The three young Israeli women, the hostages who are the first to have been freed in this new ceasefire, were driven through a frenzied mob of Palestinians, then escorted out of the vehicle — where they had been instructed to smile for the cameras or things would go hard with them, and to hold up the “gift bags” given to them, grotesque souvenirs, with retouched photographs of them in captivity and a map of Gaza. This was intended to show the world how kind those Hamas gun-toting allah-akbaring men had been, as the young women — still with chanting gun-toting allahu-akbaring Hamas operatives on every side of them — were transferred to Red Cross ambulances and driven back to civilization. And now Melanie Phillips has set down the thoughts provoked by that spectacle. “An obscene spectacle,” by Melanie Phillips, January 19, 2025:
To all those in the west who have perpetrated the lie of Israeli genocide in Gaza for the past 15 months: look at the pictures of the mob surrounding the three Israel women hostages who were freed today, and see thousands of Gazans who are well-fed, well-groomed and well-dressed.
What do you have to say now about the murderous libel you have perpetrated against the Israeli victims of these people, the lie that the Israelis were deliberately starving them, that they were the victims of Israeli-induced famine, that the Jews were behaving like Nazis? Do you have a scintilla of shame or regret about what you have done in spreading this foul incitement? Do you even understand what you saw today? Or are you too busy cheering on instead the pictures of those “pro-Palestinian” hate-marchers in London yesterday, dozens of whom were arrested by the police because they were absolutely determined to harass and terrorise British Jews at their synagogue Sabbath services nearby?…
Look at the thousands who have emerged in Hamas uniform and armed to the teeth, vowing to carry out more and more October 7 massacres until every Jew is dead and Israel is destroyed — Hamas murder squads loudly declaring that they will use the ceasefire to regroup, rearm and attack Israel; and then listen to the politicians hailing this development as the beginning of peace.
Look with breaking heart at the poignant joy and indescribable relief from suffering of the families reunited with their newly freed girls — how can this be anything other than a source not just of joy but also shuddering horror at what they have endured and at who knows what scars they will bear for the rest of their lives; and a source also of the most profound agony over the vast majority of the Israeli captives, both alive and dead, who remain incarcerated as pawns of these Palestinian Arab psychopaths, and who will now be used to eke out further unbearable distress among the hostages and their families, and to extort and manipulate the Israelis into ensuring that Hamas survive, regroup and resume the business of genocide….
The sickening manner in which Hamas managed right to the end to exploit the hostages, forcing them to smile at their captors and lift up their ludicrous “gift bags” so that the farce of their being well-treated might be believed by the endlessly gullible; the sight of thousands of well-fed Hamas operatives in Gaza, whose inhabitants have for months supposedly been on the brink of starvation; the calls by those hundreds of Hamas men who surrounded the girls as they were being handed off to the Red Cross, calling for the mass murder of Jews in the chant of “Khaybar, Khaybar, ya yahud! Jaish Muhammad soufa yaʿoud.” (Khaybar, Khaybar, the army of Muhammad will return,” and slaughter you.) None of that should be forgotten. But in a world that has been brainwashed to hate the state and people of Israel, how likely is that?
Walter Sieruk says
It’s very good news that those young Israeli women who had been ruthlessly kidnapped by the jihadists of Hamas have been freed. Nevertheless, Hamas should pay compensation for the severe suffering and wicked abuse they, had to endure while in captivity, that inflected on them by the cruel jihadists of Hamas. Likewise, those jihadists of Hamas who had deliberately and directly inflected torture on them Those Muslim terrorists should be punished for their savage cruelty that they brutally and maliciously horrendously committed against those poor defenseless helpless women .For those Hamas jihad should not be allowed to go free with impunity.
Walter Sieruk says
Not only did Hamas start the current war when is viciously and murderously attacked the peaceful people at that music festival on October 7th 2023. The jihadists of Hamas will continue in future Islamic deadly terrorist jihad attacks because it’s instructed in the Qur’an 2:191. 4:89. 5:33. 9:5,111,123. 47:4 The Muslim terrorists of Hamas in their Islamic wickedness of have no limits.
somehistory says
There are two sides….good and evil. On the side of good is Truth. On the side of evil….lie after lie.
And every human must choose which side he prefers. Sadly, there are more humans choosing the side of evil with its lies than are choosing good and Truth.
Jesus said this would be the case.
Matthew 7
And we can see the Truth of His words in scenes such as this, and with the clamor to fight for the ghouls who harassed these three young women.
Eva says
Melanie Phillips, I have to ask, why are you perpetuating and legitimising the lie by calling them ‘palestinians’?
You know better than most that ‘palestine’ has never existed.
If people like you use names like ‘palestinians’ and ‘the west bank’, etc, how are we ever going to make those who dont know understand the truth?
Taffy says
Excellent point! The “Palestinians” are Ishmaelites, the descendants of Ishmael, the son of Hagar, who was an Egyptian maidservant of Sarah, Abraham’s wife. The Bible (Genesis 16:12 describes Ishmael as follows; “He will be a wild donkey of a man; his hand will be against everyone and everyone’s hand against him, and he will live in hostility toward all his brothers.” That about sums up these Arabs.
somehistory says
Just watched a video of the handover on the bbc….the reporter tried to make it seem as if the crowd was not that large, the numbers of hamas, not that many.
Some people have no conscience.
James Lincoln says
somehistory,
Not only the BBC, but essentially all of the mainstream / legacy media.
If they say a truth that is supportive of the conservative point of view, it is accidental.
somehistory says
Yes, James. the reporter could see the mob around the girls, yelling, grabbing, taunting…but he wanted so badly to make it seem less of a crowd by expanding the view to show there were places where the mob was thinned out and empty spots in the street.
And saying there were estimated to be *only* about 2500 there. Can one imagine that many people yelling, grabbing, etc. and it’s not unpleasant? And those young women had already been through h e double hockey sticks.
Tony says
Like a Foreign Terrorist Organization(FTO) , Islam is a MUSLIM TERRORIST ORGANIZATION against all Non-Muslims as taught in the Quran(Quran 8:12; 9:29, 111; 49:15 and more). More specifically, Islam is a Muslim Terrorist Ideology and Criminal Organization of discrimination, segregation, supremacy, genocide, polygamy, deceit, hatred, incitement, sedition, rape, terrorism, and violence against all Non-Muslims as taught in the Quran. Fundamentally, Islam is a Terrorist Criminal Enterprise. The FRUIT of Islam is WAR, terrorism, discrimination, and violence against all Non-Muslims; this FACT must be taught and broadcast to the general public to prohibit Islam, its Mosques, and its Schools. Also, Islam is an Antichrist System terrorizing all Christians and Non-Muslims. Plus, there is NO EQUALITY UNDER THE LAW in Islam or in Islamic Law.
Eddie says
When I saw that video of those crazy unhinged gun toting bastards pushing those frightened girls I was sickened but not surprised.
I would like to stick a photo of them under the nose of the stupid Free Palestine grannies who chant their way along the streets of British towns and say ‘ Do you identify with these deranged murderous and volatile arseholes? Would you want them living next door to you ? “
James Lincoln says
Your point is well taken, Eddie.
Joe Scott says
Savage cowards…