After President Joe Biden — who has undermined Israel’s war against Hamas by slow-walking military aid and warning Israel not to enter territories where Hamas strongholds existed — responded to Hamas’ brutal point-blank execution of six Israeli hostages by criticizing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for not making enough concessions, Netanyahu fired back.
After news of the executions was reported, Biden was asked by a reporter, &#8220;Do you think it&#8217;s time Prime Minister Netanyahu to do more on this issue, do you think he&#8217;s doing enough?&#8221;
&#8220;No,&#8221; Biden replied.
Netanyahu was clearly angered by the response.
“What has changed in the last five days?” he declared. “What has changed? One thing. These murderers executed six of our hostages. They shot them in the back of the head. That’s what’s changed. And now, after this, we’re asked to show ‘seriousness?’ We’re asked to make concessions? What message does this send Hamas? It says, ‘Kill more hostages. Murder more hostages. You’ll get more concessions.’”
“The pressure internationally must be directed at these killers,” he asserted. “At Hamas. Not at Israel. We say ‘yes,’ they say ‘no’ all the time but they also murdered these people. And now we need maximum pressure on Hamas.”
“I don’t believe that either President Biden or anyone serious about achieving peace and achieving the release would seriously ask Israel — Israel — to make these concessions. We’ve already made them. Hamas has to make the concessions,” he stated.
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Bibi has had it with Biden after Joe basically told Hamas to kill more American and Jews. 
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In an obvious attempt to curry favor with supporters of Israel disillusioned with the Biden-Harris abandonment of support for the Jewish state, the Biden-Harris Department of Justice <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-announces-terrorism-charges-against-senior-leaders-hamas">announced</a> on Tuesday they declared six leaders of Hamas as terrorists, three of whom are already dead. The fig-leaf action rings hollow in the face of the administration’s unceasing criticism of the Israeli government and lack of support for the war effort.
In June, Tennessee GOP senator Bill Hagerty slammed the Biden administration from withholding arms to Israel that had been approved by Congress, snapping they should “get out of Israel’s way.”
“The norm is for the Executive Branch to submit formal notifications to Congress roughly 48-72 hours after committees informally cleared proposed arms sales,” he stated. “But the Biden Admin is violating this norm amid Israel’s multi-front war. It’s shocking what @POTUS @JoeBiden  is doing to Israel as our ally faces its darkest hour. As SFRC ranking member @SenatorRisch  put it, it’s time for the Biden Administration to get out of Israel’s way &amp; let it defeat these Iran-backed terrorists!”
Senator Jim Risch (R-ID), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, <a href="https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/391751">said</a>:
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The Biden Administration continues to try and have it both ways by claiming credit for security assistance to Israel that it has not provided. Meanwhile, those of us in Congress with jurisdiction over weapons sales have done our jobs and approved two separate tranches of arms transfers to Israel for formal notification to Congress, to include ammunition, vehicles to protect Israeli soldiers, and nearly $20B in F-15 aircraft. It is past time the administration move to formally notify the F-15 and ammunition sales and remove its existing hold on precision guided munitions. Micromanagement of Israel’s war on terror must end – let’s get out of the way.
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“The implications of the Biden Administration’s conditional support for our closest ally in the Middle East are not lost on Hezbollah as its attacks from Lebanon increase in intensity and scale,” Risch continued. “Hamas continues to drive a wedge between the United States and Israel and isolate Israel from the international community. By signaling to terrorists that American support for Israel is conditional, we encourage Hamas to protract the war in Gaza, furthering risk to civilians, and incentivize Hezbollah to continue its attacks on Israel from the North. The Biden Administration’s fecklessness now courts a two-front war – the consequences of which would be disastrous for both Israel’s security and America’s standing in the world as a reliable partner.”
As Newsweek <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/kamala-harris-rafah-questions-israel-hostage-murders-1947338">reported</a>:
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When Israel was looking to invade Rafah earlier this year, saying it was a stronghold of Hamas militants and a haven for hostage takers, it encountered fierce opposition in the White House. In March, Biden told <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/topic/msnbc" data-sys="1">MSNBC</a>&#8216;s Jonathan Capehart that a major Israeli operation in Rafah would be a &#8220;red line&#8221; for him, and the president suggested that the move could lead to a cut-off of some offensive weapons. Harris told <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/topic/abc" data-sys="1">ABC</a> News in March, &#8220;We have been clear in multiple conversations and in every way that any major military operation in Rafah would be a huge mistake. Let me tell you something, I have been studying the maps.&#8221; She also said that she would not rule out &#8220;consequences&#8221; if Israel pushed forward.
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Israeli PM Netanyahu Delivers Address To Joint Meeting Of U.S. Congress

After Hamas Executed 6 Hostages, Biden Slammed Bibi. Bibi Fires Back.

