Michael Bilow @mikebilow.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I have been perfectly citing ICRC rules that are universally applicable 100
Michael Bilow @mikebilow.bsky.social · 07/10/2026The customary protection of hospitals is lost when they are misused for military purposes. 100
Michael Bilow @mikebilow.bsky.social · 07/10/2026No, I see Hamas as murderous terrorists with no respect for laws of war. 100
Michael Bilow @mikebilow.bsky.social · 07/10/2026It does; see my extensive thread on this. bsky.app/profile/mike... 100
Michael Bilow @mikebilow.bsky.social · 07/10/2026MSF confirmed Hamas misuse of hospitals. www.fdd.org/analysis/202...fdd.orgDoctors Without Borders Admits Terrorists Are Using Gaza’s Nasser HospitalThe Nasser Hospital in Gaza reacted indignantly to the accusation by Doctors Without Borders — known by its French name, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) — that armed men have been witnessed roaming... 100
Michael Bilow @mikebilow.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Hamas has misused hospitals for military purposes for years. www.ajc.org/news/setting...ajc.orgSetting the Record Straight About Hamas’ Use of Gaza’s Hospitals and Israel’s Efforts to Help PatientsThe IDF entered Al-Shifa Hospital and found weapons and uniforms that unequivocally confirmed Hamas is using the hospital for terror, violating the laws of war. Here is what you need to know about Gaz... 100
Michael Bilow @mikebilow.bsky.social · 07/10/2026The misuse of hospitals by Hamas has been widely reported and confirmed by US intelligence. abcnews.com/Internationa...abcnews.comUS says it has intelligence Hamas has used Gaza's Al-Shifa Hospital to hold hostagesWhite House spokesman John Kirby made the claim, followed by the Pentagon. 100
Michael Bilow @mikebilow.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Specific protection of medical establishments and units… is the general rule under IHL. Therefore, specific protection to which hospitals are entitled shall not cease unless they are used… to commit, outside their humanitarian functions, an "act harmful to the enemy". www.icrc.org/en/document/...icrc.orgThe protection of hospitals during armed conflicts: What the law saysAccording to international humanitarian law (IHL), health establishments and units, including hospitals, should not be attacked. This protection extends to the wounded and sick as well as to medical s... 000
Michael Bilow @mikebilow.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Israel's proportional representation system is badly broken, giving sinecures and portfolios to tiny fringe parties. In the entire history of the state since its founding, Israel has never elected a parliamentary majority government. 100
Michael Bilow @mikebilow.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Arabs immigrated to Mandatory Palestine, attracted by the better standard of living and modern economy created from scratch by Zionists out of the wreckage of the Ottoman Empire. www.commentary.org/articles/efr...commentary.org1948, Israel, and the Palestinians—The True StoryFor a fully annotated version of this article, click here. Sixty years after its establishment by an internationally recognized act of self-determination, Israel remains the only state in the world 200
Michael Bilow @mikebilow.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Ben-Gvir is lunatic fringe who does not make policy. Israel signed the Oslo accords and Palestinian Arabs twice turned down offers of a state. Almost no one on either side supports a one-state solution. 100
Michael Bilow @mikebilow.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Hamas started this war: before the attack, Israel and Netanyahu allowed Qatar to channel $15 million monthly into Gaza, hoping Hamas would be forced to moderate by the needs of practical governance, but the money was diverted to building rockets and tunnels. 110
Michael Bilow @mikebilow.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Under international humanitarian law, protected sites such as schools and hospitals lose their protection when they are abused by Hamas for military purposes. 500
Michael Bilow @mikebilow.bsky.social · 07/10/2026The issue is absence of intent to eliminate the Palestinian Arab people as such. www.justthefacts.media/p/genocide-f...justthefacts.mediaGenocide for DummiesBefore you say the word, you should know what it means, what it requires, and why Gaza doesn't meet the test. 200
Michael Bilow @mikebilow.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Deaths in Gaza are tragic consequences of war, but alleging genocide falsely implies an intent to destroy the Palestinian Arab people as such, which is demonstrably untrue. motifri.com/opinion-davi...motifri.comOpinion – PVD Mayoral Candidate David Morales May Not Hate Jews: But the Jew-haters support him – Motif 261
