A man charged with assault for allegedly tackling a pro-Israel demonstrator has called for the destruction of the United States and refused to condemn <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/hamas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hamas</a>, a review of his social media history reveals.
Caleb Gannon, 31, was charged with assault after The Daily Wire <a href="https://x.com/KassyAkiva/status/1834398215333900487">released an exclusive video</a> that shows him charging across a street and tackling Scott Hayes, pro-Israel demonstrator, in Newton, Massachusetts. Gannon knocked Hayes to the ground and attacked him before Hayes, whose lawyers say that he acted in self-defense, shot him in the stomach. Hayes immediately tended to Gannon until emergency workers arrived.
At first, it was unclear why Gannon chose to charge the small, peaceful stand-in. But a review of Gannon’s social media activity reveals that he has called for the complete destruction of the United States and has refused to condemn Hamas, the Islamic terrorist organization behind the October 7th terror attack on Israel.
“The United States government is a rogue terrorist organization that does not represent its population. It must end,” Gannon, who has been charged with assault and battery, wrote in one of his extreme posts on X. Gannon&#8217;s X profile also features a Palestinian flag and the hashtag &#8220;#ActuallyAutistic.&#8221;
“All police precincts, military bases, and government offices must be liquidated immediately, and all resources from them redirected back into their communities,” he went on to say in the post pinned to the top of his profile.
Gannon, who says that he uses the pronouns “he/they/any,” also expressed support for Hamas and refused to condemn them.
“No, I don’t condemn Hamas,” he wrote, instead saying, “I condemn my family,” because they have been unwilling to “recognize the blatant genocide that’s been occurring for months in Palestine.”
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Caleb Gannon, the man who tackled Scott Hayes and was shot, has a X history of calling for the destruction of America and says he does not condemn Hamas. <a href="https://t.co/t11GcY5eFv">pic.twitter.com/t11GcY5eFv</a>
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Gannon also <a href="https://x.com/KassyAkiva/status/1834718209758392807">reposted</a> an X post from an account named “trans judeo-bolshevik,” who wrote, “the correct response to zionists feeling unsafe on college campuses is to say ‘good, zionists should feel unsafe everywhere—no one who supports a genocidal ideology should ever feel safe from repercussions.’”
Hayes was charged with assault and battery with a deadly weapon after he defended himself with a firearm. Hayes was <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/newton-pro-israel-rally-shooting-scott-hayes/">released from court</a> on a $5,000 bail and now must wear a GPS monitor and abide by a curfew.
Anti-Defamation League New England said in a <a href="https://x.com/ADL_NewEngland/status/1834443208719307223">statement on X</a> that it was “concerning” that “charges were immediately filed prior to completion of the investigation&#8221; into Hayes. Supporters have <a href="https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-scott-hayes-legal-defense?attribution_id=sl:8772e9ff-da35-43bd-a6a4-6dfa501831ba&amp;utm_campaign=man_ss_icons&amp;utm_medium=customer&amp;utm_source=copy_link">raised</a> nearly $168,000 for Hayes&#8217; legal defense on GoFundMe.