Benjamin Netanyahu

Hamas

Israel

Joe Biden

Over the weekend, we got absolutely horrifying news: Six Israeli hostages, including one Israeli-American whose parents spoke at the Democratic National Convention, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/american-israeli-hersh-goldberg-polin-among-six-dead-hostages-recovered-by-israeli-forces-in-rafah">were executed</a> by the terrorist group Hamas.
It&#8217;s not just that the bodies of the hostages were found; it&#8217;s how they were found. You&#8217;ll recall that last week Israel freed a Bedouin Muslim Israeli citizen who was found in one of the terror tunnels. At just about that time, Hamas terrorists shot to death those six hostages, who had been held in captivity since October 7, over 300 days ago.
They were held in darkness, in captivity, in conditions of torture. And then they were shot point-blank in the back of the head.
The absolute horror of that — keeping these six hostages alive for over 300 days and then shooting them point-blank in the back of the head — underscores how deeply evil Hamas is.
It&#8217;s easy to forget how evil Hamas is because October 7 was almost a year ago. Everyone was shocked by the murderous, rape-filled rampage Hamas did that day — the taking of hostages, including babies who are still being held hostage right now the rampant executions and rape.
The entire situation turned into war because the Israeli Defense Force went into Gaza in order to dismantle Hamas, in order to destroy their infrastructure, in order to take over the Philadelphi Corridor (which is the border between Israel and the Gaza Strip), in order to take over the Netzarim Corridor, which runs across the middle of the Gaza Strip, and establish military control.
A lot of talk turned to how Israel was prosecuting the war. Could they do it faster? Could they do it quickly? Could they do it more humanely? 
Meanwhile, everyone ignored just how evil Hamas is.
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And then they executed the six hostages with a bullet to the head. And that reminded people that these are human monsters who are willing to hold hostages for over 300 days and then shoot them point-blank in the head to prevent them from being liberated. The IDF got close to rescuing the hostages and now Hamas is boasting that they murdered the hostages because the IDF <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/hamas-hints-6-slain-hostages-extracted-by-idf-from-gaza-over-weekend-were-murdered-because-troops-were-near/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">was getting close</a>.
This is what Hamas does. This is why Yahya Sinwar, the head of Hamas who is hiding underground right now, has surrounded himself, according to reports, by upward of 20 hostages, presumably including women and children, hoping that Israel will leave him alone because otherwise he&#8217;s going to threaten to shoot the women and shoot the children.
After the hostages were executed, Hamas, just to add insult to injury, decided that they were going to release hostage videos of the six people they murdered. And they are heartbreaking.
There has been contemporaneous documentation found in the terror tunnels in which Hamas explains what they are attempting to do; to be so brutal and so vicious and so evil that it creates serious political schisms within Israeli society.
As Netanyahu has pointed out, on one side you have a free democracy that is allied with the West and on the other side you have the world&#8217;s worst terror group. But somehow the West has found a unique way to decide that that the terror group deserves compassion, deserves concession, deserves some level of recognition and decency, when in reality, every member of Hamas up to and including the leadership, deserves nothing but death because that is what they have brought upon themselves through their violation of basic human norms and standards of basic human decency.
The notion from the West that Israel is the one that needs to be pressed to make concessions to the terrorists is totally insane and speaks to an ulterior political motive on the part of Americans and Britons who are pushing this sort of nonsense.
The reality is the only way to win a war is to actually win the war. The reason the West has not won a major war since World War II is because it has forgotten that basic notion — that the way to win a war is to win the war. When the West wins, it&#8217;s not because there is some sort of peace agreement that is signed, it&#8217;s because its enemies are utterly defeated.
The fact that the West is even considering leaving Hamas in place or creating a “Palestinian state,” which would immediately be run and staffed by the very same people who are currently holding hostages along with their best friends in the Palestinian Authority and Islamic Jihad, is totally insane.
The narrative you&#8217;re hearing from the Biden-Harris administration is that Netanyahu has made no concessions to Hamas.
There are actions that the United States could have taken to bring pressure on Hamas. Joe Biden has done virtually none of them. All of it derives from the leftist narrative that there is some sort of moral equivalence or parity in all human relations, which means that when someone is evil — the more you believe in moral relativism, if you believe that it&#8217;s just a matter of perspective — then what that means is that the more evil you are, the more there must be a justification to your evil, because otherwise you wouldn&#8217;t be evil.
If you are a moral relativist, the way that the Left is when it comes to these matters, then your belief is the more evilly you behave, the more you have been victimized. The victim/victimizer matrix is undefeated in terms of stupidity and immorality.
Take a look at the headlines from the legacy media over the murder of the six hostages. <a href="https://x.com/DrEliDavid/status/1830297753185898620" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CNN</a>: “Israeli-American hostage has died.”
“Has died?” Did he die of old age? Is that what happened? Was it cancer?
Here&#8217;s what actually happened to Hersh Goldberg-Polin. On October 7, he was at the Nova Festival. He had his arm blown off by Hamas. They then sawed off his arm. They kept him alive for 300 days and then they shot him point-blank in the head.
<a href="https://x.com/simonmontefiore/status/1830238735860150742" target="_blank" rel="noopener">BBC</a>: “Israel says bodies of six Gaza hostages recovered.”
What happened to them? Is that irrelevant?
<a href="https://x.com/simonmontefiore/status/1830238735860150742" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sky News</a>: “Israeli hostages confirmed dead after Army finds six bodies in Gaza.”
Imagine for a moment you&#8217;re at a music festival. You are taken hostage by the world&#8217;s worst vicious human beings. You are held alive underground for 300 days with the shred of hope that maybe the IDF would find you. And then as the IDF comes close, Hamas puts you down and they shoot you in the back of the head.
But the headline from the legacy media is they somehow just randomly died, as if they died in a car accident.
Joe Biden&#8217;s initial response to the six hostages being murdered? “Earlier today, in a tunnel under the city of Rafah, Israeli forces recovered six bodies of hostages held by Hamas.”
That’s rich, coming from him, because Israeli troops would have been in Rafah in February or March if it had not been for the Biden administration, which withheld munitions from the Israelis to prevent them from doing operations in Rafah.
Israel kept saying they needed to go into Rafah to go get the hostages and to extirpate Hamas. Meanwhile, Biden warned that a major Israeli operation in Rafah was a “red line” that could cause him to cancel arms to support Israel. In March Harris <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/week-transcript-3-24-24-sen-marco-rubio/story?id=108441678" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>, “We have been clear in multiple conversations and in every way that any major military operation in Rafah would be a huge mistake,” adding that there would be “consequences” if Israel went into Rafah, as National Review <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/kamala-harris-warned-israel-of-consequences-if-it-invaded-rafah-where-hamas-just-murdered-an-american-hostage/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pointed out</a>. 
The reason Hamas did not want Israel to go into Rafah was because it is a Hamas stronghold. They did not want Israel to shut down the terror tunnels to Egypt. They did not want Israel to find hostages and free them.
Biden, because he&#8217;s a cretin both intellectually and morally, was asked on Monday — as he made his way back after 17 days of vacation being a useless moldering corpse at the beach —  about the so-called cease-fire deal. He was asked if it was “&#8230;time for Prime Minister Netanyahu to do more on this issue? Do you think he’s doing enough?
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-blames-israels-netanyahu-for-stalled-hostage-negotiations-after-american-killed-by-hamas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Biden declared</a>, “No.”
Every shred of blood is on Hamas&#8217;s hands. They just executed hostages. And Biden’s first response was that Netanyahu needs to do more?
Does he understand what kind of damage he just did? 
Not likely, he’s a dangerously immoral moron.
When terrorists shoot hostages and your first move is to put pressure on the nation whose hostages were taken, you are telling the terrorists to keep shooting hostages.
Biden and Harris are repellent, disgusting people.
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President Biden Returns To White House From Delaware

