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Soros’ Philanthropic Empire Pumped A Quarter Million Into Israel-Designated Terrorist Organization In 2023

The Soros family’s Open Society Foundations in 2023 gave $250,000 to the European wing of Al-Haq Human Rights Organization, an Israeli-designated terrorist group, according to a grant database.

Israel’s government determined that Al-Haq was an “arm” of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a U.S.-designated terrorist organization, in 2021. In addition to the Israeli government’s designation, Al-Haq’s general director, Shawan Jabarin, was convicted in 1985 of recruiting and arranging trainings for the PFLP and several of the organization’s members have made comments supporting militant extremist groups like Hamas.

Last year wasn’t the first time the Soros family’s philanthropic network has given money to Al-Haq. Open Society Foundations donated over $2 million to the organization between 2016 and 2020. The most recent donation, however, represents the first time the Soros network has disclosed a new donation to Al-Haq since the Israeli government designated it as a terror organization.

Open Society Foundations’ grant to Al-Haq will “support work on human rights, legal research and advocacy in Europe,” according to a grant database.

“For years, Al-Haq, a Palestinian NGO linked to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) — an internationally designated terrorist organization — has pursued a strategy seeking to eliminate Israel as the nation state of the Jewish people and to legitimize violent attacks against its citizens,” an unreleased report authored by Israeli watchdog NGO Monitor and obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation reads. “A central aspect of Al-Haq’s activity is arguing to Western elites — parliamentarians, government officials, diplomats, academics, journalists and students — that Israel is inherently illegitimate.”

Al-Haq has “operated on [the PFLP’s] behalf and upon its instructions as part of the terror organization’s struggle against Israel,” according to the Israeli Ministry of Defense. The PFLP has launched rockets at civilians, hijacked planes and ordered suicide bombings, according to the U.S. Office of the Director of National Intelligence.

Jabarin, the head of Al-Haq, attended a memorial event for a PFLP leader in 2019, according to a Palestinian media report.

Aseel Al Bajeh, a legal researcher and advocacy officer at ‎Al-Haq, reposted a quote from Ismail Haniyeh, a senior Hamas political leader, the day Hamas carried out mass terror attacks across Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, killing 1,200 people while also engaging in mass rapes and kidnappings. Ahmed Abofoul, another legal researcher and advocacy officer at Al-Haq, said on X that the United Nations secretary-general’s call for Hamas to stop killing civilians and release hostages was “morally abhorrent” because “Palestinian resistance” is “permitted by international law.”

Abofoul has defended the PFLP on X, according to the Washington Examiner. Al-Haq head of training Ziad Hmaidan encouraged Palestinians to attack Israel and praised “jihad” just days after the Oct. 7 attacks.

Al-Haq denies any links to the PFLP. Open Society Foundations condemned Israel’s designation of Al-Haq a terror group in 2022, saying that it “remains fully committed to its support for Al-Haq.”

Open Society Foundations was previously led by billionaire philanthropist George Soros, but his son took over the organization in 2023. Alex Soros described himself as “more political” than his father in an interview with the Wall Street Journal.

“There is strict U.S. anti-terrorist legislation that determines which organizations a foundation like OSF can fund,” an Open Society Foundations spokesperson told the DCNF. “We devote a lot of effort to ensuring full compliance. None of our partners have ever been designated under U.S. law as supporting terrorism.”

Al-Haq did not respond to the DCNF’s request for comment.

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Kamala’s ‘Jew Ban’

Against a “Muslim Ban,” for a “Jew Ban.”

“On Holocaust Memorial Day, Trump restricted refugees from Muslim-majority countries. Make no mistake — this is a Muslim ban,” Kamala Harris angrily tweeted in 2017.

This year the Biden-Harris administration implemented a ‘Jew Ban’ less than a week after Holocaust Memorial Day and after the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust.

Unlike the Muslim Ban, the Biden-Harris ‘Jew Ban’ had nothing to do with immigration security. It was buried in Biden’s innocuously named ‘Executive Order 14115 – Imposing Certain Sanctions on Persons Undermining Peace, Security, and Stability in the West Bank.”

Who was sanctioned for undermining peace, security, and stability in the West Bank?

The PLO’s ‘Palestinian Authority’ has conducted unity negotiations with Hamas under the auspices of Russia and the CCP in Beijing and Moscow. It promotes and funds Islamic terrorism against Jews through its propaganda outlets, terror groups and its ‘Pay to Slay’ policy. Despite that the Biden-Harris administration has poured hundreds of millions of dollars into its territories.

The administration allows organizations like Samidoun which were named as terror front groups by Israel to operate through tax-exempt nonprofits in the United States. Radical groups like the International Solidarity Movement and Torat Tzedek which have been involved in local clashes and violence, some deadly, received money from tax-exempt charities like the New Israel Fund and the Middle East Children’s Alliance with no interference from the Biden-Harris government.

Instead the individuals targeted under Executive Order 14115 during its inception had two things in common: they were pro-Israel and Jewish. Starting in March, the Biden-Harris administration has rolled out sanctions on Jewish Israeli farmers, ranchers, bakers and housewives at the same time as Brazilian drug dealers, Chinese fentanyl manufacturers and Russian oligarchs.

The baffling list of Jews sanctioned by Joe Biden and Kamala Harris included the proprietors of a goat farm who sell cheese, a baker who shot an Islamic terrorist in 2016 and a mother of 8 who worked with survivors of sexual assault and led protests against aid to Hamas.

The ‘Jew Ban’ was so badly implemented that it shut down the bank accounts and credit cards of a man with a similar name to an activist protesting the Biden-Kamala Hamas aid trucks.

A week ahead of Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Biden-Harris administration then announced a secondary wave of sanctions against Jewish groups that had fundraised for the victims of the regime’s first wave of sanctions in its ‘Jew Ban’. Opposing the ‘Jew Ban’ was enough to get one sanctioned under the ‘Jew Ban’ for ‘undermining peace’.

A month before, a ‘Palestinian Authority’ security officer had opened fire on a Jewish school bus. The PA will not only continue paying his salary but it celebrated the attack.

The Palestinian Authority’s media boasted of “more than 2,750 acts of resistance against the occupation that have led to the killing of 12 Israelis”, “159 shooting operations” including the murder of two Jewish brothers stuck in traffic which it described as “continuing the path and keeping its spark burning will be carried out by blasting bullets into heads.”

The Biden-Harris administration did not believe this qualified as undermining peace. Not only did it leverage no sanctions on those responsible, but continued its diplomatic support for the PLO.

