Michael Ejercito wrote:
> HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
>> Michael Ejercito wrote:
>>
>>> https://jeffjacoby.com/28048/the-empty-symbolism-of-criminal-charges-against
>>>
>>>
>>> The empty symbolism of criminal charges against Hamas
>>> by Jeff Jacoby
>>> The Boston Globe
>>> September 8, 2024
>>>
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>>> Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar, one of six defendants named by the Justice
>>> Department in a criminal complaint filed in federal court, is hiding in
>>> his Gaza tunnels, using handcuffed hostages as human shields.
>>>
>>>
>>> HERSH GOLDBERG-POLIN — the 23-year-old American-Israeli who was one of
>>> six hostages found shot to death in a Gaza tunnel last weekend — was
>>> laid to rest in Jerusalem on Monday. The day after his funeral, the
>>> Justice Department announced criminal charges against six high-ranking
>>> Hamas officials for "planning, supporting, and perpetrating" the Oct. 7
>>> terrorist rampage in which more than 40 US citizens were killed and
>>> eight, including Hersh, were taken captive.
>>> That criminal complaint, originally filed under seal in the US district
>>> court in Manhattan, accurately summarizes the savagery of the Hamas
>>> massacre 11 months ago. It outlines Hamas's close ties to Iran. It notes
>>> that Hamas does not attack only Israelis but has been engaged in what
>>> Attorney General Merrick Garland called "a decades-long campaign to
>>> murder American citizens and endanger the national security of the
>>> United States." It asks that warrants be issued for the defendants' arrest.
>>>
>>> And it will accomplish nothing.
>>>
>>> For one thing, three of the six Hamas chieftains named in the Justice
>>> Department complaint — Ismail Haniyeh, Mohammed Deif, and Marwan Issa —
>>> are dead. Haniyeh was eliminated, presumably by Israeli special forces,
>>> during a visit to Tehran on July 31. Deif and Issa were killed earlier
>>> in targeted strikes in Gaza. Other than striking a pose, what is the
>>> point of filing criminal complaints against three deceased terrorists?
>>>
>>> As for the other three, it is a virtual certainty that none will ever
>>> see the inside of a US courtroom. Yahya Sinwar, the head of Hamas, is
>>> hiding in his Gaza tunnels, using handcuffed hostages as human shields.
>>> Khaled Meshaal lives in Qatar, protected by a government that claims to
>>> be a US ally yet for years has supported Hamas and shielded its senior
>>> cadres. Ali Baraka is based in Lebanon, which is effectively ruled by
>>> Hezbollah. They have about as much to fear from a Justice Department
>>> filing as Osama Bin Laden did when criminal charges were issued against him.
>>>
>>> Clearly the Biden administration has no expectation of ever actually
>>> prosecuting Hamas's leaders. Yet in a detailed press release
>>> accompanying the criminal complaint, it pretends that the terrorists'
>>> fate will be decided in proceedings governed by the Federal Rules of
>>> Criminal Procedure. "All defendants are presumed innocent until proven
>>> guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law," the Justice
>>> Department release fastidiously observes. And if Sinwar and his fellow
>>> mass murderers are found guilty? In that case, "a federal district court
>>> judge will determine any sentence after considering the US Sentencing
>>> Guidelines and other statutory factors."
>>>
>>> This is farcical. Hamas is not a gang of crooks committing crimes on
>>> American soil. Its jihadist masterminds are not going to be arrested,
>>> read their Miranda rights, and provided with scrupulous due process of
>>> law, complete with free lawyers, discovery of prosecution files, and
>>> endless appeals. Hamas is a foreign enemy, violent and fanatical. It is
>>> at war with the United States no less than with Israel, both of which,
>>> its spokesmen declare, "will cease to exist." The killing and kidnapping
>>> of dozens of Americans over the past 11 months have been acts of
>>> international terrorism and warfare, not felonies. Hamas will be
>>> defeated on the battlefield or it will not be defeated at all.
