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Per an admin official to me, Kuwait also cut off access, basing ...

2026-05-07T00:22:38Z

Per an admin official to me, Kuwait also cut off access, basing and overflight (ABO).
https://bird.makeup/users/natashakorecki/statuses/2052148350036631913

Lebanese towns should put little statues of Christ on their solar ...

2026-04-25T14:59:36Z

Lebanese towns should put little statues of Christ on their solar panels, desalination plants, homes, schools, hospitals and maybe that’ll slow down the Israeli demolition of everything in their path
https://bird.makeup/users/roqchams/statuses/2048040607939985460

This premeditated attack on journalists, carried out over ...

2026-04-23T19:11:49Z

This premeditated attack on journalists, carried out over multiple hours with medics and a huge part of the public begging Israel to stop, should really be enough to lock up Netanyahu for life. This is just blatant murder.
https://bird.makeup/users/maucourantnada/statuses/2047387368320029111

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We spoke to reporter Zaynab Faraj, who survived a triple-tap attack that killed her colleague, Amal Khalil.

She described how an Israeli strike first hit a car ahead of them, killing two civilians, before a second strike targeted their own vehicle, severely injuring Amal. Ms

So many clowns in the replies here claiming this was AI even ...

2026-04-20T00:33:05Z

So many clowns in the replies here claiming this was AI even after I confirmed having seen where it was originally posted. IDF has since confirmed it's real. Take note of the idiots who ran cover for it.
https://bird.makeup/users/ryangrim/statuses/2045865178772701231

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This image was posted by an Israeli soldier in southern Lebanon. Israeli soldiers have been posting imagines of their war crimes and cultural desecration for two and a half years straight without interruption.
https://bird.makeup/users/ytirawi/statuses/2045851392527458672
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This image was posted by an Israeli soldier in southern Lebanon. ...

2026-04-19T14:00:43Z

This image was posted by an Israeli soldier in southern Lebanon. Israeli soldiers have been posting imagines of their war crimes and cultural desecration for two and a half years straight without interruption.
https://bird.makeup/users/ytirawi/statuses/2045851392527458672

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Lebanon |

An Israeli soldier smashing the head of a Jesus Christ statue during operations in southern Lebanon.

HUGE: J Street now backs blocking all aid to Israel, including ...

2026-04-11T01:47:02Z

HUGE: J Street now backs blocking all aid to Israel, including for “defensive” weapons like iron dome.

Just weeks ago this was a controversial position for Democrats, now J Street is backing it. A few years ago a Democrat could get censured for holding this position. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (npub1grm…hxyl) moving on this moved the field.
https://bird.makeup/users/srulifruchter/statuses/2042713687589347747

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🚨 SCOOP: J-Street supports ending U.S. aid to Israel — **including** Iron Dome
https://jewishinsider.com/2026/04/j-street-support-ending-missile-defense-aid-israel/

There are far too many billionaires and none of them are happy. ...

2026-04-05T03:51:50Z

There are far too many billionaires and none of them are happy. This essay is the latest example.

The entire idea of a “family office” to manage your extreme wealth is a societal failure. (That said, if we do have family offices, seems fine for the dad to send his little nephew in to be a spy. Kind of goes with the whole family office thing)
https://bird.makeup/users/billackman/statuses/2040547553675194539

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I am reaching out to the X (npub13vq…9f44) community for advice with the likely risk of sharing TMI. I have been sufficiently upset about the whole matter that I have lost sleep thinking about it and I am hoping that this post will enable me to get this matter off my chest.

By way of background, I started a family office called TABLE about 15 years ago and hired a friend who had previously managed a family office, and years earlier, had been my personal accountant. She is someone that I trusted implicitly and consider to be a good person.

The office started small, but over the last decade, the number of personnel and the cost of the office grew massively. The growth was entirely on the operational side as the investment team has remained tiny. While my investment portfolio grew substantially, the investments I had made were almost entirely passive and TABLE simply needed to account for them and meet capital calls as they came in. While TABLE purchased additional software and other systems that were supposed to improve productivity, the team kept increasing in size at a rapid rate, and the expenses continued to grow even faster.

While I would periodically question the growing expenses and high staff turnover, I stayed uninvolved with the office other than a once-a-year meeting when I briefly reviewed the operations and the financials and determined bonus compensation for the President and the CFO. I spent no time with any of the other employees or the operations. The whole idea behind TABLE was that it would handle everything other than my day job so that I would have more time for my job and my family.

Over the last six years, expenses ballooned even further, employee turnover accelerated, and I became concerned that all was not well at TABLE. It was time for me to take a look at what was going on.

Nearly four years ago, I recruited my nephew who had recently graduated from Harvard and put him to work at Bremont, a British watchmaker, one of my only active personal investments to figure out the issues at the company and ultimately assist in executing a turnaround. He did a superb job.

When he returned from the UK late last year after a few years at Bremont, I asked him to help me figure out what was going on with TABLE. When I explained to TABLE’s president what he would be doing, she became incredibly defensive, which naturally made me more concerned.

My nephew went to work by first meeting with each employee to understand their roles at the company and to learn from them what ideas they had on how things could be improved. He got an earful.

Our first step in helping to turn around TABLE was a reduction in force including the president and about a third of the team, retaining excellent talent that had been desperate for new leadership.

Now here is where I need your advice.

All but one of the employees who were terminated acted professionally and were gracious on the way out (excluding the president who had a notice period in her contract, is currently still being paid, and with whom I have not yet had a discussion).

The highest compensated terminated employee other than the president, an in-house lawyer (let’s call her Ronda), told us that three months of severance was not enough and demanded two years’ severance despite having worked at the company for only two and one half years.

