Trump calls the freeing of 20 hostages for nearly 2000 Palestinian prisoners, and the withdrawal of the IDF from Gaza City, back to a perimeter closer to Gaza’s border with Israel, an “end of an age of terror and death” and a “triumph for Israel.” No doubt the Israelis are ecstatic at the return of the twenty hostages, but does this constitute a “triumph for Israel”? The IDF was prevented by Trump from dealing a mortal blow to Hamas in Gaza City. Hamas has already broken its promise to return 28 bodies, sending back only four dead Israelis, while claiming that they have been unable to locate the others. The IDF believes Hamas is lying. Why wouldn’t they send those dead bodies back? Possibly because any forensic expert would be able to detect signs of torture, with eyes gouged out and genitalia cut off, or decapitated bodies. And there is no real “triumph for Israel” until Hamas has been completely demilitarized, something the Hamas leaders promise will never happen.
Trump said: “Generations from now, people will remember as the moment in time when everything changed for the better.”
No, that’s not going to happen. The war may stop in Gaza. But saving Hamas from complete destruction does not change things “for the better.” Handing Hamas 2,000 potential recruits from Israeli prisons does not change things “for the better.” Putting words about the creation of a “Palestinian state” in the 20-point Trump Peace Plan is not changing things “for the better.” There ought to have been no mention of a “Palestinian state,” but a focus only on Hamas in Gaza.
Trump also said in the Knesset that the October 7 attacks “struck at the core of humanity itself.” Really? Was all of humanity struck dumb by the Hamas atrocities? Not at all. The expressions of sympathy for Israel lasted only a few days. Within a week, it was Israel that was being bashed around the world for the “disproportionate response” it had launched against Hamas.
“It struck to the core of humanity itself” — no it didn’t. Many people cheered, And the accusations against Israel, from around the world, became ever more unhinged, with Israel now said to have committed a “genocide” that was “worse than what the Nazis did.”
Trump described “dancing in the streets” all over the Middle East at the news of the hostage-for-prisoner exchange, and of the IDF’s pullback to a perimeter closer to Israel. Again, he’s exaggerating. Israelis danced in Hostages’ Square in Tel Aviv. In Gaza, Palestinians shot into the air, women ululated, men gave their Allahu-akbaring war cry, shouting that they would continue to fight the Zionist enemy. Elsewhere in the Middle East, the reaction was mute; there was no “dancing in the streets” in Egypt, in Jordan, in Lebanon, in Saudi Arabia, in the UAE, in Iran. Trump is hallucinating.
Trump then told the Knesset that “Israel’s security will no longer be threatened In any way, shape, or form.” Will Israel no longer have to worry about nuclear weapons on ballistic missiles being launched at it from Iran? Will the Houthis stop their aerial attacks from Yemen? Will Hezbollah finally stop its intermittent missile and drone attacks on the Galilee from southern Lebanon? Will Qatar stop supplying weapons and money to Hamas fighters in Gaza, and no longer play host to Hamas leaders who are living in great luxury in Doha? Will Egypt stop moving more troops into the northern Sinai in a clear violation of the Camp David Accords, and bring them back to the southern Sinai? The Israelis know that the war against them has no end, the jihad imperative never ceases, and the best way to keep the peace is to rely on deterrence, that is, with the IDF so obviously stronger than its enemies that they will not dare to attack it.
Trump foretold “peace and prosperity for the entire Middle East.” Does that mean that somehow the 80% of the Iranian population that now lives below the poverty line will be lifted above it? Will the Iranian riyal, now pegged at 1,050,000 to the dollar, return to its pre-Khomeini value of 42,000 riyals to the dollar? Will prosperity come to Yemen, still in the throes of a civil war between Shi’a Houthis and the national government run by Sunnis, that shows no signs of stopping, and has made the country one of the poorest in the world? What “prosperity” will come to Syria, racked as it is by disaffected minorities — the Alawites, the Druze, the Kurds — and with so much of the country’s infrastructure destroyed by Assad during the civil war that lasted from 2011 to 2024, that it will take at least $400 billion to put Syria back into its pre-civil-war condition?
