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Nov 6, 2022 7 tweets 3 min read Read on X
Time for mole sauce at #chezfrantzman
We began with skinless chicken legs in salt boiling water and set aside

We placed half a tomato, half an onion and three cloves of garlic on a hot pan or skillet (comal) until slightly charred.
We steeped the chilis (these are supposed to be chipotle, ancho, poblano, pasilla, guajillo, mulato) and then removed seeds and pulled them into pieces and briefly put them in the oven on broil.
Then in a mortar and pestle (molcajete) we ground almonds, star anise, cloves, cinnamon and sesame seeds.
In a pot on medium heat we placed a bit of vegetable oil and fried the peppers, garlic, tomato, onion and also added a bit more chopped onion; and then put this into a blender with two cups from the water the chicken was boiled in. We put a dash of chicken stock.
Now in the same pot we made the chilis, we put almonds, sesame seeds, raisins; and roasted them (no oil) until they gave off their flavor (about 5min) and added them to the blender. We blended all this until it was dark red and creamy.
Then we put it all back in the pot on medium heat and began to cook it down.
We added the crushed anise, cinnamon, sesame, almond mixture from the mortar; and then added the chocolate squares, salt, brown sugar, several cookies, and dash of oregano.

We put all this through a sieve, and then placed over chicken.

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Jul 7
The ripping down of hostage posters, which has been common among the extremist pro-Hamas activists in the West since the war began, has always revealed what this war is about. This is a genocidal war launched by Hamas and its powerful backers, and the backers of Hamas fund groups in the West and told them early in the war to rip down the posters

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Why do they target the posters? Because their war is not against Israel, they aren't protesting the IDF, this isn't about "two states" and "peace." This is about ripping down posters to erase the people being held hostage as part of a wider genocidal war against civilians.
Hamas has more support from western extremists after Oct. 7 than before. Why? Because they saw the massacre of people at places like the Nova festival, they saw the kidnapping of old people on Kibbutzim who had devoted their lives to peace...and they supported it.
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The attack in LA, the targeting of the Nova exhibit in NYC and the ripping down of posters of hostages are all part of a coordinated effort and it is linked to Oct. 7. Oct. 7 was the main attack, but it was immediately followed by coordinated extremist activism in the West targeting Jews.
The way they manifested this was clear, and it is coordinated and well-funded. For instance, the activists were told that posters of hostages are "propaganda" and that images of the Nova festival massacre are "genocide propaganda."
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Whenever I hear this cliche of "Hamas is an idea"....I think about all the other "ideas" that have come and gone. Nazism was also an "idea" and so was the ideology of the KKK. Lots of groups represent an "idea"...but many of them come and go or are defeated.
What makes Hamas powerful IS NOT ITS IDEAS...it is its support from abroad, primarily the fact its leaders live in western ally Doha and that it gets backing from Ankara, Moscow, Beijing and other places. It also seems to have been enabled to grow more powerful via smuggling from Egypt and cash from Doha, etc.
The Hamas "idea" may have begun with roots in the Muslim Brotherhood, but it primarily began with thugs like Sinwar killing "collaborators" in mafia-like murders in Khan Younis. It then expanded in the 1990s with foreign backing to try to sabotage the Oslo peace deal. Then it grew after 2007, taking over Gaza.
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Why? Because Iran worked hard to unite the arenas and tie all its proxies into one front against Israel. That means everytime Iran gets Hamas to carry out a major attack, Hezbollah and six other fronts will join.
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The Middle East's ethnic cleansing and extermination of Jewish minorities in the last 100 years is one of the most complete erasures of a people in history. It should be seen that way. Jews used to be a large group in many cities in the region...and they have been SYSTEMATICALLY expelled and ethnically cleansed by various regimes (some of those regimes supported by the West too)...and this is not widely studied in "Middle East studies" and other disciplines where in many western academies today any interest in Jewish history is now called "Zionism"...which is one of the ways the ethnic cleansing and genocide is completed.

You literally have western commentators who grift off being "anti-Zionist" now who make comments trying to portray all Jews as being from Europe rather than acknowledge the truth.
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If we compare the ethnic cleansing of the Middle East with the Nazism of Europe, we find that today Jews can generally travel in Europe in areas where Nazism once dominated. But in the Middle East Jews cannot travel in many countries. They definitely cannot travel openly as Jews, with a kipah or Star of David or pray etc.
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The theory of fighting an enemy merely to make it so it can't carry out another attack is bizarre. It's like if, after the attack on Pearl Harbor...the US goal was simply to make it so Japan can't bomb Pearl Harbor again. By that logic you sink a few Japanese carriers and then end the war...what's the point?
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