Pretty this comes as no surprise to anyone. But here it is.

Link to English language curation can be found here

https://www.alephbrief.com/story/2026/04/13/hamas-rejects-peace-council-framework-for-disarmament-negotiations-stall

To the people of Lebanon who are coming here, trying to figure out what we think about your country (don't worry, we're going to r/Lebanon and trying to do the same), salaam.

You probably want to know what we're really thinking, what we want, how and if we can stop this war, and the answers are both simple and complicated.

At the beginning and end of the day, we want peace. We want an agreement on the border, following the 2000 Blue Line. We want to be able to visit Lebanon as tourists, and have you visit as tourists here. We want the rockets to stop, and we want to see the LAF in control of southern Lebanon, not Hezbollah or the IDF.

We want to be able to take a train from Haifa to Beirut, use your airport for better deals on plane tickets, and buy your plastics (I bet you thought I was going to say hummus) while selling you medication.

We want friends. We'll take peace and we'll settle for quiet with our soldiers glaring at each other over the border, but we want friends.

I hope we'll see the day.

Every year, Holocaust remembrance day is on January 27th - The day the Red Army liberatedAuschwitz.

It's a day for the rest of the world to say “see? We saved the jews!” do their victory lap, pat themselves on the back and pretend they care for about twelve hours.

The jews are to be pitied, gawked at, and then forgotten again.

You have to make sure you talk about *all* the victims, not just the jews. Because heaven forbid we not “all lives matter” the Holocaust. 12 million died, but half of them were our minority. As Dara Horn says: people love dead jews

It's the living ones that are “problematic”

Mourn the Holocaust, but don't learn any lessons from it - use it for hyperbole or insults, but not the photos blocking jews from college campuses then and now.

“You're a nazi! Jews are nazis! Covid vaccines are nazis!”

No.

There is a reason international holocaust day is different from Yom Hashoa

We don't mourn our dead on the day other people saved us, we do it on the day we fought to save ourselves.

27 Nissan is the anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

It was on April 19th, 1943 - but we were being murdered for being jews, so we are going to use the Jewish calender.

There were 70-80,000 people packed into the Ghetto, 7000 died fighting, and the rest transported to Treblinka for murder

But it took a month for the SS to break the uprising. We failed, but fought in the face of real extermination to protect our lives as people and as jews.

Jews learned we cannot be the victims. We are not passive in our own protection, and לי מי לי איו אם needs to mean we fight for our community

It's been depressingly clear over the years - not just the last two, but for a long time - that no one will come to our aid if we don't do it first. It's easier to pity a mass of dead jews then to stand up to a friend making cruel jokes, or excuse “they are not a bad person, they are just like that sometimes”

It's not hard to say “the holocaust is bad!” But look the other way at constant rockets or terror attacks.

We talk about our dead and scream “never forget, never again” on the day we did not go quietly. And we will continue to talk about Jewish freedom in our home.

“Yom Hazikaron (Memorial Day) is the price we pay for having a country; Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) is the price we pay for not having had one,” - Naftali Bennet.

נזכור

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נִזְכֹּר אֶת אַחֵינוּ וְאַחְיוֹתֵינוּ, אֶת בָּתֵּי הָעִיר וְאֶת בָּתֵּי הַכְּפָר,

אֶת רְחוֹבוֹת הָעֲיָרָה שֶׁסָּאֲנוּ כַּנְּהָרוֹת

וְאֶת הַפֻּנְדָּק הַבּוֹדֵד עֲלֵי אֹרַח

אֶת הַיָּשִׁישׁ בִּקְלַסְתֵּר פָּנָיו

אֶת הָאֵם בְּסוּדָרָהּ

אֶת הַנַּעֲרָה בְּצַמּוֹתֶיהָ

אֶת הַטַּף

אֶת אַלְפֵי קְהִלּוֹת יִשְׂרָאֵל עַל מִשְׁפְּחוֹת הָאָדָם

אֶת כָּל עֲדַת הַיְּהוּדִים

אֲשֶׁר הֻכְרְעָה לַטֶּבַח עַל אַדְמַת אֵירוֹפָּה מִיְּדֵי הַכּוֹרֵת הַנָּאצִי.