Execute Hostages, Win A Prize From Biden-Harris!

Ben Shapiro

Hostages

Legacy Media

Opinion

The Israeli Left, intent on finding a way to topple Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing government, tried to implement a labor strike that would have crippled the country while it is at war with the terrorist groups Hamas and Hezbollah and suffered a disastrous defeat.
Histadrut chairman Arnon Bar-David had called for a strike to start on Sunday, ostensibly because he argued that the government was not doing enough to bring hostages back  — a spurious claim as the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has conducted successful operations to rescue hostages and Netanyahu has repeatedly accepted cease-fire proposals which Hamas has always rejected — but in reality was an attempt to bring the right-wing government down.
But Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, with the consent of Netanyahu, filed an injunction with Israel’s labor court to block the strike. The Gvura Forum, which represents family members of fallen soldiers, filed a similar injunction.
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“The court ruled soon after hearing the case that since the strike was &#8216;a protest&#8217; by nature and not related to workers’ rights, it needed to have been coordinated in advance and lasted for a limited period of a few hours,” the Jerusalem Post <a href="https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-817363">reported</a>. “The strike was announced less than 12 hours prior to its start and was not limited, and was therefore illegal, the court ruled. The court added that the ruling was only relevant to the Histadrut and that other unions as well as business forums were not included.”
“The days where someone harnesses the power of organized work to advance political interests” were over, “especially during a war and when it serves the interests of Hamas and [its leader Yahya] Sinwar.”
“A large number of municipalities and regional councils did not join Monday&#8217;s strike,” Israel National News <a href="https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/395592">noted</a>.
&#8220;Bar David&#8217;s political strike failed. We came to cry the cry of the nation and to tell Bar David: &#8216;You failed! Go home! We will not allow you to cause any more harm to civilians whose only sin is that they think differently than you. It inspires respect to see that most of the municipal leaders opposed your recklessness. The people of Israel will not agree to accept dictators in the Histadrut!'&#8221; Im Tirtzu chairman Shay Rosengarten stated.
Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak leads opposition to Netanyahu’s government. Barak has demonstrated his contempt for Israel’s most sacred places before and the Jewish connection to the land of Israel for decades; in June, the Israel State Archives released material that revealed that during the 2000 negotiations with terrorist Palestine Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat, Barak was ready to give up Israeli sovereignty over parts of the Old City of Jerusalem and the Temple Mount, the holiest place in Judaism.
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“At the Camp David talks five months earlier, Barak had already offered the Palestinian Authority control over territories that went far beyond what most Israeli military strategists believed the nation could give up and still retain defensible borders,” the Jewish News Syndicate <a href="https://www.jns.org/jns/israel/23/7/19/303916/">noted</a>, adding that U.S. envoy Dennis Ross admitted, “Barak’s government … formally accepted ideas that would effectively divide East Jerusalem, end the IDF’s presence in the Jordan Valley, and produce a Palestinian state in roughly 97 percent of the West Bank [as well as all of Gaza].”
In January. Barak co-signed a<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/26/opinion/congress-netanyahu-gaza-war.html"> letter</a> published in The New York Times urging Congress to rescind their offer for Netanyahu to speak before them. In June, he wrote an <a href="applewebdata://2C1B764D-80DB-4D5E-8056-C6102B0C36BC/We%20need%20to%20immediately%20replace%20this%20failed%20government">opinion piece</a> in the hard-Left publication Ha’aretz stating, “Israel is being led by a government and a prime minister who are patently unfit for their offices.”

