Hamas parades kidnapped hostages in PsyOp (02-24-2025--Hour2)

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[00:00:29] All right, so I was going to cover this on Friday. We had some new developments over the weekend as well. That is the return of hostages by Hamas, the terrorist group. And what they consider to be hostages are also the dead bodies that they returned. Although, whoops, we gave you the wrong body.

[00:00:56] If you could send that back to us, because that was just a different body, I guess. Oh, I mean, when you have so many dead bodies, as Hamas has, I guess it gets a little difficult to keep them all straight or whatever. But another round of hostages, these were alive. They were released yesterday or over the weekend, I guess.

[00:01:26] They were released.

[00:02:08] The terrorist group paraded five of the six freed hostages on stages in propaganda-filled ceremonies. In two locations in Gaza, handing them over to the Red Cross, while Al-Sayed was released separately to the humanitarian organization later in the day without a ceremony.

[00:02:34] Why? Why? Why did he get special treatment? I'll explain that, or the Times of Israel will explain it to us in a bit. But also, I quibble a little bit at the ceremony term being used here. It was a celebration. It was a parade. It was a psychological operation.

[00:03:00] A psyop. Grotesque. They dressed the hostages in Israeli Defense Force uniforms, and none of them are IDF. Why would they do that? Good question. I'll tell you in a minute.

[00:03:18] So two of these hostages that were released were actually held hostage way before October 7th. Mangitsu and Al-Sayed both entered Gaza on their own accord. Mangitsu went into Gaza in 2014.

[00:03:41] Al-Sayed went in in 2015, and they had been held captive by various terrorist groups in Gaza for about a decade each. They have been held for a decade. The releases came hours after Hamas finally returned the body of Shiri Bibas.

[00:04:03] Israel said she had been brutally murdered by her captors along with her two small sons, Ariel, four years old, and the infant, who was just a couple months old when kidnapped, Kefir. The two boys' bodies were returned Thursday. So Thursday, there was the first celebration.

[00:04:27] All of these Gazans turned out, all these Palestinians turned out to celebrate their jihadists. And look at us. We are winning. By the way, I did not see a lot of famine going on in that crowd. In fact, quite the opposite, particularly among the Hamas soldiers who apparently found uniforms. I didn't know that they actually had uniforms because they never wear them, except when they're parading around.

[00:04:55] They're dead Israeli hostages that they kidnapped. The Bibas family, and I'll give more details on that also. But the Bibas family was the mother and her two children. She was the one you probably saw the video after October 7th. Now, what, over two years ago. I guess it's approaching the third or, yeah. I think we're, I think this October will be two years.

[00:05:27] They shot video of her as they dragged her out of the house. And she's, you know, clutching her two small children. And they're videotaping the kidnapping. And putting it out there for all to see. And just the terror in her eyes and on her face. And she died. She was murdered in captivity.

[00:05:55] Now, Hamas claims that the Israelis killed her in one of their bombing runs. But the Israelis, after they got a look at the bodies of the two boys, they determined, no, they had actually been tortured and strangled. So, like, you are, this is the thing that people do not really understand, is that this is a different kind of mentality.

[00:06:25] It is a death cult. I've been saying it since October 7th, but I've been saying it long before then, too. It is a death cult. This is what they worship. Murdering and death. They teach their children through their schools, which were UN-funded. UN-funded workers in Gaza helped to keep hostage some of these people.

[00:06:54] And, by the way, when they were marching the caskets of the little boys onto the stage, while all of the Palestinians in attendance were, you know, cheering and celebrating and everything, they put on the, first off, the caskets were being marched up to the stage. Yeah, they set up a stage. They had a PA system. They had graphics drawn up and all this, like big posters and everything. So I guess the printing shops still work in Gaza. No, they probably just outsourced that to Qatar, right?

[00:07:26] They had representatives of four different jihadist terrorist groups carrying the coffins. They wore different headbands. Like one was yellow. One was green. It's like one's for Islamic Jihad. One's for Hamas. Right? Sort of a coalition of murderers. Right? That's what you're looking at right there.

[00:07:53] And on the caskets, they put placards of the names of the murdered and said, date of arrest, October 7th. They call them arrests. Those aren't arrests. See what I mean? You're dealing with a level of evil and delusion and occult mentality that people in the West do not, I think, do not adequately fathom.

[00:08:22] Later in the morning, at a second Hamas ceremony in central Gaza's, Nusrat, Shem Tov, Weckern, and Cohen were paraded on stage. So four of the hostages paraded on stage, holding certificates and gift bags and wearing IDF uniforms or approximations thereof, as if they were soldiers. The three civilians were kidnapped from the Nova Music Festival and are not active members of the military.

