‘Starved’ and ‘Tortured,’ Freed Hostage Keith Siegel Describes Time in Captivity

Jewish Press  

“A chilling video from Hamas hostage Keith Siegel on his time in captivity,” wrote Matt Brooks, CEO of the Republican Jewish Coalition."

. . ."He described his conditions as “unimaginable,” feeling that “every single day” could be his last.

"'When I was in Gaza, I lived in constant fear, fear for my life and my personal safety,” said Siegel. “I was starved and tortured both physically and emotionally. When the war intensified, the terrorists who held me treated me even worse than usual. The terrorists kicked me, spat on me, and held me with no water, no light, and no air to breathe.”

"He also repeatedly thanked U.S. President Donald Trump for his release.

" 'President Trump, you are the reason I am home alive,” he said. “You are the reason I was reunited with my beloved wife, four children and five grandchildren. Thank you for your continued fight against terror and for your bold leadership that has brought me and many others back home to our families, to safety and security.”

"Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C) reacted to the testimony by Siegel, originally from North Carolina, in captivity in the Gaza Strip.

" 'It’s heart-wrenching to hear of the pain and torture Hamas inflicted against Keith,” wrote Tillis. “Thank you, President Trump and his administration, for bringing him home. Hamas is pure evil, and I will continue to support efforts to fully eliminate them and stand by Israel.”

Terrorist filmed kidnapping Naama Levy eliminated

Maxine Waters shows America what criminals say when they’re backed into a corner…

 Revolver  

"Maxine knows this is just the tip of the iceberg—and she’s got every reason to be scared. After all, how does a so-called public servant end up a multi-millionaire many times over?"

"If there’s one thing that has sent the Dems into a full-blown meltdown, it’s DOGE investigating waste and fraud. And now, we’re getting a crystal-clear picture of how Dems have managed to keep their wildly unpopular agenda alive—by treating government programs like their own personal piggy bank.

"Elon and his team are just scratching the surface, but what they’ve already uncovered is enough to make any taxpayer’s blood boil. One of the biggest offenders thus far is USAID. This over-funded, shady organization has been caught red-handed funding fake news, bankrolling CIA-backed color revolutions abroad (and let’s be honest, probably here at home too), and pushing a laundry list of wasteful, radical progressive “pet projects” all over the world, like trans garbage and absurd pottery classes. The fact that Trump and Elon are pulling the plug on these taxpayer-funded slush funds has sent the left into a tailspin.

"And here’s the real kicker—the more these slush funds are investigated, the more corruption we’ll likely find. The truth is, the Deep State has been using taxpayer dollars to bankroll the entire progressive takeover of America. And now, for the first time, someone with real power is pulling back the curtain on this gross fraud. No wonder they’re panicking. The jig is up.

"And nowhere is the panic more obvious than in the dark, hooded eyes of Maxine Waters, who has suddenly crawled back into the spotlight after four years of blissful silence. Mad Max is so spooked by Elon and DOGE exposing fraud that she accidentally let the cat out of the bag—giving Americans a front-row seat to what a cornered criminal really sounds like." . . .

Maxine Waters Embraced the Thug Who Slammed Concrete on Reginald Denny's Head    NEVER FORGET that Maxine Waters embraced Damien Williams, the infamous thug who hurled a chunk of concrete at truck driver Reginald Denny and performed a victory dance over this innocent man’s battered body. Maxine Waters even visited Damien Williams’ mother to offer her support.

Williams was sent to prison on a single felony charge of mayhem, but when his accomplices got off, Waters joined in the celebration. . . .  

This is what criminals say. pic.twitter.com/F3vADG0R5V

— Eric Matheny 🎙️ (@ericmmatheny) February 13, 2025

Trump Vowed to Disrupt Higher Ed. Here Are Five Bipartisan Ways to Do It.

RealClearEducation 

"By embracing practical reforms, the Trump administration can transform its penchant for disruption into an opportunity for progress."

