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Friday, February 20, 2026

Links - 20th February 2026 (1 - Palestine/Middle East Peace)

David Hollyoake on X - "Palestine activist and far-Left campaigner Phillip Boulten has been appointed to the NSW Supreme Court by NSW Labor government.  He says of Zionists that "they lie and they lie and they lie".  His Twitter feed reads like a radical Left activist who hate Australia, hates America, hates Israel and hates Zionists.   The key attribute of a Judge is impartiality, the ability to decide cases fairly, independently, and without bias. Mr Boulten has clearly compromised his ability to be impartial.  @ChrisMinnsMP  if you are fair dinkum about addressing antisemitism, you will not swear this hateful man in."
David Hollyoake on X - "Pro-Palestinian activist Phillip Boulten has been confirmed and elevated to the NSW Supreme Court, despite a long record of vitriol toward Zionists and the NSW Police.  With Boultens disgraceful conduct well documented, Labor under Chris Minns and Attorney-General Michael Daley still signed off on the appointment.  This tells you exactly where Labor’s, and Chris Minns’, priorities lie."

Benjamin Netanyahu declares aim to end US military aid, wants Israel to be “as independent as possible” : r/worldnews - "Lots of misinformation in comments by those frothing at the mouth so here we go:  The US spends nearly 800 B in defense a year (apparently going up to 1.5 trillion now). It spends 70-80B in foreign aid a year. Of that, 3B is distributed to israel of which 90% is spent in the us on us equipment to us companies.  Of the overall budget, israel’s piece is minuscule. If America stopped all aid to israel, Americans lives or taxes would not change in any way. It wouldn’t make even the smallest dent in either the budget or the deficit.  Israel’s own defense budget is about $35 billion.  So this isn’t going to impact their spending much.  Now before everyone says “why does Israel need the money then?”  They don’t “need” it but it has benefited both and particularly the United States tremendously in the way of weapons development, intel sharing, and ultimately hard power on military action Israel has and hasn't been able to take. Israel was working on their own fighter jet a while back but this aid was conditioned on stopping that program, as another example.  Everything has a cost/benefit, no one is getting nothing out of this relationship. The world is changing and taking steps towards independence is a good thing for a still relatively young country that has grown their GDP a lot in recent years.   Maybe it’s time for Egypt to reject their billions in foreign aid next but you don’t hear about that a lot…"
Too bad even if this happens, it won't stop terrorism supporters continuing to hate on the US (even countries that don't send them military aid have "pro-Palestine" people wreaking havoc). Nothing will, unless they start killing Jews too.

‘Israel saved us from genocide’: Interview with Syrian Druze leader - ""There is no humanitarian corridor with Israel, and that makes receiving aid extremely difficult", he says. "But it is no secret that Israel was the only country in the world that intervened militarily and saved us from genocide as it was happening. That was done through airstrikes that truly stopped the massacre." Al-Hijri emphasizes that ties between Israel and the Druze in Syria are not new. "The relationship was formed long before the fall of the Assad regime. There are blood and family ties, and it is a natural bond", he adds. "Israel is a state governed by law and international norms. That is the ideology we aspire to. We are peace-seeking, not aggressive, and we want to preserve our unique character."... By contrast, he expresses deep disappointment with the Arab world. "There is not a single Arab country that supported us. They chose to stand with the murderer, not the victim. The Arab press portrayed us as devils", he says. No Arab leader condemned the massacre, and some countries, led by Turkey, are directly involved in supporting the regime, he adds."
Terrorism supporters hate them for actually stopping genocide
Naturally, this got removed from r/worldnews

