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USA TODAY:
AMERICAN AVIGAIL EDAN, 4, AMONG HOSTAGES FREED SUNDAY
Seventeen more captives including an American child were freed by militants Sunday in a third round of hostage releases amid a truce President Joe Biden, Hamas leaders and the Israeli government say they want to extend.
The Israeli military said in a social media post that 14 Israeli and three foreign national hostages were transferred to the Red Cross. Among them was American Avigail Edan, 4, kidnapped from Kfar Aza kibbutz in the militant rampage into Israeli border communities Oct. 7 that left 1,200 people dead. Avigail's parents were killed, and her two older brothers hid in a closet and survived.
"What she endured is unthinkable," Biden said Sunday. "Today she is free, and Jill and I, together with so many Americans, are praying that she is going to be alright."
North Carolina Sen. Ted Budd confirmed that Adrienne “Aviva” Siege, 62, was also released from Gaza on Sunday. Siege had been taken hostage from her home in Kibbutz Kfar Aza on Oct. 7, according to the Hostages and Missing Persons Families Forum.
But her husband Keith Siegel, a North Carolina native, was still being held, according to Budd.
TWR: The mitigation of War Crimes is not a celebratory act.
While all of us are extremely happy that (what’s left of) Families are being reunited, we can’t forget the atrocities that led to these releases.
US OFFICIALS SAY EFFORTS TO RETURN HOSTAGES HELD BY OTHER GROUPS ONGOING
NBC NEWS:
White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan told NBC News’ “Meet the Press” Sunday that efforts to free hostages being held by other groups in Gaza were ongoing.
"We also are aware that it's not just Hamas holding hostages. Palestinian Islamic Jihad, another terrorist group that participated in the brutal massacre on October 7th, is holding some," said Sullivan. "And other groups who are not directly affiliated but have loose connections to Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad are also holding hostages."
Sullivan added that part of the efforts were to establish a deal "in which every last possible hostage in Gaza who is still alive gets turned back over and reunited with their families."
TWR: As Hamas ‘loosed the dogs of war,” they are responsible for these other packs of terrorists following in their blood-soaked footsteps.
Frankly, it’s hard to believe that one group of vandals will be able to reason with another.
Until civilized governments intervene to protect civilization, we are all targets of madmen.
ISRAEL RELEASES PALESTINIAN PRISONERS
USA TODAY:
Scores of Palestinians held in Israeli prison have been released, shuttled to freedom in Red Cross buses. Crowds chanted “God is Great” as one bus arrived in the occupied West Bank, Al Jazeera reported. Several young men stood on the roof of the bus in celebration as the crowd waved Hamas flags and chanted pro-Hamas slogans.
Hamas and the Russian Foreign Ministry announced an unrelated deal in which a hostage with a Russian passport was released as a show of the militant group's appreciation for the support of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Hamas announced Sunday that one of its top commanders had been killed but did not say when. Israel said it had killed multiple high-ranking Hamas militants before the cease-fire went into effect.
TWR: And so Palestinian Criminals are now again free to wander the Middle East in search of their next crime…Made possible by terrorists in search of their next Jewish Massacre.
HAMAS LEADERS PROPOSE EXTENSION OF CEASE-FIRE
USA TODAY:
Hamas leaders on Sunday announced an effort to extend the cease-fire in tandem with the release of more Palestinians held in Israel and more militant-held hostages.
Details of the proposal were not immediately available, but the Israeli army’s chief spokesman, Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari, said Israel was open to extending the truce if more hostages were released.
Israel previously said the truce, due to expire Monday, can be extended by an extra day for every additional 10 hostages freed.
TWR: My second-guessing the negotiations of the Israeli Government is perhaps the worst form of amateurism. As such, it would be irrelevant.
However, my disgust at War Criminals managing to force the civilized into the absurd world of leering, cynical exploitation through negotiations forced by their own abhorrent atrocities is nearly without limit.
This correlates with the limitless savagery we are forced to endure from them.
PRESIDENT BIDEN SAYS HE WILL WORK TO EXTEND PAUSE IN FIGHTING
USA TODAY:
Biden said he would continue working to extend the hostage deal, which includes the release of humanitarian aid into Gaza and Palestinian prisoners.
Biden said 200 aid trucks have been able to move into Gaza each day carrying food, water, medicine, fuel and cooking gas. He said it remains his goal to keep the pause in place past Monday.
"We worked urgently − urgently − to take advantage of the pause to surge aid into Gaza," Biden said. "The proof that this is working, and worth pursuing further, is in every smile and every grateful tear we see on the faces of those families, who are finally getting back together again."
TWR: Really? Why Mr. President?
Like so many ‘World Leaders’ before you, this policy all but guarantees more Anti-Jewish slaughter.
Please do tell…Who’s side are you on?
