Hamasshole who bragged to his parents of Oct. 7 slaughters, killed by IDF

A Hamas terrorist who gloated to his family about slaughtering Israelis during the October 7, 2023, massacre got his comeuppance. Hebrew media reports say Mahmoud Afana was taken out in an airstrike in central Gaza's Deir al-Balah on Thursday. The Israel Defense Forces haven’t confirmed the strike or his death, but the news is spreading fast.

Afana's sickening phone call to his parents, released by Israel weeks after the bloodbath, stunned the world. It was so raw, so vile, it echoed through a United Nations Security Council session. In the recording, Afana bragged about storming Kibbutz Mefalsim near the Gaza border, claiming he personally killed 10 Jews.

"Look how many I killed with my own hands! Your son killed Jews!" he crowed. To his mother, he sneered, "Mom, your son is a hero."

That would be true if murdering unarmed men, women and children was heroic, but it isn't--it's cowardly.

Using a murdered Jewish woman's phone, Afana taunted his parents to check WhatsApp for proof of his carnage. His father called him by name, while his mother fawned, "Oh my son, may Allah protect you." She added, “May God bring you back safely.”

Afana kept hammering his point: "Dad, 10 with my own hands. I'm inside Mefalsim, Dad, I killed 10. Their blood is on my hands. Give me Mom."

His brother jumped in, skeptical. "Yes, I killed 10, I swear," Afana doubled down. When asked if he was in Zikim, he snapped, "I'm in Mefalsim, not in Zikim. I'm the first to enter, under the protection and with help of Allah. Raise up your head, Dad."

His brother begged him to return to Gaza. Afana laughed it off. "Return? There is no return. It's either death or victory. How can I return? Open WhatsApp, see how many are dead. How I killed them with my own hands."

The "hero" is now in a place known as Smithereens.

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Team Israel refuses to be intimidated and remains in cycling race

Imagine the absurdity of the situation unfolding in Spain, where the Israeli Premier Tech cycling team, competing in the Vuelta a España, found itself under siege, not by rival athletes, but by the sanctimonious posturing of pro-Palestinian protesters. 

On Wednesday, the team was pressed by race organizers to withdraw from this prestigious Grand Tour, one of the crown jewels of men's road cycling, because of demonstrations clogging the route in Bilbao, a city notorious for its anti-Israel fervor in a nation often deemed among Europe's most reflexively pro-Palestinian. The team's response was resolute and principled: "The team remains committed to continuing to compete in the Valletta. Any other course of action sets a dangerous precedent in cycling, not only for Israel Premier Tech, but for all teams."

What are we to make of this? The race director, Kika Garcia, in a moment of spineless capitulation, admitted on local radio that he had appealed to the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) to have the Israelis removed. "This was the most complicated day of the race. If no changes are made, the protests will continue," he bleated, as though the mere presence of Israeli athletes justified the chaos. "Right now, the participation of Israelis is mandatory and we need to protect everyone. We have informed the UCI of our opinion. I hope things will change." Change, in this context, is a euphemism for surrender; a groveling acquiescence to the mob.

The 11th stage in Bilbao was delayed by 19 minutes as demonstrators, brandishing Palestinian flags and anti-Israel placards, blocked the road. With 15 kilometers left, organizers truncated the stage by three kilometers, declaring no winner, citing fears that protests at the finish line might endanger riders. For the first time in the Vuelta's 80-year history, a stage was cut short. 

This is not mere disruption; it is sabotage, dressed up as moral righteousness.

Tom Pidcock, one of the race's leading contenders, captured the frustration with understated dignity: "It was hard to describe the disappointment of the premature end," he said, believing he had a shot at stage victory. "But risking our lives is unacceptable. Protesting at the expense of our safety does not advance anyone’s cause." Here is a man who understands the stakes, not just of the race, but of the principle. To endanger athletes for political point-scoring is not activism; it is thuggery.

