Writes Eli Sharabi, in "What my captivity taught me about Hamas and its hateful ideology/My captors’ cruelty revealed an obsession with death. Lasting peace will demand more than diplomacy" (WaPo).
ADDED: Here's another column from Eli Sharabi, "I Was a Hostage in Gaza. This Is How I Survived" (Free Press):
Sometimes I feel like I am talking to people who are living 20 years in the past. One day, the Mask and the Cleaner tell me excitedly about a movie they just watched, gushing about how amazing and special it was. “What’s it called?” I ask. “Titanic!” “Titanic? With Leonardo DiCaprio?” I stare at them. What year are you living in?
The Mask tells me he likes to dance with his wife, but because of Hamas’s religious regime, they can’t. I ask him if he wants to live differently; whether he dreams of quiet, of a life where he could go to the beach with his kids and enjoy a normal day. He doesn’t answer, but I see his eyes glimmer....
The endless stretches of time give me room to think, to yearn. I keep thinking about Lianne and the girls. I imagine our sweet moments together: Shabbat and holiday meals, trips, family celebrations. I think a lot about coming home. I fantasize about it. I imagine telling Lianne, That’s it, let’s get out of here. Come on, Lianne, let’s take our girls to live somewhere different, somewhere quiet. But I refuse to let myself sink into longing. I refuse to let myself drown in pain. I am surviving. I am a hostage....
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"However, it became clear to me that the willingness to torture and murder comes from a deeper place."
And that deeper place is Islam itself.
Jews have been stealing our stuff. That's why they're rich and we're poor. Same as for blacks an whites in the US and the eternal chip on the shoulder of blacks that keeps them further down than otherwise.
51 days counting from when?
The Free Press also has an interview with Mr. Sharabi today. For those that don't want to give any clicks to WaPo.
"How do you fight someone who doesn't care if they get killed?"
"You accommodate them."
- General Norman Schwarzkopf
Hamas is like this guy(D)...
Authoritarian Democratics in power groomed leftwing losers to hate and assassinate conservatives... In the name of their religion of hate(D).
Guy Benson
On the anniversary of October 7, and on the occasion of her extraordinary professional achievement, now is a very good time for you to watch (or re-watch) this
@bariweiss
speech. “The Last Line of Defense:”
Hamas is a death cult. Hamas is funded by Iran and Iran is funded by leftist globalists.
Democrats are also a death cult.
and LIE cult.
The democrats are holding our nation hostage using LIES.
The truth:
Vis Guy Benson:
1) Air traffic controllers are essential workers & remain employed during shutdowns.
2) CA’s Senators, both Democrats, are filibustering the bill to open the government. That’s why there’s a shutdown. Newsom supports them doing so, while blaming Trump.
3) Every R Congressman from CA voted to fund the government. Every CA Democrat voted no.
bold off!
The financial incentives for Palestinian leaders are too great for them ever to agree to a true peace treaty with Israel. Their foot soldiers are brainwashed morons who do whatever their leaders tell them to do.
American Presidents have to try, but their efforts have been and will always be mostly useless. Ask Dennis Ross (Clinton Administration) about what it is like negotiating with the Palestinian leadership.
It’s a Hollywood construct but it rings: they read one book. A message what falls unsurprisingly flat with the bookish…
Hamas is a death cult funded and protected by Bibi who stood down the IDF when the Egyptian intelligence reports warned of their impending attack.
Bari Wiess
Hamas is funded by Bibi? Get a grip- Howard. Total BS.
The other option to deal with Gaza and Islam is mass conversion to a different faith. And frankly, I'm not aware of that ever happening... always it requires a mass killing off of people first before the survivors might change.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannibal_Directive
Death cults are everywhere.
Wiki - LOL. Pure shit.
like Conrad's Kurtz, the Islamic Resistance is in part our creation, funded with tax dollars through non profits as well as their own fraud schemes,
Virginia AG candidate Jay Jones
he's the guy that said:
"Three people, two bullets. Gilbert, Hitler, and Pol Pot. Gilbert gets two bullets to the head."
