When Hamas's hostages smile and wave, this is what's actually going on

When Hamas's hostages smile and wave, this is what's actually going on (msn.com)  . . ."Many watching the Avigdoris's apparently cheery farewell — and the other hostage videos for that matter — will be skeptical.

They were held captive for more than seven weeks.

Several members of their extended family, including Sharon's brother, were murdered when Hamas militants stormed Kibbutz Be'eri on October 7.

Despite this, the idea Sharon and Noam — surrounded by gun-toting insurgents — are smiling and waving of their own volition has gained traction.

"I think what really helps them [Hamas] propagate their message is the fact that there's a lot of mainstream media outlets that are willing to amplify it," says Ghaith al-Omari, who has previously held several positions within the Palestinian Authority (PA)." . . .

The True Evil of Hamas | The Caroline Glick Show In Focus - YouTube  "Everybody knows the hostages were forced to smile and wave goodbye to their tormentors. Deplorable."

"I have unwavering support for Israel and always have. This will not change. Early on after the massacre of Oct. 7th, I obviously loathed hamas but was on the fence about how to feel towards the Palestinian citizens. That completely changed when I saw a video one of them had uploaded to their social media page where the Palestinian women and children of gaza were spitting on, kicking, standing on the head of, laughing at and gleefully pointing their cell phone cameras at the nude, bloody body of a young Israeli woman that was kidnapped and then murdered in Gaza. Afterwards her body was dragged through the streets for the locals to desecrate. "I have ZERO support for the Palestinians. After what I saw with my own eyes, this also will not change. Barbaric, vile, demonic, purposefully evil- are just a few descriptives that come to mind. If I see or hear anyone having sympathy for them, I immediately share the true side that I saw of the Palestinians myself in an attempt to correct their mistaken sympathetic behavior."

 Tunnel Wall could not post this video, but perhaps you can see it here.

Israel-Hamas war: Israeli children struggle to adjust after being released by Hamas  "Schneider Hospital provided an update on the well-being of children who were taken by Hamas. Dr. Efrat Harlev said the hospital is treating 19 children and said some lost 10-15% of their weight.

Douglas Murray Talks “Frivolous” Media Falling for the Hamas Narrative;  

Comments: "The disgusting theatre of forcing the released hostages to wave and be conciliatory towards the Hamas murderers!"

Newt Gingrich: It's time for decent people to say ENOUGH - YouTube

California Lawmaker Delivers Brutal Fact Check Following The Newsom And DeSantis Debate

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The Republican Party is saturated with abject cowards

Along with their partners in crime, the media, some of them perpetrated the Russia collusion hoax for years, a colossal lie from the outset. They allowed the impeachment of President Trump twice on wholly fabricated and insignificant charges.  

 Patricia McCarthy - American Thinker  "Could the Republican Party as currently constituted be any more ineffective?

"Any more cowardly?  Any more easily and willingly steamrolled?  

"Not likely.  

There are a few good men and women, to be sure, but they are too few to fight the limp-wristed, irresolute majority of their colleagues.  

"Most of them work for the opposition, Kevin McCarthy being the recent prime example.  He made promises to become Speaker, did not keep any of them, and was justifiably dethroned.  

"Now he wants to submarine the new speaker, Mike Johnson, who may be entangled beyond his ken.  Johnson may just be a good man who has been thrown to the wolves of Congress. Will he survive?  

"Will he have the courage to do what McCarthy would not?  Hold the corruptocrats accountable?  That would be the Biden family of grifters; Christopher Wray, the despicable, lying head of the FBI; Homeland Security chief Alejandro Mayorkas, the chief saboteur of the nation with his calculated importation of ten million illegal aliens from all over the world; and Merrick Garland, the thoroughly venal Attorney General who has persecuted any and all persons who were in D.C. on January 6, 2021.  Garland is singularly the face of the police state America has become with the acquiescence of the Republican Party. 

"What have our elected Republicans in Congress done to fight back against the treachery of the left since the Obama administration?  

"They made a few noises, held a few hearings, but beyond that?  

"Nothing." . . .  

