Author, speaker, researcher on Israel, Judaism, Middle East, politics, military & foreign affairs. co-founder @middleeast_24

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Dan Feferman retweeted
Having now examined the Daily Groyper's evolving coverage of Israel, Turkey, and Qatar, the inverse trend becomes strikingly clear: 🔸️Share of articles critical of Qatar's government: 22.9%, then 11.9%, then 0%. 🔸️Share of articles critical of Turkey's government: 11.2%, then 2.6%, then 0%. 🔸️Share of articles critical of Israel: 0.8%, then 2.3%, then 14.5%. As the Iran war began, criticism of Qatar and Turkey disappeared. Criticism of Israel went up nearly twentyfold. If you see this and chalk it up to an innocent coincidence, I don't know what to tell you.
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Kudos to @AJEnglish and the Qataris. This is how to do psyops and narrative warfare. Find a topic nobody cares about and most people actuay support....make it seem like a scoop....turn it into a story that pushes a narrative you invented all while completely downplaying that is what you are actually doing all over the west. Qatar spends tens of billions each year to colonize everyone else...fund Al Jazeera, is the biggest funder of lobbying efforts in the US, of western higher and k-12 education....of sports and culture real estate in London, DC and elsewhere.....with nothing positive to contribute anywhere only ideological Muslim Brotherhood and far left chaos and decay. But Israeli individuals, buying and investing in the closest friendly country to them, is somehow colonization....thats a scoop. See folks? Thats how its done.... build a narrative and then create stories out of thin air to push that narrative when you yourself are fare guilter of that accusation than anyone else. Well done Al Jazeera
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pay attention to how systematic Israel delegitimization works. This individual @GeoRebekah has over 300k followers and claims to be a "climate scientist". I'm sure she is. Maybe she is even competent at that. I don't care. Many of these types of accounts are fake, anonymous or stacked with bots - she seems to be kind of "useful idiots" that Islamists love to impact. Not sure what she has to do with Israel/Palestine - but she felt she had to chime in on the segregation here. "Israel has different colored license plates for Israelis and Palestinians - easier for Israeli terrorists to identify Palestinians cars and attack". Where does she come up with this garbage? Sorry to say "climate expert" - but Palestinians have different license plates because they are NOT CITIZENS OF ISRAEL rather CITIZENS OF THE PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY. Are you also upset that Mexicans (not Mexican Americans) have different license plates than Texans? or that Florida has different plates than Georgia? Israeli Arabs....Israelis of Palestinian Arab ethnicity, have the same plates as Jewish Israelis. Also I don't know of any Israeli terrorists who targeted Palestinian cars - like ever. I do know of at least 4000 reported instances of Palestinians targeting Jewish cars with stones/ rocks - that can lead to death a year.... including one in which a friend of mine was driving recently @FleurHassanN and almost killed. Maybe stay in your lane? Stick to climate change? You are clearly out of your league on this one.
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Preach Hussain spot on
A brown woman running for the top UN job would have won the support of the world’s woke, Left, Dems, etc., but not this one. Why? Because Lana is not from an impoverished, chaotic, failing country. She is associated with the successful government of a thriving country. When Westerners support Arabs or Muslims, they want them poor, weak, fearful, and begging for help. When these Muslims and Arabs succeed and shine, they no longer fit the atonement White Guilt Westerners seek. They need Muslims and Arabs broken so they can pet them. If not, they see them as Western-adjacent— a sick ideology.
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Dan Feferman retweeted
It is a lie that Palestinians did not exist in 1948. One of the earliest references to Palestinians as a distinct people dates back to 1798, when German philosopher Immanuel Kant mentioned “Palestinians living among us” in his book Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View. He was, of course, referring to Ashkenazi Jews living in Europe. Palestine was always a geographical term, but on the rare occasions when it was used to refer to a people, it referred to Jews. The Palestinian Arab identity, however, is much more recent and was indeed only invented in the 1960s. Until then, Arabs were never seen as native, and fiercely rejected and even took offense at being called Palestinian, as the term was strongly associated with Jews and the Zionist movement. The Palestinian Arab identity was created specifically as a counter-identity to Israel and to present Arabs as an ancient and indigenous people of the region. Had Israel never been established, not a single Arab would identify as Palestinian today. So yes, Palestinians did exist before 1948. They just were Jews.
Replying to @khorramshar_44
None - “Palestinians” didn’t exist in 1948
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Never deleting this app.
