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“Lord help the mister/Who comes between me and my sister.”
The story is remarkable for what it tells us about Israel. Three sisters of the head of Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, a man who has dedicated his life to murdering Israelis, have been living quietly in a Bedouin town in southern Israel. The Israelis, of course, knew they were living there, but they did not touch a hair on any of their heads. They didn’t do what Hamas would have done to any relative of an Israeli leader living in territory controlled by the terror group — that is, imprison them for life or, more likely, murder such a person. No, Haniyeh’s three sisters were left alone until just now, when the Shin Bet, possibly based on intelligence information about Hamas operatives that the IDF came across in Gaza, realized that one of the three was not just the sister of Ismail Haniyeh, but a Hamas operative carrying on its ghastly work inside Israel.
Now the Israelis have arrested her at Tel Sheva, a Bedouin town where she and her two sisters all lived. They discovered electronic equipment, weapons, and several hundred thousand dollars’ worth of shekels. No doubt she was involved in distributing such equipment, weapons, and money to Hamas operatives inside Israel. More on her arrest can be found here: “Hamas Chief Haniyeh’s Sister Arrested in Southern Israel,” by Troy O. Fritzhand, Algemeiner, April 1, 2024:
The sister of Hamas politburo chief Ismail Haniyeh, one of the Palestinian terror group’s most visible leaders, has been arrested in southern Israel.
The 57-year-old woman lives with her family in Tel Sheva, a Bedouin city near Beersheba in Israel. She was detained in a joint raid by Israel Police and the Shin Bet security agency, law enforcement and Israeli media reported on Monday.
While the woman was not initially named — only referred to as “a relative of a senior member of Hamas” — police later reportedly identified the suspect as Sabah Avad al-Salam Haniyeh, one of Haniyeh’s sisters.
According to police, officials found documents, electronic devices, and other evidence linking Haniyeh’s sister to “serious security offenses.” She was arrested at the scene on suspicion of having contact with Hamas operatives and supporting acts of terrorism.
Police also said they found hundreds of thousands of shekels in cash in the house….
The Hamas chief reportedly has an estimated net worth of $4 billion and lives a life of luxury abroad in exile in Qatar.
Haniyeh has stolen that sum from the funds that international donors had supplied to support Gazans. Two other Hamas leaders, Khaled Meshaal and Mousa Abu Marzouk, have also stolen large sums, $4 billion and $3 billion, respectively. Between the three, that is $11 billion. Yet no one mentions this, no one raises the issue of this grand theft as greatly contributing to the misery of ordinary Gazans, no one in the chanceries of the West, or at the U.N., suggests that these three thieves be arrested and their billions disgorged to help pay for the rebuilding of Gazan infrastructure. Apparently the Hamas leaders’ $11 billion take is a taboo subject; were it to become better known, it would reflect badly on Hamas, and no one wants to do that because it would help Israel in its propaganda war, and in the mainstream media we can’t have that. The PA can’t make an issue of Hamas crooks, either, because Mahmoud Abbas, no piker, has managed to amass a family fortune, with his sons Tarek and Yasser, of $400 million. That’s why neither he, nor any other official in the PA, will ever raise the matter of the $11 billion squirreled away by Meshaal, Marzouk, and Haniyeh.
One wonders why, with all that money, Ismail Haniyeh did not invite all three of his sisters, who have been living in southern Israel in the same Bedouin town of Tel Sheva, to join him to live luxuriously in Doha. Or more likely, he did make such an offer, but his three sisters were leading such good lives in Israel, where the authorities leave them alone, that they preferred to remain in the Jewish state that, we are incessantly told by angry demonstrators, is an “apartheid colonial-settler genocidal state.” When given the choice, Haniyeh’s sisters prefer to live in Israel as citizens of the most thoroughly decent state in the Middle East, choosing it even over a life of endless luxury in Doha.
