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This Chanukah and Christmas, We Need Some Supersized Miracles and Joy

One of those is the release of Israeli hostages held in Gaza.

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We definitely need some miracles and extra joy this Chanukah and Christmas.  I’d take an order, supersized.

As a holiday most profoundly based on a series of supernatural miracles and a major military victory by the Maccabees over Syrian-Hellenist enemies, this year more than ever, we need to continue to see the supernatural miracles that have taken place, the light amid the darkness and suffering, even (or especially) amid the fear and angst that war has brought.

One of the things about which we especially need miracles and prayers is the immediate return of all of the remaining 100 hostages being held by terrorists in Gaza. There’s renewed talk about a deal to secure the hostages’ release being more imminent than ever.  Call me cynical, albeit I pray for it every day, but I’ll believe it when I see it.

We know that many of the hostages are dead, but many are believed to be alive and bringing them home to Israel must be an immediate priority. The imperative and pressure to secure their release must be on Hamas and all the terrorist enablers to do so, even though they have less motivation to do so now.

Fortunately, President Trump has made his position clear: that all the hostages must be returned by his inauguration, or there will be “hell to pay.”

Unfortunately, for the terrorists, holding hostages and instilling fear and grief is their currency. The hostages are basically all they have left after a crushing military defeat, albeit one that’s not yet complete. Ultimately, while Hamas can be physically defeated, their jihadi ideology needs a more out-of-the-box solution.

While it’s likely that Trump means business, and maybe the increased optimism for a deal is a result of anticipated pressure and/or consequences, the terrorists know that once they release the hostages, they will have no cards left to play. While all Israelis desperately want the hostages released and brought home, many Israeli commentators don’t believe that all the hostages will be returned. Hamas and its Iranian backers thrive and indeed exist on the suffering of others.

Americans of my generation remember well the previous hostage crisis in 1979.   Under an impotent Jimmy Carter presidency, Iranian Islamic terrorists took over the US Embassy in Tehran and held 54 Americans hostage for 444 days. That hostage crisis ended only once President Reagan was inaugurated in January 1980.

At that point, the Iranian Islamists behaved somewhat like rational actors. Getting their feet wet in controlling a whole nation following the Islamic revolution that overthrew the Shah, they had not yet become the global sponsor of terror that they became, and are now.  They cared about what President Reagan thought and might do.  No sooner had Reagan become president, and the hostages were on their way home.

Today, twice the number of hostages remain in Gaza, arguably suffering conditions that are much worse including starvation, physical and psychological torture, no exposure to light, humiliation, brainwashing, and more. Their families are also suffering more than one can imagine.

This year, as the first day of Chanukah and Christmas coincide, we need the miracles and joy for all the hostages and their loved ones, all the more. But there’s another reason why this week matters even more.

Maybe it’s just a coincidence, but as we celebrate Chanukah and Christmas together this year, we also mark the same 444 days that American hostages were held in Iran.

It’s refreshing to have an incoming president who seems to be making the hostages being released a priority. I have contended for the past year that any American president could have forced the issue to release the hostages by exerting maximum pressure on Iran and Qatar, both of which shelter and fund Hamas and its leaders. Any American president could and should have supported Israel in doing everything and everything possible to pressure Hamas, eliminate the terrorists, and find and bring the hostages home, not equivocate and send a mixed signal that only emboldened the terrorists.

Until now, while there have been negotiations, there’s been very little by way of pressure.

There’s a simple rule in dealing with terrorists: negotiation shows weakness.   It is not a tactic to defeat the terrorists, but to kick the can down the road.  The Biden administration has enabled the terrorists more than done anything to defeat them.  They pandered and funded Iran to the tune of billions of dollars, showing even further weakness.

Among the hostages there are still several Americans. It should be emphasized that the October 7 massacre by Hamas was the third largest slaughter of Americans at any one time this century after September 11.

Americans should want all the hostages released and be prepared to make that happen, including the Americans and all the others from many nationalities including Israel. We should not have to wait for Trump’s inauguration, weeks more of suffering, but it may be that way.

