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Author/journalist/artist/rabbinical student/human being | Proud Columbia drop-out | The Settler: …

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@Oritar
Orit Arfa
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What an honor to meet and chat with Crown Prince of Iran @PahlaviReza at NatCon 4 in Washington D.C. Listen to his remarkable vision for the Middle East here:
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Orit Arfa
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A remarkable speech. A beautiful vision for Iran and the Middle East.
@PahlaviReza
Reza Pahlavi
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The video of my address at @NatConTalk . "I am not here to ask for your permission to get rid of the Islamic Republic nor am I here to ask you to do it for us. Iran doesn’t seek your patronage, it seeks your partnership. It doesn’t seek your funding, it seeks your friendship."
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@Oritar
Orit Arfa
9 months
@ICRCPresident Easy non military solution: Tell Hamas to surrender and free the hostages.
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In October 1996, as a freshman at Columbia, to which I worked very hard to get into, I went to the campus shul for Yom Kippur. It was a time for repentance, for seeking truth. I remember looking around, at the unhappy Jews, thinking about my classes on campus. About the grad
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Rep. Elise Stefanik
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🚨🚨🚨Presidents of @Harvard @MIT and @Penn REFUSE to say whether “calling for the genocide of Jews” is bullying and harassment according to their codes of conduct. Even going so far to say it needs to turn to “action” first. As in committing genocide. THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE AND
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@Oritar
Orit Arfa
3 years
Why did none of this #Jerusalem violence happen under the #Trump Administration?
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Orit Arfa
5 years
Watch how the evil anti-Semites of the #AfD attack me as I speak for them in Hamburg wearing a Star of David! So frightening! Seriously, it was a wonderful evening full of meaningful discussion and graciousness.
@AfD_Fraktion_HH
AfD-Fraktion Hamburg
5 years
Der Vortrag von @Oritar bei #FraktionImDialog . Viel Spaß beim Anschauen, und dem Video ein 👍geben! #afd @inJAfD
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Orit Arfa
9 months
@truthandfiction @ShlomitSufa How did you have the strength to do it?
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@Oritar
Orit Arfa
2 years
Scandal in Germany: @VW Volkswagen got one of the leading political blogs, @Achgut_com , “canceled” by an advertising partner. #Achgut , run by prominent Jewish writer Henryk Broder, is one of the only pro-Israel, decidedly pro-Jewish outlets in Germany. What gives?
@Achgut_com
Die Achse des Guten
2 years
Von Henryk M. Broder, Dirk Maxeiner und Fabian Nicolay. Der Volkswagenkonzern will #Achgut plattmachen. Und bedient sich gegenüber Herausgeber Henryk M. Broder dabei auch noch eines einschlägig bekannten Jargons. 👉 #Volkswagen #Audi #Cancelculture
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Orit Arfa
9 months
@DrEliDavid You forgot to add the invention of airplane hijacking.
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@Oritar
Orit Arfa
6 years
Israel & the Jewish people are fortunate to have star Ambassador @RichardGrenell in #Berlin . Read how he “grew up” on #Israel (which made him a #foodie ) and why he takes #antisemitism personally. My interview in Jüdische Rundschau’s New Year issue:
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Orit Arfa
9 months
@OwenJones84 Oh aren’t you the guy who yelled at an elderly Jewish woman on a talk show?
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Orit Arfa
5 years
Eine kleine Nachricht aus Israel über meinen Vortrag in #Hamburg am 4. Juni für die @AfD_Fraktion_HH : “Wer wäre die "israelische AfD" und was könnte die #AfD von ihnen lernen?” Jetzt anmelden! 040/42831-2518 afd-veranstaltungen @afd -fraktion.hamburg.de
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Orit Arfa
8 years
I sense the influence of @yaronbrook in the fab article by @MarkRPellegrino on Israel.
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Orit Arfa
5 years
I sat in the Bundestag session. Main reasons for rejecting bill: 1. It comes from @AfDimBundestag 2. #Hezbollah is legitimate political party in #Lebanon 3. Needs #EU solution.
