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Controversy Erupts After Freed Israeli Hostage Blasts Army’s ‘Lack Of Preparedness’ BY TYLER DURDEN
TUESDAY, OCT 24, 2023 – 09:15 AM – Israeli officials are reportedly unhappy with an interview given by an elderly former captive of Hamas in Gaza because she had not been well prepared for the statement.
In a press meeting on Tuesday, 85-year-old Yocheved Lifshitz, an Israeli captive released from Gaza on Monday evening, said she was beaten on 7 October, the day Palestinian fighters stormed southern Israel, but later treated “gently”.
Sources told Israel’s state-owned Kan News that the interview was a “mistake”, adding that a “preliminary meeting” may not have been held with Lifshitz prior to her press statement and that if one had been held, not “all questions” to do with the preparation were asked.
Lifshitz is one of four Israelis who have been released after Hamas-led Palestinian fighters stormed Israeli communities near the Gaza Strip in an attack that killed around 1,400 Israelis, mostly civilians. Israel believes 220 captives are being held in Gaza.
The former Israeli hostage was one of the oldest held by Hamas in Gaza, and spent more than two weeks in captivity. She was released alongside another captive, 79-year-old Nurit Yitzhak.
Lifshitz told reporters: “I’ve been through hell, I never thought that I would reach such a state. They [Palestinian fighters] went berserk in our kibbutz [and] put me on a motorcycle.”
She went on to describe how children and the elderly were among those taken, calling the scenes “extremely painful”. Lifshitz added that she was hit by a stick en route to Gaza and made to walk several kilometers after reaching the area.
Report: The tunnels and underground terror infrastructure that lurk underneath Gaza Prof. Joel Roskin
Kilometers of Hamas tunnels have transformed from logistical routes to a tactical attack and kidnapping medium and, more recently, to a concealed strategic terror tool.
Oct 25, 2023, 2:19 PM (GMT+3)
Background:
The invasion and massacre on Israel on October 7 brutally demonstrated how Hamas has significantly tactically and strategically improved and strengthened its terror capabilities since it began to root itself in the Gaza Strip in the 2000s. The well-known “Hamas tunnels” played a central role in this development.
Prof. Joel Roskin, of Bar-Ilan University in Israel, has followed the “evolution” of the Gaza tunnels for years and analyzed the conditions that allowed their formation and expansion. Prof. Roskin specializes in sand and dune geomorphology; military geosciences, geoarchaeology, portable OSL. He can be contacted at joel.roskin@biu.ac.il
In 2020 Roskin, a geomorphologist and geologist from the Department of Geography and Environment at Bar-Ilan University, published a book chapter based on his study “Underground Warfare in the Gaza Strip and the Military Complexity of Combating It”. An article on the same topic is currently in the final stages of acceptance by the academic journal Studies in Conflict and Terrorism. The article describes the field data and the geopolitical conditions that literally provided the fertile ground for the development of the tunnels. It is based on Prof. Roskin’s experience as head of the terrain research department at the Southern Command in the 2000s, and on information publicized in the media.
Report:
The tunnels in Gaza initially had some basic characteristics in common with other excavation sites in Israel and elsewhere in the world, such as burial caves, mines, and hiding systems. “However,” says Prof. Roskin, “each tunnel system is different and uniquely related to the geological, geographic and geopolitical conditions in place. What is interesting about Hamas is that the rate of growth of the tunnels, not only in size, but also in purpose, complemented the development of the organization’s operational concept. It began with the smuggling of goods, progressed to the smuggling of weapons, and later evolved into attack tunnels. At these stages, the organization’s perception was tactical.
Later, they facilitated abductions, like that of the 2006 kidnap of Private Gilad Shalit, and transformed the underground into attack and hiding tunnels. The next phase was the strategic offensive tunnels that were revealed during Operation Protective Edge in 2014. These new tunnels corresponded to the growing operational appetite of Hamas, whose leaders saw that they were always successful – and that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) had only a meager response to this.
IDF hits Hamas apparatus which prevented Gazans from evacuating south
In widescale strikes, IDF hits Hamas terror tunnels, command centers responsible for arresting and imprisoning Hamas opponents.
Oct 25, 2023, 10:00 AM (GMT+3) – The IDF has hit terror tunnel shafts in Gaza, alongside additional operational apparatus, the IDF confirmed Wednesday morning.
