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F-15I vs Syrian MiG-25, 1997
We both evade each others first missile shots then turn back in and each take a second volley. His second one misses. Mine doesn’t.
Basically all of this is correct
In recent days, a lot of people posted short political credos. This is mine (although it ended up longer than the ones I read):
Bibi bears much of the responsibility for the Oct 7 massacre, but he did a better job managing Israel’s multi-front war since then than anyone else would have.
Israel didn’t overreact to Oct 7 in Gaza, and the Iran wars were not a mistake even if they won’t achieve all of their objectives. However, it’s possible that Israel was overly aggressive in Syria.
The Haredi sector contributes almost nothing to Israel’s security or economy, and their continuing exploitation of state resources is indefensible.
Palestinian nationalism is a death cult, and it must not be awarded a state no matter what the diplomatic cost is.
Israel shouldn’t be a theocracy, but it shouldn’t completely separate state and religion either. Religion in moderation has many beneficial social effects.
The “hostage religion” was a period of unprecedented collective psychosis in Israel, and it showed that the Israeli center-left was unsuitable for leading the country.
Netanyahu is a good prime minister, but most of the Likud backbenchers under him are low human capital kleptocrats.
The settlements are good and they contribute to Israel’s security by redirecting Palestinian violence toward well-armed populations and by forcing the army to be present and engaged. However, formally annexing them would have a high cost and very few tangible benefits.
Ben Gvir is an embarrassment and a bad police minister. Smotrich talks too much, but he’s a good finance minister.
Brain drain from Israel is bad, but fear of it must not be allowed to dictate and settle all policy questions. America is a magnet for the world’s talent, and it’s inevitable that some of Israel’s high human capital will end up there.
Donald Trump is a friend of Israel, even if he sometimes clashes with Netanyahu and even if some of his decisions are suboptimal for Israel.
Democrats and young Americans turned on Israel mostly due to inevitable demographic processes. Israeli policies and bad PR might have hastened it on the margins, but weren’t the core catalyst.
The US-Israel alliance in its present form will end over the next decade or two. Israel can weather this, but overall quality of life will be affected and this must be accepted as unavoidable.
It’s OK to cave to the Americans on easily reversible or revivable things: ceasefires, settlement freezes, routine military operations. It’s not OK to cave on irreversible things: withdrawals, recognitions, evacuations, and once-in-lifetime operations.
Most Israeli Arabs don’t identify with the state, but a significant minority (1/4-1/3 according to polls) does. These people should be valued, celebrated, and promoted as the normative mainstream.
The Abraham Accords is nice. Expanding it would be nice, but not nice enough to be worth any meaningful concession on anything.
War with Turkey might be unavoidable, but since it would be immensely destructive for both sides, it should be prevented if possible.
We should always be ready for peace, but we will always live by the sword. Our purpose should be not some final, grand diplomatic vision that ends all wars, but long periods of quiet and prosperity between the wars.
Jacob L retweeted
The Democratic Party’s base is deeply radicalized, not only on Israel but also on many unrelated issues. Almost 60% support a military coup against Trump, and only 28% oppose it.
These aren’t reasonable people. Perhaps the old cadre can slow down total Corbynization, but won’t be able prevent it. Israel cannot try to “heal relations” with a US version of Corbyn’s Labor. The only real solution is to start the process of decoupling from the US. Develop munition independence, diversify assets to make the economy more resistant to sanctions (buy gold), and as soon as possible, start developing a fifth-generation fighter jet. A lot of people will complain that this is extremely costly and harms the economy; they must be ignored. There is no other way.
The upcoming election in Israel is not between left or right, or between conservatives and liberals, but between people who understand this and people who keep selling delusions.
🚨 NEW POLL of Democratic voters w/ @LiberalCurrents
🔹 Harris, Newsom, Buttigieg lead the 2028 field
🔹 59% of Dems support military coup against Trump
🔹 57% of Dems want Biden officials in jail over Gaza
🧵 Read the thread for more insights
They’re so brazen about it. Israel is completely controlled by the Jewish lobby.
