Husband of Amy, father of David and Nikki and Grandpop of Simon. #RollTide
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Richard Silfen retweeted
WAKE UP WAKE UP (partly because it’s a weekday and we should be waking up anyways)
IT’S GAMEDAY!!!
Josh and Sandee, and of course Ellen, deserve justice. Let’s see this inquiry become reality! @JusticeForEllen
The death of Ellen Greenberg deserves another look. This case has become a black eye for our city.
If elected as Philadelphia’s District Attorney, I will assemble a team of veteran homicide prosecutors and detectives and order a top‑to‑bottom review of all the case information available.
Several law enforcement officials I’ve spoken to believe that obvious mistakes were made in the initial investigation.
As DA, I believe it is my duty to review files from the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office, the Chester County District Attorney’s Office, and the Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General so we have a complete picture of how Ellen’s case was handled.
We will respect the work done up until this point, but scrutinize it with a critical eye to ensure our investigation is as thorough and fair as possible.
My heart goes out to Josh and Sandy Greenberg and the rest of Ellen’s family. The Greenbergs, the city staffers involved with the investigation thus far, and Philadelphians deserve the truth - no politics, just facts.
Richard Silfen retweeted
WATCH ⚡️
Bill Clinton Calls Out Ignorance: ‘Young People Don’t Know Palestinians Rejected Their Own State!’
“Look, I think what's happened there in the last 25 years is one of the great tragedies of the 21st century. And when I tell the young people, for example, who are understandably in America, they first let's say they're super sympathetic with the Palestinians. Well, they've been killed, a lot of those Palestinians have, and they had and all they know is, there's a lot more Palestinians have been killed than Israelis. And I tell them what Arafat walked away from. And they like, can't believe it.
I said, oh yeah, he walked away from a Palestinian state with a capital in East Jerusalem, 96% of the West Bank, 4% of Israel to make up for the 4% that the settlers occupy that were beyond the borders in the 67 war. And I go through all the stuff that was in the deal and they they like it's not on their radar radar screen. They can't even imagine that that happened. And I tell them, you know, the first and most famous victim of an attempt to give the Palestinians a state was prime minister Rabin. Who I, I think, loved him as much as I ever loved another man.
And so Rabin, he dies and then Perez is defeated in the election and where the rest of it is history. But you walk away from these once in a lifetime peace opportunities and you can't complain 25 years later when they the doors weren't all still open and all the possibilities weren't still there. You can't do it.”
Richard Silfen retweeted
Josh Shapiro's office ruled this a suicide
Ellen Greenberg was stabbed 10x in the chest and 10x in the back
2x postmortem
Why is Josh Shapiro covering up this murder? Does it have to do with her finance's well-connected family in Philadelphia politics?
Richard Silfen retweeted
Thousands of anti-Canada protestors gather regularly in our streets to whine about the Nakba.
Frankly, this entire Nakba narrative is old. So let's debunk it, yet again, shall we?
Especially now that Jewish history has effectively been rendered illegal by so many of our schools, most recently by the Toronto District School Board (@tdsb).
It's time to stop with indoctrination and get back to education ...
The Nakba was NOT the catastrophe the anti-democracy mob purports it to be.
The Nakba was the Arabs losing a war they started — in the most humiliating way.
I'll explain simply:
On May 14, 1948, Israel declared independence. Immediately following that declaration, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, and Saudi Arabia waged a genocidal war against the new Jewish state.
Their plan: the complete and utter annihilation of Israel and the Jewish people.
Israel had no army and few weapons. Adversaries ambushed them from all directions.
While the US and UK prevented Israel from getting arms, the Brits trained and armed the Arabs.
Against ALL odds, tiny, unprepared Israel defeated SIX trained and well-armed armies.
One of the greatest military humiliations in history.
And the Arabs and Palestinians repeated similar self-inflicted humiliations in 1967 and again in 1973.
