By Ben Wolfgang – The Washington Times – Sunday, September 1, 2024

My cmnt: The damn, democrat, Leftists are the same everywhere. Their anger is boiling over – Yeah it should, but NOT at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Let’s review the facts. Murderous, Hamas, terrorist bastards – entirely unprovoked (except for the fact that Israel exists and that is simply intolerable to these muslim, goat herding miscreants, who create nothing and destroy everything in their insane attempt to install a universal caliphate cult to rule the world) launch a surprise attack on unarmed Israeli citizens gathered at a music festival. They murder 1200 of them, take several hundred hostages, rape and torture the women and female children, burn people alive and behead babies.

My cmnt: And just like the childish morons of BLM and Antifa who worship sex and nature and live in a protected fantasy world in their heads – these people feel guilty about living on “stolen” lands and so blame Israel for all the hatred poured out against her daily. This is so utterly stupid. Leave Israel, give your house and money to a Palestinian, and convert to Islam and go live somewhere where the land is pure and only inhabited by the same, original people for the past 10,000 years (i.e., Never Land). These are the descendants of the European appeasers of Hitler and Stalin who could not get it thru their thick heads that certain ideologies want to wipe them off the face of the earth NOT get along with them.

Anger in Israel boiled over Sunday after the nation’s military said it recovered the bodies of six Hamas hostages, including a young Israeli American man. Meanwhile, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu apologized to the hostages’ families as protests decrying his leadership erupted across the country.

Demonstrations in Tel Aviv and other cities broke out just hours after the Israel Defense Forces said it found the six hostages in a tunnel in Rafah, in the southern portion of the Gaza Strip. The IDF said the six, including Israeli American Hersh Goldberg-Polin, 23, were killed shortly before Israeli forces arrived.

Nationwide labor strikes on Monday are expected to shut down much of the Israeli economy.

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The IDF announcement represented a gut punch to an Israeli public desperate for the safe return of the remaining hostages. Hamas has been holding the hostages for nearly 11 months after abducting them during a bloody rampage in Israel on Oct. 7. The Palestinian terrorist group also killed more than 1,200 Israelis.

The U.S. and other third-party mediators have been working extensively with Israel and Hamas over the past several weeks to secure a cease-fire deal in Gaza in exchange for the release of the hostages.

President Biden and other world leaders condemned Hamas’ killings of the hostages, but deep anger and frustration with Mr. Netanyahu neared a fever pitch as Israeli officials and vast segments of the public turned fire on their government.

Jonathan Dekel-Chen, the father of Israeli American hostage Sagui Dekel-Chen, told CBS’s “Face the Nation” program on Sunday that he thinks Mr. Netanyahu’s top priority is to remain in power.

“I don’t think it’s just my opinion alone. I think the vast majority of Israelis now have come to believe, by his actions, not his words, but by his actions, that he’s been driven primarily by a desire to retain power with a narrow, very radical messianic coalition in the Israeli government,” Mr. Dekel-Chen said.

Mr. Netanyahu disputes that characterization and insists he is doing everything possible to bring the hostages home.

Still, the deep anger and mistrust of the government extend well beyond the families of hostages.

“Eden, Carmel, Hersh, Ori, Almog and Alex should have been at home by now. Alive. The Israeli government abandoned them, but the State of Israel is us,” Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai posted on X, referring to the six dead hostages by their first names.

Mr. Huldai said his city would join the massive general strike on Monday.

“As a sign of solidarity with the abductees and their families, the municipality of Tel Aviv-Jaffa joins the strike,” he posted on X, according to English-language translations. “Tomorrow, starting in the morning until noon, there will be no public reception and we will allow all female and male employees to go out and support the families’ struggle. Take to the streets.”

The Israeli army identified the other hostages killed as Ori Danino, 25; Eden Yerushalmi, 24; Almog Sarusi, 27; and Alexander Lobanov, 33. Hamas abducted them and Mr. Goldberg-Polin from an Israeli music festival on Oct. 7. Carmel Gat, 40, was abducted from the nearby farming community of Be’eri.