It was not until June that Arin Al-Usud, an Islamic terrorist group tied to Hamas and Islamic Jihad, that the PLO saw as a rival group was finally sanctioned. The use of the EO 14115 sanctions on a terrorist group instead of the appropriate Foreign Terrorist Organization designation that would treat support for terrorism as a serious crime classed Israeli civilians with terrorists and seemed largely aimed at trying to make the ‘Jew Ban’ look more ‘diverse’.

In August, the Biden-Harris ‘Jew Ban’ rolled on with the addition of Yitzhak Levi Filant: the security coordinator for an Israeli village that has frequently come under attack by Islamic terrorists. Security coordinators were the front line of defense during the Islamic terrorist attacks of Oct 7 and a good one can make the difference between massacre and a dead terrorist.

The Biden-Harris had already amply made clear which of these was its preferred outcome.

Since the onset of the ‘Jew Ban’, 8 Jewish men and women have been sanctioned by the the Biden-Harris administration along with 2 Jewish farms and 4 nonprofit groups.

And only one Islamic terror group.

100% of the individuals and 85% of the organizations sanctioned under the Biden-Harris ‘Jew Ban’ are Jewish.

Jerome Marcus, the president of the Deborah Project, called it “An Executive Order That Targets Jews” in an article at the Jewish Journal, asking, “Should U.S. Presidents be able to freeze your bank account if they disagree with your views on foreign policy, or if anti-Israel groups ask them to?” he asked. “Their internet and email are canceled,  they have no access to their credit cards and thus can’t pay for basics like insurance and daily life activities. Their life is essentially unraveled. And once they’re sanctioned, they can’t hire a lawyer to defend them.”

lawsuit filed by Marcus, Eugene Kontorovich of the George Mason University Scalia Law School and other attorneys on behalf of Texans for Israel and American Jews living in Israel challenged the constitutionality of Biden’s ‘Jew Ban’ who fear losing their bank accounts and livelihoods if they defend themselves against Muslim violence.

“The White House is putting the lives of American Jews living in the West Bank at risk and denying them the Fifth Amendment’s guarantee of equal protection under the laws,” Kontorovich warned in a Wall Street Journal op-ed.

The lawsuit noted that the Biden-Harris administration has made it “clear that it considers the mere act of Jews residing in or making pilgrimage to sites in the West Bank as an obstacle to peace.’ In fact, the Administration has even called visits of Jews to their holy sites ‘provocative.’”

And who in the Biden-Harris administration is behind the ‘Jew Ban’?

Michael Doran, the Director of the Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East, described a shadowy “interagency team of targeteers”  led by the International Economics Directorate at the National Security Council. Doran named Ilan Goldenberg, Kamala’s former pro-terrorist Middle East advisor and her current ‘liaison’ to U.S. Jews  as playing “a very enthusiastic role”.

Kamala’s close advisor who helped set her anti-Israel policy had previously advocated for a deal in which “Hamas would retain some of its military capabilities” and argued that “half the root causes are Israeli actions, in terms of — especially just focusing on Gaza, on the blockade. And the other half is Hamas’ choice to use violence and arm itself in response.”

The ‘Jew Ban’ is not just coming out of the Biden-Harris administration, but one of Kamala’s close advisors who represents her to the Jewish community appears to be its capo.

Kamala had campaigned against a Muslim ban in the name of “Holocaust Memorial Day” and “Anne Frank” only to then come to power and implement a ‘Jew Ban’ around Holocaust Memorial Day. The ‘Jew Ban’ is everything that Kamala accused the Muslim Ban of, but wasn’t, it’s shameful, unconstitutional and un-American. It’s also a foreshadowing of things to come.

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Top Biden-Harris regime official ‘furious’ that Israel ignored his advice and retaliated against Hizballah

Hochstein, like the entire Biden-Harris regime, wanted the Israelis simply to surrender.

Top Biden-Harris Official Was Reportedly Furious After Israel Ignored His Advice, Launched Attacks Against Hezbollah

by Jake Smith, Daily Caller News Foundation, September 25, 2024:

A senior Biden-Harris official was reportedly infuriated last week after Israel ignored his advice and launched a series of attacks against Hezbollah.

The Biden-Harris administration has become increasingly concerned that a full-scale war between Israel and Hezbollah is set to erupt, as the two have been locked in a conflict that has grown in both scope and severity over the Israeli-Lebanese border in recent weeks. Biden senior adviser Amos Hochstein in recent months has been serving as an envoy to mediators in the Middle East to try to keep tensions low between Israel and Hezbollah while also negotiating a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, who have been at war for nearly a year, according to Axios.

Hochstein traveled to Israel last week to warn Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu against a war with Hezbollah, citing concerns that it would only upset an already chaotic Middle East. One day after Hochstein’s message to Netanyahu, Israel remotely detonated explosives planted inside thousands of personal communication devices being carried by Hezbollah operatives.

Hochstein was left furious because he wasn’t told of the plan in advance and felt that Israel had ignored his advice, U.S. officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Axios….

Read more.

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‘Dinah’s Revenge’: Israelis Interpret Unconventional Strike on Hezbollah in Explicitly Biblical Terms

The terrorists are now terrified. A day after pagers used by the Iran-backed Lebanese terror group Hezbollah exploded, Hezbollah’s handheld radios exploded, too, killing at least 25 and wounding 450 (the first wave of blasts killed 12 and injured nearly 2,800). Some reports indicate that other electronics used by Hezbollah, such as solar energy systems and computers, also exploded, leaving the terrorists to wonder if any electronic device is now safe. Israel followed up with airstrikes on Hezbollah positions on Friday.

The pinprick attack seems to be the result of a years-long Mossad infiltration campaign, whereby Israel actually manufactured the bomb-laden handheld devices purchased by Hezbollah. The pagers bore the logo of Taiwanese company Gold Apollo, which sub-contracted the manufacturing to Hungarian company B.A.C. Consulting, which in turn appeared to be a shell company created by Israeli intelligence, according to The New York Times. All of this was in response to Hezbollah’s decision to invest in low-tech pagers to evade Israel’s high-tech communications surveillance.

Caroline Glick, senior contributing editor of the Jewish News Syndicate, refuted the claim, made by Israel’s enemies and parroted by Western media, that Israel’s actions risk escalating the current conflict. “It’s been a regional war. It’s been a seven-front war that Iran has been waging against Israel through all of its proxies: in Lebanon, in Gaza, in Judea and Samaria, in Syria, in Iraq, in Yemen, and from Iran itself,” she said. “The question just becomes, how are the different fronts going to develop?”

“In Lebanon, we’ve seen a massive escalation in the missile attacks on Israel by Hezbollah over the past couple of weeks, where we’ve been seeing over 100 missiles shot into Israel a day,” Glick explained on “Washington Watch” Wednesday. “The landscape has changed over the past year in northern Israel because they’ve destroyed large swaths of our forests. … The people have been refugees. They’ve been out of their homes since mid-October. And when they get back, you’re going to have dozens and dozens of homes in their communities … That just no longer exist.”