ISRAEL-PALESTINIAN-CONFLICT-HOSTAGES

Anti-Bibi Israeli Left Suffers Crushing Defeat As Crippling Strike Is Blocked By Court

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Leftism

strike

World

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu unloaded on President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris for once again urging Israel to show restraint — even in the immediate aftermath of Hamas terrorists executing six more hostages in Rafah.
Upon receiving the news that 23-year-old American Israeli hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin was among the hostages — who were reportedly executed just a short time before their bodies were discovered by Israel Defense Forces (IDF) — Biden and Harris each released statements condemning Hamas. But then Biden <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-blames-israels-netanyahu-for-stalled-hostage-negotiations-after-american-killed-by-hamas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lashed out directly</a> at Netanyahu, saying that he did not believe the Israeli Prime Minister was &#8220;doing enough&#8221; to help secure a deal with Hamas for the release of all remaining hostages.
Netanyahu argued that since the unprovoked attacks visited upon Israel by Hamas on October 7th, 2023, Israel had made concessions. Israel had exercised restraint. And Israel had done much of that at the request of the Biden-Harris administration, even when Hamas repeatedly refused to make reciprocal concessions.
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Must Watch Video Remarks from <a href="https://twitter.com/IsraeliPM?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@IsraeliPM</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/netanyahu?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@netanyahu</a>: &#8220;I was asked whether I am not doing enough to the release of hostages. Well, I want to set the record straight. On April 27th, Secretary of State Blinken said that, ‘Israel made an extraordinary, generous offer for a hostage… <a href="https://t.co/yT1rHKbOCJ">pic.twitter.com/yT1rHKbOCJ</a>
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&#8220;I was asked whether I am not doing enough to the release of hostages,&#8221; Netanyahu said in response to Biden&#8217;s claim, listing a number of times that Israel had been prepared to move forward with a deal to get the hostages back and noting that it was always Hamas that ultimately ended negotiations: &#8220;On August 28th — that’s five days ago — five days ago — Deputy CIA Director said that ‘Israel shows seriousness in the negotiations. Now Hamas must show the same seriousness.’&#8221;
&#8220;I want to ask you something. What has changed in the last five days? What has changed?&#8221; Netanyahu asked, and then answered. &#8220;One thing: these murderers executed six of our hostages. They shot them in the back of the head. That’s what changed! And now after this, we’re asked to show seriousness?! We’re asked to make concessions?! What message does this send Hamas?! It says, kill more hostages. Murder more hostages and you will get more concessions.&#8221;
&#8220;The pressure internationally must be directed at these killers! At Hamas. Not at Israel. We say ‘yes.’ They say ‘no’ all the time but they also murdered these people. And we now we need maximum pressure on Hamas,&#8221; Netanyahu concluded, arguing that it was the Biden-Harris administration that was not truly serious about ending the carnage and saving the hostages. &#8220;I don&#8217;t believe that either President Biden or anyone serious about achieving peace and achieving the release would seriously ask Israel, Israel to make these concessions. We’ve already made them. Hamas has to make the concessions. Thank you very much.&#8221;

Netanyahu Says Biden-Harris’ Weak Response Sends Clear Message To Hamas: ‘Kill More Hostages’

Netanyahu Says Biden-Harris' Weak Response Sends Clear Message To Hamas: 'Kill More Hostages'

