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The Nazi Roots of Hamas
What the true origins of Hamas reveal about its nature.
On Oct 7, Hamas, a terrorist organization born in part out of a collaboration between Nazis and Islamists, carried out the greatest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust.
The butchery of men, women and children and the elderly, was not only ‘Nazi-like’, it was in some ways the final act of a Nazi crime nearly eight decades in the making.
In 1946, the Muslim Brotherhood held its founding conference in Gaza at the Samer Cinema. The movie theater which had opened two years earlier and would be shut down, along with much of Gaza’s movie theaters as the Islamist movement strengthened its grip over the area, represented the secular Western culture that the Islamic organization wanted to destroy.
It was a modest beginning for the group that would eventually become known as Hamas.
The Muslim Brotherhood’s expansion into Israel began a year earlier in 1945. The Brotherhood’s foreign backers, the Nazis, had surrendered earlier that year. The thousand pound checks which had helped take the Brotherhood from just another fringe Islamist theocratic movement to a dominant force in Egyptian political culture would no longer be coming. And Nazi Germany’s armies would not be arriving to help them kill all the Jews.
Without the Nazis, the Brotherhood no longer had the money or any protection from the British, who might seek to punish their Nazi collaboration, or the Egyptian monarchy which was worried that the Islamist group was seeking to overthrow it. By 1948, Egypt had banned the Brotherhood and Hassan al-Banna, its charismatic leader, had been shot dead in the street a year later.
Al-Banna, the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, had admired Nazi organizations and methods. A British report noted that he had made “a careful study of the Nazi and fascist organizations. Using them as a model, he has formed organizations of specially trained and trusted men who correspond respectively to the Brown Shirts and Black Shirts.”
The Muslim Brotherhood from which Hamas sprang had been built in imitation of the Nazis.
The Nazis and the Brotherhood had fundamental religious and ethnic differences but shared common goals: especially when it came to the Jews. A Nazi agent who helped funnel money to the Brotherhood reported on one of its conferences calling for Jihad in Israel.
Hitler’s Mufti, Hajj Amin al-Husseini, had helped bring the Muslim Brotherhood together with the Nazis. And it was Husseini, who after their defeat, provided the focus for the Brotherhood.
Hajj Amīn al-Husseini had met with Hitler, urged him to exterminate the Jews of Israel, and recruited Muslims to fight for the Nazis. He had hailed the Muslim Brotherhood as “the troops of Allah” while Al-Banna praised Hitler’s Mufti as the “hero who challenged an empire and fought Zionism, with the help of Hitler and Germany. Germany and Hitler are gone, but Amin Al-Husseini will continue the struggle.”
The Muslim Brotherhood and Husseini’s Jihadis in Israel would carry on Hitler’s work.
The defeat of Nazi Germany marked the end of the hope that the legions of the Third Reich would storm into Egypt and Israel, and that their local allies like the Brotherhood and the Mufti would be able to wipe out the Jews and all their political adversaries across the region.
Instead the Brotherhood would have to replicate the Nazi model, building a political organization with a paramilitary arm that would seize power in Egypt, Gaza and across the Muslim world.
The Muslim Brotherhood set up cells across to Israel beginning in Jerusalem.
Al-Bana turned over this mission to Said Ramadan, his son-in-law and a key Brotherhood figure who would later usher in an alliance with the Saudis that would allow the organization to bring in new wealth and expand worldwide. In Europe. Ramadan would direct the rise of the central Muslim Brotherhood operation in Munich, at a mosque set up by ex-Nazi Muslim soldiers who had defected to the Third Reich during WWII. A CIA report from the 1950s described Ramadan as a “fascist type” who was obsessed with driving the Jews out of Israel.
Setting up Brotherhood organizations across Israel was more than an expansion, it was a mission. With the Nazis gone, invading Israel was a way to allow the Brotherhood to build up its military capabilities without triggering an immediate crackdown by the authorities.
The Brotherhood’s new capabilities were aimed at Israel, but also at Egypt and at shoring up the power of local clans. Its presence in Gaza was part of an alliance with important families, including the Shawwas, who had been close to the Ottoman Empire and were mistrusted by the British. Said al-Shawwa, the Ottoman mayor of Gaza, had served on the Supreme Muslim Council alongside Hajj Amīn al-Husseini. And the Gaza Brotherhood would go on to be headed by Zafer Sahwa whose experience had come out of the Islamic Scouts.
The Scouting movement had struck a different chord in the Muslim world than it did the UK. Islamic scouting was explicitly meant to prepare young boys for Jihad. Some Islamic scouting movements were Nazi inspired. Al-Husseini’s scouting movement in Israel called themselves the ‘Nazi Scouts’ and dressed in Hitler Youth outfits. The Muslim Brotherhood had founded its own scout group “based on the concept of Jihad” and also modeled on the Hitler Youth.
In the months before Israel’s declaration of independence, Hassan al-Bana arrived in Gaza to witness the first wave of assaults by Brotherhood forces against Jewish communities.
Kfar Darom, a beleaguered Jewish village in Gaza, was the first target. After months of siege, the Muslim Brotherhood’s battalion attacked the village of Kfar Darom where dozens of Israeli militia members protected 400 men, women and children. The Brotherhood’s attacks were beaten back with determined resistance until its Jihadists were forced to retreat leaving behind seventy of their dead. Among the Jihadi attackers was an Egyptian named Yasser Arafat.
The Brotherhood had been defeated, but only temporarily. When Israel forcibly removed the Jewish communities of Gaza in 2005 to end the Israeli presence in Gaza, Hamas leader Mahmoud Zahar entered the Kfar Darom synagogue and laid claim to it in the name of Islam.
The Muslim Brotherhood’s first Jihad failed badly, but it succeeded in its true goals. Its role in the invasion of Israel alongside the Egyptian military built an alliance. After Muslim Brotherhood mobs rioted against the British in the streets, Egyptian officers used the prearranged opportunity to seize power. The relationship between the Egyptian military and the Muslim Brotherhood was rife with tension from the beginning and like so many such relationships in the region, the internal rivalry was redirected into violence against non-Muslims. In this case once again Israel.
The Brotherhood’s mobs had paved the way for a military coup by destroying Egypt’s westernized nightlife, including its theaters. In Gaza, they were once again tasked with doing the military’s dirty work by attacking Israel, but once again the core purpose of the Brotherhood was to ‘Islamize’ Gaza, and eventually Egypt and the whole world, through its terror campaign.
Long before the Six Day War, during which Israel reclaimed Gaza, Muslim terrorists known as ‘Fedayeen’ or ‘those who die for Allah’ struck across the border with the aim of murdering Jews. Terrorist atrocities included the Massacre at Scorpions’ Pass during which the men, women and children on a bus coming back from a beach town were massacred.
The alliance between the Egyptian military and the Muslim Brotherhood was the first true modern Islamic terrorist operation. Egyptian military officers trained and dispatched terrorists out of Gaza to cross the border and murder ordinary Israelis. The Egyptian government dismissed the atrocities as the work of local Bedouin Arabs over whom it had no control.
The Israelis knew better, but the plausible deniability established by the Egyptian government and the Brotherhood was good enough for the United Nations. When Israel struck back at the terrorists, it was condemned for attacking civilians and when it targeted the Egyptian officers behind the attacks, it was accused of provoking a regional war. Terrorism had transformed a war between nations into a conflict between a state and insurgents posing as civilians.
Seventy years later, this is still the role that Hamas plays for Iran and Qatar among others.
In exchange for waging war on Israel, the Muslim Brotherhood received financing, training and the authority to maintain control over those areas that it used for its operations. Under the umbrella of a Jihad against the Jews, it was able to enforce Islamic law and maintain a ruling class made up of its members and influential families allied with the Brotherhood.
Israel’s defeat of Egypt in the Six Day War and subsequent liberation of Gaza left the Brotherhood and other terrorist groups adrift. Deprived of secure bases in Gaza, a new generation of ‘Palestinian’ terrorist groups was launched under the Soviet umbrella, most famously the PLO, claiming to pursue a ‘Palestinian’ state through international terrorist attacks like airplane hijackings and the Munich Massacre at the 1972 Olympics.
The international scale of the newly born ‘Palestinian’ movement was made possible by Soviet backing which provided allies and safe houses with Marxist terror groups across Europe. The Muslim Brotherhood lacked that global foothold although under operatives like Ramadan it was working hard to replicate the infrastructure of mosques and religious centers that it had used to gain power in places like Gaza across America and Europe.
The Muslim Brotherhood today dominates Islamic groups in America and Europe because of these efforts, but at the time its terrorism lacked the scope that the Communist alliance provided the ‘Palestinians’. And yet while Arafat became an international star, the Muslim Brotherhood in Gaza was busily digging in and building an Islamic infrastructure that would outlast him.
The Muslim Brotherhood in Gaza was less interested in the fictional construct of ‘Palestinianism’ than in controlling the mosques, the educational system and recruiting young men to fight for it. Where the PLO and groups liked it worked from the ‘outside in’, the Brotherhood worked from the ‘inside out’. Instead of fighting on a global stage, it worked on ‘Islamizing’ Gaza.
The Israeli authorities, like the Americans and Europeans, paid little attention to the Brotherhood. Religious violence seemed outmoded in the era of Marxist terrorism.
The Egyptian authorities had understood that the real threat came from mosques and religious schools, but Israeli officials, unfamiliar with Islam and disdainful of it, did not take it seriously. They certainly did not want to give the impression that they were religiously intolerant. During the liberation of Jerusalem, the government had allowed the Muslim religious authorities to retain control over the Temple Mount, the holiest site in Judaism, to prove their tolerance.
The Israeli tolerance for the Brotherhood led the PLO to accuse it of being an Israeli creation. Hamas and the PLO would later spend years accusing each other of this, the worst thing imaginable, working for the Jews. The PLO’s insults would then be repeated by leftist and fringe right politicians and activists who would claim that Israel had “created” Hamas.
Hamas had technically predated the official rebirth of the State of Israel. It had always been there under various names as part of the Gaza Muslim Brotherhood. Israel had not created it, but much like most Western nations, the Israelis were guilty of tolerating it, providing it with the permission it needed to operate and acceding to what seemed like religious requests.
Instead of suppressing the Muslim Brotherhood in Gaza, the Israelis viewed its mosques and religious schools as a benign alternative to the PLO. They were looking for radical students planting bombs, not men praying in mosques. And the Brotherhood, as it did in America and Europe, and in the two years until the Oct 7 massacres, had a knack for appearing benign.
In the 1970s, Islamic terrorism had not yet become a commonplace concept. Few understood that Islam would become the next great threat after Communism. And while the Israelis chased the PLO, the Gaza Muslim Brotherhood built up its infrastructure that would emerge as Hamas.
A decade later, the Brotherhood’s Mujama al-Islamiya, the Islamic Center, a seeming charitable organization, was reinvented as Hamas or the Islamic Resistance Movement. The mosques, schools and social welfare institutions had been a terrorist organization all along. When Hamas hides missiles under mosques, schools and hospitals, it’s doing what it was doing all along.
Hamas was a charity before it was a terrorist group. And it was a terrorist group before it was a charity. This is typical of Muslim Brotherhood organizations and owes something to the Nazis. Hamas terrorism is theologically Islamic, but it had learned from the Nazis and the Marxists, two movements that had profoundly shaped the modern Arab Muslim world, how to develop and build secret societies in the form of political organizations and how to use them to seize power.
The 1988 Hamas charter freely mixes Koranic antisemitism with Goebbelsian rants about the Jews. There is the classic genocidal Hadith that looks forward to the day “when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees” and “the stones and trees will say ‘O Moslems, O Abdullah, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him’” and the claim that the Jews are behind “the Freemasons, The Rotary and Lions clubs” and “alcoholism” that reads like it came from Der Sturmer.
The Islamic mass murder of Jews goes back to the days of Mohammed. The Muslim Brotherhood’s members did not need the Nazis to tell them to kill Jews.
But the Nazis helped finance the Muslim Brotherhood with the specific aim, among others, of killing Jews. The Nazis helped show the Muslim Brotherhood new ways of organizing, distributing propaganda and waging war. And that changed the history of the world.
The Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood continued to spin off splinter groups, some directed at a domestic power grab, others at Israel, and still others at the rest of the region and the world. Al Qaeda is dominated by such a splinter group. As are most non-Shiite terrorist groups. And Muslim political organizations, like CAIR in the United States, are products of the Brotherhood.
The Nazis were defeated, but they helped build a successor movement that is waging war, political and military, around the world. Hamas is just one of the many organizations birthed by the Brotherhood, but it is one of the few in whose origin story the Nazis had a significant role.
The Nazis had wanted the Muslim Brotherhood to wage war on the Jews in Israel.
On Oct 7, Hamas, an organization born in part out of a collaboration between Nazis and Islamists, carried out the greatest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust.
Those who defend the massacre are not just collaborating with Hamas, but with the Nazis.
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.
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Hamas torturers, Hamas lies, and Hamas’s useful idiots
Since October 7, I keep returning to something I used to hear Dennis Prager say when interviewing leftists on his radio show. He was always polite, asking them probing questions, which he explained by stating, “I prefer clarity to agreement.” Sometimes, through clarity, he brought leftists to agree with him. As often as not, though, he’d force them to stand exposed in all their ugliness. When it comes to Hamas, whether in its home base in Gaza or acting through its useful idiots in America, we’re getting ever greater clarity, and it’s not pretty.
