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Eli Wohl retweeted
"If I didn't let her go, she'd still be alive" 💔
On October 7, Yael Idan watched Hamas terrorists murder her older sister, Maayan. They then kidnapped her father, Tzachi, and promised to bring him back.
He was murdered in captivity. Only his body returned.
These are the lives Hamas shattered. These are the voices the world must hear.
Listen to Yael’s testimony.
Share her story.
Never let October 7 be forgotten. 🕯️
Eli Wohl retweeted
#BREAKING An Israeli citizen killed in a shooting incident near Nablus in the West Bank, while the Palestinian Health Ministry reports that four Palestinian civilians killed in the incident
Eli Wohl retweeted
BREAKING: Who bankrolled @ZohranKMamdani's campaign and the DSA takeover of the Democrats? @lsarsour tells all.
Mamdani’s rise was NEVER grassroots, it was bought and paid for by @CAIRNational.
This is what ethnic cleansing looks like. The same fate as every Jewish community in the Middle Eastern countries.
The Yemenite Jewish community, one of the oldest in the diaspora, faced centuries of persecution under Islamic rulers, including dhimmi restrictions, forced conversions (e.g., Orphan's Decree), and expulsions like the 1679 Mawza Exile. Post-1948, anti-Jewish riots in Aden killed 82, prompting Operation Magic Carpet, airlifting ~50,000 to Israel. Under Houthis since 2015, remaining Jews endured threats, arrests, and forced deportations, reducing them to a handful by 2024. These systematic removals, driven by antisemitism, fit the definition of ethnic cleansing, per sources like UN reports and historical analyses.
Eli Wohl retweeted
Now that we’re out, I can speak freely about some of the things I’ve learned having accidentally found myself in a war zone, hunkering down with Israelis and other tourists in Tel Aviv shelters:
- I appear to have underestimated the power of trauma bonding
- Israelis’ insistence of living as normal of a life as possible under the most abnormal conditions is truly something to be in awe of
- there’s this thing you can do where you enter a liminal space of half-sleep so you straddle the awake world and the sleep world so you never miss a siren
- your high cortisol + adrenaline levels become a new baseline and your awareness of it fades away
- every barrage is a game of Russian roulette. Knowing your life is at the mercy of both technology and fate permanently changes the chemistry of your brain cells
- there is something truly clarifying about being in a shelter while hypersonic missiles dance overhead. You look at the person you’re in the shelter with - is this the one I want to share the terror of imminent extinction with? Have I lived well? Did I treat my family and friends right? Have I forgiven?
- while I was afraid on several occasions, I still consider it the privilege of a lifetime to witness history in the making
- the frisson of real danger cannot be replicated in our safe, prosperous societies back home. It is invigorating and forces one to jettison all utopian and luxury beliefs
- it’s inspiring to see young people exhibit qualities that in the West hasn’t been seen since WWII - resilience, duty and sacrifice
- the delta between what was going on in the kinetic war and the information war was observable; too many lies were spread in the fog of war which were far too easily believed (some big account confidently asserted that 1/3 of Tel Aviv was destroyed, which I could see with my own eyes was clearly not the case)
- there is a lot more diversity of opinion inside Israel than is apparent from the outside
- the shared, bedrock consensus that has been hammered into the consciousness of Jews because of their deep history and sense of self is a great strength the West sorely needs to emulate
Eli Wohl retweeted
There’s something about Israel that makes people uncomfortable, and it’s not what they say it is.
They’ll point to politics, settlements, borders, and wars. But scratch beneath the outrage, and you’ll find something deeper. A discomfort not with what Israel does, but with what Israel is.
A nation this small should not be this strong. Period.
Israel has no oil. No special natural resources. A population barely the size of a mid-sized American city. They are surrounded by enemies. Hated in the United Nations. Targeted by terror. Condemned by celebrities. Boycotted, slandered, and attacked.
