No way, no way, no way can Hamas be allowed to survive--and that is where the deal will break down and war resume. I seriously doubt it will get to Phase Two. In an interview with NBC a few days ago, Trump stated he told Netanyahu to "keep doing what you have to do. ...we want the war to end, but keep doing what has to be done." And all of his pro-Israel cabinet are saying the same thing: Destroy Hamas. Huckabee and a few other team members have also stated publicly that Judea and Samaria, and even Gaza, should be Israel's with no more question about that, because it is historically Israel and necessary for Israel's security.
Erdogan is going to get his butt whipped soon if he doesn't back off making alliances with terrorists and trying to fulfill his dream of taking the reins from the soon-defunct Iranian leadership. First, Turkey will likely be thrown out of NATO. Then Turkey will be labeled a terrorist state which will make them ripe for a really big beating.
I wouldn't count on the west to kick Turkey out of NATO and declare it a terrorist state. The west has no backbone. The west continues doing business with the terrorist state of Qatar.
I feel like you're both right. At some point the west will (I hope) re-grow that backbone that made it possible to win WW2. I hope it does't take another 9/11.
I wish I understood Netanyahu's strategy. Israel withdraws competely? 400 dead Israelis mostly young men who should be having families , careers, full lives. They're gone. The living Israeli hostages returned and those men are gone. I wish I understood the Israelis in front of the Tel Aviv Museum who seem mostly aligned with Bernie Sanders. Or worse. I understand Israelis want their loved ones back....at an enormous cost and risk to Israel. Hamas rebuilds and attempts Oct. 7th again. Maybe it will succeed in grabbing some new hostages. I wish I understood how this will play out. Those Arab states that fear Iran more than Israel may come around. Their Islamic faith will never fully accept Israel....the Jews are debased infidels. The Europeans are hopelessly Judeophobic...is it possible than post Christian Europe is even more antisemitic? Jews created human rights and they hate us for this. Academia is more Judeophobic than in my father's generation of keeping Jews out. CUNY the refuge of Jewish kids is now purely antisemitic. This won't change. This leaves the United States under Trump as Israel's partner....as of today Israel has an ally. But next election who knows? The way the electorate swings here. The growth of the Muslim community. The indoctrinated from the universities. The craven and toxic voices of "celebrities" virtue signaling here and especially in the UK with bds/Israel apartheid hate speech. Israel's next invasion depends on Iran/Hamas breaking the terms of this awful deal. As after Oct. 7th, Israel will be excoriated. people in "hostage square" so fervently wanted this deal. Now they have it. Taking out Iran's nuclear sites and Hamas....the time is now...within these few years coming.
It was not a deal. It was simply extortion. A deal would be something like this: To Hamas- come out with your hands up or we will kill every person in Gaza and flatten every building that's still standing.
Hamas will likely renege on its obligations - as it usually does - and this entire "deal" will disappear. At which point Israel should just flatten Gaza and to hell with collateral damage. Sadly, I doubt that all the hostages will be returned. But that, like everything, is up to G-d.
I don't make that decision. I'm sitting far away in a home in the U.S.A. But whatever Israel decides is necessary for its security and its very existence is fine with me. Absolutely. That's why it's about, is it not? Survival.
Excellently summarised piece of journalism … hostages home, then wipe out Hamas. The Arab world, wracked with its own hate of its own people has no interest in helping the palestinians.
Jihadists keep coming back, like cockroaches after a nuclear war. I just read how Hamas is replenishing its ranks with young cannon fodder, and they never seem to run out of bullets or explosives. So I don't see how Israel can eliminate the terror rats' nest in Gaza, without permanent occupation and taking over Gaza's education system, TV stations and removing hate-mongering imams. It will take at least a generation and require steely political will.