Look there’s even a menorah. They’re not even bothering to hide it.
Were it not for Israeli air defense, the scale of the conventional ballistic missile and rocket barrages against Israeli civilians would have easily justified a nuclear response.
Just so you’re aware.
An unfortunate thing about air power is that you can be as precise as possible- you can have the best intelligence, the most accurate munitions, with just the right payload for the target, and it’s still possible that the wrong people will be hurt or killed.
But here’s my question. If the Taliban can deliver bombs in the backs of cars, or strapped to their chests, why can PAF not retaliate by delivering them from planes?
Many Muslims so closely associate the use of air power with the US and Israel that it doesn’t even occur to them that Muslim countries could use it to protect their own people.
This is from Wikileaks. This is why I find it unlikely that Pakistani intelligence was behind the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks.
When someone is going to commit a jihadist attack they don’t usually warn Mossad about it.
Don’t get me wrong, there’s a lot to criticize Pakistan for when it comes to this, but I don’t think ISI directly plans attacks like this.
I think what’s going on is for decades they operated under a flawed security assumption that they could ignore cross border terror groups that operated in Afghanistan and India because they would help fix their lack of strategic depth. Which was a terrible idea.
To me, it looks like what happened in Mumbai is that ISI discovered there was a plot that terrorists in their country were going to attack the citizens of two nuclear armed states, and they went “Oh Shit” and tried to warn Mossad and R&AW but none of them managed to stop the terrorists in time.
Jacob L retweeted
I think Jews are expecting some kind of trap if they start funding white Christian American nationalist right-wing young men. They don't want to build us up, give us resources, provide institutional legitimacy, and then watch us turn on them. It's important for guys like me to come out publicly in recognition of where the Jewish coalition is at, and to say it's okay to be pro-Israel and pro-100 million mass deportations. This is a natural partnership. Jews should be donating to the Bo French campaign and they should be funding 100 million mass deportations of the Third World foreigners who despise Jews. We can all be friends and this is a long-term stable equilibrium. American Empire.
Honestly I have more respect for the actual terrorists than I do for these people.
I feel like I could actually have an interesting conversation with a guy like Nasrallah, but this? I couldn’t even begin to talk to this person. Where do you even start with this madness?
This is getting out of control!
A woman says her “Palestine OCD” landed her in the hospital multiple times. She wanted to be on the “right side,” so celebrities backing either side triggered anxiety attacks. Then both flags started scaring her. She got so obsessed that driving past a Starbucks, boycotted by the Palestine crowd, set her off. In therapy they had her hold a Starbucks cup just to treat the panic.
For 3 years, she says, she couldn’t go a single day without thinking about Palestine.
People with no real problems can afford to obsess over things they can’t change.
The rest of us don’t have that luxury.
Attacking a bomber from the rear is a really bad idea but he was getting very close to his target and I didn’t have time for another angle.
This Egyptian TU-16 has some rather nasty radar-directed 23mm cannons. Really he should have had me.
Because the Romans renamed it that as an insult to us. They named it that after the Phillistines, our biblical enemies.
The word “Palestine” is literally derived from the Hebrew word for “Invader”.
Who cares if Christians and Muslims called it that too? They both decided they had their own theological reasons for opposing the re-establishment of Jewish territorial sovereignty and independence, just as the Romans opposed it for political ones.
That numerous people over the millennia have acted to keep the Jewish people stateless and in exile does not somehow make Jewish independence illegitimate. It would still be right, good, and proper, even if everyone on earth were opposed to it other than ourselves.
So many of the arguments against Jewish independence ultimately boil down to it being inconvenient for other nations and religions.
Tough shit. It’s inconvenient to a burglar that my TV is in my living room and not his. If there’s a billion burglars who want my TV they doesn’t magically make it theirs.