I have posted about actor Mark Pellegrino before – he is not only one of the most pro-Israel celebrities there is, but probably the most articulate.
I am also proud to call him my friend.
Mark is constantly debating Israel haters, providing them with a little something called facts. The last few days, he has been particularly busy with this endeavor, and has put on such a masterful display, I had to share it with all of you.
There are a lot of tweets here but I promise you it is worth reading them all.
The only sensible man in that governing body. #disbandtheUN https://t.co/S52MjCyMyz
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) October 2, 2015
@rachelphaba @dwatkins3 @IJDOTCOM @JoePerticone can you please point to the time when a leader of Israel has called for the annihilation of
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) October 2, 2015
@rachelphaba @dwatkins3 @IJDOTCOM @JoePerticone the state's that surround her? And this in the face of their CONSTANT acts of aggression. I
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) October 2, 2015
@rachelphaba @dwatkins3 @IJDOTCOM @JoePerticone will pause for your response.
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) October 2, 2015
@rachelphaba @dwatkins3 @IJDOTCOM @JoePerticone this was joy the question. I know israel is at war with Hamas. That Hamas attempts to murder
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) October 2, 2015
@rachelphaba @dwatkins3 @IJDOTCOM @JoePerticone civilians by the thousands ( and fail) and that Isreal harms civilians when they retaliate.
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) October 2, 2015
@rachelphaba @dwatkins3 @IJDOTCOM @JoePerticone my question was what Israeli leader has EVER called for the annihilation of a neighboring
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) October 2, 2015
@rachelphaba @dwatkins3 @IJDOTCOM @JoePerticone state?
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) October 2, 2015
@overvenus I support the only free country in the region defending itself and its own citizens against oppressive, tyrannical savages like
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) October 2, 2015
@overvenus Hamas. Shame on YOU. The shame is entirely on YOU
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) October 2, 2015
@rachelphaba this is insane. No such thing was ever said. EVER. There is NO Israeli diplomat or political leader that would do such a thing
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) October 2, 2015
@rachelphaba like ACCLAIM the killing of children. Accidents are investigated UNLIKE the murder of those innocent jewish parents IN FRONT
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) October 2, 2015
@rachelphaba of their own children the other day. An ACT PRAISED by Hamas. PRAISED. I guess to YOU some@people's lives are worth less. But
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) October 2, 2015
@rachelphaba I cry for the innocent children caught in the crossfire and unable to escape the intolerance and racism and bigotry that is so
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) October 2, 2015
@rachelphaba rampant in that part of the world. But if we are to have a discussion you cannot lie… Facts. Show me a credible source that
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) October 2, 2015
@rachelphaba claims an Israeli leader promotes mass murder like the ayatollah did.
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) October 2, 2015
@rachelphaba @ishaantharoor to say that the people who support the terrorist by supplying him with shelter, arms, and transportation makes
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) October 2, 2015
@rachelphaba @ishaantharoor him or her a criminal and that war should be made against them is NOT wrong. I do not agree with anyone's
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) October 2, 2015
@rachelphaba @ishaantharoor bigotry. Israel has bigots and religious zealots within its borders… But they live in a pluralist society
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) October 2, 2015
@rachelphaba @ishaantharoor where people like that are NOT the mainstream. Such racism as the kind you pointed out it TAUGHT in schools to
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) October 2, 2015
@rachelphaba @ishaantharoor PALESTINIAN children. This woman, and her ilk, can at least be marginalized where as the fanatics in the
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) October 2, 2015
@rachelphaba @ishaantharoor territories CREATE policy. You are still being disingenuous.
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) October 2, 2015
@rachelphaba no one claims israel does nothing wrong. But they don't DELIBERATELY target innocents as Hamas does. And as long as Israel is
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) October 2, 2015
@rachelphaba RESPONDING to attacks against it. It IS better. And as long as Hamas encourages people to stand in the roofs of targeted
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) October 2, 2015
@rachelphaba buildings and become martyrs, they ARE worse. My feelings go out to the people trapped in Palestine who hate the gov that
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) October 2, 2015
@rachelphaba uses their misery as a political football to score points with the UN. I feel nothing but contempt for the murderers and those
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) October 2, 2015
@rachelphaba who support them. When Israel is wrong. I will say that as well.
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) October 2, 2015
@rachelphaba I said at least in a democratic society she will have an authority that is limited. And if her racism affects her work, and it
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) October 2, 2015
@rachelphaba is proven she will not thrive. The OPPOSITE is the case in Gaza. There Hamas murders political opposition. So the ONLY ones in
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) October 2, 2015
@rachelphaba power are bigots and fanatics.
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) October 2, 2015
@rachelphaba I never said that. And the article implied that a single terrorist has a vast network of civilian support. That is NOT wrong.
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) October 2, 2015
@rachelphaba that Israel should fight an all out war to a rapid conclusion is NOT wrong in my opinion as well. Hamas was ELECTED by a
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) October 2, 2015
@rachelphaba popular majority… It is not hard to conclude that many people support their cause which is, in part, the annihilation of
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) October 2, 2015
@rachelphaba Israel.