And still, they thrive like there’s no tomorrow.
In military. In medicine. In security. In technology. In agriculture. In intelligence. In morality. In sheer, unbreakable will.
They turn desert into farmland.
They make water from air.
They intercept rockets in mid-air.
They rescue hostages under the nose of the world’s worst regimes.
They survive wars that were supposed to wipe them out, and win.
The world watches this and can’t make sense of it.
So they do what people do when they witness strength they can’t understand.
They assume it must be cheating.
It must be American aid.
It must be foreign lobbying.
It must be oppression.
It must be theft.
It must be some dark trick that gave the Jews this kind of power.
It must be blackmail.
Because heaven forbid it’s something else.
Heaven forbid it’s real.
Heaven forbid it’s earned.
Or worse, destined.
The Jewish people were supposed to disappear a long, long time ago. That’s how the story of exiled, enslaved, hated minorities is supposed to end. But the Jews didn’t disappear. They actually came home, rebuilt their land, revived their language, and brought their dead back to life — in memory, in identity, and in strength.
That’s not normal.
It’s not political.
It’s biblical.
There’s no cheat code that explains how a group of people return to their homeland after 2,000 years.
There is no rational path from gas chambers to global influence.
And there is no historical precedent for surviving the Babylonians, the Romans, the Crusaders, the Inquisition, the pogroms, and the Holocaust, and still showing up to work on Monday in Tel Aviv.
Israel doesn’t make sense.
Unless you believe in something beyond the math.
This is what drives the world crazy. Because if Israel is real, if this improbable, ancient, hated nation is somehow still chosen, protected, and thriving, then maybe God isn’t a myth after all.
Maybe He’s still in the story.
Maybe history isn’t random.
Maybe evil doesn’t get the last word.
Maybe the Jews are not just a people… but a testimony.
That’s what they can’t stand.
Because once you admit that Israel’s survival isn’t just impressive, but divine, everything changes. Your moral compass has to reset. Your assumptions about history, power, and justice collapse. You realize you’re not watching the end of an empire. You’re witnessing the beginning of something eternal.
So they deny it.
They smear it.
And rage against it.
Because it’s easier to call a miracle “cheating” than to face the possibility that God keeps His promises.
And He’s keeping them still.
Eli Wohl retweeted
I think there is something seriously mentally ill with anyone who has an unnatural hatred of Israel. It feels demonic. They are always so angry and full of hate. It literally seethes from their pores.
Eli Wohl retweeted
Iran is losing to a country one-ninth its size, and Russia is stalemated against a country one-fourth its size, it's almost as if the rightists and leftists are both wrong and Western democracies are actually fairly good at war when they need to be
Eli Wohl retweeted
My lab at @WeizmannScience was completely demolished by the Iranian missile a few days ago. This is hard and sad as nothing was left to save. We study heart regeneration and regenerative medicine. As such, we will regenerate, regrow and rebuild. The one thing that wasn't gone is our motivation said one of my student. It is true. Here, I would like to thank many of my friends around the globe that offer their help, space and support. I really appreciate that.
Eli Wohl retweeted
According to a report published Doron Kadosh, Israeli intelligence provided the political leadership with a stark warning ahead of its recent operation: Iran is only weeks away from assembling a nuclear bomb, should it choose to do so.
This assessment was based on what officials called "golden information"—a secret intelligence breakthrough that exposed a highly compartmentalized Iranian program focused on developing the critical "weapons group" component of a nuclear bomb.
While Iran already possesses enough enriched uranium for roughly 15 bombs, the weapons group, necessary for weaponization, had long remained hidden. Israeli intelligence uncovered that Iran began assembling elite scientific teams in late 2023, shortly after Hamas’ October 7 attack, each tasked with building parts of the weapons system. These efforts reached the experimental phase in recent months, with successful tests confirming Iran’s rapid technical progress.