dan linnaeus on X - "David Collier and researcher @RaychFeldman  just thoroughly dismantled a manipulated 2022 Wikipedia entry that claimed Ofakim, Israel, was built on a depopulated Bedouin village called Khirbat Futais. It was amplified by activist media outlets like The Rake Vermont and is now being used to call for resignations of US legislators who visited and planted memorial trees there to honor Oct. 7 victims.   The fabricated narrative is based on an entry by editor ‘BasilLeaf’ using fraudulent citations from Mustafa Murad's 1966 book ‘In Our Country, Palestine’ and Benny Morris's ‘The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited’. Upon review neither cited source supports the entry’s claims at all. Collier dug deeper still, reviewing historical maps from the British Mandate era including a 1918 British Army map, a 1942 Mandate map, and a 1948 Palestine Index Gazetteer, which pro-Palestinian historian Walid Khalidi himself acknowledges as “the most comprehensive source available”. All confirm only ruins, a well, and an Ottoman fort existed there—no village or hamlet.  Incredibly, on October 7, 2023, a well-known anti-Israel Wikipedia editor quashed efforts from other editors in the community to correct the disinformation. ‘Zero0000’, identified in multiple reports as Australian mathematician Brendan McKay, known for leading a group of anti-Israel editors, reverted corrections, insisting the village's existence was "well supported by maps”—a clear lie based on Colliers investigations.   Wikipedia's role in perpetuating manipulated claims has been extensively documented at this point. Its role in influencing AI outputs and global discourse requires concerted attention from regulatory bodies.  Read David Collier’s granular investigation of this orchestrated disinformation campaign on his substack:   https://david-collier.com/how-wikipedia-"

Captain Allen on X - "Mark Twain visited Palestine in 1869 and wrote about it in "The Innocents Abroad." Here is an excerpt: "There is not a solitary village throughout its whole extent - not for thirty miles in either direction. There are two or three small clusters of Bedouin tents, but not a  single permanent habitation. One may ride ten miles, hereabouts, and not see ten human beings.  Of all the lands there are for dismal scenery, I think Palestine must be the prince. The hills are barren, they are dull of color, they are unpicturesque in shape. The valleys are unsightly deserts fringed with a feeble vegetation that has an expression about it of being sorrowful and despondent ... It is a hopeless, dreary, heart-broken land.""
Before more Jews moved in, Palestine was undeveloped

Meme - "The oldest olive tree in the whole world is in Palestine. It's about 3500 years old"
"This ancient olive tree in Crete is an incredible 3000 years old. It is possible that Minoan hands once gathered olives from the tree at Ano Vouves near Chania."
Legitimacy of the Zionist State: "Pallywood, take #5642, in which an olive tree miraculously walks from Crete to Balestine-in-the-sky"
"It aged 500 years on its walk"
"Oh now there's a surprise, another lie from the Palis"
"When you don't have a history, you"

dan linnaeus on X - "Apartheid, as a crime, requires a permanent system of racial domination within a single institutionalized legal regime intended to be permanent. That simply doesn’t hold for Israel. Inside the ’67 borders, 2.1 million Arab and Muslim Israeli citizens vote, serve in parliament, access courts, move freely, and enjoy greater civil freedoms than in any Muslim-majority country. There is no racial segregation in law.  What UN bodies, NGOs, and so-called human rights scholars attempt to do is muddle that civic reality with how Israel treats hostile non-citizens in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza under an interim arrangement with the Palestinian Authority. But states treat citizens and hostile non-citizens differently as a matter of course, especially in unresolved conflicts. That isn’t racial hierarchy, but rather standard state practice under security law.  Moreover, those territories aren’t governed by some hidden permanent system. They’re governed under the Oslo framework, which is explicitly interim and neutral on final status. A temporary, unresolved legal arrangement can’t magically become “apartheid” just because negotiations aren’t progressing as intended.  NGOs try to get around this by shrinking the frame to the “OPT,” carving Israel’s civic order out of the picture entirely, and then attempting to redefine apartheid by fiat to include ethnic, national, and political characteristics. They then assign Oslo’s failure solely to Israel to retrofit intent and paint a permanent system onto the expressly interim framework. All of that acrobatics isn’t legal analysis. These are transparently politically and geopolitically motivated efforts and constitute legal dead ends.  The fact of the matter is that if Palestinian leadership and their state patrons wished to see Oslo succeed, there would have been two states coexisting peaceably decades ago. But that’s just not the agenda for these actors. Palestinian leadership wishes to destroy Israel, and their state patrons stoke the flames of hatred to advance revisionist geopolitical agendas. Unsurprisingly, with both, Israel’s cooperation is not forthcoming.  For a recent paper on the subject, see Sekulow & Ash (Jan, 2023). Why allegations that Israel is an “apartheid” state are false under international law. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4"

Josh Howie on X - "Zionism is the belief that Jews have the right to self-determination in their indigenous land. Palestinianism is the belief that Jews don’t have the right to self-determination in their indigenous land."
Dr Rahmeh Aladwan on X - "Palestine is NOT the 'homeland' for jews. Jews have NO right to a state in Palestine. Palestine is for Palestinians. The jewish squatters will leave.  It's 2026. We are not going to tolerate these moronic lies. The world has had ENOUGH of the 'jewish state'. DISMANTLE."
Max πŸ“Ÿ on X - "Palestine is the idea that the multiethnic, multiracial, multireligious democracy of Israel should be dismantled by removing/killing seven million Jews, then replaced with a 100% Arab Islamist dictatorship."

