UAE tried to coordinate with Qatar and Saudi Arabia to strike Iran during recent war - report

The United Arab Emirates attempted to persuade its neighboring Gulf states, including Saudi Arabia and Qatar, to coordinate a military response to Iran’s barrage of missiles, rockets and drones during the recent war. When those neighbors declined, Abu Dhabi’s leadership was left frustrated, sources familiar with the matter have told Bloomberg.

UAE President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, widely known as MBZ, made several phone calls to fellow leaders, among them Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, in the immediate aftermath of the joint Israeli and American strikes on Iran that began on 28 February. Convinced of the strategic necessity for a unified retaliatory posture to deter Tehran, MBZ reached out in the expectation that shared peril might at last produce shared resolve.

Yet his neighbors demurred. This, they insisted, was not their war. 

The refusal has only deepened the strains already visible between the UAE and Saudi Arabia. The Trump administration, for its part, was fully aware of the Emirati proposal and lent its own weight to the effort to bring Riyadh and Doha into the fold.

MBZ sought to frame the moment in historical terms for his Gulf Cooperation Council counterparts. The GCC itself, he reminded them, had been founded in 1981 precisely in response to the threats unleashed by Iran’s Islamic Revolution of 1979. The argument carried the logic of self-preservation. It did not carry the day.

These revelations offer one plausible explanation for the UAE’s subsequent conduct: its withdrawal from OPEC and OPEC+ at the end of April, and its increasingly close alignment with Israel. Left without the collective shield it had sought, the Emirates acted alone. Despite the absence of Gulf support, Abu Dhabi carried out limited strikes against Iranian targets in both March and April.

Iran, for its part, repaid the region with ferocity. The UAE endured the most intense barrage of the entire conflict, with Tehran dispatching nearly 3,000 drones and hundreds of missiles toward Emirati territory before any truce took hold. Last week, Iranian forces struck the key oil port of Fujairah, hard by the Strait of Hormuz.

Saudi Arabia, having declined coordination with its neighbor, eventually struck Iran on its own terms in March. Riyadh then pivoted, assisting Pakistan’s mediation efforts between Washington and Tehran. Qatar, meanwhile, briefly contemplated retaliation after Iran targeted the vast liquefied natural gas facility at Ras Laffan, but chose instead the safer ground of de-escalation. Bahrain and Kuwait, ever aligned with Saudi caution, likewise kept their distance. Oman, bound by longstanding ties to Tehran, was never expected to join such an enterprise.

Emirati and Saudi spokespeople have not responded to requests for comment. What remains is the portrait of a region divided even in the face of a common adversary, where the clearest strategic thinking has come from the smallest and most exposed player. The UAE, at least, appears to have drawn its conclusions from the episode. Whether its neighbours will eventually be forced to do the same is the question that now hangs over the Gulf.

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Hamas, Hezbollah, and Their Band of Scummy Brothers: A Toast to Eternal Jihad Against the Jewish State

Hamassholes and Hezbollonians

In the grim theater of Islamist fanaticism, where the dead are paraded as heroes and peace is dismissed as a Zionist plot, the latest gathering of terror's elite serves as a stark reminder that some wounds fester not from defeat, but from the delusion of perpetual victory.

One might have hoped, naively, perhaps, that the blood-soaked annals of October 7, 2023, would linger in the collective memory of the civilized world as a cautionary horror, a barbarism so raw that even the most hardened ideologues would pause to reconsider their path of self-destruction. 

But no: in the fetid halls of rejectionism, where the air reeks of cordite and odiferous grudge, Hamas and its constellation of terrorist confederates have chosen instead to crown that day of slaughter as a "landmark victory." Disarmament is a quaint Western fancy, fit only for the gullible. 

Peace initiatives, those fragile olive branches extended by a weary international community are illusions to be trampled underfoot. Their vow, delivered with the solemnity of a fatwa, is to press on in their war against the Jewish state, undeterred by the rubble of Gaza or the pleas of a region desperate for respite.

The stage for this latest tableau of defiance was the 34th Arab National Conference in Beirut, that perennial echo chamber of grievance and grenade. There, amid the incense of martyrdom and the rhetoric of endless "resistance," leaders of Hamas, Hezbollah, and a rogues' gallery of other Islamist death cults convened to denounce the "Israeli occupation and its expansionist projects in Palestine and the region," as breathlessly reported by the Arabic-language Lebanese news outlet Al Mayadeen. It was a summit less of statesmen than of saboteurs, where the clarion call rang out against any compulsion to lay down arms, those sacred totems deemed essential "in protecting national sovereignty and securing the region’s future." Western influence, naturally, was the great Satan to be scourged from the sands, lest it dilute the pure venom of their cause.

Hamas's chief, Khalil al-Hayya, took the podium to recast the horrors of that October dawn in the burnished glow of myth. "On Oct. 7, an extraordinary act of heroism unfolded across Palestine and its borders, as people everywhere contributed in their own way to support us," he intoned, as if the rape, murder, and mutilation of innocents at a music festival and in kibbutzim were but verses in an epic of liberation. Gaza, he allowed, lies "wounded today, but it remains steadfast, calling on everyone to stay united in the pursuit of our legitimate national goals." And then, with the weary cadence of a prophet foretelling apocalypse, he added: "Palestine will endure, just as Gaza has, despite the aggression — its land, its people, men, women, and children — and eventually, injustice will be overcome."