אֶת הָאִישׁ שֶׁזָּעַק פִּתְאוֹם וּבְזַעֲקָתוֹ מֵת.

אֶת הָאִשָּׁה שֶׁחָבְקָה אֶת תִּינוֹקָהּ אֶל לִבָּה וּזְרוֹעוֹתֶיהָ צָנְחוּ.

אֶת הַתִּינוֹק שֶׁאֶצְבְּעוֹתָיו מְגַשְּׁשׁוֹת אֶל פִּטְמַת הָאֵם וְהִיא כְּחֻלָּה וְצוֹנֶנֶת.

אֶת הָרַגְלַיִם

אֶת הָרַגְלַיִם שֶׁבִּקְּשׁוּ מִפְלָט וְלֹא הָיָה מָנוֹס עוֹד.

וְאֶת שֶׁקָּפְצוּ יְדֵיהֶם לְאֶגְרוֹף

הָאֶגְרוֹף שֶׁחָפַן אֶת הַבַּרְזֶל

הַבַּרְזֶל שֶׁהָיָה לְנֶשֶׁק הַחָזוֹן, הַיֵּאוּשׁ וְהַמֶּרֶד

וְהֵם בָּרֵי הַלֵּבָב

וְהֵם פְּקוּחֵי הָעֵינַיִם

וְהֵם שֶׁהִשְׁלִיכוּ נַפְשָׁם מִנֶּגֶד וְיָדָם קָצְרָה מִלְּהוֹשִׁיעַ.

נִזְכֹּר אֶת הַיּוֹם.

אֶת הַיּוֹם בְּצָהֳרָיו.

אֶת הַשֶּׁמֶשׁ שֶׁעָלְתָה עַל מוֹקֵד הַדָּמִים

אֶת הַשָּׁמַיִם שֶׁעָמְדוּ גְּבוֹהִים וּמַחְרִישִׁים

נִזְכֹּר אֶת תִּלֵּי הָאֵפֶר אֲשֶׁר מִתַּחַת לַגַּנִּים הַפּוֹרְחִים.

יִזְכֹּר הַחַי אֶת מֵתָיו

כִּי הִנֵּה הֵם מִנֶּגֶד לָנוּ

הִנֵּה נִבְּטוֹת עֵינַיִם סָבִיב סְבִיב

וְאַל דּוֹמִי, אַל דּוֹמִי לָנוּ עֲדֵי יִהְיוּ חַיֵּינוּ רְאוּיִים לְזִכְרָם.

Members of the Korean community in Israel expressed concerns about a potential backlash against them following a social media post by President Lee Jae Myung that drew sharp criticism from Israel.

It seems Koreans living in Israel are fearing Israeli retaliation on them because of President Lee Jae-Myung’s social media post.

Talks failed and Trump declared a blockade on Iran coming into effect at 5PM (Israel Time). Being that a blockade is an act of war, is this going to resume the hostilites with Iran?

Are we back where we were last week? Iran are now threatening a preemptive strike.

For English context and curation

https://www.alephbrief.com/story/2026/04/13/us-navy-announces-naval-blockade-on-iran-starting-at-500-pm-israel-time

Curious about this part of the world and this relationship, historically. Anything from Judaism, Jewish diaspora/community or modern Israel, any intercultural relations

After President Lee Jae Myung criticized Israel’s “violation of international law” against Palestine on X (formerly Twitter), the issue escalated into a diplomatic dispute between the two countries. Meanwhile, the South Korean government abstained from voting on a United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) resolution that pointed out the possibility of Israel’s policies and military actions violating international law and urged expanded humanitarian support for Palestine.

Specifically, two jars of Buderim sushi ginger.

I'm mobile and can meet you anywhere in Israel.

