Terror footage to be viewed
Republican Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman has invited county legislators -- presumably among a select group of individuals --to review raw footage of the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel. Hamas, a terrorist group that controls the Gaza strip along Israel's border, murdered and mutilated more than 1,000 Israeli women, children and elderly, took more than 100 Israeli citizens hostage and then gleefully posted video's of the carnage on social media. Most of the videos are so horrific that they were censured and blocked from view. As a result, some Hamas and Palestine supporters deny there were any killings. They have torn down posters of the Israel hostages and characterize Israel as an oppressive colonizer that denies Palestinians food, water and freedom. Carefully chosen federal politicians and journalists have viewed the raw footage, to remove doubts about the authenticity of the attacks. Now Blakeman, through the United Jewish Federation of New York, is offering a viewing...