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH RELEASES REPORT ON DEADLY GAZA HOSPITAL BLAST
USA TODAY:
The explosion that killed and wounded hundreds of civilians at al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza on Oct. 17 resulted from an apparent rocket-propelled bomb similar to those used by Palestinian militants, Human Rights Watch said Sunday.
The non-governmental agency said in a statement the bomb hit a paved area in the hospital compound near a parking lot. The Gaza Health Ministry said 471 people were killed and 342 injured; Human Rights Watch said it was unable to corroborate the count, which was significantly higher than U.S. and other estimates. Further investigation is needed, the statement said.
The strike initially fueled outrage toward Israel, but evidence later surfaced indicating the tragedy may have been caused by a misfiring Islamic Jihad rocket.
TWR: Where are the retractions?
WHERE. ARE. THEY?
PATRIOTS:
TOM TRADUP WORKS FOR ISRAEL’S FUTURE
ALL ISRAEL NEWS:
Joel C. Rosenberg, co-founder of Near East Media (NEM) and Editor-in-Chief of ALL ISRAEL NEWS and ALL ARAB NEWS, today announced the hiring of Tom Tradup to serve as contributing editor.
In addition to coaching editors and writers, Tradup will write weekly columns about Israel, the Arab/Muslim world, U.S. policy in the Middle East, as well as about the life of Christ followers in the region and the challenges facing the Church here in Israel.
He will also serve as an advisor to NEM’s senior management on how best to further expand the reach and influence of these digital platforms within the Evangelical community and the broader media world.
Tradup has long served as vice president of News & Talk Programming for the Salem Radio is Network and SRN News, the #1 Christian radio news network in the United States.
Here is one of his most recent columns:
TWR: Tom has been a long-time Friend, Colleague and Mentor. Much of what I get right on The Wells Report is directly due to his kind guidance. God Bless Tom Tradup!!
US MILITARY:
US NAVY DESTROYER RESPONDS TO TANKER ATTACK
FOX NEWS:
A U.S. Navy vessel responded to a distress call Sunday from an Israeli-linked tanker off the coast of Yemen on Sunday and was later fired upon, Fox News has learned.
U.S. Navy personnel from the USS Mason, a Mayport-based Arleigh Burke class destroyer assigned to the Eastern Mediterranean, responded to the distress call from the Liberian-flagged Central Park, carrying a cargo of phosphoric acid in the Gulf of Aden.
The vessel is managed by Zodiac Maritime, a London-based international ship management company owned by Israeli billionaire Eyal Ofer’s Zodiac Group.
A Zodiac spokesperson told Fox News Digital the vessel issued a distress call around 6 a.m. UTC Sunday morning stating it was under attack by suspected pirates while transiting the International Recommended Transit Corridor (IRTV) some 54 nautical miles off the coast of Somalia.
TWR: And now, a direct act of War against the United States of America.
And our government does nothing. Again.
There are questions…
1. Why hasn’t the United States turned the Yemeni launch sites into craters of glowing, burning embers?
2. Why hasn’t the United States issued a definitive ultimatum to the Iranian Government that attacks by Iranian Proxy Forces against US interests will be considered a direct attack by the Islamic Republic of Iran?
3. Why hasn’t Israeli Defense Force turned Iranian Command and Control sites into craters of glowing, burning embers?
4. Has the United States Government forbidden Israel from attacking the true authors & architects of the worst attack against Jews since the Holocaust?
5. Is the United States Government protecting Iran? If so, why?
6. Why hasn’t the United States Government first demanded the instant release of all American Hostages held by Palestinians in Gaza?
7. Why haven’t the United States Marines been ordered to land on the beaches of the Gaza Strip, move through Hamas Territory, rescuing all Americans, and any other hostages they find? Finally…
8. Why isn’t the United States Government acting in the best interests of the American People?
US REVERBERATIONS:
3 PALESTINIAN COLLEGE STUDENTS SHOT IN POSSIBLE HATE CRIME
USA TODAY:
The FBI is investigating the shootings of three young men of Palestinian descent who were injured near the University of Vermont while visiting for a Thanksgiving holiday gathering, in what authorities said may have been a hate crime.
The shootings occurred at about 6:25 p.m. Saturday near the University of Vermont campus, according to the Burlington Police Department. Police have arrested a suspect.
Agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested Jason J. Eaton, 48, while conducting a search of the shooting area in Burlington at 3:38 p.m. Sunday, the Burlington Police Department said in a statement.
Authorities collected evidence during a search of Eaton’s apartment in a building in front of the shooting location. He is scheduled to be arraigned Monday, police said.
TWR: We are All Americans. All of Us.
We do not shoot each other because of disagreements involving Ethnicity, Faith, Race, Religion, Gender or Sexuality.
