What Our Hostages Endured
While decent people worldwide cheered for the release of our remaining living hostages in the morning hours Israeli time this past Monday, October 13th, the Judean people collectively exhaled, nearly fully, for the first time since October 7th, 2023. Holidays, birthdays, vacations were twinged with guilt – guilt that we were living our lives to the extent we could, while our people were held captive by subhumans, many held hostage in dark tunnels where even most animals would not be allowed to be kept.
251 people were taken hostage during the Judean genocide – all are heroes for surviving and those who were murdered, most fought back and hard, even those who were released back in November of 2023, when the released included children! Children as young as three years old, a beautiful little girl named Abigail Idan whose parents were murdered in front of her. We know many of the hostages names – we prayed for them, we repeated their names at marches, we heard from their families, we contacted our representatives to not forget about our people.
To survive 738 days in horrendous conditions while being starved, beaten, psychologically tormented, humiliated, and pressured to ‘convert’ to Islam relentlessly is on another level of Judean heroism.
Avinatan Or was held in isolation for two years and starved, losing 40% of his body weight in captivity. At 6’7, he was forced into a tiny cage just 1.8 meters high, and smaller in width than a single bed; he was unable to stand or lay straight for more than a year. For 2 years, he had no idea what happened to his girlfriend, Noa Argamani. He had escaped the subhumans during the genocide and could have been free and alive; the only reason he was caught is because he helped others survive. It can now be revealed that Avinatan was a soldier in the IDF’s elite Sayeret Matkal unit during his military service. Such information had to be kept secret while he was a hostage. His military background is most likely why he shared with Netanyahu, upon release, that the war should be won even at the expense of the hostages – even if it meant his suffering would have continued.
Omri Miran was held in 23 different places within Judean Gaza by the Arab occupiers.
Elkana Bohbot was shackled in tunnels, in complete darkness and lost sense of time and space. He was also overfed by the subhumans as his release neared, which is what Israel specifically told the Red Cross to relay to Hamas not to do; he is suffering from the effects of that action.
Rom Braslavsky was shot, physically beaten often, was starved, and was not allowed to shower. He was also held at times with the murdered bodies of hostages – that is why he knows Hamas is lying now that they do not know where the remaining 19 murdered hostages are located. When told that if he ‘converted’ to Islam, his conditions would drastically improve, Rom replied, “I am a strong Jew.” The pictures of Rom looking at the sky post-release is heart-wrenching. Rom had many opportunities to escape from the Nova festival, but he chose to stay and help others.
Guy Gilboa-Dalal was refused use of a toilet for days at a time. He was so dehydrated that he was unable to speak. He resorted to drinking dirty water from a barrel used to flush the toilet when the terrorists were not looking.
Evyatar David, whose propaganda video and picture we all saw, where he was forced to dig his own grave while in a Holocaust skeletal state, was bound by his hands and feet, spent weeks with bags over his head, open wounds exposed. He was held with Guy, but were then separated the last two months.
Twins Ziv and Gali Berman were held separately and cut off from the world.
Yosef Haim Ohana – shared that he and the hostage he was held with were pressured constantly to ‘convert.’ They were given a radio and forced to listen to Muslim prayer and Islamic propaganda all day. At one point when the guards were not looking, they tinkered with the radio wires and managed to get Israeli radio, that is when he was able to hear his father’s pleas for his release and that gave him a newfound purpose to go on.
Matan Angrest was beaten so violently, he lost consciousness and was tormented psychologically with his captors lying that his family did not want him to return.
Segev Kalfon’s family believed he was murdered during the genocide and only got word from another hostage released in February, that Segev was alive. He was among the released this past Monday.
Bringing back home David Cuneo meant the world not only to his own family, but also to Yarden Bibas, his best friend, who lost his entire world with the murder of his beloved wife, Shiri, his two sons (Ariel & Kfir), and both of his in-laws.
Bar Kupershtein’s survival was a miracle – he was working as a paramedic at the Nova festival. His father had suffered a stroke and Bar, who was only 21, wanted to support the family. Bar risked his life to evacuate those who were wounded by the subhumans. He took a gun from a murdered Israeli police officer and shot Hamas terrorists as he evacuated nearby wounded. When Bar returned to the site for the fourth time, despite being surrounded by hundreds of terrorists, Bar was kidnapped. His father learned how to walk and talk again, as best he could, in honor of his son’s release.