Excellent! Thank you! I've been posting this today, please feel free to delete if you feel it is not appropriate. "Be informed. This war is only in the beginning phase. Although Glick has doing a great job for years, I do not appreciate her style of presentation or style of talking which I find way too much kvetching. She knows her interviewee and understandably warns him or corrals him in the beginning to stay on topic. But by 20 minutes he has settled and suddenly she is in awe of his intelligence and access to a lot of memorized information. She looks to him as if he were her revered Zadie. Soon she finally gives him space and encouragement to explain how much of a major player in world jihad that Qatar actively is. Only briefly he mentions Witkoff. Witkoff is an immersed servant to Qatar. Witkoff is every bit as awful and dangerous and traitorous as Blinken. And that is saying something!!! The interviewee... once he settles is PHENOMENAL!!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TD3iOBOhtn8
I am hoping that the author can explain what "Total Victory" is, what it looks like, how can Israel achieve it, and any time frame as to a possible end date. There is no end to how many terrorists whom Hamas can continue to recruit to replenish those that the IDF kill. Since the fall of 2024, the war in GAZA continues to be an endless cycle of killing a dozen of terrorist here and there, but also sadly losing IDF soldiers on an ongoing and frequent basis. There does not seem to be any strategic military nor political thinking here?
I don't support Musk or Trump, but whatever is best for Israel. Once we get the hostages back I truly hope we resume fighting Hamas AND Iran. No one of us should give a d*mn what you think or say. Blame away. You will be destroyed in the end.
For me, verses in the Bible are irrelevant. I don't care what people wrote down in the Iron Age. What IS relevant is what a people chooses to follow in the present. We don't stone people who work on Shabbat either. The same holds true for all religions with ancient roots. They evolve. What matters is the morality and ethics followed now. If you'd like to talk about the morality and ethics of Hamas, that would be interesting.
No way, no way, no way can Hamas be allowed to survive--and that is where the deal will break down and war resume. I seriously doubt it will get to Phase Two. In an interview with NBC a few days ago, Trump stated he told Netanyahu to "keep doing what you have to do. ...we want the war to end, but keep doing what has to be done." And all of his pro-Israel cabinet are saying the same thing: Destroy Hamas. Huckabee and a few other team members have also stated publicly that Judea and Samaria, and even Gaza, should be Israel's with no more question about that, because it is historically Israel and necessary for Israel's security.
Are you sure that Turkey does not have imperial ambitions? I think Erdogan wishes to resurrect the Ottoman empire.
Erdogan is going to get his butt whipped soon if he doesn't back off making alliances with terrorists and trying to fulfill his dream of taking the reins from the soon-defunct Iranian leadership. First, Turkey will likely be thrown out of NATO. Then Turkey will be labeled a terrorist state which will make them ripe for a really big beating.
I wouldn't count on the west to kick Turkey out of NATO and declare it a terrorist state. The west has no backbone. The west continues doing business with the terrorist state of Qatar.
I feel like you're both right. At some point the west will (I hope) re-grow that backbone that made it possible to win WW2. I hope it does't take another 9/11.
Possibly. But if Trump threatens to withhold money... we'll see!
I wish I understood Netanyahu's strategy. Israel withdraws competely? 400 dead Israelis mostly young men who should be having families , careers, full lives. They're gone. The living Israeli hostages returned and those men are gone. I wish I understood the Israelis in front of the Tel Aviv Museum who seem mostly aligned with Bernie Sanders. Or worse. I understand Israelis want their loved ones back....at an enormous cost and risk to Israel. Hamas rebuilds and attempts Oct. 7th again. Maybe it will succeed in grabbing some new hostages. I wish I understood how this will play out. Those Arab states that fear Iran more than Israel may come around. Their Islamic faith will never fully accept Israel....the Jews are debased infidels. The Europeans are hopelessly Judeophobic...is it possible than post Christian Europe is even more antisemitic? Jews created human rights and they hate us for this. Academia is more Judeophobic than in my father's generation of keeping Jews out. CUNY the refuge of Jewish kids is now purely antisemitic. This won't change. This leaves the United States under Trump as Israel's partner....as of today Israel has an ally. But next election who knows? The way the electorate swings here. The growth of the Muslim community. The indoctrinated from the universities. The craven and toxic voices of "celebrities" virtue signaling here and especially in the UK with bds/Israel apartheid hate speech. Israel's next invasion depends on Iran/Hamas breaking the terms of this awful deal. As after Oct. 7th, Israel will be excoriated. people in "hostage square" so fervently wanted this deal. Now they have it. Taking out Iran's nuclear sites and Hamas....the time is now...within these few years coming.