When I learned of Ronda's request for severance, I offered to speak with her to understand what she was thinking, but she refused to do so. A few days ago, we received a threatening letter from a Silicon Valley law firm.

In the letter, Ronda’s counsel suggests that her termination is part of longstanding issues of ‘harassment and gender discrimination’ – an interesting claim in light of the fact that Ronda was in charge of workplace compliance – and that her termination was due to:

“unlawful, retaliatory, and harmful conduct directed towards her. Both [Ronda] and I [Ronda’s lawyer] have spoken with you about [Ronda’s] view of what a reasonable resolution would include given the circumstances. Thus far, TABLE has refused to provide any substantive response. This letter provides the last opportunity to reach a satisfactory agreement. If we cannot do so, [Ronda] will seek all appropriate relief in a court of competent jurisdiction.”

The letter goes on to explain the basis for the “unsafe work environment” claim at TABLE:

“In early 2026, Pershing Square’s founder Bill Ackman installed his nephew in an unidentified role at TABLE, Ackman’s family office. [His nephew]—whose only work experience had been for TABLE where he was seconded abroad for the last four years to a UK watch company held by Ackman—began appearing at TABLE’s offices and conducting interviews of employees without a clear explanation of his role or the purposes of these interviews. During this period, he made a series of inappropriate and genderbased [sic] comments to multiple employees that created an unsafe work environment. Among other things, [his nephew] made remarks about female employees’ ages (“Tell me you are nowhere near 40”), physical appearance (“Your body does not look like you have kids”), as well as intrusive questions about family planning and sexual orientation (“Who carried your son? Who will carry your next child?”). These incidents were reported to senior leadership at TABLE and Pershing Square. Rather than being addressed appropriately, the response from senior management reflected, at best, willful blindness to the inappropriateness of [his nephew]’s remarks and, at worst, tacit endorsement.”

The above allegations about my nephew had previously been brought to my attention by TABLE’s president when they occurred. When I learned of them, I told the president that I would speak to him directly and encouraged her to arrange for him to get workplace sensitivity training. The president assured me that she would do so.

When I spoke to my nephew, he explained what he actually had said and how his actual remarks had been received, not at all as alleged in the legal letter from Ronda’s counsel. I have also spoken to others at the lunch table who confirmed his description of the facts. In any case, he meant no harm, was simply trying to build rapport with other employees, and no one, as far as I understand, was offended.

Ironically, Ronda claims in her legal letter that TABLE didn’t take HR compliance seriously, yet Ronda was in charge of HR compliance at TABLE and the person who gave my nephew his workplace sensitivity training after the alleged incidents. In any case, Ronda, as head of compliance, should have kept a record or raised an alarm if indeed there was pervasive harassment or other such problems at the company, and there is no evidence whatsoever that this is true.

So why does Ronda believe she can get me to pay her nearly $2 million, i.e., two years of severance, nearly one year of severance for each of her years at the company? Well, here is where some more background would be helpful.

Over the last two months, I have been consumed with a major family medical issue – one of my older daughters had a massive brain hemorrhage on February 5th and has since been making progress on her recovery – and I am in the midst of a major transaction for my company which I am executing from a hospital room office next to her . While the latter business matter is publicly known, the details of my daughter’s situation are only known to Ronda because of her role at our family office.

Now, let’s get back to the subject at hand.

Unfortunately, while New York and many other states have employment-at-will, there has emerged an industry of lawyers who make a living from bringing fake gender, race, LGBTQ and other discrimination employment claims in order to extract larger severance payments for terminated employees, and it needs to stop.

The fake claim system succeeds because it costs little to have a lawyer send a threatening letter and nearly all of the lawyers in this field work on contingency so there is no or minimal cash cost to bring a claim. And inevitably, nearly 100% of these claims are settled because the public relations and legal costs of defending them exceed the dollar cost of the settlement. The claims are nearly always settled with a confidentiality agreement where the employee who asserts the fake claims remains anonymous and as a result, there is no reputational cost to bringing false claims.

The consequences of this sleazy system (let’s call it ‘the System’) are the increased costs of doing business which is a tax on the economy and society. There are other more serious problems due to the System. Unfortunately, the existence of an industry of plaintiff firms and terminated employees willing to make these claims makes it riskier for companies to hire employees from a protected class, i.e., LGBTQ, seniors, women, people of color etc. because it is that much more reputationally damaging and expensive to be accused of racism, sexism, and/or intolerance for sexual diversity than for firing a white male as juries generally have less sympathy for white males.

The System therefore increases the risk of discrimination rather than reducing it, and the people bringing these fake claims are thereby causing enormous harm to the other members of these protected classes.

So what happened here?

Ronda was vastly overpaid and overqualified for the job that she did at TABLE. She was paid $1.05 million plus benefits last year for her work which was largely comprised of filling out subscription agreements and overseeing an outside law firm on closing passive investments in funds and in private and venture stage companies, some compliance work, and managing the office move from one office to another. She had a very good gig as she was highly paid, only had to go into the office three days a week, and could work from anywhere during the summer.

Once my nephew showed up and started to investigate what was going on, she likely concluded that there was a reasonable possibility she would be terminated, as her job was in the too-easy-and-to-good-to-be-true category. The problem was that she was not in a protected class due to her race, age or sexual identity so she had to construct the basis for a claim. While she is female and could in theory bring a gender-based discrimination claim, she reported to the president who is female and to whom she is very close, which makes it difficult for her to bring a harassment claim against her former boss.

When my nephew complimented a TABLE employee at lunch about how young she looked – in response to saying she was going to her 40-year-old sister’s birthday party, he said ‘she must be your older sister’ – Ronda immediately reported it to our external HR lawyer. She thereby began building her case.