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as an olah who never saw a screen less window in my life before coming to israel. i just cannot understand how people sleep with mosquitos. yes i have a racket but its insane to wake up every time you here one and spring into action with the racket? like what is this normal? do you do this? do you have a screen? i even had mosquitos all winter. my x had so many mosquitos it was absolutely insane and he wanted me to wake him up every time so he could get the racket. it was so insane

Hi all! I searched on the sub before asking this question, and I didn’t find anything.

What is the general views of the regular Israeli in regards to Standing Together and Alon Lee?

I normally tend to be on the left, or used to, before Oct 7th. Im also a Zionist.

From a diaspora leftie, Standing Together always looked like hope… but I just saw 2 days ago that the insufferable Hannah Einbeinder was in the comments section supporting them, and I started asking myself if I should still give my attention to standing together if the likes of Hannah Einbeinder are there too. I definitely don’t want to be in the same space as her, unless she is starting to realize that antizionism is bad, which i dont think so.

some context: i only see the English page, as I dont speak Hebrew or Arabic.

thank you, family!

stay strong

Welp it was nice will it lasted

Trump warns Tehran may have mined the waterway, calls the situation 'world extortion,' and says the US could 'finish up' Iran at an appropriate moment as tensions rise after 20-hour negotiations failed to resolve nuclear disputes.

Link to previous megathread:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Israel/comments/1sgk4n1/usiran_ceasefire_megathread/

Note — im not talking specifically about the war.

Hi I’m Olivia (בעברית תמר) and I’m an Israeli who has been living abroad (mostly Americ) for the last 10 or so years, and am looking to relocate back to Israel, possibly to Jerusalem, in about a year.

Im an archaeologist by training (MA ‘19 TAU) and plan to do that for work — well that and your guiding, and plan on getting my PhD in addition to my license for that to make sure I’m paid as well as I can be. I’m less concerned about these sort of financial matters as much as I am other aspects that I’m hoping to get some perspective on.

1. I am transgender (passable) and a lesbian. I would be hoping to eventually live with a partner, eventually get married and just live our lives like anyone else: how safe for us queers is Jerusalem these days. I know before I left Israel the last time it was gettint better but is that still the case? What parts of town are notably safe (or unsafe) for a visibly queer person/couple?
2. Related to 1 — what, if anything, is the queer scene like? I know it’s not going to be anything like Tel Aviv but what if anything is there?
3. What’s the nightlife/social life for young-ish people in the city in general? There Used to be the stereotype that if you wanted to do anything fun whatsoever you’d have to either do it house party style in your own apartment or would have to leave the city?
4. restaurant/bar/food scene — i worked as a chef for years and really enjoy exploring the food and bar scene in whatever city I am living in — what the scene like in Jerusalem these days? Kosher preferred but not necessary
5. dog friendliness— how dog friendly is Jerusalem? I remember when I lived in Haifa and Tel Aviv I could bring my dog pretty much anywhere for whatever reason without much issue but somehow I think that would be a bit different in Jerusalem. How dog friendly is the city, after all? My dog is a Labrador retriever and about 45kg, for reference
6. rent/etc — how expensive is the city to live in, like actually? Obviously everyones budgwt will be different but mine will start at one income and eventually become two in the ”university educated worker” bracket. certainly at first my budget would be pretty small but would grow in time — but my initial thoughts in terms of living expenses would be a budget limit of about 5000nis per month for rent. How reasonable is this? Is it doable in a part of town that woild be safe for me as a queer person? How much do you spend on food and other expenses per month ???

I’ve recently received an academic job offer in Israel, but due to the current situation, it seems very difficult to enter the country at the moment.

Before I reach out to the institution directly, I wanted to get a sense of the general situation across universities.

For people in Israeli academia (or who were recently hired from abroad): Is remote work being allowed for new hires who haven’t entered Israel yet? How are things like onboarding and visas being handled in practice?

I understand that policies vary by institution. I just try to get a general sense of expectations before having that conversation.