For the sake of so many dedicated teachers, I wish
this wasn't the first impression of leftists on campus. TD

 "With the Trump Administration poised to make good on its pledge to remake the federal government, higher education is entering a period of immense uncertainty. From aggressive proposals to tax university endowments and calculated efforts to dismantle DE&I programs on campuses to rumors of a sweeping executive order designed to gut the federal education agency entirely, President Trump and his team have made their intentions clear: they plan to upend the status quo with precision. But while the future remains uncertain, this moment also presents an opportunity to reevaluate and strengthen a system long overdue for reform.

"The challenges facing the nation’s colleges and universities are neither new nor partisan. Students and families are grappling with rising sticker costs, swelling debt, and uneven career outcomes. Colleges are facing greater scrutiny from parents and caregivers, not to mention the students taking on debt, to provide the value of a degree. Institutions without a clear value proposition face declining enrollment, in some cases deservedly so.

"Meanwhile, employers are struggling to find workers with the skills they need. The administration may be surprised to find a strong bipartisan appetite for reshaping higher education to better serve students and meet the demands of a rapidly changing workforce. 

"Here are five policy changes the Trump administration can pursue to ensure its reforms lead to progress for students, workers, and the economy—not just change for the sake of change." . . .   More here.

Hegseth Is Giving Fort Bragg Its Name Back… With An Upgrade

Signaling the end of the Biden Error

 The Lid

    The new name pays tribute to Pfc. Roland L. Bragg, a World War II hero who earned the Silver Star and Purple Heart for his exceptional courage during the Battle of the Bulge.

"Without asking the troops how they felt about it, Joe Biden threw the activists in his party a bone by scrubbing the names of some ‘problematic’ military bases.

"A simplistic reading of history reduces the question to Confederacy and White Supremacy. While we can’t ignore that part of history, we can’t erase the implications of how a fractured nation looked for ways to stitch itself back together again — as Lincoln would phrase it ‘with malice for none’.

"But Joe Biden embraced a 1619 Project ahistorical reading of history, maximizing American culpability, negating anything that would elevate and ennoble it. The propaganda, energized by the George Floyd riots and the pulling down of Confederate statues motivated him to change the long-established name of some American bases.

"The name and tradition of Fort Bragg has taken on a life and identity of its own, quite apart from the man whose name it originally bore. It has stories of its own, and a culture of its own.

"An arbitrary rebrand, late in the game, with words like ‘Liberty’ or ‘Freedom’ ignores the fact that tradition and history is part of the beating heart of military tradition.

"Pete Hegseth has rejected the 1619 Project worldview, and with it, the negative view of history and tradition. As a result, Fort Bragg is getting its name back… more or less."

Homan Calls For Federal Investigation Of Squad Member AOC

Bob Unruh, WND News Center  

"Congresswoman advises illegal aliens on gaming system, and he suggests that impedes law enforcement"  

"Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez (AOC), a member of the extreme left “Squad” in Congress and a Democrat from New York, should be investigated by the federal government for impeding its work.

"That’s according to President Donald Trump’s border czar Tom Homan.

"It seems that AOC ordered her congressional office to hold a webinar to teach illegal aliens about their legal rights and how they can avoid being deported under Trump’s campaign to secure the border and remove illegal alien criminals.

"The so-called “Know Your Rights with ICE” scheme was online Tuesday, orchestrated by Cortez’s office and lawyers with the Immigrant Defense Project."

              Border Czar Tom Homan just said he has referred Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to                   the DOJ for potential PROSECUTION after she potentially impeded law enforcement from                        finding illegal aliens.

              Homan: "We're DONE [with this]."pic.twitter.com/kH3KATsBou

             — Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) February 14, 2025

The Oath of Office taken by AOC and her squadfellows:

 “I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter: So help me God.”

History Is On Trump’s Side With The Expulsion Of The Palestinians

But, but,,what will CNN and MSNBC and the women of "The View" think? What about the miseducated kampus keffiyeh-klad say? TD

 Huck Davenport 

"History is shaped not by sentiment but by force, strategy, and the will to survive. Now is the time for Israel to heed Trump’s advice to secure its future—not through another shaky ceasefire, not through another cycle of half-measures, but through the decisive resolution of a century-old conflict."

"In announcing the relocation of Palestinians from Gaza, Trump gave the world a brilliant masterclass in realpolitik. Let’s break it down:

"If there is one thing we should be able to agree on, at least the few of us who have opened a history book, it is that ethnic hatred courses just under the skin of civilized men ready to erupt from the slightest of provocations.

