Every time this guy pops up, I am reminded of his previous fame in constructing the “YouTube video narrative” as an explanation for the 2012 Benghazi attack. At the time, it was Jake Sullivan working in the State Dept who fabricated that entire story; yes, it was entirely his creation, and the Clinton and Obama team (then NSA Susan Rice) pushed it into the media as the official U.S. explanation. It’s funny (not really) how no one ever calls Sullivan out on that history, given his current position.
Taking that background context, while also accepting that everything we are told about Ukraine and the official position of the U.S. as it pertains to current Israeli War aspects, Jake Sullivan’s prior manufacturing of extreme defensive narratives, abjectly false presentations, leads more credence to accepting that we are once again being manipulated by fundamentally false information. Jake Sullivan is now Joe Biden’s National Security Advisor.
Appearing on CBS, Sullivan outlines the current coordination between the Biden administration and Israeli leadership. While he didn’t specifically say the words in the headline, instead describing exactly that while pretending something else, Hamas is FACTUALLY holding 500+ Americans hostage as human shields. WATCH:
[Transcript] – MARGARET BRENNAN: We go now to White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan. Jake, good morning to you.
JAKE SULLIVAN: Good morning, Margaret.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Does the US know if the roughly five to six hundred Americans in Gaza have survived the past 23 days of bombing and have the hostages?
JAKE SULLIVAN: We are in regular contact with most of the Americans who are in Gaza. We can’t say every single one, but all of the ones who reach out to us we follow up with on a regular basis, even sometimes a daily basis. And so, we know that many of them are still there, still waiting to get out. And we are working actively to try to make that happen. The challenge right now, Margaret, is that the Egyptians are prepared to let Americans and other foreign nationals out of Gaza. The Israelis have no issue with that. But ¹Hamas is preventing their departure and making a series of demands. We’re trying to work through that to create a circumstance where all of the Americans who are in Gaza are able to get out. It is a priority for the President. He has no higher priority than their safe passage out. And he will continue to work at it until it is accomplished.
[¹What is that, if not hostages and ransom? /SD]
MARGARET BRENNAN: This morning the Palestinian Red Crescent said it received threats from the quote occupation authorities to evacuate al Quds Hospital in Gaza, because it’s going to be bombarded. Is that accurate? Is that hospital a military target?
JAKE SULLIVAN: I have not heard that. So I can’t confirm that or deny that one way or the other. What I can tell you is that hospitals are critical civilian infrastructure. Under international humanitarian law hospitals should not be targeted. They are not military targets.
MARGARET BRENNAN: We’ll watch that developing story. Let me ask you about Israel and how it has explained its mission to the US government. Saturday their military said it committed it killed a Hamas leader who had overseen the drone strikes and the paragliders who carried out that horrific attack on October 7, they’d already announced that they’d killed the commander of forces responsible for the massacre at kibbutz Nirim, and another key Hamas commander. Have they told you yet at which point they will declare this mission a success?
JAKE SULLIVAN: Well, they have declared they have told us in broad terms that making sure that Hamas can never again threaten Israel in the way it threatened Israel before is their core strategic objective in this conflict. But in terms of what the specific milestones are, that is something that ultimately is up to Israel, this is their military operation, they will make that decision. And we will continue to ask the hard questions, Margaret, that we would ask of ourselves in a military operation like this, what exactly are the objectives? How are the means matched to the objectives? And how will this evolve over time? That’s a conversation we’ve been having. It’s a conversation we will continue to have in the days ahead.
MARGARET BRENNAN: So it sounds like that endgame has not been specifically laid out. Do you expect at this point, a full scale Israeli invasion and occupation of Gaza? Or is that off the table?
JAKE SULLIVAN: Well, I’ll let the Israeli Defense Forces speak to what their operational planning is. And I’m not going to characterize it on television today. What I will say is that the United States has been very focused on a core challenge here, which is that Hamas is using civilians as human shields, they’re hiding behind civilians, they’re hiding among civilians. They’re putting rockets and other terrorist infrastructure in civilian areas. That creates an added burden for the Israeli Defense Forces. But it does not lessen their responsibility to distinguish between terrorists and innocent civilians and to protect the lives of innocent civilians as they conduct this military operation. That’s true of striking from the air. It is true of going in on the ground, and this is something that we talk about with the Israelis on a daily basis.
