TRUE COLORS: Turkish Official To Bibi: “You’ll Die” Erdogan Slams Strikes On Gaza “Innocents”

 

Turkish Deputy Education Minister Nazif Yilmaz wrote on Twitter to Israel’s Prime Minister Binyanim Netanyahu that “one day they [the Palestinians] will also shoot you. You’ll die.”

He wrote the comments in response to a tweet by Netanyahu showing a photo of Gaza, with the caption: “We’re continuing with all our power.”

Netanyahu was referring to the strikes against Gaza in response to the brutal murder of over 1,200 of its residents by Gazan terrorists, the injury of over 3,000, the abduction of about 150, and the launch of over 5,000 rockets into Israel.

Billionaire Bill Ackman Tells Harvard Won’t Hire Students Associated With Anti-Israel Statement

  A billionaire hedge fund manager is making waves on Twitter for asking Harvard University to share the names of students belonging to organizations that issued a letter placing full responsibility for the Hamas terror attacks on Israel.

Pershing Square Holdings CEO Bill Ackman’s October 10th Twitter post came in response to a letter signed by more than 30 Harvard student groups holding “the Israeli regime entirely responsible for all unfolding violence” and calling on “the Harvard community to take action to stop the ongoing annihilation of Palestinians.”

In his post, which received more than 16 million views in just under 24 hours, Ackman said that he and other CEOs wanted to know the names of all students affiliated with the organizations that signed on the letter in order to avoid “inadvertently” hiring any of them in the future.

ISRAEL WAR 2023 The faces of Israeli child hostages in Hamas slaughter

 

Heartbreaking accounts are emerging of the scores of children who were taken captive by Hamas when the terrorist group unleashed its unprecedented assault over the weekend — and the innocent kids thought to be in the attackers’ hands are as young as 9 months old.

Loved ones in Israel and abroad are now scrambling for answers, and – in the wake of Hamas’ pledge to execute one hostage for every Israeli airstrike that hits a Gazan home – are begging the abductors to spare the youngest lives.

The terror group, meanwhile, claims to have stockpiled “dozens” of captives in “safe places and tunnels and resistance” over the border in Gaza, Hamas spokesperson Abu Obeid said in a Telegram post.

Below, are the stories of some of the youngest hostages who are believed to be in Hamas custody – and whose ultimate fates remain unknown.

A brief video making the rounds on social media shows kindergarten teacher Shiri Shiri Silberman-Bibas clutching her sons – Ariel, 3, and nine-month-old Kfir – as the family is abducted by Hamas from their kibbutz in southern Israel Saturday.

Trief restaurant in Tel Aviv kashers kitchen so that frum soldiers can eat

 

Good morning. The following is a summary of items from last night's news broadcast.

*Joe Biden*, President of the United States, gave a historic speech for Israel, for justice, for all that is good. The leader of the world's most powerful nation spoke yesterday about the Jewish people's mission of being the light that dispels the darkness. He spoke emotionally about what Golda Meir once told him about Israel's secret weapon. "We have no other place in the world to go."

*Bruna Valeanu* was a new immigrant from Brazil who was murdered by Hamas. Yesterday evening a request for a minyan at her funeral at the Yarkon Cemetery quickly brought 10,000 mourners in a long line of cars.  Bruna was a girl who came to Israel alone but was alone no more. Yoav Even reported about other lines, but these were composed of people waiting at Magen David Adom to contribute blood. And then Yuna Leibzon called in to the broadcast from a demonstration in Manhattan where 25,000 people came to show unprecedented, ear-splitting support for Israel.

And then a report arrived regarding *Yotam and Asaf Doktor*, owners of a Tel Aviv restaurant, who have been sending thousands of free meals to IDF troops in the field. But the day before yesterday at the Nevatim Airbase some of the soldiers were going hungry since the meals from the restaurant were not kosher. What was there to do? The brothers decided to quickly kosher their restaurant. "There was a disconnect in Israeli society ," Yotam explained, "so we decided that it was a matter of pikuach nefesh (life and death) to connect everyone together again."

And what is the name of their restaurant? The Brothers.

This above is not just a series of news items, but a demonstration of national unity and true brotherhood.

