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During their release, the Israeli hostages have been made to suffer various indignities. Some of the girls and women, obviously frightened, have been surrounded by rifle-toting bezonians, pressing against them, screaming at them, pushing and pulling them this way and that, making it difficult for them, even with their Hamas guards, to make it to the Red Cross officials who were waiting to receive them.
Some of the hostages have been paraded on stages in front of Allahu-akbaring Hamas men. Some have been forced to sign documents expressing their “appreciation” for the “good treatment” they received from Hamas. All of them have apparently been told by their captors to smile for the cameras; some of the girls and women being released were ordered not just to smile, but to engage in joking banter with their guards, for if they did not, Hamas would take it out on those those Israelis still in captivity.
Three of the captives released — Doron Seinbrecher, Emily Damari, and Romi Gonen — were videotaped as they were handed “gift bags,” brown paper bags, really, that were said to contain mementos from their time held in captivity in Gaza. On each bag was the logo of the Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas. In each of the bags, there was a special certificate, also bearing the logo of the Al-Qassam brigades, titled “Release Agreement” in both Hebrew and Arabic, with Israeli media reporting that the document was signed by the Red Cross at the moment of handover.
God knows what Hamas hoped to achieve with that little farce. Israeli media has reported that those “gift bags” also contained photos of the hostages while they were in captivity, a map of the Gaza Strip, and Palestinian flag necklaces. How thoughtful. A keepsake, to remind those Israeli guests of Hamas’ hospitality. Ah, those blue remembered hills, those days of lost content, and those happy tunnels where I lay, and cannot come again. Who says Hamas doesn’t have a heart?
“We swore ‘never again,’ yet Israeli hostages return skeletal and tortured – comment,” by Zvika Klein, Jerusalem Post, February 8, 2025:
The faces are haunting: Or Levy, Eli Sharabi, and Ohad Ben Ami. Gaunt and hollow, their bodies frail, tell the story of 491 days in Hamas captivity. Sunken eyes, protruding bones, and skeletal frames ring an instant bell for Israelis and Jews everywhere: survivors of the Holocaust, the Muselmann of the concentration camps, and those who starved to the brink of death.
But when these hostages came home precisely 80 years after the fall of the Nazi regime, the world’s response was unimaginably detached.
The BBC, ever selective in its moral outrage, conveniently omitted their suffering from its homepage. CNN, on the other hand, saw fit to highlight the “emaciated” condition of Palestinian prisoners released in exchange-prisoners who, it must be said, received three meals a day, medical care, and family visits. The comparison is not only absurd; it is obscene.
Not one of the released Palestinians who have been released exhibited the “emaciated” condition that Hamas now claims. It simply makes up its lies, throws them out to the world media, which dutifully disseminates them without any semblance of investigation. I have repeatedly viewed the scenes of those released prisoners sticking their heads out of buses; all appear well-fed; not a single one whom I saw could be described as “emaciated.” They were provided with three meals a day, after all, food with the same nutritional value as what the soldiers of the IDF receive.
Many of the Israel hostages lived underground in dark, dank tunnels for months at a time. Quite a few were subject to sexual molestation, including repeated rapes of both female and male hostages. They were fed starvation diets. Some of them report being given one-half of a piece of pita as a day’s ration. Their wounds were not treated. They were beaten according to the whim of their guards. Only after all of the Israeli hostages, both the living and those murdered by Hamas while in captivity (Hamas will claim they were all killed in Israeli airstrikes), are returned, will it be possible for the full and terrible stories of their captivities to be told. And they must be.
Maybe the Holocaust survivor meme was a bit much. Yes, the Hostages are gaunt and have obviously been starved. Hamas and their enablers in Europe and on U.S. campuses are the scum of the earth.
But all of us have seen actual pictures of actual concentration camp survivors and many looked like walking skeletons. Barely alive
Please don’t fall for the endless gaslighting that the Left engages in. I know I will catch some flak for this comment.
You’re mistaken. The left said PALESTINIANS were gaunt and starved. The sentence was convoluted and I had to read it more than once. I am sure that is your innocent mistake.
Because I can’t believe you don’t see the resemblance of these 3 men released to the Jews in old photographs starved during WWII. Its unmistakably similar. .It spurred, or even shamed, Trump to respond. Certainly, all of the other Hamas murders, tortures rapes and indignities are as relevant as this starvation. But this is a visual image that “flips the script” after over a year of the media screaming “famine famine” and now we see that Gaza people and Hamas are notably chubby and hostages were starved.
Lefties media tried to pretend it was the prisoners of Israel who were starved. They also called prisoners of Israel “hostages” in their news broadcasts
It is not about who had less calories, Jews 80 years ago or this past year, it is about continued and condoned world wide hatred of Jews and the lying media that will not tell the truth about it.
Well said, Cat.
The depraved evil inflicted on innocent (and some ignorantly naive) Israelis, cannot BUT be compared to the evils of the Holocaust.