Kamala Harris

Terrorists

President Joe Biden claimed on Monday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is not doing enough to secure a deal to free hostages from Hamas.
Biden made the critique as he <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/02/us/politics/biden-rehoboth-beach-delaware-vacation.html">returned</a> to the White House from a two-week vacation in California and at his home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. The president said that negotiations for a deal to free over 100 hostages believed to be held by Hamas are “very close” to a deal. He added at “hope springs eternal” that a deal will be reached.
Biden was asked if Netanyahu is doing enough to secure the deal, and the president responded: “No.”
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An Israeli official pushed back, suggesting that Biden should be applying pressure to Hamas to cut a deal and release the hostages instead of Israel. Israel has maintained that it cannot accept a deal that would foreclose the destruction of Hamas as an organization.
“It is puzzling that President Biden is pressing Prime Minister Netanyahu, who agreed to the U.S. proposal as early as May 31 and to the U.S. bridging proposal on August 16, and not Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, who continues to vehemently refuse any deal,” the Israeli official said. The official added that Biden’s remark “is especially dangerous when it is made just days after Hamas executed six Israeli hostages, including an American citizen.”
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🚨🚨A senior Israeli source said &quot;it is puzzling that President Biden is pressing Prime Minister Netanyahu, who agreed to the U.S. proposal as early as May 31 and to the U.S. bridging proposal on August 16, and not Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, who continues to vehemently refuse any… <a href="https://t.co/7ndO8iZEEr">https://t.co/7ndO8iZEEr</a>
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The comments from Biden come after Israeli troops <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/american-israeli-hersh-goldberg-polin-among-six-dead-hostages-recovered-by-israeli-forces-in-rafah">found</a> the body of Israeli-American Hersh Goldberg-Polin, who was taken captive by Hamas on October 7. Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers found Goldberg-Polin’s body along with those of five other hostages in a tunnel underneath the southern Gaza city of Rafah on Sunday.
The Israeli military said the hostages were killed shortly before their bodies were discovered. Hamas published videos of the six dead hostages on Monday in an attempt to increase pressure on Israel for a ceasefire deal, according to Foundation for Defense of Democracies senior analyst Joe Truzman.
“Hamas published footage of the six Israeli captives who were murdered by the group in recent days. The propaganda video demonstrates that Hamas is attempting to exploit the current unrest in Israel in order to force a ceasefire deal on their terms,” Truzman said in a post on social media.
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Hamas published footage of the six Israeli captives who were murdered by the group in recent days. The propaganda video demonstrates that Hamas is attempting to exploit the current unrest in Israel in order to force a ceasefire deal on their terms.
&mdash; Joe Truzman (@JoeTruzman) <a href="https://twitter.com/JoeTruzman/status/1830626281370828933?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 2, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kamala-harris-threatened-israel-to-stay-out-of-rafah-before-american-hostage-found-dead">pressured</a> Netanyahu and the Israeli government for months earlier this year to halt military operations in Rafah, where Goldberg-Polin and the other dead hostages were discovered and where Israeli forces have rescued at least nine other hostages from Hamas terrorists.
“We have been clear in multiple conversations and in every way that any major military operation in Rafah would be a huge mistake,” Harris said in an interview in March.
In May, Biden said in an interview on CNN: “I made it clear that if they go into Rafah – they haven’t gone in Rafah yet – if they go into Rafah, I’m not supplying the weapons that have been used historically to deal with Rafah, to deal with the cities – that deal with that problem.”
Prior to the interview, the Biden administration suspended a weapons shipment to Israel that contained 2,000-pound and 500-pound bombs.

Biden Blames Israel’s Netanyahu For Stalled Hostage Negotiations After American Killed By Hamas

Washington D.C.

