Danny Danon 🇮🇱 דני דנון
@dannydanon
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Israel's internal security agency announced that they will eliminate all participants of the October 7 massacre.

The "photojournalists" who took part in recording the assault will be added to that list.
8:52 AM · Nov 9, 2023

Now we are getting some details that add to the level of inhumanity. It has come to light that several photojournalists might have either been given advance word of this plot or could have even been embedded with the Hamas attackers on that fateful Saturday morning. The staff at Honest Reporting combed through the attributed images of the day’s events as reported in Western news media outlets, and they looked into the names of photojournalists from two major news wires, who appear to have had unique access to Hamas activities that morning. //

On October 7, Hamas terrorists were not the only ones who documented the war crimes they had committed during their deadly rampage across southern Israel. Some of their atrocities were captured by Gaza-based photojournalists working for the Associated Press and Reuters news agencies whose early morning presence at the breached border area raises serious ethical questions. //

The idea of journalists working alongside a terror group as it commits war crime atrocities on the citizens of a country warrants introspection.

The goal of Hamas’s October 7 massacres in southern Israel was to “change the entire equation,” bring permanent war to Israel’s borders and renew attention to the Palestinian cause, a senior member of the terror group’s politburo in Qatar said.

“What could change the equation was a great act, and without a doubt, it was known that the reaction to this great act would be big,” Khalil al-Hayya told The New York Times in an interview published Wednesday. “We had to tell people that the Palestinian cause would not die.” //

What kind of a monster advocates for "permanent war"? Never mind, I'll answer that myself; an old man, far from any danger, who is willing to throw human lives away without a second thought. This is medievalism at its worst, the idea that a king can just blithely send the peasantry and even nobles off to die without a second thought, knowing his own safety is never in question. //

Hamad and, indeed, all Hamas leaders, sure love to ramble on about martyrdom. Here's the thing about martyrs: They're dead. And while Hamas's leadership seems to fancy themselves nigh unto kings -- well, kings, too, can die. Just ask Richard III.

Extradite them. Try them. If found guilty, hang them. Pour l’encouragement des autres.

The terror group’s three top leaders alone are worth a staggering total of $11 billion and enjoy a life of luxury in the sanctuary of the emirate of Qatar.

The emirate has long welcomed the leaders of the terror group and installed them in its luxury hotels and villas at the same time as it hosts a vast American military presence.

This is what we are finding in Gaza.
A building where children play is a Hamas rocket launching site.
You have to see it to believe it: pic.twitter.com/KmMxfbYj93

— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) November 6, 2023

the Israel Defense Force (IDF) has released even more footage from its ground invasion of the Gaza Strip, the territory Hamas controls. The video shows Israeli soldiers walking through an abandoned building that appears to be a school. The soldiers point out the rocket launchers that were strategically placed in areas where they could be used to launch rockets into Israel.
https://twitter.com/IDF/status/1721358756187951580

In another video posted on X, formerly known as Twitter, the IDF highlighted the existence of a network of tunnels and storage spaces being hidden under a hospital.

Also, as RedState reported Sunday, the official State of Israel X account posted footage of Hamas fighters opening fire at Israeli forces from the Sheikh Hamed hospital in Gaza.

Israel ישראל 🇮🇱 @Israel
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Disturbing images ⚠️

Four weeks ago today, 200+ young Israelis were butchered by Hamas terrorists at the Nova music festival.

This is what the aftermath looked like through the eyes of an IDF soldier who came to rescue survivors.

Don’t look away.
The following media includes potentially sensitive content.
4:54 AM · Nov 4, 2023

Marauder Magazine @MarauderMag
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Replying to @Israel
I will never understand how college students in Ivy League institutions can justify something so horrendous. American academia is truly an assembly line for hatred.
5:00 AM · Nov 4, 2023 //

polyjunkie
31 minutes ago
After the war, General Eisenhower forced German civilians to walk through the death camps so they would see with their own eyes what their votes and their leaders had done. Most were just as appalled as we are today with what happened in Israel. Doesn’t take a lot of courage to slaughter unarmed kids and women. To equate the just war with Hamas with these massacres is not something civilized people do. Hamas hides behind civilians thinking that the West will call off Israel if the body count rises high enough. In this case, the only body count high enough is the death of every single Hamas “fighter”. Conveniently, the have dug their own tombs under Gaza city.