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Orit Arfa
8 months
@naftalibennett There are also many more fallen soldiers because of internationally-dictated rules of engagement that make the IDF soldiers protect Gaza civilians more than their men and families back home.
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Orit Arfa
6 years
@RichardGrenell And my friend Holocaust survivor Joshua Kaufman from LA. His daughter was my classmate. I met him Germany in 2016 when he was a witness at a Nazi trial.
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Orit Arfa
9 months
@aaronjmate What’s that on the poor woman’s pants? Ketchup?
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Orit Arfa
4 years
Goodbye, Ric! With love, Germany #TheWorldNeedsGrenell @RichardGrenell
@Achgut_com
Die Achse des Guten
4 years
(Orit Arfa) US-Botschafter Richard Grenell verlässt seinen Posten in einer Zeit, in der der Anti-Amerikanismus beinahe hegemonial zu sein scheint. Die Deutschen wissen nicht einmal, was für einen unkonventionellen und neugierigen Diplomaten sie verlieren.
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Orit Arfa
5 years
Thank you @RichardGrenell for the candid interview. Happy Berlinniversary!
@Achgut_com
Die Achse des Guten
5 years
(Interview mit Richard Grenell) Video. Der heutige 8. Mai ist der #TagderBefreiung , er steht für das Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs in Europa. Viel Symbolik an einem Tag. Achgut.com-Autorin Orit Arfa sprach mit US-Botschafter Richard #Grenell .
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@Oritar
Orit Arfa
5 years
Germans having the gall to tell Jews how many homes they could build in their homeland. Don’t you have anything better to do with your time?
@GerAmbTLV
Steffen Seibert
5 years
The German Government is extremely concerned about reports that the construction of and tenders for thousands of new housing units in settlements in the West Bank have been approved.
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Orit Arfa
2 years
@RichardGrenell This is called #catastrophizing , a phenomenon termed and slammed in the book Fossil Future by @AlexEpstein . I’m looking forward to interviewing him this week!
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Orit Arfa
8 months
@MOSSADil If most Hamas women look like this, it is no wonder that their men are desperately seeking 72 virgins.
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Orit Arfa
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@AvivaKlompas The only people who should watch such sad videos are our leaders who are endangering our men with internationally-dictated rules of engagement that protect Gaza "civilians" more than our soldiers and civilians.
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Orit Arfa
3 months
@GOPIsrael The fact that so many of our enemies don’t want us in Rafah is exactly why Israel must be there.
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Orit Arfa
6 years
Stay tuned for my coverage of the “Jews in the @AfD ” inaugural conference, which spontaneously ended as follows, with the Hebrew prayer for #peace .
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Orit Arfa
3 years
@IDF But you have been standing by and letting this happen for years....
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Orit Arfa
9 months
@GOPIsrael We are so indebted to him. Thank you, Marc (and son). A true hero.
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Orit Arfa
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@YaelHolan Love them!
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Orit Arfa
5 years
Ambassador @RichardGrenell opens up to @Achgut_com about his social media presence, hard work, disagreements with Germany, his love for Israel, LGBT rights, surviving cancer, and how he keeps his humility and sanity in this position of power. WATCH!
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Orit Arfa
9 months
@EylonALevy Glad to see her smile.
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Orit Arfa
5 years
You should all get @JPostOpinion ’s @sfrantzman ’s new book “After ISIS.” My daughter couldn’t put it down!
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Orit Arfa
1 month
Join me (digitally) in DC @NatConTalk .
@NatConTalk
National Conservatism
2 months
NatCon 4 now underway! Follow us for live coverage.
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Orit Arfa
9 months
@DeSantisWarRoom Actually, he knows exactly who is in the White House.
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8 months
@RichardGrenell Harvard is dead. Reasonable parents should not send their kids there. It lost its main currency: reputation.
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Orit Arfa
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@GOPIsrael Mar God bless them in their liberation of Israel and the West.
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Orit Arfa
4 years
@HeikoMaas So why do you support Iran? 🤷🏽‍♀️
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@DavidM_Friedman Why is it only when Tel Aviv gets attacked that the Israel government properly retaliates? Is Eilat not worthy of government response?
