So I decided to ask different AIs to create a plot of a Jewish Christmas movie. My prompt: "Write the plot for a movie where a committed Jewish person is unwillingly stuck inside a Christmas movie."
A thread of the responses, and my ratings. 🧵 Meta:

Title: "Stuck in a Winter Wonderland"
Protagonist: David, a devoted Jewish man who runs a small deli in New York City. He's proud of his heritage and traditions, and loves celebrating Hanukkah with his family and friends.
The Premise: One day, while watching a classic Christmas movie marathon at his sister's house, David gets sucked into the TV and finds himself trapped inside a cheesy, over-the-top Christmas movie called "A Winter Wonderland". The movie is full of clichés, from the quaint small town to the handsome, charming lead actor.
The Conflict: David is horrified to find himself in the middle of a Christmas movie, surrounded by Christmas trees, decorations, and carolers. He's determined to find a way back home, but every time he tries to escape, he's pulled back into the movie. The lead actor, a charming but dim-witted guy named Nick, thinks David is a new character in the movie and tries to befriend him.
The Comedy: As David navigates the absurd world of the Christmas movie, he encounters a series of wacky characters, from a wise-cracking elf to a villainous toy manufacturer. Despite his initial reluctance, David starts to enjoy the ridiculousness of the movie and even finds himself developing feelings for a lovely Christmas shop owner named Emma.
The Heart: As David gets closer to Emma and the other characters, he starts to realize that the true meaning of the holiday season is about kindness, generosity, and community - values that are just as important in Judaism as they are in Christianity. David starts to see the beauty in the Christmas traditions and even finds ways to incorporate his own Jewish heritage into the movie.
The Climax: Just as David is starting to feel at home in the Christmas movie, he's confronted by the movie's villain, who threatens to ruin the holiday season for the entire town. David uses his wits and resourcefulness to help the townspeople defeat the villain and save Christmas.
The Resolution: As a reward for his heroism, David is given the chance to return home to his own world. But before he goes, he says goodbye to his new friends and Emma, who has become the love of his life. David returns home, but with a newfound appreciation for the holiday season and the people who celebrate it.
The Twist: As David settles back into his life in New York City, he starts to notice strange things happening around him. The deli's Christmas decorations seem more vibrant than usual, and the customers are all singing Christmas carols. David starts to wonder: did he really escape the Christmas movie, or is he still trapped in a never-ending winter wonderland?

I give this two stars. I specifically did not want an inter-religious romance which is why I used the word "committed." And the end is a nightmare!

Nobody knows anything about the future of Syria and the region. But here are three things we do know and lessons we can learn, today. ift.tt/thjMHIP The rapid fall of the Assad regime in Syria is stunning.

There is no shortage of analysis, but essentially every "expert" in the field is warning of things that could or might happen.

What I haven't seen is any of these experts admitting that they couldn't see this coming.

The Middle East is the most watched, analyzed and studied region on Earth. Isn't it strange that no one saw the coordination necessary for the disparate Syrian rebel groups to mount this offensive?  The planning  must have taken weeks, if not months. Israel's escalation against Hezbollah in September would undoubtedly have either started these plans if not accelerated already existing plans.

Where were these analysts then? And - why should we believe any of them now when they didn't see this coming?

We can expect to see analysis in the coming weeks of how the signs were there all along, all ignoring that these supposed experts missed those signs.

Lesson #1: Media and academic experts are no better at predicting what will happen than anyone else.

I have a few nitpicks but altogether this is a decent essay.

time.com/6763293/antise…
Of course, @time is part of the problem of spreading the new antisemitism.
Its initial report of #October7massacre was about Israel's response, and didn't mention any Israelis were killed. elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2023/10/repreh…

Ten of the basic facts that the news media doesn't report:

1. The conflict is older than Israel and older than Zionism. Arabs have held Jews in contempt since Mohammed.

2. You cannot assume the Palestinian side is rational. Their mindset is governed by an honor/shame mentality that is more important than what is best for Palestinians altogether.

3. That same honor/shame mindset means that lying is acceptable - or even mandatory - when the truth is embarrassing.

4. According to surveys, Palestinians are the most antisemitic group on Earth. Not "anti-Zionist" - antisemitic.

5. Urban warfare is the most difficult warfare there is. The extensive tunnel system makes it perhaps the most difficult in history.

