As temperatures soar across Israel, residents of Tel Aviv and Jerusalem are finding creative ways to beat the heat - from crowded beaches and overflowing public pools to fountains, sprinklers, and any patch of water they can find. Israel is experiencing one of its most intense summer heatwaves in recent years, with temperatures expected to peak this weekend. But as always, Israelis find a way to keep their cool. ☀️🌊🇮🇱

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RT @SpencerGuard: At this point if you still claim Israel is committing genocide in Gaza you are either stupid and ignorant or antisemitic.

The antisemitic version usually means applying a double standard on the definition of genocide and the laws of war just to delegitimize Israel’s existence or right to pursue legitimate goals in a war it did not start or/and dehumanize every IDF soldier as a monster.

I have tried to argue basic definitions. Genocide requires intent to destroy a national, ethnical, racial or religious group as such, in whole or in part. The evidence does not show that intent toward the people in Gaza. What it shows is the opposite. Israel has taken extraordinary steps, often at real cost and risk, to prevent civilian harm while fighting an enemy that hides among them, uses hospitals and schools as bases, and treats its own people as props in an evil grand political strategy of martyrdom to eliminate all jews on the planet.

In the middle of the fighting Israel has let in huge amounts of food, hundreds of thousands of tons, sometimes more than the world food specialists said was needed. Water lines from Israel have stayed open, three of them supplying tens of thousands of cubic meters a day. They have coordinated repairs, kept desalination plants running by sending fuel and even electricity to key ones, and allowed generators so water systems, hospitals and bakeries can keep working. Medical supplies and equipment have poured in by the tens of thousands of tons. Field hospitals coordinated. Patients have been evacuated for treatment outside. When polio showed up for the first time in decades Israel halted fighting every day and worked with WHO and UNICEF on a mass vaccination campaigns. Over a million doses given. That is not how you try to wipe out a people.

Then look at the misinformation machine. Almost every big claim about Israel deliberately targeting journalists or medical staff or children falls apart, and a lot of the time it falls apart because of what Hamas itself admits, sometimes before anyone even finishes basic fact checking. The “journalists” killed for example. Plenty of the names on those lists later show up in Hamas or Islamic Jihad martyr posts as actual operatives or commanders. Dual roles are common in Gaza’s information space. Same with medical workers. People mourned as nurses or doctors get claimed later by the terror groups as fighters. Hospitals have been used as command centers and weapons storage over and over. Hamas officials have even said it out loud at times. Manuals found on how to use the hospitals as Hamas military sites.

The casualty numbers and the “they are targeting children” stories. The Hamas health ministry figures get treated like gospel, yet their own underlying data and later admissions undercut every trending statistic. Combatants get left out or reclassified. Claims of IDF snipers or drones hunting kids usually fail basic reality of sci-fi sniper drones that don’t exist or injury patterns coming out of the same hospitals.

These stories do not need years of investigation to collapse. Often Hamas’s own words or the available evidence do the job within days or weeks. But the first maximalist version is what spreads and sticks and then gets used to accuse the whole country of Israel and its army of genocidal intent.

It is not illegal or wrong to target and destroy your enemy in a war, especially one that started with a massacre, held hostages, and fights from inside the civilian population it claims to protect. Gaza is an awful war with awful conditions, conditions shaped heavily by Hamas’s tactics. That does not make it genocide. The aid that kept flowing, the vaccination campaigns, the water and power facilitation, and the way the propaganda claims kept falling apart all point the other direction. If you ignore all of that and still yell genocide the explanations left are ignorance or a double standard aimed only at Israel. But this entire stupid campaign every war in history is a genocide.
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If you actually want to engage in the debate of "intent" or actions in Gaza, see earlier writings:

"I’m a War Scholar. There Is No Genocide in Gaza," https://t.co/G7Iy9Ki3g5

"Israel Is Not Committing Genocide: Exposing the Distortion of Law and Truth," with @Ostrov_A
https://t.co/0RWFtOUd8H