[00:08:52] But get this. This is important. Hamas considers Israeli men under the age of 50 to be soldiers. So, you know, the IDF has conscription, right? Everybody does like a couple years of military service and then you go on with your life. Afterwards, you get out of the military. But Hamas considers every guy under the age of 50 to be a soldier.

[00:09:17] And these are the same people that complain and cry about, oh, you're targeting civilians. Well, wait a minute. You put your weapons underneath the school. That's on you, first of all. Second of all, what does it say about you when you consider every male under the age of 50 to be a soldier, therefore a legitimate target? You're targeting civilians. They're like all of this is projection, right?

[00:09:47] They have one set of rules that they live by and then they accuse you of that which they are guilty. It is so obvious. And that's why all you get from the Hamas holes, the defenders of these barbarians, is what about ism? Oh, what about this Israeli thing? Oh, what about that Jewish thing? Or what about this from, you know, 60 years ago? It's always what about ism. They never want to address the behavior of the current regime.

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[00:11:57] they took like, you know, 200 plus and they murdered like 1,200 on October 7th. And they hold these big celebrations and all of the people come out and they're all cheering and, yay, we love all the dead bodies on the stage. That's awesome. You kill those Jews good, you know. And when the Israelis release the hundreds of prisoners that they have to, in order to get back the four bodies,

[00:12:25] they have to turn over, you know, hundreds of live terrorists in order to get the bodies of four innocent civilians. And they don't do the kind of, you know, celebration and all of these, this propaganda effort because that's not what their people want. They don't want to see that kind of celebration because that's not what they celebrate. That's not what they cheer for.

[00:12:56] The Palestinian culture does. That's what they want to see. That is what they cheer for. And that is because they have been taught for multiple generations in their schools, on their television, in their mosques, by their leaders, right? They have been enabled and they have been indoctrinated. They have. They've been brainwashed.

[00:13:20] It's an entire society that has gone down this path of a murderous death cult. And they've constructed all sorts of explanations and rationalizations, justification for that. And there are people in the West that don't understand this. They think, oh, they're just like us. Ben Shapiro calls it the Western conceit. It is a belief that, oh, they're just like us.

[00:13:50] They value the same things. They do not. They absolutely do not. And if you want to confirm that, just ask them. They will tell you. They're on video. They talk about it all the time. They made the hostages on the stage. They are made to wave, you know, at the crowd.

[00:14:13] Another one seemed to be directed by a Hamas cameraman to kiss two of the masked gunmen on their heads. Oh, and by the way, they also kept another hostage in a vehicle so they could see the release. And then that guy got sent back to continue to be detained. So I mentioned this one hostage, Hisham al-Sayed. And he wasn't part of any of the celebrations.

[00:14:42] He wasn't part of their parades and stuff. He was released by the terrorist group without a ceremony. Why? Why would Hamas give this guy this different treatment? They said, Hamas said it was out of respect for the Arab community in Israel.

[00:15:01] So even Hamas understands the difference in turning people over, turning hostages over, one with these parades and celebrations, and the other in a more dignified way, if you will, to just turn them over to the Red Cross. That you don't need to do the whole ceremony. And the purpose of the ceremony is to humiliate and demoralize. That's the point. They recognize it. That's why they are doing it.

[00:15:32] And this explanation for this one guy who was an Arab who has been held for a decade by Hamas. They held him for a decade. They also murdered and abducted a bunch of Arab Israelis during October 7th. Not a lot of respect for the Arab community in Israel going on there. They understand this. Even if you don't understand it, leftists, they do. Hamas does.

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[00:17:24] You are discussing the barbarism of Hamas and their acceptance by the left. One of the frustrations of the left is that they view me, a mainstream conservative, as some knuckle-dragging Neanderthal that cannot be reasoned with. I must be defeated by any means necessary. My views can be censored or shouted down. But Hamas, the Iranian mullahs, the chai comms, they are all reasonable people that can be won over with our magnanimity.

[00:17:51] The left has it backwards with the height of dumbassery. Right. Because they are at their core. Like, remember, the issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution. Right. That's the animating thing behind all of these, you know, leftist eruptions. That's why they pick the wrong side every time.

[00:18:19] It's because the wrong side is always Marxist. And that's the one that they're trying to support. And yes, when you look at these Islamist governing structures, they more resemble Marxism than anything close to a free market. And so, because again, free market relies on individual freedom. And that is repressed.

[00:18:45] Individual freedom is the thing that makes us different in the West versus other cultures. Like, that's the animating characteristic. And that's why, you know, the free market is you. It is me. We are the free market in economics, but also in individual liberty. Right. We are free from state tyranny.

