Elie Mischel is the Editor of HaMizrachi Magazine and Director of Education at Israel365
Efrat, Israel
Joined August 2009
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We are our own worst enemy.
These people should not even have citizenship let alone be a member of the Knesset.
What kind of country lets people who hate the country be a member of their parliament??!
🚨 Disgraceful Behavior by Arab Joint List Lawmakers in the Knesset. Members of the Arab Joint List reportedly walked out of the Knesset plenary during the singing of Hatikvah, Israel's national anthem. Absolutely disgraceful. These lawmakers enjoy the rights, privileges, salaries, and parliamentary protections afforded to them by the State of Israel, yet they cannot even remain in the chamber while its national anthem is played. Nobody is asking them to abandon their political beliefs. But there is a difference between legitimate political opposition and a deliberate display of disrespect toward the country whose parliament they serve in.
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🤮 Disgraceful Behavior by Arab Joint List in the Knesset.
Members of the Arab Joint List walked out of the Knesset plenary during the singing of Hatikvah, Israel's national anthem.
As I said last week, the fact that these people are in the Knesset is pure insanity.
They shouldn’t even be allowed to be citizens of Israel!
To become an American citizen, you need to pledge allegiance to the United States of America.
Israel should be no different.
A person who is disloyal to the state of Israel should not be a citizen, let alone a member of the parliament.
A person who can’t condemn Hamas or October 7 should be behind bars, not in the Knesset. 
This is truly insane behavior, and the epitome of suicidal empathy.
People will claim this is racist. I call it common sense.
To be clear, this has absolutely nothing to do with their ethnicity. Anyone who is disloyal to the state, Jewish or Muslim, should not be in Israel’s parliament.
Period. Full stop.
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1. Prevent Israel from finishing the job
2. Get involved and stop midway
3. Spend months in negotiations, believing there are "pragmatists vs. extremists", while they are making fool of you
4. Blame Israel for not winning
The dumbest thing Golda Meir ever said.
I saw this post as I am leaving a mini-seminar in which an Israeli professor presented her paper on the shame Israelis collectively felt after massacres like Deir Qasem, Sabra and Shatila, and the flour massacre in Gaza.
In my opinion, it is stupid to feel shame when the other side is seeking your complete destruction, but I am not going to criticize Israelis for being human.
However, as someone who was once on the other side, I know that Muslims collectively, except for the seven pro-Israel Muslims on X, feel proud of the shedding of Jewish blood Not shame, pride.
This jihadist, Bassem Youssef, thinks of Israel what he knows for a fact about Muslims.
He projects how he, his mother, his sister, and his cousin feel about Jews.
Muslims’ moral ceiling is very low because the moral character of Muhammad is what determines it, so hatred is an authentic part of being a Muslim.
That is not true of Jews.
Jews, even though they kill Palestinians in self-defense, still feel shame.
Golda Meir said, “We can forgive the Arabs for killing our children, but we can’t forgive them for making us kill their children.”
The Arab-Israeli conflict is the product of a broken moral compass on the Muslim side, and it will never be resolved without getting rid of Islam.
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If JD Vance relies on polling to guide his national security decisions related to a potentially nuclear armed Iran, then he is not fit to be the commander in chief
That’s not how that job works
🚨 J.D. Vance personally sought polling to bolster his opposition to war with Iran, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Earlier this year, he contacted Mark Mitchell, then Rasmussen Reports’ polling chief, to request questions about a potential conflict. The results reinforced his belief that Americans would be skeptical of military action. His efforts to persuade Trump to avoid war failed.
Credit @natalieandrews
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“I never thought leopards would eat MY face”, sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People’s Faces Party
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I've waited a lot to write this, because it goes against everything I WANT to believe.
But facts, as they say, don't care about my feelings.
Coexistence with the actively Muslim part of Israel is failing.
Has failed.
The extremely high turnout percentages could have been good, IF the repartition of voters was more or less this of the general population.
If the Arab parties were cognizant and respectful of the State of Israel.
As it is, 80% of Israeli Arabs have voted against the continued existence of Israel.
I could disregard the high (4 to 10 times depending how you count) incidence of crime, from systematic tax evasion to violent genocide attempts.
I could disregard the blatant disrespect for women (especially their own).
I could disregard them importing brides and grooms from Gaza/ for Hamas.
I could disregard the "second class citizen" treatment we often get, as Jews in our own Land, from nurses, doctors or simple bartenders when there's another Arab in the queue.
The uncivility.
And so much more. I can't disregard the blatant vote to destroy my country.
Am I turning racist? I don't know.