Michael Bilow @mikebilow.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I explained at length why accusations of genocide against Israel are untrue, motivated by a combination of ignorance, naivety, and antisemitism: this encourages hatred of Jews and gives tacit permission to those whose hatred of Jews motivates violence. 100
Michael Bilow @mikebilow.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Arabs have been killing Jews for over a century, long before Israel existed and Netanyahu was in power: as long as they choose nihilist murder and fanatical martyrdom instead of responsible statecraft, Palestinian Arabs will continue to immiserate themselves. 300
Michael Bilow @mikebilow.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I generally agree with you, and Netanyahu needs to account for the Hamas attack occurring on his watch. He is likely to lose the election on Oct 27. But the obstacle to peace is Hamas and militant Arabs, not Netanyahu. 720
Michael Bilow @mikebilow.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Not exactly: www.commentary.org/articles/efr... Any eventual Palestinian Arab state would have to be in the West Bank and Gaza as contemplated by Oslo, but they would have to give up fantasies of destroying Israel. That may take a long time, but until it happens they will immiserate themselves.commentary.org1948, Israel, and the Palestinians—The True StoryFor a fully annotated version of this article, click here. Sixty years after its establishment by an internationally recognized act of self-determination, Israel remains the only state in the world 100
Michael Bilow @mikebilow.bsky.social · 07/10/2026It's a war: get Hamas to disarm as they agreed, and the war will stop. 220
Michael Bilow @mikebilow.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Brett McGurk acknowledges mistakes, especially his own. Even for those not intimately familiar with foreign affairs, he explains enough to understand the often complicated background. In more than 40 years reading books on the Middle East, I find this one among the most honest and candid. 100
Reposted by Michael BilowRachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 06/10/2026It's almost like putting a quack anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist in charge of the nation's health policy has consequences. "The United States has now had more measles deaths in the past two years than we have had in the previous three decades combined...": www.ms.now/news/pennsyl...ms.nowPennsylvania’s measles outbreak is the largest in decades in the U.S.The state has surpassed 1,000 measles cases this year, health officials said Monday, making it the largest outbreak in the U.S. in more than three decades. 21751742275
Michael Bilow @mikebilow.bsky.social · 06/10/2026At one time in the 1990s, I believed a Palestinian Arab state in peaceful coexistence with Israel was a desirable inevitability; after Oct 7, I no longer do. Even if only a minority would turn their state into a platform to kill Jews, it is an existential threat. motifri.com/hamas-israel...motifri.comOpinion — Has the Hamas attack on Israel started World War III?: We’ll soon find out – Motif 100
Michael Bilow @mikebilow.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I agree with you on Ben-Gvit, Smotrich, and vigilante settlers. But there is a clear link between antisemitic terrorism and clueless Westerners who want to "globalize the intifada." motifri.com/pvd-palestin...motifri.comOpinion — PVD City Council Flies Palestinian Flag: Check your privilege while globalizing the intifada – Motif 300
Reposted by Michael BilowMark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026MIT Media Lab’s Kevin Esvalt: “Russia's five-hospital quarantine, FSB involvement, and…hazmat use in response to the death of a single researcher at a weapons-lineage Irkutsk lab are inconsistent with a lab-acquired plague infection, which would have been treated with prophylactic antibiotics. 31698286
Michael Bilow @mikebilow.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Gaza is not a genocide, and the use of the word in this context is an antisemitic blood libel. www.justthefacts.media/p/genocide-f...justthefacts.media 000
Michael Bilow @mikebilow.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I hoped for a two-state solution after Oslo and believed it was inevitable, but the Second Intifada destroyed the peace process for a generation and Oct 7 destroyed it likely forever: a Palestinian Arab state can never be allowed to exist as a platform to attack Israel. motifri.com/hamas-israel...motifri.comOpinion — Has the Hamas attack on Israel started World War III?: We’ll soon find out – Motif 100
Michael Bilow @mikebilow.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I'm saying that outright antisemitism is becoming disturbingly normalized in PVD politics. "Free Palestine" from what? From Hamas? Does the slogan recognize the right of Israel to exist, or is it dog-whistling for "throw the Jews into the sea?" motifri.com/pvd-palestin...motifri.comOpinion — PVD City Council Flies Palestinian Flag: Check your privilege while globalizing the intifada – Motif 000