This should be an important national and international priority because if Americans are not safe anywhere, they are not safe anywhere. The same jihadis that took 54 Americans hostage in 1979 are now holding 100 others. Unless defeated, they will do it again.

This Chanukah and Christmas, we need to commit that every effort must be made to have all the hostages released. As we celebrate one military defeat centuries ago, and the ensuing miracles that happened then, we can pray fervently that there will be more miracles today as well.

The Moody Church: 53rd Annual Christmas Concert

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GLENN BECK: The GREATEST Christmas Gift Americans Can Give

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Traditional Christmas Carols – Choir Peaceful Christmas Music and Ambience – Christian Christmas

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25 Old Christmas Hymns – Hymn Sing-Along with Lyrics

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AOC likens Palestinians to Jesus in Christmas message, calls Israel a violent, occupying force

SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2023/12/aoc-likens-palestinians-to-jesus-in-christmas-message-calls-israel-a-violent-occupying-force#; republished below in full, unedited, for informational, educational, & research purposes:

As a purveyor of the most hateful anti-Jewish propaganda, AOC goes to such an extreme that she has forgotten that Jesus was a Jew from the house of David, and that the region of Judea wasn’t renamed “Palestine” until a century after the time of Christ. Also, as it is succinctly put in a Jerusalem Post article: “Jesus’s homeland is under attack by Islamic terrorists.”

“AOC slammed over Christmas message about Israel-Hamas war: ‘Jew hate,’” by Melissa Koenig, New York Post, December 25, 2023:

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez likens Palestinians to Jesus while describing Israel as a violent occupying force in an online Christmas post, prompting critics to slam what they call her blatant “Jew hate.”

In her Instagram story on Christmas Eve, the lefty New York Democrat shared a photo of a child in rubble in the Gaza Strip and said she is praying “for the peace and protection of the innocent in Gaza and the occupied territories.

“In the story of Christmas, Christ was born in modern-day Palestine under the threat of a government engaged in a massacre of innocents,” she wrote.

“He was part of a targeted population being indiscriminately killed to protect an unjust leader’s power. Mary and Joseph, displaced by violence and forced to flee, became refugees in Egypt with a newborn waiting to one day return home.

“Thousands of years later, right-wing forces are violently occupying Bethlehem as similar stories unfold for today’s Palestinians, so much so that the Christian community in Bethlehem has canceled this year’s Christmas Eve celebrations out of both [fear for their] safety and respect,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote.

“And yet, also today, holy children are still being born in a place of unspeakable violence — for every child born, of any identity and from any place, is sacred. Especially the children of Gaza,” AOC said…..

Hamas Supporters Declare War on Christmas

Marjorie Taylor Greene ‘Swatted’ On Christmas

Florida Governor Desantis And Former President Trump Headline Conservative Student Summit In Tampa
TAMPA, FLORIDA - JULY 23: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) speaks the Turning Point USA Student Action Summit held at the Tampa Convention Center on July 23, 2022 in Tampa, Florida. The event features student activism, leadership training, and a chance to participate in networking events with political leaders. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

OAN’s Abril Elfi
1:38 PM – Monday, December 25, 2023

SEE: https://www.oann.com/newsroom/mtg-swatted-on-christmas/; republished below in full, unedited, for informational, educational & research purposes:

Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (MTG) stated cops showed up to her house on Christmas day as part of fake “swatting.”

On Monday, Greene (R-Ga.) posted on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, that this is now the 8th time she has been swatted.

“I was just swatted. This is like the 8th time,” Greene posted. “I spent Christmas with my family here. My local police are the greatest and shouldn’t have to deal with this. I appreciate them so much, and my family and I are in joyous spirits celebrating the birth of our savior, Jesus Christ.”

The act of “swatting” is when people call emergency services on someone’s behalf in an attempt to get law enforcement to raid their home.

“Swatting” has been done to a lot of conservatives in the past.

Jack Posobiec, an activist, said that his parents were swatted on Saturday.

Greene had also previously stated that in August 2022, someone reported a shooting at her home in Floyd County, Georgia, by phoning police there and using a voice generated by a computer.