The other problem for Ronda bringing a claim is that she was terminated alongside 30% of other TABLE employees as part of a restructuring so it is very difficult for her to say that she was targeted in her termination or was retaliated against. TABLE is now hiring an external fractional general counsel as that is all the company needs to process the relatively limited amount of legal work we do internally. In short, Ronda was eminently qualified and capable and did her job. She was just too much horsepower for what is largely an administrative legal role so she had to come up with something else to bring a claim.

Now Ronda knew I was a good target and it was a good time to bring a claim against me. She also knew that I was under a lot of pressure because on March 4th when Ronda was terminated, my daughter had not yet emerged from consciousness, she was not yet breathing on her own, and my daughter and we were fighting for her life. I was and remain deeply engaged in her recovery while at the same time I was working on finishing the closing for the private placement round for my upcoming IPO.

Ronda also knew that publicity about supposed gender discrimination and a “hostile and unsafe work environment” are not things that a CEO of a company about to go public wants to have released into the media. And she may have thought that the nearly $2 million she was asking for would be considered small in the context of the reputational damage a lawsuit could cause, regardless of the fact that two years of severance was an absurd amount for an employee who had only worked at TABLE for 30 months.

She also likely considered that I wouldn’t want to embarrass my nephew by dragging him into the klieg lights when her claims emerged publicly.

So, in summary, game theory would say that I would certainly settle this case, for why would I risk negative publicity at a time when I was preparing our company to go public and also risk embarrassing my nephew.

Notably, she hired a Silicon Valley law firm, rather than a typical NY employment firm. This struck me as interesting as her husband works for one of the most prominent Silicon Valley venture firms whose CEO, I am sure, has no tolerance for these kinds of fake claims that sadly many venture-backed companies also have to deal with. I mention this as I suspect her husband likely has been working with her on the strategy for squeezing me as, in addition to being a computer scientist, he is a game theorist. My only advice for him is to understand more about your opponent before you launch your first move.

All of the above said, gender, race, LGBTQ and other such discrimination is a real thing. Many people have been harmed and deserve compensation for this discrimination, and these companies and individuals should be punished for engaging in such behavior.

Which brings me to the advice I am seeking from the X community.

I am not planning to follow the typical path and settle this ‘claim.’ Rather, I am going to fight this nonsense to the end of the earth in the hope that it inspires other CEOs to do the same so we shut down this despicable behavior that is a large tax on society, employment, and the economy and contributes to workplace discrimination rather than reducing it.

Do you agree or disagree that this is the right approach?

Nate Swanson warned that Iran would close the Strait of Hormuz ...

2026-04-05T01:39:41Z

Nate Swanson warned that Iran would close the Strait of Hormuz and respond to a U.S.-Israeli attack by making it a regional war.

He was fired at urging of Laura Loomer.

After Israel and the U.S. attacked Iran, the Trump administration claimed there was no way we could have
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Nathanael Swanson deserved to be fired.
As I exposed, he is an Obama holdover.

Swanson ran to POLITICO (npub1ym6…x0th) last week after I got him fired to cry about President Trump.

He can cry about me all he wants. He’s just sour grapes over the fact that I exposed him.

Every single Obama holdover must be purged from the Trump administration. How many times does this need to be said?

I am helping to keep America safe with my exposes. You love America’s adversaries. I am working to defeat them and expose them because I love America.

You hate America.

Read my May 2025 expose of Nate Swanson here:

Obama Holdover Nathanael Swanson Must Be Removed from The State Department’s Iran Negotiation Team

https://loomered.com/2025/05/27/obama-holdover-nathanael-swanson-must-be-removed-from-the-state-departments-iran-negotiation-team/

An extremist group in Washington, DC has claimed credit for the ...

2026-04-02T17:33:19Z

An extremist group in Washington, DC has claimed credit for the terrorist attack on the Iranian bridge, promising further attacks on civilian infrastructure if its demands aren't met
https://bird.makeup/users/rapidresponse47/statuses/2039744702946107396

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Israel is explicitly warning Christian and Druze residents in ...

2026-04-02T12:40:01Z

Israel is explicitly warning Christian and Druze residents in southern Lebanon not to hide Muslim residents among them as their forces advance.

Not a peep from Sheryl Sandberg.
https://bird.makeup/users/_zachfoster/statuses/2039363196381794546

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Israeli authorities confess they are singling out the Shi'ite Lebanese population for destruction.

This is textbook ethnic cleansing, described as "Israel's message" by the The New York Times (npub1an9…krup).

Incredible that the DNC won’t release this autopsy because ...

2026-02-22T23:33:47Z

Incredible that the DNC won’t release this autopsy because apparently they don’t like the findings. They’d rather keep losing than admit their support for genocide cost them.
https://bird.makeup/users/alexthomp/statuses/2025705654887784632

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Holly Otterbein (npub1z3c…uj39) scoops:
Top Dem officials who worked on the party's still-secret autopsy of the 2024 election concluded that Kamala Harris lost significant support because of the Biden administration's approach to the war in Gaza.

https://www.axios.com/2026/02/22/dnc-2024-autopsy-harris-gaza

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2026-01-22T15:09:42Z

"The Voice of Hind Rajab" is nominated for an Oscar

Here is Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent admitting the goal of ...

2026-01-21T00:34:16Z

Here is Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent admitting the goal of U.S. sanctions is to make ordinary Iranians so miserable that they rise up and overthrow the government. This is the kind of thing everybody knows but is rarely admitted openly.

This is pathetic on so many levels. If @npub16ea…3ug4 can get ...

2026-01-17T01:13:19Z

This is pathetic on so many levels. If Gavin Newsom (npub16ea…3ug4) can get pushed around like this by a pipsqueak like Ben Shapiro (npub1njd…ht7x) he most definitely is to weak to be president

Cartel so los Soles is the most obvious CIA made up name for a ...