If you want to talk about a real Nakba, then talk about the one million Jews ethnically cleansed from Arab countries. Those Jews were forced to flee, after murders, r*pes, and pogroms. Generations of their wealth, history, and places of worship left behind.
No refugee status. No United Nations cheque every month — for seven generations. No “right of return.”
Oh, and why is 20 per cent of Israel’s population Arab-Israeli?
Well, as part of that 1948 war, Arab leaders ordered Arabs on Israeli land to leave their homes. They promised them they could return home after they exterminated the Jews.
Israelis pleaded with the Arabs not to listen.
“We are peace-loving people,” the Israelis published widely, inviting the Arabs to stay. “There is no cause for fear which others try to instill in you.”
The ones who fled went to various refugee camps throughout the Arab states. Their living conditions were poor and the Arab states did not grant them any rights.
Israel offered to take the refugees back. But nope! They did not want to live amongst Jews.
The Arabs who did not leave remain today as part of the Arab-Israeli population of 2 million. Their rights are equal to those of Jewish-Israelis.
The Nakba was never a catastrophe inflicted upon Arabs; it was always a self-inflicted embarrassment.
This is not taught to Arab or Palestinian children in schools because it’s humiliating to their people.
But why isn’t this important piece of history taught in schools everywhere else around the world? Too many schools in Canada, for instance, allow this propaganda to be a part of their classroom studies.
And from a marketing perspective, this propaganda is well-positioned to be accepted by people who don’t know any better because they never received this education in any history class.
The word “Nakba” is also cleverly wielded.
A non-English word, it acts as a mysterious, yet symbolic placeholder for whatever trauma your mind can conjure. The ambiguity gives it power. The unfamiliarity of its language and culture gives it a sense of empathetic authenticity.
You want it to be real, so you can demonstrate your empathy for its cause. Suicidal empathy. (Credit to yet for coining that term.)
But for those who suffer from Factophobia (credit to me for coining that term), and cannot absorb facts — let me break it down again — in the absolute simplest way possible:
The Nakba was the Arabs’ effort to colonize another country, genocide its people, lose a brutal war they started, and then whine about it to the world, forevermore.
Essentially, Nakba is also the biggest scam in the history of humankind. Now, in 2024, history repeats itself — yet again.
Which also means Israel will emerge victorious again.
Am Yisrael Chai🇮🇱
Richard Silfen retweeted
Jesse Owens of USA winning gold for the long jump in the summer Olympics in Germany, 1936.
The man saluting behind Owens is Lutz Long, a German who shared training tips with Owens and was the first to openly congratulate him after his final jump in full view of Hitler.
After the Olympics, the two kept in touch via mail. Below is Long's last letter to Owens while he was stationed with the German Army in North Africa during World War 2. Long was later killed in action during the allied invasion of Sicily in 1943.
"I am here, Jesse, where it seems there is only the dry sand and the wet blood. I do not fear so much for myself, my friend Jesse, I fear for my woman who is home, and my young son Karl, who has never really known his father.
My heart tells me, if I be honest with you, that this is the last letter I shall ever write. If it is so, I ask you something. It is a something so very important to me.
It is you go to Germany when this war done, someday find my Karl, and tell him about his father. Tell him, Jesse, what times were like when we not separated by war. I am saying—tell him how things can be between men on this earth.
If you do this something for me, this thing that I need the most to know will be done, I do something for you, now. I tell you something I know you want to hear. And it is true.
That hour in Berlin when I first spoke to you, when you had your knee upon the ground, I knew that you were in prayer.
Then I not know how I know. Now I do. I know it is never by chance that we come together. I come to you that hour in 1936 for purpose more than der Berliner Olympiade.
And you, I believe, will read this letter, while it should not be possible to reach you ever, for purpose more even than our friendship.
I believe this shall come about because I think now that God will make it come about. This is what I have to tell you, Jesse.
I think I might believe in God. And I pray to him that, even while it should not be possible for this to reach you ever, these words I write will still be read by you.
Your brother, Luz"
Richard Silfen retweeted
Stone Age mentality!