The most significant phrase there is, “when they get back.” Israel’s seven-front war against Iran and its proxies will not be over until its citizens can return to their homes in peace, and that hasn’t happened yet. But Israel is contemplating what it would take to implement that vision.

“We are at the start of a new phase in the war,” Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant told soldiers on Wednesday — apparently a new phase that will involve more aggressive operations against Hezbollah in Lebanon.

“We’re not finished with Gaza,” but “we’re in a multi-front war. There’s nothing we can do about it,” Glick noted. “As a maneuver force, the Israel Defense Forces is quite small. So it means that you have to scale back your operations in Gaza in order to have the forces that you need in order to carry out a conventional battle in South Lebanon. … It’s a lot of juggling of the forces and trying to prevent exhaustion of the forces as well, and of our reservists.”

However, she added that “Israel’s economy is much stronger now than it was in previous wars, so that we’re able to withstand prolonged battles. But it’s very difficult and it demands a massive sacrifice from the people.”

“We have to win,” Glick insisted.

On this point, Israel’s critics disagree. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) tweeted that the pager attack “clearly and unequivocally violates international law.” This is a telling response to a targeted strike against only members of a terrorist group. “What could be more discriminating than the equivalent of an M80 going off in the pockets of terrorist operatives who were hand-selected by their own leadership? Footage of these devices going off indicates that even bystanders who were mere feet away from these explosions experienced little more than shock,” wrote National Review’s Noah Rothman.

“Of course, Israel’s detractors would object as vociferously to an incursion into Southern Lebanon to push Hezbollah back beyond the Litani River [out of what should be a demilitarized zone] as they have to Israel’s use of subterfuge to disable as many individual Hezbollah fighters as possible,” Rothman added. “It’s hard to avoid the conclusion that the problem Israel’s critics hope to remedy is Israel’s petulant insistence upon its own existence.”

Glick argued that Vice President Kamala Harris shares this view. “Kamala Harris has made very clear that, when she says she supports Israel’s right to defend itself, what she means is that she supports our ability to intercept missiles en route to Israel,” she said. “And, if we miss from time to time, well, you know, tough luck. But she does not support Israel defending itself by defeating its enemies.”

For Israel’s part, public resolve for victory and exhaustion with international criticism seem to have resulted in both a revival of gallows humor and “an extraordinary religious awakening,” as Glick described it. “Even in pop music, the songs that everybody’s singing, they all have biblical allusions. Many of them sound more like prayers than rock songs.”

“There was a lot of intolerance on the Left in the 10 months that preceded the invasion, where they were trying to banish Judaism from the public squares,” she said. “I don’t think that that could happen anymore. … People are realizing that what happened on October 7th happened because we’re Jewish. And, if we want to withstand this challenge to our survival, then we do it as Jews.”

Family Research Council President Tony Perkins noted “a stream of people … after these explosions took place, making references to biblical occurrences,” particularly to Genesis 34.

“It was very funny,” responded Glick. “You wouldn’t have seen this in the past, but I started getting on all these WhatsApp groups and seeing on Twitter everybody writing ‘Genesis 34’ and calling this campaign ‘Dinah’s Revenge.’”

In Genesis 34, a Canaanite prince named Shechem raped Jacob’s daughter Dinah (Genesis 34:2), an action the biblical account clearly condemns (Genesis 34:7). Jacob’s sons tricked the entire city into being circumcised (Genesis 34:13-17). “On the third day, when they were sore,” Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brothers, slaughtered every male in the city (Genesis 34:25). Jacob prophetically condemned their disproportionate vengeance both then and later (Genesis 34:30, 49:5-7), but it did frighten the idolatrous Canaanites (Genesis 35:6) and foreshadow the future conquest of the land.

The episode bears a number of parallels to the recent Hezbollah explosions. On one level, an isolated Israel struck at thousands of national and religious enemies through an elaborate ruse. On a more subtle level, many of the exploding pagers, often kept in pants’ pockets or waistbands, resulted in leg injuries, suggesting that a substantial number of Hezbollah militants may been involuntarily circumcised or worse in the blasts.

Israel’s renewed interest in religion parallels that seen in the U.S. after 9/11. However, while vengeance is sometimes appropriate for a nation, the gleeful celebration of it is at odds with the spirit of the Torah, which commands that “you shall love your neighbor as yourself” (Leviticus 19:18).

Israel’s spiritual restoration will not be complete until they recognize Jesus as their Messiah and experience true repentance and circumcision of the heart (Deuteronomy 10:16, 30:6). Through the prophet Zechariah, Yahweh foretold a time when “I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and pleas for mercy, so that, when they look on me, on him whom they have pierced, they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for an only child, and weep bitterly over him, as one weeps over a firstborn” (Zechariah 12:10).

As spiritual descendants of Abraham, let us pray for God to fulfill this promise, that “the natural branches” may “be grafted back into their own olive tree” (Romans 11:24).

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Hamas-Linked Individual Entered Executive Office Building, Met With National Security Council

President Joe Biden’s National Security Council (NSC) hosted the head of Rahma Worldwide, a health nonprofit that has collaborated with Hamas on multiple occasions, the Washington Examiner reported.

The NSC met with Shadi Zaza, Rahma Worldwide’s CEO, and other Syrian-American community leaders on Sept. 11 in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building to discuss how the U.S. can best counter the Assad regime in Syria, the Examiner reported. Zaza’s group, however, signed a cooperation agreement with Hamas in August, and Zaza himself was photographed alongside Hamas officials days before the terrorist organization carried out attacks in Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.

“We have spoken at length about our condemnation of Hamas and the horrible atrocities they committed on Oct. 7,” an NSC spokesperson told the Examiner, stressing that they were not aware of Rahma’s links to Hamas. The staffers who allowed an individual “openly supporting a foreign terrorist organization like Hamas to enter the Eisenhower Executive Office Building are either grossly incompetent or fully support Hamas,” an anonymous senior Republican Senate staffer who works on national security issues said to the Examiner.

White House leadership was not at the NSC meeting, which was run by “working-level staffers,” a source familiar told the Examiner.

Rahma signed an agreement with Hamas’ Gaza Health Ministry in August for a blood drive in Gaza, according to Palestinian media reviewed by the Examiner. The organization’s website shows that it has been highly active in Gaza, distributing foodhygienic goods and medical supplies to people in the region.