Letter from a Moshav resident at the Gaza Border

 *Tzurit Yarchi*, writing from the Bnei Netzarim moshav near the Gaza Strip, sent the following:

"I don't know if and when we will ever stop speaking about those who died in the terrorist attack on Shabbat. So I want to say something about them. About all those that I knew. I am a 'Dosit' (observant woman) who arrived here after the withdrawal from Gaza. I had lived there in Gush Katif in the community of Netzarim.

We have lived here during the Gaza military campaigns dubbed 'Solid Lead,' 'Pillar of Cloud,' 'Protective Edge,' 'Guardian of the Walls,' 'Shield and Arrow,' and 'Dawn.' Throughout all these campaigns, the courageous kibbutzniks who were my neighbors continued to live here too, just a few kilometers from the border.

They continued to raise children as good citizens and great Zionists who highly value settlement of the land. You have surely seen pictures in recent days of their beautiful families that were slaughtered.

Most of them don't look like me, these beloved neighbors of mine, and they don't think like me, and perhaps, before all this happened, I never told them how incredible they are in my eyes.

But now they have paid the heaviest price. I meet the survivors and hear about their heroic deeds. We have not yet heard the tip of the iceberg when it comes to what mothers and fathers, even grandmothers, did -- their unbelievable resourcefulness and ingenuity. This is not only about physical courage, but about a silent hug inside a safe room when terrorists were on the other side of the door.

I look at the list of those killed here and weep. I knew eleven of them personally. You may not manage to hear about each and every one of them. But it was important for me to say something about their collective spirit, about how much they cared and how special they were.

Jedidia Murphy a Jew Executed by State of Texas

 

Jedidiah Murphy, 48, who was sentenced to death for the fatal 2000 shooting of 80-year-old Bertie Lee Cunningham during a carjacking, was executed by lethal injection Tuesday evening in Texas .   Murphy’s fate had hung in limbo since Oct. 6, when he was granted a stay of execution by a federal district court. His case had mobilized Jewish opponents of the death penalty, including former Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz; Cantor Michael Zoosman, a former prison chaplain who runs L’Chaim, a Jewish anti-death penalty group; and Rabbi Dovid Goldstein, a Chabad rabbi in Houston who has advocated for Murphy for years.

NYC dad, former paratrooper flies to Israel to help fight

 

New York mom of two Molly Mandel always knew that her husband, a reservist in the Israeli army, could be asked to return to the family’s ancestral home during a time of need.

But that didn’t make it any less shocking when the phone rang Sunday morning — just a single day after Hamas launched a savage attack on the Jewish state that’s already left about a thousand dead on both sides.

A former active-duty paratrooper and navigator, Zach, 28, could have said no when his old unit called.

The couple has two young children — a 2-year-old daughter and a 3-month-old newborn — and have been living in Manhattan’s Upper East Side since they moved back to the United States from Israel in May 2022.

“He could just say, “I’m in America,’ and they’d say, ‘OK, no problem,’” Molly told The Post on Tuesday.

“But we looked at each other, and he was like, ‘I’ve got to get over there,’” she said. “And I was like, ‘You have to get over there. You have to go home.’”

And it is home for the couple, both of whom were born in New York but lived in Israel for vast stretches of their lives.

Zach’s family had moved to the country from Riverdale, New York, when he was just 15 years old. He studied at a yeshiva for a year, then joined the Israeli army as a volunteer.

Molly — a native of Great Neck, Long Island — first met him in the summer of 2016 when she was an NYU student volunteering as an EMT overseas.

They became inseparable, and eventually lived together in Israel for about six years, she said. The sweethearts married in May 2019.

The couple moved back and forth between New York and Israel during the COVID pandemic before settling in Manhattan when their son was born.

Although, they planned to go back to Israel — eventually.

“Eventually” came sooner than either of them thought when Hamas gunmen roared across the heavily fortified Israeli border early Saturday morning, butchering and kidnapping civilians as they went.

Despite the danger — and the deep sense of dread that hits anyone watching a soldier head to war — Molly knew Zach had little choice. His morals and values would not let him stay safe in the United States while his brothers-in-arms fought.

“It wasn’t something you have to think about,” she said. “We feel deeply connected to Israel … and for Jews across the world, if we don’t have Israel, we can’t survive. We feel such a strong duty and obligation for our people … I knew it wasn’t a choice.”

Her husband flew out of JFK Airport Monday night, arriving in Israel early Tuesday.