During wide-scale strikes carried out based on ISA intelligence in Gaza on Tuesday, the IDF struck several terrorists and Hamas infrastructure, including terror tunnel shafts, military headquarters, weapons warehouses, mortar launchers and anti-tank missile launchers.
Additionally, on Tuesday night, the IDF struck Hamas’ emergency operational apparatus, including war rooms, infrastructure and military headquarters.
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Hamas’ emergency operational apparatus was responsible for setting up blockades that prevented Gazans from evacuating to safer areas in southern Gaza.
Additionally, the IDF struck military infrastructure and command centers of Hamas’ security apparatus, which is responsible for overseeing the terrorist organization in Gaza and arresting and imprisoning Hamas’ opponents.
Eight trucks with humanitarian aid enter Gaza Strip
Eight trucks with water, food and medical equipment enter Gaza through the Rafah crossing.
Oct 25, 2023, 12:01 AM (GMT+3) – Eight trucks containing humanitarian aid were brought into the southern Gaza Strip on Tuesday evening through the Rafah crossing with Egypt. The trucks include water, food and medical equipment.
Sources in Israel stated that all the equipment was inspected by security forces before being permitted to enter the Strip.
According to the Red Crescent, this is the fourth aid convoy that has entered Gaza since the start of the war. The organization noted that five of the trucks contained water, two carried food and one carried medicine.
On Saturday, the Rafah crossing opened for the first time since Hamas launched its brutal massacre on Israeli civilians on the morning of October 7, and 20 trucks carrying medication, medical equipment, and food passed through.
On Sunday, US President Joe Biden spoke and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke on the phone and agreed that “there will now be continued flow of this critical assistance into Gaza.”
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National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir criticized Israel’s agreeing to allow aid into Gaza and said, “Any agreement on continuous aid to Gaza that does not include the release of all our hostages is the continuation of the concept that led us to where we are. Humanitarian only in exchange for the release of all the hostages.”
Later, the Prime Minister’s Office clarified that “Israel will not provide any humanitarian aid to Gaza and will prevent any unsupervised supplies from others.”
October 25, 2023 – You shall remember what Amalek did to you on the way, when you went out of Egypt, how he happened upon you on the way and cut off all the stragglers at your rear, when you were faint and weary, and he did not fear God.
It will be, when the Lord your God grants you respite from all your enemies around in the land which the Lord, your God, gives to you as an inheritance to possess, that you shall obliterate the remembrance of Amalek from beneath the heavens. You shall not forget! — Dvarim 25:17-19
I have heard this read in the synagogue numerous times, and taken part in discussions of the meaning of this mitzvah (commandment). But I did not truly understand it until Simchat Torah of this year.
A mitzvah can always be understood in relation to actions. The well-known injunction to “love thy neighbor” in Lev. 18:19 appears in context as “Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against anyone among your people, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the Lord.” It does not require me to have a warm feeling toward the residents of the apartment next to mine. Rather, it orders me to avoid feuding with other Jews (not always an easy thing).
The commandment to remember Amalek does not mean to produce in myself a certain state of mind, similar to what I aspire to when my wife tells me to remember to bring home a carton of milk. That would be impossible anyway, because I wasn’t there in the desert when Amalek first did its dirty deeds. How can I remember what I didn’t experience? So what does “remember” mean here?
What I realized on Simchat Torah was that it means that we must not only keep in mind the evil that Amalek intends, but we must act on that awareness. It means that we must not let our guard down, we must take positive actions to prepare for Amalek’s viciousness. Only after we have achieved our independence in the land of Israel and fully defeated all of our enemies, can we stand down from our condition of high alert. Only when Amalek is finally obliterated will it be safe to obliterate our memory of it.
A call to the civilized world [Video 3:48] Dr. Mordechai Kedar
Ladies and gentlemen, believers in democracy and modernity,
My name is Dr. Mordechai Kedar, a researcher of the Middle East and Islam.
Israel is at war.
A war between the Jewish state and Isis-like terrorists who believe that Jews should not have a state at all, should be subjugated to Islam, should be humiliated as it says in the Koran and should pay the jizia (head tax). According to their belief, if Jews dare to establish a state, even on their fore-fathers’ land, they should be exterminated.
On October 7th, in the early morning, Hamas attacked thousands of Israelis, for no reason. They murdered, raped, tortured and mutilated children in front of their parents and parents in front of their children and then shot them. It wasn’t enough to kill them however, and they desecrated the bodies, cutting of heads and burning them so that in some cases it is almost impossible to identify them.
