From reports in telegram channels, it looks like at least 2 different syrian islamist militias are arriving to our borders (It was reported in Abu Ali Express). One of them threatened to do 7/10 again, another said they will not leave until they "liberate" Jerusalem, with no mercy to the jews. Just in case you are wondering why we took the high ground in Syria...

Al sharaa has a chance to show that he has a normal country, instead of the apparent terror state.

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How common are the pro-Palestinian marches in Tel Aviv?

(This includes non Israelis too)

When it comes to wars, if this demographical change occurred, what effects would it result in?

Hey I’m a queer ex-Muslim bisexual guy who lives in Iraq. People here don’t allow to be the person that I am, and I found a good job in Israel (tel aviv specifically) that matches my qualifications in an NGO which I guess is going to help me to get the visa. The only thing that is stopping me from applying for that job is that is stopping me is in Iraq we have that idea that we are not welcomed there. So I just want to make ask you guys if that’s true or not?

https://www.israelhayom.com/2025/04/06/shin-bet-official-caught-admitting-to-settler-arrests-without-evidence/

I am really concerned at the rapid spread of uncritical pro-Hamas rhetoric and the demonization of Israel within the left, eating from the fringes and threatening the general pro-Israel consensus since 10/7. I have a family member converting to Judaism for their spouse, and the future of my family line is Jewish.

Standing up to the rising hate is important to me, and so I wanted to ask for feedback on approach and accuracy in how I aim to engage in productive advocacy and change some minds. Thank you for your consideration.

“While every bomb Israel drops is a decision the IDF makes, it is important to remember that every day Hamas does not return the hostages is a decision Hamas makes.

It is not pro-Palestinian to uncritically endorse interminable violent resistance that will not alter the status quo. Your heart can, and should, bleed for the dead. We should all weep at the suffering, at what hath been wrought.

It is also important to remember that the framing as Israel v Palestine ignores a lot of history. Palestine wasn’t a state but a region, a Greek name.

Jews originated in the levant, and have a long and archaeologically supported history there. Evicted and exiled by Romans, and in the 7th century the the Arab expansion resulted in the settling and colonizing of the Levant, of Egypt, of Libya, and even of Spain, swept by arabization and Islamization.

Where did the ancient Egyptians go?

The British didn’t walk into the Arab world one day. It was in the 19th century part of the Ottoman Empire — they were ruled by Turks. The Turks et al fought against the Entente powers in World War One, and the victors took “mandatory” custody to prepare the Arab world for self-rule alongside emergent Arab nationalism.

And Jews were here this whole time. During Ottoman rule, Slavic Jews began to immigrate as the first shoots of Zionism — rebuilding a community dispossessed by colonialism and assimilation.

The Jews in Palestine, again the Greek name for their historical homeland, rebuilt. Land acquisition was both paid for but did result in displacement and resentment. Nonetheless, would you object to native Americans buying large tracts of American land and kicking out the renters?

And so at this time in the Ottoman Empire, the situation was a growing minority population (because again, Jews were always these) among an extremely large Arab majority.

The Jewish community, the Yishuv, aspired to a state. The Jewish Agency was created as a proto state. Community militias of young men handling guns for the first time became an organized community defense network and increasingly professional Haganah.

After Britain declared the mandate over and the UN voted to partition the Levant into Palestine and Israel and grant the Yishuv the recognition of the international community as a politically self-determining nation. The Arabs retained political hegemony everywhere else, both in their lands of origin and the lands they conquered, colonized, and settled in the Middle Ages. Other regional minorities were not so lucky, the Druze and the Kurds notably. But there were no other communities aside from the Arabs for the most part in these lands they had conquered, arabization and Islamization having assimilated, erased, and forgotten the indigenous erased.

When Israel accepted partition, the newly minted Arab states declared war on Israel and invaded, vowing to drive the jews into the sea in a genocidal frenzy.

Despite the intercommunity violence, the Arab and Palestinian recounting of the nakba is flawed and omits that many who fled did so with plans to return after the ethnic cleansing was finished by neighbors who spoke the same language and shared a broader culture and religion and ethnic etiology who so thoroughly colonized the region that they literally built their own iconic dome of the rock on top of the ruins of the most sacred space in Judaism.

The Yishuv, now Israel, had to take defensive lines. The people who fled actual violence as well as the people who cynically left to facilitate the intercommunity violence and ethnic cleansing. After all, the Arab community leaders during World War 2 were allied with the Nazis and accepted advice and regarded them warmly.

If you read the archived print Arabic media of the time, the word Nakba first referred to the failure to ethnically cleanse Jews, or at least Jewish self-rule, from their homeland.

Palestinians gained consciousness as a political and community and nation during this time. But their national symbol is an Arab symbol, a minor variation on the Arab Revolt flag flown during the uprising against the ottomans in World War One. It’s the common genealogical origin of most of the Arab state flags.

The Palestinian Territories are the large Arab communities within the borders Israel established to defend its people against Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Iraq, Libya, et al. They fought a bunch of wars. It’s important to recognize not just the persistent threat of genocidal annihilation but the fact that the Arab states invaded them several times in order to commit genocide and erase what was called the “Jewish/zionist entity.”

The Palestinians are in other words, the part of the Arab world that loses due to a fundamental security reality where tanks can bisect the country the way you’d drive across New Jersey.