Now that the hostages are coming home, we are learning what they went through. Keep in mind that these hostages weren’t soldiers who were trained for the fight but were women, often having been terribly raped, children, elderly people, and wounded men. That is, they were vulnerable to begin with, and they were then exposed to physical deprivation, abuse, and extraordinary mental cruelty. Regarding the first two factors,
Israeli women and children on their return from Hamas captivity in Gaza speak of being beaten and threatened with death, moved from place to place and forced to whisper during weeks spent with little to do, their families say.
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[A returned hostage’s cousin] told Israel's Channel 12 they were moved from place to place, both underground and above ground. They lost weight as food was scarce at times, and ate mostly rice and pita bread for days.
Officials at Israeli hospitals say hostages experienced poor nutritional health, and many with chronic diseases were denied medical treatment, causing serious health problems.
Abuse, though, doesn’t have to be physical. What happened to 12-year-old Eitan Yahalomi demonstrates the truly unfathomable cruelty of the Hamas captors.
Yahalomi had seen his father slaughtered before his eyes and then had been separated from his mother and sister, who had escaped. While in captivity, he was paraded before ordinary Gazan civilians who beat him. Once in the tunnels, Yahalomi, like the other children, was threatened with a rifle if he cried.
But something even worse than that abuse happened to him. According to his aunt, Hamas forced Yahalomi (and, I’m sure, the other children) to watch endless films of Hamas’s attack within Israel:
These videos, which the Hamas fighters who entered Israel proudly took using GoPros, embedded reporters, and the phones they stole from those they tortured, raped, and murdered, were not something that Hamas secreted away, knowing that what they did was morally wrong. Even the Nazis had higher standards than Hamas, for they understood that they had parted ways from civilization with their crimes.
The IDF has shown graphic but still curated versions of the footage to journalists to make them understand what happened on October 7. The journalists have been shattered by what they saw. I can assure you that Hamas did not curate the footage before showing it to the children who had already watched their parents, siblings, friends, and neighbors raped, mutilated, and slaughtered around them. If this doesn’t meet the definition of torture, I don’t know what does.
Meanwhile, Hamas is in full propaganda mode, claiming that one of its fighters, who was returned from an Israeli prison as part of a hostage exchange, was brutally tortured. Unfortunately, Israel has footage that definitively puts the lie to this story:
But getting back to reality,
When I read Wolf Howling’s essay about the culture of the Native Americans when they had contact with the Europeans, I was reminded of Hamas. Hamas terrorists and their many supporters in Gaza (75% of the population) have never evolved beyond a purely stone-aged mentality. The Native Americans had an excuse, having been completely isolated from the West. Hamas has no such excuse.
Moreover, you might have noticed that the one thing the Native Americans did not do was rape on their captives. That’s a purely Hamas gloss on the stone-age mentality.
Despite Hamas’s tremendous pride in what it has done, as well as the living evidence of the hostages it seized, those in America who make common cause with Hamas have engaged in a strange tactic: They are denying that October 7 ever happened. Or if they admit that it happened, they contend that the Israeli Army actually carried out the rape, torture, and slaughter on October 7:
These American residents are like the Nazis: They know that Hamas's actions are the essence of evil, so they pretend that they are not happening. They have a lingering sense of morality, not strong enough for them to resist evil but just strong enough for them to be embarrassed about.
As Rhett Butler said to Scarlet O’Hara when he caught her weeping because her recklessness led to her husband dying in a botched raid against black men who had tried to assault her, “You are in the exact position of a thief who’s been caught red handed and isn’t sorry he stole but is terribly, terribly sorry he’s going to jail.”
We are getting clarity. The lip service is gone. The fakery is gone. The pretense is gone. The veil is lifted, whether amongst those in Gaza and the West Bank, in Europe, or here in America. At least we can see our enemy in all his ugliness.
International aid to Gaza is the only process that ensures its survival. This rather strange situation has no equivalent in any other place in the world except for the scientists living in Antarctica. Gazans are the most welfare-dependent population in the known universe, producing nothing except a few vegetables. And yet nobody asks why. Let us be crystal clear that every last Gazan would go elsewhere in the world if this aid stopped. The answer lies in the fact that the world’s powers hate what Israel stands for and, believe it or not, that’s not its Jewishness: It is, instead, its contributions to the world and its citizens’ happiness.
When we look at Gaza objectively, it’s logical to ask how long this welfare state will continue. The answer: Until the UN, EU, and US decide this population has lost its usefulness. However, that won’t happen anytime soon. The scene has been set by US Secretary of State Blinken who insists that no Gazan be displaced. He wants the Israelis to propose a plan for returning Gaza to the rule of the corrupt Palestinian Authority ensconced in Ramallah. The American administration’s goal is a two-state solution consisting of Israel within the ‘67 borders and an Arab state of Gaza and Judea/Samaria (aka the West Bank). The Muslims of Gaza are a tool to force this rearrangement.
To savvy people, the title “West Bank” gives away the game. Government employees and the mass media are under the illusion that Judea and Samaria are supposed to be the western provinces of Jordan. This is because Jordan, after nineteen years of rule (‘48-’67), joined Syria and Egypt in the Six-Day War intended to eradicate the Jewish state and lost the “West Bank” to Israel. In fact, Judea and Samaria are Israel’s ancient heartland.
Given the area’s past and recent history, it would seem stupidly suicidal for Israel to ever return their heartland or Gaza to Arab rule. Nevertheless, most of the world has this as its plan for the region.
If Israel can be truncated, it can be brought to heel, for it will be unable to protect itself. Its continued existence will then be controlled by others rather than its own government. The advantage to this arrangement is that Israel would barely be able to breathe and would be unable to project any influence in the world or its own neighborhood. It would become the equivalent of Gaza with a few more college degrees.
From this analysis, we can deduce that the name of the game is to destroy Israel’s independent action. An independent Israel is undesirable. It sticks out like a sore thumb on the world stage. Just a few examples:
1. The Israeli expertise in agriculture has been helping Africans become food-independent. Is that a good thing? Only for those who don’t want to see their children dying of curable malnutrition. Everyone else uses Africa as a sink for their overproduction. It keeps Western influence high among African rulers who get to distribute aid to their serfs and pawns. Food independence among the people of Africa would be a disaster for everyone but the African people, and Israel is being blamed for movement in that direction.
2. Because it needs to protect itself, Israel produces advanced weaponry that sooner or later enriches it through arms sales, much to the disadvantage of other weapons producers. The weapons from “that sh….y little country” make Israel a competitor for these arms-dealing states, which is not a benign position for Israel.
3. A happy, productive Israel, with both the benefits of a social welfare state and the advantages of a capitalistic economy, is the last thing Globalists want to see. An independent Israel at peace with its neighbors would be a tragedy for WEF-types because any type of independence counters their goals for the New World Order.
4. Happiness in Israel is the opposite of the desired state of affairs our thought leaders would like to see. Before October 7, Israel was counted as the fourth happiest country in the world. For a long time, Israel has had the highest birthrate of all Western nations. They are joyous about their children at all ages of development, from infancy to young adults. Their strong attachment to family life is unnerving for those who are trying to destroy the family construct worldwide. But a viciously violent conflict could turn this situation around. If only a catastrophe could befall Israel like an attempt at its extermination. And now, suddenly and without warning, such a conflict has been thrust upon Israel. How convenient, how serendipitous!
Israel was, is, and perhaps always will be a danger to powerful forces in the world, a bringer of sea changes, an upholder of outdated values, a stabilizing force in a precariously balanced world, an alternative to everything that is dour and gray. It must be torn asunder for the good of humanity or at least for the top one-tenth of one percent of humanity.
The absurdity of Gaza as the single largest welfare-dependent group of people makes it an artificial creation designed to minimize Israel either through attrition, dilution, absorption, or death. It is a Western and Muslim creation that uses one group of people against another to retain control of natural resources, industrial production, and the quality of life permitted to the masses. On the road to total social control, Israel turns out to be a stumbling block that needs to be shoved into line or disappear. This is the quiet, almost silent, narrative of the Elites!
Can someone explain to the rest of us why the leaders of Hamas, the world's evilest terrorist organization which has just murdered 1,400 innocent people, are actual billionaires living their best lives in Qatar?
JOE BIDEN, ALWAYS ON THE OTHER SIDE. HE'S A SOCIOPATH GAMER LAWYER AND THAT'S HOW THEY SCREW EVERYONE!
Source: Biden Pressure on Israeli Tactics Will Leave Hamas Intact and in Power
A source within the Israeli government told Breitbart News on Tuesday that U.S. President Joe Biden’s pressure would lead to Hamas surviving the war intact, rather than allowing Israel to destroy Hamas or remove its military and governing capabilities.
In recent days, the White House has acknowledged that Israel intends to continue fighting Hamas after the current “pause,” sought by Biden to allow the release of hostages, ends later this week.
“The Israelis have been pretty clear that once the pauses are complete and the hostage exchanges [sic] are over that they intend to continue their military operations against Hamas,” White House adviser John Kirby said on Monday (Israel does not hold “hostages”; it is releasing convicted Palestinian terrorists).
However, the White House is no longer clearly stating that it shares that goal. And the Israeli government privately believes Biden is prepared to tolerate the survival of Hamas, despite the fact that Hamas and other terror groups would see that as a victory.
The reason Israel believes this is Biden’s goal is that the U.S. administration is imposing onerous conditions on the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) regarding its operations in Gaza, such that defeating Hamas has become almost impossible.
The United States has warned Israel that it must fight more surgically and avoid further mass displacement of Palestinians in its war against Hamas to avoid a humanitarian crisis that overwhelms the world’s ability to respond, according to senior Biden administration officials.
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American officials have told the Israelis that any coming military operations should not hamper the flow of power and water or impede the work of humanitarian sites such as hospitals and U.N.-supported shelters in south and central Gaza.
Neither the U.S. nor neighboring Egypt — a U.S. ally — has made plans to allow residents of Gaza to leave the area during fighting, nor have any other Arab countries offered to take in Palestinians, meaning Israel alone bears the risk to Palestinian civilians.
Middle East analyst and commentator Caroline Glick went into further detail in a column for the Jewish News Syndicate. She said, for example, that Biden’s opposition to Israeli airstrikes on buildings gave Hamas snipers the ability to kill Israeli soldiers.
She wrote: “At a minimum, it is clear that Biden’s preference for the lives of civilians in Gaza over the lives of IDF soldiers on the ground ensures that far more soldiers will be killed in the fighting than would otherwise.”
She noted that Biden had originally questioned Hamas’s statistics on civilian casualties in Gaza — which fail to distinguish between Hamas terrorists and true non-combatants — but that he had since apologized to anti-Israel Muslim groups and now uses the faulty Hamas death statistics.
(Arab- and Muslim-American voters in Michigan, a key swing state in the 2024 election, are also threatening to sit out the race, and polls suggest that young voters, who are swayed by negative social media portrayals of Israel, oppose Biden’s public stance.)
Glick added that Israel likely knew the locations in which most of the hostages were being kept, but had been prevented from launching military operations to rescue them because of the high potential cost in civilian lives, which Biden would not tolerate.
Moreover, Glick noted, the Biden administration insists on letting the Palestinian Authority control Gaza after the war, rather than allowing Israel to control security there — a return to the status quo before 2007, when Hamas staged a coup in Gaza.
This, she said, fundamentally placed Israeli security at risk, as did the Biden administration’s opposition to measures such as blockades, which Israel and Egypt were forced to impose on Gaza after Hamas began importing weapons into the territory.
The Biden administration is currently divided over Israel, with many staff members opposed to Biden’s public support for Israel, and pressing for a return to the “distance” of the Barack Obama administration, when the U.S. often sided against Israel.
The U.S. is using Qatar to pressure Israel to accept further pauses in military operations, rather than using U.S. leverage on the tiny Gulf dictatorship to insist that it stop supporting terror. In 2022, Biden designated Qataras a “major non-NATO ally” of the U.S., despite its brazen support for Hamas, whose billionaire terrorist leaders live in luxury in the Qatari capital of Doha.
Glick noted that the U.S. has near-total leverage over Israel because of Israeli dependence on American munitions for resupply. (Iran supplies Hamas and other terror organizations, and Russia supplies advanced weapons systems to the Iranian regime.)
She suggested that the Republican-held House of Representatives hold hearings into the Biden administration’s pressure on Israel.
On Tuesday, after Hamas terrorists violated the terms of the “pause” by wounding three Israeli soldiers with bombs, and Israel failed to respond by ending the truce, Glick warned of a “strategic collapse” in the Israeli government.
If such a collapse happens, critics say, it would be a result of Biden’s pressure — and possibly part of a broader goal inside the administration to make sure that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has been effective in resisting U.S. policies in the region in the past, no longer controls his own democratically-elected government.
Israel may also be reluctant to return to fighting because of domestic pressure to free hostages by any means necessary. But there are also Israeli voices — primarily on the right — who argue that if Israel places hostage talks ahead of destroying Hamas, it will let Hamas survive and take more hostages in the future.
Many of the same left-wing groups supported by the Biden administration during protests against Netanyahu’s judicial reforms earlier this year are also active in ongoing protests to free the hostages.
Israeli analysts have described Biden’s recent approach to Israel as a tight hug — one that looks, on the surface, like support, but one that also prevents the Israeli government from moving on its own and doing what it must to defend its own security.
The Biden administration might argue that restraining Israel is necessary to appease Arab allies or the Muslim world. But the implications of a Hamas victory for U.S. security could be like the rise of ISIS in Iraq after Obama’s hasty 2011 withdrawal.
Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). He is the author of the new biography, Rhoda: ‘Comrade Kadalie, You Are Out of Order’. He is also the author of the recent e-book, Neither Free nor Fair: The 2020 U.S. Presidential Election. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.
