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Israeli-American Hostage Murdered by Hamas as IDF Rescue Team Closed In
PJ Media ^ | 1 Sep 2024 | Rick Moran

Posted on 09/01/2024 8:17:36 AM PDT by Rummyfan

The body of Israeli-American Hersh Goldberg-Polin has been found in the tunnels under Rafah. Hamas had abducted the 23-year-old dual citizen on October 7 from the Nova music festival and an IDF rescue operation was closing in on his position when Hamas murdered him along with 5 other hostages.

There are no words to describe the inhumanity of the act. For the six hostages to have survived almost a year in the most unspeakably brutal conditions only to have their captors cruelly murder them when they were on the brink of being rescued demonstrates the heartlessness and cruelty of human beings without conscience, without a spark of human decency.

Goldberg-Polin's parents had traveled the world, looking to put pressure on Netanyahu to come to an agreement with Hamas and bring the hostages home. The couple gave an emotionally wrenching speech at the Democratic National Convention last week.

“This is a political convention. But needing our only son — and all of the cherished hostages — home is not a political issue. It is a humanitarian issue,” said his father, Jon Polin. His mother, Rachel added very quietly, “Hersh, if you can hear us, we love you, stay strong, survive."

Joe Biden took a moment away from working on his suntan to make a statement.

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John Podhoretz writes, “And I cannot help but ask. I cannot. Had the Biden administration’s will not been bent and twisted in the months following the attack by the fiendish propaganda campaign causing them to worry about the war’s effect on Joe’s chances in Michigan—due to a population that effectively supported the terrorist monsters and cared not a whit for the eight Americans, let alone the 240 other innocents dragged into Hell—would Hersh and these others have survived? Imagine an Israel that had not found itself restrained and under assault, not told to pause, not scolded in pissy little phone calls with petulant American establishmentarians, without arms and aid held up, without being lectured about the geostrategic value of going slow or not going at all.”
1 posted on 09/01/2024 8:17:36 AM PDT by Rummyfan
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To: Rummyfan

Prayers that the narrative over all this doesn’t get muddled and twisted and distorted into oblivion by the Harris/Walz camp during the debate on Sep 10th. President Trump needs to make crystal clear why his approach to the Middle East would have not left the door open for an October 7th to occur, and now that it so tragically and irreversibly has: how he would have handled and continue to address the catastrophe differently.


2 posted on 09/01/2024 8:20:47 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: Rummyfan

The Useful Idiot Lib Dem parents spoke at the Jew Hating Harris convention .

You reap what you sow .


3 posted on 09/01/2024 8:21:48 AM PDT by ncalburt ( Gop DC Globalists are the evil)
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To: Rummyfan

Shhh Joes sleeping.


4 posted on 09/01/2024 8:57:48 AM PDT by The Louiswu (Pray for Peace in the world.)
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To: The Louiswu

Nay… you should know by now that everything that happens is orange man’s fault!


5 posted on 09/01/2024 9:48:14 AM PDT by RoseofTexas
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To: Rummyfan

Can the killers be tried in American courts for murder and be put to death?


6 posted on 09/01/2024 10:14:17 AM PDT by Brian Griffin ("Why didn’t she do it three and a half years ago?”)
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To: RoseofTexas

Quote:” This is a political convention. But needing our only son — and all of the cherished hostages — home is not a political issue. It is a humanitarian issue,” said his father, Jon Polin. His mother, Rachel added very quietly, “Hersh, if you can hear us, we love you, stay strong, survive.”

So, they are appearing at a political convnetion, in an appearance that is scheduled to pressure Israel and thus appease the very protestors outside the convention that want Israel destroyed and, really, every Jew killed. From the river to the sea means what it sounds like.

Oh well, I suppose that they had to obey that lefty programming.


7 posted on 09/01/2024 10:14:31 AM PDT by FlipWilson
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To: Rummyfan

This Death of a US Citizen is due to Joe Biden and Kamala Harris vile policies.

It will happen to others held hostage unless Hamas is swiftly eradicated.


8 posted on 09/01/2024 10:26:33 AM PDT by FlyingEagle
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To: Brian Griffin

“Can the killers be tried in American courts for murder and be put to death?”

That would be a political nightmare. Can you imagine a Democrat asking to extradite one of those poor, downtrodden Palestinians who are only protecting themselves from aggression so that person can be convicted of a crime and sentenced to die? How would the Jew hating majority of Democrats react? That would be a bit like the first president Roosevelt sending in the Marines to get some white woman out of jail in a little foreign country.


9 posted on 09/01/2024 10:40:52 AM PDT by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud? )
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To: Rummyfan

If they are killing hostages this way, it would be better to nuke Gaza and give a merciful end to all of them.


10 posted on 09/01/2024 10:43:54 AM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism. )
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To: Rummyfan

May his memory be eternal!

And may Israel obliterate Hamas!


11 posted on 09/01/2024 11:11:04 AM PDT by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: FlyingEagle

Yes


12 posted on 09/01/2024 11:32:15 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Trump will be sworn in under a shower of confetti made from the tattered remains of the Rat Party.)
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To: Rummyfan

I’m back in Israel at Hatzerim Air Base, going to sleep to the dulcet tones of the IAF bombs going off in gaza, about 20 miles West.

I will sleep well, wake up refreshed, and build lunches for the IDF riflemen in gaza.

Kill those m’f’ers!


13 posted on 09/01/2024 11:45:09 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie ("Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?" And I said, "Here I am! Send me." )
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To: Rummyfan

Why are they putting pressure on the person who DOESN’T have the hostages?


14 posted on 09/01/2024 11:48:50 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants ("Gays for Gaza is like Chickens for KFC"- B. Netanyahu )
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Chomo Biden doesn’t care. His administration supports these demons. This breaks my heart. All of them murdered. Young beautiful kids slaughtered by the Islamic filth the democrats support and are bringing in by the boatload. All for Minnesotta.


15 posted on 09/01/2024 11:52:14 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: Uncle Miltie

Only folks that have experienced the low rumble of high explosives raining down on the enemy can appreciate the secure feeling you describe. It’s kind of like going to sleep while listening to your favorite classical music and at the same time being assured that there will be a whole lot less of the enemy in the morning. It’s just very calming.


16 posted on 09/01/2024 12:10:18 PM PDT by Raven6 (Psalm 144:1 and Proverbs 22:3)
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To: Rummyfan

Hamas guilty again of war crimes, of genocide, torture and murder of innocents. Why no outcry by Joe Biden and Kamala Harris against evil Palestinians!


17 posted on 09/01/2024 12:24:21 PM PDT by roadcat ( )
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To: Rummyfan

Netanyahu should level Rafah.


18 posted on 09/01/2024 1:55:22 PM PDT by Rappini ("No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in it's preservation" MacArthr)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

I’m sure the idiots on college campuses supporting the Palestine “freedom” protests will pooh-pooh this as happening and pass it off as Israeli propaganda.


19 posted on 09/01/2024 2:21:32 PM PDT by antidemoncrat
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...

20 posted on 09/01/2024 4:12:15 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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