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) October 2, 2015
@rachelphaba I feel like I have to unpack the article for you. You said an Israeli leader called PALESTINIAN children snakes. First off, it
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) October 2, 2015
@rachelphaba was written by someone else and the context of the article gave me a very different impression. Even if the original author
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) October 2, 2015
@rachelphaba is a bigot and a nationalist.
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) October 2, 2015
@rachelphaba my apologies.
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) October 2, 2015
@rachelphaba politicians who believe stupid things are everywhere. Comment seemed to refer to the FACT that terrorists are supported by a
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) October 2, 2015
@rachelphaba massive popular network. This cannot be denied. Even if the author was less than discreet about the way he said it. The truth
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) October 2, 2015
@rachelphaba remains. Sorry for getting personal. You are NOT stupid.
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) October 2, 2015
@CowardWithAKiss too bad. Why? You aren't a fan of reason? Freedom? What's your beef with Israel?
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) October 3, 2015
@CowardWithAKiss rand is NOT libertarian. I would say she is anti libertarian. Tell me more about anarcho communists… And Israel responds
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) October 3, 2015
@CowardWithAKiss to violence. Israel has not, to the best of my knowledge, INITIATED violence. EVER.
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) October 3, 2015
@CowardWithAKiss Hamas wants that. They do encourage it for PR. But what would you suggest? To NOT try to wipe out terror networks imbedded
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) October 3, 2015
@CowardWithAKiss in the civilian population? Only a tit for tat engagement?
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) October 3, 2015
@Bouchouichasam I do block rude people who say stupid things. Because, around this topic, I've noticed a lot of stupidity and rudeness.
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) October 3, 2015
@Bouchouichasam and when someone claims that I support the murder of innocent people, they deserve to be insulted.
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) October 3, 2015
@Bouchouichasam I support the right of a free people to live peacefully and to defend themselves when attacked. What do YOU support when
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) October 3, 2015
@Bouchouichasam you support those who kill innocent people in the name of Hamas? And who cares what your jewish friends think. The fact that
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) October 3, 2015
@Bouchouichasam they are jewish doesn't make their opinions more valid. This is about Hamas' doctrine of express violence and its stated
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) October 3, 2015
@Bouchouichasam intension to wipe out an entire people. There is NO opposition movement to that fanatical nationalism and religiosity in
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) October 3, 2015
@Bouchouichasam Gaza. There is to those kinds of elements in Israel. And Netanyahu is expressing the right of a free state to DEFEND itself
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) October 3, 2015
@Bouchouichasam of course they can. But they elected Hamas and chose war over peace. Genocide over community building and NO opposition to
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) October 3, 2015
@Bouchouichasam that murderousness can surface in the territories because they are killed. Palestinians are brutalized by their own gov and
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) October 3, 2015
@Bouchouichasam used as political leverage by their own leaders. Israel has tried many times to negotiate peace, and at every turn been
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) October 3, 2015
@Bouchouichasam sabotaged by nationalism, bigotry, and religious fanaticism.
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) October 3, 2015
@Bouchouichasam yes. And herein lies the problem: we are both utterly convinced of how right we are, but only one of us is.
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) October 3, 2015
And here is Mark taking on the haters I highlighted in this post, following the murder of the Henkins.
@HollyBlomberg @Israellycool @jncatron @freegazaorg how about the not so fluid definitions of INNOCENT…and IN FRONT OF THEIR CHILDREN
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) October 4, 2015
@freegazaorg @HollyBlomberg @Israellycool @jncatron was the murder of the Henkins condemned or praised by Palestinians?
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) October 4, 2015
@freegazaorg @HollyBlomberg @Israellycool @jncatron Free Gaza Movement? Sure. But the liberation they need is from Hamas, nationalism, and
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) October 4, 2015
@freegazaorg @HollyBlomberg @Israellycool @jncatron bigotry.
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) October 4, 2015
@jncatron simple if it indeed was that, which it isn't. And if it was true, which it also isn't.
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) October 4, 2015
@HollyBlomberg @freegazaorg @Israellycool @jncatron people who know nothing about the lives or thoughts of another should not make such…
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) October 4, 2015
@jncatron I disagree. On every level. There never was a separate country called Palestine, nor a separate people as distinct from other
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) October 4, 2015
@jncatron Arabs and Jews in the area, until forty years ago. The land of the region was largely owned by foreigners, and ruled by foreign
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) October 4, 2015
@jncatron legal systems. It is simple nationalism (driven by xenophobia) that is posturing as an independence movement. Liberate Palestine
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) October 4, 2015
@jncatron from fanaticism, and nationalism and bigotry and she truly will be free and capable of coexistence with it's LEGITIMATE neighbor
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) October 4, 2015
@jncatron Israel. Your lack of compassion for the orphans in the Henkin's family shows just how callous your racism has made you. I feel for
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) October 4, 2015
@jncatron the Palestinian children that are caught in the crossfire that has come because Hamas chooses war over peace. You kind of gross me
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) October 4, 2015
@jncatron out man.
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) October 4, 2015
@jncatron lame and cliche…the fact is YOU are a racist. You demonstrate NO compassion for those orphaned children. And you are actually
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) October 4, 2015
@jncatron lying. Par for the course.