Ceasefire negotiations in the Israel-Gaza war concluded Friday, though some details in the last-ditch peace effort still need to be worked out, according to a <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/08/16/joint-statement-from-the-united-states-egypt-and-qatar/">joint statement</a> published by the United States, Qatar, and Egypt.
Negotiations kicked off Thursday in Doha, reportedly without a representative for Hamas present. Senior officials will reconvene in Cairo next week to help finalize the agreement, the statement said.
The talks, which the statement described as “intensive,” aimed to reach an agreement for a ceasefire, release of hostages, and Palestinian “detainees.” The potential new proposal comes after multiple failed negotiations and increasing tensions in the region, and with Hezbollah and Iran’s promised retaliatory attacks on Israel looming. 
“This proposal builds on areas of agreement over the past week, and bridges remaining gaps in the manner that allows for a swift implementation of the deal,” the statement read. 
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Working teams will address the “technical work” for the agreement’s implementation, including details for humanitarian provisions and specifics for the release of hostages and Palestinian detainees.
“There is no further time to waste nor excuses from any party for further delay,” the statement added. “It is time to release the hostages and detainees, begin the ceasefire, and implement this agreement.”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office issued a <a href="https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-08-16/ty-article/.premium/u-s-presents-cease-fire-proposal-that-bridges-israel-hamas-mediators-say/00000191-5bb4-d101-a7fd-7bbfda890000">statement</a> declaring hopes that Hamas will cave to pressure and agree to a deal that secures the release of Israeli hostages.
“Israel appreciates the efforts of the United States and the mediators to dissuade Hamas from its refusal to agree to a deal for the release of the hostages,” Netanyahu’s office said.
President Joe Biden addressed the developments in the Oval Office on Friday, stating that an agreement is closer than it has been so far.
“We are closer than we have ever been&#8230;we may have something but we&#8217;re not there yet, but much, much closer than it was three days ago,” he said.
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President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris faced backlash Thursday afternoon over what they told Israeli Prime Minister <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/benjamin-netanyahu" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Benjamin Netanyahu</a> during a call.
The meeting came after Israel <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/israel-kills-hezbollahs-most-senior-military-commander-after-terror-group-killed-12-children" target="_blank" rel="noopener">killed</a> Fuad Shukr, Hezbollah’s top military commander, on Tuesday and is believed to be behind the Wednesday killing of Ismail Haniyeh, the top leader of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/hamas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hamas</a>. Shukr was targeted after Hezbollah murdered 12 children inside Israel over the weekend and Haniyeh was targeted in response to the October 7 attacks.
&#8220;The President reaffirmed his commitment to Israel’s security against all threats from Iran, including its proxy terrorist groups Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis,&#8221; the White House said in a statement. &#8220;The President discussed efforts to support Israel’s defense against threats, including against ballistic missiles and drones, to include new defensive U.S. military deployments.&#8221;
&#8220;Together with this commitment to Israel’s defense, the President stressed the importance of ongoing efforts to de-escalate broader tensions in the region,&#8221; the statement continued. &#8220;Vice President Harris also joined the call.&#8221;
David Milstein, who worked in the Trump Administration for U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman, said that the statement from the administration was a &#8220;disgrace.&#8221;
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Milstein said, &#8220;It seems the Biden-Harris Admin has a deliberate policy for Israel to be a punching bag for Iran and its terror proxies where Israel is solely on the defensive + the Biden-Harris Admin illegitimately pressures Israel to stand down from pro-actively acting militarily to counter the security threats + the Biden-Harris Admin imposes a partial arms embargo on Israel denying the military assistance needed to fully protect Israel + the Biden-Harris Admin gifts Israel&#8217;s enemies over $100 billion in sanctions relief that rewards them / finances their escalating aggression against Israel.&#8221;
&#8220;It is an unconscionable betrayal of our close ally,&#8221; he added. &#8220;The Biden-Harris Admin disastrous policies endanger Israel &#8211; which is why Israel should do whatever is necessary militarily to protect Israelis even if the Biden-Harris Admin shamefully refuses to provide support.&#8221;
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On October 7 last year, ordinary civilians in Israel were the victims of extraordinary savagery. Hamas terrorists killed young people at a music festival, often in gruesome ways. Families were slaughtered in suburban homes. By any civilized moral standards, there ought to be overwhelming sympathy for a country subjected to such savagery.
Instead, throughout the Western world, we have witnessed endless anti-Israel protests. Why?
Part of the reason is demographics. In Britain, for example, in 2001 there were one and half million Muslims. Today, there are almost four million.
That is not to say that every — or even most — British Muslims are anti-Israel. But it does explain the scale and size of some recent protests.
So, too, on American university campuses. There have been frequent anti-Israel student protests, often at so-called elite universities. It is perhaps not a coincidence that there has also been a rapid rise in the number of students with Middle Eastern backgrounds at such universities.
Again, not every student from the Middle East is necessarily anti-Israel. But the reservoir of potential anti-Israel student protesters is certainly larger than before.
The rise in anti-Israel sentiment in the West clearly can’t only be about demographics. Many, if not most, of those protesting against Israel are not those with a Middle Eastern background, but those on the political Left.
Why then do those on the Left have such animus towards Israel? Why do they seem to suspend ordinary moral standards whenever Israel is involved?
When it comes to Ukraine, for example, those on the political Left – correctly in my view – see Ukraine as a brave country, rightfully taking a stand against a vastly bigger aggressor.
So why don’t they see Israel that way?
Israel wasn’t just attacked on October 7. From the Six Day War to the Yom Kippur War, Israel has been on the receiving end of relentless aggression.
Israel, a country smaller than Vermont, is surrounded by larger foes intent on destroying her and eradicating her people, as Hamas showed us a few months ago.
Progressive opinion in America and Britain is of the view that the government of Ukraine must not try to accommodate Russia or make concessions. So why do they demand that Israel call a ceasefire?
London, Washington and Berlin are full of leaders who want to supply Ukraine with weapons. Why then do many also demand that America and Europe stop giving Israel the tools to defend herself?
The last time there was unequivocal support for Israel in the West was during the Entebbe raid in Uganda in 1976. I remember the morning of the Entebbe raid well. A young child at the time, I happened to be living close by in Kampala.
When Israel pulled off a daring rescue mission, freeing the trapped hostages from the hijacked Air France plane at Entebbe — where Benjamin Netanyahu’s brother Yonatan lost his life — there was rejoicing across the political spectrum.
Today, when Israel attempts to rescue her hostages in Gaza she is treated by many media outlets with scorn. Look at how posters of Israeli hostages held in Gaza have been torn down in cities throughout Europe and America.
As my friend Douglas Murray has pointed out, when a cat or dog goes missing in London or Paris or New York, people will often put up a poster about the missing pet. If we saw someone take down a poster about a missing pet, we would be offended. We’d know it was wrong. Where is the outrage against those removing posters of the Bibas kids?
One reason Israel is held to a different standard is anti-Semitism.
Anti-Semitism is a famously shape shifting virus. At one time, Jews were hated for their religion, then for their race. Today, it seems to me, it is for their nation.
Israel is loathed by many progressives because as a country, Israel embodies the notion of national self-determination. For many centuries, Jewish families toasted each other at Passover with the phrase: “Next year in Jerusalem.”
And then in 1948, almost miraculously, it came true.
National self-determination offends elite opinion formers. They revere supranationalism instead. They venerate the UN, the ICC and the EU.
Progressives prefer laws made by international treaty over those passed by elected national legislatures. Progressives prefer fealty to rules made by the global community over obligations to an actual community.
Israel’s success offends the Left not only because she is a national state, but because she demonstrates the success of Western society.
If all cultures were of equal worth, why then does a small state that could fit inside Vermont produce so much enterprise and innovation?
If there is an equivalence between cultures, why has post 1948 Israel seen such success amid a sea of Middle Eastern failure and autocracy?
Those who loathe Israel don’t just hate the Jewish nation state, they despise all nation states – including another phenomenally successful Republic, started not in 1948 but in 1776.
If they merely hate Israel, why do they burn the American flag?
America and the Western way of life is their intended target.
Whether we like it or not, those of us who love America, who see Western culture as a sublime human achievement, have no choice but to side with and support Israel, against those who seek to destroy us all.
Those who hate Israel hate us too.
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Douglas Carswell is the President &amp; CEO of the Mississippi Center for Public Policy.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the Daily Wire.