Israel ישראל 🇮🇱 @Israel
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Disturbing images ⚠️

Four weeks ago today, 200+ young Israelis were butchered by Hamas terrorists at the Nova music festival.

This is what the aftermath looked like through the eyes of an IDF soldier who came to rescue survivors.

Don’t look away.
The following media includes potentially sensitive content.
4:54 AM · Nov 4, 2023

Israel ישראל 🇮🇱 @Israel
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Replying to @Israel

• the footage is from a police officer not an idf soldier
  5:32 AM · Nov 4, 2023

Things started off with a suggestion that Hamas is justified in slaughtering civilians in cold blood as it did on October 7th because Israel has killed civilians in its attempts to destroy Hamas. She further tries to paint an equivalency by claiming that Israel has "bulldozed" 55,000 Palestinian homes since 1948.

SHAPIRO: My answer is, that Israel would not be justified in killing Palestinian civilians because of the actions of terrorists, Israel would be justified in attempting to kill terrorists and civilian casualties are a cost of war. That is just a reality of war. During World War II, there were 70,000 Brits who died during the Blitz bombing, and there were two million Germans, civilians, who died during World War II, and I don't see a lot of monuments in Britain because of the two million civilians who died in Germany. //

In other words, even if everything she says is true (some of it is misleading), that still would not justify Israel going into Gaza and seeking out civilians to rape and behead, which is what Hamas did to Israel. //

QUESTIONER: Britain wasn't bombing civilian, civilians...(boos). There's a clear difference.

SHAPIRO: You should talk to the people in Dresden, but you can't because they're dead.

QUESTIONER: There's a clear difference. I agree that war is horrible, but this is not a just war. What Israel is doing is not a just war. There is a difference between fighting the Nazis...

SHAPIRO: So it's not a just war when you fight a war against people who murder 1,500 of your civilians and take 233 of them, last count, captive into tunnels. It is not a just war to obliterate them? Please name a just war.

The questioner ignored Shapiro's challenge, instead claiming that Israel has been killing civilians for the past 75 years. That's a pretty simplistic way of describing things given that the Palestinians (and Arab nations) have waged numerous wars against Israel during that time. Her intent seems to be the paint the Palestinians as strictly victims without acknowledging their continuous aggression and rejection of peace.

That leads us to Shapiro's biggest moment in this debate, which was getting the questioner to admit what she really wants.

SHAPIRO: Which part of Palestine is occupied?

QUESTIONER: The entirety of Palestine. //

Civilians dying is a tragedy, but Hamas chose to break the latest ceasefire, invade Israel, and massacre over a thousand people. With those actions come consequences. All the arguments in the world aren't going to stop the destruction of Hamas at this point.

How can coddled, “sensitive” minds so callously defend unthinkable cruelty and torture? How does a generation supposedly committed to tolerance and racial equality support mass genocide?

The answer is actually simple. While Gen Z-ers may have been coddled, they have also been trained to believe that the end justifies the means. This is the consequentialist approach to social action famously proclaimed by Malcolm X in 1965: “We declare our right on this earth to be a man, to be a human being, to be respected as a human being, to be given the rights of a human being in this society, on this earth, in this day, which we intend to bring into existence by any means necessary” //

“By any means necessary” thinking is blind to justice. It’s all about the end game — achieving the final goal, whatever it takes, no matter how much pain and misery is required.

And this, let us take note, is essentially the rationale for terrorism. //

If significant numbers of students at major U.S. colleges and universities are part of this movement, we have reason to fear for our future. And if, as Lincoln would say, we are not somehow touched by the better angels of our nature, this is not going to end well.

Israel's Air Force carried out a strike on the Jabalia refugee camp Tuesday that resulted in the destruction of a Hamas command bunker and the death of one of the senior planners of the October 7 terror attack. The attack also killed an unknown number of Gazans. Those deaths have become the focal point of international outrage and threaten the legitimacy of Israel's punitive expedition against Hamas. //

There are three craters that mark the bomb strikes. The strikes are very close together, indicating they were precision-guided munitions. Those craters are surrounded by massive failure of terrain. //

Note the building at the left, adjacent to a bomb crater, is not knocked down, while other buildings nowhere near a visible crater have disappeared. This corroborates the structural collapse of buildings reported by survivors rather than indicating bomb damage. All of this points to the existence of an underground complex like those Hamas has showcased to its allies. //