OE BIDEN AND HIS PUPPETMASTER BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA HAVE BEEN FUNDING MUSLIM DICTATORS, AND THEREFORE MUSLIM TERRORIST FOR YEARS!
JOE BIDEN is known as a serial liar, a "public servant" who has somehow managed to accrue tremendous wealthwho has somehow managed to accrue tremendous wealth, a race-baiting opportunist, a Catholic-in-name-only, and a bought-and-paid-for politician in bed with criminal cartels and foreign foes. In another era, Joe Biden would have been run out of his country much the same way Benedict Arnold was two and a half centuries ago; in an era when integrity, honor, fortitude, fidelity, and grit have been jettisoned for immorality, unscrupulousness, weakness, betrayal, and craven pliability, however, he is elevated to king sleazeball in a city drowning in sleaze. JB SHURK
Modern day Islam is just as oppressive and dangerous as was 8th century Islam. That’s because culturally, Islam still enforces the same tenets they did 1,200 years ago. What are some of those tenets, practices, and ways of life? Islam enforces edicts against homosexuality to the point of executing homosexuals. As for women, of the ten worst countries for women’s rights, seven of them are Muslim. The Quran clearly states that women are subordinate to men, and men may beat their wives (Quran 4:34). With Islam, there’s a fine line between oppressing women and enslaving them. Islam practices female genital mutilation, a barbaric practice (look it up and be disgusted). Other realities for women in Islamic countries include: women must be escorted in public, largely because it’s too dangerous for them to walk alone (rape and assaults are common); women must cover their bodies from head to foot; and very few education opportunities which result in limited employment opportunities.
THIS IS THE REALITY OF MUSLIMS ALL OVER THE PLANET
Immediately after horror reigned in Israel on October 7, when over 1,200 people were brutalized, raped, tortured, burned alive, and murdered, and over 200 other babies, children, women, men, and seniors kidnapped, reports emerged that the terror group, Hamas, was not the only bad actor. Purportedly, other criminal gangs and even civilians — one on crutches — joined in the orgy of bloodletting, rape, torture, and butchery.
‘Tone Deaf’ Biden Still Pushing ‘Failed’ Two-State Solution on Israel
Despite the recent October 7 massacre of Israeli civilians and the overwhelming Palestinian support for it, the largely failed two-state solution for solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict — vehemently rejected by both sides — is still being pushed by U.S. President Joe Biden, who insists that it is the “only way” to ensure long-term security for both Israelis and Palestinians in a new post-Hamas Gaza.
The two-state solution, largely seen as a staple of foreign policy by U.S. administrations prior to President Donald Trump, has been lambasted by many critics as being a colossal failure that does not take into account facts on the ground.
Amidst renewed demands for Palestinian statehood emerging from Palestinian American groups, Muslim advocacy organizations, and some Democrats, President Biden posted a message declaring his continued determination, since the October 7 massacre, to implement a two-state solution despite the lack of a viable peace partner.
“A two-state solution is the only way to guarantee the long-term security of both the Israeli and the Palestinian people,” President Biden wrote on Sunday. “To make sure Israelis and Palestinians alike can live in equal measures of freedom and dignity.”
“We will not give up on working toward this goal,” he added.
His proposition was met with immediate and significant criticism from Republicans.
“Hamas did not allow freedom and dignity as they slaughtered innocent civilians and took hostages on October 7,” wrote Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN). “The only way to guarantee the security of Israelis and Palestinians is to eliminate Hamas.”
“President Biden just plugged ‘a two state solution.’ Tone deaf,” wrote Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT). “Gaza has had a ‘two state solution’ on the table since 2005, and defiantly refused to take it.”
“You can’t have a two-state solution where one party is unwilling to recognize the other’s right to exist,” he added.
“You are delusional,” wrote syndicated columnist Josh Hammer.
The so-called two-state solution, which calls for the creation of a Palestinian state — ostensibly in the West Bank, Gaza Strip, and some eastern sections of Jerusalem — in exchange for the Palestinian Authority (PA) ending its conflict with Israel and living at peace with the Jewish state, has long proved to be an abject failure.
Criticism of President Biden’s push for a two-state solution using PA President Mahmoud Abbas and his ruling Fatah party as peace partners centers around several key issues.
“Moderate” Palestinian Factions
The PA under Abbas and Fatah are nonviable partners for peace due to its actions and policies that stand in stark opposition to the objectives of a peaceful resolution to the conflict.
Abbas holds leadership positions in three key Palestinian entities. He serves as president of the Palestinian Authority (PA), leader of the Fatah political party, and chairman of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), whose militant wings have a history of perpetrating violent attacks against Israeli civilians, leading to its designation as a terrorist group by the United States.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas meets with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Amman, Jordan, on Oct. 17, 2023. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, Pool)
Despite frequent media assertions, neither Abbas nor any of the groups he heads fall under the category of “moderate,” with Hamas’s October 7 massacre — the deadliest against Jewish people since the Nazi Holocaust, which saw the torture, rape, execution, and abduction of hundreds of Israeli civilians — having received broad support from Palestinian factions across the board.
Aside from Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad perpetrating the attack, the “moderate” Fatah expressed support and even participated in it, and the official Palestinian Authority (PA) pledged to pay nearly $3 million to the families of slain Hamas terrorists who executed the attack.
The PA, which serves as the administrative organization established to govern the Palestinian territories, particularly in the West Bank, has long been deemed too radical for peace due to its refusal to fully recognize Israel and its support for terror activities against the Jewish state, coupled with promoting anti-Israeli sentiments through media and education.
Palestinian education, controlled by the PA, systematically indoctrinates children with hatred towards Israel and Jews. Textbooks and curricula across various subjects delegitimize Israel’s existence, demonize Jews, and incite violent struggle, with no emphasis on peace and coexistence.
Aside from its governance issues, including corruption and authoritarian practices, the PA, which would rule a future state, supports terrorism, incites against Israel, and celebrates the killers of Jews, as it continues naming public parks and monuments after terrorists.
Following the October 7 attacks, the PA falsely claimed the rave massacre was committed by the IDF, while PA Ambassador to Iraq Amad Rwaidy, who was appointed in September by Abbas, argued that Israeli civilians killed in Hamas’s unprecedented attack on Israel earlier this month were not innocent.
An official document recently published by the PA was shown to outline calling on imams to incite violence and murder against Jews in Friday sermons, citing a religious text for Muslims to “fight the Jews” and “kill” them all.
In April, a violence-themed musical was broadcast on Palestinian Authority television calling to fight Israelis “everywhere” with “blood and stones.”
The PA is also reported to have allocated roughly $2.8 million to families of deceased Hamas terrorists as part of a program compensating those involved in terrorist acts, with additional funds for the families and imprisoned members.
This payout is part of the “pay-for-slay” initiative, officially termed the “Martyrs’ Fund,” wherein financial rewards are granted for carrying out terrorist attacks, with higher compensation for more destructive acts.
Israel’s Supreme Court has ruled the PA can be held liable for terrorism and sued by the families of those killed in terror attacks as a result of its “pay-for-slay” policy.
The so-called “moderate” Fatah political organization that governs the PA — the largest faction within the PLO, articulated its unwavering dedication to liberating “Palestine” and Jerusalem while asserting its pivotal role in what Hamas has termed Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, in a recent statement.
Following Hamas’s October 7 massacre, Fatah called for an expansion of the war against Israel, with Fatah’s Central Committee lauding the terrorists it claimed were confronting “the occupation’s crimes and aggression” and “attacking the enemy.” Fatah’s military wing, the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, declared its alliance with Hamas and its commitment to the ongoing military campaign against Israel, calling armed struggle “the only and fastest way to liberate Palestine.”
Last month, Fatah official Fathi Abu Al-Ardat noted that all Palestinian factions are united in the fight against Israel and that the military wings of Hamas (Al-Qassam Brigades), Fatah (Al-Aqsa Brigades), and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (Al-Quds Brigades) all participated in the brutal attack, which he described as “exalted resistance.”
Meanwhile, Jamal Al-Huwail of the Fatah Revolutionary Council, expressed his hope that a similar attack will take place in the West Bank, claiming the “historical opportunity” should be seized.
The long-serving Abbas — who has remained president for 18 years despite a four-year term limit — leads these supposedly “moderate” Palestinian factions that endorse a perspective paralleling that of Hamas.
While his security forces have participated in scores of deadly terror attacks against Israelis, he himself has a history of conveying inciting antisemitic and anti-Israel rhetoric. Governments and leaders across the globe voiced outrage over “horrifying” remarks in a recent speech he delivered in which he claimed Nazi leader Adolf Hitler was not an antisemite and that the Jews of Europe during his era were not killed due to their Jewish identity, but due to their “role in society,” including “usury.”
In addition, he is perceived as lacking a mandate from his people to negotiate a peace deal, diminishing his credibility, and like his predecessor Yasser Arafat, Abbas is unwilling to make concessions on critical issues such as refugees and Jerusalem, fearing being seen as a traitor for conceding to Israel.
Though the “two-state solution” has been central to Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, the Palestinian Authority (PA) has consistently rejected all of Israel’s offers for a state. Despite the numerous proposals, every Israeli attempt to offer land concessions has been met with terror waves, beginning with attacks under late PLO leader Yasser Arafat in the 1990s following the failed Oslo accords, to the Second Intifada in the early 2000s, to Israel’s withdrawal from Gaza in 2005 that prompted 18 years of rocket attacks.
Palestinian Street
A recent poll by Birzeit University’s Arab World for Research and Development (AWRAD) shows significant Palestinian support (75 percent) for the U.S.-designated terrorist group Hamas and its October 7 massacre, while nearly three-quarters favor the elimination of Israel, with the creation of a Palestinian state “from the river to the sea” in its stead.
Respondents also showed strong support for the military wings of various terrorist groups: Palestinian Islamic Jihad (84 percent), al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades (80 percent), and al-Qassam Brigades (89 percent), with Hamas overall receiving 76 percent.
Palestinian politician Major General Issam Abu Bakr, who served as governor of the Palestinian city of Tulkarem, expressed his belief in unanimous support for the attack, saying, “I do not think there is a single Palestinian who does not support what happened.” A previous poll conducted by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) revealed that a whopping 93 percent of Palestinians hold antisemitic beliefs.
As Breitbart News reported, immediately after word of the October 7 attacks got out, Palestinians at home and abroad were seen celebrating jubilantly. Photos and videos uploaded to social media show Palestinian crowds greeting the returning executioners as heroes and burning seized Israeli cars in the streets of Gaza. Others show Palestinians rallying, handing out sweets, and firing guns in the air.
Ordinary Palestinian civilians were also seen actively participating in the massacre, with full mobs captured on film pouring across the breached border to take part in the killing and raping of innocents, as well as the looting of their property.
“The Two-State Solution Is Dead.”
After years of failed negotiations and Israel’s disastrous evacuation of the Gaza Strip in 2005, which resulted in Hamas’s takeover of that territory and repeated rocket attacks from there, a growing share of Israelis have grown more skeptical of a two-state solution, largely rejecting any withdrawal from the West Bank, according to a Pew Research Center survey which took place prior to October 7. After the October 7 attack, even more so, Israelis overwhelmingly no longer desire a two-state solution.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has repeatedly expressed his opposition to Biden’s proposal to restore control of Gaza to the Palestinian Authority (PA) once Hamas is removed from power and destroyed.
“In Gaza, after the destruction of Hamas, and for a long time thereafter, there will not be a regime that encourages terror, that teaches terror, that funds terror — that also indoctrinates about the destruction of Israel and the murder of Jews — this will not be,” Netanyahu vowed at a press conference this month.
Previously, twenty-one Knesset members cosigned a letter to members of the U.S. Congress, warning that the endorsement of a two-state solution is “far more dangerous for Israel” than boycott efforts such as the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement.
“We believe it contains a grave error because it expresses, among other things, support for a so-called ‘Two-State Solution,’ meaning the establishment of a ‘Palestinian state’ in the heart of tiny Israel,” the letter reads, noting that such a Palestinian state was at risk of becoming a “terrorist” and “jihadist” state that “would severely damage the national security of both Israel and the United States.”
U.S. President Joe Biden joins Israel’s Prime Minister for the start of the Israeli war cabinet meeting, in Tel Aviv on October 18, 2023, amid the ongoing battles between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas. (MIRIAM ALSTER/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
Already in 2016, former national security adviser John Bolton declared that “Just as a matter of empirical reality, the two-state solution is dead,” while former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (R) declared that “the two-state solution is no solution at all” and that “if there is going to be a Palestinian state, it’s going to have to be somewhere outside the borders of Israel.”
Biden’s Insistence
Despite all of the above, President Biden seems unperturbed as he continues to push for the two-state solution he has long hailed.
Within three weeks of the largest slaughter of Jews since the Holocaust, Biden stated that Israel must not revert to its pre-war conditions following its battle against Hamas, emphasizing the necessity for Israel to pursue a two-state resolution with the Palestinians once the conflict concludes.
“There’s no going back to the status quo as it stood on October 6,” he said at a joint press conference with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese. “That means ensuring that Hamas can no longer terrorize Israel and use Palestinian civilians as human shields. It also means that when this crisis is over, there has to be a vision of what comes next, and in our view, it has to be a two-state solution.”
Last year, he described the proposed framework as the “best way” to achieve peace.
Boasting how he reversed the policies of Trump and resumed nearly $1 billion dollars in aid to the Palestinians — in effect rewarding the “pay-for-slay” policy, Biden told Abbas that “we can count ourselves among the earliest supporters of a two-state solution” and that his “commitment to that goal of a two-state solution has not changed in all these years.”