Many of the terrorists filmed their barbaric acts and uploaded them to their social media.
Many Gazans followed the armed terrorists into Israeli territory in order to gloat, kill and loot. Others in Gaza went out to the streets and distributed sweets in celebration of this grand victory over the Jews.
Some 15 hundred Israelis and foreign nationals were murdered that day in cold blood. Entire families were wiped out and people who came to enjoy themselves at a music festival fell victim to hatred towards anything western. Statistically, 1500 Israelis can be compared in number to 45,000 Americans. 15 times the amount that were murdered on September 11th 2001.
Over 200 people were kidnapped and are held as hostages in Ghaza.
Hamas is the Palestinian tentacle of the Iranian octopus which has reached also into Lebanon, Hezbollah, militias in Syria, Iraq and Yemen, who are all preparing to wipe out Israel as per the orders of the Ayatollahs regime in Iran.
Israel’s struggle for survival is not only for Israel. If the jihadists succeed to destroy Israel, Europe will be the next and the Atlantic Ocean is not wide enough to keep America safe from this evil.
This is a war between good against evil, civilization against savagery, normalcy against barbarism. It is the struggle between western culture and the jihadists lead by Iran, who want to destroy it. Just imagine how the world will look like if Iran succeeds to acquire the doomsday weapon.
Your support of Israel will save you from this jihadist campaign against western values and culture.
Don’t stand idly by.
Thank you so much
Dr. Mordechai Kedar | Kedar@newsrael.com
IDF chief: Gaza ground op delayed due to ‘strategic considerations’
“We are making use of every minute to be even more prepared,” said Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi amid reports of foreign government pressuring Israel to allow more time for hostage talks.
(October 24, 2023 / JNS) – The Israel Defense Forces’ much-anticipated ground incursion into the Gaza Strip is being delayed due to “tactical and strategic considerations,” IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi said on Tuesday.
“The IDF is ready for the maneuver, and we will make a decision with the political echelon regarding the shape and timing of the next stage,” Halevi said during a press conference held near the border with Gaza.
“We’ve prepared for this. The IDF and the Southern Command have prepared quality offensive plans to achieve the goals of the war,” he added.
“We are making use of every minute to be even more prepared,” said Halevi. “And every minute that passes on the other side, we strike the enemy even more. Killing terrorists, destroying infrastructure, collecting more intelligence for the next stage.
“This is our country, our home, and we will defend it by every means,” the general vowed.
[Ed.: IMHO, these ‘strategic considerations’ are of the utmost importance, given the circumstances. Yesterday I watched a very informative short video on Youtube of Dr. Mordechai Kedar detailing in outline form these very ‘strategic considerations’. But, it was in Hebrew, so I didn’t post it. The considerations are truly considerable…]
Attack on Innocent Civilians …WARNING ON CONTENT By Jim Hoft
Oct. 24, 2023 4:00 pm – Israeli forces released RAW FOOTAGE of the Massacre Across Israel by Hamas terrorists on October 7, 2023.
Over 1,400 Jews were slaughtered by Hamas that day including at least 300 young adults who were attending the Nova concert near the border.
Hamas took over 200 hostages with them back to Gaza. Four women have been released.
We are publishing this footage for our readers to show the complete barbarism by Hamas on innocent civilians.
We pray for the safe return of the remaining hostages.
** This comes after Israel released 40 minutes of recorded atrocities to reporters in Tel Aviv on Monday.
WARNING ON VIOLENT CONTENT
VILE: Barack Obama Slams Israel’s Response to Hamas Terror Attack and Takes a Shot at America in Infuriating Article By Cullen Linebarger
Oct. 24, 2023 12:40 pm – It would be a fib to say this response from the 44th “President” is surprising, but it is no less infuriating.
Barack Obama on Monday wrote an article on Medium called “Thoughts on Israel and Gaza” where he slammed the Jewish state’s response to the Hamas terror attack and took a shot at America in the process. At the same time, he made excuses for the Palestinian population in Gaza which elected Hamas to start with.
At first, Obama starts off his piece by expressing support for Joe Biden’s “call” to support Israel going after Hamas before quickly devolving into full college lecturer mode.
