A lawyer advising on political law, FARA, congressional investigations & white collar defense. Reagan Republican. Zionist. Tweets reflect personal views only.
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Robert Kelner retweeted
🫒Estimated olive harvest figures in Judea and Samaria to date:
* ~220,000 dunams harvested so far
* ~100 coordinated olive harvesting sites operated under the protection of security personnel in Judea and Samaria
* The estimated yield harvested stands at ~22,500 tons of olives, from which ~5,500 liters of olive oil have been produced, with a value of 225 million NIS.
Incidents receiving media attention account for only a small percentage of the olive harvesting areas in Judea and Samaria. The vast majority of coordinated olive harvesting operations protected by security personnel are proceeding as planned, without unusual incidents.
Quite so. How a man as brilliant as he is when it comes to engineering and innovation can be so far off the mark when he thinks about what amount to social sciences is remarkable. Though one lesson I have learned in life is that the smartest people sometimes are the most lacking in common sense.
This is such bullshit.
For how many months or years did Ukraine use Starlink for drone strikes, which themselves are part of its DEFENSE of an invasion of Ukraine that was initiated by Putin, not by Ukraine.
Why is it "immoral" for Ukraine to use Starlink for drone strikes against the invaders (mostly military and industry targets), but not immoral to deny Starlink in defense of Putin’s missile strikes against civilians and mostly civilian targets?
Elon might be a brilliant engineer, but his general reasoning skills outside of his fields are worse than that of the average 8 year old.
Robert Kelner retweeted
Don’t be distracted. This just shows he is on the admin’s script: keep blathering about Starlink and “terms of use/service,” don’t engage on Starshield, which is the issue and which — as Musk himself says — the Trump administration controls. nationalreview.com/corner/th…
Correct.
Using Starlink, a civilian commercial service, for offensive drone strikes to kill people has never been allowed, nor should it be.
Starshield, a different system, is controlled by the US government. What they decide to do is up to them.
Ukraine military violated Starlink terms of service and used it for offensive drone strikes to kill people. That loophole was closed last week.
Starlink remains critical to the defense of Ukraine, as it is the only system that cannot be jammed or blown up, at least for now. Were Starlink to be turned off, the Ukrainian front line would collapse immediately. This is NOT a threat, it is simply a statement of fact.
Starlink was also crucial to preventing Russia from overrunning Ukraine in the early days of the war, as all other means of communication were destroyed or jammed by Russia.
SpaceX has done more to defend Ukraine than any private company on Earth BY FAR.
That said, I have nothing but UTTER CONTEMPT for the virtue-signaling evil warmongers who push for endless slaughter and offer no realistic solution to the conflict. May you burn in hell.
End of story.
Robert Kelner retweeted
It’s hard to find any instance of a US President being as clueless as Obama in his Belfast speech. Analysis in @Jerusalem_Post is filled with facts-something Obama was devoid of.
jpost.com/opinion/article-91…
Robert Kelner retweeted
⭕️ Following the terror attack on Friday, in which 2 IDF soldiers fell and additional soldiers were wounded, security forces launched a targeted operation in the area of Hebron from which the terrorists emerged, with the aim of dismantling terrorist infrastructure and preventing future attacks. To reduce the risk to civilians, civilians were permitted to temporarily leave the area through designated screening points. No civilians were forced to evacuate.
In a separate activity, illegal structures were demolished at the site in Hebron where the attack took place. During the attack, the terrorists concealed themselves behind these structures and fired toward IDF soldiers. The demolition of the structures was intended to remove a security threat.
All other structures demolished in the area were also built illegally, and their demolition was carried out in accordance with international law in order to enforce law and order and remove potential security threats.
You have quite the nerve. As you know, Hebron was once a vibrant Jewish community. Arabs murdered and chased Jews from the town. And no Jew is safe even walking into the town today without IDF protection. What’s more, Hebron has become a base for Palestinian terrorists. Not surprisingly, Israel is responding forcefully, as well it should.
This is not Gaza. This is Hebron today.
The Israeli occupation has begun destroying Palestine’s economic capital, a city that accounts for 75% of the country’s production in the stone and marble, leather and footwear, plastics, glass, oils, dairy, and gold industries.
Ethnic cleansing is being inflicted on the Palestinian people everywhere across the land of Palestine.
One of the more vile things Palestinian terrorists in Judea and Samaria do regularly. Virtually never reported on by international media.
𝗔𝗿𝗮𝗯𝘀 𝗣𝗼𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗻 𝗝𝗲𝘄𝗶𝘀𝗵 𝗟𝗶𝘃𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗰𝗸 𝗶𝗻 𝗝𝘂𝗱𝗲𝗮 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗦𝗮𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗮 - 𝗙𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝟭𝟳𝘁𝗵 𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝗦𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲
The poisoning of the flock at Or Nachman Farm, near the Arab village of al-Mughayyir in the Binyamin Region, was reported during the day. This is the 17th livestock poisoning incident in Judea and Samaria since the beginning of the year.
Most of this year’s flock poisonings originated from al-Mughayyir, with sheep and goats from nearby farms falling victim.
𝗝𝗦𝗥 𝗦𝗶𝘁𝘂𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗥𝗼𝗼𝗺
Put another way, the IDF protects civilians and evacuates them before intense combat against militants embedded in Hebron. Saving civilian lives. Bravo.
