Live updates and analysis on Israel-Hamas war: Israel releases graphic footage of music festival massacre – New York Post

Former Democratic President Barack Obama commented on the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas on the ground in Gaza.

Obama said in an interview on the Pod Save America podcast that a constructive discussion of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict requires an “acknowledgment of complexity” and seemingly “conflicting ideas.”

Obama called Hamas’ Oct. 7 terrorist attack “horrible” and said “there was no justification for it.”

The former president then said that the situation of the Palestinians was “unbearable,” drawing widespread applause from the audience.

Obama condemned social media and “TikTok activism” that only allows users to “tell one side of the truth” when discussing Israel’s war with Hamas.

“We are all to some extent complicit,” Obama said, referring to the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

The former president further pondered whether there was anything else he could have done during his presidency to “move this forward.”

Pro-Hamas protesters briefly blocked a ship from leaving the Port of Oakland.ABC7 News Bay Area

More than 100 protesters streamed into the Port of Oakland to stop a cargo ship allegedly carrying weapons for Israel.

The demonstration, organized by the Arab Resource and Organizing Center, ended Friday at the California port

“We are sending alarm that the US government is actually sending these weapons to Israel,” AROC press coordinator Wassim Hage told SFGate. “We want people to be clear that the United States will continue to use our ports to facilitate the genocide of the Palestinian population in Gaza.”

There have been repeated protests in America and around the world since Israel began its efforts to eliminate Hamas, following the terrorist group’s shocking surprise attack on civilians on October 7 in which it wiped out families, killed children in their beds and murdered babies . More than 1,400 Israelis were killed in the attack.

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A Manhattan preschool teacher is spreading anti-Israel hatred among the city’s youngest students — and giving tips to parents and teachers to indoctrinate children into her left-wing agenda, educators and insiders told The Post.

Siriana Abboud, 29, a city Department of Education teacher at PS 59 in Midtown, offers social media tutorials on how to talk to 4-year-olds about “land grabbing, displacement and ethnic cleansing.”

She encourages parents to go with them to pro-Palestinian protests – and even refers to Israel as a “fascist ethnostate” in her Instagram stories after the October 7 terrorist attacks by Hamas terrorists.

Abboud’s exclusive “teach-ins” for educators and activists cover Palestine, Zionism and the “fight against colonization.” She proselytized online that “teaching can never be radical or revolutionary as long as one denies Zionism’s ongoing and violent colonization of Palestine” and that early education can be a “tool for liberation.”

“Justice-focused teaching means dismantling the power imbalances that were forced upon me as a classroom teacher,” she said, and that “we are not teaching the truth when we are silent on Palestine.”

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A New York Times writer has “resigned” after signing a letter falsely accusing Israel of genocide against the Palestinian people – and denouncing her own newspaper’s coverage of the country’s war against Hamas.

Jazmine Hughes, a staff writer at The New York Times Magazine, left the publication on Friday, the newspaper told staff in an email obtained by The Post.

“While I respect that she has strong convictions, this was a clear violation of the Times’ policy on public protest,” said magazine editor Jake Silverstein. “This policy, which I fully support, is an important part of our commitment to independence.”

“She and I discussed that her desire to take such a public position and engage in public protests was inconsistent with her work as a journalist at The Times, and we both concluded that she should resign,” Silverstein continued.

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Israel shared a disturbing video about the bloody aftermath of the Hamas massacre at the Tribe of Nova music festival in honor of the four weeks since the terrorist attack.

“Four weeks ago today, more than 200 young Israelis were slaughtered by Hamas terrorists at the Nova music festival.” wrote the country’s official X account on Saturday.

“This is what the aftermath looked like from the perspective of an IDF soldier who came to rescue survivors.

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Disturbing images ⚠️

Four weeks ago today, more than 200 young Israelis were slaughtered by Hamas terrorists at the Nova music festival.

This is what the aftermath looked like from the perspective of an IDF soldier who came to rescue survivors.

Don’t look away.https://t.co/UV2mWjTE7m

— Israel ישראל 🇮🇱 (@Israel) November 4, 2023

“Do not look away.”

The footage shows an IDF soldier helping to secure the deserted festival site as he walks among the bloodied bodies of dead revelers.

At one point, the soldier peers over a large bar and finds several more victims sprawled among the refrigerators.

The families of the Israeli hostages called the government official responsible for coordinating the response to the prisoners on Saturday as he arrived at a protest in Tel Aviv.

“You’re an embarrassment!” According to a video, a woman yelled at Gal Hirsch shared by Democrat TV.

Another person shouted “Go home,” while a third added: “What is he doing?!”