As I stated in an earlier post, Israel has a right to defend its citizens against such wanton violence, and I fully support President Biden’s call for the United States to support our long-time ally in going after Hamas, dismantling its military capabilities, and facilitating the safe return of hundreds of hostages to their families.
But even as we support Israel, we should also be clear that how Israel prosecutes this fight against Hamas matters.
Obama next takes a shot at the greatest country in the world which he once represented as president. Note the moral equivalence he draws between America and less civilized countries.
This is an enormously difficult task. War is always tragic, and even the most carefully planned military operations often put civilians at risk. As President Biden noted during his recent visit to Israel, America itself has at times fallen short of our higher values when engaged in war, and in the aftermath of 9/11, the U.S. government wasn’t interested in heeding the advice of even our allies when it came to the steps we took to protect ourselves against Al Qaeda.
The failed president goes to warn that an invasion of Gaza could ultimately “backfire” on Israel if it ignores “the human cost.”
Still, the world is watching closely as events in the region unfold, and any Israeli military strategy that ignores the human cost could ultimately backfire. Already, thousands of Palestinians have been killed in the bombing of Gaza, many of them children. Hundreds of thousands have been forced from their homes.
Obama next slams Israel’s decision to institute a blockade of sorts on Gaza.
Col Douglas MacGregor Alleges US Special Forces Went into Gaza and “Were Shot to Pieces, Took Heavy Losses, I Understand” (VIDEO 27:37) By Jim Hoft
Oct. 24, 2023 10:00 am – On Monday night Tucker Carlson dropped episode 33 of his show on X with guest Col. Douglas MacGregor.
“Looks like we’re actually going to war with Iran. Are we ready for this?” Tucker said during his latest episode.
Iran has repeatedly threatened the United States after its proxy army Hamas launched a terror attack on Israel and killed more than 1,300 Jews. Iranian proxies attacked US troops in Syria and Iraq.
During their conversation Col. MacGregor dropped a bomb on the X audience. According to the Colonel, US special forces suffered considerable losses recently during an excursion into Gaza.
Col. Douglas MacGregor: We don’t have the means to rapidly ship a large force of 80 to 100,000 troops on the ground into the region, which means that we’re reliant on special forces and right now 2000 marines and perhaps 2000 special forces and special operations forces. That’s not going to make much of a dent. And as we’ve seen quite recently, within the last 24 hours or so, some of our Special Ops forces and Israeli Special Ops forces went into Gaza to reconnoiter to plan for where they might want to go to free hostages and make an impact. And they were shot to pieces and took heavy losses as I understand it. I think that’s where we’re headed and I don’t see that as a win for Israel in any way, shape or form.
“Make It Stop” – Israel Shares 43 Minutes of Gruesome Hamas Attacks to Horrified Journalists in Private Screening Not Yet Released to Public – Includes Young Children Burned and Pregnant Women Cut Open By Cullen Linebarger
Oct. 23, 2023 12:20 pm – Israel on Monday screened for some 200 foreign journalists 43 minutes of shocking crimes committed by Hamas savages during their October 7 onslaught on southern Israel, in which over 1,400 people were killed. Some of the presentation includes never-before-seen footage.
They decided to release this screening to counteract a “Holocaust-denial” phenomenon which is starting to permeate across the globe.
We are witnessing a Holocaust denial-like phenomenon unfolding in real time.
So tomorrow, Israel will screen for foreign journalists the raw, unedited footage of Hamas’ atrocities in the October 7 Massacre, as captured by its death squads’ body cams. pic.twitter.com/wm7rjuvFsn
— Eylon Levy (@EylonALevy) October 22, 2023
The Times of Israel and other outlets printed the gruesome details shared by the IDF. With very few exceptions, journalists were only allowed notepads and pens as the IDF forbade them form sharing the most terrifying footage to the public.
Here are some of the most shocking details revealed:
In one video, a man rolls around on the ground, bleeding from his stomach, as a Hamas terrorist tries in vain to chop his head off with farming equipment. In another clip, an Israeli woman is trying to determine if a partially burned corpse with a mutilated head is that of a family member.
The dead woman’s dress was pulled up to her waist with her underpants removed. She had been raped and torured by the medieval savages before being set ablaze.
In yet another video, a 19-year-old female Israeli soldier is seen wearing bloody sweatpants while being dragged out of the trunk of a car to a chorus of sickening cheers. One man yells in English, “You’re in Gaza!”
A male soldier is pulled from a car, tossed to the ground, and then beaten by a bloodthirsty Palestinian crowd.
