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The three young Israeli women, the hostages who are the first to have been freed in this new ceasefire, were driven through a frenzied mob of Palestinians, then escorted out of the vehicle — where they had been instructed to smile for the cameras or things would go hard with them, and to hold up the “gift bags” given to them, grotesque souvenirs, with retouched photographs of them in captivity and a map of Gaza. This was intended to show the world how kind those Hamas gun-toting allah-akbaring men had been, as the young women — still with chanting gun-toting allahu-akbaring Hamas operatives on every side of them — were transferred to Red Cross ambulances and driven back to civilization. And now Melanie Phillips has set down the thoughts provoked by that spectacle. “An obscene spectacle,” by Melanie Phillips, January 19, 2025:
To all those in the west who have perpetrated the lie of Israeli genocide in Gaza for the past 15 months: look at the pictures of the mob surrounding the three Israel women hostages who were freed today, and see thousands of Gazans who are well-fed, well-groomed and well-dressed.
What do you have to say now about the murderous libel you have perpetrated against the Israeli victims of these people, the lie that the Israelis were deliberately starving them, that they were the victims of Israeli-induced famine, that the Jews were behaving like Nazis? Do you have a scintilla of shame or regret about what you have done in spreading this foul incitement? Do you even understand what you saw today? Or are you too busy cheering on instead the pictures of those “pro-Palestinian” hate-marchers in London yesterday, dozens of whom were arrested by the police because they were absolutely determined to harass and terrorise British Jews at their synagogue Sabbath services nearby?…
Look at the thousands who have emerged in Hamas uniform and armed to the teeth, vowing to carry out more and more October 7 massacres until every Jew is dead and Israel is destroyed — Hamas murder squads loudly declaring that they will use the ceasefire to regroup, rearm and attack Israel; and then listen to the politicians hailing this development as the beginning of peace.
Look with breaking heart at the poignant joy and indescribable relief from suffering of the families reunited with their newly freed girls — how can this be anything other than a source not just of joy but also shuddering horror at what they have endured and at who knows what scars they will bear for the rest of their lives; and a source also of the most profound agony over the vast majority of the Israeli captives, both alive and dead, who remain incarcerated as pawns of these Palestinian Arab psychopaths, and who will now be used to eke out further unbearable distress among the hostages and their families, and to extort and manipulate the Israelis into ensuring that Hamas survive, regroup and resume the business of genocide….
The sickening manner in which Hamas managed right to the end to exploit the hostages, forcing them to smile at their captors and lift up their ludicrous “gift bags” so that the farce of their being well-treated might be believed by the endlessly gullible; the sight of thousands of well-fed Hamas operatives in Gaza, whose inhabitants have for months supposedly been on the brink of starvation; the calls by those hundreds of Hamas men who surrounded the girls as they were being handed off to the Red Cross, calling for the mass murder of Jews in the chant of “Khaybar, Khaybar, ya yahud! Jaish Muhammad soufa yaʿoud.” (Khaybar, Khaybar, the army of Muhammad will return,” and slaughter you.) None of that should be forgotten. But in a world that has been brainwashed to hate the state and people of Israel, how likely is that?
but as my liberal friends always say: WHat about the palistinians
Ham-A** Cowards hide their faces all the Time just why do these Ham-A** Cowards hide their faces like they do?
The cowards all have their faces covered, that alone should make the leftist liberals a tiny bit more sceptical but they’re also the ones who were happy to force babies to wear masks so that they (the leftist liberals) wouldn’t catch a cold.
Of the some 250 taken by Hamas and others on Oct 7 some 50 were SOLDIERS,therefore they were NOT hostages but 50 prisoners of war. The 200 civilians were hostages and it was terrorism to take them. But the 50 soldiers were legitimate targets.
The article begins with ”The three young Israeli women, the hostages who are the first to have been freed in this new ceasefire,”
They were FOUR not three and they were all soldiers.They were captured in an attack on a military post.A grenade was thrown and one was wounded.She is the famous NAAMA LEVY.
She was wounded in the leg or stomach and there is a video showing blood on her pants when she was taken. Ben Shapiro said she had been raped,or gang raped,so did others,but they were wrong.
The latest news is CHINA has created a Sputnik moment with DEEPSEEK,its AI app that cost a fraction of what ChatGPT and other Silicon Valley AI programs cost. 6 million dollars compared to BILLIONS of dollars. And experts are saying it is 50 times more efficient, is free, open source. I hope Trump will not continue to do the bidding of the Silicon Valley oligarchs,who only care about the Visa H1 B program which is exploitation. Like Elon Musk. But he has bowed to Elon Musk who gave him 250 million dollars for his campaign.
If you want to act like a reporter go get a job at a Leftist “newspaper” like Wapo or NYT. The real question is, who would hire you.
It’s always a hoot and a half to read political analysis from people who aren’t political analysts.
The soldiers were not legitimate targets, because the attack was made out of the blue, during a period of peace. Besides which, if you classify them as PoWs, then you need to demonstrate that Hamas treated them in accordance with the Geneva convention.
For those who wants to hear more details about DeepSeek there is this explanation by Danny Haiphong,pro-multipolar world youtuber:
During WW II death squads of Germans killed around 1 million Jewish men,women and children.
They were told to kill CHILDREN for this reason,”If we let the children live then when they are adults they will kill US.”
Undeniably the great majority of the German population supported Hitler and the Nazis. Would anybody accept killing German children,including babies with the argument,”If we don’t kill the German children they will grow up to be NAZIS”.
Yet in videos we see today’s Israelis justifying the killing of Gaza children with that argument,”I we don’t kill the children of Gaza they will grow up to be Hamas supporters, terrorists.”
GOLDA MEIR ,once PM of Israel is famous for a phrase that is ok with killing children,”“When peace comes we will perhaps in time be able to forgive the Arabs for killing our children, but it will be harder for us to forgive them for having forced us to KILL their CHILDREN. Peace will come when the Arabs will love their children more than they hate us.”
― Golda Meir, A Land of Our Own: An Oral Autobiography
I have never seen a video of any Israeli saying that it is necessary to kill children. Do you have a link to enlighten us with?
Gift bags from Hamas to the Hostages? R U effing kidding me?
Somebody should tell these murdering scumbag Jihadi clowns Oct 7 was not an awards ceremony that takes place in Hollywood. But they have the temerity to hand out these disgusting gift bags.
I wonder what was in the bags. Old bloody clothing? Decomposed fingers?
According to https://worldisraelnews.com/hamas-terrorists-mock-female-hostages-release-them-with-goodie-bags-as-souvenirs
“The gift bags, reportedly handed to the hostages just before they were transferred to the Red Cross, included unsettling items: a photo of Gaza, photographs of the hostages during their captivity, and a so-called “certificate of release.” ”
I think they should be donated to Yad Vashem or similar – it did occur to me that they could be sold on eBay in aid of United Hatzalah, but we don’t need to put moneymaking ideas into Hamas’ heads.