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 RT @EliLake: The new Nazis chose October 7 for their Bund rally. 
 CBS News just apologized for doing a journalism 
 RT @DrEliDavid: 🚨 Breaking: Naim Qassem, Deputy head of Hezbollah since 1991, not only refused to become the new head, but also resigned fr… 
 RT @JewishWarrior13: Vote Trump/Vance 
 RT @ArminRosen: The music/artistic community's response to Nova was one of the more radicalizing things for me this past year. This was the… 
 RT @asymmetricinfo: If you think the fetus is a person with rights, it is weird to argue that you should be able to kill it because biology… 
 RT @matthewkassel: News: Former Rep. Peter Deutsch, a Democrat from Florida, is officially endorsing Trump on an RNC-Trump campaign press c… 
 RT @neontaster: Doesn't feel very marginalized to me. 
 RT @politicalelle: 60% of those who invaded Israel and committed atrocities on October 7 were Palestinian civilians. 
 RT @JewishWarrior13: 🚨Macron told Netanyahu the following unimaginable sentence: "Supplying weapons will not bring security to Israel." (Am… 
 RT @EsotericCD: None of these are "the media" at all, of course, not in the sense of being journalists. All three also have already emphati… 
 Shana tova u'metukah -- a sweet and good New Year! 
 RT @K_AminThaabet: Israel destroyed Iraqi nuclear facilities in 1981 over U.S. objections. In retrospect, the U.S was grateful.

Israel des… 
 Nickelodeon has announcing the production of a live action "Rugrats," and also the actor who will be playing Tommy Pickles https://t.co/OGFx3FukQw https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GY6WnahXMAA3rnw.png https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GY6W4_8WwAAfIod.png 
 JD Vance absolutely crushed Tim Walz last night. He was articulate, coherent, calm and collected. The best debate performance of the modern era. And right about now, Kamala Harris is wishing she’d chosen Josh Shapiro.

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 RT @wil_da_beast630: Statistically, yes. 
 RT @soveryisraeli: The Israel ability to maintain a sense of humor throughout literally any situation is incredible 🤣🤣🤣 https://t.co/UADX08… 
 So by that token Israel should probably fire precisely 181 missiles at Iran and target military bases...say, their nuclear facilities 
 RT @VerminusM: The Palestinians accidentally killed a Palestinian boy while celebrating the Iranian attack that accidentally killed a Pales… 
 It is also possible that he thought he was being asked about the port strike again 
 RT @yashar: NEWS 

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, warned Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah to… 
 An amazing way to get real time information on the current situation in Israel 
 RT @AmitSegal: I'm happy to announce that I’ve opened a Telegram channel with updates in English about everything happening in Israel. The… 
 RT @AviMayer: 🔴 Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has reportedly threatened to respond to any Israeli attack with "more than a thous… 
 RT @neontaster: If someone shoots you and you’re wearing a bulletproof vest, should they receive a lesser sentence because you had the fore… 
 RT @PierrePoilievre: Horrified by Tehran’s latest assault against innocent Israeli civilians with missile barrages and terrorist attacks.… 
 RT @realDailyWire: .@DouglasKMurray LIVE now with @benshapiro 
 RT @SuellaBraverman: Last year Israel was attacked in the south by Hamas terrorists.

Then Israel was attacked in the north by Hezbollah te… 
 RT @dansenor: This does not sound like the language of “de-escalation” is winning the day in the intra-agency deliberations. 
 RT @iowahawkblog: These dumb motherfuckers are celebrating launching 200 missiles at Israel to kill one Palestinian kid in Gaza. 

It's lik… 
 RT @EylonALevy: Chancellor of Austria 🇦🇹❤️🇮🇱 
 RT @LucasFoxNews: Reporter Q yesterday: Mr. President, will you deploy more U.S. troops to the Middle East? 

Biden: No

Pentagon today: A… 
 RT @EinatWilf: Today seems like a good day to discuss UNRWA in Lebanon:
Lebanon is one of the five areas of operations for UNRWA (other fou… 
 RT @CaptainSamBrown: And as the @reviewjournal put it: 

Jacky Rosen “lacks the attributes of an effective and capable elected official and… 
 RT @marklevinshow: BREAKING!!

Soros and the FCC Democrats just slammed through the radio conglomeration steal of 220 stations using large… 
 RT @GregAbbott_TX: October 7, 2023 was a day of unimaginable horrors for Israel.

