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Monday, February 26, 2024

The evidence is overwhelming that the sadistic tactics Hamas terrorists used against the Israeli women and girls they brutalized on October 7th included rape, torture, and burning them alive.

The comments to this article at RedState smack of an organized campaign. How do these Hamas writers not show regret for the thousands of Hamas rockets launched upon Israel with no regard for where they land? Where is their defense of the invaders who burned the homes of families and killed the occupants? Who stood along roadways to kill drivers passing by? The Tunnel Dweller

 AOC, Cori Bush Step in It Big Time After Accusing AIPAC of 'Exploiting' Hamas Rape Victims – RedState    "We know this not just because Hamas documented their barbaric savagery, but also because some of the terrorists later admitted under questioning that their intent for the women and children they captured was to “dirty them, to rape them.”

"On Wednesday, the Association of Rape Crisis Centers in Israel submitted a deeply disturbing report to the United Nations detailing their findings on the atrocities committed against women and girls by Hamas terrorists, not just on the day of the attack but afterward during captivity.

"The full report is too graphic to quote here, but this was the abstract summary:"

Read the account here.

Then this. Here we see names of pro-Hamas Democrats in Congress:       

 Have progressives become their own worst nightmare? https://t.co/5GLUfEfsmh

A party-goer describes what it was like when Gazans attacked the festival.

“Hamas’s attack on October 7 included brutal sexual assaults, carried out systematically and deliberately towards Israeli civilians” (legalinsurrection.com)  . . ."Hamas’s attack included violent acts of rape, accompanied by threats with weapons, and in some cases targeted towards injured women. Many of the rapes were carried out as a group, with the participation of violent terrorists. Often, the rape was perpetrated in front of an audience – partners, family, or friends – in a manner intended to increase the pain and humiliation of all present. Hamas terrorists hunted young women and men who fled the Nova festival, and according to testimonies, dragged them by their hair amid screams. The actions targeted women, girls, and men. In most cases, the victims were killed after or even during the rape." . . .

At Tate Modern’s Feminist Art Event, Activists Decry Hamas’ Sexual Violence Against Female Israeli Hostages. 

. . ."The demonstration was intended to raise awareness for Israeli female hostages and to criticize the lack of effort from feminist, cultural, and women’s organizations.

“Most of these organizations have ignored or failed to properly address the violence and sexual crimes committed against Israeli women and girls during the October 7 massacre, while the Israeli hostages are still facing, more than 100 days after, the same violence,” the organizers added.

"This is one such effort among others, including a much larger grassroots #BringThemHomeNow campaign focused on bring those who have been taken home and providing support for their families.

"Released hostages have reported witnessing sexual violence perpetrated by Hamas, while members of  ZAKA, a ultra-orthodox Jewish human remains recovery organization, reported recovering evidence of sexual violence and rape. A two-month New York Times investigation argued that attacks against women were part of a “broad pattern of gender-based violence” on October 7." . . . 

Saturday, April 20, 2024

A sight I found fairly terrifying in a meeting room filled with American citizens who are "useful idiots"!

 The Tunnel Wall blog: The radiant young Americans and their pleasant teacher enjoy each other as he teaches them Muslim chants of "death to America!", and 'death to Israel'. Which is more frightening: that smiling teacher or the young sheep with their raised fists and words implanted in their fertile minds, coming out of their ignorant mouths? It is awful to see so much murderous ignorance in American young people who might be our neighbors. Or family members!

For that matter, can you picture this man now teaching Arabic chants to American children placing an infant into an oven to cook to death; beheading a young person with blows from a hoe or shovel; raping a lady while her family watches at gunpoint. Can you see this pleasant man raping a woman from behind while another grabs her hair and bends her over a truck bed? Would he shoot her in the head while in the act of penetrating her? 

All these have been witnessed by some who have escaped alive from the young men of Hamas who recorded their deeds while doing them with glee. Those video scenes were played for the people of Gaza City who cheered each act that they found to their liking.