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Orit Arfa
7 years
A tribute to the murdered #Druze Officer in Friday's #TempleMount attack. @israellycool
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Orit Arfa
6 years
The most ironic picture of the year. If they’re so right wing, why didn’t they deface Karl Marx yet? #Chemnitz
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Orit Arfa
2 years
Dear @AudiOfficial and @eurowings : I’m astounded by the level of hate and irrationality of the frenzied trolls who targeted #Achgut —and now me. Are these really the kind of derelicts you engage with?
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Orit Arfa
3 years
@DailySignal @AbigailShrier Eloquent, elegant and convincing testimony. Thank you for your work!
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Orit Arfa
5 years
@dwnews Is this anti- @BorisJohnson video an op-ed? Is German state-run media allowed to publish an opinion/propaganda piece as a type of news story?
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@Oritar
Orit Arfa
10 months
@NEWSMAX By “neo-Nazi” do you mean Hamas?
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Orit Arfa
11 months
@GoldsteinBrooke Even animals don’t behave this way and have an innate sense of decency.
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Orit Arfa
3 years
Didn’t #Germany just give 100 million EURO in funds to the #PalestinianAuthority ?
@YishaiFleisher
Yishai Fleisher يشاي ישי פליישר 🕎
3 years
Arabs near Gush Etzion put up a NAZI flag. The @IDF took care of it.
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@Oritar
Orit Arfa
6 years
NOT a friend of Israel and the Jewish people.
@BenWeinthal
Benjamin Weinthal
6 years
My Exclusive: Angela Merkel urged Romanian president to not move embassy to Jerusalem. Germany refuses to say if Jerusalem is Israel's capital. @Jerusalem_Post
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Orit Arfa
4 months
@GOPIsrael We are working on the assumption that the elections will be honest. I don’t think he is pandering to the far Left-Islamist base for its votes, but for its ability to “find” the votes.
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Orit Arfa
9 months
@GOPIsrael Israel should not be negotiating with them at all. It is a big sin against the Jewish people.
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@Oritar
Orit Arfa
6 years
Mayor of Frankfurt @itsuwe strays from his party leader #Merkel 's Israel policy to take a strong stance for Israel, favoring #IranSanctions and #Jerusalem as Israel's capital.
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Orit Arfa
7 years
@womensmarch What about fighting antisemitic Islamic supremacy?
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Orit Arfa
4 years
Classy reaction. Shows @realDonaldTrump is actually a mensch.
@JackPosobiec
Jack Poso 🇺🇸
4 years
The actual moment Trump found out RBG died was caught on tape
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Orit Arfa
9 months
@truthandfiction I’m with you 💯!
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Orit Arfa
5 years
@Israellycool We don’t need people to pick a side. We need the Israeli government to put an end to this once and for all. It’s not a morality contest. It’s our lives.
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@Oritar
Orit Arfa
5 years
Thank you @morgenpost for introducing my beautiful Hanna Nasima Arfa to #Berlin ! That’s my girl...already at Day 5 making the front pages!
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Orit Arfa
2 years
Exactly what I was thinking.
@YishaiFleisher
Yishai Fleisher يشاي ישי פליישר 🕎
2 years
Would be nice to see this many Germans standing against the current #ViennaTalks which will lift sanctions against Iran and empower it to make a nuclear bomb. Alas, defending #Ukraine is much sexier than defending the Jewish State.
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@Oritar
Orit Arfa
3 years
As my research has shown, #Israel is a #hitech wonder because it is simply the least regulated industry in Israel. Bibi can take credit only for a hands-off approach. Imagine what would come out of Israel if regulations were lifted on other industries! @naftalibennett @yairlapid
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Orit Arfa
9 months
@GOPIsrael You are so right, Marc. I feel your anger! 😡
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Orit Arfa
4 years
Super excited! My German copy if @yhazony ’s masterwork “The Virtue of Nationalism” just arrived from Amazon. #Germany needs this book more than any other country.
