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Jul 4

As Francesca Albanese tries to revive BDS—just as Arab states clamour for peace & trade with Israel—few have noticed that next week (July 9) marks 20 years since the BDS movement set out to defeat Israel by isolating & boycotting it. 🧵

So let’s review the results: (1/8)

Over that period, Israel has overtaken all the major European nations in terms of GDP per capita and now boasts the sixth highest GDP per capita in the world, of all nations with 10 million population or more. (2/8)

Far from being isolated, the Israeli passport is now one of the most powerful in the world: Israelis enjoy visa-free or visa-on-arrival access to 170 countries, ranking 19th globally, and that is set to expand along with the Abraham Accords. (3/8)

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Jul 2

There are three goals for the war. Forcing Israel to end the war prematurely means you can only pick two:

1. Bring home the last 20 hostages (and the 30 bodies being held as bargaining chips).

2. Ensure Hamas can never again pose a strategic threat to Israel.

3. Free the two million Gazans from Hamas— a prerequisite for any form of meaningful rebuilding.

Israel has already achieved point 2. Hamas is now permanently boxed in behind a large buffer zone, and even a small IDF presence with close surveillance ensures they can never rearm or threaten Israelis again.

So, from a purely cynical Israeli perspective, a deal that ends the hostage situation in return for allowing Hamas to remain in some form of power might be acceptable. True, they won't be able to claim "Total Victory" while Hamas still rules the rubble and terrorizes its own people—but Total Victory would have come with Total Responsibility, and a new set of risks. For most Israelis, “We reduced them to a harmless (to us) rabble” is victory enough.

The people who have been clamoring for a ceasefire since 2023 always supported Hamas. They never cared a jot for the Gazans, whom they saw only as useful tools. If they had even an ounce of humanity—or even common sense—they would recognize that Hamas is now only a threat to the Gazans themselves, and that a Total Israeli Victory is what they should be calling for too.

Article from the Jewish Chronicle:

thejc.com/opinion/if-a-c…

Note that this would be the same policy Israel took in Lebanon and Iran. Bringing about regime change immediately via military force is neither easy nor desirable. Better, reduce the enemy threat to you to something manageable in the long term, and let the locals fight it out.

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Jun 29

On set today with Inbal Rabin-Lieberman, the 26-year-old heroine whose quick thinking and IDF weapons training meant that her village, Nir Am, was the only one along the Gaza border where none of the residents was killed.

She’s watching today as they film a reenactment of her actions on October 7. She and her team, with only light weapons, killed 70 heavily armed, drugged-up terrorists as they came to murder their families—twelve civilians held the line for four hours.

Remember: this is why they chant "Death to the IDF"—they want these pesky heroes out of the way so the savages can have their fun unmolested.

How do the "Death to the IDF" kids at Glastonbury hold up to young women like Inbal? What have they ever done to protect their families, their communities? What would they do when the barbarians come to scale the fence?

Her 700 neighbours owe her their lives. Including her then unborn nephew, now 18 months, who will one day get to watch the movie about his aunt and how she saved his life.

There are 100 stories like Inbal that could be dramatised into full-length movies, with no need for even a drop of embellishment.

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Jun 23

Qatar's Machiavellian schemes have reached a dead end. Can it make a U-turn?🧵

Nobody did more to support Hamas than Qatar—money, propaganda—so when this video of Qataris running from Iranian missiles in terror was shared in a Hamas group, what was the universal reaction? Laughter & joy. (1/7)

Qatar’s strategy was so clever. Whoever thought it up and implemented it is some true genius—or perhaps a very sharp team of Western consultants. They picked every point of influence in the West and made them their dependents.

It's almost as if they read "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion", believed it was real, and decided it to try it themselves. Who knows? That might actually be true, since The Protocols is a bestseller across the Arab world. (2/7)

They worked out which colleges fed into critical nodes—like Georgetown and the State Department—and ploughed money in. Many new recruits in sensitive government departments come fresh from the mad rantings of people like Jonathan AC Brown.

They trained a generation of journalists at their Al Jazeera propaganda network. They bought right-wing and left-wing media, and when they didn’t buy them, they made themselves indispensable—becoming, as with the UK’s failing Sky News, their only major advertising partner. (3/7)

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Jun 20

A week into one of the most audacious military operations in history, what is the state of play? Iran is petulantly lashing out, flailing, while Israel is tearing its way through the regime, inflicting 2 to 3 orders of magnitude more damage on Iran than vice versa. 🧵(1/7)

Their attacks are simply depleting their remaining stocks, exposing their launch sites, but doing no damage at all to Israel’s military apparatus. They have killed 22 Israeli civilians, as well as 5 Ukrainians, and done perhaps $50 million worth of property damage.

The cost to them of these attacks, when all is said and done—including the sanctions they forced their people to bear over decades, the R&D, the opportunity cost? Certainly hundreds of billions of dollars. Most of what they built up over 40 years has disappeared in a week. (2/7)

Almost comically, they have sent over 1,000 drones against Israel in the past week, and not a single one has made it through. On their drones, they are zero for a thousand. (3/7)

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Jun 19

MEHDI: "Wow! All you had to do to make me like Nazi-apologia fan, & fellow Qatari teet-suckler Tucker, was to stop the IRGC, who promised for 50 years to genocide the Jews, from getting the tools to actually do it! It's almost like a horseshoe!" (1/6)

This is not a coincidence: you can learn a lot about what really matters to someone by what they are willing to compromise on. For example, Netanyahu and Lapid are bitter rivals—but faced with the threat of nuclear annihilation, they come together, because that is the most important issue.

And so too with Mehdi and Tucker: they can also come together around the issue of the nuclear annihilation of Israel. Because that is the true core of their belief systems; everything else is peripheral, secondary. (2/6)

They didn’t realize that their patron in Qatar was just playing a game. Qatar is more threatened by an Iranian nuke than anyone. It isn’t a real country in the traditional sense—it has no real army—and a nuclear Iran would mean the disappearance of the American base that protects it, and the arrival of Shia domination over their Sunni statelet with just 0.5% of the citizenry.

Qatar only wanted Iran to play the bad cop in its great game against Israel, the West, and its Saudi and Emirati rivals. Part of that strategy included Tucker and Mehdi—useful idiots they hired—who genuinely dreamed of a nuclear Iran, not realizing they were merely being used as one of Qatar’s many instruments.

But just as Hamas didn’t realize it was meant to be only a proxy for Iran and went rogue—bringing down the entire Axis of Resistance—the influencers didn’t realize they were just pawns on the chessboard. (3/6)

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