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Richard D

(9,574 posts)
Mon Feb 3, 2025, 01:53 PM Feb 3

(Jewish Group) Report: Trump will watch documentary of Hamas Oct. 7 atrocities before meeting Netanyahu tomorrow

I realize that this may be controversial. It will be interesting to see what comes from it, though. No one who has seen this video has not been permanently changed. I saw some clips from it at the Oct 7 exhibit in Los Angeles. The easy stuff to watch without any gore, torture, rapes, and decapitations. What I saw still haunts me.

US President Donald Trump will watch a documentary of Hamas October 7 atrocities before meeting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, says the Ynet news outlet.

According to the report, Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff saw the footage while in Israel last week and was left shocked, and decided that the president should view it as well.

The 47-minute IDF compilation of footage from Hamas’s October 7 onslaught, which saw some 3,000 terrorists burst across the border into Israel to kill some 1,200 people and seize 251 hostages, mostly civilians, amid acts of brutality and sexual assault, will be shortened to 20-30 minutes for the US president, Ynet reports.

The footage, first screened for foreign journalists in Israel on October 23, 2023, includes harrowing scenes of murder, torture and decapitation from the Hamas slaughter in southern Israel, including raw videos from the terrorists’ bodycams.


https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/report-trump-will-watch-documentary-of-hamas-oct-7-atrocities-before-meeting-netanyahu-tomorrow/
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(Jewish Group) Report: Trump will watch documentary of Hamas Oct. 7 atrocities before meeting Netanyahu tomorrow (Original Post) Richard D Feb 3 OP
Better check the news Woodycall Feb 4 #1
I understand . . . Richard D Feb 4 #2
Fair Weather Friends?? Woodycall Feb 4 #4
Respect to them. Richard D Feb 4 #6
I was HORRIFIED by October 7th Woodycall Feb 4 #7
Thank you for the clarification Richard D Feb 4 #8
I understand and agree - Shalom... Woodycall Feb 4 #9
For us, it's not hypothetical. Richard D Feb 4 #3
It wasn't hypothetical for my father Woodycall Feb 4 #5

Woodycall

(408 posts)
1. Better check the news
Tue Feb 4, 2025, 07:21 PM
Feb 4

I think the last "Holocaust Card" was just played. They're all used up now. And I used to be one of the Jewish people's biggest advocates...

Woodycall

(408 posts)
4. Fair Weather Friends??
Tue Feb 4, 2025, 07:52 PM
Feb 4

Two of my uncles and my father volunteered in WWII. One other would have but he was too young but he and my father later went to fight in Korea where they were trapped and almost died on the frozen ground of the Chosin Reservoir. My father fought the fucking NAZIS on the beaches and land in Libia, Sicily, Italy (Anzio!), and then up through France and into Germany where he was part of the group that liberated Dachau!

You've got a lot of fucking nerve!

Richard D

(9,574 posts)
6. Respect to them.
Tue Feb 4, 2025, 08:10 PM
Feb 4

My father was there as well. A great evil was eliminated. Well, honestly, not eliminated for it has changed form, which should be obvious to all.

I hope you might someday realize how using the term: "Holocaust card" to describe the horrors perpetrated by radical Islamists on innocent civilians is about as abhorrent, insulting, disrespectful, hateful, and antisemetic as it gets.

Or maybe I misunderstood you. I hope so, and if so, I apologize.

Woodycall

(408 posts)
7. I was HORRIFIED by October 7th
Tue Feb 4, 2025, 08:38 PM
Feb 4

and I have, given the history of all that Israel has suffered, not just on that date but for decades (rocket attacks, suicide bombers, kidnappings, etc...), have been largely on the side of Israel since October 7th. Even though I thought it was "heavy-handed", I understood the years and years of pain Israel has endured from the terrorists in Gaza and other neighboring states. But dispossessing people and taking their land to build "The Riviera of The Middle East" presumably with a Trump hotel and casino is beyond the pale and Israel and the Jewish people will never be able claim the "moral high ground", ever again... That's what I meant by my comment and, it's the truth.

Richard D

(9,574 posts)
8. Thank you for the clarification
Tue Feb 4, 2025, 08:48 PM
Feb 4

I do not know the answer. The Riviera of the Middle East with Trump Hotel is absurd, to say the least, and I doubt it will ever happen.

But what to do? I wish I or anyone else had an answer. It is not sustainable for Israel to have a stones-throw neighbor who is committed to killing, raping, and destroying its population. Israel has done so much to try to achieve peace there, and the repayment was Oct 7, and the absolute promise from the Islamists to repeat it indefinitely. It is certainly untenable, to say the least.

Woodycall

(408 posts)
5. It wasn't hypothetical for my father
Tue Feb 4, 2025, 07:57 PM
Feb 4

and about 500,000 of his friends and brothers-in-arms fighting that sick shit that didn't make it back either.

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