Various sources claim that the IAF dropped six tons of munitions. This would be the approximate weight of three GBU-28/GBU-72 "bunker buster" bombs designed to penetrate hardened, below-ground targets. //

Hamas locating a bunker complex in a residential area without removing the civilian population is a war crime. If Hamas refused to allow civilians to evacuate the area, that would be a war crime. Plus, we know it is Hamas's public policy to ensure as many Gazan civilians are killed as possible; Hamas Leader Says They 'Need the Blood of Women, Children, and the Elderly' to Inspire Terrorist Attacks. Any innocent blood shed in Tuesday's attack is on Hamas's hands. ///

All blood shed since Oct 6 is on the hands of Hamas

Bonchie @bonchieredstate
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Hamas: "We will continue to kill Jews until Israel no longer exists."

Global Left: "So what you're really telling me is that you want a secular two-state solution where everyone lives in peace."
8:14 AM · Nov 1, 2023 //

Disclose.tv @disclosetv
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NEW - Hamas official Ghazi Hamad says they will repeat October 7-like attacks until Israel is annihilated.

6:40 AM · Nov 1, 2023 //

Marina Medvin 🇺🇸 @MarinaMedvin
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Hamas leader says October 7, the torture and slaughter of Israeli families and children, is ”justified” and there will be more such attacks on Israel because their goal is to annihilate Israel. The Palestinian nation is one of “martyrs,” he says, proud to die for their cause.
7:37 AM · Nov 1, 2023 //

This is why, despite the tragedy of lives lost, Israel is not going to stop until Hamas is destroyed. All the arguments about a two-state solution have been scuttled by Hamas, who has made it clear they do not want one. It's long past time for pampered Westerners to believe them. //

LW
4 hours ago
"The Palestinian nation is one of “martyrs,” he says, proud to die for their cause."

Show the world you're a man of conviction and honor.

You go first.

Hamas has commanded a network of tunnels and terror infrastructure in the Gaza Strip since it took control in 2007. The Iranian-backed Palestinian terrorist organization uses civilian areas, including hospitals, to store and launch rockets and spread propaganda. In violation of international law, Hamas also uses hospitals to hide command centers and shield operatives.

Ever since Hamas took power in the Gaza Strip, the Iran-backed terrorists have been known for their barbarism, blood-thirsty attacks, and abysmal human rights record as the terrorist government prioritized the death of Israelis over the wellbeing of residents of Gaza. That includes, unsurprisingly, using hospitals as a key piece of their terrorist infrastructure along with a tunnel network and weapons production.

In Hamas' new bloody war against Israel, the use of hospitals has continued — if not increased — as they use the facilities that ought to be for care are instead used to kill. With an awful lot of Hamas disinformation being parroted by apparent terrorist sympathizers in the media, politics, and entertainment, it's worth setting the record straight.

The experts over at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) put together a quick list of "10 Things to Know About Hamas and Hospitals" that debunk anti-Semitic narratives about Israel's actions, lay bare the horror of Hamas terrorism, and make it clear that Hamas terrorists are war criminals, not some sort of liberating "freedom fighters" as some falsely and foolishly claim.

https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2023/10/30/10-things-to-know-about-hamas-and-hospitals/

Sure, internet connectivity aided aid workers. But it also aided Hamas. Most of the press in Gaza seem to have a personal interest in seeing Hamas emerge victorious and armed Hamas terrorists (as an aside, why is it that no one mewling about the Geneva Conventions ever wants to mention that Hamas terrorists are illegal combatants and not covered by the Law of Land Warfare?) use internet and cell connections to plan terrorist attacks, monitor the progress of the IDF, and coordinate combat operations. //

Ukraine Reporter @StateOfUkraine
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An astoundingly simple three-move checkmate of Western civilization:

1. UN & Israel must ensure safety of Gaza civilians.
2. Civilians shield Hamas, hiding in its secure tunnels.
3. Hamas attacks Israel, as Israel must not target Hamas because of civilians
   MEMRI @MEMRIReports
   Hamas Official Mousa Abu Marzouk: The Tunnels in Gaza Were Built to Protect Hamas Fighters, Not Civilians; Protecting Gaza Civilians Is the Responsibility of the U.N. and Israel #Hamas #Gaza
   Embedded video
   4:11 PM · Oct 30, 2023 //

