist claim that Jews are latecomers is historically false. Numerous ancient records refute it. Around 840 BCE, King Mesha of Moab carved a stone boasting of his war against Israel and naming the Israelite king, Omri. A ninth-century BCE inscription found at Tel Dan refers to the “House of David.” In 701 BCE, the Assyrian king Sennacherib recorded his siege of “Hezekiah the Judean” in Jerusalem. These records are written by people with every reason to ignore Israel, that confirm that an Israelite and Judean people lived in the hills of Canaan for centuries before Rome existed. The second claim is that Palestinians are an ancient people of the region, even older than Israel. This also fails. The word Palestine is truly old, but it never referred to the people who carry that name today. Herodotus used Palaistinē in the fifth century BCE, and it comes from the Philistines, a seafaring people who arrived on the southern coast around 1200 BCE. A 2019 study of ancient DNA from Ashkelon, published in Science Advances, found that the Philistines brought European-related ancestry with them, and that within two centuries it had been absorbed into the local population. The Philistines disappeared after Babylon destroyed their cities around 604 BCE. Rome revived their name in about 135 CE, after crushing the Bar Kokhba revolt, and renamed the province of Judea as Syria Palaestina. The Arab armies came in the 630s CE, some 1,800 years after Merneptah’s scribe carved the word Israel. They brought new rulers, a language, and a religion, and over the centuries most of the population adopted all three. What we call the distinctly Palestinian national identity arrived much later. The Palestinian historian Rashid Khalidi, no friend of Zionism, dates its emergence in his book Palestinian Identity to the late Ottoman period and the early twentieth century. Under the British Mandate, “Palestine” was attached to any group that lived in the region, including Christians, Muslims, and Jews, that the country’s leading English-language Jewish newspaper was called the Palestine Post. It became the Jerusalem Post in 1950. Modern genetic studies show that both Jews and Levantine Arabs, including Palestinians, carry substantial similar ancestry from ancient populations. But historically, the Jewish people have an independently documented presence in that land going back more than three thousand years. Palestinians are, in large part, Arab descendants of the land’s long-term inhabitants, but their national identity is about a century old. As to the claim of who lived in the land first, between Jews and Palestinians, the answer is not close. Anyone who stands on a campus and calls the Jews of Israel foreign colonizers in their ancestral home is arguing with a granite slab in Cairo that names a Judean king in Jerusalem nearly 1,300 years before Muhammad was born. Stones never lie.
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I just watched the roughly 45-minute footage of October 7th at a private screening in NYC. Here are my immediate thoughts minutes after watching it. 🧵
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“It didn’t start on the 7th of October 2023” 1. Jerusalem Nebi Musa Riots 1920 2. Jaffa Riots 1921 3. Hebron Massacre 1929 4. Motza Massacre 1929 5. Safed Massacre 1929 6. Jaffa Riots 1936 7. Tiberias Massacre 1938 8. Farhud Massacre, Baghdad 1941 9. Tripoli Pogrom 1945 10. Jerusalem Commercial Centre Riots 1947 11. Aleppo Pogrom 1947 12. Aden Riots 1947 13. Haifa Oil Refinery Massacre 1947 14. Convoy of 35 Ambush 1948 15. Ben Yehuda Street Bombing 1948 16. Jewish Agency Bombing 1948 17. Hadassah Convoy Massacre 1948 18. Kfar Etzion Massacre 1948 19. Oujda and Jerada Pogrom 1948 20. Tripoli Pogrom 1948 21. Cairo Jewish Quarter Bombings 1948 22. Expulsion of 850,000 Jews from Arab Countries 1948–1970s 23. Ma'ale Akrabim Bus Massacre 1954 24. Kfar Chabad School Attack 1956 25. Libya Pogrom 1967 26. Baghdad Public Hangings of Jews 1969 27. Avivim School Bus Massacre 1970 28. Lod Airport Massacre 1972 29. Munich Olympics Massacre 1972 30. Kiryat Shmona Massacre 1974 31. Ma'alot School Massacre 1974 32. Savoy Hotel Attack 1975 33. Zion Square Bombing 1975 34. Coastal Road Massacre 1978 35. Nahariya Attack 1979 36. Beit Hadassah Hebron Attack 1980 37. Vienna Synagogue Attack 1981 38. Rue des Rosiers Attack, Paris 1982 39. Rome Great Synagogue Attack 1982 40. Achille Lauro Hijacking 1985 41. Neve Shalom Synagogue Massacre, Istanbul 1986 42. Israeli Embassy Bombing, Buenos Aires 1992 43. AMIA Bombing, Buenos Aires 1994 44. Jerusalem Bus 18 Bombings 1996 45. Mahane Yehuda Market Bombing 1997 46. Other Second Intifada Bombings 