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TaxMan retweeted
👫"Honey, did you know that the money we send to Israel actually comes right back to us?”
Husband: "No."
Wife: “Yeah. Israel has to buy American equipment with the money, so it creates tons of jobs."
* Israel is required to spend approximately 92% of its regular U.S. military financing on American-made equipment and services.
Israel Saves American Taxpayers Money!
For example:
1. The Money Comes Right Back to America: Yearly, America sends $3.8 billion dollars to Israel. This money is falsely described as “foreign aid.” In reality, the money is neither “foreign aid,” nor a handout. In fact, almost all of the money that is given to Israel is immediately returned to America. Nearly all of the money has to be spent to purchase only US-made military equipment or systems. In reality, the money sent to Israel is actually invested into the American economy. The money invested into the American economy turns into mega-billions of dollars in returned value.
2. A professional auditing reveals that the $3.8 billion dollars which is given to Israel is actually a high-yield investment. The investment provides the US with an unprecedented Return-on-Investment (R-o-I). In addition, the investment serves as an irreplaceable financial multiplier for the US homeland and national security.
3. Israel is constantly under attack from Arab countries and Islamic terrorists. This reality means that Israel has the most real combat experience. When America sends new military equipment to Israel, then the equipment is tested in real life. America finds out if our equipment is effective or not.
4. The US maintains its military bases in Western Europe at an annual cost of $35 billion. This cost included maintaining 80,000 American troops. At the same time, the annual US investment in Israel is $3.8 billion with no large stand-alone US military bases, yielding to the US an annual Return-on-Investment of well over 1,000%.
5. Israel is constantly under attack. Israel uses American-made fighter jets in real combat, including strikes against military targets. By sending American equipment to Israel, the equipment becomes a battle-tested laboratory. This yields daily lessons and improvements, with equipment operations, maintenance, repairs, mechanical and technological. All of these tests are shared with the US manufacturers.
These lessons are integrated, by the US manufacturers, as modifications and upgrades in the next generation of the US military products. This process saves the US many years of research and development. Real combat saved America 10-20 years in the case of the F-35, F-16 and F-15 each. All of these tests amount to mega-billion dollars in savings and returns. Meaning, the total research and development cost of the F-35 was $55 billion, so imagine how much is saved by testing with Israel.
@cenkuygur
TaxMan retweeted
THE DUDE APOLOGIZED for a lunatic Hezbollah psycho who drove a truck full of explosives into my kids' preschool...
so yes, call me "single issue" and gfy
TaxMan retweeted
I'm going to go out on a limb here and assume that you didn't send your son to a synagogue preschool (although I know you were raised Jewish), so you have no idea the visceral fear Jewish parents who do of hearing of a terrorist barely thwarted from a mass murder spree at such a school, and their visceral disgust that El-Sayed's first reaction was empathy for the terrorist.
TaxMan retweeted
It's so dishonest of you to talk about single-issue "pro-Israel" voters, when what's upset Jewish voters more than anything is (1) Him running a primary campaign demonizing AIPAC in a way very reminiscent of demagogic antisemitic campaigns throughout modern Western history; (2) his immediate reaction to the attempted murder of dozens of Jewish preschoolers by a domestic terrorist, "hurt people hurt people", ie empathy with the terrorist, not the victims; and (3) campaigning with a notorious antisemite, Hasan Piker.
Note that none of those are "Israel" they are about stoking antisemitism, and empathizing with those who would mass-murder Jewish children.
TaxMan retweeted
Oct 7th wasn’t a “War Crime” - there wasn’t a war. That came after and because of Oct 7th. And absolving Hamas of any responsibility or agency laying the entire responsibility of all the “suffering” in the region at the foot of Israel, renders your condemnation meaningless.
You’re an agent of deception, no matter how many Shuls you visit, or Sukkahs you sit in, or apples you eat dipped in honey with a smile, we’re not falling for it.
Grieving October 7th while spreading the very lies and distortions and ideologies that support such actions doesn’t make you an empath, it makes you a fraud.
Evil often comes at you with a smile. And it has no place in New York City.
TaxMan retweeted
Many people think Hamas were the only ones responsible for the October 7, 2023 massacre.
They weren’t.
