Biden called Netanyahu today to tell him not to go into Rafah to avoid a collapse of hostage negotiations.
Israel just rescued two hostages in Rafah.
This is the moment for Biden and his team - and every mainstream media outlet carrying their water - to take a big step back.
For those who need a one-week refresher:
The Gaza Health Ministry is actually Hamas.
The hospitals are Hamas.
The UN is pro-Hamas with UN employees who hold hostages.
Hamas uses human shields.
Qatar is a sponsor of Hamas.
Egypt won’t let people leave Gaza.
Got it?
This is very likely to be the greatest scandal ever to rock the International Committee of the Red Cross. It will demand complete leadership overhaul and institutional reforms. And the Appropriations Committees should lead the charge knowing the State Department will not.
What a 24 hours.
Biden gives Iran $10 billion.
White House offers to meet with CAIR in Chicago.
Schumer calls for regime change in Israel.
Biden imposes sanctions on more Israelis.
All-out political warfare on our ally, rewards for terrorists, their sponsors and allies.
If IDF assessment correct, every single news outlet should retract immediately and issue apologies. An attempted blood libel carried out by western media 10 days after the massacre. New standards needed ASAP from top executives across all outlets. This CANNOT continue.
It doesn’t matter if Israel intercepts 25, 50, 75 or 100% of the threat. You can’t accept as new normal the Islamic Republic of Iran firing ballistic missiles, cruise missiles and drones at Israel. Period. This is a regime that wants nuclear weapons. Major consequences required.
Tonight is a case study in the Hamas disinformation machine. Pro-Hamas social media going viral with an alleged Israeli massacre in Rafah. As it turns out, commandos rescued two hostages. You cannot believe anything coming out of Hamas-related sources (Al Jazeera included).
Hamas is holding American citizens hostage and many others. Hamas’ leader is in Qatar right now.
The President of the United States needs to put Qatar on notice NOW. Hamas releases all hostages immediately and Qatar turns over Hamas leaders or we will:
-Close airspace to Qatar…
She was very busy in Gaza. Took the entire Hamas tour. Never met a single hostage.
Hundreds upon hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars per year to support this enablement and defense of Hamas war crimes.
Put this in perspective. Since Friday:
Pro-Hamas antisemitic rioters in Chicago intimidated the House of Blues to cancel a Jewish singer’s sold-out show. The venue cited security concerns.
Loyola University told Jewish students they could no longer allow a survivor of the Nova…
New: Senior White House officials are planning to meet with Arab-, Muslim- and Palestinian-American community leaders in Chicago on Thursday, multiple sources familiar with the meeting tell CNN. w/
@abdallahcnn
@betsy_klein
UNRWA, please answer these questions:
Can you verify to the world that none of your employees in Gaza are affiliated with Hamas?
Does UNRWA recognize Hamas as a terrorist organization?
Have you ever submitted your employee list to the US for IC counterterrorism vetting?
🛑 Spreading unsubstantiated claims about
@UNRWA
must stop immediately.
Making serious allegations in the public domain, unsupported by any evidence or verifiable facts in support thereof may amount to misinformation.
FULL Statement ⬇️
Just seeing news that
@JoeBiden
compared the President of the United States to a senior Nazi official who played an instrumental role in the systematic dehumanization and murder of six million Jews. This is completely outrageous and unacceptable. Biden must apologize immediately.
Stop calling this a successful diplomatic breakthrough. This is pure and unadulterated psychological warfare.
The Iranians pulling the strings, the Qatari arsonists playing firefighter, the White House milking for positive media coverage.
Day 1: Hamas breaks the deal before it…
A huge national thanks owed to
@RichardGrenell
for pulling double duty as Acting DNI. He did in three months what others failed or refused to do for three years. And, undoubtedly, much more set in motion.
Reminders if northern front opens.
Hezbollah is a terrorist organization controlled by Iran.
Hezbollah like Hamas uses human shields.
Hezbollah, Hamas and Islamic Jihad sit together in Beirut in a joint cell coordinated by Iran.
Hezbollah threat much greater. Massive arsenal…
They cut the heads off the babies and raped the women before they killed them. Anyone who issues a statement of moral equivalence; anyone who blames Israel; anyone who defends Hamas or Iran -- that is who you are. Hold employers, corporate sponsors, boards and donors accountable.
Just Now: State Department spokesperson pledges US will continue to work with Russia in areas of key interest (presumably the Iran nuclear deal and Kerry's climate change comments, among them). Then says Russia is a pariah. Stunning.
