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Sam Olens retweeted
I have spoken out against anti-Muslim hate in the Michigan Senate race. I will speak out just as loudly when the target is Jewish people.
Let me state a little-known fact: ISRAEL GETS LESS THAN 0.1 PERCENT OF THE FEDERAL BUDGET. That’s less than one tenth of a percent!
But there is an ad running that tells voters they can’t afford groceries because the United States gives so much money to Israel. In reality, the United States spends money in and on countries all around the world – but this ad singles out the Jewish state. The ad is as dangerous as it is dishonest.
You can disagree with how the United States spends money abroad. But telling hungry families that the Jewish state is the reason they are suffering is wrong and shameful.
Blaming Jews for people’s problems is an old story. Anybody who has read the last century of history knows where it leads. It is a dark pathway.
This ad is anti-Jewish hate and should come down immediately. Abdul El-Sayed should denounce it today.
Sam Olens retweeted
It started with a cold call.
Here’s how Georgia leaders recruited Audi’s $4.2B plant, its first in the U.S.
ajc.com/business/2026/10/how…
Sam Olens retweeted
Israel receives $3.8B a year, of which $2.7B must be spent with US defense contractors—a jobs program for a vital US industry employing Americans. $1.1B goes to Israel.
Jordan receives $2B a year, of which $400M must be spent in the US; the rest is economic aid.
Jordan receives more cash than Israel, yet Abu Al-Sayed never blames it for expensive groceries.
Sam Olens retweeted
Pro-Abdul El-Sayed ad sparks fury with claim Israel to blame for high grocery prices: 'Case study in antisemitism' trib.al/wayKuRe
Sam Olens retweeted
Blaming Israel for America's grocery bills, intimating that America is paying for Israeli healthcare, intimating that Israel's PM is controlling American elected officials. We've seen this movie of lies before. It's called antisemitism. Shameful.
Sam Olens retweeted
The U.S. spends $8.53 billion a year on its military presence in Germany.
It spends $5.69 billion a year on its presence in Japan.
It spends $4.25 billion a year on its presence in South Korea.
But we only ever hear about military aid to Israel.
Isn't that weird?
Sam Olens retweeted
Ukrainians keep showing enormous courage in defending their country against Putin’s immoral and indeed evil efforts to conquer a neighbor. They have resisted now for four years and eight months and we should do all we can to help them.
Sam Olens retweeted
WTF, Steve? Look up the definition of “humanitarian.” What an embarrassing and outrageous thing to say. You should go back to Ukraine and ask the families of the children Putin has kidnapped and murdered whether they agree your friend Putin is a “humanitarian.”
Sam Olens retweeted
A historic video – November 22, 1994:
The U.S. President thanks Ukraine for giving up its nuclear weapons. In return, the U.S. promises to stand by Ukraine’s side to safeguard its independence, sovereignty, and territorial integrity well into the future.
That future has arrived—yet today, Trump and his circle act as if none of this ever happened.
t.me/MirovichMedia/15617
Sam Olens retweeted
Golda Meir, 1970: before the First World War this was not a Palestinian state. It was southern Syria under the Ottomans.
Then a British Mandate. Jews and Arabs.
No Palestinian nation. No country taken from a people that did not exist.
She was right and my god what a leader and woman she was. There is no such thing as Palestine. Stand with Israel. 🇮🇱 🙏💪
Sam Olens retweeted
I am honored to have the support and endorsement of former Governor Roy Barnes!
We may not see eye to eye on every issue, but Governor Barnes knows that when it comes to agriculture, I will always work in good faith with members of both parties to support Georgia's #1 industry and the farm families who fuel its success. #gapol
Sam Olens retweeted
Funny how @KingAbdullahII failed to mention how Jordan illegally occupied the West Bank from 1948-1967, formally annexed it in 1950, and ethnically cleansed the territory of Jews in the Old City of Jerusalem. In all that time, they never created a Palestinian state. Then, in 1988, King Hussein, his father, stripped West Bank Palestinian residents of Jordanian citizenship overnight, another illegal move.
Now King Abdullah comes to the UN lectures about “de facto annexation” and international law?
King Abdullah doesn’t want you to know that that reason they didn’t declare a Palestinian state (and the reason Egypt didn’t either when they controlled Gaza), is because there was never a national identity known as “Palestinian” in the Arab world. This concept only developed with the PLO and Yasser Arafat in the 1960s.