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Scott Hayes, 47, was arraigned and will be released on a $5,000 bail after he was arrested on Thursday for shooting a man with a pro-Palestinian pin who charged through traffic and tackled him in Newton, Massachusetts.
Hayes pleaded not guilty in the Newton District Court to the charge of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon. He is required to wear a GPS ankle monitor and abide by a curfew that will allow him to continue working as a contractor.
Hayes spoke briefly in court, answering the judge’s question about how often he attends religious services, according to sources in the courtroom. Hayes’ lawyers requested he be allowed to attend religious services, work, and legal and medical appointments. 
The judge ordered Hayes, an Iraq War veteran, to stay away from Newton and the man who attacked him, and to possess no weapons.
Middlesex County District Attorney Marian Ryan said Thursday night that Hayes would be charged with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and violation of a constitutional right causing injury, though only the first charge was brought during the arraignment.
Prosecutors said they requested a criminal complaint to be filed against the man who tackled Hayes, which is currently pending in the clerk’s office.
The man who attacked Hayes has been identified as Caleb Gannon. He sustained life-threatening injuries, according to authorities. 
In a video obtained by The Daily Wire, Ganon, wearing Palestinian pin stood on the opposite side of the street, yelling at a group of 10 protesters. He called them &#8220;sick&#8221; and accused them of &#8220;supporting genocide.&#8221;
Ganon then charged across the street in front of cars and tackled Hayes, who was preparing to leave before the attack. Moments later, while Gannon was on top of Hayes, the veteran shot him in the stomach. Video shows Hayes placing the gun behind him on the pavement after the shot.
In another video, Hayes, who was holding American and Israeli flags throughout the protest, is seen telling bystanders to call 911 while tending to Gannon&#8217;s wound.
Hayes legally owned the firearm he used during the altercation.
Support for Hayes has flown in, with a <a href="https://t.co/KfjyJyARf7">GoFundMe</a> for his legal defense raising over $130,000 as of Friday afternoon.
“We stand with Scott Hayes, who was defending himself after being attacked by a pro-Hamas maniac in Massachusetts,” The Republican Jewish Coalition <a href="https://x.com/RJC/status/1834651540272865596">posted</a> on X. 
Anti-Defamation League New England said it was “concerning” that “charges were immediately filed prior to completion of the investigation” in a <a href="https://x.com/ADL_NewEngland/status/1834443208719307223">statement on X</a>.
Hayes frequently attends pro-Israel protests and rallies around New England to show his support for Israel and to call for the release of the 101 hostages currently held by Hamas in Gaza.

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Actress Patricia Heaton, the former star of “Everybody Loves Raymond,” issued a message on the 23rd anniversary of the 9/11 Islamic terrorist attacks on America in which she stated that the same kinds of terrorists who wanted to butcher Americans on 9/11 now target Israel, and, by extension, Americans and all of Western democracy.
“I happened to be in New York City on September 11, 2001 with the cast of Everybody Loves Raymond,” Heaton, a devout Catholic, wrote on X. “It was a terrifying experience. It’s hard to believe now that Israel is experiencing the same horrors. It needs to end.”
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In the accompanying video, she delivered this message:
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It’s 9/11 again. And here we are. The same terrorists are back in full force, this time going after Israel but really they’re going after all of us. They’re going after Western democracy. They’re going against anyone who’s not a radical Islamist.
And anyone who calls for Israel to lay down its arms, you are supporting the same people who took down the Twin Towers. You are supporting Hamas; you are being used by Hamas. If you don’t understand this, you are being profoundly naive.
It is Hamas who broke the ceasefire on October 7. It’s Hamas who murdered all those Israelis. It is Hamas who took hostages, including babies, like Ariel and Kfir Bibas. It is Hamas who puts Palestinians in the line of danger. It is Hamas who has refused — over twenty times — to sign a ceasefire deal. It is Hamas who executed the hostages.
It’s not the United States. It’s not Israel.
Please understand this: Israel has to stay in it and do what is necessary until the terrorists are eliminated. Please understand this.
God bless everyone who died on 9/11, everyone in the Twin Towers, and all the first responders. And God bless their families. And God bless everyone who’s still waiting for people to come home from Gaza.
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I happened to be in New York City on September 11, 2001 with the cast of Everybody Loves Raymond. It was a terrifying experience. It’s hard to believe now that Israel is experiencing the same horrors. It needs to end. <a href="https://t.co/UrCqfsl7SF">pic.twitter.com/UrCqfsl7SF</a>
&mdash; Patricia Heaton (@PatriciaHeaton) <a href="https://twitter.com/PatriciaHeaton/status/1833953227403935817?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 11, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Patty Heaton’s 9/11 Message: ‘Here We Are. The Same Terrorists Are Back In Full Force, This Time Going After Israel’