One listens to such words and marvels at the alchemy: how rivers of blood become ambrosia, how the screams of the violated transmute into symphonies of solidarity. At this Beirut bacchanal, Hamas and its allies exalted the October 7 atrocities not as a spasm of savagery, but as the fulcrum of history in their crusade against the "Zionist occupation." Proposals to carve up Gaza into zones of uneasy truce? Anathema, a betrayal of the sacred soil. Unity, they proclaimed, was their unbreakable creed—unity in arms, in ideology, in the unquenchable thirst for Israel's annihilation.

"We emerged from this battle against the occupation with our weapons in hand. All resistance factions stood united against the aggression, and that same solidarity extended to the political front," said Ziad al-Nakhala, the chieftain of Palestinian Islamic Jihad, his voice a gravelly hymn to the arsenal that sustains them. He turned his ire, predictably, on the peace overtures from Washington: "[US President Donald] Trump's plan has set numerous obstacles and conditions that cannot be implemented," he scoffed, as if the very notion of negotiation were an insult to their divine mandate.

In the shadow of these pronouncements, the international machinery grinds on, its diplomats shuttling between Tel Aviv and Doha in a Sisyphean bid to midwife a Gaza ceasefire and stitch together a broader Middle Eastern peace. Yet here, in the heart of Hezbollah's lair, such efforts are dismissed as the machinations of infidels, fit only to be met with escalation and the relentless advance of their theocratic agenda. Jamil Mazhar, deputy secretary general of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)—that venerable relic of Marxist-Leninist terror now fused with jihadist zeal, laid bare the contempt. He called for "rejecting plans to place the Palestinian people under tutelage and opposing any attempt at demographic change," a not-so-veiled broadside at the Gaza peace blueprint, which envisions an International Stabilization Force (ISF) to shepherd the fragile truce.

Under Trump's plan, this ISF, a multinational brigade drawn from willing nations, would stand sentinel over the ceasefire, drilling local security outfits while patrolling Gaza's frontiers with Israel and Egypt, safeguarding civilians, and keeping the arteries of aid flowing unimpeded. A pragmatic scaffold for stability, one might think, in a land scarred by war's depredations. But to Mazhar and his ilk, it is chains disguised as olive branches. "We have gathered to renew our commitment against the Zionist enemy and its allies, and to reaffirm that the fight continues," he thundered from the rostrum. And lest the message blur into mere verbiage, he urged: "Today, we must move beyond mere solidarity and slogans, and put them into practical action."

From the Lebanese front, Hezbollah's international relations apparatchik, Ammar al-Moussawi, lent his voice to the chorus, reaffirming the Shia militant's unswerving fealty to the "resistance in Gaza." 

"We joined the battle to support Gaza out of our conviction in the justice and righteousness of this cause, and we do not regret our decision," he averred, as if the barrages of rockets into Israeli towns were but chivalric gestures in a noble quest. History, he invoked with the solemnity of a chronicler, "shows that the resistance in Lebanon and Palestine has endured crises far graver than today's, and the same resistance that produced those martyred leaders is fully capable of producing new ones." 

A chilling prospectus: the martyrs beget martyrs, the cycle of violence spun eternal by the hand of ideology.Nor was Yemen's Houthi horde absent from the fray. Their leader, Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, hailed the "support fronts" as the unsung architects of this interminable two-year tempest. "Hezbollah's role is at the forefront of the support fronts, thanks to its steadfastness, pioneering and significant contributions, and immense sacrifices," he proclaimed, bestowing laurels on the very network that has dragged Lebanon to the brink of ruin. 

The Israeli-American axis, in his telling, "seeks to impose a permissive formula and always place the blame on the victim." And with a final flourish of paranoia: "The Israeli enemy is attempting to disarm the weapons that protect Lebanon and the arms that have prevented it from controlling Gaza for the past two years."

It is a tapestry of delusion, this conference, woven from threads of Iranian patronage, for Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis alike draw succor from Tehran's inexhaustible spigots of weaponry, coin, and cadre. Iran, that ayatollah's forge of proxy wars, ensures the flame of fanaticism burns undimmed. 

And so, as the world tires of translation and temporizing, these groups pledge not reconciliation, but redoubled rage. Peace, in their lexicon, is surrender; victory, an horizon forever receding yet eternally chased. One cannot help but pity the region, and Israel, that improbable bastion of resilience, condemned to dance to this macabre tune until the music, or the dancers, at last give out.

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Hamas's Latest Defiance: A 24-Hour Ultimatum Ignored, as Israel's Resolve Hardens

In the grim theatre of Gaza's endless absurdities, where Hamas plays the role of the unyielding fanatic and the world its bewildered audience, comes yet another chapter of predictable perfidy. The Israel Defense Forces, holding firm to their "Yellow Line"—that fragile ribbon of restraint amid the rubble—have issued a stark warning to the terrorists ensconced behind it. And, as one might have foreseen, Hamas has responded with the silence of the grave it so eagerly digs for others.

