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February 14, 2024
https://www.timesofisrael.com/hostages-families-file-hamas-war-crimes-claim-at-icc-crimes-cant-go-unpunished/
Hostages' families file Hamas war crimes claim at ICC: 'Genocide can't go unpunished'
A delegation of family members of Israeli hostages being held by terrorists in Gaza filed complaints of war crimes against Hamas leaders at the International Criminal Court in The Hague on Wednesday, demanding that the atrocities not go unpunished.
The ICC is separate from the International Court of Justice (ICJ), where Israel has been accused by South Africa of committing genocide in Gaza. While the ICJ deals with nations, the ICC prosecutes individuals.
Some 100 family members of hostages were part of the delegation, along with several dozen lawyers who helped draft the legal submission to the ICC, which is empowered to prosecute individuals for serious violations of the Geneva Conventions that amount to war crimes, if they are citizens of signatory states and entities, as the Palestinian Authority is.
--snip--
The head of the legal team at the Hostage and Missing Families Forum, Dr. Shelly Aviv Yeini, said that filing the claim with the court was not only an important step for those seeking justice for the victims, but would also increase pressure for the hostages to be released. “These crimes, including genocide, hostage taking, enforced disappearance, torture and sexual violence cannot and should not go unpunished,” Aviv Yeini said. “Criminals must be held criminally responsible for their atrocities. We rely on the ability of the International Criminal Court to bring justice to the hostages and their families,” she said. “This is part of the mechanism of exerting pressure to release the hostages and encouraging countries around the world to take legal action against those responsible for these heinous acts. This represents international recognition that holding hostages is always illegal.”
The ICC is separate from the International Court of Justice (ICJ), where Israel has been accused by South Africa of committing genocide in Gaza. While the ICJ deals with nations, the ICC prosecutes individuals.
Some 100 family members of hostages were part of the delegation, along with several dozen lawyers who helped draft the legal submission to the ICC, which is empowered to prosecute individuals for serious violations of the Geneva Conventions that amount to war crimes, if they are citizens of signatory states and entities, as the Palestinian Authority is.
--snip--
The head of the legal team at the Hostage and Missing Families Forum, Dr. Shelly Aviv Yeini, said that filing the claim with the court was not only an important step for those seeking justice for the victims, but would also increase pressure for the hostages to be released. “These crimes, including genocide, hostage taking, enforced disappearance, torture and sexual violence cannot and should not go unpunished,” Aviv Yeini said. “Criminals must be held criminally responsible for their atrocities. We rely on the ability of the International Criminal Court to bring justice to the hostages and their families,” she said. “This is part of the mechanism of exerting pressure to release the hostages and encouraging countries around the world to take legal action against those responsible for these heinous acts. This represents international recognition that holding hostages is always illegal.”
https://www.timesofisrael.com/hostages-families-file-hamas-war-crimes-claim-at-icc-crimes-cant-go-unpunished/
February 12, 2024
Hamas, UNRWA both embedded in fabric of Gaza, org head admits
In an interview with The New York Times on Friday, Philippe Lazzarini, UNRWA’s commissioner general, said, “Our employees are part of the social fabric in Gaza and its ecosystem. And as part of the social fabric in Gaza, you also have Hamas,” alluding to the organizations' connections to terror group Hamas.
This interview occurred against the backdrop of the exposure of UNRWA’s Hamas ties after the October 7 massacre and the Hamas tunnels revealed underneath the UNRWA headquarters in Gaza.
The Times revealed that ten years ago when a senior UN legal officer in Gaza began investigating whether several of its employees were members of Hamas, he began receiving death threats, culminating in a live grenade sent to his office. This officer was evacuated from the region. Several of these instances occurred and remained unreported.
Although UNRWA says that it has taken reports that its employees were also members of Hamas seriously, Israel says that UNRWA has not gone far enough to root out Hamas in the organization and was unwilling to clean up the issue systematically, the Times reported.
This interview occurred against the backdrop of the exposure of UNRWA’s Hamas ties after the October 7 massacre and the Hamas tunnels revealed underneath the UNRWA headquarters in Gaza.
The Times revealed that ten years ago when a senior UN legal officer in Gaza began investigating whether several of its employees were members of Hamas, he began receiving death threats, culminating in a live grenade sent to his office. This officer was evacuated from the region. Several of these instances occurred and remained unreported.