Israeli analysts concluded that Iran is now a decision away from being able to assemble a functional nuclear weapon. Intelligence officials warned that Iran’s true capabilities might be even further along than known. This alarming assessment directly influenced Israel's decision to launch a preemptive military strike to prevent Iran from crossing the nuclear threshold.
Eli Wohl retweeted
What unfolded in Tehran tonight is not just an airstrike, it’s an inflection point.
A sovereign capital was penetrated. Strategic nodes, not symbols, were hit. Command centers, not outposts. The targets were not chosen for optics but for consequence.
This is the collapse of ambiguity. For years, the Iranian regime thrived in a grey zone, projecting power through proxies, cloaking escalation behind diplomacy, exporting ideology beneath the veil of resistance. That model just took a direct hit.
This moment is not about Israel or Iran alone. It is about the architecture of deterrence in a world where lines blurred too long.
What was once warned is now real: deterrence isn’t declared, it’s demonstrated. Legitimacy isn’t inherited, it’s earned through responsibility.
And so the strategic question isn’t “what happened tonight,” but “what paradigm died with it?”
The answer: the illusion that rogue ideologies could indefinitely hold nuclear ambition without provoking their own reckoning.
This is not a regional drama. It is the global system confronting the price of delayed clarity.
And clarity has arrived, not in a speech, but in precision.
Not through negotiation, but through demonstration.
#Israel #Iran
Eli Wohl retweeted
The Proof That Israel Is a Colonizing State
Lebanon was once a Christian country, a safe haven for Maronites, an ancient Syriac Christian ethnoreligious group indigenous to the Levant.
Today, Lebanon is 69.3% Muslim.
Christians, once the guardians of its identity, now fight to survive in their ancestral land.
Iraq was once the cradle of Eastern Christianity, home to Assyrians and Chaldeans, the descendants of Babylon and Nineveh, those who spoke Aramaic, the language of Jesus.
By 634 C.E., Islam had overrun the land.
The indigenous Christian population was subjugated, taxed, forced into submission or exile.
Today, Iraq is 98% Muslim. Christianity is vanishing.
Egypt was home to the Copts, the indigenous people of Egypt, custodians of a Christian heritage that predates Islam by centuries.
When Islam arrived, it came with the sword and with the jizya.
Today, Egypt is 85–90% Muslim. The original culture, language, and faith are barely hanging on.
Syria: Conquered by Arab Muslims in the 7th century. Now 90% Muslim.
Iran: Once Zoroastrian. Now 99.4% Muslim.
Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco: All Amazigh lands, Indigenous North Africans, forcibly Arabized and Islamized over centuries of conquest. Now 97% to 99.9% Muslim.
This Was the Real Colonization
Wherever Islam spread, it supplanted the native cultures, extinguished minority religions, rewrote history, and called the results “Islamic lands.”
The same ideology that erased the ancient cultures of Egypt, Persia, Assyria, Phoenicia, and North Africa… has the audacity to accuse Israel, the one land where an indigenous people returned, to rebuild their civilization, language, and faith, of being the colonizer.
Israel Is Not the Colonizer. It’s the Survivor.
Israel is the only country in the Middle East where an indigenous people returned to their homeland, revived their language, rebuilt their culture, and defended it, against all odds.
It is the only country in the region where Muslims, Christians, Jews, Druze, and others live with equal rights under the law.
It is the only country in the region that didn’t erase what was there before, but restored what was nearly lost.
Eli Wohl retweeted
🚨BREAKING🚨The Boeing 747 Qatar has offered to give President Trump is not a state-owned jet. It’s the private plane of HBJ—Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani - former PM of Qatar, billionaire thug, and Hamas godfather.
The tail number includes his name: P4-HBJ
To be clear: HBJ isn’t a Qatari official anymore. He’s a billionaire hotel & real estate tycoon. He’s the Qatari royal who owns the Maybourne Beverly Hills + the 8-acre Bel Air estate where we’ve protested regualarly since the October 7th massacre (which he funded – he has blood on his hands).
