Making my way through the @joerogan episode. Thread to follow with some inner monologue.

@DouglasKMurray is absolutely right to call out the rise on the Right of ahistorical narratives coalescing around the likes of @IanCarrollShow and @martyrmade. Downplaying Hitler's actions, Holocaust denial, reversing the order of operations and history on Ukraine and flipping the defender to the offender is the playbook and @DouglasKMurray is asking the correct question as to what the purpose of the promulgations are.

As stated yesterday, the ICJ is now under tremendous pressure given the ICC announcement to reach a negative conclusion in relation to the genocide case against Israel, and I fully expect their judgement to come to that conclusion once released. All this despite the ICC arrest warrants being premised on the falsehood of starvation, a falsehood which Bernie Sanders himself stated on the floor of the Senate. A falsehood and a lie that has been repeated again and again to smear Israel intentionally.

Big news that got sidelined yesterday: Israel eyeing establishment of a military base in the Horn of Africa to counter Houthi/IRGC influence.

The base would be in Somaliland, the breakaway region of northern Somalia.

Breakdown to follow.

jpost.com/middle-east/ar… This is a very hairy region with a lot of crossing interests that center around geography, geopolitics, political influence, and natural resources. The players involved are Israel, Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan, Egypt, Turkey, and the UAE.

A few points about the space Candace Owens just hosted:

1. Engaging in deciphering the Talmud to counter ridiculous claims (or any religious text) is fine but it’s a red herring. You can pick and choose any quote from any major religious text and weaponize it. 2. Doing this to Jews at a disproportionate rate is intended to castigate Jews as a group with the intention of insinuating there is something rotten with that particular group of people.

After visiting the Holy Land, in 1867 Mark Twain commented that the area, then under the Ottoman Empire, was “dismal scenery… [a] desolate and unlovely [land].”

This is a 🧵about the history of the Levant & Israel/Palestine with a focus on the late 19th c - post WWI.

1/25 By 1881, on the eve of increased Jewish immigration to the region (more on this later) the population of the area was 457,000.

➡️ 400,000 Muslims

➡️ 13 - 20,000 Jews

➡️ ~ 40,000 Orthodox Christians

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Let's talk about the West Bank & its history.

Any discussion about Israel/the War inevitably devolves into Israel being classified as an occupying power.

When Israel's pull out of Gaza in 2005 is raised, people point to the West Bank as an example of occupation.

A 🧵.

1/25 We'll start at the beginning.

The entire Levant region was under the control of the Ottoman Empire for 500 years. They had taken these lands from the Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt during a war in 1516-17 CE. Various peoples/powers had controlled the area before the Mamluks.

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Continuation 🧵 on Israel, Gaza, and genocide (part 2/2). Beginning of the thread can be found at the link below.

Start there and come back here for the full context.



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https://x.com/ParanoidPol/status/1778045282384802240

Picking up where we left off..

So from the Israeli 🇮🇱 perspective, inspecting these trucks is vital, and its why in recent weeks we have seen an uptick of air drops facilitated by the @IDF and participating countries, including: 🇺🇸🇫🇷🇬🇧🇯🇴🇮🇩🇦🇪🇳🇱🇪🇬.

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Ok. I'll bite.

There's a large group of people (like @ewarren, @Byoussef) who are adamant that the @IDF / @Israel response to Hamas kidnapping and murdering 1,200 Israelis is genocidal in nature.

Let's dive into this and see whether this has merit.

A 🧵 (part 1/2)

1/126 First, some history.

Prior to the Second World War, the word genocide didn't exist in the English lexicon.

The term was coined by Raphael Lemkin, a Polish/Jewish lawyer who fled Europe for the US in 1941.

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I recently read a piece by @NoahRFeldman in @TIME that provided a fairly nuanced take on modern antisemitism and how it’s evolved over time.

There was however one sentence he used that opened a can of worms for me. A🧵

https://twitter.com/time/status/1762462927334842589

@NoahRFeldman repeats the often used point by those that sit on the anti-Israel side of the aisle when it comes to the current conflict that Jews were treated better in Muslim controlled lands vs. Christian domains.

An oppression Olympics, if you will.

I’ve noticed a trend in the talking points from those that are advocating for the West to cut funding to #Ukraine .

These can be broken down into 5 arguments. This is going to be a thread diving into each of them and exploring their merits, context, & history. Long 🧵 ahead. These arguments can be broken down into 5 key points:

- More funding will prolong the war
- If you care about Ukrainian people living stop funding the war
- Any Putin replacement will be worse
- We cannot risk a nuclear confrontation
- The US should deal with its own problems

Quick 🧵on the macro level geopolitical situation currently unfolding across the globe. We're currently witnessing the destruction of the post-WWII order of regional spheres of influence remaining static.

NATO vs. Warsaw Pact is long gone. Here's what it means. Part of the justification for the invasion of Ukraine by Russia/Putin was in the pursuit of a "multi-polar" world.

That's a euphemism for a world not dominated by the US as world police, and one in which regional actors (namely Russia, China , Iran, and their proxies)...