In observance of the one-year anniversary, I ask my fello… 
 RT @NoahPollak: When I was in southern Lebanon, all I saw UNIFIL do was drive around to the Christian villages to buy red wine. UNIFIL is w… 
 RT @EWErickson: When I was in fifth grade, Nasrallah and Hezbollah tried to blow up my school with me and my friends in it.  He was an evil… 
 RT @JewishWarrior13: 🚨JUST IN - CHANNEL 14: Israel and the USA are preparing for a possible Iranian attack on Israel. This comes after an o… 
 RT @JewishWarrior13: "I don't know if there will be a ground invasion, but when you see the orderly system of leaks that are used in the US… 
 RT @JewishWarrior13: The Biden/Harris admin leaking the IDF plans for the ground operation in Lebanon today was disgusting. This is backsta… 
 RT @rich_goldberg: Houthis attack the US Navy. US has a carrier strike group next door and does nothing to impose costs. Houthis attack Isr… 
 RT @EVKontorovich: Maher is the subject of a French arrest warrant, so if true ,this means Israel will have brought to justice those wanted… 
 RT @dixonswolfe: I encourage everyone to come out to the @EricHovde and @benshapiro event tomorrow! It will be an awesome opportunity to me… 
 See the link in Matt's post below 
 RT @jessesingal: It's wild watching people just discover politics and/or decades-old conflicts and then opine on them confidently. From the… 
 RT @EsotericCD: The planet's most roaring job market is "high-ranking Hezbollah official," lots of career mobility, new positions opening u… 
 RT @DavidM_Friedman: Why is only Israel attacking the Houthi terrorist regime? The Houthi’s have attacked American vessels along with those… 
 RT @JDVance: That's cool but can you just do it now? 

You're the sitting Vice President. 
 RT @MrShermichael: CNN's recent poll reveals Trump’s double-digit lead on immigration reflects voters’ deep mistrust in Harris’s ability to… 
 RT @sentdefender: Israeli Sources have confirmed that besides Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah, several other Senior Hezbollah Leaders as… 
 FAFO is an excellent military and foreign policy strategy currently being implemented by Israel. It should be adopted immediately by the United States. The fact that the White House doesn't understand this is why the world is currently on fire. 
 RT @guypbenson: Tons of good news in the Gallup data for Republicans: Bad economic vibes, overall GOP party ID lead for the first time ever… 
 RT @breeadail: Thank you, @elonmusk, for making posts like this possible.

@RepBrianMast on the UN: https://t.co/wxRKrU87ys https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GYg9ZKpXoAAGG9-.jpg 
 RT @EylonALevy: Hezbollah should not have declared war on Israel on October 8. I’d say I hope its leadership understands that by now, but i… 
 RT @orenbarsky: Here’s something you probably never thought would happen: 

Nasrallah has been eliminated, and there are more people celebr… 
 RT @rich_goldberg: How embarrassing for America. This is the U.S. Secretary of Defense hours after Iranian missiles were launched en mass a… 
 RT @ArminRosen: The vast majority of Nasrallah's victims are Arabs. He is one of the 21st century's most prolific mass-murders of Muslims,… 
 RT @JewishWarrior13: 🚨Ali Larijani, adviser to the leader of Iran, said in an interview on local television: "There is a replacement for ev… 
 RT @guypbenson: “We need an arsonist with a real plan to extinguish her own fire” 
 RT @NiohBerg: Wait for Al Jazeera to claim Nasrallah was a child doctor and also pregnant. 
 RT @AGHamilton29: Israel did it for their own interests, but what they have done in taking out the two main terror proxies of The Islamic R… 
 RT @sentdefender: The definition of a Decapitation Strike, if they were all Eliminated then Hezbollah is likely Finished as any kind of Org… 
 RT @davereaboi: It makes me so happy that the lowlife rat-fink Noam Chomsky is alive to find out about the vaporization of his old buddy Na… 
 RT @NoahPollak: The Democrats have turned the mighty US Navy into floating target practice for Iranian terrorist groups. Our guys are forbi… 
 RT @neontaster: Advent calendar. 
 RT @sfmcguire79: Remember the Harvard students who occupied a building and received free burritos and Twizzlers?