Alon Ohel, 24, was kidnapped at the Nova festival. A gifted pianist, his family had placed pianos throughout Israel and one abroad in his honor. He spent two years with shrapnel lodged in his right eye and head, causing him to lose sight in that eye. The day he was released, he mustered the strength to play piano at the hospital.
Eitan Mor was also kept in harsh conditions filled with psychological abuse. In his later days of captivity, Hamas’ military subhuman leader visited him and told Eitan that if there was a deal, he would be released first since his father “doesn’t go to protests anyway.” His father was part of a contingent of hostage families who believed that protests were doing more harm than good and that instead military pressure was what was needed.
Tal Shalom shared that one of his guards was a first-grade teacher, another was a university professor, and another was a doctor. His food was always restricted compared to the families who held him captive.
“Hamas still holds my son’s remains hostage. Please don’t call this over, yet. Do not let the true joy of reunion lull us into forgetting those still being held, or whose location has been lost.” – Ruby Chen, father of Itay Chen. Upon release, Matan Angrest attended the funeral of his late army Captain Daniel Peretz, whose body was recovered, as part of the deal, and said, “I can barely stand on my feet, but it’s an honor to be here. Daniel is a figure to be admired– my hero and the hero of all the people of Israel. I am ready to go into Gaza right now to bring back Itay Chen.”
To truly convey how much the release of hostages meant, it was not just through words, but also actions. Below is what a colleague of Avinatan Or wrote upon Avinatan’s release:
“Avinatan Or, I hope you have a good excuse for not showing up to work at NVIDIA for 738 days.
But every Sunday morning for two years, the head of NVIDIA Israel’s HR, Gideon Rosenberg, sent an email to all employees counting the days you were in captivity and calling everyone to join him for a reminder vigil in front of the Kirya gate, held every Sunday evening. Even the global CEO, Jensen Huang, mentioned your name in every quarterly internal meeting, telling 40,000 employees that their colleague was being held captive by Hamas. How wonderful that you’ve returned home. I heard you have an amazing girlfriend who’s eagerly waiting for you, loving parents, that you work at a place that cares for you, and I also have some pretty good news about what’s happened with your stocks over the past two years.”
Infuriatingly, not all our people are back home. To the surprise of none, Hamas has reneged on its deal to also release the 28 murdered hostages. As of this writing, 19 are still being held in Judean Gaza. Among the few released who were murdered are Guy Iluz who was kidnapped alive and murdered in captivity as a result of injuries sustained that were not medically treated. Bipin Joshi, one of 10 Nepali agricultural students, was murdered in captivity. Yossi Sharabi, the brother of previously freed hostage, Eli Sharabi, was also among the released. The family of 19 year old soldier Tamir Nimrodi, was among the returned of the murdered hostages. Israeli authorities had listed him missing in action and had grave concerns about his condition, until his remains confirmed the worst.
Many Jew-haters love to use the phrase, ‘moral equivalency’ as if Israel is at some moral equal level as the subhuman Arab occupiers in Judean Gaza. One former hostage, who was released last year, shared that his captor had truly wanted to know why is it that Jews value life so much, as those in Judean Gaza value death over life. The former hostage then understood that it is impossible to fairly fight with an enemy who not only wants you dead, but thrives on the death of its own.
That is why Hamas (and the many other terrorist groups in Judean Gaza) were fighting our soldiers in civilian clothes and only donned their uniforms during the humiliating ‘release ceremonies’ and when the ‘ceasefire’ deal was announced by President Trump. Why women and children are sent to harass Israeli soldiers, hoping for a deadly reaction – not just in Judean Gaza, but in Judea & Samaria as well. There are soldiers in coffins on the Mount of Olives all because they chose not to kill women and children decoys of Hamas, when in reality, they should have and saved their own lives. Because no one in Judean Gaza values their life, why should Israelis. Until that is understood, the difference between us and them, and that even a destroyed Judean Gaza is not enough to stop these subhumans from planning another Judean genocide. The next one is being planned today, let’s not be naive. The difference is, will Israel let it happen once more? Minutes within the ‘ceasefire’ aka hudna being announced, the Hamas chief subhumans, the replacement to Sinwar, Khalil Ismail Ibrahim Al-Hayya, promised that the countdown has already begun to the next genocide, “We are re-arming and recruiting new operatives and Hamas is spreading again throughout the Strip.”