2025-11-17T02:48:21Z

Cartel so los Soles is the most obvious CIA made up name for a cartel ever. No cartel names itself like that. This was a Langley creation, so finding the leaders shouldn’t be hard.
https://bird.makeup/users/secrubio/statuses/1990187781151445245

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Department of State (npub134r…dgzx) intends to designate Cartel de los Soles as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO). Headed by the illegitimate Nicolás Maduro, the group has corrupted the institutions of government in Venezuela and is responsible for terrorist violence conducted by and with other designated FTOs as well as for trafficking drugs into the United States and Europe.

That the New York Times spoke to members of this family, had ...

2025-10-26T03:25:34Z

That the New York Times spoke to members of this family, had video and photographic evidence of what happened, and still wrote the article they did, somehow makes it so much worse
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It was Tuesday, October 21, when I managed to reach a member of the Abu Sha‘baan family in Gaza. His sister, Randa, had been killed along with her husband and four children in an Israeli airstrike on October 17. That same strike also claimed the lives of other relatives from the Sha‘baan family, including three more children.
I contacted the family for two reasons: to obtain photos of the children to share on my social media, as I have done for other victims, and to ask whether the bodies had been recovered and buried.
It was strange because I have not seen any photos of the kids on social media or in newspapers online.
Mohammad, the uncle of the Abu Sha‘baan family, told me that he had previously been contacted by The New York Timesoffice in Jerusalem. He said that although he provided the reporter with all the necessary details for the article, he never received a link to it after its publication on October 18.
When I finally read the New York Times piece myself, I was deeply shocked. The article did not mention the names of a single victim, not Randa Abu Sha‘baan (the mother and Mohammad’s sister), her husband Ihab, or their children Nasser (13), Jumana (10), Ibrahim (6), Mohammad (5). It also omitted the names of their relatives who were traveling with them in the same minibus: Samar (mother), Sufyan (father), and their children Nasma (12), Karam (10), and Anas (8).
Mohammad told me he had shared with the reporter photos and videos of the children as well as images showing their mutilated remains.
When I sent Mohammad the link to the article, he felt a shock run through his body upon reading its headline. Instead of calling the atrocity by its name, the headline repeated the Israeli military’s justification for the attack. It read:
“Israeli Military Fires on Vehicle, Saying It Crossed Gaza Cease-Fire Line.”
“Gaza’s rescue service said at least nine people, including several children, were killed in the strike in northern Gaza on Friday, underscoring the fragility of the week-old cease-fire.”

“How the hell was the family supposed to know where the line was?” Mohammad cried over the phone. “They were just returning to their destroyed homes. And even if they crossed a line, would that justify missiles? Why didn’t the soldiers warn them long before they came close to or crossed the line?”
The NYT article fail to include not only the names, photos, or acknowledgment of the humanity that was lost but also two critical details Mohammad had shared:
1. Israeli forces did not permit first responders or family members to reach the victims until 22 hours after the strike.
2. When first responders finally arrived, Israeli forces forced them to leave within minutes.
To this day, the family has been unable to recover the bodies of two of the children. It is feared that stray animals may have consumed what was left of their small remains.
Yet The New York Times article largely echoed the Israeli narrative, framing the killing of these children and their parents not as a war crime, but merely as a sign of the “fragility” of the cease-fire.
Is the killing of the Abu Sha‘baan family truly just an indicator of political tensions, or a crime that demands investigation and accountability? If the victims had not been Palestinian children, would their deaths still be treated as a mere data point in a geopolitical analysis rather than a tragedy deserving outrage and justice?
Why were the voices of the Abu Sha‘baan and Sha‘baan children erased from the New York Times article? Why were their pictures absent, their names, their ages, their dreams, their stories? Why, instead, was the voice of the perpetrator granted prominence in the headline itself?
On October 23, the Abu Sha‘baan family released a statement condemning The New York Times for taking an editorial stance that echoed the silence imposed by the two artillery shells that ended their loved ones’ lives.

Soon after the explosion in Rafah, I’m told by a source ...

2025-10-19T18:12:33Z

Soon after the explosion in Rafah, I’m told by a source familiar, the White House and Pentagon knew that the incident was caused by an Israeli settler bulldozer running over unexploded ordnance — contradicting Netanyahu’s claim that Hamas had popped up from tunnels.

After Netanyahu said he was blocking all aid from entering Gaza in response, and unleashed a bombing campaign, the administration conveyed to Israel that they know what happened. Netanyahu then announced he would re-open the crossings in a few hours.
https://bird.makeup/users/mustafabarghou1/statuses/1979947595511234788

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Netanyahu reactivated his genocidal war on Gaza. His army conducted more than 100 air strikes since the morning and killed more than 30 Palestinian civilians.
Netanyahu also activated his collective punishment of the civilian population blocking all humanitarian aid to Gaza.

Israeli officials gave a document they said is from Hamas to the ...

2025-10-11T18:03:14Z

Israeli officials gave a document they said is from Hamas to the NYT.

NYT: Is this document authentic?

Israeli officials: Yes, it is real

NYT: Great, confirmed authentic.

Guys, that’s not how authentication works!
https://bird.makeup/users/ruairi_casey/statuses/1977022491647525137

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Beyond parody: The NYT publish an alleged Hamas memo and intercepted call logs – all provided to them by Israeli intelligence and verified exclusively by anonymous Israeli officials https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/world/middleeast/israel-hamas-plans.html

Extremely interesting admission from @npub1cpn…egw2 here: The ...

2025-10-10T02:20:34Z

Extremely interesting admission from Amit Segal (npub1cpn…egw2) here: The key difference between a deal available in November 2023 v the one reached now is that in this one, Israel will get to occupy a portion of Gaza for some undetermined amount of time.

