The U.S. Military-Industrial Complex Fought And Won WWII In Less Time Than Boeing’s Delay On Air Force One

 The Federalist

  Six presidents have used the current Air Force One aircraft since President George H.W. Bush put them into use in 1990 and 1991. 

Babylon Bee: "Trump Accepts Generous Gift Of Imperial-Class Star Destroyer From Emperor Palpatine" 

  "It's a big, beautiful ship. Tremendous guy, that Palpatine, very smart," Trump told reporters as the imposing

 Star Destroyer came in for its landing. "You never saw the Emperor giving one of these beauties to Joe Biden,

 did you? ...

"On Sunday it was reported that President Donald Trump accepted an Qatar’s offer of a jumbo jet to serve temporarily as Air Force One after Boeing failed to deliver the long-promised replacement aircraft. But the real story here is that Boeing, the Department of Defense’s premier contractor, has been delayed years on a project vital to national security.

“We’re very disappointed that it’s taking Boeing so long to build a new Air Force One,” Trump said on Monday morning during a press conference. “You know, we have an Air Force One that’s 40 years old. And if you take a look at that, compared to the new plane of the equivalent, you know, stature at the time, it’s not even the same ballgame.” . . .

AG Bondi Says FBI Is Reviewing Tens of Thousands of Epstein Videos With Hundreds of Child Victims

 Debra Heine; American Greatness  

"We should, however, find out—and quickly—if Epstein worked with or for any specific intelligence agencies.”

"More than two months after she promised to release the Jeffrey Epstein files, Attorney General Pam Bondi explained this week that the sheer volume of pornographic material being reviewed is delaying the process.

" 'There are tens of thousands of videos of Epstein with children or child porn and there are hundreds of victims,” Bondi told reporters at the White House on Wednesday. “And no one victim [child’s identity] will ever get released,” she added. “It’s just the volume and that’s Bondi’s promise to release the Epstein files came under renewed scrutiny this week after Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), chairman of the House Oversight Committee, told conservative podcaster Benny Johnson that he did not believe the Justice Department still possessed records.

" 'The attorney general does not have them or she would’ve turned them over. The president ordered them released, the attorney general ordered them released. We all know they have not been released,” Comer told Johnson during an interview that aired Tuesday.

"Comer said he suspected that staffers in the Biden Justice Department destroyed relevant documents implicating the political and Hollywood liberals who associated with Epstein.

"The Kentucky congressman’s office remained doubtful that the records will ever see the light of day when a reporter asked him about Bondi’s comments.

" 'Over the years, possible Deep State actors within the DOJ may not have preserved all Epstein documents,” a Comer aide said." . . .

Debra Heine is a conservative Catholic mom of six and longtime political pundit. She has written for several conservative news websites over the years, including Breitbart and PJ Media.

Trump and the UN.

From staff cuts to aid reductions, UN humanitarian agencies scramble in wake of US funding freeze | AP News

Issues & Insights: Defund The United Nations  "The United Nations is running short of cash. This is not a crisis but an opportunity. Please rid us of this meddlesome, venal and baleful organization.

"The Economist reports that “internal modeling” at the U.N. “suggests that the year-end cash deficit will, without cuts, probably blow out to $1.1 billion, leaving it “without money to pay salaries and suppliers by September.”

"Apparently “some members are paying their bills late and others not at all” and it is the U.S. and China that “are pushing it to the brink of financial collapse.”

"Who says the U.S. and Beijing have no common interests.

"Two weeks into the second Trump administration, the White House announced it was considering withdrawing the country from, and ending funding for, three U.N. agencies, including the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) and the U.N. Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).

“UNRWA has reportedly been infiltrated by members of groups long designated by the secretary of state as foreign terrorist organizations,” says the White House, “and UNRWA employees were involved in the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel.” 

"Meanwhile, “UNESCO has demonstrated failure to reform itself, has continually demonstrated anti-Israel sentiment over the past decade” and has shown that it will not “reform itself.”