Gilbert was the Republican Speaker of the House for Virginia.
as their conversation continued, Coyner expressed concern that
Jones had talked "about hoping Jennifer Gilbert’s children would die."
https://www.fox5dc.com/news/virginia-jay-jones-texts-attorney-general-todd-gilbert
THESE are the people the Democrats have picked to run the country
THESE are the people the Democrats have picked MURDER us
https://cdrsalamander.substack.com/p/two-years-since-the-oct-7th-slaughter
Too subtle for this place. I can't read the discussion until later.
Oct 7th - hamas slaughters innocent Jews.
The Left: Bibi did it!
Charlie Kirk - assassinated.
The Left: Conservatives killed him!
Notice a theme here.
the Jews were driven out of the tolerant lands (sarc) like Morocco, after 1947, one of the kibbutz attacked Neviot was populated by settlers from Morocco
Vance said...
"The other option to deal with Gaza and Islam is mass conversion to a different faith. And frankly, I'm not aware of that ever happening... always it requires a mass killing off of people first before the survivors might change."
The Marx-Jihad Fusion: More Dangerous Together Than Either Parent
Author's summary:
"The fusion of Marxist analytics and Islamist eschatology is not merely “extremism with better branding.” It is a reactor that combines the ruthlessness of material revolution with the staying power of eternal reward. Marxism promised heaven on Earth and delivered breadlines; jihadism promised heaven in the afterlife but stumbled in state-building; their hybrid promises both—justice now, salvation later—and in that promise lies its perilous allure. Ignore it, and the West will replay the Cold War without the luxury of secular opponents who fear death as much as we do."
Long article. Left unsaid is what happens to Islamists if the Marxists get their way. "Religion is the opiate of the masses." If the objective is achieved, the religionists will no longer be useful idiots; they'll be expendable. And any other faith, other than worship of the State, will likewise be forbidden.
why did they join Hamas instead of Popular Front or Fatah, all participated in October 7th,
Left-wing ideologues entertain abortive ideation to relieve "burdens" incorporated under a Diversity umbrella. Deja vu, nothing new.
This is the dullest, shitiest, most anti-erotic sex fad ever.
I was hearing an account of a released hostage this morning. When he was taken, he was put on the back of a motorcycle with his captor driving through the streets, announcing "I have a Jew ! I have a Jew !", whereupon he was beaten by the bystanders, all cheering.
It brings to a point the underlying fraud and flaws of Progressive thinking. This is a lynching in the classical sense, without the killing. Transpose the actors: A black victim with a Southern white captor.
Progressives decry and condemn the latter, all while the most radical Progressive leftists are endorsing the former. For the more moderate Progressives, they decry and condemn the latter, while avoiding at all costs, any debate on the former, instead steering the conversation with distractions - 'It's a genocide !' - which is also factually incorrect.
So it boils down to the principles of logic and fact-finding that underpin modern culture: Both of these cases can be worthy of condemnation, but there can never exist a condition where one is acceptable, and the other isn't - because they are examples of the same thing. Ergo, Progressives are wrong, and that is the most important reason to discard their thinking.
its not a Progressive, it's Pure Islam, probably going back to Tammiyah in the 13th century
hanuman_prodigious_leaper said
51 days counting from when?
Eli Sharabi was released by Hamas in February 2025. I suspect the 51 days is the amount of time he spent in that particular location.
The secular Arab governments would love to see the Palis genocided. And they’d be happy to deal with Israel as a good neighbor afterwards. They just can’t say it in public. CC, JSM
Progressivism is a philosophy of [unqualified] monotonic change. Principles matter.
to the Salafi, even the Qataris are munayfakin, hypocrites, its an arguable point who is the tool here,
the al Thanis provided sanctuary to the Chechen poet Vandarbichev, the Russians see nyet and threw some grenades in the middle of Doha,
https://www.ilawjournals.com/as-the-russian-special-services-eliminated-zelimkhan-yandarbiyev-in-qatar/
The secular Arab governments would love to see the Palis genocided. And they’d be happy to deal with Israel as a good neighbor afterwards
sure looks that way…
Peachy- thanks for the link to Bari Weiss's speech from a couple of years ago. It is worth another listen. Those who have not heard it before, try it. If your brain still works, it might make sense to you.