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Orit Arfa
7 years
Why is @YouTube going on a rampage against sites that expose Palestinian terrorism? Remove the strikes! @Israellycool
@Oritar
Orit Arfa
7 years
YouTube Set To Delete Israellycool Account
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Orit Arfa
2 years
Wow. Referencing my article in @JNS_org , @simonwiesenthal calls on @eurowings to reverse its advertising boycott of @Achgut_com . (What about @AudiOfficial ?)
@simonwiesenthal
Simon Wiesenthal Center
2 years
Boycotting #German Jews presented as fighting extremists. Anti-Semitism czar @beauftragtgg blesses, not blasts anti-Semites. @lufthansa must reverse @eurowings cave to boycott or face new controversy with world Jewry. via @JNS_org
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Orit Arfa
6 years
@JochenBittner @RichardGrenell Gee, someone is not totally biased against the American President. Once you callously label the American President “notorious liar,” you should feel least entitled to teach lessons in objectivity.
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@Oritar
Orit Arfa
9 months
I was optimistic about Israel restoring security. Then it made a “deal” with racists, murderers, thieves of children, and sadists. Since then, I’ve sunken into a depression. How do I manage my emotions? I’m asking seriously. I feel in my entire body how wrong this is.
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Orit Arfa
3 years
@RichardGrenell Asking for logic is really too much!
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Orit Arfa
3 years
Joining the Tel Aviv #FreedomConvoy to Jerusalem.
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@Oritar
Orit Arfa
4 years
Thank you, Mr. President.
@DailyCaller
Daily Caller
4 years
Statement from President Trump: "I will never give up fighting for you and our nation"
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Orit Arfa
6 years
Jetzt auf Deutsch in #J üdischeRundschau. Die äußerst traurige Geschichte von Susanna Feldmanns Vergewaltigung und Ermordung durch einen irakischen Asylbewerber, wie sie von ihrer Mutter erzählt wurde.
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@Oritar
Orit Arfa
4 years
@RichardGrenell Well said! @RichardGrenell is a force of nature and will be greatly missed. 🥲This pic was taken when we first met, on Fourth of July 2018. Great party. Good times. But it's inevitable that he'd be off to greaters things. #Grenell2024 ?...
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@Oritar
Orit Arfa
9 months
@MKarnitschnig But I thought Germany said “Never Again”? @polizeiberlin
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Orit Arfa
2 years
@VW was a corporate sponsor of the #documenta15 Israel/Jewish hate-fest. Now it boycotts a pro-Jewish magazine, #Achgut , under the guise of “compliance” with “inclusion” guidelines. Anti-semitism included, that is.
@Birgit_Kelle
Birgit Kelle
2 years
Merke: @volkswagen unterstützt zwar gerne als Werbepartner die offen antisemitische #documenta15 setzt aber mit @AudiOfficial freien Meinungsjournalismus von @Achgut_com auf "Exklusionslisten", weil man Shitstorms von anonymen Denunzianten befürchtet. Erbärmlich.
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@Oritar
Orit Arfa
4 years
Just watched the debate. Biden lost the debate—and the election. The new format actually helped Trump. Without the noise of interruption, Biden’s mental weakness against Trump’s sharpness was on full display. #Debates2020
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@Oritar
Orit Arfa
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"If there is any grave lesson we must learn from the tragedy of the hostages, it’s this: What is left of Gaza must include Israeli forces and residential communities on both sides of the 'border'." 🌴Why we must rebuild Gush Katif. My latest in JNS. ⬇️
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@Oritar
Orit Arfa
6 years
If only @RealSarahIdan were Congresswoman instead of @RashidaTlaib . Any Arab woman who really means it when she says “world peace.”
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Orit Arfa
2 years
@LarryOConnor @RichardGrenell I remember oh so well and miss him and his diplomacy greatly.
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Orit Arfa
6 years
Now for Broder’s inimitable humorous takedown of the embarrassing @DerSPIEGEL hit-piece on Ambassador @RichardGrenell
@Achgut_com
Die Achse des Guten
6 years
(Henryk M. Broder) Eine SPIEGEL-Geschichte über den US-Botschafter in Berlin, Rick Grenell, besteht zu 90% aus Mutmaßungen, Unterstellungen und namenlosen Quotes. Der Claas-Relotius-Preis für investigative Reportage hat seinen ersten Empfänger gefunden.