2000–2005 47. Dolphinarium Massacre 2001 48. Sbarro Massacre 2001 49. Beit Yisrael Bombing 2002 50. Park Hotel Passover Massacre 2002 51. El Ghriba Synagogue Bombing, Djerba 2002 52. Hebrew University Cafeteria Bombing 2002 53. Jerusalem Bus 2 Massacre 2003 54. Maxim Restaurant Massacre, Haifa 2003 55. Istanbul Synagogue Bombings 2003 56. Ilan Halimi Murder, Paris 2006 57. Mercaz HaRav Yeshiva Massacre 2008 58. Mumbai Chabad House Massacre 2008 59. Itamar Massacre 2011 60. Toulouse Jewish School Massacre 2012 61. Burgas Bus Bombing 2012 62. Brussels Jewish Museum Attack 2014 63. Three Teens Kidnapping and Murder 2014 64. Har Nof Synagogue Massacre 2014 65. Hyper Cacher Attack, Paris 2015 66. Sarona Market Attack 2016 67. Sarah Halimi Murder, Paris 2017 68. Mireille Knoll Murder, Paris 2018 69. Tree of Life Synagogue Massacre, Pittsburgh 2018 70. Jersey City Kosher Market Attack 2019 71. Beersheba, Bnei Brak and Elad Attacks 2022 72. Neve Yaakov Synagogue Attack 2023 73. El Ghriba Synagogue Shooting, Djerba 2023 74. October 7 Massacre 2023 75. Jaffa Light Rail Attack 2024 76. Capital Jewish Museum Attack, Washington 2025 77. Ramot Junction Shooting 2025 78. Heaton Park Synagogue Attack, Manchester 2025 79. Bondi Beach Hanukkah Massacre, Sydney 2025
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Today marks 3 years since the October 7 Massacre, a day that changed Israel forever. We will never forget ❤️‍🩹
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WATCH AND SHARE: How "Naza" manufactured a case against the world’s most moral army.
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In this video from the morning of October 7, which I am publishing for the first time, you can see the first rockets being launched from residential neighborhoods in Gaza. The footage was recorded by a Gaza resident who praises the attack as it unfolds. Even though he knows that Israel will soon unleash hell on Gaza and strike the launchers, he shows not a trace of concern. This is a culture of death. Gaza is Hamas.
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Regarding this film. 1. “Naza” (נז״א) is Hebrew for collateral damage, or unintended civilian casualties. There would be no reason to assess, count or consider “Naza” if the intention weren’t to minimize or avoid it. This is particularly difficult against an enemy like Hamas, for whom collateral damage means the same Palestinian civilian casualties Israel is trying to avoid. 2. Hamas doesn’t concern itself with assessing Israeli civilian casualties because civilians are among its intended targets. If they do count civilian casualties, it’s to measure success. To avoid any misunderstanding, its terrorists filmed their atrocities and fire hundreds of indiscriminate rockets at Israel, where a third of the population are children. 3. The film quotes one intelligence officer claiming a strike was approved that could result in 500 deaths. Yet no such strike has ever been recorded or even claimed. To date, the deadliest day of this war remains October 7, 2023. 4. I don’t blame outsiders for their ignorance. Most of the liberal world has forgotten what it means to fight a war on the home front. Its wars are fought with secret commando missions, sterile air strikes and distant battles. It is much easier to condemn the calculation that justifies an attack knowing innocent people may die when your own family isn’t under attack if you don’t make it. 5. The fact that a film like Naza can be made in Israel is itself a sign of a healthy democracy. Its writers and directors can accuse their own country and fellow citizens of grave wrongdoing and remain free to make their case. One thing is guaranteed: we will never see a Palestinian film about Hamas’s atrocities on October 7, nor even an Arab one. Everyone knows why. 6. Freedom does not confer immunity from criticism and antipathy. The director and participants made the film intending to damage their country’s reputation. They are entitled to make that choice. They are also expected to accept the opprobrium and consequences that come with it. Freedom to accuse does not mean freedom from being judged for the accusation.
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These “white socialists” wearing swastikas and chanting “Free Palestine” in NYC seem very confused. Video via: JoshuaWatermanNYC
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The Last Coins Circulated in Ancient Israel Denarius of Vespasian 72 AD Silver. Obverse: profile of Vespasian and the inscription: “IMP CAES VESPASIAN AVG PM TR P PP COS III”. Reverse: captive Jews beside a palm tree; inscriptions: “IVDAEA CAPTA” (“Judea Conquered”) and “S C”.