MARGARET BRENNAN: I understand. But I also understand now that there has been a tremendous amount of death in Gaza. I know President Biden said the other day, he has no confidence in the numbers presented by Palestinian authorities in Gaza. But I wonder at which point does the US say there needs to be some cess-cessation of violence?
JAKE SULLIVAN: Well, first President Biden was making a straightforward point, which is that the particular institution, the Gaza health ministry, which is run by Hamas, we can’t take what Hamas says at face value. But we have also been clear, repeatedly, that we have seen thousands of Palestinian civilians killed in this conflict. That- that is a tragedy. Each and every one of those individual deaths is a tragedy, and that the life of every civilian, Palestinian, Israeli, anyone is sacred and has to be protected. And that, as I said before to you, Margaret, the fact that Hamas is using people as human shields does not lessen the responsibility on Israel to try to put heck, those civilians from the point of view of a ceasefire, what Israel suffered on October 7th was the equivalent of fifteen 9/11’s. After 9/11, if the terrorists had simply said, We want a ceasefire, I don’t think the United States would have said, We’re gonna stop going after terrorists. Now, it was important for us, and it is important for Israel, to distinguish between going after terrorist targets, to take out terrorists who continue to threaten Israel, and going after civilians. That is an obligation and a responsibility for Israel. And it’s something that we will continue to press them on. We also believe that there should be humanitarian pauses to get hostages out, potentially to get aid in and we will continue to work toward that end.
MARGARET BRENNAN: I know, Jake, I’ve heard this. And frankly, some of the language is a little contradictory, or it sounds that way, because Secretary Blinken said, even a temporary pause and bombing would benefit Hamas. He said that on this program last week. Then a few days later, he went to the UN and said a humanitarian pause must be considered, then the US at the UN voted against a humanitarian truce. So what exactly is the Biden administration calling for here because everyone from the Pope to the World Health Organization to the UN is saying, just stop the violence for a period of time at least.
JAKE SULLIVAN: Well, what a lot of people are calling for is just a stop to Israeli military action against terrorists period. Just stop no more Israel cannot go after terrorists who conducted this largest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, and who continue to fire rockets and continue to attack Israel. We have taken the position that Israel has a right to defend itself against terrorist attacks. That is different from what Secretary Blinken spoke about, which was a humanitarian pause. A pause in the fighting, for example, so that there’s a period of time where there can be safe passage of hostages.
MARGARET BRENNAN: So just a hours–
JAKE SULLIVAN: President Biden and his whole team are working extremely hard to get those hostages out. We will continue to do that. I won’t put a timeframe on it. But I will say that given the number of hostages, it would be more than just hours if we were able to secure their release, and we are actively working to secure their release. And similarly, when Secretary Blinken said that any pause and fighting benefits Hamas, that’s a reality. There are a lot of complicated realities in this, a humanitarian pause would be a good thing to get hostages out. But you can bet that Hamas will try to use that time to their advantage as well. These are the things that Israel is trying to grapple with. And these are also the hard questions that we are trying to pose to Israel as it works to prosecute a campaign against Hamas, while we press them to make sure to distinguish between Hamas and the Palestinian people who Hamas does not represent and the Palestinian people deserve to live lives of safety, dignity and equality.
MARGARET BRENNAN: So to that point, Benny Gantz, who is part of the Netanyahu war cabinet said, “We will listen to our friends, but we will act in accordance with what is right for us.” Is there any daylight Jake, between the US and the Netanyahu government right now?
JAKE SULLIVAN: We have conversations like friends do on the hard questions that I talked about before, on issues associated with humanitarian aid, on distinguishing between terrorists and innocent civilians, on how Israel’s thinking through its military operation. Those conversations happen multiple times a day, they happen between the President and the Prime Minister. They happen by the Secretary of State, Secretary of Defense myself, other senior members of our administration. We talk candidly, we talk directly, we share our views and an unvarnished way, and we will continue to do that. But sitting here in public, I will just say that the United States is going to make its principles and propositions absolutely clear, including the sanctity of innocent human life. And then we will continue to provide our advice to Israel in private.
MARGARET BRENNAN: I understand this is another country’s decisions here. But the US gives more than $3 billion a year in aid to Israel, some of those weapons being used in Gaza are purchased or help to be purchased with US taxpayer funds. So whether it’s intended or not, to some of the world, it looks like the US is endorsing all of what Israel is doing here. Are you at all asking the military to be more limited in its tactics or more strategic?
