The Israel Defense Forces have killed a Rafah commander for Hamas who was instrumental in planning the murderous October 7 massacre of more than 1,200 Israelis. Mahmoud Hamdan, commander of Hamas's Tel al-Sultan Battalion, has been eliminated in a joint operation by the IDF and ISA. The Tel al-Sultan Battalion played a significant role in planning the horrors of October 7th and was operating out of Rafah. pic.twitter.com/l2kNdpKlKD — Hen Mazzig (@HenMazzig) September 10, 2024 “In a joint operation by the IDF and Shin Bet forces, the fighters of the 401st Brigade identified a number of terrorist squads using drones, the forces directed Air Force aircraft that eliminated the terrorists. In the attack, the commander of the ‘Tel Sultan’ battalion, Mahmoud Hamdan, and three other company commanders from the battalion were killed,” the IDF tweeted. בפעילות משותפת של כוחות צה"ל ושב"כ, לוחמי חטיבה 401 זיהו באמצעות רחפנים מספר חוליות מחבלים, הכוחות הכווינו כלי טיס של חיל האוויר שחיסלו את המחבלים. בתקיפה חוסל מפקד גדוד ׳תל סולטאן׳ מחמוד חמדאן ושלושה מפקדי פלוגות נוספים מהגדוד >> pic.twitter.com/ie5sZxFvTh — צבא ההגנה לישראל (@idfonline) September 10, 2024 The IDF added: “In the attack and other attacks, the chain of command of the Tel Sultan battalion was eliminated, as well as dozens of other terrorists from the battalion. The commander of the ‘Tel Sultan’ battalion, Mahmoud Hamdan, took a significant part in planning the raid into Israel on October 7 and promoted the preparation plan of the Rafah Brigade before the entry of IDF forces into the area. In addition, he initiated, led and planned dozens of terrorist plots against the IDF forces and the State of Israel.” Tickets for “Am I Racist?” are on sale NOW! Buy here for a theater near you. בתקיפה ובתקיפות נוספות חוסלה שרשרת הפיקוד של גדוד ׳תל סולטאן׳ וכן, עשרות מחבלים נוספים מהגדוד. מפקד גדוד ׳תל סולטאן׳ מחמוד חמדאן, לקח חלק משמעותי בתכנון הפשיטה לארץ ב-7 באוקטובר וקידם את תוכנית ההיערכות של חטיבת רפיח טרם כניסת כוחות צה״ל למרחב >> pic.twitter.com/k3ewod3jcD — צבא ההגנה לישראל (@idfonline) September 10, 2024 בנוסף, יזם, הוביל ותכנן עשרות מתווי טרור נגד כוחות צה"ל ומדינת ישראל pic.twitter.com/RI0yOdSFnD — צבא ההגנה לישראל (@idfonline) September 10, 2024 On Sunday, famed British author Chris Ryan issued an X thread in which he discussed just one incident from the massacre (of the many he saw on video footage) indicating how barbaric the massacre was. He wrote: Source: Hamas head cam/chest cam and mobile phone video footage. Hamas terrorists took hours of footage during the slaughter of 7th October. I can’t, nor want to describe the horror of every single piece of footage that I saw. I hope you’ll understand the depth of depravity from this example because I won’t speak about any others, however, I will say that the violence and depravity I witnessed was beyond all comprehension. What I saw: 3 Hamas terrorists entered a room, two young girls (maybe 12, maybe younger) hiding under a table protecting their puppies. The terrorists had a very calm and nonchalant open conversation about who or what was to be killed first as if they were picking something out in a supermarket. A decision was made by the terrorists to execute the little girl, they murder her by execution, then they realise that the other little girl who they thought was already dead was injured but still alive, then a debate happens on whether they execute her or the puppies first. Then they murder her by execution and the puppies. What I felt: Numb, angry that I wasn’t there to stop them. What I think: I think about the fear those girls went through before their murder and know that I will see that scene for some time to come. The Biden administration repeatedly pressured Israel to stay out of Rafah, the final stronghold of Hamas in Israel’s war to exterminate the terror group. Vice President Kamala Harris said during a March interview with ABC News that she and the president believed military action in Rafah to be a “huge mistake.” “We have been clear in multiple conversations and in every way that any major military operation in Rafah would be a huge mistake,” Harris said. “I have studied the maps. There’s nowhere for those folks to go,” she continued, referring to civilians moved into Rafah as the IDF fought Hamas in other parts of the enclave. “We’ve been very clear that it would be a mistake to move into Rafah with any type of military operation.” Tim Pearce contributed to this article.