It was not a deal. It was simply extortion. A deal would be something like this: To Hamas- come out with your hands up or we will kill every person in Gaza and flatten every building that's still standing.
I totally get you, except that would kill the hostages as well because frankly, Hamas doesn't care if its own people die.
Hamas will likely renege on its obligations - as it usually does - and this entire "deal" will disappear. At which point Israel should just flatten Gaza and to hell with collateral damage. Sadly, I doubt that all the hostages will be returned. But that, like everything, is up to G-d.
I don't make that decision. I'm sitting far away in a home in the U.S.A. But whatever Israel decides is necessary for its security and its very existence is fine with me. Absolutely. That's why it's about, is it not? Survival.
Excellently summarised piece of journalism … hostages home, then wipe out Hamas. The Arab world, wracked with its own hate of its own people has no interest in helping the palestinians.
3 for 90 ridiculous I am not happy it’s a surrender. Something needs to change they emerged from their tunnels seemingly strong? WTF!
Jihadists keep coming back, like cockroaches after a nuclear war. I just read how Hamas is replenishing its ranks with young cannon fodder, and they never seem to run out of bullets or explosives. So I don't see how Israel can eliminate the terror rats' nest in Gaza, without permanent occupation and taking over Gaza's education system, TV stations and removing hate-mongering imams. It will take at least a generation and require steely political will.
Excellent!!!!!!!! Wow. Independence yes and that also means manufacturing some weapons and ammo as well, as much as is possible.
I STRONGLY oppose any deals w/Hamas! I already saw what happened in 2011 w/Galad Shalit.
HELL F NO to any deals! Destroy Hamas, & don't care what the world thinks, is my advice to Israel.
Excellent! Thank you! I've been posting this today, please feel free to delete if you feel it is not appropriate. "Be informed. This war is only in the beginning phase. Although Glick has doing a great job for years, I do not appreciate her style of presentation or style of talking which I find way too much kvetching. She knows her interviewee and understandably warns him or corrals him in the beginning to stay on topic. But by 20 minutes he has settled and suddenly she is in awe of his intelligence and access to a lot of memorized information. She looks to him as if he were her revered Zadie. Soon she finally gives him space and encouragement to explain how much of a major player in world jihad that Qatar actively is. Only briefly he mentions Witkoff. Witkoff is an immersed servant to Qatar. Witkoff is every bit as awful and dangerous and traitorous as Blinken. And that is saying something!!! The interviewee... once he settles is PHENOMENAL!!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TD3iOBOhtn8
Thank you Ira .. yes, Gluck is very wordy, like Melanie Phillips.
Yigal Carmon of MEMRi is great !
I am hoping that the author can explain what "Total Victory" is, what it looks like, how can Israel achieve it, and any time frame as to a possible end date. There is no end to how many terrorists whom Hamas can continue to recruit to replenish those that the IDF kill. Since the fall of 2024, the war in GAZA continues to be an endless cycle of killing a dozen of terrorist here and there, but also sadly losing IDF soldiers on an ongoing and frequent basis. There does not seem to be any strategic military nor political thinking here?
What peace deal? I thought there was a "genocide."
Amir is an antiSemitc troll.
What does MO mean ?
Modus operandi / method of operation
F off troll!
It’s not a peace deal … it is a truce
Part two starts later
A pause…
I don't support Musk or Trump, but whatever is best for Israel. Once we get the hostages back I truly hope we resume fighting Hamas AND Iran. No one of us should give a d*mn what you think or say. Blame away. You will be destroyed in the end.
How was your lunch yesterday ? .. an irrelevant question I agree, and just as irrelevant as your question about Musk.
For me, verses in the Bible are irrelevant. I don't care what people wrote down in the Iron Age. What IS relevant is what a people chooses to follow in the present. We don't stone people who work on Shabbat either. The same holds true for all religions with ancient roots. They evolve. What matters is the morality and ethics followed now. If you'd like to talk about the morality and ethics of Hamas, that would be interesting.
You are some kind of liar.
Why do you waste time engaging in this blather with an enemy? Don’t you know how to block it? I do.