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…..
No human being should have a head shaped like that. His mama’s birth canal must be like an industrial pipe extruder.
EVIL DEAD RISE
Reminds me of:
compare the grin
Wow he does!
A pedo.
Harry Hopkins
He looks like a Vampire
Skull and Bones.
Proof that aliens did in fact visit earth and breed with unsuspecting human receptacles over the past 50 years and never returned due to their offspring failures.
Creepy!
Reminds me of Roger from family guy.
“Roger” from “American Dad”: “ET” + Paul Lynde = “Roger”
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Wow, bet he had to cut the crotch out of his underwear in HS. He’s not even a half good liar. There is exactly zero people anywhere in the current US government who are not brain dead morons. Every time any one of these puppets try to sound like there’s some kind of rational “war counsel” and they mention JoeBama in the same sentence you know it’s all bs.
I bet his middle name is Pointdexter…
And note that they didn’t show his plastic pocket protector either.
They all think they are smarter than you, and they are not.
those guys around brandon …got halloween party….every day ..and do not need mask…..
Reminds me of this other guy… they could be brothers separated from birth. I don’t like these two guys. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jared_Kushner
Paris Hilton’s new son has a head shaped like that.
Talk about a sh*t eatin’ grin.
“…shit-eating grin. Uh, whoever thought of that was ill.” 🙂
-G. Carlin
When the hitler youth grow up.
Yes, they went to bed Democrats, and woke up Nazis!
They were Mormons
misspelled “Morons”.
Oddly mid-shaped head.
Speaker Johnson with
Maria Bartiromo
(9:42)
https://rumble.com/v3shhgc-speaker-mike-johnson-joins-sunday-morning-futures.html
getting warmer….there is no war in Ukraine.
Exactly, it is a continuation of the money laundering machine. State to consultants, consultants to lobbyists, lobbyists to congress, congress to more money for Ukraine, wash-rinse- redo.
Some Purple there. So if Jabba the Hut was really a demon that was a political criminal………………………………………….
Blue ManGroup, minus the other two guys…
First, it was 200-250 Israeli hostages.
Now, if true, Hamas is holding Americans that were most probably already in Gaza as hostages and that count is 500.
Who knows what the Truth is when we have nothing but manipulative liars in our government?
It’s starting to look worse than the Ruder Finn/CFR media lie campaign against the Serbs
And overall that was a pretty EFFECTIVE campaign although I think Americans were paying a lot less attention.
May they all rot in hell for what they did to the serbs and others. We will never forget!!
that number sure has inflated since Israel decided to take its destiny into its own hands…
There are 500 Christians in Gaza, so probably a large number are American. Like the former GOP Congressman, of Palestinian and Syrian Christian descent, whose cousin’s baby was killed by bombing near the Church courtyard. We’ve heard nothing from the media about the Orthodox and Roman Catholic Churches in Gaza. They are at ground zero. To think the Orthodox Church survived the Crusades, but perhaps it will not survive this. Or the Church will survive, but no faithful left?
Is Samantha Powers among the 500 Americans? She likes to travel to revolutionary areas. If the US is in daily contact with some of these Americans then they have some high quality communication uplinks. most likely communicating on the CYA band.
What possible reason would regular Americans have to be in Gaza??? Sorry If I had family there I would be working to get them out not vacationing there.
And what the Hell are Americans doing living in Gaza unless they support Hamas/Palestinians & terrorism?
b*rd brain..deathtire……..spread gospel ….
If they were Americans, already IN Gaza, they were doing “NGO” or UNRUH work, so collaborating WITH Hamas, to bring in weopons disguised as ‘aid’ or to transfer $, or dual citisenship.
Crass I suppose, but fug’m.
I was thinking the same thing or dual citizens; or Christian Palestinian Americans visiting family (I knew one of those long ago).
American hostages… part of the plan. Who is the planner? How long has the plan been in place?
The uniparty and the unimedia.
The islamic terrorists are using US citizens as human shields to protect their evil carcasses, and team 0bama is allowing them to do that.
“America will never make concessions to terrorists — to do so would only invite more terrorism — nor will we ask nor pressure any other government to do so.”
~ Reagan
So Obama gave how many billions to Iran? Joebama gave 6 billion and ham-as 700 million. Before the attacks. Was this bad payoff for doing a job?
$10 billion in frozen assets were unfrozen by FJB earlier in the year, plus oil embargo sanctions have been lifted. Iran is flowing in money, unlike during Trump’s Administration.
I truly do not understand why House & Senate Republicans ARE NOT SHOUTING TO STOP PAYING TERRORISTS.
