It has been a very difficult couple of weeks in Israel. With the return of some of our hostages came stories of their captivity. When they first began to trickle in, many observers were surprised at how low-key they were. No great shows of emotion, good or bad. Now it has come out that Hamas gave the hostages Clonazepam, a sedative, so that they would appear peaceful as they returned. Once the drugs wore off, the reality of Hamas’s imprisonment of these innocents became evident.
Because time is passing and the voices of the deniers are growing louder (which I will address in a moment), I want to list here some of the hostages’ revelations that I detailed in my Telegram channel. Many captives were executed, denied medical treatment, and starved. Women were kept in cages. Some of the hostages were forced to eat toilet paper. They were separated from their families, sleep deprived, light deprived, and forced to watch the October 7 atrocities.
Elderly women were required to sleep on plastic chairs. Children were branded with exhaust pipes, forced to whisper, and not allowed to cry. The perpetrators beat the hostages, kept them in solitary confinement, denied them basic hygiene, and confined them to cramped spaces. They denied them information about their families and forced them to participate in degrading propaganda videos. Their hopelessness was made greater by the fact that they didn’t even receive a single visit from the Red Cross.
What’s even more terrible is that we are just scratching the surface. There are many hostages still being held. Also, we haven’t yet heard from the children. Professor Itay Pesach, head of the children’s hospital in Tel Aviv, said, “When the children will start telling their stories, none of us will be able to sleep at night.”
Never forget what kind of torture was perpetrated upon those whom Hamas killed. Never forget what kind of torture was perpetrated upon those whom Hamas allowed to live.
The Increase of the Deniers
As often happens from the radical left, the volume of their voices increases in direct proportion to the stupidity of their arguments. The October 7 deniers are now at full shrill. It is amazing to me that the evidence, much of it filmed by Hamas themselves, can be so great, yet they can still say that it never happened. Similar to the three monkeys, they see no evil and hear no evil. However, these supporters of the Nazi-like Hamas certainly love to speak evil. They speak it in protests and out front of Jewish delicatessens and in government houses and in university classrooms and on major news networks.
What’s so interesting is that these are the same people who make their livings creating a victim class based on race or gender or lifestyle or government. But in this one particular case, they turn it around and call the victims the perpetrators. What is the only difference? These victims are Jews.
When the “Me too” movement was born, it was based on one woman’s unsubstantiated recollection of an event decades earlier. Yet, it was demanded that everyone must believe her. Now, we have hundreds of incidents with massive amounts of video and forensic evidence, and these same academics, media people, and radical elites have become deniers. The blatant antisemitism is truly appalling.
Thankfully, there are some who are beginning to accept the evidence. The BBC, in a radical turnaround, changed their tune when they finally viewed the proof of sexual violence with a critical eye. Others are beginning to realize that the Palestinian people are no different than Hamas. A recent poll showed that 75% of Palestinians support what Hamas did during the October 7 massacre. Only 13% opposed it.
Hamas Breaks Ceasefire
In a move that shocked absolutely no one who understands Hamas at all, it took the terrorist organization only seven days to break the ceasefire. Apparently, they had completed shifting around all their supplies and personnel, because last Thursday they began to send rockets into the Israeli town of Sderot. This was the very move the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) were waiting for, and the military immediately launched their next moves.
Currently, there are two major focuses. First, there is the destruction of the Gazan city of Khan Yunis. This is a hotbed of tunnels and military facilities. The IDF warned the citizens ahead of time, spurring a mass civilian exodus. Then the bombing began, and it has been massive. At the same time, along the coast north of the Shatti refugee camp, Israel’s military has situated five large pumps. With these machines, they will begin flooding the miles and miles of tunnels with seawater. It will take a while, but eventually the rats will be chased from their underground burrows.
Fighting continues to take place throughout Israel. Exchanges of fire and airstrikes persist in the north against Hezbollah. Also, the fighting in the West Bank is very hot as the IDF is forced to go in to extract leaders of Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ).
Possible Insider Trading Surrounding 10/7
Both New York University and Columbia University have extensively researched activity on the New York Stock Exchange and the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange surrounding the October 7 attack. They claim that there was an unusual trend of short-selling shares of Israeli companies prior to the attack. It is possible, these studies report, that there were those who may have been informed of the attack ahead of time and, as a result, profited enormously. Authorities in both Israel and the U.S. are now looking into the allegations.
Hamas Leaders will be Targeted
In 1972, Prime Minister Golda Meir authorized Operation Wrath of God following the murder of Israeli athletes at the Munich Summer Olympics. Under this action, the Mossad was given the go-ahead to go anywhere in the world to kill all the members of the Palestinian militant group, Black September, who participated in the terrorist action.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed that all the leaders responsible for the October 7 massacre will be hunted down and killed like their Black September predecessors. There is no country they can flee to, no city in which they can hide that will keep them from facing the ruthless justice of a nation that will never forget.
Not every national leader is happy to hear this. Iran has said that they will protect the leaders of Hamas. Turkey’s President Erdogan has threatened that Israel will pay a great price if Hamas officials are killed on his nation’s soil. I’m betting that Erdogan will have to back up those words. The luxury hotels of Qatar and Istanbul have always been the billionaire Hamas leaders’ favorite hangouts.
Blinken’s Perfect Timing
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken came to Israel the middle of last week to encourage Israel to extend the ceasefire with Hamas. However, he was forced to change his rhetoric. On the tarmac before he left, he told the press that Hamas had broken the truce by carrying out a terrorist attack in Jerusalem and firing rockets into Israel. Instead of supporting a longer ceasefire, he encouraged different tactics in the way Israel carries out the war. I’m sure the generals in the IDF will give his suggestions all the weight they deserve.