"The U.S. is also quitting the U.N. Human Rights Council, which it has done once before, in 2018, during President Donald Trump’s first term. The misnamed Human Rights Council “has protected human rights abusers by allowing them to use the organization to shield themselves from scrutiny,” says the White House.

"For those who will disregard the administration’s explanations because they’re “political rants,” we offer some facts: . . ."

Why does Donald Trump want to take over Gaza and could he do it?  "Donald Trump has shocked the world by suggesting that the US could "take over" and "own" Gaza, resettling its population in the process.

"The proposal could mark the biggest shift in US policy on the Middle East in decades and upend the international consensus on a Palestinian state comprising Gaza and the occupied West Bank.

"Trump has suggested that under his plan, Gaza would be handed over to the US by Israel and its residents encouraged to move elsewhere with no right of return." . . .

The last time we occupied a state known for killing with glee every Jew they could resolved major problems. That "two-state solution" has proven to be a non-starter much like the Poland/ Germany arrangement in 1939. The Tunnel Dweller.

Why was the South of the Confederacy called "The Chivalry"?

Southern Culture of Honor  

. . ."Nor did the enslaved woman’s role as daughter, wife, or mother garner any patriarchal protection. Each of these roles and the relationships they defined was subject to the prerogative of a master, who could freely violate enslaved women’s persons, sell off their children, or separate them from their families." . . .

Figure 2. This cover illustration from Harper’s Weekly in 1861
 shows the ideal of southern womanhood.

Gender and the Southern Household  "The antebellum South was an especially male-dominated society. Far more than in the North, southern men, particularly wealthy planters, were patriarchs and sovereigns of their own household. Among the White members of the household, labor and daily ritual conformed to rigid gender delineations. Men represented their household in the larger world of politics, business, and war. Within the family, the patriarchal male was the ultimate authority. White women were relegated to the household and lived under the thumb and protection of the male patriarch. The ideal southern lady conformed to her prescribed gender role, a role that was largely domestic and subservient. While responsibilities and experiences varied across different social tiers, women’s subordinate state in relation to the male patriarch remained the same.

    "Femininity in the South was intimately tied to the domestic sphere, even more so than for women in the North. The cult of domesticity strictly limited the ability of wealthy southern women to engage in public life. While northern women began to organize reform societies, southern women remained bound to the home, where they were instructed to cultivate their families’ religious sensibility and manage their household. Managing the household was not easy work, however. For women on large plantations, managing the household would include directing a large bureaucracy of potentially rebellious enslaved people. For most southern women who did not live on plantations, managing the household included nearly constant work in keeping families clean, fed, and well-behaved. On top of these duties, many southern women were required to help with agricultural tasks.

    "Female labor was an important aspect of the southern economy, but the social position of women in southern culture was understood not through economic labor but rather through moral virtue. While men fought to get ahead in the turbulent world of the cotton boom, women were instructed to offer a calming, moralizing influence on husbands and children. The home was to be a place of quiet respite and spiritual solace. Under the guidance of a virtuous woman, the southern home would foster the values required for economic success and cultural refinement. Female virtue came to be understood largely as a euphemism for sexual purity, and southern culture, southern law, and southern violence largely centered on protecting that virtue of sexual purity from any possible imagined threat. In a world saturated with the sexual exploitation of Black women, southerners developed a paranoid obsession with protecting the sexual purity of White women. Black men were presented as an insatiable sexual threat. Racial systems of violence and domination were wielded with crushing intensity for generations, all in the name of keeping White womanhood as pure as the cotton that anchored southern society.

    "Writers in the antebellum period were fond of celebrating the image of the ideal southern woman. One such writer, Thomas Roderick Dew, president of Virginia’s College of William and Mary in the mid-nineteenth century, wrote approvingly of the virtue of southern women, a virtue he concluded derived from their natural weakness, piety, grace, and modesty. In his Dissertation on the Characteristic Differences Between the Sexes, he writes that southern women derive their power not by leading armies to combat, or of enabling her to bring into more formidable action the physical power which nature has conferred on her. No! It is but the better to perfect all those feminine graces, all those fascinating attributes, which render her the center of attraction, and which delight and charm all those who breathe the atmosphere in which she moves; and, in the language of Mr. Burke, would make ten thousand swords leap from their scabbards to avenge the insult that might be offered to her. By her very meekness and beauty does she subdue all around her." . . .

