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Joined September 2008
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I wrote this description/warning of what is happening in the West. Please watch it and share it with others. @idicenter
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This post is historically factually correct. It is historically legally correct. And the video attached is the most important video you will ever watch that settles the arguments and destroys the propaganda aimed at Israel for over 78 years. All the accusations thrown at Israel fit Jordan. Not one of them fits Israel. In 1922 Britain cut about 77 percent of the Mandate off the Jewish national home, closed it to Jews, and handed it to a prince from the Hejaz. Abdullah was not from there. His brother had just been thrown out of Damascus, so London gave him a throne. The League signed the paperwork. That is a country manufactured in an office, ruled by a foreign dynasty, built on land taken out of the instrument that was written for the Jews. Colonial borders. An imported ruler. A state invented to solve a British problem. Stolen land. Every line of that speech is about Jordan. And a century later it is still aimed at the people the Mandate was actually for. Israel did not steal a country. Britain amputated one, the Arab states invaded what was left, and the world has spent the years since pretending the first cut never happened. Britain knows it. The maps know it. The documents know it. The accusations are about the kingdom London built, not the state it tried to cripple.
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Canadian journalist goes to Israel… and the two-state dream dies on the spot. 🇨🇦🇮🇱 Standing on the border, she points to an Israeli military hospital treating Syrian women — ages 8 to 80 — who were raped by ISIS. Then she drops the truth bomb: “I came here believing in the two-state solution. I really did. I’m at a point now where I frankly do not.” “The only way this tiny piece of land stays free… is if Israelis are in control of it.” Because if you hand any of it to the PLO or Hamas — it will look exactly like Syria. Sometimes the most powerful pro-Israel voices aren’t Israeli. They’re the ones who actually showed up and opened their eyes. 👀🔥
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I don’t understand how Canadians are not utterly ashamed of what this once great nation has become The evil permeating from our institutions is surreal
SHAME on Canada. MAID is offered to children. WE NEED TO BE LIBERATED.
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David Webber retweeted
What the world demands is that Israelis should have allowed Hamas to run rampage and allowed all these missiles to land without responding. These are missile alerts since October 2023. They demand that there be no defence to continuous aggression They demand Israelis die without a fight. Never.
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David Webber retweeted
Jews are 1% of Canada’s population but are the target of 70% of police reported hate crimes This must stop immediately Laws need to be enforced Bullets targeting Jews can NEVER become our new normal
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David Webber retweeted
Just gave a live interview to @JohnFBachman on @NEWSMAX about my recently published article, Center of Attention. Here's the full clip!
Every news story follows a predictable decay function- it peaks, then is soon forgotten. That is, every story except one: Israel. I analyzed 14.7 million news articles in 65 languages, cable news airtime, and social media data from X. The results were staggering. 🧵
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At the time of first contact with Europeans, the local inhabitants of present day British Columbia were practically living in the stone age, without a written language. They were using mud to draw pictograms on rock walls. Now we're honouring them by re-naming universities using an alphabet we created for them. Does no one else see the irony? Would Lake America be more acceptable if it was spelled x̌acaʔ θáθən syey̓ə ?
SFU is now called xʷtatəl̕ləm ʔə ƛ̓ səltaɬ sme:nt / Xwta7ltáw̓txw tl’a Lheḵw’lhúḵw’aytn.
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David Webber retweeted
Muslim terrorists murdered 3,000 Americans 25 years ago. Today, in the same city that suffered the biggest terror attack in history, the same people are shouting that they will conquer America and that Islam will enter every home. Unbelievable.
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David Webber retweeted
THE MAPLE LEAF LIVES ON! 🍁
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David Webber retweeted
I'm sorry we never got a chance to meet, but getting this note from Dolly really had a an impact on me. She definitely didn't have to take the time to do it. Even for a kid who mostly listened to rap music, she was an icon. A superstar in every sense. Rest easy Dolly. And thank you for the kind words.
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David Webber retweeted
Carney is out of options. His only hope to salvage his catastrophic tenure as PM is to leverage Alberta Oil against the US; a politically acceptable policy in the East to protect Quebec dairy by attacking the West. Alberta is also out of options; it's independence or bust.
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I am bewildered, and not very impressed, by the visceral, naked, irrational hatred spat out by some defenders of Jason Arday. If a Cambridge professor is accused of being an unqualified charlatan, the accusation might be racially motivated. On the other hand it might not, depending on the evidence. The correct question to ask is not, ”What is the colour of his skin” but “Is it in fact true that he is an unqualified charlatan?” Please examine the evidence before leaping to the assumption of racism. As for the idea that journalists “piled in on him” and “hounded him to his death”, most attacks were against Cambridge University. Jason himself was widely regarded as an unfortunate victim of foolish promotion way beyond his ability to cope. In appointing him to a professorship for which he was manifestly unqualified – in ludicrously describing him as “the best in the world” – certain senior members of the university showed a level of patronising condescension towards black people that could fairly be described as racism, while at the same time making him tragically vulnerable to such attacks as came his way.
