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Today’s hostage release: note the pattern, which is for Hamas to keep the fathers — 31 Comments

  1. Wel, if you were the father, and were selecting members of your family to be released, I would think you would put yourself last. You might even vote the release the children from another family ahead of yourself (thought not ahead of your own children).

  2. By continuing this drip by drip extension of the cease-fire, Netanyahu is condemning the Israeli population to terrorist and rocket attacks in their own homes by Hamas for the foreseeable future. He is putting millions at risk for the sake of less than two hundred, two hundred hostages who will all not be released, ever.

    At some point a decision to protect the whole at the risk of the very few must be made.

  3. The only american released is the grand niece of a hunter donor, this is how craven they are

  4. No way is it any decision by the hostages who gets released.
    Certainly Hamas is playing to the world and Leftist audience including Israelis.

  5. Put your self in his position when seemingly the whole world has turned against you when the most vociferous countrymen insist on forcing this deal (as bendavid haspointed out)

  6. Hamas submitted an empathetic appeal… take a knee, beg, or else we’ll do it again… and again… and again with transnational, transhumane sympathetic support. Your… our Choice. Ha, ha, ha

  7. The pattern is that Hamas is playing the hostages for as much time as possible. As the cease fire drags on and Hamas continues dribbling out hostages, the pressure on Israel to avoid a resumption of hositilies will increase. Hamas’ western allies will continue to call for a “durable ceasefire.”

    Israel will have to choose between resuming their offensive with the majority of western governments against them, or allow Hamas to win. Once Hamas wins, they begin planning the next October 7.

    Agreeing to the ceasefire was a huge error on the part of the Israelis.

  8. Miguel cervantes:

    I haven’t heard a single viable suggestion on how to solve it. But people are sure Netanyahu is doing it wrong. However, I don’t think there is a better choice, at least so far. That may change in a while.

  9. IMO, it is extremely unlikely that Hamas will ever release all of the hostages and, will do it’s level best to acquire more. Yet if Israel manages to utterly destroy Hamas, Islam will just turn to another proxy. So, if Israel continues to restrict itself to a reactive policy, this is a fight Israel cannot win. But this is a fight that Israel can win because Islam contains a fatal flaw. To leverage that flaw, Israel must alter its strategy, it must change the conditions of the ‘game’. It must eliminate Islam’s incentive, it’s promise of paradise for ‘martyrdom’ and, it must attach a consequence for terrorist attacks that the radical Mullahs and Imams find too risky to contemplate.

  10. I wonder if using smoke generators and injecting the flow into known tunnel entrances would have two beneficial results:

    1: Smoke billowing from other hidden and unknown entrances.

    2: Gradual ‘smoking out’ inhabitants from non-lethal levels to lethal levels, potentially forcing the terrorists to move hostages above ground if they want to keep them for bargaining purposes, and at least not immediately killing any hostages in the process, unlike injecting and igniting propane and other such proposals.

  11. There was a recent article on why Hamas is worse than the Nazis. More proof here.

    I shouldn’t be surprised any more, but there is substantial support by the Dems for Hamas.

  12. Just read at the Daily Mail that Hamas has given one of their hostages, a 10 month old Boy, to a different terrorist group in Gaza. They are keeping his Brother and Mother.
    There might be a point where Israel has to say no more.

  13. “There might be a point where Israel has to say no more.”

    That point was reached on October 7. I don’t want to let Netanyahu off the hook entirely but Biden stabbed him in the back with Obama’s knife. And you know BO is getting a great big kick out of it.

  14. @ miguel > ” the qatari apparat is too strong”

    I assume you are referring to the post you linked yesterday about the Doha convention.
    That the EU vultures & our own Foggy Bottom denizens are clustering is no surprise.
    If there is a question later about who is on the Qatari payroll, the attendance roster can be consulted.

    However, this seems to me to illustrate one of the usual conundrums of the Wokerati, in which their actions seem to contradict their alleged priorities.

    If, as they claim, the greatest crisis facing the world is Climate Change (ahem), and we absolutely need to Stop Oil and End Fossil Fuels now, wouldn’t that undercut the source of their payroll?
    And if the Democrats succeed in banning gas stoves, water heaters, and furnaces, the Qataris will have to look for new customers for that also.

    So, are the Elites just doing what grifters always do, and getting theirs while the getting’s good, or do these particular leftists really believe in two incompatible outcomes happening simultaneously?

    On the third hand, they should know that Qatar will not lack buyers for its wares even if the Europeans and Americans are not among them, so there will be no hitches in their Money Pipelines.

    On the fourth hand, they may be realizing that the Sustainable / Green Energy boom is about to bust, and there will be no end to the petroleum largesse at all.

    https://www.dossier.today/p/biden-admin-wef-gates-officials-to

    Sadly, it’s nothing new for major world governments (including Republican and Democratic administrations), major non profits, and top multinational corporations to send representatives to participate in a confab hosted by such a morally reprehensible regime. But Qatar has a $200 billion annual GDP, thanks entirely to the fact that the country sits on massive oil and natural gas reserves. Moreover, 90% of Qatar’s population is foreign workers, so the profits of the energy business are split among less than a quarter of a million Qataris. In short, this means that there’s lots of money up for grabs in and around Doha.

