{"id":52312,"date":"2023-10-12T10:19:50","date_gmt":"2023-10-12T14:19:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=52312"},"modified":"2023-10-12T10:19:50","modified_gmt":"2023-10-12T14:19:50","slug":"actions-have-consequences-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=52312","title":{"rendered":"Actions Have Consequences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2023\/10\/11\/hamas-official-ali-baraka-iran-hostage-gaza\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Daily Caller<\/a> posted an article about the rationale that Hamas is using for taking American hostages.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Ali Baraka, a senior Hamas official, told Russia Today in a Sunday interview that Hamas demands that the United States engage in prisoner swaps and cited President Joe Biden\u2019s recent Iran hostage deal as a rationale for taking of American captives.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Baraka noted in a translated excerpt of the interview\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.memri.org\/reports\/senior-hamas-official-ali-baraka-we-have-been-secretly-planning-invasion-two-years-russia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">provided<\/a>\u00a0by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) that there are multiple Hamas members serving life sentences in U.S. prisons. \u201cWe demand that the U.S. free our sons from prisons,\u201d Baraka said.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The article concludes:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Baraka said that there was plenty of precedent to suggest that the United States would comply with Hamas\u2019 demands. \u201cThe U.S. conducts prisoner swaps. Only recently, it did one with Iran. Why wouldn\u2019t it conduct a prisoner swap with us?\u201d Baraka asked.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The Biden administration\u2019s Sept. 11, 2023 deal with Iran\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2023\/09\/11\/biden-admin-green-lights-6-billion-ransom-payment-to-iran-in-exchange-for-american-prisoners\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">involved<\/a>\u00a0the United States transferring $6 billion to the Islamic Republic in exchange for the release of five American prisoners.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>\u201cBiden, the highest authority in the U.S., declared that he stands with Israel against Hamas and the Palestinian people. Therefore, he is a partner to this aggression, he must pay the price,\u201d Baraka said in the interview.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration has put the lives of Americans at risk both at home and abroad. At home we have the invasion at our southern border and abroad we have people believing that kidnapping Americans will result in a nice financial reward, the return of a terrorist or both. This administration needs to be impeached&#8211;from top to bottom!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, The Daily Caller posted an article about the rationale that Hamas is using for taking American hostages. The article reports: Ali Baraka, a senior Hamas official, told Russia Today in a Sunday interview that Hamas demands that the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=52312\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[17079,17078,246,17082,17081,17080,7015],"class_list":["post-52312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ali-baraka","tag-american-hostages","tag-iran","tag-middle-east-media-research-institute-memri","tag-prisoner-swap","tag-russia-today","tag-the-daily-caller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52312"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52313,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52312\/revisions\/52313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}