With U.S. officials reportedly exploring options for the Palestinian Authority (PA) to potentially govern Gaza again, following inquiries to PA President Mahmoud Abbas, implementing this plan faces challenges due to the PA’s historical struggles, including its 2007 ousting from Gaza by Hamas, issues of corruption, unpopularity, and declining international support.
The aftermath of Hamas’s attack on Kibbutz Kfar Aza, one of the hardest-hit communities in the October 7 onslaught by Hamas, on October 27, 2023. (Gili Yaari/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
In contrast with the Biden administration’s policies, Trump did not unequivocally endorse the two-state solution, saying he was also open to a one-state solution — presumably meaning Israeli annexation of the West Bank — and that he would accept whatever solution Israelis and Palestinians themselves chose. In addition, the Trump administration cut aid to the Palestinians over its boycott of the U.S., as well as its so-called pay-for-slay scheme, and closed the Palestinian mission in Washington, expelling the Palestinian Ambassador to the U.S., Hussam Zomlot.
On Saturday, Dutch right-wing politician Geert Wilders caused an uproar after declaring that the country of Jordan should be considered the true national homeland for the Palestinian people, given that Jordan has a majority Palestinian population and integrating Palestinians into Jordan could lead to a more stable regional situation, as Jordan has successfully integrated Palestinian refugees.
Joshua Klein is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jklein@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter @JoshuaKlein.
Immediately after horror reigned in Israel on October 7, when over 1,200 people were brutalized, raped, tortured, burned alive, and murdered, and over 200 other babies, children, women, men, and seniors kidnapped, reports emerged that the terror group, Hamas, was not the only bad actor. Purportedly, other criminal gangs and even civilians — one on crutches — joined in the orgy of bloodletting, rape, torture, and butchery.
These early reports stated that hostages, not controlled by Hamas, the main perpetrator and most powerful terrorist group in Gaza, had been moved around within Gaza and sold to other terrorist groups. This comports with Hamas’s sometimes statements that “they don’t know the whereabouts of certain hostages.”
Hamas has now admitted that the red-haired infant, ten-month-old Kfir Bibas; his four-year-old brother, Ariel; and their parents are not in their control. Rather, they have been moved to another location in Gaza, under the control of unidentified co-conspirators. Hamas is using these four human souls as chess pieces in their deadly, psychotic game.
Where has the Red Cross been all this time? Destroyed is the fiction that the Red Cross is a nonpartisan beacon of life-saving medical care. The Red Cross has not examined a single hostage in captivity. If it had done their proper job, Avigail Eden would not have been released with lice in her hair, and 84-year-old Elma Avraham would not have been deprived of her life-saving heart medicine and hospitalized with a body temperature of 82 degrees. Moreover, many child hostages have been released with orthopedic and nutritional issues.
If you think a hostage’s return is a victory for celebration — it’s not. The hostages should never have been kidnapped in the first instance. Their ransom is being paid for with the release of prisoners on the other side who were hell-bent on murdering civilian Israelis, by knife or mass bombing.
If you think a pause is good for the good guys (Israeli soldiers), it’s not. Each day the war is paused gives Hamas time to hide leaders, let terrorists escape with the general Gaza population, refuel, and restock.
From early childhood, in the homes, in the schools, and in the literature, kids are raised to think of Israelis and Jews as dogs. They are also taught that their holy mission, blessed by Allah, is to murder every single one of them.
If you think a ceasefire will solve hostilities, it won’t. Hamas, as stated above, will not stop murdering Jews until they are obliterated.
Unfortunately, Hamas is not the only cult of death operating in Gaza — and not the only group Israeli troops must battle in Gaza!
Some of the hostages are most likely being held by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Islamic Jihad is a well stocked military group, the Al-Quds Brigade, and is backed by and funded by Iran. It shares Hamas’s goal of total Israeli destruction. Islamic Jihad is considered the second most wistful group in Gaza.
Third on the who’s who list of powerful Gazan terrorist groups is the Popular Resistance Committees. Their fighters took part in the October 7 attack. They see themselves as a resistance group with close ties to Iran.
Other groups with whom the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) will have to battle within Gaza are the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine; the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine; and the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade, which coordinates continuously with Hamas and Islamic Jihad, participated with them in the bestial October 7 attack. Finally, there is the Palestinian Mujahideen Movement, which was cited as a terrorist organization by the United States State Department in 2018.
Hamas, as the largest and most powerful group in Gaza, is currently the IDF’s main target.
Perhaps the worst of all ironies is the tortured relationship between Israel and Yahya Sinwar. Sinwar is the alleged planner and executor of the October 7 attacks and the leader of Hamas. He has admitted to killing at least two suspected Israeli collaborators with his bare hands and kidnapping and killing Israeli soldiers. At one point in his life, he was imprisoned in an Israeli jail, sentenced to four life sentences. Yet while he was imprisoned, Israeli doctors removed a tumor in his brain, thereby saving his life.
In another fateful event, Sinwar was released from Israeli prison in 2011, along with 1,000 other Arab prisoners, in exchange for Gilad Shalit, who had been kidnapped and held by Hamas for five years.
In a heartrending, sinister act, Sinwar is reported to have visited the hostages and told them they were safe. Yet a twelve-year-old boy hostage, just released, reported being repeatedly beaten. Combined with other documented hostages’ deprivation, Sinwar’s assurances were not accurate.
A top CIA official posted a pro-Palestinian image on Facebook two weeks after Hamas launched a mass terrorist attack against Israel on October 7, according to a report.
The Financial Times reported that the senior intelligence official, an associate deputy director for analysis, had changed her Facebook cover photo on October 21 to an image of a man waving a Palestinian flag that is often used in stories criticizing Israel.
The FT called it a “rare public political statement by a senior intelligence officer” and “very unusual’ for a senior intelligence official to post an “overtly political image on a public platform.”
The official also reportedly published a selfie with a sticker saying “Free Palestine,” although a “person familiar with the image” said it was posted to Facebook years ago and before the current conflict.
The images were deleted from her Facebook page after the FT reached out to her via LinkedIn.
The FT said it decided not to name her after the CIA expressed concern for her safety, but the Daily Caller reported her name as Amy McFadden.
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A person on Facebook by that name and a photo matching her LinkedIn profile ran a birthday fundraiser in 2022 for the U.S. mission to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. The current high commissioner, Filippo Grandi, last month said “further escalation” or a “continuation of military activities” would be “catastrophic for the people of Gaza.”
FT reported the CIA official has previously overseen the production of the President’s Daily Brief, the compilation of intelligence presented to the president.
In her current position as an associate deputy director for analysis, she is one of two officials under the deputy director for analysis, who is responsible for approving all analysis disseminated inside the agency.
A former intelligence official told the FT: “The public posting of an obviously controversial political statement by a senior analytic manager in the middle of a crisis shows glaringly poor judgment.” The former official also told the FT the image raised concerns on “several levels, including the fact that the CIA has strong relations with Israeli intelligence.”
The CIA said in a statement to the FT:
CIA officers are committed to analytic objectivity, which is at the core of what we do as an agency. CIA officers may have personal views, but this does not lessen their — or CIA’s — commitment to unbiased analysis.
CIA Director Bill Burns is currently in Qatar to meet with the Israeli intelligence chief and the prime minister in Qatar to discuss hostage recovery, making the revelation’s timing awkward.
Other former intelligence officials slammed the official’s pro-Palestinian posting given Burns’ role in the crisis, with one calling it “exceptionally and surprisingly bad judgment.”
President Joe Biden’s backing of ally Israel has angered some government employees, who have resigned, lodged protests, and participated in “listening sessions” at the White House, and State and Defense Departments.
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The pressure has prompted Biden to push for limited ceasefires, or “pauses,” in Israel’s response to the attack, which killed more than 1,200.
A current ceasefire has allowed for the release of 74 hostages, including one American girl, whose great-aunt reportedly has connections to the White House and is a buyer of Hunter Biden’s artwork.
Negotiators in Doha, Qatar, over the release of further groups of Israeli hostages have divided them into groups and categories — like cattle, with each group to fetch a different price in the negotiation.
This humiliating exercise, itself a public relations victory for Hamas, will enable the terror organization to demand different prices for each group — far more than the three Palestinian terror convicts for every woman and child in the first six exchanges.
The result is a process that looks more like bartering over goods in a Middle Eastern bazaar than a discussion about human beings — all of whom were kidnapped in a terror attack, and all of whom are being held in violation of international law, without Red Cross visits.
The description of negotiations between Hamas, Qatar, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and the Israeli Mossad was published by Washington Post columnist David Ignatius on Tuesday evening.
Ignatius wrote:
The negotiators agreed on five categories of Israeli hostages for future releases, the knowledgeable source said. The five groups are: men too old for reserve military duty, female soldiers, male reservists, active-duty male soldiers, and the bodies of Israelis who died before or during captivity. The total is well over 100, but the source said he couldn’t provide a precise number as yet.
Hamas has expressed “willingness to negotiate on all five categories,” the source said. He added that parameters of the exchange — such as how many Gaza captives would be freed each day, how many Palestinian prisoners would be exchanged for each Israeli, and how much humanitarian assistance would be sent into Gaza — haven’t been worked out.
One complication is that Hamas has spread the hostages out among different groups — they did this with the Bibas family, whose infant was given to another terrorist group.
Already, previous exchanges have presumed that only women and children would be released — which has resulted in the cruel spectacle of mothers and children being liberated while husbands and fathers are still in captivity.
Israel had initially vowed not to negotiate at all with Hamas, which it says it wants to destroy. It has now been forced, though both domestic pressure and international pressure, to participate in a process in which it must differentiate among groups of hostages — and in which it is negotiating with Hamas, lending it legitimacy and allowing it to buy time and build its base of global support.
Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). He is the author of the new biography, Rhoda: ‘Comrade Kadalie, You Are Out of Order’. He is also the author of the recent e-book, Neither Free nor Fair: The 2020 U.S. Presidential Election. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.
Muslim American Society, Linked to Hamas, Threatens Rockefeller Christmas Tree Lighting
“Islam isn’t in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant."
“Islam isn’t in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant. The Koran … should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on Earth.”
And where better to kick off that agenda than in New York City?
The Muslim American Society, Samidoun, designated as a terrorist group, and other pro-terror hate groups have put out flyers threatening to “Flood the Tree Lightning for Gaza”.
The “flood” reference is to Al Aqsa Flood: the Hamas name for the atrocities of Oct 7.
The Rockefeller Center Christmas tree lighting is a great New York tradition. But those are not things that Islam will tolerate.
In May 2005, Daveed Gartenstein-Ross reported in The Weekly Standard that MAS is a U.S. front group for the Muslim Brotherhood — a claim supported by a September 19, 2004 Chicago Tribune story that stated: “In recent years, the U.S. Brotherhood operated under the name Muslim American Society, according to documents and interviews. One of the nation’s major Islamic groups, it was incorporated in Illinois in 1993 after a contentious debate among Brotherhood members.” This Tribune article was later reproduced on the Muslim Brotherhood’s English-language website, Ikhwanweb.
The Muslim Brotherhood is also the parent organization of Hamas.
MAS, like the Muslim Brotherhood, wishes to see the United States governed by sharia, or Islamic law. “The message that all countries should be ruled by Islamic law,” writes Gartenstein-Ross, “is echoed throughout MAS’s membership curriculum. For example, MAS requires all its adjunct members to read Fathi Yakun’s book To Be a Muslim. In that volume, Yakun spells out his expansive agenda: ‘Until the nations of the world have functionally Islamic governments, every individual who is careless or lazy in working for Islam is sinful.’”
MAS’s ties to the Muslim Brotherhood were confirmed on August 14, 2007, as The Investigative Project on Terrorism reported: “As the terror-support trial of the Holy Land Foundation (HLF) continued today, FBI agent Lara Burns testified that a phonebook found at the home of Ismail Elbarrasse — un-indicted co-conspirator and former assistant to HAMAS leader Musa Abu Marzook — listed the names and numbers of the Muslim Brotherhood leadership in the United States.
So we’ve got a Hamas-linked group threatening the Christmas tree lighting ceremony while New York politicians continue to tolerate this state of terror.
Finally, if there’s any doubt as what we’re dealing with, here’s a Muslim Society of America event from 2019. (That’s where the screenshot is from.)
Disturbing footage of Muslim kids saying they would sacrifice themselves and kill for the “army of Allah” surfaced from an Islamic center in Philadelphia.
The Muslim American Society (MAS) Islamic Center in Philadelphia posted the video to its Facebook page celebrating “Ummah Day” in which young children wearing Palestinian scarves sang and read poetry about killing for Allah and the mosque in Jerusalem.
“We will defend the land of divine guidance with our bodies, and we will sacrifice our souls without hesitation,” a second girl says. “We will chop off their heads, and we will liberate the sorrowful and exalted Al-Aqsa Mosque. We will lead the army of Allah fulfilling His promise, and we will subject them to eternal torture.”
Hamas is here. Al Qaeda is here. ISIS is here. And yes, they don’t intend to allow Christmas trees or menorahs.
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.
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Source: Biden Pressure on Israeli Tactics Will Leave Hamas Intact and in Power
A source within the Israeli government told Breitbart News on Tuesday that U.S. President Joe Biden’s pressure would lead to Hamas surviving the war intact, rather than allowing Israel to destroy Hamas or remove its military and governing capabilities.
