The thing is that the Gazans have been getting helped for years. The U.S. and others have given billions upon billions of dollars to them to “make their life better” and “give them a sense of hope.” They used the money to build the astonishing network of terror tunnels that run underneath Gaza and enabled them to murder Israelis. And now this “transition official,” and apparently Steve Witkoff as well with his plans to visit Gaza, promise nothing but more of the same appeasement and enablement that have never brought peace before, and never will in the future.
“Trump’s Middle East envoy is considering a visit to the Gaza Strip amid ceasefire deal,” by Olympia Sonnier, Carol E. Lee, Abigail Williams and Andrea Mitchell, NBC News, January 18, 2025:
President-elect Donald Trump’s envoy to the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, is considering a visit to the war-torn Gaza Strip as part of his efforts to keep a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas on track, according to a transition official with direct knowledge of the ceasefire process….
“Remember, there’s a lot of people, radicals, fanatics, not just from the Hamas side, from the right wing of the Israeli side, who are absolutely incentivized to blow this whole deal up,” the transition official said.
Visiting Gaza would allow Witkoff to see for himself what the dynamics are there, rather than taking Israel’s or the Palestinians’ word for it, the official said, adding: “You got to see it, you got to feel it.”
While managing the current phase of the deal and negotiating the next, Trump and his team also are contending with longer-term solutions.
“If we don’t help the Gazans, if we don’t make their life better, if we don’t give them a sense of hope, there’s going to be a rebellion,” the transition official said….
Bexarkat says
As in the wretched deal between Obama and the mullahs of Iran, no deal is better than a bad deal. Bibi is under more pressure than any human can bear and squeezed from every side to bring the hostages home. It is easy to second guess Bibi as we do not have to face the aftermath.
Billy says
Our incompetent leaders continue to believe the Muslim virtue-signaling and deceit despite the billions given to Muslims every year. Basically, Islam is a MUSLIM TERRORIST ORGANIZATION. More specifically, Islam is a Muslim Terrorist Ideology and Criminal Organization of discrimination, segregation, supremacy, genocide, polygamy, deceit, hatred, incitement, sedition, rape, terrorism, and violence against all Non-Muslims as taught in the Quran. Fundamentally, Islam is a Terrorist Criminal Enterprise. The FRUIT of Islam is WAR, terrorism, discrimination, and violence against all Non-Muslims; this FACT must be taught and broadcast to the general public to prohibit Islam, its Mosques, and its Schools. Furthermore, there is NO EQUALITY UNDER THE LAW in Islam or in Islamic Law.
Non-Muslims CANNOT have peace with Islam and its Muslims because Islam and its murderous god, Allah, demand a continuous, Muslim war against unbelievers where Non-Muslims are CRIMINALS under Islam as Allah in Qur’an 8:39 says, “And engage in war with them[Non-Muslims] until there will not be sedition and the religion will be completely to Allah…” HENCE, NON-MUSLIMS MUST MAKE ISLAM, ITS MOSQUES, ITS SCHOOLS, ITS ORGANIZATIONS, ETC. ILLEGAL UNDER THE LAW. Similarly, Islam and its many Organizations must be identified and declared to be a MUSLIM TERRORIST ORGANIZATION for their funding, teaching, and support of terrorism, violence, and discrimination against Non-Muslims.
Allah in Islam demands SURRENDER which means ‘to Surrender, whether voluntarily or not, by becoming a Muslim’ while Submission, ‘to Submit’, is a voluntary act to follow the authority or control of another. Allah in Quran 49:14 says, “’The Bedouins said, ‘We believed.’ Say,’You did not believe. But say, ‘We surrender (became Muslim as a result of fear).’ And the faith has not entered your hearts. And if you obey Allah and his messenger, he will not decrease anything from your works. Surely Allah is forgiving, merciful.’” Islam does NOT offer love and peace to anyone who is NOT A MUSLIM. Allah in Quran 48:29 says, “Muhammad is Allah’s Messenger, and those who are with him are severe against the infidels but full of tenderness among themselves…”
Islam promotes a terroristic, Muslim war against unbelievers when Allah in Qur’an 49:15 says, “Surely the believers are only those who believed in Allah and his messenger. They do not doubt, and they performed JIHAD with THEIR MONEY AND THEIR LIVES for the sake of Allah. Those are the truthful.”
