Jews: we gather together tonight for Seder this Pesach at an extraordinary moment in Jewish history. Our grandparents could not have believed it, let alone the ancestors before them for 100 generations. This year is a Passover of gratitude and wonder. (1/6) Never since the Maccabees have Jews managed to stand up against the beasts trying to kill us, pillage us, and push us around. This is a new thing.

We are the luckiest Jews to have ever lived, and it’s not even close. There are new rules, and we set them: Israel eliminated the IRGC thugs, who dedicated their lives to building nukes to murder eight million Jews, was a sort of “Nuremberg in advance,” and with guns. That's how it works from now on. (2/6)

It’s starting to look like this hunch was correct and that the IRGC, in a desperate attempt to set the region on fire and rally jihadists behind them, is trying to blow up the Dome of the Rock and Al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount. This cluster munition flew directly over Al-Aqsa and landed just 200 meters away. This shell would have destroyed the domes. This seems to be their plan. It is the only possibile reason they are repeatedly targeting the Old City of Jerusalem. There are no military targets there, and most of the population is Muslim.

https://x.com/Saul_Sadka/status/2033597728085749862

This shows exactly how close they came to destroying the Al Aqsa mosque on Temple Mount. Alarming.

“...it’s just a shame the world couldn’t know Larijani as I knew him... Larry—as his friends called him—once he’d wiped the blood of tens of thousands of protesters off his jackboots and ended a long day of signing execution orders for suspected homosexuals, was the kind of chap who’d have been an asset at any dinner party—full of witty repartee and hilarious anecdotes about why the world would be so much better without immodest women.”

Thoughts and prayers with John Simpson and all Larijani’s other friends at the BBC. 🙏

https://x.com/Saul_Sadka/status/2033878271482273884

The thing about the kind of people who run the BBC, like John Simpson here, is that they imagine themselves to be a cut above the rest of us mere mortals. They can’t help but brag that they know, on a personal level, the people the rest of us simply vilify from afar. It's a sort of wierd, patrician attitude. They imagine themselves as saviours, well menaing T.E. Lawrence types who truly understand the put upon people of the world.

The Qatari pivot towards Israel & the Abraham Accords was probable since Trump’s election, inevitable once Iran was exposed as a paper tiger in June, and now that the IRGC is exiting the realm of geopolitical relevance, Qatar’s pivot is actually happening. Poor Medhi & Tucker.🧵

https://twitter.com/Saul_Sadka/status/1937243341663682928

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. (2/8)

While the Israeli successes in the Middle East over the last 2 years are astonishing, how has Israel done meeting its war goals in the Gaza Strip?

1. Destroy and disarm Hamas
2. Free the hostages
3. Ensure Gaza no longer threatens Israel

What will be happening in Gaza? (1/8) 1. Destroy and disarm Hamas (≈90% achieved)

Hamas has lost around 55% of its territory and about 90% of its initial trained fighting force of 35,000 through death, capture, or defection. While they may have recruited some new men, these recruits are low-quality, and the real bottleneck is arms. They have been hermetically sealed off from resupply for two years. They have lost almost all their heavy weapons and are reduced to IEDs and light arms, using ammunition very sparingly.

Their only real weapons are the Gazan people—more on that below. (2/8)

Trump doesn’t get Europe. Trillions spent on windmills that need subsidies, raise electricity prices for everyone, and place an undue burden on the poorest—that’s money well spent, as it allows Europe to restore the landscapes that inspired so many artists like Constable… (1/6)

https://twitter.com/PolitlcsUK/status/1948837366166421895

Sicne they also only provide occasional power, you still need all the coal plants, sitting and waiting to be used. But Van Gogh's classic, The Starry Night, is so much better in the original, with the turbines. (2/6)

Bill Nye thinks the Holocaust could have been avoided if Jews had made more effort to get to know their neighbours.

Zionism means Jews no longer have to stay and die, beg for their lives on bended knee, and can fight back when attacked. That’s why all Jew-haters hate Zionism. Not all Jews are Zionists, but all Jew-haters are anti-Zionists.

