Greg Kinross retweeted
Forget for a moment that I strongly support the U.S.-Israel relationship. Forget that I am Jewish and a Zionist.
Let’s examine Abdul El-Sayed’s interview with ABC’s Linsey Davis strictly as Americans, through the lens of U.S. foreign policy and national security, issues that play a MAJOR role in the United States Senate.
There is so much wrong with his argument.
Israel is one of America’s most important strategic allies. Period. It is a critical bulwark against Iranian-backed terrorism, violent Islamic fundamentalism and forces seeking to destabilize the Middle East. The intelligence sharing, military cooperation and counterterrorism partnership between our countries is second to none and have helped protect American lives and interests.
El-Sayed portrays Israel as a country that takes our money and drags Americans into wars. That is an extraordinary oversimplification of American foreign policy and simply not true and dangerous to American lives.
Dozens of countries receive American foreign assistance. We have deployed troops, spent billions and billions of dollars and sadly lost thousands of American lives defending other nations and protecting shared strategic interests. We currently protect South Korea, Taiwan, the Philippines, and Japan. We stand strong on the front lines of Central and Western Europe. We are throughout the Middle East. Kuwait has directly requested American military intervention. Saudi Arabia and other Gulf countries have urged Washington to confront Iran militarily. And the list goes on and on….
Israel has advocated American military action and so have many other countries, but it is American presidents who decide whether to send Americans to war. Blaming Israel for those decisions erases American responsibility and our duty as the world’s super power to stand with our allies.
And there is something deeply troubling about repeatedly portraying the Jewish state as taking American money while making Americans fight wars and subsequently put their lives in perilous danger. Such accusations risk reinforcing antisemitic narratives about Jewish influence and control and it threatens our community.
Israel is not simply a recipient of American generosity. It is a strategic partner that provides extremely important intelligence, military technology, regional deterrence and counterterrorism cooperation that benefit the United States and its people. The U.S.-Israel relationship is not charity. It is a partnership built around substantial shared security interests.
Anyone seeking to serve in the United States Senate should be prepared to explain both the costs and benefits of that relationship, and distinguish legitimate disagreements over policy from sweeping accusations against one of America’s most important friends and ally.
Democratic candidate Abdul El-Sayed shared his views on U.S.-Israel relations, saying he does not consider Israel an American ally: “I think it’s time for us to realize that Israel is not actually our friend.”
Watch the full conversation tonight at 8 p.m. ET on ABC News Live Prime’s “All Access with Linsey Davis” streaming on @disneyplus and @hulu.
Greg Kinross retweeted
UN Secretary-General António Guterres said: “I have never seen killing and destruction like Gaza in all my years as Secretary-General.”
According to even the most critical reports, Guterres, 70,000 people were killed in the war in Gaza, a large proportion of them Hamas terrorists.
During your years as Secretary-General: more than 600,000 people were massacred or starved to death in Ethiopia.
377,000 died in Yemen — that figure appears in reports issued by your own organization.
150,000 were killed in Sudan and 12 million were displaced.
Hundreds of thousands have been buried in Ukraine.
You didn’t see it? They died before your eyes. You simply looked the other way, because the Jews couldn’t be blamed.
Greg Kinross retweeted
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.
Greg Kinross retweeted
Alas, Mr. Congressman, I'm not lying. And I started this line of questioning assuming you were telling the truth. I've written long essays on extremist Israeli violence in the West Bank. I know it happens. I was ready, at first glance, to believe it happened here. But it didn't. This wasn't Israeli violence. This was agitprop for your American audiences.
I said explicitly that I'm not familiar with the details of that area. It took a lot of effort for JPost to find out what it found out -- which was that it was a closed military zone only recently opened.
But if you'd coordinated your visit with Israeli authorities, this would have been sorted out from the start. Those soldiers weren't angry or aggressive, they seemed mostly just confused about the status of the area and how to handle your visit.
Because, you know, there was no coordination.
JPost suggests all that in the article you yourself shared.
And what of the violence? Your group had cameras -- a professional photographer and at least one bodycam -- yet you've produced no evidence that I've seen of the violence you claim to have experienced.
Remember that you claimed the violence was sufficient to demand that Netanyahu order the prosecution of those soldiers.
