On Sunday Hamas released a U.S. citizen being held hostage in Gaza, along with 16 others:
Hamas freed 17 hostages held in Gaza, including a 4-year-old American girl, while Israel released 39 Palestinian prisoners on Sunday, the third day of their truce.
The International Committee of the Red Cross said it had successfully transferred 17 hostages from Gaza. Hamas said it had handed over 13 Israelis, three Thais and one with Russian citizenship.
The release of the hostages - part of a larger group captured when Hamas fighters rampaged through southern Israel on Oct. 7 - was mirrored by the freeing of 39 Palestinians, all of whom are teenagers, according to the Palestinian news agency WAFA.
That's great news, but something related to that story caught my eye.
At this point, it may or may not shock you to discover that this story has a connection to Hunter Biden (what doesn't?).
The U.S. hostage that Hamas released is related to a connoisseur of Hunter Biden's "art" who also works in the Biden administration:
The first and only American hostage released by Hamas is the great-niece of a Biden appointee who also happens to be a buyer of Hunter Biden's art.https://t.co/G5zb1k8vlJ
— Tom Bevan (@TomBevanRCP) November 29, 2023
Well, there it is!
From Real Clear Investigations:
The American kidnap victim released by the terrorist group Hamas during its ongoing ceasefire with Israel is a great-niece of Elizabeth Hirsh Naftali, a major Democratic party donor who paid handsomely for Hunter Biden’s art and won an appointment to a plum cultural post from President Biden.
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Republican House members have been investigating possible connections between Hirsh Naftali’s art buying and her government appointment to the U.S. Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad since July. In a letter that month to Hirsh Naftali, Oversight Committee chairman James Comer of Kentucky said, "Your position on the Commission is particularly suspicious because of Hunter Biden’s previous actions to elevate his business partner—Eric Schwerin—to the same post while his father was Vice President."
That's an incredible coincidence, don't you think?
You simply must be shitting me https://t.co/yWJRalqJEH
— Sunny (@sunnyright) November 29, 2023
The moral of the story: if you don’t check the right demo boxes*, you better be connected
— Trunk Munkey (@trunkmunkey) November 29, 2023
*See Griner v Merchant of Death https://t.co/isjDBvrGZJ
Being a "donor" to the correct people can really come in handy, apparently.
I’m guessing if this was Trump there would be congressional investigations and impeachment if it was shown that any government official took action to prioritize her, rather than insisting all American hostages be immediately released.
— Wes Dorman (@JWesleyDorman) November 29, 2023
Instead, that detail isn't even mentioned in any of the mainstream media reports that I've seen.