"This has been the case throughout history. The Ancient Greek city-states, from Athens to Sparta, from Thebes to Corinth, despite having so much in common, would periodically descend into brutal wars over seemingly nothing. This paradigm has continued unabated for millennia. Just in the last 100 years, we’ve had the Armenian Genocide killing 1.2M, the Holocaust slaughtering 6M, the Rwanda Genocide butchering 800k, and over 40 more large-scale genocides.

"The utopian idea that international law and man’s material achievements have somehow erased human nature is so counter to the factual record as to be laughable. The fact is, with few exceptions, man is a tribal animal. Homogenous populations breed peace, e.g., Japan and Iceland, while multi-ethnic populations are high-pressure cookers that require constant vigilance to keep from exploding.

"With Trump’s announcement, it is clear he understands both history and human nature. The press, on the other hand, not so much, or even at all. The WSJ called Trump’s announcement “preposterous,” Al Jazerra said it was “surreal,” the NY Times called it “stunning,” and the Jerusalem Post called it “unprecedented.”

"Unprecedented, it is not. Expulsions, genocide’s conscientious stepchild, are just as common. After WWII, the Czechs writhed in hatred against the Germans who had forced hundreds of thousands of Czechs to flee the Sudetenland. Not to be outdone, the Czechs brutally forced 3M Germans out of Czechoslovakia after the war.

"Imagine the outrage of the free world." . . . More here...

The DOE hasn’t just been failing kids; it’s been destroying them

Andrea Widburg  

The efforts of people like Chris Rufo and Libs of TikTok help us understand that these teachers were not individual anomalies. This is intentional, and the DOE is one of the engines behind this horrible situation.

Dark Angel Politics

   "Donald Trump and Elon Musk have declared war on the Department of Education, one of the most expensive agencies in America—and when you see videos of the genuinely evil material that’s being taught to American children, you will regret that the DOE wasn’t shut down the day after it was opened.

"The DOE, launched in 1979, had as its ostensible purpose improving education in America. It didn’t. America’s educational ranking worldwide is abysmal when one considers our wealth, power, and ostensible sophistication.

"We’re ranked at number 13, even as we expend significant sums of money to maintain this mediocre position. It gets worse when we look at STEM, which is the world’s economic driver. There, we rank at a grim 28 out of the 37 countries in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.

"Meanwhile, the Department of Education, in 2024, was allocated $238 billion. So the question is, what did we get for that money if not education?

"To answer that, let me turn the microphone over to Christopher Rufo, who sat down with Ben Shapiro for an interview. The videos that Rufo brought with him—and they’re just a microcosm of what’s going on in American school—will shock you to your core.

"In a nutshell, powered by federal taxpayer money, our students are being taught advanced racism and sexual depravity. (I’ve queued the video to the starting point but, if that doesn’t work, go to 13:06.):

Are you comprehending, Greta Thunberg?

And the rest of our "best and brightest" on campuses? 

Barak 82

Quoting Barak's post:

Hell in Gaza Captivity That Must Be Heard.

Just reading this and all I want to do is hit the launch button of everything we have… turn it all to glass:

The three were intentionally starved, going for long days without any food. Every few days, they were given a rotten pita, which they had to share with other captives who were with them.

There were long, entire days without water. They didn’t drink, and one of the captives collapsed while in captivity—a traumatic event that made the others think he had died.

All of them endured horrifying torture. The details are hard to process, but it is important to reveal what happens inside the tunnels. They were taken separately for brutal interrogations by their captors, who demanded information while inflicting severe physical abuse. The methods included choking, tying limbs, gagging with cloth to the point of suffocation, hanging them upside down, and inflicting burns using a heated object.

Regarding the conditions of captivity: According to the testimonies, they were placed in a small room inside a tunnel where they could neither move nor stand and struggled to breathe. They spent long days in isolation. They remained barefoot throughout the entire period. One of the captives said, “They treated us like animals.”

Only when it became clear that they were about to be released did the captors provide them with slightly more food so they could stand on their feet during the release.