6. If Hamas survives the war, it is a major blow to the entire Western world's freedom.

7. The only winner when Gaza civilians die is Hamas.

8. Hamas' entire war strategy is based on Israel not wanting to kill civilians and willing to do anything to protect Israeli civilians. In short, Hamas views Israel's morality as its weakest attribute.

9. Palestinians - West Bank and Gaza, Fatah and Hamas - overwhelmingly support murdering Jews. A huge majority have supported the most heinous specific terror attacks. And they overwhelmingly do not support a two state solution, except as a stage to destroy Israel.

10. The IDF is a professional army. It doesn't act out of revenge or fury. Every move it makes is for a specific military purpose and every attack has a specific military target in mind. Supporting data:

1. The Quran includes the themes that Jews - as a whole - are "killers of prophets" and that they cannot be trusted to hold on to their side in agreements.

The Jews of Yemen wrote a letter to Maimonides in the 12th century asking for advice on how to deal with their persecution. His response included very pointed criticisms of how Arabs treat Jews throughout the Arab and Muslim worlds.

The "kinot" - intricate poems chanted on Tisha B'Av, the Jewish fast day that recalls many historic tragedies - include oppression by Arabs of Jews. And some communities like the Tunisian and Moroccan Jewish communities wrote their own kinot about pogroms and attacks on their communities centuries ago.

19th century travelers throughout the Middle East often noted that the worst insult an Arab could hurl at another was to call him a "Jew."

All of these were before modern Zionism.

The Arabs don't hate Jews because of Israel. They hate Israel because of Jews. And all the talk about "Nakba" or "occupation" or "apartheid" are excuses for Arab hate created after the fact, not explanations of it.

Abbas tells UN that the Kotel is exclusively Muslim: "The occupation government is also violating the city of Jerusalem and its people, assaulting our Islamic and Christian sanctities there, and violating the historical and legal status of the holy places, especially the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, which international legitimacy has recognized as an exclusive right for Muslims alone, including the Bab al-Rahma prayer hall and the Buraq Wall (Kotel), according to the report of the League of Nations in 1930."
He also called for "an apology, reparation, and compensation" from the US and Britain for the Balfour Declaration.

Somehow, between 1921 and 1948, under full British control, Zionists managed to build a prosperous economy and effective governance.

Palestinians have had since 1994 with more autonomy than Jews had. And yet they blame Israel for their failures.

@DrHananAshrawi

https://twitter.com/Haitham47117914/status/1677797271268671490

The only reasonable response to this has been that the Zionists had large amounts of capital from the Jewish diaspora.

This is true - and it proves my point. Jews didn't depend on anyone else to build their nation. They funded it themselves, they drained the swamps themselves..

The ONLY people to have dug underneath the Temple Mount in the past century are Muslims.

Here is a 1990s photo of the Waqf digging out Solomon's Stables to build a huge underground mosque. They destroyed countless artifacts from the times of the Temples.

@UNESCO was silent. @UNESCO More on this issue here, since Palestinians claim that Israel is digging under the Temple Mount and that no Jewish artifacts were ever found in the area - which is absurd.

elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2023/05/arab-n…

A lot of Israel haters have discovered this account in recent months. To help you out, here are some of my themes, all of which I have backed up with voluminous evidence on my blog.
🧵 1. Anti-Zionism is thinly veiled antisemitism

"Human rights" organization @Amnesty is openly advocating the forcible removal and ethnic cleansing of 670,000 Jews from their homes.

Normally, that's a war crime.

They have NEVER insisted on that in Western Sahara or Northern Cyprus or anywhere else.

ONLY FOR JEWS.

https://twitter.com/amnesty/status/1630904473123008514

@amnesty The Encyclopedia of Human Rights says settlers have human rights and ethnically cleansing them wholesale is clearly a violation of those rights.

It was talking about Northern Cyprus.

When Jews have a different set of rules than EVERYONE ELSE, that is antisemitism from @Amnesty.

1898.

Must be the "occupation." 1903.

Must be the "settlements."

.@KenRoth keeps claiming that he criticizes all human rights violations, and isn't biased against Israel.

Here's a list I once made of Palestinian war crimes that Roth completely ignored - or even justified! - even though they were reported Links here: elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2014/09/the-to… @KenRoth 1. There was not one tweet that admitted that Hamas uses Gazans as human shields - even when Roth linked to a HRW article whose definition of human shields exactly matched Hamas' methods. Instead, he denied that Hamas uses human shields!