The Tunnel Dweller has experienced the Southern class culture when my mother, a Mississippi-born and raised spoiled woman was remarried to an Oregon-born logger whom she felt was below her class. He was only there to take care of her demands. I saw her look out the window at another woodworker family moving into their partially finished tarpaper home with a distant contemplative expression. Then she commented almost to herself, "They're not in our class". I'm forced to assume "our" included only her and me, not my honorable and caring stepdad.

Eating their own: Jasmine Crockett goes after Democrat party for considering ‘safest white boy’ for next presidential election

Yet Biden from the start made a faux issue of "white supremacy". 

 Olivia Murray 

How dare the Democrats consider a candidate that’s the “safest” bet. Politics isn’t about pushing an agenda, it’s about foisting unlikable and awful politicians onto your voting base, then crying racism or misogyny over the subsequent failures. 

Can it be? Yes! The Nazi salute!

" Jasmine Crockett, the Texas congresswoman who reliably and routinely beclowns herself every single time she opens her mouth, is now going after her own party because as she asserts, they’re considering running the “safest white boy” in 2028 as their next presidential candidate.

"What would she prefer? The opposite? A problematic black woman? News flash Crockett, y’all just did that, and it was the biggest beating you Democrats have had at the ballot box in more than forty years—since Ronald Reagan, and that was lifetimes ago!

"She doesn’t like “safe” and “white,” so is “dangerous” and “black” better? Sounds like her ideal candidate would be George Floyd, or O.J. Simpson. Too bad for her, they’re both six feet under.

"Here’s what Crockett said:" 

Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett says that the major donors in the Democrat Party want to go out and find the “safest white boy we can find” to represent them in 2028. She is the gift that keeps on giving & relishes the spotlight. pic.twitter.com/Z3NTqnEtV7

— Bobby (@BobbyWilson1004) May 11, 2025

. . ."'How dare the Democrats consider a candidate that’s the “safest” bet. Politics isn’t about pushing an agenda, it’s about foisting unlikable and awful politicians onto your voting base, then crying racism or misogyny over the subsequent failures." . . . 

The Democrat-Media Codependency; Their deeply dysfunctional relationship is destroying the credibility of both.

The American Spectator  

"They just revise their fabrications to fit the needs of the moment. This is why most Americans disregard virtually everything the Democrats and the corporate media tell them." . . .

"If the 2024 election told us nothing else, it confirmed that the voters aren’t nearly as credulous as the Democrats and the corporate media believe them to be. Indeed, according to a survey conducted by the Pew Research Center six weeks prior to the election, only 22 percent of American adults believed news organizations deal fairly with all sides. Ironically, considering that the news coverage of the Trump administration has been overwhelmingly negative, the primary beneficiaries of this brazenly biased reporting appear to have been President Donald Trump and the Republican Party.

"Despite questionable polls that purport to show President Trump and the GOP falling out of favor with the voters, both enjoy higher favorability ratings than the Democrats. According to RealClearPolitics, Trump currently stands at 45.4 percent. This does suggest that there has been some erosion, but it isn’t particularly alarming when compared with the abysmal ratings endured by prominent Democrats. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, for example, languishes at 28.0 percent. Likewise, the GOP’s favorability rating seems inauspicious at 42.2 percent until it is compared to the Democratic Party’s anemic 33.8 percent rating.