The protests were not confined to Bilbao. During Stage 5's team time trial, men and women stormed the road in front of the Israeli team. In Stage 10, they did so again, forcing riders to swerve or slow down. One, Simone Petilli, crashed as a result. His injuries were minor, but his plea on X was raw and human: "I understand that is not a good situation, but yesterday I crashed because of a protest on the road. Please, we are just cyclists and we are doing our job, but if it will continue like this our safety is not guaranteed anymore, and we feel in danger! We just want to race! Please."

The UCI, to its credit, condemned the protests, stating that the right to demonstrate cannot come "at the expense of the safety of the athletes. Echoing Petilli, they added that the racers "are not involved in political matters and are just doing their job." The Israeli team, meanwhile, expressed gratitude to "race organizers and the UCI for their continued support and cooperation, as well as the teams and riders who expressed their support publicly and privately, and of course, our fans."

Let's be clear: this is not about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, whatever one's views on that intractable mess. This is about the cowardice of allowing a sporting event to be held hostage by those who would rather see chaos than competition. To ask a team to withdraw because their presence offends a vocal minority is to hand a veto to the loudest, most disruptive voices. It is to say that merit, effort, and the right to compete can be nullified by the threat of a tantrum. If this precedent is set, no team--Israeli or otherwise--will be safe from the whims of any group with a flag and a grudge. 

That is not progress; it is regression into a world where might makes right, and the mob rules all. 

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BREAKING: Terror attack in Jerusalem leaves 6 dead, 11 injured--two terrorists neutralized

Another terrorist attack in the Israeli capital, Jerusalem, this morning has killed 6 and injured at least 11 others.  The two terrorists were neutralized at the scene by an Israeli soldier and another individual, an armed Yeshiva student.

This is a great example of why it's important for citizens to have the right to be armed.

The attack occurred around 10:13 a.m. local time at a large bus stop where several hundred people were gathered.

Weapons were recovered including firearms, ammunition and a knife.

IDF forces have been deployed to the scene and the identity of the terrorists is underway in cooperation with police. There is a search going on for any additional suspeces.

The area has been locked down and an emergency has been declared.

It will be surprising if the left-leaning news reports in detail on this attack, which was obviously anti-Semitic. A recent survey, for example, has found that approximately 20 percent of the UK population are anti-Semitic and believe October 7th was justified.

This is breaking news, so stay tuned.

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WOW! Trump was an FBI informer on Epstein and the Left's narrative just imploded

House Speaker Mike Johnson just dropped a nuke on the Epstein saga that nobody saw coming. In a CNN grilling by Manu Raju, Johnson was defending Trump's use of 'hoax' to describe the Epstein files mess when he casually let slip a bombshell: Donald Trump was an FBI informant against Jeffrey Epstein. 

Whoop-dee-doo-- you read that right; Trump was actually helping the feds take him down.

"What Trump is referring to is the hoax that the Democrats are using to try to attack him," Johnson said, swatting away the tired narrative. "He has never said or suggested or implied, I've talked to him about this many times, many times. He is horrified. It's been misrepresented. He's not saying that what Epstein did is a hoax. It's a terrible, unspeakable evil. He believes that himself."

Then came the mic-drop moment.

"When he first heard the rumor, he kicked him out of Mar-a-Lago. He was an FBI informant to try to take this stuff down," Johnson said, confirming for the first time that Trump was working with the feds to nail Epstein. Let that sink in.

Johnson didn't stop there. He made it crystal clear Trump was repulsed by Epstein’s crimes. 

"The president knows and has great sympathy for the women who have suffered these unspeakable harms. It’s detestable to him. He and I have spoken about this as recently as 24 hours ago," he said. Then Johnson called out the Democrats for their selective outrage. "What he's talking about is the Democrats who are doing this with impure motives. If they cared so much about this, why didn't they do something during the four years of the Biden administration when the Biden DOJ had all the records? They didn’t say a word about it. Now, they're doing it for political purposes."

Sound familiar? Johnson says it's the same old playbook. "They’re creating a hoax, just like they did with the Russian dossier, because they think it's going to somehow be mud thrown on him. It's not. He has no culpability in this thing at all. The president has clean hands. He wants all the records out. He has told me that himself."