In recent days, the White House has acknowledged that Israel intends to continue fighting Hamas after the current “pause,” sought by Biden to allow the release of hostages, ends later this week.
“The Israelis have been pretty clear that once the pauses are complete and the hostage exchanges [sic] are over that they intend to continue their military operations against Hamas,” White House adviser John Kirby said on Monday (Israel does not hold “hostages”; it is releasing convicted Palestinian terrorists).
However, the White House is no longer clearly stating that it shares that goal. And the Israeli government privately believes Biden is prepared to tolerate the survival of Hamas, despite the fact that Hamas and other terror groups would see that as a victory.
The reason Israel believes this is Biden’s goal is that the U.S. administration is imposing onerous conditions on the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) regarding its operations in Gaza, such that defeating Hamas has become almost impossible.
The United States has warned Israel that it must fight more surgically and avoid further mass displacement of Palestinians in its war against Hamas to avoid a humanitarian crisis that overwhelms the world’s ability to respond, according to senior Biden administration officials.
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American officials have told the Israelis that any coming military operations should not hamper the flow of power and water or impede the work of humanitarian sites such as hospitals and U.N.-supported shelters in south and central Gaza.
Neither the U.S. nor neighboring Egypt — a U.S. ally — has made plans to allow residents of Gaza to leave the area during fighting, nor have any other Arab countries offered to take in Palestinians, meaning Israel alone bears the risk to Palestinian civilians.
Middle East analyst and commentator Caroline Glick went into further detail in a column for the Jewish News Syndicate. She said, for example, that Biden’s opposition to Israeli airstrikes on buildings gave Hamas snipers the ability to kill Israeli soldiers.
She wrote: “At a minimum, it is clear that Biden’s preference for the lives of civilians in Gaza over the lives of IDF soldiers on the ground ensures that far more soldiers will be killed in the fighting than would otherwise.”
She noted that Biden had originally questioned Hamas’s statistics on civilian casualties in Gaza — which fail to distinguish between Hamas terrorists and true non-combatants — but that he had since apologized to anti-Israel Muslim groups and now uses the faulty Hamas death statistics.
(Arab- and Muslim-American voters in Michigan, a key swing state in the 2024 election, are also threatening to sit out the race, and polls suggest that young voters, who are swayed by negative social media portrayals of Israel, oppose Biden’s public stance.)
Glick added that Israel likely knew the locations in which most of the hostages were being kept, but had been prevented from launching military operations to rescue them because of the high potential cost in civilian lives, which Biden would not tolerate.
Moreover, Glick noted, the Biden administration insists on letting the Palestinian Authority control Gaza after the war, rather than allowing Israel to control security there — a return to the status quo before 2007, when Hamas staged a coup in Gaza.
This, she said, fundamentally placed Israeli security at risk, as did the Biden administration’s opposition to measures such as blockades, which Israel and Egypt were forced to impose on Gaza after Hamas began importing weapons into the territory.
The Biden administration is currently divided over Israel, with many staff members opposed to Biden’s public support for Israel, and pressing for a return to the “distance” of the Barack Obama administration, when the U.S. often sided against Israel.
The U.S. is using Qatar to pressure Israel to accept further pauses in military operations, rather than using U.S. leverage on the tiny Gulf dictatorship to insist that it stop supporting terror. In 2022, Biden designated Qataras a “major non-NATO ally” of the U.S., despite its brazen support for Hamas, whose billionaire terrorist leaders live in luxury in the Qatari capital of Doha.
Glick noted that the U.S. has near-total leverage over Israel because of Israeli dependence on American munitions for resupply. (Iran supplies Hamas and other terror organizations, and Russia supplies advanced weapons systems to the Iranian regime.)
She suggested that the Republican-held House of Representatives hold hearings into the Biden administration’s pressure on Israel.
On Tuesday, after Hamas terrorists violated the terms of the “pause” by wounding three Israeli soldiers with bombs, and Israel failed to respond by ending the truce, Glick warned of a “strategic collapse” in the Israeli government.
If such a collapse happens, critics say, it would be a result of Biden’s pressure — and possibly part of a broader goal inside the administration to make sure that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has been effective in resisting U.S. policies in the region in the past, no longer controls his own democratically-elected government.
Israel may also be reluctant to return to fighting because of domestic pressure to free hostages by any means necessary. But there are also Israeli voices — primarily on the right — who argue that if Israel places hostage talks ahead of destroying Hamas, it will let Hamas survive and take more hostages in the future.
Many of the same left-wing groups supported by the Biden administration during protests against Netanyahu’s judicial reforms earlier this year are also active in ongoing protests to free the hostages.
Israeli analysts have described Biden’s recent approach to Israel as a tight hug — one that looks, on the surface, like support, but one that also prevents the Israeli government from moving on its own and doing what it must to defend its own security.
The Biden administration might argue that restraining Israel is necessary to appease Arab allies or the Muslim world. But the implications of a Hamas victory for U.S. security could be like the rise of ISIS in Iraq after Obama’s hasty 2011 withdrawal.
Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). He is the author of the new biography, Rhoda: ‘Comrade Kadalie, You Are Out of Order’. He is also the author of the recent e-book, Neither Free nor Fair: The 2020 U.S. Presidential Election. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.
OE BIDEN AND HIS PUPPETMASTER BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA HAVE BEEN FUNDING MUSLIM DICTATORS, AND THEREFORE MUSLIM TERRORIST FOR YEARS!
JOE BIDEN is known as a serial liar, a "public servant" who has somehow managed to accrue tremendous wealthwho has somehow managed to accrue tremendous wealth, a race-baiting opportunist, a Catholic-in-name-only, and a bought-and-paid-for politician in bed with criminal cartels and foreign foes. In another era, Joe Biden would have been run out of his country much the same way Benedict Arnold was two and a half centuries ago; in an era when integrity, honor, fortitude, fidelity, and grit have been jettisoned for immorality, unscrupulousness, weakness, betrayal, and craven pliability, however, he is elevated to king sleazeball in a city drowning in sleaze. JB SHURK
Modern day Islam is just as oppressive and dangerous as was 8th century Islam. That’s because culturally, Islam still enforces the same tenets they did 1,200 years ago. What are some of those tenets, practices, and ways of life? Islam enforces edicts against homosexuality to the point of executing homosexuals. As for women, of the ten worst countries for women’s rights, seven of them are Muslim. The Quran clearly states that women are subordinate to men, and men may beat their wives (Quran 4:34). With Islam, there’s a fine line between oppressing women and enslaving them. Islam practices female genital mutilation, a barbaric practice (look it up and be disgusted). Other realities for women in Islamic countries include: women must be escorted in public, largely because it’s too dangerous for them to walk alone (rape and assaults are common); women must cover their bodies from head to foot; and very few education opportunities which result in limited employment opportunities.
THIS IS THE REALITY OF MUSLIMS ALL OVER THE PLANET
Immediately after horror reigned in Israel on October 7, when over 1,200 people were brutalized, raped, tortured, burned alive, and murdered, and over 200 other babies, children, women, men, and seniors kidnapped, reports emerged that the terror group, Hamas, was not the only bad actor. Purportedly, other criminal gangs and even civilians — one on crutches — joined in the orgy of bloodletting, rape, torture, and butchery.
‘Tone Deaf’ Biden Still Pushing ‘Failed’ Two-State Solution on Israel
Despite the recent October 7 massacre of Israeli civilians and the overwhelming Palestinian support for it, the largely failed two-state solution for solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict — vehemently rejected by both sides — is still being pushed by U.S. President Joe Biden, who insists that it is the “only way” to ensure long-term security for both Israelis and Palestinians in a new post-Hamas Gaza.
The two-state solution, largely seen as a staple of foreign policy by U.S. administrations prior to President Donald Trump, has been lambasted by many critics as being a colossal failure that does not take into account facts on the ground.
Amidst renewed demands for Palestinian statehood emerging from Palestinian American groups, Muslim advocacy organizations, and some Democrats, President Biden posted a message declaring his continued determination, since the October 7 massacre, to implement a two-state solution despite the lack of a viable peace partner.
“A two-state solution is the only way to guarantee the long-term security of both the Israeli and the Palestinian people,” President Biden wrote on Sunday. “To make sure Israelis and Palestinians alike can live in equal measures of freedom and dignity.”
“We will not give up on working toward this goal,” he added.
His proposition was met with immediate and significant criticism from Republicans.
“Hamas did not allow freedom and dignity as they slaughtered innocent civilians and took hostages on October 7,” wrote Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN). “The only way to guarantee the security of Israelis and Palestinians is to eliminate Hamas.”
“President Biden just plugged ‘a two state solution.’ Tone deaf,” wrote Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT). “Gaza has had a ‘two state solution’ on the table since 2005, and defiantly refused to take it.”
“You can’t have a two-state solution where one party is unwilling to recognize the other’s right to exist,” he added.
“You are delusional,” wrote syndicated columnist Josh Hammer.
The so-called two-state solution, which calls for the creation of a Palestinian state — ostensibly in the West Bank, Gaza Strip, and some eastern sections of Jerusalem — in exchange for the Palestinian Authority (PA) ending its conflict with Israel and living at peace with the Jewish state, has long proved to be an abject failure.
Criticism of President Biden’s push for a two-state solution using PA President Mahmoud Abbas and his ruling Fatah party as peace partners centers around several key issues.
“Moderate” Palestinian Factions
The PA under Abbas and Fatah are nonviable partners for peace due to its actions and policies that stand in stark opposition to the objectives of a peaceful resolution to the conflict.
Abbas holds leadership positions in three key Palestinian entities. He serves as president of the Palestinian Authority (PA), leader of the Fatah political party, and chairman of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), whose militant wings have a history of perpetrating violent attacks against Israeli civilians, leading to its designation as a terrorist group by the United States.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas meets with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Amman, Jordan, on Oct. 17, 2023. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, Pool)
Despite frequent media assertions, neither Abbas nor any of the groups he heads fall under the category of “moderate,” with Hamas’s October 7 massacre — the deadliest against Jewish people since the Nazi Holocaust, which saw the torture, rape, execution, and abduction of hundreds of Israeli civilians — having received broad support from Palestinian factions across the board.
Aside from Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad perpetrating the attack, the “moderate” Fatah expressed support and even participated in it, and the official Palestinian Authority (PA) pledged to pay nearly $3 million to the families of slain Hamas terrorists who executed the attack.
The PA, which serves as the administrative organization established to govern the Palestinian territories, particularly in the West Bank, has long been deemed too radical for peace due to its refusal to fully recognize Israel and its support for terror activities against the Jewish state, coupled with promoting anti-Israeli sentiments through media and education.
Palestinian education, controlled by the PA, systematically indoctrinates children with hatred towards Israel and Jews. Textbooks and curricula across various subjects delegitimize Israel’s existence, demonize Jews, and incite violent struggle, with no emphasis on peace and coexistence.
Aside from its governance issues, including corruption and authoritarian practices, the PA, which would rule a future state, supports terrorism, incites against Israel, and celebrates the killers of Jews, as it continues naming public parks and monuments after terrorists.
Following the October 7 attacks, the PA falsely claimed the rave massacre was committed by the IDF, while PA Ambassador to Iraq Amad Rwaidy, who was appointed in September by Abbas, argued that Israeli civilians killed in Hamas’s unprecedented attack on Israel earlier this month were not innocent.
An official document recently published by the PA was shown to outline calling on imams to incite violence and murder against Jews in Friday sermons, citing a religious text for Muslims to “fight the Jews” and “kill” them all.
In April, a violence-themed musical was broadcast on Palestinian Authority television calling to fight Israelis “everywhere” with “blood and stones.”
The PA is also reported to have allocated roughly $2.8 million to families of deceased Hamas terrorists as part of a program compensating those involved in terrorist acts, with additional funds for the families and imprisoned members.
This payout is part of the “pay-for-slay” initiative, officially termed the “Martyrs’ Fund,” wherein financial rewards are granted for carrying out terrorist attacks, with higher compensation for more destructive acts.
Israel’s Supreme Court has ruled the PA can be held liable for terrorism and sued by the families of those killed in terror attacks as a result of its “pay-for-slay” policy.
The so-called “moderate” Fatah political organization that governs the PA — the largest faction within the PLO, articulated its unwavering dedication to liberating “Palestine” and Jerusalem while asserting its pivotal role in what Hamas has termed Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, in a recent statement.
Following Hamas’s October 7 massacre, Fatah called for an expansion of the war against Israel, with Fatah’s Central Committee lauding the terrorists it claimed were confronting “the occupation’s crimes and aggression” and “attacking the enemy.” Fatah’s military wing, the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, declared its alliance with Hamas and its commitment to the ongoing military campaign against Israel, calling armed struggle “the only and fastest way to liberate Palestine.”
Last month, Fatah official Fathi Abu Al-Ardat noted that all Palestinian factions are united in the fight against Israel and that the military wings of Hamas (Al-Qassam Brigades), Fatah (Al-Aqsa Brigades), and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (Al-Quds Brigades) all participated in the brutal attack, which he described as “exalted resistance.”
Meanwhile, Jamal Al-Huwail of the Fatah Revolutionary Council, expressed his hope that a similar attack will take place in the West Bank, claiming the “historical opportunity” should be seized.
The long-serving Abbas — who has remained president for 18 years despite a four-year term limit — leads these supposedly “moderate” Palestinian factions that endorse a perspective paralleling that of Hamas.