Although UNRWA says that it has taken reports that its employees were also members of Hamas seriously, Israel says that UNRWA has not gone far enough to root out Hamas in the organization and was unwilling to clean up the issue systematically, the Times reported.
February 11, 2024
It wasn't an exhaustive search, so I welcome anyone to check the report, but as far as I can tell, this is the full extent of Hur's allegedly appalling, disgusting, incompetent, biased, unprofessional, and otherwise utterly evil comments on Biden's cognitive state and his comments on Beau Biden... oh, and it's all Garland's fault, so he needs to be fired immediately:
On Biden's age and cognitive condition:
And on Beau Biden:
This is it. There is no more to it in the report. Of nearly 400 pages of the report, barely one page's worth. On Biden's memory lapses, two events out of a multitude described in the report in which Biden's memory was noted to be "significantly limited", with a later clarification that all the participants in the described events had an equally limited memory of them, one instance of a single interview noting Biden's memory was worse than the previous interview, and one instance of describing a hypothetical reaction by some hypothetical jury members to the admittedly flimsy evidence. And on Biden's son, Beau, a short description of the content of a single entry in a single notebook that contains Biden's very personal notes on his son Beau, along with far more detailed descriptions of content in the same book that contains classified materials.
IN THE MEAN TIME, NOBODY IS TALKING ABOUT THE TREASURE TROVE OF POLITICAL CAPITAL CONTAINED IN THE REPORT FOR BIDEN TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF AT WILL. Why is that, may I ask?
Does the above amount to me defending Hur? Nope. Hur is a very competent son of a bitch of a prosecutor (show me an accomplished prosecutor who is not), whose alleged breaches of DOJ rules or professional ethical standards are not evident in the report. He needs no defense.
Does it amount to me defending Garland? Yes, and I couldn't care less about Garland. Sounds like an oxymoron, but it is not. I am defending the Office of the Attorney General whose impartiality is pivotal in maintaining the rule of law without fear or favor. Garland just happens to be heading the agency, and his impartiality is evident, even though not adequately acknowledged.
So regardless of the extensive admonitions I received in response to my earlier post (https://www.democraticunderground.com/100218666348), or maybe because of them, I am still perplexed and troubled, more so than before, by all the vitriol being directed at Garland and Hur.
Maybe expecting a reasonably measured response to a reasonably well-articulated report is too much to ask for.
Oh, and apropos of nothing, I detest the professional media spinmeisters who thrive on twisting shit out of context to promote their personal agendas, or, more likely, those of their employers.
I took the trouble to go through the entire Hur report so you don't have to (but it would be nice if you did)
https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/08/politics/robert-hur-report-biden-classified-documents-readIt wasn't an exhaustive search, so I welcome anyone to check the report, but as far as I can tell, this is the full extent of Hur's allegedly appalling, disgusting, incompetent, biased, unprofessional, and otherwise utterly evil comments on Biden's cognitive state and his comments on Beau Biden... oh, and it's all Garland's fault, so he needs to be fired immediately:
On Biden's age and cognitive condition:
In addition, Mr. Biden's memory was significantly limited, both during his recorded interviews with the ghostwriter in 2017, and in his interview with our office in 2023. And his cooperation with our investigation, including by reporting to the government that the Afghanistan documents were in his Delaware garage, will likely convince some jurors that he made an innocent mistake, rather than acting willfully-that is, with intent to break the law-as the statute requires.
— snip —
Given Mr. Biden's limited precision and recall during his interviews with his ghostwriter and with our office, jurors may hesitate to place too much evidentiary weight on a single eight-word utterance to his ghostwriter about finding classified documents in Virginia, in the absence of other, more direct evidence. We searched for such additional evidence and found it wanting. In addition. Mr. Biden's memory was significantly limited, both during his recorded interviews with the ghostwriter in 2017, and in his interview with our office in 2023. And his cooperation with our investigation, including by reporting to the government that the Afghanistan documents were in his Delaware garage, will likely convince some jurors that he made an innocent mistake, rather than acting willfully-that is, with intent to break the law-as the statute requires.
— snip—
We have also considered that, at trial, Mr. Biden would likely present himself to a jury, as he did during our interview of him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory. Based on our direct interactions with and observations of him.
