Posted on 06/05/2025 4:50:51 AM PDT by V_TWIN
The bodies of two elderly US-Israeli hostages who had deep ties to New York and were abducted by Hamas during the Oct. 7, 2023, attack have been recovered over a year after they were confirmed to have been killed in captivity.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the remains of Judi Weinstein, 70, and Gadi Haggai, 73, were recovered during a “special operation” conducted by Israel’s internal security agency, Shin Bet, and Israeli troops in the Gaza Strip.
“Together with all the citizens of Israel, my wife and I extend our heartfelt condolences to the dear families. Our hearts ache for the most terrible loss. May their memory be blessed,” Netanyahu announced on X Thursday.
“Their return reminds us all that it is the state’s duty to bring everyone home, so that we, the families, together with all the people of Israel, can begin the process of healing and recovery,” the Weinstein and Haggai families said in a statement through the Hostages and Missing Persons Families Forum.
The families pleaded with “decision-makers” to do “everything necessary to reach an agreement that will return all 56 remaining hostages — the living for rehabilitation and the murdered for burial.”
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I can remember when Israel did not worry about the hostages and would annihilate any one or group who took an Israeli as a hostage. Now, apologies are offered by Israeli leaders after finding hostages dead and the hostage takers are still breathing.
Certainly we do not need to follow the money now, do we?
It used to be no negotiations with terrorists. But the politics changed that. If you are implying there are bribes, then I don’t understand how that would work. The real reason is that politics has impaired this country, just like in the US. We must learn to be unified against our enemies.
Remember when “all hell would break loose”? Whatever happened to that?
President Trump has failed completely to secure the release of hostages.
When he can’t make a deal, he just gives up.
I can remember reading in the book of Joshua how they annihilated every single man, woman and child among their enemies, at the orders of Almighty God. Now they wince at the death of “children” in Gaza, who are just terrorists-in-training.
She was killed during the attack, and the ferals stole the body. He was killed within three days. At least they were not starved and tortured endlessly before perishing.
When he can’t make a deal, he just gives up.
There are no magic bullets.
Israel should bulldoze that entire place into the Mediterranean................FROM THE BORDER TO THE SEA.............
Agreed....enough pussyfooting around
Hamas savages.
Did you vote for Kommie?
What do you think he should have done differently?
Not true.
There is no negotiating with Hamas and they are never going to do anything more than trickle the hostages out a few at a time because as soon as all the hostages are returned, Hamas will cease to exist
Hamas is a criminal organizations and even Qatar is fed up with Hamas and has removed itself from mediating negotiations.
Hamas as an organized force is slowly getting boxed in by Israel but even the, most of the Hostages are in tunnels where any rescue attempts will result in their deaths.
Israel has offered a multi million dollar reward and safe relocation for any Gazan who returns a hostage and not one Gazan has taken Israel up on the offer.
So the only realistic Israeli option is to locate any of the living hostages, how many of which are still alive we have no real idea, and then try a rescue attempt that is probably going to result in the hostage's death and death of a lot of soldiers in the rescue operation.
President Trump has green lighted Israel to do whatever it takes to rescue the hostages without any Biden era restrictions or obstruction.
They looked like Democrats.
“”Now, apologies are offered by Israeli leaders””
Can you point me to the apologies?
They do, but looks can be deceiving.
They were from a kibbutz, which are often pretty hippy-dippy and liberal bordering on small-scale communist, although most have turned to capitalism due to free rider problems.
Not sure how they’d fit into American politics. They support small arms (generally), work hard (generally), some are religious, some not. Very much for “the common man.”
Probably be libertarians. Or Alice Cooper Republicans.
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