2020: After Iran killed a US contractor, the President took out Soleimani.
2024: After Iran killed three US soldiers, the President took out $10 billion and gave it to Iran.
Elections have consequences.
Scott Bok’s resignation statement is a must read for everyone tracking university-sponsored antisemitism.
He fundamentally believes Magill did nothing wrong. That this was about 30 seconds of bad testimony - a momentary PR crisis that could no longer be managed instead of a…
I do not know whether a foreign government authorized or carried out the the murder of Fakhrizadeh. Such an act of state-sponsored terrorism would be a flagrant violation of international law & encourage more governments to carry out lethal attacks against foreign officials.
Yes, Hamas using human shields is most certainly a war crime. Thank you for acknowledging it.
We should defund UN agencies that knowingly allow Hamas to use its facilities as terror headquarters. Starts with UNRWA.
There is a call by Hamas to kill Jews tomorrow. Schools and synagogues are in a panic (despite no indication of any threat according to law enforcement, to be clear, but panic understandable nonetheless).
This threat wasn’t issued from Gaza.
It came from Hamas in Qatar.
When Trump was given high-confidence intelligence that Americans were going to be targeted by Iran, he took out Soleimani. Some media and Trump detractors denounced the action & blasted the intel. Same people now want us to believe and be outraged by Russia/Afghanistan story?
American taxpayers generously fund
@ICRC
. Congress should consider a pause in support as we evaluate:
What ICRC knew about Shifa hospital & the hostages;
Why ICRC has done nothing to insist on proof of life;
Why ICRC has ignored family requests to verify medical care issues.
US taxpayer dollars provided to UNRWA 2019-2020: $0
US taxpayer dollars provided to UNRWA 2021-2023: > $1 billion
Full US knowledge that UNRWA supported, employed, enabled and protected Hamas 2019-2023: 100%
Elections have consequences. Policies have consequences.
The United States Congress must hold hearings into what
@UNRWA
knew about these massive terror tunnels and whether they or their staff helped build them or looked the other way.
US sent billions to Gaza for civilians not to fund Hamas terror.
Why are Qatar and Turkey getting a free pass for harboring Hamas leadership?
Qatar Airways and Turkish Airlines should not be allowed to enter US airspace until they expel or turn over Hamas officials, close their offices and cut off all money supply.
The tragedy on full display today is that university presidents believe that incitement to violence against Jews, including incitement to genocide, is not incitement at all but rather valued parts of their "diversity of views" on campus. They should all be fired.
Israel just killed one of the major architects of October 7. The White House response is a rush to deny any involvement and leak that it advised against such a strike. What a terrible look. No one suspects the US carried it out, but most shocked to learn of disapproval.
What have we learned today and what should we do next? Let’s review.
1) New York Times now confirms Wall Street Journal’s previous report that the IRGC was complicit in the Simchat Torah Massacre. Times has IRGC sources confirming extensively. WSJ had Hezbollah and Hamas…
Qatar could have delivered all hostages unconditionally. They’ve brokered a deal to help their ally Hamas survive instead. Their inhumanity leveraging Israel’s humanity. Will it work? Only if Israel is pressured not to restart operations. Time to end Qatari sponsorship of Hamas.
With reports coming in that
#Telegram
,
#instagram
and
#Twitter
are all complying with the Iranian regime's censorship requests,
@durov
,
@jack
and
@kevin
are all in potential violation of U.S. law and will be remembered by history for the choices they make.
Does not sound like nuclear sites were targeted. Military targets only. US was notified in advance. Escalation was not the objective.
Israel demonstrating its capability to reach inside Iran at will. That is the step taken tonight to begin restoring deterrence.
Hamas cannot save itself from military destruction on the battlefield. That might not be obvious to everyone, so it’s worth saying it loud. If given the order, the IDF will take Rafah and eventually find and kill Sinwar in the tunnels.
There are two paths to survival for Hamas:…
Lots of revisionist foreign policy history from Biden camp.
Remember the Iran Deal that Congress opposed?
Remember the Russia Reset that sold out our allies & compromised our security?
Remember the pro-Castro, pro-Chavez Western Hemisphere policy?
I remember all that & more.
The sanctioned president of Iran is flying on a sanctioned aircraft on a Biden-approved visa to enter the US where he is actively plotting terror attacks on US citizens. $6 billion will arrive in his bank accounts by the time he lands. And Biden will declare mission accomplished.
