Watching mothers and children reunited can’t help but tug at your heart strings.  The terror visited on Jews is now visited on the whole world.  Somebody else can look at the pictures.  The huge demonstrations on American soil claim that there were no atrocities.  These protesters think they’re entitled to their own truth.  Two taps on the chest, and they can come up with anything.  “My truth.”

Another day, with two thirds of the hostages still being held, war has resumed.  As you know, news outlets are all over it with reporters nearby.  Israel’s spokesmen have been resolute.  Hamas must be destroyed for all time.  They’ve purportedly committed mind bending atrocities. 

The interviews are beginning.  For the rest of our lives we’ll be re-living the hell they went  through.  Can you imagine being held underground for six weeks?  That would be psychologically damaging all by itself.  But these returned hostages endured malnutrition and who knows what else.

When you think about it, they’re visiting terrorism on the entire world!  The news reports what they can, and even that isn’t fit for human consumption.  Videos come with warnings, and I for one am not going to watch any of it.  Some of the terrorists wore body cams and helmet cams.  

Their argument is circular.  They’re crazy by their own admission.  “Of course they are crazy,” the story goes.  You know who made them crazy, and therefore it’s not their fault.  They’re just innocent victims, made insane by Israel.  

Some are now reasoning about what happened in 1948 with the UN mandate that created Israel.  That was 75 years ago.  Is history to be undone?  The terrorists think so.  Their rebellion has not gone so well, as you can see.  It’s not going well now.  You’ve seen the utter destruction.  It’s like something out of a horror movie.  

When have you ever seen maps dropped, announcing future bombing locations to stay away from?  Israel told the residents, the innocent victims caught between combatants, to get out.  But that’s not what the terrorists had in mind.  Human shields is the name of the game.  It’s their whole strategy, beyond committing acts not fit for the mind.  

Maybe something is going on.  Personally, I think everybody’s had just about enough of saving the planet, global warming and orders from doctors.  Along that line, did you see what Elon Musk told the advertisers who had fled after Media Matters put out a fraudulent meme, claiming that Elon’s company was placing big name corporate advertisers next to “racists” screeds?  This might make a difference, eventually.  He told them off, like he didn’t even care.  We’ll see what happens.  He’s suing Media Matters.  Hope he puts them out of business. 

There are some signs that people all over the world have had enough of this new age, anti-God philosophy.  Most people don’t want the government breathing down their neck, making prohibitions and demands.  We like the Constitution, thanks very much.  But other nations in the world don’t have our Constitution.  Holland, New Zealand (shock), and Argentina have elected conservatives.  You can only take so much. 

Mark

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Demonstrations are going on all over the world, and here in the U. S.  They’re on several university campuses, choking Central Station, the Brooklyn bridge…  They’re waving flags, shouting slogans, demanding a ceasefire?  Maybe somebody should have thought of that a few weeks ago.

The way to break up these demonstrations is to place a big screen where it can’t be avoided.  We don’t want to see what Hamas did, but they need to.  

Informed diplomats are popping up everywhere to demand a humanitarian pause in Israel’s response to the terrorists in Gaza.  Somehow the news anchors are not swayed by terrorists tunnels safely beneath the hospital.  Everybody’s an innocent victim, except that guy on the phone with his parents boasting in near tears about how he’d killed them “with my own hands.”  

I saw a report on a guy who survived the assault on a kibbutz.  He had a Glock.  Otherwise he and his family would have been shot or dragged off as hostages.  The guy killed ten or twelve bad guys and saved his family.  They’re giving interviews.  Israel is going to have to do something about their strict gun laws.  Apparently the demand is surging amid current circumstances.  What sense does it make to be defenseless in that environment?

The Hamas shot-callers are reportedly phoning it in from lavish penthouses in Qatar.  The Israeli military already has assets in Gaza, having cleared a path.  From there, you presumably know the latest on the situation.  Assuming you’re interested.  It’s our job to be interested, and we probably would be anyway.  

Now Erdogan of Turkey is making brave threats about sending his military to the war zone.  