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גל הירש מגיע ומגורש בבושת פנים, בשבת בבוקר, כיכר החטופים מוזיאון תל No

קרדיט: ליזי שאנן pic.twitter.com/rJvmlBWx5q

— דמוקרטTV (@Democrat_TV) November 4, 2023

Hirsch – a controversial former IDF commander – was appointed to lead the hostage crisis by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on October 8, a day after Hamas terrorists infiltrated southern Israel.

He has been criticized for being ineffective in ongoing negotiations to release the estimated 240 people held by Hamas for four weeks.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the war between Israel and Hamas had diverted international attention from his country’s war against Russia. POOL/AFP via Getty Images

The war between Israel and Hamas has diverted international attention from the war in Ukraine, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said at a press conference on Saturday, according to the Times of Israel.

“Of course it is clear that the war in the Middle East, this conflict, is losing focus,” said Zelenskyy together with EU Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen.

Russia invaded Ukraine almost two years ago, on February 24, 2022.

The deadly conflict dominated headlines until October 7 this year, when Hamas carried out a horrific terrorist attack on Israel, sparking a major war in the region.

Dramatic footage released by the IDF on Saturday shows warplanes attacking Hezbollah targets in Lebanon. The military said it was in response to “the shootings carried out today from Lebanese territory.”

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מטוסי קרב של צה״ל תקפו בשעה האחרונה מטרות של ארגון הטרור חיזבאללה בתגובה לירי שבוצע משטח לבנון מוקדם יותר היום, במקביל לתקיפות באמצעו ת ירי ארטילרי וטנקים.

בין המטרות שהותקפו, תשתיות טרור, מחסני רקטות, ומתחמים המשמשים את הא רגון pic.twitter.com/HPDmndrDGS

— צבא ההגנה לישראל (@idfonline) November 4, 2023

“Targets attacked included terrorist infrastructure, missile storage facilities and compounds used by the organization,” the IDF wrote alongside the post.

On Friday, Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah threatened to increase his terror group’s involvement in the Israel-Hamas war in his first remarks since Hamas’ deadly Oct. 7 attack on Israel, but said it was “already doing its part “contributed to this” by attracting Israeli forces north to the border with Lebanon.

Exclusive: Big Apple taxpayers have donated nearly $9 million since 2010 – including $3.3 million in the last two years – to four nonprofits that have helped lead anti-Israel protests where demonstrators openly cheered Hamas’ terrorist attacks on the Jewish state.

A review of city records shows that more than $4.25 million — or nearly half — of the money flowed through annual pots of political hogs that City Council members hand out to boost local support and votes in re-election bids influence.

And nearly $2 million of the council’s so-called “discretionary funds” were allocated to anti-Israel groups after a November 2021 general election sparked a mass influx of socialists and other new members of the far left into the legislature.

The remaining $4.46 million was paid out to nonprofits through government contracts awarded by city agencies.

The biggest winner: The Arab American Association of New York, a Brooklyn-based group that helped plan a hateful “Flood Brooklyn for Palestine” protest in Bay Ridge on Oct. 21, where demonstrators called for the eradication of Israel and a event held a sign with the Israeli flag in a trash basket that read, “Please keep the world clean!”

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Emhoff is close to her stepmother – Vice President Harris. X @VP

Exclusive: Vice President Harris’ stepdaughter is publicly raising money for Gaza, The Post has learned.

Ella Emhoff, 24 – whose father, First Gentleman Doug Emhoff, is Jewish – added a fundraiser “in support of urgent relief for the children of Gaza” to her personal Instagram account. There is no mention of the number of murdered Israeli children among the 1,400 innocent Israelis killed by Hamas terrorists on October 7.

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The fundraiser, which has raised more than $7.8 million to date, is being run by the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund, a Kent, Ohio-based nonprofit that brought in more than $21 million in 2021, according to ProPublica. It’s unclear how much, if any, Ella Emhoff personally donated to the cause.

“It’s extremely concerning and I find it abhorrent,” said Rep. Jeff Van Drew (R-NJ). “To be honest, I’m kind of taken aback by it. It is extremely disturbing.”

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The home of Hamas’ top political leader was destroyed in an airstrike on Saturday, officials said.

Ismail Haniyeh’s family home, located in the Shati refugee camp on the northern outskirts of Gaza City, was attacked on Saturday morning, according to the Hamas-run Gaza media agency.

There was initially no information about possible victims or the true extent of the damage.

At the time of the attack, Haniyeh’s home was being used by his two sons, senior Hamas official Ghazi Hamad said.

Haniyeh was elected as Hamas’ political leader in 2017 and has been in exile since 2019.

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