Congress needs to prohibit funding for UNRWA in the supplemental. And there should be no role for UNRWA going forward. Overdue we dismantle this terrorism-subsidizing agency. Bring in the UN High Commissioner for Refugees. They have the expertise for IDP support anyway.
Breaking:
One of the Israeli hostages says he was held for weeks at the house of a teacher in UNRWA - in his attic.
UNRWA is neck deep in Hamas ties and has to be defunded and dismantled completely.
This is
@JakeSullivan46
to
@jaketapper
on Hamas holding 600 Palestinian Americans hostage in Gaza:
“Hamas has been preventing their departure and making a series of demands. I can't go through those demands in public…”
Wow.
Israel’s campaign to take Rafah is critical both to destroy Hamas and to secure the border with Egypt. As it has before, Israel is giving time and pathways for civilians to leave before the IDF begins major operations.
Unlike previous months, however, Israel now controls areas…
I have been told by banking officials in Europe that former senior Obama officials worked with European officials to design sanctions evasion schemes. This effort was likely closely coordinated with the Islamic Republic. Hard to imagine Kerry didn’t discuss these efforts as well.
.
@ColinKahl
hits nail on the head.
@JohnKerry
pressed Zarif to comply w/ nuke deal
If it was - as it should be - U.S. policy, what's wrong w/what Kerry did?
If it wasn't - as
@SecPompeo
's reaction suggests - then there's something very wrong w/what administration is doing...
Hamas and Iran tried hostage diplomacy to stop the IDF. They failed.
They tried a “this will be too hard” influence operation to stop the IDF. They failed.
They tried a humanitarian “crisis” influence operation to stop the IDF. They failed.
IDF is now taking the fight to Hamas…
Pro-Palestinian and Hamas Supporters are currently Rioting at the Headquarters for the Democratic National Committee in Washington, D.C, the Demonstrators have Blocked the Main Entrance of the Building as well as the nearby Road so D.C. Capital Police and Metro Police are now…
Iran claims Israel hit its “consulate” in Damascus. That is not a fact. It was an IRGC headquarters.
Iran is not “retaliating” against Israel. Iran has been waging a seven-front war for 6 months. This is the latest Iranian threat in that war. Israel has a right to defend itself.
The UN rose from the ashes of the Holocaust with a promise of Never Again.
Again came on October 7. And this Secretary General said nothing. Did nothing. For weeks. No Art. 99s. No condemnations.
Today he further indicts himself & the UN. We should not give them another penny.
I've just invoked Art.99 of the UN Charter - for the 1st time in my tenure as Secretary-General.
Facing a severe risk of collapse of the humanitarian system in Gaza, I urge the Council to help avert a humanitarian catastrophe & appeal for a humanitarian ceasefire to be declared.
Today's UAE-Israel announcement is a sort of "drop the mic" moment in U.S. foreign policy. There are a lot of people in Washington who have no idea how to respond after years of being so wrong.
Iran’s Hamas terror group killed at least 31 Americans on Oct 7.
Iran’s Hamas terror group holds Americans hostage today.
Iran has directed 55 attacks on US forces since Oct 17.
The US just responded by giving Iran access to $10 billion.
Congress can block this. It must. Now.
This may be the most hostile presidential speech toward Israel in history.
Democrats didn’t applaud and stand for Israel’s right to defend itself. Only for criticizing Israel.
Biden spent more time talking about a supposed humanitarian crisis in Gaza than supporting Israel in…
In the wake of
#NavidAfkari
’s murder,
@CFR_org
and any other US institutions planning virtual events with
@JZarif
should cancel them immediately. (CFR event currently scheduled for 9/21)
Not a single UN source cited by the ICJ recognizes Hamas as a terrorist organization. None have condemned Hamas war crimes. Every one has worked to delegitimize the existence of Israel as a Jewish State. This is a kangaroo court where up is down and victims of attempted genocide…
Biden reportedly told Netanyahu not to go into Rafah.
As usual, Netanyahu ignored Biden's meek requests since they're not backed up with real pressure.
How many more civilians will have to die, how much more regional escalation will have to occur, before Biden gets serious?
There is no defeat of Hamas if the IDF doesn’t take Rafah.
There is no hope for the future of Gaza if the IDF doesn’t take the Gaza-Egyptian border corridor.
That is why the Hamas information warfare apparatus is going nuts. The tipping point moment is approaching.
Iran & its allies are very afraid of people asking basic questions: who was Fakhrizadeh, what is SPND & what are they up to? That conversation exposes the Iran Deal as a scam. They want the frame to be "Israel is sabotaging diplomacy" instead of "Iran has a clandestine program."