While his security forces have participated in scores of deadly terror attacks against Israelis, he himself has a history of conveying inciting antisemitic and anti-Israel rhetoric. Governments and leaders across the globe voiced outrage over “horrifying” remarks in a recent speech he delivered in which he claimed Nazi leader Adolf Hitler was not an antisemite and that the Jews of Europe during his era were not killed due to their Jewish identity, but due to their “role in society,” including “usury.”
In addition, he is perceived as lacking a mandate from his people to negotiate a peace deal, diminishing his credibility, and like his predecessor Yasser Arafat, Abbas is unwilling to make concessions on critical issues such as refugees and Jerusalem, fearing being seen as a traitor for conceding to Israel.
Though the “two-state solution” has been central to Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, the Palestinian Authority (PA) has consistently rejected all of Israel’s offers for a state. Despite the numerous proposals, every Israeli attempt to offer land concessions has been met with terror waves, beginning with attacks under late PLO leader Yasser Arafat in the 1990s following the failed Oslo accords, to the Second Intifada in the early 2000s, to Israel’s withdrawal from Gaza in 2005 that prompted 18 years of rocket attacks.
Palestinian Street
A recent poll by Birzeit University’s Arab World for Research and Development (AWRAD) shows significant Palestinian support (75 percent) for the U.S.-designated terrorist group Hamas and its October 7 massacre, while nearly three-quarters favor the elimination of Israel, with the creation of a Palestinian state “from the river to the sea” in its stead.
Respondents also showed strong support for the military wings of various terrorist groups: Palestinian Islamic Jihad (84 percent), al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades (80 percent), and al-Qassam Brigades (89 percent), with Hamas overall receiving 76 percent.
Palestinian politician Major General Issam Abu Bakr, who served as governor of the Palestinian city of Tulkarem, expressed his belief in unanimous support for the attack, saying, “I do not think there is a single Palestinian who does not support what happened.” A previous poll conducted by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) revealed that a whopping 93 percent of Palestinians hold antisemitic beliefs.
As Breitbart News reported, immediately after word of the October 7 attacks got out, Palestinians at home and abroad were seen celebrating jubilantly. Photos and videos uploaded to social media show Palestinian crowds greeting the returning executioners as heroes and burning seized Israeli cars in the streets of Gaza. Others show Palestinians rallying, handing out sweets, and firing guns in the air.
Ordinary Palestinian civilians were also seen actively participating in the massacre, with full mobs captured on film pouring across the breached border to take part in the killing and raping of innocents, as well as the looting of their property.
“The Two-State Solution Is Dead.”
After years of failed negotiations and Israel’s disastrous evacuation of the Gaza Strip in 2005, which resulted in Hamas’s takeover of that territory and repeated rocket attacks from there, a growing share of Israelis have grown more skeptical of a two-state solution, largely rejecting any withdrawal from the West Bank, according to a Pew Research Center survey which took place prior to October 7. After the October 7 attack, even more so, Israelis overwhelmingly no longer desire a two-state solution.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has repeatedly expressed his opposition to Biden’s proposal to restore control of Gaza to the Palestinian Authority (PA) once Hamas is removed from power and destroyed.
“In Gaza, after the destruction of Hamas, and for a long time thereafter, there will not be a regime that encourages terror, that teaches terror, that funds terror — that also indoctrinates about the destruction of Israel and the murder of Jews — this will not be,” Netanyahu vowed at a press conference this month.
Previously, twenty-one Knesset members cosigned a letter to members of the U.S. Congress, warning that the endorsement of a two-state solution is “far more dangerous for Israel” than boycott efforts such as the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement.
“We believe it contains a grave error because it expresses, among other things, support for a so-called ‘Two-State Solution,’ meaning the establishment of a ‘Palestinian state’ in the heart of tiny Israel,” the letter reads, noting that such a Palestinian state was at risk of becoming a “terrorist” and “jihadist” state that “would severely damage the national security of both Israel and the United States.”
U.S. President Joe Biden joins Israel’s Prime Minister for the start of the Israeli war cabinet meeting, in Tel Aviv on October 18, 2023, amid the ongoing battles between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas. (MIRIAM ALSTER/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
Already in 2016, former national security adviser John Bolton declared that “Just as a matter of empirical reality, the two-state solution is dead,” while former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (R) declared that “the two-state solution is no solution at all” and that “if there is going to be a Palestinian state, it’s going to have to be somewhere outside the borders of Israel.”
Biden’s Insistence
Despite all of the above, President Biden seems unperturbed as he continues to push for the two-state solution he has long hailed.
Within three weeks of the largest slaughter of Jews since the Holocaust, Biden stated that Israel must not revert to its pre-war conditions following its battle against Hamas, emphasizing the necessity for Israel to pursue a two-state resolution with the Palestinians once the conflict concludes.
“There’s no going back to the status quo as it stood on October 6,” he said at a joint press conference with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese. “That means ensuring that Hamas can no longer terrorize Israel and use Palestinian civilians as human shields. It also means that when this crisis is over, there has to be a vision of what comes next, and in our view, it has to be a two-state solution.”
Last year, he described the proposed framework as the “best way” to achieve peace.
Boasting how he reversed the policies of Trump and resumed nearly $1 billion dollars in aid to the Palestinians — in effect rewarding the “pay-for-slay” policy, Biden told Abbas that “we can count ourselves among the earliest supporters of a two-state solution” and that his “commitment to that goal of a two-state solution has not changed in all these years.”
With U.S. officials reportedly exploring options for the Palestinian Authority (PA) to potentially govern Gaza again, following inquiries to PA President Mahmoud Abbas, implementing this plan faces challenges due to the PA’s historical struggles, including its 2007 ousting from Gaza by Hamas, issues of corruption, unpopularity, and declining international support.
The aftermath of Hamas’s attack on Kibbutz Kfar Aza, one of the hardest-hit communities in the October 7 onslaught by Hamas, on October 27, 2023. (Gili Yaari/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
In contrast with the Biden administration’s policies, Trump did not unequivocally endorse the two-state solution, saying he was also open to a one-state solution — presumably meaning Israeli annexation of the West Bank — and that he would accept whatever solution Israelis and Palestinians themselves chose. In addition, the Trump administration cut aid to the Palestinians over its boycott of the U.S., as well as its so-called pay-for-slay scheme, and closed the Palestinian mission in Washington, expelling the Palestinian Ambassador to the U.S., Hussam Zomlot.
On Saturday, Dutch right-wing politician Geert Wilders caused an uproar after declaring that the country of Jordan should be considered the true national homeland for the Palestinian people, given that Jordan has a majority Palestinian population and integrating Palestinians into Jordan could lead to a more stable regional situation, as Jordan has successfully integrated Palestinian refugees.
Joshua Klein is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jklein@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter @JoshuaKlein.
Immediately after horror reigned in Israel on October 7, when over 1,200 people were brutalized, raped, tortured, burned alive, and murdered, and over 200 other babies, children, women, men, and seniors kidnapped, reports emerged that the terror group, Hamas, was not the only bad actor. Purportedly, other criminal gangs and even civilians — one on crutches — joined in the orgy of bloodletting, rape, torture, and butchery.
These early reports stated that hostages, not controlled by Hamas, the main perpetrator and most powerful terrorist group in Gaza, had been moved around within Gaza and sold to other terrorist groups. This comports with Hamas’s sometimes statements that “they don’t know the whereabouts of certain hostages.”
Hamas has now admitted that the red-haired infant, ten-month-old Kfir Bibas; his four-year-old brother, Ariel; and their parents are not in their control. Rather, they have been moved to another location in Gaza, under the control of unidentified co-conspirators. Hamas is using these four human souls as chess pieces in their deadly, psychotic game.
Where has the Red Cross been all this time? Destroyed is the fiction that the Red Cross is a nonpartisan beacon of life-saving medical care. The Red Cross has not examined a single hostage in captivity. If it had done their proper job, Avigail Eden would not have been released with lice in her hair, and 84-year-old Elma Avraham would not have been deprived of her life-saving heart medicine and hospitalized with a body temperature of 82 degrees. Moreover, many child hostages have been released with orthopedic and nutritional issues.
If you think a hostage’s return is a victory for celebration — it’s not. The hostages should never have been kidnapped in the first instance. Their ransom is being paid for with the release of prisoners on the other side who were hell-bent on murdering civilian Israelis, by knife or mass bombing.
If you think a pause is good for the good guys (Israeli soldiers), it’s not. Each day the war is paused gives Hamas time to hide leaders, let terrorists escape with the general Gaza population, refuel, and restock.
From early childhood, in the homes, in the schools, and in the literature, kids are raised to think of Israelis and Jews as dogs. They are also taught that their holy mission, blessed by Allah, is to murder every single one of them.
If you think a ceasefire will solve hostilities, it won’t. Hamas, as stated above, will not stop murdering Jews until they are obliterated.
Unfortunately, Hamas is not the only cult of death operating in Gaza — and not the only group Israeli troops must battle in Gaza!
Some of the hostages are most likely being held by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Islamic Jihad is a well stocked military group, the Al-Quds Brigade, and is backed by and funded by Iran. It shares Hamas’s goal of total Israeli destruction. Islamic Jihad is considered the second most wistful group in Gaza.
Third on the who’s who list of powerful Gazan terrorist groups is the Popular Resistance Committees. Their fighters took part in the October 7 attack. They see themselves as a resistance group with close ties to Iran.
Other groups with whom the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) will have to battle within Gaza are the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine; the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine; and the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade, which coordinates continuously with Hamas and Islamic Jihad, participated with them in the bestial October 7 attack. Finally, there is the Palestinian Mujahideen Movement, which was cited as a terrorist organization by the United States State Department in 2018.
Hamas, as the largest and most powerful group in Gaza, is currently the IDF’s main target.
Perhaps the worst of all ironies is the tortured relationship between Israel and Yahya Sinwar. Sinwar is the alleged planner and executor of the October 7 attacks and the leader of Hamas. He has admitted to killing at least two suspected Israeli collaborators with his bare hands and kidnapping and killing Israeli soldiers. At one point in his life, he was imprisoned in an Israeli jail, sentenced to four life sentences. Yet while he was imprisoned, Israeli doctors removed a tumor in his brain, thereby saving his life.
In another fateful event, Sinwar was released from Israeli prison in 2011, along with 1,000 other Arab prisoners, in exchange for Gilad Shalit, who had been kidnapped and held by Hamas for five years.
In a heartrending, sinister act, Sinwar is reported to have visited the hostages and told them they were safe. Yet a twelve-year-old boy hostage, just released, reported being repeatedly beaten. Combined with other documented hostages’ deprivation, Sinwar’s assurances were not accurate.
A top CIA official posted a pro-Palestinian image on Facebook two weeks after Hamas launched a mass terrorist attack against Israel on October 7, according to a report.
The Financial Times reported that the senior intelligence official, an associate deputy director for analysis, had changed her Facebook cover photo on October 21 to an image of a man waving a Palestinian flag that is often used in stories criticizing Israel.
The FT called it a “rare public political statement by a senior intelligence officer” and “very unusual’ for a senior intelligence official to post an “overtly political image on a public platform.”
The official also reportedly published a selfie with a sticker saying “Free Palestine,” although a “person familiar with the image” said it was posted to Facebook years ago and before the current conflict.
The images were deleted from her Facebook page after the FT reached out to her via LinkedIn.
The FT said it decided not to name her after the CIA expressed concern for her safety, but the Daily Caller reported her name as Amy McFadden.
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A person on Facebook by that name and a photo matching her LinkedIn profile ran a birthday fundraiser in 2022 for the U.S. mission to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. The current high commissioner, Filippo Grandi, last month said “further escalation” or a “continuation of military activities” would be “catastrophic for the people of Gaza.”
FT reported the CIA official has previously overseen the production of the President’s Daily Brief, the compilation of intelligence presented to the president.
In her current position as an associate deputy director for analysis, she is one of two officials under the deputy director for analysis, who is responsible for approving all analysis disseminated inside the agency.
A former intelligence official told the FT: “The public posting of an obviously controversial political statement by a senior analytic manager in the middle of a crisis shows glaringly poor judgment.” The former official also told the FT the image raised concerns on “several levels, including the fact that the CIA has strong relations with Israeli intelligence.”
The CIA said in a statement to the FT:
CIA officers are committed to analytic objectivity, which is at the core of what we do as an agency. CIA officers may have personal views, but this does not lessen their — or CIA’s — commitment to unbiased analysis.
CIA Director Bill Burns is currently in Qatar to meet with the Israeli intelligence chief and the prime minister in Qatar to discuss hostage recovery, making the revelation’s timing awkward.
Other former intelligence officials slammed the official’s pro-Palestinian posting given Burns’ role in the crisis, with one calling it “exceptionally and surprisingly bad judgment.”
President Joe Biden’s backing of ally Israel has angered some government employees, who have resigned, lodged protests, and participated in “listening sessions” at the White House, and State and Defense Departments.
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Chargé d’Affaires a.i. Stephanie Hallett via Storyful
The pressure has prompted Biden to push for limited ceasefires, or “pauses,” in Israel’s response to the attack, which killed more than 1,200.
A current ceasefire has allowed for the release of 74 hostages, including one American girl, whose great-aunt reportedly has connections to the White House and is a buyer of Hunter Biden’s artwork.
Negotiators in Doha, Qatar, over the release of further groups of Israeli hostages have divided them into groups and categories — like cattle, with each group to fetch a different price in the negotiation.
This humiliating exercise, itself a public relations victory for Hamas, will enable the terror organization to demand different prices for each group — far more than the three Palestinian terror convicts for every woman and child in the first six exchanges.
The result is a process that looks more like bartering over goods in a Middle Eastern bazaar than a discussion about human beings — all of whom were kidnapped in a terror attack, and all of whom are being held in violation of international law, without Red Cross visits.