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Pro-Palestine Protesters Climb On Christmas Tree In Union Square

NEW YORK, NY - NOVEMBER 28: The Christmas tree at Rockefeller Center awaits lighting on November 28, 2012 in New York City. After two weeks of preparation, the 45,000 lights will be lit on the 80-foot high Norwegian spruce this evening during a celebration televised on NBC and hosted by Al Roker and Savannah Guthrie. The tree will remain lit every evening until January 7. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)

OAN’s Abril Elfi
7:36 AM – Monday, December 25, 2023

SEE: https://www.oann.com/newsroom/pro-palestine-protesters-climb-on-christmas-tree-in-union-square/; republished below in full, unedited, for infromational, educational & research purposes:

Pro-Palestine protesters were caught climbing on an 80-foot-tall tree with a sign that read “Free Palestine” at San Francisco’s Union Square.

On Saturday, pro-Palestinian protesters climbed on the tree, carrying Palestinian flags and a sign that read “No Christmas as Usual in a Genocide.”

When Union Square was crowded with people, protesters then took to the ice skating rink, forcing it to close for several hours at a time.

Numerous demonstrators were taken into custody by San Francisco police for offenses ranging from felony vandalism to assault.

One officer reported that he was hit in the head by something.

The San Francisco Department of Emergency Management sent a notice on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, at 4:09 p.m. that the public was asked to stay away from the area due to police activity.

They then made an update at around 5:30 p.m. that the issue had been resolved.

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WATCH: Biden Visits Children’s Hospital For Xmas Storytime, Gets Weird

AP Photo/Evan Vucci

The Brandon entity and its wife, Lady Dr. Jill, visited a D.C. children’s hospital yesterday, and, as one would expect, things got weird fast.

Via CNN:

President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden met with patients at Children’s National Hospital in Washington on Friday, carrying on a longstanding tradition during the holiday season.

The first couple, sporting cloth masks, met with pediatric patients, their families and hospital staff, greeting leadership and emergency department workers. Dr. Biden read Ezra Jack Keats’ “The Snowy Day” before the Bidens visited with children and their families in the cardiac intensive care unit.

“Thanks for coming and listening to me read and have the president hold the book,” she said after reading, as Biden deadpanned, “It’s my job.”

And the president chimed in with a message for parents in the room before departing, saying, “To all you parents, be strong. We spent a lot of time in children’s hospitals with patients too, It’s going to be OK.”

At one point, when Lady Dr. Jill is finished with the reading, after her husband’s stared off into space for several minutes with sugar plums dancing in his head, Brandon requests one of the children sit on his lap before inviting him for a special time at the White House later: “Get up here. Sit in my lap.”

Imagine being one of Brandon’s handlers: all you need from your charge is ten minutes maximum of semi-normal behavior per day for his brief public appearances. The wife will read the book. His job I to sit there quietly, not look too creepy, and polish things off with a few niceties — a protocol which you go over in detail once he’s properly medicated and his eyes are open. But even that is too much to ask for, and when things go south, you get blamed.          RelatedHappy Halloween: The Spooky, Surreal Scene at the White House

No one, no matter how Blue-No-Matter-Who they might be, could honestly watch this compilation and not come away with the firm conclusion that something is very wrong with this picture.

At this point, with all of the evidence in the public domain of Joseph’s predatory nature, including the leaked contents of his own daughter’s diary in which she laments the psychological damage done to her by her father showering with her, parents who still subject their children to the puppet president are negligent.

A Florida woman who found Ashley Biden's private diary is being investigated by the FBI – not for stealing the journal but for selling it, DailyMail.com has learned.

The diary's explosive contents include Ashley's speculation that showering with her father, then-Senator Joe Biden, as a young girl may have contributed to her sex addiction. 

'I remember having sex with friends @ a young age; showers w/ my dad (probably not appropriate),' she wrote in a January 2019 entry.

Another angle here is: how many of these poor kids ended up in the cardiac intensive care unit at said hospital because of myocarditis induced by Brandon’s brutal COVID vax mandates targeted at children, despite their statistically insignificant risk of serious illness from the SARS-CoV-2 virus?

Maybe his wife can read that children’s horror tale for the kids next Halloween.

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