"Israel's Aid to Gaza Is Historically Unprecedented," https://t.co/QMLuWDGDDs

https://t.co/fjZcHmZUH1 - John Spencer

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[1/5] 🧵 Within hours of the Ceuta migrant crisis, one culprit was trending worldwide. Not Spain. Not Morocco. Israel. Posts blaming Israel and the Jews reached an estimated 103 million people in three days, before any evidence was in. https://t.co/EAsavwddEQ

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Six years ago, on August 4, 2020, at least 200 innocent people were killed and thousands injured in the Beirut blast in Lebanon.
To this day, many locals blame Hezbollah for the deadly incident. It's believed that the Iranian regime-backed terror organization was stockpiling ammonium nitrate, an explosive chemical used to build bombs, at the port where the blast occurred.
Hezbollah has still not been held accountable for this despicable act, and the people of Beirut continue to be denied justice.

The same terror group led Lebanon into war with Israel, following the October 7, 2023 Hamas massacre, they fired countless rockets, missiles, explosive drones and mortar bombs, mainly towards Israeli northern communities, with a plan to invade Israel.

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While Jews represent roughly 10% of New York City's population, a staggering 23 out of 33 confirmed hate crimes in July 2026 targeted Jews, according to the NYPD.
This marks a 53% increase since July 2025. Since the start of 2026 alone, 57% of all hate crimes have targeted Jews. This is part of a deeply alarming surge in antisemitism sweeping across the United States and around the globe.

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RT @michaeldickson: May Abu Sabaakh was 13 when a rocket fired by Iranian-backed Hamas terrorists from Gaza hit her home within the Bedouin village in which she lived, on October 7. She and her 57-year old grandmother were tragically murdered as a result. May dreamed of being an English teacher. 🕯️ https://t.co/Jb9rdjR6uR

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Listen to terror group Hamas in its own words. In July 2026, a Hamas representative made it clear that the terror group will never lay down its arms.

Credit: MEMRI https://t.co/Ng7kbWVKIR

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Hamas has now said the quiet part out loud: it accepted the deal out of necessity, not out of a genuine change of heart. Let's be clear about what Hamas' stated goal has always been - the complete destruction of the State of Israel and the elimination of the Jewish people. That is not resistance. That is genocide.

Hamas spokesman Ghazi Hamad has admitted in an interview with British journalist Piers Morgan, that the terror group accepted the current peace framework not out of genuine commitment, but out of necessity. "Because of forced necessity, the hard circumstances in Gaza, we accept this agreement," Hamad said. "But I can confirm that we didn't change our mentality, our goal to end the occupation. This is our holy mission."

When pressed directly on when Hamas would disarm and hand over its weapons as required by the deal, Hamad refused to answer. He also denied any wrong doing on October 7, 2023 - in which Hamas massacred 1,200 people - and kidnapped hundreds from multiple nationalities.

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Hear from StandWithUs students about what they're most excited for at the StandWithUs High School Internship Conference and the Emerson Fellowship Training Conference! https://t.co/jk5j4TaNS6

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Boycotting Israel so hard you can't see through the fog. Literally! ✈️🌫️

In what may be the most ironic consequence of Ireland's anti-Israel stance, the Irish government's brand new €53 million Dassault Falcon 6X jet - used to transport the Taoiseach and senior ministers - was ordered without a key navigational landing system because it is made by Israeli company Elbit Systems.

The FalconEye system, which normally sits on the plane's nose and helps it land safely in fog and low-visibility conditions, was deliberately excluded after Irish procurement officials determined that entering into a written agreement with an Israeli company was "a step too far for the Irish State." The result: Ireland's most senior government officials may now be unable to land safely in bad weather - a direct consequence of prioritizing a political boycott over basic aviation safety. Boycotting Israeli technology has consequences.

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“At 18, you were asked to protect a nation. At 20, you faced decisions that would shape lives, and now, into your 20s you are leaders, role models, and educators.”

A powerful message at the Graduation of Israeli StandWithUs Fellows in Jerusalem, from Executive Director, Michael Dickson. @michaeldickson

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