Biden is being played by Hamas, Iran and Qatar — with American and Israeli lives at stake

 

Despite telling the world Hamas is evil, President Joe Biden is pursuing policies of appeasement toward the terrorist group’s two largest patrons and, in so doing, undermining American and Israeli deterrence.

To secure the release of hostages, enable an Israeli victory over Hamas and hold off a Hezbollah assault on Israel’s northern border, Washington must first put the squeeze on Iran and Qatar.

While Biden Thursday night promised the American people we would hold Iran accountable for its sponsorship of Hamas, the mullahs in Tehran do not today perceive any credible threat of coercion from the United States.

Quite the opposite, in fact.

NYC Department of Education won’t let Jewish staffer stuck in Israel work remotely "DOE preaches equity" Except for Jews

 

The city Department of Education is refusing to let an early-childhood staffer work remotely while stranded in war-torn Israel, raising questions whether it’s simply bureaucratic callousness or antisemitism.

“It just sickens me that I work for a government institution in the USA which preaches equity, harmony and caring for everyone, but in fact there is an exception — for Jews,” Tova Plaut, an instructional coordinator for pre-K classroom teachers, told The Post from Israel.

Plaut, 53, an Orthodox Jew, was visiting relatives for Sukkot when Hamas terrorists attacked on Oct. 7 and war erupted. US airlines immediately suspended all return flights until at least Oct. 31. 

Plaut went on a waiting list for Israeli airline El Al.

She turned down a US government offer to ride a cruise ship to Cyprus or take US chartered flights to Europe because it would be too hard on her 78-year-old mom, who traveled with her.

But, still hunkering down with her family just north of Tel Aviv, she is eager to work until she can get back to New York.

Fully equipped with a computer and Internet service, Plaut asked permission to advise teachers by phone or email and attend Zoom meetings – instead of using her sick and personal days and not working.

Plaut and her co-workers each get seven sick days and three personal days a year.

Once that’s used up, she would have to take a non-medical leave of absence — and lose her pay, $76,000 a year, and health insurance.

As of today, she has lost seven days while stuck in Israel.

“Hamas does not have a humanitarian bone in their body.” “They [returned the Raanans] for calculated reasons,”

 

Palestinians transport a captured Israeli civilian from Kibbutz Kfar Azza into the Gaza Strip during a deadly attack on the community on Oct. 7.

Hamas terrorists only returned the American mother and daughter who were being held as hostages on Friday for “calculated” reasons, one expert claimed.

In a conversation with The Post Friday, former FBI agent and hostage team expert Christopher O’Leary cautioned the public not to fall for Hamas’ claim that they released Judith Raanan and her 17-year-old daughter, Natalie, for “humanitarian reasons.”

“They [returned the Raanans] for calculated reasons,” O’Leary scoffed, noting that “Hamas does not have a humanitarian bone in their body.”

“This is a deliberate and calculated move, not a good-will or good-faith gesture … they are playing a long game with the hostages,” he concluded.

O’Leary speculated that either Judith or Natalie possibly had “medical issues” that precluded the terror group from holding them in Gaza long-term; sources later told the Times of Israel that the two women were released due to Judith’s health.

“[Hamas] may be doing this to build some credibility as negotiators,” O’Leary opined, referring to the ongoing effort to broker some peace between Hamas and Israel, who had been locked in a bloody back-and-forth since the former unleashed Operation Al-Aqsa Flood on Oct. 7.

“Right now they do not seem like a legitimate negotiator,” he explained.

“You need to be able to demonstrate that you are a legitimate partner in an exchange.”

“[Releasing the Raanans] also helps counter the narrative Biden put out yesterday, going directly after Hamas, categorizing them as a terrorist organization,” O’Leary added.

But despite Hamas’ supposed best efforts, O’Leary concluded, the group is still “the quintessential terrorist organization.”

“The taking of hostages is a violation of international law and human rights,” he noted.

Speaking to The Post just one day before Judith and Natalie Raanan were released, O’Leary admitted that military rescue was likely out of the question for the 203 hostages being held in the Gaza Strip..

“We’ve not seen a case quite like this in the modern era,” he said.

Instead, he suggested, the US and Qatar should take the lead on negotiating favorable releases.

In its official statement on the Raanans’ release, Hamas confirmed that the agreement was reached in part due to Qatar’s intervention.

X (Twitter) Platform Removes NYT Gold Verification Badge, Likely Due to their constant Fake News

 

The New York Times, the ‘paper of record’ that was once considered the gold standard of journalism, has come stunningly close to being labeled fake news by X (formerly Twitter).

The Times is no longer a gold-badge verified account on Elon Musk’s platform. However the outlet does now have a blue-check verification.

Hours after Twitter users discovered that the Times was missing its original golden check mark which media accounts are given, a new blue check mark appeared, paid for by the outlet (something presumably the Ayatollah of Iran can do as well).

Musk has long been critical of the outlet, and engages with a NY Times parody account on the platform.

Although no official reason has been given, the Times has been guilty of reporting false and premature information, which can be harmful and toxic, especially regarding Israel.

This week, the Times rushed to publish a fake news story, with the headline and subhead: “ISRAEL STRIKE KILLS HUNDREDS AT HOSPITAL, PALESTINIANS SAY. At least 500 dead; Israel urges caution as it investigates.”

The story was debunked at every level, and while the death toll was exaggerated by hundreds, the actual culprits were the Palestinians themselves.

“The ‘New York’ Times is a declining, once-powerful, but fundamentally doomed to be regional & increasingly archaic legacy publication,” Musk tweeted in August.

Musk also once said the Times’ readership “is tiny compared to this platform.”