I still like and respect the good people I know personally.
But now, the burden of proof has changed. THEY will need to convince me before I trust anyone.
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Mr. Vice-President,
Please allow me to present a different perspective.
The problem was not the Iran War. It was the cease fire.
If you start a war, you need to win it and finish it – otherwise don’t start it.
This war should have been over six months ago, with the Strait of Hormuz wide open and oil flowing. The second and third tiers of Iranian leadership should have been destroyed, and we should have supported the pro-western forces who could have taken leadership. We stood on the brink of a new, more peaceful Middle East - and then we blinked. We had a chance not only to deny Iran nuclear weapons, but to get rid of the world’s biggest supporter of terrorism.
Instead, we had a cease fire, which was followed by months of will we or won’t we finish the job. Every day was a different message. There still is. Is the war over? Is it about to begin? No one knows. There is confusion and inconsistency.
In June 2025, America was not involved. This was an Israel vs Iran issue.
No one forced the United States to attack Iran then, or in February of 2026. It was a decision made by President Trump. In my opinion, it was the right decision.
Once the decision was made, we should not have stopped until the regime fell. But instead, you negotiated a cease fire that didn’t last, didn’t work and left us in no man’s land, with higher prices and our troops still deployed.
Our troops could have been home, the Navy returned to its bases, a peaceful regime in place , new alliances forged, and gas prices below $3.00 a gallon.
No, Mr. Vice President. It’s not the war. It’s the so-called cease fire.
One of the things the data analysts on our side obsessed over was "composition"—whether the electorate looked close enough to 2024 for Republicans to win. And despite polls that showed a Democrat blowout, the data kept on telling us the same story: in some states turnout was merely OK, in other states it was downright amazing, and in no state was it catastrophic. There was a genuine sense of optimism on our team: our people were showing up.
So, I asked the smartest data guy I know, does that mean we're going to shock the world? "No," he told me. "We might do better than the polls suggest. But the data is telling us that a lot of Trump/Vance 2024 voters are pissed and planning to vote for the other guys. Our voters are turning out, but they may not vote for us."
Well, that looks prophetic now. Our voters did show up. In Florida, for example, the electorate was 9 points more Republican than Democrat, just a couple points worse than 2024. Undoubtedly there were places we could have done better on turnout. But the main problem is not turnout. The main problem is that many people who voted for Trump/Vance in 2024 voted for Democrats in 2026.
There will be a lot of infighting and arguing over what happened and why that is. One of the pollsters I really respect told me that our economic messaging wasn’t sharp enough down the stretch. I’m sure that’s true.
But the real reason we lost is obvious to almost everyone.
Another pollster—one of the smartest people I know in politics, told me yesterday we’d lose the generic ballot by 13 points. I felt negative going into Tuesday, but even I was shocked by this. In his polling, he saw that a lot of Trump 2024 voters were angry and planning to vote for Democrats. He asked those voters who had abandoned us what would cause them to come back on our team. The top four answers, accounting for nearly all of the responses were:
1) End the war
2) Focus on cost of living/inflation
3) Put America First
4) Change our relationship to Israel
Our voters showed up. And the above four reasons are why many of them voted for Democrats. This is according to a pollster who nailed the results. While many spent Monday attacking Rachel Campos Duffy for calling for a diplomatic resolution to the conflict, it turns out her political advice was sound. (She’s also a great person.)
In the next few months, there's going to be a lot of gaslighting. Expect to hear any number of establishment politicians say the solution to our woes is amnesty. I'm open to the idea that we should change enforcement—by focusing more on businesses that hire illegal labor, for instance. But anyone pushing amnesty is lying to you.
The reason we lost is the war. The president himself said so last night.
If you'd like to argue it was worth it, that losing the Senate for the next 6 years was worth it, then do so. Argue it was a worthwhile cost to pay. Agree or disagree, that's at least honest.
But everyone knows why we lost. And any honest conversation about where we go from here must start there.
I remain hopeful about our country. To the people who are pissed off and want to say, “I told you so”: you’re right, you did tell us so. Take that energy into electing Republicans who share your worldview. To the people who are just pissed at the results, you should be. Let’s take that anger and get back to the work of saving our country.
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Congratulations to all you Jew-haters out there for a big win tonight.
Dear my Jewish brothers and sisters,
Now would be a good time to get the hell out while the country I once loved implodes and eats itself from the inside.
America has spoken.
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This is the text I wrote on day three of Israeli-alone war at that point in June 2025 (I believe June 15th):
“A difficult tweet to write as an American patriot.