Trump then claimed that “the world is loving Israel again.” Nonsense. It should never have stopped, if not loving, then at least admiring, the plucky little state forced to continually fight for its very survival. I wish Trump were right, but everywhere the anti-Israel pro-Hamas marchers are still out in force, in cities — including Amsterdam, London, Paris and Rome — and on campuses throughout the Western world. It will take years before Israel is again treated fairly.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
The 1964 rebranding of Arabs of the area into “Palestinians” by the Soviets was the most successful coup against the Israelis. Until the day that the majority of the world sees muslims for what they are, Jews/Israelis will not be treated fairly
gravenimage says
Grimly true, Infidel.
Walter Sieruk says
Those liars who are the Muslim terrorist chiefs of Hamas can’t be trusted in that “peace agreement” that they signed . Their signature on that document that they had signed, means nothing because their promises meant nothing, They have no honor , so they have no intention of keeping word. To put this in any, their signature on that “peace agreement isn’t even worth the people that it’s printed on.
A person has to be hopefully unrealistic and even naively gullible to really believe that this Trump “peace deal” will create a genuine lasting peace in the Middle East. For the disingenuous and outright liars who are the chiefs of Hamas will only stay peaceful until they restore their weapons supplies in massive amounts , and then launch further murderous jihad attacks into Israel.
For that so called “peace deal” and the “ceasefire” that is part of it with the jihadist chiefs of the murderous jihad entity Hamas pretended to agree to is a deceptive Islamic hoax. Meaning nothing but a false and fake truce.
The reason why this is so is because such a “ceasefire” would not really be agreed to is because it’s a ploy for Hamas to restore its loses by using that for Iran to resupply it with deadly weapons provided to it by Iran.
Those jihadists would only keep the terms of a ceasefire only as long as it would site them and no longer .Then those Muslim terrorists of Hamas will then break the “truce” and then launch more jihad missile attacks murdering the peaceful civilians of the State of Israel.
Likewise, the Muslim terrorists of Hamas will also sneak into Israel from Gaza and hand held weapons of death and inflect murderous jihad massacres on the Jewish people of Israel
Jerry says
I agree with this article. But I think it is worse than that. According to World Press dot com and the BBC, a deal was struck between Qatar and President Trump which would have the U.S. Military protecting Qatar if it was attacked. A deal close to the NATO Article V (5) Treaty response. The deal which I know should be a Treaty, and should go before the U.S. Senate as per Article 2, Section 2, Claus 2 in the U.S. Constitution. Why do I call it a Treaty? Because it will require our Military men and woman to be put in harms way to protect Qatar. .
So, what would happen if the Qatar air force attacked Israel using the F15s we sold them, and the trained pilots we trained in the tactics of war fighting? Than when Israel counter attacks? Would our military be required to fight against Israel to defend Qatar?
The second problem is now all the Mid-East leaders from the nations that have hated and fought against Israel are now joined in an agreement that could become a type of NATO in the Mid-East. And they will have troops in Gaza to be a police force to protect the people in Gaza from Hamass. But will end up training Hammas and supplying them with more weapons and munitions.
I trust in the GOD of the Bible. Not man. And from what I have seen the past 60 plus years is that GOD is correct in His predictions, and man is not. And right now I see man saying “Peace peace”. But according to the Bible, there will be no peace.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
That’s precisely the problem w/ treating Qatar the way we treat Saudi Arabia or the Emirates, neither of whom have that sort of security coverage. They have successfully, like Pakistan, played both sides – ours as well as myriad jihadists – but still ended up on our good side. President Bush was an imbecile, and now, President Trump looks like he’s on a campaign to match him for idiocy
I really hope someone calls our bluff on all these Article V agreements, whether it’s Ukraine or Latvia or Qatar. We need a POTUS who’ll pull us out of NATO, not someone who’d put us in for the “right price”. A President Vance, maybe?
Walter Sieruk says
That “peace deal” is indeed a “raw deal”. To explain it this way, there’s an old saying which is “It’s wise to have no dialogue with the Devil” that saying is based on the Bible’s story of Eve having conversion with Satan who was talking through a serpent . which ended in disaster.
Likewise, those negotiations for “peace a agreement “ with the jihadist chiefs of Hamas who are the sons of Satan will only end up treachery ,more Islamic terrorism disaster and death.
