Memo to All Demanding Palestinian Statehood: Hamas Still Has Hostages

  The American Spectator   "I can’t write about the issue without noting the failure of news organizations to pin the onus on Hamas."  Debra J. Saunders

How Shiri Bibas, sons Ariel and Kfir were 'brutally murdered' by Hamas in Gaza

. . . "First French President Emmanuel Macron announced that France would recognize the state of Palestine ahead of the General Assembly confab.

"Then British Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced the U.K. would recognize Palestine as a state — unless Israel takes substantive steps to end the “appalling situation in Gaza.”

"Then Canada climbed onto the bandwagon. “Wow! Canada has just announced that it is backing statehood for Palestine. That will make it very hard for us to make a Trade Deal with them. Oh’ Canada!!!” Trump cheekily responded.

"At Thursday’s White House briefing, of course, a reporter asked press secretary Karoline Leavitt if Trump would recognize a Palestinian state. Leavitt responded, “That’s rewarding Hamas at a time where Hamas is the true impediment to a ceasefire and to the release of all of the hostages.”

"Exactly right. I can’t write about the issue without noting the failure of many news organizations to pin the onus on Hamas, when they know Hamas is to blame.

"Cue the Wednesday New York Times editorial that opined, “Israel’s often reckless administration of its war and occupation has helped create this emergency, and Israel has a unique power to alleviate it. It must do so.”

“ 'If your ideology dictates that Israeli Jews are symbols of racism and colonialism, and Palestinians symbols of Third World innocence, then a story that makes Israelis seem constructive and Palestinians obstructive must be avoided even if it’s true, because it serves the wrong people,” observed Matti Friedman, a Jerusalem-based columnist for The Free Press." . . .

‘They are in the same state I was in’: Holocaust survivors ‘hurt and angered’ by latest hostage videos  . . ."Holocaust survivors have reacted with horror to Hamas' latest propaganda videos which showed starving hostages "near death".

"The images of Evyatar David, 24 and Rom Braslavski, 21, showed the captives visibly emaciated and in poor health. On Saturday, the first day of Tisha B'Av, N12 News showed the pictures to two Holocaust survivors.

"One of them was Naftaly Furst, 93, who survived the extermination camps and death marches. He was kept in the concentration camp block where "the dying men" were housed." . . .