Other terrorist organizations also took part. But beyond them, civilians from Gaza also crossed into Israel and participated in the attack, including killings, looting, and sexual violence.
This is an uncomfortable reality, but acknowledging it is necessary if we want an honest understanding of what happened on October 7.
TaxMan retweeted
October 7th will always be a day of heartbreak & horror.. just as 9/11 is for me.
So many innocents ruthlessly murdered by unthinkable evil.
Everyone in Israel and Jews worldwide are in my prayers today.. and forever.
Never forget. Never again. 💔🕯️🙏
TaxMan retweeted
That mayor announcing a strategy to combat antisemitism is like Bin Laden announcing a strategy to combat terrorism. You are not part of the solution. You are part of the problem. Do the city a favor: resign.
TaxMan retweeted
Words from Israel Prime Minister Golda Meir:
“In April 1948, I myself stood on the beach in Haifa for hours and literally beseeched the Arabs of that city not to leave.
“Moreover, it was a scene that I am not likely to forget. The Haganah had just taken over Haifa, and the Arabs were starting to run away – because their leadership had so eloquently assured them that this was the wisest course for them to take and the British had so generously put dozens of trucks at their disposal.
“Nothing that the Haganah said or tried, did any good – neither the pleas made via loudspeakers mounted on vans nor the leaflets we rained down on the Arab sections of the town.”
Do not fear, they read in Arabic and Hebrew. By moving out you will bring poverty and humiliation upon yourselves. Remain in the city which is both yours and ours.
They were signed by the Jewish Workers’ Council of Haifa.”
But alas they ignored the advice. Israel survived the war and the Arabs were not allowed to return.
Don’t allow the truth to be erased.
TaxMan retweeted
A SWASTIKA. IN AN AMERICAN ARENA. IN 2026.
A massive Nazi flag was unfurled during Jewish fighter Ben Azoulay’s match in Orlando.
This is America, not Nazi Germany.
Antisemitism must NEVER become normal.
TaxMan retweeted
I am getting really fucking sick of this "anti-Zionist" movement that's sprung up.
It's no longer for anything. It's not for Palestine. It's not to free Palestine. It's "anti-Zionist". Those aren't my words, it's theirs.
Well, what is a Zionist? Who are these people that these protestors seem so up in arms about?
Zionism is defined as a movement for the self-determination and statehood for the Jewish people.
So a Zionist is someone who believes that the Jewish people should have a State, and that this State should be able to make its own decisions.
Simple.
And there is now a global movement against the people who believe that.
It's not a movement against Israel's policies.
It's not a movement against Israel's governments.
Hell, it's not even a movement against Israel.
It's a movement against people who have an opinion. A belief.
It is a movement against one of the core human rights - freedom of opinion.
When Americans protested the war in Vietnam, they were protesting against the actions of their government.
Today, Americans don't even know what they're protesting.
Are they protesting a war that has one of the lowest casualty rates in modern history?
Are they protesting that Israel is sending in more aid than before Oct 7 and Hamas is hoarding it and trying to sell it to the people of Gaza?
Are they protesting that Israel, as is its right to do so, responded to a terrorist attack?
Oh no. That's right. They're protesting against people with a certain opinion.
An opinion that Jewish people should have a country - one country in the entire world, and that that country should be allowed to make its own decisions, just like every country in the world.
If you want to debate and protest Israeli policy, great - let's do that - there's lots of things that Israel could improve upon - show me a country that doesn't have things they could do better?
If you want to debate and protest whether or not they have the right government, great - many people would take your side on that one as well.
But if you're going to go after people because of their BELIEF in a country's right to exist - that's just hate. That's just prejudice.
And when the bulk of those people are Jews - yeah, a lot of people also consider that antisemitism. Jew-hate.
Just like you'd call it Islamophobic if there was a movement against people who thought Muslims should have their own country.
Speaking of which, there are currently 57 Muslim countries in the world. The Jews have 1, and you're protesting against the people who have an opinion that they're allowed to have it.
And that's a violation of human rights.
TaxMan retweeted
Demonizing AIPAC was a psyop orchestrated by the Red- Green alliance to weaken Jews and remove a layer of security in America .
Now you have CAIR and Muslim. Brotherhood - funding Islamists running for office in America. Precious time has been wasted obsessing over and vilifying AIPAC - who was committed to financing opposition to Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed.