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took credit for the assassination of a top Hezbollah advisor during a press conference on Wednesday.
Netanyahu said Israel faces “challenging days ahead” but will “charge a very heavy price for any aggression from any arena.” On Tuesday, an Israeli air strike successfully targeted Fuad Shukr, also known as Hajj Mohsin. Israel launched the strike after 12 Druze children were killed by a Hezbollah missile in the northern Israel town of Majdal Shams. Around 40 additional people were wounded.
Netanyahu did not directly take credit for the Wednesday assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran, but did state that Israel delivered “crushing blows” on three Iranian proxies: Houthis, Hamas, and Hezbollah.
Netanyahu’s office reportedly declined to comment on their role in Haniyeh’s demise. Israel often does not comment on targeted killings. He did comment on the recent strike of Yemen’s Hodeida port after the Houthis sent a suicide drone to Tel Aviv.
Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, <a href="https://x.com/khamenei_ir/status/1818569675946491948">vowed</a> to have revenge and inflict “severe punishment” for the Hamas leader being killed in Iran.
Netanyahu said “threats are being sounded from everywhere” following the assassination of Shukr but said the Jewish state is “ready for every scenario” and “will stay united and determined against every threat.”
“We settled our score with [Hajj] Mohsin,” Netanyahu said “and we will settle our score with anyone who harms us. Everyone who takes aim at our children, everyone who murders our citizens, everyone who harms our country—their blood is on their own head.”
He also pointed out that Shukr played a central role in the 1983 bombing of the U.S. Marine Corps Barracks in Beirut, which killed 241 U.S. military personnel. The U.S. government has offered a  $5,000,000 <a href="https://rewardsforjustice.net/rewards/fuad-shukr/">reward</a> for anyone who provides information on him.
Netanyahu added that he will not give into domestic and foreign pressure to end the war because “all of the achievements in recent months were attained because we did not give in.” 
“Together we will fight, and with God’s help, together we will win,” he concluded.
The Biden-Harris administration has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-harris-admin-seeks-to-restrain-israel-from-responding-after-hezbollah-attack-kills-12-children">reportedly sought to restrain</a> Israel’s response to prevent further escalating the ongoing conflict between the Jewish state and Hezbollah.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that the United States government does not want to see the conflict “escalate” or spread.”
Hezbollah has attacked Israel with missiles or drones nearly every day since October 7. Israel has responded by striking Hezbollah military infrastructure, commanders, and launch sites.
About 80,000 Israelis have been evacuated from their homes in northern Israel since the hostilities began

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At least 12 people, mostly children, were murdered in a terrorist attack Saturday afternoon in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/israel" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Israel</a> after Hezbollah, an Iranian-backed terrorist group based in Lebanon, launched dozens of rockets at a soccer field.
The Islamic terrorist attack on Majdal Shams, a small village in the Golan Heights, also resulted in dozens of people being hurt.
The attack was the deadliest that Israel has experienced since Hamas, an Islamic terrorist group based in Gaza that is backed by Iran, launched an unprecedented attack on October 7 in which thousands of terrorists stormed into Israel and killed 1,200, wounded more than 5,000, took hundreds of people hostage, and unleashed a brutal campaign of rape and torture and women and children.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said that an intelligence assessment found that Hezbollah launched the attack &#8220;from an area located north of the village of Chebaa in southern Lebanon.&#8221;
Hezbollah has terrorized Israel in the nearly 10 months since the October 7 attack, firing thousands of rockets, drones, and missiles at communities and military sites in the northern part of the country, which has resulted in numerous fatalities and hundreds of thousands of Israelis being displaced from their homes.
The situation between Israel and Hezbollah has been on the brink of escalating into a full-blown war for several months now, and the attack on Saturday might be the catalyst that sparks it.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been in the U.S. for the past few days and announced that he was cutting his trip short and returning home immediately following the attack, vowing that Hezbollah “will pay a heavy price for this attack, one that it has not paid so far.”
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Former President Donald Trump welcomed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sarah to his Mar-A-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, on Friday, just one day after the prime minister <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kamala-harris-holds-brief-meeting-with-israeli-pm-netanyahu" target="_blank" rel="noopener">met</a> with Vice President Kamala Harris.
Trump told Netanyahu during the meeting, &#8220;We have incompetent people running our country,&#8221; <a href="https://x.com/margommartin/status/1816886322872947153" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to Trump Deputy Communications Director Margo Martin. A video posted to Trump&#8217;s Truth Social account shows the Republican presidential candidate greeting the Netanyahus before they posed for photos.
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Netanyahu posted a photo on X just minutes later, showing the prime minister and former president posing between an American flag and an Israeli flag while Netanyahu held a hat that reads, &#8220;Total Victory.&#8221;
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Trump has maintained his support for Israel as it continues its operation to root out Hamas, but he has urged the U.S. ally to finish the war in Gaza soon. In a Thursday interview with &#8220;Fox &amp; Friends,&#8221; Trump said that he wants Netanyahu &#8220;to finish up and get it done quickly.&#8221;
The Friday meeting was the first between the two leaders since Trump was in the White House.
Netanyahu met with Vice President Harris on Thursday and addressed Congress on Wednesday as his nation continues its war against Hamas in Gaza. Harris, who is now the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, has ramped up her criticism of Israel in recent months. In March, Harris called for an &#8220;immediate ceasefire for at least the next six weeks,&#8221; saying that Israel &#8220;must ensure humanitarian personnel, sites, and convoys are not targeted.”
The Israeli delegation was reportedly <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/israeli-delegation-reportedly-disappointed-after-benjamin-netanyahus-meeting-with-kamala-harris" target="_blank" rel="noopener">disappointed</a> with its meeting with the vice president, and some sources said that members of the delegation did not have a good impression of Harris. Following the meeting, Harris told reporters that she expressed her &#8220;concern about the scale of human suffering in Gaza, including the death of far too many innocent civilians.&#8221;
During his <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/netanyahu-praises-u-s-israel-bond-proposes-abraham-alliance-to-defeat-iran-hamas-terror" target="_blank" rel="noopener">address</a> to Congress, Netanyahu praised Trump for facilitating the Abraham Accords peace deal between countries in the Middle East and for moving the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem. Netanyahu also thanked President Joe Biden for &#8220;standing with&#8221; Israel &#8220;during our darkest hour.&#8221;