Timmy Facciola on X - "What do you think of the settlers in the West Bank who dispossess people of their homes?"
Ben Badejo on X - "I think that until the Palestinian Authority revokes its law which currently makes it a crime punishable by death for Arabs in the PA-controlled parts of the  West Bank to sell or lease land, homes, or apartments to Jews and Israelis, I'm not even entertaining the discussion.   The current situation in PA-controlled areas of the West Bank criminalizes facilitating the presence of a Jew or Israeli in those areas, and effectively criminalizes *being* a Jew or Israeli in those areas.  It's nakedly antisemitic Jim Crow-style discrimination (and frankly, worse in some ways). I'm not playing the game that the current situation forces Jews and Israelis to always lose -- the "condemn 'illegal' settlements" game -- amidst an indefensible, openly racist PA legal framework that makes all Jewish or Israeli presence illegal to begin with.  That is what I think."

Meme - "From the river to the sea, this is what liberals want Israel to be"
"Hamas tries to detain woman walking with man. An attempt by Hamas police to detain a woman walking with a man in the beach has raised alarms that the Islamic militant group is seeking a stricter enforcement of Islamic law."
The best part is that they blame Israel for this

Don't Look Away on X - "Protesters in Swedish: "from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free." In Arabic: “from the water to the water, Palestine is Arabic” This is how the Palestine coalition stays together. The far right Arab nationalists hide their true feelings from the well intended far left Westerners"

Avi Kaner Ψ§Ψ¨Ψ±Ψ§Ω‡ΩŠΩ… אבי on X - "Israel’s Arab population is growing and flourishing, now at over 2 million citizens.
•🧬 Longest Arab life expectancy in the Middle East
•πŸ‘Ά Lowest infant mortality of any Arab population
•πŸŽ“ Highest Arab female university attendance in the region
•🩺 Most Arab doctors & pharmacists per capita anywhere
•πŸ—³️ Full voting rights & citizenship
•⚖️ Arab judges on Supreme Court
•πŸ“’ Full press freedom protections
•πŸ”¬ Highest Arab participation in STEM, medicine & research
•πŸ›️ Many Arabs serving in parliament, civil service & academia
•πŸ“‰ Fastest poverty reduction via education & healthcare
•πŸ’° Arab population living in a high-income OECD country"

Israel’s decision to recognise Somaliland is a tactical masterstroke - "Somaliland’s six million people see it as a long-overdue reward for three decades of successful state-building. Unlike Somalia itself, the breakaway north-western fiefdom has had a quarter of a century of successful elections, and kept terrorism, militias and piracy in check. Somalia proper, meanwhile, still struggles with endless feuding among its clan-based elites, and still has large swathes of territory controlled by al-Shabab, a Taliban-style Islamist group affiliated with al-Qaeda.  Yet despite being an oasis of democracy in an otherwise arid region, Somaliland has failed to get recognition elsewhere. Britain, its former colonial ruler, has long toed the established international line that recognising the statelet would embolden other separatist movements across Africa... The recognition is also a shrewd rhetorical retort to September’s decision by Britain, Canada, Australia and France to recognise Palestine – a move that Israel regards as rewarding Hamas... “Quite unlike Palestine, Somaliland actually has a territorial government that meets the main conditions for state recognition, including a functioning, democratic government.”... the longstanding Western view of Somaliland as a poor, inconsequential statelet in a diplomatic grey zone. Yet in a region already fraught with tensions, that is how some would rather it stayed... Post-independence in 1960, Somaliland voluntarily joined Somalia to the south, previously an Italian colony. But thanks to the historic rivalries between Somalia’s five major clans, the union was never stable, with Somaliland’s dominant Isaaq clan complaining of deliberate marginalisation under Barre.  Ever since breaking away in 1991, Somaliland’s politicians have campaigned internationally for recognition, pointing out that this has been granted to other bullied statelets like Kosovo and South Sudan... Somaliland’s GDP per capita, at around $1,500 (approximately £1,112), remains one of the lowest in the world – despite being three times that of Somalia. “With recognition comes real investments and real opportunities,” Ali adds. “What Israel is giving Somalilanders, especially the young, is hope. And it’s giving people like me a sense of peace – the knowledge that the generations who were wiped out 35 years ago weren’t in vain. When Barre’s regime was murdering Somalilanders in the 1980s, they called us Jews of the Horn – that’s a badge I now wear with pride.”"

