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"Son of Hamas" aka Mosab Hassan Yousef: 10/7 is a manifestation of the Hamas charter.
Update: 22 March 2024, Russia and China vetoed the US resolution calling for a ceasefire. Was it because the ceasefire resolution was attached to the release of hostages or simply because it was a US sponsored resolution? Note: Russia and China have still not committed to a resolution condemning Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack.
The U.S. called for “an immediate ceasefire” in Gaza in a draft United Nations Security Council resolution set for a Friday vote While Secretary Blinken said negotiations between Hamas and Israel were “getting closer” to reaching an agreement, Hamas spokesperson, Osama Hamdan. said, “In fact, it (Hamas) retracts the approvals it previously provided to the mediators.” The resolution fails to stipulate the surrender of Hamas’s leadership or their exile, effectively allowing them to maintain control in Gaza. Of significant concern, while a ceasefire is deemed “imperative,” the release of the hostages is not. The buffer zone Israel needs is treated as illegitimate. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/21/us-calls-for-immediate-ceasefire-in-gaza-with-draft-un-resolution and https://www.camera.org/article/press-advisory-questions-about-us-draft-un-resolution-for-gaza-ceasefire/
As of March 2024, 71% of Palestinians in both the West Bank and Gaza support the heinous October 7 atrocities. If elections were held today, Hamas would cruise to victory.At the same time, NBC News erroneously says: Gazans increasingly back a two-state solution, as support for Hamas drops https://www.yahoo.com/news/gazans-increasingly-back-two-state-214312606.html
A PEW Poll says 21% of US Muslims said that Hamas’s terror attack on Oct. 7 was “completely acceptable”
The majority of the Canadian Liberal Party provided overwhelming support for a final modified version of a Non-Binding Motion that sided with Hamas and is an attempt to force Canada to change its policy regarding the unilateral recognition of a Palestinian State. Melanie Joly, Minister of Foreign Affairs, confirmed that Canada would ban all arms exports to Israel. Ahmed Hussein, Minister of International Development, announced funding of UNRWA before investigating the disturbing evidence of terrorist infiltration and the documented hate being taught to the next generation. Note: In the past 10 years Canada has purchased Israeli weapons systems worth billions of dollars to protect Canadian pilots, fighters and navel combatants around the worldGermany arrests suspected ISIS supporters accused of planning terror attack on Swedish parliament https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/germany-detains-two-over-suspected-islamist-attack-plot-swedish-parliament-2024-03-19/John Spencer, chair of urban warfare studies at the Modern War Institute (MWI) at West Point: Facts are facts. Israel has taken more steps to prevent civilian harm in urban warfare than any other military in history and they have been effective despite the challenges to include Hamas’s goal to get as many civilians killed as possible. https://www.newsweek.com/israel-implemented-more-measures-prevent-civilian-casualties-any-other-nation-history-opinion-1865613
‘Hamas gambled with our lives’: Gazans are now daring to speak out (Christian Science Monitor) https://apple.news/AfqegKv4BRySpmm8XrMXKfw
What Happened at Shifa Hospital: Israel captured Mahmoud Qawasmeh, a senior Hamas member and mastermind behind the 2014 kidnapping and murder of Israeli teenagers Eyal Yifrach, Gilad Shaer, and Naftali Fraenkel. Qawasmeh was arrested along with 650 terrorists by IDF soldiers in the Shifa Hospital. The IDF captured the entire leadership of the PIJ in Gaza & many senior Hamas members. https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-792770 and https://www.ifcj.org/news/stand-for-israel-blog/idf-arrest-650-kills-140-terrorists-in-shifa-hospital
Ester Cunio, 90, says talking about Messi saved her on Oct. 7. Now she wants the soccer star to help free her grandsons. https://www.jta.org/2024/03/08/israel/ester-cunio-90-says-talking-about-messi-saved-her-on-oct-7-now-she-wants-the-soccer-star-to-help-free-her-grandsons
‘Hamas gambled with our lives’: Gazans are now daring to speak out (Christian Science Monitor) https://apple.news/AfqegKv4BRySpmm8XrMXKfwThe Strategy of Atrocity in the Gaza War (Gatestone Institute) Hamas is perhaps the first regime in recorded history to fight a war designed to maximize casualties among their own population.
