The ghouls of Gaza
The IDF has discovered the bodies of three of the hostages:
The military announced Friday that soldiers recovered the bodies of three hostages from the Gaza Strip, as intensive fighting raged there between Israeli forces and Hamas.
The three were named as Itzhak Gelerenter, Amit Buskila, and Shani Louk.
In a press statement, IDF Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said the bodies were recovered in an overnight operation carried out by the military and Shin Bet.
The IDF is understandably laconic on the details, but later in the article it mentions that “some of the intelligence for the operation came from Palestinian terror suspects captured by the IDF and interrogated by the Shin Bet.” All three were killed at the NOVA festival and their dead bodies were brought to Gaza.
Shani Louk has been known almost from the start to be dead. Louk became emblematic of the barbaric violence of the Gazans on October 7 towards women. Her half-naked and twisted body was paraded through Gaza as a trophy, a symbol of conquest and domination by Hamas over Israel as well as sexual titillation for the Gazan masses who cheered her death and mutilation.
However, until recently, Itzhak Gelerenter and Amit Buskila were thought to have been alive. But apparently that never was the case; they were killed on October 7 in Israel and their bodies brought to Gaza.
It’s not that these people were killed in Gaza and their bodies kept in Gaza, which would have been bad enough. No, their dead bodies were transported to Gaza either by their killers or by other Gazans on October 7 hoping for glory or a payoff or both. Hamas operatives as well as ordinary Gazans knew the bodies’ value as mediums of exchange for the living terrorists and murderers imprisoned in Israel.
What does this tell us of Hamas and the Palestinians? We’ve long known they’re in the grip of a death cult, and this is further evidence of that. The desecration of dead bodies is not a mark of civilized behavior, and that’s a reason the Palestinians are fond of making up fake stories about Israelis doing something similar although it’s the Palestinians who specialize in it.
We also have just learned that two Thai nationals thought to have been living hostages had also been killed on October 7 and their bodies taken to Gaza. I have come to believe that there are no living Thai hostages left in Gaza, although there are still some living Israelis. The reason I say this is because so many Thai hostages were released early on, and I see no reason Hamas would still be holding the rest if they had been alive. The Thai hostages are not worth all that much to Hamas; that’s why they initially released so many. I also believe that on October 7 the terrorists who killed and/or kidnapped the Thai nationals may not all have been aware that they were not Israelis.
It continues to astound and depress me that so many people around the world either deny these horrors or excuse them, believing a host of lies about Israel, Gaza, and what’s happening there.
And as for the word “ghoul,” which I used in the title of this post, I learned the following after I chose the word:
Ghoul is from the Arabic … ‘to seize’. …
In Arabic folklore, the ghul is said to dwell in cemeteries and other uninhabited places. A male ghoul is referred to as ghul while the female is called ghulah. A source identified the Arabic ghoul as a female creature who is sometimes called Mother Ghoul or a relational term such as Aunt Ghoul. She is portrayed in many tales luring hapless characters, who are usually men, into her home where she can eat them.
Some state that a ghoul is a desert-dwelling, shape-shifting demon that can assume the guise of an animal, especially a hyena. It lures unwary people into the desert wastes or abandoned places to slay and devour them. The creature also preys on young children, drinks blood, steals coins, and eats the dead, then taking the form of the person most recently eaten.
So the word is from the Arabic. Interesting.
NOTE: Yesterday I read this sad story of an elderly Israeli couple slain by terrorists on October 7. Their only son lived, and relates the story. RIP.
ADDENDUM:
The body of another hostage has been found during the same operation and just identified. The story is similar; he was killed on October 7 and his body taken to Gaza. He was Ron Benjamin, 53:
Benjamin had set out the morning of Hamas’ harrowing attack for a bike ride with friends near Kibbutz Be’eri, but turned around after hearing sirens, The Times of Israel reported.
He was last heard from at 7:30 a.m. on Oct. 7, when he called one of his daughters and left a voicemail that he was going home to Rehovot due to the volley of rockets, the outlet reported.
The article also adds this detail about Shani Louk – and perhaps it is true of the other bodies as well:
Louk’s father, Nissim Louk, said his daughter’s body had been discovered in a cool, deep tunnel and was still in excellent condition when it was brought home.