[00:19:12] By the way, at the big celebration where they had the four dead bodies of the first round. This was on Thursday at the Gaza Strip celebration and parade. Handed out candy and stuff to the kids. And they had a Palestinian terrorist there who was responsible for killing dozens of Israelis.

[00:19:40] He was released from prison just days prior. And he was seen in Palestinian media footage at the Hamas handover of the bodies of four slain hostages. The guy's name is Mohammed Abu Warda, a former commander in Hamas's armed wing. Once again, like the armed wing. You never hear this for any other organization except Islamist terrorist groups.

[00:20:09] No, that's just the armed wing. See, the political wing, they don't engage in any of the terrorism. This guy Warda was serving 48 life sentences in Israel for masterminding multiple terror attacks that killed 45 people, including a 1996 bombing on a Jerusalem bus that murdered 24.

[00:20:34] He was released by Israel on February 8th, along with other terror convicts as part of the ongoing hostage ceasefire deal with the Hamas terrorist group. He served 23 years. He was reportedly supposed to be deported to Egypt. But for some reason, they didn't want him. I don't know why. But lo and behold, he was not.

[00:21:01] He was seated in the front row alongside other Hamas dignitaries, apparently as a guest of honor. Under the terms of the first stage of the ceasefire agreement, Israel is freeing some 2,000 Palestinians in prison for security offenses, including hundreds serving life sentences in exchange for the release of 25 living hostages and eight bodies.

[00:21:27] So Israel gets 25 live hostages, eight bodies, and the Palestinians get 2,000, including this monster. Like, yeah, I don't, I understand that as a government, the Israeli government is placing a premium and, you know, high value on getting the live hostages back. I get that.

[00:21:56] But these numbers are ridiculous. And guys like Warda should be off the table. He should be off the table. You get convicted for this many terrorist attacks? You got a body count that high? Murdering innocent civilians all over Israel? Again, unless, of course, they have injected this guy with some sort of a tracking device that he is unaware of, then, like, that would make a bit more sense.

[00:22:25] Egypt refused to grant entry to Abu Warda and 19 other released security prisoners and has demanded that other prisoners that it is already taken in be deported someplace else before they accept any new prisoners. So Egypt is like, uncle, we got too many. You're sending too many of these terrorists into our country. We're not taking him. We're not taking these other 19. And these other guys, like, we're deporting them soon.

[00:22:54] Thousands of people, including large numbers of masked and armed members of terrorist groups, looked on as the coffins of the dead were loaded onto Red Cross vehicles before being driven to Israeli forces. Inside the coffins were the bodies of what they told us was Sherry Bebas and her small children. Ariel, who was four at the time of the kidnapping, and Kaffir, who was nine months old.

[00:23:20] And then another guy, I think I did not highlight his first name. Oded. Oded Lifshitz. And three of those bodies were confirmed to be the two boys and the older man. He was 83.

[00:23:47] Sherry Bebas, that was not her body in the coffin, which the Israelis determined very quickly after they, you know, first had to check the coffins to make sure they weren't rigged with booby traps. And then when they opened them, they found all sorts of Hamas literature, pamphlets and flyers and stuff that they had thrown in on top of the bodies. Now, a year ago in February, the Times of Israel reported

[00:24:14] about a video showing proof of life of the three Bebas family members. February 19th, 2024, the IDF released what it said was recently discovered footage showing the mother and her two kids surrounded by gunmen in the Gaza Strip hours after they were abducted by Hamas-led terrorists on October 7th and expressed serious fears regarding the captive family.

[00:24:42] The clip came from surveillance cameras in Khan Yunus showing Bebas holding both of her sons, who were four and nine months old at the time. The IDF spokesman, Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said that it was the first proof of life of the family members they had had. So this was a year ago. So months after the October 7th, 2023 terrorist attack.

[00:25:10] Hamas in November of 24. So months after this proof of life or sorry, months before the proof of life video and a month after October 7th, Hamas had claimed that all three had been killed in an IDF airstrike. Right? So Hamas told that lie a month after they kidnapped this family. They told that lie in November.

[00:25:37] And then three months later, video comes out that shows the family. The three were slated for release along with other mothers and children during a November truce, but never materialized amplifying concerns about their fate. Kefir, the youngest, the baby, was the youngest hostage being held by Hamas.

[00:26:06] He was one of the 253 hostages taken. Nili Margulit, who spent nearly 50 days in Hamas captivity, said that she was with the father, Yardin Bibas, when Hamas terrorists told him his wife and two young children had been killed and then ordered him to film a video in which he blamed Benjamin Netanyahu to return their bodies to Israel.