Libyan TV host praises Palestinians for sacrificing their own children and using them as human shields.
“We give birth to so many children so we can push them to death, to martyrdom.”
Richard Silfen retweeted
One thing that is clear is that Israel is going absolutely nowhere. No other country on earth has their existence continually questioned in the way Israel does. We should not tolerate public calls for ethnic cleansing.
Richard Silfen retweeted
What does “From the river to the sea,
Palestine shall be free” really mean?
This is Tel Aviv. A city of 4.4 million Israelis. Vibrant, bustling, populous.
This is part of what that chant calls to purge. It’s why it is nothing more than a performative call for ethnic cleansing.
Excellent comments after the game. So proud of the job #Alabama Men’s Basketball, you and your staff did this year. Thank you! And, always #RollTide!
Taff and @nate_oats
Richard Silfen retweeted
A little history for those wanting to 'restore Palestine'.
1. Before Israel, there was a British mandate, not a Palestinian state.
2. Before the British Mandate, there was the Ottoman Empire, not a Palestinian state.
3. Before the Ottoman Empire, there was the Islamic state of the Mamluks of Egypt, not a Palestinian state.
4. Before the Islamic state of the Mamluks of Egypt, there was the Ayubid Arab-Kurdish Empire, not a Palestinian state.
5. Before the Ayubid Empire, there was the Frankish and Christian Kingdom of Jerusalem, not a Palestinian state.
6. Before the Kingdom of Jerusalem, there was the Umayyad and Fatimid empires, not a Palestinian state.
7. Before the Umayyad and Fatimid empires, there was the Byzantine Empire, not a Palestinian state.
8. Before the Byzantine Empire, there were the Sassanids, not a Palestinian state.
9. Before the Sassanid Empire, there was the Byzantine Empire, not a Palestinian state.
10. Before the Byzantine Empire, there was the Roman Empire, not a Palestinian state.
11. Before the Roman Empire, there was the Hasmonean state, not a Palestinian state.
12. Before the Hasmonean state, there was the Seleucid, not a Palestinian state.
13. Before the Seleucid empire, there was the empire of Alexander the Great, not a Palestinian state.
14. Before the empire of Alexander the Great, there was the Persian empire, not a Palestinian state.
15. Before the Persian Empire, there was the Babylonian Empire, not a Palestinian state.
16. Before the Babylonian Empire, there were the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah, not a Palestinian state.
17. Before the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah, there was the Kingdom of Israel, not a Palestinian state.
18. Before the kingdom of Israel, there was the theocracy of the twelve tribes of Israel, not a Palestinian state.
19. Before the theocracy of the twelve tribes of Israel, there was an agglomeration of independent Canaanite city-kingdoms, not a Palestinian state.
(The Kingdom of David - historic map for those wondering how the region looked over 2000 years ago, and how deep the roots of the Jewish people run in these lands)
Richard Silfen retweeted
On top of that - Jews were present all over Arabian peninsula! They were the most wealthy and intellectual community ! Even in the recent past - Jews of Yemen were very knowledgeable- they spoke 3 languages - Hebrew, Arabic and Aramaic ! They did skilled trades like goldsmith etc.. but this peaceful religion spread all over - and eradicated Jews - snatched their homes, properties etc and drive them away! Jews - were blessed by their God with this current day Israel and were released from slavery from mummies! Such glorious community of Jews are challenged by some random terror breeders - they paid the price for it ! None of the Arabian nations want Palestinians in their country - but they want Israel to bear that burden ! Hypocracy has no limits ! Pakistanis go to Saudi for hajj and stay there as beggars - never to return again ! So lack of education , lack of money and forward thinking will lead to all this ! Yemen, Syria, Lebanon is all destroyed of poverty and terror !
#ChatGPT on #Bama football:
#Alabama football is renowned for its dominance in college football. The #CrimsonTide, led by exceptional coaching and talented players, have won numerous national championships, setting a standard of excellence in the sport.
@AlabamaFTBL @OpenAI