State of Palestine announces its opposition to self-determination for Taiwan and Somaliland : r/TheWorldReports
If you oppose Palestinian self-determination you are an awful monster

*”Jews are white!”* : r/Jewish - "The all jews are white is kinda weird. I'm Mizrahi Sephardi. Recently, I visited Europe and a white wokist saw me and greeted me with salam aleykum, I wasn't surprised as I look very Middle Eastern and that's the usual way people abroad identify me, when I thank him I told him I was actually israeli jew, his response was that I'm white colonizer.  The level of stupidity is hilarious"
"Saw a photo of a Hamas commander who recently involuntarily departed this world. His skin was lighter than mine and I’m full Ashkenazi!"

Clash Report on X - "Netanyahu: Even in Bethlehem, the birthplace of Jesus, when we controlled Bethlehem 30 years ago, more than 80% of the population was Christian. We gave it to the Palestinian Authority, and guess what happened? The Christian population plummeted and it’s now less than 20%."
A terrorism supporter claimed that "According to every survey conducted on this issue among Palestinian Christians, the main cause of their migration is the Israeli occupation". Not surprisingly, that's a lie

Public Opinion Poll : Migration of Palestinian Christians - "The largest percentage indicate that their desire to emigrate stems from economic reasons, while a smaller percentage indicate a desire to search abroad for educational opportunities, a safer, more stable, and less corrupt place, and a place that allows greater liberties and religious tolerance."
This was the only survey I could find

PA Muslims Persecute Christians - "International human rights lawyer Justus Reid Weiner, who teaches at Hebrew University, told the Jerusalem Institute for Global Jewish Affairs that, under the PA-Fatah regime, Christian Arabs have been victims of frequent human rights abuses by Muslims.  "There are many examples of intimidation, beatings, land theft, firebombing of churches and other Christian institutions, denial of employment, economic boycotts, torture, kidnapping, forced marriage, sexual harassment, and extortion," he said. PA officials are directly responsible for many of the attacks, and some Muslims who have converted to Christianity have been murdered. As people with "dhimmi" status, Christians living in Palestinian-controlled territories are not treated as the equals of Muslims. He says: "They are subjected to debilitating legal, political, cultural, and religious restrictions. This has become a critical problem for the Palestinian Christians in the West Bank and Gaza. Muslim groups like Hamas and Islamic Jihad have built a culture of hatred upon the age-old foundations of Islamic society. Moreover, the PA has adopted Islamic law into its draft constitution." In 2006, Hassan El-Masalmeh, a member of the Bethlehem City Council and local Hamas leader, publicly advocated implementing a discriminatory tax on non-Muslim residents. In late 2007 an evangelical pastor was forced to leave Ramallah under threats from Fatah gunmen, and soon after, his congregation dispersed... "Incidents of Muslim men ‘seducing' or kidnapping Christian girls have caused growing anxiety among the Christian population...  The PA was involved in the torture of two Muslim brothers from Samaria who adopted the Christian faith.  The first brother was arrested by the PA secret police and accused of collaborating with Israeli and American intelligence. After the interrogation the police placed a cardboard sign on his back upon which was written, ‘Najib the Christian.' Then he was told to ‘curse Jesus.'" He eventually made contact with Israelis who arranged for him to hide in a bomb shelter in a Jewish community and was finally granted asylum in Norway... Despite all of this, Weiner says, American Episcopalians and Presbyterians frequently blame Israel for the Middle East conflict. Leaders of other North American churches including the Methodists, the United Church of Christ, and the Lutherans "have also gone to great lengths to offer up one-sided condemnations of Israeli policies.""