But Egypt is also culpable for this situation. So is Jordan. And today, so is Qatar. Because Palestinians are also used by the Arab world to fight a proxy war against Israel. They look at the long term, and see 10 million Israelis in a sea of Arabs assured that time is on their side with the genocidal ambitions that haven’t just gone away.

After Israeli independence, Jews across the Middle East were driven out. Where is the millennia old community of Syrian Jews? Israel. Where is the rich and storied and integral Jewish community that flourished in Baghdad? They’re in Israel. These Jews, brown in your naive political category, because they didn’t spend a thousand years fighting assimilation and never fled their land of origin, were also dispossessed by the crumbling of an empire that wasn’t a western empire and the clamor for Arab self determination.

And so the Palestinians are the Arabs that lost. But all the other Arabs won.

And so we should want a settlement that gives Palestinians self determination. Just as we should grant that jews are entitled to self determination and to be recognized as legitimate. If you agree that the 10 million Israelis deserve to live in peace with their neighbors, then you must abandon uncritical support of interminable violence.

The Arab world participates in funding this violence. Of perpetuating the political domination of the Palestinian people by right wing religious fanatics willing to immolate their children just to point and wail “look at what the Jews have done.”

They perpetuate a situation by which Israel cannot decisively resolve this war that originated so long ago against the Arab world.

Stopping selling weapons to Israel doesn’t make a settlement happen faster. It just opens the possibility to upsetting the status quo balance of power between Israel and the Arab world as a whole.

This is a pressure cooker for violence, as we are seeing. And every day Hamas does not give back the hostages is a decision Hamas makes.

Acknowledge the role Palestinians and the broader Arab world play in the violence. Once we can ack college that they too bear responsibility for the mass death and destruction, we can begin to discuss what an enduring peace looks like.

Because Zionist claims, as I hope I’ve convinced you, are fundamentally legitimate. If you oppose colonialism, I invite you to see Israel with new eyes. The greatest decolonization project humanity has known in recorded history.”

This is a long and involved discussion, but the conversations I aim to have are with people who I believe will respond positively to in depth discussion.

I welcome your feedback and correction. Thank you for reading.

קודם כל אני חושב שזה קריטי לציין שלא מדובר פה על גוף ניטרלי, זה התאגדות התעשיינים ויש להם אינטרס חזק נגד המכסים - אז קחו את זה בערבון מוגבל. אבל הם טוענים שלפי מחקר שלהם "בין 18 ל-26 אלף ישראלים עלולים לאבד את עבודתם נוכח הטלת המכסים" בהצלחה לכולנו אם הם צודקים

Translation:

First of all, I think its critical to note that this isn't a neutral body, the article talk about a report from Industrialist union which has a strong anti-Tariff interest so take their report with a grain of salt. They claim that according to their research between 18 thousand to 26 thousands Israelis might lose their job due to the tariffs. Good luck to us all if they're right.

Does the whole presidency thing in Israel even have a legit reason to exist? What results has the president pulled off lately? Is the cost-benefit vibe actually doing anything for the Israeli public?

i was born from jewish mother and ukrainian father. eventually as a path for me i chose Christianity.

how would i be seen in Israel? as a jew? as a "christian"? as an ukranian?

as it’s widely known, Arab Israelis and Israeli Jews aren’t very close to each other in israel’s society, each group primarily lives within their own separate communities and there is not much interaction between the two (other than on mixed cities such as tel aviv- Jaffa, Lod and Haifa). From my knowledge and interactions with Arab Israelis I noticed most of them are not big fans of Israel to say the least and don’t feel any connection to the country other than their ancestral ties to the land and cities themselves and are just fine with living in israel because life is much better there than in the nearby and most Arab countries, and enjoy much more freedom and opportunities. I wanted to ask if there are any Arab Israelis here that can answer me if that’s the shared sentiment throughout the majority of Arab Israelis.

https://mobile.mako.co.il/finances-news/Article-fd4c7f9428bf591027.htm

I'm looking for my father, who moved to Isreal sever years ago. I know he lives in a parish near the airport. How does 1 contact the parish? The man im looking for is my father and I heard from other family members that he lives in a parish and is living life like a monk.

I’m traveling to Israel with my pet in cabin on El Al. The dimensions for the carrier are not only very small, but there’s no carrier that I’ve found on the market that fits their dimensions (33cm x 20cm x 20cm). Can someone confirm if they’re strict and will measure the carrier at check in? Or if it’s not something to really worry about it/it’ll be fine? Planning on traveling with a soft sided carrier.

Title I NEED TO WATCH IT I NEED IT

Edit: it's on YouTube I am dumb for checking everywhere but that

Just thinking about PR in general, but with less of the manipulative connotations of that term; more like counter-dominant narrative perspectives:

Do you think it would help to see more stories in the news (that make their way into the MSM) from Israelis talking about their individual experiences growing up under an iron dome, with constant barrages of rockets coming in and random suicide bombings? Nothing sensationalised, but just honest recollections from ordinary people trying to live their lives. I would imagine that ‘could’ resonate on a more humanist level with people hardened/desensitised by the wall of politics surrounding the issue, and the aforementioned dominant narrative.

What do other people on here think Israel have been missing when presenting humanist counter-narratives? I feel there is a lot to present, but I don’t believe it’s been done in a sympathetic, effective way. Also, do you think it would make any difference?