David @wmgdir

This is moronic. There was infinitely more "carnage" caused by the Allies in WWII. 30-40K civilians were killed just in the invasion of Normandy. Does that make fighting WWII "unjust? Should the British have just surrendered to the Nazis?

The New Yorker @NewYorker

3 days ago

Michael Walzer published “Just and Unjust Wars,” an attempt to delineate the rights and wrongs of warfare in both its causes and its conduct, in 1977. In the nearly 50 years since, no other book on the subject has matched its influence. The precepts are not complicated: it is

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It’s easy to sell bad policies if you’re willing to just lie about their consequences. Which happens to be a central theme of El-Sayed’s campaign.

Kyle Martinsen @KyleMartinsen_

2 hours ago

Abdul El-Sayed claims Medicare For All, which would cost at least $40 trillion, would not add a penny to the deficit (he's lying)

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It has nothing to do with Gaza or even Palestinians. It has simply become a global symbol for wanting the destruction of western civilization.

New York Post @nypost

8 hours ago

Protestors waving Palestinian flags storm Roman Colosseum gates as unrest grows trib.al/gQ66cKR

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If anyone believes this nonsense, here are the facts he is counting on you not knowing. The deal did not end Iran's nuclear program. It rented a pause. Iran kept its centrifuges, kept Fordow buried in a mountain, kept enriching to 3.67%, and the key restrictions came with expiration dates. The sunset clauses began lifting in 2025. Obama's own answer at the time was that breakout time "would have shrunk almost down to zero" as the deal expired. His deal scheduled the problem for his successors. The regime lied its way into the deal. The JCPOA was premised on Iran coming clean about past weapons work. In 2018 Israel pulled Iran's own nuclear archive out of a Tehran warehouse: tens of thousands of documents on the Amad Project, a crash program to build nuclear weapons, preserved and hidden while Iran certified it had no such program. The IAEA later found uranium traces at undeclared sites Iran never explained. The deal paid for terror. Sanctions relief unfroze roughly $100 billion and the US delivered $1.7 billion in cash. That money flowed to the IRGC, Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Houthis. Diplomacy with a regime at war with you is financing, not peace. And the result? By 2025 Iran was enriching to 60%, a short technical step from weapons grade, with enough material for multiple bombs and the IAEA declaring it in violation of its obligations. That is what required military force this year. Iran marched to the threshold under the deal's cover and after it. "I didn't have to fire a missile" is true. He handed the regime money, legitimacy, and a timetable, and left the missiles to be fired a decade later by someone else. Appeasing a dictatorship doesn't buy peace. It buys the dictatorship time.

Acyn @Acyn

a day ago

OBAMA: Iran didn't have nuclear weapons because I had put a deal in place and I didn't have to fire a missile to do it. I just had to engage in diplomacy.

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Despite fighting multiple wars of necessity, constant terrorist threats and huge internal divisions, Israel’s 🇮🇱 economy is growing so fast that it is set to overtake the Netherlands 🇳🇱 within 18 months, in GDP per capita. Israelis are more innovative, their civil society is stronger, they have a stronger sense of national identity, and they have a real demographic future, because they still actually procreate (all European nations are below replacement level). By many measures, even Muslim citizens are better integrated in Israel proper (not the West Bank) than in the Netherlands. Yes, Israeli democracy is under threat, and the growing ultra-orthodox population poses serious porblems, but we'll see what the next election will bring (hopefully the end of the Netanyahu era). Meanwhile, the Dutch government bans Israeli goods from the West Bank, universities have cut ties with Israeli partners, and the “progressive” @progressiefned backs further sanctions and an end to all military support, even for purely defensive purposes. Because who cares if Jews die under rockets attacks? The Netherlands needs Israel more than the other way around.

