Too bad it doesn’t involve send in hundreds of drones to wipe Hamas from the face of the Earth. Because Hamas and the Islamists will never give up. They even say so
U.S. envoy tells Israeli families of plan to bring all the hostages home
Steve Witkoff, President Donald Trump’s special envoy, told Israeli hostage families on Saturday that the United States has a plan to bring home all the remaining captives held by Hamas in a sweeping deal and that an end to the war was near, according to a recording of the meeting published by Israeli Channel 12 television.
Witkoff met the families in Tel Aviv after attending an impromptu protest that was held in the city after Hamas released a video, late Friday, of a gaunt 24-year-old hostage, Evyatar David, describing a lack of food while in captivity in Gaza and urging Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to end the war.
Hamas and its militant affiliates have often released similar videos during critical junctures in negotiations with Israel to stir public sentiment and apply pressure on the government.
Trump “now believes that everybody should come home at once, no piecemeal deals. That doesn’t work and we’ve tried everything,” Witkoff said, according to the recording of the meeting.
I wonder if this involves backdoor threats from the Trump admin
Witkoff also told the families that Hamas was ready to commit to laying down its arms, Israeli media reported, citing families who had met with Witkoff.
Hamas immediately denied on Saturday that it was ready to disarm. “Resistance and its weapons are a national and legal right as long as the occupation persists,” it said in a statement. “We will never relinquish this right until all our national rights are restored, foremost among them the establishment of an independent, fully sovereign Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital.”
And there it is: what we’ve said all along. Hamas and the Palestinians want Israel wiped out, the Jews killed, and the area turned into a hardcore Islamic caliphate. Obviously, the Washington Post has nothing to say on the matter, they just gloss over it. But, they are happy to run with the “Gazans are starving narrative afterwards.” All they have to do is release the hostages and lay down their arms.
The current government in Israel has a razor thin majority, certainly not a mandate.2/3s of the countries on the planet support the creation of a Palestinian state
Israel wanted Hamas to takeover in Gaza from the Palestinian Authority. They weakened the Palestinian Authority both economically and militaraly which allowed Hamas to take control of Gaza. Divide and conquer. Israel does not want a strong Palestinian strong Palestinian
peace partner to negotiate with. Like Trump’s friend Russia Israel wants to annex more land. They will create the conditions so that will happen
Congratulations John, that was one of your more dumb comments. Why do you hate Jews? Why were you is prison?
Good one!
Great logic, Johnny-hairy-smith. Do those two- thirds countries you mentioned have Muslim neighbors chanting for their death and destruction? They don’t? Then that would make it quite easy to support a Palestinian state, right?
I believe Trump is too idealistic in this regard. He believes that all rational people want and prefer peace. It’s the same reason he couldn’t get peace in Ukraine. Too many people won’t allow it.
His “peace team” keeps proposing unrealistic alternatives and pretending there is some “middle ground” that they learned about in diplomacy school.
The good professor wrote:
This is actually a common failing of Westerners. We see it in the “Queers for Palestine” and other groups supporting Hamas and the Palestinians, somehow refusing to believe what the Islamists tell them directly, but hanging on to their kumbaya thinking.
Marshall Tito was able to keep the peace in multi-ethnic Yugoslavia for forty years, but once he went to his eternal reward, it didn’t take that long for Slobodan Milosevic to inflame the ethnic hatred among people who had been living quite literally next door to people from a different ethnic group, and start a civil war.
Living in multi-ethnic America, where people of French descent don’t hate Germans, we forget that the Germans and the French, and the French and the English fought a bunch of wars, and quite literally hated and distrusted the other; in Europe, those nationalities, all white and all Christian, lived in the separate areas.
Adolf Hitler and the Nazis really didn’t have that hard a job in convincing not only the Germans, but people in the nations they occupied, to turn against the Jews, who were primarily just as white as other Europeans.