Former IDF spokeswoman: Israel must tell the truth about what happened to the hostages

December 7, 2023 — Israel National News reports: “Lt. Col. Avital Leibovich, director of the American Jewish Committee (AJC) Israel and the former international spokesperson for the IDF, spoke with Arutz Sheva – Israel National News about the public relations effort surrounding the war in Gaza.

‘We are fighting a media war as well as a war in Gaza. No war is pretty. Israel must tell the truth about what happened to the hostages that we have been able to recover alive. I know that it is difficult, and I know the trauma that these hostages went through, but it is important that the world look in their eyes and understand that Hamas is ISIS,’ she said.

‘Israel has testimonies on every single atrocity committed by Hamas. Those who want to listen and believe can do so, and those who do not want to believe we should not waste time on.’…”  (Nolan Finley, Editorial page editor for The Detroit News tells of watching “Bearing Witness to the October 7^th Massacre” that was shown by the Simon Wiesenthal Center and the Israeli Consulate to the Midwest.  The majority of the film was compiled from the cell phones and body cameras of the Hamas terrorists as they carried out this massacre.  He states: What we saw Sunday night was excruciating to watch, harder still to discuss. When it was over most of us walked to our cars barely speaking.

Imagine watching the most gruesome horror flick, without the benefit of knowing the gore on screen is make-believe. In this movie, the blood is real. The bodies are real. The evil is real…

More sickening for me than the gruesome images is the absolute joy with which the killers went about their sadistic work. I expected to see angry, frothing mad men. Instead, these killers are happy. They looked like gleeful young men celebrating a soccer win…

And this, I’m told, is the PG version. It doesn’t depict the mass rapes and mutilation of babies that was reported, but nothing in video suggests such depravity is beyond the pall for the marauders…

I wondered going into the screening what emotions I’d feel coming out. Revulsion? Heartache? Grief?

All of that. But mostly rage, an absolute red-hot anger that there are people in this world capable of such evil and others who would excuse their wickedness.

Mass sexual assault of women in public has been documented in Islam for years.  On February 11, 2011, former CBS News correspondent Lara Logan was reporting in Egypt about the celebrations following the resignation of Hosni Mubarak when she was attacked by a group of 200 – 300 men, several of whom gang raped her for nearly one half hour.  Her only offense – not having her head covered.  In an article Dr. Van Impe has cited before, Dawn Perlmutter said: “From a Western perspective this was a crazed mob out of control.  For a shame culture this was an acceptable punishment for a woman who was not properly covered.  They pulled her blonde hair out and more than likely kept it as souvenirs.” 

Here is what our God states: Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God — I Corinthians 6:9, 10.  See the next report.)

Kirby: safe to assume Hamas is still weaponizing sexual violence

December 7, 2023 — The Jerusalem Post reports: “United States National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby indicated that Hamas held Israeli hostages could be victims of sexual abuse when speaking with reporters in Washington on Wednesday.

‘It is a sick truth of this particular group that they use sexual violence as a weapon and a tool,’ he said in repose to a question about the 138 hostages still held in Gaza, including 20 women and children.

‘Sadly I think it’s safe to assume that they are still using sexual violence as a weapon, but I can’t speak to specific instances,’ he said.

The Associated Press reported that a doctor who treated some of the 105 hostages released last week told its news organization that ‘at least 10 men and women among those freed were sexually assaulted or abused.’…”