Because House and Senate Republicons are fully on board with everything the Joebama admin is doing.
After all, Republicons played a vital role in installing Joebama; the steal could NOT have occurred, without their active participation.
And, without active effort, the MAGA RepubliCANS could have taken the Senate, and gotten a larger lead in the House, but the RINO RepubliCONS intentionally sabatouged the 2022 midterms.
Thank you Sundance!!! It’s always soooo much to digest!
The George Kennan Who Wasn’t
A startling string of policy failures shows the hollowness of the U.S. foreign policy establishment and its servile wunderkind, Jake Sullivan
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/george-kennan-who-wasnt-jake-sullivan
Jake is the face of? Who is actually planning, and giving the orders?
Connect the NGO policy direction for world disorder and our border invasion…Sullivan has us paying for all of this.
Policy failures = Policy successes! Everything is upside down, good is evil, evil is good, destroying the country is saving the country!
I get a kick out of the picture of Jake the Snake in the article. He’s not even wearing a watch, just a yellow wrist band … phony all the way. Bill Clinton used to walk out of the Whitehouse to press events wearing a $10 rubber Timex. He had his Rolex in his pocket for a quick “Babe Alert” switch.
Sullivan is desperate to surrender to Hamas. He all but threatens Israel with a cutoff of aid if they don’t “pause” their campaign to let the professional appeasers “negotiate” with the terrorists. Which could drag out for months…..exactly what the terrorists want.
Here’s hoping Israel ignores this pablum. Destroy Hamas. Completely. Demand their unconditional surrender. Make them all die if they refuse.
0bama.
You cant unsee the puppet strings.
Great post, Grasshopper. I think you hit the nail on the head
Once the forced air duct work is found that replenishes the tunnel infrastructure, start dropping sponge bomb sacks down them and force them to the surface, or suffocate. Most of the high rise buildings now being demolished/flattened with the IDF Air force bombing is eliminating a lot of the major intakes associated with the buildings, but the smaller, more concealable ones need visual recognition to accomplish this procedure. No fresh air 100 ft underground can be a pretty serious come to Allah moment.
500 Americans,ehh? First ive heard of that….Makes one think manure is on the menu
Supposedly many Americans either visit or live in Gaza
Think Diaper Rashida.
I’m cracking up, 🤣. Diaper Rashida…so clever and so true. Haahaa
Like the former GOP Christian Congressman of Palestinian and Syrian descent. Most of those Americans in Gaza are likely Christians, but mums the word. They are all in the two Churches there, but don’t tell anyone.
My guess is most of the Americans there are not Christians but are Muslim or CYA a few missionaries perhaps but most missions support locals in dangerous areas adding fuel to the fire is not wise
Seems a poor choice of residence
Why would ANY self respecting American live or Visit that strip of desert? Probably Palestinians holding American passport due to being born here. Sorry,they chose their fate…
Stolen elections have consequences. 🤷♂️
Bad ones, as it turns out.
Eyes are the window to the soul. Jake Sullivan has cold, dead eyes.
Damien from the movie The Omen except this guy is real.
He has the voice on the nuclear trigger. VP Biden’s national security advisor while Joe was on the foreign take.
Thank you for all the vetting, FBI. Just imagine what a compromised White House could do?
I was thinking the lead in “Jaws”,…the Great White,….same dead eyes.
I wonder if the weapons we transferred to the Taliban are being used in accordance with the law of armed conflict?
If there are 500 Americans in Gaza, what’s the chances they aren’t of the Squadlette Talib variety?
Small tinyminuscule.Terrorists brides
Zero
Jake Sullivan is also one of the architect’s of Hillary’s “Russia, russia, russia” hoax.
Often overlooked and never punished.
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I have questions. Why are Americans (“Americans”?) in Gaza in the first place. And, how many are American Americans versus people with dual passports and/or ties to “Palestinians”?
I am recalling the fretting about “Americans” in Afghanistan too, who overwhelminging really were Afghanis — an excuse for “rescuing” a hundred thousand who-knows-whats (by the way where are they now), while leaving stranded people who actually helped our forces.
And when are we going to end the abomination of “dual citizenship”.
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Most are probably “dual citizens” and/or married to a “Palestinian”.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
i THINK a POTUS ALREADY ADDRESSED THIS –
https://the-american-catholic.com/2019/10/12/october-12-1915-theodore-roosevelt-addresses-the-knights-of-columbus/
There are NGO’s working there…
America is using the Israeli/Palestinian crisis to foment war with Iran, Syria, Egypt, Turkey, and of course Libya which is now run by terrorists thanks to the USA!
