Saturday, May 11, 2024

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Day 218, Kibbutz Nir Yitzhak announced that hostage Lior Rudaeff was killed on October 7, his body taken into Gaza by Hamas terrorists. The parents of IDF soldier Noa Marciano, who was taken hostage at Nahal Oz on October 7, have revealed that she was ruthlessly murdered by a doctor at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza. The "deal" Hamas proposed includes the exchange of dead bodies for imprisoned convicted terrorists. 
If you’re wondering how come Hamas doesn’t have that many hostages alive... from Amir Tsarfati on Telegram posted to X:  https://x.com/APbrooklyn29/status/1787902386800828478

AFGHANISTAN
Taliban faces rare public unrest against their rule because of a nationwide ban on poppy cultivation.https://www.voanews.com/a/taliban-face-rare-public-uprising-against-their-rule-in-northeastern-afghanistan/7598640.html
IRAN
ISRAEL
Yesterday, Hamas launched rockets from Rafah at the city of Beersheva, a city of more than 250,000 people, the small towns of  Sufa, Kerem Shalom and Nir Yitzhak. Hezbollah fired 35 rockets at the northern Israeli city of Kiryat Shmona.
PALESTINIANS/HAMAS
While Israel continues to surge food and aid into the Gaza Strip, international organizations have reportedly asked Israel to reduce the volume, as too much is being sent to northern Gaza relative to the population. https://www.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/article-799987
“Casualties are abnormally low” in Gaza conflict, says John Spencer
UNRWA staff stealing and selling humanitarian aid, Gazans report
EmojiHow Hamas’s ‘deal’ would let it keep most hostages, win the war, open 2nd front
UNITED STATES
EmojiUS demands Qatar expel Hamas if they reject another ceasefire
EmojiDay Before Biden Admin Announced It Would Withhold Weapons From Israel, It Issued Sanctions Waiver To Allow Arms Sales to Qatar and Lebanon
EmojiBiden's Worst Mistake of the Gaza War Egypt closed its borders and was backed by the US, thereby ensuring more civilian casualties and Hamas surviving this war. 
https://www.wsj.com/articles/bidens-worst-mistake-of-the-gaza-war-901efb25
EmojiFormer Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Mark Milley on the Israel-Hamas war: “If you take 1,200 Israelis [massacred on Oct 7th] and apply it to the United States, that'd be 50,000-100,000 people dead in a morning! Can you imagine what we would do?"
EmojiU.S. repatriates 11 American citizens from ISIS war camps in Syria  including the son of a man repatriated in 2020 who has pleaded guilty to charges of supporting terrorism and another accused of receiving weapons training from a foreign terrorist organization.

ON CAMPUS
More Than 500 UC Faculty Members Call on Board of Regents to Address Anti-Israel Activism by Faculty, Departments https://jewishjournal.com/news/371186/more-than-500-uc-faculty-members-call-on-board-of-regents-to-address-anti-israel-activism-by-faculty-departments/

Columbia Custodian Trapped by ‘Angry Mob’ Speaks Out
A Message from Jewish Students at Columbia University 

Australian National University (ANU) has said they are launching an investigation but that doesn't explain what they're teaching at University of Queensland.

How Do Palestinians View the U.S. "Campus Intifada?". (Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs)
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If you have a minute to Take Action:

Request that the major news networks broadcast the names of American hostages at the end of their news shows, similar to what Ted Koppel did in the 1970s for the American hostages in Iran. Raising awareness about our captive Americans can greatly contribute to their well-being and safe return of all our beloved hostages. https://tinyurl.com/BroadcastOurHostages

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In Music
Macklemore releases new anti-Zionist song in support of campus protestors on Holocaust Remembrance Day. His music video includes footage containing the misspelling of Palestine on steps at the University of Ottawa campus in Canada 

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