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The head of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), who publicly praised Hamas’ October 7 attack on Israel, outlined a plan to help elect 40-50 members to Congress in a sermon last month, <a href="https://www.memri.org/tv/cair-exec-director-nihad-awad-working-eliminate-change-public-school-textbooks-defame-islam-prophet">MEMRI reported</a>.
CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad said his vision is the “next phase” in dedicating “professional resources to inform the public systematically about this faith,” adding that he recommends a “scientific approach.”
“If we commit to do this, four years from now, the Muslim community will have 4,000 new journalists, we will have 4,000 filmmakers, 4,000 lawyers, 4,000 students of political science, 4,000 students of history,” he said.
In 15 years, Awad said the numbers will continue to grow, creating “an army” of 50,000 in such fields, many of whom will “most likely” run for office.
“We can have in ten years, at least 40-50 members of Congress — in the U.S. Congress,” he said.
In the August 30th sermon at the East Plano Islamic Center in Texas, Awad said CAIR has been fighting to eliminate Islamophobia that is “deeply rooted” in American culture, academia, and Hollywood. “For hundreds of years, Islam has been denigrated, the Prophet has been smeared and defamed in books and textbooks that were taught in public schools, that Allah be praised, we have been working to eliminate and change,” Awad said in the sermon live-streamed on YouTube.
Awad said it&#8217;s time for the Muslim community — which he called affluent, vibrant, educated, and well-to-do — to move to the next phase.
While CAIR, founded in 1994, positions itself as the top American Muslim civil rights organization, it has a troubling record that led the Biden administration to distance itself in the fallout of Hamas’ brutal massacre, rape, and kidnapping of Israeli civilians on October 7.
The White House <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/white-house-scrambles-to-distance-itself-from-cair-after-shocking-anti-semitic-statements">distanced itself</a> from CAIR in December after Awad said he was “happy to see” Gazans “breaking the siege and throwing down the shackles of their own land” on October 7, the day Hamas massacred over a thousand Israeli civilians. He added that Israel does not have the right to self-defense.
The White House condemned Awad’s remarks and <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/08/us/politics/white-house-cair-nihad-awad.html">removed</a> CAIR as a partner from a White House fact sheet for its National Strategy to Counter Anti-Semitism.
On October 7, as Hamas was actively ravaging communities in southern Israel, CAIR’s official <a href="https://x.com/CAIRNational/status/1710758201358966893">account tweeted</a> its “support for the Palestinian people’s right to freedom and calling for an end to the Israeli occupation.” 
The tweet went on to blame Israel for Hamas’ attack, claiming the Jewish state “sparks the deadly violence that we see again and again, including today.”
It concluded its thread by calling on the United States, and Arab and Muslim governments to “exert maximum pressure on the Israeli government” to “respect Palestinian human rights and end the occupation,” despite the attackers coming from Gaza which Israel withdrew from in 2005.
Awad and other CAIR leaders are known for making similar anti-Semitic remarks, according to the <a href="https://www.adl.org/resources/backgrounder/council-american-islamic-relations-cair">Anti-Defamation League</a>.
Awad has labeled Zionist organizations “enemies of the Muslim community,” claimed they “make up the core of the Islamophobia network in the United States,” and accused pro-Israel groups of having “corrupted” the U.S. government.
Following an attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump, Awad shared an article about the Secret Service receiving intel on Iranian threats against Trump, speculating whether it was an “Israeli plot to ignite another war between the U.S. and other countries in the Middle East at its behest.”
In July, a man with close ties to Iran was arrested for attempting to hire hitmen to assassinate high-profile politicians, with former President Donald Trump’s name being floated as one of the targets, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-admin-refused-to-grant-nikki-haley-secret-service-protection-despite-iranian-threats">according to government records</a>.
CAIR’s San Francisco Bay Area Executive Director, Zahra Billoo, once declared that “Zionists” are “your enemies,” warning followers to “pay attention” to “Zionist synagogues,” Hillels, and Jewish federations. Following the October 7 attack, Billoo further claimed the violence was the world “witnessing decolonization.”
Hussam Ayloush, CEO and Executive Director of CAIR Greater Los Angeles Area also has an anti-Israel history, including stating Israel does not have a right to defend itself, and <a href="https://www.memri.org/reports/cair-la-director-hussam-ayloush-november-2023-islamic-society-orange-county-event-israel">asserting</a> that “Israel should be attacked.”
Similarly, on October 7 and 9, Zainab Chaudry, Director of Maryland Outreach, CAIR Maryland <a href="https://www.adl.org/resources/backgrounder/council-american-islamic-relations-cair">referred</a> to the Hamas attack as an “uprising” against “colonizers” and called Hamas terrorists “Palestinian freedom fighters.” In November, Abdullah Jaber, Executive Director, CAIR Florida, stated that Israeli Jews are not followers of “Abraham, Moses, or Jesus.”
During Awad’s sermon, he also said that the anti-Israel “uncommitted movement” had “changed the tone” of Vice President Kamala Harris on Israel through uncommitted delegates pressuring Democratic leaders during the Democratic National Convention.