First, President Trump has been a force of clarity in this crisis standing behind Israel and grasping how important an Israeli victory to America’s vital and moral interests globally.
But as we stand at the cusp of possible American intervention — clearly considered out of the best intentions — I would caution against it.
Israel currently owns this war and thus leads in terms of setting its strategic purpose. It lives in a post-Oct 7 paradigm, where long term strategic problems are eliminated and solved, not managed and punted down road.
But the United States, even this President who is both a friend of Israel and a nemesis of the mediocre and defeatist Washington foreign policy pundit-ocrats, still is under immense pressure to seek a deal rather than allow victory over this regime.
The moment the U.S. intervenes, it has the right to set the strategic shape and aim of this war, which may well result in a negotiated deal that allows this regime in Iran to survive and deflates the hopes of the Iranian people to liberate themselves.
As such, while certainly it would take Israel longer and be less elegant, it is better to have Israel remain the spear of Western civilization, being the sole combatants taking down the evil Iranian regime and continuing the foundational doctrine of Zionism — to rely on the IDF alone to defend the Jewish nation and never ask a foreign army to send a single soldier to fight its wars — with American backstop as support.
Israel has learned through trauma the dangerous limits of the reigning Western idea of conflict management rather than the traditional idea of victory. It is thus ahead of its Western allies — who will eventually also face their own Oct 7s — but also for the moment alone in the clarity of its strategic understanding.
As such, it is important for Israel to finish this war as a Blue-White enterprise with the strategic clarity informing it rather than as a joint Israeli-US war with muddled strategic aims even though U.S. intervention would be done with the purest of good intentions and the highest level of affinity with Israel.
As long as israel fights this war alone, it alone determines how it ends. And this is unacceptable.
The moment the U.S. helps, the U.S. will set how this war ends. It will not be what israel wants, and Russia and Iran know that. In fact, that is the only strategic salvation that Iran has.
Having failed to convince Trump to split from Israel by threatening American interests in the Middle East directly, Khamenei now will try to leverage the Russia relationship in order to split Israel from from the United States.
And Trump might seduced by the strategic aim of reaching a deal. In contrast, Israel‘s interest remains in decisively winning and taking this through to the end, which likely involves the collapse of the government in Iran.
This gap between these unaligned set of conceptions potentially could drive a wedge between the United States and
Israel, and result in a premature end to this war.
So that is what Russia and its influencers in the U.S. on behalf of Iran are going to focus on.”
A true leader with a strong set of principles and the courage to stand for the would push back against the Israel (aka Jew) hatred. But of course, you won’t do that.
One of the things the data analysts on our side obsessed over was "composition"—whether the electorate looked close enough to 2024 for Republicans to win. And despite polls that showed a Democrat blowout, the data kept on telling us the same story: in some states turnout was merely OK, in other states it was downright amazing, and in no state was it catastrophic. There was a genuine sense of optimism on our team: our people were showing up.
So, I asked the smartest data guy I know, does that mean we're going to shock the world? "No," he told me. "We might do better than the polls suggest. But the data is telling us that a lot of Trump/Vance 2024 voters are pissed and planning to vote for the other guys. Our voters are turning out, but they may not vote for us."
Well, that looks prophetic now. Our voters did show up. In Florida, for example, the electorate was 9 points more Republican than Democrat, just a couple points worse than 2024. Undoubtedly there were places we could have done better on turnout. But the main problem is not turnout. The main problem is that many people who voted for Trump/Vance in 2024 voted for Democrats in 2026.
There will be a lot of infighting and arguing over what happened and why that is. One of the pollsters I really respect told me that our economic messaging wasn’t sharp enough down the stretch. I’m sure that’s true.
But the real reason we lost is obvious to almost everyone.
Another pollster—one of the smartest people I know in politics, told me yesterday we’d lose the generic ballot by 13 points. I felt negative going into Tuesday, but even I was shocked by this. In his polling, he saw that a lot of Trump 2024 voters were angry and planning to vote for Democrats. He asked those voters who had abandoned us what would cause them to come back on our team. The top four answers, accounting for nearly all of the responses were:
1) End the war
2) Focus on cost of living/inflation
3) Put America First
4) Change our relationship to Israel
Our voters showed up. And the above four reasons are why many of them voted for Democrats. This is according to a pollster who nailed the results. While many spent Monday attacking Rachel Campos Duffy for calling for a diplomatic resolution to the conflict, it turns out her political advice was sound. (She’s also a great person.)