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Members of the delegation traveling with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netayahu were disappointed following their meeting with Vice President Kamala Harris, a high-level source told <a href="https://jewishinsider.com/2024/07/netanyahu-delegation-discouraged-after-meeting-with-vp-harris/">Jewish Insider</a>.
The senior Israeli diplomat was concerned about Harris’s support for Israel. Other sources said the delegation did not have an encouraging first impression of the vice president.
The two leaders exchanged pleasantries during a photo-op and met for about 40 minutes in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building next to the White House.
After the meeting, Harris <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2024/07/25/remarks-by-vice-president-harris-following-meeting-with-prime-minister-benjamin-netanyahu-of-israel/">delivered remarks</a> where she took a critical stance on Israel’s role in the Gaza war, stating that the Jewish state had a right to defend itself but “how it does so matters.”
“I also expressed with the prime minister my serious concern about the scale of human suffering in Gaza, including the death of far too many innocent civilians,” Harris said. “And I made clear my serious concern about the dire humanitarian situation there, with over 2 million people facing high levels of food insecurity and half a million people facing catastrophic levels of acute food insecurity.”
Harris also called the situation in Gaza “devastating” and said “we cannot look away in the face of these tragedies,” adding that she “will not be silent.”
Netanyahu rejected claims that Israel is deliberately starving Gazans during his joint-address to Congress on Wednesday, stating that Israel “enabled 40,000 aid trucks to enter Gaza” and deliver half a million tons of food.
“If there are Palestinians in Gaza who aren’t getting enough food, it’s not because Israel is blocking it, it’s because Hamas is stealing it,” he said, calling the accusations “a complete fabrication” and “utter nonsense.”
Harris said she told Netanyahu that it&#8217;s “time to get this deal done,” despite Hamas recently <a href="https://www.jns.org/hamas-said-to-have-rejected-ceasefire-proposal/">rejecting a ceasefire</a> proposal.
Netanyahu reportedly told President Joe Biden in a meeting Thursday that the more united the United States and Israel are, the greater the chances of securing hostages through negotiations become, according to Jewish Insider.
Hamas fired a barrage of rockets at southern Israel on Friday afternoon near the city of Ashkelon. 
Harris added that she supports a two-state solution because it is “the only path that ensures Israel remains, secure, Jewish, an democratic state and one that ensures Palestinians can finally realize the freedom, security, and prosperity that they rightly deserve.”
The Israeli delegation was reportedly surprised that Harris took a more aggressive tone in her speech than in their meeting.
In <a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/kamala-harris-interview-profile-excerpt/">an interview </a>earlier this month, Harris commented on the anti-Semitic and anti-Israel protests that escalated to violence and caused graduation cancellations, saying the protesters &#8220;are expressing exactly the human emotion that is appropriate in response to Gaza.&#8221;
&#8220;I understand the emotion behind it,&#8221; Harris said.
The vice president opted not to preside over <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/netanyahu-praises-u-s-israel-bond-proposes-abraham-alliance-to-defeat-iran-hamas-terror">Netanyahu&#8217;s address</a> in Congress on Wednesday, choosing instead to participate in a convention for the historically Black sorority Zeta Phi Beta in Indiana.
Netanyahu will meet with former President Donald Trump Friday afternoon at Mar-A Lago.

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