Retired lawyer and author of fiction and flash fiction in Best Small Fictions 2016, Kenyon Review, North American Review, Vestal Review, KYSO Flash, Litro, etc.
Joined May 2016
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He was full of life and a talented athlete. By the age of 12, he had already become Israel’s national fencing champion. His whole future was ahead of him.
Yair Vilansky 🥀
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היום לפני שנתיים נפל בקרב בדרום הרצועה סמל קורן ביתן ז"ל
קורן שירת כלוחם בביסל"ח 450 (הכשרת מפקדים), לפני כן שירת כלוחם בגדוד דוכיפת, חטיבת כפיר, בן 19 בנופלו
לנצח נזכור אותך!
יהי זכרו ברוך!
Nancy Ludmerer retweeted
Many thousands of Gazans were commuting daily to jobs within Israel before 10-7. This is what made 10-7 possible. A blockade would have prevented all but the paragliders, who were limited in what weapons they could bring.
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@MaxAbrahms, an associate professor of political science at Northeastern University who studies terrorism and the Middle East, told JNS that “the removal of pro-Israel scholars and even Israel-neutral ones” from academia has impacted “Wikipedia and many other forms of discourse influencing the public.”
“Zionist-free higher education reduces balanced scholarship and contributes to Wikipedia’s bias,” he said. “The same is true of podcasts and social media, where almost no pro-Israel scholars can be found.”
“Philanthropists who care about Israel and intellectual pluralism must make targeted investments to ensure there are faculty to teach the younger generation, which will also have all sorts of additional benefits like objectively correct entries on Wikipedia,” he told JNS.
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#LaurelHillGlobalMethodistChurch in Richmond, Virginia set up over 1200 flags to honor those that died on October 7th. Their sign reads “We Stand With Israel”.
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Poland’s embassy in Washington issues a blistering criticism of Tucker Carlson:
“You have now become an apologist for Adolf Hitler”
Nancy Ludmerer retweeted
On October 7, 2023, Yael Idan watched Hamas murder her sister Maayan. Her father, Tzachi, was kidnapped to Gaza and later returned only as a body after being murdered in captivity. Their story must be seen and heard. We must never forget. May Tzachi’s memory be a blessing. 🕊️
Nancy Ludmerer retweeted
The "Babel" restaurant has reopened in Gaza in recent days.
What is surprising is not the luxury and abundance, as usual, but rather what an Arabic TG channel named Al-Minkhal wrote about it.
I am copying his words:
"I swear, if I were the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, I would take these videos and show them to the whole world. Anyone who says there's a famine in Gaza, or that Israel is failing to provide sufficient humanitarian aid, or that Israel isn't allowing enough trucks to enter, is lying."
Such an important post.
Canadian journalist goes to Israel… and the two-state dream dies on the spot. 🇨🇦🇮🇱
Standing on the border, she points to an Israeli military hospital treating Syrian women — ages 8 to 80 — who were raped by ISIS.
Then she drops the truth bomb:
“I came here believing in the two-state solution.
I really did.
I’m at a point now where I frankly do not.”
“The only way this tiny piece of land stays free… is if Israelis are in control of it.”
Because if you hand any of it to the PLO or Hamas —
it will look exactly like Syria.
Sometimes the most powerful pro-Israel voices aren’t Israeli.
They’re the ones who actually showed up and opened their eyes. 👀🔥
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This is Naama Levy. She was dragged into Gaza wounded, bleeding and helpless.
Hamas kidnapped her while she was injured and held her in horrific conditions.
Her wounds went untreated as she suffered severe malnutrition and extreme hunger.
At one point, she had no water left and survived on rainwater collected in a pot.
She was held alone for weeks, constantly moved from place to place, and forced to run under fire while her captors reloaded their weapons.
She was forced to live in filth, with barely enough food, water or basic hygiene.
The UN knew. The Red Cross knew.
Where the hell were they when Naama needed them?
Why was the Red Cross more concerned about Hamas terrorists than Israeli hostages?
Share this and follow!
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Israeli filmmakers have released 'NAZA: The Real Story' to answer the documentary 'NAZA'.
The Venice film, by Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, rests on anonymous testimony that civilian deaths were built into Israeli targeting in Gaza.
The new film, by Lt. Col. Roi Danino, Hagai Gutman and Ariel Averbuch, uses on-the-record interviews with senior commanders and intelligence officers, plus combat footage and captured material. It argues that Hamas embedded fighters and weapons in homes, schools, mosques and hospitals, and that the IDF operated under strict rules of fire because of that.
The pushback has already started — attacks on the film and calls to boycott it. If it is buried before people watch it, only one version of the story will circulate.
Watch it, then share it as widely as you can — the link, the title, a short note on why it matters. Send it to family, friends, post it, forward it.
The film is free at nazadocumentary.com.
