Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has yielded to American pressure. He has agreed to let the 200 Hamas fighters still in tunnels under Rafah, on the east side of the Yellow Line that demarcates where the IDF and Hamas forces in Gaza are in control, to go free. It’s a terrible concession on the part of the Israelis, who had earlier been determined to wipe out all the Hamas fighters who had been in tunnels to the east of the Yellow Line, terrorists who now will be allowed not just to escape being killed by the IDF, that had them trapped in those tunnels, but Israel has apparently agreed as well that it will not even hold them as prisoners.
They will be free to leave the part of Gaza that the IDF holds and move to the part that Hamas holds, from where they, or at least their leaders, will then be deported to a country wiling to take them. So far, no country has offered to do so. Will they then be allowed to remain in Gaza, free to join other Hamas members in controlling their half of the Strip by fighting the clans, such as the Doghmush family, or the militia serving under Yasser Abu Shabab, that oppose Hamas’ rule? How do the Americans expect to force those 200 fighters, once freed, not to return to their jihad terrorist ways?
The pressures that the Americans brought to bear upon the Israelis have not been made public, but no doubt involve continued diplomatic support at the UN, including vetoes at the Security Council of anti-Israel resolutions, a slowing down of weapons deliveries that Israel needs to replace all the arms and ammunition it has used up since October 7, 2023, and even, possibly, a threat not to join Israel in a second attack on the nuclear facilities, including the new site at Pickaxe Mountain, that Iran has been frenetically building.
It remains unclear why Washington thinks it needs to curry favor with Hamas by rescuing the 200 Hamas fighters in those tunnels under Rafah from the IDF. Does the Trump administration really think that such a concession will persuade Hamas to do what has repeatedly said it will not do — that is, disarm entirely?
I AM THE INFIDEL YOUR ALLAH WARNED YOU ABOUT says
Disastrous move that will bring on more attacks in the future. Israel should not have agreed to this at all
ploome says
Lets look st s bright side. When these jihadis surface, they can be “neutralized” and the IDF doesn’t have to go into the tunnels
take no prisoners
gravenimage says
I’m sure Israel will just be pressured to cave to Hamas again.
ploome says
16 to 8 million Jews worldwide.
The muslim population (Pew Research)
The number of Muslims around the world grew 21% between 2010 and 2020, from 1.7 billion to 2.0 billion. Muslims grew twice as fast as the rest of the world’s population, which expanded by 10% during the same decade. As a result, Muslims grew as a share of the global population, from 24% to 26%.
The civilized world has a terrifying problem.
How long before we are ALL pressured to cave. Hamas is islam by another name. All these hundreds (thousands?) of TAX EXEMPT islamic entities are all the same. Different name, all the same.
Every day I thank Hashem for this president, and the USA.
gravenimage says
+1
Keys says
I suspect Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and/or other Muslim countries influenced the Trump Administration.
Could these Hamas terrorists at least be released unarmed? Could their Gaza adversaries be advised on when and where they will be “released”? If they are trapped in the tunnels, who’s going to ‘dig’ them out?
࿗Infidel࿘ says
If that’s the case, Trump should force Qatar or whoever else is pressurizing him on this front to take those 200 Hamas fighters & more to their countries, permanently! No question of them ever going back to anywhere near Israel – not even Jordan or Egypt
Israel should seal up the tunnels on their end, and leave it to Hamas to excavate them from the side that Hamas still controls
Wellington says
Sound ideas. But ever increasingly I have to wonder if Trump is garnering into his world view such ideas.
Perhaps Trump is ahead of the game here but I find myself more skeptical of this with each passing month. He’s still light years ahead of the immensely overrated Obama and the monumental nothing which Biden proved to be (also the willfully ignorant Bush 43), but is Trump good enough?
Not sure and, diversion here, I’m acquiring more and more reasons that JD Vance is good enough and knows more than Trump (e.g., his wanting a limit on legal immigration while Trump still seems OK with a plethora of H1-B visas and some 600,000 Chinese matriculating here at universities and colleges across America). Yes, Vance might be America’s best hope going into America’s fourth decade in this century but can he be elected? Therein lies the rub. Matters, indeed, remain very fluid.
somehistory says
Bad, bad, bad. Release one at a time into the waiting hands of LE to be searched and cuffed. If they try for escape, shoot.
Would the U.S. government do the same if terrorists were inside some location and couldn’t escape to freedom? Just let the go? Or lock them up?
Stive says
Just send the 200 terrorists to the eternal brothel of Islam
rick says
Hasn’t Trump learned what Hamas is by now? He shouldn’t be telling Bibi what to do about these killers. Netanyahu knows exactly who they are and this is a major mistake which will lead to Israeli deaths later.
Ros says
This should never have happened. Never!
jewdog says
Trump is in full appeasement mode now. His Nobel is at stake.
Rarely says
Nobel? For what? Was he ever in the running (except in his own mind, of course)?
࿗Infidel࿘ says
He knows that he’s never gonna get it, but he wants to be recognized as someone who did the most for peace and was therefore wrongfully robbed of it. It would be major if he could solve this issue that Israel has w/ its jihadist neighbors, and also the Russia-Ukraine mess. Somehow, Vlad doesn’t seem to be in a mood to help him get it, since he has his own compulsions within Russia
But like I asked in an earlier thread, if peace at all costs is so good, why doesn’t Trump sit w/ Nicholas Maduro instead of bombing jetskies carrying fentanyl?
ploome says
yes, afraid so
James Lincoln says
Guaranteed that these 200 Hamas fighters will eventually rearm and attack Jews in Israel.
Guaranteed.
Walter Sieruk says
Benjamin Netanyahu will regret his decision to letting all those those Muslim terrorists go free from the underground tunnels which they had constructed with the malicious intent to use those underground passages to murder Israeli citizens .
For those Hamas terrorists will not be grateful for the mercy that Netanyahu given then. For they will use their freedom to continue to murder the Jewish people of Isreal , be their male or female ,of any age
Just remember and think about the fable of Aesop which in entitled “The Farmer and the Viper.”
gravenimage says
Netanyahu Yields to American Pressure, Will Let 200 Hamas Fighters Go Free
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Very depressing. I understand that Netanyahu is under *enormous* pressure, but this caving to Hamas is not helping.
ploome says
and what are Netanyahus’ options?
gravenimage says
Sadly, I think he feels he does not have any other options if he wants to keep Trump’s sketchy support–and grimly he may be right.
OLD GUY says
Remember the cell phones? Maybe these tunnel rats will carry a deadly illness with them when they leave that rat holes.
jerry glenn says
USA makes an appearance in the international Islamopandering derby.
V King says
Why is President Trump (and congress) using the weight and power of stolen U.S. income, via taxes, to defend, protect and advance Islam? Maybe one need only look at his past. Much of his family’s wealth has and is currently being gleaned from business deals with wealthy Islamic snakes and devils. He knows what they are, yet he uses our taxes as either a pacifier or a truncheon to force the world’s deference to them. The lucre generated from his art of the deal, and his lofty position as President of the U.S., makes him the most powerful man on earth, and this is how he chooses to wield it?