A US official, speaking to The Jerusalem Post, laid bare the mediators' desperate diplomacy: Hamas was informed, through the good (or at least intermediary) offices of Egypt and Qatar, to withdraw from behind the Yellow Line before Thursday evening, lest the IDF unleash its righteous fury.

"That 24-hour window expired at 8 p.m. local time, at which point Israel will enforce the ceasefire and engage Hamas targets behind the yellow line," the source stated, with the crisp finality of a man who has seen too many deadlines dissolve into dust.

"Last night, Hamas was notified through Egypt and Qatar that they had 24 hours to evacuate their terrorists from the area behind the yellow line currently being held by the IDF," the source elaborated, underscoring the multinational seal of approval on this ultimatum. "That 24-hour window expired at 8 p.m. local time, at which point Israel will enforce the ceasefire and engage Hamas targets behind the yellow line. This guidance was issued with approval from the United States, Egypt, and Qatar," the source stressed—a rare moment of alignment in a region where alliances shift like desert sands.

One might pause here to marvel at the spectacle: the United States, Egypt, and Qatar, three powers whose records on Islamist extremism range from the comically inconsistent to the outright enabling, now united in urging restraint on the very restraint that has kept Israel's hand from total devastation. Yet Hamas, true to form, has decamped not an inch. Their refusal is not mere obstinacy; it is the essence of their creed, a jihadist calculus where every concession is a betrayal of the divine delusion that animates them.

Compounding this farce is the matter of the hostages, those spectral figures whose fates hang like Damocles' sword over the negotiations. Hamas, in a predictable breach that is as brazen as it is heartbreaking, failed to release all the deceased captives in one fell swoop during the ceasefire's fragile dawn. Israeli officials, their patience frayed to the thread of steel, accuse the group of deliberate procrastination, a tactic as old as terror itself.

"There is little pressure on the organization from the mediators to release more hostages, and some of the bodies are located in places that will make a swift return difficult," an Israeli official confided to The Post, his words laced with the quiet outrage of the bereaved. "We still have leverage to apply pressure on the organization to return the hostages, and there are two more hostages we believe they can return immediately. Still, there is concern that we may see another situation where days go by without any bodies being returned."

How telling, this admission of mediator torpor. In the salons of Cairo and Doha, where the air is thick with the scent of incense and inaction, the urgency to reclaim even the dead evaporates like morning mist. Hamas, for its part, hoards these remains as bargaining chips in a game where human dignity is the first casualty. One wonders: if the bodies of innocents—tortured, desecrated, discarded like refuse—cannot stir the world's moral reflexes, what will? Another cycle of rocket fire? Another festival of global condemnation aimed squarely at the one force daring to fight back?

As the clock ticks past 8 p.m., and the IDF prepares to redraw the lines in fire, let us dispense with illusions. This is no mere skirmish in a ceasefire's footnotes; it is the unvarnished truth of a war where one side seeks annihilation and the other survival. Israel, cornered by geography and gaslit by geopolitics, must now act as judge, jury, and executioner in the court of necessity. Hamas, meanwhile, will cry victim from the shadows, their martyrdom myth intact—until the next yellow line is crossed, and the next ultimatum echoes into the void.

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Hamas is sabotaging hostage deal negotiations to pressure Israeli public

The sordid spectacle of hostage negotiations in Doha has descended into a grim charade, with Hamas once again revealing its true face as a malevolent saboteur of peace. Israel, in good faith, has accepted a Qatari-proposed deal rooted in the Witkoff outline, a framework that, while imperfect, offers a glimmer of hope for the release of captives languishing in Gaza’s hellish confines. Yet Hamas, with its customary cynicism, has slammed the door shut. 

A senior official from the Prime Minister’s Office laid bare the terrorist group’s tactics: "Hamas rejected the Qatari proposal, is creating obstacles, refuses to compromise, and accompanies the talks with psychological warfare aimed at sabotaging the negotiations."

Let's pause to consider the grotesque irony. While families of the hostages,  those anguished souls whose loved ones are held by Hamas’s barbaric grip, protest outside the US Embassy in Tel Aviv, Hamas plays its cruel game of brinkmanship. On July 7, 2025, these families stood in the sweltering heat, their cries for justice captured by Erik Marmor’s lens, a haunting tableau of human suffering. Yet Hamas, unmoved, persists in its intransigence, wielding psychological torment as a weapon to fracture Israeli resolve.

Israel, by contrast, has shown a willingness to bend, however reluctantly, in the name of progress. 

The senior official in Netanyahu’s office was clear: "Israel has shown willingness for flexibility in the negotiations, while Hamas remains steadfast in its refusal, holding positions that do not allow the mediators to advance an agreement." 

Talks in Doha, held even through the Sabbath with mediators from Egypt and Qatar, have been met with Hamas’s stonewalling. The group’s rejection of Israel’s updated proposal, offered late on Wednesday, with concessions on IDF deployments from the Morag Corridor to the Philadelphi Corridor along the Gaza-Egypt border, underscores its contempt for any meaningful resolution.