The Associated Press on X - "Survivors of Israel's pager attack on Hezbollah struggle to recover"
Melissa Chen on X - "Seriously, who wrote this? Hezbollah? So even a course of action that kills well over 90% military fighters (probably the highest military to civilian death ratio ever achieved)… the AP has decided to condemn as a crime that targeted assailants “indiscriminately?”   I’m in Beirut right now and I have yet to hear a single person speak of the Hezbollah pager attack in anything but glowing terms.   That’s because unlike these “journalists,” the Lebanese have to live with the consequences of a militant group hellbent on sabotaging their path to normalcy and stability"

Shelley Blond πŸŽ—️ on X - "In 2000, two Israeli reservist soldiers, Yosef Avrahami and Vadim Norzhich, accidentally drove into Ramallah. They weren’t on a mission, they had simply taken a wrong turn. Palestinian Authority police stopped them and brought them to a local police station. As news spread that Israelis were being held inside, an anti Israel crowd gathered outside. The crowd grew increasingly agitated until they forced their way into the station, where they beat, stabbed and mutilated the soldiers to death. One moment from that day became especially infamous. A man named Aziz Salha leaned out of a window of the police station with his hands covered in the soldiers’ blood and raised them toward the cheering crowd. A photograph captured this image, which quickly became known as the “red hands” picture. Other pictures taken from same event showed the attackers holding the bowels and intestines of the two Israelis for the baying crowd to cheer over. For many Israelis, it became one of the most painful symbols of the violence and hatred that marked that period. Today, we see students painting their hands red, or celebrities wearing the same symbol on red-carpet outfits, believing they are expressing solidarity with Palestinians. But many are unaware that this symbol is tied to a brutal lynching that remains deeply traumatic for Jews and Israelis. And if they are aware, then the gesture becomes even more disturbing, aligning not with peace or justice, but with utterly barbaric and horrific violence."

Meme - Simons @JakeWSimons: "These people managed to stop a former Israeli leader from addressing the formerly distinguished Oxford Union" *bloody hands*
PlamenkoM @PlamenkoM: "Different year. Different place. *overjoyed Palestinian with bloody gands*"
Dave @DavesEchoVerse: "Yup, literally holding up the bloodied hands caused by the disembowelment of another human being. Disgusting human beings."

Israeli police arrest Palestinian man dressed as Santa Claus at Christmas party : r/TheWorldReports - "So a group of young people blocked a major street on Haifa by doing a dance performance. People obviously called the police, who came and tried to stop the performance. Other people got upset that the police were stopping the performance, and a guy dressed as Santa Clause allegedly attacked a police officer.   What does this have to do with the religion or ethnicity of the officers or the arrested?"
Damn Zionists!

Dan Burmawi on X - "When Jews lived as dhimmis under Islamic rule, Muslims had no issue acknowledging the Jewish connection to the Temple Mount. That was taken as an obvious historical truth.   For example, in 1925 the Supreme Muslim Council published a guidebook to the Haram al-Sharif. On page 4 it said:  “The site is one of the oldest in the world. Its sanctity dates from the earliest times. Its identity with the site of Solomon’s Temple is beyond dispute.”  That was the mainstream Muslim position for centuries. The Temple Mount was recognized as the location of the ancient Jewish Temple.   There was no denial, no attempt to erase Jewish history, because Jews were under Islamic domination, without sovereignty, and therefore posed no political threat.  But everything changed with the collapse of the Ottoman Caliphate and the introduction of nation-states under the British and the French.  Once the idea of Jewish sovereignty became possible, Jews ruling themselves on their ancestral land, the Muslim world could no longer tolerate the acknowledgment of Jewish history.  This is why the modern denial of Jewish history began, why the Palestinian identity was manufactured and why Muslims suddenly began denying the Jewish connection to the land."

History of Muslim-Jewish Conflicts: From the 7th Century to Today - "622–627. Ethnic cleansing of Jews from Mecca and Medina; Jewish boys publicly inspected and executed if found"
Terrorism supporters are right about one thing - it didn't start on October 7th. Muslims have been killing Jews for over a millennium

Pierre Rehov on X - "For my job, I went to Kosovo, Gaza, Judea Samaria, Iraq… but the moment I felt the most in danger was after the screening of one of my documentaries at the Oxford Film Festival in 2009 The film debunked every pro Palestine mythology. Without the security and the police being called, I would have been lynched by the crowd."

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