"Far more important than such ephemeral polling, however, is the increasing tendency of voters to support the GOP — at the federal and state level. In addition to controlling the White House and Congress, the Republicans also enjoy governing trifectas in 23 states according to Ballotpedia. The Democrats hold trifectas in 15 states. As recently as 2010, the GOP held only 9 state trifectas and the Democrats held 16. Can this reversal of fortune really be attributed to voter distrust of the corporate media? Megan McArdle says yes in the Washington Post and leftist political scientist Yascha Mounk offers the same answer in a Substack essay:

Democracies depend on having a few widely trusted news outlets that can objectively inform the public about current affairs. The trust which citizens have traditionally placed in these outlets was premised on a belief that their journalists are at least striving to present events in an even-handed manner … The aspiration of many journalists to save democracy has not just proven counterproductive because it drove a big part of their readership away from mainstream outlets. It has also deprived Democrats of key facts they would have needed to make good strategic decisions.

"This last point cannot be overemphasized. When “main stream” journalists decided it was more important to save democracy from the depredations of Donald Trump than to provide factual reporting to voters, they weren’t doing the Democrats any favors. The most obvious example involves their futile attempt to hide former President Biden’s accelerating cognitive decline. When the Wall Street Journal raised the issue they were attacked by the usual media suspects. CNN, for example, pompously declared, “The Wall Street Journal owes its readers — and the public — better.” At MSNBC’s “MaddowBlog,” editor Steve Benen wrote:

I’ve never spoken to the incumbent president … That said, I know that (a) members of Congress from both parties who’ve interacted with him have praised his sharpness; (b) Biden’s recent work on Ukraine, border policies, and the Middle East suggest he’s tackling and implementing an expansive and ambitious agenda at the White House; (c) questions about Donald Trump’s mental stability seem far more salient right now; and (d) some GOP officials might want the public to believe the worst about Biden and his age, but I’m not inclined to take Kevin McCarthy’s and Mike Johnson’s word for it.

 "This is precisely the kind of “reporting” that does real damage to Democrats and the credibility of corporate media. The Journal’s article was published on June 4, 2024 — more than three weeks before Biden self-destructed in his debate with Donald Trump." . . .

Labor Department Admits Hundreds of Thousands of Biden Jobs Were Fake

 EJ Antoni, Ph.D.  

"For example, economic rhetoric couldn’t paper over the reality that credit-card debt exploded to well over $1.2 trillion from Americans being unable to make ends meet in the Biden economy. Trump was elected to fix our finances, which were much worse than Biden’s cronies would ever admit." 

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"The Biden administration claimed to have added almost 400,000 jobs from July through September of last year, but new data released this week suggest none of those jobs ever existed. Despite constantly gaslighting by the mainstream media, Americans knew the economy was in poor shape and these latest numbers prove it.

"Month after month, the government bean-counters under former-president Biden published overly optimistic estimates for everything from job growth to the size of the economy, only to have those numbers routinely—and quietly—revised down later.

"Every month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) produces estimates for the number of nonfarm payrolls in the country, as well as revisions for the last two months’ estimates. Under Biden, these revisions were abnormal in magnitude and direction, being revised down with unusual frequency.

"While these monthly job reports are compiled from a survey of over 600,000 businesses, of which fewer than 200,000 are surveyed each month. But the BLS also publishes much more comprehensive quarterly data called Business Employment Dynamics (BED) that come from a census of over 12 million businesses—that’s over 17 times the sample size of the monthly job reports’ survey.

"This more accurate dataset was just released by the BLS for the third quarter of last year, which ran from the start of July through the end of September. In stark contrast to the monthly job reports showing an increase of 399,000 jobs during the third quarter, these new numbers show a decline of 1,000 private-sector jobs." . . .

. . ."And the downward revisions to Biden-era jobs data are set to continue. From March through June of last year, the economy supposedly added 398,000 nonfarm payrolls, according to the monthly job reports, yet the BED data show a net loss of 163,000 private-sector jobs for that period.

"Instead of adding almost 800,000 jobs during the middle of last year, the economy likely shed more than 160,000 of them. The next annual benchmark will probably be a (retroactive) reduction of jobs under Biden that exceeds this year’s large downward revision." . . .