'Outnumbered' panelists react to 'disturbing' video showing anti-Israel activists celebrating Iran's latest attack. Fox News' Garrett Tenney reports": Who is organizing this 'hate America' movement?: Harris Faulkner (youtube.com)


Netanyahu's office releases horrifying images of infants murdered by Hamas | The Times of Israel. From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free one infant at a time. TD

American youth, do you not realize that the friendly instructor in front of you wants Israeli people dead? Picture him and his fellow kaffiyeh-wearing people in the villages of southern Israel, encouraging you to be capable of accomplishing what you see in this link:

Who could expect Israel to be angry over their families; their women being burned to death and having body parts, including breasts amputated during rape? How could they mind Palestinians being gleeful while breaking the bones of captured Israelis?

Was cooking infants in ovens a problem for them? 

Gazans raped Israeli women, then shot them in the head during the act of rape; how would we have thought that was a problem for Jews?


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 while trying to defend herself, a stricken survivor says.

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 Hamas 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!’

“ 'When they finished, they were laughing, and the last one shot her in the head,” he said." . . .

If you say, "I am Hamas!", then stand by your actions in these villages!  Hamas terrorists had 'a thing with sexual organs' and targeted genitalia of Israeli victims: UN testimony (nypost.com)   . . ."I remember how [one attacker] shifted her position, then passed her on to another person,” she recalled in the video testimony.

“She was alive. … She was standing. … She was bleeding from her back. … She had a long hair, and he was pulling it. … She wasn’t dressed. … He cut her breast. He threw it on the road, and they played with it,” the woman recounted in the gruesome testimony." . . .

UPDATE: HAMAS MASSACRE (saturday-october-seven.com)  The work of Hamas is so revolting they had to blur out the photos of what they did to publish them.  But since you Keffiyeh-Klad Kollegians are so proud of your latest passion it seemed necessary to display your work. You chant "We are Hamas"? Which Hamas are you; the one who shattered a woman's pelvis by your violent rape? The one who beheaded an infant in its crib? He who made an Israeli family watch you kill their parents? How about one of those who took four Israeli women to an intersection, shot them, then left their bodies in the road?

Saturday, March 9, 2024

Reject the despicable Rashida Tlaib, remember Israel and their tortured women

 Remembering the women Hamas brutally slaughtered, captured - Ethel C. Fenig  

"There are still Israeli women — and men — in dire captivity in Muslim Gaza who are being ignored even after International Women’s Day, while many still shed their crocodile tears over the plight of the starving Gazans.  On this, the day after International Women’s Day, the hypocrisy of the women — and men — who “celebrate” this day grows.  Decent women — and men — will truly celebrate the spirit of “International Women’s Day” by demanding the return of all Israeli hostages — now!" ECF 

 "Hey there, people born with women’s parts: yesterday was International Women’s Day.

Imagine a gender equal world. A world free of bias, stereotypes, and discrimination. A world that’s diverse, equitable, and inclusive. A world where difference is valued and celebrated. Together we can forge women’s equality. Collectively we can all #InspireInclusion.

Celebrate women’s achievement. Raise awareness about discrimination. Take action to drive gender parity.

IWD belongs to everyone, everywhere. Inclusion means all IWD action is valid.

"I’m still imagining.  Probably you are, too.  Meanwhile, the “Palestinian” 99.99% Muslims in Hamas-governed Gaza definitely didn’t honor the day, especially the international part, as this New York Times investigative report from last month sickeningly demonstrates.

"(Warning: Normal individuals will have nightmares after reading this, so below is a minute excerpt.)

‘Screams Without Words’: How Hamas Weaponized Sexual Violence on Oct. 7

A Times investigation uncovered new details showing a pattern of rape, mutilation and extreme brutality

"The Times interviewed several soldiers and volunteer medics who together described finding more than 30 bodies of women and girls in and around the rave site and in two kibbutzim in a similar state as Ms. Abdush’s — legs spread, clothes torn off, signs of abuse in their genital areas.

