Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu defended his decision to order the Israeli military to attack Hamas’ last two strongholds in the Gaza Strip, amid a continuing storm of international criticism of the move. In a rare press conference with global media, Netanyahu stressed that the goal of the operation would be to free Gaza from the Hamas terror group and to free the Israeli hostages. Welcoming the chance to “puncture the lies and tell the truth,” the prime minister pointed out that Hamas continues to subjugate Gazans, saying the terror group “steals their food, it shoots them when they try to move to safe zones,” but added that many Gazans are now fighting back. “They're begging the world: ‘Free us. Free us, and free Gaza from Hamas,’” Netanyahu told the foreign journalists. ...Netanyahu laid out his five principles for the “day after” the war. “One, Hamas disarmed. Second, all hostages freed. Third, Gaza demilitarized. Fourth, Israel has overriding security control. And five, non-Israeli, peaceful civil administration. By that, I mean a civilian administration that doesn’t educate its children for terror, doesn't pay terrorists, and doesn’t launch terrorist attacks against Israel. That’s what we want to see in Gaza,” he said. The best and most speedy way to end the war, he continued, is for the IDF to “dismantle the two remaining Hamas strongholds in Gaza City and the Central Camps.” Netanyahu said that Israel would first call the civilian population to evacuate, allowing it to “safely leave the combat areas to designated safe zones” where “ample food, water and medical care” would be provided. “Contrary to false claims, our policy throughout the war has been to prevent a humanitarian crisis, while Hamas’s policy has been to create it,” he said... “The purpose of this news conference is to puncture the lies and spread the truth… the international press has bought hook, line and sinker – Hamas statistics, Hamas claims, Hamas forgeries, and Hamas photographs, for example, these three children,” he said, showing images that media outlets had used to support reports of alleged starvation in Gaza. “The first one is Osama Al-Rakab. He is in Italy, getting treatment, because Israel got him out... He has a genetic disease..." “The second one is Abdul Qader al-Fayoumi. He suffers from a genetic neurological disorder..." “The third one is the most celebrated one. This is a New York Times cover photo. It's on the front page, of Mohammed Zakaria Ayoub and his mother,” the prime minister said, adding Ayoub is suffering “from a genetic illness, called cerebral palsy. His mother is well-fed, and his brother is healthy.” Netanyahu noted that Israel is weighing “the possibility of a governmental suit against the New York Times, because this is outrageous. Of course, the correction was postage-size; I don't know where it was buried. But this is outrageous, these are the three most celebrated photos, and they're all fake.” Concluding his statement, Netanyahu said... "We won't allow it to go unchallenged, and this is the purpose of this press conference. I hope that you open your eyes to a simple fact: Hamas lies.” [Less than one hour] Huckabee said that while there was hunger in Gaza, Israel was trying to make sure that Palestinians received food aid. Hamas, however, was more concerned with controlling and profiting from aid — and damaging Israel’s image — than it was in helping the Palestinian people whom it purports to represent. He explained: The simple truth is, Hamas is the one responsible for the starvation, to the degree that there is starvation. I point out that if you look at the people from Hamas, they aren’t starving. These are well-fed people. I even said to Piers Morgan last night on an interview with him, I said, you know, there may be starvation going on in Gaza, but it’s not Hamas. These people don’t need food. They need Ozempic. Because they’re incredibly well fed. They look like Southern farm boys. I’ll tell you, who’s starving: the [Israeli] hostages are starving. And it really ticks me off when these European leaders like [France’s Emmanuel] Macron and [the UK’s Keir] Starmer, you know, they’re putting all this pressure on Israel to drop food in for people in Gaza, and I want them to maybe put a little pressure on Hamas to start feeding the hostages, and tell them to stop making these hostages dig their own graves, which I find revolting and disgusting. And where’s the condemnation for that? If there’s hunger in Gaza, and I believe there is — I’ll be the first to say I think that in pockets, not everywhere, but in pockets, there’s hunger. But the reason is twofold. One, Hamas prevents people from getting to the feeding sites and shoots some of them — and I heard that from the Gazans themselves — but a lot of the food that goes into Gaza is stolen and looted by Hamas, who put it in warehouses, and then they turn around and sell it to people on the black market. Last year, Hamas made $500 million — that’s half a billion dollars — selling the relief food, the humanitarian food. By the United Nations’ own numbers — these aren’t numbers I attributed to them, this is what they report — 88% of the food that they send into Gaza is stolen or looted. I think about that. 88% — that’s a 12% effective success rate and an 88% failure rate. Huckabee also faulted the United Nations (UN) for worsening the problem, and effectively helping Hamas: I’ve sent pictures on Twitter [X] that showed 900 trucks full of food sitting at the border that hadn’t gone in, thousands of pallets of food that was sitting in the sun, rotting, that hadn’t gone in. And the reason the UN and some of its affiliate organizations didn’t take it was because they said they are too principled to allow that food to go in with a military escort from the IDF [Israel Defense Forces]. And I’m thinking, “Okay, let me see if I get this right. You say that you’re really concerned about hunger, but you’re more concerned about who helps you get that food to people than whether or not the food gets to people. So somehow, you’re not convincing me that feeding hungry people is your primary objective. It’s control.” ... the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, GHF, but it’s working, because instead of bringing in big trucks of food that are easily hijacked, food is put in boxes that will feed a family of five for eight-to-ten days. There’s not enough incentive for Hamas to steal a box of food. So the food distribution has been effective, and people can come and get their food. They take it home. They have food for a while. It’s got staple items that they’re able to use. Huckabee added, by way of answering Israel’s critics: “When has a country been expected to feed the country that attacked them even while they were holding hostages and torturing those hostages. When does that happen?” Ambassador Mike Huckabee told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview on Tuesday that a map of the Middle East was essential to understanding the problem with a “two-state solution” to the ongoing conflict. He said: So when people ask, what is the end game? I’ll tell you what it is, let Israel have the little sliver of land and let them live in it in peace. Quit trying to kill every last Jew. Quit yelling things like from the river to the sea, because when you say that, what you’re saying is, annihilate the Jewish people. Get rid of them. In my office at the embassy, I have a map that was taken out of a fifth grade classroom in Gaza. It is a Hamas map that kids study in Gaza. And it’s a map of we would call it Israel. They would call it Palestine. And on that map, there is no Israel, because it is the map that people are screaming for, from the river to the sea, from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea, the only thing that exists on that map is a Palestinian state. So when you hear people talk about the Palestinian state, what most people who say that want, it’s not that they want part of a land to be theirs. They want none of the land to be Israel, and in 1973 [Prime Minister] Golda Meir made a statement that’s very, very profound. She said, we will have peace in the Middle East when Arab mothers love their own children more than they hate ours. That sounds harsh, but here we are, 52 years later, and you have to think she was pretty much spot on. Pollak then posted a map of the Middle East, showing the tiny proportions of Israel relative to the Arab world and the broader Muslim world. “There you see little Israel in the center … it is a tiny sliver — a very important sliver that we all care about, but it is, in terms of land, very, very small,” Pollak concluded. “Israel has given up land. They have turned things over. Every time they do, they get less land, and less peace,” he observed. Does a Palestinian State REALLY Matter? Gaza Siege, Iran Collapse & Global Deception: [56 minutes]
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