Do not let a boycott decide what others are allowed to see.
ALT #Naza #Israel #Gaza #Palestine #Genocide
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לקראת 7 באוקטובר, אנו זוכרים יותר מ־1,200 בני אדם שנרצחו ונטבחו באכזריות בידי מחבלי חמאס. באותו יום בוצעו גם מעשי אונס ואלימות מינית, לצד חטיפות ומעשי זוועה נוספים. אנו זוכרים את הנרצחים, את שמותיהם, את פניהם ואת החיים שנגדעו. יהי זכרם ברוך. לעולם לא נשכח. 💔🇮🇱🕯️
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“Why did an UNRWA teacher hold my 84-year-old mother hostage in his Gaza attic?”
Good question from courageous peace activist @netaheiman.
And we’d like to know: Why are 🇪🇺🇫🇷🇩🇪🇬🇧🇸🇪🇧🇪🇨🇦🇦🇺🇩🇰🇮🇹🇯🇵🇮🇪🇳🇱🇳🇴🇪🇸🇨🇭still funding UNRWA hate and terrorism?
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Let me remind you, so you don’t forget!
THE JEWS HAVE BEEN HERE FOR OVER 3,000 YEARS.
And for over 3,000 years someone has tried to erase them. Again and again with a new conspiracy to justify it.
The same has been tried with their holy land. Israel has been attacked, occupied, divided and denied by people who could not stand that the Jews had somewhere to belong.
It did not work. Not once.
The Jews are still here. And they are staying.
Whether you like it or not.
I stand right beside them. I protect them with everything I have and everything I am. And I am not moving.
And I will walk alone if that is what it takes. I am not Jewish, I am a Christian woman.
Not because I am braver than anyone else. But because I believe in a God who did not give me a voice to use only when it is easy.
If my voice gets one more person to speak up, the next one is not standing alone anymore.
Most people are not silent because they do not care. They are silent because they think they are the only one.
They are not.
Am Yisrael Chai.
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לא ראיתי את הסרט ולכן אני לא מתכוון להתווכח עליו. אבל בתוך כל הסערה סביבו, חשוב לי לומר משהו בתור מי שהיה שם.
אני הייתי שם. אנחנו היינו שם.
בשבעה באוקטובר ראינו רוע שקשה לתאר במילים. עברנו בין הבתים, ראינו את התוצאות מקרוב ואיבדנו אנשים. את מה שהיה שם שום סרט לא באמת יצליח להעביר.
שלושה שבועות אחר כך נכנסנו לעזה.
שם נדרשנו להילחם באויב שלא משחק לפי שום כלל שאנחנו מכירים. אויב שלא תמיד עומד מולך במדים, שפועל מתוך מרחב אזרחי ומנצל את הערבוב בין לוחמים לאזרחים כדי להקשות עלינו להילחם בו.
ובתוך המציאות הבלתי אפשרית הזאת נשארנו בני אדם.
גם אחרי השבעה באוקטובר, גם אחרי שחברים שלנו נהרגו וגם אחרי שבועות וחודשים של לחימה.
כמ״פ, הייתי שם כשהתקבלו ההחלטות. אני יודע כמה מאמצים עשינו כדי לצמצם פגיעה בבלתי־מעורבים.
אי אפשר לספר את הסיפור של עזה בלי השבעה באוקטובר.
אי אפשר לדבר על תוצאות המלחמה בלי לדבר על האויב שמולו נלחמנו ועל האופן שבו הוא בחר להילחם.
שיח שמציג רק צד אחד של המציאות הוא לא שיח אמיץ או מורכב. הוא שיח מוטה. וכשהוא מוצג לעולם כאמת כולה, הוא פוגע במדינת ישראל ובלוחמים שנשלחו להגן עליה.
אני הייתי שם. אני מכיר את המחיר. אני מכיר את המורכבות.
ובעיקר אני מכיר את הלוחמים שלי ואני גאה בדרך שבה נלחמנו ובבני האדם שנשארנו.
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Regardez bien cette armoire.
Le 7 octobre, Michael, 9 ans, et Amalia, 6 ans, s’y sont enfermés pour échapper aux terroristes.
Pendant des heures, deux enfants sont restés là. Cachés. Silencieux. Terrifiés.
De l’autre côté de cette porte, leur mère, Smadar, venait d’être assassinée. Leur père, Roy, sera lui aussi tué.
Imaginez avoir 6 et 9 ans et comprendre que, pour rester en vie, il ne faut surtout pas pleurer. Il ne faut surtout pas faire de bruit.
Ils sont restés cachés près de 12 heures.
Cette armoire n’était pas un meuble.
C’était tout ce qui séparait deux enfants de la mort.
Michael et Amalia ont survécu au 7 octobre.
N’oubliez jamais ce qu’ils ont dû faire pour survivre. 🕯️