If Trump Wins The GOP Primaries But Denied The Nomination By The GOP, Republicans Will Be Annihilated In 2024 - The Lid   . . ."With less than two months to go until the first votes are cast in the 2024 presidential nominating contest, with the Iowa caucus set for Jan. 15 and the New Hampshire primary set for Jan. 23, former President Donald Trump remains ahead with a commanding lead over his rivals for the Republican nomination, leading by an average of 47 points over his nearest rivals Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis and former South Carolina Republican Gov. Nikki Haley, according to the latest average of national polls compiled by RealClearPolitics.com." . . .

Hateful Hillary’s Latest Assault

“This is what Cromwell said to the Long Parliament when he thought it was no longer fit to conduct the affairs of the nation: ‘You have sat too long here for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go.’”

 American Thinker  "Hillary Clinton recently called for the “formal deprogramming of the MAGA cult members.”  It appears that the seven years that have passed since she had to face the harsh reality that the presidency would not be delivered to her on a silver platter have only made her more hateful than she already was. 

"Clinton disparaging Trump-supporters is far from revelatory, as she infamously referred to them as a basket of deplorables during the lead-up to the 2016 election.  But long before those comments and her most recent ones, Hillary authored a long track record in “public service” where she regularly put her own interests above those of the people she was supposed to serve, without remorse.  And rather than fess up when caught in these nefarious acts, Hillary instead smugly doubles down, laughs, or dismisses the allegations, no matter how credible, fueling the sentiment so many Americans have: that elite politicians are untouchable and are not held to the same standards as the “average” person. 

"While most remember Hillary’s more recent actions, such as having her phones smashed with hammers and “BleachBitting” 33,000 emails after being served a subpoena, there are many lesser known instances that further display her hateful nature.  At one point, Hillary’s detestation for the “average” citizen was subtly disguised behind scripted statements and prepared remarks as a presidential candidate and former first lady of Arkansas and the United States, and during her time as a senator and secretary of state.  But the masses now see her for who she is after nearly half a century in the public eye. " . . .

Obama’s Casual Contempt For America Caught On Film

 Start Thinking Right (wordpress.com)  

United States Code Title 4 Chapter 1 — The Flag; §8. Respect for flag:

“The flag should never touch anything beneath it, such as the ground, the floor, water, or merchandise.”

Those are just words, of course.  But those words have meant a great deal to patriots throughout American history.

One writer recounts his memories of an ancestor at the Battles of Chattanooga and Chickamauga while growing up: 

I had heard the story often growing up. Men took the flag much more seriously during the Civil War era. To see one’s flag fall in battle was a demoralizing event, and therefore an act much desired by the opposing side. This resulted in many a Flag Bearer feeling as if he had a huge target painted on his chest. It was a dangerous occupation.

“He was in the war at Chattanooga, Chickamauga,” related my mother, “ … his flag bearer was running in front of him, and he got shot and he went down and the flag was falling … and in those days you would never let your flag touch the ground … and he grabbed the flag, pulled it off the [pole], and he shoved it in his tunic.” Charles then promptly got shot himself, and bayoneted, with the blades and musket balls ripping though the flag as well as the flesh.

This Civil War site records the words of William H. Carney, who received the Medal of Honor for his actions during the 54th Massachusetts Regiment’s legendary assault on Fort Wagner:

"Now let me show you the casual contempt displayed toward the American flag by a man who is masquerading as the President of the United States of America:"

Much more in the full article here.

Hamas in Shock! Israel Begins to Assassinate Their Leaders All Over The World! Israel At War

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"In some Old Testament books of the bible, God commanded Israel to destroy some enemies completely! That included all of the enemy, even all of the enemies' property and the property included livestock animals. A leader of Israel who kept some of the spoils of war was punished by God for failing to obey!"

We will find Hamas wherever they are: IDF spokesman

Never was so much stupidity condensed in one political body. But then it is Newsom country

Hamas's war on women; more terrible than the silly CNN portrayal of years back

While thousands of pieces of evidence have been collected by Israeli authorities, including personal testimonies and a document proving that Hamas terrorists were trained and taught to order women to take their pants off in Hebrew, there are those abroad who have denied this phenomenon" . . . 

The silly "war"

The real and terrifying war on women:

 Hamas war on Israeli women: World silent on Oct. 7 mass sexual assault  "In one of the most jarring videos that have emerged from the current war, the 22-year-old German-Israeli Shani Louk is seen partially naked as she is paraded in the streets of Gaza City by Hamas terrorists in the back of a pickup truck. Her long, black tresses are covered in blood from a significant head injury she sustained, presumably while trying to flee from her captors who raided the Supernova music festival she had participated in on the fateful, dark morning of October 7.

