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8 Feb, 4 tweets, 2 min read
@JoeNBC @Morning_Joe Scarborough, ever since watching "The Darkest Hour" ,TV melodrama series "The Crown" has been fancying himself "Churchillian". His writing skills have gotten more purple as his self- adulating fantasies deepened.
Some Churchillian wisdoms to live by.
No event bears direct resemblance to historical events. Lady History is playing mind games. Causes come dressed in pretty garbs and adorned by pretty statements, and we don't recognize them for what they are. It takes a Churchill (or an Alan Bloom) to see where they are heading.
Seems familiar?

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9 Feb
@sarahtweets8t @NomoreBDS @JasonJPaul @30Crowned @marclamonthill @ian_pudding @YoniMichanie Basically, true. Except @marclamonthill is not "anti-Israel", as in: critical of this or that policy. He goes far beyond mere criticism when:

1. He openly calls for taking away from Jews their sovereigny and freedom as in "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free" /1
@sarahtweets8t @NomoreBDS @JasonJPaul @30Crowned @marclamonthill @ian_pudding @YoniMichanie 2. He decides to recategorize certain Jewish ethnicities in ways that are strange, a-historical and flatly rejected by the very Jews he seeks to disappear into some other identity that better serves whatever theories he has about Jews. /2 Image
@sarahtweets8t @NomoreBDS @JasonJPaul @30Crowned @marclamonthill @ian_pudding @YoniMichanie It's textbook antisemitism: 1. remove rights from Jews 2. categorize Jews to make them disappear from their own history and world's history.

Both these aims are not academic but have some very definite political goals, th elikes of which we have seen in history. /3
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3 Jan
@MargieInTelAviv @threadreaderapp It went beyond that. As the "late Ibrahim Abu-Lughod, Palestinian academic and native of Jaffa who fled his native Jaffa in 1948, and left an important account of the mood among the city’s Arab inhabitants on the eve of the war: /1
@MargieInTelAviv @threadreaderapp ... the inhabitants of Jaffa in general believed—like most of their fellow Palestinians throughout the land—that the Palestinian was braver than the Jew and more capable of standing hardship. They thought.. they were the ones who would defend their homeland /2
@MargieInTelAviv @threadreaderapp with zeal and patriotism, which the Jews—being of many scattered countries and tongues, and moreover being divided into Ashkenazi and Sephardic—would inevitably lack.

In short, there was a belief that the Jews were generally cowards. " /3
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3 Jan
Palestinian vision of peace with Jews: /1
An October 11, 1947 report on the pan-Arab summit in the Lebanese town of Aley, by Akhbar al-Yom's editor Mustafa Amin, contained an interview he held with Arab League secretary-general Azzam. Titled, "A War of Extermination," /1
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meforum.org/pics/azzam_308…
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30 Dec 20
@Zuasibel @MouthFactory @Lawrenc04048984 Mathis here belongs to a sliver of Jews in our tormented history who succumbed to the millennial war of attrition waged upon Jews and decided that resistance is futile and better join the persecuters and maligners than be their targets. /1
@Zuasibel @MouthFactory @Lawrenc04048984 It's not enough that they were "liberated" from their Jewish shackles but they have to prove, convert-style, that whatever the antisemites do or say, they will out-do and out-slander Jews and thus gain some love for their wretched person. Examples: /2
@Zuasibel @MouthFactory @Lawrenc04048984 Pablo Christiani, a converted rabbi from 12th century Spain, who took his children from his wife after he converted, tried to ban the Talmud, and, with the Pope's dispensation, compelled Jews to listen to his speeches and answer his questions in their synagogues. /3
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29 Dec 20
The never ending good bye:

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27 Dec 20
An alarming impression: most American Jews seem to find their Jewishness first and foremost in the food.
Next in demonstrating how nonchalantly non-Jewish-normative one is.
Third, in a mandatory sneering towards Israel as a distinct mark of what is Jewish. /1
"Now we will suffer loss of memory :
We will forget the things we must eschew.
We will eat ham, despite our tribe's tabu,
Ham buttered .. . and on fast days . . . publicly . . .
Null, then, and void, the k*ke nativity.
Our family albums we will hide from view. /2
Ourselves, we'll do what all pretenders do,
And like the ethnics mightily strive to be.
Our recompense? . .. Emancipation-day!
We will find friend where once we found but foe.
Impugning epithets will glance astray.
To gentile parties we will proudly go; /3
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