Posted on 07/25/2024 5:34:05 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
Families of hostages held captive in Gaza condemned Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to the United States Congress, as pressure grows on the Israeli prime minister to agree to a deal to secure their release.
“The speech and applause won’t erase the one sad fact: The words ‘Deal Now!’ were absent from the prime minister’s address,” The Hostage and Missing Families Forum in Israel said in a statement..
The Hostages and Missing Families Forum has become a potent political force in Israel since some 250 people were abducted by Hamas on October 7, and the square a regular site of protests demanding that the hostages be brought home.......
During his nearly 52-minute address, Netanyahu lashed out against critics of Israel’s war in Gaza but did not mention the status of the ceasefire negotiations, despite intense international pressure to find a deal and growing optimism that one could soon be struck......
Despite the warm reception by lawmakers in Congress, about 80 House Democrats skipped Netanyahu’s speech, including US Vice President Kamala Harris, who instead attended a pre-scheduled trip to a sorority event in Indiana. President Joe Biden and Harris are scheduled to meet with Netanyahu at the White House Thursday.
Also among the absentees was former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who later blasted Netanyahu’s speech as “by far the worst presentation of any foreign dignitary invited and honored with the privilege of addressing the Congress of the United States.”
“Many of us who love Israel spent time today listening to Israeli citizens whose families have suffered in the wake of the October 7th Hamas terror attack and kidnappings. These families are asking for a ceasefire deal that will bring the hostages home – and we hope the Prime Minister would spend his time achieving that goal,” she said in a statement.
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
What has the families of the hostages said to Biden, CNN? Or are you just trying to slam Bibi?
” policy of no negotiation for hostages, they were assumed dead”
In the long run this is the best policy, less hostages and less deaths. Unfortunately, the media and political opponents use it against the incumbents as cruel.
One can feel and understand the families of the Hostages.
But BiBi has a duty to ALL Israel Citizens.
The families need to start a GoFundMe page to raise money to give to the terrorists and go buy their hostage family member back if that’s what they want to do.
Hostage & Missing Families Forum = Super Left Jews who are not letting a crisis go to waste and are exploiting the situation. I am sure it is a minority of all the families of hostages. Disgusting that they are using this to push an agenda that makes it more likely that more hostages will be taken in the future.
The Hannibal Directive aims to avoid that tedious situation of negotiating for innocent civilians. It’s much more efficient to shoot innocent Israelis and IDF personnel in the back to ensure hostages don’t gum up the works in the precise way they are doing today.
I believe protesting members of hostage families were arrested yesterday. Nasty business.
“Unfortunately, the media and political opponents use it against the incumbents as cruel.”
Policy X could be the best policy in the world and guaranteed to produce good results. Regardless the media and political opponents will vilify it. The media because controversy sells product and the opponents because...they’re opponents. They want to be the ones in power so those in power are therefore doing the wrong thing.
One lady speaking for one family is mentioned in the article. The rest are politicians, including Bibi’s opponent. CNN is trash.
Blame the fact that Hamas has hostages, if alive, on Hamas and Hamas only. What we should be doing is ramping up the effort to eliminate Hamas, then recover the bodies of the remaining hostages..
Missing Families Forum Is a leftist funded pro muzzi smear group. Same types want a two state solution. Believing all the utopian leftist lies about equal cultures etc.
Hamas still supposedly has 8 American hostages and CNN/MSM and the Biden administration never talk about them.
And both CNN viewers watched. No one gives a slimy Obama about CNN. No one.
US Media completely ignores the 8 American hostages in captivity, along with our incumbent administration . Where are those families being given media time to criticize Biden/Harris?
“Families of hostages held captive in Gaza condemned Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech...”
Which families? What percentage of the families are doing this? What are their political leanings? Left, maybe?
Are they the kind of people that want to give up and give in to the Muzzies? What happens when they do it again? What will their response be? More give up and give in?
You can’t eliminate Hamas since they have 99% of the Gazans backing them. Their whole reason for being and living is to destroy Jews because they are indoctrinated with that from the time they are babies.
There are only two solutions for them. Either move them all to Jordan (the original Palestinian homeland where 80% of them have family) or unalive them all. The only time you ever get respect from them is if you put a sword at their necks or a firearm to their heads or a bomb through the wind w of their residence. If Israel does none of the above this will drag on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on...
I'm good with that, make the Gaza strip part of Israel.
The Muzzies in India wanted their own homeland in India so the Indian government gave them Pakistan and many of them moved there. The only problem is that the ones still in India are still doing their acts of jihad against the Indian people. They’ve slaughtered 70 million Indians so far.
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