The only relevant truth about Oct 7: UN Resolution 3246 “reaffirms the legitimacy of the peoples’ struggle for liberation from colonial and foreign domination and alien subjugation by all available means, including armed struggle.”

Most people have no idea about the real history of Al-Aqsa Mosque, because they’ve only been fed the Islamic Palestinian propaganda version of events. They believe that Al-Aqsa has always been Islam’s third holiest site, that it has belonged to Muslims since the dawn of time, and that Israel is the oppressor for merely existing near it. None of that is true. The Temple Mount in Jerusalem was the holiest site in Judaism for over a thousand years before Islam even appeared in history. It housed the First and Second Jewish Temples, the center of Jewish worship and pilgrimage. When the Romans destroyed the Second Temple in 70 AD, they built pagan shrines over it, but its Jewish identity never disappeared. In the 7th century Islam emerges and expands through conquest, and begins hijacking Jewish and Christian sites, prophets, and narratives. At first, Jerusalem had no major significance in Islam. Muhammad never set foot there. There was no mosque. There was no pilgrimage. There was no Islamic history tied to the city. But that changed during the brutal power struggle between Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan and Abdullah ibn al-Zubayr. By the late 7th century, Islam was deeply divided. Abdullah ibn al-Zubayr controlled Mecca and Medina, the two holiest cities in Islam. And Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan, the Umayyad Caliph, controlled the Levant. But Abd al-Malik had a problem, he didn’t want the people of the Levant traveling to Mecca for pilgrimage, because that would give power to his rival. Abd al-Malik declared the Temple Mount as Alaqsa mosque that was mentioned in the quran, and he made it an alternative place of pilgrimage. He ordered the construction of the Dome of the Rock and the Al-Aqsa Mosque to divert attention from Mecca. And just like that, Islam manufactured a holy site for political gain. The real Masjid Al-Aqsa referred to in the Quran was not in Jerusalem, it was between Mecca and Ta’if. There was no mosque in Jerusalem at the time. There was no Islamic presence there. Yet, centuries later, after Islam had conquered the city, the Islamic narrative retroactively applied this Quranic verse to Jerusalem, again, for political convenience. If Israel wanted to act like Islamic conquerors, it could have easily done to Al-Aqsa what Turkey did to the Hagia Sophia. It could have converted the mosque into the Third Temple, banned Muslim prayer on the site, erased any trace of Islamic history, as Muslims did to Christian and Jewish sites throughout history. But Israel didn’t do that. Israel allows Muslims to pray there freely. Israel protects Al-Aqsa, even as it is used to spread anti-Semitic propaganda and incite violence. Yet, despite this, the world condemns Israel for merely existing in its own capital.

Israel agreed to pause fighting so Palestinian children could be vaccinated against polio. More than 1.1 million vaccine doses were administered. Strange behavior for a country accused of targeting children.

The anti-Israel propaganda film Naza unintentionally debunked the Gaza genocide hoax. The movie claims the IDF is willing to accept high collateral damage in targeting legitimate military targets. However, if the goal was to kill as many civilians as possible, then the term "collateral damage" would have been meaningless since the civilians themselves would have been the targets. For example, Hamas would never make the calculation of how many civilians would be hurt as collateral damage in an attack such as a suicide bombing at a children's party or a massacre at a music festival or lobbing rockets at a city because the civilians are the target. Even the Allies during WWII didn't consider "collateral damage" when they deliberately bombed residential areas for the sake of bombing residential areas. Just like Balaam, the creators of Naza came to curse and ended up blessing.

"How come all Jews can immigrate to Israel, but Arabs can't?" "Because this is Israel's immigration policy." That's the entire answer you have to give. Israel is a sovereign state. It doesn't have to explain or justify its immigration policies to anyone.

Saying you're not a bigot because you hate Israelis, not Jews, is the same as saying you're not a racist because you hate brown people, not black people. You still hate an entire group of people because of their ethnicity. You're still a bigot.

The so-called “67 borders” are indefensible. Reagan said it to the country in 1982. Begin said it to Carter’s face in 1977. On those lines, Tel Aviv is a tank column away. Abba Eban called them the “Auschwitz lines.” Begin’s oath was clear: in the Holocaust, Jewish men had to deliver their women and children to their executioners. Never again. The 1949 armistice lines did not get wider. Not in 1977. Not in 1982. Not today.

REMINDER: the #ICJ will deliver its Advisory Opinion in respect of the Legal Consequences arising from the Policies and Practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem tomorrow, at 3 p.m. (The Hague). Watch on @UNWebTV webtv.un.org/en/asset/k13/k1…