Hamas Attack is Craving for Attention
(Source is the New York Times – not a friend of Israel)
The goal of Hamas’s October 7 massacres in southern Israel was to break the status quo and put the Palestine question "back on the table."
Khalil al-Hayya, a senior member of Hamas politburo in Qatar, told the New York Times "What could change the equation was a great act, and without a doubt, it was known that the reaction to this great act would be big. We succeeded in putting the Palestinian issue back on the table, and now no one in the region is experiencing calm."
On the morning of Saturday, October 7, some 3,000 Hamas terrorists stormed through the border fence into Israel, killing 1,400 people, most of them civilians, and taking at least 240 hostages.
While world leaders have been pushing for Israel to agree to a ceasefire in its war against the Gaza terror group, Al-Hayya and other Hamas members dismissed the idea that they want to govern Gaza and restore a sense of calm, instead expressing support for endless conflict.
“I hope that the state of war with Israel will become permanent on all the borders, and that the Arab world will stand with us. Hamas’s goal is not to run Gaza and to bring it water and electricity and such,” Hamas media consultant Taher El-Nounou said. (That is the true goal of Hamas, not the governing Gaza or peace with Israel.)
According to the Hamas-run Gaza health ministry, more than 10,000 people inside the coastal enclave have been killed since October 7 (the numbers is most likely inflated by Hamas). However, this number cannot be independently verified and is believed to include members of the terror organization as well as civilians killed by misfired rockets that fell within the Strip.
Hamas member Ghazi Hamad told Lebanese TV channel LBC that the October 7 massacre was just the first of many, and that “there will be a second, a third, and a fourth” attack if the group is given the chance. “Will we have to pay a price? Yes, and we are ready to pay it,” he said at the time. “We are called a nation of martyrs, and we are proud to sacrifice martyrs.” (International anti-Semites must stop calling for ceasefire. This is not what Hamas wants. Israel must help all members of Hamas and other terrorist groups to achieve their ultimate goal - the Martyrdom, having a seat at a table with Muhamed and meet 72 virgins.)
Nobody - neither the leaders of the world democracies, nor the chief of the ‘United Nazis’ - are pressuring Egypt to open the border with Gaza.
It is the most common practice during military conflicts and civil wars!
Wouldn’t it be the best and simplest way to save the lives of “innocent civilians” in Gaza, the international Israel-haters who are so much concerned about, by letting them leave the war zone?
That would allow Israel to obliterate Hamas faster and avoid civilian casualties.
Food for Thought. by Steven Shamrak
'The Useless Nothing' did not condemn Azerbaijan for expelling 120,000 Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh recently; Israel did not lecture the US and its coalition partners, or imply that they were violating the human rights during war in Afghanistan, by killing civilians; the US has not demanded that Ukraine declare a ceasefire with Russia; nobody cares that Pakistan is throwing out almost 2 million Afghanis to the mercy of the Taliban; there is no pressure on Egypt to open their border with Gaza, most Westerners do not even know that it has it, and allow people to leave the war zone. Israel must learn how to show the ‘big finger' to international anti-Semites, and the fake friends!
Israel will Retain Security Control in Gaza
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ruled out the return of the Palestinian Authority to Gaza after the war. Netanyahu said, “I repeat: total security control with the ability to enter whenever you want to eliminate terrorists who could re-emerge. There will not be a civil authority that educates children to hate the State of Israel, to kill Israelis, to eliminate the State of Israel There cannot be an authority there whose leader did not condemn this terrible massacre more than 30 days later.” (Removing all enemies from Gaza and reuniting it with Israel is a better solution – if not the ONLY solution!)
Democrats Blocked Aid to Israel Bill
US Senate Democrats blocked a Republican effort to win quick approval for a bill providing emergency aid to Israel. The House bill would provide $14.3 billion for Israel as it responds to a deadly Oct. 7 attack by Hamas. Democrats are opposed to it due to the fact that it provides no assistance for Ukraine's war against Russia. Democrats are stressing the importance of providing aid to Ukraine as well as Israel, in addition to humanitarian aid, border security funding and money to push back against China in the Indo-Pacific that was in a $106 billion funding request President Joe Biden sent to Congress. (Why should the aid to Israel be 'attached' to war in Ukraine and other projects? At the same time, in a show of ‘bipartisan support’ the House Minority leader Mike Johnson and Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) co-hosted a candlelight vigil for Israeli victims, and hostages taken by Hamas. What a hypocrisy!)