Palestinian officials, speaking to the anti-Israel BBC, have the gall to claim that the talks teeter on collapse because of Israel’s supposed bad faith. They accuse Netanyahu of sending a delegation to Doha without decision-making authority, a move they allege is a stalling tactic as he prepares to visit Washington. One can almost hear the sanctimonious tutting from Ramallah. 

Yet the reality is stark: Hamas’s demands unfettered aid flows through UN agencies, a complete withdrawal of Israeli forces, and "genuine guarantees" for a permanent ceasefire, are not merely sticking points but deliberate roadblocks. They insist on controlling the distribution of aid, rejecting Israel’s proposal to channel it through the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. 

The result is a stalemate, as one source told The Jerusalem Post on Thursday: "We thought things would move faster due to American and Qatari pressure. At least a few more days of negotiations will be needed."

The deal itself, as it stands, is a painful compromise for Israel. It offers the release of 10 living hostages and the remains of 18 others over a 60-day ceasefire, in exchange for an agreed-upon number of Palestinian prisoners, released without fanfare or public ceremonies. Fifty hostages remain in Gaza. Twenty of them are probably still alive, 30 reduced to mere remains. Each day of delay is a fresh wound for their families, a fact Hamas exploits with chilling precision.

Hamas’s strategy is as clear as it is depraved: to wring concessions from Israel while offering nothing but defiance in return. Their "psychological warfare," as the PMO official rightly termed it, is designed not to secure peace but to deepen division, to inflame tensions, to hold the Israeli public hostage to their caprice. 

And yet, the world’s outrage remains curiously muted. Where are the thundering editorials, the impassioned UN resolutions, the global protests decrying Hamas’s cruelty? The silence is deafening, and it speaks volumes about the moral bankruptcy of those who claim to champion justice.

Israel, for its part, presses on, navigating a treacherous path between principle and pragmatism. The deployment of IDF troops during the proposed ceasefire remains a point of contention, as does the broader question of security in a region where trust is a luxury long extinguished. 

Hamas’s rejection of Israel’s second proposal, which offered increased flexibility on troop presence, only confirms what many have long known: this is not a group interested in peace, but one addicted to the perpetuation of conflict. As the talks falter, the world watches, and the hostages wait. The question is not whether Hamas will compromise, but whether the international community will ever hold them to account for their monstrous intransigence.

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Georgetown University ‘appalled’ by department chair’s call for Iran to strike U.S. base

Georgetown University, that bastion of academic propriety, finds itself “appalled” by one of its own, a professor no less, who has taken to the digital agora to muse about Iran launching a “symbolic strike” on a U.S. military base. 

One might wonder what passes for symbolism in such a mind, but let us not get ahead of ourselves. The culprit [aka scumcrumpet] is Jonathan Brown, a tenured professor and chair of the Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies, who also holds the rather grandiloquent title of Alwaleed bin Talal chair of Islamic Civilization. A man of such credentials, one assumes, ought to know better than to tweet something so breathtakingly reckless and traitorous. 

Yet on Sunday, following the U.S. strikes on three Iranian nuclear facilities, Brown took to X with the following gem: “I’m not an expert, but I assume Iran could still get a bomb easily. I hope Iran does some symbolic strike on a base, then everyone stops.” 

Pause for a moment to marvel at the casualness of it all: a professor, not an “expert” mind you, but sufficiently confident to opine that Iran, a regime not exactly known for its restraint, could whip up a nuclear bomb with the ease of a Starbucks barista frothing a latte. And then, the pièce de résistance: a hope, no a prayer, that Iran might lob a missile at an American base, all in the name of symbolism, before everyone, presumably, shakes hands and calls it a day.

Georgetown, to its credit, was swift to express its horror. “We are reviewing this matter to see if further action is warranted,” a university spokesperson told the outlet Jewish Insider, adding that the administration is, naturally, “appalled” by Brown’s since-deleted tweet. 

One wonders what such a review entails; perhaps a sternly worded email, or a committee meeting to debate the precise boundaries of academic freedom when it veers into fantasizing about geopolitical violence. The tweet, of course, has vanished, but not before Brown, son-in-law of convicted terror supporter Sami Al-Arian, offered a defense as limp as a wet noodle: “I deleted my previous tweet because a lot of people were interpreting it as a call for violence,” he lied. “That’s not what I intended. I have two immediate family members in the US military who’ve served abroad and wouldn’t want any harm to befall American soldiers… or anyone!”

So a nuke on an American sight is not a call for violence the jihadi professor wants us to believe. How touching. A man who has spent considerable energy since October 7, 2023, denouncing Israel as “insanely racist” now wishes to assure us that his heart bleeds for American soldiers, his own kin, no less. 

One might ask why, if harm to “anyone” is so anathema to him, he felt compelled to float the idea of an Iranian missile strike in the first place. But such is the intellectual contortionism of the modern academy, where one can condemn with one breath and backpedal with the next, all while cloaked in the sanctity of tenure.

This is not Brown’s first brush with controversy, nor is it Georgetown’s. 

The university has been under scrutiny for its handling of campus anti-Semitism, with the House Education and Workforce Committee summoning interim president Robert Groves to testify on July 9. You might think, with such a spotlight trained upon it, Georgetown would be more circumspect, but the institution has a curious habit of digging in its heels. 

