Tom Gross is a journalist who is covering the Israel/Hamas war with sympathy toward Israel. He’s given me permission to reproduce his private newsletter on this site, so here it is (his words are indented, and I’ve embedded the videos instead of giving their URLs.
ART STUDENT FROM HAIFA CONFIRMED MURDERED BY HAMAS
Above: Inbar Haiman, a 27-year-old Israeli art student from Haifa, was abducted from the music festival in southern Israel on Oct. 7, where she was working, brutally abused in Gaza, and then murdered by Hamas.
Israeli intelligence yesterday confirmed (on the basis of interviews with Hamas members who surrendered) that Inbar was murdered in Gaza in recent weeks.
Her parents as well as her boyfriend Noam, had already been sent a video in October posted by Hamas on Telegram, showing Inbar looking bloody and beaten, surrounded by four men.
Her boyfriend spoke to the British newspaper The Observer about her plight on October 21.
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One of the reasons the previous pause in fighting — which allowed for some Israeli children and women hostages to be released in return for some Palestinian convicts and terrorists — collapsed two weeks ago, is that Hamas reneged on its agreement to release young female hostages.
This is reportedly because Hamas don’t want more Israeli victims of rape to be able to speak out upon their release.
In last Thursday’s dispatch I wrote of another beautiful Israeli 27-year-old woman (Eden Zacharia), who had also been murdered in captivity after being horrifically abused. Several other hostages have been murdered. A number of young females remain captive in Gaza including Naama Levy, 19, and Karina Ariev, also 19.
(Please also see the third video below: “Israeli women say ‘where are you?’”)
VIDEOS
The videos below are important and I would strongly suggest you try and watch at least the first three of these videos if you can.
Former CNN anchor Chris Cuomo: People need to truly understand Hamas’ existential threat
Israel shoots down Hamas rocket hurtling toward al-Aqsa & the Western Wall, thereby preventing possible WW3 – Worshippers run for cover as sirens blare
(Please also read the captions at the end of this video.)
Israeli women say “where are you?”
*British imam conspiracy theorist cites Guardian columnist Owen Jones while casting doubt on 7/10
See also: Egyptian journalist criticizes attempts by Owen Jones to cast doubt on the mass rape and mutilation of October 7:
*Working-class Latinos in LA who actually have jobs to get to, clear freeway of anti-Israel activists [JAC: I’m not sure that manhandling people protesting like this is legal.]
*You may also well want to watch Friday evening’s monologue from Bill Maher. [JAC: I’ve already shown this.]
The Maher had me in stitches, which for depressed me was deeply appreciated, and it was the first time I’ve seen him (I didn’t think I’d like night time talk hosts). Humor comes to the rescue and tempered my thinking on an oftentime minimized plea for coping instead of over relying on activism or the gun. The video makes a great point that the Jews were already kicked out of every Middle Eastern country. My views shift sometimes by the hour and by the emotion, which is why I hesitate to post here. I think science shows I’m fairly normal in that? How do we achieve balance and truth the way we’re wired (thank humans for science)
Chris Cuomo has done some good interviews of the Hamas war on NewsNation. I’ve stopped watching CNN, as several of their commentators seem to be looking for every excuse to denigrate Israel. I don’t know about Anderson Cooper or Wolf Blitzer, as they are not on at Prime Time here.
Yes, Maher’s commentary was excellent—funny and biting.
I suppose that such pushing of protesters is illegal if done by citizens rather than the police, but where is the police? Why don’t they do their duty?