“It wasn’t something you have to think about,” she said. “We feel deeply connected to Israel … and for Jews across the world, if we don’t have Israel, we can’t survive. We feel such a strong duty and obligation for our people … I knew it wasn’t a choice.”

Her husband flew out of JFK Airport Monday night, arriving in Israel early Tuesday.

US special operations forces, hostage rescue experts assisting Israeli forces

 

The US has sent a team of hostage rescue experts to advise the Israeli military on a potential rescue of the 150 hostages violently abducted by Hamas terrorists and taken across the border to Gaza during a surprise attack on south Israel, according to a report.

A small group of US special operations forces is also working with the Israel Defense Forces in response to the bloody Hamas ambush that killed more than a thousand people in Israel, US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Tuesday.

The team is helping the IDF with “planning and intelligence,” Austin told reporters who were traveling with him to Brussels this week.

“We also have the ability to rapidly deploy other resources into the region,” he added.

Special ops teams in a European country not far from Israel have been placed on alert and are at the ready if needed, two senior US military officials told The Messenger.

The troops are “door-kickers” with the ability to go into enemy territory to rescue hostages themselves, said the sources, who were granted anonymity to discuss the sensitive national intel.

Several Americans who were abroad in Israel at the time of the Hamas invasion are expected to be among the hostages in Gaza, though President Biden has not yet released any official count.

On Monday, Hamas threatened to kill one prisoner for every Israeli airstrike on the Gaza Strip.

The retaliatory strikes have killed roughly 1250 people, including 260 children and 230 women, according to the Ministry of Health in Gaza.

The US, however, has no current plans to dispatch such teams on the ground in Israel, according to the sources.

In the meantime, the country has sent advisors with the US intelligence community to aid an American special operations team assigned to the US Embassy in Israel, the officials told the publication.

The Pentagon has a “liaison cell” in Israel working with Israeli special operations forces, Austin said.

The US has also deployed munitions and air defenses to Israel since the Hamas attack that also killed at least 14 Americans.

US Central Command officials said the deliveries are meant to deter any other enemies of Israel, like Hezbollah in Lebanon and Iran, from taking advantage of the situation.

Israeli mom whose kids were abducted by Hamas takes on Leftist Dummy MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Who Asked her About Israeli Attacks on Gaza

Incredibly, Andrea Mitchell asks Israeli mother, whose two children were abducted by Hamas Terrorists, how she feels about Israel retaliation in Gaza.

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— Stop Uyghur Genocide (@FJnyc) October 9, 2023

 

An Israeli mother whose 12- and 16-year-old sons were abducted by Hamas terrorists was visibly irritated when MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell asked about Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip, exclaiming: “I can’t be sympathetic.”

Mitchell, whose left-leaning network has drawn criticism for refusing to refer to Hamas attackers as terrorists, pressed the unidentified mom on her feelings about Israel’s attacks on Gaza.

“I can’t be sympathetic to animal human beings — well, they’re not really human beings — who came into my house, broke everything, stole everything, took my children from their bedrooms and took them to the Gaza Strip,” she said.

“Israel never done that, and it will never do. So there is no symmetry! I’m sorry.”

The mom added: “If you were dealing with a war who is between two countries, countries don’t take children hostages. I’m sorry. It’s against the laws of war. It’s against humanity. It’s against anything that we all believe in.”

The Comcast-owned channel has come under fire for its commentary and coverage of the events in Israel and Gaza.

Dan Abrams of NewsNation blasted MSNBC on Monday for “victim blaming” while Anti-Defamation League chairman Jonathan Greenblatt wondered if Hamas was “writing the script” for the news channel.

At least 1,000 Israelis were killed by Hamas gunmen who crossed over the Israel-Gaza border early Saturday.

Full Text: Biden Slams ‘Pure Unadulterated Evil’ of Hamas

 

US President Joe Biden slammed massacres and atrocities perpetrated against Israeli men, women and children that began Saturday morning, on the Jewish holiday of Sukkot, when more than 1,500 terrorists invaded from Gaza to attack Jewish communities along the southern border

More than 1,000 Israelis were slaughtered by Hamas terrorists, the vast majority of them civilians and many of them women and children. More than 100 were kidnapped and taken across the border into Gaza, held captive by Hamas. Close to 3,000 more were wounded, shot, knifed, beheaded and burned in the attacks on the border villages, and in the more than 5,000 rocket attacks that have since followed.

Here’s the full text of the president’s address.