Allah promises Heavenly Paradise to Muslims for acts of Muslim killing in a terrorist war when Quran 9:111 says, “Surely Allah has purchased from the believers[Muslims] their souls and their money so that they may have the garden[Heavenly Paradise]. They engage in war for the sake of Allah, so they kill and are killed…”
bagsgroove says
What sane person would want a “heavenly paradise” created by Allah ?
James says
Any resurrection where even the trees condemn “Hiding Jews” is not heaven it’s Hell, remember everyone will be resurrected but few of them will resurrect and be able to Ascend to a higher heaven than Paradise.
bagsgroove says
So to please “allah” all muslims should be destroyed.
bagsgroove says
So to please “allah” all muslims should be destroyed. Read genesis 16 in the bible for a description of the nature of muslims.
joanofark06 says
And so read Rev 20:4, that will tell you, the reason that there is a certain “religion”, or ideology, or large group of people, that HAS TO BE in EVERY NON-muslim country, for when the “mark” comes.
Who’s going to do Rev 20:4, to all the dedicated Christians in each one of those “used to be Christian” countries, because they will refuse Satan’s mark, during the half time of the “coming soon” 7 year Tribulation (Half time being 3 1/2 years).
The civilians in each one of those many NON-muslim countries, don’t have the anger and hate toward Christians in their country, but there is now, a large group of muslims in each one of those countries, that DO have hate and anger toward the Christians, almost as much as Satan has!
Also Satan will be a physical man then (unlike the spirit he is on this earth now), and being in a physical form, at this 3 1/2 year mark of the 7 year Tribuation, he will NOT be able to be in more than one place at a time, to wipe out, or exterminate, all of those Christians in all these countries, that refuse to worship him, and take his mark.
So enter, his followers, who are strategically placed in all of these many countries for this particular purpose.
bagsgroove says
All the descendants of Hagar are rotten.
bagsgroove says
What sane person would want a “heavenly paradise” created by Allah ?
BeccaR says
Witkoff is seriously compromised by his financial ties with Qatar. This is not what I hoped would happen for Israel under Trump. I guess I gave Trump too much credit. Why couldn’t someone like Mark Rubio be president? I voted Conservative. Trump was who was being offered. Once the dye was cast what choice did we have other than Trump? Witkoff is Blinken redux..
somehistory says
Same ol’ same ol’…..give the mozlums everything and then pretend that they have nothing. Give the mozlums everything and then pretend they have nothing.
Americans should be able to say No….There is an old advertisement where the voiceover guy says, “It’s your money.”
And so much hope was put on Trump and his “team.’ Supposedly, he had ‘learned’ from the last time around.
The “nations are being gathered to Armageddon.” that war will end the evil and the madness which supports and funds the evil.
St Croix says
Yes, this is a train we see in the distance, gaining speed, not slowing down. Francisco Gil-White published an article about Trump and the idea of if it’s real change or just same old, under a new wig? The way to tell? How the U.S. will treat Israel, and the “two state ‘solution'”… looks like same old to me. Meaning, there is no real opposition, it’s all a farce?
Israel and the Jews are the test point. the dividing line, the cup of staggering for all nations.
Looks very bad for the incoming team with this appointee and his plans. Trump is not the saving power we should all be looking to! There is this other king coming, the KING of Kings. Maranatha! God speed that day. Though I know it will be terrible between now and then, we have to keep our eyes on the real prize, The Prize, the Pearl of Great Price and how it will all finally be resolved!
Stive says
My comment will be not liked by most but there is the right of what to believe if not harming others. Few agreed with my view a few years ago but now, though the minority, many now agree with my view and I suspect within a year a third will agree.