(pages 5-6)
and
During his interview with our office, Mr. Biden said he did not remember finding marked classified documents at any time after the end of the Obama administration and before he was elected President but that if he had found such classified material, he would have given it to his personal aide at the time, or to another trusted staff member such as his former chief of staff. We have interviewed the personal aide, former chief of staff, and several other staffers with whom Mr. Biden interacted at the Virginia house in and around February 2017. Except for a separate incident involving different classified material given to the personal aide in January 2017, some weeks before the Zwonitzer conversation, no one recalled Mr. Biden turning in classified documents after the end of his vice presidency. (page 113)
and
All three participants in the February 16, 2017 meeting-Mr. Biden, Zwonitzer, and Mr. Biden's sister, Ms. Biden Owens-said they did not remember Mr. Biden's statement that he had "just found all the classified stuff downstairs."' For his part, Mr. Biden said he did not remember anything at all about this incident. including whether he actually found classified documents in his basement office. During his interview with our office, Mr. Biden said he did not remember finding marked classified documents at any time after the end of the Obama administration and before he was elected President but that if he had found such classified material, he would have given it to his personal aide at the time, or to another trusted staff member such as his former chief of staff. We have interviewed the personal aide, former chief of staff, and several other staffers with whom Mr. Biden interacted at the Virginia house in and around February 2017. Except for a separate incident involving different classified material given to the personal aide in January 2017, some weeks before the Zwonitzer conversation, no one recalled Mr. Biden turning in classified documents after the end of his vice presidency.
and
In his interview with our office, Mr. Biden's memory was worse. He did not remember when he was vice president, forgetting on the first day of the interview when his term ended ("if it was 2013 - when did I stop being Vice President?" ), and forgetting on the second day of the interview when his term began ("in 2009, am I still Vice President?" ). He did not remember, even within several years, when his son Beau died.81rn And his memory appeared hazy when describing the Afghanistan debate that was once so important to him. (page 208)
— snip —
Given Mr. Biden's limited precision and recall during his interviews with his ghostwriter and with our office, jurors may hesitate to place too much evidentiary weight on a single eight-word utterance to his ghostwriter about finding classified documents in Virginia, in the absence of other, more direct evidence. We searched for such additional evidence and found it wanting. In addition. Mr. Biden's memory was significantly limited, both during his recorded interviews with the ghostwriter in 2017, and in his interview with our office in 2023. And his cooperation with our investigation, including by reporting to the government that the Afghanistan documents were in his Delaware garage, will likely convince some jurors that he made an innocent mistake, rather than acting willfully-that is, with intent to break the law-as the statute requires.
— snip—
We have also considered that, at trial, Mr. Biden would likely present himself to a jury, as he did during our interview of him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory. Based on our direct interactions with and observations of him.
(pages 5-6)
and
During his interview with our office, Mr. Biden said he did not remember finding marked classified documents at any time after the end of the Obama administration and before he was elected President but that if he had found such classified material, he would have given it to his personal aide at the time, or to another trusted staff member such as his former chief of staff. We have interviewed the personal aide, former chief of staff, and several other staffers with whom Mr. Biden interacted at the Virginia house in and around February 2017. Except for a separate incident involving different classified material given to the personal aide in January 2017, some weeks before the Zwonitzer conversation, no one recalled Mr. Biden turning in classified documents after the end of his vice presidency. (page 113)
and
All three participants in the February 16, 2017 meeting-Mr. Biden, Zwonitzer, and Mr. Biden's sister, Ms. Biden Owens-said they did not remember Mr. Biden's statement that he had "just found all the classified stuff downstairs."' For his part, Mr. Biden said he did not remember anything at all about this incident. including whether he actually found classified documents in his basement office. During his interview with our office, Mr. Biden said he did not remember finding marked classified documents at any time after the end of the Obama administration and before he was elected President but that if he had found such classified material, he would have given it to his personal aide at the time, or to another trusted staff member such as his former chief of staff. We have interviewed the personal aide, former chief of staff, and several other staffers with whom Mr. Biden interacted at the Virginia house in and around February 2017. Except for a separate incident involving different classified material given to the personal aide in January 2017, some weeks before the Zwonitzer conversation, no one recalled Mr. Biden turning in classified documents after the end of his vice presidency.