Joel Pollak of Breitbart News then describes perhaps the most horrifying video of all: one child had been blinded by the Hamas savages and was covered in his father’s blood after they deliberately targeted his family:
A terrorist peers over the fence and lobs a grenade into the shelter. It bounces off the back wall and explodes.The father’s body falls forward. A boy appears, covered in his father’s blood, looking at his father.
We see the boy on the couch, now doubled over on the rug. “Why am I alive?” he wails.
He then looks at the brother in the chair. There is a red, black space where his eye used to be. He asks if his brother can see out of that eye. He says that he cannot. The other brother asks again. Are you joking? He repeats that he cannot see.
Pollak also reported he heard fellow journalists whisper “make it stop” as the presentation on Hamas’ atrocities continued.
— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) October 23, 2023
The IDF went on to release still images to journalists showing a headless soldier, several charred human remains, including those of young children, dead bodies in a bomb shelter, and several Islamic State (ISIS) flags.
The IDF also revealed that a pregnant woman was not only killed by Hamas savages, but they also cut her unborn child out her belly and beheaded it.
— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) October 23, 2023
The little footage Israel did allow journalists to share with the public were previously viewed. Nonetheless, they do give small taste of the horrifying war crimes committed by Hamas.
The IDF just screened 43 minutes of horrors from the Hamas massacre on October 7 for foreign journalists. I was not there, my colleague @cjkeller8 was.
Here is the one minute of footage approved for mass publication at this point, barring most of it out of respect for the dead. pic.twitter.com/UDmQSrkYBL
— Amy Spiro (@AmySpiro) October 23, 2023
JUST IN: ISRAEL HOSTS FILM FOR REPORTERS ON OCT 7 HAMAS ATTACKS
The IDF hosted a meeting for over 200 international reporters where a special film produced by the IDF was presented, showing materials and documents highlighting the actions of Hamas on October 7th.
While the… pic.twitter.com/ldYC85cAuU
— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) October 23, 2023
Hamas’s savagery can be best summed by one terrorist named Mahmoud. He was seen today’s footage boasting about killing 10 innocent Israelis with his “bare hands.”
“Their blood is on my hands, let me speak to Mom,” he exclaims. “Please be proud of me, Dad.”
Should the Gateway Pundit obtain additional footage, we will share it with our readers so they can see the full truth of Hamas’ cruelty with their own eyes. Obscuring evil only allows it flourish.
[Ed.: What Israel needs to do besides showing gruesome videos to journalists and withholding it from the Israeli public, is to explain to the Israeli public where the army was for eight hours while this was happening. So far, not a word from the government. Their silence and silencing the media is in itself incriminating on them! So far, it appears that they knowingly let this happen…]
“Moderate” Palestinian Authority: ‘All mosques must teach that extermination of Jews is an Islamic imperative” By Pamela Geller
October 22, 2023 – For YEARS, I have spoken out against the genocidal Islamic texts and teachings against Jews. The existence of the State of Israel is deeply offensive to the Muslim world. Islamic Jew hatred is an Islamic imperative. When the PA says it, millions march in support of the Jewish genocide. When my colleagues and I quote them or the Quran, we are racist-islamophpbic-anti-Muslim bigots. We are smeared. defamed, libeled – our names destroyed.
In the information battle-space, they have won.
Fox News: the words “kill more Jews” were shouted at Palestinian protests in the US. pic.twitter.com/L6UpM2xY64
— Marina Medvin 🇺🇸 (@MarinaMedvin) October 22, 2023
FLASHBACK: Leaked Audio Reveals Election Denier Hillary Clinton Suggests Rigging Palestine Election in 2006 By Jim Hᴏft
Oct. 23, 2023 7:45 am – On October 28, 2016, the New York Observer, owned by former President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, released a leaked audio clip from back in 2006 in which Hillary Clinton proposed rigging a foreign election to achieve the desired outcome that she wanted.
The media did not report on the audio clip when it was released in 2016 because it would have been extremely damaging to then-presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
The Gateway Pundit was one of the few news outlets in 2016 that covered this explosive report.
The audio, which is making rounds again on various news platforms due to the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict, captured Hillary Clinton, during her tenure as a U.S. Senator, discussing the idea of rigging the Palestinian elections to ensure the “right” outcome.
