Israeli officials have openly stated that the goal of the ongoing war is elimination of Hamas, and its leaders residing across the Middle East are no exception

Posted on December 1, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

I24 NEWS
Israel seeks to kill Hamas leaders hiding abroad after war ends
December 1, 2023

Israel’s intelligence services are seeking to kill Hamas leaders around the world after the war ends, Israeli officials told WSJ. The report, published on Thursday, cited Israeli sources claiming that the country has already started the preparation for targeted killings abroad. “The question now for Israeli leaders isn’t about whether to try to kill Hamas leaders elsewhere in the world, but where—and how, the officials said,” claims WSJ. The terrorist group’s members are known to hide across the Middle East: in Lebanon, Qatar and Turkey – but Israeli officials have explicitly said that this shall be no obstacle in the nation’s quest for Hamas elimination. Earlier in November, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated at a press conference: “I have instructed the Mossad to act against the heads of Hamas wherever they are.” READ MORE

TIMES OF ISRAEL Son of war cabinet minister and ex-IDF chief Eisenkot among 2 soldiers killed in Gaza The Israel Defense Forces on Thursday evening announced the deaths of two more soldiers fighting Hamas in the Gaza Strip, raising the death toll in the ground offensive to 89. They were named as Master Sgt. (res.) Gal Meir Eisenkot, 25, of the 551st Brigade’s 699th Battalion, from Herzliya, and Sgt. Maj. (res.) Jonathan David Deitch, 34, of the 55th Brigade’s 6623rd Reconnaissance Battalion, from Harish. The IDF said Eisenkot was killed in northern Gaza while Deitch was killed during a battle in the southern Strip.

TIMES OF ISRAEL Footage shows numerous Gaza terror suspects who apparently surrendered to IDF troops Several clips and photos circulating on social media Thursday showed dozens of Palestinians rounded up by the Israel Defense Forces in Gaza after apparently surrendering to troops, as the military pressed its campaign in the territory. The men, suspected of involvement with Hamas and other terror groups, were seen stripped down to their underwear, blindfolded, and with their hands tied behind their backs, being held by Israeli troops in Palestine Square in Gaza City, in Jabaliya, and in other areas in the northern Strip.

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Grassroots campaigners have collected 300,000 signatures from 50 countries to raise awareness of gender-based violence in the Israel-Hamas war

Posted on December 1, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

JEWISH NEWS
#MeToo Unless Ur A Jew: The activists highlighting Hamas’ sexual violence
Michelle Rosenberg
November 27, 2023

Shortly after the 7 October Hamas atrocities, a group of Israeli women founded the #MeToo_Unless_Ur_A_Jew online global campaign. It was in response to the silence of and lack of condemnation from UN Women for the depraved and violent, murderous acts of gender-based violence and war crimes committed against Jewish women and children by terrorists. On 20 October, UN Women, purporting to be a global champion for gender equality, published a report entitled ‘UN Women Rapid Assessment and Humanitarian Response in the Occupied Palestinian Territory’. It was followed by an official UN Women statement on 27 October, entitled “In-focus: The conflict in Gaza”. The emphasis was on Palestinians in Gaza, with a glaring omission by the international body of any mention of the hundreds of Israeli women brutally burned, beheaded, raped, killed and kidnapped during the conflict. READ MORE

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“We’re too old to run to the safe room every time an alarm sounds,” they told their children. And what will you do if there’s an intrusion, the kids asked, and terrorists enter the kibbutz? “If they show up,” she would answer, “I’ll offer them coffee.”

Posted on December 1, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

YNET
‘I always said I would offer terrorists coffee if they invaded’: How Kibbutz Be’eri’s eldest resident survived
Ariela Ringel Hoffman
December 2, 2023

This coming January, Aviva Sela, member of Kibbutz Be’eri, will mark her 97 birthday. She says that as things stand, she won’t celebrate the occasion, only mark it. Perhaps, if by then (her birthday) she sees the return of her beloved grandson, Itay, currently being held in Hamas’s tunnels in Gaza, the son of her daughter Orit and Rafi, who were killed on that terrible day – she might, with great caution, call it a celebration. A small one, but a celebration, nonetheless. Meanwhile, Sela, the last of the founders that survived the massacre in the Kibbutz, wants “someone to explain to me what happened. How can it be that all this happened to us?” READ MORE

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But none can explain why the Palestinians who fled Israel in 1947-48 still self-identify as victimized “refugees” when 900,000 Jews ethnically cleansed from Middle East Arab cities about the same time do not.