[00:26:36] Right? Psychological operations. This is meant to demoralize and discourage the Israeli people and to erode support for the Israeli war effort. You don't have to understand it, but Hamas certainly does. All right. If you're listening to this show, you know I try to keep up with all sorts of current events. And I know you do too. And you've probably heard me say, get your news from multiple sources. Why?

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[00:27:58] I've got a piece here from Seth Mendel at Commentary Magazine, commentary.org. Yarden Bebas, the father of the slain family, was released this month by Amas after nearly 500 days in captivity and the terror group is claiming it'll soon deliver the bodies of his wife and two sons. In such a world, Mandel writes, the faces of the Bebas children would be everywhere at all times.

[00:28:26] In the world in which we live by contrast, posters with those faces get torn down from bulletin boards. In the kind of world we hope to deserve to inhabit, no children's charity or NGO would go a day without drawing attention to Kefir and Ariel and the monsters who stole them. The crimes against the Bebas family are indeed the symbol of the anti-civilizational menace that is Hamas,

[00:28:52] but also of the cowardice of the political and cultural leaders of the enlightened West. Yes, we should be ashamed of our fellow Americans who not only won't mention the Bebas family, but won't even learn the name of a single American hostage held in Gaza throughout the war. Speaking of shameful, here is a message from Jabril Hough. He is a longtime caller to the program.

[00:29:21] He's an apologist for Hamas. And here is how the PSYOP works. Here is how the gaslighting manifests itself. Listen to this dumbassery. He wrote me an email. I noticed you're biased, and he puts this in a quote, reporting again on the, this is commentary, Jabril, this is not reporting, it's commentary.

[00:29:48] You're biased reporting again on the exchange of captives. So note, he equates a terrorist mastermind in Abu Warda, guy with, what, 24 death sentences, imprisoned for over two decades, for a string of terrorist attacks. He equates that to a nine-month-old as the same thing. Captives.

[00:30:18] See, they're both captives. They're all, they're all just prisoners of war or something, right? Not that the infant was kidnapped, right? So you gotta, you gotta make that disconnection in the brain, right? This is why, and what did I say earlier? Every single argument that comes from these apologists like Jabril, these are, what about-ism? It's all meant to deflect away from the atrocities that they are okay with.

[00:30:47] They're okay with these atrocities. They're okay with kidnapping. Nowhere in this email will you hear anything about the barbarity of what was done to those kids. The strangulation of a four-year-old and a nine-month-old. And then, the desecration of the bodies to make them look like they were somehow blown up in a, in an airstrike, which supposedly occurred over a year ago, which didn't. He says,

[00:31:16] say what you want about who's a terrorist. I will, Jabril, thank you. I think the terrorists are pretty clearly identified by their refusal to wear uniforms and to also target civilian populations for, you know, for the, for the October 7th attack. He says, but there's a vast difference between, get this, here we go, vast difference between Israel returning captives looking like Holocaust survivors

[00:31:44] and Hamas returning captives with goodie bags and kisses to the forehead. There's the sire. Right? Do you think that, that prisoner, that hostage, do you think that, first off, that they didn't lose any weight? Every single hostage that has been released are, they're like emaciated. The two that they just released, they've been held for a decade and they were both mentally ill, by the way, and they are emaciated. That's why they walked into Gaza. But, they've all lost,

[00:32:13] they've all lost a ton of weight. But in Jabril's mind, or at least he wants us to believe that all the Hamas hostages, they were all kept fat and happy. Despite the personal accounts of the people that have been released that have told you otherwise. I'm sure Jabril won't believe any of that. They're just lying. Right? And look, they got goodie bags. They got parting gifts. Right? Would, would terrorists do that? Really?

[00:32:44] And by the way, do you know who some of the worst offenders inside the Israeli prison, you know, who some of those are? They're, yeah, they're the, the Palestinian terrorist groups that are inside the prisons. They do a whole bunch, they do a lot of murdering. They do a lot of torturing of their own people. But to Hamas, it's just about the, or to Jabril, it's just about the Jews. And so, look at this. We gave them a parade and goodie bags and he kisses the guy. Yeah, because the camera guy told him,

[00:33:13] at the point of a gun, kisses head. They're playing along, Jabril. Don't gaslight me. Do not piss on my boot and tell me it's raining. I'm too bright for your gaslighting, shall we say. He then goes on to say in this email, your neglect of reporting what the Palestinians face and endure, the true Zionist terrorism they face, speaks volumes. Right? You're the one defending, kidnapping,

[00:33:43] and strangling nine-month-olds. You're the one doing that, Jabril. You do not occupy a morally superior position. You do not. You are defending a murderous death cult. May God have mercy on your soul. All right, that'll do it for this episode. Thank you so much for listening. I could not do the show without your support and the support of the businesses that advertise on the podcast. So if you'd like, please support them too and tell them you heard it here.

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