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Hamas and Islamic Jihad have reportedly rejected an Egyptian ceasefire proposal that would end the war.

The Palestinian factions are unwilling to consider a proposal that sees new leadership in Gaza.

The Israelis have been clear that Hamas will not control Gaza after the war.
9:16 AM · Dec 25, 2023

This plays into something I've mentioned before, which is that the "Palestinians" want to have it both ways. On the one hand, they pretend to be oppressed victims who just want a peaceful utopia, a claim that is often repeated by intellectuals within Western circles. On the other hand, they refuse to make the slightest concession, even in the face of utter defeat, that would ensure some level of peace. How many deals over the years have various Palestinian leaders rejected that would have produced a two-state solution? How many ceasefires have they broken for no other reason than to continue their delusional intifada?

Yet, most of the international community hand-waves all that away, pretending that it's Israel that is the biggest stumbling block to peace. It's not Israel that's running United Nations schools in Gaza teaching kids to be terrorists and to hate Jews. It's not Israel that's hijacking billions of dollars in aid to build useless terror tunnels while funneling the rest of that money to wealthy leaders in Qatar. Hamas is not a viable peace partner and never has been. If they don't step aside and allow new leadership, there can be no end to the hostilities.

How quickly would this have all ended had the international community stood up and demanded Hamas surrender following the October 7th attacks, with a threat to cut off aid if it didn't do so? How many lives would have been saved?

These weren't just crudely built tunnels dug with a few shovels. They included toilets, an elevator, a great hall, and command and control facilities. One off-shoot connected to the home of Ahmed Ghandour, who previously led Hamas forces in northern Gaza. Ghandour had already been killed in an airstrike by the time this raid occurred. Overall, the discovered complex spanned over a kilometer of distance. //

It is astonishing to see how much money and manpower was wasted so Hamas could dig these tunnel complexes.

“IDF soldiers made the chilling discovery in a medical clinic that also held dozens of mortars and hundreds of grenades.”

The distinction between operations base or caregiving institution is important because attacking a hospital, even during battle, is only acceptable in certain situations:

International law gives hospitals special protections during war. Hospitals can lose those protections if combatants use them to hide fighters or store weapons, according to the International Committee of the Red Cross.

Need more proof that they consciously defied basic human decency? IDF has it for you: Tuesday, they dropped footage of the captured chief of a Gaza hospital admitting that he's also a Hamas commander, that his hospital was used as an operational hub, and that it once housed a kidnapped Israeli soldier.

Critics are pointing out that he is a captive of the Israelis and is not in a position of strength and that his confession could have been coerced. Viewers can decide for themselves, but like the Hamas terrorist who casually admitted to killing little kids, he seems quite calm. He actually seems melancholy about all that's transpired. //

“They left us out in the open while they have gone into hiding,” he said. “The people are the ones who got screwed."

“They sacrificed us, unfortunately,” he said, appearing downcast.

I would have some sympathy for him if it weren't for the nagging question: who exactly did you think these people were? They seem to have no respect for human life or basic dignity, why would they care about your fate?

You signed up for their savagery, so it's hard to feel sorry for you when you belatedly realize they simply don't care.

Bahrain is the only regional country playing. This is significant because Egypt has a major role in CTF 153, and command of CTF 153 has rotated between US and Egyptian admirals. If this is a test of strength between the US and Iran (and China), the fact that Egypt and Saudi Arabia have bowed out shows which way the political winds are blowing.

The Chinese have six warships stationed in the Red Sea/Persian Gulf area of operations. They are not participating, and they are not aiding commercial traffic under attack. Draw your own conclusions. //

In my view, this is just another case of the Biden national security apparatus trying to give the impression of doing something while doing nothing. The obvious reason they are doing nothing is that Biden, Sullivan, etc., don't want to offend Iran. Instead of looking after our national interests (safe and rapid transit of sea lanes) and showing confidence and leadership, the Biden White House has elected to show weakness and uncertainty. Nothing good will come from this.

About 10 percent of the world's sea traffic goes through the Red Sea. Rerouting ships around the Cape of Good Hope lengthens the trip by about twelve days, adding considerable cost to freight and disrupting supply chains. The frequency of the attacks has led two of the world's largest shipping companies, Maersk and Hapag-Lloyd, to order their ships to avoid the Red Sea until further notice; see Major Shipping Lines Avoid Red Sea; Is It Just the Houthis or Should We Be Looking Deeper?.