NY Observer reported:
On September 5, 2006, Eli Chomsky was an editor and staff writer for the Jewish Press, and Hillary Clinton was running for a shoo-in re-election as a U.S. senator. Her trip making the rounds of editorial boards brought her to Brooklyn to meet the editorial board of the Jewish Press.
The tape was never released and has only been heard by the small handful of Jewish Press staffers in the room. According to Chomsky, his old-school audiocassette is the only existent copy and no one has heard it since 2006, until today when he played it for the Observer.
Speaking to the Jewish Press about the January 25, 2006, election for the second Palestinian Legislative Council (the legislature of the Palestinian National Authority), Clinton weighed in about the result, which was a resounding victory for Hamas (74 seats) over the U.S.-preferred Fatah (45 seats).
One of the striking revelations from the tape is Senator Clinton’s critique of the U.S.’s push for elections in the Palestinian territories. Referring to the January 25, 2006, election for the second Palestinian Legislative Council, Clinton expressed regret over the U.S.’s encouragement for an election which eventually saw Hamas clinching a victory over the U.S.-preferred Fatah. She went on to suggest that had the U.S. decided to influence the elections, it should have ensured a favorable outcome.
This sentiment, as recalled by Chomsky, was shocking as it came from a national leader, implying a tolerance towards meddling in foreign elections.
In the audio, Clinton is heard saying, “I do not think we should have pushed for an election in the Palestinian territories. I think that was a big mistake. And if we were going to push for an election, then we should have made sure that we did something to determine who was going to win.”
Who Says Hamas Does Not Represent The Palestinians? by Bassam Tawil
October 23, 2023 at 5:00 am
- The Biden administration’s assertion that Hamas is an insignificant group of terrorists that does not enjoy the support of many Palestinians is not only false; it is dangerously so. This assertion contradicts the reality, which proves that Hamas actually does represent a significant portion of the Palestinians.
- This inconvenient reality is based on public opinion polls conducted by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research (PSR) and the results of elections for the Palestinian Legislative Council and university student councils and professional unions. It is also based on mass demonstrations and rallies in support of Hamas before and after the October 7 carnage in which Hamas terrorists murdered more than 1,400 Israelis and wounded more than 4,000.
- The most recent PSR poll, published last month, showed that if new presidential elections were held today, Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh would win 58% of the vote, while Mahmoud Abbas would only receive 37%. Hamas’s “armed struggle” (terrorism) against Israel was supported by 58% of the Palestinian public, the poll showed…
- This means that a majority of Palestinians share Hamas’s desire to eliminate Israel as expressed in the terror group’s 1988 charter. The poll also showed that 71% of the Palestinians support the formation of armed groups to murder Israelis.
- In the past few months, Hamas-affiliated students won elections at two major Palestinian universities in the West Bank.
- “The [university] elections are considered the bellwether of West Bank politics… With no general Palestinian elections on the horizon, student polls are seen as a ‘test for measuring public opinion’…” — Middle East Eye, May 25, 2023.
- In 2021, Abbas cancelled elections he had called for the Palestinian Authority presidency and parliament after realizing that his Fatah faction was poised to lose to Hamas, as took place in the 2006 parliamentary election.
- If, according to Biden and Blinken, Hamas does not represent the Palestinians, how do they explain the fact that… hundreds of Palestinian residents of the Gaza Strip joined the Hamas terrorists who attacked the Israeli communities near the border with the Gaza Strip?
- The Biden administration is presenting a false claim according to which most Palestinians are opposed to Hamas and that Abbas’s Palestinian Authority, which rewards terrorists who murder Jews with monthly stipends, is a “peace partner” for Israel. This is a complete distortion of reality and does not represent the truth.
- Recently, Abbas reminded everyone that he is an antisemite and a Holocaust denier.
- When will Biden and Blinken grasp that there is no difference between the murderous Hamas leaders and Abbas the antisemite? Surely, Biden and Blinken are aware that Abbas has not condemned the atrocities committed by Hamas on October 7. Abbas’s silence is a rambunctious approval of the cold-blooded massacre of hundreds upon hundreds of Israelis. Let there be no mistake about it: both Hamas and Abbas represent a majority of Palestinians whose goal is to murder Jews and destroy Israel.
Biden: “Humanitarian aid” to Gaza was my main goal during Israel trip By Pamela Geller
October 20, 2023 – The very same people that elected Hamas and streamed into Israel to join in the raping, pillaging, and slaughter on October 7th. Did the allies provide German people with 100 million in “humanitarian aid”? Aid which we know will be used to conduct more brutal massacres.