One of them says, “every… 
 RT @TheBabylonBee: After Being Asked Where His Brother Is, Cain Explains To God That He Grew Up In A Middle-Class Family https://t.co/v6NUk… 
 RT @rkylesmith: To be a film critic is perpetually to be caught off guard by how many acclaimed films are absolute shite 
 RT @JewishWarrior13: 🚨The White House: "Last night's announcement was a call for a truce to give time for negotiations and was coordinated… 
 RT @EsotericCD: You *think* this is going to be funny - and you are right.

But when you get to the point, midway through, where it cuts to… 
 RT @JewishWarrior13: 🚨Bibi, upon landing in NYC: "During the flight, I authorized a strike, and "other things," on the head of Hezbollah's… 
 RT @LevineJonathan: The apotheosis of women's right will be when all their records and accomplishments are held by men 
 RT @AGHamilton29: Think about how worthless this statement is…

It ends with a call demanding an agreement between Israel and Lebanon, but… 
 RT @AviMayer: 🔴 BREAKING: The commander of Hezbollah’s aerial forces was killed in the targeted Israeli airstrike in Beirut a short time ag… 
 RT @aaronsibarium: NEW: Penn tried to buy Amy Wax’s silence by offering her a deal: it would water down the sanctions against her—and take… 
 RT @bonchieredstate: If you think they wouldn’t throw all their political enemies in gulags if they could, think again. 
 RT @newstart_2024: Excellent speech by dr. Marty Makary: 
"I'm trained in gastrointestinal surgery. My group at Johns Hopkins does more pan… 
 RT @bonchieredstate: Watch Biden stare straight ahead at the ground as Behar talks. He's completely gone. 
 You mean how the rate of increase dropped after rising the highest level in 40 years, leaving prices >20% higher than when you took office? 
 RT @wil_da_beast630: I mean, this guy just undisputedly did it. He and a crew began to burn two youth pastors alive, before shooting them i… 
 RT @JacquiHeinrich: Hot mic moment on The View:

As Biden sits down, Joy Behar tells him “they love you”, as the crowd applauds

Biden repl… 
 RT @jpodhoretz: I'm struck by how despicably slanderous this is, and yet again how @JeffreyGoldberg has sold his soul for a mess of Apple s… 
 RT @jpodhoretz: Biden should be jailed for making an illegal 100 million dollar contribution to the Trump campaign with this quote! 
 RT @JewishWarrior13: Amit Segal: "If the red lines are the separation between Gaza and Lebanon, the removal of Hezbollah beyond the Litani,… 
 RT @jimgeraghty: "I'm Donald J. Trump, and I approved this message." 
 RT @EsotericCD: Ta-Nehisi was a hero to most
But he never meant shit to me you see
Straight up racist that sucker was
Simple and plain

Com… 
 RT @realDailyWire: INTERVIEWER: Do you think sex work ought to be decriminalized?

KAMALA: I think so. I do.

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 RT @SpencerGuard: Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah has sacrificed his entire organizational leadership at the orders of the Islamic Regime… 
 RT @AndreasKoureas_: Speaking as someone who has read Mein Kampf half a dozen times, here’s 3 important points:

1) You’re a very thick big… 
 RT @EylonALevy: He says “of course” a terrorist organization dug military tunnels under UN buildings, as if that’s something totally normal… 
 RT @JewishWarrior13: 🔴📰 Axios report: Iran has informed Hezbollah that right now is not the right time to start an all-out war. In addition… 
 RT @LahavHarkov: My expectations for renown Middle East expert Ta-Nehisi Coates’ take on Israel were subterranean to begin with but he mana… 
 RT @netanyahu: Under the category of 'This can only happen at the UN':

ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan met yesterday with two great champions of… 
 RT @senatorshoshana: Holy shit 
 RT @CliffordDMay: Israel's "settler-colonial agenda" in Lebanon? 

There are no Israelis -- and no Jews -- in Lebanon. Not anymore.

This U… 
 RT @Nadav_Eyal: Breaking: Israeli Defense Minister Galant says the IDF has destroyed stockpiles of dozens of thousands of Hezbollah's rocke… 
 RT @JewishWarrior13: 🚨IMPORTANT: The Israeli security establishment estimates that 50% of Hezbollah's rocket/missile capabilities have been… 
 RT @SethDillon: "Everything you've ever been taught is a lie" is a lie. The people who say this are scammers who hope you're dumb enough to… 
 RT @bendreyfuss: As someone who has defended a lot of much worse things that Leon Panetta himself oversaw, I have to say that my responses…