and
In his interview with our office, Mr. Biden's memory was worse. He did not remember when he was vice president, forgetting on the first day of the interview when his term ended ("if it was 2013 - when did I stop being Vice President?" ), and forgetting on the second day of the interview when his term began ("in 2009, am I still Vice President?" ). He did not remember, even within several years, when his son Beau died.81rn And his memory appeared hazy when describing the Afghanistan debate that was once so important to him. (page 208)
And on Beau Biden:
The content of Mr. Biden's notebooks took several forms…
(4) Personal reflections. These were entries about purely personal subjects. such as the illness and death of his son, Beau. (page 86)
and
Unlike Mr. Biden's earlier idea for a book that would chronicle all eight years of his vice presidency. Promise Me, Dad has a narrower focus. The book recounts a 14-month period of Mr. Biden's vice presidency from Thanksgiving 2014 to January 2016, during which he dealt with the illness and eventual death of his elder son, Beau, who died in May 2015. The book discusses the toll that loss took on Mr. Biden, the foreign policy issues in Ukraine, Central America, and Iraq he addressed during that time, and the role his son's death played in Mr. Biden's decision not to run for president in 2016. (page 97)
and
Two months later, on April 10, 2017, during another recorded conversation with Zwonitzer, Mr. Biden returned to the same notebook entry detailing the same Situation Room meeting from the summer of 2015.Immediately before discussing the notebook entry, Mr. Biden discussed extremely personal notebook entries touching on the illness and death of his son Beau, its effect on his family, and the wrenching decision about whether to run for president in 2016. After discussing these highly emotional topics, Mr. Biden turned immediately to the notebook entry from the summer 2015 Situation Room meeting, which began on the very next page of the notebook, and read additional portions of the entry nearly verbatim, including the portions of the entry he read to Zwonitzer during the February 16, 2017 meeting. The passages Mr. Biden read to Zwonitzer on April 10, 2017 contain information that remains classified up to the Secret level.
(4) Personal reflections. These were entries about purely personal subjects. such as the illness and death of his son, Beau. (page 86)
and
Unlike Mr. Biden's earlier idea for a book that would chronicle all eight years of his vice presidency. Promise Me, Dad has a narrower focus. The book recounts a 14-month period of Mr. Biden's vice presidency from Thanksgiving 2014 to January 2016, during which he dealt with the illness and eventual death of his elder son, Beau, who died in May 2015. The book discusses the toll that loss took on Mr. Biden, the foreign policy issues in Ukraine, Central America, and Iraq he addressed during that time, and the role his son's death played in Mr. Biden's decision not to run for president in 2016. (page 97)
and
Two months later, on April 10, 2017, during another recorded conversation with Zwonitzer, Mr. Biden returned to the same notebook entry detailing the same Situation Room meeting from the summer of 2015.Immediately before discussing the notebook entry, Mr. Biden discussed extremely personal notebook entries touching on the illness and death of his son Beau, its effect on his family, and the wrenching decision about whether to run for president in 2016. After discussing these highly emotional topics, Mr. Biden turned immediately to the notebook entry from the summer 2015 Situation Room meeting, which began on the very next page of the notebook, and read additional portions of the entry nearly verbatim, including the portions of the entry he read to Zwonitzer during the February 16, 2017 meeting. The passages Mr. Biden read to Zwonitzer on April 10, 2017 contain information that remains classified up to the Secret level.
This is it. There is no more to it in the report. Of nearly 400 pages of the report, barely one page's worth. On Biden's memory lapses, two events out of a multitude described in the report in which Biden's memory was noted to be "significantly limited", with a later clarification that all the participants in the described events had an equally limited memory of them, one instance of a single interview noting Biden's memory was worse than the previous interview, and one instance of describing a hypothetical reaction by some hypothetical jury members to the admittedly flimsy evidence. And on Biden's son, Beau, a short description of the content of a single entry in a single notebook that contains Biden's very personal notes on his son Beau, along with far more detailed descriptions of content in the same book that contains classified materials.
IN THE MEAN TIME, NOBODY IS TALKING ABOUT THE TREASURE TROVE OF POLITICAL CAPITAL CONTAINED IN THE REPORT FOR BIDEN TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF AT WILL. Why is that, may I ask?
Does the above amount to me defending Hur? Nope. Hur is a very competent son of a bitch of a prosecutor (show me an accomplished prosecutor who is not), whose alleged breaches of DOJ rules or professional ethical standards are not evident in the report. He needs no defense.