What Happened at Shifa Hospital: Israel captured Mahmoud Qawasmeh, a senior Hamas member and mastermind behind the 2014 kidnapping and murder of Israeli teenagers Eyal Yifrach, Gilad Shaer, and Naftali Fraenkel. Qawasmeh was arrested along with 650 terrorists by IDF soldiers in the Shifa Hospital. The IDF captured the entire leadership of the PIJ in Gaza & many senior Hamas members. https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-792770 and https://www.ifcj.org/news/stand-for-israel-blog/idf-arrest-650-kills-140-terrorists-in-shifa-hospitalEster Cunio, 90, says talking about Messi saved her on Oct. 7. Now she wants the soccer star to help free her grandsons. https://www.jta.org/2024/03/08/israel/ester-cunio-90-says-talking-about-messi-saved-her-on-oct-7-now-she-wants-the-soccer-star-to-help-free-her-grandsons“The sooner Hamas is defeated, the sooner elections come and the sooner Netanyahu almost certainly falls… If Democrats don’t understand that, he’ll run circles around them…” https://tinyurl.com/25op44tdBiden administration is pushing Israel to replicate the U.S.'s failed Afghan war strategy in Gaza (IPT) https://www.investigativeproject.org/9364/post-10-7-looks-a-lot-like-post-9-11-only-worseU.S. Renews Iran Sanctions Waiver that Unlocks $10 Billion for Regime (Washington Free Beacon)Hezbollah Terrorist Arrested at U.S.-Mexico Border (NY Post) https://nypost.com/2024/03/17/us-news/illegal-migrant-from-lebanon-admitted-terror-ties/ See also: What You Need to Know About Hezbollah (AJC) https://www.ajc.org/news/what-you-need-to-know-about-hezbollah-the-anti-israel-terror-group-with-more-firepower-thanVoice of America Whitewashes Terror Backgrounds of Gazan Journalists https://honestreporting.com/voice-of-america-whitewashes-terror-backgrounds-of-gazan-journalists/UN Has Flown More Than $2.9 Billion in Cash to Afghanistan Since the Taliban Seized Power, Diverting U.S. Funds https://www.propublica.org/article/united-nations-cash-afghanistan-following-taliban-takeoverHouse Foreign Affairs Committee voted 36-13 to approve a bipartisan bill to review and potentially downgrade U.S.-South Africa relations. https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2024-03-21-bill-that-calls-for-full-review-of-us-relations-with-sa-crosses-first-hurdle-in-us-congress/ and https://x.com/SiaKordestani/status/1770849897136136478?s=20‘US taps Hamas ally Qatar to build port in Gaza’ Qatar agreed to take charge of the port on condition that the construction work go to the Al-Hisi firm, "a company controlled and sponsored by Hamas," according to Israeli journalist Baruch Yedid https://www.jns.org/us-pegs-hamas-ally-qatar-to-build-port-in-gaza/Playing With Proliferation: How South Korea and Saudi Arabia Leverage the Prospect of Going Nuclear -----------------------
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Hamas: Latest Darling of Social Justice UndergradsTop French university, Sciences Po, rocked by antisemitism allegations Some 100 students at Paris’ Sciences Po, an elite university, reportedly blocked a Jewish student from entering a lecture hall, yelling “Don’t let her in, she’s a Zionist.” The incident sparked condemnation from the French govt, with President Macron calling the incident “unspeakable and perfectly intolerable.” https://tinyurl.com/22b2mfyjPro-Hamas Student Arrested During Protest of IDF Soldiers at Florida International University. Charged with Battery https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-791950Pro-Palestinian faculty sue University of Pennsylvania over files in antisemitism probe https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/pro-palestinian-faculty-antisemitism-university-of-pennsylvania-penn-israel-hamas-war/3802510/ ‘Everyone in Danger’: Concordia University Refuses to Investigate, Punish Antisemitic Assault and Harassment, Students Say https://www.algemeiner.com/2024/03/18/everyone-danger-concordia-university-refuses-investigate-punish-antisemitic-assault-harassment-students-say/MIT Refused To Host Dennis Ross. It Invited a Hamas Apologist Instead.https://freebeacon.com/campus/mit-refused-to-host-dennis-ross-it-invited-a-hamas-apologist-instead/
King’s College London Israel Society was forced to cancel a speaker meeting due to security concerns about threats to an Israeli speaker https://roarnews.co.uk/2024/breaking-kcl-israel-society-cancel-controversial-event-over-security-concerns/In Utah, the Park City School District signed an agreement with the Department of Education in response to accusations the district did not adequately respond to repeated harassment of students, including 27 antisemitic incidents over two school years from 2021-2023 https://www.ed.gov/news/press-releases/us-department-educations-office-civil-rights-announces-resolution-addressing-responses-harassment-based-race-sex-and-disability-and-antisemitic-harassment-park-city-school-district-utah