In exchange of 20 living hostages and 28 murdered hostages, Israel had to release nearly 2,000 subhuman terrorists. Let’s see the difference:
Israel fought for the release of Matan Zangauker, a beloved family man, who was kidnapped from his home in Kibbutz Nir Oz. Hamas fought for the release of Iyad Abu al-Rub, an Islamic Jihad terrorist serving multiple life sentences for orchestrating several deadly suicide bombings in the early 2000s.
A terrorist watch group reported that while in prison, the 250 terrorists, who are serving life sentences and who are being released, received ‘pay for slay’ payments from the Palestinian Authority terrorist group – the same group who Jew haters call ‘moderate’ and who call its leader, ‘President.’ The payments totaled over $229 million; 160 of those terrorists became millionaires while in prison. Jew haters are also now crying about the missing limbs of some of those subhumans – those limbs were lost while suicide bombing Israelis.
What is insane, aside from the fact that a Judean genocide occurred and human beings were kidnapped, is that typically when kidnappings occur, it is on foreign soil. For two years, the mostly Israeli hostages were held captive on Israeli soil, under Israeli soil. Judean Gaza has been Judean land since 145 BC and still to this day, per international law (Article 80), belongs to Israel.
Who Is Really to Thank for Final Hostage Release
President Trump absolutely deserves credit, as does every single American who voted for Trump both in 2016 and 2024 – we do not have Judean blood on our hands unlike those who voted for Jihad Joe and then for Hamas Harris. A reminder that Hamas Harris was calling for a ceasefire without any hostage release deal. One former hostage shared that when President Trump was re-elected (for the third time), his captors treated him slightly better – they were hoping for a Hamas Harris presidency.
It was a herculean effort to bring back our living hostages with the lion’s share on the backs of the IDF and the Mossad. Israel was not only attacked by Hamas (along with 2200 subhuman civilians in Judean Gaza), but Hezbollah up north was launching non-stop missiles, Hezbollah-backed militias in Iraq were joining in on the murderous attempt, and of course Iran was dripping with cash from Jihad Joe, not to improve its citizens’ lives, but to accelerate its genocidal nuclear program. As if that were not enough, later in the war, came the Houthis, armed with long-range missiles and drones. And many of the IDF troops were busy in Judea & Samaria dealing with the PA and Hamas terrorist (one in the same) subhumans.
Had Israel not weakened Hezbollah (who will ever forget the epic beeper operation), infiltrated Iran during an intense 12-day war and dismantled it’s air-defense systems, numerous missile launch pads and arsenals, the B2 bombers would not have been able to safely bomb the nuclear sites. The IAF leveling the infrastructure in Judean Gaza, bombing miles of tunnels and ‘super tunnels’ all while the brave IDF soldiers were fighting subhumans in dangerous urban warfare, not devoid of human shields, brought Hamas ever closer to being in a position in which both President Trump and Steve Witkoff’s power with the Hamas Qataris upheld. Even Israel’s failed bombing attempt in Doha was effective as it showcased to the Qataris that Israel has the power to reach anywhere it needs to ensure safety for its citizens.
Massive kudos to the Israeli forces. Israel proved to the world it is a military powerhouse, and had Netanyahu acted in Israel’s very best interest, Khomeini would have been assassinated, long before Trump put a stop to that attempt, completely weakening the Houthis, freeing Iranian citizens who are 80% pro-Israel & pro-West. And if the IDF were not handcuffed, there would have been a full siege on Judean Gaza to ensure that the majority of the population who are all Hamas – even Muslim Zionists admit that fact, (“Just a reminder that the people of Gaza created Hamas, elected it, supported it, supplied it, worked for it, hid it, sheltered it, filled its ranks, and celebrated all of its atrocities.” – @muslimZionist18) would not be left to rinse and repeat genocides against Jews.