"Indeed, “Palestinian” Hamas attacks beginning on October 7, 2023 and continuing to this day, especially against women, were so brutal, so savage, that some shocked reporters were willing to delicately authenticate them, forcing the U.N. to finally respond.  Sort of. " . . .

On International Women’s Day, it's time to believe Israeli women– The Forward

Protesters wearing fake blood makeup and holding placards take part in a demonstration outside BBC
 headquarters in London on Feb. 4.

"On Oct. 7, Hamas raped, tortured, assaulted, murdered and kidnapped women.

"Why has it been so hard for the world to wake up to that fact?

"Just look at the United Nations, which took five months to assemble and release “clear and convincing” evidence that Hamas committed sexual violence on Oct. 7 — the most tragic day in modern Israeli history. Forwarding thThis, despite Israeli authorities and multiple news outlets revealing mere days after the attack that sexual violence had taken place. The truth was evident five months ago, and yet, the U.N. stayed silent. 

"It’s no surprise, considering the U.N.’s history of discriminating against Israel. Not to mention its dreadful recent record on women: It added Iran, governed by a regime that’s notoriously brutal toward women, to serve on the U.N. Commission on the Status of Women as recently as 2022. Iran was removed from the commission after the murder that same year of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman who died after being arrested for allegedly violating Iran’s laws making headscarves mandatory. But the fact that such an oppressive, anti-woman, extremist government was allowed to join this commission in the first place speaks volumes about the U.N.’s morals.

"It’s been overwhelming to see, especially when it comes to sexual violence, how determined so many people and institutions are to frame Israel as an oppressor, even when it is a victim. Even major women’s groups, including some associated with the U.N., have accepted this false framework, either because they harbor a deep hatred of Jews, or because they are so ignorant of the real situation on the ground that they are easily convinced by the deception." . . .

Thursday, April 18, 2024

Sexual violence: New details about hostages life in Hamas captivity

 Kim Hjelmgaard (usatoday.com) 

 'We know they were raped in Hamas captivity': Chilling details of what hostages faced.

Naama Levy before Hamas

"Handcuffed and dazed, she struggles to exit the trunk of the Jeep. She's barefoot and limping. She's bleeding near her temple. Her ankle is cut.

"Her gray sweatpants are bloodied. At gunpoint, she is dragged by her long brown hair into the vehicle. A crowd looks on. The car speeds off.

"That is the last time, captured in a video taken on Oct. 7, that Naama Levy, 19, was seen alive. She is among 17 female hostages ages 18 to 26 still held by Hamas somewhere in Gaza.

"Their families fear the worst.

"Time is running out for Naama," said Levy's mother, Ayelet Levy Shachar. "Time is running out for the vulnerable young women being held hostage at the hands of those who torture and abuse them." 

Naama Levy with Hamas, her smile erased, perhaps forever.

"Shachar was referring to the mounting evidence of rape, sexual violence and mutilation of women and men during the Hamas attacks in southern Israel on Oct. 7.

"But sexual assault appears not to have been confined to Oct. 7. Two Israeli doctors, who have been treating released hostages, and an Israeli military official familiar with the matter confirmed to USA TODAY that some released hostages revealed they suffered violent sexual assaults in captivity.

"All three spoke on the condition of anonymity.

"One of the doctors assessed that "many" of the released Israeli female hostages ages 12 to 48 − there are about 30 of them − were sexually assaulted while held by Hamas in Gaza.

"The doctor did not want to elaborate on the specific nature of the assaults out of concern for survivors. The doctor said people who have been sexually abused typically have a mortality rate four times higher than someone who has not been sexually abused." . . .


“The voices of so many of these women and girls were stolen by Hamas, but their bodies tell the tale,” Pildis said. “Broken pelvises. Mutilated genitals. Brutalized bodies. Then we have eyewitnesses coming forward with stories of gang rape, of torture, of murder."   "
Anti-Jewish bias makes it easier for some people to refuse to believe these accounts, Pildis said."