About a year prior, officials from the Hamas-run Ministry of Social Development were photographed alongside Rahma staffers and Zaza for an aid initiative targeting low-income families in Gaza, the Examiner reported. The meeting with Hamas officials happened at roughly the same time Rahma received approximately $175,000 through a Department of Health and Human Services subgrant to carry out a vaccine program, federal records show.

“That Rahma officials are meeting and partnering with senior Hamas figures in the same week they receive government funding is appalling,” Sam Westrop of the Middle East Forum told the Examiner. “The federal government is subsidizing terror.”

Rahma, however, denies being linked to terrorism, telling the Daily Caller News Foundation that “any suggestion of collaboration with political groups or militant factions is entirely false and misleading.”

“Rahma Worldwide is a strictly humanitarian organization that works in full compliance with international standards of humanitarian aid,” a Rahma official told the DCNF. “Our work in Gaza and elsewhere is focused solely on providing essential services, such as medical aid, food distribution, and support to vulnerable communities.”

The spokesperson stressed that Rahma “must coordinate with local governments and the security apparatus on the ground purely to ensure that humanitarian assistance reaches those in need.”

Rahma has history of close proximity to Hamas, with Zaza meeting with Ghazi Hamad, a senior Hamas official at the Palestinian Ministry of Social Development, in 2021, according to a social media post.

If the federal government determines that Rahma is actively working with Hamas, that could spell trouble for its tax-exempt status.

“As such, they not only would be liable in criminal and civil litigation for providing material support to terror and aiding and abetting a foreign terror organization, they would be in violation of IRS 501(c)(3) rules and should have their tax-exempt status revoked,” Zachor Legal Institute attorney Marc Greendorfer told the Examiner.

The White House and the NSC did not immediately respond to the DCNF’s requests for comment.

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VIDEO EXPOSÈ: Are you aware of the depth of ‘Iranian infiltration’ into the Biden-Harris Administration?

U.S. Attorney General Garland said that Iran, “[H]as a preferred candidate to be the next U.S. President.” 

That candidate is overwhelmingly Kamala Harris.

Study the behavior of Robert Malley, Philip Gordon, Ilan Goldenberg, and the Iranians answering directly with Iran that are embedded in the current Biden-Harris Administration.

They know Harris will continue her appeasement policy to Iran which includes delivering Israel to the Palestinians, and keeping Hezbollah in place in Lebanon, and strengthening their economy which helps them advance their nuclear projects and weaponize their proxies.

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“We will tear down the border and we will tear out their hearts from their bodies [and]eat the livers” — Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, April 6, 2018.

“It would be so nice if something made sense for a change.” — Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland.


Today’s grotesque endeavors to justify Hamas’s bestial barbarism should be repudiated and ridiculed.

Ever since the appalling atrocities perpetrated last October by the Islamo-fascist terror organization, Hamas, it seems that all criteria of decency, and rationality along with accepted standards of good and evil, have been turned on their head. Political activism, generally geared toward promoting gender equality and socio-cultural tolerance, has been thrown jarringly into reverse gear.

Inconceivable

Given the barbaric acts of brutality committed by Hamas—to the undisguised glee, and often enthusiastic complicity of the general population of the Strip—it is inconceivable that any person, professing to subscribe to even a semblance of a humanitarian credo would consider paying any heed to the claims of the villainous savages, who violated even the most fundamental norms of civilized behavior.

Accordingly, no weight ought to be accorded the demands of Hamas. Indeed, it is unthinkable that the organization or its adherents should be afforded even an iota of consideration.

Hamas has raped and ravaged; murdered and mutilated, tortured and tormented infants and invalids, toddlers and teens with a ferocity and malevolence unfathomable to civilized minds. Accordingly, why would Hamas’s demands be accorded any weight in securing the release of the Israeli hostages? After all, the entire existence of Hamas is nothing but a litany of gruesome war crimes. Indeed. every projectile fired indiscriminately at Israeli targets, purposely aimed at killing Israeli civilians, both before and after October 7th, every Israeli civilian forcibly abducted from their homes and incarcerated for months in Gaza, every Israeli tortured and executed in captivity in Gaza since October the 7th, all these comprise a cruel cavalcade of Hamas’s incontestable war crimes.

Perverse & perverted

Accordingly, it would be reasonable to assume that Hamas’s position on how Israel should respond to the pernicious procession of war crimes perpetrated against it—and how to redress them—would be totally irrelevant, especially for those who profess to subscribe to a credo of sanctifying “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”

Yet, astonishingly, what we are seeing is just the reverse: A perverse concern for Hamas’s demands—and the welfare of their malign adherents—is now not only dominating the debate on the fighting in Gaza, but also largely determining attitudes toward the negotiations on the release of the abductees held in captivity by the Islamist thugs,

The treatment of the illegally kidnapped Israelis has been bestial and the conditions they are being held in, below sub-human. They are denied even the most minimal levels of sanitation nutrition, and medical treatment, any access to, or care by, international humanitarian organizations such as the (hopelessly biased and inept) Red Cross. They are being incarcerated incommunicado deep in dank, damp dungeons cut off from all and any contact with the outside world, certainly from family and friends.

Given the heinous nature of Hamas, its utter disregard, not only for international law, and for elementary norms of human decency but any semblance of accepted behavior in civilized circles, no merit can, or should be, be ascribed to their demands.

Grotesque endeavors

The organization and its aberrant adherents must be hounded mercilessly; hellfire and brimstone relentlessly rained down on them. The grotesque endeavors to justify its barbarism should be repudiated and ridiculed.

Any sign that its inhumanity could be accorded any gains will only induce further inhumanity.

That is an outcome that cannot be countenanced.

©2024. Dr. Martin Sherman. All rights reserved.

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Biden-Harris Regime Immediately Leaks Details of Israeli Pager Op

Always stab allies in the back. 

Israel did not take responsibility for the pager attack that crippled Hezbollah’s comms and took out a chunk of their officer corps. It certainly did not go ahead and describe how it was done for the media. That’s tradecraft. And you don’t reveal it.

But the New York Times had a report detailing how it happened that same evening. I won’t link to it as it carries the byline of fake news fabulist Sheera Frenkel who had previously carried water for Hamas and lied that the Islamic terror group had not kidnapped and killed three Israeli teens.

The report is described as being based on briefings received by American officials.

The material leaked to the Times comes from “American and other officials briefed on the operation” and the “American and other officials spoke on the condition of anonymity given the sensitive nature of the operation.”

Is this classified information? Sounds like it. If we were involved it certainly would be.

The official American position was that we were not aware of the attack beforehand.

A U.S. official said that several minutes before the pagers started exploding across Lebanon, Israeli Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant called U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and told him Israel was going to conduct an operation in Lebanon soon, but refused to give any specific details.

