This journalist has the courage to admit that she was duped by Hamas for many years and confirms what many of us have long known: that too many reporters and media organizations are the willing tools of Palestinian terrorists, sometimes sacrificing truth in the hunt for “the big story”.
https://t.co/nrSeMWOFsc
Two predictions about this war that have not played out so far:
1. Everyone said a ground op into Gaza would greatly increase the casualties on both sides, but the opposite has happened – far less innocent Gazans have died from ground forces in the last few days than they did when the air force was busy preparing the battlefield.
Most of the people dying now are Hamas.
Just as important, far less @IDF soldiers have died than anyone expected, notwithstanding the tragic few we’ve already lost. They've also been able to safely evacuate 200,000 more Gazans from the northern strip – Gazans that Hamas was shooting at in order to get them to stay and die as human shields.
The slow and steady strategy seems to be working well for everyone (except Hamas).
Again, this is only true at this point, but the larger point is Americans forgot that Gaza isn’t Fallujah while Europeans forgot that Israelis aren’t blithering cowards.
All of which goes to show why @Israel should continue to ignore the naysayers and stick to the business of eradicating Hamas, haters be damned.
2. Everyone said Israel would ruin its ties with the Arab world, but not a single friendly Arab country has chosen to do so.
In fact, Saudi Arabia said it intends to continue pursuing relations with Israel. It also called for the hostages to be released at the Arab League/OIC summit this weekend.
Additionally, Egypt, Jordan, the UAE, Bahrain, Sudan, Morocco, Mauritania, Djibouti and Saudi Arabia all voted against a proposal that wanted to: cut ties, disrupt oil supplies to Israel and its allies, prevent the transfer of US equipment to Israel from bases in Arab countries, prevent flights to and from Israel using Arab countries’ air space, and form a joint mission to put pressure on Western nations for a ceasefire.
Numerous Arab countries rejected all of that.
Just as we should reject all of the NGOs, government quacks, armchair quarterbacks and keyboard commandos who don’t know the first thing about how to survive in the Middle East.
A month ago, at this hour, I had to tell my two daughters - 3.5 years old and 20 months old - that they must remain completely silent. No word, no cry.
It was 7AM, they had just woken up in a dark room with no electricity or food, and five people were shouting outside the window.
I said this before but it remains true:
The sadistic Oct. 7 massacre was the easiest moral test of our time.
But since so many people are failing it, it has become the most clarifying moral moment of our time.
From the @nytimes article admitting Hamas actually has plenty of food and fuel they are hiding from their own population while the world criticizes Israel for not giving them more. “Yet with Gazans facing a humanitarian catastrophe, Hamas’s stockpiles raise questions about what responsibility, if any, it has to the civilian population.”
Ummm how is this a question??? It has all of the responsibility. All of it.
https://t.co/e2hTeRlrZw
Eight family members were abducted.
David (33) and Sharon (34) Konio live in Kibbutz Nir Oz with their delightful three-year-old twin daughters, Yuly and Emma, whose smiles warm every heart. When he was younger, David acted in an Israeli film, and Sharon worked in the public relations office that marketed it. That's where they met, and they have been inseparable ever since.
When terrorists entered their home and started setting it on fire, the family hid in the safe room. Sharon managed to send a message to her brother, saying, "We may not make it out of here. We love you."
The four were abducted to Gaza, along with Ariel, David's brother, and his partner Arbel. Along with Daniel, Sharon's sister, and her daughter Emilia.
Eight family members were abducted. Eight family members must return.
#BringThemHomeNow
Why is the world not calling for the extradition of Hamas leadership from the countries where they live in opulence and safety, far from the carnage their orders have unleashed on Israelis and Palestinians? Let them stand trial for their crimes.
"Mom, I'm on my way back home", were the last words Sagiv Bailin
said to his mother as he and his friend, Roni Petrovski tried to escape the chaos of the Nova Music Festival. Unfortunately, the contact was lost, and Sagiv's phone was later traced to Jabaliya, Gaza.
Natalia, his mother, clings to the hope of receiving another call from her son, one that will assure her he is on his way home, safe and sound.
#bringthemhomenow
The propaganda war to demonize & criminalize Israel's responses to last week's massacre is in high gear, under the facades of #HumanRights & international law. Led by powerful NGOs (@hrw@amnesty etc) @UN_HRC, academics -- amplified (with zero #FactCheck) by media platforms. >