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Orit Arfa
5 years
Wouldn’t this make him “unbravely” leading the fight against anti-Semitism? This should be a source of outrage and immediate action, not nonchalance. Would he recommend Muslim women not wear a hijab?
@DavidHarrisNY
David Harris
5 years
"I cannot recommend to Jews they wear the skullcap at all times everywhere in Germany."—Felix Klein, German official bravely leading fight against #Antisemitism . Think about it. In 🇩🇪 today, Jews are cautioned to hide their identity due to ⬆️ hate. Berlin, we have a problem.
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@Oritar
Orit Arfa
2 years
In a bombshell, @APosener writes how the AfD has betrayed its apparent pro-Israel position in that some members support the Iran deal and an Iranian energy supply. What will happen now to the “Jews in the AfD” group?
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@Oritar
Orit Arfa
4 years
It's not a protest. It's a pogrom against America. #blacklivesmatter #alllivesmatters
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Orit Arfa
2 years
Conservatives got the hotties (inside & out) like @EvaVlaar @lidia_papp & @jesuswulf . Because they still believe in beauty, femininity and the integrity of the human form. The Left can keep @lenadunham @WhoopiGoldberg & #RachelLevine . #NatCon #NatConBrussels
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6 years
@RichardGrenell Whaaaaa?🧐
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@RichardGrenell Keep asking @RichardGrenell ! It’s important to get answers to pressing questions... #chutzpahworks 😉
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Orit Arfa
4 years
What a shame that in these times #Berlin has nothing better to do than defame America. Sad.
@simonwiesenthal
Simon Wiesenthal Center
4 years
#Berlin political leaders are upside down. Denounce US ally for non-existent scandal while coddling tyrannical Iranian regime that failed to protect their own people from Coronavirus and who hid truth from religious pilgrims spreading it. #FoxNews
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6 years
@EVKontorovich @Airbnb Will avoid @Airbnb after being a steady customer.
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5 years
@HeikoMaas What about the over 1,000 Hezbollah operatives?
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3 years
I’m sorry but I’m really not into these Holocaust Memorial Days which have turned into one big virtue-signaling online parade. The Shoah is becoming a cheap commodity. I know my grandfather, Henryk, Auschwitz survivor, would not be impressed by this hypocritical show. #WeRemember
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Orit Arfa
6 years
One of the few beauty queens who really means it when she says she wants world peace: Sarah Idan, the Israel-friendly Miss #Iraq , at the #Israel Congress in Frankfurt. #DILK18
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Orit Arfa
6 years
From my #FrauenMarsch speech.
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Orit Arfa
4 years
I don’t see how anyone can have anything bad to say about this unless your a schmuck.
@realDonaldTrump
Donald J. Trump
4 years
Another HISTORIC breakthrough today! Our two GREAT friends Israel and the Kingdom of Bahrain agree to a Peace Deal – the second Arab country to make peace with Israel in 30 days!
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Orit Arfa
6 years
Good insights into Germany: “Their ancestors fought wars of conquest, and they understand that; but they’ll never be able to fully process the fact that Americans actually fought a war to free them from a psychopathic dictator whom they had followed, in mindless obedience...”
@BenWeinthal
Benjamin Weinthal
6 years
The most sensible journalist in Germany, Henryk M. Broder, noted in a 2013 article for Die Welt that his countrymen’s “viciously romantic anti-Americanism” dates back to the Nineteenth Century. By @BruceBawer cc: @Achgut_com
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Orit Arfa
6 years
@bopanc @RichardGrenell If Obama had done it, Germany would be praising him as a great leader who made a difficult choice.
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Apparently, no freedom of speech OR silence in #Germany . Shame on Claudia Roth! #Susanna . Bundestag: Altparteien stören Gedenkminute für Susanna, Claudia Roth unterbricht Gedenken via @DrDavidBerger
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