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Israel needs to stop attacks by Jews against Palestinian civilians in Judea and Samaria for moral, national, and legal reasons. Period. But we should have no illusions that even major, successful law enforcement operations will significantly impact the hostile discourse surrounding Israel, for 3 reasons: 1. Documenting "settler violence" has already become an industry, with well-funded NGOs, professional Palestinian activists, European diplomats, UN bureaucrats, and "journalist" accomplices committed to producing a steady stream of reports about violence against "Palestinian olive harvesters" and the like. @bradlander, and future Brad Landers, will need to instigate clashes with "violent settlers" for electoral purposes. UN bureaucrats need to justify their salaries. Left-wing NGOs need to raise money. Even if Israel were to arrest tomorrow the several hundred hardcore Jewish perpetrators of attacks against Palestinian civilians - and I believe Israel should - this NGO/left-wing industry would continue to generate provocations and do whatever is necessary to ensure a steady stream of incidents for it to “document”. 2. Israel's supporters-turned-critics on the left need something to criticize in order to signal to their peers that they are not unequivocal supporters of Israel. If it's not "settler violence," it will be "settlement expansion," "movement restrictions," "disproportionate force," or something else, in order to demonstrate that they support Israel’s “right to exist” but… 3. In many cases, the debate over Israel has to do with political struggles and evolving trends in the U.S. that are not downstream of any particular Israeli action. Rather, they reflect the role that the idea of Israel plays in political, denominational, intergenerational, media, and other power struggles taking place in the U.S. These dynamics will not change as a result of any particular Israeli initiative (or change in government, for that matter). Again, Israel must do a far better job of ensuring law and order, and protecting all civilians, in Judea and Samaria, for its own sake. Doing so is also important for maintaining the support of some of Israel's most consequential friends in the U.S. But those who argue that Israeli actions on this front, whether by the current or a future government, will have a major impact on the anti-Israel discourse in the U.S. are, unfortunately, mistaken.
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In 5 or 10 or 20 years, we will find out that the Qatari government or whoever was just punking everyone by running super creative cash campaigns for whoever could connect anything shitty in the world to Israel or Jews in the most creative way. @cenkuygur congrats on somehow reaching deeper levels of retardedry with every post. Your beloved illiterate, fascist and barbarian Islamo-Marxists are literally burning down France, Italy and wherever else... over what started as school protests.... and somehow you will connect it to Israel. well done....
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Enough with your disingenuousness and sleight of hand @mehdirhasan. Now pay attention people! 1. What is your obsession with Israel? Seriously - is this really the most important thing in the world? 2. Jews owned 7% of the land in 1947. So who owned the other 93%? Not who you think. According to British Mandate records, Arabs owned roughly 49%, Jews 6–7%, and the rest was public or unassigned land, much of it in the Negev. 3. But here's the bigger distortion: The UN partition plan wasn't about dividing private property. It was about establishing two sovereign states. Arab landowners in the proposed Jewish state would have retained their property, just as Jewish landowners in the proposed Arab state would have. By this logic, no country could claim sovereignty over territory unless its citizens already owned every acre of it. You can debate the fairness of partition. But confusing private landownership with national sovereignty isn't a historical argument, it's a category error. 4. The UN partition plan of 1947 would have given an Arab Palestinian state significantly more territory than the Jewish one that emerged. The Arabs of Palestine (not yet calling themselves Palestinian or seeing themselves as a distinct group from Syrians or Lebanese Sunnis) preferred to deny the Jews a state on a minority of the land and lost. The Arab states invaded...and lost. Losing wars that you start has repercussions. 5. Like any of the major wars around the globe between WWI and WWII....... there were forced or voluntary population moves and exchanges. 6. Glass houses @mehdirhasan When British India was partitioned in 1947 to create Pakistan, some 14–18 million Hindus, Sikhs, and Muslims fled or were driven across the new borders in one of history’s largest population exchanges—yet nobody argues Pakistan’s legitimacy depends on how much land Muslims privately owned before partition. Nobody argues Pakistan is an illegitimate state. And that is despite it being a largely failed state by all accounts while Israel is a thriving democracy. 7. The Israeli-Arab conflict saw roughly an equal and painful exchange of Jewish and Muslim populations in the Middle East- around 1.5 million in all. A touch smaller than in your native land. Jews who had lived as indigenous communities long before Islam or Christianity were expelled from their homes - forced to abandon properties and businesses - including my family. Where is your obsession with seeking justice for our cause? By contrast, the Arabs of Palestine mostly fled and were not expelled...the 2 million Israeli-Arabs who are full citizens of Israel and kept their properties, by and large, are the proof of this. Where are the once thriving Jewish communities of Baghdad, Damascus, Beirut, Sanaa, Tehran, Cairo, Tripoli, Tunis, Algiers and the cities of Morocco??? Where are they Mehdi???? 8. I wish your obsessions were fair and proportional - but you are a fraud with a big vocabulary and a good research team. Qatari funding will allow that. Why don't you go find a new hobby.