I've seen that sort of violence before; if you produce that footage, I'll join your demand for prosecution. That's not rhetoric. I really will, wholeheartedly.
But if you don't, I think it's safe to assume you blew up a small inconvenience caused by your own refusal to talk to Israelis.
In a similar vein, you used the word "detained" as if you were unlawfully held against your will -- and hide behind its second meaning, that you were a bit delayed in driving forward into the area. The first is on the spectrum of kidnapping crimes, the second is the sort of problem you'd encounter at the entrance to a federal building as you search your pockets for an ID. Which was it?
Anyway, you were angling for some domestic political brownie points, and congratulations, you got 'em.
You are lying @havivrettiggur. The Jerusalem Post, which leans right, concluded that it was not a closed zone & vigilante settlers had no right to detain Americans. Stop gaslighting Americans. jpost.com/israel-news/articl…
Greg Kinross retweeted
Even Arab leaders admit it.
Everyone is sharing the Bill Clinton clip where he describes how Yasser Arafat rejected a generous peace offer at Camp David that would have given the Palestinians a state on 96 percent of the West Bank, land swaps, and a capital in East Jerusalem. Clinton says Arafat lied to him and that the Palestinian leadership never actually wanted a two-state solution. They wanted to destroy Israel. It’s a video often shared by people like @VividProwess, and it’s an important one for people to see.
Of course, critics immediately dismiss it. They claim Clinton is biased or he’s pro-Israel. They’ll tell you that you cannot trust the American perspective.
Ok, so let us set that aside.
Now watch this.
In this powerful interview, former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, a major Arab leader who was directly involved in negotiations, says exactly the same thing from the Arab side. He talks about the Mena House Conference in Cairo as well as the Camp David negotiations of 1978. All failed because of the Palestinians repeatedly rejecting any offer. The Oslo accords were signed but because Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad were not involved, they derailed the accords and any chance for peace by initiating 4 years of terrorist suicide attacks in Israel. Then came the second Camp David negotiations in 2000 which Arafat agreed to, then rejected and instead initiated the Second Intifada.
Mubarak explains how the Palestinians refused to even participate in the Mena House conference of 1977. He describes repeated opportunities they were given, including a detailed document that called for Israeli withdrawal from the Samaria, Judea and Gaza, security arrangements during a transitional period, and other major concessions. The Israelis were willing to negotiate on difficult issues like who would control security. The Palestinians, according to Mubarak, kept saying no and wasting chance after chance.
He speaks with clear frustration about how for decades the Palestinian side has rejected peace initiatives and realistic compromises.
The video further shows footage from the PLO representative in 1977, as well as old footage of Egyptian president Sadat who was involved in the Mena House and first Camp David negotiations of 1978.
This perhaps is far more impactful than Clinton’s account because it is not a Western or Israeli voice. It is prominent Arab leaders who lived the negotiations, who represented the broader Arab world, and who had zero incentive to defend Israel.
When leaders from both sides of the table describe the same pattern of Palestinian rejectionism and violence, it becomes much harder to dismiss as bias.
The pattern is clear across decades and across different voices… generous offers, repeated refusals, and continued demands for everything while giving nothing in return.
This is not ancient history. It is the core reason the conflict continues today.
If you value the truth, please share.
NICHOLAS WOODE-SMITH | Jewish identity not a licence to rewrite history businessday.co.za/opinion/20…
Greg Kinross retweeted
🔴ELIMINATED: 250+ Hezbollah terrorists and commanders were eliminated across Beirut, the Beqaa and southern Lebanon, during the largest strike conducted in Lebanon.
Among the terrorists eliminated:
• Hassan Mustafa Nasser - Responsible for smuggling and storing weapons in Lebanon.
• Ali Qassem, Abu Ali Abbas, and Ali Hijazi • Responsible for gathering the intelligence assessment on Israel, including the development of a target bank for strikes and the collection of intelligence.
• Abu Muhammad Habib - Throughout the war, and particularly during Operation Northern Arrows, he was involved in launching missiles toward Israel.
Greg Kinross retweeted
Tom Friedman would rather see the Iranian people suffer under a tyrannical regime than see Trump and Bibi successfully defeat them.