 “We are living in this believe-all-women era, and somehow that philosophy vanished very quickly when we're talking about Israeli women,” she said. “It’s really hard not to see that as ingrained antisemitism, ingrained bias that leads people not to want to believe these voices.”

Full article here. Share it with your "river to the sea" classmates. Brought to you by George Soros and his chanting followers. TD

Sunday, March 9, 2025

In their zeal to join in the attacks on Israel, women’s and feminist groups ignore the daily brutalization of women by Hamas and the Palestinian Authority.

The American Spectator   

. . ."organizations, such as … Hamas … have explicitly divorced Palestinian women from various fundamental human rights."

Danielle Waldman, 24-years-old, was murdered by Hamas terrorists at
 the Supernova music festival near the Gaza border on October 7

"Since the latest outbreak of the Israel-Palestine Conflict on October 7th, the state of Israel has been relentlessly accused of systematically oppressing and abusing Palestinian women and girls.
"In fact, numerous political pundits have used International Women’s Day as the impetus to attack the state of Israel for the abuses that Palestinian women have allegedly been forced to endure since the latest outbreak of the Israel-Palestine Conflict on October 7th.
"For example, various UN representatives and women’s rights advocates, such as Reem Alsalem, the UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women and Girls, and Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in the Palestinian Territory, recently issued an official statement wherein they claimed that the state of Israel has subjected women and children in Gaza to an “Onslaught of violence” and that “[Palestinian] women are being targeted by Israel with … vicious, indiscriminate, and disproportionate attacks, seemingly sparing no means to destroy their lives and deny them their fundamental human rights..”
"Unfortunately, despite the fact that they claim to care deeply about the plight of every beleaguered woman and girl in the Gaza strip, the West Bank, and around the world, the overwhelming majority of all women’s rights advocates and organizations have refused to hold the Palestinian government and Palestinian organizations, such as Hamas and the Palestinian Authority, at all accountable for the horrific human rights violations and abuses that they have callously inflicted upon women and girls in Israel and Palestine alike.
"Firstly, countless avowed women’s rights advocates and self-professed feminists throughout the international political system have all elected to ignore the depraved violence and sexual abuse, as well as the innumerable human rights violations, that Israeli women have been forced to suffer as a result of Hamas’ attacks on October 7th.
"For example, Amit Soussana, one of the hostages that Hamas captured on October 7th, recently confirmed that, during her time as a Hamas captive, she was consistently subjected to dire human rights violations, and routinely forced to endure various grotesque forms of rape and sexual assault, as well as innumerable savage beatings.

 William Barclay is a political theorist and private consultant, as well as a contributor for Young Voices. William’s work has been published by the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, Palgrave-Macmillan, The Hill Times, and the Journal of Liberty and International Affairs, among others.

Wednesday, April 10, 2024

Hamas tells negotiators it doesn’t have 40 Israeli hostages needed for first round of ceasefire

First testimonies shed light on the conditions endured by Hamas’ Israeli hostages | CNN  "For more than six weeks, the conditions in which the Israeli hostages captured by Hamas were being held in Gaza were virtually unknown to the outside world.

"But testimony from some of the hostages released by the militant group in recent days is now beginning to emerge, giving a glimpse into their lives in captivity following Hamas’ brutal attack on Israel on October 7.

"Those who have spoken of their experiences described living off limited supplies, as bombs rained overhead. Some knew throughout their time as hostages that family members or friends had died on the day of Hamas’ assault, while others were left without clues as to their safety." . . .


 Alex Marquardt and Jeremy Diamond, CNN    "Hamas has indicated it is currently unable to identify and track down 40 Israeli hostages needed for the first phase of a ceasefire deal, according to an Israeli official and a source familiar with the discussions, raising fears that more hostages may be dead than are publicly known.