That so called “peace agreement” with those jihadist chiefs of the murderous jihad entity Hamas would agree for would be a hoax. Meaning nothing but a false and fake truce.
The reason why this is so is because such a “ceasefire” would really be agreed to in order to allow Hamas to restore its loses by using that for Iran to resupply it with deadly weapons provided to it by Iran.
Those jihadists would only keep the terms of a ceasefire only as long as it would site them and no longer .Then those Muslim terrorists of Hamas will then break the “truce” and then launch more jihad missile attacks murdering the peaceful civilians of the State of Israel.
Such false hopes for peace which are based on the foundation of lies are nothing new when it comes to Israel. For example, the Bible in Psalm 55:20, 21. Reads “Such men do violence to those at peace with them and break their promised word; their speech is smoother the butter but their thoughts are of war.” [N.E.B.]
Walter Sieruk says
Some people call this hoax the “Trump peace plan.” It’s really more in keeping with reality to call it the “Trump armistice plan “or simply the “Trump truce deal.”
The reason why this is so because any kind of “deal “ with Hamas is , in essence,” making a “deal with the devil.” For the Muslims terrorists chiefs of Hamas can’t be trusted to keep they word or promise in anything that they say on sign in print. To put it in another way, the top dogs of Hamas are such liars that their signing their names on written peace agreement document isn’t worth the paper its printed on.
For they will only keep the terms of that “agreement” only as long as it would suite them and no longer. They will engage in the insidious the Islamic dogma called Taqiyya .This is the Islamic doctrine the deception is a good thing to do as long as it’s done for the advancement of Islam along with its violent and death inflicting jihad.
They will that so called “peace deal’ to stall for time while that Islamic regime of Iran resupplies Hamas with deadly weapons so that it will again launch jihad attacks into the State of Israel attempting to murder the citizens of Israel.
Mahendra Kothari says
This is one sided deal for benefit of Hamas only. The strength of USA was wasted and proved to be paper tiger.
Frank Anderson says
“There will be peace in our time.” Neville Chamberlain, London 1938. “Those who cannot remember the lessons of the past are condemned to repeat them.” Jorge (George) Santayana, The Life of Reason (1905).
gravenimage says
+1
Tony Costa says
Hamas will imitate their prophet who they believe is the best pattern of conduct. What did Muhammad do with his treatys? He broke them.The statment in the Hadith where Muhammad predicted the annihilation of all the Jews before the end comes is still “on the books” and is part of the Hamas Covenant. Hama’ total obliteration would have been preferrable.
somehistory says
Some of the families of the dead said theirs were not returned and therefore, the deal should be declared dead and Israel should also break it.
Dealing with the devil. muzzies don’t keep their words…except for the ones where they say what are their real intentions….complete destruction of all Jews, Christians and anyone who defies them.
I’m not sure beyond the few live hostages finally released, that anything is “better.”
But, things are still heading for the greatest war of all time….Armageddon. That will make all things “better.”
James Lincoln says
Great for Israel to get back their people who were held hostage by Hamas but this one-sided “Hostage Deal” will NOT help Israel in the long run.
gravenimage says
Did Everything Change for the Better with the Hostage Deal?
Trump calls the freeing of 20 hostages for nearly 2000 Palestinian prisoners, and the withdrawal of the IDF from Gaza City, back to a perimeter closer to Gaza’s border with Israel, an “end of an age of terror and death” and a “triumph for Israel.”
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Some of the Jihad terrorists previous freed in exchange for Israelis kidnapped by Hamas later went on to plot the horrors of 10/7–including kidnapping more Israelis and holding them hostage.
How many of these released Jihad terrorists are already plotting the next attack on Israel?
OLD GUY says
It ain’t over until the fat lady sings. And right now we don’t even know who or where she is.
I’m so grateful that the families of these hostages have their loved one back.
I’m not so happy that we gave back criminals serving life sentences and thousands of Hamas fighters.
But IF it brings peace to Israel and the people who live in Gaza it will be worth it. I’m not holding my breath.
Dawn Green says
I like to hear what Robert Spencer’s thoughts with what happened in the Middle East when it comes to this peace deal ! Trump thinks it’s opver with Hamas and I disagree !