I can’t watch!
Well $500 billion should get them all free! The new bounty amount for Americans established by ChiCom Joe himself is $1 billion per American and he would have no problem paying Hamas!
JoeBarack just wanted to give them the money outright, but Iran insisted on giving us hostages to keep the mask on.I will not listen to Jake the Jacka$$’ voice.
500 AMERICAN HOSTAGES???????
I despise this Administration more than words can express.
THIS is how we are going to be treated people. We truly are on our own.
Praise God and pass the ammunition.
Would not be a bit surprised if Hamas was advised by the US government to take the hostages as some form of insurance against Israeli retaliation. The pressure from the Biden regime to delay the invasion is as suspicious as it gets.
First thing that hit my mind is why are “Americans” in Gaza? Are they some kind of dual citizenship, and if so how’d that happen? Next I’m wondering how large a cash only payout does ham-as want? 6 billion?
Yet another story to rearrange
What reality is reveling becomes ever more strange
So many false faces
Any truth left erases
With the avalanche of all those lies
Dancing in their evermore empty eyes!
Let me take a wild guess:
– 500 ‘Americans’ held ‘hostage’
– many volunteers, Palestinians, aide workers
– not hooded, shackled, and tortured
– when 300 are allowed to exit, Mumbles takes credit for freeing 300 ‘hostages’
The BlazeTV Highlights: Libya: The Real Story
https://archive.org/details/rth_25441307_1200K
The Lutfallah II Arms-Smuggling Scandal
https://www.counterpunch.org/2012/05/04/the-lutfallah-ii-arms-smuggling-scandal/
Perhaps there are ZERO American hostages in Gaza…yes?
They seem to already show signs of following this plan.
For example, one small part of it is they’re not going into the tunnel system in force. They’re going to seal them in and cut off supplies including the diesel fuel used to generate electricity for lighting and to ventilate the tunnels. I’d already thought of that on my own, but using explosives at entrances, not rapidly expanding, concrete hard foam “bombs” as they apparently plan to do.
Laying Siege To Gaza
OCT 29, 2023
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2023-10-29/laying-siege-gaza
Readers who have followed the Russia-Ukraine War closely may remember the name Naftali Bennett. Bennett is the former Israeli Prime Minister who travelled to Moscow shortly after Russia’s invasion of the Ukraine in an attempt to mediate an end to the conflict. He later said that both parties were close to agreeing to a ceasefire, but the West blocked the Ukrainian government from further negotiations.
On Saturday, Bennett laid out his plan for besieging Gaza, in a way he argued would avoid playing in to Hamas’s strengths or unnecessarily provoking Hezbollah, while also being consistent with international law with respect to humanitarian concerns. Below is an X translation of his post, with some slight additional formatting to improve readability and a bit of bolding for emphasis of key points. Following that, we’ll look at an example of an investing approach that can offer some protection in the event this war expands.
[the plan follows at the link]
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Does Israel Really Have ‘Sponge Bombs’ For Sealing Tunnels?
A portable system capable of rapidly sealing up tunnels without blowing them up would be major boon for Israeli forces operating in Gaza.
OCT 27, 2023
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/does-israel-really-have-sponge-bombs-for-sealing-tunnels
Israeli forces are prepared to employ “sponge bombs” that produce quick-hardening foam to seal off tunnels used by terrorists in the Gaza Strip, according to a recent report. Though unconfirmed, there is some precedent for the use of devices that create hard or at least very sticky foam by military and other security forces.
As described by the Telegraph, the devices contain a binary chemical mixture that only blends together when the device is activated. The system is reportedly small and light enough to be emplaced, or even thrown, by a single individual.
Israeli “soldiers were seen deploying the devices during exercises in 2021,” according to the Telegraph, but no further details or imagery are provided. “The [Israeli] army has set up a mock tunnel system at the Tze’Elim army base near the border with Gaza.”
Tze’Elim is publicly known to host a mock Palestinian village with an underground tunnel network specifically to help prepare IDF personnel for ground operations in places like Gaza. To this point, this training site is even nicknamed “Little Gaza.”
Various grades of quick-hardening and expanding foam are in widespread use in commercial construction and might be able to provide a useful seal, at least temporarily. One U.S. manufacturer of commercial urethane foam, U.S. Composites, Inc., says that its “16LB density foam is essentially as hard as a rock” and “you would need a hammer in order to make any dents in this product.”
Dispensers full of super-sticky immobilizing foam are also known to be among the defensive features found on heavily modified tractor trailer trucks that the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) uses to move nuclear weapons and other related sensitive cargoes.