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) October 4, 2015
@freegazaorg @HollyBlomberg @Israellycool @jncatron if it was praised by anyone it was as wrong as Hamas' extolling the murderers of the
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) October 4, 2015
@freegazaorg @HollyBlomberg @Israellycool @jncatron Henkins. And one does not have to be on the ground there to understand the claims that
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) October 4, 2015
@freegazaorg @HollyBlomberg @Israellycool @jncatron are being made. In fact, the lack of information and the ever present use of violence
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) October 4, 2015
@freegazaorg @HollyBlomberg @Israellycool @jncatron as a tool to manipulate the population cloud the issue. Whether or not land was STOLEN
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) October 4, 2015
@freegazaorg @HollyBlomberg @Israellycool @jncatron is a matter of PUBLIC RECORD. The claims of dispossession are PUBLIC RECORD.
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) October 4, 2015
@freegazaorg @HollyBlomberg @Israellycool @jncatron and easy to check into for people in a free country. If you don't want occupation get
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) October 4, 2015
@freegazaorg @HollyBlomberg @Israellycool @jncatron rid of Hamas, embrace peace, and step into the world of nations
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) October 4, 2015
@freegazaorg @HollyBlomberg @Israellycool @jncatron your claim that I lack credibility does t make it so. And the implication that you
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) October 4, 2015
@freegazaorg @HollyBlomberg @Israellycool @jncatron lived there doesn't necessarily enhance yours
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) October 4, 2015
@tsuyungg @jncatron what land was STOLEN?
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) October 4, 2015
@tsuyungg @jncatron were you upset when Egypt and Jordan annexed Gaza and The West Bank and held power there for 19years? Were you angry at
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) October 4, 2015
@tsuyungg @jncatron their maltreatment of the refugees? Of the MURDER of tens of thousands of Palestinians in Jordan? Or do you just get
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) October 4, 2015
@tsuyungg @jncatron your info from CNN and it's only the Jews who commit atrocities. Wake up man. There is only ONE country in history that
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) October 4, 2015
@tsuyungg @jncatron returned land won in a defensive war and that was ISRAEL. And they have been paying for it ever since. The hypocrisy of
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) October 4, 2015
@jncatron @tsuyungg then read a book or two Joe. Read a frickin book.
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) October 4, 2015
@jncatron @tsuyungg context IS truth. The truth is Israel has stolen NOTHING. Has been aggressed upon from its inception, called to task by
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) October 4, 2015
@jncatron @tsuyungg a hypocritical international community when it tries to defend itself. Held to impossible standards. And is the focus
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) October 4, 2015
@jncatron @tsuyungg of the fanaticism and nationalism that are the DEFINING characteristics of the culture there. Israel is NOT perfect
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) October 4, 2015
@jncatron @tsuyungg there are nationalistic and fantastical people there as well. They are dangerous. But in a pluralistic society they
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) October 4, 2015
@jncatron @tsuyungg cannot flourish. Hamas IS genocidal. And they were voted in BY POPULAR ELECTION. There is NO check. I see peace
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) October 4, 2015
@jncatron @tsuyungg movements in Israel. None in the territories.
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) October 4, 2015
@jncatron @tsuyungg take your own advice.
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) October 4, 2015
@tsuyungg @jncatron christ this same old map again. It's like the go to source for people like you who think research is reading a web page
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) October 4, 2015
@jncatron @tsuyungg and the result was so much worse than Shintoist Japan and Nazi Getmany. You are an idiot.
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) October 4, 2015
@Lukechildofgod this is my experience EVERYTIME I debate the yahoos who want to free palestine by exterminating jews not Hamas.
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) October 4, 2015
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) October 4, 2015
@jncatron @tsuyungg one thing I can't be accused of re: history is ignorance. Your emptiness speaks for itself.
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) October 4, 2015
@jncatron @tsuyungg Japan and Germany WERE occupied. The ideas that led to their fanaticism, outlawed. Their military largely defanged and
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) October 4, 2015
@jncatron @tsuyungg an American military presence more or less constantly there. But land, that could've served as a buffer against future
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) October 4, 2015
@jncatron @tsuyungg attack, and that held GREAT reserves in oil WAS returned to Egypt. And that is what I meant. Territory that held great
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) October 4, 2015
@jncatron @tsuyungg strategic and economic value was released as a gesture of goodwill, sans any change in the political attitude
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) October 4, 2015
@jncatron @tsuyungg in other words… Without a peace treaty or an official surrender of ANY kind .
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) October 4, 2015
@jncatron @tsuyungg yeah. Silence from the big brain.
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) October 5, 2015
@tsuyungg @jncatron you don't have a rational, legal, historical, or frankly moral leg to stand on. And if Israel 'gets its day' it will be
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) October 5, 2015
@tsuyungg @jncatron because good people stopped fighting for good. You want a fee Palestine? Defeat Hamas and fantasticism and nationalism
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) October 5, 2015
@tsuyungg @jncatron and xenophobia and racism. These are the things truly holding Palestine in a death grip.
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) October 5, 2015