Will the world’s media draw the proper conclusions from this episode? These are:
1. Israel is willing to leave alone even the closest relatives of that arch-terrorist, Ismail Haniyeh, who are allowed to lead their lives undisturbed, and enjoy the same rights as all other citizens — Jews and Arabs — of Israel enjoy.
2. The fact that Ismail Haniyeh’s three sisters choose to remain in Israel instead of moving to Doha and living in the lap of luxury supplied by their bother, is mute and convincing testimony to how good Israeli Arabs have it in the Jewish state.
3. At least one of Ismail Haniyeh’s three sisters, we now know, repaid Israel’s benevolence with treachery. She — Sabah Avad al-Salam Haniyeh — was found to have electronic equipment, weapons, incriminating documents, and hundreds of thousands of shekels in her house, all of it being kept for distribution to Hamas operatives inside Israel. She is charged with having contact with Hamas operatives and with “supporting acts of terrorism.”
4. Keep her in custody. Haniyeh’s sister may come in handy in one of those lopsided trades Hamas has made before with Israel, most egregiously in 2011, when it turned over one soldier, Gilad Shalit, in exchange for 1,027 Palestinian prisoners, including many who were serving life sentences for murder. Perhaps the prospect of obtaining his sister’s freedom will soften Ismail Haniyeh’s negotiating stance.
Lethal says
Tigers breed true
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john blackman says
Haniyeh would sell his mother and or sisters if he could murder more jews . fakestinians and arabs in general have no filial love or deference for there own as exhibited by hamas hiding amonst their own while shootung at israel or blowing themselves up . unfortunately if you are an altruist which the jews are you will always be murdered . that the jews let these women alone to infiltrate the israeli state is why they are in their current demise all due to the virtuous left that infest israel as a whole . the left are a cancer wherever they live , america , great britain , berlin , they have been white anting their respective countries for years . unfortunately israel will go the way of america , a failed immoral and useless state ruined by incessant treason , the hallmark of the left . time to ignore feckless joe . best to die on your feet than die on your knees .
BLSinSC says
Interesting development, but consider that his SISTER is JUST a WOMAN and as such is not that valuable in the eyes of the muslim! I do wonder where on the scale of importance women fall in islam – higher or lower than a goat?
The FACTS that are presented here surely make the case that the woman is an OPERATIVE of a TERRORIST Army and should be treated accordingly. I would bet that further investigations will show MANY MORE just like her – enjoying the FREEDOMS of Israel while assisting the TERRORISTS who intend to DESTROY those FREEDOMS! I would say that is kind of contradictory, but when dealing with an insane ideology it just makes sense!
Rohini DeSilva says
What we have in Western Civilisations, including Israel, is Red Riding Hood trying to do deals with the Wolf.
We ignore the fact that Islamic Terrorists do not believe in following any civilizational ‘rules’ They violate all of them, all the time, with the singular goal of achieving dominance over the West. In fact, their Qu’ran authorises “Taqqiya,” dissembling and lying, in order to gain the upper hand.
What are we waiting for? For them (and our media) to admit we are good guys? Or until they destroy us completely? What do you think will come first?
Given all this, it is long past time that we all say “We are done with trying to have “diversity” and “democracy” with countries that have demonstrated they have no intention of obeying our laws and our culture. Hencefore, we are going to deport any one violating our norms or demonstrating on our street, blocking ur airports and bridges; all in the attempt to destroy us.”
Alkflaeda says
Since she has been living in Israel, it must be possible to trace all of her financial transactions, emails and mobile phone data, and haul in lots more like her.
Tionico says
use the noes, conacs, phones, computers, etc for leads and implicating evidence on those with whom she has been working. Slowly but surely establish a LONG list of co-dirtbags, then launch a series of “operations” to round them all up in he same night. ry them, and if guilty of any capital crimes, execute them. all at once. Let then scream, whine, cry, flail, curse rant, bang their heads against the stone walls of their prison. but deal with them. Shold be enough information on her “contcts” and fellow soldiers to extract and subdue quite a few of them.
Ron Wasserman says
Send them to Gaza after expropriating their assets to help compensate victims of October 7th.