I am not surprised by anything and why I believe what I believe based on facts and what out of this man’s own mouth yet for some reason some things just won’t register to some folk, well without any further delay, the son of perdition, the pretend angel of light or The Antichrist is Donald trump.
Becca R says
I am for Conservative policies. I hate Progressive theology. I voted Trump because the alternative was a billion times worse. Would he have been my pick to head the Republicsn ticket? NO. But our society is so dumbed down no one. Rubio, de Santis would have carried the ticket. Trump got off to a bad start with this vanity deal. Perhaps he will give Israelis free reign to deal with Iran? Right now I feel Israel is in a compromised position. The Qataris have the upper hand. Make no mistake a defeat of Iran leaves a vacuum that Turkey and Qatar are ready to fill. Maybe Trumo will secure the Southern border, end DEI, and get rid of the illegal immigrants. Grest. But he is not doing right by Israel with this deal. He should have waited until the 20th. Then the security team could have put the skids to Hanas: Release all hostages or we stop all aid and decimate your paradise. He talked the talk and did not walk the walk.
somehistory says
The Bible makes clear that the “antichrist” is not one individual. “There are many antichrists.” There were antichrists in the days of the Apostles, as both John and Paul make clear.
and, the “angel of light” is satan the devil, the “god of this system of things.” Trump is not the “angel of light.” and he has not proven to be antichrist.
He may be arrogant; he may be foolish. But so far, he has not said anything against Jesus Christ, nor denied His existence.
Patrick Kelley says
I think Trump, his family, and indirect family are compromised by Islam. They’re in a position of compromising with any terrorist organization, making them complicit in they’re compromise. Trump thinks Muslims are his friends, he has friends in the Muslim world. In 2020 time frame, Trump told the Prince of Saudi Arabia to invest in America. Can you imagine, allowing a terrorist country like Saudi Arabia to invest in America, so the Prince invested $80 billion to build mosques throughout the USA, which cements Islam in our country. Thanks Trump!
Islam is jihad, Muslims hate America, they hate you and me, would kill you and me, if given the opportunity. American’s are clueless as well, they don’t read, would rather be other occupied. We’re becoming another UK.
Given Trump’s complacency with Islam, Sharia Law in America is a real possibility, not in 4 years but, a real possibility. Ignorance of Islam, is no excuse for giving away our freedoms.
carpediadem says
Gee i am SO relieved an effing real estate pro is going to assess a war zone situation!
Brenrod says
““If we don’t help the Gazans, if we don’t make their life better, if we don’t give them a sense of hope, there’s going to be a rebellion,” the transition official said….”
The only way to help or “bring hope” to Gaza is to fully destroy and purge hamas from Gaza. Don’t expect anything to change if Hamas still there.
joanofark06 says
And just like Satan, he has to copy everything that God does, to have people follow him, unknowingly…..so there as there is God’s Trinity:
God the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit
then the evil side is:
Satan, the Antichrist, and the False Prophet.
And most theologians, and bible prophecy scholars agree, as I do, that Satan will need a “religious” figure in his trilogy, and this is the third part of the evil trinity, the “False Prophet”, who is worshipped, followed, and loved around the world, but to be almost as evil as satan himself, then that would be the “Pope”.
Going backwards again, to the second part of this evil trinity, this is the Antichrist and we will NOT know who this person is, until at the beginning or at some time during the “coming soon” 7 year Tribulation period, and number one is, of course Satan, and he is himself.
As for Trump, I’ve written what his purpose will be, many many times, but to say it, NOT in a long detail as I usually do, but today, it’s just going to be in one sentence.
That he will be the lighter and the holder of the torch, that he passes on to some rich and powerful leaders in the Middle East, and they take it to the finish line!
Figuratively, not literally.
If you know what the world wide event is that occurs, that brings on the 7 year Tribulation period, then your smarter than probably ninety % of people in the world.
God wouldn’t let the 7 year Tribulation just begin at any ole time, without giving a large enough sign to the world, that the world will KNOW, that it HAS begun.