Does it amount to me defending Garland? Yes, and I couldn't care less about Garland. Sounds like an oxymoron, but it is not. I am defending the Office of the Attorney General whose impartiality is pivotal in maintaining the rule of law without fear or favor. Garland just happens to be heading the agency, and his impartiality is evident, even though not adequately acknowledged.
So regardless of the extensive admonitions I received in response to my earlier post (https://www.democraticunderground.com/100218666348), or maybe because of them, I am still perplexed and troubled, more so than before, by all the vitriol being directed at Garland and Hur.
Maybe expecting a reasonably measured response to a reasonably well-articulated report is too much to ask for.
Oh, and apropos of nothing, I detest the professional media spinmeisters who thrive on twisting shit out of context to promote their personal agendas, or, more likely, those of their employers.
February 10, 2024
https://www.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/article-786088
US, Qatar working to expel Hamas from Doha - report
The US and Qatar are working together to expel Hamas leaders from Doha, Al-Arabiya reported on Friday.
The head of Hamas's politburo, Ismail Haniyeh, has lived in luxury in Doha for years. Qatar has been central in meditating talks aimed at reaching a ceasefire and a release of the hostages being held by Hamas in Gaza. The Al-Arabiya report did not provide further details about the alleged Qatari and American efforts to expel Hamas from Doha.
In October, The Washington Post reported that Qatar and the US had agreed to discuss Hamas's presence in Doha once the crisis in the region was resolved, although it was unclear what exactly that would entail. In December, Israeli media reported that Qatar had agreed to exile Hamas leaders if a ceasefire was reached, although a Qatari official denied that this was the case.
Hostage release, ceasefire talks remain stuck
The report came as ceasefire and hostage release talks between Israel and Hamas remained stuck in place.
According to Al-Arabiya, negotiations in Cairo concerning a deal to release the hostages held by Hamas and to institute a ceasefire were "stuck," and Hamas's response to the most recent proposal was "an embarrassment to Egypt's efforts with the US."
The head of Hamas's politburo, Ismail Haniyeh, has lived in luxury in Doha for years. Qatar has been central in meditating talks aimed at reaching a ceasefire and a release of the hostages being held by Hamas in Gaza. The Al-Arabiya report did not provide further details about the alleged Qatari and American efforts to expel Hamas from Doha.
In October, The Washington Post reported that Qatar and the US had agreed to discuss Hamas's presence in Doha once the crisis in the region was resolved, although it was unclear what exactly that would entail. In December, Israeli media reported that Qatar had agreed to exile Hamas leaders if a ceasefire was reached, although a Qatari official denied that this was the case.
Hostage release, ceasefire talks remain stuck
The report came as ceasefire and hostage release talks between Israel and Hamas remained stuck in place.
According to Al-Arabiya, negotiations in Cairo concerning a deal to release the hostages held by Hamas and to institute a ceasefire were "stuck," and Hamas's response to the most recent proposal was "an embarrassment to Egypt's efforts with the US."
https://www.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/article-786088
February 9, 2024
I am perplexed, troubled, and yet unsurprised by all the vitriol being directed at Garland and Hur
over the Biden investigation report. Here we have a record of a thorough and exhaustive investigation examining serious allegations against a POTUS, leaving no stone unturned, no facts varnished, no details overlooked, no room for for doubt and completely exonerating POTUS of all the unfounded charges.
Isn't this the definition of "no one is above the law" and "justice being served"? Isn't this the reason why an AG is strictly bound by the laws that define the grounds for appointing a special counsel and an SC is strictly bound by the scope of the responsibilities he receives from an AG?
If Garland were to appoint, say, Hillary as SC and she were to come up with an identical report, she would no doubt be praised to high heaven for it, and so would Garland for choosing her.
Instead, every Garland basher across the political spectrum, each pushing their peculiar talking points that often conflict with each other, is lamenting Garland (more so than Hur, BTW) as an existential threat to democracy. And the grievances that are presented to justify the branding of Garland as a threat to democracy are often, upon closer examination, trivial, partisan, tendentious and antithetical to democratic principles themselves.
... What is going on here???
I see neither the purpose nor the pleasure in portraying Garland as a comic strip villain. Doing so undermines the authority of the Office of the US Attorney General and, perhaps ironically, is contrary to the fundamentals of democratic principles of our government.
