- The truce between Israel and Hamas will begin Friday at 7 a.m. local time (midnight ET), with 13 civilian hostages to be released by Hamas hours later, Qatar announced. More will follow, with a total of 50 hostages freed over four days, while Palestinian prisoners are also released in waves.
- The initial group of freed hostages will include members of the same families released together, a Qatari official said.
- Israel's defense minister has vowed to continue the fight "forcefully" after the brief truce, saying he expects at least two more months of battle. Israel heavily bombarded sites in Gaza.
- Seven weeks of bombing Gaza civilians, causing death and destruction then comes peace with great results. When are these war hungry leaders learn?
Thursday, November 23, 2023
Truce..
Tuesday, November 21, 2023
De Son Vivont..
It’s not unusual to find non-professional actors breaking out at the Cannes Film Festival. But those who do, don’t often come with a medical degree.
In De Son Vivant (Peaceful), the new film from French director Emmanuelle Bercot, a man refuses to accept his terminal illness. The cancer specialist who handholds him through this torturous process is played by real-life oncologist Dr Gabriel Sara, a Lebanese-born medic who has lived in New York for the past 40 years.
Acting opposite established French stars Benoit Magimel, who plays Benjamin, “a failed actor” with incurable stage four pancreatic cancer, and Catherine Deneuve as his controlling mother Crystal, the good doctor more than holds his own, playing his role with humanity and honesty.
At the premiere on Saturday at the festival’s plush Lumiere theatre, the film's cast and crew received a standing ovation. “First of all, I didn’t feel it was for me,” Sara explains, modestly. “I felt all along that we were a family on this movie.”
Sunday, November 19, 2023
Plan..
In August 2014, Moshe Feiglin, then-deputy speaker of the Israeli Knesset and member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ruling Likud Party, called for the destruction of Palestinian life in Gaza and offered a detailed plan for shipping Palestinians living in Gaza across the world. Specifically, he envisioned a scenario where the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) would find areas on the Sinai border to establish “tent encampments... until relevant emigration destinations are determined.” He further suggested that the IDF would then “exterminate nests of resistance, in the event that any should remain.”
Killed..
Saturday, November 18, 2023
The Cure..
Joe Biden gave Israel a clear green light to continue its military campaign in Gaza, and endorsed its claim that Hamas has been using the al-Shifa hospital as a command and control headquarters.
The raid on the al-Shifa hospital (Arabic word means the Cure) has not been seen in Israel and the American press as quite the slam-dunk moment.
The evidence produced so far, is at best ambiguous, and at worst underwhelming.
The Jerusalem Post analysis, broadly supported by New York Times investigations, asked how 2,000 Hamas fighters had evaporated. Another intelligence failure?
Comment:
After five weeks of the Israel bombing of Gaza and the massive death of civilians, are they winning the hearts of the Israelites, the Jewish people at large, the US, the Allies, the Islamic World the Arabic world and finally the Christian hearts.
Did the Cure become worse than the disease?
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