Posted on December 1, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

DAILY SIGNAL
The Unhinged Among Us
Victor Davis Hanson
December 1, 2023

…Before Israel even retaliated, the mass murdering of Jews earned praise from the Middle East, the international hard Left, and especially the faculty and students of elite Western campuses. When the Israel Defense Forces struck back, the killers dispersed to the safety of their multibillion-dollar subterranean cities. The cowardly elite architects of the mass murder fled to Arab sanctuaries in Lebanon and Qatar. From its headquarters burrowed below hospitals, mosques, and schools, Hamas bartered hostages for a reprieve from the Israel Defense Forces and the release of its own convicted terrorists in Israeli jails. Hamas shot any of its own supporters who refused to shield Hamas gunmen. It continued launching rockets at Israeli civilian centers. It serially lied about its casualties, expropriating intended relief food and fuel for its underground tunnel city of killers. READ MORE

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‘As the helicopters carrying the released hostages landed, traffic stopped. People got out of their cars and broke into song’

Posted on November 30, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

THE FREE PRESS
Wartime Diary
Douglas Murray
November 30, 2023

…I was at the children’s hospital in Tel Aviv when the first children and their parents were released. When the helicopters landed and the hostages got out, IDF soldiers blocked their faces with screens to protect them from the glare of the cameras. But I’d already been sent a single photo taken by the Arab press that showed some of the mothers with their children inside a bus when they were still in Gaza. The terror on their faces. They looked as though they’d aged by decades. But at this moment, there was joy. As the helicopters landed, traffic stopped, and people got out of their cars and broke into song. They clapped and their voices rang out as they welcomed back the hostages with songs like “Hevenu Shalom Alechem.” (“We brought you peace.”)...READ MORE

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Two lower level officers in IDF’s elite intelligence Unit 8200 outlined a mass invasion one month before onslaught; top officers also waved off manual showing plans for onslaught

Posted on November 30, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

TIMES OF ISRAEL
Senior IDF officer dismissed pre-Oct. 7 intel on Hamas invasion as ‘fantasy’
Staff
November 24, 2023

Soldiers in the IDF’s prestigious 8200 signal intelligence unit reportedly warned senior officers before the October 7 atrocities that Hamas was preparing a highly organized and meticulously planned mass invasion of Israel but were told their concerns were “fantasies.” A senior and experienced non-commissioned officer as well as a junior officer in 8200 alerted senior IDF officers well in advance that a major operation was being planned by Hamas, but their warnings went unheeded, according to Thursday reports on Channel 12 and the Kan public broadcaster. READ MORE

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Mosab Hassan Yousef: “When I say execute top Hamas leaders, I mean no exceptions. That includes my own father, the co-founder of the Hamas movement”

Posted on November 29, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
Son of Hamas founder urges Israel to kill his father if hostages not freed
Pesach Benson
November 27, 2023

Mosab Hassan Yousef, the son of one of Hamas’s original founders, on Tuesday called on Israel to set a time limit for the terror group to release all Israeli hostages, and to assassinate his father, Sheikh Hassan Yousef, and other Hamas leaders if they don’t. “Hamas must have a timeframe—a month or two or six months—to return the hostages, and if they don’t return the hostages within the time frame, Israel must execute top Hamas leaders in prison, especially the mass murderers,” said Yousef in a video message posted online. READ MORE

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“Until the last moment we weren’t sure, we thought they would lynch us on the way to Israel,” one freed hostage said