The left seems to want Trump and Jews dead and evil to thrive

 Hilariously DESTROYING Rachel Maddow While Defending Trump On Live TV

  

Who’s To Blame For The Left’s ‘Assassination Culture’?  "A university report published last month shows that more than half of those who identify as being left of center on the political spectrum believe assassinating President Donald Trump would be justified. This didn’t come about organically. It’s the product of a vicious campaign waged by the Democratic Party-mainstream media axis.

"According to a Rutgers Social Perception Lab-Network Contagion Research Institute brief, 55.2% of Americans on the left “reported that if someone murdered Donald Trump, they would be at least somewhat justified.” Overall, 38.5% hold the same belief.

"Trump, who has survived a pair of assassination attempts (one of which was celebrated), is not the only legitimate target, say many Americans. The data show that nearly half, 48.6%, say murdering Elon Musk would be justified.

"It turns out that there has also been a shocking show of support for Luigi Mangione, who has been charged with murdering UnitedHealth Chief Executive Officer Brian Thompson. In addition, Mangione has a health care ballot initiative named after him in California.

"It’s an effort to dehumanize him, which is a tacit approval for violent behavior. To this end, various playactors, politicians, and grifters have: 

• Wanted to punch Trump in the face (Robert DeNiro)
• Wished they could “take him behind the gym and beat the hell out of him” (Joe Biden)
• Wondered when “was the last time an actor assassinated a president” (Johnny Depp)
• Asked “where is John Wilkes Booth when you need him?” (actress Carole Cook),
• Said the “donor class” is “still going to have go out and put a bullet in Donald Trump” (Rick Wilson, Lincoln Project),
• “Thought an awful lot about blowing up the White House” (Madonna)
• Felt inspired to “go and take out Trump tonight” (Rep. Maxine Waters)
• Wished publicly that “somebody would kill Donald Trump” (academic and New York Times columnist John McWhorter)
• Hoped that “maybe Donald Trump will go away. Maybe he’ll go to jail. Maybe he will die” (former Biden press secretary and current MSNBC misinformer Jen Psaki)

Pope Leo XIV’s Brother Sparks Outrage Over Vulgar Nancy Pelosi Posts and Illegal Immigration Stance

Pope Leo better move as far left as he can after this. Every great leader has a Billy Carter in the family. TD

RTM  

“These f***ing liberals crying about tariffs is just unreal,” he wrote. “Do they not know that there is a thing called video? Just listen to what this drunk c*** has to say in the mid-90’s long before her husband had Grindr dates.”

 "A wave of controversy has emerged following the election of the first American pope, after resurfaced social media posts by his older brother revealed harsh political commentary and vulgar criticisms of top Democrats and liberal policies.

"Louis Prevost, the older brother of newly-elected Pope Leo XIV, has gained attention for his outspoken posts on Facebook, where he regularly expresses support for President Donald Trump and shares inflammatory rhetoric about prominent political figures. 

"His recent posts have included crude remarks about Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and critiques of former President Joe Biden’s supporters.

"In one April 5 repost, Louis shared a 1996 video of Pelosi speaking about tariffs.

“These f***ing liberals crying about tariffs is just unreal,” he wrote. “Do they not know that there is a thing called video? Just listen to what this drunk c*** has to say in the mid-90’s long before her husband had Grindr dates." 

"The Facebook account, based in Port Charlotte, Florida, also contains other posts critical of Democratic voters and progressive ideology. 

"In one 2023 repost, he mocked Biden’s approval rating." . . .

This should help Leo: "Some conservative commentators have already expressed disappointment in the pontiff’s political leanings. 

"Former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon called him the “worst pick for MAGA Catholics” and labeled him the “anti-Trump pope,” according to the Daily Mail." . . .

