By Free Republic | Created at 2024-11-24 22:38:56 | Updated at 2024-11-25 00:50:52
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'Look me in the eyes': Ex-Hamas hostage leaves [woke] pro-Palestinian activist speechless Newly surfaced debate video shows.
Ynet ^ | 11.18.2024 | Daniela Ginzburg
Posted on 11/24/2024 2:37:50 PM PST by Milagros
A debate event held last June in Los Angeles featured participants such as Mosab Hassan Yousef ("The Green Prince"), Moran Stela Yanai—a survivor kidnapped and held captive by Hamas, UCLA Y&S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies Director Prof. Dov Waxman and pro-Palestinian activist Aidan Dewolf, the organizer of a protest encampment at the same university.
This event went viral on Monday following the release of the second part of the interview, where Yanai directly addresses and speaks with Dwolf. In this newly released second segment, published four months after the initial interview, Yanai is seen addressing the pro-Palestinian activist, saying, "I really want to talk to you on eye level and tell you a story, if you want to hear it. "...When I was kidnapped to Gaza, I was caught three times. The last time, I was caught by 13 Hamas terrorists. Thirteen. I want you to acknowledge the facts as they are, truly. I’ve visited the U.S., have you ever been to Israel? Have you visited Gaza before? Probably not," she recounts. More Stories Amid war, these Israeli universities shine in global rankings Israeli model Sun Mizrahi parts ways with husband after three years of marriage 'Bella Hadid cried when I told her about October 7' "On October 7, and this is what they (the terrorists) told me, they had no idea about the Nova festival, they didn’t know there were 3,000 people there. They planned, and this is what they told me, to continue onward and kill as many people as possible. In Be'er Sheva, Tel Aviv, Haifa—they wanted to slaughter everyone.
"And you know what, maybe you won’t believe me, but I can show you the videos that I have. Do you know how many bodies were there? Do you know how much violence I experienced firsthand? I was caught in the middle of the lynch; I was portrayed as a soldier because I chose that day, unintentionally, to wear olive-green clothes that looked like a uniform. That was enough to classify me as a soldier. "And they treated me like a soldier. I’m 40 years old, look at me, I’m 40. I have a cat and a dog; I had two cats, I lost one that day. I have a mom and dad, and a brother, who left their whole lives to try and help me. My mom found out I was kidnapped through my 12-year-old niece, who saw a video on TikTok and recognized me. That’s how they found out I was kidnapped. Did you know that?" Yanai continued her dialogue with Dwolf for several more minutes, during which it was clear that he felt very uncomfortable with the direct yet calm way she presented her story to him, even struggling to maintain eye contact. Social media reactions quickly followed, with many praising Yanai's quiet strength and the way she shared her story and words with Dewolf.
It should be noted that Yanai is a jewelry designer who went to the Nova Festival near Kibbutz Re'im on October 7, 2023, to sell her jewelry. During the Hamas attack on the festival, she was kidnapped by Hamas terrorists and taken to the Gaza Strip, where she was held captive for 54 days. During her captivity, Yanai had to endure harsh conditions, including humiliation and abuse. She recounted in several interviews how she was forced to beg for food and her captors' demand that she look them in the eyes, which left her with deep psychological scars. After her release, Yanai underwent a lengthy rehabilitation process. In January 2024, she returned to her home in Be'er Sheva and has since continued to share her story to raise awareness about the situation of hostages and encourage the public to advocate for them.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mXI4reXwnk
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: aidandoyle; genocidetlaib; pallywood; skp
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Freed Hamas hostage confronts UCLA student behind anti-Israel protests in excruciating exchange. By Emily Crane. Published Nov. 19, 2024 A freed Hamas hostage left an anti-Israel university student protester visibly squirming as she bravely told him how she was beaten, lynched and abused by her terrorist captors, a powerful video of their encounter shows.
Moran Stella Yanai, who was among those snatched from the Nova Music Festival during last year’s Oct. 7 terror attack, was filmed calmly confronting UCLA student Aidan Doyle during a panel discussion earlier this year over the ongoing Israel-Palestinian conflict.
Doyle, an apparent leader of UCLA’s anti-Israel tent encampment, refused to make eye contact with Yanai and could be seen shifting uncomfortably in his seat as she relayed the horrors of her harrowing ordeal.
“When I was entering Gaza and there is a video that I saw, 100% of civilians celebrating me being taken… All I saw was 100% of civilians lynching me, beating me up. I was with a broken leg. I had bruises all over my body,” Yanai was filmed saying in the viral clip, which exploded online after being posted by the Instagram account Trusted Confidential Coverage.
“Do you know that I’ve never cursed them? I’ve never argued with them. And I’ve never treated them like garbage. I respected them even when they abused me, because I believe that if I want to be respected, I have to respect everybody else.”
“So I’m asking you one thing and one thing only because I see you’re not comfortable. I’m asking you to check facts on both sides,” she added.
Earlier in the panel, Yanai — who was held hostage for 44 days in Gaza — acknowledged to the audience that she and Doyle didn’t have to have the same views.
“Have you ever been to Israel? Have you visited Gaza before? Probably not,” she questioned Doyle. “Did you know that the vast majority of the hostages believe in coexisting?”
“On October 7, and this is what [the terrorists] told me, they didn’t know about the Nova festival, they didn’t know that we have 3,000 people there. They planned, and they told me that, they planned to move on and kill as much as they could. In Beersheba, in Tel Aviv, in Haifa — they wanted to slaughter everybody,” she said.
At the time, he shared multiple clips of students being cuffed and hauled away by cops as protests descended into chaos.
Yanai, a jewelry designer, was among the first batch of hostages freed by Hamas last November as part of a temporary cease-fire with Israel.
https://nypost.com/2024/11/19/us-news/freed-hamas-hostage-confronts-ucla-student-behind-anti-israel-protests-in-excruciating-exchange/
1 posted on 11/24/2024 2:37:50 PM PST by Milagros
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