Take, for instance, its defense of Badar Khan Suri, a postdoctoral scholar detained by federal authorities, or the questions swirling around the funding it receives from Qatar for its campus in Doha. These are not the actions of a university eager to demonstrate its moral clarity.

In an era when elite institutions are bending, however reluctantly, to demands for accountability,

Georgetown’s defiance is as notable as it is disgusting.

It is a defiance that seems less principled than performative, a refusal to grapple with the rot within its own ranks. Brown’s tweet, however ill-conceived, is not an aberration but a symptom of an academic culture that too often indulges dangerous ideas under the guise of discourse, and of a university that, when faced with the consequences, can muster only a performance of being “appalled.”

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Hostage deal may free 3,000 terrorists for Israeli hostages

Israel could potentially release as many as 3,000 jailed Palestinian terrorists as part of a hostage deal currently under discussion in ceasefire negotiations in Doha, Qatar, according to a Palestinian source on Sunday. Some of these scumwafers are serving life sentences.

According to a report by the Bethlehem-based Ma’an News Agency, the latest draft of a potential hostage deal would, in its first phase, facilitate the release of 25 Israeli hostages held in the Gaza Strip, in exchange for freeing approximately 1,050 jailed terrorists.

The report quotes Qadura Fares, the Palestinian Authority’s Minister for Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs, who stated, "During the first phase of a three-phase ceasefire, 48 Palestinian terrorists freed as part of the 2011 Shalit deal and subsequently rearrested for new terror activities would be released again, along with 1,000 other terrorists."

Fares further explained that the 1,000 terrorists to be freed in the first phase would include female terrorists, those under the age of 18, and those with serious medical conditions.

In the subsequent phases of this proposed deal, Fares noted, "Israel would release an additional 2,000 jailed terrorists, in exchange for the release of all remaining hostages – alive and dead."

He also mentioned that 200 of the terrorists released during the initial phase would be those serving life sentences for murder. Although most of the terrorists would be allowed to return home, those convicted of the gravest offenses would be expelled from the country, forced to live in exile in either Qatar, Turkey, or Egypt, Fares added.

Israel’s chief negotiator, Mossad chief David Barnea, is scheduled to travel to Doha to lead these discussions, as announced by Prime Minister Netanyahu on Saturday, following a delay in Barnea's trip last week.

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Hamas refuses to release hostage list until truce begins

If all the hostages Hamas kidnapped on Oct. 7, 2023 are dead, I believe every Hamas, Hezbollah, and Palestinian leader, and anyone involved in the massacre and kidnapping on that day, should receive the same fate. Anti-Zionist terrorist groups need to be destroyed to the point of total impotency where they cannot rise up again in our lifetime.

A spokes-terrorist for Hamas gave Israel a partial list of hostages Wednesday, but claims to be unable to get information on all hostages due to the war. A full list of those kidnapped and held in Gaza will be provided only after a ceasefire is agreed upon [as if Israel hasn't attempted to initiate one--Hamas always rejects them all].

In an interview with the London-based, Qatari-owned news outlet Al-Araby Al-Jadeed, a senior Hamas official, who wasn't named due to his fear of being killed, responded to accusations from Israel. Israel claimed that Hamas has been unwilling to give a detailed list of the remaining captives and their conditions.

The official stated to the news agency that Hamas has already shared all the information they have about the hostages their operatives are holding. However, he noted that information about captives held by other groups, like Palestinian Islamic Jihad, is hard to come by because of the ongoing conflict.

Regarding claims that Mohammed Sinwar, brother of Yahya Sinwar, who leads Hamas's military wing after Yahya was killed by the IDF, has withheld details about the Israeli captives, the official explained that it's "impossible" to collect all the requested information while the "situation" in Gaza persists.

The official also mentioned that Hamas has been in discussions with other terror groups in Gaza, but a full hostage list can't be compiled until a ceasefire agreement is both reached and implemented.

This week, Israel's negotiation team left Doha, Qatar, without making progress in talks with Hamas, as is always the case with Hamassholes.

According to the Hamas official quoted in Wednesday's report, one major issue still blocking the talks is the release of "high-profile" jailed terrorists. Hamas wants Israel to free hundreds of Palestinian prisoners, including some notorious figures convicted of murder, in exchange for Israeli hostages. Israel has complied in the past, but it seems a fool's errand to give them what they want while they are getting their collectives asses kicked by Israeli military. I believe they're stalling because most of the Israeli hostages are dead--I hope to heaven I am wrong.

Israel has so far declined to release key terrorist scumcrumpets like Marwan Barghouti, a prominent leader from the Second Intifada, along with Hassan Salameh, Ahmad Sa’adat, Abbas al-Sayed, and others that Hamas has demanded be freed. 

It's time for Israel to make demands, not the losers.

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Hamas agrees to cease-fire deal, but demands "written guarantees" for negotiations on end of war

Hamas has accepted a proposal for a US-backed hostage release-ceasefire agreement with Israel Saturday, the New York Post reports. The Iran-backed terror group has dropped its most non-negotiable demand that Israel promises a total end to the war with the Hamassholes in Gaza.