This is who HBJ is and what he’s done:
* HBJ sheltered 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
* HBJ is the main patron of Hamas in Doha’s 5-star hotels
* HBJ is the bagman behind the $30M monthly payments to Hamas in Gaza
* HBJ is on record saying vile antisemitic statements – he’s a Jew-hater
HBJ “retired” in 2013, but he still funds terrorists & bullies rivals and silences critics with black-ops PR firms, spyware, and hush money. Including me.
Just 2 years ago, HBJ tried to sell the 747. No one wanted it. Too big. Too expensive. Too useless. So now he’s gifting it to President Trump—which he thinks is a brilliant move. But he’s not Qatar. He’s a criminal godfather.
HBJ: from harboring terrorists to bribing presidents.
Disgusting.
Eli Wohl retweeted
I deeply regret my decades of support for a Palestinian state under ‘land for peace’ and the ‘two-state solution.’ I was wrong—badly wrong. I misjudged a society that prioritizes murdering Jewish children over building a better future for its own. I apologize.
Eli Wohl retweeted
As a prior Law Enforcement Officer, Ret. Green Beret and Sniper, I am willing to stake my ENTIRE CAREER and REPUTATION that the images provided by the NYT do not depict direct fire engagements from the IDF.
| Deep Dive Into Gaza Medical Staff Reputation |
The claims made by the doctors and nursing staff do not change ballistics and basic math. The ballistic information I published about the M855 (5.56 Nato) still stands (source 1).
Al Shifa Hospital
In November of 2023, the Al Shifa hospital was the center of controversy as the IDF moved in. The IDF claimed the hospital was being used by Hamas, a claim hospital staff denied:
According to a CNN article dated Nov. 11, 2023:
"Israel has accused Hamas of using hospitals as cover — a charge doctors at Shifa and the militant group deny" (Source 2).
Despite the doctors claims, the IDF found video footage of armed Hamas terrorists on the grounds of the Al Shifa hospital escorting hostages. Additionally, tunnels were uncovered on the grounds of the Al Shifa Hospital. So were the bodies of hostages. (Sources 3 and 4).
Al Nassar Hospital:
'This is a crime against humanity': Gaza doctor on mass grave uncovered at hospital in Khan Younis (source 5)
Following the IDF's withdrawal from the Nasser Hospital in April of 2024, reports of mass graves and executions on the grounds of the Al Shifa and Nasser Medical complexes began to surface with over "300 bodies" reportedly discovered (Source 6).
This time, instead of doctors confirming the reports surfacing online, they remained silent even as the UN demanded investigations (Source 7) .
I could find no record of doctors directly claiming the IDF executed people on the grounds of either hospital. I also could find no record of the doctors denying the claims. Gaza officials however said otherwise claiming Israel executed civilians (Source 6).
"The head of Nasser Hospital in Gaza’s Khan Younis said 150 bodies were buried in the yard of the hospital after they started to decompose in the mortuary" (Source 8)
In Jan of 2024, long before the IDF entered Khan Younis, hospital staff stated they dug mass graves on the grounds of Al Nasser Hospital (Source 8). Despite all of this, I could find no records of doctors providing the exculpatory evidence or denying any of the reports from the Gazan Officials that Israel had murdered civilians on the grounds of either hospital.
Do your own research. The doctors lied. Gaza Health Officials lied. The media lies.
