Wednesday, January 29, 2025

Trump halts "condom funds" Hamas used for balloon bombs

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said the Trump officials discovered that 50 million taxpayer dollars were allocated to fund condoms to be distributed in Gaza. "That is a preposterous waste of taxpayer money," Leavit said. A report by the Jerusalem Post claimed that Hamas operatives have been repurposing condoms to create balloons filled with inflammable gases to strike targets in southern Israel since 2017. These condoms attached with improvised explosive devices often land in schools, farm lands and roads. In 2019, they started attaching these condom bombs to rocket-propelled grenades. The helium filled in these condoms were initially imported for medical purposes with Israel consent.

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Over the past decade, Hamas has used condoms to create IED-carrying balloons that winds would fly into southern Israel, raising the alarm on schoolyards, farmlands, and highways. These improvised explosive devices burned thousands of hectares of land and caused extensive damage.
www.israelhayom.com
There goes that GenOCiDe!!?!? I keep hearing so much about.

#1 | Posted by censored at 2025-01-29 09:06 AM

Leon Skum

#2 | Posted by hamburglar at 2025-01-29 09:36 AM

It's ridiculous that $50 million is a rounding error to how much our government spends.

#3 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-01-29 11:44 AM

It's a rounding error in the DoD budget alone.

But I don't recall you ever batting an eye when it went up by tens of billions of dollars every year under "fiscal conservatives."

#4 | Posted by jpw at 2025-01-29 12:09 PM

" But I don't recall you ever batting an eye when it went up by tens of billions of dollars every year under "fiscal conservatives."

#4 | POSTED BY JPW AT 2025-01-29 12:09 PM | FLAG: "

Are you pissed off that this was removed ?

You sure seem like it but then you are butt hurt about everything lately.

#5 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-01-29 12:51 PM

No. I suspect a lot of NGO spending would raise eyebrows and should get the axe.

You keep saying butthurt, but you don't seem to know what it means. Pointing out that the right's obsession with spending is yet again an example of rank hypocrisy isn't being butthurt.

You're toeing the line of the whole 'accusation is an admission' thingy here...

#6 | Posted by jpw at 2025-01-29 01:07 PM

The-------------'s latest mouthpiece is a lying twunt.

www.independent.co.uk

#7 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-01-29 02:27 PM

Karoline Leavitt was incredibly painful to listen to. It was awful, and cringe-worthy, stream of lies, the biggest being she was there to present only the truth. I will never have that time back that I listened to that inveterate liar.

#8 | Posted by YAV at 2025-01-29 02:32 PM

The 50 million is for sanitary and medical supplies.

Censored - Is this what they taught you in kibbutz? To be a liar?

#9 | Posted by redlightrobot at 2025-01-29 02:57 PM

It's ridiculous that $50 million is a rounding error to how much our government spends.

#3 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER

It's ridiculous that the pentagon budget cannot pass an audit.

But it's also ridiculous to think that an alcoholic with no experience running an organization with hundreds of employees much less 3 million employees is going to be able to fix that.

#10 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-01-29 04:00 PM

How long before Censored admits he voted for Trump and is a full blown Deplorable Trumping MAGAt?

#11 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-01-29 04:11 PM

Did the Biden admin actually send $50M worth of condoms to Gaza?
www.newsnationnow.com

... White House press secretary Karoline Leavitts recent claim that the Biden administration sent $50 million worth of condoms to Gaza doesn't hold up to scrutiny, according to an independent U.S. government agency.

Leavitt claimed that the Trump administration stopped the multimillion-dollar shipment, citing it as a "waste of taxpayer money."

A United States Agency for International Development (USAID) report shows no such shipment.

The report did show a "small delivery," valued at $45,680, was made to Jordan. The territory of Gaza is not mentioned in the 48-page report. ...




#12 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-01-29 04:18 PM

Community Note Debunking Trump White House Claim on Condoms for Gaza Disappeared' From X
www.mediaite.com

Ruh roh, CENSORSHIP!!!

#13 | Posted by rstybeach11 at 2025-01-29 04:42 PM

Censored - Is this what they taught you in kibbutz? To be a liar?
#9 | Posted by redlightrobot

I'm just here to report the news. If you disagree with the claims made by Trump's press secretary, you should take it up with your friends in Dearborn who elected the guy president.

#14 | Posted by censored at 2025-01-29 05:20 PM

#14 | Posted by censored

Nah, you're spreading baseless bullchit.

Swallow it.

#15 | Posted by rstybeach11 at 2025-01-29 05:28 PM

Nah, you're spreading baseless bullchit.
Maybe, but probably as baseful (?) as anything else that I'll be copy/pasting from the White House for the next four to twelve years.

Swallow it.
#15 | Posted by rstybeach11
I will not. No means no! #MeToo

#16 | Posted by censored at 2025-01-29 06:06 PM

"I love spreading Trump's propaganda!"
-Censored

#17 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-01-29 06:11 PM

Censored is always lying for the Chosen. It's his way of helping them.

Chosen means Never having to say you're Sorry.

Too bad the UnChosen see it for what it is.

Lying.

#18 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2025-01-29 06:13 PM

Maybe not funded by us, but:

Flaming Condoms Are the Newest Threat to Southern Israel
Inflated rubbers with firebombs attached torch fields, woods
Israel struggling to deal with improvised incendiary devices

Condoms have moved out of the bedroom and into the air in the Gaza Strip, where they've become the newest weapon against Israel.

Sometimes tied together for added buoyancy, the inflated prophylactics are attached to gas-soaked rags, other burning items or explosive devices, then flown over the border like balloons into southern Israel, where they set fire to farmlands and nature reserves.

Bloomberg June 21, 2018

Hamas-Condoms

#19 | Posted by censored at 2025-01-29 06:42 PM

Condoms Are the Newest Threat to Southern Israel

Someone should teach them which head they're supposed to put it on.

Help save a lot of Israelis from suffocation.

#20 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-01-29 06:48 PM

So, Fat Donnie Liar lies again

---- you MAGAT scum

#21 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-01-29 07:17 PM

Nothing but lies.
Lies and more death.
From the "pro-life" party.

#22 | Posted by YAV at 2025-01-29 10:57 PM

Lies and more death.

You are literally defending Palestinians who are using these to kill.

#23 | Posted by boaz at 2025-01-30 11:34 AM

#23 - ---- off, loser.
You don't get to put words in my mouth.
You can't even make a cogent argument.
You can't even figure out context.

GFY.

#24 | Posted by YAV at 2025-01-30 11:38 AM

" You are literally defending Palestinians who are using these to kill."

You must have missed the part where the "Hamas" place the condoms were sent ... was in Africa. Not the Middle East.

The White House is full of idiots.

#25 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-01-30 11:41 AM

Only if Trumps daddy would have used a condom ... .

#26 | Posted by a_monson at 2025-01-31 02:06 AM

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