Jewish Refugees from Israel in Hungary
Originally opened to Jews fleeing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a secluded Jewish refugee camp, in countryside retreat in Hungary, finds itself housing some 250 displaced Jews, including some 100 children, from the war-torn south of Israel. Around 160,000 people evacuated from their homes in the north and south by Israeli Defense Forces after the Hamas terror attack on 7th of October.
Biden Asked Netanyahu for a Pause Again
US President Joe Biden confirmed that he asked Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for a pause in the fighting in Gaza. According to a proposal that is being discussed between the US, Israel and Qatar, Hamas would release 10-15 hostages and use the three-day pause. During a visit to Israel, US Secretary of State pushed for such a pause. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu later made clear that Israel will not agree to a ceasefire in Gaza without the release of the hostages being held by Hamas. (How many times must Israel say "NO"? Did they ask Ukraine or Russia to have a "humanitarian pause"?)
Israel Killed Thousands of Hamas Terrorists
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made a statement one month after surprise terror attack, in which Hamas massacred over 1,400 Israelis. "We have eliminated thousands of terrorists above and below the ground - this enemy will be destroyed. I say to our enemies and our friends, there will be no ceasefire without the return of our hostages. I say to world leaders - if we don't win, you are next in line. We will win and we will not stop until we win." (Not a single dead Hamas terrorist is shown by any news reports from Gaza. The number of civilian casualties allegedly killed by IDF, presented by Hamas propaganda, is not even questioned.)
Israel Begging Enemies to Evacuate Targeted Buildings
A Palestinian dentist in Gaza, Mahmoud Shaheen, has recounted to the BBC how Israeli intelligence agents spent hours on the phone with him, urging him to evacuate and save hundreds of his neighbours to leave 22 buildings identified by IDF as housing Hamas infrastructure ahead of a series of airstrikes; all said survived. (This is not reported by Israel-hating anti-Semitic media.)
Quotes of the Week:
"Justice delayed is justice denied. When a legal system fails to provide justice in a timely manner, it can lead to frustration, loss of faith in the system, and even further injustice.” – Google search – Several weeks after horrific and brutal Hamas terror attack against Israel civilians, the United Nations is still unwilling to condemn it. At the same time, the international pack of Antisemites is calling on Israel to pause or stop the war against Hamas, effectively protecting Hamas’ terrorists from retribution for what they did to innocent Israeli Jews!
Hamas Terrorism is Good Business
by Baruch Yedid
While nearly one million Arab residents of Gaza are displaced by war, Hamas’s top leaders and their families have been enriching themselves.
The Hamas leadership controls an investment portfolio estimated at close to $1 billion dollars and owns assets in Sudan, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, the Emirates, Algeria, Egypt and other places.
Hamas imposes taxes of 20% on goods smuggled from Egypt to the Strip through tunnels. Reports also indicate that Hamas earns an estimated $450 million annually from Gaza’s black-market trade.
Iran is believed to provide Hamas leaders with a $100 million expense account.
Hamas top figures stand head and shoulders above the rest for amassing personal fortunes in the billions.
- Personal fortune Ismail Haniyeh, head of Hamas’ politburo, is estimated at $4 billion. Haniyeh mostly divides his time between Qatar and Turkey, periodic visits to Iran and Lebanon.
- Khaled Mashaal, the leader of Hamas abroad and former head of the political bureau, lives in Qatar. Mashaal and his deputy, Musa Abu Marzouk, exploited international aid funds and donations directed to the Gaza.
Both, Mashaal and Marzouk, have a personal wealth of $3 billion.
Mashaal used the money to build up a valuable collection of real estate holdings in Egypt, Qatar and the Persian Gulf, while Marzouk now controls 10 large companies that deal in finance.