SOURCES:
Al Shifa
1 - Ballistic data on the M855
Original Ballistics Information disproving the NYT claim:
teapawt.net/angertab/status/184517…
2 - Al Shifa Doctors deny Hamas at the hospital
cnn.com/2023/11/11/middleeas…
3 - Hostage Bodies at Al Shifa
cnn.com/2023/11/16/middleeas…
4 - Video of Tunnels under Al Shifa; Surveillance Video of Hamas and Hostages at Al Shifa
nbcnews.com/news/world/israe…
Nasser
5 - Video showing mass graves being exhumed
cnn.com/2024/04/22/middleeas…
6 - Mass Graves and Executions
middleeastmonitor.com/202404…
7 - UN Demands Investigations
news.un.org/en/story/2024/04…
8 - Mass Graves Started In Jan 2024
nbcnews.com/video/palestinia…
As a former Law Enforcement Officer, Ret. Special Forces Soldier (Green Beret) and Sniper, I feel confident in saying I know the effects of 5.56 NATO (M855).
Conclusion:
The NYT lied or failed to verify the information presented to them. This is based on the MV and BC of the M855 Ball ammo currently being used by the IDF.
(nytimes.com/interactive/2024…)
| Analysis |
Dr. Mimi stated she worked in Khan Younis from Aug. 8 to Sept. 5. The IDF announced on Aug 9th, 2024 they were beginning another ground operation in Khan Younis. Major combat operations by the IDF were completed on Aug 30th.
This means Dr. Mimi was on the ground in Khan Younis for the entire operation according to her claim. Dr. Mimi Syed provided these pictures to the NYT and stated:
“I had multiple pediatric patients, mostly under the age of 12, who were shot in the head or the left side of the chest. Usually, these were single shots. The patients came in either dead or critical, and died shortly after arriving.”
There are two issues with her accusations provided in the photo's and statements.
1- Accuracy
2- Velocity and Penetration
| Ballistics Of The M855 Fired From A 14" Barrel (M4) |
Muzzle Velocity: 2,841 ft/s
Ballistic Coefficient: 0.151 (G7 Drag Scale)
Accuracy: About 4 Minutes Of Angle (MOA)
Even at sea level with high humidity, the M855 fired from an M4 will remain supersonic beyond 500 meters. The M855 Green Tip ammo is designed to penetrate body armor and defeat barricades/cover.
However, this comes at a cost in accuracy. An M4 shooting the M855 round has an average accuracy of around 4 Minutes Of Angle. That is roughly a 4-inch shot group at 100 yards. At 200 yards, the shot group expands to 8 inches. At 300 yards, it increases to 12 inches.
The average diameter of the adult male head is about 8 inches. The size of a child's head will vary based on age. Hitting a 4-inch to 8-inch target at greater than 100 meters with an M4 is a challenge on the range with stationary targets. In combat conditions with moving targets, it would be almost impossible.
The M855 travels too fast at that range and is designed to penetrate. It would easily, without question, pass completely through a child's skull at those ranges. This leads to the next question.
Were the x-ray images the result of ricochets?
Well, no. When projectiles traveling that fast strike another object, they tend to deform and tumble. We would see that represented in the x-rays. We do not.
Further, over 190,000 IDP's fled Khan Younis prior to the start of their combat operations on Aug 9th (see below)
| HISTORY OF KHAN YOUNIS |
According to Doctors Without Borders:
"On July 22 and 27, the Israeli forces issued two evacuation orders in Khan Younis"
"According to OCHA, from July 22 to 25, approximately 190,000 Palestinians were displaced in Khan Younis and Deir Al-Balah."
In 2017, Khan Younis population was above 205,000. It is more than fair to say the VAST MAJORITY of the population left following the warnings from the IDF.
Khan Younis is Gaza's second-largest city and where the Nassar Hospital is located (likely where she worked).
Following an IDF withdrawal from Khan Younis in April 2024, Nassar Hospital staff claimed the IDF had murdered Palestinians and buried them in mass graves outside of the hospital. This false claim was easily debunked. Even the NYT reported that 2 mass graves were on the grounds of the hospital prior to the operation.
Other articles can be found as early as Jan 2024 quoting the hospital manager claiming hospital staff buried 100's of deceased patients on the grounds of the hospital.
nytimes.com/2024/04/25/world…