Jake Sullivan being called out…
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/george-kennan-who-wasnt-jake-sullivan
not funny…yes. agreed.
he smells like cia.
the fragrance that smells like death.
no thanks.
And fancy that!!!!
She didn’t interrupt him once.
(Rehearsals must have gone well 😎)
One tool interviewing another tool. A view into the void.
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I have more questions. Why do people still think that giving “Palestinians” their own state (“two-state solution”, which they’ve repeatedly rejected) is going to create peace? These Muslims aren’t carrying on for “self-determination” or anything similar. They will continue until there is no more Israel. There already was a “two-state solution” a hundred years ago — most of the land already was given to them, now called Jordan.
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Israel’s area is about 20% of my home state of Ohio.
Surrounded by enemies.
How does one defend that?
How would we know we don’t even defend our own southern border
By totally annihilating them and then their source of funding.
“but all of the ones who reach out to us” who the F would not reach out to their own USG?
On that topic, during WWII, I wonder how many dual citizenship American citizens were in Germany, Italy, and Japan and remained there during the war?
Anyway, in this case, a good rule would be to avoid any presence in countries that elect terrorist organizations as their leaders and if you have any relatives there insist that they move if they want to see you. Tip: our southern border is wide open…
In total war, allowing an incredibly evil enemy to take advantage of your good nature is not a winning strategy.
See: Dresden, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, etc.
When I was in High School, we had a Japanese exchange student from, of all places, Hiroshima. He was in my advanced chemistry class and came up to our brainiac table in the library to show some images with Japanese text of the injured at Hiroshima, images I’d already seen.
I agreed with him that it was tragic, then walked over to retrieve the big format book “The Pictorial History of WWII” which I knew the location of since I was a WWII buff, opened it to the two-page layout of the USS Arizona exploding at Pearl Harbor and said, simply, “You started it, we ended it.” For added value, I then found a nice photo of the Bataan Death March.
The Japanese like Muslims believed themselves to be the Master race. They were raised on this belief. While the bombs dropped were something I can’t imagine…I don’t believe the Japanese would have listened to:…ONE WORD, DONT.
Some pictures of The Rape of Nanking would have been appropriate.
Boogystew…
I agree. Especially since it was an attack against civilians. Brutal.
During WWII probably very few and of those, most were likely spouses of foreign born men. It wasn’t till about 1980, or maybe a little later, that dual citizenship for U.S. nationals became generally approved.
Frankly, if a RESCUE operation isn’t possible, and I do not mean ransoming them, I really do not CARE why they are there.
As you say, its “total war” and fighting for EXISTENCE, which Americans are actually unfamiliar with.
Hostages? Kaiser Soz’e had the appropriate responce.
First, KILL the hostages, take them out if the equation, figure they are dead anyway, and collateral damage.
Then, to send a message that will deter others from taking hostages again, you eliminate everyone involved, the planners, actors, financiers and those who cheered around the World, all of their family, friends, neighbors, aquaintences.
Sullivan should go back to hammering cell phones!! He’s a waste of human skin!!
Is Jake Sulivan Baghdad Bob’s twin?
What is that evil boss’s name from the Simpsons? That’s what Sullivan looks like!!💁🏻♀️
Montgomery Burns. I had to look it up. For some reason I keep thinking of his kiss ass enabler, Smithers.
Which one is more full of crap.
There is so much about Sullivan to critique and criticize and yet all of these comments below appear to be at home and I thought CTh people were smarter than that
Ad hominem not at home
Kind of a weak criticism, kind of comes off like “to bad you rubes done know everything I know that I wont share. Please enlighten us at least do a google search and provide some links.
By the way there is an edit feature here lower right below your post. Eventually it is unavailable. I believe it is a timed out option . It is a very nice option for smart phone commentators.
Does the transcript come out before or after the interview.
He should toss in some famous Hollywood people or the Clinton’s Tel Aviv house sitters, or Kissinger’s cousins….
What has Yale done to the Middle East? Bush, Kerry and Sullivan? Enough of the skullduggery.
FWIW: Jake “hard questions” Sullivan is trying to paint the picture of a concerted U.S. restraining effect on Israeli leaders, which is more apparent than real, except for humanitarian aid deliveries into southern Gaza through Egypt and the partial resumption of water supplies into the territory.
All rhetorical posturing aside, the key factor is that the Israeli ground offensive has finally begun. It started with two consecutive nights of in-and-out armored reconnaissance raids, followed by the deployment of a large IDF combined arms force inside northern Gaza on Friday night. This force remains inside the strip.
