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Protect your online privacy today at ExpressVPN.com slash Ben. There's a famous comic from 2014 during the last major war between Israel and Hamas. It was done by cartoonist A.F. Branco. And it depicts then-Secretary of state, John Kerry, sitting between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and a member of Hamas. The Hamas terrorist has a baby strapped to him with dynamite. And he's holding a paper reading demands. death to all Jews.

Carrie is out. and a member of Hamas. The Hamas terrorist has a baby strapped to him with dynamite,

and he's holding a paper reading demands, death to all Jews. Carrie is asking Netanyahu,

could you at least meet him halfway? The more things change, the more they stay the same.

This weekend, Representative Pamela Gaiapal, chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus,

appeared on CNN, where she was asked about why there hasn't been more international outrage over Hamas' systematic rape of Israeli women. The accounts of Hamas rapes have been legion. Over the weekend, 39-year-old Yoni Sadon told the UK's Sunday Times that he saw at the Nova Festival a beautiful woman, quote, an eight or ten of fighters beating and raping her. She was screaming, stop it already. I'm going to die anyway from what you are doing. Just kill me. When they finished, said Ceyron, they were laughing. The last one shot her in the head.

Here was Jaya Paul's response. Rape is horrific. Sexual assault is horrific. I think that it happens

in war situations. Terrorist organizations like Hamas obviously are using these as tools. However, I think we have to be balanced about bringing in the

outrages against Palestinians. 15,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli airstrikes, three quarters of whom are women and children.

And it's horrible, but you don't see Israeli soldiers raping.

Well, Dana, I think we're not, we're not, I don't want this to be the hierarchy of oppressions.

That is hysterical. For the first time, Primal Gaiapal now opp a hierarchy of oppression. Balance, you see, is the key. Balance in all things. Never mind, the new reports emerging from hostages about just what they experienced in Gaza at the hands of Hamas. According to the Daily Mail, quote, for weeks, they were starved, beaten, drug branded, and made to watch footage of Hamas terrorists invading their homeland with weapons pointed to their heads until the moment was right for the terror group. One hostage was operated on by a

veterinarian. Many of the hostages were kept with supposed civilians in the Gaza Strip, giving the lie to

the hard and fast distinction between Gaza's Hamas members and the civilian population.

But still, why can't the Israelis meet their Jew-hating terrorist enemies halfway?

Increasingly, this seems to be the logic of the Biden White House. Although to be clear, they

aren't actually asking Israel to meet the Palestinians halfway. They're actually asking them to meet

them about 80% of the way. As Israel's offensive against Hamas renews in southern Gaza, the White

House has now ratcheted up its absurd and

continuous demands for Israel to do a, quote, better job protecting civilians. As though Israel is

in the business of murdering civilians the same way Hamas is, or as though Israel isn't

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