"In the video, Gazans can be seen running after the truck in cheers, repeating the “Allahu akbar” cries chanted by the terrorists; they surround the vehicle, and then some of them spit on Louk’s body.

"Only on October 30 were the Israeli and German governments able to confirm Louk’s death, relying on the fact that a temporal bone from her skull was found at the Supernova festival site with her DNA. A dislodgement of this bone is indicative of death, as no person can live without it. The rest of Louk’s body has never been recovered.

"Louk’s tragic death, which involved the humiliating parade that was recorded in the video spread by the terrorists, is unfortunately only one of numerous testimonies that indicate that, aside from the murder and kidnapping of civilians and soldiers, Hamas had made the rape, assault, violation, and humiliation of women a prime goal in its attack on Israel last month." . . .

Horrific new stories of Hamas attacks in Israel surface, including rape of woman who screamed to be killed (nypost.com)  . . ."A “beautiful woman with the face of an angel’’ was raped by eight to 10 Hamas terrorists in Israel on Oct. 7, while another tragic victim was beheaded with a shovel trying to defend herself, a stricken survivor says.

Besides her buttocks, it appears she was
hamstrung to prevent escape.

"Yoni Saadon, a 39-year-old father of four, told the UK’s Sunday Times that he is still haunted by the horrific scenes he witnessed at the Nova Music festival, when the Palestinian fiends slaughtered at least 364 festival-goers, including the gang-raped woman, who begged to be killed.

' 'I saw this beautiful woman with the face of an angel and eight or 10 of the fighters beating and raping her,” recalled Saadon, a foundry shift manager. “She was screaming, ‘Stop it already! I’m going to die anyway from what you are doing, just kill me!’

“It was clear they were trying to spread as much horror as they could to kill, to burn alive, to rape — it seemed their mission was to rape as many as possible,” Outmezgine told the Times of the terrorists.

"On Wednesday, the UN’s ongoing silence in the face of such methodical violence against women was called to question by Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations Gilad Erdan. Speaking at a UN Security Council meeting, Erdan hoisted up a picture of the 19-year-old Naama Levy, a soldier who had been kidnapped to Gaza. The photo shows Levy getting dragged out of a jeep by Hamas terrorists; her back is turned to the camera, revealing a large bloodstain that covers her backside and spreads down her legs, soaking her pants." . . .

Liberal Democrat Alan Dershowitz slams Barack Hussein Obama for throwing fuel on the fire of virulent anti-Semitism running rampant on college campuses

Well, Obama is the father of our Islamic space program.

BareNakedIslam

"Harvard Law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz reacted to former President Barack Obama’s criticism of Israel in the wake of the October 7th terror attacks on its southern territory. Dershowitz suggested Obama’s criticism was a result of the “deep hatred” Obama has always had for Israel but tried to hide."

Breitbart "Now that he is no longer president, his true (Muslim) feelings come out, and he is contributing enormously to the problem of Jew-hatred at colleges because he is respected among young people. He should be ashamed of himself. He should apologize. But he won’t.”

. . ."Friday on Fox Business Network’s “Mornings with Maria,” Harvard Law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz reacted to former President Barack Obama’s criticism of Israel in the wake of the October 7 terror attacks on its southern territory.

"Dershowitz suggested Obama’s criticism was a result of the “deep hatred” Obama had for Israel.

“Do you think Obama understands what his words have meant?” FBN host Maria Bartiromo asked.

“I think so,” Dershowitz replied. “I think he always had a deep hatred of Israel in his heart. He hid it very well. He called me to the Oval Office, and he said Alan, you know I have Israel’s back. I didn’t know he had a target on it. He has never been supportive of Israel. And finally,, his true feelings have come out now that he’s no longer president, doesn’t have to be elected.”

“So he is contributing enormously to the problem because he is respected among young people,” he added. “If he says the occupation is unbearable and that anything can be done to stop it, he is asking people to engage in their antisemitic, anti-Israel and anti-American attitudes. He should be ashamed of himself. He should apologize. But he won’t."