But AIPAC was made poisonous - and CAIR and Muslim Brotherhood got busy.
Now, we might have a senator who’s family from hell is linked to CAIR, Muslim Brotherhood , all of which are per FBI, linked to HAMAS.
Wrap your head around this - foreigners, Hamas even, might install American candidates.
TaxMan retweeted
If Israel had lost the 1948 war, where exactly would a Palestinian state have been?
Most likely, nowhere.
The territory would have been divided between Jordan and Egypt, just as it was before 1967.
How do we know?
Because the PLO's 1964 Charter explicitly stated that it made no claim to the West Bank, then under Jordanian control, or Gaza, then under Egyptian control.
Its focus was on eliminating Jewish sovereignty.
Hamas's 1988 Charter was even more explicit.
It called for the destruction of Israel and framed the conflict in Islamist terms, but it never presented the creation of a Palestinian state as an objective.
Literally no mentioning of a Palestinian state.
That's why I believe the core of this conflict has never been simply about building a Palestinian state.
It has been about rejecting a Jewish one.
Real peace will only become possible when Palestinian leadership and society replaces the goal of destroying Israel with a positive vision for building their own future.
TaxMan retweeted
🚨MUST-READ from Israel Hayom: there is a wall to wall aggremnt in Israel left and right that the 15 point plan for Gaza is bad to Israel. And here is why:
📌 Because this outline turns the ISF from a force originally intended to dismantle Hamas into a force that protects it from the IDF. And Muslim soldiers who will stand between them and the IDF are exactly what Hamas has been wishing for since the beginning of the war.
📌 Because Qatar and Turkey were brought in through the back door to be the “judges” who determine whether Hamas has disarmed or not.
📌 Because the original Trump plan stated that "Gaza will be demilitarized." That is, all weapons will leave Gaza. This is what Netanyahu agreed to. Whereas, in the new plan, it was stated that the weapons will remain in warehouses in Gaza, meaning the Strip will not be demilitarized.
📌 No sane Israeli can agree to this breaking of promises, to leaving Gaza armed, to the word games, to the drugging, to the anesthetizing, and to the downplaying of danger. This is not a political matter. This is an existential matter.
TaxMan retweeted
More people have been murdered by the Iranian regime than have died in Gaza (same ideology) but there are no college encampments, Not one word from the Mayor of NYC who loves to bash Israel all day.
Remember, he supports this.
Silence is complicity.
Beyond sad. He’s been given a second life, but the reason want to kill him anyway. We need your help.
This young man, was scheduled to be executed alongside two other protesters in Iran on Tuesday. But before hanging him, his heart gave out from pressure. They rushed him to hospital, not out of mercy, but to keep him alive long enough to hang later.
His name is Alireza Sepahi. He is still alive.
We need international media to talk about this war being imposed on unarmed Iranians.
#StopExecutionsInIran
TaxMan retweeted
In one of karma's most poetic displays, ten Gaza Flotilla activists who skipped the ships and decided to walk to Palestine for a photo op never made it back home.
The freedom fighters decided to cross Libya, but were stopped and barred from continuing.
But being told to go home was not enough! So they sent a 10-member negotiation delegation, which was then also detained by a militia aligned with the Libyan Arab Armed Forces.
Apparently, these Islamists weren't as friendly as the Israel Defense Forces, and the virtue signalers who live for calling Israelis"monsters" and "baby killers" have been missing now for over 3 weeks!
These activists, hailing from countries including the United States, Spain, Italy, Poland, Argentina, Uruguay, and Portugal, were transferred to an illegal immigration detention facility in Benghazi, according to reports, with no communication and little hope of release.
Amnesty International has demanded their release, but maybe they missed the memo that other countries have borders. When you violate those borders, you go to jail or, worse, get executed.
The story has gotten minimal coverage as the rest of their friends prepare for yet another Flotilla trip to harass Israel, even though they claim they were tortured, beaten, and even raped last time they went. To me, it seems like a higher power wanted to make sure these pro-Hamas professional victims actually experience what they accused Israelis of doing to them. Seems like the Libyans are giving them a little preview of what would happen to them if Netanyahu actually let them enter Gaza.
Still in Libya! (By Melissa Chapman.) #Israel #IsraelWins
