Marines—this was your Rabbi
He buried your brothers on Iwo Jima.
80 years ago, he delivered a eulogy that became legend. It was delivered at Tony Stein’s memorial at Iwo Jima before his remains were later moved back to Ohio.
I prompted @ChatGPTapp to ask what Rabbi Gittelsohn might say to America today.
In memory of Cpl. Tony Stein—Jewish son of Ohio, Medal of Honor and Purple Heart recipient on Jewish American Heritage Month.
(Thread 🧵 below 👇🏻 )
@USMC
#USMC #SemperFi #IwoJima #TonyStein #WWII #HonorTheFallen #JewishAmericanHeritageMonth
#NeverForget #MarineCorps
#JewishPride #JewishVeterans #80YearsLater #ThisIsAmerica #StandAgainstHate
1/7
Rabbi Roland Gittelsohn:
“Here we stand—not on the ash of Iwo Jima, but in the rubble of a different kind. Not physical ruins, but moral ones. Eighty years ago, I spoke on sacred ground, among the graves of young Americans who gave everything for a dream—a dream of unity, of brotherhood, of a ‘purest democracy.’
Protestant and Catholic.
Jewish and Muslim.
Black and White.
Rich and poor.
They died as equals, and I believed their sacrifice might heal the divisions of the living.
I was wrong.
Or perhaps just early.
Today I speak not to the dead, but to the weary living.
I see your faces, buried in screens, narrowed in mistrust.
I hear the low hum of conspiracy rising once more.
The lies are familiar. They have changed only in font, not in function.
Once, the Jew was a moneylender in a pamphlet.
Now he is a meme.
Once, hatred marched with boots. Now it grins in Ye’s summer anthem—mocking six million Jews, and forgetting the fifty million more lost in that same war.
And we—we who buried the dead, who stood silent on blood-soaked earth—must now raise our voices again.
Do you think I do not see the despair? The rising costs, the shrinking hope, the resentment of those told they’re privileged while they feel invisible?
I see it in the angry young men who feel cheated by a world that promised opportunity and delivered ridicule. I see it in the students who chant slogans they barely understand, who celebrate violence with hashtags, believing it to be justice.
2/7
But let me tell you something eternal:
No hatred ever brought healing.
No scapegoat ever ended suffering.
And no grave ever asked for more war.
I served in a war that tore the world apart.
I watched friends die to protect strangers.
I held men who could no longer speak, but whose blood whispered something holier than any sermon: “We are one.”
You don’t have to believe in God to know this is true. Biology will confirm it—99.9% the same, we are.
And yet that 0.1%?
We use it to divide ourselves into tribes, to justify our cruelty, to mask our fear.
We were warned.
Over and over.
By the smoke of Auschwitz.
By the trains that never came back.
By the numbers tattooed on flesh.
By the cries from gas chambers that echoed through history.
By the lynching tree.
By Sarajevo. Rwanda. Darfur. 9/11.
And now, by October 7.
Still, we chant. Still, we blame. Still, we march in circles of rage, convinced the “other” is the cause of our pain.
I tell you now—if the blood of Iwo Jima cannot humble us, what will?
I will not romanticize unity.
It is not a utopia. It is a discipline.
A labor. You cannot buy it with slogans. You must build it in silence, in discomfort, in the quiet act of listening to someone you’ve been told to hate.
3/7
Someone should really ask @anthony7andrews why he doesn’t go into detail regarding what happened. 🤭
This was September 2017.
It is April 2025.
Did Steele give Sater evidence to themedia, where is it? 👀
Did @FBI open RICO case against their asset they nicknamed “Quarterback” at Steele’s request? 👀 If so, where’s evidence of it?
Did Biden DOJ bother to indict @Firehorse5726 Felix Sater with even ☝️ lie, let alone a vast conspiracy?
This genius has me blocked but I think he should answer reasonable questions.
What happened, Anthony?
I posted about this interview transcript from Steele in 2021, so where tf have you been for YEARS?
Are you paid by Kazakh oligarch Kenes Rakishev, or are you just an idiot?
Here’s your reminder Felix was never able to argue this in court, after all. 👇🏻
Kazakhs won the civil BTA BANK case in a NY court but Sater won on appeal. The legal battle continues involving a corrupt country close to Russia and China.