The new coalition, to be called Operation Prosperity Guardian (is it too much to ask that we begin calling military operations things that don't suck?), will involve ships of several nations. The concept of the operation is not yet known, but it is expected to combine the protection of individual ships with convoys. In fact, very little is known about the operation (number of ships, which countries, when it starts, its Mission) other than its name.

Shipping companies are taking it seriously. Automatic Identification System beacons are showing that Maersk and Hapag-Lloyd ships are forming up for a convoy. //

As I wrote in Major Shipping Lines Avoid Red Sea, Is It Just the Houthis, or Should We Be Looking Deeper? we need to look beyond the possibility of the Israel-Hamas War expanding if Israel carries out retaliatory strikes against Yemen. This is an exercise in testing the US and NATO response to a critical maritime route being obstructed and the tactics, techniques, and procedures we will use in keeping the sea lanes open.

According to multiple reports, Hamas leaders who have been living in luxury in five-star hotels in Qatar are reportedly on the run, fleeing Qatar,

The Jerusalem Post is reporting that several of the leaders fled their locations, "turning off their phones and not accepting calls, KAN's Arabic language channel reported citing sources in Doha on Tuesday evening."

KAN News also reported that Saleh al-Arouri, a senior member of Hamas, left his usual residence in Beirut for Turkey.

• Paramedic Eli Beer gave a harrowing description of finding a baby in the oven
• Video of his emotional remarks spread on Twitter this weekend as war rages on
• Gaza professor Refaat Alareer called it 'Zionist propaganda' and asked: 'What's next? Hamas ate the Jews?' //

A lauded Palestinian professor sparked fury by tweeting a warped joke about claims Hamas terrorists baked an Israeli baby to death in an oven.

Gaza-based professor Refaat Alareer - who was once glorified by the New York Times - responded to a paramedic's testimony that they'd found an infant who'd been cooked to death by tweeting: 'With or without baking powder?.'

He was replying to another tweet from journalist Dovid Efune which said: 'A baby was found in an oven, baked to death by Hamas terrorists, leading Israeli first responder @EliBeerUh recounted to an @RJC gathering last night.

What is the suggestion here? If Israel bombs Hamas, they are bad. If they shoot them during a ground offensive, they are bad. Now, we are being told Israel can't even take prisoners lest it humiliate the poor terrorists. Do the math there. These spoiled Western intellectuals who constantly infantilize Hamas simply want Israel to tie its own hands behind its back and wait for the knife. That's what they are suggesting. //

To be clear, no "innocent civilians" have been identified in the photos. All of those detained were taken prisoner after they came out of the tunnels. Among them are supposedly some "journalists" and "academics" of the pro-Hamas variety. Whether they were direct fighters or not is irrelevant. No one gets to walk out of a terror tunnel from an evacuated area without being treated as a POW.

This is the idiocy Israel has to put up with. In any other war involving any other country, no one would claim the taking of prisoners is inhumane. Certainly, no one would cry about a "journalist" being detained if they walked out of one of Osama Bin Laden's tunnels. Common sense goes out the window when it comes to Israel, though. Antisemitism is a heck of a drug. //

Joseph K
9 hours ago
Someone should remind these idiots that under the laws of war; a combatant fighting without uniform or insignia can be executed on the spot.

While Hamas unquestionably broke the ceasefire it had with Israel by committing a terrorist attack in Jerusalem, there was another reason for the recent renewal of hostilities. Namely, Hamas was refusing to release the rest of the female hostages as per the agreement for the extensions given. 

Now, the U.S. State Department is revealing the reason why, and it's horrific.

Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok
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BREAKING: State Dept Spokesman Matthew Miller says the reason Hamas didn’t want to release women and the reason this pause fell apart is because Hamas doesn’t want those women to be able to talk about what happened to them.

This comes one day after @RepJayapal said we need a “balanced approach” when discussing the sexual violence and r@pe against Jewish women and girls on Oct 7 and while in captivity.