Posted on November 24, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

UNHERD
The brutal truth about ‘Never Again’
Giles Fraser
November 27, 2023

“An innocent child who was lost has now been found and returned,” was how the Irish Prime Minister, Leo Varadkar, greeted the news of nine-year-old Emily Hand being released from her Hamas hellhole. He made it sound like the poor girl had been temporarily separated from her family during a busy shopping day at Brent Cross. This was the child whose father was so tortured by the thought of her being kidnapped by wicked men that he confessed he loved her so much he hoped that she was dead. “Keep waving,” said the Hamas terrorists, handing over another little girl to the Red Cross on Friday night. As she waved back nervously — they still have seven of her family locked up, so of course she did — the Hamas PR machine must have been punching the air in delight. READ MORE

THE JEWISH VOICE Hostages starved in captivity, feared lynching during transfer Amid the myriad images of tearful reunions, released hostages also spoke of meager food rations and fear of attacks. Family members of former captives in Gaza spoke to Channel 12 about their harrowing experiences. Although there were no reports as of yet about torture or physical abuse, the liberated captives spoke of living on extremely meager rations, especially in the last two weeks of their captivity

JPOST Hamas drugged children; burned legs with motorcycle exhaust for identification On October 7, Hamas terrorists kidnapped children on motorcycles and were trained to create a specific sign on their bodies: they put one of the children’s legs in the motorcycle exhaust. In addition, according to an uncle of two of these children hostages who were freed, they were drugged – according to a report on N12. Yaniv, the uncle of Yagil, 12, and Or Yaakov, 16 from Kibbutz Nir Oz, who were released by Hamas, told foreign ministers in Europe.

FRONT PAGE MAG Daniel Greenfield: The Nazi Roots of Hamas 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.

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Polling shows that the overwhelming majority of Americans support Israel in this war and want it to destroy Hamas; the overwhelming majority of lawmakers from both parties share that view.

Posted on November 24, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
Biden is the primary obstacle to Israeli victory
Caroline Glick
November 27, 2023

The time has come to discuss the Biden administration’s relationship with Israel. With each passing day, two things become obvious. First, Israel cannot fight the war without U.S. resupply of the Israel Defense Forces. As a consequence, Israel is beholden to the administration’s directives. And second, if Israel follows the Biden administration’s directives, it will lose the war. Israel’s dependence on the United States was stated bluntly by retired IDF Maj. General Yitzhak Brick in an interview earlier this week. “All of our missiles, the ammunition, the precision-guided bombs, all the airplanes and bombs, it’s all from the U.S. The minute they turn off the tap, you can’t keep fighting. You have no capability. … Everyone understands that we can’t fight this war without the United States. Period.” READ MORE

ANERICAN SPECTATOR Dov Fischer: Israel Must Remember That America Has Not Won a Serious War in 80 Years Why take advice from her leaders? We have made a mess of practically everything we have touched the past 80 years, culminating in our recent disgraceful exit from Afghanistan and now our eternal stalemate in Ukraine. America, once great, simply does not know how to win a war anymore.

BREITBART Joel B Pollak: Surrender: Blinken Tells Israel It Lacks ‘Credit‘ to Defeat Hamas U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken told Israel that it lacks “credit” to conduct the kind of military campaign necessary to defeat Hamas, saying that the Biden administration would not tolerate large-scale bombing over months in southern Gaza. Blinken’s remarks were leaked to the Israeli press. Blinken: “You can’t operate in southern Gaza in the way you did in the north. There are two million Palestinians there. You need to evacuate fewer people from their homes, be more accurate in the attacks, not hit UN facilities, and ensure that there are enough protected areas [for civilians]…

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#DropTheMask The anonymity of covered faces gives protestors license to intimidate Jewish students and damage property with impunity

Posted on November 24, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

TIMES OF ISRAEL
Fight antisemitism? Ban the mask.
Neil Gronowetter
November 22, 2023

..Sowing fear and staying anonymous with masks encourage the worst, baser instincts of many protesters on college campuses and cities around the country. Their support for Palestine has unambiguously become a license to intimidate and harm Jews…Municipalities can enforce existing anti-mask laws or pass new anti-mask laws, especially where universities condone antisemitic activity. Universities should step up to pass similar rules on campuses. Universities can similarly enforce these rules and laws by pulling recognition of, and funding for, those groups that violate them. Universities do not automatically recognize groups on campus and provide them with resources. That is a privilege that a school can refuse to approve, or rescind. It is not a right. READ MORE

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