Never forget Boues Schiller Flexner was the law firm Hunter worked for while they repped Burisma, then BTA Bank had its first case in USA by mid-2015, Kenges Rakishev being the major shareholder of BTA BANK then, and also the guy who dined with Hunter and Joe and wired Hunter money for a car.
I’m old enough to remember when I reported Felix’s testimony there was a contract put out to have him killed.
Has @anthony7andrews told any you this in his “reporting”?
Though myself and others were mocked and ridiculed for taking the China weather balloon news seriously in 2023, I am not surprised today to learn the analysis (reporting by @Newsweek) is the balloon had a satellite receiver to facilitate two-way comms, hard drives packed into a foam cooler, tech from four American companies and a Swiss company, and was definitely being used for surveillance. 🧵
American 🇺🇸:
Texas Instruments
Omega Engineering
Amphenol All Sensors Corporation onsemi
Switzerland 🇨🇭:
STMicroelectronics
So what do these 👆🏻companies make that might work for a high-altitude balloon?
Texas Instruments (TI) is known for its analog and embedded processing products. In high-altitude balloons, TI's microcontrollers and data converters might be used for tasks such as sensor data acquisition, control systems, and communication interfaces. Their power management has efficient energy use, handy for balloon systems operating on limited power sources.
The 𝕀’𝕞 ℂ𝕠𝕟𝕗𝕦𝕤𝕖𝕕 and ꪶꫀꪻ’ᦓ ᥴꪮꪜꫀ᥅ ᦓꪮꪑꫀ ᭙ꫀ꠸᥅ᦔꪀꫀᦓᦓ 🧵 /
Why are some in MAGA targeting @GenFlynn? Did I miss something?
Last I checked, Flynn was seen at Mar-a-Lago and @realDonaldTrump stated last year he plans to bring Flynn back if he wins.
Has that changed and I didn’t get the memo? 🥴
I’m confused why some of you are accusing Flynn of money laundering? Also, why are some of you nodding your head with it or even cheering it on?
Perplexing.
Targeting Flynn doesn’t help Trump win, last I checked.
I don’t understand it but let’s dig into one of the people currently spreading this, shall we?
Ugh I can’t stand when X does this. Posts the first post of an entire drafted thread and not the rest and it’s not in drafts. Give me a bit. I’ll need to find time to rewrite this all over again.
Ahem, so Crowdsource the Truth whom I’ve personally chosen to block is accusing a supporter of Trump’s, General Flynn, of laundering money and the point isn’t really the accusation.
Or the obvious point that Flynn hasn’t been charged with laundering money, let alone found guilty, convicted and serving time for it.
So the point here is WHY.
Why is Crowdsource doing this? Who does it help?
If he thinks Flynn is a criminal and Trump is happy to have Flynn at Mar-a-Lago, what’s his goal? Is he trying to warn Trump? Is he trying to prevent Flynn from joining a future Trump administration? Is he trying to get people from MAGA to focus in on a huge Trump supporter instead of focusing on how we deliver Trump a big, fat W? What is the purpose of this?
My curious mind was churning out ?s trying to understand and decided to search this guy and understand his history. I thought it might help me better grasp his motivations.
Holy Moses Batman, the wild stuff that’s online about this guy just looking at court cases and a 2017 news article.
On this #HolocaustMemorialDay, I want to do something a bit different and share a personal American-Jewish story of bravery, courage, honor, integrity, sacrifice, perseverance+sheer will, with those of you who will listen and take the few minutes to read. / 🧵
Typically on this date we take the time to remember the lives lost and the horror of what took place during the Holocaust but after 10/7, it just hits different.
It hits completely different.
So for those willing to spend the few minutes necessary to read this personal tale of American-Jewish heroism during the Holocaust and WW2, thank you.
I consider it my personal obligation to keep sharing this story now. On this date we think of the Jewish lives murdered during the Holocaust but too often the stories of American-Jewish bravery and courage in the US military during WW2 tend to get lost over time. It is up to us as part of their families to keep resharing their important stories.
I wanted to try to help Ed out since he follows me for guidance, I guess. So here goes… we may be on different political sides but it doesn’t mean I can’t helwp
/ short 🧵 👇🏻