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The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/israel-defense-forces-idf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Israel Defense Forces</a> have killed a Rafah commander for Hamas who was instrumental in planning the murderous October 7 massacre of more than 1,200 Israelis.
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Mahmoud Hamdan, commander of Hamas&#39;s Tel al-Sultan Battalion, has been eliminated in a joint operation by the IDF and ISA.
The Tel al-Sultan Battalion played a significant role in planning the horrors of October 7th and was operating out of Rafah. <a href="https://t.co/l2kNdpKlKD">pic.twitter.com/l2kNdpKlKD</a>
&mdash; Hen Mazzig (@HenMazzig) <a href="https://twitter.com/HenMazzig/status/1833552229611020698?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 10, 2024</a></blockquote>
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“In a joint operation by the IDF and Shin Bet forces, the fighters of the 401st Brigade identified a number of terrorist squads using drones, the forces directed Air Force aircraft that eliminated the terrorists. In the attack, the commander of the &#8216;Tel Sultan&#8217; battalion, Mahmoud Hamdan, and three other company commanders from the battalion were killed,” the IDF tweeted.
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בפעילות משותפת של כוחות צה&quot;ל ושב&quot;כ, לוחמי חטיבה 401 זיהו באמצעות רחפנים מספר חוליות מחבלים, הכוחות הכווינו כלי טיס של חיל האוויר שחיסלו את המחבלים. בתקיפה חוסל מפקד גדוד ׳תל סולטאן׳ מחמוד חמדאן ושלושה מפקדי פלוגות נוספים מהגדוד &gt;&gt; <a href="https://t.co/ie5sZxFvTh">pic.twitter.com/ie5sZxFvTh</a>
&mdash; צבא ההגנה לישראל (@idfonline) <a href="https://twitter.com/idfonline/status/1833515730592997610?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 10, 2024</a></blockquote>
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The IDF added: “In the attack and other attacks, the chain of command of the Tel Sultan battalion was eliminated, as well as dozens of other terrorists from the battalion. The commander of the &#8216;Tel Sultan&#8217; battalion, Mahmoud Hamdan, took a significant part in planning the raid into Israel on October 7 and promoted the preparation plan of the Rafah Brigade before the entry of IDF forces into the area. In addition, he initiated, led and planned dozens of terrorist plots against the IDF forces and the State of Israel.”
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בתקיפה ובתקיפות נוספות חוסלה שרשרת הפיקוד של גדוד ׳תל סולטאן׳ וכן, עשרות מחבלים נוספים מהגדוד. 
מפקד גדוד ׳תל סולטאן׳ מחמוד חמדאן, לקח חלק משמעותי בתכנון הפשיטה לארץ ב-7 באוקטובר וקידם את תוכנית ההיערכות של חטיבת רפיח טרם כניסת כוחות צה״ל למרחב &gt;&gt; <a href="https://t.co/k3ewod3jcD">pic.twitter.com/k3ewod3jcD</a>
&mdash; צבא ההגנה לישראל (@idfonline) <a href="https://twitter.com/idfonline/status/1833515774960668753?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 10, 2024</a></blockquote>
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בנוסף, יזם, הוביל ותכנן עשרות מתווי טרור נגד כוחות צה&quot;ל ומדינת ישראל <a href="https://t.co/RI0yOdSFnD">pic.twitter.com/RI0yOdSFnD</a>
&mdash; צבא ההגנה לישראל (@idfonline) <a href="https://twitter.com/idfonline/status/1833515824197571051?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 10, 2024</a></blockquote>
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On Sunday, famed British author Chris Ryan issued an <a href="https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1833204850777330004.html">X thread</a> in which he discussed just one incident from the massacre (of the many he saw on video footage) indicating how barbaric the massacre was. He wrote:
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Source: Hamas head cam/chest cam and mobile phone video footage. Hamas terrorists took hours of footage during the slaughter of 7th October. I can’t, nor want to describe the horror of every single piece of footage that I saw. I hope you’ll understand the depth of depravity from this example because I won’t speak about any others, however, I will say that the violence and depravity I witnessed was beyond all comprehension.
What I saw: 3 Hamas terrorists entered a room, two young girls (maybe 12, maybe younger) hiding under a table protecting their puppies. The terrorists had a very calm and nonchalant open conversation about who or what was to be killed first as if they were picking something out in a supermarket.
A decision was made by the terrorists to execute the little girl, they murder her by execution, then they realise that the other little girl who they thought was already dead was injured but still alive, then a debate happens on whether they execute her or the puppies first. Then they murder her by execution and the puppies.
What I felt: 
Numb, angry that I wasn&#8217;t there to stop them. 
What I think: 
I think about the fear those girls went through before their murder and know that I will see that scene for some time to come.
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The Biden administration repeatedly pressured Israel to stay out of Rafah, the final stronghold of Hamas in Israel’s war to exterminate the terror group. Vice President Kamala Harris said during a March interview with ABC News that she and the president believed military action in Rafah to be a “huge mistake.”
“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.
“I have studied the maps. There’s nowhere for those folks to go,” she continued, referring to civilians moved into Rafah as the IDF fought Hamas in other parts of the enclave. “We’ve been very clear that it would be a mistake to move into Rafah with any type of military operation.”
Tim Pearce contributed to this article.