When Raju pushed on whether Trump should meet with Epstein's victims, because, of course, the media loves a gotcha, Johnson didn't flinch. "I suspect he probably will. Yeah, he has great compassion for them," he said. "The President has a very compassionate heart. He hates the fact that these women suffered those wrongs. He hates what Epstein is accused of and who he was."

Johnson doubled down, pointing out Trump cut ties with Epstein long before it was trendy. "When he recognized that, he realized Epstein wasn't just some sort of, you know, socialite. He was an evil person, and, you know, alleged to have been involved in evil schemes. And the president distanced himself, before he was president, from that because that’s not who he is."

This is the kind of revelation that should have the left's heads exploding. For years, they've been trying to tie Trump to Epstein's crimes, and now we find out he was helping the FBI? Crickets from the legacy media, naturally. They're too busy clutching their pearls to report something that doesn’t fit the narrative. Meanwhile, Trump's out here with clean hands, calling for the files to be released, and the X-sphere's already buzzing with reactions. The truth’s a tough pill for some to swallow.

Suck it up, Democrats.

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'Maryland Man' Kilmar Abrego Garcia, may be deported to Eswatini after snubbing Trump's deal

The border security circus just keeps getting wilder and yes, more entertaining. 

Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the accused MS-13 gang member and El Salvador national, is now staring down deportation to the beautiful nation of Eswatini, a speck of a country in Southern Africa.  This is because he had the audacity to thumb his nose at a deal from the Trump administration. "You can’t make this stuff up," as the kids say.

This guy, a one-time Maryland resident accused of human smuggling, was already yo-yoed back to the U.S. after a brief stint in El Salvador earlier this year. On Friday, the Department of Homeland Security and ICE dropped the hammer via email, informing Garcia's camp of his impending one-way ticket to Eswatini, the teeny tiny jerkwater town where even the waterbuffalo refuse to roam.

Eswatini was chosen after Garcia, 30, handed ICE a laundry list of 22 countries he claims he can't live in due to "fear of persecution or torture." Uganda, Mexico, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Panama, Brazil, and a boatload of other South American nations made the no-go list, per the removal notice obtained by Fox News. "Sounds like someone’s been workshopping their sob story," as any red-blooded skeptic might mutter.

Here’s the best part: Garcia could have taken a plea deal on his human smuggling charges and served time in Costa Rica, the land of beaches and piña coladas. Instead, he rolled the dice and lost. El Salvador was happy to lock him up in their notorious Terrorism Confinement Center on the ides of March, but thanks to a Supreme Court ruling, they cut him loose back to the U.S. in June. He landed in Tennessee's Putnam County Jail, only to be sprung on Aug. 22 under electronic surveillance and home confinement in Maryland. "Because nothing says 'tough on crime' like ankle bracelets and Netflix," quips the ghost of common sense.

DHS initially threatened to ship this alleged transnational criminal to Uganda, but now they've pivoted to Eswatini, a landlocked kingdom so obscure it sounds like a rejected Star Wars planet. Fox News got their hands on the ICE letter to Garcia's lawyers, and let's just say the guy is not exactly packing his bags with enthusiasm. He's still whining about "persecution or torture" in 22 countries. "Buddy, at this point, you’re just throwing darts at a map," I can hear the ICE agents chuckling.

The Trump administration has already sent five deportees to Eswatini's maximum-security slammer, and the legal challenges are piling up faster than a sovereign citizen's unpaid parking tickets. 

The Legal Aid Society is crying foul for one deportee, a Jamaican national who claims he was "inexplicably and illegally" sent to Eswatini despite his home country being ready to take him back. DHS, naturally, says that's a load of bull pucks.

Garcia and his lovely, allegedly abused wife

For those keeping score, Eswatini's the last absolute monarchy in Africa, ruled by King Mswati III, who's got 16 wives and a gaggle of kids. It's a pint-sized nation squeezed between South Africa and Mozambique, where 32% of the population lives below the poverty line, according to The World Bank. 

"Sounds like a real paradise for an MS-13 gangbanger," said no one ever.

So, here we are, watching another chapter in the deportation drama unfold. Will Garcia end up in Eswatini, or will his lawyers pull another rabbit out of the hat, or wherever their rabbits are pulled from?