Just in: Adam Schiff calls for impeachment of the Pope. Joe Biden, through clenched teeth agrees. Jimmy Fallon, weeping, apologized for "humanizing" Leo. The world awaits hearing from "The View" on this. TD

The Downfall Of 60 Minutes And The Biggest Media Scandal You’ve Never Heard Of

 The Federalist  

"Supposedly, Redstone has also expressed a desire to settle Donald Trump’s case against 60 Minutes over allegations they deceptively edited their interview with Kamala Harris last fall."

. . . "Though the Times is loathe to discuss it, there’s also lots of speculation that . . . "Redstone, an observant Jew, was less than thrilled when 60 Minutes recently ran an offensively stupid segment where veteran reporter Leslie Stahl asked a freed Israeli hostage if his Hamas captors starved him unintentionally because Hamas ran out of food. It’s well established that Hamas steals and hoards all the food and aid coming into Gaza, and it beggars belief that anyone, let alone someone who gets paid millions by a news network, would think a terrorist organization deserves the benefit of the doubt. And further, that layers of producers and editors would put this on the air.

"There may be some truth to any or all of these accusations about what’s motivating Paramount and Redstone, but if Paramount is attempting to politicize 60 Minutes‘ reporting, at least they’re trying to make a buck out of it. Bill Owens spent 26 years at 60 Minutes, eventually presiding over a news operation that has willfully corrupted itself to the point where its bias has turned the show into a laughingstock. In at least one instance that I am familiar with, Owens played a pivotal role in a gross journalistic failing at 60 Minutes that ultimately helped a Democratic presidential candidate evade responsibility for an international incident that got Americans killed.

Cloud of Scandal

"Since Owens joined 60 Minutes, it’s hard to know where to begin cataloging the embarrassments. Its recent defense of Hamas and its refusal to follow past precedent and release an unedited transcript of the show’s interview with Kamala Harris, who is unable to answer basic questions in ways that aren’t insultingly inane, for fear of damaging her electoral chances were just par for the course." . . .

DOJ to investigate Texas Muslim-led development as antisemitic and anti-Christian

I see the place becoming a great, big Ivy League campus; Judenrein. In 1960, I experienced this in Toulon, France where we were told the area, then called "The Sullies" was a Muslin no-go zone with shore patrol guarding the entrance streets. Apparently non-Muslims tend to be killed in that area and those trendy Palestinian scarves are not knife-resistant. TD

Angie Orellana Hernandez

Cornyn wrote to the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division on April 11 requesting an additional investigation into the project that he said was an "exclusive religious settlement" governed by "Islamic principles."

"Texas Republicans claim the development would impose Islamic law on residents"

"The Justice Department will investigate whether a planned real estate development around one of North Texas's largest mosques violates federal law, Sen. John Cornyn (R) said Friday after weeks of calling the project antisemitic and anti-Christian.

"Attacks over the development outside Dallas have been amplified by Cornyn, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R), Gov. Greg Abbott and right-wing bloggers who baselessly claim it would create a Muslim-only community and impose Islamic law on residents.

"Leaders for the East Plano Islamic Center, the mosque that is backing the project dubbed EPIC City, have repeatedly denied the accusations and called the attacks on their planned development Islamophobic. If built, EPIC City would span about 400 acres and create housing, day care facilities, medical clinics and schools, according to marketing material.

" 'I am grateful to Attorney General Bondi and the Department of Justice for hearing my concerns and opening an investigation," Cornyn said in a statement. "Religious discrimination and Sharia Law have no place in the Lone Star State. Any violations of federal law must be swiftly prosecuted, and I know under the Trump administration, they will be."

"Dan Cogdell, an attorney for EPIC City, said the development would cooperate with the federal investigation, noting that the Muslim community behind the project had nothing to hide.

" 'From day one, their intention was to comply completely and wholeheartedly with the law," said Cogdell, who defended Paxton during the Republican firebrand's 2023 impeachment trial. "And they've just been vilified, assailed and attacked."

"Cogdell added, "What is crazy to me is how far we haven't come since 9/11. The words 'mosque,' 'Islam,' 'Muslim' in the year of our Lord 2025 are still such a triggering event."

"The Justice Department did not respond to a request for comment.