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The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/fbi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">FBI</a> took a virtual beating on Thursday for an X post highlighting Director Christopher Wray&#8217;s &#8220;warning&#8221; to foreign actors who might have designs on meddling in American elections: &#8220;Knock it off.&#8221;
With a display of force not seen since President Joe Biden told Iran, &#8220;don&#8217;t&#8221; enlist terrorist proxies like Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis to attack Israel — or since Vice President Kamala Harris warned migrants, &#8220;do not come&#8221; — Wray urged foreign adversaries to butt out and leave American elections alone.
&#8220;&#8216;Knock it off.&#8217; — Says FBI Director Christopher Wray to foreign adversaries meddling in American democracy,&#8221; the post read.
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&#8220;Knock it off.&#8221; &#8211; Says FBI Director Christopher Wray to foreign adversaries meddling in American democracy. <a href="https://t.co/DbocEMxFbR">https://t.co/DbocEMxFbR</a><a href="https://t.co/mpSEnuDVlZ">https://t.co/mpSEnuDVlZ</a> <a href="https://t.co/L9gj4aTcnm">pic.twitter.com/L9gj4aTcnm</a>
— FBI (@FBI) <a href="https://twitter.com/FBI/status/1831422641288159284?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 4, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Critics made it clear that they fully expected Wray&#8217;s directive to be equally as effective as Harris&#8217; and Biden&#8217;s had been — which is to say, not in the least — and they took to X to mock the bureau.
&#8220;A fail-proof tactic,&#8221; Chuck Ross said of Wray&#8217;s strategy.
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A fail-proof tactic <a href="https://t.co/TlKEFzD3vy">https://t.co/TlKEFzD3vy</a> <a href="https://t.co/9zunvSBu1u">pic.twitter.com/9zunvSBu1u</a>
— Chuck Ross (@ChuckRossDC) <a href="https://twitter.com/ChuckRossDC/status/1831499623367905671?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 5, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Newsmax&#8217;s John Bachman added, &#8220;The @FBI employing same tactic to stop foreign election interference that my dad used to keep my feet off the back of his car seat.&#8221;
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The <a href="https://twitter.com/FBI?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@FBI</a> employing same tactic to stop foreign election interference that my dad used to keep my feet off the back of his car seat. <a href="https://t.co/O7OBhqRumQ">https://t.co/O7OBhqRumQ</a>
— John Bachman (@JohnFBachman) <a href="https://twitter.com/JohnFBachman/status/1831731430579196299?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 5, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Did a 12 year-old from 1950 write this for Director Wray? Where are we as a country when something from the FBI is dumbed down to this level?&#8221; Jeff Clark asked.
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Did a 12 year-old from 1950 write this for Director Wray?
Where are we as a country when something from the FBI is dumbed down to this level? <a href="https://t.co/3QrYq5A9C4">https://t.co/3QrYq5A9C4</a>
— Jeff Clark (@JeffClarkUS) <a href="https://twitter.com/JeffClarkUS/status/1831676165183938575?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 5, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Xi, Putin, and the Ayatollahs are laughing at this and asking &#8216;Or what?'&#8221; Rep. Mike Waltz (R-FL) added.
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Xi, Putin, and the Ayatollahs are laughing at this and asking “Or what?” <a href="https://t.co/FuzMbGX8QV">https://t.co/FuzMbGX8QV</a>
— Rep. Mike Waltz (@michaelgwaltz) <a href="https://twitter.com/michaelgwaltz/status/1831716919247798749?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 5, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;From the people who brought you &#8216;don’t,&#8217; I present to you the sequel &#8216;knock it off.&#8217; The trilogy will end with &#8216;don’t you even think about it, buddy!'&#8221; Ethan Fine predicted.
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From the people who brought you “don’t”, I present to you the sequel “knock it off”. The trilogy will end with “don’t you even think about it, buddy!” <a href="https://t.co/rUhJkDmnw1">https://t.co/rUhJkDmnw1</a>
— Ethan Fine (@FineEthan) <a href="https://twitter.com/FineEthan/status/1831466436499296765?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 4, 2024</a></blockquote>
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FBI Debuts Bold New Strategy In Combatting Foreign Election Meddling: ‘Knock It Off’