As you’ve heard, Qatar is doing all the negotiating for the hostages.  Somehow they’ve been able to position themselves as the broker of Middle East deals.

Some Iranian diplomat was allowed into the United States where he threatened the U. S. on Iran’s behalf at the UN podium.  Now the Houthis from Yemen have declared war on Israel.   Diplomats are racing around like its WWIII.  Not yet, but the war is threatening to take on new dimensions.  Do those in Lebanon really want Beirut to look like Gaza?  There are drone shots of crowds of young men scouring the powdered concrete blocks.

Maybe I-24 News has the most detailed coverage, but the news channels are Live around the clock.  Black and white target cams obliterate your screen as bombs detonate structures.  They say there are 300 miles of tunnels deep under Gaza city.  Hostages are still being held, even some with American passports.  There will be books written, movies made.  We can’t imagine all that is transpiring in real time.

Israeli forces caught a bunch of the infiltrators.  They were making maybe 25 or 30 of them listen to Israeli nursery music by the hour.  They say they’re conducting interrogations “by the law.”  Some of the target information for all the buildings we see imploding is coming from these guys.  Some reportedly start singing right away, others…  Physical pressure is applied.  You don’t want to know.

The top universities in the U. S. are choked with demonstrations on behalf of… Hamas?  Yes, you read it right.  

Now we’re wondering if the terror will come to the United States.  The F.B.I. Director said it’s a strong possibility.  The border is leaking at a tremendous rate.  We can’t even stand to watch as huge crowds stream toward the crossings.  Just another day for those responsible.  They send some moron before Congress to explain how it’s all under control.  Department of what? 

So the terrorists are making brave threats.  Americans will pay for their support of Israel, they boast.  You don’t suppose some terrorist network has infiltrated amid the border charade?  They’re not sure who all got away, but as we’ve seen the “immigrants” are coming from all over the world.

Congress is wrestling with funding.  As you know, the administration is lobbying for Ukraine funding and financial help for Israel be lumped together.  Some, growing weary of backing the skirmish in Ukraine, want the two issues decoupled.  An interview with someone in the know in the top echelons of Ukraine made the reporter turn off his tape recorder, and then said they’re stealing “like there’s no tomorrow,” speaking of the distribution of U. S. aid.  We suspected so.

You know Al Gore must be pacing the floor, worried that there are more immediate threats than his desperate view of the future. We weren’t buying it anyway. 

Mark

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BERLIN

Germany’s foreign minister is scheduled to travel to Israel and the West Bank for political talks late Wednesday night amid the escalating Gaza conflict.

“I am planning to travel to Israel for talks in Jerusalem and Ramallah later tonight,” Heiko Maas told reporters in Berlin.

According to a Foreign Ministry statement, Maas will meet with Israeli President Reuven Rivlin, his Israeli counterpart Gabi Ashkenazi, and Defense Minister Benny Gantz.

In Ramallah he is slated to meet with Mohammad Shtayyeh, the Palestinian Authority prime minister.

Talks will focus on the current escalation in the Middle East and international efforts to end the violence.

Germany is a staunch ally of Israel and has repeatedly supported Tel Aviv’s military aggression on Gaza, claiming that Israel is exercising its right to self-defense.

Meanwhile, a German Foreign Ministry spokesperson has called for a cease-fire in the Gaza conflict amid the mounting death toll, especially among Palestinian civilians.

“We are trying to get both sides to first have a truce and then a cease-fire,” Andrea Sasse told reporters.

Despite the growing violence – now in its tenth day – diplomatic efforts for a ceasefire have failed to make much progress.

The US continues to block the UN Security Council from issuing a joint statement urging an end to the hostilities, telling diplomats that a public statement would not help calm the tensions.

Berlin has repeatedly ruled out direct talks with the Palestinian group Hamas, which governs the Gaza strip.

At least 227 Palestinians, including 64 children, have been killed in Israeli military airstrikes on Gaza since the latest violence erupted on May 10. About 1,620 Palestinians have been injured.

Twelve people in Israel have died, while nearly 300 Israelis have been wounded, according to local media reports.

Source: https://www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/german-foreign-minister-due-in-israel-palestine/2247510

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