So, IOW, all those killed, including IDF soldiers, hostages, and Palestinians, died so that Israel can occupy a portion of Gaza for some continued period of time.

If you consider that a victory you have already lost all that is worth having.
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There’s a new claim that “essentially, all that happened was Trump got tired, took control and forced it on Netanyahu, and this is basically the same deal that could have been reached a year earlier,” with the disturbing implication, that’s horrible to say, that IDF soldiers died in vain for a cause that had already been achieved.

So, let’s revisit the plans that were laid out by both the current and former American administrations to see if they match up. For example, the Biden plan from June 1, 2024, which was met with considerable enthusiasm, and was even later acknowledged as Netanyahu’s plan.

I want to highlight the difference.

In the first phase, the IDF should have already pulled back to roughly its current position, and then it was just about releasing humanitarian hostages. As if not all of them are “humanitarian.”

Then it transitioned to discussing the release of living hostages. In this phase, the IDF would withdraw from all of Gaza, until the last centimetre, while all the dead hostages remain in Gaza.

It’s as different as day and night.

Here, everyone is returning, including the dead, and the IDF is still in half of Gaza. This isn’t just about some desire to maintain an occupation or garrison force, but rather to ensure that Hamas disarms — something that didn’t happen in the Biden proposal.

So now let’s move on to the Witkoff plan, much closer to us, much better for Israel, but still different. There was talk of releasing half of the dead hostages, but then a temporary ceasefire for two months of negotiations to end the war, and then the IDF would withdraw from more places than it is now, and there would be a guarantee that the war would not be renewed.

Once again, we see that there was no connection between the IDF remaining on the ground and the promise that Hamas would disarm, especially while some of the hostages are still there. The greatness of this outline is this issue.

I also want to say something general about the matter of responsibility.

As ridiculous as it was on October 7 and afterwards to hear from Netanyahu’s supporters that the one who is to blame is the IDF chief of staff, the Shin Bet chief, the attorney general and the Military Advocate General, and that Netanyahu has no part in it — it’s as ridiculous as it is that now they’re saying, “Thank you Trump and thank you Nitzan Alon, and thank you to all of them and to the Qatari prime minister, and Netanyahu and Ron Dermer have nothing to do with it at all.”

Indeed, Netanyahu had a very large part in the failure of October 7, and he also has a very large part together with Dermer in this deal.

By the way, how does that connect to what Kushner said tonight in Egypt? He said that both the prime minister and Dermer made very big compromises and took risks to see the end of the war.

I would like to make a suggestion. Once upon a time, when there was only one channel and people didn’t like the commentators, they said, “Watch the game without the commentary.”

I say, let’s watch Trump and Netanyahu’s move without the commentary, because there are a lot of conversations, and this and that, and slander, and sometimes even quotes, but in practice there has never been a president and a prime minister who acted like this, and the results are evident from Iran, through the Golan Heights, through the embassy and now Gaza.

NEW from me and @npub1frc…6am7: @npub12mp…cd9q & ...

2025-10-08T02:46:11Z

NEW from me and Murtaza Hussain (npub1frc…6am7):

David Frum (npub12mp…cd9q) & douglaskmurray (npub1905…y85t) & Seth Mandel (npub195x…7sgp) drafted speeches for the Israeli ambassador to the UN, according to hacked emails.

Frum did it while also writing a profile of the ambassador.

Murray even hosted a secret fundraiser for the IDF.

Mandel....well that one's not surprising. https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/david-frum-douglas-murray-secretly

We just posted an interview @npub18my…hxge and I did with Dr Mo ...

2025-09-26T22:58:52Z

We just posted an interview Krystal Ball (npub18my…hxge) and I did with Dr Mo and my god. No words. Really a must listen.

Please share this because Elon Musk (npub154j…vsgf) makes it impossible to share links but if enough people share it sometimes it breaks through the suppression https://youtu.be/yqLCW7EjwyI?si=TVH2lVoFiaAUXfW2

Huckabee says he knows that it sounds like he speaks for Israel ...

2025-09-22T12:40:22Z

Huckabee says he knows that it sounds like he speaks for Israel more than the United States but that’s ok because Israel is the wife of the U.S. No seriously:

Netanyahu now claims, offering zero evidence, that Charlie Kirk ...

2025-09-12T11:55:59Z

Netanyahu now claims, offering zero evidence, that Charlie Kirk was assassinated by a combination of “radical Islamists and ultra-progressives.”

Here’s what just happened: Trump sent a peace deal to Hamas, ...

2025-09-09T13:36:14Z

Here’s what just happened: Trump sent a peace deal to Hamas, Hamas met to discuss it in Doha, where the U.S. is mediating talks and has a base,and Israel bombed them, presumably with US support.

The strike in Doha was aimed at Hamas negotiators who were gathered to discuss Trump’s ceasefire offer, according to a Hamas official speaking on Al Jazeera, much as Trump carried out fake nuclear talks with Iran in order to kill Iranian negotiators.

That might explain why Trump’s offer was so short and scant on details. The whole point was to gather people together to discuss the peace offer to kill then.

Israel is taking credit for the attack, citing 10/7, though most or all in Doha didnt even know about 10/7 until it happened.

IDF and ISA Announcement:

“The IDF and ISA conducted a precise strike targeting the senior leadership of the Hamas terrorist organization.

“For years, these members of the Hamas leadership have led the terrorist organization's operations, are directly responsible for the brutal October 7th massacre, and have been orchestrating and managing the war against the State of Israel.

“Prior to the strike, measures were taken in order to mitigate harm to civilians, including the use of precise munitions and additional intelligence.

“The IDF and ISA will continue to operate with determination in order to defeat the Hamas terrorist organization responsible for the October 7th massacre.”