That said, the Big Push that everyone first expected has not started yet, and as per Israeli officials, the offensive is being conducted in phases. How many? We don’t know. The phased approach indicates that the deployment of IDF combat units into Gaza is likely to occur in installments instead of all-at-once.
The key thing is that the ground offensive has started and the Israeli Air Force is continuing to pound and weaken Hamas. How much is anyone’s guess, but the number of dead Hamas commanders continues to rise steadily as does the number of civilian casualties. Hamas rocket fire continues, but the Israeli side is not publishing the number of rockets fired or the intercept rate for the Iron Dome. Israeli reports indicate that occasional rockets do hit Israeli civilian areas causing damage and injuries.
Hezbollah and Palestinians operatives in southern Lebanon continue to poke at the IDF, but otherwise have shown no interest in escalating further. Israel has taken some rocket fire from the Syrian Golan, and the IAF continues to crater runways and strike various targets in Syria to make life difficult for the IRGC.
By starting the ground offensive in a manner less than expected, Israel and, yes, the United States have crossed Iran’s stated red line with no major consequences at this time.
The token rocket and drone attacks against U.S. bases in Iraq and Syria have apparently subsided, or at least are not being reported. The recent U.S. airstrike in eastern Syria may have gotten the message across, for now. U.S. aircraft carriers, submarines, and strategic bombers are persuasive tools of statecraft. And Iranian forces in Syria are very vulnerable.
However, missile and drone attacks by the Houthis/Iran through the Red Sea remain a problem and not just for Israel. A Houthi drone hit a building in Taba, Egypt during the latest round of Houthi attacks.
Israeli leaders and the Biden Administration remain under intense domestic political pressure to privilege hostage release over the destruction of Hamas. Regional countries, like most of the rest-of-the-world, want a ceasefire, but pressure from regional allies on Washington is more apparent than real.
Lots of pretending, as Egypt and the Sunni monarchies want Israel to dispose of Hamas and at reasonable cost in civilian lives. They just can’t admit this publicly for reasons concerning the management of public rage and unhappiness. For similar reasons, the Biden Administration can’t clarify that most of those 500 U.S. “hostages” are dual citizens who were in Gaza because that is where they wanted to be, except for now because of the fighting.
Overall, Israeli and U.S. leaders are balancing their response on the side of intensifying military action against Hamas and defensive and/or deterrent operations elsewhere, notwithstanding Jake Sullivan’s statements. This is going to be a long hard fight for Israel. How long the Biden Administration can continue to run diplomatic interference for Israel is anyone’s guess.
The link below relates to a typical Palestinian conversation between a Hamas fighter and two Palestinian civilians…
https://nypost.com/2023/10/24/news/hamas-terrorist-brags-to-parents-about-killing-jews/
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The Vichy and the Quislings talked this same line during the last world war.
I watched that exact same movie in 1992. Nato/America was the name.
Jake the Snake is such a non-entity in our administration. He needs to go away. Why are such unqualified people allowed to hold such positions?
Hamas embarrassed the IDF, can’t negotiate that away.My bet is that hostages and human shields have been removed from any consideration in the war.They have zero value to hamas as a bargaining chip.How much consideration was given to the fate of German, and Japanese civilians? Koreans,Vietnamese ?? Hamas will stop taking hostages when they understand that hostages don’t count.How are there 5-600 ”American” citizens in Gaza ? It looks like Gazan citizens who have USA passports as a backup.They are not Americans.
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There’s an incestuous web of creeps in this country. From wiki:
…He was an editor of the Yale Law Journal… interned at the Council on Foreign Relations… also worked for Brookings Institution president Strobe Talbott at the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization…
…married to Margaret Maggie Vivian Goodlander, an intelligence officer in the United States Navy Reserve who served as a former advisor to senators Joe Lieberman and John McCain in the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee… Yale Law School, Goodlander served as a law clerk to then-Chief Judge Merrick Garland of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and Associate Justice Stephen Breyer of the United States Supreme Court…
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He checks all the traitor boxes.
“Americans” Not really. Dual citizens, immigrants, and other wretched refuse of teeming shores. I doubt there is a Heritage American in the bunch.
What bothers me more is the manipulation of the true antisemitism that we are seeing, as well as using the ongoing situation in Israel for the State Dept/US government advantage. Whether it’s Ukrainians, Israelis, Libyans, Iraqis, Afghanis, whomever, the US uses them as pawns.
500 Americans or 500 foreigners who purchased American papers from our corrupt state department ? There is a big difference.
Gosh, Carter only had 52 American hostages held for 444 days. No wonder they don’t want to say the H-word.
Ahhh, one of many punchable egos! 😉