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IDF controls 40% of Gaza City as they push on

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) are tightening the screws on Hamas, now claiming control over roughly 40% of Gaza City as their ground offensive ramps up. This isn't a half-hearted poke at the hornet's nest, Brig. Gen. Ephraim "Effie" Defrin, the IDF's spokesman, made it clear this is a full-throttle push. "We will increase pressure on Hamas until its defeat," he told reporters, laying out the stakes in what's been dubbed "Operation Gideon's Chariots." Sounds biblical, doesn’t it? Well, the IDF is bringing some Old Testament-level resolve.

Defrin briefed the press on Wednesday night, detailing how the IDF's 99th Division, think Nahal and 7th Armored Brigade grunts, are digging into Gaza City's Zeitoun neighborhood. 

Meanwhile, the 162nd Division, including the 401st Armored Brigade and Givati Brigade, is hammering the outskirts of Sheikh Radwan in the north. The IDF isn't just strolling through; they're blowing up terror tunnels. Defrin even shared footage of the wreckage and promising to crank up the heat on Hamas's infrastructure. 

No word on how many tunnels are left, but it's a safe bet they're not long for this world.

The operation isn't just about smashing Hamas's toys. Defrin emphasized the IDF's all-in approach to rescuing hostages, saying they're "turning over every stone to bring the hostages home." That's no small task, with 48 still unaccounted for, per Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Aug. 14 outline. 

Defrin's words carry weight: "We will continue to do everything possible to return them." Noble, but let’s be real; Hamas isn't exactly eager to hand over bargaining chips.

This latest push stems from an Aug. 8 Cabinet decision to occupy Gaza City, which Netanyahu publicly confirmed on Aug. 31. Since then, things have moved fast. An Israeli security source told Hebrew media that 80,000 Palestinians have already fled Gaza City as the IDF rolls in. That's a lot of displacement, and it's raising eyebrows about where this all leads.

Here's where it gets spicy: Channel 12 reports that Netanyahu's charging ahead partly because of pressure from none other than U.S. President Donald Trump, who is apparently done with diplomatic niceties. Trump's lost faith in negotiations, and Bibi's not shedding tears over it. When Hamas floated a "comprehensive deal" to end the war on Wednesday, Netanyahu swatted it away as "another Hamas spin that has nothing new in it." 

Translation: nice try, but we're not buying.

Netanyahu laid out his endgame, and it isn't subtle: disarm Hamas, free all 48 hostages, demilitarize Gaza, secure Israeli control, and set up a new civilian administration. That’s a tall order, and it's hard to see Hamas signing off on their own funeral. Defrin's "force multiplier" of tens of thousands of reservists suggests Israel is ready to grind this out, but at what cost? Gaza is already a mess, and with 80,000 people on the move, the humanitarian fallout is only going to grow.

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IAF blows up Houthi leadership in a single strategic bombing

The Israeli Air Force [IAF] always seems to get a big bang for their shekel. They dropped a helluva surprise party on Houthi bigwigs in Sanaa, Yemen, last week, changing the Houthi prime minister's pronouns into 'was/ were.' The defense minister, and chief of the general staff were also eliminated in the airstrike as were the top ranking members of the government. All that's left are four low-ranking flunkies who probably wish they never joined the military.

This was a masterclass in seizing the moment. The Israelis caught wind of a rare Houthi pow-wow, where the top brass gathered to nod along to a rambling screed from their head honcho, Abdul Malik al-Houthi. One well-timed strike later, and boom—the Houthi org chart got a serious trim. Whispers on X suggest Israel pulled a slick bait-and-switch, luring the Houthi elite to one spot with a deception op straight out of a spy thriller. Think How Israel Lured Iran's Top Generals to Their Deaths Will Blow Your Mind—same vibe, different desert.