John Mosby, you completely nailed it. This is the landscape that no one likes to state out loud. Except Trump. He alludes to it often.
I don't think its "left wing" to be disgusted with starving children. What is wrong with you people? Is that really "left wing." JFC you people are evil.
"Hamas is a death cult funded and protected by Bibi ..."
No doubt Howard has "sources with first hand knowledge (even if not in the room)...". "Anonymous sources", of course, the very best kind. Or perhaps the old stand by "Some people say" the "some" who are never named.
If those fail, just the fevered, paranoid delusions of TDS are enough today to make the most outrageous claims.
Thus as it ever was.
the problem is the Gulf States, certainly employ a great many guest workers from countries like Pakistan, from where the Brotherhood recruits,
The terrorists have priority access to resources. The women and children are used as human shields.
Hamas is a death cult funded and protected by Bibi
I suspect that you are joking Howard.
I know you are a lefty, but not nearly as stupid or crazy as the other lefties here.
UNWRA has been raising up monsters for nearly 80 years,
D.D. Driver said...
I don't think its "left wing" to be disgusted with starving children. What is wrong with you people? Is that really "left wing." JFC you people are evil.
No one supports having children starve. How do you propose to feed them? Are you going to send Greta Thunberg in a Volvo with a Doordash emblem? What's your solution? Moral vanity never fed anyone.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/the-spiritual-war-of-oct-7/
welll lookitdat
Confirmed by Israeli media. “Not Fake News”. Bibi has been giving money to Hamas
“Hamas was treated as a partner to the detriment of the Palestinian Authority to prevent Abbas from moving towards creating a Palestinian State. Hamas was promoted from a terrorist group to an organization with which Israel conducted negotiations through Egypt, and which was allowed to receive suitcases containing millions of dollars from Qatar through the Gaza crossings.” (Times of Israel October 8, 2023, emphasis added)
According to Netanyahu:
“Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas,” he [Netanyahu] told a meeting of his Likud party’s Knesset members in March 2019. “This is part of our strategy – to isolate the Palestinians in Gaza from the Palestinians in the West Bank.” (Haaretz, October 9, 2023, emphasis added)
D.D. Driver still porking strawmen.
you have to compare D's importing migrant workers into US against Israel using Palestinians for same roles - doing work jews refuse to do?
For years, Netanyahu propped up Hamas. Now it’s blown up in our faces
The enemy of your enemy is not necessarily your friend.
work permits Israel granted to Gazan laborers, which kept money flowing into Gaza, meaning food for families and the ability to purchase basic products.
Israeli officials said these permits, which allow Gazan laborers to earn higher salaries than they would in the enclave, were a powerful tool to help preserve calm.
Thanks, nar.
Though it's true that elements within Islam are murderous death cults, the majority position is on a longer term strategy of demographic accretion, biding time until power is a fait accompli. In the meantime, nobody is allowed to publicly evaluate the Quran in a manner analogous to the scholarly dismantling of Biblical text. No critical commentary or scholarship is permitted.
It's like Christianity circa 1450 AD.
This strategy just might work.
I feel bad for the Palestinians. They were raised in houses and schools to hate. They are fanatics. And there is no cure for fanaticism. De-Nazification was a breeze. Tom Brady’s NFL career lasted longer than the Nazi Party. Not many were raised in the Nazi faith from the cradle. And most Nazi party members joined for the go along to get along reasons. Kill the leaders and a few enthusiastic wingmen. The rest fall in line.
That’s not possible in Gaza. Half the Palestinians the US foolishly allowed in are nuts.
At a certain point, if you can’t contain them then you have to eliminate them.