The meddling in Israel's entirely just chastisement of Hamas will result in more Israelis and Gazans dead because imposing limits on violence in warfare does not add to the humanity of essentially inhumane activity. It merely drags it out to ensure more and more people are killed; factually, Sullivan is wrong when he says, "It does not lessen Israel’s responsibility under international humanitarian law to distinguish between terrorists and civilians, and to protect the lives of innocent people." Additional Protocol I of the Geneva Conventions says:

The presence or movements of the civilian population or individual civilians shall not be used to render certain points or areas immune from military operations, in particular in attempts to shield military objectives from attacks or to shield, favour or impede military operations.

The International Criminal Court statute covers the same ground.

Utilizing the presence of a civilian or other protected person to render certain points, areas or military forces immune from military operations” constitutes a war crime in international armed conflicts. //

The reason for White House meddling is apparent. The Biden administration is heavily infiltrated by Iranian agents who are developing US policy for the Middle East....

The Spectator Index
@spectatorindex
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BREAKING: Israel's defense minister says Hamas has two options 'surrender unconditionally or die'
1:19 PM · Oct 30, 2023

To put it simply, no matter what one's views on the Palestinian cause are, there is no scenario where Israel can continue to share a border with a terrorist government that has broken ceasefire after ceasefire over the years, with the last one taking the lives of nearly 1,500 people. //

Liza Rosen
@LizaRosen0000
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Hamas leader, Ha-mad Al-Regeb, calls for the genocide of Jews, and prays to Allah to help Muslims behead Jews: "Oh Allah, Enable Us to Get to the Necks of the Jews".

He explains that the conflict is not related to land disputes, but to the sins of Jews… Show more

11:40 AM · Oct 28, 2023 //

poedoldman
3 hours ago
A ceasefire stopped WWI and WWII. It came when the governments that started them surrendered. Surrender or die. Seems the ball is in Hamas' court and I'm pretty sure Israel would rather they opt for the die option. //

ConservativeInMinnesota
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Surrender or die are the same conditions we gave the Germans and Japanese during WW2. Israel is acting with the same proportionality that America did. Problem solved. //

TK421 anon-cdoc
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"The truth is that if Israel were to put down its arms there would be no more Israel. If the Arabs were to put down their arms there would be no more war." - Benjamin Netanyahu, in a speech to the Knesset, 2006

Dead terrorists had on them written orders that included directions for operating GoPro cameras to capture their evil escapades and sometimes broadcast them in real time on social media.

Hamas and its Iranian masters wanted the dirty deeds documented. They aimed to terrorize an entire nation and beyond by showing just what they’re capable of. //

But human beings still have the capacity to shock — if one can call Hamas members human beings. I’ll long be haunted by what happened Oct. 7. //

They [Israel] need people to see what happened — and put the word out to counter those who pretend it didn’t or wasn’t as bad as claimed. Journalists from supposedly serious publications insist you can’t say Hamas beheaded babies — sure, dead babies were found without their heads, but who knows who did the deed?

The hate I witnessed goes beyond those who entered Israel that day. A young man uses a dead Israeli woman’s phone to call his parents and brag of killing 10 Jews “with my bare hands.”

He pleads, “Please be proud of me, Dad.”

That’s the culture Israel must fight even after it destroys those who planned and executed the Oct. 7 massacre. //

And then there’s New York City. A day after the screening, thousands of antisemites marched into Manhattan via the Brooklyn Bridge after a rally at the Brooklyn Museum. At the front were people holding a banner that read “By any means necessary.”

The interrogator asked the terrorist, “Were the girls and the mother armed? And is it allowed to shoot women like this according to the Quran?” The terrorist replied, “None of them were armed, and they didn’t fire at all. We simply slaughtered them. According to the Quran, it’s forbidden.”

An investigator asked one of the terrorists, “Aren’t your actions similar to those of ISIS? Killing civilians indiscriminately is exactly what ISIS does.’ The terrorist replied, “That’s correct; it’s just like ISIS. There’s no difference.”

The hostages held in Gaza will not be recovered alive unless Israel gives major concessions and leaves Hamas in power. While of course Israel wants to get them back alive, Israeli military options are severely constrained if that is the goal. Hamas has grown comfortable taking hostages and using them as shields to temper Israeli military responses. The goals of toppling Hamas and getting the hostages back alive are not consistent. Israel faces a tough choice.