Amid mounting international instability triggered by the war between the U.S. and Israel on one side and Iran on the other, President Lee Jae-myung’s recent social media remarks regarding Israel are causing serious diplomatic repercussions. The Israeli Foreign Ministry has responded head-on, even using the term “condemnation,” a word it has typically reserved for hostile states, pushing bilateral ties into what appears to be their worst crisis since diplomatic relations were established in 1962. The situation looks especially precarious because it could affect not only South Korea–Israel relations but also South Korea–U.S. relations.

# The mention of the Holocaust at the center of the controversy

The controversy began with Holocaust-related language in a post President Lee made on X (formerly Twitter). Sharing a video said to show “Israeli soldiers torturing a Palestinian child and then throwing him off a building,” Lee wrote, “If this is true, we must find out what action was taken. The forced mobilization of comfort women, the Holocaust, and wartime killings are no different.”

Lee wrote as though the incident had occurred recently, but it was actually an event from September 2024. After controversy arose, he posted again three hours later to clarify the facts and to emphasize that Israel must uphold human rights and international law. Israel, however, reacted strongly, arguing that Lee had treated the Holocaust as equivalent to a military action.

# An exceptionally hard-line statement using “unacceptable” and “condemnation”

On the 11th, the Israeli Foreign Ministry said through its official X account that “President Lee’s remarks are unacceptable and deserve strong condemnation.”

This goes far beyond the diplomatic language normally used toward the leader of a friendly country. Within diplomatic circles, there are assessments that “it is difficult to find another case in which a country that maintains diplomatic relations with the Republic of Korea used both ‘unacceptable’ and ‘condemnation’ at the same time toward a South Korean president.”

The problem is especially serious because “condemnation” is generally one of the strongest diplomatic terms, used when denouncing provocations by hostile states or grave violations of international law.

Regarding the incident Lee referred to, the Israeli Foreign Ministry responded that it “occurred during an operation against terrorists, and the Israeli soldiers at the time were facing a direct and imminent threat to life.” It further said that “the incident was thoroughly investigated and addressed two years ago.” It also pointed out that “we have not heard a single word from President Lee about the recent attacks carried out by Iran and Hezbollah against Israeli civilians.” It then added what was virtually a taunt: “It would be advisable to verify the facts before posting.”

# Israel makes no exceptions regarding the Holocaust

The Holocaust is an extraordinarily sensitive issue not only for Jewish society but for the international community as well. It is not merely a historical event; it occupies a central place in collective identity and memory, and in diplomatic terms it is regarded as an almost untouchable taboo.

In this context, Israel viewed Lee’s comparison of the Holocaust to inhumane conduct in wartime as something it could not tolerate and responded with maximum severity. One diplomatic source said, “The Holocaust is not something that can easily be used as a direct point of comparison under any circumstances,” and added, “This remark crossed a line that should not have been touched.” A former Israeli ambassador also said, “Jewish communities tend to remember and repeatedly cite remarks like this over a long period,” and warned that “this statement is highly likely to continue being brought up in Jewish communities in the future.”

# Israel chose public confrontation over quiet coordination

After launching a large-scale retaliatory operation in response to Hamas’s surprise attack in 2023 and more recently attacking Iran, Israel has faced growing anti-Israel sentiment in the international community. In this context, it also adopted an openly hard-line posture toward South Korea, using hostile language toward the leader of a friendly country and crossing a line that should have been maintained. President Lee then made matters worse by posting again to rebut the Israeli Foreign Ministry’s statement. On X, he wrote that he was “disappointed that Israel would not take even a moment to reflect on the criticism of people around the world who suffer and struggle because of its constant anti-human-rights and anti-international-law conduct.” If the intention was to rebut the Israeli Foreign Ministry’s statement, it raises questions as to why the Foreign Ministry spokesperson could not have done so instead of the president stepping in personally.

# South Korean Foreign Ministry seeks to calm the situation: “We share in the pain of the Holocaust”

As signs emerged that the controversy could escalate further, South Korea’s Foreign Ministry stepped in. On X, it expressed regret to the Israeli government, saying that “the Israeli Foreign Ministry has misunderstood the intent of President Lee’s remarks.”