"EPIC City was announced about a year ago, according to its social media pages. Developers said they would use empty land in Josephine, Texas, northeast of Dallas, to build a "vibrant, multigenerational, and inclusive master planned community."

"As EPIC City was selling shares and building out its plans, none of which featured materials that required residents to be Muslim, an uproar by conservatives overshadowed the project. Cogdell said the first incidents came from right-wing accounts on X, which caught the attention of senior Republican leaders in Texas." . . .

Israel is fighting in Gaza, now … and we ask all the civilians to evacuate. Immediately.

Horrific Footage of Hamas Atrocities Revealed by IDF Shakes Global Media - The Media Line

  . . .It’s no use. … A Hamas terrorist enters the frame and throws a grenade into their shelter.

"An explosion of dust and spark light erupts from inside. … The father drops dead to the ground. The two young boys, shell-shocked and bleeding, exit the structure that was supposed to shield them from harm. The terrorist who killed their father intercepts them and ferries them back to the house.

"While inside the kitchenette, the older brother flits between traumatic cries for death, collapsing to the floor and holding his head, and trying to care for his younger sibling who says he can no longer see from one eye. The children call out through thick tears for their father, for their mother. Their terrorist tormentor opens the fridge for a drink of water—ignoring their cries.

"The cold-blooded murder of a family in their own home, under the Saturday morning sun, apparently makes for thirsty work." . . .Aaron Poris

. . ." These are just some of the images left behind in Hamas’ wake, revealed by the IDF to the press. The IDF deemed these images too disturbing to publish, although many are still up on social media.

"After the screening, former IDF Gaza Division Commander Maj. Gen. Mickey Edelstein incredulously remarked that he “was shocked to see that some [news] channels tried to compare what Israel was doing [in Gaza] to the vile [Hamas] terrorists. … ‘Is it equal?’ I cannot understand the comparison between Israel and Hamas. This is irresponsible. You can see how vile Hamas is. We share this so that you can see there’s no comparison [between the IDF and Hamas].”

. . . "Edelstein added, “Israel is fighting in Gaza, now … and we ask all the civilians to evacuate. Immediately. Some critics of Israel say, ‘Yes, but there are civilian casualties,’ but nothing [compares]! We are not looking for kids to kill. We are not looking for elderly people or Holocaust survivors to take or to kill because they’re not walking fast enough back into Gaza. We do not take a child to coax his neighbors to come out … just so we can then kill his family and his neighbors.” This exact scene was in Hamas’ footage online.

"Asked to confirm footage of sexual violence and a Hamas terrorist’s film depicting young girls earmarked for sexual slavery, Edelstein answered The Media Line in the affirmative, saying, “We have evidence of this, but we cannot share it.” He also confirmed that hundreds of Gazans poured into these communities after Hamas terror cells to loot, rape, and capture Israelis for themselves. “The fact that they are not wearing uniforms does not mean they’re not terrorists,” he added.

"The 45-minute snuff film, which the IDF titled “Hamas Massacre—Collected Raw Footage, Oct. 7, 2023,” included a combination of Hamas’ GoPro body cameras, dashcams from terrorists’ and civilians’ cars, closed-circuit television, cellphone footage, and more. The footage was also compiled in such a way as to show many of the same acts from different points of view.

It was mayhem by design. Hamas terror cells attacked in parallel around 30 locations, according to the IDF. The terrorists were well-armed, practiced, strictly organized, and operating under orders regarding “how to kill, how many to kill, how many to take as hostage. Orders were there to rape … All was written for them,” said Edelstein.

“We found written orders in manuals [on Hamas terrorists who were killed], but we also captured some terrorists alive, and they told us. They were ordered that morning to kill families, to take hostages in order to make it more painful [for Israel].”

"Outside the event hall, the head of the IDF Arabic Desk and commander of the Arabic Spokespersons Unit, Maj. Ella Waweya, condemned Hamas’ barbarity as an affront to humanity and religion itself." . . .