As promised, they globalized the intifada again today, this time in Manchester on Yom Kippur, and life for Jews in the UK will never be the same. It might even be the beginning of Jewish life in the UK. It is a black day.(1/9) For decades, British Jews have lived under the threat of Jihadi terror, the vast bulk of the nearly 50,000 UK residents on terror watchlists are Jew-hating Jihadis. For every six Jews, the UK has one suspected Jew-hating terrorist. (2/9)

Operation Grim Beeper was the turning point of the war.

A year ago today at this hour, the entire Hezbollah organisation built up over 40 years and at the cost of hundreds of billions was neutered by a mere 50 kilograms of explosives. It precipitated a new Middle East. (1/10)

https://twitter.com/Saul_Sadka/status/1836037523849486634

In seconds it was transformed from the most fearsome terror army the world has ever seen into a rehabilitation charity, with thousands of living anti-martyrs, who will be rolling, castrated examples of what Allah does to people who plan Jihad against Jews into the 22nd century.

So much changed, everything was flipped upside down, and so many things had to line up for this all to occur. (2/10)

HUGE: Israel has struck Hamas leadership in Doha, Qatar! Rumors suggest Khalil al-Haya is among those targeted.

Hamas will be eradicated—its leaders will be hunted down no matter where they are, and no matter how much money their protectors have. Bold stuff from Israel. I didn't believe Israel would dare attack the Hamas leaders in Qatar, even though they obviously easily could. Qatar alone is defenceless.

I doubt they would have done this without the tacit approval of the Trump admin, and perhaps this was a hint:

https://x.com/Saul_Sadka/status/1963380088139133027?t=3HpljvsrJ0ZUpwUgm1GBSA&s=19

Today is Purim. One of the greatest days in Jewish history.

Today—the 14th of the Jewish month of Elul—will be celebrated centuries hence as a festival. At this hour a year ago today, the most effective clandestine military operation was executed. It flipped everything: (1/10) Hundreds of sworn enemies of the Jews—committed to their genocide—were killed & 1,000s more injured, crippled, blinded—so incapable of realizing their evil plans. For the rest of their lives, they are a living testament to the effects of Jew-hate and the failure of Jihad. (2/10)

This is the London Banana. As long as you stay within the Banana, you'll have a great time in London. Almost everything outside the Banana is horrible these days, best avoid. Not clear why, or when this happened. But it is what it is. The Banana Republic

You don’t hate the BBC enough:

Reality: Israel evacuated a critically ill leukemia patient to Italy in an attempt to save her life. She soon died of her disease, one of the effects of which is malnutrition.

BBC: “Look what the Jews did. They starved her.”

Evil propaganda. The BBC and its vast staff, including the author, whose name should be firmly engraved in the wall of shame, Rachel Muller-Heyndyk, don't even stop and think for a moment: If there really is a famine in Gaza, why are all the stories of people dying of starvation lies?

There’s a special place in hell for the editors & journalists who took Hamas’ photos of children with congenital conditions (and parents with double chins) and broadcast them to their already radicalized audience with the message, ‘Look what the Jews did.’

Remember their names. One of the many consolations of the demise of the newspaper industry is that this is the last generation of journalists.

America's new Hitler Youth. Well done everybody.

This is not entirely without precedent:

This insane and completely baseless "Protocols of the Elders of Zion"-level conspiracy wasn’t just broadcast on LBC—the producers liked it so much, they clipped it and shared it across all their social media platforms. If any other minority were slandered like this, the UK police would be knocking on doors and making arrests.

Historically, spreading lies about how Juice crave gentile blood was always, always, a preamble to their murder. This time will be no different, and LBC and all the rest will share in the blood-guilt. We can only assume that the originator of the conspiracy knows so little about Judaism that they assume that since Christians have "Sunday School" to learn about their faith, Jews would have "Shabbat School." Evil and stupid stuff from LBC.

The 15,000,000 Jews alive today are the product of 40 generations of people who said "no," often at great cost. Evolutionary selection pressures made them countercultural contratians.

They aren't "chosen"—that's a misunderstanding of the theology. They are the "choosers." (1/3)
And this—not any extra level of innate intelligence (some Asian groups are smarter on average), nor in-group clannishness (many cultural groups are far more nepotistic)—is the reason Jews have had an outsized impact on so many fields of human endeavour. (2/3)

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)

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…

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.

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)