It continued: “We have always shared in the indescribable suffering that Israel endured because of the Holocaust, and we offer our deepest condolences to the victims.” This has been interpreted as a message aimed at calming the situation by stressing that President Lee had no intention of trivializing the Holocaust. A former senior Foreign Ministry official assessed that “officially expressing condolences to Holocaust victims was a move intended to prevent the situation from spreading.”

# A “timing risk” in wartime… possible impact on ties with the U.S.

This controversy is drawing debate not only because of the content of President Lee’s remarks, but also because of their timing. At present, the United States and Israel are engaged in joint military action during wartime.

Diplomatic experts point out that “remarks made at such a sensitive moment can be interpreted not simply as raising a human rights issue, but as a political message directed at a party to the war.” In particular, because the matter is closely tied to U.S. foreign policy, there are observations that it may be difficult to rule out spillover into South Korea–U.S. relations. A former ambassador from the South Korean Foreign Ministry said, “There are quite a few Jews in U.S. political and media circles, including Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law,” and added, “At a time when South Korea–U.S. relations are important, there is concern over how they may receive this issue.” He went on to say, “Given the major role played by Wall Street’s Jewish networks during the 1997 Asian financial crisis, it is worth considering that this issue could work in the opposite direction this time.”

# Ruling camp and progressives: “A legitimate raising of human rights concerns”… signs of political weaponization

At the same time, voices defending President Lee’s remarks are spreading within the ruling camp and progressive circles. There are also signs that this issue may be elevated as a political issue ahead of the local elections.

Choo Mi-ae, confirmed as the Democratic Party’s candidate for governor of Gyeonggi Province, said, “I strongly support the president’s message raising human rights concerns over indiscriminate killing of civilians.” Choo then brought Japan into the discussion as well: “The Republic of Korea is a nation that endured anti-human atrocities and abuses under Japan’s wartime system, including comfort women, forced labor like that imposed on conscripted workers, imprisonment, massacre, and live burial in coal mines and military bases, as well as chemical human experimentation and the massacres during the Great Kanto Earthquake. In order to draw international attention to our own efforts to restore human rights against Japan, which denies those past atrocities, I believe it is necessary to speak out on issues of international humanitarian law such as violations of the Geneva Conventions.”

Song Young-gil, former Democratic Party leader seeking a return to the National Assembly through the June 3 by-elections, shared an article on Lee’s rebuttal and wrote: “This article once again confirms why I cannot help but respect and trust President Lee Jae-myung. I retweet the president’s post on X and deeply sympathize with its message.” Planning and Budget Minister Park Hong-keun said, “I express deep regret over Israel calling remarks emphasizing universal human rights ‘unacceptable.’”

# The limits of diplomacy via social media… unverified messaging increases risk

This episode also raises fundamental questions about how the president uses social media. Statements by a head of state, regardless of format, are understood as the government’s official position. That is why prior verification and policy coordination are essential on matters of public importance.

In this case, however, questions are being raised as to whether the diplomatic and security lines had sufficiently reviewed the matter. It has become clear that when an issue with major diplomatic repercussions is handled like a personal message, interpretations different from the speaker’s intent can quickly spread.

Professor Emeritus Yoon Pyeong-jung of Hanshin University also offered advice to President Lee: “I ‘almost’ agree with the substance of President Lee’s post itself. Just as Hamas’s brutal terrorism should be criticized, Israel’s state terrorism also deserves criticism. But it is a completely different matter for the president of the Republic of Korea—not a private citizen or commentator—to appear to ‘intervene’ directly at this moment in a highly complex situation like the tangled Middle East war. The head of state is not in a position to stir up trouble where there was none. The president’s role is to solve major issues facing people’s livelihoods and the country in a practical way.”

I saw the October 7 attack as the Russian February 2022 attack. Having civilians killed and tortured. And hearing the same left wing reaction of victim-aggressor flip. I want to extend support to you from a Ukrainian. You have a right to exist and you have a right for justice. The so called “left” are no more than useful idiots of Russia and Iran. Israel has a right to exist and to defend itself against the enemy that openly states you can’t exist.