In the next few months, there's going to be a lot of gaslighting. Expect to hear any number of establishment politicians say the solution to our woes is amnesty. I'm open to the idea that we should change enforcement—by focusing more on businesses that hire illegal labor, for instance. But anyone pushing amnesty is lying to you.
The reason we lost is the war. The president himself said so last night.
If you'd like to argue it was worth it, that losing the Senate for the next 6 years was worth it, then do so. Argue it was a worthwhile cost to pay. Agree or disagree, that's at least honest.
But everyone knows why we lost. And any honest conversation about where we go from here must start there.
I remain hopeful about our country. To the people who are pissed off and want to say, “I told you so”: you’re right, you did tell us so. Take that energy into electing Republicans who share your worldview. To the people who are just pissed at the results, you should be. Let’s take that anger and get back to the work of saving our country.
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Something the Tucker/Vance coalition needs to understand: You will never out-Jewhate or out-socialist the Left.
If you make antisemitism and leftwing economic populism your flagpoles and compete with Leftists on those issues, you’ll lose every time because they do it better.
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Hamas Piker: I HATE AMERICA! YOU DESERVED 9/11
DNC: Well, we have a big tent!
Haley Stevens: I don't think we should blame Jews for produce
DNC: YOU TRAITOR! YOU'RE NOTHING BUT A USED CONDOM!
What a time to be alive.
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.@MegynKelly breaks down the last minute Haley Stevens switch in Michigan: “She was pissed he disinvited her... I just don't think she has any influence. Who gives a shit what Haley Stevens says?”
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Actually, those Christians have been recommending what you should do. If you lived in a Muslim country, they'd be telling you what you can do, and also you wouldn't be tweeting about it.
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She’s got her whole career ahead of her and she risked it all to stand on principle. You’re in the twilight of your career with nothing to lose and you’re so desperate to hang on to power that you’re caving to the Islamo-Marxist antisemites. You’re an embarrassment.
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Don't be misled for a moment by the euphemisms: when the chairman of the Joint List in the Knesset demands the abolition of Israel’s definition as a Jewish state, he is not conducting a debate with us about civil rights or freedom of expression. He represents a fifth column and is in fact demanding the dissolution and destruction of the State of Israel.
And what is amazing every time anew is not what he says — after all, he has never hidden his aspirations. The real tragedy is that we refuse to believe what our own ears are hearing.
This is exactly the failure of October 7th: the failure of a worldview unable to recognize the enemy, to understand his goals, and to stop treating an existential struggle with the tools of naïve Western liberal legalism. The enemy understands our weak points very well, studies the rules of the Israeli democratic system, and exploits them from within in order to destroy the foundation on which the state rests.
This statement from the Knesset podium is the essence of the entire story: leadership that exploits the institutions of Jewish sovereignty in order to undermine the very existence of that sovereignty.
The root of the problem is the values vacuum and moral confusion that have allowed such talk to become a "legitimate" part of the Israeli discourse.
This is our land! The Land of Israel belongs to the people of Israel, and the State of Israel is the national home of the Jewish people — and of them alone.
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In which @gadi_eisenkot effectively says he sees no significant difference between the Torah and the Koran.
Under no circumstances can this person be prime minister of Israel.
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Ra'am Party head, Mansour Abbas, explains that he and his Islamist brethren (in Israel) are not able to wage combat jihad at this time, because Israel is too strong, so they wage Civil Jihad (Jihad Madani).
@MoranT555 explains the meaning of Civil Jihad on @tzviyehezkely's "Arabists" program on @i24NEWS_HE.
Note that Abbas doesn't say that he doesn't WANT to wage combat jihad, but that he currently CAN'T.
Link follows
In a speech in 2015, Mansour Abbas acknowledges his Muslim Brotherhood affiliation.
He explains that the reason the Southern Branch of the (Israeli) Islamic Movement (to which Ra'am Party is subordinate) ceased its terror activities, and entered the arena of Israeli politics, was not a change of heart, but rather an understanding that they could not survive engaging in combat activities, and so made a pragmatic decision to change tactics.
He says that they actually coordinated this in prison in the 1980's, with Gazan Islamic leaders that were soon to found Hamas.
He goes on to say that Hamas was inspired by the (Israeli) Islamic Movement's Usar al-Jihad terror organization (1979-80) to establish the infamous Qassam Brigades.
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This excerpt of Mansour Abbas's 2015 speech was originally sourced and translated into Hebrew by @MoranT555
[Note: I discussed the translation of
العمل السياسي الشرعي
"al-Amal al-Siyasi al-Shar'i"
extensively with Moran. If you have any questions about it, I'm sure she will be happy to discuss it with you too]