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Zionist, writer, cynical optimist. 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 Working on a novel. Preferred pronoun: Capital of Israel.
Dec 1, 2023 4 tweets 1 min read
Israel does not need to be lectured by the West like it's a 3rd world rogue sh*thole. Officers from Western armies literally go to Israel to study methods of avoiding civilian casualties, like roof knock method pioneered in Israel.
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Israel told civilians to leave areas that would be targeted, which also warned terrorists to flee. But they used multiple methods to warn civilians, including leaflets, texts, direct calls. Israel opened & protected humanitarian corridors.
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Feb 4, 2022 4 tweets 1 min read
Must Read.
3. If you deliberately employ anti-Israel activists & send them to write reports on Israel- what do you expect the result to be?
5. Going back- we often see names of authors on Amnesty reports. The authors are anonymous in your Apartheid report. Why? 1/4 6. You called Israel an Apartheid state. It isn’t. Can you explain why Amnesty wasted enormous resources, changing every definition of all the words necessary- to squeeze Israel into a box it does not belong in? 2/4
Feb 4, 2022 4 tweets 1 min read
Russia wants naval bases, air bases, & a stable Syria.
Iran wants to control Syria to encircle #Israel, which Israel will not allow.

Recommended analysis. jpost.com/opinion/articl… "Russia is now flying missions with Syrian jets to reassert Syrian authority over the country. This should not pose a problem unless Russia limits Israel’s access to Iranian targets. That would be a game-changer that would benefit Iran." 2/4
Sep 17, 2019 26 tweets 5 min read
Last weekend, during a discussion about Israel’s contributions to the US, the topic of Khrushchev’s Speech came up @SeanDurns. Long thread incoming.

(You don't have anything else to do while waiting for Israeli election results, right?) 1/ In Feb 1956, Nikita Khrushchev, then Secretary General of the Communist Party of the USSR, delivered a secret speech to Soviet delegates at the Kremlin, lasting about 4 hrs and no bathroom breaks. 2/