JAKE SULLIVAN: The United States of America when we transfer weapons to another country, whether it’s Israel or anyone else, requests, requires an assurance that those weapons will be used in accordance with the law of armed conflict, and we seek accountability to ensure that that is the case, we will continue to do that. We will also work around the clock to try to make sure that life saving humanitarian assistance gets to people in need. And so the United States will set out its policy and its principles as a sovereign nation, Israel will make its decisions as a sovereign nation. But fundamentally, what President Biden says, how he has described things from the point of view of civilian protection, access to life saving goods and medicine for civilians, this is where the United States stands. And we do not stand for the killing of innocent people, whether it be Palestinian, Israeli or otherwise. And we weep and grieve for every last life and will continue to do so.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Is that going to be your message to Saudi Arabia’s Defense Minister, when you meet tomorrow? I know, you know, a number of Arab partners are concerned about the level of violence in Gaza right now.
JAKE SULLIVAN: We’ve been talking to our Arab partners, including to Saudi Arabia, about the unfolding crisis in Gaza. We listen to them carefully. We share our perspective. And yes, we will have the opportunity to dive deep, not just on what is happening today, but on what tomorrow could bring. Because what President Biden said in the Rose Garden this past week, was that we can’t go back to October 6th, that means Hamas can no longer terrorize Israel. But it also means that there needs to be a political horizon for the Palestinian people, two states for two peoples, the right of Palestinians to live in safety, dignity and equality. And we’re going to work towards that. And Arab states, including Saudi Arabia have a role and a responsibility in that as well.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Before I let you go, do you now believe Iran is deterred?
JAKE SULLIVAN: Well, what I believe is that the United States will follow through on what we say we’re going to do. We said that if our troops were attacked, we would respond, we responded. If they’re attacked again, we will respond again. And we are vigilant, because we are seeing elevated threats against our forces throughout the region, and an elevated risk of this conflict spreading to other parts of the region. We are doing everything in our power to deter and prevent that. But I’m not going to predict what the future brings, other than to say that if we are attacked, we will respond.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Jake Sullivan, thank you for your time. And Face the Nation. We’ll be back in one minute. Stay with us.
Again, we are all being manipulated. Just a reminder…..
Any lie, no matter how crazy, to push the IDF to hold off on their effort to eliminate Hamas in Gaza so that they can re-arm Hamas to continue the conflagration in the Middle East and appease the Muslim Brotherhood. Went from 10 to 500 Americans? Time to send in Delta to kick butt and rescue them. ‘Nuff said.
Looks like the IDF is methodically taking out the Hamazi’s tunnels outside-in.
Who are these Americans and what were they doing in Gaza?
I am not sure we want to risk anybody’s life to rescue them until we know who they are.
Most of them were cast and crew of the Off Broadway production of, “Springtime For Obama!”
“Don’t be stupid, be a smarty. Come and join the Democrat Party.”
I so hope Mel Brooks somehow reads this comment 🎶
Our military or what’s left of it needs to be right here in America. The minute they send our troops overseas beware of the hell that will rain down upon us here.
Over 50 US military transports have flown to the Middle East in the past 24 hours.
And have signs of life.
Not to worry T.M. We have the Afghanistan withdrawal to use as a model.
…and VIET NAM too……
Palestinian American citizens with dual nationality. And maybe UNRWA and UN officials
Let ham as keep them.
Bullshit! If you are an “American” living in Gaza then I suspect you are drinking the hamas kool aid.
Most likely dual citizenship “Palestinians”.
Dual passport holders. How many are there and how many are embedded in lofts of influence and governance in this Republic? Whose allegiance is their oath given to?
Episcopal church has some people there as missionaries, don’t know how many.
Personally I think it is as dumb as a box of rocks to go to such a place.
FILTHY Islam. Enabled by FILTHY LIBERALS.
Both are the enemy of Humanity.
Exactly. I’d like to see pictures of them. Ten to one they’re all wearing moo slim garb and talking with accents.
Tell me something. How is Delta going to get into Gaza? Israel has been attacking with armor and air assault since Friday. Furthest they made it was 1 km in before being repulsed by heavy resistance from Hamas.