The description of negotiations between Hamas, Qatar, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and the Israeli Mossad was published by Washington Post columnist David Ignatius on Tuesday evening.
Ignatius wrote:
The negotiators agreed on five categories of Israeli hostages for future releases, the knowledgeable source said. The five groups are: men too old for reserve military duty, female soldiers, male reservists, active-duty male soldiers, and the bodies of Israelis who died before or during captivity. The total is well over 100, but the source said he couldn’t provide a precise number as yet.
Hamas has expressed “willingness to negotiate on all five categories,” the source said. He added that parameters of the exchange — such as how many Gaza captives would be freed each day, how many Palestinian prisoners would be exchanged for each Israeli, and how much humanitarian assistance would be sent into Gaza — haven’t been worked out.
One complication is that Hamas has spread the hostages out among different groups — they did this with the Bibas family, whose infant was given to another terrorist group.
Already, previous exchanges have presumed that only women and children would be released — which has resulted in the cruel spectacle of mothers and children being liberated while husbands and fathers are still in captivity.
Israel had initially vowed not to negotiate at all with Hamas, which it says it wants to destroy. It has now been forced, though both domestic pressure and international pressure, to participate in a process in which it must differentiate among groups of hostages — and in which it is negotiating with Hamas, lending it legitimacy and allowing it to buy time and build its base of global support.
Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). He is the author of the new biography, Rhoda: ‘Comrade Kadalie, You Are Out of Order’. He is also the author of the recent e-book, Neither Free nor Fair: The 2020 U.S. Presidential Election. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.
Ceasefire in Gaza: Boon for Hamas Nazis
And can you guess what Biden is pressuring Israel to do?
When pro-Hamas supporters rioted outside the Museum of Tolerance for screening footage of Hamas atrocities on the anniversary of Kristallnacht, Mayor Karen Bass and the media, including most shamefully the JTA, described it as clashes between both sides and denounced “violence”.
Now some of the groups behind that protest, which have openly defended Hamas, decided to head to the site of another local Holocaust museum, the Los Angeles Holocaust Museum in Pan Pacific Park for their pro terrorist hate rally.
There’s a reason this keeps happening. And there’s a reason that no one actually condemns it.
KKK rallies outside black churches would lead to an immediate response. Supporters of murdering Jews protesting outside Holocaust museums hardly even rates a mention.
This comes at a time when the DSA and other leftists, and their members, like this Bernie Sanders supporter, feel increasingly emboldened to attack Jews in Los Angeles.
A home invasion suspect reportedly shouted “Free Palestine!” and threatened to kill a Jewish family in Studio City Wednesday morning.
According to various local reports, a man broke into a home on the 3000 block of Laurel Canyon Boulevard sometime around 5 a.m. The suspect, who was armed with a kitchen knife, allegedly threatened to kill the family “because you are Jewish… Israel kill people,” per KTLA. The homeowner is reportedly from Israel. All the doors to the house are also reportedly adorned with mezuzot.
The family, which according to KTLA consisted of two adults (one of whom is nine months pregnant) and four children, hid in a safe room until the father came out and pushed the man into the backyard, where the suspect was subsequently arrested.
The suspect can be seen in video footage shouting, “Free Palestine” repeatedly and “brown lives matter” as he was being taken into a police vehicle.
Then we had this in Brentwood.
This is the work of a leftist movement that learned in 2020 that it could terrorize people with impunity. There’s no political or criminal accountability and little in the way of critical coverage. Behavior like this has become legitimized. And it won’t end here.
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.
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Maryland Hate Crime Commission Official Likens Israel to Nazi Germany
A Maryland state official tasked with addressing hate crimes compared Israel to Nazi Germany.
"That moment when you become what you hated most," wrote Zainab Chaudry in an Oct. 17 Facebook post accompanied by two photos of Germany's Brandenburg Gate, one with the landmark lit up with the Israeli flag after Hamas's Oct. 7 attacks and another with it draped in Nazi flags in 1936, Fox News Digital reported Tuesday. Chaudry, the director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations's Maryland office, serves on the Maryland Commission on Hate Crime Response and Prevention, to which Maryland attorney general Anthony Brown (D.) appointed her in August.
Brown said at the time that Chaudry and the other 19 appointees to the commission would help by "stepping up for all Marylanders, creating structure for our governing authorities to stem the tide of underreported crimes and bias incidents, and providing relief to people affected by these divisive acts." He added that the commission would "give a voice to those who may have been too afraid to speak up."
In another post, dated Oct. 26, Chaudry lamented that "the world summoned up rage for 40 fake Israeli babies while completely turning a blind eye to 3,000 real Palestinian babies." Another post she shared suggested it was an "inconvenient fact" that the beginnings of the conflict between Israel and Hamas could be traced back to 1948, the year of the Jewish state's founding, rather than Oct. 7, when Hamas launched its surprise attack on Israel.
Chaudry told Fox News Digital that the "Nazi post" was shared by a "close Jewish friend" and accused the Israeli government of genocide.
"I strongly and unapologetically condemn Benjamin Netanyahu's far-right, racist government for repeatedly making such genocidal threats towards the Palestinian people and killing over 13,000 Palestinians in Gaza," Chaudry said, "most of them women and children murdered in their homes. Unlike many of the Israeli government's most extreme supporters, I recognize that killing any civilians is wrong, which is why my office has repeatedly condemned the killing of both Israeli and Palestinian civilians."
She also said that there was "no conflict between condemning the Israeli government's genocidal war crimes overseas and standing up against all forms of hate here at home, including anti-Semitism, Islamophobia and anti-Palestinian racism. False smears from anti-Palestinian and anti-Muslim extremists will not stop me from standing up for justice here and abroad."
The views of one member of the commission "do not reflect those of either the Maryland Commission on Hate Crime Response and Prevention or the Attorney General," Brown's spokeswoman, Jennifer Donelan, told Fox News Digital.
"We understand that there are many viewpoints regarding current events in the Middle East," Donelan said. "The Commission will do its best to explore the impact of those events on our community, and to determine how best to address escalations in hate and bias incidents across the state." She added that the body would develop "policies and protocols" on how their members tackle such issues.
Hate crime officials have had to deal with a slew of anti-Semitic incidents since Hamas's Oct. 7 attacks, which killed about 1,200 Israelis, according to latest estimates. Such incidents have increased nearly 400 percent since the attacks, the Anti-Defamation League said last month.
PARIS (AP) – Six teenagers go on trial Monday in Paris for their alleged roles in the beheading of a teacher who showed caricatures of the prophet of Islam to his class, a killing that led authorities to reaffirm France’s cherished rights of expression and secularism.
Samuel Paty, a history and geography teacher, was killed on Oct. 16, 2020, near his school in a northwest Paris suburb by an 18-year-old of Chechen origin who had become radicalized. The attacker was in turn shot dead by police.
Paty´s name was disclosed on social media after a class debate on free expression during which he showed caricatures published by the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, which triggered a newsroom massacre by extremists in January 2015.
All hearings at a Paris juvenile court are to be held behind closed doors in accordance with French law regarding minors.
The defendants arrived Monday morning at the Paris court, their faces hidden behind masks and hoods, accompanied by their families. The media are not allowed to disclose their identity.
Among those going on trial, a teenage girl, who was 13 at the time, is accused of making false allegations for wrongly saying that Paty had asked Muslim students to raise their hands and leave the classroom before he showed the cartoons. She later told investigators she had lied. She was not in the classroom that day and Paty did not make such a request, the investigation has shown.
Five other students of Paty’s school, then 14 and 15, are facing charges of criminal conspiracy with the aim of preparing aggravated violence to be committed.
They are accused of having waited for Paty for several hours until he left the school and of having identified him to the killer in exchange for promises of payments of 300-350 euros ($348-$406).
The investigation established that the attacker knew the name of the teacher and the address of his school, but he did not have the means to identify him.
The lawyer for one of the defendants, Antoine Ory, said his client is “tormented by remorse and very much afraid of the confrontation with Mr. Paty´s family.” He said the teenager “obviously didn´t know about the criminal plan” of the killer, Abdoullakh Anzorov, a Moscow-born Chechen refugee.
Ory said his client since then had “difficult” times, changed school and friends and now sees the trial as an opportunity to turn the page.
All six teenagers are facing 2 1/2-year in prison. The trial is scheduled to end on Dec. 8.
Louis Cailliez, the lawyer for Paty´s sister, Mickaëlle, said she wants “to understand the real causes” that led the students to commit something irreparable. He pointed to the “fatal combination of little acts of cowardice, big lies, calumnies, arrangements, complicity and help without which Samuel Paty would still be alive.”
“Without the denunciation, there would be no visibility (on the social media), without visibility, there would be no crime,” he said.
Eight other adults are to be sent to trial later. They include the father of the teenage girl charged with false allegations. At the time, he had posted videos on social media that called for mobilization against the teacher.
A radical Islamic activist who helped him disseminate the virulent messages naming Paty has also been charged.
The trial comes six weeks after a teacher was fatally stabbed and three other people injured in a school attack by a former student suspected of Islamic radicalization. The killing in a context of global tensions over the Israel-Hamas war led French authorities to deploy 7,000 additional soldiers across the country to bolster security and vigilance.
Pray for Palestinians to be free of their homicidal leaders
During the last Hamas-Israel war, in the summer of 2014, I was staying at the Catholic research center at Tantur, next door to Bethlehem.
Once a week, the center leaders would say a rosary to Our Lady of the Wall—the Wall being the massive concrete border wall, 30 feet high, that Israel built along the entire Green Line of the West Bank, from north of Jenin all the way south of Hebron.
The idea was that Catholic leaders were praying for all those suffering because of the wall—the tens of thousands of Palestinian workers cut off from their former livelihoods in central Israel.
Yet there were two sides to the story of the Wall. One day, soon after I arrived, I visited the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, which I hadn’t seen in more than 20 years. I stood in the plaza outside the Frank Sinatra International Student Centre and saw this odd tree growing sideways from a planter. Intrigued, I walked over to read the plaque nearby.
In July 2002, the Palestinian organization Hamas—the same Hamas that attacked innocent Israelis on October 7—planted a bomb in the Hebrew University cafeteria. The bomb killed nine students, including five Americans, and wounded 100 more. The sideways tree is a memorial to those who died. The Hamas terrorists who carried out the bombing, now languishing in Israeli prisons, just had their stipends from the Palestinian Authority increased to $2,572 per month.
Bombings were rife in the years before my visit. During the Second Intifada that began in 2000, Palestinian terrorists from the West Bank regularly blew up civilian buses and school buses. By 2003, there had been 73 suicide bomber attacks from the West Bank in central Israel, killing 293 Israelis and wounding 1,900 more, many of them children.
After the wall was finished, the bus bombings declined to virtually zero. Apparently, border walls work.
Naturally, everyone at Tantur, the European academics and the Palestinian staff, supported the Palestinian cause. Yet we European and American researchers were regularly advised to take only “Arab buses” to Jerusalem. The theory was that Arab buses would be safer because, presumably, Palestinian terrorists would only strike Israeli buses.
I took both Arab and Israeli buses, whichever went where I wanted to go. I got along fine with the Arabs, regularly squeezing myself into the hot and sweaty 231 bus from the Bethlehem checkpoint up to Jerusalem’s Jaffa Gate.
Of the four or five dozen researchers then working at Tantur, I was one of the few who spoke some Hebrew and supported Israel. The only other one who did was a Portuguese fellow working on his master’s degree at Oxford on Vatican diplomacy.
The truth is, it’s difficult not to sympathize with ordinary Palestinians. Hardworking and friendly, they are among the best educated and generous of Arab peoples. Now, they must endure regular humiliations at the hands of 18-year-old Israeli soldiers, forced to walk through innumerable checkpoints, produce papers, and keep their eyes down.
Israelis, who have been in the Army all their lives, can be abrasive, even to tourists. Hebrew is a “me Tarzan, you Jane” language at the best of times, and when combined with typical Israeli brusqueness can sound mostly like barked commands.
In addition, Palestinians have been betrayed by their leaders for more than 70 years.
From the first U.N. proposal for a two-state solution in 1947, the Palestinian leadership has consistently chosen war over peace. Their “all or nothing” intransigence—“from the river to the sea, all of Palestine will be free,” as U.S. Representative Rashida Tlaib chants—has cost ordinary Palestinian families dearly.
Plus, those who call Israel an “apartheid state” don’t know what it’s like to live among people who want to kill you. While I was staying at Tantur, three Israeli teenagers were kidnapped on the West Bank and, it was discovered later, summarily executed.
At the same time, Hamas began firing mortar shells and rockets into central Israel—literally hundreds of thousands of them. I got the app on my iPhone that lets Israelis know when a rocket attack has started in their area, and it went off constantly—one of the most startling and grating alarms you’ve ever heard.
At the time, I kept wondering what would happen if Mexican drug cartels began regularly blowing up school buses in downtown San Diego and lobbing mortar rounds into Newport Beach. How would the U.S. population react? Probably not very peacefully, I imagine.
So, yes, everyone should pray for the peace of Jerusalem, for ordinary Palestinians to be finally free of the brutal killers who speak for them and who make peace impossible. Pray for Israelis as well, who are regularly victimized by brutal terrorist attacks and the murder of innocent women and children.
The U.N. recently adopted eight resolutions condemning Israel for various alleged human rights violations, yet made no condemnation of other nations or groups, including Hamas.
This, after Hamas slaughtered nearly 1,500 innocent Israelis during a surprise attack on October 7.