All that remains of the Kamala Harris campaign is vibes. That catalyzed a short debate between me and Mark Cuban, the billionaire minority owner of the Dallas Mavericks. A recent clip showed Harris at a hard Left-wing spices shop in Pennsylvania, hugging some crying lady. I made fun of it because it was ridiculous. Ridiculous. This whole “Mamala, we need a hug from our president” vibe is garbage. I tweeted, “If you want your presidential candidate to hug you, please seek psychological help.” If you want your presidential candidate to hug you, please seek psychological help https://t.co/Ob0jfZJ6BS — Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) September 9, 2024 Because guess what? I have a family. I have four little kids. They hug me every single day. It’s great. I have a wife. We hug all the time. It’s wonderful. I have parents. We hug too. I have sisters, nieces, and nephews. Lots of hugs all around. I don’t give a damn about being hugged by Donald Trump, J.D. Vance, Kamala Harris, Doug Emhoff, or Tim Walz. I don’t want any of those people hugging me, just like I don’t want my plumber hugging me. These are people who are delegated a power to do a job. I don’t need them to come over and hug me. I need them to do their job. WATCH: THE BEN SHAPIRO SHOW Harris has been vice president of the United States for the last three and a half years, and she’s presided over the complete meltdown of American foreign policy, the cleaning out of the base of our military, the fraying of the social fabric in the United States, and the emptying out of the American middle class. She’s presided over all of those activities. Why should anyone care if she’s hugging randos at a spice shop in Pennsylvania? But this is what the Harris campaign has to run on. They have to run on the vibes. Mark Cuban, the aforementioned Kamala Harris supporter, has a habit of ignoring everything bad that Harris says and pretending it doesn’t exist. He’ll go on national TV and freely acknowledge that her idiotic idea to tax unrealized capital gains would destroy the American economy. And then he’ll say, “Well, it’s never going to happen, so who cares?” So Cuban tweeted at me, “If you don’t want a presidential candidate capable of hugging, please seek psychological help. Empathy and kindness are skills that are possessed by great leaders in 2024.” “Capable?” That’s a hell of a straw man, considering my original tweet read: “If you want your presidential candidate to hug you, please seek psychological help.” Then, I tweeted to him in return, “I would imagine nearly all presidential candidates, being humans, are capable of hugging. I’d like one capable of something more, like perhaps not getting 13 American soldiers murdered in Afghanistan or creating 40-year inflation or a**-kissing Iran,” adding, “But I hope she gives you a hug while she taxes your unearned capital gains at 25%.” I would imagine nearly all presidential candidates, being humans, are capable of hugging. I’d like one capable of something more, like perhaps not getting 13 American soldiers murdered in Afghanistan or creating 40-year inflation or ass-kissing Iran. https://t.co/VGSsWCTXLy — Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) September 9, 2024 The fact that Cuban believes the signal quality to search for in a politician is empathy and kindness, as opposed to competence, is amazing. If we are a country that has been relegated to needing a hug or seeking spiritual fulfillment from the people who run for president, we are in trouble. It is precisely the opposite that the Founders sought to establish. Tickets for “Am I Racist?” are on sale NOW! Buy here for a theater near you. The Founders did not see the government as a thing to hug. The government is not your mommy nor your daddy. No one needs a government mama or a government daddy. No one. You need a mom and a dad. Then, you need a president very far away who does what is described in Article II of the Constitution of the United States. Those are the things you need. If you are seeking spiritual solace or emotional fulfillment in a candidate like Harris, the emptiest vessel in the history of the modern American Republic, I reiterate my original tweet and suggest, once again, that psychological help is needed. That’s true, by the way, on all sides of the aisle. I don’t want a hug from Donald Trump. I want him to threaten America’s enemies and free up America’s economy. That’s what I want Trump to be doing. This whole thing is ridiculous. Look at the propaganda in any fascist state, any communist state. It is all about the “joy” and the “hugs.” Every poster shows the “great leader” hugging children. I don’t want these people anywhere near my kids. That is not their job. I just want them to do their job. And Kamala Harris is not capable of doing that job.