FBI Debuts Bold New Strategy In Combatting Foreign Election Meddling: 'Knock It Off'

Elections

Joe Biden

Politics

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

The U.S. Justice Department announced criminal charges Tuesday afternoon against six senior leaders in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/hamas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hamas</a>, an Iranian-backed terrorist organization based in Gaza, over their role in carrying out the October 7 massacre against U.S. and Israeli citizens last year.
The six Hamas officials who were charged in the indictment include Ismail Haniyeh, chairman of Hamas’ Politburo; Yahya Sinwar, the leader of Hamas; Mohammad Al-Masri, commander in chief of the al-Qassam Brigades; Marwan Issa, deputy commander of the al-Qassam Brigades; Khaled Meshaal, chairman of Hamas’ Politburo from approximately 2004 to 2017 and who is now the head of Hamas’ diaspora office; and Ali Baraka, 57, Hamas’ head of National Relations Abroad since approximately 2019.
Of the six who were charged, three have been killed in recent months in response to the terrorist attack that they carried out. Those killed include Haniyeh, Al-Masri, and Issa.
The Justice Department said all of the defendants &#8220;have orchestrated, overseen, and supported Hamas’s decades-long campaign of terrorism, including the October 7 Hamas Massacres.&#8221;
The DOJ highlighted other acts of terrorism that the Palestinian terrorist group is responsible for, including suicide bombings of restaurants, markets, public transportation systems, and other public spaces.
&#8220;As of the date of the complaint, over 40 American citizens were among those murdered, and at least eight American citizens were taken hostage or remain unaccounted for,&#8221; the statement said. &#8220;Most recently, Hamas executed a U.S. citizen who was taken hostage by Hamas during the October 7 Hamas Massacres and remained in captivity until he was murdered.&#8221;
Prosecutors said that Hamas&#8217; ability to carry out terrorist attacks is fueled by the Islamic Republic of Iran, &#8220;particularly the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and its Qods Force (IRGC-QF) — the element of the IRGC responsible for conducting external terrorism operations and providing support to terrorist groups — which has supported, supplied, and trained Hamas, and by the Lebanon-based Shia Islamic terrorist organization Hezbollah.&#8221;
&#8220;Hamas raises money to fund its terrorist activities through a variety of methods, including by soliciting and receiving cryptocurrency payments, advertising the ostensible anonymity of such transactions,&#8221; prosecutors said, noting that the terror group has raised tens of millions of dollars from supporters around the world, including in the U.S., who have knowingly given money to the group for the intent of financing terrorism.
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Each of the defendants were charged with conspiring to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization resulting in death, which carries a maximum penalty of life in prison; conspiring to provide material support for acts of terrorism resulting in death, which carries a maximum penalty of life in prison; conspiring to murder U.S. nationals outside the United States, which carries a maximum penalty of life in prison; conspiring to bomb a place of public use resulting in death, which carries a maximum penalty of death or life in prison; conspiring to use weapons of mass destruction resulting in death, which carries a maximum penalty of death or life in prison; conspiring to finance terrorism, which carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison; and conspiring to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, which carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison.
Attorney General Merrick Garland said that the indictment was just one part of the U.S.&#8217; efforts to hold Hamas accountable for its acts of terrorism.