180,000 Mexican concert goers chanting Palestina Libre for a ...

2025-09-08T00:21:00Z

180,000 Mexican concert goers chanting Palestina Libre for a refugee family on stage

Speechless. No words for this. ...

2025-09-06T23:01:12Z

Speechless. No words for this.

I understand that Israel and its defenders are upset that a film ...

2025-09-04T11:43:10Z

I understand that Israel and its defenders are upset that a film about the murder of Hind Rajab and her family has been made and is apparently devastating to audiences.

They could have avoided this by allowing the rescue workers to rescue her, instead of murdering them as well.
https://bird.makeup/users/zakfilm/statuses/1963284682516082947

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The Voice of Hind Rajab completely devastated me. Hearing a young Palestinian girl be left helpless had me crying throughout the film. I felt so distraught knowing this is happening every second in Gaza.

The standing ovation was like 30 minutes long and would have kept going with Hind Rajab’s beautiful picture for everyone to see.

This is the first time I see in Venice that the cast had to leave cos there was no more time to clap, and the audience were willing to keep clapping, chanting Free Palestine. A tragic film that will make you face your own humanity as this genocide continues and more children are killed. #Venezia82

Reports from Gaza City are quite clear: Israel is sending ...

2025-08-27T00:18:18Z

Reports from Gaza City are quite clear: Israel is sending bomb-laden robots into populated neighborhoods and detonating them.

The point of assassinating as many journalists as possible is to clear the way not just for their atrocities to go unreported but to attempt to absurdly blame them on Hamas.
https://bird.makeup/users/mossadil/statuses/1960202808793194691

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REPORT: Hamas is now using bomb-laden robots inside a residential areas in northern Gaza.

Compare this honest and impressive reporting from NYT's Aric ...

2025-08-27T00:01:16Z

Compare this honest and impressive reporting from NYT's Aric Toler and others with the headline that the New York Times put on his article.

Absolute night and day. The journalists find the IDF flat-out lied, the editors then write a headline that pretends the IDF claim is serious and includes their slanderous claim that six of those killed were militants.
https://bird.makeup/users/arictoler/statuses/1960452028871684511

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Israel justified its strike on the Nasser Hospital, which killed six journalists and more than a dozen others, by claiming a "Hamas" camera was set up there.
The location they attacked is where Reuters and the AP livestream.
From Isabel Kershner (npub1a4t…m50n), me, Christoph Koettl (npub1fxh…cg2s), Sanjana (npub1mlv…qxur), Aaron Boxerman (npub1jkl…6php)

The IDF struck a Reuters camera and killed their cameraman, ...

2025-08-26T21:03:15Z

The IDF struck a Reuters camera and killed their cameraman, Hussam al-Masri. The IDF then put out a statement saying they struck a "Hamas camera."

Reuters dutifully reported that claim in its headline as if it had any credibility at all. Reuters is quite literally willing to call itself Hamas if Israel asks it to.

(I notice there's no byline on this story.)
https://bird.makeup/users/meghnadbose93/statuses/1960445264163938311

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Reuters has published a report today headlined "Initial inquiry says Hamas camera was target of Israeli strike that killed journalists" even though the "camera position" that was attacked was the site where Reuters' own live feed was being provided by their own journalist.

Even their featured image is captioned "Equipment used by Palestinian cameraman Hussam al-Masri, who was a contractor for Reuters, lies at the site where he was killed..." but the first paragraph of Reuters' own report reads:

"An initial Israeli military inquiry has concluded that troops struck what they believed to be a Hamas camera position in Monday's attack on a Gaza hospital that killed five journalists..."

Drop Site (npub15w6…4qeg)

They lived through 23 months of conditions so extreme as to defy ...

2025-08-23T14:42:22Z

They lived through 23 months of conditions so extreme as to defy description, and then had their starving children killed in front of them.

I’m sometimes asked why I post so frequently about this. Is the crime committed against this family not news? Where in the world are

The right wing Times of Israel can acknowledge widespread ...

2025-08-21T19:09:58Z

The right wing Times of Israel can acknowledge widespread malnutrition among children in Gaza. What is wrong with Bari Weiss (npub1h3a…lv4y) and [@oliviareingold_](https://bird.makeup/users/oliviareingold_ ) and the rest of The FP? How can you be more enthusiastic for the starvation of children than the Times of Israel?

Israel says it’s worried China is re-supplying Iran’s missile ...

2025-08-15T02:37:17Z

Israel says it’s worried China is re-supplying Iran’s missile defenses.

I’ve been told supplying defensive weapons is always good. Odd.
https://bird.makeup/users/nadav_eyal/statuses/1956163094776086929
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New must-read report from Defense for Children International - ...

2025-08-13T21:07:58Z

New must-read report from Defense for Children International - Palestine on the abduction and torture of 16-year-old Omar Nizar Mahmoud Asfour for 26 days at Sde Teiman military detention camp. Insanity:

This was the shelling witnessed by @npub13ls…r6e6 and flat out ...

2025-08-08T00:01:52Z

This was the shelling witnessed by abubakerabedw (npub13ls…r6e6) and flat out denied by the Israeli military
https://bird.makeup/users/dropsitenews/statuses/1953606369980166376

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🇧🇬 Bulgaria Probes Israeli Tank Killing of UN Worker in Gaza

Bulgarian prosecutors have opened a murder investigation into the March 19 killing of Captain Marin Marinov, 51, a Bulgarian UN staffer, in a strike on a UN guesthouse in Deir al-Balah that also wounded five others.

➤ The case — under “murder of a person under international protection” — seeks to identify the Israeli tank commander who fired the precision-guided round. A Washington Post probe and UN forensic report both confirmed the shell was Israeli and capable of being programmed for exact range and direction, indicating deliberate targeting.