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Dan Feferman retweeted
While the cry of Islamophobia rings round Parliament & the country, but the very real menace of antisemitism is obvious. A PewCenter poll in 2010 found anti-Jew ✡️ hate was found to be intrinsic to between 95%-98% of Middle East Muslims, Pakistan 🇵🇰 was 78%. Sir David Bell's report says 1 in 5 of all students witnessed antisemitism, while 3 in 5 Jewish students had in Britain 🇬🇧. Jews do not expect the authorities to do much. Islamophobia is not the real problem.
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It may start with Israel and the Jews, but it never ends there. -@DanFeferman, Maj. (ret), Former IDF Intelligence, Editor-in-Chief Middle East 24, on NewsMax
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We call this a Freudian slip @mehdirhasan
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WATCH: Former Adviser to Israeli PM Bennet, @BarakHer, Discusses Arafat's Rejection of Peace Proposals In an interview with ME24's @DanFeferman, the former government communications director examines Arafat's decisions during peace negotiations. The Palestine Liberation Organization recognized Israel in 1993, yet Palestinian statehood remained unrealized. Watch the full discussion and subscribe to MiddleEast24's youtube channel to watch this podcast and more. youtube.com/watch?v=JevYUkaL…
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Dan Feferman retweeted
"Answer my question and don't talk about Hamas." You can't explain Gaza without them. Hamas signed a ceasefire, agreed to disarm, and refused. That's why the strikes continue. -@DanFeferman, Maj. (ret), Former IDF Intelligence, Editor-in-Chief Middle East 24, on Al Arabiya
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Dan Feferman retweeted
Israel left Gaza in 2005 hoping for peace. October 7 was the answer.  .-@DanFeferman, Maj. (ret), Former IDF Intelligence, Editor-in-Chief Middle East 24, on Al Arabiya
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Amit beat me to it super important interview
Brett McGurk, one of the Biden administration’s most senior officials, was interviewed on Dan Senor’s podcast (full disclosure, etc.) and rebutted a long list of claims and myths regarding the hostage deal. It is very much worth listening to, especially given that he served in an administration that clashed with Israel to the point of imposing an arms embargo. Brett McGurk’s five main points about the negotiations to free the hostages: 1. “They could have brought everyone home almost immediately” — McGurk: absolute bullshit According to him, a comprehensive deal in the early stages would effectively have required surrendering to Hamas’s terms, and even then there was no reason to assume Hamas would release everyone. The U.S. assessment was that Hamas intended to hold some of the hostages for years as bargaining chips. 2. The first deal collapsed because of Hamas — and the dispute was over the young women McGurk says Hamas tried to move on to releasing older men while it was still holding young women alive. From Israel’s perspective, agreeing to skip over them could have amounted to a death sentence for those women. Israel therefore insisted on completing that category, and Hamas stopped the releases. 3. Before the Rafah operation, there was no deal that Hamas was prepared to accept According to McGurk, Israel agreed to several very difficult proposals, including the release of prisoners convicted of serious offenses, and Hamas rejected them. Hamas also did not accept the Israeli proposal that Biden publicly announced. McGurk stresses that there was no point before Rafah when a deal was truly within reach. Moreover, Hamas would have waited years before releasing everyone. 4. Biden’s pressure to stop before Rafah was not because Israel had torpedoed a deal According to McGurk, by that stage Biden had simply reached the limits of his tolerance for the war and the regional crisis. The U.S. pushed for a reduction in fighting during Ramadan—a move that McGurk says actually reduced Hamas’s incentive to compromise in the negotiations. 5. Sinwar and military pressure were the key McGurk says that as long as Yahya Sinwar was alive, he saw no realistic possibility of a deal. This includes the killing of the six hostages, an episode that was portrayed here as the government having sacrificed them. The Rafah operation was part of the sequence of events that ultimately led to Sinwar’s killing, and according to McGurk, military pressure was what brought Hamas to the points at which it agreed to deals. In his view, military pressure and a hostage deal were not alternatives—the pressure was the leverage that made the deals possible.
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