An incredible admission that probably represents the thinking of the NY Times and the majority of Democratic party leaders.
Trump is up against 'unbelievable obstacles': Mark Levin
foxnews.com/video/6392724518…
Greg Kinross retweeted
The thing that Westerns don’t understand is Islamists do not think the way we do. It’s a death cult.
When I was taken to IDF base to see the secret October 7 footage, it opens with a father trying to save his two children from Hamas terrorists gleefully slaughtering civilians.
He takes his two children to hide in a shed. Moments later, an Islamist terrorist gleefully throws in a grenade. Later, a child comes out with his eye blown out by shrapnel, soaked in his father’s blood. Weeping, he manages to grab his brother’s hand and escape.
I sometimes have nightmares of that child, eye gouged out, hands slick with his father’s blood, escaping through the side yard. Later the Islamist notices he’s gone and smiles at the horror he’s inflicted.
It’s the most evil thing I’ve ever seen.
Westerners who have never scrambled to run in a bomb shelter from a missile think of Palestinianism like the 1964 civil rights movement. This is a false categorization.
The reality is, it’s a death cult that will sacrifice themselves and their children to hurt Jews. They are not rational actors.
Once you realize that, you can understand the lengths Israel has to go through just to survive. You can’t make peace with someone who is so obsessed with hurting you, they don’t care if they live or die.
Greg Kinross retweeted
This video has convinced me that all the claims about settler violence in the West Bank are fake.
All the pro-Palestine accounts are spreading the blood libel that this Palestinian shop is being destroyed by Jewish settlers. But this video is from Hebron, where there are no settlers, and which is under complete PA control.
These are Palestinian gangsters, and the Arab perpetrators have already been arrested by the PA. If there were real incidents like this involving settlers, then despicable accounts like scumbag Nazi Daniel Lambert would not be amplifying fake stories, posting misleading videos and claiming Arab violence was perpetrated by Jews.
Greg Kinross retweeted
Your dishonesty has truly crossed the threshold into immorality.
First, there is absolutely no excuse for political violence, ever. I despise Nerdeen, but the plot to assassinate her on US soil is despicable. We are a society of law and order, and we aren’t turning this country into the Islamic republic.
Second, your confident naming of the Jewish group as well as their “known violent extremist organization”—which you made sure to quote and name—is slap in the face to how many Islamist terror plots take place near DAILY and you REFUSE to ever identify the aggressors as Islamists, let alone the ideology as “known to be dangerous,” which it very much is.
While this incident is atrocious, it is not the norm and never has been. It’s very clear you want to exaggerate the danger of one community and downplay the danger of the other, when it is well understood that jihadist/islamist groups are the real and persistent danger.
Please don’t fucking lie, Zohran.
Finally, you’ve made no mention about the Islamic regime targeting Iranian dissidents and human rights activists like myself, as well as Jews, which the FBI has actively foiled assassination attempts.
This is a form of transnational repression and is a serious and grave threat.
Instead, you steer the conversation to the targeting of Palestinian human rights activists. No mentioned of the Iranians and Jews who the FBI has repeatedly foiled assassination plots against? Including in NY?
No. Because that breaks narrative.
Again, there is absolutely no excuse for political violence, and thank god this plot was foiled—that’s not the American any of us should concede to living in.
But my god. You may be one of the most unethical and dishonest politicians in recent memory. There is no way you don’t know what you’re doing.
Greg Kinross retweeted
Kuwaiti Shocks UN: “Mr. Chair, Who are the real colonizers? A Jewish Kingdom ruled in Judea for a thousand years. We, the Arabs, took this land... Israel frees Gaza from Hamas and Iranians from the Islamic Republic. What Israel is doing to the IRGC—stopping a genocidal regime from acquiring nuclear weapons—is a gift to humanity.”
🔥 BEST VIDEO OF THE YEAR
Rare moment of truth at the UN from brave Kuwaiti dissident @JJJuraid, invited by UN Watch:
Mr. Chair,
I heard the term “colonizers.” But who are the real colonizers? A Jewish Kingdom ruled in Judea for a thousand years. We, the Arabs, took this land.
Who Arabized Egyptians, Phoenicians, Persians and Amazighs? It was us, the Arabs.
