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We all know that Hamas threatened the Israelis hostages that it was just about to release last November to put on happy faces, and wish their former captors “Shalom” for the cameras, and those who could manage it did as they were told. They had been warned that if they did not collaborate, it would go hard with the hostages still being held captive, whom they were leaving behind. But when they arrived home, the released hostages proceeded to describe the horrific conditions in which they had been held. They spoke of living on one piece of pita bread each day,or being occasionally given rotten meat. Many of them lived in the tunnels, enduring the cold and the darkness. None had received a visit from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). And finally, after many months, some of them finally spoke publicly of the sexual abuse they had endured every day, including rapes, and revealed that all of the female hostages were still being similarly abused.
Christine Douglass-Williams wrote about this here, and more on this sexual abuse, and Hamas’ blanket denial, can be found here: “Outrageous lie: Israeli hostages in Gaza “left happy and laughing” – they received “generous treatment” – PA TV interview,” by Itamar Marcus, Palestinian Media Watch, April 4, 2024:
Recently, an Israeli woman aged 40 who was held hostage by Hamas revealed that she was sexually assaulted by her captor. And she is not the only one. Other hostages have also testified about sexual abuse, torture, and beatings while being held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
As more testimonies from Israeli hostages who were freed last November after almost two months in Hamas captivity are being published, the war of narratives has become urgent.
The meager rations, the beatings, the confinement in dark and cold tunnels, were the common lot of the hostages. Several dozen hostages have also been murdered while in Hamas’ captivity over the past six months.
The Palestinian and Arab narrative is entirely fictitious and is intended to humanize Hamas and deny its atrocities. One example is this outrageous claim made to official PA TV by a lecturer at Cairo University that the Israeli hostages received “generous treatment” and left captivity “happy and laughing”:
Head of Radio and TV Department at Cairo University’s Faculty of Mass Communications Ashraf Jalal: “The generous treatment Palestine gave the Israeli prisoners (i.e., kidnapped women and children) caused an enormous positive response, because after [the Israelis] lied and said that [Hamas] is abusing them, the [Israeli] people left [Gaza] happy and laughing… What is required is that we redirect the media spotlight to this issue.”
[Official PA TV, From Cairo, Feb. 12, 2024]
This brazen lie follows those made by senior PA officials, which have been documented by Palestinian Media Watch. In November 2023, Minister Qadura Fares, who is the director of the PLO Commission of Prisoners’ Affairs, said that Israel “made up this story and said: They [the Palestinians] raped, killed, and burned” [Official PA TV, Nov. 20, 2023]. In December 2023, PLO Executive Committee member and PLF Secretary-General Wasel Abu Yusuf said: “Since October 7, there has been a Zionist version that [Israel] has attempted to spread worldwide out of tendentious propaganda, [claiming] that there was murder of children, rape of women, crimes, and the like” [Official PA TV, Topic of the Day, Dec. 3, 2023].
But we have the testimony about the murdered children, the rapes, the mutilation of bodies from Israeli survivors who witnessed or overheard these events from their hiding places. We also have the videos of these atrocities that were taken at the time by those who committed them, so proud were they of how they had terrorized, tortured, raped, and killed the hated Israelis. And, of course, we have the 1,200 corpses of those who were burned to death, or stabbed or shot, with the females having had their breasts sliced off, and genitalia cut off men, as well as their eyes gouged out.
It’s not the charges of murder and kidnapping that Hamas feels the need to deny, but the charge of “sexual abuse” — meaning “rape.” That is seen as beyond the pale. Pass out candies and celebrate the murders of 1,200 Israelis on October 7, but remain silent about the mass rapes which Muslim men are not supposed to engage in. “We have our standards,” they imply, and rape is not allowed. It’s absurd of course: there were endless rapes on October 7, and then more sexual abuse, including rapes, of female hostages by their Hamas captors in Gaza that continue right up to the present day. So please understand the threats that made some of those hostages — only a few could manage it — appear to be “happy and laughing” for the whirring cameras as they left Gaza, freed in the November hostage-for-prisoner exchange. And months later, concentrate on the full horror of what the remaining hostages — starved, beaten, held in cold, dark tunnels, with sexual abuse and rape a daily occurrence – must still endure.
The Palestinian Media Watch?
The world is full of “fact checkers” who seem to have come out of the woodwork since the UN imposed lockdowns.
Coincidence?
Sadly Israel is losing the PR war at the moment, but they should continue to concentrate on the real war with islamic Hamas cowards.
Mo, Israel was doomed to lose the PR war no matter what, because Jews are the most hated people on earth. This has been true for at least two millenia. Sympathy is reserved, primarily, for dead Jews (although not for those killed recently, as Jews are now regarded by much of the world as “settler colonialists,” even if they have never been to or lived in Israel). But for living Jews, with a tiny country of their own, permanently under siege, who have the audacity to persist in defending themselves against a host of implacable enemies whose theology mandates permanent warfare against them? Bah!
Bs. The so called blk man is the most hated on the planet!
Worse than that, the ICC looks like it’s about to issue arrest warrants for Bibi Netanyahu for “war crimes.”
Yes, really.
China can commit literal genocide. Iran can murder a young woman because a lock of hair escaped her hijab. France can refuse to try a Muslim for beating a French Jewess to death in her own home, but Israel was only getting 200 humanitarian aid trucks to Gaza in the first two weeks of the Hamas/Israel War and that’s a bridge too far dammit! 🙄
The world has lost its mind.