February 5, 2024
https://www.timesofisrael.com/pope-francis-decries-terrible-increase-in-attacks-against-jews-worldwide/
Pope Francis decries 'terrible increase in attacks against Jews' worldwide
Pope Francis on Saturday condemned the “terrible increase in attacks against Jews around the world” and the global rise in antisemitism since the Hamas-led onslaught in southern Israel four months ago and the subsequent Israeli military campaign against the Gaza-ruling terror group.
“We, Catholics, are very concerned about the terrible increase in attacks against Jews around the world,” the pope wrote in a letter addressed to “My Jewish brothers and sisters in Israel” made public by the Vatican on Saturday.
The war between Israel and Hamas terrorists in Gaza has produced “divisive attitudes in public opinion worldwide and divisive positions, sometimes taking the form of antisemitism and anti-Judaism,” Francis said.
“We had hoped that ‘never again’ would be a refrain heard by the new generations, yet now we see that the path ahead requires ever closer collaboration to eradicate these phenomena,” he said.
“We, Catholics, are very concerned about the terrible increase in attacks against Jews around the world,” the pope wrote in a letter addressed to “My Jewish brothers and sisters in Israel” made public by the Vatican on Saturday.
The war between Israel and Hamas terrorists in Gaza has produced “divisive attitudes in public opinion worldwide and divisive positions, sometimes taking the form of antisemitism and anti-Judaism,” Francis said.
“We had hoped that ‘never again’ would be a refrain heard by the new generations, yet now we see that the path ahead requires ever closer collaboration to eradicate these phenomena,” he said.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/pope-francis-decries-terrible-increase-in-attacks-against-jews-worldwide/
February 5, 2024
White House: Gaza hostage deal hinges now on Hamas, ball is in their court
Such a deal “is in the national security interest of the United States. And we're going to press for it relentlessly," US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said.
Hamas delayed its anticipated response to an initial Gaza hostage proposal drafted in Paris as the war cabinet met on Sunday night, and US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said that the matter now rests with the terror group’s leaders.
“It’s up to Hamas to come forward and respond to what is a serious proposal,” Sullivan told NBC’s Meet the Press.
He discussed the proposal, which was already approved by Israel’s war cabinet and had been passed to Hamas last week by Qatar and Egypt, both of which are mediating the deal to secure the release of more than 130 hostages held in Gaza for close to five months now; around six are US citizens.
https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-785103
Hamas delayed its anticipated response to an initial Gaza hostage proposal drafted in Paris as the war cabinet met on Sunday night, and US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said that the matter now rests with the terror group’s leaders.
“It’s up to Hamas to come forward and respond to what is a serious proposal,” Sullivan told NBC’s Meet the Press.
He discussed the proposal, which was already approved by Israel’s war cabinet and had been passed to Hamas last week by Qatar and Egypt, both of which are mediating the deal to secure the release of more than 130 hostages held in Gaza for close to five months now; around six are US citizens.
https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-785103
February 5, 2024
https://www.timesofisrael.com/rape-is-not-resistance-london-rally-calls-for-release-of-women-held-by-hamas/
'Rape is not resistance': London rally calls for release of women held by Hamas
Dozens of protesters gather near BBC offices to draw attention to sexual violence perpetrated by terrorists against hostages held in Gaza since October 7
Several dozen people rallied in London on Sunday to draw attention to women held hostage by the Hamas terror group in the Gaza Strip since October 7, and to the issue of sexual violence.
According to Jerusalem Deputy Mayor Fleur Hassan-Nahoum, between 17 and 20 women and girls are still being held by the Islamist terror group since its brutal October 7 attack on Israel, during which thousands of terrorists killed some 1,200 people and seized over 250 hostages, mostly civilians.
“All we know is that every day that they remain in captivity their condition gets worse and there’s less of a chance that they’ll come out,” she said.
Several dozen people rallied in London on Sunday to draw attention to women held hostage by the Hamas terror group in the Gaza Strip since October 7, and to the issue of sexual violence.
According to Jerusalem Deputy Mayor Fleur Hassan-Nahoum, between 17 and 20 women and girls are still being held by the Islamist terror group since its brutal October 7 attack on Israel, during which thousands of terrorists killed some 1,200 people and seized over 250 hostages, mostly civilians.