Where President Trump succeeded was to lay the diplomatic foundation during his first term – his America First policies were not isolationist, but ensured all who partnered with America benefited our nation, which was operating at full cylinder due to President Trump’s domestic policies. Our then robust economy thus attracted regional partnerships worldwide. Several Gulf states initiated the Abraham Accords even prior to President Trump signing on, but he seized the opportunity and expanded the number of participating countries. His much criticized trip to Qatar and Saudi Arabia earlier this year was needed to rebuild trust in America, to isolate Iran, to isolate China, and to showcase to all the Arab Gulf states, even the terrorist state of Qatar, that to be an enemy of the U.S would not bode well for that region. That partnering with Iran and China is not the desired outcome.
And of course, credit has to be bestowed upon Steve Witkoff, who was chastised for his deep Qatar business dealings – it was those terrorist Qatari ties why Trump chose him for the Special Envoy position. In the Middle East, long-lasting relationships are honored and respected above all. Choosing a career diplomat for that role would have been disastrous for our hostages. Due to prior relationship with Qatar, alone, Witkoff was able to secure the release of nearly 40 hostages at the start of this year.
Turkey currently wishes for sanctions relief and to purchase our advance fighter jets, which is why Turkey (which is also Hamas under Erdogan) put aside its hate for Israel to nominally partake in the ‘ceasefire’ deal. The Saudis are still acting geo-politically bipolar regarding Israel outwardly, but behind the scenes, their military worked not so secretly with Israel during the Iran War. And Qatar routinely plays both sides of the terrorism coin – funds billions across American academia to vilify the West and to promote Islam, to spread hatred of Israel, but also fools gullible Jews like Alan Dershowitz who flew to Qatar in 2017 along with heads of various Judean orgs. Qatar sees itself as a competitor to the Saudis not in business, but as the face of Islam. When the Saudis pulled back from terror funding, Qatar stepped up.
What does Qatar want from the U.S? A seat at the table and thus concessions had to be made by President Trump to Qatar in order to finalize the hostage release deal, which is not a peace deal whatsoever. Do not be fooled. Nor is Hamas currently killing pro-Israel groups or ‘clans’ within Judean Gaza. Those are terrorist militias vying for power with Hamas. The Doghmush family, which the media pushes as ‘pro-Israel’ issued a statement that under no circumstance would they ever work with Israel. There are dozens of terrorist groups in Gaza, along with an entire terrorist population. Children were helping the subhumans beat the Israeli hostages when they were dragged into Gaza, and children were heard screaming ‘kill the Jews’ when the pro-terrorist Red Cross vans came to pick up the hostages to deliver them to the IDF earlier this week.
Shouts of ‘Khybar Khybar Ya Yahood’ were heard by all demographics of the Arab occupiers as soon as the deal was reached. That is a genocidal call to murder Jews.
The most important step was to secure our hostages’ release. Now, it is up to Israel to explain clearly to President Trump what Israel actually faces if the Arab occupier population remains intact in Judean Gaza, so that the 915 IDF soldiers would not have fallen in battle in vain. While this war is far from over, Israel is now in a much stronger position than it found itself two years ago. And for Israel to become militarily independent (U.S. military aid benefits the U.S. far more than Israel) so that Israel is not subjected to outside pressure ever again.
Hudna Deal & The Six Ways Muslims Justify Lying to Non-Believers
In Islam, a Muslim army surrenders only two ways, if the opponent converts to Islam (making the surrender worthwhile and acceptable), but if not, the ceasefire is called a hudna, which means to re-arm. And in Islam, no ceasefires aka hudnas last more than a decade.
- Taqiyya: This is the most discussed form of deception. It permits a Muslim to conceal their faith or lie to avoid persecution or harm, particularly when facing a threat to their life or safety. It is widely practiced by the Shia minority and was also used by Sunnis throughout Islamic history, especially when facing religious persecution.
- Tawriya: Deception through ambiguity. It involves a speaker saying something that is technically true from one perspective but is understood differently by the listener. It is a form of deliberate misdirection.
- Kitman: This is the act of concealing or omitting part of the truth, often leading to a distortion of the overall meaning.
- Darura: This principle permits a Muslim to engage in something forbidden (haram).
- Muruna: This concept refers to a “flexibility” in Islamic law that allows a Muslim to adapt or change their behavior to blend in with their enemies or non-Muslims, a form of infiltration.
- Hiyla: This refers to the use of legal trickery or clever devices to circumvent a strict application of Islamic law, though it is not a direct form of lying
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