So why does the council enshrine a lie by keeping a permanent agenda item on Palestine, while ignoring the indigenous heart of Israel returning home?
Let us be clear about who is actually defending our sovereignty. Today, Israel is a fighter for peaceful nations, freeing Gaza from Hamas and saving Iranians from the Islamic Republic.
What Israel is doing to the IRGC — stopping a genocidal regime from acquiring nuclear weapons — is a gift to humanity.
There are 57 Islamic countries and only one Jewish state, Israel. Despite the ongoing hateful desire to eliminate it, Israel has not only survived, it has thrived.
I don't believe in miracles, but this is one.
So I ask the UN: when will you end the ritual of condemning Israel?
Is it not time, instead, to learn from Israel? How to defeat terror, defend free societies, and pursue peace.
Thank you.
Greg Kinross retweeted
There are many false claims in this letter but let me address one specifically: that "Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation."
This is the same false claim that Democrats and some in the liberal media have been repeating over and over.
As President Trump has clearly and explicitly stated, he had strong and compelling evidence that Iran was going to attack the United States first.
This evidence was compiled from many sources and factors. President Trump would never make the decision to deploy military assets against a foreign adversary in a vacuum.
Iran is the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism.
The Iranian regime is evil. It proudly killed Americans, waged war against our country, and openly threatened us all the way up to the launch of Operation Epic Fury.
Iran was aggressively expanding their short-range ballistic missiles to combine with their naval assets to give themselves immunity – meaning they would have a degree of a capabilities that would give them immunity to hold us and the rest of the world hostage.
The regime aimed to use those ballistic missiles as a shield to continue achieving their ultimate goal – nuclear weapons.
The President, through his top negotiators, gave the regime every single possible opportunity to abandon this unacceptable course by permanently giving up their nuclear ambitions in exchange for sanctions relief, free nuclear fuel, and potential economic partnerships with our country.
But they would not say yes to peace because obtaining nuclear weapons was their fundamental goal.
President Trump ultimately made the determination that a joint attack with Israel would greatly reduce the risk to American lives that would come from a first strike by the terrorist Iranian regime and address this imminent threat to America’s national security interests.
All of this led to President Trump arriving at the determination that this military operation was necessary for U.S. national security, which is why he launched the massively successful Operation Epic Fury.
The Commander-in-Chief determines what does and does not constitute a threat, because he is the one constitutionally empowered to do so - and because the American people went to the ballot box and entrusted him and him alone to make such final judgments.
And finally, the absurd allegation that President Trump made this decision based on the influence of others, even foreign countries, is both insulting and laughable. President Trump has been remarkably consistent and has said for DECADES that Iran can NEVER possess a nuclear weapon.
As someone who actually witnesses President Trump’s decision-making process on a daily basis, I can attest to the fact that he is always looking to do what’s in the best interest of the United States of America — period.
America First.
After much reflection, I have decided to resign from my position as Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, effective today.
I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.
It has been an honor serving under @POTUS and @DNIGabbard and leading the professionals at NCTC.
May God bless America.
Greg Kinross retweeted
Priceless: Watch how German Chancellor @_FriedrichMerz destroys a "pro-Palestine" protester 👇
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Dear All Tucker said Israel is ugly
here is a video i created please help educate some
Mandela was a Zionist: “As a movement we recognise the legitimacy of Palestinian nationalism just as we recognise the legitimacy of Zionism as a Jewish nationalism.” “We insist on the right of the State of Israel to exist within secure borders, but with equal vigor support the Palestinian right to national self determination.”
Greg Kinross retweeted
What's infuriating about this story is not the fact that Mayor Mamdani's wife supports the Oct 7th massacre. We obviously knew they both do.
What's infuriating is that the NY Times revealed that Congressman Dan Goldman's wife supports Israel, and he was forced to publicly distance from her.
We've reached the moral low point where supporting terrorists doesn't disqualify Democrats, but supporting Israel does.
NEW, from me @jewishinsider—New York City's First Lady, Zohran Mamdani's wife, liked Instagram posts celebrating the Oct. 7 attacks on Israel, including one that featured stills from livestreams of the assault and labeled it "systemic change for collective liberation."