What a disgusting post from someone who does not care that Hamas massacred 1300 people, mass-raped women, and murdered hostages. He is giddy to learn the IDF accidentally killed hostages in the fog of war -- as suicide bombers and snipers are ambushing soldiers left and right.
The White House needs to explain right now:
Why did it allow an agent of the regime behind the 10/7 Hamas massacre into the country ?
Whether it will be allowing him to leave the country while Americans are held hostage?
Media should stake out the hotel immediately.
Did Israel target civilians? No. Israel targeted terrorists.
Did Israel hit a refugee camp? No. Israel hit Hamas. The UN calls the area a "refugee camp" but it has no refugees & is not a camp.
Was it a war crime? Hamas with UN help did commit a war crime by using human shields.
Biden to go to UN Security Council to force temporary cease-fire on Israel, halt Rafah offensive
Quoted: “[T]he White House is effectively pushing for Hamas to survive to massacre another day. This is a complete betrayal of U.S. interests and values."
President Biden must respond forcefully to Iran-sponsored attacks that kill Americans. This was a declared and enforced red line for the past administration. Failure to respond will invite more attacks and more dead Americans.
یک انتقاد دیرین از جانب مخالفین ایرانی این بوده است که مذاکره با رژیم کنونی در میانه تظاهرات به ملاها مشروعیت میبخشد و اعتراضات را تضعیف میکند. این توئیت رئیس جمهور بیانیه مهمی است که باید به مردم ایران در حالیکه به خیابانها میریزند جسارت بیشتری بدهد.
National Security Adviser suggested today that sanctions & protests have Iran “choked off”, will force them to negotiate. Actually, I couldn’t care less if they negotiate. Will be totally up to them but, no nuclear weapons and “don’t kill your protesters.”
Rather than impose maximum pressure on Putin before he takes Kyiv, Team Biden spent days concocting a plan to appear to be de-Swifting Russia and appear to be fully sanctioning Russia’s central bank without actually doing either.
Absolutely stunning Q&A from Friday's Pentagon press briefing.
Q: Does the DoD anticipate that Hamas will try to fire on them, on the operation (inaudible)?
GEN. RYDER: Look, I mean, that's certainly a risk, again, but if Hamas truly does care about the Palestinian people, then…
Just so everyone is following: Hamas-sponsoring Qatar brokered a deal to get Hamas access to medical supplies on a promise Qatar would make sure Hamas also delivers medicine to hostages - with zero Red Cross verification. Israel reportedly may have discovered hostages murdered by…
According to Ch. 12 report, Blinken clashed with Israel’s war cabinet about the next phase in the Gaza operation.
“I don’t think you have the credit for that,” Blinken reportedly told the defense minister about his stated goal to “dismantle Hamas, even if it takes months.”
What a complete disaster and embarrassment for the US government to have zero knowledge about the status of "8-9" American citizens held hostage when Thailand can make a phone call and get its citizens out. This is 100% a consequence of American weakness toward Iran and Qatar.
With so-called experts alleging the President is either incapacitated due to his medication or on death’s door due to oxygen levels, alongside Friday’s media speculation that enemies of America could take advantage, Trump’s drive-by was good for US national security.
Per IDF press briefing: An Islamic Jihad commander taking orders from Iran was driving around Gaza using his family as a human shield while directing attacks against Israel. Israel waited until he left the vehicle to take him out and spare his family. Draw your own conclusions.
Intelligence channels are blinking red on the Iran threat and the White House is using the day to threaten Israel, not Iran.
Kirby should be asked directly what the US response will be if Iran launches a missile attack on Israel.
@TeamCavuto
Iran's watching all of this.
Hamas used Gaza City’s Shifa hospital as a base of terror operations.
Now comes an important question for Congress: Which US-funded international organizations knew the truth about Shifa and helped Hamas conceal its war crimes?
My latest
@nypost
.
There is good and evil in the world. If you didn’t believe it before, for whatever reason - politics, ideology, ignorance or disbelief - believe it now. A few thoughts with many more to come.
There is no way this massacre happened without Iran’s direction, training and…
A report today suggests Secretary Blinken is preparing to cross the Rubicon of political warfare against Israel in a way that not only delegitmizes a close democratic ally in wartime but also puts American service members at grave risk. Senators should elevate this to the…
Here’s a novel idea for the Biden administration: Put forward a resolution calling for Hamas to release all hostages and unconditionally surrender. Full stop.