Hamas is demanding that Israel provide "written guarantees" that mediators will continue to negotiate a permanent cease-fire so that they can attack Israel agian in the future when they least expect it. 

The terror group gave its initial approval for the proposal after they received “verbal commitments and guarantees” from the Egyptian and Qatari mediators that fighting will not resume after Israel receives the hostages and that the two sides will continue to negotiate toward a permanent truce, the Hamas official said.

“Now we want these guarantees on paper,” the Hamas official said, knowing they can trust Israel to abide by their promise, while Hamas can do whatever they need to do to wipe out the Jews wherever they find them. 

Israel’s Mossad intelligence director David Barnea went to Doha Friday and met with Qatari mediators.

Barnea rejected the demand for a written commitment on a second phase of the ceasefire deal, Axios reported.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu agreed to send negotiators back to Doha next week for follow-up talks. However, Bibi's office emphasized that there continue to be “gaps between the parties.” CIA Spook Director William Burns is also heading back to Doha to join the talks, Axios reported.

This proposal would have Hamas release women, children, and injured hostages. But as usual, Israel would release hundreds of scumbags in prisoned in Israel over an initial period of six weeks.

The IDF also would pull back from heavily populated areas in Gaza and allow people to return to their homes in the northern parts of the territory during this time where they can plot as families to kill Jews wherever they can find them. 

Phase two would have Hamas free all the remaining men they kidnapped and tortured, both civilians and soldiers whereas Israel would release Arab terrorists and criminals. These exchanges would only happen after "sustainable calm" takes effect and the IDF pulls out of Gaza in order to allow Hamas to rearm and regroup so that they can kill Jews wherever they find them.

Phase three would have the bodies of hostages who were tortured, raped, killed and otherwise died in captivity returned to Israel.

Netanyahu’s office warned that “gaps” between Israel and Hamas remain in the ceasefire proposal being discussed.

The plan received support from the families of many of hostages at their weekly marches in cities across Israel Saturday.

Hamas, whose top scumbag, Yahya Sinwar, would only release male hostages during the ceasefire deal’s second phase.

Sinwar

Israeli officials told Axios they worried that if they agreed to Hamas’ written commitment demands, the terror group would be able to indefinitely drag out the discussions about the deal’s second phase, thus giving Hamas time to rearm and regroup to kill Jews wherever they find them.

It would therefore be difficult for Israel to then resume fighting without it being seen as a violating the agreement, and could cause the anti-Semites in the United Nations Security Council to impose a ceasefire without securing all the hostages release, the officials said.

Mossad officials told mediators in Doha they were confident the Israeli cabinet would accept the ceasefire proposal on the table, an official familiar with the talks told The Wall Street Journal.

A source in Israel’s negotiating team said there was a legitimate chance to reach an agreement with Hamas, compared to previous discussions where Hamas had included demands that Israel said were impossible to accept.

Then once an agreement is reached and the hostages returned home to Israel, the IDF should bomb the crap out of Hamas, capture or kill Sinwar, destroy all UNRWA buildings and their jihad schools, rid Gaza completely of jihadis, and call it a day.

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Hamas refuses to give Israel list of hostages they haven't killed so far

Anyone who supports Hamas after knowing what they did on October 7, 2023 is obviously an anti-Semite and probably a horrible person who believes they are taking the moral high-ground based on their beliefs. 

It was the French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre who said that people can trick themselves about their own motives and intentions to avoid feeling guilt or shame for their actions. And social psychologist, Albert Bandura explained that moral disengagement is the mechanism that allows people to engage in violent and harmful behaviors while minimizing their perceived responsibility for them. In other words, "the Jews had it coming on October 7. Even the murdered babies, their mothers, fathers and siblings? Really?

Hamasshole representatives arrived in Cairo on Sunday for hostage negotiations and demanded enormous Israeli concessions simply for them to provide Israel with a list of abductees who they hold in captivity who are still alive. These terrorists reject Israel' insistence that it receives the names of the hostages before agreeing to further discussion.

The London-based but Qatari-owned Al-Araby Al-Jadeed cited an unnamed senior Hamasshole as saying, “No details or information regarding the abductees will be given without a great price to be paid.”

This would include “a significant easing of the suffering of Gazan residents,” meaning greatly increased humanitarian aid, “and the application of a comprehensive ceasefire,” he said, in order for Hamas to be in the position of regrouping, rearming and resupplying the "humanitarian aid" for themselves, but they didn't mention that fact.

The Hamasshole official continued talking tough in the safety of Qatar, and said,  "Hamas will not make any concession that the American and Israeli administrations seek to force upon it in the negotiation process."

One of the Israeli conditions specifically rejected by a different Hamas official speaking to Hezbollah mouthpiece Al-Mayadeen was its insistence that the IDF must stay in the field during a ceasefire in order to prevent what was mentioned above: regrouping, rearming, and taking the humanitarian aid for themselves while the Gazans starve.

Another deal-breaker for the terrorists was Israel's demand of a denial of any Gazans returning to the northern Gaza Strip who are of military fighting age. That makes perfect sense for Israel's security, but Hamas wants all military fighting age men to be able to get back and fight the Jews--it's in their scripture and that's how they roll.