The U.S. official said the Israelis didn’t tell the U.S. about the specifics of the operation, but added that Gallant’s call was an attempt to avoid keeping the U.S. totally in the dark.

Nevertheless, U.S. officials said they didn’t see Gallant’s call as a serious prior notice. “We were not aware of this operation and were not involved,” U.S. State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller told reporters on Tuesday.

Assuming that’s true (and considering the pro-terrorist and foreign regime figures in this administration, including in the Pentagon and NSC, it wouldn’t surprise me if the Israelis held back their plans) then the Israelis held a briefing afterward.

And then the officials turned around and leaked it all to the New York Times.

Did they do that on their own? Maybe. D.C. is notoriously leaky. But still leaking details of an op a few hours after a briefing is a bit much even by D.C. standards. Unless it was administration policy to leak it.

Under Obama, leaks of Israeli operations were standard procedure. But if this was Biden-Harris admin policy, it doesn’t just hurt Israel, it hurts America. The leak undermines claims that we didn’t know about it beforehand. And encourages Hezbollah to target our people as the weaker link in the Oct 7 war.

Some officials in this administration clearly don’t care, but they could also find themselves in the line of fire.

The Biden-Harris admin follows the Obama policy of stabbing allies in the back. But the back it stabs could end up being its own.

AUTHOR

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Hamas Wants Israel to Free 16,220 ‘Palestinian’ Prisoners For 64 Hostages

Hamas’ fourth demand is that Israel exchange 50 terrorists for every female IDF soldier and 30 for every civilian in the first stage, then 500 terrorists for every male soldier in the second.

Of the 64 hostages still believed to be alive (about 40 are believed to have been killed), about 30 are thought to be male soldiers, 10 are believed to be female soldiers, and 24 thought to be civilians. If Israel were to accept Hamas’ terms, it would mean freeing a total of 15,000 + 500 + 720, or 16,220 prisoners, thousands of them terrorists, and thousands of others deemed “security risks.” It’s an impossible number for Israel to agree to; it learned from the swap of 1,027 prisoners for Gilad Shalit that many of those freed prisoners went right back to committing acts of terrorism. Hamas military leader Ahmed Jabari has been quoted in the pan-Arab newspaper Al-Hayat as confirming that the prisoners released under the Shalit deal were collectively responsible for the killing of 569 Israelis. After what the Shalit trade led to, no Israeli government can possibly agree to setting free 16,220 prisoners, most of them terrorists and “security risks,” or even one-tenth that number.

The international media has still not published these Hamas demands. For if they did so, it would instantly become clear that not Prime Minister Netanyahu but Hamas is the one holding up a deal. And much of the world wants to be able to blame the “obstinate” Netanyahu who, we are constantly told, “is not interested in a deal.” More Hamas’ latest terms, of which few of us were aware, can be found here: “Sinwar’s useful idiots,” by Gadi Taub, JNS, September 8, 2024:

…One Telegram channel owner got tired of the media’s game. That person is, most probably, a former intelligence officer. He calls his channel, tongue in cheek, Abu Ali Express. But he is a serious professional and a reliable source of news from the Arab world, one many in Israel rely on. Over 400,000 Hebrew speakers subscribe to this channel. Abu Ali decided to run an opinion poll of his own. He first presented the Hamas terms for a deal, then asked his followers if they would have accepted it. 51,000 users responded in the space of two hours. Eighty-one percent said they would not accept such a deal, 10% said they would, 9% said they don’t know.Granted, this is not a representative sample, nor a proper survey. Still, it is indicative of something. And it gives you an idea about how the mainstream media is misleading you.

It’s not just Netanyahu who won’t accept the terms Hamas has proposed. It’s 81%, or four-fifths, of the Israelis who would not agree to such a deal. But you won’t hear about that in the mainstream media.

This public mood was also demonstrated by the collapse of last week’s (illegal) attempt at a general strike. The Histadrut (the umbrella organization of Israeli labor unions) declared it—under pressure from demonstration organizers insisting they are the sole legitimate representatives of the families of hostages—only to fold it all at 2 p.m. the next day following a labor court ruling. The Never-Bibi activists found they don’t really have enough troops….

It now seems that the protesters’ attempt to harness the tragedy of the six hostages for their permanent political project may have just backfired. More people now see them more clearly as Sinwar’s useful idiots….

The general strike fizzled quickly. It turns out that the anti-Netanyahu protesters are far fewer than they, or we, have been led to believe. Many more Israelis now understand what Yahya Sinwar has been trying to do: to harness their grief and rage over the continued plight of the hostages so that they will pressure Netanyahu to agree to Hamas’ outrageous demands. It’s not going to happen.

Four-fifths of Israelis agree with Netanyahu in rejecting the latest demands of Hamas, that if they were agreed to would leave the terror group standing, still able to regroup, and celebrated by Arabs everywhere for their supposed “victory over the Zionist entity,” with thousands of just-freed terrorists ready to be recruited. Netanyahu will not agree to those terms, not now, and not ever, even if Kamala Harris becomes president and turns the screws on America’s most loyal ally, still fighting, as it must, what has now become a seven-front war against those who would destroy it.

AUTHOR

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VIDEO: Two amazing Jewish women who are shaking up the Democrat Party!

Tom Trento, Director of The United West, interviews Michelle Terris and Karys Rhea about their work helping life-long Jewish Democrats JEXIT the Democrat Party.

Trento and the ladies touch on several controversial issues including Kamala Harris, leftist Jews, support for Israel and the destruction of HAMAS.

Michelle Terris is the Founder and President of JEXIT, an activist organization helping Jews EXIT the Democrat Party.

Karys Rhea is a Producer at EPOCH TIMES and a subject matter expert on the Middle East. 

Karys Rhea is a producer of “American Thought Leaders” and a fellow with The Jewish Leadership Project. She is also a recording artist on Baste Records, a delegate for One Jewish State, a Rising Leader at the Global Liberty Institute, and a “helper” with the Middle East Forum.

A subject matter expert on Israel and antisemitism and a general commentator on cultural and political issues, she has appeared on Newsmax, One America News, Real America’s Voice, NTD News, Epoch TV, and a variety of podcasts.

Her articles can be found in Commentary, Tablet, NY Daily News, Newsweek, The Federalist, Washington Examiner, and more. She has a BA from NYU in broadcast journalism and an MA in counter terrorism and homeland security from Reichman University in Israel. A former life found her touring the world as a drummer and songwriter before becoming disillusioned with the political and cultural arrogance of the music industry.

She continues to release music in her spare time, in addition to publishing absurdist flash fiction.

You can find her on X @rheakarys

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A Very Short List, and a Very Long Question

I was wondering, not exactly idly, where American foreign aid now is sent, and found online a list of the ten countries that receive the most aid from Washington. Here is that list.