Sending Americans in to die is not the answer. Urban warfare is no picnic. Very hard to “Kick Butt” in a hail of enemy fire from well entrenched positions.
Israel went in 3 1/2 kilometers just today.
Israel has SPONGE BOMBS
The ‘SPONGE bomb’ Israel are hoping to use to disable Hamas tunnels: New gadget expands and hardens, filling underground passageways
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12680935/SPONGE-bomb-Israel-disable-Hamas-tunnels-palestine-gaza.html
Then fill with sea water. Consider it a incapacitating agent.
Everyone loves getting a new backyard swimming pool.
Colonel Douglas MacGregor heard our special forces went in with Israele`s, and got shot up.
Those hostages…is what is holding them back…its a popular hill for them to make Israel die on.
Last weekend, in Chicago proper, the protestors numbered 25,000, if the media is to be trusted. All lit will take is one flash mob notification, anywhere, to cause bigger trouble along the lines of a Mass Casualty Event. I personally think these mobs along with their infiltrators are lying in wait. Everywhere in America.
And NO ONE is investigating the logistics, phones or anything else about these training exercise flash mobs.
Remember how they started as benign orchastras or choirs? Yeah. Conditioning.
That we’re aware of.
Keep our best and bravest out of that hellhole. WHO are the Americans? Bait? Trust nothing that comes out of that snake’s mouth.
Dust off the Ark, open it up, and melt this snake’s face, Indy style.
I picture Jake the fake’s best photo as him hanging around @ Gitmo.
Literally hanging.
I keep thinking that everything that crops up is probably being funded by the money from Ukraine.
For instance, the brand new Palestinian flags and professionally made signs supporting Palestinians that were created, delivered and made available all across the world in big cities and on college campuses WITHIN TWO DAYS of the Hamas terror attacks on the Jews. Those all had to be preordered, pre-delivered, and pre-paid to get into cities all across the world, because you probably would have a hard time finding a store in any western country that sells Palestinian flags and yet two days later, there were hundreds and thousands of them at all of the “pop-up” protests all over the world and on college campuses. That is another thing, it takes some planning to coordinate a protest, but within two days, hundreds and thousands, and tens of thousands of people poured into cities to protest for weeks!
Where did the money come from for the flags, the signs, the protesters? Don’t these people work?!
It makes you wonder exactly when this whole Hamas uprising was planned, who planned it, and who paid for it?
Who paid for it… Papa Joe financed a big chunk of it.
I’m thinking “Jews for Peace” could be another one, the “movement” if not actual signage.
Of course pretty much ALL “movements” are coordinated en masse for gluttonous consumption by hordes of anti-brain sheeple.
Why was there no early warning???
The US has real time satellites and surveillance with imagery so sharp that can spot a Taliban having sex with a goat in Afghanistan. And see Russian tanks in real time go into Ukraine?
So how come the US didnt pick up the following
-500 Hamas scum training in Iran and maybe Qatar.
-The incursion of so many Hamas murderers by foot, vehicles, paragliders from GAZA INTO Israel?
-and then the brutal slaughter and RPGS fired into kibbutz houses.
-How did Hamas communicate with GAZa during the atrocities–like the man who used a dead Israeli woman’s phone to call his father and mother to tell them he had murdered 10 Jews?
-Targeting cars on the well paved and wide roads into and of the kibbutzim?
Call me a conspiracy theorist but I am very suspicious that the US had a hand in this.
After all we have seen this DemScum govt do in the Obama and now Biden years, and the Iranian spies in this govt, I remain comvinced that some in the US gvt had a hand in this.
They maybe didnt expect Hamas to be so barbaric
I dont know, but I am suspicious.
They let it happen. Netanyahu is in a fight with his own people, and gov
t like Trump was. He wants an investigation after the fighting is over. Soldiers in Israel, and retired military here say it couldn
t have happened. No way nobody saw anything.Jake Sullivan…..
Who said one week before the Hamas attack that…
The Middle East is the quietest it has been in two decades.👀🤣
💁💁🤷♀️🤷♀️
There are no coincidences!!
That was meant as a middle finger to everyone.
Jake the Snake was born and raised in southwest Minneapolis. That should be all the warning we needed.
The Arab American Institute Foundation puts the number of Americans of Palestinian descent at between 122,500 and 220,000. A U.S. official estimated that, of that number, between 45,000 and 60,000
were residents of the West Bank.