Hamas knew these people were dead but they allowed the families to believe they were still alive, the better to torment the relatives and encourage them to pressure the Israeli government to make concessions. It was also understand that a Rafah operation by the IDF would probably lead to the finding of some hostages, dead or alive. But the whole world, including Biden and company, seems to have wanted to protect Rafah.
“Desert-dwelling demon” describes Hamas and its sympathizers well.
Yes, it does.
As for the Gazans and their (usually false) tales of woe, I am certain that there are winsome children, happy housewives and hard-working men among them all. But so were there among the citizens of Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany and I am rather sorry for those innocents … but we just could not let Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany endure.
Neither can Israel let Gaza endure, as long as they are ruled by Hamas. Sorry – but that’s war. And Japan and Germany chose war, just as Hamas and the Gazans did.
Sgt. Mom:
I am convinced that many people in the west today do not understand the harsh realities of war and know little to nothing of history.
Whats his excuse?
https://www.ynetnews.com/article/rk3bsoixa
Found a fourth.
I found myself relieved these unfortunate people had already been killed on October 7.
Then I felt horrified by my relief.
huxley:
Why horrified? Since they are known to be dead, it’s best they didn’t undergo a long period of suffering. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with not wishing them to have suffered for months and months prior to dying.
Barry Meislin:
Thanks for the information. I added an addendum to the post.
Why horrified?
neo:
I understand your reasoning, of course.
However, some of the still-living hostages were eventually released. Had these bodies been alive, they might have been among them.
How does one balance suffering versus the possibility of surviving? There’s no good answer to that.
Hamas delenda est.
it is a gruesome thing, to keep bodies, months later, no matter how cool the surrounding are, now I am given to understand the weather does drop considerably in the Winter months, as they do in the West,
there are also the djinn, who are less like barbara eden, and more like succubi or vampires,
I am so angry at these young people that just won’t believe what really happened, and still happening. Was I so easily led when I was that young? I just don’t know.
huxley:
Yes, but the last ones released were released in November. Some people believe they are now all dead, in which case better not to have suffered all those months. I don’t know.
Of course, I hope they are alive but I don’t think there will be any more deals with Hamas to release them. They are either going to live as captives and slaves, suffering, or they are dead or will die soon, or the IDF will find them eventually.
It is horrific.
SHIREHOME
Recalling my college years going on sixty years ago. There were some who could be led because they needed to believe and what it was didn’t matter much. Just as long as it put them in the wise and just minority and made our society look terrible. Facts didn’t matter.
Others may have had more facts but considered some more important and others less, in a kind of reverse of conventional thinking.
But I think the crop you’re referring to know what happened, are glad it happened but know they can’t afford to admit it to the general public. So their insistence–which is lies about what they think and believe–makes them look really, really odd. But not as odd as if their mental and emotional reality were generally admitted.
Went to a softball tournament today, grand daughter playing. Four diamonds busy from about eight in the morning to six or theireabouts.
All girls from age eleven to maybe fourteen, depending on class.
Thinking what a fat target for somebody who wants to show up and start spraying. And how the Kids in the encampments couldn’t be bothered to say a word amiss.
It is horrific.
neo:
It is.
Hamas delenda est.
Gaza has been transformed into a Death Cult since Hamas took complete, undisputed control in 2006. I’ve seen video of kindergarteners playing Hamas and the Jews where the little children playing Hamas act out shooting dead the little children playing Jews. Gazans are refusing to evacuate when requested by IDF saying they would rather die. There’s plenty of evidence they have become a Death Cult. No other Muslim country will accept them. This was never going to turn out well but it was hoped to end at some point
Plenty of psychopathology to go around…
“Anti-Zionism forced us to withdraw from Reconstructionist Rabbinical College;
“RRC fosters a culture of intimidation that dissuades students from expressing any positive connection to Israel”—
https://forward.com/opinion/614347/anti-zionism-reconstructionist-rrc-rabbis/
October 7 and its aftermath is shaping up to be, among many other things, a HUGE inflection point in Jewish history…
(But then one could say the same about the general support, among Jews, for “Biden”, et al….and concomitant DEMONIZATION of DJT.)