In 2023, the United States spent nearly $61 billion on foreign aid. Fully half of that budget has gone to just ten countries:

  1. Ukraine ($16.4 billion)
  2. Israel ($3.3 billion)
  3. Ethiopia ($1.95 billion)
  4. Jordan ($1.65 billion)
  5. Egypt ($1.43 billion)
  6. Afghanistan ($1.19 billion)
  7. Somalia ($1.13 billion)
  8. Yemen ($1.05 billion)
  9. Congo ($987 million)
  10. Syria ($896 million)

Now I have no objection to aid for Ukraine, as it fights to push Putin’s troops out of the country. This unusually large sum — $16.4 billion, and much more so far in 2024 — far outstrips the amounts for the other recipients of aid. This aid only started to be given in 2020, after Russia invaded Ukraine, and it will not continue at anything like that level once that Ukraine-Russia war is over.

As for #2 on the list, I certainly do not object to the sums given to Israel, which for the fourth time in its young life is having to fight for its very existence (the previous wars were in 1948, 1967, and 1973) as it faces a seven-front war, with Hamas in Gaza, with Hezbollah in Lebanon, with the Houthis in Lebanon, with Assad’s army in Syria, with assorted terrorist groups — Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine — in Judea and Samaria, with the Shi’a militia, Kata’ib Hezbollah, in Iraq, and looming behind them all, pulling the strings of these various proxies, the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Nor do I begrudge Ethiopia its aid, for that Christian country has endured several years of severe drought and internal conflict, including the war involving the Ethiopian central government and the northernmost region of Tigray. Ethiopia has once again become engaged in violent internal conflict, this time involving militia groups from the regions of Amhara and Oromia. And Ethiopia has long had a close relationship with the United States for many decades, beginning under the reign of Haile Selassie. The amount we provide is to help the government restore peace; as with the aid given to Ukraine, it isn’t intended to be a long-term commitment.

But. beyond that, I wonder. Of the seven remaining countries on the list of the top ten recipients, all but one are Muslim countries. Why are we transferring wealth to Muslim countries when the Arab states of the Gulf have trillions of dollars in their sovereign funds? Why do we not insist that the rich Arabs should be helping their brethren, instead of assuming that we should support Muslim states that, precisely because they are Muslim, cannot possibly be our friends (as the Qur’an directs them not to be; see suras 3:28 and 5:51)? Saudi Arabia has more than $1 trillion in its sovereign wealth fund. The UAE has even more: $1.7 trillion. In the first half of 2024 the sovereign wealth funds of five Gulf Arab states — Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the UAE, Qatar, and Bahrain — invested $39 billion. Surely they can spare $8 billion to provide to other Arab states, which is roughly the total the United States now gives to the seven Muslim states on the list above.

For reasons that deserve to be pondered, Anwar Sadat got the American aid ball rolling for Egypt with his “prince-of-peace” impersonation. And that money has continued ever since, despite the litany of human rights abuses in that country. Egypt need not be continuously bribed to keep the peace with Israel. What keeps the peace between Israel and Egypt is the IDF. If Egypt needs money, the Gulf states, whose monarchs share El-Sisi’s fear and hatred of the Muslim Brotherhood, should be happy to help.

Jordan, similarly, need not be given large sums by the Americans. The Hashemite king need only hold out his hand in Eleemosynary Position #1, and the Emirates and Saudis will be glad to help out a fellow monarch, especially one who doesn’t want to be overthrown by the two-thirds of his population that is Palestinian. That would be a dangerous example for the monarchs in the Gulf. King Abdullah, like the Saudi Crown Prince and the Emirati rulers, is prepared to repress the Muslim Brotherhood. He, too, needs no American bribe to keep the peace with Israel. The IDF maintains that peace.

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Trump Says Jewish State Doomed If Harris Is President

“Israel will be gone. One year, two years. Israel will no longer exist,” the GOP nominee for the White House warned.


Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump warned at a campaign rally in Wisconsin on Saturday that Israel would be “doomed” if his Democratic opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, is voted into the White House on Nov. 5.

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“If I don’t win this election, Israel, with comrade Kamala Harris at the helm of the United States, is doomed. Israel is doomed. That’s a tough statement. Israel will be gone. One year, two years. Israel will no longer exist,” the former president told supporters in the city of Mosinee.

Trump pledged to bring stability to the Middle East and to stop another world war from breaking out.

“We’ll end the chaos in the Middle East and I will prevent World War III, and I’m the only one who can do it. I will prevent World War III,” he said.

“I better win, or you are going to have problems like you’ve never had. We may have no country left. This may be our last election,” Trump added.

The GOP leader made similar remarks in a live video address to the Republican Jewish Coalition‘s Annual Leadership Summit in Las Vegas last week.

At a campaign rally in Pennsylvania in August, Trump said that Jews in the United States are facing their greatest threat since World War II.

“What’s happening with Israel and Jewish people, there has never been a more dangerous time since the Holocaust if you happen to be Jewish in America.”

The Trump campaign is appealing to Jewish Americans and Israel supporters disillusioned with the direction of the Democratic Party as well as courting Jewish Republicans, launching Jewish Voices for Trump last month.

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The Murdered Hostages and the Western Cheerleaders For Hamas

As the six murdered hostages are being buried in Israel, Brendan O’Neill has some furious words for Western antisemites who have been cheerleading their murderers in Hamas. He rounds on them here: “The deaths of these hostages shame the Western conscience,” by Brendan O’Neill, Spiked, September 1, 2024:

…Now this is resistance. Unprepared, unarmed, these six young people did what they could to resist the anti-Semitic savagery of the invading army from Gaza. They repelled its grenades, rescued some of its intended targets, tended to the victims of its racist sadism. They didn’t ask for war, they didn’t expect war, they didn’t deserve war. But when it came, brutishly intruding on their kibbutzim and parties, they took action that helped to minimize the Jewish people’s suffering. It is a testament to Western radicals’ swirling moral disarray and their detachment from civilisational values that they referred to the racist invaders of Israel as the ‘resistance’, and the Jewish heroes who fought back as ‘colonizers’.

