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Former Hostage Shlomi Ziv Speaks Out: “I Was Held Captive by a Hamas Member Posing as a Journalist”. A former Israeli hostage criticized Al Jazeera for defending a Hamas operative posing as a journalist, revealing his captor’s similar deception. The IDF exposed the operative’s role in coordinating attacks, raising concerns about media outlets employing terror supporters. Shlomi Ziv, a former Israeli hostage freed from Gaza in February 2025, publicly condemned Al Jazeera on X for defending Anas Al-Sharif, a Hamas operative killed in an Israeli airstrike on August 10. Ziv, who was abducted during the October 7, 2023, Nova music...

This was originally written and posted on 9/16/01. But it went out in this past 10/4/04 newsletter. Don't know if that means anything. America, We Feel your Pain, Do you Feel Ours? By Ramzy Baroud Posted: 28 Jamad-u-Thani 1422, 16 September 2001 A six year old Palestinian girl kneeled and nervously, yet gently laid a flower to join hundreds of other flowers, banners and candles in a small vigil held in Jerusalem to commemorate the death of thousands of Americans in New York, Pennsylvania and Washington. The little girl rushed back, bashful, and held on her mother's hand and both...