All this stuff is crazy, foolish, dangerous, and bordering on unreal. America always being the go-between, aider/abettor, referee, social worker, fireman, and financer for those two ethnicities is futile. And morally wrong. It's like being comitted to save your neighbor's terrible marriage. In the end they have to do it fthemselves for th
The people who support Hamas are supporting future Genocides.
Anyone who does not recognize that Hamas must be ruthlessly crushed is condemning millions in future generations to become death cultists.
Many thousands of Gaza Strip residents have to die now because of people who supported the Palestinians for the last 7 decades.
If we don’t kill them now then future generations will have to kill thousands of Palestinians.
Someone has to do it.
D.D. Driver said...
I don't think it’s "left wing" to be disgusted with starving children. What is wrong with you people? Is that really "left wing." JFC you people are evil.
This is exactly why the kind of juvenile moral posturing that created the problem faced today.
Someone has to take Hamas out or they will eventually murder all of the Jews.
If you tell people for 2,000 years that Jews are ticks on the Earth, then those people won't have any problem murdering Jews.
And the Democrats have taken note of this tactic. They believe that calling Republicans Hitler and Fascists will program their followers brains in the same way and cause them to have zero problem murdering people like Charlie Kirk or Donald Trump.
And of course the Democrat plan is flawless in both its design and execution. Just like Hamas.'
Both are terrorist organizations that should be eliminated from the Earth.
Mr Sharabi was on Morning Joe today. Inter alia, he said he and his family were stuck in their bomb shelter for 3 hours by the missile alarms, until the terrorists showed up.
This triggered my 20/20 hindsight for some TTP adjustments:
1. Had the kibbutzniks just gotten on the road at the first missile alarm, they would have been moving targets at least. And maybe they might have gotten to more populated areas where police, military, and armed Jews could have put up a defense. Or maybe return to the days of self-defending kibbutzim, with obstacles to slow down the bad guys and bunkers you can actually shoot from instead of just waiting for the missiles to stop.
2. Had the Israeli government had an anti-missile TTP that depended a little less on Patriot and bunkers, and a little more on counterfire into launch sites, perhaps that would have disrupted the Hamas hold-em-down-with-missiles-while-we-saunter-over-there strategy. CC, JSM
“Long article. Left unsaid is what happens to Islamists if the Marxists get their way. "Religion is the opiate of the masses." If the objective is achieved, the religionists will no longer be useful idiots; they'll be expendable. And any other faith, other than worship of the State, will likewise be forbidden.”
More likely the Marxists will be surprised to learn they are the useful idiots.
Unocnditional surrender. Life imprisonment for all Hamas members, and execution after trial for all officers and leadership, including the terrorist bagmen/diplomats abroad. Forced re-education for all Gazans for the next generation, longer if they don't realize the error of their ways. Here's betting the current attempt to negotiate a peace will fail, as the Hamas leadership is a death cult and Iranian proxy, and deserves to be extinct.
the Marxists will be surprised to learn they are the useful idiots.
In left-wing ideology there can be only one, thus the judicial kings and queens, the super delegates, etc who override democratic intent and votes.
As for Marxism, class-disordered ideologies fall under the Diversity umbrella, DEIsm in systemic, institutional modes.
Whether or not Netanyahu actually gave Israeli money to Hamas he has supported Hamas as an excuse not to negotiate and hasn't tried to stop funds coming to Hamas from other sources. The way that you get a "Death Cult" is to block constructive political action and remove rational political actors from the scene. Then you have a good excuse not to negotiate.
I read an interview with Sharabi where he said that the Gazan civilians were as involved with his captivity as the Hamas terrorists. He describes children throwing shoes at him, and states that it would take two generations for the Gazans to be willing to live in peace. It was a pretty damning statement, because all of the pro-Palestinian protestors have been crying about the plight of the poor "innocent civilians," but it seems that there were few, if any, Gazans who met that description; probably only the toddlers who had not yet learned to talk. The rest of them at least approved of the October 7 attacks, even if they didn't take part in them.
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