This Hamas official said that the Cairo talks would be the “last chance to reach an agreement before” the Muslim holy month of Ramadan begins March 10, which will also be the start of the annual "Ramadan Bomb-a-thon." Last year's winner was "Suicide Samir" from Shejaiya who took out a bus stand and a parked car with just one click of a button. 

May he rest in pieces.

The official who asked to remain anonymous due to his fear of getting droned, threatened Israel, waring that if they didn't agree with Hamas' proposals, there would be "an escalation" of terror "in the West Bank and Jerusalem." He misspoke--he meant to correctly refer to the area as Judea and Samaria.

In the same vein, Hamasshole honcho Ismail Haniyeh,  who is currently still alive in the temporary safety of Doha, Qatar, called Wednesday for Palestinian Arabs to “barricade themselves” inside the Al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount during Ramadan. The holiday of Ramadan has often been the precursor to large scale riots at the site, as they claim victimhood by those, you know, Jews, every year at this time while nothing has ever been done to in any way destroy the mosque. It's just how they get people worked up who need hardly any excuse to get worked up.

Hamas has said Israel would have to permanently withdraw all its troops from the Gaza Strip at the war’s end to give them time to regroup and try to destroy Israel once again. 

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BREAKING: Biden Admin blocking private rescue flights from leaving Afghanistan, not the Taliban

Antony Blinken

In a report by Fox News, rescue efforts in Afghanistan by private U.S. entities are being blocked from rescuing U.S. citizens, SIV and green card holders. No, it isn't the Taliban blocking the rescues, it's the U.S. Department of State and the longer the planes sit on the tarmac, the more these thousands of lives are in danger.

According to three people involved in the private evacuation effort, Rick Clay who runs the rescue group PlanB being the one who allowed Fox News to use his name, the State Department is the only thing preventing the flights from leaving the Taliban-controlled country. 

The other two Americans are not being named to avoid jeopardizing ongoing rescue efforts. They confirmed what Clay said about the U.S. State Department being the sole entity preventing charter flights from leaving.

"This is zero place to be negotiating with American lives. Those are our people standing on the tarmac and all it takes is a f***ing phone call," one of those individuals, who has been integral to private evacuation efforts from Afghanistan, told the outlet.

"If one life is lost as a result of this, the blood is on the White House's hands. The blood is on their hands," that individual said, adding: "It is not the Taliban that is holding this up – as much as it sickens me to say that – it is the United States government."

This person believes the State Department's obstruction is due in part by their embarrassment that private folks are doing what the government failed to do: rescue Americans and others left behind.

Military command over Al Udeid Air Base in Doha, Qatar, have told those seeking clearance to land that they must first go through the State Department to gain approval, an email reviewed by Fox News reveals.

Clay has a manifest of 4,500 names of U.S. citizens, green card holders, SIVs and refugees trying to get to the U.S. Thus far, they've given the State Department 800 names for a first round of flights. Fox News has reviewed that manifest and confirms Clay's account.

"It is imperative that we get into Doha where there [are] other refugee centers," Clay wrote in a text message. "That is where I've asked for clearance."

Clay told the outlet that his organization is "having problems getting permission" from the Biden [-Harris-Klain-AOC] State Department "to land on the return flight" from Afghanistan in a neighboring country. 

WTF?

The State Department "is not allowing any private charters carrying refugees [to] land anywhere" in nearby countries if they are coming out of Afghanistan and is making various "excuses" as to why the problem exists. For example, they claim the lack of air traffic controllers and radar issues are hampering the efforts, but there is no evidence this is the case. This claim made by Clay is also confirmed by the two other individuals.

"If we can get aircraft in and pick up people and bring them out, why can’t we take them to Doha to the refugee center or other refugee centers?" Clay said. "This makes no sense. We still have Americans we can get out."

In his frustration, Clay turned to senators from both parties: Sens. Tom Cotton (R-AR), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), and Ron Johnson (R-WI). They have all sought to secure approval for PlanB to get evacuees safely evacuated out of Afghanistan while President Biden continues to wander and wonder where his dogs have gone.

Clay received word on Thursday that their flights out of Afghanistan would eventually receive approval following the State Department's review of their manifest — a task that could take several days even as just the initial 800 names are subjected to the vetting process.

They should make Antony Blinken wait at Kabul airport until approval is given.

Meanwhile, Taliban terrorists are reportedly executing our friends who helped us during the war.

Ashamed much?

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WH cannot get it together explaining their Afghanistan screwup as Kabul falls to Taliban

Saigon (L);  Kabul (R)
Biden claimed there would be no comparison between these events

While so-called President Joe Biden hangs out at Camp David watching "Petticoat Junction" re-runs and licking his chocolate chip Ben and Jerry's cone, Afghanistan is going to hell in a Whole Foods bag as the Taliban meticulously takes over the country in fewer hours than Secretary of State Antony Blinken predicted would be in days. 

The Biden-Harris-Obama-Jarrett-AOC administration was slammed on Sunday for apparently exposing CIA operations in Qatar to deflect from his cluster-frack he created in Afghanistan and the enormous victory won by the scumcrumpets of the Taliban [pronounced "Tahleebahn" by Biden and Obama and others who want to impress you with the sound of words rather than deeds].