#MeTooUnlessUrAJew
Video source: @greg_price11
2:04 PM · Dec 4, 2023

Barak Ravid @BarakRavid
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BREAKING: State Department spokesman Mathew Miller says it seems that the reason Hamas refused to release all the women who it held hostage was because the terror group didn't want them to tell what they went through while in captivity in Gaza
1:10 PM · Dec 4, 2023

Dr. Renana Eitan has been treating 15 freed Hamas hostages at the Tel Aviv Medical Center, and she described the barbarian conditions they were held under and the psychological and physical torture they were subjected to.

She spoke to Fox News "Sunday Night in America" and revealed what she's been seeing:

I can tell you that on behalf of all the medical and psychological teams treating those who return, the mental states we encountered have no precedent in medical literature. We feel that we have to rewrite the textbooks of post-trauma.

Dolce Far Niente | December 2, 2023 at 8:11 pm
More of the myth that Muslims are being subjected to hate crimes!! in this country.
In 2022
Religion-Based Crimes: There were 2,042 reported incidents based on religion. More than half of these (1,122) were driven by anti-Jewish bias. Incidents involving anti-Muslim (158) and anti-Sikh (181) sentiments remained at similar levels compared to 2021.

*Note that there were nearly 10x as many Jewh8 crimes as (boo-hoo) crimes against Muslims. But we’re led to believe these number are skyrocketing. //

Valerie | December 2, 2023 at 8:53 pm
Susan Sarandon probably does not know that the Palestinians have engaged in thirty years of child abuse.

They specifically and deliberately train their children to murder their neighbors.

https://x.com/morphiaz/status/1726007506357395729?s=20

And it works

Hamas & the Attack on Israel | Douglas Murray The Nov 7 attack

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmivUM0tlwc

All of the above explains why some Muslim man asked this painful question:

“Can you tell me what Islam we are talking about?”

That question is asked by an Israeli Arab man whose wife was killed by Hamas

https://x.com/SaturnMercury1/status/1726367268773499199?s=20

UN speech Son of Hamas founder Mosab Yousef — Hamas needs to be destroyed.

https://media.gab.com/system/media_attachments/files/152/949/571/playable/4fb3c0ab14911462.mp4

The Times of Israel reported:

The Prime Minister’s Office said in a statement that Hamas “violated the framework, did not meet its obligation to release all hostage women, and fired rockets at Israel.”

“Amid the return to combat, we stress the government of Israel is committed to achieving the goals of the war — releasing our hostages, eliminating Hamas, and ensuring that Gaza can never again threaten the people of Israel.”

Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig
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The IDF has created and published a map splitting the Gaza Strip into evacuation zones to notify Palestinian civilians of active combat zones and provide safety instructions.

Hamas uses their people as human shields.

The IDF is doing everything it can to protect them.
7:15 AM · Dec 1, 2023 //

“Israel seeks to kill Hamas leaders hiding abroad after war ends,” the Newspaper Israel Hayom reported Friday. “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.” //

David Collier @mishtal
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Classic @bbcnews headline. Main item on their site.

"Israeli strikes" - no mention of Hamas breaking ceasefire. Along with image of grieving Palestinian mother and young child.

95% of people won't read the article. Israel blamed. Palestinians are victims. The BBC job is done. //

Eylon Levy @EylonALevy
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Let’s put this [NY Times] headline in chronological order: FIRST Hamas “fired a projectile” from Gaza, THEN the truce expired, then Israel resumed the military campaign. The order is 3,1,2.
7:26 AM · Dec 1, 2023

In a blow to the "ceasefire now" crowd, including clownishly antisemitic politicians like Rep. Rashida Tlaib, Hamas leadership has let it be known that they don't want a ceasefire.

The first indication of that came on Thursday when Hamas carried out a terrorist attack in Jerusalem, leaving three dead and dozens injured. If that wasn't clear enough, though, Hamas' leader in Gaza Yahya Sinwar let it be known on the same day that the October 7th attacks were just a rehearsal.