Biden’s giving them 100 million dollars. https://t.co/XoHjoG9pMD
One commenter summed it up perfectly: “Israel’s worst enemy, Biden and the Democrat U.S. government, successfully blackmailed Israel to stand down its defenses, betray its sovereignty, and sacrifice still-surviving helpless Jewish captives to the savages and Iran. [Emphasis added]
Biden’s “main goal” in aggressively intervening obviously has nothing to do with “humanitarian aid” to Hamas Gaza (cf. Nazi Germany).”
(Not satisfied with crushing any public Jewish resistance, he proceeded to humiliate Israel’s blackmailed government by daring anyone to publicly report any “pushback.)
Hamas terrorists were told by commanders to behead Israelis and cut their feet and what they did to the bodies of Jewish women….. By Pamela Geller
October 21, 2023 – Hamas terrorists were told by commanders to behead Israelis and cut their feet on October 7th, according to an Israeli interrogation video obtained and reviewed by Fox News. A militant in his 20s also describes how Hamas used Telegram to share videos in real time as they conducted the massacre. This militant says his commander, a man from Gaza City, told them they should not expect to return. We’ve left out some incredibly graphic details about what Hamas did to the bodies of women they slaughtered. They are too disturbing to explain on TV.
80% of the victims were tortured. And the Democrats are protecting these savages by demanding no response. A ceasefire is complicity.
And the Democrats are protecting these savages by demanding no response. A ceasefire is complicity. https://t.co/41jlcX3hY9
There are no “innocent” Gazans Jack Engelhard
Nuts: Israel is cautioned to do no harm to “innocent” Gazans.
Oct 22, 2023, 7:57 AM (GMT+3) – I hope I don’t come across as being angry.
For what Hamas did to my People, I guess it’s okay to be sad, horrified, dismayed…but not angry.
As the Rebbe says, all other nations may fight to win, but only Jews must turn the other cheek. They must not be angry.
That was Biden, appropriately providing military equipment to the Israelis, then by degrees, backtracking and backsliding.
It didn’t take long for him to be reminded, by people like Chuck Schumer, that he is a Democrat, and that for Democrats, support for Israel is always conditional.
Therefore, the Israelis, fighting for their very existence, may engage the enemy…sending in its finest sons into the trip-wired, booby-trapped jungle that is Hamas/Gaza…where what awaits them are thousands of savages…armed to the teeth…ambushes prepared house to house, corner to, corner …BUT, they must not do so in anger.
Do not be blinded by rage, Biden warned the Israelis.
They must do no harm to those “innocent civilians.”
In time of war, what other nation gets conditions like this? Only Israel…and in all our US wars, millions of civilians died through collateral damage…because it was them or us.
So it is, nation to nation.
In rules of engagement, there is no prize for runner-up or second best, and the dead get no second chances.
Innocent civilians?
Those Gazans voted for Hamas. After every suicide bombing against Israeli civilians, they cheered and gave out candy…as they did after our 9/11.
The surveys have them supporting Hamas 87 percent. The rest were too busy digging tunnels.
There are no innocent Gazans.
Not even 10 as in Sodom, which was destroyed by sulfur and fire when there was no righteousness to be found; only wickedness.
How’s that for “blinded by rage,” justified.
Thus, every casualty in Gaza is the responsibility of Hamas and the assorted terrorists who turned lush greenery into garbage and terror cells.
Hamas started this. Israel must finish this with justified Biblical ferocity.
Calls for Israel to Restrain itself are ILLEGAL [27:46] Caroline Glick
10/16/2023 – In the face of the West’s rising calls for Israel to permit “humanitarian assistance” to Gaza and respond proportionately to Hamas’s massacre of 1,300 Israelis, wounding of 3,000 and seizure of 200 hostages, I sat down with international law expert Prof. Avi Bell from Bar Ilan and University of San Diego law schools. Bell explained the actual stipulations of international law in relation to the Gaza conflict.
10/22/2023 – In nearly every statement and speech U.S. President Joe Biden gave during his brief sojourn in Tel Aviv, he insisted that Hamas does not represent the Palestinians and that the Palestinian Authority is their true representative. The P.A., the president insisted, does not share Hamas’s goal of eradicating the Jewish state and the Jewish people. Biden foresees a future where the P.A. is in charge of the Gaza Strip, and Israel agrees to a Palestinian state in Gaza, as well as in Judea and Samaria.