"The framework that has been laid out by negotiators says that during a first six-week pause in the fighting, Hamas should release 40 of the remaining hostages, including all the women as well as sick and elderly men. In exchange, hundreds of Palestinian prisoners would be released from Israeli prisons.

Hamas has told international mediators – which include Qatar and Egypt - it does not have 40 living hostages who match those criteria for release, both sources said.

CNN’s record of the conditions of the hostages also suggests there are fewer than 40 living hostages who meet the proposed criteria.

The inability - or unwillingness - of Hamas to tell Israel which hostages would be released, alive, is a major obstacle, the second source added.

"With Hamas appearing to be unable to reach 40 in the proposed categories, Israel has pushed for Hamas to fill out the initial release with younger male hostages, including soldiers, the Israeli official said.

Saturday, March 9, 2024

"Nobody could have anticipated the consequences of our October 7th attack."

Hamas official: We couldn't have anticipated Israel's October 7 response - The Jerusalem Post (jpost.com)  "Hamas official Mousa Abu Marzouk claimed that Hamas did not anticipate Israel’s response to its October 7 massacre, according to a translation of an interview given to Egypt’s Alghad TV on Thursday by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI).

“When the [al-Qassam] brigades did what they did on October 7," the interviewer asked, "did they have any expectations regarding the consequences of the attack?” Marzouk responded that nobody had anticipated Israel’s response. 

“Nobody in the whole world expected them to be so barbaric,” Marzouk said. “And in such violation of all international laws, treaties, and norms. Nobody expected the [Israeli response] to be so barbaric because, ultimately, the resistance fights soldiers. It is not fighting civilians with planes and tanks.”

"The same Hamas official claimed in October that terror tunnels had been constructed to protect Hamas terrorists and that it was Israel's and the United Nation's responsibility to protect Palestinian civilian lives.

"The IDF has been forced to fight on Gazan terrain as Hamas has a large amount of military infrastructure built within civilian areas of Gaza. Notably, terror tunnels used by Hamas have been located under hospitals and the UNRWA headquarters. " . . .


Who could expect Israel to be angry over their families; their women being burned to death and having body parts, including breasts amputated during rape? How could they mind Palestinians being gleeful while breaking the bones of captured Israelis?

Was cooking infants in ovens a problem for them? 

Gazans raped Israeli women, then shot them in the head during the act of rape; how would we have thought that was a problem for Jews?


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 while trying to defend herself, a stricken survivor says.

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 Hamas 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!’

“ 'When they finished, they were laughing, and the last one shot her in the head,” he said.

"Saadon said he witnessed the gruesome act after pulling over him the body of a slain woman who had also been shot in the head — and smearing her blood on himself so it looked like he, too, was dead."

“I will never forget her face,” he said. “Every night I wake to it and apologize to her, saying, ‘I’m sorry.’ “. . .

"I cannot wait to call Momma and tell her what I did to this Jew!"

Hamas hostages: Stories of the people taken from Israel (bbc.com)

IDF shows foreign press Hamas bodycam videos, photos of murder, torture, decapitation | The Times of Israel

. . ."In the second segment, captured through a call recording application on a victim’s phone, a different son reaches out to a different father. “Dad, I killed 10 with my bare hands,” the terrorist excitedly tells his father in Gaza. “Their blood is on my hands, let me speak to Mom.”

“ 'Please be proud of me, Dad,” he adds."

 Watching the terrified faces of the four bloodstained teenage girls being paraded by Hamas gunmen was beyond their parents' worst nightmare. The haunting images were taken just hours after they were kidnapped and Liri Albag, Karina Ariev, Daniela Gilboa and Agam Berger appeared shadows of their former selves."     "Three months have passed since that recording of them lined up against a wall in Gaza, their hands bound behind them – and still they are in captivity."