On Tuesday, former President Donald Trump urged Republicans in Congress to allow a government shutdown to happen this fall if they cannot get a short-term spending measure in addition to election integrity reforms enacted into law. The demand by Trump, who is running for the White House again this year, comes as the GOP-led House is considering a continuing resolution that would provide funding for the federal government for six months — through March 28 — in addition to instituting the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act. “If Republicans in the House, and Senate, don’t get absolute assurances on Election Security,” Trump said on Truth Social, “THEY SHOULD, IN NO WAY, SHAPE, OR FORM, GO FORWARD WITH A CONTINUING RESOLUTION ON THE BUDGET. THE DEMOCRATS ARE TRYING TO ‘STUFF’ VOTER REGISTRATIONS WITH ILLEGAL ALIENS. DON’T LET IT HAPPEN – CLOSE IT DOWN!!!” The SAVE Act, which passed the House as a standalone bill in July with some bipartisan support but never got taken up by the Democrat-controlled Senate, aims to require that individuals show proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote in elections for federal office and pushes states to remove non-citizens from voter rolls. Critics argue the SAVE Act is unnecessary and would create an undue burden on legitimate voters, but House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) released a white paper earlier this year in favor of the measure, warning of a National Voter Registration Act “loophole” in which states do not ask for proof of citizenship when registering an individual to vote in federal elections and cited evidence of noncitizens appearing on voter rolls in places such as Massachusetts, Ohio, and Virginia. Tickets for “Am I Racist?” are on sale NOW! Buy here for a theater near you. While the six-month continuing resolution plus the SAVE Act is expected to get a final vote in the House as soon as Wednesday, it appears unlikely the proposal will prevail. Leading Democrats and even some Republicans in Congress have voiced opposition to the idea. Even if the plan somehow makes it past the House and the Democrat-controlled Senate, the White House said on Monday that President Joe Biden would veto the measure. Congress is running out of time to reach a deal on a short-term spending measure if lawmakers returning to Washington, D.C., from their summer recess are unable to pass appropriations legislation to fund the various federal agencies for the coming fiscal year. A government shutdown could happen by the beginning of October — just weeks before a presidential election — without an agreement. “I believe we can fund the government responsibly and I believe that we can do right by the American people and ensure the security of our elections,” Johnson told reporters on Tuesday. “And I defy anybody to give me any logical argument why we shouldn’t do that. That’s why I’m so resolute about this.”

Major pharmacies were urged on Monday by 17 Republican state financial officers to disregard calls from New York officials to start offering the widely-used abortion drug mifepristone for sale. In letters to the CEOs of Costco, Walmart, Kroger, Albertsons, and McKesson, the Republican officials said that selling mifepristone would be a bad business decision that would alienate customers. They argued that the pharmacies would be wading into political activism if they started offering mifepristone, which is used in more than half of all abortions.  “This radical position ignores all of the business decisions that go into whether to sell a particular product — decisions that should be made by Albertsons’ leadership based on how it will serve their customers. Your competitor, Costco, also recently admitted that there was no material demand for the drug,” they wrote in a letter to Albertsons CEO Vivek Sankaran. The letters come after NYC Comptroller Brad Lander urged the retailers in July to move to offer mifepristone for sale or risk losing consumer confidence. Lander noted that NYC pension funds have about $1.3 billion in ownership in the retailers. “Companies do best when they provide excellent goods and services to their customers, not when they adopt divisive stances on contentious political issues. We are calling on Albertsons to fulfill that purpose and to ignore activist efforts like the New York City Comptrollers,’” the financial officers wrote.  The letter was signed by the financial officers of Alaska, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nebraska, Nevada, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, and Wyoming.  “As public officials who oversee various aspects of the financial interests of our own states, state employees, and citizens whom we represent, we find these actions to be inappropriate,” they wrote. “Pushing political issues onto companies harms business, weakens investor fiduciary standards, and is detrimental to the ultimate beneficiaries who depend on strong economic results for their retirement.” Tickets for “Am I Racist?” are on sale NOW! Buy here for a theater near you. Last month, Christian and conservative investors issued a similar call for the pharmacies to rebuff Lander’s recommendations. Mifepristone has been increasingly used for abortions since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, especially in conservative states with strong pro-life protections where abortion has largely been banned.  A Daily Wire investigation earlier this year found that a network of Left-wing activist groups are flooding red states with abortion pills. People can ​​circumvent state laws with access to the internet, a willingness to make payments online, and a shipping address.

New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu was captured on video this week rushing in and administering the Heimlich maneuver to a man who began choking at a food eating contest. Contestant Christian Moreno was one of several people competing at the Hampton Beach Seafood Festival contest on Sunday when he began choking on a lobster roll. The Associated Press reported that participants had 10 minutes to eat as many lobster rolls — a hot dog bun stuffed with lobster, celery, and mayonnaise — as possible, and that Moreno was personally shooting to eat “at least 20,” according to comments he made before the contest began. Moreno began chowing down on the lobster rolls when, after only consuming a couple of them, he began pounding on his chest and signaled that he needed help. Sununu jumped in, positioned himself behind Moreno, placed his fist around Moreno’s gut, and began administering the Heimlich maneuver. Sununu said, “It was crazy because it wasn’t so much the jumping in and doing it — I mean, that was wild in itself — but there was so much commotion.” Tickets for “Am I Racist?” are on sale NOW! Buy here for a theater near you. Moreno said that he had no idea that he was saved by the governor and thought it was a joke when someone first told him. “My counter came up to me and, like, made a joke, and was like, ‘Oh, like, I bet nobody else can say that they’ve gotten the Heimlich from the governor before,'” he said. “And I looked at him, was just like, that was, that was the governor?” He returned to the contest, downing nine lobster rolls in total, but did not win. WATCH: New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu’s swift actions saved a man from choking on a lobster roll. pic.twitter.com/5Z0nQqbP7l — USA TODAY Video (@usatodayvideo) September 10, 2024

Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost announced this week that he has directed officials to begin reviewing ways to stop the Biden-Harris administration from sending large numbers of migrants to communities in the state amid backlash that is brewing over tens of thousands of Haitian illegal aliens who have been brought to a small town in the state. The move comes in response to Springfield, a town of less than 60,000 residents, being flooded with approximately 20,000 Haitian illegal aliens over the last few years, leading to a variety of problems and rapid deterioration of the town. “This is absurd – Springfield has swollen by more than a third due to migrants,” Yost said. “How many people can they be expected to take? What are the limits to the federal government’s power? Could the federal government simply funnel into Ohio all the millions of migrants flooding in under the current administration’s watch?” “There’s got to be a limiting principle,” he added. “We’re going to find a way to get this disaster in front of a federal judge.” The explosion in illegal aliens coming to the town has devastated the abilities of the public and private entities in the town to provide for the U.S. citizens who live there, Yost’s office said. Tickets for “Am I Racist?” are on sale NOW! Buy here for a theater near you. “The problem is not migrants, it is way, way too many migrants in a short period of time,” Yost said. “The problem is a massive increase in the population without any communication or assistance from the federal government.” His office noted that local residents have complained about the illegal aliens “causing car crashes, stealing property – including livestock, squatting in homes and killing wildlife for food.” He said that the Biden-Harris administration’s wide-open border policies were devastating the state and quickly ruining the quality of life for the people who live there. “Ohio is a great place to work and live,” Yost said. “But overwhelming our small towns with massive migrant populations without any coordination or assistance from the federal government is changing that in front of our eyes.” At a recent city council meeting, numerous local residents have complained that the Haitians are ruining the town and that people are beginning to fear for their safety because of how dangerous they are. “These Haitians are running into trash cans. They’re running into buildings,” one resident said. “They’re flipping cars in the middle of the street, and I don’t know how, like, y’all can be comfortable with this.” Other residents said the illegal aliens are setting up camp grounds, screaming at residents, and throwing trash on their property. “It is so unsafe,” one resident said. “Look at me, I weigh 95 pounds. I couldn’t defend myself if I had to ‘pack up and move.'” “It’s killing both of us mentally,” she continued. “I don’t understand what you expect of us as citizens. … Who’s protecting me? I want out of this town. I am sorry. Please give me a reason to stay.”

Matthew McConaughey loves America and isn’t afraid to show it. The star stepped out in style on September 8 to take in the men’s finals at the US Open Tennis Championships at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York City. Matthew donned an American flag bandana wrapped around his head, reminding the world that he loves red, white, and blue. Matthew isn’t just an avid tennis fan, he likes to hit the ball, too. He took advantage of his time in New York to watch a quick match with Australian tennis player Nick Jyrgios. Matthew McConaughey and wife Camila Alves on rare outing as they lead A-listers in star-studded stands at US Open final https://t.co/RPudjDrhtg— Daily Mail Celebrity (@DailyMailCeleb) September 9, 2024 The Men Seemed To Have A Great Time Playing Together US Open Tennis Championships shared a video on Facebook of Matthew and Nick playing tennis at Arthur Ashe Stadium. It was a pretty great match, and Matthew is a lot more competitive than people might know. A fan wrote, “Love that Matt plays one-handed backhand—old school.” This person agreed, “Nick did not even break a sweat and wearing a hoodie too. I loved his play regardless of the opinions and what not is currently said about him. He’s only human after all.” “Love Nick. Matthew breathless after 4 shots.” Matthew McConaughey was one of many stars who showed up in Queens on Sunday to take in a bit of tennis. Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift hung with Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes and his wife Brittany. The two women embraced, shutting down rumors they might be embroiled in a feud. Jon Bon Jovi, Dustin Hoffman, Edie Redmayne, John Hamm, and Vogue editor Anna Wintour were also on-site enjoying the beautiful weather. This story’s featured image is by John Nacion/Getty Images. The post Matthew McConaughey Stylishly Shows True Patriotism At US Open appeared first on InspireMore.

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