If one sees the full videos, one sees a full spectrum of pure wickedness borne of reprobate minds.
The fact that these brute animals took joy in recording their wanton murder spree testifies to the need to hunt down every last one of them.
If any watch those videos, take caution.
The images of macabre horror can’t be unseen.
I made myself watch it as a necessity to be able to counter the endless woke lies about Oct 7th.
(I’m a former Marine, and even I winced & turned my view away several times.)
There are significant differences in the degrees of starvation between these Israeli hostages and those survivors of the Holocaust, however, the depth of resolve to survive their respective conditions of internment are the greatest testimony to our peoples’ will to survive founded in our indomitable spirits and deeply held values for life.
It is this courage in the face of an unknown ending to this suffering that ALWAYS warrants our respect and admiration!
AM ISRAEL CHAI!!!
Just seen a Jewish News report that some of the prisoners looked gaunt. Given that Israel does not withhold food from prisoners, if some of them are hunger striking, this needs to be publicised.
Check the title of the article Cat: Israeli Hostages Return Gaunt and Skeletal
Trump said the returnees “looked like Holocaust survivors”. That’s because that is what they are. Hamas is just an extension of the old Nazi Party whose Muslim branch was founded by Haj Amin al-Husseini the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem. He spent WWII in Berlin hob mobbing with Hitler about the best ways to exterminate Jews.
That extermination is still a work in progress.
“God knows what Hamas hoped to achieve with that little farce.” Indeed. It still hasn’t dawned on their immature jihadis’ minds that their main weapon, the deluge of propaganda, fake news, Pallywood and other huge, preposterous lies the KGB taught them to fabricate in the 1960s to entrap the West, is getting stale.
Lying since 635AD
Deception, Lying
and Taqiyya
Does Islam permit Muslims to lie?
Muslim scholars teach that Muslims should generally be truthful to each other… unless the purpose of lying is to “smooth over differences” or “gain the upper-hand over an enemy.”
There are several forms of lying to non-believers that are permitted under certain circumstances, the best known being taqiyya (the Shia name). These circumstances are typically those that advance the cause of Islam – in some cases by gaining the trust of non-believers in order to draw out their vulnerability and defeat them.
Taqiyya – Saying something that isn’t true as it relates to Muslim identity (i.e whether one is a Muslim or what that means). This is a Shiite term: the Sunni counterpart is Muda’rat.
Kitman – Lying by omission. An example would be when Muslim apologists quote only a fragment of verse 5:32 (that if anyone kills “it shall be as if he had killed all mankind”) while neglecting to mention that the rest of the verse (and the next) mandate murder in undefined cases of “corruption” and “mischief.”
Tawriya – Intentionally creating a false impression by saying something that is technically true, when knowing that the listener will interpret it in a different way. This practice has a broader application than taqiyya.
Muruna – ‘Blending in’ by setting aside some practices of Islam or Sharia in order to advance others.
We now see the ugly face on Ham-A** and good reasons to totally Destroy them and list them as the Terrorists they are and give them all Life in Prison without Pardons or Clemency like Biden the Blunder did
The terrible treatment of the kidnapped hostages by the Muslims terrorists of Hamas , further confirms what was already well known before. Which is that there is absolutely no limits to the vile, heinous horrifically evils that the jihadists of Hamas will commit because of because of their demonic and malice-filled religion that is Islam.
Likewise it should always be kept in mind and never forgotten that the jihad entity, Hamas, is completely evil and its jihadist stooges likewise are totally wicked.
Those vicious and malicious jihadists of Hamas with their vicious starving and other brutal and misery inflecting ways they starved and in other ways abused their hostages is so horrifically wicked that Hamas terrorist are the mirror reflection of the most despicable horrific villains describe in the Bible.
Which reads “There feet are swift to shed blood; destruction and misery are in their ways; and the way of peace have they not known.” Romans 3:15-17, [K.J.V.]
Now do an article on the IDF homosexually raping prisoners while the Israeli government publicly defends the rapes.
The difference is that ALL of the hostages were maltreated, whereas, if there were indeed any incidents of the kind that you describe, they will have been carried out by a minority, and certainly will not be consistent with Israeli policy, as Hamas’ behaviour is consistent with its charter.
This “rape” story is another leftist/Islamist fabrication. But you know it already, Ahmed.
And the Hamas cheering section (Susan Sarandon, miscreant Greta Thunberg, Michael Moore, Elizabeth Warren, Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, Barack Hussein Osama, kapo Soros, Judenrat tool Bernie, the ICC, UN and Justin Castreau) all accuse Israel of “genocide” and “war crimes”. It is 100% projection, revealing only their own (and the Palestinians’) intentions.
why are people shocked and or surprised . ? you are dealing with a death cult no different to nazi germany . as they shot , burnt , massacred their way across europe . the world is naive if they believe that hamas and arabs are any different . that jews and israel are surprised is truly troubling . much like the left who were massacred on oct. 7 .