#IStandWithIsrael
Anything describing itself as International, Global, World, Planet etc has zero respect.
Like the orchestra at Auschwitz, playing “The Merry Widow” at the entrance to the gas chamber . . .
They lie by nature. And here I was told that Mohammed hated dishonesty and that Moslems try to emulate “the perfect man.” Guess not.
Perhaps It was in Nonie Darwish’s book, but I do remember reading about how, in certain countries (ahem), the ability of a leader to lie convincingly is highly respected.
Like all Marxist and communist regimes?
Kasandra, in the Sira of Ibn Ishaak (i.e. the biography of Muhammed considered by Muslims as the most authoritative), Muhammed personally approved his supporters’ use of duplicity as a tool to murder his enemies, including a Jewish poet who was supposedly a centenarian. Lying to infidels and to one’s enemies is considered perfectly fine in Islam; various forms of lying have been given official sanction by the ulema, including taqiyya, kitman, mauruna, and tawriyya. Muhammed, apparently, had no problem with Muslims’ lying to others in the service of protecting and spreading Islam.
Morality in islam depends on the beneficiary. Murder, rape, theft, enslaving, maltreatment, lies and other transgressions are forbiden between muslims, yet they are allowed when non-muslims are concerned. I remember an ISIS woman’s article arguing that ‘infidels’ are in fact benefitting from enslavement and rape since it gives them the opportunity to submit to islam.
He never existed!
See Robert Spencer
See Dr Jay Smith. There is no evidence for the existence of this fake ‘prophet’.
YHVH will not be mocked or ignored nor disobeyed. There is a reckoning coming. Israel’s motto: Never Again! Means just that!
Those Hamas spokesmen blatant liars for saying that those hostages they still hold are “happy and laughing “ Likewise all the other jihadists of Hamas who make that same bogus claim are liars
There lying of attempted deception is their putting into practice the dogma called Taqiyya .This is the Islamic doctrine the deception is a good thing to do as long as it’s done for the advancement of Islam in America and other Western nations.
This Islamic practice of Taqiyya is contrast to teachings found in the Bible . For the Bible informs its readers in Proverbs 11:18. “The wicked worketh a deceitful work…” Likewise, the very next chapter[12] of the same book of Proverbs it reads in verse 5 “The counsels of the wicked are deceit,”
That demonic jihad entity, Hamas, with is jihadists, have no limits, at all, to its cruel heinous and vile horrendously horrific vile and heinous Islamic evils that it so maliciously and murderously commits. As Proverbs 12:20 reveals “deceit is in the heart of then that imagine evil.” {K.J.V.]
Yes, Islam claims that the Qur’an supersedes and corrects the Tanach, which, according to them, has become corrupt, but how could it be corrective if it presents a picture of God which is less holy than that given by King David in Ps 15 (which, NB, is in direct contradiction to Mohammed’s behaviour over the treaty of Huddaybiyyah)?
Those brutal cruel jihadist of Hamas lie about how the hostages are treated in an attempt to hide just how completely horrifically vicious they treat the people who they had kidnapped .
Likewise, it’s jihadists also have to their abusive brutal cruel horrendously horrific heinous immoral vile sex crimes and other evils that they so maliciously commit..
In other words, that demonic jihad entity, Hamas, with is jihadists, have no limit , to their cruel heinous and horrendously horrific vile and heinous Islamic evils that it’s jihadists so maliciously and murderously commits.
Sadly, I’ve been seeing some so-called conservatives begin to turn on Israel as well. One of the most prominent pro-life websites, LifeSiteNews, has morphed into an anti-Israel and, as of yesterday, pro-Hamas website.
If you can stomach these links, this will show how far they have fallen.
https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/uncovering-the-secret-history-of-hamas-and-its-relationship-with-israel/
(And for the record, I barely could make it through halfway on this revisionist history of the origin of Hamas before I had to turn away to maintain my sanity.)
It’s the Socialists pushing hard to get as much done while keeping Trump sitting in court on sham charges. But this could backfire, depending on how much ‘cheat’ is going on in November. Vote DJT for freedom.
Only a Democrat or an American college student is stupid enough to believe that.
Good! They should arrest that terrorist!!
Was that after the Jewish hostages were tortured?
Hostage-taking, and the rape, torture, or murder of captives have always been recognized as war crimes, with the universally accepted punishment of death, either by being shot on the spot by the victorious troops in their understandable outrage, or by being hanged, perhaps (but not necessarily) after the courtesy of an immediate, perfunctory trial.
Those who ignore and outrageously violate the Rules of War should not be allowed to hide, whimpering and sniveling, behind them.
Let Justice be done, either immediately on the battlefield, or, at the latest, at dawn the next morning in front of a firing squad or with the hangman’s noose.
I can believe that the hostages were very very very happy to be freed, but likely sick with worry about those who were still being held. As I have not forgotten what happened to young Ilan Halimi in France, I had to assume that they were, and are, being treated very badly indeed. It is heartbreaking to think about it.
This is an ongoing nightmare, for many people on both sides, and most definitely for the remaining hostages. I do not know what politicians can do to resolve this without further suffering. And neither it seems do they.
But here is our hope. Psalm 37 contains perfect advice for each one of us. It not only assures us that we are not abandoned to this, that a rescue is on the way, that soon the whole earth will be ruled by the law of loving-kindness, but it teaches us how to cope with living in a corrupt and cruel world system without letting it shape us in its nasty image.