An Israeli official gave lower figures, saying that out of 70,000 to 90,000 Palestinian Americans worldwide, about 15,000 to 20,000 were West Bank residents.
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/us-quietly-inspects-israeli-crossings-its-palestinian-dual-nationals-2023-08-01/
More than 200,000 have Israelis have dual citizenship with the United States.
I put a lot of these posts in Larwyn’s Linx every morning, but I rewrite the headline on occasion.
This one simply read:
Pro-Terror Obama Dupe Jake Sullivan Says 50,000 Americans Are Held Hostage by Hamas
MNN BREAKING…
*OUT OF CONTROL: A GENOCIDAL WAR CRIMINAL GOVERNMENT BOMBS OCCUPIED PALESTINE WITH CHEMICAL WEAPON
*UN OPENS INQUIRY INTO HOW A HOSPITAL COULD BUILD ATOP AN INNOCENT HAMAS WEAPONS BUNKER
*BIDEN SAYS ISRAEL MUST DISTIGUISH BETWEEN HAMAS AND GAZA CIVILIANS–ISRAEL SAYS BIDEN MUST DISTINGUISH BETWEEN SHOWERING WITH DAUGHTER AND TRAFFICKING TENS OF THOUSANDS OF FOREIGN CHILDREN
Manufactured News Network: “And Everybody in Omerta City Knows It!”
Rest in the Vine: MNN’s Headline Hairline
Sullivan looks like an ad for sleep deprivation.
Don’t Let This Happen To You!
I remembr that “video” fiasco too well. Saw 3 news channels identify 3 different videos as the culprit. Dumb, dumber and dumberer.
Hillary sent the innocent video-maker to prison–after her own ambassador was murdered with the weapons she gave to ISIS.
Just like she wanted to jail Billy Dale.
And Donald Trump.
And Edward Snowden.
And Julian Assange.
And
Seth Rich.Oh…
The talking to Saudi Arabia.
I hope everyone is aware that a “US Delegation”
Just went there led by Ms. Lindsey Graham….🤢
Richard Blumenthal
Cory Booker
Katie Britt
Ben Cardin
Susan Collins
Chris Coons
Jack Reed
John Thule
You know…the usual group of Losers🤷♀️💁🤷♀️
https://english.alarabiya.net/News/saudi-arabia/2023/10/22/MBS-meets-US-Senator-Lindsey-Graham-in-Riyadh-discusses-bilateral-ties-and-Gaza
I don’t think the visit went like they thought it would 🤣🤣🤣
The worst in congress list.
You forgot “Crazy” Mazie Hirono (D), Senator from Hawaii…
The only reason John McCain didn’t go is because he is finally six feet under…we think.
He’s a lot farther down than that.
Any chance they’ll just stay there?
Do they think the Saudi’s are of low intellectual ability like our congress and media? BIG mistake. They do not suffer fools gladly. These are serious people, not lightweights like the visiting delegation.
Jake, Jake from fake farm.
Jake is incompetent on his better days. Lawrence Peter wrote the book on people like Jake. He is far above his Peter Plateau.
Couldn’t watch
Q: [¹What is that, if not hostages and ransom? /SD]
A: An excuse for the Bolsheviks to give Hamas $500 Million of your money as ransom.
This entire Israeli-Hamas Conflict was intentionally constructed to:
A: Change the news media narrative away from the Ukraine debacle.
B: Give Biden a second chance at a “Win!”
C: Funnel a $100 Billion to Israel, Hamas and Ukraine.
D: Create yet another “Crisis” and chaos for the Democrats to exploit!!!
Israeli Intelligence knew exactly where each of the Hamas leaders where hiding but with dozens of paid-informants in the Hamas leadership they didn’t know about the attack? They deliberately moved two of the three IDF Battalions from the Gaza frontline and issued a 7 hour stand down order when the attack began after putting a rock festival with thousands of European and American Jewish youth in has way.
I’m not believing it!
you CJ are not onle…one
He, and his buddy Kirby, give sleazy used car salesmen a bad name. No, wait…. /
Simple……cede to every hamas demand and retrieve all Americans….when they are home safe, send in 1000’s of troops and wipe out every member of hamas in EVERY COUNTRY IN THE WORLD. HEZBOLA UP NEXT.