>>>
>>> In its press release, the Justice Department quotes US Attorney Damian
>>> Williams, the top federal prosecutor in New York: "We will bring justice
>>> to this terrorist organization from the top down for the atrocities they
>>> have committed."
>>>
>>> But no Palestinian terrorist has ever been brought to justice in the
>>> United States for atrocities committed against Americans abroad. There
>>> have been scores of such atrocities, including the murder of two
>>> Massachusetts natives in 2015. Richard Lakin, a retired Newton school
>>> principal, was killed in a terror attack in Jerusalem in October. A few
>>> weeks later, Ezra Schwartz of Sharon, a high school graduate spending
>>> his gap year in Israel, was cut down when a Palestinian gunman opened
>>> fire on the van in which he and other students were riding.
>>>
>>> In a 2016 congressional hearing, a senior Justice Department official
>>> explained that there are "significant impediments" to prosecuting
>>> foreign terrorists in American courtrooms. Among them: "obtaining
>>> necessary cooperation from foreign governments, gathering evidence
>>> overseas that would be admissible in US court, and apprehending and
>>> extraditing defendants."
>>>
>>> Eight years later, the only thing that has changed is the number of
>>> Americans killed, maimed, and abducted by Hamas and other Palestinian
>>> terror groups.
>>>
>>> In a heartbreaking moment during the Democratic Party convention last
>>> month, Jon Polin and Rachel Goldberg told the story of their son Hersh,
>>> who was seized by Hamas terrorists at the Nova music festival and
>>> dragged off to captivity in Gaza. "Hersh, if you can hear us, we love
>>> you," they said. "Stay strong, survive."
>>>
>>> A few days later, Hamas operatives shot their son and five other Israeli
>>> captives in the back of the head at point-blank range in a Rafah tunnel,
>>> which is where Israeli soldiers found their bodies last weekend. In a
>>> strong statement, Vice President Kamala Harris condemned Hamas as "an
>>> evil terrorist organization" that now "has even more American blood on
>>> its hands." In the face of such "evident and horrifying" depravity, she
>>> said, there is only one acceptable goal: Hamas "must be eliminated and
>>> Hamas cannot control Gaza."
>>>
>>> The way to achieve that outcome is not by filing symbolic criminal
>>> complaints in federal court. Nor is it by constantly critiquing Israel's
>>> war effort, or by withholding weapons needed to win, or by claiming that
>>> raging anti-Israel protesters "have a point," or by putting pressure on
>>> Jerusalem to accept cease-fire terms that would leave Hamas in place.
>>>
>>> The way to eliminate Hamas and liberate Gaza is to ensure that Israel
>>> prevails in this war. Everything else is secondary. Terrorists who
>>> kidnap and kill US citizens are America's mortal enemies. The way to
>>> advance America's national interests is not to arrest the terrorists,
>>> but to destroy them.
>>
>> There is only one godly way to win the war against terrorism and
>> bigotry and that is by lifting up our Messiah, LORD Jesus Christ of
>> Nazareth as our #1 Example of living http://WonderfullyHungry.org
>>
>> Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry ( https://bit.ly/Philippians4_12 ) for
>> food right now (Luke 6:21a) and hope you, Michael, and others reading
>> this, also have a healthy appetite for food right now too.
>>
>> So how are you ?
>
> I am wonderfully hungry!

While wonderfully hungry in the Holy Spirit, Who causes (Deuteronomy
8:3) us to hunger, I note that you, Michael, are rapture ready (Luke
17:37 means no COVID just as eagles circling over their food have no
COVID) and pray (2 Chronicles 7:14) that our Everlasting (Isaiah 9:6)
Father in Heaven continues to give us "much more" (Luke 11:13) Holy
Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23) so that we'd have much more of His Help to
always say/write that we're "wonderfully hungry" in **all** ways
including especially caring to "convince it forward" (John 15:12) with
all glory (Psalm112:1) to GOD (aka HaShem, Elohim, Abba, DEO), in
the name (John 16:23) of LORD Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Amen.

Laus DEO !