Robert Kelner retweeted
I've now catalogued 5,300 confirmed Gaza combatants killed by name, mostly from Hamas & PIJ's own martyr notices, and closing in on 6,000. Analysis & results in process. The evidence documents systematic military use of hospitals, schools, etc. and other human shield practices.
Bravo.
⭕️ In response to the shooting attack in which 2 IDF soldiers fell and several others were wounded, the IDF along with other security forces launched a targeted & limited counterterrorism operation in the Hebron area, from which the terrorists had emerged.
Troops have begun conducting precise searches throughout the area to locate and dismantle terrorist infrastructure and weapons, while questioning suspects.
Residents living in the area where forces are operating will be able to leave through 3 designated exit points, following questioning and security screening. Individuals who raise suspicion during the screening process will be referred to security forces for further questioning.
Please try to stay quiet. You are a disgrace. And you are morally incoherent. So it’s best just to take some time to reflect on how you lost your moral bearings. Before your next move performance.
I’m grieving the deaths of the two Israeli soldiers killed in Hebron today, and praying for the full & speedy recovery of those who were injured.
I’ve spoken out loudly this week against Israel’s occupation of the West Bank, which imposes violence on a daily basis, and I will continue to do so. But violence is not the path to ending it — or to achieving safety, freedom, and peace for both Palestinians and Israelis.
And neither is collective punishment or ethnic cleansing of an entire neighborhood, or punishing millions of people for the criminal act of two, which Netanyahu has promised to enact in response.
I’ve seen a lot this week and I’ll have more to say about in the coming days (I’m on my way home shortly). There is a path to ending this excruciating cycle of violence. It starts by insisting that every life is sacred, that everyone is created in God’s image.
For now: Shabbat Shalom, to everyone who believes in the hard work of making peace & justice a reality, for everyone.
Robert Kelner retweeted
Eventually, every key IDF airstrike in Gaza will be proven to have killed combatants. Airwars is updating its incident reports as Gazans acknowledge their combatants. An airstrike at Kamal Adwan Hospital was initially reported as killing 2 civilians—now we know both were Hamas.
Robert Kelner retweeted
If you care about Ukraine’s children why are you throttling Starlink/Starshield and leaving them defenseless against Russian drones and missiles? This baby died while you were restricting them.
Christians and Jews alike are constantly targeted in the Middle East. We need more details on who the attackers were, but we can guess.
Absurd. And more importantly, there is no indication the Ukrainian people see it this way. Elon is just making this stuff up as he goes along.
Robert Kelner retweeted
Hollywood gathered at UCLA this week to stand with Israel.
Dustin Hoffman joined Israeli singer Ester Rada for Hatikvah.
While some celebrities boycott - others show up.
Thank you.
This headline reeks of bias, NBC News. The terrorists are merely “accused” of attacking and murdering Jews, but you are certain the IDF “killed” two “Palestinians.” Do better.
BREAKING: Israel orders a “full lockdown” of the occupied West Bank after its military kills two Palestinians accused of launching an attack that injured five people near the city of Hebron. nbcnews.com/world/middle-eas…
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The post inaccurately states the attack injured five people; two Israeli soldiers were killed and three others injured when Palestinian gunmen opened fire at a military checkpoint near Hebron.
timesofisrael.com/5-injured-2-cr…
nbcnews.com/world/middle-e…
Is that all she covers, CNN? Is that the only news in Judea and Samaria? Does she cover terror attacks on Jews, too? Or is that not the right “plight”? Does CNN care to cover all sides of the story or only one side? As soon as she recovers, I assume you will direct her to cover the news objectively, without a preferred political agenda?
Heidi Levine, the Washington Post journalist brutally attacked by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank last week, said the terrifying ordeal has only strengthened her resolve to continue covering the plight of Palestinians. cnn.it/4iBNh4Y
Robert Kelner retweeted
Georgetown Law’s student government is attacking my deputy chief counsel, Erielle Azerrad, for detailing the evidence about the Muslim Brotherhood.
I’m proud of her for speaking the truth.
These woke children expect indoctrination rather than actual education.
Their hysterical declaration contains no facts. Here are the actual facts:
The Muslim Brotherhood is a terrorist organization.
Egypt, Saudi Arabia & the UAE have all banned, designated, or imposed restrictions on the Muslim Brotherhood for terrorism.
What does it say that Georgetown Law is more embracing of Muslim Brotherhood terrorism than are Arab Middle East nations?
Hamas is a Muslim Brotherhood branch and is responsible for the greatest single-day massacre of Jews since the Holocaust.
A federal jury convicted the Holy Land Foundation and five of its leaders on 108 counts, and the HLF provided $12.4 million in support to Hamas. Federal prosecutors named CAIR an unindicted co-conspirator.
I chaired a hearing in August in which lead investigators testified about evidence in that case that included wiretaps, internal memos, and meeting transcripts.
Calling evidence “hate speech," trying to censor it, and trying to cancel opponents doesn’t change facts. And on that note, my staff and I are not going to apologize for educating people about those facts.
If Georgetown were doing its job—instead of sucking up Qatari money—it would be too.
Student law group at @Georgetown released a resolution ATTACKING Erielle Azerrad, the Deputy Chief Counsel for Sen. Ted Cruz, after she spoke at an on-campus event about the dangers of the Muslim Brotherhood, a terrorist organization.
They label her comments as "hate speech" and "Islamophobic" and are demanding that the university silence this speech.
Georgetown has been conquered. Sad.