    Thanks to its lucrative energy export operation, which allows for the Qataris to print money out of the ground while providing nothing of value to the world, the Doha regime has been able to buy off a significant chunk of Washington, D.C. along with countless influential retired American generals, with the mission to present a false image of itself as a bridge between the West and the nefarious actors in the Islamic world. As the world’s third-largest exporter of natural gas, there’s plenty of bribe money to go around in circles of influence and power.

  15. Another Mike

    Netanyahu is not condemning anyone. He is a politician. I am sure he has his ear to the ground and this is what the Israeli electorate want. They want their family back. Of course Hamas will kidnap more.

  16. I mentioned the particular burdens that netanyahu labors under i will venture further this is what yigal amir feared with the coming of oslo having come from yemen deri the shas leader came from morocco.

  17. Netanyahu is a patriot but he is under enormous pressure and not just from enemies. I just hope he can resist the bad advice.

  18. His enemies are inside the tent! ObamaMalleyBidenBlinkenSullivan, they’re all agin him, on the side of IRGCHamas.

    And good freakin luck with the stinking-to-high-heaven leftist Israeli Media Complex who never quit their denigration (emblackening) of the names of every single Israeli politician who seeks victory. They never stop, they never will cease.

  19. Israel should do whatever is needed to free the hostages.

    Once that is accomplished, Israel should totally destroy all of Gaza, hunt down and kill every Hamas member they find no matter where in the world they are located and kill every Hamas prisoner they have captured.

    There is nothing at all Israel can do to dissuade the palestinians from aiming to exterminate them. Israel can give every palestinian a new car, a new house,
    $ 500,000 in cash, and the palestinians will still want all Jews dead.

    There is no way to compromise with people that want you dead; so you have to kill them first.

  20. @ Miguel > “Yep” doesn’t do justice to the importance of the story underlying that Tweet.

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    A top CIA official posted a pro-Palestine image on Facebook two weeks after Hamas attacked Israel, in a rare public political statement by a senior intelligence officer on a war that has sparked dissent within the Biden administration.

    The CIA’s associate deputy director for analysis changed her Facebook cover photo on October 21 to an image of a man waving a Palestinian flag that is often used in stories criticising Israel. The Financial Times has decided not to name her after the intelligence agency expressed concern about her safety.

    Posting an overtly political image on a public platform is a very unusual move for a senior intelligence official. It comes as tensions rise inside the administration about whether President Joe Biden should put more pressure on Israel to bring an end to the fighting in the Gaza Strip.

    In a separate Facebook post, the senior intelligence official also published a selfie with a sticker saying “Free Palestine” superimposed on the photograph. One person familiar with the image said it was posted to Facebook years ago and long before the current conflict.

    “The officer is a career analyst with extensive background in all aspects of the Middle East and this post [of the Palestinian flag] was not intended to express a position on the conflict,” said the person familiar with the situation.

    This person added that the senior official had also published posts on Facebook taking a stand against antisemitism. 

    The CIA official did not respond to an attempt to reach her via LinkedIn but after the outreach on Monday, the pro-Palestine images and unrelated posts from the past year and a half were deleted from her page.

    Four former intelligence officials expressed surprise that one of two associate deputy directors reporting to the head of analysis would post an image on Facebook showing her apparent political views on a divisive issue.

    The CIA official has previously overseen the production of the President’s Daily Brief, the highly classified compilation of intelligence that is presented to the president most days. The deputy CIA director for analysis and his two associates are also responsible for approving all analysis disseminated inside the agency.

    “The public posting of an obviously controversial political statement by a senior analytic manager in the middle of a crisis shows glaringly poor judgment,” said one former intelligence official, who added that some intelligence community members were concerned that the post expressed a bias that could undermine the analysis directorate.

    In a statement the CIA said: “CIA officers are committed to analytic objectivity, which is at the core of what we do as an agency. CIA officers may have personal views, but this does not lessen their — or CIA’s — commitment to unbiased analysis.”

    The former US intelligence officials said the image raised concerns on several levels, including the fact that the CIA has strong relations with Israeli intelligence. “Given the CIA’s longstanding incredibly close relationship with the Israelis in a liaison capacity, this would be highly irregular for a senior agency official,” said a second former official.

    The revelation came as CIA director Bill Burns arrived in Qatar for meetings with the head of the Israeli spy agency and the prime minister of Qatar, which has been involved in brokering a deal to release more of the hostages that Hamas is holding in Gaza.

    “Given the role director Burns is playing in the ongoing crisis in Israel, social media activity along these lines by a senior US intelligence officer reflects exceptionally and surprisingly bad judgment,” said a third former intelligence official.

    A fourth former official said the posting of the image appeared “biased from somebody who is supposed to be fundamentally unbiased”.

    Biden’s strong support for Israel as it has pressed its deadly campaign to respond to the October 7 Hamas attack has divided staff in his administration.

    Senior officials have hosted listening sessions with staff at the White House, state department and other agencies in an attempt to understand and try to quell their concerns about the president’s approach. 

    Everyone who believes that these professionally impartial analysts at all levels are not slanting their reports in their preferred direction raise your hands.
    We know for a fact that high-level agents and officials have done so, to th extent of lying to Congress and the public about it, so why not the anonymous Swamp Dwellers?

    https://www.bookwormroom.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Silly-stuff-Louisiana-Christmas-lights.jpg

    When they tell you what they are, believe them.

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