Sam Olens retweeted
No one could ever imagine Morocco, Bahrain and United Arab Emirates would be more friendly to Israel than UK, Canada & Australia. But Muslim countries that fight Islamists increasingly embrace Israel, while Western governments that court Islamist voters increasingly condemn it.
Israel and Morocco agreed to open full embassies and exchange ambassadors, upgrading ties nearly six years after Morocco joined the U.S.-brokered Abraham Accords.
USUN Ambassador Mike Waltz was joined by the foreign ministers of Israel and Morocco at the event in New York. The deal also reinstates direct flights by 2026, finalizes investment protections, and reaffirms U.S. and Israeli recognition of Moroccan sovereignty over Western Sahara.
foxnews.com/world/us-backed-…
Sam Olens retweeted
Everyone posts the same Bill Clinton clip from Camp David in 2000, and I understand why. It is a clean story and it is easy to share. But then the replies start. “You cannot trust Clinton”. “He is American. He is pro-Israel”. “That is not the full picture”.
Well then here is Hosni Mubarak, the former president of Egypt, sitting in Cairo and talking about something most people on here have never even heard of. The Mena House conference in 1977. Years before Clinton, and years before the 2000 summit everyone argues about.
He says they held a conference there and the Palestinians refused to participate. It wasn’t some complicated diplomatic disagreement. They simply would not even come. He says that every time there was an opportunity they wasted it, and that if they had taken the document that was already on the table and actually negotiated over it, the region would not be in the disaster it is in now.
That document, in his account, included the withdrawal of Israeli forces from the West Bank and Gaza. The argument was not even whether Israel would leave. The argument was who would control security during the transitional period. Jordanian and Palestinian forces? Israeli and Palestinian forces? Other Arab forces? He says the Israelis did not mind negotiating those points.
Egypt signed a peace agreement and was insulted for it.
Then he says the line that should bother people more than any American speech. For fifty years they repeatedly said NO.
They said NO After 1948. They said NO After 1967.
He says they will keep saying no until there is nothing left to bargain over.
This is not an Israeli spokesman and it is not the White House. This is an Egyptian president telling you the walkout did not begin in 2000. It was already a habit long before that.
Sam Olens retweeted
When you didn't think you could have more contempt for the NYT & the bias of MSM, this will solidify your outrage as to how unreliable once respected & now discredited news organizations have become.
The New York Times coverage of the Gaza-Israel war was grossly pro-Palestinian and anti-Israel, according to a peer-reviewed study. Jewish casualties were omitted or minimized while Palestinian casualties were amplified and misrepresented.
Yale University Professor Edieal Pinker published the review in the an academic journal Studies in Conflict & Terrorism. His peer-reviewed research quantitatively evaluated 1,559 New York Times articles published between October 7, 2023, and June 7, 2024, to assess potential narrative imbalances.
The study found that:
- 91% of the analyzed articles failed to mention Israeli casualties that occurred after October 7.
- 1,423 articles completely omitted mentions of both Israeli post-Oct. 7 casualties and Hamas combatant deaths.
- 50% of the articles did not reference the Israeli hostages held by Hamas during the fighting, and 41% omitted mentions of the Israeli casualties from the initial October 7 attack itself.
- Personal stories highlighting Palestinian and Lebanese suffering appeared on average two out of every three days. Comparable accounts of Israeli suffering unrelated directly to the October 7 events appeared in very few articles.
- The word "Israel" appeared 27,205 times across the dataset, compared to just 8,499 mentions of "Hamas," meaning Israel was mentioned more than three times as often. This statistical discrepancy places near-exclusive agency and responsibility on Israel while severely diminishing Hamas's role in sustaining the conflict.
Pinker concluded that these consistent editorial choices cultivated a dominant narrative portraying Israel as the sole aggressor facing few consequences beyond losing international sympathy, while Palestinians were predominantly framed as passive victims. He argues that the coverage deprives readers of a comprehensive understanding of the ongoing combat dynamics and the continuous nature of Israeli losses.
Following the initial release of the study data, The New York Times publicly defended its reporting, claiming it has covered the war with rigor and from all angles. Of course my commentary on their reporting shows that this defense is hot garbage.
The New York Times buried the Holocaust in the back pages and then doubled down on downplaying Jewish suffering after October 7. They are a disgusting business that should be boycotted.