But this goes beyond foolish ‘left’ apologism for Hamas. It goes beyond excuse-making for terror. There is a case to be made that the self-styled progressive conscience of the West has not been complacent in the face of Hamas’s barbarism, but complicit. Many in the West played an active role in justifying the kidnapping of people like Goldberg-Polin, Lobanov, Gat, Sarusi, Yerushalmi and Danino. They actively bolstered the kidnappers’ claims to be resistance fighters, and they actively prevented the raising of awareness of the kidnap victims, particularly through the destruction of posters featuring their faces. They were more than bystanders to a pogrom – they were unpaid PR men for the pogromists….
Kamala Harris has questions to answer here. She’s issued a welcome, angry statement on the slaughter of the six hostages, describing it as ‘an outrage’. And yet for months she sternly instructed Israel not to launch a ‘major military operation’ in Rafah. There will be ‘consequences’, she warned. It is now known that in Rafah, an American citizen was being held captive. Now killed. Is this the first time in history an American leader warned of ‘consequences’ over the rescue of an American rather than over the kidnap of an American? As National Review summarises it, ‘Kamala Harris warned Israel of “consequences” if it invaded Rafah, where Hamas just murdered an American hostage’.

Here’s the only question that matters right now: are Jewish lives worth fighting for? Some of us think they are. Others, from the top of politics to the frenzied anti-Semites on the streets, seem to think otherwise. It is tempting to see the West’s moral disorder over Israel-Hamas as a consequence of that old problem, ‘the sleep of reason’, the sleep of our conscience. But in truth, the West’s conscience has been wide awake, and excitable, and noisy, and it has sided not with kidnapped Jews, but with their kidnappers. Let us hope the memory of the six slain will be a blessing – and let us hope their deaths will be a lesson for a West that seems utterly morally lost.

Brendan O’Neill is enraged at the “morally lost” in the West who have chosen to sympathize not with the six murdered Israelis, but with the Hamas killers who murdered them, just as for the last eleven months of the war in Gaza, so many in the increasingly antisemitic West have expressed their support not for the embattled Jewish state, but for those who would, if they could, wipe that state off the face of the earth. His savage indignation is exactly what is called for.

AUTHOR

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Betrayal

The entire policy of Israel’s elite after October 7 boils down to twisting the government’s arm and preventing victory over Hamas. Before October 7, it threatened to destroy the country from within. And what about October 7 itself?

According to Hegel’s dialectics, at a certain stage of development “quantity inevitably turns into quality.” This is what happened to the ruling class of Israel.

For 30 years, the Israeli establishment (judicial, military, political, Academy and media) played with the destinies and lives of its people cynically and unceremoniously in favor of its interests and ideological preferences. The Shamir-Arens government was the last one allowed to be guided by the responsibility for the country’s future. Then the games began: gambling and blood.

Here they are — the elite “Hunger Games”:

Oslo Accords

The “deal” with the head of a terrorist group cost lives of hundreds of people. Peres and Rabin called them “sacrifices on the altar of peace.” It was a new pseudo-religious cult with mass human sacrifices.

Ehud Barak’s flight from Lebanon in 2000

The South Lebanon Army was abandoned to its own fate (like the Arabs who collaborated with Israel before them), and Hezbollah became a powerful force here.

Ehud Barak and Camp David

The offer to Arafat to transfer to him 91-95% of the territory of Judea, Samaria, part of the Negev (as part of a “territory exchange”), the Arab areas of East Jerusalem and most of the Old City was rejected by the PLO leader. He didn’t want to share the fate of Anwar Sadat. He gave carte blanche to the militants. During the four years of the Al-Aqsa Intifada, also known as the Oslo War, more than 1000 Israelis were killed and more than 5500 were wounded.

The “Disengagement”

In 2005, Ariel Sharon, who proudly declared: “The fate of Netzarim is the fate of Tel Aviv,” wiped out the thriving Jewish communities of Gaza. The Zionist, mostly Religious Zionist, residents were thrown into the trash heap. The elite triumphed. Some of the youth of Gush Katif lost themselves into drinking and taking drugs, and some emigrated. It was literally an expulsion from paradise. Two years later, Hamas came to power in Gaza.

Kadima party, Annapolis, and the planned disengagement in Judea and Samaria.

The opportunist Kadima party of Sharon, Olmert and Tzipi Livni was ready to liquidate more than 90% of the Jewish communities of Judea and Samaria. However, Mahmoud Abbas, like Arafat before him, refused to accept the idea of “conflict is over.” In return, Kadima decided to carry out a second “unilateral disengagement” — this time on Judea and Samaria. Luckily, it failed to be implemented due to the second Lebanese war.

These projects were not buried by the elite, who aspired after three strategic things:

  • Ending the falsely termed “occupation” (“the apartheid regime” according to the former head of the Mossad, Tamir Pardo).
  • Transformation of Israel from a Jewish state into a state for “all its citizens” (de facto, one more Arab state).
  • Elimination of the settler movement (peopled by those called “subhumans” by Meretz party head Yair Golan).

Netanyahu’s stubbornness caused fury. He would not give in to the elite establishment nor would he fulfill its goals. He was seen by the world as a statesman and by a majority of Israelis as the leader they wanted. So the elite were prepared to jeopardize the country to get rid of him.

Meanwhile, the rot kept growing. We observed shocking manifestations of it. Some examples: fictitious court cases against the head of government, Netanyahu; the Shin Bet’s use of female soldiers as sex toys for terrorists in prisons; the deadly Jewish pogroms in Lod and Acre in 2021, which took the Shin Bet and the police by surprise (as they always do); the humiliating concession of gas fields to Hezbollah in 2022; the Supreme Courts decisions to abrogate powers of every part of government and be the judge of the legitimacy of its own powers.

After the right-wing government won the elections by a large margin, the elite resorted to open sabotage. Their worst nightmares seemed to be coming true: Avi Maoz’s (“Noam”) call for the restoration of Jewish identity and family values; Ben Gvir’s “national guard” project; finally, an attempt to define the unlimited powers of the judicial caste (the “priestly corps” of the elite) and have checks and balances – all these became a pretext for starting a de facto coup.

Even if the judicial reform’s first steps were half-baked, it certainly did not pose a threat to democracy. Prof. Alan Dershowitz suggested that with the reform implemented, Israel would be much more like “Canada or New Zealand or Australia, or many European countries,” still a far cry from the USA.

The defense establishment led this crusade. Not a day passed without some former chief of the General Staff, ex-head of Shin Bet, Mossad or AMAN declaring that “democracy is under threat” or the country is “on the verge of dictatorship.”

The elite threatened to refuse to serve when called up, and pilots did not report for reserve duty necessary for maintenance of their operative level. The elite threatened to take their money, grown exponentially due to government encouragement and tax breaks to strengthen the economy, out of the country. They set fires on main roads, blocked them and were treated with kid gloves by law enforcement, whose then heads identified with them.

Hamas was watching.

Ominous prophecies about an impending “dictatorship”, threats of civil war, allusions to the collapse of two Temples, pogroms, and Ehud Barak’s “wishes” to fill Yarkon with corpses created an atmosphere of hysteria and fear.

Yet all of this was not enough. Something bigger was needed that would plunge the entire country into chaos.

