9.21 The Israeli Struggle to Get the Hostages Back
When Hamas invaded Israel on October 7, 2023, in addition to murdering 1200
people and wounding many more they took about 200 hostages including mothers and
their babies. Ariel shown in the picture with his dog Tonto was taken
hostage. The Palestinians shot the dog.
Here is a short video of the Bibas children.
Here is a video of Hamas abducting Shiri Bibas and her two
children, Kfir and Ariel.
Shiri's cousin said that there is nothing she could do except tell the world about
what happened. Many people in America feel the same way. That is why
they put up posters of the abducted victims of Hamas. They download
posters from
https://www.kidnappedfromisrael.com/
and tape them outside for everyone to see.
Here is what the poster for Ariel looks like.
NBC interviewed the people who had the idea for these posters.
Sadly when people put up these posters in New York City, supporters of the Hamas
terrorist group tore them down.
This is a photo of NYU students who ripped down posters.
Even if a person believes propaganda against Israel you would think they would
sympathize with the hostages and their families and not tear down the posters.
The people who tore them down
don't like that the posters make the Palestinian terrorists look bad, but they
look bad because they are bad. They make excuses that Israel is bad to the
Palestinians but considering that the Palestinians are trying to annihilate
Israel, Israel is very good to the Palestinians. Israel has no choice but to
defend itself and its citizens. Even if Israel were as bad as Arab
propagandists have convinced the poster rippers that Israel is, is that the
fault of Shiri and her babies? Should Shiri and her babies have
languished in jail cells in Hamas dungeons in tunnels deep underground?
Shouldn't every human being with a soul be demanding that they be released?
You can see a video of Hamas carrying Shiri's coffin to cheers from a Gazan
crowd by clicking
here.
People don't just tear down the posters. Just before I wrote this paragraph on
January 4, 2024, a man who was
putting up these posters was attacked. He defended himself and was
arrested by the New York City police. One would think the police would
arrest the people who
attacked him instead. Here is a video of his arrest.
As part of a ceasefire deal in 2025 Gazans
returned the dead bodies of Shiri and her babies. The coffins of the four
victims were displayed underneath a massive sign portraying Netanyahu as a
vampire. “The War Criminal Netanyahu & His Nazi Army Killed Them with Missiles
from Zionist Warplanes,” the sign read. Mock missiles and rockets set up around
the stage carried messages blaming the U.S. for the hostages’ deaths.
Lets assume that Israelis while trying to bomb Hamas terrorists
inadvertantly bombed Shiri and her babies..
They wouldn't have been in Gaza if they hadn't been kidnapped and there would have been no bombing if Hamas hadn't murdered Israel babies
and their parents on October 7 2023. Either way it's Hamas's fault.
According to Daniel Hagari the spokesman for the Israeli army the babies were
beaten to death by Hamas.
On the Bibas day of mourning, upwards of 20 bombs in buses, in concert with
suicide bombings, children’s park bombing, and a 10/7 style invasion from Judea
and Samaria
failed. The bombs in the buses were set for the wrong time.
Yahya Sinwar the leader of Hamas who was the
mastermind of the October 7 attacks, protected himself from Israel by
dressing as a woman and
surrounding himself with handcuffed hostages. In the end Israel got
him when he was temporarily separated from the hostages.
When there was a massive anti-Israel protest in Manhattan which shut down the
subway transportation hub at the World Trade Center the police didn't
arrest any of the anti-Israel protestors. I think that is because the
police are afraid of them. The police don't want
trouble and if someone puts up a poster and gets violently attacked they believe
it's safer to arrest him than to arrest the people who attacked him. They
think that by arresting him they are preventing him from angering Hamas
supporters and so are preventing violence and riots. What they don't
understand is that when the police don't defend the innocent and don't stand up
for what is right those who do wrong will be emboldened and be more violent. NYC police have already been attacked at the tree lighting at
Rockefeller Center. No one was putting up hostage posters when the police
were attacked at Rockefeller center.It seems that only when Palestinian
supporters attack them do police arrest them.
