Hamas terrorists: We were told ‘whoever brings a hostage gets $10,000’

Israel’s Shin Bet security service and Police force jointly interrogated six detainees from Gaza who participated in the destruction and mass murder of October 7, 2023.

The footage from the interrogation was released on Monday and showed selected clips from six separate interrogations.

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Rising number of Canadians struggling to make monthly mortgage payment: survey

TORONTO – A new survey suggests the number of Canadians struggling with their monthly mortgage payment is on the rise, along with worries of potentially higher payments when it comes time to renew with their lender.

Around 15 per cent of borrowers say they find the financial aspect of their mortgage “very difficult,” up from 11 per cent in June and eight per cent in March, according to data released on Monday by the Angus Reid Institute.

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Don Martin: Trudeau frolics with unicorns amid the pounding drums of war

There’s a parallel Canadian universe that exists only on Justin Trudeau’s social media feed.

It’s a place somewhere over the rainbow where unicorns graze on emerald green fields and a carefree population of politically correct citizens begin each day with a rousing hand-over-their-heart chorus of Kumbaya.

With Canadians taking sides and the fuse lit to a Middle East tinderbox, the prime minister’s daily take on his activities and priorities to his 6.5 million followers on the feed formerly known as Twitter is so wonderfully selective and chronically delusional that it’s almost comforting.

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Freed hostage speaks: ‘They kidnapped me on a motorcycle, beat me, I went through horrors’

Yocheved Lifshitz, one of the women freed from Hamas captivity on Monday night, spoke for the first time with media.

Lifshitz, whose husband is still held captive in Gaza, remains hospitalized at Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv.

“My name is Yocheved Lifshitz, and I was born in 1983, in Israel,” she began. “I thank you for coming to hear my tragedy and that of my friends.”

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Ian Cooper: Israel has no choice but to wage war on Hamas

After Hamas’ horrific attack on Israeli civilians on Oct. 7, Israel has declared total war. Israel’s stated goal is to eliminate the terrorist organization’s military capabilities. The crisis faced by Gazans caught in the midst of the conflict is heartbreaking and likely to get worse, but Hamas has left Israel with no other choice.

Those who believe Israel has other alternatives tend to hold two assumptions that are patently false. First is the belief that Hamas is not thoroughly committed to the violent destruction of Israel as a non-negotiable article of faith.

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New York Magazine writer sparks outrage as claims Zionists worked with Nazis during WWII

Another diversity hire gone wrong.

A senior writer for New York Magazine has come under fire for a series of tweets he made in which he claimed that Zionists worked with Nazis during World War II and allowed some of the horrors of the Holocaust.

“Wait til they find out Zionists could’ve saved hundreds of thousands of Jews from the gas chambers and decided not to,” wrote Tirhakah Love, author of New York Magazine’s Dinner Party newsletter who previously publicly celebrated the death of Queen Elizabeth II.

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Beijing Attempted to Buy Canadian Locations For ‘Spying Operations’: CSIS

The head of Canada’s spy agency says previous attempts by the Chinese regime to purchase locations in the country for collecting intelligence have been blocked by the government.

“We have seen in the past, acquisition of land, acquisition of different companies … when you start to dig a little bit further, you realize that … there is another intent,” said Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) Director David Vigneault in an interview with U.S. network CBS.

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Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow finally condemns targeting of Israeli businesses during local protest

Mayor Olivia Chow has condemned a protest outside a downtown Toronto location of an Israeli coffee chain.

Hundreds of protesters with Palestinian flags gathered at University Avenue and Adelaide Street on Saturday. In videos posted to social media, protesters can be heard yelling “Zionist cafe” and chanting “boycott” outside Café Landwer’s University Avenue location.

She had to condemn “Islamophobia” of course.

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Asked about Antisemitism, Karine Jean-Pierre Talks about Hate Crimes against Muslims Instead

Hopeless.

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on Monday was asked about rising antisemitism, and her response was to talk about “disproportionate” hate crimes against Muslims.

Here is a clip from a remarkable exchange during today’s press briefing. Asked the president’s “level of concern right now about a potential rise in antisemitism,” Jean-Pierre first discussed how there was no credible specific threat, but then pivoted to discussing Islamophobia, noting that “Muslims and those perceived to be Muslim have endured a disproportionate number of hate-fueled attacks.”

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How Israelis are preparing to invade Gaza: ‘You go in, weapons firing’

One thing in urban combat in Gaza is not like it is in the films: you do not kick in doors. You blow them up instead.

“You put rockets in through the sides of houses or the walls or you blow up the door,” said Benzi Sanders, a former soldier, speaking from his experience of the last war in the enclave. “You go in, weapons firing. Everyone is supposed to have left.” All that is supposed to wait for you, supposedly, is booby-traps and militants.

For Sanders, 32, there was no time to be afraid, as you blasted your way into the unknown. “You are trying to stay alert,” he said. “You are in confident survival mode but you don’t have fear because you don’t have time to reflect. If you feel fear coming you say ‘not now’ to yourself.”

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Organization demanding forced transition to EVs also opposes mining practices needed to procure the minerals to build the cars

One need only take a very quick and superficial look at the “green” movement to rightly deduce the “greenies” are a bunch of morons—they’re either incapacitated with their hands glued to the road, protesting something by throwing soup all over a Vincent Van Gogh painting, or, demanding a forced transition to battery-powered vehicles, wind turbines, and solar farms… while also demanding no mining take place for the minerals needed to power such initiatives.

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