Their plight is minimized by pro-Hamas commenters by telling us they are IDF soldiers. I have to consider every supporter of Hamas who entered Israel on Oct 6th - no matter their age - to be a Hamas fighter and has no consideration Israel is bound to respect. The Tunnel Dweller

Tuesday, January 9, 2024

Democrats take cash from head of anti-Israel group justifying Palestinian terrorism

  Analyzing America

"Congressional Democrats, including members of the “Squad,” have received campaign donations from Hussam Ayloush, CEO of the California chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).

"CAIR has been accused of ties to Palestinian terrorism and was named as an “unindicted co-conspirator” of Hamas in a 2009 terrorism financing case.

"Ayloush has made donations to several Democratic politicians, prompting criticism and calls for returning the funds due to CAIR’s alleged support for designated terrorists. (Trending: U.S. State Passes Personal Pronoun Ban)

"Peter Flaherty, CEO of the conservative National Legal and Policy Center watchdog group, said, “The lawmakers should not take any such donations, and they should return them.”

“These members of the ‘Squad’ have a bum rap when it comes to antisemitism. It’s a problem,” he continued.

"Investigator Susannah Johnston for Focus on Western Islamism, said, “Voters should take note of who is funding their elected officials.”

"Hussam Ayloush wrote on X, “And if Israel did not occupy Palestine, steal Palestinian land to build illegal settlements for Jews-only, and impose its brutal apartheid on Palestinians, there would not be a Hamas, PLO, or Fatah to begin with.' ”. . .

Hamas’ Mass Rape of Israeli Women Exposed—New York Times . . . Reveals Truth for a Change  . . ."The point of this article is to expound upon a long soul baring by the [T]imes of rape and sexual violence by Hamas terrorists and their civilian partners. The Slimes went into great detail regarding specific attacks, locations, eyewitness accounts, and post-pogrom medical reports.

"We the People wonder why the [T]imes would publish an article that:

a) supports Israel’s contention of widespread sexual violence in the 10/7 massacre, and

b) goes against progressives who have chosen from the first day to identify with Hamas and downplay any claims of mass rape.

"Decades ago we would have called this an act of “journalism” but such a thing—particularly from the [T]imes—has long been dead. Perhaps the impetus was an internal war between real women who refused to swallow the negligent bullsh*t and the mindless Leftist drones who value their jobs more than their ethical standards.

And apparently, the real women won.

"The [T]imes gives horrific detail from eyewitnesses, videos, and after-death studies. They claim there are three survivors of the sexual assaults who are each too traumatized to speak to anyone from the press.

Those involved in the macabre rape and murder spree were both terrorists and civilians. They laughed and smiled as they defiled and murdered young Israeli women and mothers. A captured Islamic Jihad terrorist admitted during questioning that his cell was involved in the rape and murder of Israeli women on 10/7. The article describes a woman found in one of the overrun kibbuztim with “dozens of nails” driven into her thighs and private parts." . . .

Wednesday, October 25, 2023

LISTEN: Hamas Terrorist Calls Parents, Brags About Killing 10 Jews

 Hamas Terrorists Found with Instructions to Decapitate Jews and Remove Hearts, Livers (breitbart.com) 

Obama Criticizes Israel over Gaza: 'Don't Harden Palestinian Attitudes for Generations' (breitbart.com)  How silly can this man be?

 Israel’s Government Press Office set out the contents of the note in a statement, saying:

Note found on Hamas terrorist: “Know that this enemy of yours is a disease that has no cure, other than beheading and extracting the hearts and livers!”

On October 7, 2023, Hamas terrorists invaded Israel and carried out a massacre in communities in southern Israel. A handwritten note was found on one of the terrorists which was given to him before the invasion.

The words from Hamas commanders consist of an order to kill Jews and encouragement to decapitate their victims and tear out their hearts and livers.

Please find attached a copy of the note in the original Arabic.

More than 1,400 Israelis have been killed since the first attack began, with some 220 people also kidnapped and held hostage by Hamas terrorists and their allies in the Gaza Strip.

Forensic evidence of the victims’ bodies and video footage captured by terrorists have shown that Israeli women and children were raped and beheaded while others were dismembered.