Gaza Report - اخبار غزة @gaza_report
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#BREAKING: Hamas leader in Gaza Yahya Sinwar in his first publicized statements since launching Al Aqsa Floods campaign:

"The leaders of the Occupation should know, October 7th was just a rehearsal"
10:05 AM · Nov 30, 2023 //

FL Free
12 hours ago
Leftists who claim to want multiculturalism absolutely refuse to acknowledge the core tenets of other cultures. They assume everyone views the world as they do (not based in reality). They refuse to believe what those of another culture explicitly tell them. Hamas is not hiding their mission, the MSM tries/lies to.

anon-y65w frylock234
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So, pandas with the bamboo may be with the koalas in the obligate herbivore category. Slow and derpy is a great description! //

What other evidence do we need that this isn't about peaceful Muslims just seeking a secular utopia? It is clear that this is about the "Palestinian" pursuit of genocide against Jews, and they keep telling everyone that. Why else would they go out of their way to partially destroy a memorial to a man whose only sin is being Jewish? That wasn't a memorial to the State of Israel they threw red paint on and scrawled "free Palestine" on.

Understand that these people do not want to assimilate and live in unity. They want to conquer. Unable to do so militarily, Islamists have settled on activism as a means to enact their will, and they've found willing allies in naive, vapid leftists who see everything through the prism of the oppressed and the oppressor. It doesn't matter that no entity in history has oppressed and colonized more people than Islam. Muslims are generally poor and generally not white (at least not in the contemporary sense). Thus, according to liberal orthodoxy, they garner a high-ranking position on the intersectional hierarchy.

One of the children expected to be released is Emily Hand, the Irish-Israeli child whose father wept with relief after erroneously being told she was killed on October 7; he felt death was "a blessing" compared to what his daughter would face being held captive by Hamas terrorists. His worst fears were realized when he learned she was indeed being held hostage in Gaza.b//

One other thing to note about the list of hostages expected to be released: There are no men on that list, and many speculate that is deliberate. By leaving husbands and fathers in captivity, the women and children who are freed may not want to speak of the atrocities they endured in order to keep the men safe. In essence, they will still be hostages of Hamas.

Regardless, I'll return to the one big question that is most relevant now. In Ocasio-Cortez's magic world, who runs Gaza if a ceasefire is agreed upon? She'll never say, and she'll never be put in a position to say.

I'm sorry if you "are contending with extensive power outages, food and water shortages, and a breakdown of the medical system." This may be a shock, but you are in a war zone, and unless you brought your own, the person responsible for supplying those items is your employer, not the IDF. It is unfortunate you are uncomfortable, but you are the one who decided to act like a vulture picking at carrion for fame and fortune, and you need to man up and own it.

You, a journalist, are not qualified to use words that have legal meanings, like "genocide" and "ethnic cleansing." These are terms that international tribunals, not reporters, award, and they carry legal consequences. Neither of those is happening in Gaza. Israel has opened a humanitarian corridor to allow safe passage of refugees out of the area of combat operations. Civilians are killed when they choose or are forced to be human shields for Hamas terrorists. //

Being a journalist does not get you immunity from the consequences of being in a war zone. Period. If you are embedded with combatants, you take the risks they take. If you are an active partisan and trying to sway international opinion in favor of a terrorist enterprise, in my view, you've become a legitimate target. And let's not be coy here. Evidence indicates the overwhelming majority of reporters who elect to report from the Hamas side of the battle line are Hamas partisans masquerading as journalists. We know, for instance, that the Associated Press shared office space with the Hamas leadership until an Israeli bomb evicted the lot of them. //

Being embedded with an FBI SWAT team raiding a criminal hideout is a lot different than helping a Mafia hit squad do its work. One is legal, the other makes you a criminal accomplice. No amount of letter writing is going to save the "journalists" who accompanied terrorists, nor should it; //

Finally, journalists are there to report accurately and objectively. It is the job of the senior editors and the publisher to decide what, if any, position the outlet takes on an issue. The idea that you get to use someone else's outlet to push your peculiar worldview shows a stunning lack of maturity.

They chose violence. Over and over again.

The scale and catastrophe of what happened is still becoming clear.

Yet the world seems to have moved on.

Already the international media are focused not on the atrocities Hamas committed against Israel but on the response of Israel to the terrorists of Hamas.

Every day the New York Times and other papers give their views on how Israel should bring the war to a draw.

And every day there are protests across the world made up of people who are either evil or ignorant. //

Here, like so many other parts of the community, there were occasional handprints in blood, where people had tried to stand or avoid being dragged in their dying moments.

These imprints should not be forgotten. These were all people who had done nothing wrong. //

Hamas didn’t allow them to live. The world must never forget this.

Israel cannot live with Hamas. The world must realize this.