This would allow:

  • to create a government of national unity by introducing people loyal to the establishment.
  • to push out the so-called “Kakhanists” of Otzma Yehudit and “Noam” parties
  • to remove the judicial reform from the agenda.
  • to weaken Likud as much as possible. Same for the Religious Zionists.
  • eventually, to remove Bibi from the big politics once and for all.

And after that, they could move on to the strategic tasks mentioned above.

Stalin wrote: “The forest is cut — the chips fly.” Why wouldn’t these principles be still relevant today? Perhaps all means seemed acceptable.

A Hamas attack would make it possible to objectively achieve the assigned tasks in the shortest possible time.

Maybe they thought the scale of the attack would be limited. Maybe they couldn’t imagine that Hamas would decide to carry out massacres because the enemy they hated was Bibi, not the terrorists. Maybe they didn’t consider that a music festival with the participation of left-wing youth would take place nearby. Maybe…

But remember that Ehud Barak said that “the corpses had to float along the Yarkon.”

I have not the slightest doubt that the conditions for the massacre were prepared. Warnings by observers were ignored, the border was unguarded (by tacit agreement? or worse?), and the predator was allowed into the territory of defenseless Negev settlements. It took hours for defense establishment help to arrive. Israel was saved by the initiative of its heroic sons and daughters.

And the massacre plunged the entire country into horror, chaos, and mourning.

So a betrayal turned into a crime, and it not only continues, but reaches a new level.

The entire policy of the ruling class after October 7 boils down to twisting the government’s arm and preventing victory over Hamas.

The country must be brought to its knees before the Islamic jihadists, so that our elite will be able then declare: Netanyahu lost the war, he is responsible to the hostages’ deaths and we must hold elections now.

“Elections NOW!”, “Rak Lo Bibi – anything but Bibi.” That’s all that matters.

All means at their disposal are used for this:

  • Mass hysteria and playing on the suffering and emotions of the families of hostages. The goal is to force the government to return the hostages NOW at any cost: that is, to give up control over Gaza, the Philadelphi Corridor won with the blood of IDF soldiers, and return Sinwar and his thugs to power. It will be clear and unconditional capitulation, but doesn’t matter.
  • Blaming Netanyahu for the deaths of hostages in Gaza instead of Hamas, using the mantra “bring them home” instead of “set them free”, while knowing full well that the repeated demonstrations made Israel seem divided and raised the price for freeing the hostages.
  • The assertion that Hamas cannot be defeated because “it is an ideology”.
  • Coordination of actions with White house. In fact, the entire military establishment, as well as former generals, including Galant, Gantz, Eisenkot, and media are on a short leash of the Democratic Party and systematically voice its demands to wind down the operation and hand Gaza over to the PA.
  • Blocking an independent investigation of October 7.
  • Sowing confusion and disarray in society by pursuit of soldiers and reservists for “mistreatment of the Nukhba terrorists” while not bringing one terrorist to trial.
  • Hounding (in unison with the US administration) of right-wing politicians like Ben-Gvir and Smotrich.
  • The desire to drag the country into a war of attrition with Hezbollah NOW, before the Hamas regime in Gaza is destroyed.

Israel must be sacrificed on the “altar of peace.” In framework of this “peace” there will be no place for Israel, but it doesn’t matter.

The result of this unscrupulous manipulation is ambiguous. The ruling class has won the battle, but probably has lost the war. The left is traditionally strong at intrigue, but weak at strategy. The ordinary people are making their voices heard. The IDF rank and file, reservists and medium level echelons are loyal and dedicated to saving the country.

In truth, the left camp is demoralized.

These were its most consistent adherents who became tragic victims of the massacre, and the consequences of this will have far-reaching results. The veil of great-heartedness fell from the eyes of many: it became obvious that Jews were tortured, raped, killed, roasted in ovens not because they were “right-wing extremists” and “colonists,” but only because they were Jews. And this can happen not only in Israel, but everywhere: from New York and Toronto to Berlin, London, and Paris.

What also became obvious is that the Middle East remains the same Middle East and will not turn into Iceland or New Zealand. The entire society is traumatized, but the left is traumatized much more, because until now they lived in the world of illusions.

The war awakened the country to the dedication of the Religious Zionists and aroused national consciousness to the need to involve the haredi population, start a process where they eventually join military service and contribute economically. And clearly, they won’t be on the side of the elite either.

Thus a tactical victory will turn into a strategical defeat.

AUTHOR

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Hamas Admits Murdering Hostages, Releases Video of Them, Threatens to Post Their Last Messages Before They Executed Them

No words. And to those who support these monsters, there is a special place in hell.

Hamas admits to killing hostages, releases video of slain hostage Eden Yerushalmi

Hamas has issued new instructions to guards on handling hostages if Israeli troops approach hostage holding sites.

By: Jerusalem Post, September 2, 2024:

The spokesperson for Hamas’ armed al-Qassam Brigades, Abu Obaida, said on Monday that the Palestinian group had issued new instructions to guards on handling hostages if Israeli troops approach hostage-holding sites, reiterating blame on Israel for the deaths of hostages.

“Netanyahu and the occupation army alone bear full responsibility for the deaths of the prisoners. They deliberately obstructed any prisoner exchange deal for their own narrow interests, and furthermore, intentionally killed dozens of prisoners through direct airstrikes,” Abu Obaida said in a message on Telegram.

“Let it be clear to everyone that, following the incident in Nuseirat, new instructions have been issued to the Mujahideen tasked with guarding the prisoners. These instructions outline how to handle the situation if the occupation army approaches the location where the prisoners are being held,” he added.

After the announcement, Hamas published a video which began with the similar message and then continued to a recorded message of slain hostage Eden Yerushalmi before her death. In the video, she gave a message directed at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. At this time, the Hostages and Missing Families Forum has not cleared the video for public viewing.
Rescued, escaped, died

The Nuseirat incident refers to Operation Arnon, in which four hostages were rescued from the Nuseirat refugee camp in Gaza, which led to the deaths of at least 100 people, according to IDF estimates, and nearly 300, according to Hamas estimates. The operation also led to the death of Arnon Zamora, for whom the operation was posthumously renamed.

The rescued hostages were Noa Argamani, 26; Andrey Kozlov, 27; Almog Meir Jan, 21; and Shlomi Ziv, 40.

The announcement came a day after the IDF recovered the bodies of six slain Israeli hostages from Gaza: Hersh Goldberg-Polin, Eden Yerushalmi, Carmel Gat, Almog Sarusi, Alexander Lobanov, and Ori Danino.

All six had been killed by Hamas at least a day before their rescue, having been found dead in the tunnels under Gaza.

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