➤ Israel initially denied responsibility, then admitted in April that its tank killed Marinov — a familiar pattern of denial followed by quiet admission once evidence is overwhelming.

➤ The UN pulled roughly a third of its international staff from Gaza after the strike, citing an inability to guarantee their safety.

➤ Bulgaria’s foreign minister says compensation for the family is still being negotiated between the UN and Israel under insurance policies for “malicious acts.”

The BBC is so blinded by its hostility to Palestinians they ...

2025-08-06T23:44:04Z

The BBC is so blinded by its hostility to Palestinians they didn’t realize that they had serious reporting here of a flagrant Israeli crime against humanity:

“With no functioning banking system in Gaza, even receiving the salary is complex and at times, dangerous. Israel regularly identifies and targets Hamas salary distributors, seeking to disrupt the group's ability to govern.”

Here's footage of the same site as the Time magazine photo ...

2025-08-06T18:45:18Z

Here's footage of the same site as the Time magazine photo that Bill Ackman (npub1g7n…nqtt) and others are saying was staged. They will all retract and apologize after watching this.

You can tell by countless details that it's the precise same site and that the photographer did not stage it.

Israel: We are banning UNRWA, expelling UN officials, restricting ...

2025-07-24T13:26:11Z

Israel: We are banning UNRWA, expelling UN officials, restricting UN staff travel, killing more than 200 UN staff, ordering the evacuation of UN HQ in Deir-al-Bala, firing at UN trucks

Also Israel: Why is the UN starving Gaza?

NYT: This shows how complex a dilemma it is
https://bird.makeup/users/ryangrim/statuses/1948148768609628346

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The last time the WFP tried to deliver aid, on July 20, the IDF opened fire on aid seekers who swarmed the trucks, killing many. On July 21, they paused deliveries so as not to get more people killed by the IDF.

We all watched Israel lead a global campaign to shut down UNRWA and the existing effective aid distribution system and replace it with the GHF firing squads. Now we get this bizarre post:
https://bird.makeup/users/israel/statuses/1948075219878568350
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The last time the WFP tried to deliver aid, on July 20, the IDF ...

2025-07-23T22:30:35Z

The last time the WFP tried to deliver aid, on July 20, the IDF opened fire on aid seekers who swarmed the trucks, killing many. On July 21, they paused deliveries so as not to get more people killed by the IDF.

We all watched Israel lead a global campaign to shut down UNRWA and the existing effective aid distribution system and replace it with the GHF firing squads. Now we get this bizarre post:
https://bird.makeup/users/israel/statuses/1948075219878568350

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Nearly 950 aid trucks are waiting at the border, ready to support the people of Gaza.

So who’s holding them back?

The UN.

While Israel facilitates the entry of humanitarian aid and the GHF delivers it directly to civilians in Gaza, the UN is obstructing the efficient flow of assistance.

We call on the United Nations to stop blocking essential aid. Immediately.

It is odd, or should be, that the ceasefire negotiations are ...

2025-07-12T16:26:50Z

It is odd, or should be, that the ceasefire negotiations are being conducted in a world in which Israel is committing daily, sometimes hourly, atrocities of this kind, and Israel is still being treated as just a normal state engaged in negotiations

I will admit that when the first reports of the IDF using naval ...

2025-07-10T21:37:23Z

I will admit that when the first reports of the IDF using naval ships to shell aid seekers were published, I was very skeptical.

My skepticism it turns out was unwarranted. Incredible:

Israel has high quality cameras for their targeting and they know ...

2025-07-10T12:46:03Z

Israel has high quality cameras for their targeting and they know where food is distributed. They knew these 13 children were lined up for food.

This massacre — just by itself — would be remembered for decades if not more if it happened to American children.

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Update:

In this air strike, 13 children were slaughtered.

(Just waking up to this devastating news:
A few hours ago, Israel targeted a group of children who were standing in line in Deir al-Balah, waiting to receive food supplements.)

It shouldn’t be shocking, but the lack of any expressed concern ...

2025-06-13T03:55:04Z

It shouldn’t be shocking, but the lack of any expressed concern whatsoever for Muslims in this statement is shocking

https://bird.makeup/@nypdnews/1933350291530780849

The U.S. and Iran were scheduled to meet Sunday to continue ...

2025-06-13T00:22:41Z

The U.S. and Iran were scheduled to meet Sunday to continue nuclear talks.

Trump told Israel publicly and privately not to attack before the talks were over.

Israel clearly believes they can force the U.S. into this war of their choosing.

The IDF just finally acknowledged what we and others reported ...

2025-06-07T18:52:23Z

The IDF just finally acknowledged what we and others reported long ago, that Hamas did not kidnap the Bibas family, rather it was a faction that did not even have knowledge of 10/7 but took advantage of the chaos.

Full IDF statement here announcing the killing of a top Mujahideen Brigade commander:

Joint IDF and ISA Announcement:

The IDF and ISA eliminated the head of the Mujahideen terrorist organization who infiltrated Israeli territory on October 7th and participated in the abduction and holding of Israeli hostages

In a joint IDF and ISA operation, the terrorist As'ad Abu Sharaiya who served during the last years as the head of the Mujahideen terrorist organization in the Gaza Strip was eliminated earlier today (Saturday) in Gaza City. The terrorist infiltrated Kibbutz Nir Oz on Oct. 7th, 2023, was one of the leaders of the brutal massacre, and was directly involved in the abduction and murder of Shiri, Ariel, and Kfir Bibas. Furthermore, he was involved in the abductions of the couple Gad Haggai and Judi Lynn Weinstein Haggai, and the abduction and murder of Nattapong Pinta and an additional foreign national who is still held captive by the terrorist organization.