Why is there a desire to triangulate between good and evil, rather than simply stand for good and condemn evil?
The White House is truly flailing. We can't secure our own border, but we can build a port in Gaza. Our military can't be used to actually defend the United States, restore deterrence against our enemies, enforce sanctions, or rescue American hostages -- but it can be put to work…
Malki was a US citizen. One of her terrorist killers is a woman named Ahlam Tamimi - on the FBI’s most wanted list today - living like a celebrity in Jordan.
Tamimi’s extradition should be a condition of US assistance to Jordan. Now more than ever.
The White House is positioning Qatar to lead the post-Hamas Gaza planning. That is policy suicide. Qatar harbors and sponsors Hamas. Loyal ally of the Muslim Brotherhood. Congress should prohibit all aid for Gaza post-Hamas if Qatar or Turkey are involved.
Can you imagine the President of the United States waiving sanctions and allowing money to flow to the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism while the Department of Justice announces that same regime tried to kidnap a US journalist out of New York City? It's happening folks.
One might ask why the US doesn't put forward a different Security Council resolution each week calling for Hamas to surrender, condemning Hamas war crimes, imposing UN sanctions on Hamas, etc. and forcing Russia or China to veto. Why must we always be playing defense at the UN?
Can you imagine 100 ballistic missiles being fired on the United States and your closest ally calling to say, no need to retaliate, you should feel really secure right now? Now imagine our country was the size of New Jersey. And we were fighting a seven-front war of survival.
Can’t yet assess the impact of the targets hit tonight, or if it will be effective in changing the ayatollah’s risk calculus, but there is a pretty clear message in here: The IAF can, in fact, reach out and say hello whenever it wants.
It’s quite something for an American administration to respond to a state sponsor of terrorism’s threats against American citizens with zero condemnation and/or vow of consequences for such action, but instead with offers of cash to fund the terrorism.
The US needs a special envoy to the Iranian people, not a special envoy to their oppressors. The latter is what we have today. If the State Department is serious that its focus is no longer on a nuclear deal but instead on supporting the people, it’s time to replace Rob Malley.
American soldiers are dead because of Biden policy on Iran. There is no way of sugar coating it. It’s been appeasement at all cost. And now our finest pay that cost in blood. May God comfort the families. May Congress finally end this policy of appeasement in every way possible.
A member of the Palestinian security forces killed two Jews in a terrorist attack today. Many more in the PA security forces have been involved in terrorism for months.
The US assigns a three-star general to oversee and advise the PA security forces. He spends his days sending…
🚨 “The main reporter covering the war in Gaza for
@AP
has called publicly for the annihilation of Israel and a “Palestinian revolt” & compared Israel to Nazis, HonestReporting revealed Wednesday in an investigation of his social media accounts.”
As Israel's air defense goes on maximum alert for a potential Iran-directed attack, let us remember the White House is subsidizing Iran's budget with a $10 billion sanctions waiver and non-enforcement of oil sanctions.
Iran’s president today pledged a new final solution for the Jews: “From the river to the sea.”
When you hear someone chanting it, let the world know what it means.
It means the final solution. The annihilation of the Jews.
Not my words. The words of Iran’s president.
What are they even talking about?
This is about a US journalist that Iran was going to kidnap off US soil.
Have they lost their minds? How desperate can you be to save a flawed nuclear deal that kidnapping Americans is just some law enforcement matter of no concern to State?
Israel will be fully justified in striking back hard at Iran in a variety of ways in response to a direct attack. In addition to providing support to Israel's right to defend itself from the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism, the US Senate should move quickly to shut…
The lack of a deterrence message toward Iran right now is alarming. We need to see a very strong White House statement tonight, and confirmation of warnings passed to Iran.
Most (including me) would usually classify the idea of a direct ballistic missile or cruise missile attack…
Can someone help me understand the Biden position on snapback?
He thinks the arms embargo on Iran should expire?
He wants Iran importing weapons from China and Russia?
He wants to go back into the JCPOA, which means the arms embargo expires & Iran gets billions of dollars too?
CBS News just directed people to give money to UNRWA, the terrorist supporting organization that runs schools that Hamas uses for terrorism centers.
FACTS: The headmaster of an UNRWA school was a terrorist and UNRWA teachers celebrated Hamas's Oct 7 massacre of Israelis.
“If we do not finally reverse this policy and shut down Qatari support for Hamas, we are guaranteeing ourselves more and more Oct. 7 [attacks] to come in the future.”