Attorney General Garland Makes Antitrust Announcement At The Justice Department

U.S. Charges 6 Top Hamas Leaders Over October 7 Attack

Department of Justice

October 7

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

Global Politics

Leftism

strike

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.
WATCH:
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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

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz made an attempt at damage control — following a wave of backlash for <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tim-walz-turns-his-back-on-person-asking-about-hostages-murdered-by-hamas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">refusing to address</a> the six hostages found dead in Gaza — and critics made it clear that they weren&#8217;t impressed with his response.
Walz was initially approached on Sunday at the Minnesota State Fair, and while the Democratic Party&#8217;s vice presidential nominee appeared to be enjoying himself up to that point, he turned his back and walked away the minute someone asked about the six hostages found by Israel Defense Forces (IDF) in Rafah.
WATCH:
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Tim Walz was asked three questions at the state fair—the first two were superficial softballs.
When asked about the six dead hostages in Gaza?
*walks away*<a href="https://t.co/26zjsTw01j">pic.twitter.com/26zjsTw01j</a>
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Hours later, after video of the exchange spread across social media, Walz attempted damage control and posted a statement about one of the hostages who was among the dead, 23-year-old American-Israeli Hersh Goldberg-Polin.
&#8220;The anguish of losing a child is something no family should have to endure. Gwen and I send our deepest condolences to the Goldberg-Polin family, after Hamas’ murder of their son Hersh,&#8221; Walz said. &#8220;Hamas is a brutal terrorist organization — and we condemn their continued atrocities against both Americans and Israelis in the strongest possible terms.&#8221;
Critics pushed back, however, saying that Walz&#8217;s statement was too little too late — particularly after the way he&#8217;d responded when asked about the situation earlier.
&#8220;It took you all day to come up with this? Why didn’t you just answer the question at the State Fair?&#8221; one posted.
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It took you all day to come up with this?
Why didn’t you just answer the question at the State Fair?<a href="https://t.co/jJ3B1xRHPn">pic.twitter.com/jJ3B1xRHPn</a>
— IT Guy (@ITGuy1959) <a href="https://twitter.com/ITGuy1959/status/1830472961993687060?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 2, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Why did you run away when asked?&#8221; another post read.
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Why did you run away when asked? <a href="https://t.co/O6lxvvIX2j">https://t.co/O6lxvvIX2j</a>
— jimtreacher.substack.com (@jtLOL) <a href="https://twitter.com/jtLOL/status/1830582126754058437?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 2, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Tim Walz wouldn’t have said a word about this had he not been caught on tape. He ignored the question earlier today and now he’s trying to save face,&#8221; another posted.
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Tim Walz wouldn’t have said a word about this had he not been caught on tape.
He ignored the question earlier today and now he’s trying to save face. <a href="https://t.co/FS8ZPbyGTO">https://t.co/FS8ZPbyGTO</a> <a href="https://t.co/ykQoc3R0rv">pic.twitter.com/ykQoc3R0rv</a>
— Dustin Grage (@GrageDustin) <a href="https://twitter.com/GrageDustin/status/1830403319539384366?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 2, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Finally done at the State Fair? Or did your handlers realize what a terrible look it was to run away when asked about a murdered American so they had an intern write something? Too little, too late,&#8221; Twitchy&#8217;s PolitiBunny concluded.
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Finally done at the State Fair? Or did your handlers realize what a terrible look it was to run away when asked about a murdered American so they had an intern write something?
Too little, too late.
— The🐰FOO (@PolitiBunny) <a href="https://twitter.com/PolitiBunny/status/1830556072823636298?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 2, 2024</a></blockquote>
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