Let's be clear: @Amnesty / @amnestyusa have been the single biggest source of antisemitic incitement over the past year, worldwide.

Their provably false accusations of "Jewish supremacy" and "apartheid" have been used by the Right and the Left to justify deadly attacks on Jews. @amnesty @amnestyusa Amnesty's obsession with Israel is the single best example of modern antisemitism. I have MANY examples of this obsession, listed here: elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2022/02/an-ang…

One of the dumbest articles ever in @theintercept, and that's saying something.

Israel is blamed for draconian Palestinian anti-pot laws. But if Israel would extend its own liberal laws to the Palestinians, to avoid this "weed apartheid," that would mean annexing the West Bank!

https://twitter.com/theintercept/status/1586660046150291486

@theintercept Also, @jrosyfield interviewed @MauriceHirsch4 but says that he still works for @NGOmonitor rather than @palwatch.

Sloppy reporting, but ultimately the goal is deception, not accuracy.

How many lies can you find in this thread?

1. The Mossad isn't responsible for "killing and imprisoning thousands of Palestinians." The IMEU doesn't know what the Mossad is.

https://twitter.com/theIMEU/status/1569457000643461120

2. Sabra's origin story has nothing to do with Palestinians. Her introduction in the comic is in the context of the death of a sympathetic Palestinian child killed accidentally in a Palestinian terror attack. Does the IMEU deny those attacks happened?

Here are seven inconvenient and under-reported facts about the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre that everyone should know: (thread based on this post:)

elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2022/09/seven-… 1. The Munich massacre was financed by Mahmoud Abbas, president of the Palestinian Authority. He along with Arafat kissed the mastermind Abu Doaud at the outset of the planning.

@jjz1600 I've looked at the actual legal definition of apartheid. Those accusing Israel of apartheid are knowingly lying. And I've shown this. No one has found any holes in my arguments.

Falsely accusing Israel of apartheid using made up definitions is indeed antisemitism. @jjz1600 And if you look at the history of the apartheid libel, it is blindingly obvious that the accusation came first, and the fake legal arguments were created after the fact to justify the lie.

@btselem 's definition was absurd - it could prove that JEWS were victims of apartheid.

BDS in 1922.

The American Israelite, Cincinnati, Ohio, 09 Nov 1922 (JTA) BDS in 1923.

The Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle, 30 Mar 1923 (JTA)

@jr_feiteira @PalestineOpp Anti-Zionism is the modern (and socially acceptable) version of antisemitism. My book describes it in great detail. The unhinged loathing you see for Israel and Zionists have few parallels beyond historic hate of Jews. (And Palestinians admit they hate Jews in Arabic.) @jr_feiteira @PalestineOpp Anti-Zionists will claim that they are only supporting human rights, or opposing Israeli policies. But there is an entire NGO industry dedicated to making up or exaggerating Israeli crimes without context and without comparison to others. See this: elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2022/07/ben-an…

An English lesson:

"There were no known militants in the area" does not mean the same thing as "There were no militants in the area."

@NYTimes @washingtonpost @AP @CNN @Bellingcat @nytimes @washingtonpost @AP @CNN @bellingcat A reporting lesson:

Ignoring multiple witnesses saying there were shooters in buildings doesn't mean there were no shooters in buildings.

#ShireenAbuAkleh

Here's the @NYTimes illustration of Abu Akleh, the IDF & the position of the camera. I added exactly where the IDF lead vehicle was, showing it is too far for those shots. I show two potential Palestinian sniper positions that no other analyst even considers despite witnesses. @nytimes A reminder: We have on video a resident pointing out multiple shooter positions in buildings, pointing in that direction. Both main witnesses to the shooting originally said they came from buildings; the IDF wasn't in buildings.Southern potential position is ideal for snipers.

The @nytimes analysis of #ShireenAbuAkleh's death is slightly more complete than the others - but it still assumes that lack of video evidence is evidence of no one else there.
nytimes.com/2022/06/20/wor…
@PatrickKingsley

1/ @nytimes @PatrickKingsley At least the NYT notes the other militants on video to the southeastand finds no line of sight, which no one else did. Somehow - I'm trying to find out - they extended the audio analysis to include, barely, the distance to the IDF. However, it is still lacking major facts.
2/