As part of Abu Sharaiya's role, he was responsible for recruiting terrorist operatives in Judea and Samaria and in Israel, through whom he advanced and carried out terror attacks and terrorist activity. Throughout the war, the organization under his leadership was involved in orchestrating terror attacks against the State of Israel and in combat against IDF troops operating in the Gaza Strip.

In an additional IDF and ISA strike, the Mujahideen terrorist Mahmoud Muhammad Hamid Kuhail who infiltrated Kibbutz Nir Oz on October 7th was eliminated. Throughout the war, the terrorist was one of the terrorists responsible for holding Shiri, Ariel, and Kfir Bibas captive in the Gaza Strip.

Mujahideen terrorists took a significant part in the murderous October 7th massacre. They were involved in acts of abduction and murder, despite not being aware of Hamas’s plans. Rather, they acted as an extension and utilized Hamas’s terrorist framework within Israeli territory.

The IDF and the ISA will continue to operate to locate and eliminate all terrorists from the various terrorist organizations who took part in the brutal massacre on October 7th and were involved in holding Israeli hostages in captivity in the Gaza Strip.

Attached is an infographic regarding the elimination of the terrorist As'ad Abu Sharaiya: https://idfanc.activetrail.biz/ANC070620254761861612

Attached is an infographic regarding the elimination of the terrorist Mahmoud Muhammad Hamid Kuhail:
https://idfanc.activetrail.biz/ANC070620259849844984

This is genuinely deranged. This conspiracy theory that Hamas in ...

2025-06-07T02:34:19Z

This is genuinely deranged. This conspiracy theory that Hamas in Gaza kept their 10/7 plans secret form political leaders in Doha but shared them with Columbia students is evidence of actual mental illness.

https://bird.makeup/@jacobkornbluh/1931086401384149489

“Judge Goldberg found that while the students claimed Penn had ...

2025-06-07T02:31:44Z

“Judge Goldberg found that while the students claimed Penn had tolerated antisemitism, they failed to show ‘any actions or positions which, even when read in the most favorable light, could be interpreted as antisemitic with the intention of causing harm.’”

“The judge noted, ‘At worst, Plaintiffs accuse Penn of tolerating and permitting the expression of viewpoints which differ from their own.’”

Ouch.

https://bird.makeup/@dropsitenews/1931173919353970768

After the Washington Post apologized for not giving proper weight ...

2025-06-05T18:17:48Z

After the Washington Post apologized for not giving proper weight to the IDF denial of its role in the massacre Sunday, CNN published an investigation citing *17 eyewitnesses* saying the shots came from the Israelis.

Awaiting the new correction and apology....

https://bird.makeup/@ryangrim/1929995947469353022

Doctors treated more than 100 people wounded in a massacre the ...

2025-06-01T23:18:03Z

Doctors treated more than 100 people wounded in a massacre the IDF says didn’t happen

https://bird.makeup/@msf/1929251484283109798

In the deal Hamas reached last week with Witkoff, they agreed to ...

2025-05-31T01:27:48Z

In the deal Hamas reached last week with Witkoff, they agreed to hand over governance of Gaza to an independent Palestinian technocratic committee.

In order to get Israel on board, the new agreement, struck with Israel, would leave Hamas in control, according to the draft agreement obtained by jeremy scahill (npub1ljl…vu42)

If you consider yourself a person who can think independently, I want you to think about what that means. Specifically:

Why is Hamas willing to give up control in order to get a peace deal, yet Israel insists on keeping Hamas in control? Why would that be?

This is aimed at banning the overseas family members of ...

2025-05-16T22:50:23Z

This is aimed at banning the overseas family members of Palestinians in Israel and the occupied territories from visiting or traveling home, a blow to community and to the economy

https://bird.makeup/@ireallyhateyou/1923470290333405641

Deranged statement from the IDF is now claiming credit for the ...

2025-05-13T01:50:07Z

Deranged statement from the IDF is now claiming credit for the attack on Nasser hospital’s burn unit, claiming that a Hamas govt finance official, who was previously killed, worked from the hospital in March.

Objectively psychopathic explanation for striking the hospital in May.

In case it’s not clear, govt officials working in a hospital do not make it a moral or legal target. Especially not months later. I’ll past the statement in the reply.

https://bird.makeup/@ryangrim/1922094666717057501

It is not surprising but nevertheless shocking that Israel will ...

2025-05-12T01:16:40Z

It is not surprising but nevertheless shocking that Israel will not agree to stop bombing Gaza between now and Tuesday to make sure Edan Alexander isn’t killed. Is it truly so desperately important to never cease the bombing? Why is the US unable to extract this teeny concession?

https://bird.makeup/@dropsitenews/1921732016199872613

Trying to imagine the news coverage if Hamas ambushed and then ...

2025-05-03T17:34:07Z

Trying to imagine the news coverage if Hamas ambushed and then point-blank executed a team of Israeli medics, then buried 15 in a mass grave along with their ambulances.

My great grand children would hear about it.

As Ravid says, the NYT for instance went out on a limb, initially ...

2025-04-06T00:25:16Z

As Ravid says, the NYT for instance went out on a limb, initially refusing to cover a massive story getting global attention because its sources in the IDF were telling the paper there was nothing to see. Then under pressure they finally ran a ridiculous he said/she said in which they professed to have forgotten how to do basic journalism and gave credence to the IDF’s absurd new addition to the lexicon of lies, that the ambulances were “advancing suspiciously.”

Even the Times now, which is 100% aligned with Israel’s war aims, will be at least somewhat reluctant to take the IDF’s word about the next massacre.

The effect of all this will only be felt long term.

https://bird.makeup/@barakravid/1908556599116836955

This is an actual quote: ...

2025-03-28T21:56:17Z

This is an actual quote:

https://bird.makeup/@assalrad/1905726182634778769