Period.
Anyone violating this most important of American Standards should be held accountable to the fullest extent according to our Laws, Rights an Justice System.
The Middle East has descended to murderous savagery because they refuse the realities of the statements above.
We will not have that here.
E Pluribus Unum.
NYC’S HILLCREST HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT PROTEST CONDEMNED
FOX NEWS:
A New York City councilwoman unloaded on the failure of "modern progressivism" after students at a Queens high school last week reportedly rioted against a Jewish teacher for attending a pro-Israel rally.
Chaos broke out at Hillcrest High School in Queens on Monday after 11 a.m. when students planned a protest against a female teacher for attending a pro-Israel rally last month, the New York Post reported.
Students reportedly checked out the teacher’s Facebook account and found her profile photo showed her attending the rally while holding a sign reading, "I stand with Israel."
"I was sickened by what I saw at Hillcrest HS, but sadly I was not surprised," Republican New York City Councilwoman Vickie Paladino told Fox News Digital on Sunday. "Our education system is fundamentally broken, and antisemitic riots like this are sadly the natural result of years of woke leftist indoctrination replacing real education.
"Allowing progressives to gain total control over our institutions was always going to lead to tragic outcomes; they’ve been working to instigate a cultural revolution here for decades, and now those efforts appear to be bearing fruit."
2 WOUNDED IN SHOOTING AFTER CLEVELAND TREE LIGHTING
FOX NEWS:
Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb released a statement saying he was both "saddened and angered" after a shooting Saturday night following an annual Christmas tree lighting ceremony, that drew hundreds of spectators, left two people wounded.
"Last night, what should have been an evening of celebration ended in tragedy when two juveniles were shot amid a large fight that broke out after Cleveland's annual tree lighting event on Public Square," said Bibb, a Democrat, 3News reported.
The Cleveland Division of Police (CDP) said the two victims, ages 15 and 13, were taken to the hospital. Gunfire was reported at about 8:45 p.m. Saturday in Public Square. A suspect was quickly taken into custody but neither the teens nor the suspect were identified.
TWR: As the NYC Councilwoman clearly stated…The dysfunctional, societal death throes found in our largest, Democrat-run cities is threatening to overflow like poorly-managed septic tanks onto the rest of this Great Land.
As you read this, degenerate anti-Americans are infusing their sepsis of Racism, Crime, Hatred into our Children.
This will stop.
Progressive politics has run amok through our school systems….Beginning with Boards of Education, escalating to DOJ/FBI Investigations of Citizens who disagree.
This will also stop.
These United States will endure in the ways of Success, Excellence, Patriotism. Progressives will fail in their pathological push to their abyssal goals.
RECALLS:
HONDA RECALLS OVER 300-THOUSAND CARS DUE TO SEATBELT ISSUES
USA TODAY:
Nearly 304,000 Honda Accords and HR-Vs are being recalled due to potentially defective seat belts.
According to Honda’s safety report to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, "front seat belt pretensioners were assembled without a rivet securing the quick connector and wire plate." Pretensioners are devices that tighten seat belts to keep occupants in place when cars brake hard or crash.
"Seat belt pretensioners missing a rivet will not properly restrain the occupant in the event of a collision, increasing the risk of injury," added Honda.
The carmaker noted that as of Nov. 16, there were no reports of injuries or deaths related to the issue, but there have been seven warranty claims.
TWR: If you own a late model Honda, contact your dealer and get this repaired.
RIP:
MARTY KROFFT, CREATOR OF HR PUFNSTUF, DONNY & MARIE DIES
USA TODAY:
Marty Krofft, a TV producer known for imaginative children's shows such as "H.R. Pufnstuf" and primetime hits including "Donny & Marie" in the 1970s, has died in Los Angeles, his publicist said. Krofft was 86.
Krofft and his brother Sid were puppeteers who broke into television and ended up getting stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Along the way, they brought a trippy sensibility to children's TV and brought singling siblings Donny and Marie Osmond and Barbara Mandrell and her sisters to primetime.
The Osmonds' clean-cut variety show, featuring television's youngest-ever hosts at the time, became a lasting piece of '70s cultural memorabilia, rebooted as a daytime talk show in the 1990s and a Broadway Christmas show in 2010. The Kroffts followed up with "Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters," centered on the country music star; it ran from 1980-82.
Like the Osmonds, "H.R. Pufnstuf" proved to have pop culture staying power. Despite totaling just 17 episodes, the surreal show, featuring an island, a witch, a talking flute, a shipwrecked boy and a redheaded, cowboy boot-wearing dragon, came in 27th in a 2007 TV Guide poll ranking of all-time cult favorites.
TWR: Sid and Marty Koffts brought so much joy and laughter to so many, for so long…Thanks Marty. We’re going to miss you.
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