The war between Israel and Hamas, which began with the Oct. 7 attack, is now in its third week." . . .


AP Stylebook Suggests Hamas Not Be Called ‘Terrorists,’ Though Term Is Fine for Republicans – RedState . . ."What makes all of this linguistic cowardice more pathetic are two realities. The first is that our own government recognizes Hamas as (gird yourself here, AP), a terrorist organization. This is not a recent development. The State Department has listed them as such since 1997. The Associated Press knows this to be the case, as it was mentioned in an explainer the group the news syndicate published -- just this month.

"The other detail worth noting is just how freely the term “terrorist” is tossed around in the press when it comes to Republicans. Funny, the political party has been declared by the press as not worthy of having both-sides coverage due to election denialism and similar actions, but they need to be sure that a murderous group torching infants needs to have its side of the story told. 

"Just days after the gruesome attacks killed at least 1,400 Israeli citizens the same press corps was repeating the claim with energy that Representative Jim Jordan was a “legislative terrorist”. (The source? The AP!) While MSNBC is hesitant to go there with the terrorism charge, look at how regular FBI expert guest Frank Figliuzzi has dropped the term to describe various Republicans."  . . .

Thursday, August 7, 2014

Stories From The Battlefield: Hamas Tunnels Used To Target Israel’s Kindergartens

Who are the more contemptible; those like this who would murder men, women, and children or those leftists in so-called civilized countries who support them? TD

Daily Caller    "Multiple media outlets report that Hamas’s offensive tunnel network – now known to have been composed of over forty attack tunnels dug underneath Israel’s border with the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip – was set to be activated during the Jewish High Holidays (September 24th) as a mass terror attack.

"The attack was meant to generate as many as ten thousand casualties, men, women and particularly children and hundreds of captives.  Explosives were particularly placed underneath kindergartens to make certain that these “institutions” would be the first struck, even before any thing else.

"The IDF recently published the below map showing that tunnels were created in pairs, to empty out on both sides of nearby communities.  The known cost of the infrastructure – each tunnel costs upward of some $1 million – clearly shows that Hamas was planning a coordinated mega-attack.  It must be understood that use of even one tunnel would inevitably trigger Israeli retaliation against the entire network.
 

  A map of a small portion of the tunnels meant to be used 9 weeks from now.
 "Revelations regarding the planned tunnel attack magnitude played a decisive role in the Israeli government’s rejection of a ceasefire proposed late Friday by Secretary of State John Kerry.
"Unbelievably, Kerry actually proposed in his latest “cease-fire proposal” – none of which have been honored by Hamas so far – that Israel refrains from degrading remaining attack tunnels.  This mind-boggling concept would necessarily be rejected by any sane government, of any country.
  Gaza2
"Israeli security sources, citing information acquired in interrogations of captured brigands, described a scenario under which hundreds of heavily armed Hamas fighters would have spilled out into Israel in the dead of night and within 10 minutes been positioned to infiltrate essentially all Israeli communities surrounding the Gaza Strip.  Waiting then in hiding until schools and kindergartens were occupied, the terrorists would then attempt to kill the children first, and then kill and kidnap as many Israelis as possible.  The plot was set to take place during Jewish New Year, on September 24.by Taboola
Gaza3
 Fantastic quantities of explosives were stored in every tunnel, meant to be used in a mega-attack on civilian communities and infrastructure.
“ 'It’s like the Underground, the Metro or the Subway,” Israeli military spokesman Lt. Col. Peter Lerner said. “These tunnels are all connected. I would describe it as Lower Gaza.”
"Israeli Economy Minister Naftali Bennett said, “A whole city of terror tunnels has been found.  Without the ground operation, we would have woken up one day to an Israeli 9/11.”
"Except, the actual objective was to be five times 9/11."   Read more.

Mordechai Ben-Menachem

Hat tip to Walt Stier; Santa Maria, CA