The Hamas Terror Group Has Published A New Propaganda Video Showing Signs Of Life From Three Hostages

The Hamas terror group has published a new propaganda video showing signs of life from three hostages held in the Gaza Strip.

In edited-together clips, the five-minute-long video shows soldiers Daniella Gilboa and Karina Ariev, and civilian Doron Steinbrecher, identifying themselves and asking the Israeli government to return them home.

Hamas says the video was filmed on day 107 of the war, meaning earlier this week, although it provides no evidence to support the claim.

Hamas has previously issued similar videos of hostages it is holding, in what Israel says is deplorable psychological warfare. Most Israeli media does not carry the video clips themselves.

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Happening now: a march in solidarity with Israel near The Hague. Thank you to each and every one of you for coming out in support of the hostages and their families.

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Thomas von der Osten-Sacken: Spenden für Gaza - Spenden für die Hamas?

Von Tunis nach Teheran (Freitag, 23 Februar, 2024; 17:01)

Spenden für Gaza - Spenden für die Hamas? Der Gaza-Konflikt hat zu einem Boom an Spendenaufrufen im Internet geführt. Darunter befinden sich auch solche von islamistischen Organisationen wie der Hamas, die damit ihre Terroraktivitäten finanzieren.

Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day, and I’m thinking about the documentary, Shoah. What I linked below is only part one, and I think part two is also right on YouTube. It is 9.5 hours long and is essentially nothing but witness testimony.

I understand why people wouldn’t have time to watch it, but I at least want to tell you about it. Roger Ebert actually wrote a great review of it, and I’ll include some excerpts here:

“There is no proper response to this film. It is an enormous fact, a 550-minute howl of pain and anger in the face of genocide. It is one of the noblest films ever made.”

There is a part where a Czech Jewish man named Filip Muller is interviewed. He had to work the door of the gas chambers. I won’t put his descriptions of the dead bodies here, but Ebert said:

“The images evoked by his words are unutterably painful. What is remarkable, on reflection, is that Muller is describing an event that neither he nor anyone else now alive ever saw. I realized, at the end of his words, that a fundamental change had taken place in the way I personally visualized the gas chambers. Always before, in reading about them or hearing about them, my point of view was outside, looking in. Muller put me inside. That is what this whole movie does, and it is probably the most important thing it does. It changes our point of view about the Holocaust. After nine hours of ‘Shoah,’ the Holocaust is no longer a subject, a chapter of history, a phenomenon. It is an environment. It is around us. Ordinary people speak in ordinary voices of days that had become ordinary to them.”

He talks about the calm and really unsettling interviews with former Nazis:

“Some of the strangest passages in the film are the interviews with the officials who were actually responsible for running the camps and making the ‘Final Solution’ work smoothly and efficiently. None of them, at least by their testimony, seem to have witnessed the whole picture. They only participated in a small part of it, doing their little jobs in their little corners; if they are to be believed, they didn't personally kill anybody, they just did small portions of larger tasks, and somehow all of the tasks, when added up and completed, resulted in people dying…The message of this film (if we believe in the brotherhood of man) is that these crimes were committed by people like us, against people like us.”

Filip Muller, mentioned earlier, shared his moment of despair when he heard the group of Czech Jews entering the gas chamber sing the Czech national anthem and “Hatikva.” He wanted to go inside and die with them:

“Q. You were inside the gas chamber?

A. Yes. One of them said: ‘So you want to die. But that's senseless. Your death won't give us back our lives. That's no way. You must get out of here alive, you must bear witness to our suffering and to the injustice done to us.’”

If you ever possibly have the time, please watch this, even just some of it. I can’t remember why I decided to watch this a few years ago, but I’m glad I did.

Happy leap day everyone!

We need to use the day that’s been given to us, as best as we can. Do something you love, even if it’s just something small. I’m laying here reading with jazz in the background and my dog by my side while the rain pours outside. That’s a perfect day in my book 📚

(From “Grapefruit” by Yoko Ono)

Some Yoko instructional art that I love and wanted to share <3 make this day special