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What Happened on the Ninth of Av?
On Tisha B’Av, five national calamities occurred:
During the time of Moses, Jews in the desert accepted the slanderous report of the 10 Spies, and the decree was issued forbidding them from entering the Land of Israel.
The First Temple was destroyed by the Babylonians, led by Nebuchadnezzar. 100,000 Jews were slaughtered and millions more exiled.
The Second Temple was destroyed by the Romans, led by Titus. Some two million Jews died, and another one million were exiled.
The Bar Kochba revolt was crushed by Roman Emperor Hadrian. The city of Betar – the Jews’ last stand against the Romans – was captured and liquidated. Over 100,000 Jews were slaughtered.
The Temple area and its surroundings were plowed under by the Roman general Turnus Rufus. Jerusalem was rebuilt as a pagan city – renamed Aelia Capitolina – and access was forbidden to Jews.
Other grave misfortunes throughout Jewish history occurred on the Ninth of Av, including:
The Spanish Inquisition culminated with the expulsion of Jews from Spain on Tisha B’Av in 1492.
World War One broke out on the eve of Tisha B’Av in 1914 when Germany declared war on Russia. German resentment from the war set the stage for the Holocaust.
On the eve of Tisha B’Av 1942, the mass deportation began of Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto, en route to Treblinka.
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What do you want them to do?
When Jews were being slaughtered in Europe and Russia, they didn’t invade anyone. They went home. They bought land, legally.
The region had no sovereign state at the time, only centuries of occupation under foreign empires. They drained swamps, built cities, created infrastructure, and that success attracted migrants, from Egypt, from the Levant, from the Arabian Peninsula, who came seeking opportunity in the land they were reviving.
When the occupation collapsed, everyone in the region got a state.
The Maronites in the north got Lebanon.
The Hashemites got Jordan.
Iraq was born. Syria too.
So yes, they asked for one state. Just one.
And they were told no.
They still agreed to share the land, even though they were offered the worst half, mostly desert.
Their neighbors still said no.
Then came 1948. Five Arab armies invaded to wipe them out.
They fought. They survived. They won.
Then they offered peace again. But the Arabs answered with the Three No’s of Khartoum: No peace. No recognition. No negotiations.
They tried again in 1967 to destroy them. They survived again.
They captured more land, not out of ambition, but necessity.
But when peace was possible, they gave land back.
They returned Sinai to Egypt.
They withdrew from Southern Lebanon.
They offered to withdraw from Gaza and the West Bank.
They offered the Palestinians everything they asked for in 2000.
Yet, Palestinians walked away.
In 2005, they unilaterally withdrew from Gaza.
In return they got rockets, terror tunnels, kidnapped civilians.
Then came October 7, the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust. Civilians slaughtered. Babies burned. Women raped.
So again I ask: What do you want them to do?
Because “Never Again” means never again.
You don’t get to massacre their people and then cry about the consequences. You don’t get to raise your children to hate and then blame them when war comes.
They will not apologize for surviving.
They will not apologize for fighting back.
Never Again means Never Again.
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matthewtaub
It’s not yours to give.
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well fam we’re at a low rn, but it’s the 9 days so that’s pretty on brand.
but remember, we have hashem. even in the darkest times, hashem is with us.



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huda kattan claiming that israel was behind the world wars (despite not existing until 1948) should reeeeeally be a wake up call to how many people say "israel" when they really just want to say "jews"
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Mazal tov!!!!

Freed Filipino hostage Jimmy Pacheco had a daughter. Her name is Israela 🇮🇱
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ive seen quite a few leftist being scared of being antisemitic im here to say that not only are jews not a race,but their religion supports sex with 3 years old
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Waiting for the bus simulator
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Whoops we forgot to send the bus again
bus due in 30 mins
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the best breakdown of the hunger situation i’ve seen yet:
who’s fault is it? as i said: hamas and the un.
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the best breakdown of the hunger situation i’ve seen yet:
who’s fault is it? as i said: hamas and the un.
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remembering that time I explained on Twitter that Jews are 0.2% of the world’s population and control like 1.2% of its wealth
while Christians are 30-something percent of the world’s population and control 55% of its wealth
so, like, there IS a minority of the world’s population controlling the majority of its wealth
Christians.
and of course a bunch of utter walnuts were like “SEE??? this proves that Jews ARE disproportionately wealthy!!!”
which, like, sure
sure
we have $1.20 to Christians’ $55
but sure, individually we average out to having a bit more pocket change than the world’s average
a couple of things, though:
-those are AVERAGES—it doesn’t mean that every Jew you meet is wealthy, especially because…
-we are such a small population that the existence of *one Jewish billionaire* would skew the average, learn what an average is ffs, if there are 10 of us and 1 is a billionaire and the rest of us have $0 dollars, on average we each have $100,000,000 but in reality 9 of us still have $0 dollars
-y’all killed off a LOT of our poor people less than a century ago which also tends to skew the average
The minority group (in the sense of being less than half the population; they’re still the largest religion) controlling the majority of the world’s wealth is Christians. Sorry about your favorite conspiracy theory.
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meanwhile starving families in sudan and somalia:





usually the mother and siblings look hungry too but okay. using horrific child illnesses to manipulate the public is absolutely DISGUSTING.
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petition for the israeli flag to use navy instead of cobalt blue bc it pleases specifically me more aesthetically
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Nope, too dark. No like
petition for the israeli flag to use navy instead of cobalt blue bc it pleases specifically me more aesthetically
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