The body count? At least 10 Houthi heavyweights, including Prime Minister Ahmed al-Rahawi, Defense Minister Major General Mohamed al-Atifi, and Chief of General Staff Major General Muhammad Abd al-Karim al-Ghamari. The Houthis, true to form, are screaming “fake news!”—claiming it was all civilians, or if it happened, it was just a scratch. Sure, guys, tell it to the crater.This all kicked off after the Houthis got cocky last Friday, lobbing a cluster munition at Israel. Bad move. Israel had been brushing off their drone swarms like annoying flies, but cluster bombs aimed at cities? That’s a red line. By Sunday, Israel was back, hammering a military site near a presidential palace, a fuel depot, and two power stations in Yemen. Call it a message, delivered with a side of high explosives.

Codenamed “Drop of Luck,” the Thursday strike used standoff weapons—no warning, just instant chaos. Maximum surprise, minimum chit-chat.

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz didn’t mince words: “As we warned the Houthis in Yemen: ‘After the plague of darkness comes the plague of death.’ Whoever raises a hand against Israel, their hand will be cut off.” Biblical, brutal, and on-brand.

Let’s not kid ourselves—this won’t make the Houthis pack up their missiles and go home. They’re too stubborn for that. But it sure as hell spikes their operating costs and turns their leaders’ lives into a high-stakes game of “where’s the next boom?” Exciting times in Sanaa.

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Ilhan Omar challenges critics to delve into her financial records, but then this happened

The stink of corruption wafting from the halls of Congress is about as shocking as a sunrise. Rep[ulsive]. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), no stranger to shady headlines, has been scribbling her own sordid chapter in the book of Capitol Hill grift. In a recent Business Insider interview, the Minnesota congresswoman anti-Semite, who’s been dogged by allegations of marrying her brother to game immigration laws, had the gall to whine about a "coordinated, right-wing disinformation campaign" targeting her finances.

Then, in a move that screams "hold my beer," she dared critics to check her "public financial statements." Well, it looks as if conservative outlet, The Free Beacon, took her up on the offer, and it turns out that her financial records are a dumpster fire.

We'll dive into the juicy details in a moment, but let's get one thing straight: this isn't just about the anti-Zionist going from broke to ballin' in the blink of an eye. It's the how that lays bare the slimy hustle so many of these left-wing "champions of the people" run while railing against the so-called "oligarchy." [Or as Bernie Sanders calls them, the Olahgahkee.]

Pro tip, Rep. Omar: if you're going to smugly accuse others of spreading "disinformation" and tell them to dig through your finances, maybe make sure the paper trail doesn't lead to a neon sign flashing "CORRUPTION HERE." Her public financial disclosures show she's worth no less than $6 million. Her defense? A pathetic attempt to dodge accountability by claiming her husband's money isn't hers, nor is her brother's money.

Newsflash, Ilhan: maybe that’s how it works in Somalia, but in America, marriage means you're swimming in the same cash pool. Omar is clearly enjoying the fruits of her husband Tim Mynett's bank account, given the lavish lifestyle she and her unhinged daughter flaunt. And here’s the rub: one of Mynett's company's biggest sugar daddies was Omar's own campaign.

Omar’s funneled a cool $2.9 million of campaign cash into Mynett's consulting firm. Then, in a plot twist straight out of a soap opera, she went from sneaking around with him to putting a ring on it. Surprise, surprise, she now has access to all that sweet, sweet money her campaign donors foolishly laid on her.

The Free Beacon lays it out plain as day: after Mynett got his massive payday from Omar's campaign, he ditched the consulting gig and spun up a bunch of other businesses that, low and behold, made them millions more.

Sound familiar? 

It should. Rep. 'Aunty' Maxine Waters (D-CA) has been running a nearly identical playbook, shoveling millions in campaign funds to her daughter for "consulting" and other conveniently vague so called "services." If this isn't outright illegal, it's a glaring loophole in campaign finance laws and her colleagues on both sides of the political aisle have done nothing to punish this type of behavior.

Apparently, you can slap 34 felony charges on a president over what amounts to a bookkeeping squabble, but House reps can openly launder campaign donations through their families to pad their own pockets. 

Let's cut through the garbage: Omar and her paramour-turned-husband hit the jackpot practically overnight, and it reeks worse than a former president's skivvies. Where is the House Ethics Committee and the DOJ? Or are we just going to keep pretending this isn't a blatant scam? 

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