Saul Sadka @Saul_Sadka

3 days ago

UPDATE: Israel’s economy is growing so fast, it will leapfrog the Netherlands and Australia within the next 18 months, in time for it's 80th birthday—not by 2030, as predicted—to rank second only to the USA in GDP per capita of all nations with populations over 10 million.

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@tedCMG @MatthewPHoh Your argument is like saying IHL doesn’t prohibit me from stabbing you in the head. Therefore, I have a legal right to stab you in the head.

@tedCMG @MatthewPHoh So you agree. They’re just murderers.

@tedCMG @MatthewPHoh Nothing under international law gives Palestinian civilians the right to kill Israeli soldiers at a checkpoint. They’re criminals in the same way as if they went over to a neighbor’s house and shot him in the head.

@tedCMG @MatthewPHoh I never argued what they did was a war crime. I said it was criminal murder, prosecutable under applicable law. You’re the one arguing that there is some affirmative right under IHL for civilians to kill Israeli soldiers at a checkpoint, which is false.

Lakers NBA rank in fouls drawn: 2022-23: 2nd 2023-24: 4th 2024-25: 6th 2025-26: 6th 2026-27: 29th The refs spent years giving the Lakers whistles, then Luka became the face of the franchise and suddenly nobody can buy a foul call. 😭 The anti-Luka agenda is generational.

Trevor Lane @TrevorLane

24 hours ago

The Lakers are currently tied for 29th in the NBA in fouls called for them. Tiny sample size to be sure, but interesting to see them so low.

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@IRanalyst @nazadocumentary I watched the movie and not one Israeli interviewed said that civilians were targeted in any airstrike. The only claim was high collateral damage allowance. Anyone who saw the movie knows you are lying.

@tedCMG @MatthewPHoh False. To have combatant status, they would have had to have met the criteria of GC Art. 4(A)(2), which they clearly did not. Consequently, they would (had they lived) have been legally subject to prosecution as the terrorist murderers they were.

@MatthewPHoh UNGA resolutions are expressly non-binding (as are ICJ rulings to which a state has not consented to be bound). As far as that provision of the GCs: (1) Israel isn’t a party to Additional Protocol I, and (2) it doesn’t give civilians taking part in hostilities combatant immunity

@MatthewPHoh That’s exactly what the Geneva Conventions say, and non-binding UNGA resolutions aren’t international law. Try again.

@LakersFilm Yawn

El-Sayed just refuses to address why he was among a few dozen Egyptian Americans who signed a letter calling on the Muslim Brotherhood government to assume dictatorial powers, accelerate it purge the opposition from the media, and ignore Western criticism for doing so. This should be disqualifying.

Matt Whitlock @MattWhitlock

2 days ago

WOW this exchange. @BretBaier tried to give Abdul El-Sayed a chance to finally explain the 2012 letter in support of the Muslim Brotherhood and Abdul awkwardly tries to speak over him. This flailing defensiveness is why we’re on week 3 on this issue.

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According to the PAC supporting Abdul El-Sayed for U.S. Senate, the reason Americans can’t afford groceries is because the U.S. is paying for “Israel to kill Palestinians.” Blaming America’s problems on Israel isn’t simply criticism of foreign aid. That’s why they don’t care about the billions of aid going to Egypt, Jordan and Ukraine. Or about US military forces defending Europe, South Korea and Japan. Israel is central to the identity of most American Jews. Singling out Israel as the cause of American suffering is a thinly veiled attempt to turn Americans against their Jewish compatriots, portraying their support for Israel as evidence of divided loyalties and their political influence as a threat to the interests of their fellow Americans. It is an old antisemitic tool dressed up as a foreign-policy argument. @PatinkinMandy

CUBS WORLD @CubsWorld80

2 days ago

Israel First Mike Rogers’ career is cooked after this Abdul El Sayed ad. This is brilliant.

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@4noura @haymarketbooks Palestinianism is a genocidal ideology

@tayab_ali_ It’s time to pressure the “Palestinians” to abandon their goal of destroying Israel.