The Crown Ghouls….
Dissecting the forces of destruction facing the West, who have decided, tactically, to “Pick…, freeze…, personalize…, and polarize…” the Jewish State as the PRIMARY (because easiest?) target.
(Trigger warning: It ain’t pretty.)
“Professional, ideological, and even familial ties connect American institutions in a web of leftist influence.”
https://americanmind.org/salvo/networks-of-malignity/
It predates Hamas. Do an image search for the June 12, 1970 issue of Life magazine. A bunch of 6 y.o. holding Kalashnikovs, just as big as they are. Labeled as “Palestinian Arabs.”
The Gaza Arabs must learn that they lost this war and they cannot beat Israel. The same lesson Germany and Japan learned in 1945.
Islam itself is a murderous death cult.
As for “It continues to astound and depress me. . . .” It enrages me.
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well it does go back at least to 1920, and Nebi Musa, of course the eradication of Jewish settlements goes back to the 8th century in the Khaybar region,
America’s Democrat Party and Britain’s Labour Party are advocates for and parties to this Ham-a$$ barbarity.
“It continues to astound and depress me that so many people around the world either deny these horrors or excuse them”
It is worse than that. They celebrate the horrific atrocities committed by Hamas.
UCLA cancelled, at the last minute, a speech explaining the truth about Gaza and “Palestine” by an expert. Then an official from UCLA lied about it. Maybe it’s time for lawsuits.
how much is the qatari chair at UCLA
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/05/camp_of_the_dumbbells.html
As for the harsh realities of war?
The U.S. has a population of about 335 million persons.
Had a comparable attack, with proportionate deaths, wounded, and captives been carried out against the U.S., the results would have been something like:
26,000 civilians dead on the first day, often butchered in horrific ways;
12,800 soldiers and police slain in defending against the attack;
115,600 persons wounded during the attack; and,
around 8,500 persons kidnapped (and then murdered, sexually-assaulted, etc.).
What would we have done, faced with such an outrage?
Had this happened, I think a majority of Americans would have advocated the use of nuclear weapons against the nation which launched the attack, especially if they discovered that 80%+ of the population of the aggressor nation enthusiastically supported and celebrated the attack, and that there was no hint of any popular uprising opposing the regime which orchestrated the attack.
If the U.S. didn’t nuke the aggressor, I don’t think it would be for reasons of believing a nuclear response disproportionate to the offense. I think it would be for fear of long-term environmental and geopolitical consequences.
I don’t even think it would be on account of the unintended-but-foreseeable deaths of innocent persons.
It is certainly true that, when one scourges evil from a geographic region by fire, the result will sadly be the deaths of some number of persons, however scant, who were horrified by that evil and played no part in it.
That said, were it not for outrage from the world-at-large and the temporary loss of decades’ improved relations with the Saudis, Jordanians, Egyptians, etc., the total incineration of Gaza would seemingly have been net-beneficial even after the sadly-unavoidable loss of those innocents. Quite beneficial, in fact. Beneficial far beyond the mere standards of proportionality.
Anyway, as it is, Gaza is too close to the rest of Israel for nukes. And the likely international backlash of a Dresden-style conventional firebombing — which is also more-expensive and takes longer — makes it a bad option. (Which is to say: The other countries of the world are too hypocritical to acknowledge that, were they in Israel’s place, they’d have given Gaza the Dresden treatment, slept well, had a large breakfast the next morning, and celebrated no longer having to worry about diverting any portion of their limited water resources to that region.)
Still, I think it’s instructive to put the attack in terms of what it would have been, if the U.S. were in Israel’s shoes.
Certainly that’s the least-hypocritical perspective to ponder, if
wethose de-facto Iranian assets in the Biden Administration are going to presume to lecture Israel about how they should deal with Gaza.And it is the most-realistic perspective — I would say, the normative perspective — from which to evaluate the hilarious contention that Israel’s actions towards Gaza show even a whisker of genocidal intent. If Gaza doesn’t look like Dresden Aflame right now as we speak, and if the whole area hadn’t been converted to a single massive trinitite by the last seconds of October 8, then there’s better evidence that the IDF is full of hippie flower children, than that it harbors persons with genocidal intent.