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When Jews lived as dhimmis under Islamic rule, Muslims had no issue acknowledging the Jewish connection to the Temple Mount. That was taken as an obvious historical truth. For example, in 1925 the Supreme Muslim Council published a guidebook to the Haram al-Sharif. On page 4 it said: “The site is one of the oldest in the world. Its sanctity dates from the earliest times. Its identity with the site of Solomon’s Temple is beyond dispute.” That was the mainstream Muslim position for centuries. The Temple Mount was recognized as the location of the ancient Jewish Temple. There was no denial, no attempt to erase Jewish history, because Jews were under Islamic domination, without sovereignty, and therefore posed no political threat. But everything changed with the collapse of the Ottoman Caliphate and the introduction of nation-states under the British and the French. Once the idea of Jewish sovereignty became possible, Jews ruling themselves on their ancestral land, the Muslim world could no longer tolerate the acknowledgment of Jewish history. This is why the modern denial of Jewish history began, why the Palestinian identity was manufactured and why Muslims suddenly began denying the Jewish connection to the land.
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Mayor Mamdani did not simply express a personal political opinion. He used the authority, symbolism, and credibility of the mayor’s office to issue what amounted to an official public address declaring that the democratically elected leader of the world’s only Jewish state is a ‘war criminal’ who is ‘not welcome in New York City.’ That is a profound misuse of the office entrusted to him by all New Yorkers. After acknowledging that New York City has no independent legal authority to execute the International Criminal Court’s arrest warrant, the mayor nevertheless chose to transform that legal reality into a televised political spectacle. Respect for the separation of powers and the legal limits of public office is a bedrock of American democracy; those limits should not be treated as an inconvenience to be exploited for political theater. Perhaps most telling was what the mayor chose to leave out. His address made no mention of Hamas or the October 7 massacre of innocent civilians. Instead, he delivered a sweeping moral indictment of Israel while erasing the terrorist atrocities that ignited this war. Appeals to universal humanity and justice ring hollow when they exclude the victims whose suffering does not fit a preferred political narrative. This is no longer simply about Prime Minister Netanyahu. It reflects a broader pattern in which Mayor Mamdani repeatedly singles out Israel while using the prestige of his office to legitimize rhetoric that further isolates the Jewish state and deepens division here at home. At a time when Jewish New Yorkers are experiencing alarming levels of antisemitism, harassment and intimidation, they deserve a mayor who refrains from fomenting hatred against the world’s only Jewish country while maintaining the fiction that this is not anti-Jewish. Throughout his campaign, Mayor Mamdani repeatedly insisted that his responsibility as mayor would be to focus on New York City and the issues affecting New Yorkers. New Yorkers elected him to make their neighborhoods safer, combat hate and unite a diverse city, not to conduct foreign policy or transform City Hall into a stage for ideological declarations about world leaders. New Yorkers elected a mayor, not a prosecutor of foreign leaders. Mayor Mamdani should spend less time trying to demonize only one leader and one country from City Hall and more time protecting the New Yorkers he was elected to serve. #Mamdani #MayorMamdani #Israel
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Todavía no logro comprender cómo 6.000 terroristas palestinos invadieron Israel y, con orgullo, retransmitieron en directo la masacre de familias judías el 7 de octubre, y aun así muchos en el mundo siguen creyendo que son las víctimas. ¿Acaso el mundo ha perdido la cabeza?
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BREAKING: Ilana Gritzewsky, who was held hostage by Hamas, just took the floor at the United Nations to confront Reem Alsalem, the UN rapporteur on violence against women. Her dramatic testimony: Special Rapporteur, your report speaks about violence against women. Why is there no mention of Hamas? On October 7, terrorists stormed our Kibbutz — murdering, kidnapping, and burning. I was beaten and mutilated before blacking out. I woke up half naked with seven terrorists standing over me, not knowing what happened to me in those lost moments. I went through days of pain and horror in captivity, and even now the feeling of being powerless and violated still lingers. I came back with a broken hip, a broken jaw and a shattered soul. People see my face and think I’m free. But freedom is not a switch. Trauma doesn’t vanish once you are released. Now, every air-raid siren, and every rocket from Iran, throws me back into that hell. On October 7, and in captivity, Jewish women were raped, abused, and humiliated. And you, Special Rapporteur, you chose silence and denial. Ms. Alsalem, you said there was no evidence of sexual violence on October 7. I am standing here today — not as a report, not as a statistic. I am a woman who survived. I am the living proof of sexual violence by Hamas. When I and other Israeli women begged not to be raped, why were you silent? Please look at me. Do you believe us now? Will you apologize?
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Eyal Waldman hired 20 engineers in Gaza, donated $360K to a Gaza hospital, and spent years building partnerships toward between Israeli and Palestinians. Pro-Palestinian protesters screamed “murderer” at him in Venice this week. His daughter was killed at Nova on October 7.
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