Drugs that stimulate and keep you up and suppress hunger and fear Were Found on the Bodies of Dead Hamas Murderers

 

תיעוד שצילם חבר שלי בישובי העוטף: המחבלים הגיעו עם שקיות של קוקאין לתמרוץ היצר השטני שלהם pic.twitter.com/fq0ITQZp9d

— אלחנן גרונר (@elchangr) October 12, 2023

 According to a News12 report, some of the terrorists who participated in the surprise attack on October 7 used the drug Heptagon when they committed the inhuman murders. Evidence of this was found both on the person of Hamas prisoners and in the pockets of terrorists’ corpses.

Captagon, Biocapton, and Fitton are brand names for the psychostimulant Fenethylline. Fenethylline is metabolized by the body to form two drugs, amphetamine, and theophylline, both of which are active stimulants. Fenethylline is mostly produced in Syria and Lebanon. Reports in the British press have suggested the drug is playing a role in the Syrian Civil War, as the production and sale of fenethylline generates large revenues, and fenethylline is used as a stimulant by combatants.

ISIS fighters were known to ingest fenethylline to suppress their fear before going to battle.

IDF eliminates senior Hamas engineer

 

The IDF on Friday eliminated Mahmud Sabih, a senior Hamas terrorist who served as a senior engineer and unit head in Hamas’ projects and development department, the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit said.

The department operated in order to increase Hamas' weapons capabilities, exchanging knowledge with terrorist organization across the Middle East, it added.

Mahmud Sabih operated to facilitate the transfer of information for Hamas in the production of weapons and UAVs, said the IDF.

Overnight Thursday, the IDF struck over a hundred operational targets belonging to Hamas terrorist organization, and killed a Hamas terrorist who took part in the murderous massacres in southern Israel.

The targets struck include an underground tunnel, weapon warehouses, and dozens of operational command centers.

During the strikes, Amjad Majed Muhammad Abu 'Odeh, a Hamas naval operative who took part in the massacre of Israeli civilians in southern Israel, was killed.

In addition, a terror squad belonging to the Hamas aerial array was neutralized in a targeted strike on Gaza City, after they attempted to fire rockets at a jet.

The forces also destroyed terror assets and weapons located in a mosque in the Jabaliya neighborhood, which was used as an observation post and staging ground by Hamas terrorists.

Hamas frees mother and daughter nearly two weeks after they were abducted to Gaza

 

Hamas on Friday evening freed two of the hostages it captured during its deadly terrorist attack against Israel on October 7, citing “humanitarian reasons” for doing so.

The two have been identified as Judith Raanan, 59, and Natalie Raanan, 18, a mother and her daughter who are dual Israeli and US nationals.

The two are residents of Chicago and had been visiting family in Kibbutz Nahal Oz on the day of the attack.

Israeli sources confirmed that the two had been handed over to the Red Cross and would be transferred to Egypt. Their families have been notified.

A source told CNN that the two are being released on “humanitarian grounds” because the mother is in poor health.

Gal Hirsch, the coordinator of the issue of prisoners and missing persons, said that the two are in Israeli territory and are making their way to meet their family.

IDF Spokesperson Daniel Hagari confirmed in a press statement that Judith and Natalie Raanan were met by Hirsch at the border.

The Prime Minister’s Office said, “This evening, Judith Raanan and Natalie Raanan were released from the hands of the terrorist organization Hamas.”

“The two were kidnapped by the terrorist organization Hamas in the murderous surprise attack on Saturday, October 7, 2023, when they were staying at Kibbutz Nahal Oz.”

“The person in charge of the abductees and the missing, Brigadier General Gal Hirsch, together with the IDF and the security forces, received them at the Gaza Strip border and at the moment they are on their way to a meeting point at a military base in the center of the country, where their family members are waiting for them.”

“The Government of Israel, the IDF and the entire defense establishment will continue to operate to the best of their abilities and efforts in order to locate all of the missing and return all of the hostages,” the statement concluded.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, “Two of our kidnapped are home. We will not relent in our effort to return all of the kidnapped and the missing.”

“At the same time, we continue to fight till victory,” he added.

The release of the two is the result of negotiations between Qatar and Hamas which started after Hamas abducted around 200 people from Israel during its October 7 attack.

The Hostage and Missing Families Forum welcomed the return of the two hostages, saying, "Continuing the holding of the hostages is a war crime. Hundreds of families are expecting assistance from the leaders of Arab countries after the actions of Hamas shocked the entire world."

‘Mutiny Brewing’ Inside State Department Over Israel-Palestine Policy

 

Story by Akbar Shahid Ahmed from Huffington Post

President Joe Biden’s approach to the ongoing violence in Israel and Palestine is fueling mounting tensions at the U.S. government agency most involved in foreign policy: the State Department.

Officials told HuffPost that Secretary of State Antony Blinken and his most senior advisers are overlooking widespread internal frustration. Some department staff said they feel as if Blinken and his team are uninterested in their own experts’ advice as they focus on supporting Israel’s expanding operation in Gaza, where the Palestinian militant group Hamas is based.

“There’s basically a mutiny brewing within State at all levels,” one State Department official said.

Since Hamas’ Oct. 7 terror attack on Israel, fighting in the region has killed more than 4,000 people, and Israel is preparing a ground invasion of Gaza that is expected to claim tens of thousands of additional lives.

Target Aventura Florida Employees Tearing Apart Images Of Missing Jewish Children Held Hostage in Gaza

 

Aventura, Florida. ⁦@Target⁩, I doubt you stand by employees tearing apart images of missing children being held hostage by Hamas in Gaza.

Please, do the right thing. pic.twitter.com/pLfIrnUBE5

— Yoni Michanie (@YoniMichanie) October 19, 2023

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