“All we know is that every day that they remain in captivity their condition gets worse and there’s less of a chance that they’ll come out,” she said.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/rape-is-not-resistance-london-rally-calls-for-release-of-women-held-by-hamas/
February 5, 2024
"The people of Gaza are paying the price for Hamas's stupidity."
Tawfik Okasha, an Egyptian media personality and former MP, heavily criticized Hamas over their actions on October 7 and the consequences that followed in an interview with KAN News on Tuesday.
When commenting on the current war, as well as the October 7 massacre, Okasha said, "I mourn for every death on the Israeli side and every death on the Palestinian side, but I do not mourn Hamas personnel that have been killed because they are a terror organization that has profited from the Palestinian issue. They are an organization that turned Egypt into a no man's land, and its hands are covered in the blood of Egypt. I will not forget it."
He continued in his criticism of the organization, saying, "Hamas corrupted the Palestinian cause as well as led to the loss of opportunities of reaching a two-state solution because of their uprising against the PA in 2007. Hamas profited from the fact that the Palestinian issue hasn't been solved and has harmed the Palestinian people in the most egregious ways.
https://www.jpost.com/international/article-785216
'Hamas's hands are covered in Egypt's blood,' says Egyptian ex-MP
"The people of Gaza are paying the price for Hamas's stupidity."
Tawfik Okasha, an Egyptian media personality and former MP, heavily criticized Hamas over their actions on October 7 and the consequences that followed in an interview with KAN News on Tuesday.
When commenting on the current war, as well as the October 7 massacre, Okasha said, "I mourn for every death on the Israeli side and every death on the Palestinian side, but I do not mourn Hamas personnel that have been killed because they are a terror organization that has profited from the Palestinian issue. They are an organization that turned Egypt into a no man's land, and its hands are covered in the blood of Egypt. I will not forget it."
He continued in his criticism of the organization, saying, "Hamas corrupted the Palestinian cause as well as led to the loss of opportunities of reaching a two-state solution because of their uprising against the PA in 2007. Hamas profited from the fact that the Palestinian issue hasn't been solved and has harmed the Palestinian people in the most egregious ways.
https://www.jpost.com/international/article-785216
February 4, 2024
https://euro.dayfr.com/local/1684622.html
And it's less than a 1/5th Scaramucci's away from Earth.
Scary.
Asteroid the size of 8 Taylor Swifts to pass Earth Tuesday - NASA
An asteroid the size of around eight Taylor Swifts is set to pass the Earth on Tuesday, February 6, according to NASA’s asteroid tracker.The asteroid in question has been designated as 2024 BT3, according to the Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).
--snip--
Swift’s height is a matter of fierce debate among many Swifties, with some even doing detailed breakdowns of pictures of the “Shake it Off” sensation to try to deduce just how tall she really is.
What is known is that Taylor Swift is certainly taller than average. In a 2008 profile in Entertainment Weeklyit was stated that she was 5 foot 11, while in a 2012 interview with Vanity Fairshe said she was 5 foot 10. But for the sake of this article, we will overlook any possible “Blank Space” or the assumption that perhaps “Everything Has Changed” with her height and go with a height of 5 foot 11.
--snip--
With this calculation in mind, asteroid 2024 BT3 is around the size of eight Taylor Swifts all stacked on top of one another. Unless they were wearing high heels, in which case this math gets a lot more complicated and we risk breaking the Internet.
--snip--
Swift’s height is a matter of fierce debate among many Swifties, with some even doing detailed breakdowns of pictures of the “Shake it Off” sensation to try to deduce just how tall she really is.
What is known is that Taylor Swift is certainly taller than average. In a 2008 profile in Entertainment Weeklyit was stated that she was 5 foot 11, while in a 2012 interview with Vanity Fairshe said she was 5 foot 10. But for the sake of this article, we will overlook any possible “Blank Space” or the assumption that perhaps “Everything Has Changed” with her height and go with a height of 5 foot 11.
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With this calculation in mind, asteroid 2024 BT3 is around the size of eight Taylor Swifts all stacked on top of one another. Unless they were wearing high heels, in which case this math gets a lot more complicated and we risk breaking the Internet.
https://euro.dayfr.com/local/1684622.html
And it's less than a 1/5th Scaramucci's away from Earth.
Scary.
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