CROSS-BORDER TERRORIST ATTACKS UNDERMINE DECISION TO CEDE SINAI PENINSULA // Since 2011, repeated cross-border terrorist attacks have made the Sinai Peninsula Israel's deadliest international border.
Over the weekend, an Egyptian police officer armed with a gun, six magazines of ammunition, and a Quran, infiltrated Israeli territory and murdered three Israeli soldiers.
Egypt's government is defending the terrorists' actions and offered "sincere condolences" to his family. Israel sacrificed the Sinai Peninsula, twice its size, for peace with Egypt – ceding strategic depth, natural resources, and control of key trade routes like the Suez Canal.
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER HEADLINES MEDIA CAMPAIGN AGAINST ANTISEMITISM // Actor and former governor @Schwarzenegger released a 12-minute video monologue addressing haters of all stripes, with added focus on antisemites. The film is distributed by @attn 1/4
The actor confides that trip to Auschwitz weighed on him heavier than "any squat I've ever done" and that his father, who fought for the nazis, "fell for a horrible, loser ideology" and was "lied to and misled into a path that ended in misery." 2/4
NYC'S CUNY COLLEGES STORM AHEAD WITH ANTISEMITISM // Twenty-six anti-Israel campus groups are uniting to hold an event at the City University of New York (CUNY), with featured speakers including BDS-promoters and a woman who guest-stars on Iranian state-owned propaganda TV. 1/5
Antisemitism is becoming a serious issue at CUNY: After the US Department of Education began investigating the school for fostering antisemitism, CUNY's chancellor spent $750,000 to address "bigotry" on campus and made a portal to report "discrimination, harassment, or bias."2/5
But CUNY beats around the bush: neither the money nor the portal is geared against antisemitism, specifically. More importantly, the portal contains a link to a page that declares boycotts of Israel as "not, in and of themselves, antisemitic." 3/5 jewishjournal.com/community/3560…
MAKEUP GIANT CHARLOTTE TILBURY HIRES BELLA HADID // @CTilburyMakeup, described as a "well-known flogger of expensive makeup," hired known Jew-hater Bella Hadid to be the new face of her cosmetics company. 1/5
Tilbury called Bella Hadid, who famously demanded the destruction of Israel, as a "generation-defining talent." Well acquainted with controversy, Tilbury has a bad reputation. 2/5 jewishjournal.com/news/336764/is…
She was sued by celebrity actor Brooke Shields allegedly fired employees for not wearing makeup to work, and drew fire for saying her husband "has never seen me without my bedroom eye. Never!” 3/5 womanandhome.com/life/news-ente…
WATCH: LEBANON’S PROVOCATIONS OF THE IDF // Lebanese troops engaged in a physical scuffle with IDF soldiers on the Israel-Lebanon border, with the commanding officers nearly coming to blows. 1/4
The incident occurred while the Israeli forces were marking the boundary line between the countries, a routine operation often disrupted by Lebanese activists and Hezbollah operatives filming and provoking IDF soldiers. 2/4 ynetnews.com/article/sy00pm…
According to reports, a Lebanese soldier pushed an Israeli soldier and pulled a marker from the ground. At that point, Israeli soldiers loaded their rifles. Videos depict a Lebanese officer reaching for his rifle and Lebanese soldiers pointing an RPG at an Israeli tank. 3/4
'I WOULD THROW HIM OFF THE PLANE': BIBI DEFENDS MINISTER ATTACKED BY US AMBASSADOR // U.S. Ambassador to Israel @USAmbIsrael said he wanted to stop Israel's finance minister @bezalelsm from visiting the U.S., adding," If I could, I would throw him off the plane." 1/5
@IsraeliPM defended @bezalelsm – who apologized for his comments — and returned the focus to the international community, which "continues to turn a blind eye to the P.A.'s rampant incitement… 2/5
to the disgusting spectacle of Palestinians handing out sweets to celebrate terror attacks against Jews and to the official P.A. pay-to-slay policy, in which the P.A. pays terrorists to murder Jews." 3/5 israelnationalnews.com/news/368260
BLOOMBERG BITES INTO BIBI // Media mogul and former New York City Mayor @MikeBloomberg succumbs to the belief that he can help Israel by attacking its government in the New York Times. 1/4
In his op-ed, ominously titled "Israel is Courting Disaster," he also draws false parallels between @IsraeliPM and Richard Nixon and justifies Israeli businesses to move money out of the country: "As the owner of a global company," Bloomberg states, "I don't blame them." 2/4
Bloomberg admits that "no prime minister has done more [than Bibi] to transform its economy into a global powerhouse" but warns that "unless he changes course, Mr. Netanyahu risks throwing all that progress — and his own hard-earned legacy — away." 3/4 nytimes.com/2023/03/05/opi…