You have been lied to: the palestinians do not want peace, and the war has barely affected their desire to keep fighting Israel, much less destroy it.
A thread with receipts:
We are now almost 600 days since October 7th. We keep hearing about how Gaza has been turned into rubble, starvation is imminent, and a genocide is happening.
Yet 59% of them still believe that 10/07 was the right thing to do. That’s only a 13% drop since December 2023.
Not only has the war barely affected their belief that invading Israel, murdering 1,200 innocents and kidnapping hundreds was the right thing to do, a majority still thinks that it’s great PR for them and will help them with the rest of the world.
Only 9% of them believe that Hamas committed atrocities on 10/07, and a near majority of them (mostly in Judea and Samaria) still expect Hamas to win despite the current situation.
59% of them believe that the anti-Hamas protests are a psyop and doesn’t represent the views of the majority of the population. The majority of them think they are being orchestrated from outside of the territories to undermine Hamas.
The majority oppose those demonstrations.
The vast majority of them opposes disarming Hamas, much less kick them out of the strip, even if it means the end of the war.
Read that again: The overwhelming majority would rather the war continue than Hamas lay down its weapons, much less be exiled from the Strip.
They are also lying to you about how they want to stay in the land. 43% of Gazans, despite wanting the war to continue, are willing to leave the Gaza Strip after the war.
“Gazans are so sick of Hamas!”
Well, no. 43% in Gaza approve of them, 67% in Judea and Samaria, for an overall 57% approval rating for Hamas despite everything that has happened.
In a head to head against Fatah, Hamas would not only stay in power in Gaza, but would take over the entire PA apparatus, and quite handily.
Only 40% of them support the idea of a Two-State solution, while 57% entirely reject it.
And they think that their best way to establish their own state (over Israel) is through violence with 48% supporting the continuation of terrorism.
Only 12% of them believe their most pressing need is to establish a democratic political system that respects their freedoms and right.
All of this is in the new PCPSR poll, the most accurate polling apparatus as far as Gaza, Judea and Samaria are concerned.
This gives us the very clear picture of a society at war that wants it to continue and does not want to achieve peace with Israel.
Do people who reject Kabbalah not understand how fringe their position is?
99%+ of Rabbanim have accepted its validity. From Maran Beit Yosef in the Shulchan Aruch to the Mishnah Berurah, Hassidim to Modern Orthodox, literally all of the Torah giants of the last thousand years.
I just don’t understand the mentality of people who see that literally everyone has accepted the validity of the Arizal & the Zohar, and somehow think that they are the ones who cracked the code and figured out that Kabbalah is actually false and that they know better than them
Why would you even stay frum with that attitude? If you think that all of our Torah Giants in the last thousand years were so incredibly wrong and led down the wrong path on this, what else were they wrong about? Why assume they got anything right? Where does it end? Ch”vs.
The historicity, sanctity, and utility of the Western Wall is under attack.
In this first of three threads, I'll answer the question of whether it is a remnant of the Temple itself, a retaining wall of the Herodian Temple compound, a Roman Fort or later pagan temple.
A thread.
Herod the Great, in order to endear itself to the Jewish masses and prop up legitimacy to his rule due to the (right) perception that he was a Roman client and puppet instead to rule Judea, decided to embark on a grandiose renovation and expansion project of the Second Temple.
It started towards the end of 20 BCE, at first building a temporary structure so that all of the priests were able to keep bringing sacrifices daily as work was being done.
The workers on the Temple Mount themselves consisted of thousands of priests to protect its sanctity.
Sefer HaTanya, the cornerstone of Chabad Chassidut, opens by telling us that man is made up of two “nefesh,” (in English, often translated as souls but not quite) which are: Nefesh HaBahamit (the Animal Soul), and Nefesh HaElokit (the G-dly soul).
Both are made up multiple parts
If you keep reading further on, however, you realize that there’s a third soul that gets mentioned: the Nefesh HaSichlit (the Intellectual soul).
Sometimes, the Nefesh HaChiyunit (vital) and Nefesh HaTivit (natural) are mentioned as well. So that’s five, but not quite!
Jews were never kicked out of 109 countries over 1030 times throughout history.
To debunk that meme, and go through the What, When and Why of it all, we might need at least 109 posts, however.
A historical thread.
The truth is that we could simply begin by pointing out that those lists are not accurate. Not only do they usually duplicate countries (France is often listed 3+ times) but they also list cities/locales as nations (Mainz by itself instead as a country instead of city in Germany)
So while this is untrue, and we're gonna see that the number of nations Jews were expelled is far lower than 109, it would be true that if you were to tally all of the places that Jews were kicked out of, it could tally over a thousand. But, here's why:
People who have never studied the subject, who are completely oblivious to the history of American-Israeli relations, are fine with jettisoning a relationship that has favored America far more than Israel due to their ignorance.
General George Keegan was the head of the US Air Force Intelligence. He claimed that Israel gave to America more intelligence on the Soviets and their weapons than he would have received if he had five CIAs.
And that’s not all he said:
He also mentioned that while America received a little over $18 billion over 25 years, the return on interest was that Israel provided the U.S. with the equivalent of up to $80 billion in R&D savings, intelligence and captured Soviet weapon systems in the same period of time.
On the current discourse surrounding starvation in Gaza and how the pro-Israel crowd is doing more damage than good.
A thread.
Here’s the thing: there is some starvation in Gaza. It is possible that some people are dying from hunger. Making fun of it as if it’s not happening is absolutely the wrong way to go about it.
This is horrible messaging & makes everyone in Israel and Jews overall look horrible.
And yes,
There are obese people in Gaza.
There is aid distributed daily in Gaza.
There are restaurants opened in Gaza.
There are markets full of food in Gaza.