Michael Bilow @mikebilow.bsky.social · 06/10/2026There are no independent journalists in Gaza because Hamas runs a totalitarian system where any honest journalist would be summarily executed. nypost.com/2026/09/21/w...nypost.comGaza journalist who met with Mamdani admits he buried Oct. 7 footage of Israeli hostages being beaten to protect perpetrators“I understood that Israel would use those videos to identify every person who was there and eliminate them.” 100
Michael Bilow @mikebilow.bsky.social · 06/10/2026@lawrenceodonnell.bsky.social on @lastwordmsnow.bsky.social is unfair to Herbert Hoover: he was constrained by Congress on tariffs and given terrible advice by so-called economic experts, but he was honest, intelligent, and accomplished. 010
Michael Bilow @mikebilow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026The US Supreme Court annual term begins today at 10am EDT with oral argument in Suncor Energy (U.S.A) Inc. v. Commissioners of Boulder County (25-170) and Johnson v. United States Congress (25-735). www.c-span.org/event/public...c-span.org 000
Michael Bilow @mikebilow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026The Nobel Prize announcements will begin in about a half-hour with Physiology or Medicine. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGPp...youtube.comAnnouncement of the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or MedicineYouTube video by Nobel Prize 000
Michael Bilow @mikebilow.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Providence is becoming scary and unfriendly to Jews. motifri.com/pvd-palestin...motifri.comOpinion — PVD City Council Flies Palestinian Flag: Check your privilege while globalizing the intifada – Motif 300
Michael Bilow @mikebilow.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Do you follow the news? www.bostonglobe.com/2026/09/22/m...bostonglobe.comProvidence is poised to have a pro-Palestinian mayor, leaving its Jewish community at a crossroads - The Boston GlobeConcerns about antisemitism come amid the rise of democratic socialist candidates winning elections across the country. 200
Michael Bilow @mikebilow.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I cannot fault Providence Mayor Brett Smiley for standing on principle by refusing to endorse David Morales, and I doubt he will be the only Jew deciding it is safer to move out of town. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/10/01/m...bostonglobe.comSince losing to David Morales, Providence Mayor Brett Smiley’s behavior has raised a few eyebrows - The Boston GlobeWith the US Conference of Mayors reportedly moving a 2027 meeting from Providence to Atlanta, it's starting to look like Smiley is turning heel on his way out of City Hall. 400
Michael Bilow @mikebilow.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The state settled the complaint and now extends sales tax exemption to non-fiction books. www.riaclu.org/news/aclu-ri...riaclu.orgACLU of RI Resolves First Amendment Lawsuit Over State’s Discrimination Against Non-Fiction Authors - ACLU of Rhode IslandThe ACLU of Rhode Island today announced the favorable resolution of a lawsuit it filed in May, challenging the state Division of Taxation’s position that a special sales tax exemption for Rhode Islan... 000
Michael Bilow @mikebilow.bsky.social · 30/09/2026@kenblockri.bsky.social just said in his debate on @oceanstatemedia.bsky.social with moderator @iandonnis.bsky.social that he stopped selling his book in RI because of state sales tax hassles, but there is an exemption for authors directly selling their own work. motifri.com/aria-lawsuit/motifri.comARIA v. Savage: Fiction, Non-Fiction, and the First Amendment – Motif 152
Michael Bilow @mikebilow.bsky.social · 27/09/2026You are "nauseated," while something that makes you that way is "nauseous." 010
Michael Bilow @mikebilow.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Ed Sheeran concerts at Gillette Stadium tonight and tomorrow canceled due to high winds and heavy rain forecast: this will teach him not to mess with the Jews who control the weather! www.bostonglobe.com/2026/09/25/m...bostonglobe.comEd Sheeran’s weekend Gillette concerts canceled due to arriving nor’easter - The Boston Globe"The decision was made with the safety of fans, staff and everyone involved in the shows as the top priority," the promoter wrote on social media. 040
Michael Bilow @mikebilow.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Kushner and Witkoff are untrained amateurs no more competent to conduct diplomacy than to perform surgery, with similar expected results. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/u...nytimes.com 010
Reposted by Michael BilowCNN @cnn.com · 24/09/2026Federal Judge Timothy Kelly ordered the Trump administration to reinstate CNN, MS NOW and Politico's access to the White House after they were banned from the premises by President Donald Trump. cnn.it/4hI6EZI 1118557