Hamas releases video of hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin
The Hamas terror group has published a new propaganda video showing signs of life from 23-year-old Israeli-American hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin.
In the nearly three-minute-long video, Goldberg-Polin, who is seen missing one of his hands, identifies himself and asks the Israeli government to return them home.
The video is not dated, but Goldberg-Polin says he has been held captive for “nearly 200 days,” indicating it was filmed recently.
It indicates it but it doesn’t prove it. Goldberg-Polin would understandably say anything he was told to say, although I’m going to assume this was indeed filmed recently. But why not use the time-honored technique of showing him next to a current newspaper?
If in fact it is a recent video, it supports my oft-stated point that although many hostages are dead there are still a significant number left alive. Hamas isn’t dumb, and the living ones have many uses for them, including for propaganda purposes as well as bargaining chips of great value:
In it, Hersh Goldberg-Polin is seen reading a pre-prepared script blaming Israel for October 7th and everything that has transpired since.
Golberg-Polin was taken captive at the Nova Music festival that Hamas attacked, slaughtering hundreds of people in the process. He can be seen missing his arm in the video, an injury he sustained that day at the hands of the terrorists after they threw grenades into a shelter he was in.
I don’t blame him one iota for anything he is made to say in the video. He is under their total control and has suffered greatly.
I wonder if Biden will have anything to say about this. I think it’s no accident that Hamas chose to feature an American, as a tease and a test.
Only the *GREAT* Republican John McCain believed that – ‘I know from personal experience’ torture doesn’t work. He’s another reason I don’t care for the GOP. Jeez…what he allowed to happen to Sara Palin should’ve been a Capital Crime. Republicans keep missing great women over & over again ‘n again!?!
Of course torture works those techniques were proven legit by the european court of human rights
Overt torture isn’t even necessary. Captivity itself is a form of extreme mental torture and usually great physical hardship as well. Having your arm blown off certainly qualifies, too.
This according to Fatah?
https://m.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/article-798185
Not buying.
Yes proof of life means something some reference re the last event needs to prove it, either the iran strike or the counterstrike
Actually Art Deco, me neither.
I keep thinking of Jeremiah Denton, blinking Morse Code when forced by the North Vietnamese to film some statement.
According to Tablet magazine, posting on Instagram, Hamas has joined with the terrorist group Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine to release a statement of support for the Jew-hate encampments on US college campuses.
The Biden Administration doesn’t care.
SCOTTtheBADGER:
But my question is whether it will PRETEND to care.
Mike Plaiss:
Which thing are you saying you don’t believe? The Fatah report, or something about the hostage?
Something about the Fatah report just isn’t adding up. I know they’re enemies, but they’re enemies with a shared hatred for Israel. This clearly helps Israel, and not in a way that obviously helps Fatah.
Mike Plaiss:
Maybe Fatah is looking to seem to be the “kinder, gentler” alternative to Hamas after the war.
Perhaps. Maybe it’s clear to Fatah that Hamas is done for. But I’m perpetually on high alert against wishful thinking. The story just seems a little too good to be true. Especially when Hamas has become so popular here amongst our friends and neighbors!
Reluctantly have to go along with Mike’s last comment.
“Reluctantly…” ineluctably, unluckily…everything is relative…
As for “…kinder, gentler…”…just when you thought you could get back into the water…
“Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades announces suicide unit;
“The Fatah movement’s militant wing announced a new unit of youth who ‘sacrifice themselves in the way of Allah.’ “—
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/389007
Yet another reason why “Biden” must deliver scads of cash to “his” pals…!!
(IOW EVERYTHING costs money….)
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Even Egypt’s in the act (has been for some time, nominally, if pretty uselessly; but they have to make it look as though they are actually relevant—especially in the face of Erdogan’s lunacy)….
“Egypt to Israel: Freeze Rafah operation – in exchange for renewing hostage negotiations;
“New report: Egypt proposes one-year ceasefire in exchange for cessation of attacks on Israel – as precondition for restarting hostage talks.”—
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/389019
Just to “restart” “talks”, mind you.
(And then, when “talks” “restart”, Israel will be told it has to buy the Brooklyn Bridge….gotta do what ya gotta do…to free those hostages….)
https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/israel-tried-to-warn-biden-admin-about-unrwa-a-top-us-official-declined-the-meeting-emails-show/
Also not the sharpest knife
https://twitter.com/ChuckRossDC/status/1783333156839723443
The infection spreads….
“…[Canada’s] Islamophobia czar Amira Elghawaby is unfit for office;
“Rather than fighting discrimination, she has only served to fuel the hatred on our streets”—
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/islamophobia-czar-amirah-elghawaby-is-unfit-for-office
H/T Blazingcatfur blog.
To be sure, the Honorable Hatred Czar does have a point: Telling people—especially Moslems—that they cannot call for the destruction of the State of Israel and Jews world-wide IS most certainly Islamophobic…and society—especially Canada—CANNOT TOLERATE Islamophobia.
…To be compared with that great expert on Zionism and Jewish history….
“Naomi Klein Calls For ‘Exodus From Zionism'”—
https://blazingcatfur.ca/2024/04/25/naomi-klein-calls-for-exodus-from-zionism/
(Ain’t she CLEVUH!!)
P.S. NOT to be confused with Naomi Wolf….
Another day, another media hoax with AOC at its apex….
‘Media Hoax: No, Israel Did Not Dig ‘Mass Grave’ At Gaza’s Nasser Hospital;
‘ “How are news outlets dedicating wall-to-wall coverage to campus protests, but not the discovery of mass graves in Gaza of people with their hands tied & clothing stripped? Why do we not know more? Where are the journalists and resources being dedicated to that story?” — AOC’—
https://legalinsurrection.com/2024/04/media-hoax-no-israel-did-not-dig-mass-grave-at-gazas-nasser-hospital/
And the odds that AOC will apologize are…?
Is Fatah still recruiting mentally disabled kids for the “martyrs” brigade? Just wondering.
Naomi Klien, Hamas has an attic for you to write from, maybe, for a little while. It isn’t a mystery what Hamas intends to do to you.