You need to put Hundreds of before your 1000s of troops number. There are around 2.5 million people in Gaza. The biggest segment of their population are young men. Who will fight for their existence. This is not a TV show.
Hezbollah is also very well dug in with modern weapons and missiles. They are a defensive army well entrenched and will be a tough nut to crack.
If you think they will run if the US shown up with a few thousand troops waving Old Glory. It wont happen. Our troops will be met with intense resistance…. This is reality.
Sullivan even looks like a weasel.
The entire fake US government is a psyop. They picked the absolute worst of the worst for every position and appointment.
Methinks the word you are searching for is, “Smarmy.”
That’s an insult to all weasels!
This is like a Jimmy Carter Deja Vu all over again.
The US should never negotiate with extremists. They must be eliminated. Hostages and populations are expendable.
The Israelis understand this very well. Hamas must be destroyed.
Leftist ideology and incompetence are a fatal combination.
Jake looks like he knows what’s coming.
Aren’t these 500 Americans in Gaza Palestinian Americans?
We should consider canceling there citizenship and being done with it.
There should never be any dual citizenship allowed in the USA. It is an anathema to the US.
Guy is better suited to manage a fast food restaurant.
Na! He wouldn’t be qualified. Maybe janitor……maybe.
You can look into Sullivan’s eyes and see that no one is home and the lights are very dim.
Eyes like a doll’s eyes. Captain Quint!
He was talking about the shark.
Sullivan is a notorious LIAR
Period.
ALL dems are liars.
How Qatar is at the centre of Israeli hostage talks
Qatar is confident that with time, patience and persuasion it can negotiate the release of dozens more hostages in the coming days, although any Israeli ground incursion into Gaza would make this far harder.
These hostages, say Qatari officials, would most likely be dual-nationals and non-Israelis.
Hamas is expected to want to hang on to the Israeli servicemen it has kidnapped in the hopes of exchanging them for Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails.
But this also comes with serious risk for Qatar.
As horrific details of Hamas’s attack have emerged, some are questioning why this major western ally, which hosts a US military base, is providing a home for the political wing of an organisation proscribed as terrorist by the UK, US and others.
If Qatar’s efforts going forward prove largely fruitless then its standing in the West will suffer and pressure on Qatar to close that office may ensue.
So how do these hostage negotiations work?
Qatar is home to the political leadership of Hamas which has had an office in the capital, Doha, since 2012, headed by its leader Ismail Haniyeh.
Amid the glittering, plate glass and steel skyscrapers of modern Doha, Hamas officials have been sitting down with Qatari diplomats from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to work through the complex issue of hostage releases.
The Qatari mediators are not new to this, I am told.
They are from a special government department that oversees the relationship with Hamas in Gaza that has enabled Qatar to pay hundreds of millions of dollars annually to keep Gaza’s infrastructure and civil service functioning.
Many of the Qatari officials have been to Gaza and are well known to senior Hamas figures.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-67205109
Jake has 300 million plus Americans as human shields, right?
Let’s not forget this diseased sociopath was also one of the primary architects of the RussiaGate nonsense
I wish one of these so-called journalists would ask Jake Sullivan what he meant when he emailed then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and told her “Al-Qaeda is on our side in Syria”. This was revealed in Wikipedia’s release of Clinton’s emails.
The fact is the United States has no business being in Iraq or Syria. They claim that they are in Syria to defeat ISIS but the fact is the US funded and armed ISIS and Al Qaeda in Syria. The average American has no idea that its government has been working in Syria with the people who took down the Twin Towers in an attempt to topple Assad. The ultimate goal is to fracture Syria so Israel can take more land from Syria. All are part of the greater Israel objective.
Interesting that this administration is so concerned about American hostages in Gaza when they didn’t give a damn about abandoning Americans they purposefully left behind in Afghanistan. But then again there is one commonality between both of these events and that is the Biden administration always seems to do what is in the best interest for the terrorists. In fact they do that with our domestic terrorists (Antifa, BLM, illegals and the such) that want to destroy our Constitution and Constitutional Republic.
WTF ……..500 American hostages???
Now he tells us.
It is really disgusting watching someone like Margaret playing politician, acting all powerful and such. It is the same way Vannity does it. And those heels, what is up w/them? They look like the heel is curbed or something.
I cannot help but think of Deputy Dog whenever I see Sullivan’s mug.