There are four approaches Israel can take to try and get the hostages returned.
1) Give in to Hamas demands. That means getting all Israeli troops out of Gaza
and releasing all the terrorists Israel holds in its prisons. The problem
with giving in to those demands is although it might result in the release of
the hostages that are still alive it will leave Hamas intact. A spokesman
for Hamas
has said it will massacre more Israelis in the future until Israel is
annihilated. If Israel releases terrorists for hostages that will just
encourage Hamas to abduct more innocent people. Despite this Israel did
agree to a deal in which it released 3 terrorists for every hostage. This
resulted in about 100 hostages being released. Israel has has offered to
release more terrorists in exchange for hostages as well as temporary ceasefires
but as of January 25, 2024 those offers have been turned down by Hamas.
2) Try and get the rest of the world to put pressure on Hamas to release the
hostages. Supporters of Israel can do their part to not let the world forget about them.
They can put up posters, post on social media, and write to their
representatives. Accounts of former hostages such as
this one called
The Girls I Met in the Tunnels are very important to disseminate. Hamas could not shoot endless missiles at Israel and
build hundreds of miles of tunnels over six stories underground without lots of
money. Most of that money comes from the countries of
Qatar and
Iran. Qatar depends on the U.S. for its security. The U.S. could
apply pressure on Qatar to stop funding Hamas. So could the rest of the
world.
3) Military pressure. If the leaders of Hamas fear for their lives they
might be willing to release the hostages. If Israel captures the leaders
of Hamas they might be able to get them to order the release of the hostages.
4) Cut off food, fuel and other supplies entering Gaza from across the Israeli
border. That would affect Hamas but it would also affect the civilians of
Gaza and the United States won't allow it and Israel depends on the United
States for arms. There are protestors in Israel who try and
block the entry of aid into Gaza saying that Hamas should release the
hostages first.
In the videos below Jewish civilians in Israel are doing approach number 2 and using music to call on the world to help bring the hostages home.
One question you don't hear asked is why didn't Israel respond to Hamas hostage
taking by taking
Palestinian civilians hostage and then exchange those hostages for the hostages held by
Hamas?
One reason is that Hamas doesn't care about Palestinian civilians. A
terrorist organization that fires rockets from kindergartens and hospitals and
that hides behind Palestinian civilians doesn't care about civilian hostages.
Top Hamas leaders
live in luxury in Qatar on money that they diverted from the Palestinians.
Khaled Mashaal is one of those Palestinians. He has
said that the success of the October 7 attack on Israel has shown that
"lliberating Palestine" i.e. annihilating Israel is a realistic idea.
Another Hamas official said
that we will repeat the October 7 attacks until Israel is annihilated. The
founding
charter of Hamas calls for the annihilation of Israel. Hamas leaders
living the life of luxury in Qatar are
willing to
sacrifice the Palestinians of Gaza in order to achieve this goal.
When Israel attempted to free six hostages held by Hamas in the last days of
August 2024, Hamas killed them
first. Here are pictures of the six hostages in happier times.
Thousands of Israelis took to the streets to blame their prime
minister Netanyahu. President Biden when questioned by a reporter if
Netanyahu had done enough to get the hostages released said "No". That's
because Biden is appeaser who believes that giving money to countries like Iran
is the way to get Iran to stop hating the U.S. and to stop sponsoring terrorism.
Biden's rewarding of terrorism may have encouraged Hamas to take these people
hostage to begin with. It's encourages more hostage taking and is also not
true as Netanyahu explains in the
video below.
One would expect that after the brutal murder of 6 Israeli hostages world
sympathy would lead to more support of Israel but that is not what happened.
Shortly afterward the United Kingdom announced that they were holding up arms to
Israel. Israel has accused the UK of rewarding Hamas terrorists after it
announced plans to
suspend some arms export licences. This UK announcement came on the
same day as the burial of six
hostages executed by the terrorist organisation. A few day later there
was a massive anti-Israel
demonstration in Manhattan with some people wearing kefiyyehs and carrying
Hamas flags.
