I met hostage survivor Moran Stella Yanai. And she wants this story to be told and shared...
She was taken by 13 ТERRORISТS from the Nova Festival. She endured 54 days of torture and captivity.
"How did you get through every second, every minute, every day?"
"Faith and purpose," she said.
"I spent my time getting through moments."
Moran gave herself purpose. She made it her mission to look out for the two women in captivity with her. Most of the "fire" in the room was directed at her. She'd have a gun held to her head one moment. Play cards with the captor the next.
She made it her mission to gather information from Hаmаs. Everything she did in captivity was strategic. Moran made it her mission to keep her mind, her spirit, her imagination.
From time to time, she'd hear a blip on Israeli radio. She found signs and symbols in those seconds.
She lost 50% of her hearing. Came back covered in lice, sores, and filled with infections. Broken bones.
"The physical problems are nothing. It's all mental."
She says she lives with a feeling that it's possible to be taken hostage again. Because it happened before.
But the thing Moran said most is, "I won."
She did. And she continues to win every day.
"I'm a better person now."
And that question I asked Moran at the start? That's the same question I ask every Holocaust survivor. I didn't tell her that. But within the first sentence of answering, she used the word Holocaust in referring to her experience.
I've hugged many Holocaust survivors. It always gives me such an indescribable feeling of comfort and resilience. And when I hugged Moran goodbye, I got that same feeling again.🎗️
Wow. Hostage held by Hamas says the t*rrorists wanted Kamala to win because they were scared of Trump.
They knew Trump would make a deal and try to get the hostages out.
They started treating him better when Trump was elected.
“He [Trump] got me out.”
The day before he was horrifically murdered, Charlie Kirk sent me a direct message on X.
Unfortunately, before I could even respond, Charlie Kirk was killed — seemingly assassinated for the words he'd spoken.
I've taken issue with many of those words — sometimes strongly — but never his right to speak them. Never his right to express those views and then go home to his family. That is a sacred American value.
Kirk’s murder gives us all reason to come back to the table for dialogue. There is a rising tide of political violence that has already swept away his life and many others’ lives, from both the Left and the Right.
Violence like this should compel people in both parties to turn down the heat, seek common ground and look for off-ramps from the vitriol — as Kirk was doing with me, the day before he died.
We can choose to go the way of more violence, more outrage and more censorship — if we want to.
But if we choose censorship and civil war, we cannot blame that choice on Charlie Kirk!
From his last 24 hours, I have the proof that he wanted to go a very different way.