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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 7h

Fascinating report just released by DropSite which reveals that David Frum, while working on a profile of an Israeli ambassador to the United Nations for the Atlantic, was also shadow-writing speeches for that same ambassador.

David Frum, Douglas Murray Secretly Drafted Speeches for Israeli Ambassador

Leaked emails from former Israeli UN Ambassador Ron Prosor show David Frum, Douglas Murray offering to write his speeches and a CNN producer fundraising for Israel’s Iron Dome during Israel’s 2014 war

www.dropsitenews.com

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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 3h

In retrospect, and in comparison with the Trump mob family, it's funny and almost charming how small ball and old school Hunter Biden's grift was. So much hustle for such low-stakes payoffs, like basketball before the 3-point shot.

Hunter Biden Pursued a Deal to Sell Land Around the U.S. Embassy in Romania

www.nytimes.com

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 4h

It is a very informative story! I will say I sometimes wonder how this translates elsewhere, of course I have heard plenty of anecdotals about the soft denialism in Germany or likewise soft denialism in Turkey and Greece but what I think about is how do people treat it re: indigenous Americans

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 4h

Or even more specifically they're incapable of treating Islamophobia and anti Arab racism in the same way they do antisemitism.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 4h

I've come to the inevitable but unfortunately sound conclusion that the reason they never said anything about Gillibrand or Fetterman's reported comments about killing Arabs en masse in a meeting with J-Street is because they're just not that bothered by the racism.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 4h

Was De Blasio unsuccessful or do you mean that they de-fanged him in a sense?

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 4h

After having done such a good job keeping the left pro-Israel??

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 4h

Ruwa Romman's statement is my favorite.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 4h

In this case also it's not anything new. His statement last year and even in the immediate aftermath of the events largely conform to the same themes. Only real quibble I have are that the death toll is a wild undercount, which he does acknowledge here to be fair.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 4h

True though he wants his hand-picked successor to win the seat and many of his donors and closest constituents are also his friends. He seems at least to me based on his exit interview with the NYT to be personally anguished over the genocide in a way Schumer does not.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 4h

In the end I think they will be forced by circumstances to get over it anyway though. That or they'll just retire.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 4h

I agree, with also the addendum that for Schumer it's also plainly pretty personal. Difference is Nadler got over it and Schumer won't.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 4h

With the caveat that the younger generations of forthcoming elites have seen their ascension halted temporarily, suppressed, or outright stymied because of this perception of crisis from the older cohorts.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 4h

You'll fare a lot better in terms of coping with this stuff if you just internalize that being pro-Israel has long been considered an elite litmus test and now being pro-Palestine is becoming the litmus test of the forthcoming next generation of elites. Ideological reproduction on the issue flipped.

Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 4h

I think it's fine to admit that. Just as there's a growing bloc of Democratic hyper-active activists or apparachikti who think Palestine is especially important, so too has there always been and remains the donor set which prioritizes the 'bipartisan consensus' on Israel.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 4h

Or if we get some freak outright due to gradual rw polarization in response to 10/7, or if a Lina Khan sneaks in, etc. I doubt the last one.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 4h

I hesitate to say there's none to be had left because even Hochul was rebuked by her state party's chairman for endorsing Mamdani, but I do think you're right writ large and because Mamdani is set to win this is really now a question of whether they learn to live with it.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 4h

Of course we both know this but it's basically meaningless to be or not be a member of a party which only exists as a ballot line. All about "branding" in this country.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 4h

Definitely. Question is whether he if elected will be forced towards the likes of Sara Jacobs or pivot to the likes of Goldman.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 4h

People's consternations towards Mamdani in both directions notwithstanding the legitimization of his presence itself is a fairly serious blow to this consensus.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 4h

I think it's fine to admit that. Just as there's a growing bloc of Democratic hyper-active activists or apparachikti who think Palestine is especially important, so too has there always been and remains the donor set which prioritizes the 'bipartisan consensus' on Israel.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 4h

Yeah that's what I mean though, what will it look like now?

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 5h

Thus far the only 'stalwart' pro-Israel member of the political establishment to have done so, really. And contrary to the claims that there's nothing to lose by endorsing Zohran, Nadler actually received a lot of pushback for it.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 5h

Or rather because the kind of pro-Israel politics he believed in no longer exists in a meaningful way. His endorsement of Zohran is fairly impressive given this context.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 5h

It is interesting to me how little attention overall this seat has gotten so far even though it might actually be a quite interesting test-case of where pro-Israel politics may or may not go vis a vis the Democratic Party. Seems like Nadler in part is retiring because of the directionless of it.

Erdogan Gwan Delilah @socialconcarne.bsky.social · Sep 3

Here's the clown car,

Clubhouse leader: Assemblymember Micah Lasher (possibly endorsed by Jerry Nadler)

Considering: City Council Members Erik Bottcher, Keith Powers*, and Julie Menin, Assemblymembers Tony Simone and Alex Bores, former Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney, Lina Khan, Whitney Tilson,

Jeff Coltin @jccoltin.bsky.social · Sep 3

“It’s the most coveted and arguably important congressional seat in New York because of the history of political influence from that seat, and also the fundraising base that comes with it.”

On the upcoming #NY12 primary to succeed Nadler:

www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 5h

Some excellent reading for those who want to know basic chronology and facts regarding the emptying out of Palestine between 1947 and 1949.

Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 5h

I linked elsewhere but the # of villages and their reason for depopulation come from Benny Morris' "The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem, 1947-1949", "1948 and After. Israel and the Palestinians", and compounding analysis comes from "The Making of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1947- 1951",

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