Israel Today

Do Others Know Better Who We Are?
“Where do I come from? Who am I?” – On old myths, new theories, and the astonishing certainty of some that they know my origins better than I do myself.
Some time ago, an email was forwarded to me. A reader wrote that in Christian circles in Germany – and apparently on various Telegram channels as well – people were seriously debating whether today’s Jewish people are even identical to the Israel of the Bible. Whether the promises still apply. Whether the covenant still has an address. Or whether we might perhaps be a historical case of mistaken identity.

This debate is accompanied by the by-now familiar ingredients: Epstein Files, Rothschild, Rockefeller, allegedly corrupt elites who supposedly “built” the State of Israel in 1948. And of course it resurfaces again – the Khazar thesis. Today’s Jews are supposedly not descendants of the Israelites at all, but instead descended from a Turkic people from the Middle Ages.

You read that – and briefly wonder whether to laugh or shake your head.

I decided to do both.

My Path to Israel...
[photo - Back to the roots. Soldiers at the Western Wall in Jerusalem. Photo: Chaim Goldberg/Flash90]

There often is no separation between civilian and terrorist in the Gaza Strip. A man who works as a doctor or journalist by day could be launching rockets or commanding terrorist gunmen by night.

That is the critical factor of this war often missed or deliberately concealed by the mainstream media.

This week, the IDF eliminated a senior Hamas commander in central Gaza. But you probably didn’t hear about that, because Jamal Abu Aoun also worked as a local doctor, and that’s the role the media will choose to focus on.

Full report at the link in the first comment.

Here’s the uncomfortable truth:

Much of today’s pro-Palestinian activism is not built on facts. It is built on five very durable hoaxes — repeated by legacy media, amplified by social media, and absorbed by people who often believe they are standing on the side of justice.

Humanitarian concern is real. Civilian suffering is real. But concern becomes manipulation when Hamas’s war strategy, Palestinian rejectionism, stolen aid, antisemitic indoctrination, and the repeated refusal of statehood are quietly edited out of the story.

Full analysis at the link in the first comment.