I thought Hamas took some hostages and the other 200 were taken by rogue groups joining in on the action? Where is the proof?
Sullivan: “It was important for us, and it is important for Israel, to distinguish between going after terrorist targets, to take out terrorists who continue to threaten Israel, and going after civilians.”
Israel has never “gone after civilians,” and there is no reason to think they would do that now. They will go after Hamas, and some civilians will die, because Hamas is using them as human shields.
Every one of those deaths is on Hamas.
It was very annoying the other day to hear Colonel Douglas MacGregor Tucker Carlson describe Arab Gazan deaths that result from actions that are necessary to kill Hamas as “collective punishment” of the Gazans.
It’s like every time in this country, when a black criminal who is threatening innocent people or trying to murder someone gets shot, and his family members invariably cry that “he didn’t deserve to be shot.”
He wasn’t shot because of any judgement that he deserved it. He was shot because shooting was necessary to protect innocent people from the immediate threat of death or great bodily injury that his actions posed.
Same with the “Palestinians.” They are not being hit because any judgement has been made that they need to be punished, or that they deserve punishment. They are being hit because the targeting that is necessary to take out Hamas will hit some of them too.
Instead of talking as if Israel needs to be restrained by the United States from doing something it has never done, Sullivan should be clarifying that Hamas is to blame for every non-combatant Arab death that occurs, because Israel always has and will now only target combatants.
This should be stated as a fact of the situation. It has always been the case and we will be extremely surprised if it is not the case in every instance going forward. Our focus going forward should be to see to it that the blame for every civilian death during the targeting of Hamas gets put on Hamas.
How about announcing that we will be glad to support any honest attempt at a running tally of who is to blame for the Arab non-combatant deaths. On one side will be the vast majority of such deaths that result from a rational prioritization of Hamas military targets, in terms of which targets it is militarily most important to hit. All those will be blamed 100% on Hamas.
On the other side of the tally there will be a tiny fraction of Arab non-combatant deaths that could possibly be attributed to Israeli negligence or maliciousness.
From this tally we demand that anyone who wants to be angered by Arab non-combatant deaths must be 99 times more angry at Hamas for these deaths than they are angry at Israel, or whatever the ratio turns out to be. Otherwise they prove that they don’t actually care about Arab non-combatant deaths (just like Hamas doesn’t), and that they instead only care about hating Jews, which we refuse to give any credit to, and neither should any decent person.
Why do I feel that I must now take my morning shower?
Never let a crisis go to waste.
Failing upward is a feature with these people. Biden is the ultimate example.
i suspect the number of American hostages increased to 500 to justify 500 billion in humanitarian aid for Hamas. Ten percent for the big guy.
Correct me if I’m mistaken, but wasn’t Jake the snake the original concept man behind the Russian Hoax to take down Trump?
Interesting article posted on Zero Hedge. Naftali Bennett, former Israeli Prime Minister explains Israel’s plan to besiege Gaza. “Laying Siege To Gaza ” written October 29, 2023.
Hmmm… sounds to me like these “500 Americans” were in Gaza of their own free will. They knew the risks, and — I hate to be judgmental — but as we can see here on our home soil and in our Congress, there are “Americans” who are totally in support of the terrorist goals.
Those who lie with dogs, get up with fleas. Allow these “500” to make their own way home, if they really want to. Concentrate on getting the KIDNAPPED hostages, if any are still alive, instead. And support all Israeli efforts to eradicate the terrorists!!
500 Bowe Bergdahls
Why is Iran’s Hizzbolla well established in South and Central AMERICA?
Venezuela is a lot like Lebanon. North Mexican cartels and tunnels like North Gaza & Lebanon.
I feel we are long past due to get rid of duel US citizenship. Either you are a US citizen…or you’re not.
The poor schmuck who made the evil video that hurt the Muslims feelings and got them so riled up that they killed 4 Americans served about a year in jail, just because the Government wanted to somehow bolster their tawdry LIE.
We keep hearing that Israel cut off all electricity, water, and internet connectivity to Gaza. So how exactly is the US government able to communicate with “US hostages” in Gaza? It’s all bullshit as usual for the gubmint. Besides after the departure from Bagram we know they don’t give a crap about Americans being left for dead.
How are “they” in regular contact with the hostages?????? I must have missed something????