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The only person responsible for Jason Arday's death is Jason Arday. He was a liar and a fraud who was rightly exposed for what he really was by academics and journalists who were simply doing their job. No one forced Arday to make up lie after lie about his life. He chose to do that. And he did it for financial gain and to bask in the applause it brought him. He used those lies to deceive people into giving him a job he didn't merit, a lucrative book deal he didn't deserve,  as well as fame and adulation he didn't earn.  And when he was found out, he called in the police and expensive lawyers to shut his accusers up, and his failed students who complained were branded as racist. Cambridge University and Jesus College enabled this liar by lauding him as brilliant when he wasn't even mediocre. They should ask themselves why they put their DEI religion above the need for fairness in their appointments processes, above the needs of Arday's students and, most importantly, above the truth. Arday's family and friends should ask themselves why they chose not to speak out to expose his lies which they must have known to be untrue.  The police should ask themselves why they thought it acceptable to investigate an academic and a journalist simply for asking questions about Arday's fraudulent CV.  The BBC and Arday's many other deluded cheerleaders should ask themselves why they were so desperate to believe Arday's outlandish claims in the face of all the evidence. The thousands of the great and the good in academia, politics, media and law who signed the Good Law Project letter backing Arday should ask themselves why, without any justification, they outrageously branded Arday's critics as racists who just wanted to bring down a successful black man because of the colour of his skin. All of these people made their own contributions to Jason Arday's life. And arguably all of them contributed in some way to his decision to take his own life when his fantastical claims were finally exposed for what they really were: lies. The idea that those who exposed Arday as a lying fraudster are to blame for his death is as laughable as it is outrageous.  The idea that Arday was "hounded" to his death is absurd. He chose to tell every single lie himself and he even chose to continue those lies in his resignation letter from Cambridge. He is not the victim. He is the perpetrator. The claim that Arday's downfall was only a front page story because he was black is also ridiculous. He chose to tell the lies that made him a front page story in the first place.  I feel sorry for those who loved him. It is very sad that he has chosen to take his own life rather than face the consequences of his own actions, which should have resulted in a criminal conviction for fraud.  But actions have consequences. This isn't about right and left. It's about right and wrong.
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David Webber retweeted
Basic History for the Uninformed: 1. Before Israel, there was a British mandate, not a Palestinian state. 2. Before the British Mandate, there was the Ottoman Empire, not a Palestinian state. 3. Before the Ottoman Empire, there was the Islamic state of the Mamluks of Egypt, not a Palestinian state. 4. Before the Islamic state of the Mamluks of Egypt, there was the Ayubid-Kurdish Empire, not a Palestinian state. 5. Before the Ayubid Empire, there was the Crusader Frankish and the Christian Kingdom of Jerusalem, not a Palestinian state. 6. Before the Kingdom of Jerusalem, there were the Umayyad and Fatimid empires, not a Palestinian state. 7. Before the Umayyad and Fatimid empires, there was the Byzantine empire, not a Palestinian state. 8. there was the Sassanid-Persian Empire before the Byzantine Empire, not a Palestinian state. 9. Before the Sassanid-Persian Empire, there was the Byzantine Empire again, not a Palestinian state. 10. there was the Roman Empire, not a Palestinian state, before the Byzantine Empire. 11. Before the Roman Empire, there was the Jewish Hasmonean state, not a Palestinian state. 12. Before the Jewish Hasmonean state was the Hellenistic Seleucid Empire, not a Palestinian state. 13. Before the Hellenistic Seleucid empire, there was Alexander the Great's empire, not a Palestinian state. 14. Before Alexander the Great, there was the Persian Empire, not a Palestinian state. 15. Before the Persian Empire, there was the Babylonian Empire, not a Palestinian state. 16. Before the Babylonian Empire, the kingdoms of Israel and Judah were not Palestinian states. 17. Before the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah, there was the Kingdom of Israel, not a Palestinian state. 18. Before the Kingdom of Israel, there was the theocracy of the twelve tribes of Israel, not a Palestinian state. 19. Before the theocracy of the twelve tribes of Israel, there was an agglomeration of independent Canaanite city-kingdoms, not a Palestinian state. There have been many governments there, but never a Palestine.
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Wilfrid Laurier University is highlighting the work of professor Percy Lezard, who helped develop the lengthy MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+ acronym for “missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls, two-spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, intersex and asexual+." Canadians should reject ever-growing categories, labels and identity politics, and instead embrace the principles of the rule of law and equality before the law. junonews.com/p/academic-who-…
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David Webber retweeted
Never forget when International Criminal Court Prosecutor Karim Khan says that there is NO EVIDENCE of Genocide in Gaza. Look at the Islamist Mehdi squirm. Notice how DISAPPOINTED Mehdi is that there was not a Genocide. Tells you a lot, doesn’t it?
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David Webber retweeted
شخص أهان يهودي مع ابنه بمترو لندن فتصدت له امرأة مسلمة أصبحت حديث الناس ببريطانيا بدفاعها الحضاري لأنها جعلته يهدأ حتى أتت الشرطة وقبضت عليه. المرأة اسمها أسماء شويخ وقالت: دافعت عنهم لمعاناتي من العنصرية عندما يكون أبنائي معي فأحسست بشعور الأب ودافعت عنهم.
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David Webber retweeted
A Somalian man attempted to get into the Israeli tent with a knife at the Edmonton Heritage Festival, but was thankfully thwarted & arrested. Upon arrest, his comrades chanted "All The Zionists Are Racist." If a Somalian tries to stab you & you happen to prevent that, the terrorist supporters will label you a Zionist & racist in Canada.
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