Obama ‘dumped Netanyahu for private dinner’ (nypost.com)  . . .“It was awful,” the congressman said. One Israeli newspaper called the meeting “a hazing in stages,” poisoned by such mistrust that the Israeli delegation eventually left rather than risk being eavesdropped on a White House telephone line. Another said that the Prime Minister had received “the treatment reserved for the President of Equatorial Guinea.”

"Left to talk among themselves Netanyahu and his aides retreated to the Roosevelt Room. He spent a further half-hour with Obama and extended his stay for a day of emergency talks to try to restart peace negotiations. However, he left last night with no official statement from either side. He returned to Israel yesterday isolated after what Israeli media have called a White House ambush for which he is largely to blame.

“ 'The Prime Minister leaves America disgraced, isolated and altogether weaker than when he came,” the Israeli daily newspaper Haaretz said." . . .

Douglas Murray, renowned British commentator, author, and journalist, no longer lives in Britain

 BareNakedIslam

From the comments to this video come this remark and, below that, the thread:

One more term of the demented senile Slow Biden administration with unfettered peaceful illegal immigrants streaming in the hundreds of thousands across our borders, the US too would become inhospitable for such journalists. We are already getting there, but not so far gone as in Europe.

And:

"Israel should thumb their collective noses and flip the bird that the US Secretary of State and his demands! The US is led by a demented senile old man incapable of making sound decisions. Israel knows best when they should do what to root out Hamas and other terror outfits. The US is in no position to DEMAND anything of a sovereign nation, a nation that has just faced one of the worst terrorist attacks on its own soil! I wonder how the village idiot GB2 administration would have responded had any of their allies had demanded that they go easy on Iraq when they were planning to take out Saddam under false pretenses! Israel should ignore the US, and anybody else who preach what Israel should and should not do!

"Yes, we are. Israel buys all its advanced fighter jets, iron domes and other advanced weaponry it needs from us and the Biden regime is threatening to stop selling them if Israel doesn’t cave to their demands. That’s the noose we hold. Israel was close to making a deal with S Korea for some kind of weaponry and the US stepped in and mixed the deal for them."

'Calling for the Murder of Jews is Not 'Protesting.' Mob of Pro-Palestinian Activists Swarm NYC – Twitchy

Today in NYC a mob chanting “there is only one solution, Intifada revolution”.
I don’t call this a “protest.” Calling for the mass murder of Jews is not “protesting.”
If the KKK were calling for the mass murder of Blacks, would we call it a “protest?”

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— Eli Klein (@TheEliKlein) December 2, 2023

Governor DeSantis v. Gav the Gov; how was it?

 Thursday’s DeSantis-Newsom TV Debate was a Ratings Winner for FOX News - American Thinker   . . ."Critics of FOX News on the conservative right—many of whom predicted the demise of the 26-year-old channel after it parted ways with its most popular host, Tucker Carlson, last April—may be surprised to learn that FOX News has continued to maintain its long time #1 position among the competition and that it boasts 18 of the top 20 programs on all three of the cable news channels, as well.". . .

Newsom's Quixotic Renewable Energy Quest | City Journal (city-journal.org)

Californians need energy to sustain their massive economy, but the state’s leaders scorn abundance for green “idealism.”

. . ."In short, it takes an enormous measure of crude oil to keep the California economy running—and that’s before automobiles enter the picture. The commitment to erase oil and gas from the state’s energy portfolio appears to know no bounds. Newsom and other public officials seem unlikely to reverse course or even slow their pace. Proponents call this dedication to the green agenda idealistic, but consigning 39 million people to a future of blackouts seems worthy of a less flattering term." . . .

Governor or Showman? ‘Red State vs. Blue State Debate’ Exposes Newsom. - The American Spectator  "When Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and California Gov. Gavin Newsom met to debate on Fox News on Thursday, Newsom was in a precarious position. At the start of November, the University of California, Berkeley, released a poll showing that the California governor’s approval rating had fallen to its lowest level on record, registering an 11-percentage-point decline from when the same poll was conducted in February 2023. Newsom’s approval rating, 44 percent, was even lower than his ratings following the French Laundry scandal, when the recall movement against him was booming.