Now the death toll exceeds 1400, the number of hostages are over 200, and the brutality and savagery of Hamas, with gruesome physical and sexual defilement even of dead bodies, has shocked Israelis and the civilized part of the civilized world (i.e. excluding western leftists and Islamists). //

NBC News reports on what it witnessed:

The brutality and elation of Hamas militants as they killed Israeli civilians — including babies, young children and the elderly — is evident in an Israeli government compilation of videos shown to two dozen journalists in New York on Friday.

The videos, which were aired for the first time outside of Israel, consist mostly of GoPro, cellphone and dashcam footage recorded by the attackers themselves.

Israeli officials said they showed the compilation to President Joe Biden when he visited Israel on October 18th. They also showed it to a group of journalists in Israel, including NBC’s Raf Sanchez, on Wednesday. The atrocities depicted suggest that jihadism has evolved in chilling and perverse new ways. //

Israeli first responders were initially barred from taking videos or photographs of the dead out of respect for their families, officials said. But a decision was made to film what they found in order to preserve evidence of atrocities. Israeli officials said the video compilation is the most comprehensive visual evidence of war crimes carried out by Hamas.

Both a virtue and a weakness of Israeli society is the overwhelming concern for Israelis captured by Hamas or other terrorist groups.

In 2011, after his family mounted a public pressure campaign that ended up almost paralyzing Israeli society, the government agreed to exchange over 1000 terrorists in its custody for Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit. Israeli society paid a very steep price for that exchange. By 2018, over one-third of Palestinian terrorists freed in the 2011 hostage deal returned to terror. Among the freed terrorists were almost the entire present Gaza military leadership of Hamas responsible for planning the October 7 attack. Thousands of Israelis died to recover one Israeli hostage.

Will Israeli society succumb to the pressure now that there are over 200 hostages, including babies and children? Already there are signs of a pressure campaign building. //

One can feel for the families and the hostages, but also understand that such a hostage-for-prisoner exchange would mean thousands more Israelis would die in the future, and Hamas would remain in power.

The horrors of what Hamas did may be what holds Israel together in its goal of eliminating Hamas, which is not consistent with getting all the hostages back alive. That’s the hard truth.

Unfortunately, when we wrote on Omar backtracking... sorta, Google demonetized our article, claiming that it contained "dangerous or derogatory content." They didn't bother to tell us which line or lines in the piece were problematic; they never do. //

The bottom line is, we reported on a Congresswoman spreading misinformation/propaganda and halfheartedly retracting it, and Google thought that was "dangerous or derogatory content" that ads should not be run on.

When the truth keeps getting out despite our tech overlords' best efforts, their last tool is to starve us and destroy our business by denying us advertising revenue.

It's Thursday, October 26th, and pigs have flown. That was the story after John Kirby managed to actually come out on top of an exchange with a reporter.

After being criticized for questioning the casualty numbers coming out of Gaza, Kirby let loose, not only doubling down but doing so in a way that would almost make one forget he works for the Biden administration. //

Krähenbühl: So, besides saying that he doesn't have confidence in these numbers, the President went further to say that innocents will die and that this is the price of the war. You also said that.

Kirby: I have indeed.

Krähenbühl: Don't you think this is insensitive? There’s being very harsh criticism in about it. For example, the Council of American-Islamic Relations said it was deeply disturbed and call on the President to apologize. Would the President apologize?”

Kirby: No.

Krähenbühl: And does he regret saying something like that?

Kirby: What’s harsh — what’s harsh is the way Hamas is using people as human shields. What’s harsh is taking a couple of hundred hostages and leaving families and anxious, waiting and worrying to figure out where their loved ones are. What's harsh, is dropping in on a music festival and slaughtering a bunch of young people just trying to enjoy an afternoon. I could go on and on. That's what's harsh. That is what's harsh and being honest about the fact that there have been civilian casualties and that there likely will be more is being honest, because that's what war is. It's brutal. It's ugly. It's messy. I've said that before. President also said that yesterday. Doesn't mean we have to like it. And it doesn't mean that we're dismissing anyone of those casualties each and every one is a tragedy in its own right...It would be helpful if Hamas would let [Gazans] leave....We know that there are thousands waiting to leave Gaza writ large and Hamas is preventing them from doing it. That is what is harsh.