Israel/Palestine Thread

Execution of Likud's "From the River to the Sea" goal continues unabated. Hints at a final solution too.

Hopefully, the odious Smotrich and his equally odious party will be gone before the end of the year.

Haaretz:On Tuesday, far-right Finance Minister Smotrich's Religious Zionism party, which many polls predict will fail to clear the electoral threshold in the election set to take place later this year, held a conference titled "Settlement Plan for 2030."

The invitation to the conference described it as "an event marking the settlement revolution" and "strengthening the Jewish hold in Judea and Samaria," and included a declaration from the minister that he would seek to annul the Oslo Accords.

During his address, Smotrich also said that Israel's next government should "encourage the migration" of Palestinians from the West Bank and impose Israeli sovereignty there, arguing that "in the long term, there is no other solution.

We must complete the revolution and eliminate the idea of the Arab terrorist state."

And to think that these boyos claim to be religious.

He loses all reason when it comes to Israel and always has. Sad, in a way.

That interview by Tucker Carlson with Mike Huckabee is telling for a number of reasons.

(Watch in Youtube to go to specific key parts of the conversation by clicking on chapters in timeline)

Obviously, as a lot of people have seen in various snippets that have made it to social media, there are several instances where Carlson doesn't hold back in leaving no ambiguity about the point he is making and the evidence he has to support that versus the evidence to denounce it. The Israeli claim to the land in the middle east for example, or the Israeli influence in the US going to war in Iraq is another.

It is also telling in just how performative Carlson was when working for Fox. He knows the facts or at least the relevant questions on a lot of topics but him interviewing as he does here or with some other interviews since he left the network shows just how much he was playing a part in empowering the conservative (Trump) movement while working for Fox.

You look at Mehdi Hassan's work for Zeteo and it is not markedly different from when he was on MSNBC but Tucker is like a completely different person. I don't think this will surprise people, but it's a sign as how how manipulated the media landscape can be and why it has covered Israel/Palestine, The Epstein Files and various other stories.

The second thing that is interesting about the above video is why didn't someone from Huckabee's team call a halt to it. They were clearly displeased with it given how Carlson's producer was interviewed after it so why did he sit there for over 2 hours and give Carlson so many opportunities to pick holes in his positions. I don't think there was an ulterior motive from Huckabee, I just find it weird the plug wasn't pulled much sooner.

The machine has clicked in to gear. Huckabee's response to the interview.

When I sat down with Tucker Carlson on Wednesday, I was expecting a thoughtful conversation and that he would ask questions and give me the opportunity to actually respond--just like he did with the little Nazi sympathizer Nick Fuentes or the guy who thought Hitler was the good guy and Churchill the bad guy. What I wasn't anticipating was a lengthy series of questions where he seemed to be insinuating that the Jews of today aren't really same people as the Jews of the Bible.

I'll first just say something I didn't think to say to Tucker, which is that Ashkenazi Jews, meaning those who families had spent centuries in Europe, are a minority of Israel's Jewish population, only maybe 35-40%. There are far more Sephardic and Mizrahi Jews inside Israel.

But there's a good reason, as it turns out, that I had never encountered this theory that Tucker kept pushing on. That’s because it comes from some of the darkest realms of the Internet and social media.

I think it's important to take a moment now and educate Tucker and anyone else who might get sucked in by this dangerous conspiracy theory, just as I have been educated this week.

I'm sharing this information because it has been weaponized by very bad people to delegitimize Jews and strip them of their history.

It's an idea that gained traction in the 80's and 90's with David Duke and other Klansmen and neo-Nazis. It has really caught fire in recent years on the Internet and social media, mostly from some of the most overt anti-Semites and Jew haters you can find.

I don’t know why Tucker was so fixated on this, and I'm certainly not saying he knew the origins of this conspiracy theory. I don't know what's in his heart or what he was thinking.

But I do know that the discredited idea that most Ashkenazi or European Jews descended from the ancient Turkic kingdom of Khazaria is bunk. It's also been weaponized by people trying to deligitimize Jews, to strip them of their history, and to call them "imposters" or "fake Jews."

This odious conspiracy theory is peddled by the likes of Candace Owens and Nick Fuentes and by people who love David Duke, as well as Islamist accounts that make up false smears about Israel non-stop and are run out of countries like Pakistan and Turkey.

But we know from genetics and rich volumes of written literature that the Jews of today can trace their lineage back thousands of years to the Israel and the Jewish people of the Bible.

They are as connected together as genetics tell us that the ancient Khazar kingdom is to people living today in Turkey.

And if Tucker wants to tour more than Ben-Gurion Airport on his next trip to Israel, I'm happy to show him places where Jews have lived going back to the time of Jesus Christ and even earlier.

I sincerely hope Tucker will let me know when he actually wants to learn facts about the land and people. Asking me about conspiracy theories should remain on the fringes and not be the heart of the conversation.

Tucker Carlson should fly to Israel on Monday and take him on again. Im willing to bet there'd be at least a few people in the room to guide or rescue Huckabee.