Even though, some “Christians” say that we’re in that time, or that 7 year Tribulation was centuries ago, and is not for a future time. I just laugh at people that say these things.
YOU SAID:
“But so far, he has not said anything against Jesus Christ, nor denied His existence.”
But every president, since Pres. Carter, has said publicly, that they were Christians, but they were not. And so again, Trump has said he was too, but he said the worst thing he could of said, on that radio show, last time he was in office, and the host was asking Trump about his “faith”, and asked him, “if he had ever asked God for forgiveness”, and when Trump answered with a definite “No”, the host asked why not, and Trump replied “that he had never done anything wrong to ask for forgiveness for”, and that was a very sad shock to all Christians who heard that.
That answer should let all Christians know, that the answer Trump gave (it was with all seriousness too!), showed that he is arrogant, and believes he doesn’t need God, or that he doesn’t sin, which means he thinks he’s perfect!
As for ISLAM:
And other than saying all those sweet things, to the muslim president of Nigeria, on the White House lawn, with millions of Christians being horribly murdered throughout this Nigerian presidents reign, and Trump only mentioning that fact to that president, at the end of the speech, is not the only time, that Trump praised Islam.
He did a horrible thing in God’s eyes, by celebrating the islam holiday of Iftar? IN the White House, which means he didn’t realize that he’s celebrating another “god”, and EVERYONE should know that’s a big NO NO, because our God is a jealous God, and He has a commandment that we should not have any other gods before Him!
So one day, he’s giving us the “Snake” poem, and making us believe that he’ll be all negative about Islam, and the next day, he’s celebrating their holiday!
And like I said already, EVERY president since Pres Carter, has said publicly, or “lied” publicly, that they were a Christian, and we all know that it was just to get that large group’s vote!
But through all of this, God has plans to use him. The “trumpet” man, himself. (Trumpets are blown in Revelation, read up on’em!)
So, the world has within four years, to make up their minds, on who they will serve (and with saying that, it always reminds me of a Bob Dylan song, lol).
When you see Trump picking up his document, (of which he could of given ANY name at all to, but gave it a biblical name to it…another sign I saw), and taking it to the Middle East, and getting more signatures added to the ones already on it, it’s time for the world to wake up! The beginning of the end is about to commence!
somehistory says
Sorry, Joan, but you have some things so mixed up. Hopefully, you will pray for direction and God can help you get things straightened out.
You should post sometime where Jesus said that the Great tribulation would be *seven years long.* I have yet to read that Scripture. I have read many times where He said, ‘the days will be cut short, or no flesh would be saved.”
Now, please, book, chapter and verse where He said how long.
A person claiming to be Christian, and being part of the antichrist, are not the same thing. All of us, no matter how hard we may try, and how much we may love God, make mistakes. It’s for God to decide if those “mistakes” are deliberate and deserve punishment.
Now, please, stop shouting, especially if you direct your comments to me. thank you.
Stive says
Exactly. I have yet to find in the bible such thing as a 7 year tribulation. There is the great tribulation of 42 months. In Daniel what seems to have been cut off in the middle of that week was Jesus Christ. The final 42 months might be overlap of the great tribulation and the 2 witnesses.
The only 7 years timing I found is Jacobs trouble and Jacob or Israel has 12 tribes, and most are lost in identity today, but the trouble is for all 12 tribes not just Judah.
somehistory says
I believe some people have misapplied other verses and when they speak on these things in church, or online, too many take their word instead of reading the Bible.
Joseph in Egypt had a dream of fat and skinny cows, and fat and skinny wheat and that dream was prophetic of seven years of plenty followed by seven years of famine. that was a protection for God’s people so they would survive the famine.
But that has not been referenced by Jesus as was the flood of Noah’s days, Lot’s wife disobeying the angels, nor what He said regarding the need to pay attention to Daniel’s prophecy about the “the one causing desolation”
We have been given a “sign” but we have not been given a time limit nor the “day and hour.”