And at a time of inexplicably rising anti-Semitism. This tells you all you need to know about the “world body.” It is nothing more than a wretched hive of scum and villainy.
Hillel Neuer, executive director of UN Watch, said via press release: "The U.N.’s assault on Israel with a torrent of one-sided resolutions, just one month after the largest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, and on the 85th anniversary of Kristallnacht, is surreal.”
And morally repugnant.
Neuer added, “The only purpose of these eight lopsided condemnations is to demonize the Jewish state. The world should not be deceived that these annual resolutions advance the cause of peace or human rights in any way.”
The U.N.’s Second Committee, which focuses on Economic and Financial issues, announced the passage of three such resolutions, including one demanding that Israel cease the “exploitation, damage, cause of loss or depletion and endangerment” in the Golan Heights region of Syria. Huh?
Unsurprisingly, Bashar al-Assad’s Syria drafted and co-sponsored the resolution, which passed with a vote of 151 in favor to six against. Only Israel, Canada, the Federated States of Micronesia, Nauru, Palau and the United States opposed the measure. Eleven members abstained from voting.
Neuer called the Syrian-backed resolution "obscene," and stated that it is "astonishing" that the U.N. would support a call for "more people to be handed over" to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime, which has killed "half a million of its own people."
Neuer noted that Assad’s forces have killed "more than 3,000 Palestinians" in their conflicts, prompting him to add of the resolution, "The text is morally galling and logically absurd.”
A lot more needs to be done to put these animals down. They are obviously in some kind of gang or cartel dynamic as a quasi state actor, same as the cartels, and fueled by their ill-gotten gains. The U.S. knows how to issue sanctions and seize assets of bad state actors and make them scream. We don't see too much of that going on as Joe Biden calls for a ceasefire or pause in order to allow Hamas to regroup.
It's an outrageously weak response, given the resources of the U.S. government. There shouldn't be any billionaires right now among the Hamas elite. They need to be running and hiding. Instead, they are rolling in the dough as their minions conduct anti-Semitic attacks and organize demonstrations.
These people are bin Laden, ISIS, and the cartels rolled into one. It's time to take out the trash.
Manipulating with Lies and Manufactured Sob Stories
As has been the case since the barbarous attack on Israel by Hamas aided by Palestinian civilians, international organizations have chosen by their silence to ally themselves with the butchers instead of condemning the 10/7 attack. Canary Mission, which tracks anti-Semitism (and these days it’s not untoward to equate anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism, because it comes from the same fetid font: hatred of Jews and the globalists’ anti-nationalism) notes the silence of those entities from whom we were led to expect more:
Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, speaking as head of the WHO (World Health Organization); Amnesty, the International Red Cross, the United Nations High Commissioner on Human Rights, the UN Special Rapporteur, Human Rights Watch, the EU Commission, Malala Yousafzai, chief of UN women.
Canary Mission is not alone in this observation.
Dr. Einat Walif:
In a better world, on October 8, the UN Secretary General, the head of the International Red Cross and other luminaries would have stationed themselves on the Egyptian border with Gaza demanding the full, immediate, and unconditional release of all the kidnapped hostages, insisting that Israel owes absolutely nothing to Hamas for the release of children, mothers, the elderly, and civilians because there is no world in which such acts are OK. Israel is forced to negotiate with the twisted leaders of Hamas for our children only because so many people in official and non-official positions of power failed to do their job and normalized the idea that kidnapping children from their beds and keeping them as bargaining chips is somehow a legitimate act that leads to negotiations rather than to stringent condemnation and global ostracism.
The "free press" can fairly be characterized as outright liars and enablers of Hamas. Hamas, as the world has long known, has used hospitals, mosques, schools, and ambulances in clear contravention of international law to store military weaponry, and hide and transport fighters. Israel claimed at the start something that everyone in Gaza -- including the UN personnel stationed there -- knew: Underneath the hospital was the Hamas operational headquarters and series of tunnels leading to and from the hospital. Major news outlets suggested strongly that Israel’s claim was a lie. After Israel took over the hospital and secured the underground, definitively proving how the hospital had been used by Hamas, including how it drained electricity and water from it to maintain its operations, how its terrorists took refuge there, and even transported hostages there. the lie had spread around the world. Why did the press do this disparage Israel?
Omri Ceren offers up as good an explanation as any:
Here's the thing about all those outlets that ran stories suggesting Israel lied about Hamas using Shifa Hospital as a military HQ:
1st, it was all of them.
2nd, it shows the incentives and disincentives that used to make journalism reliable have been nuked. They've been replaced by attaboys for whatever helps the home team win a couple of news cycles. The home team for them right now, weirdly but undeniably, is Hamas.
Incentives: Journalism wasn't designed so reporters could guide you towards truth. Mostly because they're bad at it, as the bulk of them don't know very much and the very best are still generalists. But also, because it becomes subtly corrosive in the way we saw during Trump, where they all convinced each other to print the same partisan line by telling each other it's the truth (which they'd be the last to know, because see above). Instead, journalism is supposed to be about facts and, more specifically, it's supposed to be a competitive industry where the incentives are about printing facts out before anyone else. "Scoops."
Which means that when you see them all printing the same thing, you can tell the incentive structure has broken down. [snip]
Disincentives: There was a time when having to print a correction was the most professionally mortifying thing imaginable. [snip] As journalism declined, and especially during Trump, they used all sorts of tricks with each other to take out the sting. Things that should have been "corrections" got downgraded to "editor's notes," and things that should have been "editor's notes" got downgraded to stealth edits. They had to, because they were simply making things up as they went along, and it wouldn't have worked otherwise. [snip]
For this Shifa Hospital news cycle, they ALL KNEW the Israelis would eventually publish evidence they were wrong. Everyone has known for a decade the hospital is a Hamas operation center. They did it anyway, because the stigma for being wrong is gone, as long as you're wrong for the right side.
Ceren is right, too, that journalists “don’t know very much.” Hussain-Abdul-Hussain, a Lebanese-Iraqi at the Foundation for the Defense of Freedom examines the ignorance of the Washington Post writers:
The @washingtonpost gauges Arab public opinion using voodoo reporting. As the Post imagines them, the Arabs have no debate or division between different views (like here in the US, older folks with Israel, younger people with Hamas). The imagined "Arab Street" is one monolithic bloc that is in consensus over the "Palestine cause." Did the Post ask itself what would happen to Arab dissenting voices who think that the "Palestine cause" is a lie behind which all corruption and terrorism hides? Did the Post ever seek out dissenting voices to try to see why they can't say their opinions out loud? Garbage samples: "The prevailing view throughout the Middle East is that while Israel is doing the fighting, this is an American war." And this: "In Arab nations, where solidarity with the Palestinian cause has endured for decades."
You rarely in the press see dissenting views even from Arabs outside the control of the authoritarian thugs who rule so many of these countries. Nor is much play given to the words and actions of Palestine’s neighbors, none of whom are willing to take refugees from there. Did you know that Egyptian president Abdel Fattah Al -Sisi made this proposal this week:
@EhabH91
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi proposed, "We are prepared to support the demilitarization of the Palestinian state, ensuring safeguards through NATO, UN, Arab, or American forces -- whichever is preferred.
This question should be directed to Hamas regarding whether they accept to stop the shedding of the blood of our people in Gaza.
Winner of the most stupid journalist of the week is Sky News presenter Kay Burley, who asked Eylon Levy, Israeli government spokesman, whether the fact that Israel had agreed to release 150 Palestinian prisoners in exchange for just 50 hostages showed that “Israel does not think that Palestinian lives are valued as highly as Israeli lives.” Levy explained that absurd question failed to acknowledge that this was the deal Hamas insisted upon, at which point the idiot presenter said the suggestion she had advanced was given her by an unnamed “hostage negotiator.”
As for the status of the exchange, Hamas released none of the American hostages -- 13 Israeli women and children, the women mostly aged and frail (indeed, Hamas had earlier reported one had died in captivity) and a number of Thais and a Filipino whose exchange had been negotiated separately with Iran by the government of Thailand. Not one American was released. Not one young woman. Not a nine-month-old baby, Other breaches by Hamas have occurred and more are likely. The deal required ICRC access to all the hostages to assess their health -- and whether they are even alive -- and this never happened. The IDF has surrounded the fighters in Northern Gaza and that was the line set by agreement. Hamas is trying to break this by encouraging young men in the south to come to the north (and probably by reprovisioning with stolen relief supplies).
Friday night in front of a loud cheering crowd on the West Bank a Palestinian mob bound two men by hands and feet upside down and blindfolded, claiming that they had communicated with Israel. The men were hung, one was dismembered, and their remains were ceremoniously thrown onto a garbage heap. It was all videotaped, certainly to intimidate every watcher. One of the men executed was Hamza Ahmed Hamza Mubarak, a 31-year-old Afro-Palestinian, a descendent of slaves brought there by Arabs whose descendants still suffer humiliation and discrimination.
As we go to press, Hamas is playing a delaying game by refusing to release the second batch of hostages -- remember these hostages include children and a nine-month-old baby. Israel has given them until 12 midnight on Saturday night to release them or the pause will be over and the attack resumed.
As Hamas delays, it and its allies are drumming up street mobs around the world, and posting ridiculously phony videos on social media, appealing to the credulous and partisan -- things like Hamas fighters wearing Israeli uniforms and bragging about stealing a necklace and demolishing a building, and more of the same Pallywood pictures of kids smeared with paint which they claim are the victims of “genocide.”
It’s time to wipe Hamas out, and follow the suggestion of Egypt’s president. These people can neither govern nor comply with the basic requirements of decency and international law, and they never will be able to.
Hamas and its supporters around the world are worse than Nazis
World War II historian Andrew Roberts has a powerful essay making an important point: Hamas is worse than the Nazis because the Nazis still had a sufficient moral compass to be embarrassed by their genocidal crimes, while Hamas and its supporters are loud and proud. And when I say supporters, I don’t just mean the Gazastanians, a huge majority of whom support both Hamas and the massacre of Israelis. I mean their collaborators in the West, too, with the execrable Greta Thunberg as Exhibit A.
Roberts writes that, while still lacking the wherewithal to kill six million Jews, Hamas and the whole panoply of antisemitic Jihadists are “qualitatively worse than the Nazis in their belief systems, impulses, and instincts.” The reason?
In October 1943 Heinrich Himmler, the head of the SS, delivered a notorious speech to 50 of his senior lieutenants in Posen. “I want to speak frankly to you about an extremely grave matter,” he said. “We can talk about it among ourselves, yet we will never speak of it in public. … I am referring to the evacuation of the Jews, the extermination of the Jewish people. … It is a page of glory in our history that has never been written and is never to be written.”
By total contrast, the Hamas killers 80 years later attached GoPro cameras to their helmets so they could livestream their atrocities over social media. Although the Nazis burnt Jews alive in barns on their retreat in 1945, they did not film themselves doing it. There are plenty of photographs of Nazis standing around death-pits full of Jewish corpses, but these were taken for private delectation rather than public consumption.
When the Soviets approached Auschwitz, the Nazis did everything they could to hide their crimes, whether it was to empty the camps by taking prisoners on death marches or simply destroying the crematoria, which were the infrastructure of mass murder. Moreover, the reason for the gas chambers was that the ordinary German soldier was sickened by slaughtering civilians en masse, even the Jews he’d been taught to believe were subhuman.
Hamas’s fighters, on the other hand, recorded, broadcast, and celebrated their raping women to death, slaughtering babies, and torturing children before killing them. They are ecstatic with blood lust, as is the civilian population in Gaza. Look at these happy citizens filming two men who were lynched and later dismembered for allegedly collaborating with Israel. I can assure you there was no due process, not even the faux-formality of a “kangaroo court.”
Hamas also has a rape culture worse than anything the Nazis did. Historically, conquering militaries have always raped. However, the Nazis had as their official policy avoiding rape because of their obsession with racial purity. Yes, the prohibition was widely ignored, but nothing the Nazis did compares to Hamas:
But that is different from the Hamas leadership giving their men orders to rape as many Jewish women as they could find and film themselves doing it, and in all too many cases taking them hostage afterwards or killing them.
Meanwhile, Israeli troops do not rape because they are moral. Yes, there will be exceptions, but Hamas and the Gazastanians don’t even try to pretend that their women are at risk.
Hamas and its jihadist ilk are death cultists who are out, loud, and proud. And that means their followers around the world are, too. When they chant “Khaybar, Khaybar ya yahud,” they are calling for the massacre of all Jews:
And it’s not just Muslims. It’s also their fellow travelers on the left, with no one more perfectly exemplifying this than the anorexic Greta Thunberg, an uneducated neurotic teen who became the leader of the climate change movement. Of course, what’s hiding behind the movement is the dream of human extermination to retain the purity of a mindless planet for the benefit of a select few (Thunberg among them, of course).
While Greta can’t admit that she seeks humankind’s extermination, she openly calls for Jewish genocide:
And yes, Jewish genocide is the goal behind “crushing Zionism.” Hamas and the surrounding Muslim nations aren’t shy about their goal of deleting, with blood and finality, the “stain” of a Jewish presence on “their” land.
Clarity is a good thing, and we’re finally seeing the evil face behind the anodyne slogans. These are unabashedly murderous people. Whether they’re starting point is Islam or leftism, Jews are first in line for extermination, but the rest of us are on the chopping block, too.
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Ceren is right, too, that journalists “don’t know very much.” Hussain-Abdul-Hussain, a Lebanese-Iraqi at the Foundation for the Defense of Freedom examines the ignorance of the Washington Post writers:
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