On Friday morning, the P.A. provided guidance to its mosque preachers ahead of its weekly services. They were told to declare war on Israel and join the jihad whose goal is the annihilation of the Jewish state and people.
As HaKol HaYehudi news service and Regavim’s research department revealed in a joint release, the P.A.’s guidance read: “We call upon our Palestinian people: The preservation of public and personal property is a religious and moral national duty … our Palestinian people … cannot raise a white flag until the occupation [aka Israel] is removed and the independent Palestinian state is established with Jerusalem as its capital.”
The guidance continued with the passage from the Islamic hadith that calls for genocide of the Jewish people.
“The time will not come until the Muslims fight the Jews and the Muslims kill them, until the Jew hides behind the stones and the trees and the stones or the trees say, ‘O Muslim, O Servant of God, this is a Jew behind me. Come and kill him.”
As the hours passed on Friday, Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria added more sandbags and firing positions for Israel Defense Forces to their already reinforced entrances.
Biden’s visit to Israel was a study in cognitive dissonance. On the one hand, he spoke warmly and emotionally about the U.S.’s commitment to Israel’s security. And on the other hand, the goal of his visit—to enable supplies to enter Hamas-controlled Gaza and preserve the open falsehood that the P.A. is a responsible, non-genocidal alternative to Hamas—indicates that his actual policy is deeply hostile towards Israel. As he put it on his way back to Washington in remarks to reporters aboard Air Force One: “My goal was … basically to get humanitarian aid into Gaza and to get as many Americans out who wanted to get out—could get out as possible.”
After noting that he secured Israel’s agreement to his demand, Biden added: “And the second thing was that I wanted to make sure there was a vehicle, a mechanism, that this could happen quickly.”
In other words, it wasn’t enough for Israel to bow to his demand; he wanted to ensure that the acceptance would be followed by action. According to cabinet ministers, Biden also conditioned U.S. military supplies to Israel on Israel’s pledge not to preemptively attack Hezbollah, which has been steadily escalating its aggression against northern Israel through cross-border raids and missile strikes.
Why has Israel not gone into Gaza yet? Caroline Glick
As Biden turns against Israel, Netanyahu must stand strong
If Netanyahu fails to stand up to the United States, if he buckles, the pressure from Washington won’t stop.
October 16, 2023 – On Sunday, U.S. President Joe Biden, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan all announced that the United States expects Israel to permit “humanitarian aid” into Gaza.
The implications of this position are devastating for Israel. According to reports, there are “hundreds of trucks” lined up on the border in Egypt to enter the Gaza Strip carrying so-called “humanitarian aid.” These trucks, if permitted to enter, will not be inspected in any significant way. There is no reason to believe they are carrying baby formula and foodstuffs that will be delivered to the needy. There is every reason to believe they are carrying war materiel and jihadist fighters who have arrived to augment Hamas.
WORLD WAR 3 WATCH: Israel Warns to Cut Off ‘the Head of the Snake’ — Threatens to Wipe Iran and Lebanon Off the Face of the Earth By Jim Hᴏft
Oct. 22, 2023 3:40 pm – In a stern warning, Israel threatened to cut off “the head of the snake” and launch a military attack against Iran if the Tehran-backed Hezbollah joins the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict.
In a no-holds-barred interview with the Daily Mail on Sunday, Israel’s Minister of Economy, Nir Barkat, said that Iran and Lebanon would be “wiped off the face of the earth” if Hezbollah, operating from Lebanon, joins the war against Israel.
In a bid to deter Iran from further intrusion, Barkat explicitly stated that Israel would not only “eliminate Hezbollah” if a ‘northern front’ is initiated but would also target Iran directly.
“The plan of Iran is to attack Israel on all fronts. If we find they intend to target Israel, we will not just retaliate to those fronts, but we will go to the head of the snake, which is Iran,” Barkat said.
“The Ayatollahs in Iran are not going to sleep good at night, we are going to make sure they pay a heavy price if, God forbid, they open the northern front.”
“If our enemies attack, we will wipe them out.
“Lebanon and Hezbollah are going to pay a heavy price, similar to what Hamas is going to pay. But that’s not enough.
“The very clear message is that we are going to be going after the heads of Iran as well. When will we do that? When we decide.