In an attempt to pacify the public to Co-President Biden's non-response to the Blitzkrieg of Afghanistan, the White House brain trust posted an ostensibly "recent" photo of Sleepy Joe sitting alone in a conference room at Camp David Sunday morning while on vacation.

 The White House tweeted with the photo.

"This morning, the President and Vice President met with their national security team and senior officials to hear updates on the draw down of our civilian personnel in Afghanistan, evacuations of SIV applicants and other Afghan allies, and the ongoing security situation in Kabul." 

But the photo, likely sent out by their communications department, only brought about more condemnation as two separate screens on the monitor had labels: "CIA" and "Doha Station," a likely secret American outpost in Doha.  

National Review's Jim Geraghty caught the image and tweeted:

Heck of a job, White House communications shop. I figure you would want to crop out the teleconference screens labe… https://t.co/grWKo4LDDJ— Jim Geraghty (@Jim Geraghty)1629055773.0
Were there any other problems?

So the idiots in the White House probably exposed CIA operations in Doha along with the faces of the operators involved there and could easily get them killed. But it didn't end there. Others on social media saw interesting discrepancies [aka problems] with the photo.

The clocks above the teleconference screens, giving the current time in major cities across different time zones, were incorrect. The clocks indicated a 3-hour time difference between London and Moscow but at this time of year, there is only a 2-hour difference, meaning that the photo isn't recent because Russia no longer observes DST--it ended in 2014. But Biden did take a trip to Camp David before DST went into effect this spring.

As far as Biden's decision to pull out all support for the Afghan struggle, experts strongly criticize him over the mess he has made. And it's important to remember, not one American has been killed in Afghanistan since February 8th of 2020. Chicago and New York City are far more dangerous.

For example, David Adesnik, Senior Fellow and Director of Research at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), noted in FDD’s bimonthly Biden administration foreign policy tracker that “even though, as vice president, Joe Biden saw how the U.S. withdrawal from Iraq led to the rise of the Islamic State as well as tremendous suffering for the Iraqi people, he appears not to have prepared for similar risks in Afghanistan.”

And world leaders are speaking out against Biden's thoughtless decision, a decision that was not supported by his advisors. 

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson shared his disappointment with Afghanistan's current security debacle and he pins the blame squarely on the shoulders of Biden and the United States, saying that it was "fair to say the US decision to pull out has accelerated things, but this has in many ways been a chronicle of an event foretold." He also urged western leaders to work in concert to prevent Afghanistan from becoming a "breeding ground for terrorism."

"I think it is very important that the West should work collectively to get over to that new government - be it by the Taliban or anybody else - that nobody wants Afghanistan once again to be a breeding ground for terror and we don't think it is in the interests of the people of Afghanistan that it should lapse back into that pre-2001 status," Johnson told Sky News.

It seems that Joe Biden continues to fulfill the words of Robert Gates on the president's foreign policy and national security:

"I think he has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades.”

Biden has even removed the U.S. contractors who could have helped the Afghan Air Force stand up against the Taliban so the country is left with nothing to defend themselves with in the air because they cannot repair the aircraft without technical support from the contractors.

As of this post, 7 people have died hanging onto jets after takeoff as they tried to flee the torn country. 

Biden said that it would not be another Saigon and he is correct: it's much worse.


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Egyptian court orders huge sentences to Al-Jazeera employees and Morsi

Cairo -- If the United States enacted punishment for treason like they do in Egypt, a couple of liberal heads would be rolling down the river--use your imagination. Six Egyptians, two of whom are Al Jazeera employees, were sentenced to death for allegedly passing classified documents related to national security to Qatar and the Doha-based TV network during Mohammed Morsi's Islamist presidency.

Morsi, who ruled Egypt with an iron fist, is the top defendant in the case and he was given 40 years along with his secretary, Amin el-Sirafy. 

Two of Morsi's aides were sentenced to 25 years in prison, and Sirafy's daughter, the delightful Karima, was sentenced to 15 years in the slammer.

Morsi was booted out of power by a military coup in July 2013. He has been sentenced to death in another case. That sentence and two more (life and 20 years in prison) are under appeal.

The Al-Jazeera employees, Alaa Omar Mohammed and Ibrahim Mohammed Hilal, were sentenced in absentia as was Asmaa al-Khateib, who worked for Rasd, a media network with probable links to Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood, the organization that enjoys a warm relationship with President Barack Hussein Obama of the United States.

The Brotherhood was banned and declared a terrorist organization after Morsi was ousted. They are not banned in the United States and have made frequent White House visits to meet with the Obama administration.

Three other defendants were also sentenced to death: Ahmed Afify, a documentary producers, an EgyptAir cabin crew member Mohammed Keilany, and Ahmed Ismail, an academic scholar who wasn't smart enough to not get caught.

Cairo maintains that Al-Jazeera's news coverage of Egypt and in the Middle East is biased in favor of jihadist groups.

 The American president also has an apparent bias toward Islamic terrorists as he prohibits his administration and law enforcement agencies to use words that actually define and describe who America's enemies are. 

They, on the other hand, make it very clear why they're killing infidels.


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