  "The reason for Newsom’s all-time-low poll numbers? The governor has been dallying around on the national stage while paying little heed to the numerous crises afflicting California. These crises include the state’s exodus of residents, shoplifting epidemic, rapidly rising energy prices, homeless population of 171,500, poor educational outcomes, exorbitantly high rents, open-air drug use, and mass departure of corporations. That’s not to mention the fact that California has one of the nation’s highest unemployment rates and the highest cost-adjusted poverty rate in the country.

"When the damning poll was released in early November, Mark DiCamillo, director of the poll, pointed to Newsom’s efforts to raise his profile on a national level. “He’s kind of taking on a new persona,” DiCamillo told the Los Angeles Times. “He’s no longer just the governor of California. He’s a spokesperson for the national party and basically voters are being asked to react to that.”

"The poll speaks for itself. Californians are not happy with Newsom’s subordination of the state’s numerous issues to his own self-aggrandizement. . . ."  More here...

Convoluted, Condescending, Contradictory: Biden Defaces The Nation

This silly President talks down to a man much better than him and a people that show so much more determination than our Antifa generation. TD 

Bing

Issues & Insights  . . ."Next, you’ll learn he has a “much higher IQ than you.” Or at least than the Israeli leadership he ostensibly traveled to encourage but managed instead to talk down to:

“President Netanyahu and I discussed again … the critical need for Israel to operate by the laws of war … protecting civilians in combat as best as they can.”

"You mean the prime minister (not president) whose government – after his people were slaughtered, tortured, raped, abducted, and subjected to a rain of thousands of missiles in brazen violation of “the laws of war” – seeks to minimize civilian casualties by warning an entire country to get out of harm’s way rather than be used as human shields?

" 'As I said in Israel, as hard as it is, we cannot give up on peace. We cannot give up on a two-state solution.”

"Oh. You mean the “two-state solution” that, with your predecessor’s support, Israel and several Arab states shuffled off to the side while entering into true peace accords – now possibly shattered thanks to your encouragement and financing of terrorist organizations and their sponsors? 

" 'Israel and Palestinians equally deserve to live in safety, dignity and peace.”

"You mean the Palestinians who voted in Hamas and have maintained majority support for them in polls, including for past attacks on Israel? Who have been dancing in streets worldwide celebrating the beheading and burning of babies in their cribs, while attempting to burn down America’s embassy in Beirut over a lie?

“ 'When I was in Israel yesterday, I said that when America experienced the hell of 9/11, we felt enraged as well … So I caution the government of Israel not to be blinded by rage.”

"Better than being blinded by pure idiocy and complete lack of tact toward a nation still in shock and surrounded on all sides by people who want to kill them." . . .

Profiles in Cowardice - by Diann Russell (substack.com)  "Fear of pissing off the virulent anti-Semites is forcing Team Biden to deny reality"  

"The Biden administration isn’t covering itself in glory lately, is it?

"The White House is in such a panic over losing support among Muslim voters and far-Left Jew-haters that rather than simply stand up to the virulent bullies calling for the destruction of Israel and celebrating the massacre of Jews, these idiots are twisting themselves into pretzels to pretend Islamophobia and not antisemitism, is the single biggest threat facing the country.

"I mentioned last week that press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre brazenly claimed that Muslims “have endured a disproportionate number of hate-fueled attacks” in the United States.

"This, of course, is a lie." . . .

Can we not say goodbye to the insufferable Greta and her handlers?

 Time for a climate exit - American Thinker

They want us locked into 15-minute cities with our movements tracked and restricted to walking, bicycles, and small communal electric cars.  They plan to abolish the freedom of cash so they can track our consumption.  They want to see us restricted to green smoothies, oat-milk coffee, minced crickets, and fake meat burgers while they jet off to a new well fed tourist destination every year.

. . ."There is no global warming crisis.  And politicians cannot control the climate.

"However, King What’s-’is-Name, John Kerry (the U.S. presidential envoy for controlling climate), and Blackouts Bowen (Australia's minister for climate panics and zero energy) are determined to create an electricity crisis.  Power grid failure will be followed quickly by failure of food and water supplies to cities.

"Marc Morano (contact), the vice president of Clexit, is attending.  Watch him here.

"Further Reading:

Get Ready for another Pointless UN Conference

Even Greta [has been told to tell] us: “We have had decades of bla-bla-bla”

Climate Exit? Long Overdue

Heading for the Wind Drought Rocks

The No-Dams Movement

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